Starts of the Week + Week 14 Breakdown, It’s Playoff Time!

the ability to be highly efficient and still walk away with a great fantasy day, even if he only has to play for three quarters. I love Kirk this week. My start of the week is an interesting one. Matt Ryan is who I've made. It's very interesting. This is based on having his weapons back. If Julio and Austin Hooper are there, I think that Matt Ryan...

His struggles have been the lack of options, and it appears like he's going to have his weapons back. And the reason I'm saying Matt Ryan is my start of the week, it's not because I think he's going to be the number one guy. There are plenty of quarterbacks. Both of your starts I like better than Matt Ryan. But he is, all of these questions have happened. Do I play this? Do you play Matt Ryan or Drew Brees?

You know, the streamers, do I play Ryan Tannahill? Drew Brees or Matt Ryan? No, Matt Ryan. I mean, that one's easy. But I'm talking about all the Drew Brie's questions of do you play this streamer, this streamer, this Fitzpatrick or Tannahill? If I've got Matt Ryan, I'm going to play him over all the streaming options because I don't think this is a terrible matchup, and I think his struggles have been the weapons. So it's similar to what we saw with Carson Wins when he got his guy back and he wasn't in a bad matchup. He was able to perform, even though he didn't look necessarily great.

That's what I have for Matt Ryan this week. Speaking of the devil, Carson wins is my start of the week against the Giants. What a difference of Jeffrey makes last week. 16 of those pass attempts, which by the way, over the last three games, he's 40 plus pass attempts per game. That's just what this team is doing. 16 of them went Jeffrey's way last week, which means they were going to be caught. Like a lot of them were going to be caught by the receiver.

Has he had a very good game, as Jason mentioned. Here are the fantasy finishes against the Giants. The quarterbacks that face the Giants over the last five games. Fifth, eighth, seventh, ninth, fourth. Tribisky was one of those. I like that both of our statistical breakdowns. It's...

Well, Trubisky was able to get it done. You're darn right it was. The Trubisky line. But Wins was the number four last week against Miami with the three touchdowns. Should be able to get it done against the Giants. They had a very difficult loss, but the Giants are a sweet salve, much like the Cardinals were to Jared Gough. Carson Wentz is my guy this week. Turning to running back, Mike.

It's Devantza Freeman, and I know that this one feels bad because Devanta Freeman is, if Camara is a bust or in that conversation, Devanta Freeman is locked and loaded. No. No, he's not a bust. What? Devonthe Freeman's not a bust because, you know, if you listen to me, you would never have drafted him anyways. No, you would have taken somebody else over him. Sure. Regardless.

Since the by week, the Panthers have been absolutely getting crushed by the running back position. Look at last week. That was Darius Geist. That was Adrian Peterson. Both of those guys annihilated the Panthers run defense. And Devonta Freeman came back off of his injury. Immediately 22 opportunities for Devonta Freeman. He is the main guy. The matchup is there. I like...

Devonta Freeman to get it done as a lower end running back too this week. I hate this matchup for Devonta Freeman. Because you love it. Because it's so good. You love it. It's so good. Carolina is so bad. The carries and the opportunities are going to be there. And, you know, it's like, yeah, you should probably play Devonta Freeman. Like, I totally get it. But I don't want to like it. And when he has a bad game, I will. Act like you called it.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not – oh, man, I just – I hate that he's got such a good matchup. Carolina is so bad. I've got a start of the week that is not in a great matchup. He's one of those borderline players of – do I start this guy or do I worry about the matchup? I'm talking about Devin Singletary, who's really come on lately against Baltimore, whose defense has come on lately. I don't know what this line is off the top of my head, but I think Buffalo competes in this game. The way that I see – Five and a half. I mean, I think Buffalo is –

A really good team. Their offense is getting done. They're nine and three. They're not turning the ball over. Their defense is great. And of course, Baltimore is going to be able to score with Lamar Jackson. There's just no way to stop him right now. He's on fire. But Singletary has been very good. If you look at his usage, since he has, you know, he was injured, got off to the good start, got injured, came back. And once he was given, you know, the bulk of the carries, which was in week nine,

He is averaging 15 and a half carries and three and a half targets a game. I mean, he's almost getting 20 touches, and then he's super efficient with it. Andy, earlier, you said, you know, Devin Singletary's looked really good, but he hasn't been great for fantasy. That's actually not true in the sense that in the last five weeks, he's the running back nine in fantasy. Now, this matchup is...

difficult, but I'm going to go with the talent and the touches of Singletary to be able to do enough against Baltimore where I'm giving my vote of confidence to say if he's on my roster, I'm sticking with Singletary. I think the talent wins out. Six of nine games that Devin Singletary has played. He's been a top 24 guys. Yeah, I, you know what it came down to is the feeling in the Cleveland Miami matchups? Because those were those were the smash play weeks for Devin Singletary where he ended up 27 and 33.

But you're right. He's the RB5 over the last six weeks, Jay. You didn't open that sample up enough. Yeah. I'm going with Philip Lindsay. Oh, no. I love it. It's going to happen finally. Now, there's a few factors here. Number one is the opponent. He's facing Houston who's getting gashed. The last three weeks, they've given up the most points, the eighth most, and the third most to the fantasy running back. That's step one.

Step two is opportunity. Philip Lindsay 15.3 attempts a game, two receptions a game. What's he going to do with it? Step three, Royce Freeman, 24 scrimmage yards last week, nursing a rib injury this week. Philip Lindsay will get 15 plus carries and two receptions. What he does with it? Well, I'm hoping that it's a lot because it's Houston as the opponent. So Philip Lindsay, I want to give him, we've expected a lot from him towards the end of the season.

