Week 1 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Trey Doo-Doo

Kenny Stills not so much in the sense that he only has. He actually is for me. He only had five targets. I realize. But this is who Kenny Stills is. Absolutely. Kenny Stills is Alshan Jeffrey. Yeah. For fantasy football. I would say more Deshaun Jackson, but yeah. Okay, but sure. But that type of a player where you're not, you're not going to see Michael Thomas 17 targets going to Kenny Stills. Would you rather pick up Randall Cobb or Kenny Stills? Great question. Yeah, that is. To me, it's Randall Cobb hands down. I agree. It's just quarterback.

Yeah, quarterback and the issue with Randall Cobb. There was a period this offseason where I was starting to be completely in on Randall Cop. He is a great value. The reason I wasn't is because all the injuries in camp and in preseason. Well, there's a lot. There's a lot of chatter that the team didn't like him. Yeah, but he. I bet they love him now. He looked the part this week. Emmanuel Sanders, Julio Jones, Keenan Allen, and Antonio Brown. I don't know how Antonio Brown manages to.

Always have a good game even when his quarterback isn't. The first half, he had nothing. Mike, Emmanuel Sanders, 10 for 135 and a touchdown on 11 targets. Wow. He is my 100%. If he's on any waivers, he would be my number one pickup. He, to me, is a trade target. It's hard to trade after a good week. An ultimate draft kit value pick from the early off season. And at least through one week.

looked outstanding. Through two weeks, he's going to look outstanding. Now, I want to rotate into the tight-in position. Now, Rob Gruncowski's pretty good. Seven for one, 23-and-one. He gronk smashed. We're not surprised. However, welcome to the NFL Will Dislead, fourth-round rookie, tight-end, born and raised in Bozeman, Montana, had a...

NFL athletic profile that fit quote backup tight end and special teams i believe his his actual athletic comp if you look it up is mike right there yes and listen to this first rookie tight end with a hundred plus receiving yards in his first game since 1968 and i actually have a clip of him running down the seam oh oh come on oh what are you doing

Boom. Still going. Going strong. Look, that is said that... Do you know his actual nickname? What's his nickname? Uncle Will. Yes. That's his real... We're not making that. That's his nickname. Look, I say, I bring that down-home tune of him running down the seam with respect. Because this is a player that, and I was talking to Brooks this morning about it, he just does it. He just gets it done. That's what it said in college.

He was a fourth round pick. Quote, all in with his commitment to the team and what he has to do. He won't blow you away with talent or athleticism, but he does his job. Kicked Mike right in the Venet's this week. I kicked him right in the Venet's. You jerk, you stole all my thunder. When he scored, it was like, oh, no, not Venet. Who is that? Will Dissley. And now Doug Baldwin's out. So the question is there of.

Do you overreact to week one? No. Or do you buy into him being a pass-catching option on a team that has very few? Yeah, I think there's... I refuse. I think there are still far better options. I will say... Woo-hoo! Uncle Will? See, I picked the right music. Yeah, I mean, the argument in his favor is what you're saying with Baldwin gone, with Jimmy Graham, gone. Should he be picked up?

No. That's the simple question. I will not be picking him up. But you have to be okay with certain people are going to pick him up. And you can't really make fun of them for picking him up and saying, oh, you're overreacting because he still has a quarterback that's going to throw a lot of touchdowns and a lot of yards. And there's just not that many other options. So you could do worse, but I am going to wait and see on this. You're waiting on Uncle Will. I'm going to wait on Uncle Will.

There's other options out there. Ebron or Uncle Will on the waiver wire. Eric Ebron, four for 51 and a touchdown on five targets. I will take Ebron, the guy who is an actual athletic freak. He's still got to do it in the NFL. Look, this is week one. You want to know one of the ways that you beat a team. It could be the Greg Ogletree of the tight-in position. You surprise them. I promise you. I promise you that Denver was not prepared.

For Will Disley. For Will Disley down the field, okay? I mean, that's one of the things you have to keep in mind. They were not scheming going, pay attention to this guy. That's an absolutely great point. Jordan Reed, Rule 86, came to play, 4-4-48 in a touchdown. He was flexing and stuff afterwards, so he's got to be good, right? Yeah, and he should only be getting more healthy right now as far as from what his original injury was. More snaps next week is what I expect. You should be really...

Really happy if you drafted Jordan Reed right now. George Kittle, five for 90 on nine targets. You should be very happy. We'll talk about him. He's one of my favorites. So before we get into the pooped in their big boy pants, the segment in which you can, I don't know, maybe get a little relief from your pain. We'll share in the pain with you. Let's talk about our relief themselves on the field. Oh, goodness. Nice, Mike. Thank you.

The Rising Stars for this week, and this year they're brought to you by Fantasychamps.com, where you can get fantasy football trophies and rings and belts and jerseys. It's awesome. Swag out your league, swag out your team. My rising star this week is Chris Thompson, running back for the Washington Redskins, heavily involved, a best friend of a player like Alex Smith. Alex Smith knows how to get the ball to the best players in space, loves the short yardage.

Chris Thompson looked like a great player, just like he did last year. I mean, so I think you just sign and play Chris Thompson until he's either hurt or gives you a reason not to. Yeah. My rising star this week, we just mentioned him a second ago. It's George Kittle. George Kittle, right off the bat. I realize that Goodwin went down and then his involvement rised a little bit, but the truth is right from the get-go.

I'm going to go. Rose a little bit. Right from the get go, Kittle was utilized. He was running routes. Oh, yeah. He was. He just missed the touchdown. Being targeted. He did have a case of the drop season in this game. But what you want is you want nine. I mean, look, he has the athletic profile. The team, the opportunity to take a big step forward. And there's a lot of conversation this off season. Is Kittle going to do that?

