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every position rest of the season rankings.
Obviously, the Hampton injury has screwed up our rankings. So, we're going to talk about how we have these guys ranked.
Now, we're going to start with the S tier here. We have CMC and JT. So far, the two most productive running backs in fantasy football up here and Bejian Robinson. When Bejan's been playing, he's been unstoppable as well. In my opinion, it's these three running backs. And then the field, all of them are winning you fantasy football games by themselves right now. And so, all these guys are a clearcut above the rest of the running backs that we have starting in the A tier.
Yeah. So, in the A tier, we're going to start with Jir Gibbs. Uh the reason Gibbs is not in the S tier is you have seen multiple weeks again this is this is a tale as old as time at this point in the Lions offense but with the snapshure being down and him having you know like 17 points 16 points which is great like his floor is still really high because his usage is solid but you do always have that issue of like hey is David Montgomery when they get a big lead just going to run the ball for the entire second half and rack up points and have a have a 30 bomb um compared to Gibbs just kind of having a pedestrian day for his standards. He hasn't been bad at all this year. He's been great, but that's going to be why he's in the A tier compared to these Bell cows in the S tier that Avery just mentioned. We just trust in their more consistent ceiling than a guy like Gibbs.
Then we got James Cook who's coming off of a slow week. We're not really buying that this is going to be a trend where he's just going to fall off completely. Like he still belongs in the A tier and and he deserves it cuz he gets so much usage there. Uh same with Saquon Barkley. uh we're kind of seeing his floor as well, which is not too bad of a floor. Honestly, it's anywhere from like 10 to 15 points and uh there's always a chance that he can pop off in an offense that is trying to kind of rediscover their identity um after a slow start to the season offensively even though they're 4-1. Um and then we got a Chan and Jacobs at the tail end here in the A tier. A Chan actually kind of salvaged his day with his receiving usage, but that's just kind of what Achan does. I mean, he's at a 10 target game this year. He's at a nine target game. He had a seven target game against Carolina. When he doesn't get a stupid amount of rushing work, he gets a crazy amount of receiving work. It's almost like game plan uh specific any given week. And since he's pretty much the only relevant running back there in that offense and now there is no more Tyreek Hill, I would look for this receiving usage to be more consistent week in and week out and for his floor to be as high as we've seen through the first five weeks of the season. Josh Jacobs as well is just he's the motor of that offense and as long as he's healthy, he has 30 plus point upside.
Moving down to the B tier, we'll start with Bucky. Bucky, I expect to probably miss one more week. Um, they say he's dayto-day, but he has a shoulder injury and he has the ankle injury. Um, and so, you know, with Bucky, I'm not going to move him too far down rankings because when he's played, he's been dominant from a snapshare perspective. He's been pretty good from a point scoring perspective as well. Still the running back 15 in fantasy football after missing a week. And so, with Bucky, you don't have the bye-week till week nine. I'm going to keep him up here for now. Um, and hope it's just one more week that he misses at most.
Quinn Sean Judkins continues to get about 55% snap share in that offense. Continues to run the ball about 18 to 23 times a game and continues to score 16 to 20 points a game. And so with Quinshan, I mean this is a great this is a great flex option. It's a good RB2 option as well. I mean the guy is the running back 20 on the season and he really missed two and a half or sorry two games. And so you know Quinnshan looks great and and we're going to be aggressive ranking him. This is a guy who um you know even without a touchdown against Minnesota had uh 18 points and so Quinnshan looks great rest of the season.
Ashton Genty continued um his stronger run of performances here with Indianapolis. Um he had seven targets in this game and five receptions. That's what kind of jumps off the page as he actually had nine points in the receiving game. Um he actually outscored his rushing production with his receiving production in this game in full point PPR leagues. And so with that, you know, he has some matchups coming up. Tennessee, uh Kansas City obviously a little bit tougher there from a run defense standpoint than the buy, but then you got Jacksonville after that. You've got Dallas in week 11. And so uh with Genty, it's going to be a tougher schedule moving forward. But at the same time, he's the running back 12 and we've seen what he's capable of with his breakout game. So, we have to rank him aggressively.
Javvante Williams has been fantastic so far. He is the third ranked running back from production standpoint overall this season and the 10th overall player in fantasy football this season. Uh 20 25 and 26 points so far for Javvante Williams. A and then, you know, Scott Shottenheimer comes out and says he's a he is the bellcow and he's earned it. You see him getting 77 80% snap share most weeks. I mean, Javvante Williams could be ranked higher than this. Like, we're not going to be shy about this anymore. He he absolutely is a top 12. He is absolutely a running back one rest of the season and he should be ranked like that.
And so is Kairen Williams. Kyron Williams um had his best game of the season, 31 points against San Francisco on 91% snap share. We finally saw that snap share that we wanted to see for Kiran Williams and he had 10 targets. Like look, I don't think that this utilization continues because they were literally motioning him into the slot and using him as a wide receiver in this game, which I've never seen them do with Ken Williams. But if it were to continue, he would be like a top five running back rest of the season. I'm just telling you like the glimpse of what we had against San Francisco, which San Francisco, by the way, they give up a ton of points of fantasy running back. So, you have that, but he has Baltimore in week six. That should be another good game. And then Jacksonville in week seven. I mean, he has a bunch of good matchups coming up. And so, you have to rank him aggressively the rest of the season as well. So, he's definitely belonging in this B tier with the rest of these low-end running back one guys.
