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Thank god I already had my matchup locked up and I did not have to rely on a Mr. Josh Allen because in this first game we will look at Josh Allen really didn't have much going. Obviously the final drive you get the long rush then he throws the peg but it looked like the Buffalo Bills offense just had a very difficult time moving the ball down the field.
Now, I have Josh Allen on my own fantasy team, and I'm I gonna go out there and panic and say, "Oh crap, no. Josh Allen's no longer the QB1." No, Josh Allen still gives you an incredibly high ceiling as a rusher. Like, even in this game where the Bills often struggles, he has 42 rushing yards. A lot of that coming in the fourth quarter. And even in this game, he had multiple passing touchdowns. Like, a horrendous performance from Josh Allen. He's still giving you something, right?
Like we can go ahead and we can look at what Josh Allen had done coming into this contest. Let me just pull this up on the site real quick. Um we can actually see that Josh Allen coming in here had given us 38.8, 11.8, 23, um 25 and 19 and a half. He had been averaging Oh, okay. that's going to be mixed in because it's actually giving you this game's performance as well. But still, he had been averaging about 22, 23 points per game. He had still been the QB1 in fantasy coming into this before Mahomes blew up yesterday. We'll talk about that in a later video. But regardless with Allen, I'm still going to have him as my QB1 rest of season. I don't feel the need to change much there. We did move Patrick Mahomes up to the third quarterback in our rest of season ranks. He keeps performing the way that he has, he could eventually flip Allen. It's just difficult because we have such a large sample from Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson running the ball like crazy.
Now going over looking at what we have with James Cook. James Cook doesn't give you the rushing touchdown which is a surprise uh because we can essentially pencil that in from James Cook almost every single week, right? Like we go over and look at what James Cook has managed to do not only this year but going back to last season as well. James Cook was averaging a rushing touchdown per game coming into this contest. And you go back and you look at what he did last season. He had 16 rushing yards in 16 games. So, am I changing my mind on James Cook here where we had him as the RB5? And maybe I move Josh Jacobs ahead of him. One, because I have Josh Jacobs on my own fantasy team and I'd like to see my team go higher in the power rankings on the site. Obviously a joke, but mainly because I guess Jacobs is leapfrogging James Cook already in points per game in a full PBR format because Allen can run the ball, he's not checking the ball down very often to Cook. So, because James Cook doesn't have the receiving usage and because James Cook at the same time, um I I'm not going to fault him too hard for not touching mainly because he's not getting involved as a receiver as much as he had. I think we move James Cook down to our RB7 in our rest of season rankings, but still, we're going to have a Chan at four, Jacobs at five, and Gibbs at six. And yeah, I understand Gibbs at six is a drop compared to where we used to have him, but look, Jir Gibbs averaging 17.2 points per game. Nowhere close to any of the other running backs inside this these top three tiers. So, we're still giving Gibbs the benefit of the doubt with that ranking. Um, it looks like Ray Davis is just nothing. So if you had Davis, just go ahead and drop him.
Now going over to the wide receiver. So Joshua Palmer didn't even play at the beginning of the game. Obviously, it's not like Joshua Palmer is all of a sudden somebody you can pick up off the waiverwire. It's not like all of a sudden Joshua Palmer's interesting in the slightest. He has 60 rushing yard I mean receiving yards, but who cares? He only had two targets. Um Khalil Shakir, they just could not get the ball to Dawson Knox get the receiving touchdown. And I I know Ray Davis gets the receiving touchdown, but frankly, James Cook still has absolutely everything as a rusher here. I I'm not interested in anybody in Buffalo because Keon Coleman looks horrible. They spread the ball out to so many players. Hopefully, you get Concaid back this next week. The only guys that you start here are going to be Josh Allen, James Cook, and then Concade when he is healthy.
