Week 6 Studs & Duds + Fantasy Outliers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/19

I thought he had a touchdown. He was called back. Oh, is that when you wrote that? Yes. Okay. That makes sense. Because you said in our chat, you're like, Kincaid is back with all caps. Yeah. I go and look, nothing happened. He had a touchdown, but I didn't see it. He had 38 yards receiving and I'm like, I mean, he had more targets. Yeah, he led the team in targets and receptions. Here's the thing. That's a, honestly, that's a big deal right now. It's a big deal, but, but the, uh, and then his touchdown was called. They're going to go into the buy.

I don't like seeing him on an injury report because he has lingering injuries every year. And you're going to get DJ Moore back after the buy. So it's still up in the air for DJ. Moore might legit be better for Dolan Kincaid. Yeah, it could be. Like this was. I was so happy they didn't play DJ more. This was, let him have the bye week. The Dalton Kincaid, I see it as positive that you were out there. You ran your normal amount of routes. You got hyper targeted. The production didn't come. And you had to touch on that was called back. So it's.

Look, that's not a like, hey, we've solved the issue, but it's a, we can buy some more time here. If you had to lock Kincaid or Pitts into your lineup the rest of the season. Oh, man. Because Pitts has had two good weeks now in a row. And it's not just good weeks for Pitts is the target share has really gone up. I mean, he is, in the best irony, he has single-handedly saved my chop team for two straight weeks. He annihilated. I played him in.

Both big leagues. Oh, face them? Yes. And you lost because of him? That is correct. Yeah, I mean, I'd probably lean that direction. For his last second garbage. My 12 personnel against Mike. I had one running back to. How many energy drinks do you have over here? Not enough. I almost knocked one. Not enough. Fuel me. You only drink half of these. Get me a coffee. You drink half. I'm in the process. Oh, that one's a fresh one. This is just old. Okay. Let's move on to less important things. This week's fantasy stud muffins.

All right, quarterback starts, or quarterback studs, rather. Trevor Lawrence, C.J. Stroud. Yeah. What a game. What a game. What a game. Yeah, that was, Lawrence was number one. Stroud was number five. You had Chuck Drake May, who continues to torture Al Borland after he released him. And Michael Pinnock's Jr. from the depths of. How did he get on this list? He got on this list. I thought he was going to get benched. Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts, two touchdowns. They came back in that game. They actually, like, they were down.

And basically the Bears had to hold on for dear life. Dude, Pennix was so bad in that first half. Tyler Shuck, I think, was the best one. Mike, your start of the week, I believe. No. Oh, no? No, he was in my prize picks, which the point of the prize picks was to say, I think that Tyler Shuck is going to have a great game, which he in fact did. He just did it in different ways. Yeah, he was other than what I was after. It was not a, yeah, the fantasy stats. Tyler Shuck was also bad in the first half.

Yeah, and even in the game, he threw for 144 yards. Yep. I mean, that's not a lot. No, but he had four touchdowns because he threw for three touchdowns on 144, and then he ran for one, and he ran for 32 yards. The offensive line is in shambles. There's going to be some, I mean, it was big for them to get that win, but there's going to be some tough weeks.

I think Shuck is going to be a very hit and miss play, where you don't know when the week is going to be here. I think you've got to look at the pastures. So this coming week against Pittsburgh, T.J. Watt, that's a scarier matchup. Thankfully, it's a home, so I think you can play him. But it was good to see him at least bounce back fantasy-wise. We didn't expect him to be good two weeks to go against Minnesota. Right. So so far, he's kind of lived up to the hopes and expectations. How about Drake May, who after the first two weeks, he makes no sense. Who sucked. He is.

The quarterback won by a mile the last three weeks, averaging 30 fantasy points per game. He makes no sense. Buffalo's defense, Raiders defense, Jets defense. I mean, that's not the, I mean, Jets are pretty good. I got good news for you. Next week is Chicago. And then Miami. Hey, check this out. Yeah, I mean, he's the number one by far over the last three weeks. His touchdown rate over the last three weeks is 10%. And it didn't matter that like guys keep getting knocked out.