And we got the Ctier starting with Derrick Henry. He continues to move down our boards quite a bit. Um, I I think we we both are pretty much on the same page here. I mean, mid- running back two, rest of the season. um in a situation that is just not bodding well for a for for an offense that has to really continue to produce at a very high level if they want to be in these games competitive and and remain competitive because this defense is in shambles at the moment. So Derrick Henry uh just not looking like he did last season. It is legitimately insane that Quinn Sean Judkins has become my unquestioned running back one in the Flock League and Derrick Henry is looking to be an ugly star every single week. I I did not think that was gonna be how it turned out.
Uh Travis CTN also going to be in this tier. He didn't do anything special against Kansas City, eight points. The volume was still there. Um it honestly just didn't really look to be a game plan for Travis ETN to just run the crap out of the ball and do anything crazy. But again, like he actually hasn't shown a crazy ceiling either. He hasn't even scored 20 points this season yet, which is why he's going to be in this D tier. Um, if Lawrence looks as good as he did against Kansas City, they're going to continue to throw the ball more and that might uh cap ETN's production upside rest of the season.
Hampton is going to find himself resting in this C tier, uh right around that like mid running back two range. You've obviously got some high upside guys here, some high floor guys in this range, ETN, like we just mentioned. Uh there's going to be a lot of debate in the coming weeks on like, hey, who do you prefer rest of the season? Travis ETN, Derrick Henry, Bree Hall. Um, I I think every week from here on out that you get closer to Hampton returning, you start preferring him over every running back a little bit more and more until he gets back to the point where he was previously when he was healthy. This is an ankle injury that um I think he'll be able to recover from and look just as good as he did previously. Once he's back healthy, they put him on IR for a reason and it's to be cautious with this injury for a rookie running back. That's the sky is the limit for this guy long term.
Uh Bree Hall is also going to be here. Brie similar to ETN in my eyes, but in a worse offense where I do think his floor is quite a bit lower, but he can rack up, you know, 100 plus yards from scrimmage any given week. And he'll look really, really solid doing that. Uh, but where are the touchdowns? He has zero touchdowns this season. They just straight up hate using him in the red zone. And with Justin Fields rushing upside, that has taken away from some of the opportunity that Bree Hall has gotten in the red zone because Fields will just take off and he'll run or he'll check it down to Mason Taylor or some other no-name tight end or wide receiver at the 5yd line or the goal line and they'll score instead of Bree. They hate getting the ball to Bree Hall in the at the goal line. So, uh, this is something that I do think caps his ceiling for the rest of the season, which is why he will be in this tier with guys like ETN and Henry.
Yeah, I also move Scataboo into that tier because realistically I'm taking him over every single player in the Dtier. the only guy getting the volume out of those guys. The only guy consistently producing since he's been the starter there. He had 13 points um for 14 points against New Orleans. You know, it was a decent match up for him, but since he's really become the guy 13, 24, 13, and 14 points. He's the running back. 17 on the year. And again, all of these guys have big questions in this tier. I'm going to talk about here D. And I just don't feel like scatter has as many questions here.
But Alvin Kamar, he he has been one of the uh underperformers of the year so far in fantasy football. The running back 24 so far. He's only gone over 15 points one time here. And Kendra's usage is going up every week. Every single week Kre Miller gets more usage. You've se you've seen it more and more and more. He had as high as 155 2731 and then 39% snap share. It is just creeping up and and you might start you know this this where everybody wants to see the changing of the guard to R.J. Harvey or Trayvon Henderson where you're actually seeing it where people are ignoring it is with Kre Miller in New Orleans. And it doesn't necessarily matter because it doesn't make Kendra Miller super fantasy relevant because the offense there's so bad and he's going to be super touchdown dependent. But it does hurt Alvin Kamar because the volume's not going to be there for him. So we'll have him here rest of the season.
And Kenneth Walker continues to put up, you know, 10 carries, 90 yards, and then Zack Charbanet's 10 carries, 26 yards, and a touchdown every week. Every single week, it's Kenneth Walker's going to get you nine points because he's going to have a ton of yards. He's going to look really good, and he's going to break out some big plays, and then they're going to get in the red zone. They're going to be like bench. And Charban is going to come in, he's going to be inefficient, and then he's going to run in the end zone. Every week, that's what's going to happen. And so with Kenny Walker, I mean, so far this year, he's a running back 19, and he's averaged eight yards per carry in a game, 4.2 yards per carry in a game, 8.6 yards per carry in a game. his best games are the ones he was freaking inefficient for. So, you know, look, I you it's impossible to rank these guys right now. It's Charbanet and Kenneth Walker. You still have to have Walker above Charbanet in our opinion.
Yeah. Um just because I think long term you he still projects much better. Uh Chuba Hubard hoping he can come back this week, but might miss a couple weeks. When he does come back, I still think he's very capable. We basically just didn't really move him that much in our ranks this week. I don't think it's going to be like the Rico D show when Shuhaba comes back.
