Fantasy Football Daily - TreVeyon Henderson LEAGUE WINNER | Week 16 Fantasy Football Playoffs: Top 12 Players to Watch with Jacob Gibbs

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Fantasy Points’ 2026 Early Bird is live. Get the rest of 2025 plus all of 2026 at the lowest price we’ll offer all season. Take 20% off any Fantasy Points subscription when you lock in early. This deal expires on Super Bowl Sunday. Save 20% now, plus an extra 5% with code THEWORM. Theo Gremminger is joined by Jacob Gibbs for a Beyond the Box Score edition of Fantasy Football Daily, breaking down the top 12 players who can swing Week 16 of the fantasy football playoffs. The show opens with a big-picture debate on Trey McBride’s historic positional edge and whether he deserves early 2026 1.01 consideration, before diving into the surging Atlanta Falcons offense, Kyle Pitts’ resurgence, Bijan Robinson’s dominance, and whether Kirk Cousins can be trusted when it matters most. The Jacksonville Jaguars’ vibes stay scorching behind Liam Coen’s QB and RB whisperer run, with actionable takes on Trevor Lawrence, Travis Etienne, and the viability of Brian Thomas Jr., Jakobi Meyers, and Brenton Strange. The episode also covers TreVeyon Henderson’s post-bye eruption as a potential league-winner, Kenneth Gainwell’s PPR utility, the sneaky power of free-agent running backs, concerns around Brock Bowers and George Pickens, renewed optimism for Nico Collins, San Francisco’s playoff stack coming together, and Jameson Williams’ shifting narrative. Jacob closes with a bold Week 16 flag plant you won’t want to miss. Where to find us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/TheOGFantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/jagibbs_23 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Discord here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/media/discord#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Fantasy Points for FREE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/plans#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast Transcription Here: https://podsqueeze.com/embedded/transcript/4mx8xKHXLumiPcFrPsCFMS Fantasy Points Website - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEW! Data Suite - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://data.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fantasypts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #FantasyFootball #2025Rankings #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFL #FantasyFootball #WaiverWire #Week14 #FantasyFootball2025 #FantasyPoints #NFLFantasy #FantasyAdvice #Sleepers #WaiverPickup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're going to help you try to identify some edges that can help you win in the fantasy playoffs. Can't get it wrong this week. Jacob. This is single elimination football, but let's have a moment of appreciation. Is Tray McBride the biggest positional edge pick that we've seen in quite some time? Just completely lapping the field. Put up a monster, monster stat line in week 15 and has this unbelievable looking schedule for the rest of the fantasy playoffs. I mean, yeah, I've had a hard time thinking of one. Like, Kelsey comes to mind, of course. Honestly, like what CMC's

been able to do in some of these seasons, but really it's, it's been special what we've gotten from McBride. I'm sure that we'll all dig into this. I'm excited to see Ryan Heath's takeaways when you do some of the historical comps on, on this season and everything. And it's, it's been like a perfect storm for McBride. Like that's, we, on Beyond the Box score, Dan Schneier and I did flagplants for who we think are like the players who you, you know, you're going to have to have had to get to the top, to get to the summit this year. And he sent McBride, which was a pretty easy one, you know, but it was, it's the schedule, it's Jacoby Preset, it's their defense seeming to have just quit.

It's Marvin Harrison, like, it's the running back's all getting hurt. Like, it's everything coming together. And on top of that, he's truly a special, special player. And so, yeah, just an absolute monster for fantasy. Yeah, it's a perfect storm for Trey McBride. I said this to Scott Barrett on School of Scott. we recorded yesterday, and I think one of the biggest, like, things to happen, sort of a sliding doors effect of the entire fantasy football season was when Kyler Murray went down,

Jacoby Brissette had his opportunity, and then, like, you know, we saw Kyler Murray's season end somewhat quickly after that, but what Jacobi Brissette's been able to do with this offense is just remarkable. QB won every single week, and he's elevated, McBride to this new level of play where like last year the the the catches were all there but this year we've seen much more frequent spike weeks he's been the tight end one or the tight end two on a weekly basis in so many weeks it's just unbelievable and then for him to deliver this sort of scoring line in week one of the fantasy playoffs when every single analyst under the sun has been circling week 17 against Cincinnati it's truly telling let me ask you

this, Jacob. What, like, what are the chances that we see Jacoby Burset as a bridge quarterback next year in Arizona? I think it's not out of the question. Yeah, it makes sense to me the way that he's played, that they might, they might just go to Brissette again, especially with this quarterback class, and then the following one's supposed to be so much better. So I'm, I mean, we're here for it, right? For fantasy purposes, we're definitely here for it. Yeah, 100%. 100% with, and you bring up the positional edges. I think that you nailed it. It was, I'd have to go back to like Christian McCaffrey, like 2019, where he was 80, 90 points

ahead of the RB2 overall that season. That was sort of like the one I would sort of circle, the last big monster Christian McCaffrey season there. Of course, he's had other monster seasons, but that was the one where he had one of the highest scoring lines of all time. I mean, this one. Yeah. Like this one, this happened.

right now is pretty much that, especially like Jonathan Taylor is kind of falling off. And like, I think Jemir Gibbs is totally fine. Last week was just a fluke, but still doesn't really matter if you lost, you know, with Jemir Gibbs, whereas like CMC is just like an absolute lock for 20. And then he has the access to more and more upside as this offense gets better and better and healthier and they've got great matchups down the stretch. I think he really is like basically that edge this year. He's after 25 PPR points for game.

