Fantasy Football Daily - Rest of Season Fantasy Rankings 2025: Buy Low, Trade Targets & Breakout Players to Target NOW!

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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We've got your updated 2025 rankings for the rest of the season. Theo Greminger with Ryan Heath, Fantasy Football Daily on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network. We're going to talk about a couple of these players that are moving up and moving down, and we're going to talk about whether you should be trying to trade for them in your redraft leagues. Ryan, let's get it started right off the top. This is going to be an eye of the beholder one. Okay, last year, Saquan Barclay was a league winner.

Barclay lit fantasy football on fire. He had over 2,000 rushing yards. It was a truly magical season. And with Saquan this season, we've seen some positives here, but we've also seen a couple of negative games. So Saqwan from a counting stats right now, he's at 14.9 points per game.

And he's coming off of a season low, 8.7 points scored in week six. And that's after a 9.5 point week in week three. Other than that, he's failed to crack 20 points in any particular week this season. Seekwon is Seekwon. But what does that mean right now, Ryan? Where are you valuing Seekwon Barkley? Should you be trading for him after this low week against the Giants? Or is he a player that you think is going to continue losing a little bit of value? Yeah, I kind of think it's all just down from here. So right now I would consider him a low-end RB1.

That's about where you would rank him just based on pure workload by expected fantasy points for game. But I really think we're not getting kind of the explosive Saquan Barclay that we got last year. And there's a few reasons for that that we'll get into. But just for a perspective here, last season, Saquan had 835 rushing yards and eight touchdowns on just explosive runs. So that's runs of 15 or more yards. That was 8.2 fantasy points per game just on these big plays.

Like he completely destroyed all of our expected fantasy points metrics. He was absurdly efficient. That was how he got there last year. This year that hasn't been there. I believe he's at two or three runs of 15 or more yards for the entire season. just 69 rushing yards on explosives, again, compared to 835 last season when we're a third of the way through. The reason for that, it's not necessarily his fault.

I don't think it's that he's washed. I don't think it's that he got overloaded with touches or any of those offseason narratives. I think it's really just that this Eagles offense as a whole is much less effective. The offensive line has regressed a ton, which we see by yards before contact per. attempt. The offense overall is just a lot more bland and predictable. The use of motion, the use of play-action, all of these play-calling cheat codes are way down from the year before. And it's because the Eagles lost Kellyn Moore as their OC. Yeah, they keep doing these internal hires, Kevin Petulow, their current OC, having similar kind of issues to Brian Johnson in 2023. If anyone

remembers that, we are having kind of similar locker room vibes to in 20, 23 with the team like kind of falling apart just from a cohesion perspective, AJ Brown screaming for more targets, even though they have actually been throwing more this year. It's just been to Devante Smith and Dallas Goddard. So yeah, just bad vibes all around. Barclay really just like a fringe top 10 running back for me for the rest of the year. I would take guys like Josh Jacobs, like James Cook, over him pretty easily.

Yeah, I'm completely with you. I think I would take James Cook. I would take Josh Jacobs in a heartbeat. We saw Jacobs with just tremendous usage coming out of the buy week, exactly what you sort of want to see. Jacobs has also been utilized as a pass catcher. He's had three straight games with four catches or more. So I'm completely there with Sequin Barclay.

With Barclay, I think you have a lot of power trading him because I think a lot of people in your leagues are going to be viewing him as a 20 point per game type player. Whereas Ryan, I really think when we get to the end of the season, 15, 16 points per game, it's not bad, but it's not an impactful number from a player that we were selecting in like the top six, top six, top eight picks in every single redraft league. And I think that there's potential for the Eagles offense to trend downhill. Hill. You talked about Kevin Petulow. Maybe the last two weeks are NFL teams figuring this offense out. And we talked about their scenarios where they trend up. We could see AJ Brown sort of getting it going. Brown had like a 14 point week this past week. But I think the

Patulow offense could trend significantly down. The last two weeks against Denver and New York, really, really, really ugly stuff. I'm completely with you on Sequin. I think if anything, he's a player that I'm not looking to buy low on, which feels weird after last year where he was such a value. Let's talk about another player who is trending upwards. And there's a big discourse here on X. I've put out a bunch of very positive RICO Dowdell takes. And I know you are on this train as well. There's a big segment of people who sort of are disagreeing with Scott Barrett and I are that RICO Dattel is going to be the more valuable back for the rest of the season. When Chuba Hubbard returns, they brought up things like the size of his contract, his

amount of production last year under Dave Canales. For me, it's sort of like, how can you not value RICO Dioddle very enthusiastically as a player you should maybe even buy high on? The market is not treating him like a player that just came off of, two highly scoring weeks. They're almost treating him like a, a player who did this and now is going to fall way, way back to Earth.