JK Dobbins. Uh we've moved up our rankings quite a bit. We're higher on JK Dobbins now than everybody else because everybody else is anticipating the Harvey switch. We think that they're going to roll with JK Dobbins rest season. He's a running back 15 on the year. He's been consistently scoring around 15 points a game right now. Um so it's hard not to just rank Dobbins where he is and that is as a mid- running back, too. And we have him ranked as a low-end running back, too. And so we're even being conservative there.
When Jaylen Warren does come back, I mean, you've kind of seen what that Steelers team I'm assuming he's going to be back after the bye-week here, but you kind of seen uh with Kenneth Gainwell what what he was doing um while Jaylen Warren was out. And Warren's not going to have that much workload, but he was scoring 13,17 and 13 points in the three weeks that he played before. He's just going to be a solid flex option for you and maybe a little bit underrated if you can buy low on him.
And then here we'll have Jory Kimera and and expert consensus on the site has Jory Koskim about three spots higher here. So still in the Dtier but higher. And look like my thing with Jory Koski, as much as I love to see that what he did um in week five, I just saw in week four Woody Marks do the exact same thing and then come out next week and not have the snapshare. And so you you really do need to see the utilization be at like 45% or more two weeks in a row before you move him way up rankings. Fact of the matter is he's only had one game like that so far this year. And you know his snapshare and his usage has been all over the place. And and the commander offense and the and their running back time share is just a little bit difficult to figure out. And so we'll be a little bit more conservative with him for now knowing full well that if he does get the snap share next week, he's probably going to jump up with Scataboo in the C tier and leave behind all these guys who have major question marks on their resumes.
I don't know what new creative way I can talk about Trayvon Henderson for at this point. Like what way is going to help explain why Raandre is continuing to get more opportunity and work over Henderson when he continually fumbles the freaking football and tries to lose them games and yet they still gift him touchdowns. I need to stop talking about it or I'm going to say something very not nice. But like Trayvon Henderson is in this F tier. You could put him at the bottom of this very extensive F tier if you wanted to, even lower. Uh, when is he going to get the work? When's he going to get the usage? I don't know. I hope it's soon. The Gibson ACL injury does help Henderson and his volume. You go from a three-back committee to a two back committee, and then maybe that extra usage can help him kind of get into the flow of things and outwork Raandre to a point where they're like, "Oh, we actually have a really good running back in this in this uh in in in this offense." Oh, yeah. He's he's a second round pick. We'll see. But until then, got to prove it.
David Montgomery. Um, we still have IV as as a lowend running back two, Avery as a mid-running back three. Um, not a big believer in the schedule over the next month. I think his floor is going to be as low as what we've already seen demonstrated this season. Um, I don't know how often Detroit is going to have like a 20 30 point lead over Kansas City, Tampa Bay, Minnesota, um, and Washington, and then Philly. Like those are games where you probably want Gibbs to be on the field more often than someone like Monty who's uh not going to be like your passing down back that you want to give checkdowns to when you have to air it out to keep up with these very productive offenses um that you're going up against. So Monty could I mean he's going to have touchdowns in some of these weeks. He'll he'll have a couple of good days, but you're also going to probably see some pretty low floor uh weeks like you saw against Cleveland in week four.
We're also going to have Jordan Mason here. He continues to move down our rankings every single week as Aaron Jones gets closer and closer to coming back healthy just because you're going to see less opportunity there consistently for him.
DeAndre Swift is the running back one in that offense in Chicago. He's actually been like okay. It's nothing pretty. 1310 and 16 points and nine points. He's had a pretty high floor just because he is getting the majority of the running back carries there. So, coming off the buy against Washington, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Cincinnati, and the Giants in Minnesota, I I mean, four of those five teams that I just mentioned have some of the worst run defenses in the league. So, Swift could have, you know, his classic pop off stretch in the middle of the season coming very, very soon.
Chase Brown um on his way down. He's another bellcow there that just does not have as near as positive of an outlook as Swift does.
Trey Benson, we'll move him up up incrementally every single week from here on out as he looks to come back from this IR stint um probably in a few weeks.
Woody Marks, uh we had to kind of come back down to earth with him. I don't think we really shot him up our boards too much cuz we wanted to see it consistently for us to move him up significantly and lo and behold, he comes back and doesn't really do much. Chub gets more work than him and then they just pull him out of the field or they pull him off the field because they were just dominating by the fourth quarter.
Uh Tony Pard going to be at the tail end of this tier. Now Spears coming in already getting work off of IR. Uh Spears I think got like 30% snap share right out the gate. 25%. He had a few carries. Nothing super crazy there. But again, you're just going to see this increase every single week. Look at that dramatic drop in snap share usage for Tony Pard immediately upon Tai Spears coming back. Immediately he goes from 80 90% to 70% right away. his volume on the lower end of what you've seen this season and I think that's going to continue on for the rest of the year. I do think even though he got a touchdown this week against Arizona, uh you're going to see his floor drop quite a bit.
In the GT. We're going to start with Raandre Stevenson and he's getting decent volume and he has good red zone opportunity as well. The unfortunate thing with Randre is he's going to lose you two to four points per game on fumbles and so it's kind of tough to plug him into your flex spots knowing that you might have negative points coming your way when he inevitably fumbles the ball.