And after week one, you have to believe he's going to because he was so involved for a tight end. Nine targets for a tight end is you can't ask for more than that. If you, yeah, and he was a design target. Yes. And if you made your conclusion that you might have been wrong about Alvin Kamara in week one, I made my conclusion right away that I was wrong about George Kittle. I was concerned that Kittle was a product of opportunity last year that.

wasn't going to be there with a return of Pierre Garcin. That wasn't going to be there with Jerich McKinn, who's now gone, which probably helps George Kittle a little bit. Sure. And then Goodwin missed the game. But I think Kittle is as sure of a top 10, 12 tight in as you can get on the waiver wire this week. I'll be targeting him. Agreed. And it's just a matter of how much of your budget you'll spend. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Mike, I'm very surprised with your pick here. Oe.

I don't know why you're surprised. Well, I'm surprised only because I feel like it's risky business. So tell the people who you're going with. It's James Connor. And you, I mean, you're not wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong. Gotcha. And it was more I want to talk about just James Connor. And what is what does James Connor's performance do now to Levi-on-Bell? Is Levion Bell more likely to dig in and stay home?

Is Levi-on-Bel see that his job is replaceable? And maybe he should not have thrown $800,000 into the garbage to stay home. And what do the Steelers do? They can win with James Conner. I understand they tied the game yesterday. They also tied the game losing the turnover battle by minus six. That's impossible. To be in a game at minus six is...

it's unheard of in the NFL. James Connor looked the part. He looked it in preseason. All of us were saying it. Everyone watching any sort of Pittsburgh Steelers football was going, holy crap. James Connor looks fantastic. So if the Steelers move forward with Connor, you have a running back one until Levi-on-Bell comes back. All right. Some honorable mention rising stars I wanted to bring up Geronimo Allison. Yeah. Looked very secure as the three. Great.

Long touchdown catch. Philip Dorset had a great week one for Tom Brady and then Philip Lindsay. Yes. Yeah. Do we talk about him now or do we talk about him in a minute? I guess we'll talk about him when we speak about. Wait, he's in the duds? No. He's not. No, no. Roy's Freeman. Freeman's in the duds? No. He's not. Okay. So let's talk about Philip Lindsay for a minute. Yes. Philip Lindsay came out. What was impressive to me.

By the way, he's a running back for the Denver Broncos. Running back for the Broncos. Very happy that he was a dynasty out in our league by yours truly about two weeks ago. Because I had heard about and seen in preseason flashes from Philip Lindsay. What I didn't expect was a snap count for Lindsay that would match Royce Freeman, that would exceed Devante Bookers. And...

to see him used in such high-leverage situations, when this game was on the line over and over again, we saw Philip Lindsay running out there on the field. He scored the first touchdown of the Broncos season, 15 for 71 on the ground, 2 for 31 and a touchdown through the air. He's going to be in that top 5-6 waiver ads, isn't he not? He certainly will be. Is he not? And he should be. They talked about, are they going to ride the hot hand in Denver?

engulfed in flames during that game. So to me, it made sense for them to keep going to them over and over. This is a, from my perspective, this is a murky, keep my hands away from it. I'll put a, I'll put a cheap claim on Lindsay and put them on my bench. Yeah. So you're moving away from Royce Freeman in a significant way. I'm moving away from the Denver Broncos. My fear on Freeman from the get-go was Vance Joseph. And it wasn't that, oh, he's so bad. Look.

He won the game. He, I mean, Vance Joseph did what it took. So you can't, you can't criticize him in that way. But what you can say is he does not care about what we care about. None of them do. None of them do. But my, but he is, he has a history of this where you can't tell who he, who is going to be the running back. And if you put Philip Lindsay in your lineup next week.

You're taking a guess. Regardless of this. Yeah, and I agree with you. And there's a couple things to bring up here. Philip Lindsay won. Nobody, no running back had a higher percentage of touches to snaps. So when he was on the field, he touched the ball, which told me that they came out with a design in this game for Philip Lindsay's involvement. The second thing is, is my caution to Royce Freeman owners in this all-off season was related to third down. It was related to why would you ever need?

to use Royce Freeman on third down if you have a weapon like Philip Lindsay. Why? Why do it? And Lindsay proved that he could do it this week. But if you're a Royce Freeman owner, Mike, which you are, are you freaking out. No, I'm definitely not freaking out. He still led the team in snaps. And he was 15 carries, 71 yards, the complete absence of passing work. That part is, that part stings.

because Freeman can do it. I agree with you. Lindsay's the better option there, but Freeman can't do it. They went to him to grind the game out. And this was on the last possession where... You're speaking of Lindsay or... I'm talking about Royce Freeman. And when they needed to get yards and the Seattle Seahawks knew exactly what the Denver Broncos were going to do, Royce Freeman was...

Gouging them. Freeman is great. He's a very good running back. If he had scored a touchdown, no one won't be talking about it. Exactly. So I'm not freaking out. Marshawn Lynch or Royce Freeman, which would you rather have on your roster right now? Lynch. Yeah, I mean, we haven't seen them yet. Yeah, I sure. It's close, though, because they seem similar to me limited passing down work. All right, let's move on. Poopped in his big boy pants. Look, fantasy football has some pain. And no pain, no gain. Isn't that right, Jason?

That is, that is right. I want to talk about Big Ben. I want to talk about Sammy Biscuit, Sam Bradford, maybe the most disappointing performance of the week. Dak Prescott. He's all, he's pretty close with Sam Bradford. And Jimmy, and Jimmy Ugly. Oh, oh. I like it. I'll allow it. At least in week one. No, Jimmy Garoppolo had a couple plays that, like the throw to pettis, the escaping from the pocket, the touchdown pass the pettis.