What's your Rico Dattle take here? Where would you be ranking him among other running backs for the rest of the season? Yeah, so I have him clearly as a top 20 running back for the rest of the year. Similar to you and Scott, I guess, I do expect him to maintain the lead back role over Hubbard. The two like kind of counter arguments you mentioned, I just want to address really quick. I guess one being that Hubbard's making more money.

Miles Sanders was also making more money last year when Dave Canales saw Hubbard outperforming him and made him the team's bell cow within the first three or four games. Canales does not care how much money you're making. Also, we're talking about like six million guaranteed next year. It's not like the team is super locked in to Chuba Hubbard and their entire future salary cap is tied to him. Like, let's, let's be real here. This isn't like a franchise quarterback we're talking about. It's not actually that big of a salary cap impact. So yeah, to me, Dowdell over 100 rushing yards and six of his last eight starts. We have always seen Dave Canales want to use a singular

bell cow over the past couple years when he's been a play caller. The only four running backs that have averaged more expected fantasy points per team play than Canales's RB1 are Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Camara, Joe Mixon, and Josh Jacobs. So yeah, that right there tells you that he loves creating these highest end bellcows. I doubtle had already kind of been carving out a role too, which was, I guess, was going a little bit underreported, but we were on it in the everything report. 35% of backfield XFP and three out of the five carries inside the 10 yard line in weeks three to four, Harvard was kind of already losing these high value touches. So to me, yeah, there's just no there is a way that it's a 50-50 committee,

but I much more want to lean toward the positive side of Dowdell just maintains this Belcow workload with Hubbard mixing in fairly sparingly. obviously these were back to back, just perfect matchups against the dolphins and the cowboys. The rest of the Panthers schedule is not this easy. It's still a Bryce Young led offense. For all those reasons, yeah, you can't rank him as like a top 16 running back rest of season.

But this is a valuable role, even if it's on a rough offense. Top 20 running back, I think gives like requisite respect to the upside that is here while also acknowledging, yeah, it's a volatile situation. It could be anywhere from an 80% snap share to a 40% snap share next week. Yeah, and I think you're getting that sort of discount when you're trying to buy them because there's going to be fantasy managers who say, okay, I got utility out of them. I have 60 points combined plus over the last two weeks. I'm going to take that player and I'm going to cash out.

I'm not going to want to deal with the headache of a potential committee backfield or the fear that he could go back to being a guy that's on a bench. I'm going to take the optimistic approach, Ryan, where I could end up getting a top 15 running back rest of the season for like high end RB3 prices. I'm going to give you a couple of realistic redraft trade scenarios that I think could be out there right now with the sort of trepidation in the marketplace because of the presence of Chuba Hubbard Lumen. Alvin Kamara or Rico Dowdle. Yeah, I mean, give me Rico Dowdell. We've seen Camara, yeah, become a little more involved in the passing game over the past three weeks, but this is still nowhere near like the Belkow upside player that you were hoping you were getting or that you were kind of getting last year.

So, yeah, give me doubtle just from a pure upside perspective because the low end RB2s like Alvin Camara don't make that big of a difference to the average fantasy team. whereas with Dowdell, you could be getting more than that. Okay, I'll give you another one. This is going to make you uncomfortable, Ryan. Kenneth Walker or Rico Dowdell, Walker, the last two weeks, the scoring has been really low. And the snapshares have been really, really troubling and concerning.

It's not like Zach Charbonnet is setting the world on fire, but you're still seeing Kenneth Walker in this committee. Where are you at on a Walker or Dowell rest of? of the season bet. So I'll put it this way. I think there's a greater than 50% chance that Ken Walker outscores Rico Dowdle for the rest of the season just because the role that Walker has, which isn't great, is at least more secure, is more certain for him to hold on to it.

But there is a much greater chance of Rico Dowdell being a difference maker rest of season than Kenneth Walker, just because he gets no high value touches. the Seahawks just have not thrown to running backs anywhere near as much as we expected this year. Like, I think I'd have them back to back in rest of season rankings. It's going to be pretty team dependent where if you need to lean into variance, I might prefer Dowdell. If you, like, really need a depth piece that's definitely going to score you 11 to 12 fantasy points a game. I would prefer Walker.

But, yeah, that is a tough one. Yeah, I think I might go Dowdell. And I think there's people, if you're watching this on YouTube, let us know. know which way you go Walker or Dowdell. But with with Walker, it's sort of like a, right now it's sort of you have to treat him as sort of a low end RB2 because of the situation he's in despite the talent of the player. Whereas Rico Dowdle, yeah, it could go lower than that. But there's also a chance. It's a non-zero chance Rico Dattle could be at RB1 rest of the season. We've seen Dave Canales as sort of this RB whisperer where he had a ton of production

out of Chuba Hubbard last year, the year before. that, Rashad White. He's an elevator of talent at the running back position. And it's been a really like a sound role usage wise under Canales the last two years. So I'm going with Rico Doudal. I'm breaking ties with a number of players with Doudal. And I think sometimes the uncomfortable trades are the ways that you would have to go. I think Kamara is probably a little bit more reasonable. And there are some players who are going to say, you know, I'll take the name brand equity here. But yeah, I'm all about Rico Dowdle. I'm willing to take the L here on Dowdell if it doesn't work out.

