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All right, we’ve made it through 4/18ths of the season and my pocket calculator is absolutely losing its mind. Now that Anthony Miller has been dropped by the Houston Texans and his impending team change will absolutely shake the NFL to its core and bring in a legion of lawyers to inquire about the fairness of having such a talent just walking to another team, it’s time to assess the quality of your fantasy football team. That’s where we come into play. Come and check your head and see if we can get some good players on your team!
Week 5 Highlights
The esteemed Rudy Gamble, Esq., has been kicking complete butt on the Fantasy Pros Accuracy Rating Contest. Full disclosure: I am trying a personal project on my Fantasy Pros rankings that involves being entirely non-optimal or strategic and seeing how that affects my score. Please don’t follow my personal rankings on Fantasy Pros because they’re purposefully intended to do another project, rather than win you your fantasy league. But that’s OK, because Rudy’s award-winning and currently kicking-ass rankings are discounted through the end of the work week. Support us!
QB greatness requires successful risk taking.
That's my fantasy football projection philosophy.
#1 at 2021 WR (top 3 all 4 weeks)
Only top 20 ranker in top 25% for boldness vs consensus (91st %ile)
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— Rudy Gamble (@rudygamble) October 6, 2021
And honestly, if you want to combine the rankings between Rudy, Donkey Teeth, and myself, you’ve got a consensus ranking that hits in the top 20 overall in every position and would be ranking in the top 10 overall while still being aggressive.
You want my advice for the DFS Optimizer if you’re a mega-entry DFS player? Go into the “Advanced Options,” change the salary to any number that isn’t the max salary (you don’t want a fully “optimized” lineup for GPPs), ratchet up the “unique players” number to like 3-4. Turn off QB/RB combo. Ask the optimizer to give you 75 lineups. Download those lineups in a CSV, upload to DraftKings (or wherever you play), and profit! Or, if you’re like me and you lovingly handcraft a single lineup every week, check out some of the players below.
Quarterbacks
Mac Jones: Last week, we brought you the Daniel Jones 400 yard game. This week, we’re looking at Mac Jones to go big against the Houston Texans. MJ — no, not the creepy one — had hit over 270 yards passing in 3 out of 4 games and just needs those TDs to start hitting. He’s a good filler QB for the week and a fine contrarian DFS GPP play because eventually he’ll get the 3 Teddie game and you’ll be sleeping nicely on your pile of cash.
Running Backs
Samaje Perine: Are the Bengals trainers sourced from the New York Mets? What’s with asking Joe Mixon to carry 6,000 times in the first few weeks when you’ve got Joe Burrow and the Air Cats for the passing game? Now that Mixon’s on the day-to-day/week-to-week list, the Pigskinonator really likes Samaje Perine as a play this week versus Green Bay. Perine’s available everywhere (kinda like me!), so snag him and see how the week goes.
Receivers
Jakobi Meyers: Clearly the favorite receiver in New England with Mac Jones as the QB, we’ve been talking up Meyers around the water cooler for a few weeks now. And only a few of us got the ‘Vid! Pair Meyers with Jones in some DFS GPPs and see where that goes.
Emmanuel Sanders: 5 catches each in his last two games including a top 5 WR finish, Sanders is clicking with Bills quarterback Josh Allen and is available in about 50% of leagues. He’d be a great fill-in for any injuries you have this week or a FLEX play.
Thursday Night Football
Ah, finally, a game to get excited about! The Seattle Seahawks go against the Los Angeles Rams, which promises to be so much better than that Urban Meyer viral video that happened last week. As Grey noticed this week, Urban Meyer’s a man with quite a history on the camera.
Is that a naked man in the reflection of the TV doing bong rips? https://t.co/kveo9Q2xtA
— Razzball (@Razzball) October 5, 2021
I sure hope Pete Carroll doesn’t go to the club this week! ENYWHEY. The game is about even odds with the Rams a slight favorite to win by less than a field goal, and the bookies are thinking the teams will combine for 54 points. If you win something on this game, it’ll probably be pocket change enough to go see that Sopranos movie, The Many Clowns of Suburbia or whatever it’s called.
Darrell Henderson: Healthy so far, but he’s one of the smallest RBs in the league so fingers crossed that he doesn’t get pancaked by a linebacker that looks like Grimace. Definitely a captain option in your DFS Showdowns because the Seattle run DEF is helpless.
Robert Woods: Been on the field just as much as Cooper Kupp but obviously not getting the elite targets. Defenses won’t continue to ignore Kupp for much longer and eventually he’ll get the Tyreek Hill treatment and Woods will be “the man” for a time among the Rams. Could it be this week? Next week? That’s why fantasy football is fun! We don’t know! So start up Woods and see what he does.
Van Jefferson: Here’s the guy who’ll make your contrarian DFS plays work out. Who’s the WR that nobody is looking at but is getting nearly 80% of the offensive snaps on a week-by-week basis? It’s none other than the Man with a Van. As noted, DEF eventually are forced to adjust to players and shut them down, and it’s up to the secondary players to show up and crush, lest the team lose. I know, I’m practically Vince Lombardi over here with the football strategy! There are so many offensive weapons playing on Thursday night, that the guy who will give you the DFS edge will be the one who is always on the field and just hasn’t had “his day” yet: Van Jefferson. And if I’m wrong, we chalk it up to variance and call it a day.
Don’t forget about Sunday Morning Football in the UK this week! Set your lineups on Friday night!
Drop your questions down in the comments and have an awesome week!
