Are we ok?
I don't want to ask if you, the most fabulous reader in the world, are ok with me, the random fantasy football content guy.
I mean, are we ok?
The Buffalo Bills lost a football game in Week 10. One football game out of 17. That one game ignited a week's worth of content speculating if the Bills would miss the playoffs, mapping out their course to missing the playoffs, and performing an autopsy of “what went wrong with the 2025 Buffalo Bills season.” The same 6-3 Buffalo Bills that beat the 5-3 Panthers 40-9, then defeated their arch nemesis, the Chiefs, just before the Miami game. The Bills are still firmly in the playoff picture, are one and a half games back in the division in the loss column, and still face the Browns.
Are we ok?
The undefeated and reigning national champion Buckeyes were hit with a barrage of questions from the college football media this past week. The central theme was “if Ohio St. has blown out every opponent, we do not know what they would do in a close game, so are they really even that good?”
Are. We. Ok?
The sports discourse has swung into the most extreme, knee-jerk manner possible.
Rome Odunze entered Week 9 as the WR11 overall—a great return on his WR37 ADP. He posted a zero against the Bengals. Immediately, the conversation shifted from “what a great season Odunze is having” to “he’s a bust, just like I knew.” One game.
Ladd McConkey was WR56 through the first four weeks. Quentin Johnston was WR3. Clearly, the Chargers had cast aside and showed little interest in the player who had set their franchise's rookie receiving record just ten months prior. Ten months in this economy is basically two Tom Brady careers stacked together. Predictably, because he is a good football player with a good quarterback, McConkey bounced back to WR4 from Week 5 through 10.
Now, in a competitive game, the first reaction should be to take advantage of the panic swings in the market.
This presents the secondary problem: the panic swings are not actually real. Not a soul valued McConkey as WR56. Very few valued him as anything less than a Top 20 receiver.
It costs no money to send a tweet. It is free to say a line on a podcast. In a world where everything is the most extreme, nothing is extreme. If everything is analyzed, nothing is analyzed.
The algorithm demands sacrifice. Feed it the next hot take. The more extreme the better.
The grass has never been less touched.
If everyone is just talking, no one is saying anything.
Fourteen games stand on the schedule; let’s get a fix.
Number Watch
Davante Adams, LA Rams - 1 Reception
Adams needs one reception to hit 1,000 in his career, becoming the 17th player in NFL history to cross that threshold. Adams carries a questionable designation into Week 11. Still, the Rams' matchup with Seattle has massive implications, with the winner pulling 1.5 games up in the NFC West and staying in the hunt for the top overall seed in the conference.
DeAndre Hopkins, Baltimore - 4 Receptions
Hopkins needs four more catches to hit 1,000 in his career. Hopkins has not topped two receptions in any 2025 game. He needs 41 yards to catch Andre Reed for 18th on the career yardage list.
Mark Andrews, Baltimore - 6 Receptions, 3 Receiving Yards
Andrews is just three yards away from topping Derrick Mason for the most in Ravens franchise history, at 5,777. Andrews can also become the team leader in receptions, needing six to tie Mason at 471. Looking longer term, Andrews needs 35 receptions to become the 21st tight end to hit 500 in their career. Andrews needs 226 yards to become the 20th tight end with 6,000 career receiving yards.
Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco - 7 Receptions
McCaffrey is seven receptions from becoming the fifth running back with 600 career receptions. Alvin Kamara hit the mark in Week 8. Larry Centers (the running back leader at 827), Marshall Faulk (767), and LaDainian Tomlinson (624) are the other three.
The Saints are on a bye, but at 604, Kamara has a chance to catch Tomlinson in 2025. Also at 604, McCaffrey has a chance to catch Kamara in Week 11.
McCaffrey needs 79 yards to catch Wendell Taylor for 11th on the 49ers' career rushing list. Two rushing touchdowns would move him into a tie with Garrison Hearst and Tom Rathman for the ninth most in team history. Three rushing touchdowns would get Frankie Albert in eighth place.