And I know you are as well. But I think you nailed it. It's an upside bet you can make where you're not going to get this sort of opportunity for production in a redraft trade. This might be the cheapest you could pay for this sort of level of production. So I'm there. And they get the jets coming up soon too, Ryan. So that schedule gets a little more difficult. But it's not overwhelming.

Let's pivot over to the rookie running backs. Who would you rather roster for the rest of the season? And how are you valuing these guys? Quinn Sean Judkins or Cam Scadaboo? Yeah, so I'm going to give a narrow lean to Cam Scadaboo here. Scadaboo is going to be right around RB 14 in my rest of season rankings. Judkin's going to be a spot or two behind him, RB15, RB16. And the reason for that is that kind of the entire thesis with Judkins,

where what used to be before what we saw in week six was, well, he's on the Browns. They're going to be trailing in a lot of games. But for three games in a row, we had seen the Browns say, we don't care that we're trailing. We're just going to keep feeding Quinn-Shon Judkins at one of the lowest pass rate over expectations in the entire NFL. That is not what we saw in week six. Dylan Gabriel dropped back more than 50 times in a negative game script. all of Judkins' snap rates, like cratered, as you would expect, of a two-down running back on most offenses. We just didn't think the Browns were going to operate like most offenses before we saw this.

Part of it is probably going to be a game-to-game effectiveness thing. Like, yeah, Judkins only had 36 yards on 12 carries in this game. If he is able to be more effective in future gains, even when the Browns are trailing, I'm sure they'll keep feeding him if what they're doing is working. really talented player, like him a lot. But yeah, to me, now that I know we don't kind of have this, like, I don't care that we're not winning games, we're going to feed Judkins' type of cheat code anymore. I'm just going to take Scataboo, who straight up has had a better workload by XFP, since week three, 19 expected fantasy points per game and a 15% target share.

It was essentially the same utilization in Tyrone Tracy's first game back. So, yeah, it feels even a little conservative to call him the RB 13 or the RB 14, kind of given this usage and how he's scoring. The only reason I'm a little cautious is it doesn't feel super sustainable that he is second in the NFL in goal line carries despite playing on the Giants. You know, Jackson Dart is awesome, is super exciting. He's also getting banged up and visiting the Blue Medical 10 every single game, which makes me a little bit nervous. So those are the only reasons I'm not sitting here and telling you,

yeah, Cam Scadaboo is like a top eight running back. I'll go top 13, top 14. But yeah, definitely prefer him to Judkins better receiving utilization, even though it's been a bit up and down. So, yeah, Skataboo looks like a league winner. I wish I was on him as much as Scott Barrett was. this offseason. Yeah, Scott was all over him this offseason for sure. He definitely gets a lot of credit. A lot of credit is due to Scott for that one. And we have him on a number of shared teams,

thankfully. I'll say, I'm going to go a little higher than you on both of these players. Cam Scadaboo, I think for me, I'll comfortably go inside of the top 10. Ryan, we were saying he was sort of like this year's Bucking Irving. I love the this year's version of. I know you do too. It's fun. And when we said it was this year's version of Bucking Irving, it's not. not a stylistic comparison. It's a, these guys were both fourth round picks. They both crushed it, and they both gave us like this kind of like low end RB1, high end RB2 type production down the stretch. I think it might be a little better than that. I think it might be this year's version of Chase Brown if it goes like I think it could. I think this Giants offense is trending up.

We've only seen Jackson Dart start a few games here. And I think he's becoming very, very comfortable. We saw what the Giants were willing to do in a game they were leading against Philly this past week. But we also have two games with Cam Scataboo where he has six receptions in two games this year. That's high-level reception totals. So we know he has that in his bag as well. So I'm going to go a little bit higher. Sure, Blue Medical Tent, we don't like to see that with Cam Scatabu. He's a violent runner, but he's also a solid receiver.

So I'm going to go somewhere in that top 12, top 10 for Scatibu. I'm going to say Judkins a little bit higher than you as well. I agree, probably for me, right on the RB1 line, a fringe player there. And I think it's maybe in Pittsburgh, and they were sort of galaxy braining the game situation, the game flow, they were trailing. And also Pittsburgh's been sort of generous against the past this year. Maybe they thought they could attack them in that way, where I think Judkins, this was the Mulligan game, 36 rushing yards, but the weeks before it was 94, 82, 110.

