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This will probably be the most important rankings list all year. And I remember to include the tight ends for you in this one.
Um S tier, you already know you start McAffrey, Gibbs, Achan, Bejian, Jamar Chase, Simon, Ross, St. Brown, if you got them. Honestly, I didn't really spend any time with this at all because if I were to sit down here and think about it, Gibbs could possibly be at one, but I don't care. They're all S tier players. They're in your lineup. If you're benching any of these guys, you're not playing fantasy football.
Going over to the A tier, I can kind of say the same thing here. If you have James Cook, Jonathan Taylor, Saquon Barkley, Bucky Irving, Trey McBride, CD Lamb, Drake London, they're all in your lineup as well. The only hesitation that you could possibly have here is obviously going to be Drake London and if he does play. Now, he has practice all week, but obviously this will be something that you need to monitor, especially with the Friday practice, hoping that is a full one. But if Drake London were to play, it's going to be a phenomenal matchup. So, he will need to be in your lineup.
Now, moving down to the tier where we can actually start talking about some of these players. Maybe you're a crazy enough person to think that you should be benching Javvante Williams. And I'm here to tell you that you shouldn't. The Dallas Cowboys project to be a top five offense on the week. And at the same time, Javvante has had a considerable amount of volume that's been consistent all season. 16.4 carries per game, 3.3 targets per game, averaging about 20 total opportunities. and we're not too worried about this matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers. Like we said, you have an implied team total here that puts the Dallas Cowboys as a top five offense on the week.
Now, going over to Derk Henry, um Derrick Henry's been much better as of late. Like, he's been super consistent. Now, obviously, we haven't seen the crazy high ceilings. You only have one game this season with Derrick Henry finishing as a top three running back in fantasy. But if we go back since week six, Derrick Henry has had at least doubledigit fantasy points in every game that he's played. And if you're gonna get a touchdown, then he'll be around 20 points. If you don't have the touchdown, he'll be around 10. This match up against the New England Patriots is one in which the Baltimore Ravens are favored by about three points and they project score a ton.
Now, Jameson Williams is a player that we had to move up our rankings a considerable amount. Jameson Williams right now on underdog fantasy is currently sitting higher lower 70 and a half total yards. They have Jameson Williams as one of the best wide receivers in fantasy. And if you want to put reference to what that higher lower 70 and a half total yards is, you're looking at Nico Collins high or lower 61 and a half receiving yards this week. The Detroit Lions project to be the highest scoring offense in the league. So, I think you should go ahead and you should play Jameson Williams. And of course, if you're not already on Underdog, I will say that they have their second biggest week of promos upcoming. They have a Josh Allen gimme pick, higher, lower, half a total yard for everybody this Sunday. They got something for the Jake Paul fight on Friday. They got a couple boosts. They have a Jamir Gibbs give me pick, higher, lower, half a total yard on Christmas. Linked Underdog Fantasy is always in the description. It's always in the comment section. And if you use code flock, you will actually get $75 added to your account after you play your first five.
Now, moving over to Nico Collins. I have Nico on my own fantasy team. So, obviously, I'm very biased here. I would hope that he has a massive blow up day as I am very much wanting to win this. My hesitation is going to be that they're playing against the Raiders. The spread in this game's absolutely massive. Houston's probably going to be able to just run the ball over and over again.
Um AJ Brown is a wide receiver I'm happen to go up against this week. So I'm very much hoping that he doesn't do anything. But it is a really good matchup that you have against Washington. So I am scared personally.
Um George Pickkins I understand that he's been much worse over the past two weeks. But if you zoom out the four weeks prior he was phenomenal even with CD Lamb still in this offense. So George Pickkins still somebody that you need to jam.
And then Michael Wilson is a very difficult ranking. If you were to have Marvin Harrison playing this game, Michael Wilson falls down these rankings. If Marvin Harrison were to miss, you can make an argument that Michael Wilson jumps up a tier kind of regardless at this point. I do think that you should be playing Michael Wilson, but obviously you would need to lower your expectations dramatically in the instance that Marvin Harrison does play.
And then Josh Jacobs is going to be the last player in this tier. I want to be very clear with this. Whoever the starting running back is for the Green Bay Packers, they need to be in your lineup. I have Josh Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson both on my team. If we were to see Josh Jacobs miss on Saturday, I'm planning on playing Emanuel Wilson. If Jacobs plays, I'm going to play Jacobs. As you can tell, I have Jacobs a little bit lower in these rankings than usual, though, because I am very much concerned with this injury. And if he does play, I think it will limit his overall opportunities.
