Last night the Titans featured their three main, healthy non-QB players (Derrick Henry, A.J. Brown, and Jonnu Smith). All three hit 19+ points, while Ryan Tannehill is suddenly the #7 fantasy QB in points per contest. Coming into this season I viewed Henry and Brown as overrated and Jonnu is severely underrated. Henry still isn't quite where experts placed him, Brown hasn't been healthy enough, and Jonnu is #2 in TE fantasy points per game.
As for Tannehill, it's insane how little he's rostered in leagues--and I don't mean that judgmentally. It's hard to imagine him finishing as a QB1. Yet here he is, picking up where he left off last season.
As for Buffalo, Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs remain better than I anticipated, while Devin Singletary is every bit the "avoid on draft day." Even with Zack Moss out, the second-year third-rounder couldn't capitalize. But who did? My favorite underrated RB of the past five years: T.J. Yeldon. Yes, the same T.J. Yeldon who outplayed Leonard Fournette two years ago in Jacksonville. The same T.J. Yeldon who every preseason is the best #3 or #4 RB in the NFL. A former second-round pick and still barely 27 years old, Yeldon's performance last night was no fluke, and his usage is a reminder that Buffalo has three capable backs, and that Singletary's RB3 value is hanging by a thread.
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Le'Veon Bell. Well, I got that wrong. Thought Bell and Adam Gase would choose "mutually assured cooperation" over "mutually assured destruction." As I've written too many times, Bell squandered his legacy for a payday. Not knocking him for it; it's his life, and only one of us is in the NFL (although technically, presently neither of us are in the NFL). But still, it's sad to see one of the great RB producers of his half decade will be lucky to get a backup job somewhere. Of course, if he lands in a great spot--like if Alvin Kamara goes down and New Orleans is desperate for a complement to Latavius Murray--then he still might have some fantasy life in 2020.
Yet for now, he joins former teammates Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant as some of the fastest-plummeting players in recent league history.