And Ryan, we have a total get right environment this week against Miami. And then a game against, yeah, like he could have 30 carries this week against the Dolphins. And then that game in New England, I think Judkins, they're going to have to like keep Drake May off the field. They're going to try to establish Judkins as much as possible. That game flow could be similar to what we saw with like the Detroit game, the Minnesota game, where they go up against a plus offense on the road and they look to sort of establish Judkins as much as possible. So I think Junkins is going to have a great deal of momentum heading into those by weeks. But I think we're both enthusiastic about these players.

I might just be a little bit higher on those guys. So I think kick the tires on fantasy managers who think that these guys are sort of low-end RB-2s or are not comfortable having them in that close to the RB1 line. Cam Scataboo, there's going to be a lot of people thinking that they are selling high. And certainly, like Ryan said, we can't expect 30-point games where he's got three touchdowns. but we can't expect sustainable volume and him being sort of an offensive focal point week in, week out. Let's take a quick break.

We come back. We're talking about wide receivers, including one that looked like a bust up until week six when he smashed. We'll see you in a second. All right, Ryan, let's talk about it. Brian Thomas Jr. managers had a big sigh of relief game, 23 fantasy points in week six. Exactly what you wanted to see in this sort of game flow, where Seattle was in control. and Jacksonville continually went to BTJ. It finishes again with a really nice scoring line,

and it could have been even more. Sort of if you look at the box score, it doesn't really give justice to the fact that there was a big drop, and there was also another potential score overturned by an off-sides penalty from Travis Hunter. So BTJ, is this a sell-high moment? Or is this a, I'm buying him knowing that this is, sort of been unlocked in the Liam Cohen offense, and he can be a top 10 wide receiver rest

of the way. Yeah, I think this is kind of a buy high, actually, for me. Not that you're buying high compared to where people drafted him, but yeah, I would be buying right now. So zooming out with BTJ a little bit, we, there was so much discourse in week two around why is he shying away from contact? Why is he quitting on routes? He was getting a lot of very well-deserved. He was getting a lot of very well-deserved criticism. After that week-two game, Liam Cohn comes out and he says, yeah, BTJ was playing through a wrist injury in week two may have affected him.

He wasn't initially listed on their injury report going into week two, but he was with that wrist injury leading up to week three and leading up to week four. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I think there's a good chance that BTJ just doesn't play well through injury or if we want to be charitable to him, maybe he just plays through injuries that most wide receivers wouldn't and they therefore impact him a lot on the field. So bringing in also the two games from his rookie season kind of weeks nine and ten, it was like right in the middle of this breakout rookie year where he posted two stinkers.

It was right after he had suffered a chest injury that was probably incredibly painful, was initially reported as like a week to week thing. He played through it. Didn't play well, didn't put up much production. So if you just combine those three games with the wrist this year, two games with the chess last year, yeah, seven fantasy points per game, six targets per game. That's been the worst stretches of his career.

But in every other career game, zooming out over eight targets per game, nearly 80 receiving yards per game, 17.7 fantasy points per game. Over the last two weeks, he's at 85 receiving yards per game, the last two weeks since he got completely off the injury report. Now, I want a caveat. I am not saying that BTJ played anywhere near perfectly in week six.

I went back and I reviewed all of his targets. And I still think it is a thing that on a couple of these in breaking routes, he does look a little hesitant. He does look a little unsure, maybe in his own head, freight of contact, that bad drop was on one such route. I don't think he's like perfectly cleaned everything up, but I do think that BTJ is extremely talented. This offense has now shown us basically that it can support a top 12 to top 14 wide receiver,

particularly given all of the target consolidation that we're seeing. Brenton Strange is going to be out for at least another four games. Travis Hunter, yes, while he was. at a season high, 86% route share last week, while he has looked really electric to me at times when he's given the ball. He's kind of becoming a liability on offense. As you mentioned, yeah, that off-sides penalty wipes a BTJ touchdown off the board. He looks kind of visibly confused, especially like if Lawrence is changing the play call at the line. And I get it. Like, it's got to be a lot to just mentally to pick up

two playbooks essentially, the defensive side and the offensive side of the ball. But look, the Jaguars are a four and two team. If Hunter is being like a liability to their offense, he's going to play less. That's just the reality of it. There's nothing else behind Hunter really that is noteworthy now that Strange is out. We saw Btj consolidate a 46% first read target share over the last five weeks of last season when all of these other pieces were out for the Jaguars.

