Week 1 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/13

I mean, I think that's what it is. Ten days off, while there's ten days that those other guys were doing work, and Trent Sherfield showed out in preseason, I will give him that. Yes. He wasn't going to give him the job, and he wasn't going to give it to Tray Sermon if those other guys were out working him. So.

You know, I don't know what the age is when they say, okay, I trust you to be a grown man. I don't know what that age is in football, but it was bewildering. It was a disappointment for anybody that played Brandon Ayuk with optimism. And I agree with you. I think it's benched till further notice, Mike. Do you have any thoughts? I do not disagree. It's just, yeah, I don't want to, you know, just completely throw the dumpster all over the beat reporters. But I mean, now you have reports are like,

Well, he started off hot in training camp, but it tailed off at the end. Where was that report? Why wasn't that all over Twitter? So much easier to give those reports after something's happened, right? Still learning to be a pro. Uh, okay. Well, it's crazy because he was a pro for the 17.8 fancy points per game he averaged over the last eight games last year. So bizarre. But, you know, when you walk into a locker room and this guy's healthy, a professional looks a little different. Yeah.

I am going to embrace Devo while he's healthy. You should. That was a heck of a game. Zach Moss was a surprise inactive. Another one in Buffalo where, what? I mean, he's healthy. All reports are that he's completely healthy and he was not active on you. And I was reading some more reports of the team felt that Matt Burrito was just the better player.

Which might be, but none of them matter. I will say this. At least with this one, you saw the change in preseason where Devin Singletary became the kind of one A and B. Like it was not a split workload. When Moss and Singletary were both active ready to go in preseason, the starters were out there.

Zach Moss wasn't. So at least there was an inkling of this. I know in my drafts, I completely was on the Devin Singletary side because of what we saw in preseason. I don't know that the beat reporters talked about it. But I mean, Zach Moss is. We said to stay away from the backfield. So hopefully that advice was heated or you got, you know, the cost was so low that it made no difference. And you certainly weren't playing them this week, right, against Pittsburgh. Correct. No, you should not have played either of them against Pittsburgh. But going forward.

I do think that Devin Singletary could be interesting if it's a one running back system there. Yeah, and he can catch the football, so it makes it easier to put up some at least pedestrian numbers. This was unfortunate. Broncos wide receiver, Jerry Judy, carted off the field. He looked so good, too. He did. He was by far the leading receiver, I think six targets, six catches. This is a long-term injury, a high ankle sprain. We thought maybe the ankle was broken. X-rays were negative.

This is a six to eight week injury minimum for Jerry Judy. And you're looking at players that are, you know, he depends on his explosiveness and his yards after the catch. And you take away his wheel, one of them. He's got a bum wheel. It's going to be, I mean, throw him on the IR if you got a spot. Otherwise, I would probably drop him and move on.

versus hold him to the end of the year to maybe get upside when you have so many other pass catchers. Yes, if you don't have an IR spot on your fantasy roster, you have to drop him. I expect him to even be placed on the actual Denver Broncos IR. So if you don't have this spot, yeah, I would have to move on. And we'll talk about the options behind him, but Tim Patrick and Tim Patrick's very interesting. Noah Fant as well. And Sutton will get.

You imagine he was kind of getting worked in a little bit, getting more comfortable, not a lot of targets yesterday. Man, that stinks. He looks so. He did. That was the most, just emotional reaction right there. That one just is like so upsetting because it's that second year, breakout wide receiver, everything lining up from looks amazing. It's like, yeah, yeah, Jerry, Judy, let's go. And then honestly, when it happened, we were worried about like a dislocated, horrific injury. So at least it's not.

Full season? Your reaction was the way I was with Rahim Moster because the news about Trace Sermon comes out. The player prop on Moster goes from like 58 rushing yards to 100. It's Detroit, who Elijah Mitchell goes out and destroys, and I've got Moster everywhere. And then you don't, not getting to see what you hoped you had a chance to see is just so disappointing, but it's football and we don't control any of it. So Fitzpatrick, that would be Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Patrick. It's tragic. Hip subluxation, which sounds not hip. No. MRI today. Matthew Betts, our injury expert, who, by the way, dropped our first injury blitz podcast, which is another one of the perks over at Jointhefoot.com. Basically said the mechanism of injury was similar to what Tua had in Alabama, but less severe. He expects Fitz to be on IR.

He's going to miss this week's game against the Giants, no question. And you're looking at a reconfiguration of your expectations in Washington unless you have a confidence I don't have in Tyler Hennocky and other options. No, this is a clear downgrade for Terry McLaurin. I still think Terry will be.

