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He said two consecutive great games, went over 100 again, finally scored. He was the Julio of the running back position, hadn't been in the end zone, finally did. The Jacksonville offense is the same as the Colts offense. Just put DJ Chark in place of Hilton on the outside, and Marlon Mack and Leonard Fournette. That's your offense. So New Orleans, Cincinnati, New York coming up, Leonard Fournette.

is turning into a great return on investment for drafters. Yeah, he's on pace for 96 targets as well. It's the volume at the running back position that is the most important thing. You can watch him struggle, struggle, struggle, get hit behind the line of scrimmage over and over. But when you get that many opportunities, you're going to break some. He's been safe with upside. And I think that as more time goes on with Gardner Minshu, the office is just going to keep clicking, getting better. I mean, he's...

Nobody's disappointed that you've got four net if you drafted. Dalvin Cook, great again. Chris Carson from Thursday. Great game. Sonny Michelle, because I don't know how often I'll be able to say this. Great game for Sony Michelle. He had 16 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown. Actually caught three passes in this one. Has the Thursday night game against New York. Rex Burkhead was inactive. Damien Harris was inactive. Brandon Bolden had a touchdown again. Of course. But Sonny Michelle was good in this one.

Yeah. And Sony Michelle, like the recipe that it makes the soup a little bit more delicious is when one of the running backs is out. If James White is out and Burkhead is active, you play Rex Burkett. If Burkhead is out, vice versa for James White. And if one of those guys goes out, then it's...

Usually. Sometimes a soup can have too many ingredients. Yes. Too chunky. Too salty. Yeah. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Too much flavor. When Burke had got everything a couple weeks ago. But Sony Michelle should be in line for another solid game against the Giants on Thursday. Austin Echler had 16 targets caught 15 passes. Was a PPR Beastosaurus. He caught 15 passes.

for 86 yards. The end of that game was literally, they were down multiple scores. They had to go like 100 yards and they had no time out. So they're like, the defense is like, why don't you just keep dumping it off to the guy will leave wide open? And Phil Rivers is like, okay. That's exactly what happened to, that's how I got beat on a Monday night game by Chris Thompson. I had the game in the bag and Chris Thompson comes out and catches three or four passes going down the field.

You know. Those past catching running backs, man. The game script, it's great. Oh, the garden. Oh. Heckler has been great, obviously, the whole season. He's been great the last several years, even, you know, as the backup to Melvin Gordon. He'll be used. Yes, he'll be good the rest of the season, without a doubt. And Melvin Gordon's going to get his. He'll get going. He had an obviously disappointing game. Still had a lot of work, though. Yeah. I mean, if you told me in the week, he was going to get the touches he got.

Against the Broncos defense has been so bad, I would have loved it. But, you know, I do worry a little bit about Melvin Gordon's peak upside with how good Austin Echler has been. I actually, I'm not too concerned, surprisingly, despite being the one that was, I had doubts in Gordon heading into the week because of Rust, because of some of the things that Anthony Linn had said early in the week. But I'm not that worried about it because I love, I mean, Echler was not involved in the running game at all.

It was Melvin Gordon's running game. It was Austin Echler in the passing game. But I imagine Gordon just gets on the field more in two-minute drills than you saw now. I don't think Echler is going to own those. So I'm less concerned, but I get what you're saying because Echler has established himself. I think this team has to get better. I mean, this team is two and three. They're behind the Raiders in the division. That's embarrassing. You've been beat up and banged up at wide receiver. So I did want to mention one more running back before we get into the wide receiver studs.

Todd Gurley. We didn't really talk about his game, but he had two touchdowns. I'm just curious where you guys are at with Gurley at this point in the season. Gurley is on a great offense still. They're not as great as they were the last two seasons, but they're still a top tier offense in general. So the touchdown opportunities are going to come. He's been the guy on the field. He's been getting everything. I think you should be, I mean, I am not worried about Gurley.