We've gotten a lot by way of opportunity. We have not gotten a lot by way of production. But I like this this week against Houston to be, you know, a matchup that Philip Lindsay can exploit. So I'm going to take him. Are you going to lock it in his new quarterback? Oh, gosh. Oh, yeah. So you need to walk us a little bit closer to the joke. I was wondering, like, how does Tyler lock it? Yeah, me too. Get connected here. No, no. Lock it.

There you go. Yeah, I don't know. That's what you needed. Put the emphasis on the rung solvable. Yeah, no, it's, uh, it was really good. Mike, give us a wide receiver. It's Robbie Anderson over the last five weeks. The dolphins have allowed the fifth most points per game to fantasy wide receivers. The jets are at home. Robbie is finally gaining momentum with a touchdown or at least 80 yards in his last three games. He is blossoming into the wide receiver that.

I hoped he would be all year. But much like Robbie Anderson does, he just saves it all for the very end of the year. And we're in Robbie Anderson season. See, it's so much more valuable to have statistical momentum as opposed to pre-draft momentum. Because Robbie had all of that. And it didn't matter. But now he's actually, the target shared all those things. I absolutely love it. Yeah. I'm going to go with Stefan Diggs, who had a terrible game last week. But the reality is the Detroit Lions are.

hyper bad at stopping anybody. The target share, the market share for Stefan Diggs has been great. You got nine targets last week, turned into 25 yards. I don't think that's going to happen against the Lions. You've got him, you know, Adam Thielen is a question mark here. We don't know if he's going to play. We said earlier, if he does play, we would not play him. But if he does play, that will, I think, open things up for Stefan Diggs.

a little bit more. He's a guy that I'm not going to bench based on last week's bad play because in the end, right, you've got Kirk Cousins as your start of the week. You know, it should have a really good game in this matchup. In the end, Stefan Diggs is just a really good wide receiver. He's been frustrating for fantasy because he's up and down. He's not very consistent.

But you want those giant ups because he's one of the rare guys out there that has the talent and ability to finish a week as the wide receiver won in this matchup with Vegas having them one of the highest implied team totals. I'm going to go with Diggs. All right. I'm going Alshan Jeffrey. I'm going the stack with wins. You are. Alshan against the Giants Monday night football. Last week he returned from injury. And, you know,

He's one of the players that I had no problem starting off of injury because Carson Wins needs a friend. 16 targets, nine catches, 137 yards, one touchdown. He's averaging nine targets, a game over five receptions, and the Giants, all the giants. They just, we brought up Trubisky, right? Trubisky went ham against him. Well, so did the wide receivers, 35.2 fantasy points two weeks ago. Last week, Green Bay, the number four overall total at wide receiver.

Alshan Jeffrey is a lock this week. Guaranteed. He doesn't even have Drew Lock. He doesn't even have Drew Locke, but he is so guaranteed for production this week. You won't wince? No, you will not wince at his fantasy numbers at the end of the night. We did it. Well done. All right, my tightest door of the week. I have the Waller's Darren Waller. Hold on. Let me go ahead in.

Look, Tennessee is a low-key, sneaky matchup for tight-ins. They're giving up the 11th most points to fantasy tight-ins over the past five weeks. They have allowed a top 12 tight-end performance in eight of 12 games. Waller's targets are back on the rise with Hunter Renfro out and as are his fantasy finishes, 12, 11, 5 the past three weeks. If that trend continues. Look, I hope you're able to motivate him last week.

You know, he listened to me. He did. He was the number one tight end. I hope he listens to you. You mean the number five tight end? Oh, was he number five last week? Yes. All right. So clearly he'll be number. Oh, you know what it was? What I was thinking of is in the streamfinder. The number, they gave up. It was the, uh, Derek Carrier had a touchdown at the end of that game. Yeah. So they were number one as a team. Yeah. So I'm playing the Waller with confidence.

For me, I've talked about them a lot. Obviously, I'm a little bit more on the Colts than you guys are. But with the missing weapons, Jack Doyle should be excellent. He was actually on a stretch of three back to back to back. Tight-in-one performances before those weapons went down. And then he goosed and he burned people. Hit a lot of waivers, which is why you're able to pick them up. But the buccaneers are so bad at guarding the tight-in position. If you look at them compared to other teams at the position,

Only the Arizona Cardinals are worse. The only good games recently for the bucks. No, I'm talking about giving up. Recently? No, not recently, given up compared to the teams that they've been playing. Okay, I got you. So, you know, look, they didn't have, Jacksonville didn't do much with their tight end against them last week, but Jacksonville's tight end is exactly. Atlanta didn't do much against them recently, but that was without Austin Hooper.

If you have any tight end of note, they do work against the Bucks. This is a must-win game for the Colts. Doyle is involved and talented enough while you have no Ebron, while you have no T.Y. Hilton. I mean, I think it's a blessing this time of year for teams that snuck into the playoffs with no tight end to be able to play someone like Jack Doyle and have at least volume where you think he's going to get five or six receptions and then hopefully get a touchdown.

All right, I'm going Mike Gisicki against the New York Jets who won't have Jamal Adams. Mike Giske is the number six, tight end over the last five weeks. Listen to these target totals. Six, six, six, seven, seven. He has guaranteed Ryan Fitzpatrick targets who has been leading the way yardage wise in that run. I like Mike Gisicki a ton this week. He is involved. It's the Devante Parker, Mike Gisicki show with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the bearded.

one leading the way. And a little low-key, sneaky, pay attention to it just in case. I really wanted to go with Tyler Higby here again. We just don't know if Gerald Everett's actually going to be out. I tend to think he'll be active, which means you're going to split that production against Seattle's defense. But I think Tyler Higby could do it again this week if he's alone as the tied end against Seattle. I just want to echo.