Sunday Morning Update
The big news this week is the status of Jaxon Smith-Njigba who was added to the injury report with an illness on Saturday afternoon.
While it seems that he should be fine, this is really testing me as I vowed not to pay up for players who were added to the injury report on Saturday after a Deebo Samuel Sr. flu game where he took himself out of the game very early on.
With that said, I need to at least live by the principle and make a change. Whether you make a change is entirely your decision, but with Smith-Njigba being propped up through two weeks with two 40+ yard catches, if he is even slightly less than 100% it limits his upside this week.
I'm pivoting to Nico Collins one last time this season. First and foremost, it is the easiest swap, without taking out some of the players that I really like, and while I looked at an upgrade from Tyler Warren to Trey McBride, and downgrading Collins to Jakobi Meyers or Tetairoa McMillan, that seemed to be too much risk. For Collins, the one team that he has consistently dominated is the Jaguars. He has 100+ yard games in three of his last four, including both games last season. This is a desperate Houston team this week, and they need to find a way to get their star receiver the ball.
- QB Marcus Mariota, WAS, $6,000
- RB Bijan Robinson, ATL, $9,500
- RB Jordan Mason, MIN, $5,800
- WR Nico Collins, HOU, $7,800
- WR CeeDee Lamb, Dal, $8,800
- WR Rome Odunze, CHI, $6,400
- TE Tyler Warren, IND, $5,600
- Flex RB Ken Walker III, SEA, $6,600
- TD Las Vegas, $3,100
Week 2 Recap- Loss, Season Record 1-1
Week 2 was a disaster in the most frustrating ways. It’s one of those weeks that, admittedly, I’m not sure I would have done anything differently if we were to run it back, as I still believe it was a good lineup. When you take a quarterback and wide receiver stack and that team scores 30 points, you’re normally feeling great. However, the Bills' offense had two James Cook touchdowns and an Elijah Moore rushing touchdown. Josh Allen had one of his worst performances that he has had over the last several seasons, and Justin Fields’ injury did not help matters, as it allowed Buffalo to just go conservative in the second half of that game.
This slate was always going to come down to the success of Kyren Williams. Williams, over the last two seasons, has been a workhorse running back, yet started to concede some playing time to Blake Corum, who ended up scoring a touchdown in this game. Typically, getting a workhorse running back for a team that scores 33 points and wins by 14 is going to be an auto-start, and if they played that game again 10 times, it likely would have had a positive outcome more often than not.
- QB Josh Allen, BUF, $8,800- 11.82
- RB Chase Brown, CIN, $7,500- 7.5
- RB Christian McCaffrey, SF, $8,500- 19.7
- WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba, SEA, $7,400- 17.3
- WR Calvin Ridley, TEN, $5,600- 7.2
- WR Keon Coleman, BUF, $5,300- 4.1
- TE Tyler Warren, IND, $5,500- 9.9
- Flex RB Kyren Williams, LAR, $8,000- 9.0
- TD New Orleans Saints- 5.0
Week 3 Tip: How to deal with no elite quarterbacks?
This is an interesting slate. There is no Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels, Joe Burrow, or Justin Fields. While Jalen Hurts is the only high-end quarterback at the moment, he’s extremely volatile given the lack of passing in that Eagles offense through the first two weeks. Most weeks, there are one or two quarterbacks who are going to be 40%+ rostered, and picking the right one of those two can determine whether you win or lose. This week, we may have as many as six quarterbacks who see significant roster percentages.
So, normally, we start with the quarterback and build the rest of the roster around it. This week, we are going to do the opposite. The range of quarterback salaries this week to consider is between $6k and $7.6k, with Justin Herbert being the high-end for a quarterback that we would consider.