Yeah, he's figured it out, and I do still think that AJ Brown is obviously a positive for him. You know, AJ Brown's not going to be a guy that doesn't know how to catch football going forward. He's an exciting, you know, if you pick them up off of waivers, because I'm sure he was potentially dropped after a couple weeks, that's the type of pickup that is going to change the trajectory of a team in your league. Like that, you know, those are the lucky things that happen where you end up winning a championship with Drake May because you didn't have to draft him.

Stroud's been super good since the return of Nico, and then they added Marvin Harrison, who... What did you think of Marv? Obviously, I mean, I didn't expect a lot of snap. But I'm saying film-wise, looks-wise, route-wise. I mean, I don't know. He looked fine. He looked good. I mean, there was some stuff that you don't see. I mean, Marv was stuck on the-targets. Well, there you go. He was also stuck on the outside all the time in Arizona, like just not a lot of in-breaking routes and stuff. The stuff he caught in this game were some...

You know, slants and in-breaking routes. I'm going to go watch all nine rounds today. And I'm done. So, yeah, the running backs this week, Ken Walker was number one. Number one in a big way, 19 for 1, 28 and 2. Also, Andy Reid, sir. Sir. Oh, don't tell me what happened? Sir. Did I miss a play where I would have won against Jason? Oh, yeah. Oh, good. Yeah, good, good, because I lost by three. Elite play calling. All time.

Hall of Fame coach, when we get to the goal line, stop just doing Walker up the middle. This is not how we succeed. How have you seen what Kenneth Walker is doing? And you're like, we're just going to go, jump off. We're going to go put the beef in. It actually is dumb. Especially when you've got Patrick Mahomes. Use his speed. If he runs to the outside, he'll break the tackle. Exactly. He breaks tackles over everybody. So we had another one where it was another goal line. Oh, so I lost because of that. Cool.

I just, I don't understand why they keep trying to do this. I feel like it's a pitch, a stretch, just anything, like, at least towards the side where he can use his speed and break tackles. He's absolutely dominating the NFL. I saw a tweet from Field Yates. This was interesting because Kenneth Walker running back 1, 26 points this week. Still have Monday night football to go. No player has reached 30.

fantasy points this week, which hasn't happened in any full week since the start of 2020? Yeah, you kind of, you are feeling that we had a very low median in our league. By the way, Ken Walker has 665 rushing yards this season, the most by any NFL player in history in their first five games of the team. They're doing it right, Mike. Mostly doing it right. I love it. James Cook. Wait, wait, wait. Who does Kenneth Walker get to play next week?

Oh, his revenge game. Going to the tall. In Seattle. In Seattle. That's a tough matchup, but talk about a prove yourself moment. Walker's above these things. I agree. His fantasy finishes this year at running back two, two, six, one, one. He didn't have to compete with Gibbs this week either. James Cook. Seattle is desperate for a run game. There was the Tudin breakout game. We were, we've been waiting for. Was it?

It was weird. He was 12 for 39 on the ground and outrun by Crodd. It was the touchdown regression game. Yes. And he also, he had a touchdown call back. I don't feel like it was the two-and-breakout game at all. I guess fantasy. It was a redemption game. What he's had, what he's had all year is tons of great looks, tons of work, all the opportunity, and the touchdowns haven't come. And so now I just feel like we've been saying the fantasy points are going to come. And this is kind of what happened. You had two receiving touchdowns.

You had a great fantasy day with him, and it was just like, that's what's going, it's going to level out. It should. They're going into the by week. Krodd did look good. 11-5 on the ground. Like they started. It was the Tutin show, and then Krod, once he finally got in, I was like, it was, I think, three straight awesome carries. So, well, that's still TBD, but Baseball Tootin should be a solid play remaining.