Rashad White, we're going to rank here. I I think it's probably only one more week with Rashad White as the starter. It could be two, but then he's very hit or miss after that. Like realistically, you don't feel I hope it's two, man. You don't feel super good uh starting Rashad White when you've got Bucky there.
Zack Charbanet, I mean, look with Charbs. Yeah, he does continue to get the touchdowns, but like he's the running back 40 on the season. Uh 12 and 11. Like it looks like his ceiling is about 11 or 12 points right now. Yeah, that's just not good enough. Like you just don't want to start that.
We have Kareem Hunt in this year. Like Kareem Hunt is the running back. I think 20 on the year. Um, sorry, running back 34. I misspoke. But, um, had 18 points with two touchdowns. He's just the red zone guy in Kansas City. And so, I think he has touchdown upside, but he's just kind of that's kind of the same thing as Sharpet, like when you're thinking about it's a very similar role.
RJ Harvey, we're continuing to move him down. I'm not sure that you're going to see the switch to Harvey this year like we wanted to. We thought it was coming. We were wrong about that. Um, 20% snapshot against Philadelphia compared to 41 the week before. He his snapshot had started to go up and it actually went down in the last game. So, he actually got four carries and three targets in that game, but still only six points. Um, what we've seen is basically outside of the game against Cincinnati where they were up huge, he hasn't really been productive in double digit land at all this year.
Aaron Jones as well. Um, creeping back. I think he's coming back in two weeks at this point. They've got a buy and then they've got Philly. I I think they're going to do week eight. I think it's going to be Los Angeles in week eight is when they're expecting him to come back. And so, um, when he comes back, he's still going to be very hit or miss in my opinion.
And then last guy in the Gtier, Rico Dael. And Dowel, you know, we continue to move up. Um I have him as my running back 36 uh rest of the season. Again, I do think he's cutting into Chuba's workload, but realistically, I think Chuba is still going to be the more productive guy there.
In the H tier. Just a bunch of guys here. Uh Tutin, you know, you don't really want to start him. Michael Carter, you do want to start him, but you probably only have three more weeks at most of him, and he's still a shaky starter guy on a bad offense that we just don't really know about. He's not efficient. He's just getting volume. Exactly. Uh Tyron Tracy, still not back yet. Uh Nick Chub kind of gotten his a lot of his carries taken away from Woody or by Woody Marks there. Gainwell's got Warren coming back. Pacheco still sucks. And then the Chargers running backs here, Kamani Vidal and Hassan Haskins. Um you don't know which one it's going to be. Vidal looked better when he was on the field. Haskins is a Michigan guy and played with Harbaugh. Um Haskins is the guy that was spelling Hampton when you know Vidal was not coming on the field at all. And realistically, they might bring somebody else in and they also might pass the ball 50 times a game. And so you have to give them some rest of season value, but realistically not much.
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Let's go to wide receivers now and we're going to start in the S tier and the S tier remains unchanged because Puka had a modest 24 points this week. It was actually like, oh, is Puka okay? Is Puka okay? 24 and a half points. Like, is there something wrong with him? Only 12 targets, only 10 receptions, only 80 only 85 yards in this game for him. Dang. But he did have a touchdown. Only only one touchdown. So to 24 and a half points for Puka who is putting together one of the best wide receiver seasons that we've ever seen that we've ever seen.
In the A tier three guys this week. We expanded it a little bit because JSN continues to just kill, man. He is so freaking good. Wide receiver four on the year. Um I mean absolutely just crushing it. 27 points against Tampa Bay. Him and Darnold. Darnold I also have to rank JSN higher because Darnold looks better and actually pretty good as well. And so that and from a wrestling season standpoint, you feel very good about that. Uh and then CD Lamb. I think CD is coming back this week. You know, if he doesn't, fine. I'm still fine ranking him here, but I think CD is coming back this week. Um, and when he does come back, you're going to have him against Carolina and then you're going to have him against Washington, Denver, Arizona. So, a mixed bag there, but the Carolina match up, especially this week if he does come back. Um, you know, the the the three hours ago, uh, he could return within two weeks. Um, yeah. So, again, I I think it's coming this week or next week for sure. And when he does come back, I mean, he's a clear cut tier above the rest of these guys. Yeah, with that D volume, it's it's going to be insane.
So, uh, top of the B tier will be Justin Jefferson. He's kind of he's really settled into his role, honestly. He he looks fine there. He's not getting a Has he even gotten a touchdown since the first couple of weeks? He salvaged his early weeks with JJ McCarthy before the injury. Uh the touchdown against Chicago in week one. Since then, nothing. But he has his volume has gone up quite a bit thanks to Carson Wentz, 22 and 19 points the last few weeks. Uh he just doesn't have the upside in our opinion that a lot of these other, you know, A tier level wide receivers have. Um, but it's still Justin Jefferson. He's going to be very efficient with his opportunity, his yardage, etc. Um, if anybody's going to take a hit from when McCarthy's back healthy and playing, it's probably going to be Addison.
Drake London and Odun will be next here. They're just oh so steady. London had a little bit of a stint there where it was really, really rough. That Atlanta offense as a whole was really, really rough. Penn was really struggling, but now off the by-week and after a game where London really came into his zone at 25 points, we're expecting that that target volume to continue. Same with Odun. He's the unquestioned wide receiver one for the Chicago Bears. He looks phenomenal.