Now, moving over to our next tier, we are going to have Chase Brown. Chase Brown has been trending in the wrong direction when it comes to just his market share numbers in Cincinnati where you've actually seen in the three weeks with Sam Perin, him hovering around 60% of the snaps, but the three weeks prior with no Sam Pine, he was above 80% of the snaps every game. Now, it hasn't impacted his fantasy points yet where he's actually been a top 13 running back every week since week eight, though. So, um I think the usage is a little concerning, but the receiving role looks great and the match up against Miami is phenomenal. So, you jam Chase Brown regardless.
Travis ETN, I believe, was ranked higher in our rankings last week because the Jacksonville Jaguars last week had projected to score 26 points against the Jets, which projected them as a top five offense. So ETN was an auto start against the Jets. Here it's a little bit tougher because you have a much worse matchup going up against the Denver Broncos where the Jacksonville Jaguars simply project to be an average offense.
Um Trevon Henderson is a player that I think you just probably have to put in your lineup. Now don't get me wrong, you do have the New England Patriots as underdogs in this which I don't love to see. while at the same time you actually do have I don't know Raadre Stevenson with some work but Trevion looked so damn good last week that it was going to be crazy if they don't just expand his role.
Um George KD will be our next name. Niners project score a ton of points. George KD at the same time has a massive blowup game that he is coming off of. He is my tight end two on the week and he would be my tight end two rest of season. Obviously only behind Mr. Trey McBride.
Then we'll go Chris Ave with the guaranteed target volume in this match up for a lav is one that I'm not too concerned about going up against the Jets where we obviously have seen this Jets team just completely throw in the towel and they allowed a zillion points to the Jacksonville Jaguars last week.
And then T. Higgins I'm going to rank here. No idea if T. Diggs is playing or not against Miami. But I will say if he's out there, you're going to put him in your lineup. I mean, obviously it's very much a black and white situation when a player has a concussion. They don't play, they don't play. But if they play, 99% of the time they play with zero limitations.
Now, a call that I may be making that I'm a little bit irrational on, and honestly, I don't know if you should listen to me with, I think you can play Amari Hampton this week. Now, Marian Hampton, his first week back against the Philadelphia Eagles had 15 opportunities. His second week back against Kansas City Chiefs, he had 16 opportunities. So, he is trending in the right direction from just an overall opportunity share of this backfield. Now, he's going from the toughest matchups you can ask for as a running back playing against the Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs to now one of the easiest matchups you could ask for as a running back going to play against the Dallas Cowboys. Obviously, this Chargers offense has been much worse since Justin Herbert broke his hand, but I'm going to think that this is a blowup game for Amari and Hampton where honestly you could get him in your lineup.
Now, RJ Harvey will be our next back. RJ Harvey's health is going to be something that you very much want to monitor. But assuming that RJ Harvey is healthy, like he is seeing more opportunities in this backfield than he's ever had. Like over the past three weeks, he's had 17, 23, and 20 opportunities, and he just played 70% of the snaps against Green Bay Packers, which is the most that he has in his NFL career.
Juan Delale Robinson just gets consistent target volume. So, I think it's hard to get away from Juanale where if you're looking at his targets per game, he's at 8.6 so far this season. And obviously, it's been better since Malik Neighbors went down. The only holdup that I would have with Vanale is it's a pretty tough matchup that you have going up against a very good Minnesota Vikings defense.
Now, Courtland Sutton will be our next wide receiver. If you are looking at Sutton, he's coming off a very strong performance against the Green Bay Packers. And if you're just going back over the past month, he is averaging about eight nine targets per game. So, the target volume has gone in the right direction as iż Troy Franklin's kind of taken a little bit of a backseat in that area.
Zay Flowers projects out a lot better than some of these other players. Like Zay Flowers is higher lower 64 and a half receiving yards on underdog in comparison to Wondell Robinson at 53. The Baltimore Ravens are favorite in this game as we've mentioned a bunch. Um, but I'm gonna have a tough time going through and telling you that you just need to jam in Flowers as we really have only had two games this season with him finishing as a wide receiver one. But the matchup isn't too scary where this Patriots defense just let up a zillion points to the Buffalo Bills this prior week.
I have DK Mechaf on my own fantasy team. Typically, I rank him lower than this. What I like about Mechaf though in this matchup against the Detroit Lions is it's going to be one in which the Pittsburgh Steelers are just going to be forced to throw the ball consistently. It's not going to be like it was this past week against the Miami Dolphins where obviously against Miami, this was a team that was able to just kind of play keep away. It wasn't a real football game, but the Detroit Lions are heavily heavily favored in this one and it could just be a straightup blowout.