How about 28 carries for Chuba Hubbard? Dude. 28 carries. Goodness gracious. He is one of three running backs who have finished with 13 plus fantasy points in every game. Gibbs, Kinbone, Chuba, it keeps going. Goodness gracious. Wide receivers, Trey Tucker was number one on the week. That's a decent start of the week. Yeah, thank you. Malik Neighbors, 22.5. From the depth. Almost all of it came late. Well, the fourth quarter.

You had 18 come in. Double-nines. Double-nines. J.J. McCarthy came in. Through a pick. Late in the in the game, threw a pick. And then threw another one. That actually got, they're like, oh, well, it barely got called back. Proceeded to bring the Giants back into the game and throw more yards, throw for more yards in that quarter than Justin Herbert has achieved in any game this year. Beautiful. The of note, I don't know how many.

uh the backups were in for the saints but i just i saw killan more questioned about it of like do you regret pulling your starters that early and he was like well yeah but so while while the the double nine story it was fun it was very exciting what do you think they do they start jj now i i imagine they will i think they will

By the way, two of the top five scores this week were starts of the week. I just noticed that. Tucker, number one, Matthew Golden at number five. In between their neighbors, Jeremy Bernard, J.S.N. It worked out this week for those guys. Metcalf was also in this list. I mean, 11 for 93 on 15 targets, and he was 44% of the first read targets. It was a very slow start, a bunch of screen passes, but it accumulated. Talked about Omar Cooper Jr. Nice week for Jalen Knoll, 4-4-107. Yeah, pay attention.

The non-Nico wideouts seem to rotate big games from time to time. But Nola is a very good player. Devante Smith, it worked out, 14 targets, 7 for 75. It took a long time. At least it's good to see, though, because you're going to have McKee going forward. Like, you've got this quarterback. And now the fact that you, sure, that could change, but we know it's not Jalen Hertz. And so when Jalen Hertz is out of the way, is DeVante Smith dead. And it was like, okay, 14 targets. I mean, it turned into 75 yards.

and a touchdown it it was tough but if you're going to tell me that he's getting 14 targets i'm i'm so happy to he will also be pay attention for some injury news because he's banged up i know he he like i think they had said he retweaked his hamstring yeah you saw him down on the sideline but he came back his touchdown was after that was it yeah i'm pretty sure we had the first career touchdown from carnell tate six for 70 in this game because

Of course, he was on Jason's team facing me. How about a top 10 finish two weeks in a row to Mario Douglas, eight targets, seven for 86 and one. Now you have this AC joint injury to Dobbs. You have Matt Collins who has been out. You have AJ Brown coming back, but Douglas seems to be involved enough to be a spot start here and there. And then the tight ends who continue to dominate. I mean, Isaiah likely at the tippy top of the list every week. It was nothing.

He had done nothing. Eleven target, six for 99 and one, two point conversion, the tight end one on the season. He's been the tight end one on three of six weeks. That's crazy. It's, it's very bizarre of how do you have John Harbaugh had this player last year. Yeah, but he had Mark Andrews. I, you know, it's weird. I know he's, we're redeeming everything.

Isaiah likely is the player who you said that he was. It's very bizarre though. Isaiah likely Kyle Pitts, the number one and number two tight ends this week are the only reason I was able to beat Mike. And you started them both, which is not a traditional strategy. Like I told you, I played 12 personnel because you got you got forced into it. Kyle Pitts was number two, Tommy Trimble number three out of nowhere, no Waller, it was Trimble. Colston. Yes. Freaking. There he is. Levelin. We're on the board.

I was saying we have not I wouldn't few that I would I would I would I guess that that feels like from absolute no no I get I get I meant like TBD on the future but oh yes at the same time again this was like the first I mean we had that week one crazy game and then we haven't seen him with Caleb and so this was fantastic to see five for 60 and one in the first half and then well they were destroying Atlanta else in the second they they they

No, it was awesome. I mean, it wasn't just him. Burden had a good game. Lovelland had a good game. Swift had a good game. Happy to have Caleb back. Rome had an awesome catch. He did. It was great. He did. He had his three for 39. He's starting to be known for awesome catch. Yeah. He's an awesome catch guy. Yeah. We'll take a break. We'll talk duds.

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