He'll be fine. Okay, but the true breakout potential is the upside is hurt a little bit by having a backup quarterback. And then, you know, when it comes to Antonio Gibson, I think he's probably going to be fine. The team seems like they are going to rely on him. Oh, he was a full workhorse. Oh, yeah. When it comes to the eye test of week one and just, you know, sometimes those things are more important in week one because you just see.

you know, what is true regardless of the stats? And you go, ooh, he looked, he looked strong and fast and good. Yeah, there were only a handful of running backs that looked the part in week one, in my opinion, right? You had some of the stalwarts had horrible games, and we'll talk about him. But Gibson was one that. He looked great. Absolutely looked apart. Zach Hurts hamstring string. Okay. So Dallas got it. Yeah. You know, could get more work. And the team looked pretty good. Mind you, it was Atlanta.

But, you know, Goddard was a sneeze away from a touchdown in this one. Tyrell Williams, helmet-to-helmet hit, left in the third quarter. You also had Rashad Penny leave with a calf injury. Oh, Goddard had a touchdown. Did he have a touchdown? Also, yeah, he was a sneeze away from a second. He was four for 42 with a touchdown. Because I remember seeing him kind of fight to try to get one and got out of bounds. Josh Jacobs.

This is news for Monday night football. Yes. Downgraded questionable with an illness, but had been cleared for the toe injury. So got sick. I bet he plays. Yeah, he probably plays. And if you didn't see this news, you probably need him to play because picking up somebody else in this game is going to be difficult. Kenyon Drake was drafted in almost all formats. Tyson Williams, we've been through the waiver wire with him. You might be able to get Latavis Murray.

There's a chance. And then, you know, depth-wise in Las Vegas, who gets work outside of Kenyon Drake? Peyton Barber? Probably. Woof. So let's just hope he plays. And it's good that it's not the toe. So it's, yeah, at least it's questionable. But yeah, if you're depending on Josh Jacobs, you better be on that news. All right. So that was today's news and notes brought to you by Sleeper.

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IPvanish.com slash footballers to get the deal and start protecting yourself online. This week's fantasy stud muffins. I love muffins. You know what stuck out to me when you guys were doing the ad read was, you know, getting out on the gridiron. And I'm trying to mentally think about where that phrase would have come from, like grid iron. Okay. And the best I've got is like a grill has got this grid on it.

And, like, the field's got the lines and look like a grid. That part makes sense. But the iron, I don't know. I just don't know where it came from. I think it's because football started in the prison system. And so you're behind bars. Like longest yards. That's right. It ain't easy being cheesy. That was a documentary? A lot of people don't know that. But that's where grid iron comes from because it's like the grid, but they're all behind iron. So, you know, you win some, you lose some. They lost. Okay. Well, look, let's get into the studs. And we're going to try to sift through these performances.

Are they a flash in the pan? Look, a couple of the studs from last year. Week one, let's remind you. Let's set the context. Ms. Trubisky had a nice 30-point opening week. He was benched two weeks later. Naim Hines was the running back five. You remember that madness in week one? Waiver, wire, extraordinary, biggest pickup of week one, and then he gets one, target, no carries in week two. Yeah, and Jonathan Taylor.

managers were concerned. So there's an implication for more players. Robbie Anderson was the wide receiver five last year. He only finished inside the top 20 one more time the rest of the season. We may not forget about Sammy Watkins. May week one superstar always be in our hearts. He's cold blooded. He's the lizard king. Yeah, he is. Although I can't find the drop no matter what I do. That one is, that's still to come. We'll get the lizard king tonight.

All right, quarterback studs. Week one, Kyler Murray, sweet mercy. He was electric. 21 for 32, 289 and 4, another on the ground. I mean, you didn't need that performance to know you start Kyler in fantasy, but you got Minnesota at home in Jacksonville the next two weeks. I mean, Joe Burrow carved up Minnesota. And Kyler has got weapons all over the field. Huge game for Christian Kirk, obviously.

and Ron Dale Moore is going to give him some free points through the year as well. Mahomes, yeah, he's a stud. He didn't matter that he had no touchdowns for a while. Yeah, I mean, it really, you watched the game and he had the rushing touchdown, but he had done very little in the first half. Cleveland's controlling the game. No other passing touchdowns. You're like, well, you know, we'll have a disappointing game. Nope, he's bad Mahomes. He's good. James Winston had one of the most peculiar games ever.