Nico Collins uh continues to be very kind of flying under the radar honestly as as productive as he's been only six and five targets the last few weeks but 11 and 16 points. He's been in double digits for four straight weeks since the stinker against the Rams in week one. He has been totally fine. 14 22 11 and 16 and no he's not dropping you know 30 plus points like you're used to seeing from him but with Seattle San Fran Denver Jacksonville Tennessee 5 weeks after the buy in week six like he's I I think he could have a few big weeks incoming and it does look like Houston's offense is on the up. Um so we're going to continue to respect him here in the B tier.
We're officially waving the white flag on an Amecha Ibuka like regression call. It's not happening. Anyone who's expecting it to happen once Mike Evans comes back healthy is kidding themselves. Evans is going to take the hit or Godwin or both. It's not going to be Igbuka. Ibuka is the certified wide receiver. One that won in that offense. He is elite. His volume and his efficiency is elite. His touchdown upside is elite. Everything about him is elite. He belongs comfortably in this B tier. No problem. He could end up honestly if he continues this once Evans comes back from his injury. You could see him find himself in the A tier as well if he just totally blows everybody else there out of the water.
Jamar Chase, uh, very hit or miss. Obviously, Jake Browning looks awful. We'll see when they bench Browning or bring in someone. Uh, that's a possibility, but you continue to have to respect him because of his upside that he showed in Garbage Time.
Garrett Wilson, the garbage time king. Uh, we we got to give him that label at this point. The Jets are like, "Oh, we have a super sucky offense. No one outside of Reese Hall and Garrett Wilson. Justin Fields can't throw the ball consistently to anyone not named Garrett Wilson. Uh, let's not get the ball to Garrett Wilson until the fourth quarter when we're down by 20 points." And then every single week they start launching the ball to Garrett Wilson throwing prayers. And what does he do? He brings them down because he's one of the best route runners and one of the best contested catch wide receivers in the NFL. Um and he just finds his way in the end zone weekly. I mean the dude is averaging like 18 plus points per game at the moment. I think that will continue as long as he stays healthy and is the only option there.
So Rashid Rice going to be at the tail end of this beat tier. we will move him up most likely every single week um as he continues to or starts to we would expect produce at a very very high level once he's back from this suspension but I think this is where he's going to belong rest the season now that he's you know a week away from returning.
A little baby tier here for the Ctier uh Courtland Sutton continues to produce as a wide receiver one he's great Devonte Adams has been a little bit underwhelming and his utilization has also been a little bit underwhelming but it's still Dvonte Adams and he's still playing at a very good offense and he's still very consistent in your flex play he's a wide receiver 15 on the year it's about where we have him in these rankings right and then Z Flowers Flowers. Flowers actually put together a decent game with Cooper Rush. So when Lamar comes back and as much as this team's going to pass the ball, I expect Flowers to be pretty good. He's a little bit of a buy low for me right now. But five targets, five receptions for 72 yards. Obviously had one big play that kind of skewed it. But again, when Lamar comes back with as bad as this defense is, um I definitely think that they're going to throw the ball a lot. I think he's going to benefit from that a lot.
The Dtier here, I'll do as well. Uh Tab McMillan continues to be an absolute beast on the field and just not be as productive from fantasy football perspective. He's a wide receiver 25 and so like he his floor right now he's performing at his floor wide receiver 25. So we have him ranked at like wide receiver 16 or 17. So we're just ranking him assuming that he's eventually going to start scoring a little bit more and actually have a touchdown in his NFL career. And once he does he is going to be a mid wide receiver too. I mean he had a great day this last week. He did and he but he's just still he can't find the end zone and the yardage isn't necessarily there. And so um look team a lot of a lot of people are really impatient with teammac right now and I totally get it. Fact of the matter is like when you're actually watching his tape, he looks fantastic. I think the points are going to come. I think they're going to come. He had 13. It's not like he's not scoring anything.
Uh AJ Brown continues to move down our rankings. Again, I'm not ready to give up on AJ Brown, but I'm about ready to give up on AJ Brown. Seven, he he said 22 point game. Outside of that, 172 and nine point games. He did have eight targets, but it just seems like that offense and those receivers and Jaylen Herz and the offensive coordinator just cannot get on the same page right now. On the other hand, Debo Samuel, you know, I don't blame you if you want to move Debo or move AJ Brown for dbo. Debo is a wide receiver for seven this year. I mean, outside of one game, he's had 227 20 and 23 points. He's the anti-AJ Brown in that aspect. So, actually, you know, I think comfortably um I even I think I have I do have Debo ranked above him at this point. Nathan has Debo ranked behind him. I would I would probably take Debo over AJ Brown at this point. Debo is just Debo's just good and he just fits well in that offense, which is something that I was just so wrong about and never saw that coming.
Marvin Harrison Jr. is going to be in this tier. Um, and he's got to be here because he's not been not productive. And there are times where you watch him used in that offense and you're like, "Okay, they're going to use him. They figured it out." And he still had 13 points. He's the wide receiver 22 on the year. So, it's about where we have him ranked. But realistically, I don't think his ceiling is much higher than that.