If I am the girly owner, I've got him in a couple of leagues that traded for him in the listener league two weeks ago. I just want to make sure I've got the handcuff because of the injury risk. And you don't know if after two more weeks, all of a sudden the knee swells up and, uh-oh. But if you've got the handcuff, I think you're okay. And fifth and yards per game, just in case you're curious, fifth in yards per game, second in passing yards per game.

But really not up at the top for rushing yardage. No, he won't be there as well. You don't get, you didn't get a free Todd Gurley who was going to finish as the number one running back at the back of the first, the early second round. But 22nd. He's still going to be solid for fantasy. And the workload has been ramping up. If you look at his snaps, the first two weeks he was in the 60% of the team's offensive snaps. Then into the 70s for weeks three and four.

And then this past week, 93%. And that's the number. Yeah. That's the number of snaps that you need Todd Gurley to be on actually was getting involved in the passing game once again, which was bizarre that it took so long to get him some targets. But I think that it's trending the right direction. It's trending the right direction. You don't have a top five guy. He has top five upside on a weekly basis because he can have 10 carries and end up with three rushing touchdowns. But he's a solid RB2.

We forget the human element in football sometimes, which is the team can want to manage your reps and manage your knee. And then Todd Gurley can get really upset. Right. And Todd Gurley can come have a closed door meeting with Sean McVeigh and say, I need my carries and show it on the sideline. And the team can adjust because your competitors, you want to win the game, you want to contribute. I think that's what you're starting to see with those snap counts.

is Todd Goley wants to be on the field. He says he's fine. They're finally relenting. Would you go buy him? Are you at that point? Or is it more just you're optimistic? I'm willing to buy if the price is right. I'm not going to overpay though. Four net or Gurley rest of the season? Four net. Okay. I think that's helpful. You know, Damien Williams or Gurley? Gurley. Gurley. Garly. Marlon Mac or Todd Gurley rest of season? Marlon Mac. Yeah, Max's out of control. Okay. All right. Wide receivers.

guy named Will Fuller, 14 for 2, 17 and 3 on 16 targets. He left two extra touchdowns on the field when he was tackled at the one yard line. On drives, he did not get that touchdown. He literally could have had five touchdowns here. And Andy, kudos on the start of the week. Why, thank you. It kind of worked out. The best wide receiver fantasy point.

performance in half point scoring in 15 years. He went from, this is kind of why at the end of the year we kind of look at week to week. This is why we have consistency charts on our website for our join the foot.com supporters is so you can go see these weeks. He jumped from the wide receiver 66 on the season to the wide receiver eight in one game. Nice. Nicely done, Will. Beautiful. William.

Yeah, the air yards were coming his way already. There were a couple of players out there where you see a massive amount of air yards that hasn't been getting it done. That's a great way to target what, you know, look, if those connections happen, you have a big week, they happen this week. Great play. For what it's worth, DeAndre Hopkins was 7 for 88 on 8 targets in this game. His target pace in 2019 is 140, which would be his lowest since 20.

Yeah, I mean, basically, 2015, he was up at 192, 151, 174, 163. I'm still not worried about him. Well, 7 for 80. But we'll talk about it. It's a fine game. You would hope that he had the touchdown in there. You just feel bad because Will Fuller went off. And so in comparison, you're like, Hopkins 7488. What a bum. If the Texans score over 50 points and Deshaun Watson throws five touchdowns,

And you don't get 100 or a touchdown. You're not happy. All right. Studmuffins at the wide receiver position. Amari Cooper, a monster, Michael Thomas, DJ chart. Adam Thielen, big bounce back game. Godwin did it again. 7 for 125 and 2 on 9 targets. He is the number one wide receiver on the year. Bounceback game for Tyler Boy. Mike started the week Alan Robinson, 7 for 97 and 2. Michael Gallup, 7 for 113 and 1 in his first game back.