Now, Mike Evans is going to be our next wide receiver. I live streamed our wide receiver rankings on Thursday, and everybody spazzed that we had Mike Evans too low. And I want to remind y'all, while of course Mike Evans looked great on Thursday Night Football last week when everybody was extremely excited about him, if you go back to what we saw at the beginning of the season, Mike Evans had finished as the wide receiver 3743 and 27. He still very much is that 32year-old player coming off an injury where he just played 55% of the snaps against the Atlanta Falcons. So I like Evans, don't get me wrong. I think he's the wide receiver one in Tampa, but I don't think you can pencil him out to just have 100 receiving yards in this game.
Rico Dattle does look like you can pencil him in to be the starting running back for the Carolina Panthers though where does expand the role this past week. Chubber does take the back seat which was kind of the expectation, right? Even though the Rams game was a little bit weird back in week 13, you had a large stretch of games of Rico Dattle just looking so damn good as the starter.
And then Quinn Sean Judkins is a running back that I wouldn't love to play just because the spread in this game is going to be massive going up against the Buffalo Bills. And at the same time, last time we had Quinn Sean Judkins hitting 20 fantasy points was actually back in week seven against the Miami Dolphins. And of course, the issue is this Browns offense is bad. They're having to just go out there and throw the ball a ton. And Quinn Sean Judkins isn't necessarily receiving back.
Now, moving down to our next, a player that's maybe in an even worse offense is actually going to be Bree Hall. Like right now, the actually, let me walk that back. The Browns project score 15 and a half points this week. The Jets project to score 17. So, the Jets should be a slightly better offense, but Bree Hall has been horrendous. Brie Hall has only scored 20 fantasy points in one game this year, and that was against the Cincinnati Bengals back in week eight. Now, the opportunities have been consistent. He's had at least nine carries in every single game, while at the same time, he's had at least 14 opportunities in every game. So, I think you can go through and start him like I'm starting him against the New Orleans Saints cuz it's not like the spread's massive on this one. It's not like you're guaranteed to see the New Orleans Saints win here.
Now, I do want to point out in this game, I know a lot of people are going to be looking for Audrey Estay in these rankings. Esté is a bad running back. I wouldn't be interested in starting him personally.
Now, moving over to what we have with our next name, we have Teteroa McMillan, who has been trending in the wrong direction as of late when it comes to the overall target volume. You would hope that the rookie wide receiver can get on track. You would hope that that would flip. and it's only been a two-week bad sample with the overall targets that he has had against the Rams and the New Orleans Saints.
Jaylen Wadd is going to be our next name. Quinn Us Hookham Horns is going to be under center for the Miami Dolphins this next week. And obviously I'm not going to be able to sit here and tell you exactly how Quinn U is going to play in the NFL. I'll tell you he didn't look great at Texas, but neither did Arch Manning. though. Um, if we are looking at the projections that sports books have though, they have the Miami offense as a fine offense scoring 21 and a half points this week. Now, of course, with that in mind, it's going to be a really easy matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals, which is why I think that this offense projects out quite well.
Then, our next name is going to be Dvont Smith. With Smith, he has been trailing AJ Brown as of late with fantasy points, but the target volume's still been there. like Dvont Smith is averaging 6.9 targets per game so far this season. So, and I like the matchup against Washington. Again, as we mentioned when we talked about AJ Brown.
Then Justin Jefferson, I would love to say he's way too low. Let me update this on the site and he'll be higher. And honestly, maybe he should be. I just kind of feel bad about consistently overranking Justin Jefferson for us to then see him the following week score four fantasy points because Justin Jefferson so far this season is the wide receiver 34 in points per game. And obviously it has been a hell of a lot worse with JJ McCarthy in comparison to what it was with Carson Wentz. Like the last time we saw Justin Jefferson be a top 24 wide receiver was two months ago in week nine.
Now Tyrone Tracy is a running back that you can get in. Now don't get me wrong, the volume has been aokay for Tyrone Tracy. If you remove the game against New England, I mean you have seen him go out there and have at least 19 opportunities every game since week 11. Now, my hold up with Tyron Tracy is I don't love the matchup against the Minnesota Vikings, but obviously he looked great against Washington this past week.
I have to play against DeAndre Swift this week. So, what I am hoping for personally, um I am hoping that we get a Kyle Manungai week. Hopefully, Kyle Manungai takes a massive step forward. But, um DeAndre Swift coming off a game in which he had 18 carries. He had a target as well with multiple rushing touchdowns. DeAndre Swift has looked a okay this season, right? 4.9 yards per attempt is the second highest mark that he has seen in his NFL career.
Now, moving over to Ashton Genty, it's kind of unbelievable when you see this, but at the moment, you actually have the Las Vegas Raiders projected I I cannot believe this. Legitimately cannot believe it. They are projected to score 11 and a half points this week. Yeah, 11 and a half. I've never seen an offense project out that bad. Obviously, a lot of this has to do with the fact that you do have a really tough matchup here going up against the Houston Texans and naturally you're in a garbage offense as well.