George Pickkins, again, we're a little bit lower on Pickkins rest of the season than everybody else just because, you know, CD is going to come back and George Pickkins, I think, isn't going to be the wide receiver rest of the year, but you do have to respect him and put him in this tier. With the last guy in this year is Jaylen Wadd. And Wadd I I think is a legitimate threat uh to be a a high-end wide receiver through the rest of the season. In his first game without Tyreek Hill put puts on 23 points and it is against Carolina. I'll give you that. But nine targets, six receptions just straight up like I think this is I I really think Jaylen Wadd still got it. He's only 26. I don't think that should be a hot take. But like from just watching his tape like just watch his film and and watch him run routes and tell me it's not just the deep stuff. I he's winning. He's winning routes all over the field and they're just finding him more now because Tyreek isn't there. And you know, I I don't know why it took Tyreek being hurt to find Waddle like this. But if that's really what it took and that's really what happens, Wadd does have pretty high upside from a fantasy scoring output perspective the rest of the year. And so we're going to rank him here. I'll be more aggressive with Wadd um than most people and I have him as my wide receiver 19 right now. But um definitely feeling pretty good about uh where we have him ranked.
So BTJ will be at the top of the F tier here. I a week where he gets more volume, decent amount of opportunity, and 12 points, six targets. His volume, honestly, his volume is not going up. Uh he's not finding the end zone, he did have four receptions for 80 yards. I mean, that's 20 yards per catch. Uh this is, you know, the BTJ that we know and love in terms of skill set, but uh not in terms of production. It's been pretty ugly. Seattle and the LA Rams. Hopefully he can uh show that he has, you know, a higher ceiling than this this season, but it's just like when is it going to come? I I I I don't know.
Xavier Worthy uh still looking solid as well. He didn't have a touchdown this week, but he still had the same amount of volume that he did the previous week uh coming off of this injury with Rasheed Rice coming back soon as well. I think that's just going to help him open up the field for him, have more big play upside and ability.
Quinton Johnson does come back uh to earth against Washington with only I think like what six, seven points, something like that. Uh less target volume too, back down to like four targets when he had 10 and 13 the weeks before. I will say up against Miami, the Colts and Minnesota and Tennessee the next four weeks uh with no Amari in Hampton. Now, I do think this kind of changes QJ's outlook at least in the short term while Hampton is out. Um, we're willing to bet that uh Herbert is gonna throw the ball 50 times before they give the ball to Vidal and Haskins 30 times, right? That's that's just I I think that's not unreasonable to expect at this point with the way that we've seen some of these games unfold with Hampton in the offense where there's like, oh, let's not give the ball to Hampton. Let's just keep throwing it.
Chris Ave is just kind of really steady with his volume and his opportunity. I don't think he has the upside that a lot of guys in this tier are capable of having like a BTJ, like a worthy, like a QJ, but he is pretty safe. Honestly, it's a it's a poor offense, but he is the number one option there, and he's going to get his own.
Devonte Smith, very boom bust. Um, very similar to AJ Brown. He is going to be in the tier below, honestly. Um, I'm pretty close to putting AJ Brown and Devonte Smith in the same tier because Smith is just straight up and out producing AJ Brown this season. And it's not pretty for either one of those guys cuz the volume isn't consistently good enough and Goddard's playing really well. Saquon has kind of been lackluster. We'll see if they can kind of figure this offense out. But uh this is what you get from Devonte Smith and your flex every single week. A really really good week that can win you a week or a really really bad one that could lose you one.
Michael Pitman is kind of touchdown 15 to 18 points or not touchdown and he's like upper single digits. He's not getting the crazy target volume that you've seen over the last few years or that you saw back in 2023. Um, but he still is productive and he looks solid there. He's very efficient with his opportunity.
DK Metaf, the number one option for Aaron Rogers, finally came into his own overseas. We'll see if he can continue that on after the by-week.
Starting with the Gtier here, we'll have J Mo continues to disappoint. He's going to have games where he has 20 plus points and he's going to have games where he has one point. Like it's just a matter of, you know, he's probably going to finish as a wide receiver too somewhere because he has all these big games, but good luck in the weeks you start him and he has zero points for you. Like I mean it's legitimately like his floor is the floor. His floor is the ground. It's bad. So with J Mo, I mean, we have to continue to move him down.
Mike Evans hopefully I haven't really heard anything about Mike Evans, but either way, you think about Mike Evans coming back like IA is the guy. He's going to he he he's probably going to come back in week six or seven, but I mean it's a hamstring and IA really is the dude there.
Lad Mani we had as a sell this week of course. Um, you know, we still are a little bit higher, I think. Uh, actually, we are we are lower. Sorry, we are lower than everybody else on lad. Lad's, you know, the wide receiver 26 for the rest of the experts on the flock site. We are we have him as our wide receiver like 31. I mean, realistically, I don't know how much you can expect with Lad with Keenan getting that much target volume and QJ looking as good as he does. I don't think he's going to be a wide receiver too this year. We have him as a wide receiver three.
Ricky Pierce Hall when he does come back might have some upside, but again, he's been injured as well. Brock Pie's been injured. The situation's not great.