That's a great game from Gallup, and it just reflects what we saw in the preseason to start the year. Those names I mentioned, who do you want to talk about? DJ Chark, 8 for 164 and 2 on 11 targets. Is he a wide receiver 1? That's who I want to talk about. I don't see him as a wide receiver 1 the rest of the way, but I see him as a weekly must start. I mean, right now, he's the wide receiver 5 on the season. He's not going to squirt.

You know, he's got more than a touchdown every week so far, so he's not going to end up with 18-19 touchdowns. But he is the clear best friend of Gardner Menshoe, and he's super talented. I mean, he's 6'3, runs a 4-3-4, and his, you know, his routes, his hands. He had that sideline reception this week where it was incredibly difficult, and they called it incomplete. But then they go back and watch the tape, and it's like,

How did he... It had to be incomplete because it's impossible. But it was like, you know, got both feet down, made a football move. That was an inch away from being another touchdown. He reminds me of AJ Green more than anybody else. Size, the length, the skills he's showing out there on the field. Like, that's the comp to me. Not that he's that yet, but he's, that's the trajectory. Well, yeah, it's, I mean, it's, you can't just get elevated to the status of AJ Green after five weeks. No. But after five weeks,

You have to start him every week. You don't look at a matchup and go, well, I'm going to put Chark on the bench. This is what's happening. DJ Chark is to me, and I'm not going to say he's a wide receiver one because some of these other guys like Hopkins and Mike Evans are underperforming. I think he's a top 20 wide receiver. But yes, I would put him at a high end wide receiver too. And last week was the only week he didn't score and he had a touchdown called back in the game. Thielen, seven for one, 30, and two. As Jason said.

The squeaky wheel got the oil in this one. Oh, man. Now, I would classify Stefan Diggs as not a squeaky wheel as much as a... Well, that wheel had just fallen off. Yeah, he just... He got fined some big money. Yes. It became a tricycle. Yeah. So we'll talk about some duds later. But Michael Gallup, great game. Julian Edelman scored. That was great to see. And then Juju 7 for 75 and a touchdown on seven targets and another...

devastating fumble, but 7.75 and 1 is better than not. Yeah, he had a great week. You have to assume, based on the vicious nature of the hit on Mason Rudolph, that you're going to now be to the third string quarterback. Something Hodges. Devlin. Thank you, Mike. Devlin Hodges. Devlin Hodges.

He will start week six against the Chargers. And so it's, Chris Mortensen's already reporting that. Really, really tough to trust Juju at this point with a third string quarterback. All right. Tight-ins, basically no tight-ins showed up this week at all. Oh, yeah, it's unbelievable. Jared Cook. Jared Cook was Mike's start of the week. Woo-hoo. And it was four-for-41 in a touchdown. And that was a great week at the tight-in position because tight-ins, woof.

It was gross. Let me read you the top tight end. So that, you know, like Tyler Eifer, my start of the week didn't work. Granted, he was wide open in the end zone and Andy Dalton could have hit him, but definitely didn't work. But don't worry. Don't worry because nobody's did. Literally other than Jared. It's all on you, George Kittle. Let's go. Ricky Seals Jones. The top 10. Give him the sound. Tight ends are Gerald Everett, Darren Fells, hope you started him. Of course. You got Ernst & Cook. Ryan Izzo.

Everybody picked him up to start him. You've got Disley, head coach of Michigan State basketball team. Disley, Hooper, Kelsey Ingram, those guys that you know you're going to start. And then it's Lee Smith. I mean, oh, yes. They were just weren't. Is Owen Smith, of course. I do want to give a shout out to Travis Kelsey. I appreciate somebody competing with Aaron Rogers on a grimace per minute because Travis Kelsey was grimacing all up and down that field. I haven't seen Aaron Rogers shove a coach yet.

That was... Yeah, Travis Kelsey. That was... Shoving Eric B. Enemy. He was getting a little spicy. Making him... Shoving a coach is over the line. And then he hugged him afterwards. Yes. Travis Kelsey. How about you catch the ball? Seriously, he had... Or not fumble. I mean, catch it and... Yeah. Well, it's not a... Not a good performance. You could see it happening. Like, after the second...