Now, let's move over and let's see what we have with the Atlanta Falcons. Michael Pennix uh gets there from a box score perspective. Not going to lie, it seemed like just Bejian Robinson was putting this team on his back. Like you had 210 rushing yards in this game. Then you combine the fact that Bejian himself and Tyler Algier go for over 70 receiving yards. So like 280 yards in this offense the running backs took over for. So like Michael Penn I'm not interested him in in fantasy. Michael Penn isn't going to run the ball at all. It doesn't seem like Michael Penn is that it just looks like Bean Robinson is that dude. Like Bean Robinson in this game what he gets you 23 points as a rusher then you add on almost 13 points as a receiver. gives you like 38 points. And I'm going to be honest with y'all. Um I think we have to do it. I think we have to put Bean Robinson at number one rest of season in our rankings. We have not seen the same type of ceiling from McAffrey this year that we just saw from Bejian Robinson. Yes, McCaffry's receiving skill set is insane, but Bejon in this game has eight targets. Bjon coming into this game as well had also been sitting here averaging almost six targets per contest. So now you add on the eight targets that he had this week, that's going to go over six targets now. So I think Bejon is our running back one at this point. You sprinkle on the fact that he's already gone through his by-week as well. I think you have to run with it.
And now, of course, I am an idiot and I get things wrong all the time. That's very public. Y'all call me out on it every single day, as y'all rightfully should. Um, and I'm going to continue to get things wrong until the end of time because again, see, previous, I'm an idiot. But if y'all are allowed to call me an idiot and y'all are allowed to clown on me every chance y'all get, I can at least give it back somewhat. And a little comment stood out to me in the rankings video from earlier today. You here's some advice that I have for everybody here that wants to call me an idiot. At least wait until I was proven to be wrong. That may be your best call here. or you're going to get shown in the live stream like this where people were trying to clown on me for having Drake London ahead of Roma Dunay in my rankings. Like London is that freaking dude. London 158 receiving yards, 10 receptions, and the receiving touchdown as well. And what's crazy is at the very end of the half, you came this close for it to be his second receiving touchdown. Drake London in this game almost dropped 40 fantasy points. Now, of course, he he's out at the one. Time expires, so you're not able to actually get those. So, you only have like 32 points. But regardless, Drake London an absolute monster. Drake London's already through his bye-week as well. I think at this point the only wide receivers I would rather have in fantasy are going to be Lamb, Jefferson, St. Brown, Puka, and JSN. And obviously this Puka ranking is subject to change dependent on when we get more news. But I think at this point I would rather have Drake London over Jamar Chase. Now keep in mind as well with this game you didn't have Darnell Mooney. So it's allowing Drake London to have 16 targets out of 32 pass attempts for Michael Penn. What's hilarious is Michael Penn threw the ball 32 times and you had a total of 28 of those going to Drake London, Bejan Robinson, and Kyle Pittz. They were the only guys that he would look at. Like this is a super concentrated offense. Now once Darnell Mooney is back in, then all of a sudden, sure, it's going to be spread out a little bit more. Um, we had Kyle Pittz as our tight end 10 in our rest of season ranks inside the same tier with like Goddard Concaid, Hunter Henry, Travis Kelce. I'm honestly probably just going to be leaving him here. Like I still think you probably star Cal Pitts if you have them. It's just so difficult to project out those tight ends. And then I know Kelsey's been better than that, but my thing with Kelsey again is you have Rash Rice coming back in, but that's for another video.
But I think we can go ahead and move over to the next game. I will again mention that Tyler Algier, you're never wanting to start him regularly, but if you were to get an injury to Bejon Robinson, Tyler Algier would probably immediately prop up to be a top 15 running back in my rankings. I'm not going to say he'd be Rico Dow level good, but he'd be good enough where it means that you should roster Tyler Alier in pretty much every league.