Terry McLaren. I still have hope that of all the guys in this tier, he could be the guy that jump up to jump up this year. I mean, there's nothing necessarily that's wrong with Terry. He just didn't play in training camp and then he had an injury. If he can come back and get on the same page as Daniels, he is a guy still that could end up like in the F tier or the D tier. Um, because we know what he's capable of from production standpoint. We just haven't seen it really come to fruition yet.
Stfan Diggs is a big mover for us this week and we have him ranked well above everybody else. But I don't know why you wouldn't. I mean, the last couple weeks for Stfan Diggs. He's kind of eased himself in as he's come back from the ACL, but now uh 16 and 24 points in weeks four and five for Stfan Diggs. I mean, he looks like Drake May's favorite target at the moment outside of maybe Hunter Henry. And so, I think you have to kind of respect that and put him here.
We've had to move Jacobe Meyers down. Um because Meyers really just hasn't done anything. Like, as much as I love Myers, we got, you know, we got barked at for having him too low. And then after that, 97 and seven points. I'd really like to see it from Myers here soon. He doesn't have a touchdown on the year yet. Gino's really struggling, too. Gino sucks right now. Just like straight up.
Jordan Addison continues to um score points at the end of the game. That wasn't garbage time at the end of this game because it was the game-winning touchdown, but it's still like, you know, he kind of just waited until the last second and got his points in. But realistically, his ceiling is going to be completely determined by if JJ McCarthy comes back soon or not because that is going to be a completely different offense if he does. But as far as as long as W is playing, I think he does have some serious upside there. If Wes were playing the whole year, I'd probably move him up a tier. Yep. So would I.
Keenan Allen and T. Higgins to kind of wrap it up here. Allen keeps getting the targets. Um and you know he's just consistent. You know in terms of this last game he had nine targets. Uh he had 10 points on 58% snap share. The snapshot is not there but the production is he's the wide receiver 14 on the year so far just cuz he's consistent. So you know what you're getting from him. T. Higgins on the other hand he did have a touchdown um against Detroit but that really salvaged his day. He had seven targets only caught three of them for 22 yards. He's the wide receiver 48 on the year. I mean with T again he his value and his upside just completely plummets without Joe Burrow there to be honest with you.
H tier. Going to start with Chris Godwin. uh after a 10 target week, you didn't really do much this week where Ibuka just lit it up. Absolutely lit it up. And you're obviously worried about when Evans is going to come back. Uh what what it's going to look like in that room after a
Mecha Ibuka. Will it be more Godwin? Will it be more Evans? We'll see.
Uh DJ Moore, he we we won't move him up until we see it from him, until we see any production at all. He's not getting hardly any volume at all.
Khalil Shakir um is getting consistent volume, and honestly, he's he's kind of a guy that you can rely on in your flex. Um, he's not going to win you a week generally, but he's probably not going to lose you a week. He did have a two-pointer against the Jets, but with Atlanta and Carolina coming up with the by-week in between, like I think he's going to be fine. He'll continue to be very reliable for Josh Allen.
Calvin Ridley on the up a little bit. Wanted to show him a little respect after he had a productive game against Arizona where really nobody there should have been productive, but they kind of got lucky in the fourth quarter. Uh, we'll see if Calvin Ridley can string together a couple of productive games with Cam Ward at the helm.
Josh DS uh has really benefited honestly from from Alec Pierce being injured with that concussion. He had eight targets against Vegas for 11 points. He really could be lower than this. He's had three single-digit games, only two 11-point games. We haven't seen anything startable from Josh Towns actually at all. Like he he honestly could be lower than this.
Uh Jawan Jennings and Matthew Golden. Uh two guys that are like pretty high upside, but their floor is so low. Golden's developmental. He's young. He's a rookie. Jennings banged up right now.
Uh then Keon Coleman, same sort of story there with him. Just young. Uh you saw a really really nice high ceiling game week one with him and you haven't really seen much since.
And then we got the I tier, a bunch of guys that you're not comfortable starting, but if you have to with by-weeks, cross your fingers. Jerry Judy, uh with Dylan Gabriel, maybe he can do something he didn't last week. Darnell Mooney does have that hamstring injury. They said they don't expect him to miss time. We'll see if he can start this week coming off the by-week. He has some big play upside. Cooper Cup uh with with Darnold playing as well as he does. Cooper Cup can have some productive weeks as well. Rasheed Shahed coming off like a 21-pointer. He's again very touchdown or bust though he did get a good amount of target volume last week because they were down a lot. Travis Hunter showed some good flashes as an athlete, but the volume isn't there. Alleg Manor, same thing. Not enough volume is there for him to be super highly productive. And then Tilman and I will be at the tail end of this year.
Let's do tight ends now. Just do the whole tight end list here. Um the story of tight ends is if you have one of these four guys in the S tier, McBride, Bowowers, Ferguson, or Warren, you still have a distinct advantage. Fact of the matter is Bowowers were just kind of projecting here because he hasn't really been an advantage for you so far this year. But if he does get healthy, I think he could be. McBride, Ferguson, and Warren on the other hand have been advantages for you. And so those are the guys that if you have them, you have one of the best tight ends in fantasy football.
