Week 10 Studs & Stinkers + Andy Returns, Hoptimus Prime! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/16

11 for 61, two more rushing touchdowns. He is averaging 6.9 yards per carry. He's on pace for 5,295 total yards and 48 total touchdowns. Do you remember seven weeks ago? Barely. It was week four. Yeah, barely. That was the last time we saw Kyler Murray not finish the week as a top five fantasy quarterback. He's, don't get me wrong. He was still a quarterback one that week. He's been a quarterback one every week of the year.

but he has been on fire the last seven weeks. Big Ben, Josh Allen, Aaron Rogers, Matthew Stafford, all with very solid weeks, a little bit of an improvement for Lamar Jackson as well. Anybody you want to talk about from that bunch? Anybody you're looking at moving forward? Big Ben managed to turn Claypool, Juju.

and Deonte all into top ten fantasy options. Yeah, the fact that Ben Rothesberger is surrounded by those guys, three healthy guys. I mean, I think that this team needs to have Deontay Johnson healthy to be running at full throttle. Like Claypool, the rookie season is incredible. I'm very excited to watch MapleTron movie forward. But Deontay Johnson is a very special wide receiver who is, he's Antonio Brown. He has replaced Antonio Brown for this team.

And as long as those three guys are healthy, I think that Ben is in play, especially this week against Jacksonville. Baltimore, the matchup is a little sketchy, but they're hurting a little bit on the defensive side. So Ben is, Ben's a solid play. They haven't been able to run the football lately. True. So it's going to be on Big Ben to find his playmakers. And like you said, you know, even Eric Ebron.

has been active in the office. Right. So there are some signs of life there. Do you see the shot of, uh, of juju and ebrod dance? Oh, man. They were, they were given the business. Hey, nine and no. You can dance at nine and oh. Yes, you can. Josh Allen, though, another nice game had the, uh, what, what looked like the game winning touchdown to Stefan Diggs. Great ball on that. Yes. Also the perfect placement. Great catch on his receiving touchdown.

I don't think it was a great pass. It was. He went out. He got that. And then a little bit of wiggle. Yeah, right at the end. All right. At the running back position, Alvin Camaro was the number one on the week or is so far. And this was while running for 15 total yards. Yeah. That's, that's how he has 15 rushing yards. Two rushing touchdowns though. And one passing touch, or receiving touchdown.

As someone who faced Camara in multiple leagues and thought things were going well to start the game, they weren't because he is unstoppable. And it's not like this is, you know, unheard of because he's done this before. I'm looking at his game log, 16 total rushing yards in week one. He was the running back nine. He was outstanding. He just does so much work in the passing game.

All right, how about Josh Jacobs? Two more touchdowns on the ground. He's the running back seven in fantasy points per game right now. This is impressive. Yeah, he is a spike week type of player. Yeah, he has these multi-touchdown games, I think, three times this year. And all the while, Devante Booker had 16 for 81 and 2.

So there was more on the table there, but they just manhandled Denver. Naim Hines from Thursday night was great. It's hard not to say he's the best running back on that team moving forward for fantasy purposes. I don't know if I have the confidence to plug him in against Green Bay. The matchup would be there. Heinz has looked like the best guy the last couple of weeks, but they are very hot hand. There'll be dogs, though, in that game, right? Against Green Bay? Not by much.

Maybe by a couple points. It's in Indianapolis. No? I think I'll, I would call the line like maybe Indy by one. I can't talk about this next one. Oh, man. Ronald Jones, the superstar running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Unlimited. Versus Carolina rips off a 98-yard rushing touchdown. He is the fourth player in history to do that, which is shocking to me. I figured that number would be.

higher, but this, it made no sense. This was an anti-Bruce game for Ronald Jones. You had dropped passes. He fumbled and lost it. He fumbled the ball and lost it. And here's the thing. And it led to a touchdown. A peek behind the curtain here in our league of record, a very important game. Andy was going up against Ronald Jones in a must-win matchup. And then he's watching the beginning of this game and it's perfect.

Ronald Jones drops a pass. Ronald Jones fumbles the ball and loses it. Right in the beginning. He's got like two fantasy points and you know, oh my gosh, he's probably done. This is going to be a nickelback game. Leonard Fournette's going to come in. And then all he did was continue to totally out snap and out touch Leonard Fournette. Let's face facts, Bruce. Maybe you face them finally. Maybe you listen to somebody. Ronald Jones is.

10 times the runner of anybody else you've put on this team and everybody knows it. Yes, he's got stone hands. Yes, he fumbles frequently. He's still 10 times better for your team. And by sticking with him, he busted off a 98-yard touchdown right in my face. Yeah, he ripped off that run and ripped Andy's heart out of his body. I don't think Andy said a word for about 35 minutes after that. After that run, it was, it was.

It got real dark around the studio. Well, and it's just, it's just a perfect knife twist for a guy who's backed Ronald Jones his entire career being myself. This is the only time I've ever rooted, wanted to actively root against him was in a game where I play him. And he fumbles. I'm like, all right, Bruce is going to do his thing. No, Ronald Jones 23 for 192 and one. And, yeah, he was great. DeAndre Swift was great as well. He got Schifty.