Now, let's go ahead and let's move to our next offense. This is going to be the Chicago Bears. And with the Chicago Bears, what was very interesting to note coming into this game is Caleb Williams had been great so far this season. Like, if we go through and look at Caleb, I need to see who has him. Is it Danny? I think Danny may have him in our league. Let me pull this up. Yes, he does. Um Caleb Williams before the buy was sitting here averaging about 20 fantasy points per game. Now, he gave you a bunch of rushing production in the first week and then he hadn't in weeks two through four. But Caleb was averaging about 20 points per game. I still had him as about my QB8 in fantasy. Still kind of like that option where obviously we want to roster him and we want to play him in good matchups, but not an absolute auto start. And Caleb in this game runs the ball even less in terms of the total yardage. You get negative -2 rushing yards from Caleb, but you get the rushing touchdown and you go back to his time at USC, he was giving you 10 rushing touchdowns a game. He didn't have a single rushing touchdown in his rookie season. But obviously, we were assuming that was going to regress. But Caleb Williams still remains like around that range of me of quarterbacks for me that I want to roster two of them. We'll play the matchups between the two weekly. That doesn't really change.
Now, what does happen here is DeAndre Swift explodes. DeAndre Swift had remained a mustart running back for us just given the fact that you had volume, volume, volume. But the issue that you had with DeAndre Swift is the efficiency hadn't been there. So, every single week you were looking at DeAndre Swift getting what I want to say like 15 through 22 opportunities at the very minimum. Let me see if I can find who had DeAndre Swift in the Flock League. I don't exactly remember, but if we find that real quick, we can show you the exact stat line of Swift. I know it's not me. Maybe it's the fan wagon. We'll go ahead and we'll just show you. Of course, y'all can link your team with flockfantasy.com if you haven't already. And you can go through and you can see the power rankings of your stuff. I actually need to sort this by my own ranks. Let's see. Is it Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Who the hell has Swift? Is it the dev team? It's the dev team here. And you look at DeAndre Swift coming into this game. DeAndre Swift had had 12 carries at the very minimum in every contest. In every game, he had at least three targets. So, a very minimum baseline opportunity of 15 for Swift. The efficiency had been really bad, right? Like back-to-back games averaging fewer than three yards per carry. I mean, the yards per target was pretty damn low every single week outside of week three as well against Dallas because it was a great matchup, but you get the long receiving touchdown. DeAndre Swift looks great out there. And DeAndre Swift, yet again, you get 17 opportunities. It's like clockwork. But he shows us that you could actually get a potential spike that he is not complete dust. The big play upside is somewhat there. So for me at this point, how the hell am I going to make an argument to have Alvin Kamara ahead of DeAndre Swift? How am I going to make an argument to have David McGomery Jacori Kroski Merritt? DeAndre Swift I think is going to be a running back two for me in my rest of season rankings. RB18. Kyle Manungai was out there a bit, but it's not like he was much. So, I'm not super concerned about Manungai to be honest. Um, I will say obviously he is the handcuffed running back in this backfield if you did want one.