We get something even close to that. The Jaguars continue to be a top five offense by pass rate over expectation. And the schedule starts to lighten up now after four of his first five games where bottom 12 schedule adjusted matchups for wide receivers. Yeah, I think we could get close to wide receiver one, low end wide receiver one scoring for BTJ the rest of the way. I don't think it'll be perfect. I think he'll continue to have like some of these drop issues, some of these communication issues, but he's top eight among wide receivers and catchable targets right now. He's going to be given every possible chance to score as a high end

fantasy receiver. And I think he's probably going to over the next 12 games of the season. So I would be buying BTJ right now if you can swap him for somebody like anywhere in the low end wide receiver two range kind of like a Cortland Sutton type of name a Debo Samuel with Terry McClellan coming back soon all of those trades to me are very low risk and very high upside if BTJ kind of recaptures this form that we've seen him have yeah I'm I'm with you BTJ we're seeing like a 22% target chair like a 27% first read rate rate. I think those could trend up, 35% air yard share.

I think having a game like this where you see it and it happens, a game that Jacksonville is trailing and BTJ sort of comes out there and does what we want to see from a wide receiver one. We've seen it before with BTJ. This is not some theoretical asset

where we said, oh, this guy didn't do anything in year one. He's going to break out in year two. No, this is a guy that was scoring at will, putting up really, really strong numbers. So I think for Jacksonville to be the biggest threat that they can be and to win the AFC South or to make the AFC playoffs, they're going to have to have more games like this out of BTJ as well. Hunter is playing too many snaps on defense. I think that's what's hurting him.

I think it's a lot to take in. It stinks because I think we've seen Travis Hunter in glimpses of what he's able to do. But it's just too much for him to take on sort of the biggest fear for fantasy managers. was defense having its toll on the offense. I think we're actually seeing that. So I am on BTJ. I'll give you an interesting one. Rashi Rice or Brian Thomas Jr.

That's easily Rashi Rice to me. I don't even have to think about it. Yeah. Okay, let me give you another one there. I'll give you another one, another interesting one. You brought up Cortland Sutton. That's a good one. Let's go, I don't really have.

Okay, I'll go Nico Collins or Brian Thomas Jr. Oh, yeah, I'll still go Nico Collins, but I don't like, I don't feel crazy about it. I'll give you another one, actually. I would take PTJ over DK Metcalf for the rest of the season. He's coming off kind of back-to-back big games, but I think he's a little bit more of a sell high than anything. This was just the first game all season that Aaron Rogers has thrown for more than 175 air yards.

For context, Trevor Lawrence has gone over 190 in all six of his games. So Rogers has not really been attacking downfield at all this season. Metcalf has only one game above a 24% target share. He's just 40th in expected fantasy points per game. Yeah, coming off these back-to-back big performances, I think, yeah, Metcalf will continue to have kind of these volatile, like, blow-up games as a downfield threat, but I don't think he has anywhere near the chance of turning into like a consistent top 15 receiver like I could definitely see BTJ doing.

Yeah, Metcalf, I think I might be a little more enthusiastic than you are on him. I like the fact that he got nine targets coming out of the buy week where you saw him have that really big week four. And then they seem to ramp him up. It was his highest target total of the year. And he's sort of the only show in town in that passing game. So even though it's a lower volume passing game, I think DK, I'm just not sure you're going to get enough in a D.K. Metcalf trade where I think fantasy managers are smart. Maybe you find somebody out there who says, oh, look at he's got four touchdown catches and maybe get somebody to pay for the back-to-back big weeks, Ryan. But I don't, I think people are still a little bit like treading lightly when it comes to everything, Aaron Rogers and D.K. Metcalf. I am with you, though. I think Rashi Rice over. BTJ pretty easily. I'm very optimistic about what Rice can do, especially with the level of the

Chiefs passing game and the fact that there's no running game whatsoever there. I think Rashi Rice is going to come in and be very, very impactful. Getting some players back here in week seven. And that's a great segue here, Ryan. Let's talk about CD Lamb. CD Lamb should be back in week seven. You've seen this meteoric rise from George Pickens. George Pickens is giving you unbelievable production this year really stepped up in games where CD Lamb wasn't there. And it was not like he was a playing the CD Lamb role. Maybe the usage was Lamb-esque 11 targets in two out of his last three games, but it's not like they were lining him up in the slot or anything like that at some CD-Lam-like rate. George Pickens has been a dominant force on the outside. So these two players,

the whole thesis in the preseason was George Pickens and CD-Lam being able to comfortably coexist. Now, George Pickens has two 30-point weeks in his last three games played. These games are insane from Pickens. You have Lamb coming back who was a little bit underwhelming this year so far. How are you anticipating Lamb and Pickens will shake out? Where are you valuing C.D. Lamb? Where are you valuing George Pickens? I'll say, Lamb, we did see the big nine-catch game against Giants on week two,

but it's all the way back in week two. Do you think Lamb is going to sustain that double-digit targets every week now that Pickens is cooking? Who's going to sort of lose out here, Ryan? So I don't know that anybody really loses out in terms of like, I think you're really going to want both of these players in your lineup for the rest of the season every single week. The Cowboys very clearly cannot play ball control or hold a lead against any team in the league. I think we saw a very good demonstration of that against the Panthers last week. So they are constantly going to be dropping back.