16 for 81 on the ground, five targets, five for 68 in a touchdown. He was the lead back. I mean, he has DeAndre Swift. We thought we were highlighting him last week. Your name was DeAndre. You had a nice week. We're highlighting last week how Swift just keeps coming through with these games. And for fantasy football players, when you're looking at the metrics, like the snap count, I need my running back to be on the field. I need snaps. It just.

The snaps were not correlating with the opportunities that Swift kept getting, where he's on the field for 40% of the time, but he's getting double-digit opportunities. And then, so he had moved into, you have to play DeAndre Swift and just hope that this trend continues, except they named him the starter. He was the main guy, 16 carries in five targets. Like DeAndre Swift is about to break out in a very big way.

He's a great running back. Gets to play Carolina and Houston over the next two weeks. This is the recipe for the majority of rookies. If they don't get it right out of the gate, you've got the Miles Sanders later in the season situation. You could see the same thing with Antonio Gibson getting, you know, being more successful over the second half of the year too. Could, but Jady McKiss has been good. He has been good. He is the main running back. I know I want to celebrate the Antonio Gibbs season as well.

He was great for fantasy football because he had two touchdowns. But was that Antonio Gibbs season? You're darn right it was. Do you guys remember when you gave me so much crap for giving Smooch's credit before the season? You said that there was no possible way that this guy could do anything. I do not remember. Yeah, I don't remember this either. What's he talking about, Jerry? Fight the tape. Yeah. Brooks? But, no, Gibson still got into the end zone. He keeps doing that. And those two guys.

majority of the work. You just want to see Alex Smith move the football. And he moved the football. It took some time for Smith, if you were watching the game flow. He looked, he looked nervous as one who almost lost their leg and now playing quarterback probably would feel. I don't, I've never experienced that. He's always played a little bit like a guy that was coming back from injury. But he's, he got into the groove eventually. And this was, uh, I believe I saw the stat.

This is the first time that Alex Smith has thrown 300 plus being back-to-back games. Can I throw something out there for you? Sorry, Jason. Go ahead. I was just going to say he targets J.D. McKissick on every other throw. The last two weeks when it's been Alex Smith in charge, the two-week 16-game pace for J.D. McKissick is 232 targets.

That's insane. That's insane. Yeah, 14 targets against the Giants, 15 targets this past week. A decision I never thought I'd have to make, and this is asking for a friend. I grabbed Alex Smith in our Dynasty League, you know, because you're in a Dynasty League. You should have them on the roster. Any starting quarterback should be rostered. I have Josh Allen on by next week. Alex Smith, he did not throw any touchdowns. He plays Cincinnati at home. It's a good matchup. Okay. Ryan Tannehill has to go to Baltimore.

Wow. Am I playing Alex Smith? You're definitely thinking about it. I'm thinking about playing Alex Smith in a football game. You are definitely thinking about it. Nick Chub returned with a monster game. Yeah. Ripped the heart out of fantasy managers as he stepped out of bounds on the one on a free touchdown. Rex Burkhead, sexy Rex of the goathead continues to get it done with touchdowns. You know what, though? I don't think that Rex Burkhead should be the mention here.

I think he should be, I think it should be Damian Harris. That is fine. Damian Harris stood out again and will be, this is the identity of this team that won the game. Yep. Damian Harris is going to be the identity of the Patriots the rest of the way. Damien Harris ran all over the Baltimore Ravens. It was a shock to see how bad it happened. Now, Clay is Campbell. 22 for 121. Clayas Campbell for the Baltimore Ravens is out and I think he's going to miss a couple more weeks, but I just like, I did not foresee.

that turning into Damien Harris running all over the place. Damian Harris, the last four weeks, here's his yards per carry, 5.8, 6.4, 5.1, and 5.5.5. Damian Harris has just been a really good running back. It hasn't always, you know, about half of those weeks, it hasn't turned into great fantasy production. Because Burkhead keeps getting the touchdowns. Yeah. What's his receptions? Does he get targeted at all?

His targets the last three weeks were zero, zero, and nothing. Yeah, that's, that's hard. I mean, if you're in a half or full point league and you get, that's the Sony. Yeah, it's the Sony, but with a little extra yards per carry. I mean, it's better, but I'm just saying it's the Sony usage opportunity. Before we move into the wide receiver studs, want to thank today's sponsor, Quip, Good Health starts, Quip at Good. Good health starts with good habits and quip makes it easier for you to brush and floss.

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It started by more than 1% of people. He cannot catch the football. But if you leave him on your bench, you get a game like this. Four for 149 and 1. Hopkins was just behind by percentage points, depending on your league scoring format. Hopkins ended up with 12 targets, 7 for 1, 27, and 1 has Seattle on Thursday. You know, we thought Lazard might have been able to get back on the field.

He was ruled out. NVS was there. I expect Lazard next week. So if you've been, if you happen to catch that MVS lightning this week, just thank the lucky stars and know that Lazzard is going to be back sooner than later. And MVS isn't always going to get an awesome chop block by the referee in midfield. If you didn't get to see the replay, it was, it was. I've got annihilated.