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But let's move this over to the wide receivers that we have in Chicago. So the actual points that Rome gives you, horrendous. Rome comes through, he has five targets, two receptions for 32 receiving yards. So, I'm sure a lot of people are sitting here going like, "Oh, okay. Um, I just need nine points from Rome. I'm going to get it and then I'll be able to go through and I'll be able to move to um a five and one. I'll be able to move to four and two. I'll be able to move to three and three." And then all of a sudden, Rome face plant even though through the first month of the year, he had actually given you at the very minimum 15 fantasy points every single week. So, if you were looking at what we have with Rome, those first four weeks, I'm not going to try to diminish what he did. Absolutely incredible. But a lot of it was based off the receiving touchdowns. He had a receiving touchdown week one, two receiving touchdowns week two, the receiving touchdown week three, the receiving touchdown week four. Now, I will say in week six, he actually almost had a receiving touchdown. if it wasn't for the fact that it got called back, I believe, due to the illegal formation. But still, if you don't have the target floor for Rome, you're going to have a low floor from a fantasy points perspective. Now, if I'm looking at where he is in our rest of season ranks, I had Roma Dunce as our wide receiver nine. Realistically, I'm not going to move him down much. This is the continued trend though where he's not getting a ton of target volume and I think Rashi Rice is going to get more target volume and I think Rashi Rice is going to be in a better offense. So I'd probably move Rome behind Rasheed Rice. I may consider moving George Pickins ahead of Rome as well because realistically like George Pickins is kind of going to be touchdown reliant, but I do think there's going to be more passing volume in Dallas. The targets are spread out a ton in Chicago. You do have CD Lamb that you're going to have to contend with going into the future. Again, I know we had the touchdown called back due to the illegal formation. I believe that's was the penalty, but still the target floor is going to be there for Rome. We can't just bank on Rome scoring a touchdown every single week. Rome's not going to end this season with 17 touchdowns. So, I'm not going to do it just yet. I know for sure I'm going to move Rice ahead of him, but I may consider moving George Pickin Pickkins ahead of him as well.
Now, let's see if we have anything else to discuss. Uh DJ Moore, not interesting. You'd hope he gets traded. Loveland does nothing. Cut him if you have him. Cut KT if you have him. You're really starting DeAndre Swift. You're starting Roma. We'll talk about Luther Burden in the Waverwire video that come out tomorrow, but Luther Burden not super interesting either. Start Caleb based on matchup. Start DeAndre Swift as an RB2. Start Roma Dunce as a high-end wide receiver 2, low-end wide receiver one.
Okay, let's go ahead and let's move to our next offense. This next one's going to be the Commanders. So you have Jaden Daniels looking really good minus the mistakes. I don't know if you give the fumble at the end of the game on him or if that was Jakori Cross Merritt. Obviously weird weather blah blah blah but regardless Daniels remains as an elite level quarterback in my rest of season ranks. Um we have Jaden Daniels as our QB5. maybe end up flipping him with Jaylen Herz now that we see that he is fully healthy because the thing with Daniels that I was a little bit worried about with him coming back from the injury is did we just see the rush rate fall a bit but in this game he has 10 rushtemps he has 52 rushing yards so he's the running he's running the ball just as much as ever and obviously in this contest it looked like Debo Samuel was not fully healthy with the heel injury and we're going to assume that he gets healthy over time we're going to assume that Terry McLaren comes comes back to this offense at some point and the overall commander offense will be better.
Now going over and looking at Bill Kroski Merritt. If y'all remember after week one, right before Austin Eckler tore his Achilles, I traded away Jaori Kroski Mered in the Flock League to go ahead and get one Mister Tony Pard. Oh, Tony Pard, my savior. The reason I'm five and one in my obviously I'm joking I am five and one but not because of Tony Pard butt. Um I was worried about Jory Kroski Merritt back then because I was like okay well Austin Eckler's taking a bunch of work. Um we know that Jaka Crossit doesn't profile to be a receiving back so it's always going to be Eckler but JCM has come through and he's proven he is going to be the first and second down RB. Now of course he's not going to get used as a receiver. You see that this week he only had one target. It was a super boring thing. You just ran five yards, turned around, caught it, fell right down. Um, so JCM like he's going to be good if you score. He's going to be okay if he scores the touchdown, but if the touchdown's not there, he's not going to be great. So, I know a lot of people I mean, we could have pulled up the comment section in the running back rankings video as well. Hated me for putting JCM around RB21. I'm going to stand by this ranking because again, the dude's not going to catch the ball. So, he is kind of a touchdown or bust running back. I think very easily he can go up in these rankings, but for now, the floor is relatively low.