I think Lamb is just an instant, like, top four wide receiver to me, rest of season. In his first two games, he was at 18 and a half expected fantasy points per game. We have a very long history of over the last three, four years of him just commanding top five volume at the wide receiver position. I think that just continues to happen. and yeah, especially with kind of the dropback based boosts to this, Prescott playing out of his mind. Yeah, I'd feel very comfortable about Lamb as a top four, top five wide receiver the rest of the year. I think Pickens kind of drops down into like the wide receiver two, wide receiver one sort of borderline where I would consider him more next to guys like a Jalen Waddle or a Drake London. because yeah, he's been awesome in Lamb's absence.

But yeah, over those first couple games, just 12 points per game below a 20% first read target share. Pickens does not really have the history of being a high volume target earner that Lamb does. So to me, yeah, I think he can sort of be like this year's T. Higgins, which I think is a comparison that we were even making in the offseason. I think that just kind of goes back to where my prior was before, where, yeah, productive offense, probably going to catch a lot of touchdowns. He's, yeah, leading the league in end zone targets still, I believe. So, yeah, going to be a productive player, maybe not like as consistent volume week to week. But, yeah, still very good.

Wouldn't really consider him a sell high or anything like that. Yeah, I think when it comes to Lamb, I'm probably somewhere in the wide. And we're splitting hairs here. You said top four. I'll say top six. So we're pretty close there. I think Lamb's somewhere in that 17, 18 point per game range is about right. I do think George Pickens is also going to finish as a wide receiver one.

And you bring up T. Higgins where T. Higgins was about 18 points per game last year. I think the player that's going to hurt a little bit here. And it's at the tight end position. So it doesn't really matter. Jake Ferguson's still going to be a locked in and loaded, you know, solid mid-type. end one, but the dream of Jake Ferguson probably leading all tight ends and targets, I think that'll be a slow drip where you're going to see that sort of end, because I do think that Lamb and Pickens are going to be the two players that are not only are they hyper-targeted,

but I think it's going to be pretty consolidated as well. Ferguson will still have his blow-up weeks, but I do think you're going to see maybe the chance for weeks like you saw in week six where it was just a little bit underwhelming in the target department. Those sort of games can sort of tick up more often when both wide receivers are healthy. I think I'm just generally very, very bullish on this offense

where I think it's going to be lamb, I think it's going to be pickings. And the game flow, Ryan, they can't stop anyone. So Dallas is like sort of the perfect team to bet on multiple players hitting in fantasy because they're always going to be in these sort of shootout type environments.

Carolina just put 30 on them. The Packers put 40 on them. I think that's going to continue. So I think we're both pretty bullish on this passing game. True or false, Javante Williams is going to be an RB1 for the rest of the season. Currently, Williams is off to a fantastic start. We did see that this past week, his lowest fantasy total of the season. He had 8.4 points.

The rushing yards were non-existent, easily a season low. with 29 rushing yards against the Carolina. Coming off of that Jets game, though, where he had a 27-pointer. And Ryan, he has three 20-plus-point weeks this year and a 19-point scoring week. So Javante has been pretty consistent and really, really, really effective as a score.

Yeah, so I'm pretty much right at RB12 with Javante for where I rank him rest of season, where I would expect him to score over the rest of the season. The workload is still awesome is the main thing I'm leaning into here. 20.7 expected fantasy points in that week six game. Season high, 24% target share. Actually, the highest single game target share he's had since at some point in 2023. He had like one high target game.

But over 80% of the backfields carries second highest mark of the year. He owns this entire backfield. It's going to continue to be relatively valuable. with a lot of goal line opportunities, just with how this offense looks. Lamb coming back is probably an upgrade just for them moving the ball more than anything. The only concern is,

yeah, I don't think we're ever going to get, like, the game where the Cowboys just control the clock and are feeding Javante the entire time because of what we just said. They're underdogs in eight of their next 10 games, according to look-ahead lines.

So I kind of average all that out to, Like, yeah, he has so far on the year, like a bona fide top six running back workload. He's still, he doesn't look super explosive to me. He looks good. He, like, he gets run down from behind on a few different runs this year. Like, it's Giovante Williams good for him, not trying to, like, totally trash him or anything. But, yeah, good role, great offense. Back end RB1 is kind of where I settle.