Now, moving over to our next tier, Jawan Jennings, Jacobe Myers are two wide receivers that you probably just got to jam. Uh my hold up with Jacobe Buyers is going to be I really don't like the matchup against Denver, but they very clearly view him as their wide receiver one at least for the time being. Maybe Brian Thomas can change something in the future, but Jacobe has to play against the Denver Broncos. The Jacksonville Jaguars project to be much worse this week than they were the week prior.
DJ Moore is somebody that you could actually look at getting in your starting lineup now. Obviously DJ Moore has been horrendous this season. and he's the wide receiver 46 in points per game. But the benefit that you do have with DJ Moore is no Luther Burton, no Roma Dunce. The match up against Green Bay isn't that scary now that you have Michael Parsons out. So, I mean, he is viable as a start for the first time in pretty much forever.
Terry McLaren I would be more excited about if it wasn't for a really tough matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles where right now you'd have the Commanders only projected out score like 18 and a half points.
Kyle Pittz, if you have no Drake London, would fly up these rankings, but my expectations are going to be that London plays. So, Kyle Pittz, don't really want him in my flex, but obviously be fine playing him at tight end.
Um, Brock Bowers is the tight end two in fantasy so far in points per game. So, maybe it seems crazy for having him this low, but again, I want to point you over to the fact that the Raiders project score 11 and a half points this week.
Brian Thomas, he's just been absolutely cucked by Jacobe Meers. While at the same time, it's a tough matchup against the Denver Broncos.
Woody Marks was a lot higher in our rankings at the beginning of the week. But I'm getting a little bit concerned because one, Woody Marks did not practice on Thursday. And two, at the same time, you actually have Nick Chub practicing in full. So, with that in mind, I do think that it's a little bit tougher to bank on Woody Marks. Friday practice report is going to be massive here.
Now, moving down to our next tier, Ibuka, I had a lower down literally just from seeing his underdog projection. Like, obviously, this dude has been horrendous as of late. Very similar to Justin Jefferson. But if we look at week six onwards, he has had one game with more than 10 and a half fantasy points. If you go over to underdog right now, they have him higher lower 40 and a half receiving yards, which you would think sounds like it's crazy low until you realize, hell, he has a lot of games this season with fewer than 40 receiving yards.
Now, I have Dallas Gddard as well as Harold Fannon, both on my own team. and Harold Fandon looks to see just so many targets with everybody out in Cleveland that I'm on the edge of convincing myself to go ahead and put Harold Fannon in my lineup over Dallas Goddard even though Goddard just dropped 25 fantasy points. The reason I'm probably going to still have Goddard over Fannon though is I think Goddard's a little more likely to score the touchdown given matchup and the offense that he plays in.
Debo Samuel, hate the matchup. Not honestly, not much to talk about. He's been trending in the wrong direction since Terry McLaren has come in.
Lad McConi, great matchup against the Dallas Cowboys, but the passing volume just simply isn't there with a broken hand for Justin Herbert.
Travis Kelce you could potentially go through and get excited about if you have no Rashi Rice, which I'm making these rankings under the assumption that there's no Rice. But at the same time, the offense looks a hell of a lot worse now.
Kenneth Gainwell currently leading this team in receiving, but at the same time, we could say that I don't know. Um, what's the upside here if Jaylen Warren projects to see the majority of carries? Like I have gained well on my own team. I personally plan on benching him. Like honestly, you could go Aaron Jones. Like Aaron Jones been horrible, but the Vikings project score a decent amount of points this week. You can go Michael Carter. I don't think Michael Carter's any good, but he's going to have receiving work while at the same time it's a really good matchup. And then a sneaky start for your flex. I actually think would be Coulson Lovelin. I know a lot of people aren't in on Lovelin, but not only does DJ Moore benefit from having no Luther Burden as well as having no Roma, but actually think it's going to benefit Coulson Loveland as well, who has had five targets in every single game over the past four and has had at least four targets in every single game since week seven.
Now, Jordan Addison, if Justin Jefferson's not going to produce, it's tough to get that going for Addison. I added I Mitchell, wide receiver, one for the Jets, but still, it's the the Jets.
Tony Pard, I have on my team. I plan on benching him. We have Jaylen Warren, who seems like he's not going to be in the right game script going up against the Detroit Lions. Again, I think it's going to be more of a Gainwell game.
Stefon Diggs been phased out. Uh Jake Ferguson, Concaid, Tyler Warren are all borderline flexible options. But I think that's all I got for y'all. Again, I really appreciate you and really hope I was able to help you out in some way with this. And most importantly, I'm really hoping that you are able to win this week. I'm really hoping I can, too. But fingers crossed. Much love, ladies and gentlemen. And yeah, hope I get to see you out in the live stream later.