And looking at the receivers, Chris Moore, not interesting. Do not pick him up. Um Jaylen Lane, not interesting. Don't pick him up. Luke McAffrey, not interesting. Don't pick like don't pick up anybody here at wide receiver. Zack Z with Debo banged up with Tara McLaren banged up. Looks like he's going to continue to be relevant. I had Zack Herz coming into this game at tight end 15. Do I feel the need to move him over Darren Waller? Move him over Harold Fannon with the David Ajoku injury. Move him over Kelsey. No, I'm gonna just leave him here. Still very much somebody you can put into your starting lineup. I'm not going to be super excited to jam him in though. And then looking at what we have with um Debo Samuel, it doesn't look like he's fully healthy, but still with him not being fully healthy, I can't justify having him where we do in the rankings. Like realistically, I don't know if I'm going to be excited to tell you to play Debo next week, especially if you end up getting say like Terry McLaren back in. So I think we're going to move Debo Samuel down. I think at this point I would rather have Mechaf over him to be honest. And I think we need to move Wilson down as well given the news. I think I'd rather have Flowers over him with Lamar coming back most likely in week eight after their buy. I think I'd rather have AJ Brown ahead of Debo at this point. I know AJ Brown's been horrendous, but Debo's banged up. Wilson's banged up. Quinton Johnson's banged up. I think I'd rather have a lot I I'm just going to move all the healthy wide receivers ahead of these injured guys until we actually see otherwise because something that I really want to hammer in on with these rest of season rankings and these videos as well is if a player just got injured this week like Garrett Wilson as an example. And it's actually kind of funny right now u me dealing with like a bunch of people in the flock league sending me offers of like these injured players telling me that I'm crazy that I don't want to send Josh Allen, Josh Jacobs, and DK Metaf for Puka Nua. It's like we're in week seven. If a player gets injured and they're going to miss say three to four weeks hypothetically, not saying in the puka case, I'm just saying in general across the board, if we're in week seven and they're going to miss say four weeks, they miss weeks seven, eight, nine, 10, and then they play weeks 11, 12, 13, 14. So for the fantasy football regular season, that means they're missing half of it. So missing four games right now or being injured right now on October 13th is a much bigger deal than if you were going to miss four games coming into the season because those four games before week one, it's a much smaller percentage of the remaining year that you actually have. Whereas, if a player's missing three games, if they're missing four games right now, I want to severely knock them in the rankings in favor of the actual players that are healthy and producing.
But I think that's all I have across the board in this. Um, last but not least, I will remind y'all I'm going to be shipping out these hats this week. So, I'm probably going to make the cut off where if you have not filled out this freaking Google form by Friday, you're not getting a hat. Um, but 2025 was our best year ever, and it wasn't even remotely close. So, what we decided to do is we went through and um spent more money on hats than I've ever spent money on anything in my entire life. I ordered 2500 hats, bunch of different designs, even more than this that are in the picture. So, there are more boxes on the way and we are giving away these hats to y'all members of the site for free. I already bought them all. Um, I am going to be boxing them, shipping them myself with my fiance and my brother. The next two weeks, my house is going to turn into a hat factory. All you got to do is if you are a paid member of the site, go over to the post page, um, fill out this free merch giveaway. I checked as of this morning and we are up to 1,900 of y'all that have filled this out. Put your email address on flockfantasy.com. That way we can confirm that you are a paid member of the site. I'm not trying to collect your email. We already have it on flockfantasy.com. Why the hell would I be asking for it again? Give me your physical address so I know where to ship the hat. Include your name. I know a lot of y'all aren't including your name. It's going to make things difficult for us. But I'm not trying to collect your physical address. I promise you I'm not mailing you freaking advertisements. This is literally just me trying to get back to y'all. I really appreciate all the support this year. Um, and if we have leftover hats on that dining room table after we ship all this stuff out this week, I am telling you right now, the fiance may give me back the ring and she may um tell me that she has made a mistake. So, please help me out. Ladies and gentlemen, go ahead, fill out that Google form. Let me send you over a free hat. I appreciate y'all hanging out with us in the chats and I really hope I get to see you out with the live stream.