My latest bargains/busts podcast is out. As always, it comes in at exactly four minutes and 44 seconds, which is doable thanks to the miracle of timekeeping.
https://soundcloud.com/user-780565013/week-4-fantasy-football-preview-bargains-and-busts
Looking around the league, John Brown and J.J. Nelson are expected to suit up in Arizona. I'm expecting a blow-up game for the Cardinals, who are playing a Niners team that just gave up 41 to the Rams.
Speaking of San Francisco, Carlos Hyde remains questionable with a hip injury. Has anyone sold high? There's still time. Hyde might look locked in as fantasy's sixth highest scoring RB, but he's perennially one of the biggest injury risks in any NFL backfield and has an unfriendly fantasy playoff schedule. Shopping him for a more reliable RB1 or WR1 is just plain sensible.
Ty Montgomery appears to have escaped a serious rib injury and could return to the field next weekend. So Aaron Jones is now more of a speculative add; we'll know in the next couple of weeks whether this backfield reverts to a timeshare or continues to lean heavily toward Montgomery.
A guy on Twitter reminded me the other day that I pushed Ryan Succop this preseason as a surprisingly draftable kicker. I had honestly forgotten; chalk that up to sleep deprivation and the fact that my league doesn't use kickers, so I'm not tracking them closely. But it brings up a point I first raised in the book FF4W: most people think fantasy kickers should be afterthoughts. I've continually pushed the opposite--that drafting an elite kicker is like scoring an RB2 or WR2 in your draft's final round.
This summer, Succop's average draft position among kickers was 29th. They don't get much more worthless than that. But a few weeks ago I made the case for Succop as a K1. Through three weeks, he's the #1 fantasy kicker and in PPR is on par with Le'Veon Bell, Ezekiel Elliott, and Julio Jones.
Of course elite guys like Bell, Zeke, and Julio will break away (barring injury). But the point is the highly consistent Succop is benefiting, as expected, from an improved Tennessee offense. He was rostered in about 0% of ESPN leagues to start the season. Now he's up to 25%. So while you'd be hard-pressed to find a league where an RB2 or WR2 is sitting on waivers, Succop remains widely available.
Some--maybe many--of you stream kickers. Hey, whatever works. But if you can acquire and hold onto an elite kicker, you're winning that position virtually every week.
https://soundcloud.com/user-780565013/week-4-fantasy-football-preview-bargains-and-busts
Looking around the league, John Brown and J.J. Nelson are expected to suit up in Arizona. I'm expecting a blow-up game for the Cardinals, who are playing a Niners team that just gave up 41 to the Rams.
Speaking of San Francisco, Carlos Hyde remains questionable with a hip injury. Has anyone sold high? There's still time. Hyde might look locked in as fantasy's sixth highest scoring RB, but he's perennially one of the biggest injury risks in any NFL backfield and has an unfriendly fantasy playoff schedule. Shopping him for a more reliable RB1 or WR1 is just plain sensible.
Ty Montgomery appears to have escaped a serious rib injury and could return to the field next weekend. So Aaron Jones is now more of a speculative add; we'll know in the next couple of weeks whether this backfield reverts to a timeshare or continues to lean heavily toward Montgomery.
A guy on Twitter reminded me the other day that I pushed Ryan Succop this preseason as a surprisingly draftable kicker. I had honestly forgotten; chalk that up to sleep deprivation and the fact that my league doesn't use kickers, so I'm not tracking them closely. But it brings up a point I first raised in the book FF4W: most people think fantasy kickers should be afterthoughts. I've continually pushed the opposite--that drafting an elite kicker is like scoring an RB2 or WR2 in your draft's final round.
This summer, Succop's average draft position among kickers was 29th. They don't get much more worthless than that. But a few weeks ago I made the case for Succop as a K1. Through three weeks, he's the #1 fantasy kicker and in PPR is on par with Le'Veon Bell, Ezekiel Elliott, and Julio Jones.
Of course elite guys like Bell, Zeke, and Julio will break away (barring injury). But the point is the highly consistent Succop is benefiting, as expected, from an improved Tennessee offense. He was rostered in about 0% of ESPN leagues to start the season. Now he's up to 25%. So while you'd be hard-pressed to find a league where an RB2 or WR2 is sitting on waivers, Succop remains widely available.
Some--maybe many--of you stream kickers. Hey, whatever works. But if you can acquire and hold onto an elite kicker, you're winning that position virtually every week.