The A tier kind of applies to that as well. You could already put Tucker Craft in that tier as well. And I wouldn't be necessarily opposed to it. Um with Craft, it's just a matter of uh if he kind of continues his his run of scoring some touchdowns, but Craft has been great. KD's going to be coming back soon. He's obviously a game changer. We have Leaporta in this tier still. Um you know, Nathan has ranked at six. I ranked today. Like he had a good game, but we have him as a sell candidate. And Travis Kelce actually continues to have a fairly good year. Um, you know, he's just consistent. He had 19 points against Jacksonville. Eight targets, seven receptions, and a touchdown. Uh, the tight end six so far on the year. And so, those guys are awesome.
Uh, in the B tier, we're going to have really two big tiers in the B tier and the C tier. These B tier guys have kind of separated themselves from the guys in the C tier. GD is like a is a top 10 tight end on the season. Kyle Pittz continues to play well. Concincaid has kind of stepped into his own a little bit. that he had one of his best games of his career the other night. And so maybe he's finally got it clicking. I I'll believe it. I'll believe it when I see it more. Uh TJ Hawinson with WZ is better, but with McCarthy, he's going to go down in stock. Hunter Henry's great. Um and he's been consistent this year. Obviously, no touchdown this week for him, but realistically with with Henry, you feel more comfortable starting him than a lot of guys, like I said, in the tiers um below him, but he had uh six points this last week. Um so, a little bit more of a modest game, but he still had four targets, two receptions. He's not going to lose you a week, probably is kind of my my stance on that. Harold Fannon still has touchdown upside. You saw it this last week. And then Mark Andrews as well. Kind of hit or miss, but um you know, he does have touchdown upside as well. It's a it's a you know, team that's going to pass the ball a lot.
The C tier Darren guys like Darren Waller. We're not going to move Darren Waller up too far. I know he's had two good games, but y'all I'm telling you, this man cannot stay healthy. So like we can't be super aggressive telling you to go get Darren Waller. We're we're talking about Waller now this late because he was injured before he finally came back healthy. Just just trust us on this one. Waller's great. And if you have him, start him while you can. But like we're not rest of season like he's not going to last rest of season. If he does I'll eat my words. Waller and Jooku, Jawan Johnson, Mason Taylor, Evan Ingram, Briton Strange, Zach, AJ Barner, Theo Johnson are all guys that you can kind of plug in right now. That's really what they are. They're guys you can kind of plug in. If you want to put Waller in the B tier, go for it. I better not see people crying about Waller. That's all I'll say.
And the D tier guys you don't want to start. I mean, but they're they have upside rest of the season quarterbacks.
So, we'll start with Josh Allen in the S tier alone. Josh Allen, dude. I like even the guy that you think has like the biggest competitive advantage over any other quarterback ever is outproduced yet again by some passing QBs like Mahomes and Baker Mayfield this week. I you know with every 38 pointer that against Baltimore, he does have some lower games like some less productive games like 11 points against the Jets and he's been in the low 20s for three straight weeks. Nothing like elite level that you could that you couldn't get out of freaking Dak Prescott and Matt Stafford literally. Um, but he is going to be in the S tier because his upside is unmatched.
Jaylen Herz, Lamar Jackson, Daniels, Mahomes, and Baker are all going to be in the A tier here. We now have Mahomes and Baker in this tier with all these other rushing QBs because guess what? They're outproducing all of them. Lamar Jackson is hurt. Who knows if he'll be hobbled when he comes back healthy. He's probably going to miss another week, then we'll go into the buy, then he'll be back after that. Jaden Daniels has just I mean even before the injury you're not seeing the upside that you saw last season and we'll give him his respect and put him in the A tier because he's still a rushing QB but we've got to see it guys like Mahomes and Baker are two of the best bang for your buck quarterbacks that you got in fantasy football this year because you spent half the price that it cost to get Daniels or Herz or Lamar or even Allen in your fantasy football drafts. So those guys absolutely belong in the A tier.
B tier, you've got some uh you've got rushing guys in May and Fields on the book ends here in this tier. They they've both shown some nice upside, but their floors are both respectively pretty low. Uh cuz Fields just sucks. And May's passing volume, you've seen like a 17 attempt passing game like the previous week before the Buffalo game. So that does lower his floor a little bit. Caleb Williams and Dak Prescott also. Caleb Williams just has great weapons around him. Dak Prescott is one of the best passing QBs in the league this year just in terms of volume straight up.
C tier, you've got some pocket passers in Herbert Goff, Nick Knicks, and Daniel Jones. Uh they're they're a little more like shaky week in and week out. Um kind of some low floor guys. And then Kyler Murray, Love, Perty, and Dart, and Stafford all going to be in the D tier together. Murray continues to move down our rankings. Love kind of staying oh so steady. Party only down because he's been injured. When he's back healthy, his volume is still good enough for him to be productive. Jackson Dart has rushing upside. Stafford has Puka, Freaking Nua, who's the best wide receiver in the NFL. Stafford looks as good as he's ever looked before.
And then the F tier, a bunch of streamable guys here. I will just mention a couple here though. Sam Darnold on the up. He's looking really solid with his passing volume. Lawrence after a 27-pointer um could be on the up if he continues this consistently. And that's going to be about it. We're ending with Cam Ward because he has some rushing upsideing capability, but nobody here in the F tier you really want to start on a weekly basis.
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