Derek Henry or Javante Williams rest of the season? Yeah, that's really rough because it is. So also should be a much better offense with Lamar Jackson coming back. Probably also not a lot of controlling games, though, for the Ravens based on what we've seen out of this defense. So I'm going to slightly lean Henry. He'd be like my RB 11, but it really is just like a bet on talent and a bet on maybe the Ravens. Ravens can move the ball as effectively as the Cowboys and start giving Henry some more of these goal line opportunities. They have not really used him that much at the goal line this season, which has been odd.

But I would not expect that to hold. Yeah, those guys are about the same for me. I think I would go towards Henry because of the history of Derek Henry, where as the season moves along, he's usually been more effective. It's been sort of a – Scott's talked about this a lot over the years, where it gets to be October, it gets to be November, Derek Henry sort of ramps up. And of course, we're going to see Lamar Jackson

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the team as a whole here, or is it just pure optimism when Lamar steps back? Yeah, I think he just comes back and he is immediately just Superman and putting this team on his back and having to paper over all of these huge holes that they have in their defense right now. So they've allowed the most points per game in the NFL over 32 points per game. We have seen Lamar average 27.6 fantasy points per game in his three full games this season. He's playing awesome when he when he's been healthy at least out, I guess outside of like the end of that Chiefs game. So yeah, he just is the QB1 to. me for the rest of the year.

Has the benefit of this awful defense that it'll have to be chasing points with. Yeah, it's just kind of that simple to me. I guess like arguments you can make are, well, Josh Allen's defense also hasn't looked great the last couple weeks. I would agree. He would be pretty cleanly my QB2 kind of also for that reason. Mahomes has looked awesome. Currently leads the position in fantasy points for game.

He is up there for me. as a top five QB. Maybe he starts to like run a little bit less kind of as Rishi Rice returns to the offense and they can be more productive through the air. That's what Scott Barrett thinks. I think that's maybe slightly overthinking. But either way, I get into it.

I got into it. I got into it. Yeah. I talked to Scott about this and I gave my take as well. I know you guys talked about this with the everything report. But I actually think for me, Mahomes is my QB one rest of the season. I think like the willingness to run is not going to disappear,

and it's the willingness to run near the goal line is not going to disappear. And with Mahomes, maybe we don't get quite the rushing yards, but I do think we're going to get the potential for a great deal number of touchdown scores. And I think I look at, and the devil's advocate is look at who Kansas City's played the last two weeks. Detroit's banged up in the defensive secondary. Baltimore's defense is a train rack. but for me it's sort of the Patrick Mahomes revenge tour

where I don't think that lets up. I think it's going to actually get better. Xavier Worthy is going to get healthier. He's been playing through a shoulder injury. And Rashi Rice, getting Rashi Rice back, everybody's going to sort of fill their natural roles on that offense. Rice was so effective at the beginning of last year. I think we're going to see that here.

So I think Patrick Mahomes, I could be completely wrong on this one. I was betting on Mahomes to have a QB1. overall finish. But sure, you can go Lamar Jackson there. And yeah, I wish we had more receivers stepping up for Josh Allen. With Josh Allen, we saw last, last, or not last night, but the Monday night football, he seemed to be missing Dalton Kincaid a little bit. Kingade's been pretty good, but Atlanta shut them down. And we saw New England go in and beat them. So the offense is not exactly rolling people like we're used to with Buffalo. We've seen them now a two week stretch, Ryan, where they've looked pretty mortal on offense. So I'm going to say Mahomes

for me, but it's sort of splitting hairs. Everybody knows Lamar Jackson's expensive to get. One teammate of his, though, that I know you've talked about as a trade target, and I think you're spot on with this one, is Zay Flowers. Yeah, so first I want to say shout out to J.J. Zacharison, who included this in his newsletter this week. And the second I saw the name, I was like, oh duh, like I cannot believe that I did not put this together before like reading the suggestion. But it's super true. Flowers has always been not only game script sensitive than that he is much better in shootouts, but just drop back sensitive.

Like if the Ravens are throwing a lot, Flowers is going to score a lot of fantasy points. This is really an underrated receiver from like a real life NFL talent perspective, in my opinion. he has pretty much always topped our average separation score metrics over at fantasy points data. He's really great separator, really explosive player, just has not always been on an offense that has needed to use him that has needed to throw very much. That is 100% the case now. So what we can do is we can look at the start of last season when the Ravens defense was also not very good. They kind of fixed everything after like week 10, we. week 11 and became a really good unit.

But before that, they were also kind of struggling weeks one through 10 last season. Flowers was averaging over 15 fantasy points per game. He was the wide receiver 15 in his healthy games across that stretch. And he went over 18 PPR points five times in that stretch, which was fewer than only Justin Jefferson and Amuneross, St. Brown at that time. So Flowers has the spike week potential of like up against basically anybody if the Ravens are needing to rely on him. As we just said, the defense is horrible.

