"Let Russ microwave some hot pockets?"
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Welcome back! It’s playoff season and you know what that means: unbridled joy for that one person and an offseason of pain for everyone else. Now let’s go take down those ships!
News & Notes:
Carson Wentz was benched for Jalen Hurts in Week 13. As of this post, HC Doug Pederson has not yet decided who will start in Week 14. While we wait, here’s a clip of Hurts’ first career touchdown which was prettttty nice.
The NFL has reinstated Josh Gordon from suspension.
Antonio Gibson left Monday night’s game with a toe injury.
Christian McCaffrey (shoulder) is expected to play in Week14.
The Jets have fired defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
Insights, Analysis, Hype:
Darren Waller’s incredible day (45 ppr) is the 4th most points by a tight end ever. It takes a whole 2:48 to show all of Waller’s highlights from this one game.
Kelce and Waller are in leagues of their own: “Travis Kelce (TE1) has 48.5 more fantasy points than Darren Waller (TE2). Darren Waller (TE2) has 47.7 more fantasy points than T.J. Hockenson (TE3).”
Buffalo’s 4th round rookie WR Gabriel Davis has scored 14+ pts (0.5 ppr) in 3 of his last 4 games.
Don’t look now, but Corey Davis might be on his way to becoming a thing: “Corey Davis is the WR17 on a points per game basis with 15.7 PPR PPG ahead of: - Chris Godwin - Mike Evans - Juju Smith-Schuster - DJ Moore - Kenny Golladay”
“Since Week 8, Falcons K Younghoe Koo is averaging more fantasy PPG than DeAndre Hopkins, Calvin Ridley, Aaron Jones, and Kareem Hunt.”
“Jonathan Taylor *rb yards per reception: top-3 *yards per route run: top-2 *catch rate: top-1” — “Jonathan Taylor forced missed tackles on carries (PFF) Weeks 1-10: 9 Last two games: 8”
Davante Adams is averaging the 2nd-most fantasy PPG by a WR ever.
“Nick Chubb is the only RB in the top 3 in Rushing Yards Over Expectation per carry each of the last three seasons.”
“1,000-yard rushers this season: Already there- Henry, Cook On pace- Robinson, R Jones, Chubb, Jacobs, drake, A Jones, Elliott”
“Justin Jefferson's go-ahead TD makes him just the fifth player in the Super Bowl era to top 1,000 receiving yards in his first 12 career games. The others: Odell Beckham Jr., Marques Colston, Anquan Boldin and Randy Moss. Good company.” — “Justin Jefferson's PPR points per game this year: 17.4 Stefon Diggs' PPR points per game by season in Minnesota: 14.1, 17.8, 14.2, 13.8, 11.5”
The only NFL QB on an active roster who has not thrown an INT over his last 150 attempts: Baker Mayfield
“Since 2000, only 3 rookie RBs have rushed for 10 or more TD through the first 12 weeks of a season. LaDainian Tomlinson (2001, 10) Ezekiel Elliott (2016, 11) —and— Antonio Gibson (2020, 11)”
“Dak Prescott still leads the NFL in games with 400+ passing yards lmao”
“James Robinson vs LaDainian Tomlinson through 11 career games. James Robinson 194 rush att 890 rush yards 47 targets 36 receptions 280 receiving yards 8 total TDs LaDainian Tomlinson 238 rush att 869 rush yards 43 targets 32 receptions 226 receiving yards 9 total TDs”
“Tonight was Josh Allen's 3rd game this season with 375+ pass yards, 3+ pass TD, and a 130+ passer rating He joins Drew Brees in 2013 as the only players since at least 1950 with 3 such games in a season”
Maybe think twice about starting a QB against the Patriots Defense: “Justin Herbert vs Patriots today: 209 total yards, 0 TD, 2 INT Justin Herbert in 10 other games: 320 total yards/game, 26 total TD, 7 INT Kyler Murray vs Patriots last week: 201 total yards, 0 TD, 1 INT Kyler Murray in 11 other games: 314 total yards/game, 32 total TD, 9 INT”
A fun rant on /r/fantasyfootball about the use of the term “stack”
Thread on /r/DynastyFF: 3 hot takes for this time next season
Cold Water:
“DeAndre Hopkins route tree over his last three games has been... limited” (Chart)
“Alvin Kamara has 7 receiving yards total in the three games with Taysom Hill.”
Chart showing Russel Wilson’s steep decline in fantasy production towards the end of the year in both 2019 and 2020.
Articles, Tools & Resources:
Pretty awesome new Chrome extension that displays your Fantasy league scores and player data live on your screen while you stream NFL games.
Week 13 Recaps: FantasyPros, SI, TheFantasyFootballers, PFF, FantasyAlarm, QBList, Razzball, Yahoo.
Week 14 Waiver Recommendations: SI, FantasyPros, NumberFire, RotoBaller, CBSSports.
Miss out on the playoffs in your dynasty leagues? Here’s a short and sweet article covering some potential dynasty trade targets for 2021.
The Fun Stuff:
Hayden Hurst is a treasure. This is a pretty inspiring look at his battle with mental health and his mission to now help others.
The Week 13 Seahawks
Personally I’ve found it hard to like Baker Mayfield, but hot damn does this make it hard not to like him. Also: “Baker channeling his inner Dwight Schrute.”
Speaking of Dwight Schrute — apparently he’s a Josh Allen fan.
Why are there so many Dwight Schrute references this week?
Justin Jefferson with some *chef’s kiss* route running.
“Let Russ microwave some hot pockets?”
“HUGE 70 yd punt return and TD by Gunner Olszewski Fun player to root for. Incredible story — Olszewski had never played football in his life when Bill Belichick met him at Bass Pro Shops working as a cashier and asked him to tryout for the team”
Nick Chubb Mic’d up against the eagles.
This Laviska Shenault TD.