Amon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit - 6 Receptions
St. Brown needs six catches for 500 in his career. If he can do it in Week 11, he will break Justin Jefferson and Larry Fitzgerald’s record of the youngest to do it at 26 years and 90 days old. St. Brown turned 26 on October 24th, 23 days before Sunday’s game. Jefferson hit the mark in Week 2 this year. St. Brown would be the second fastest in terms of games at 76; Michael Thomas did it in 69 games. CeeDee Lamb also hit 500 receptions in 2025, in his age-26 season. Assuming he stays healthy, Ja'Marr Chase should reset the mark shortly. Chase needs 29 receptions and will not turn 26 until March 1st. Given how the last meeting with the Steelers went, Chase might do it this week.
Josh Allen, Buffalo - 3 Rushing Touchdowns
Allen needs three rushing touchdowns to tie Cam Newton for the most by a quarterback in NFL history. Long term, he needs 13 touchdowns to catch Andre Reed and Thurman Thomas, who sit tied for the most all-purpose touchdowns in team history.
Matthew Stafford, LA Rams - 4 Passing Touchdowns
Stafford has four passing touchdowns in three consecutive games. Tom Brady and Dan Marino had streaks of four games. Peyton Manning has the longest streak, with five in 2024. Stafford needs 556 passing yards to catch Matt Ryan for eighth on the career list.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle - 262 Receiving Yards
Just nine games into 2025, Smith-Njigba is at 1,041 receiving yards. His total is the sixth most through the first nine games of a season. He could conceivably break the team’s receiving yardage record as soon as Week 11, needing 262 to reach DK Metcalf’s 1,303. At 63 receptions, he needs 37 to get to his own team record 100, set in 2024.
Derrick Henry, Baltimore - 152 Rushing Yards
Henry is 15th with 12,127 career rushing yards. He can jump multiple spots quickly. Marcus Allen is 14th (12,243), Edgerrin James is 13th (12,246), and Marshall Faulk is 12th (12,279). Hitting 152 yards would put Henry over all three. Jim Brown would be next (12,312), and 185 yards is not impossible for Henry. Tony Dorsett is the threshold to the Top 10; his 12,739 yards would require 612. That would be A Record.
Henry is 178 yards from passing Willis McGahee for fifth on the Ravens career yards list. He needs four rushing touchdowns to catch Gus Edwards for fifth on the team’s touchdown list.
Lamar Jackson, Baltimore - 3 Rushing Touchdowns
Jackson needs three rushing touchdowns to tie Ray Rice for second on the Ravens franchise rushing list, at 37. Jamal Lewis is the record holder with 45.
Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia - 205 Rushing Yards
Barkley needs 205 more yards to become the 55th player with 8,000 in his career.
Zach Ertz, Washington - 5 Receptions
With five catches, Ertz would tie Shannon Sharpe at 815 for fifth most by a tight end in NFL history.
Dak Prescott, Dallas - 427 Passing Yards
Prescott could pass Tony Romo to become the Cowboys' career leader in passing yards, needing 427 to hit Romo’s 34,183. Prescott’s 230 career touchdown passes are 18 behind Romo’s team record of 248.
Prescott is also working on Roger Staubach’s record for quarterback rushing yards. Prescott’s 2,059 yards are 205 from Staubach’s 2,264. Prescott needs seven rushing yards to pass Amos Marsh for 16th on the franchise list. His next rushing touchdown will move him into a tie with Robert Newhouse at 31, the seventh most in Cowboys history.
CeeDee Lamb, Dallas - 1 Reception
Lamb is currently tied with Dez Bryant at 531 receptions, the third most in Cowboys history. Jason Witten (1,215) and Michael Irvin (750) are well ahead.
David Njoku, Cleveland - 6 Receptions
Njoku is six catches from tying Dante Lavelli for the second most in Browns history at 386. Ozzie Newsome holds the team record with 662.
Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville - 190 Passing Yards
Lawrence can pass David Garrard for the third most passing yards in Jaguars history, at 16,003. Mark Brunell is the team leader at 25,698, and Blake Bortles is second at 17,646. Lawrence would need to average 230 yards per game to catch Bortles in 2025. He needs ten touchdown passes to get to third place, Garrard’s 89 career.
Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit - 27 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing Touchdowns
With 3,050 rushing yards, Gibbs is tenth in Lions team history. He can jump to seventh with just one run, as Kevin Jones (3,067), Mel Farr (3,072), and Ace Gutowsky (3,077) are next on the list.
Gibbs has 34 career rushing touchdowns, two behind Dutch Clark’s 36 for third in Lions history.