They're allowing the third most EPA per play right now, in addition to the most points per game allowed. Flowers, to me, is just a high-end wide receiver, too, is probably going to have more 25, 30-point spike weeks. It might not be, like, as consistent as fantasy managers would like in managed leagues, but if kind of similar to Brian Thomas Jr., if you can get him right now for kind of low end wide receiver two prices, I would just immediately do that because, yeah,

he's been awesome. Even this season in the Ravens three losses with Lamar Jackson, 97 receiving yards per game, nine targets per game, over 16 expect fantasy points per game. He's just scored and seen the volume of a wide receiver one, but I don't think he's viewed like that right now in the market, especially with the Ravens going into their buy. Yeah, and you nailed it.

you said going into their buy week. And I think you have a sort of a double-edged sword here to trade for flowers from a game theory perspective. There's still a little bit of a lack of clarity with Lamar Jackson where we think he's coming back in week eight. But that's always sort of weighs heavily on people's minds who've seen, you know, the combination of Cooper Rush and Tyler Huntley leading Baltimore, really, really ugly stuff in week six. You have flowers coming off of a really low-scoring game with an 8.6 point scored three point three points scored against Detroit. So flowers have been sort of invisible and two out of his last four. But yeah, you nailed it, Ryan.

In week one, we saw what a ceiling outcome could look like for flowers, where he had the 28 point week with Lamar Jackson behind center. That Buffalo game was really, really a fun one for fantasy. So for me, I really like flowers. And I think you're able to get flowers for like a high-end wide receiver three type price. and I think he could potentially be a top 18 score the rest of the season. Give you one more true or false. Now that Pukonakuwa is banged up and we know he's going to miss a week, possibly more.

A little bit of lack of clarity there. Ameca Agbuka also banged up is going to miss a little time? Is JSN comfortably the wide receiver one overall rest of the season? And is there a chance that Jamar Chase has a. say here with Joe Flacco behind center. Which player would you rather have rest of the year? JSN or Jamar Chase? Well, so first I want to say Puka is still going to be my wide receiver one overall.

Yeah, I honestly hope they just hold them out of week seven, let him rest through the week eight by. That would be perfect. Two weeks of rest for an ankle injury should be good back to averaging, what, 28 or whatever it is, fantasy points for game from Puka. Unbelievable story. Yeah. I'll take JSN over Chase narrowly for the rest of the season, but it's closer than I would have expected a couple weeks ago.

So JSN still posting just completely unheard of efficiency, over 4.6 yards per outrun. He's responsible for over half of Sam Darnold's passing yards this season, which is totally crazy. It makes some sense, like very consolidated offense, Clint Kubiak, very, very, good at kind of dialing up all of these deep targets on play action that JSN has been benefiting from a lot. Darnel playing really well totally by JSN still as like a top three wide receiver for the rest of the season. Chase, I would nudge up to like wide receiver five, wide receiver six, kind of right there

with C.D. Lamb. The main thing that we saw from Joe Flacco was that he just dropped back a ton, which is what exactly what I was hoping for from Joe Flacco. Like this is what he does. Will it be pretty? Will it be efficient? No. But yeah, if he's going to drop back 45 times a game and throw to Jemar Chase 10 to 12 times a game,

like Jammar Chase is going to score as a mid-range wide receiver one for the rest of the season. So yeah, feeling a little better about Chase, still not as great as I am about Chase as I am about JSM though. Yeah, I think I'm JSM ahead of Chase, but I think I told Scott when we recorded School of Scott this week that I'm sort of pushing Jamar Chase as sort of a, he's, it's still a dark horse challenger, and it's crazy to even call him that. He was drafted as the wide receiver one overall, but sort of people were sort of pushing them aside because of just how bad Jake Browning was. With Joe Flacco, I think we're going to see him hyper-targeting Jamar Chase. I also think that if you have a T. Higgins share, you get in sort of a little bit of a life raft here,

where Higgins, of course, I don't think he's going to give you the high-end wide receiver two production. you were promised, but I do think he's back on that flex line, back on that wide receiver three line. Browning was just terrible. Flacco, we had some very, very strong, promising first game usage for a guy who hasn't really been practiced with these guys, but he's a smart enough veteran quarterback to hyper-target Jamar Chase. But JSN is just insane right now.

I don't know. I think he's a challenger to Pukinakua, but points per game-wise, it's Pukinakua for sure. It could end up being a counting staff thing. this is something that gets, you know, Ryan, it's a chance of reaggravation always comes up. It's healthy versus not healthy, but yeah, Pukua. Pukukukua is on another planet scoring-wise this season. Really, really fun episode we did today. If you want to see our complete rest of the season rankings update, that drops every single week over at Fantasy Points. You can go check that out in our projections and rankings category. You can also find Chris Wex weekly projections over there.

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