That's a great point. And I think that, like, it was, it wasn't as pronounced because of the quality of Jonathan Taylor, because of at times the quality of Bijan Robinson. And then most recently, Jemir Gibbs, Devon A. Chan. But A. Chan and Gibbs both had a tough, tough week in week 15 by their standards. So I think those guys will potentially bounce back here. You have to think that Jemir Gibbs is going to give you another monster December game or two. A. Chan, it's interesting what's going on in Miami with. with McDaniel talking about a potential quarterback change and all that sort of stuff. But you mentioned CMC, and you've got the Brock Purdy, George Kittle, Joanne Jennings, Christian McCaffrey,

those four guys. We've circled San Francisco as a team in the preseason when the strength of schedule came out and we tried to identify like those best ball matchups we wanted to chase, that San Francisco Chicago game in week 17, that was one that we very much were enthusiastic about. Is it sort of all coming together for San Francisco here to put up just monster numbers over their next two weeks

and help lead fantasy managers to championships? Your thoughts of the way that the 49ers offense is looking right now? Looks great, yeah, and the defense is not good, you know, and they're playing warm weather games. Like, it's all set up perfectly. That's when we've been circling a lot beyond the box score as we get near the end here is like George Kittle, We had above Tyler Warren.

We got a bunch of pushback on that, obviously. Who knew Daniel Jones was going to get hurt? But even before that, I think it was trending in a really good direction for Kiddle, where he's giving you huge upside with yardage and touchdowns. It's just pretty unique at the position. Obviously, CMC is doing his thing. And now the Ricky Pierce all injury, it's like, this is perfect. It's the perfect recipe.

You obviously don't want to see him get hurt. He's a fun player, but it's like the target distribution just keeps getting more and more concentrated. It's basically like three guys at this point. And Purdy's playing pretty well. We're going to talk about some quarterbacks today, a stat that I really like in terms of not necessarily, like, isolating quarterback play, but like how good is this offensive environment in terms of facilitating fantasy production is just simply catchable air yards. And 200 is an arbitrary end point, but I use it as like, that was a really good game. If you can produce 200 catchable air yards, some of the quarterbacks have, like, struggle to get there. like CJ Stratt didn't get there until like week 12 Baker Mayfield hasn't really gotten there all year

and I'll give you the list there's only a handful of guys who even have multiple of these games Purdy's one of it. Bertie has two games already over 200 air yards and he's only played like five games or whatever you know so I feel really good about them down the stretch here yeah me too I think specifically my question for you would be your trust level with Joanne Jennings you mentioned Ricky Purcell being injured now so that's sort of clears up a target share. But these start-sit decisions for fantasy managers in week 16, week 17 are just so, so, so important. Sort of your trust level for Joanne Jennings. And I realize that, you know, people are going to say Theo, you know, the guy caught two touchdown passes.

But there was only five targets there, three catches for 37 yards, ran pure on the touchdown. And how about this week against Indianapolis next week against Chicago? Is he a player that you're looking to cram into lineups, is it kind of team specific? Everybody knows Kittle, everybody knows Christian McCaffrey, and then Purdy, for most of you, it's a no-brainer. I know I'm starting Purdy in a couple of spots. Yeah, Jennings is interesting. He's like one of the few receivers who offers like some semblance of safety.

The receiver position has been kind of an albatross this year. But you look at Juan Jennings, and his expected fantasy point number has been double digits. seven of his last eight games, which is really rare consistency for the receiver position this year. His first retarget rate's been 30% or higher in three out of the past four. It's been 28% or higher in every game since week seven except for this past game. It was down a little bit. I think maybe they made a concentrated effort to kind of get Pierce all going. But I think all things equal, it's because it's just these three guys that are like,

the main target earners on the team with with juan jennings and kittle and cmc he's pretty much locked into 25 to 30 percent for three target rate maybe not a ton of downfield looks but he can score a touchdown and give you that upside where you're going from like 10 to 16 or you know 15 to 21 or whatever yeah and this week's matchup is against indianapolis we won't have to worry about anything with the weather it's going to be indoors what that's sort of nice this time of year there's always these variables for these super cold weather games. Sometimes these things don't go our way. But 49ers Colts, that game, we have the stability of good weather. And then week 17, that game is going to be in San Francisco, I believe, against Chicago. Yeah, in Levi's Stadium

for the 49ers. So back-to-back games where we don't have to worry about the weather as well. I think the 49ers, start them all, ride this wave. And I think there's going to be some real positivity with Brock Purdy. I know a number of people have sort of brought up the 49ers won't trade Mac Jones in the offseason. I think that's going to be

one of the bigger offseason stories to watch out for the comfort level to move off of Mac Jones as your high-end level backup because of just this incredibly quality play from Purdy running this offense and the contract installation

that he has. I think Jones, the way this NFL draft class is shaping out, you could end up seeing a team giving up like a second and a fourth, maybe even more than that for Mac Jones.

Let's take a quick break. We come back. We're going to talk about another quarterback who's trending up in a major way in Trevor Lawrence and how confident is Jacob in this Liam Cohen offense continuing to just put it on people

in the fantasy playoffs. All right, welcome back. Fantasy Football Daily, Theo Greminger, with Jacob Gibbs. Let everybody know about beyond the box score. It's been a really, really great show for you this year, Jacob. Talk about it a little bit, where people can access it,

out these next couple weeks yeah beyond the box score i mean if you're here listening to this and i think you might really like beyond the box score a lot of the stuff we're talking about today uh we've been covering and trying to get under every single stone and try to understand you know some of these players that we didn't maybe think were so good like and but they're performing really well you know they're training the right direction like how much of that is due to the coaching how much of that is due to all these extenuating circumstances um digging into the weather and everything like just trying to, you know, truly like exactly what the name sounds like, give you all the context that you need to help understand what's going on in the football field, whether that's

just sometimes for fun, or, you know, we do, you know, target some DFS, sports betting, lineup setting, stuff like that as well. So like Ryan Heath, the fantasy points, comes on every Thursday and has been helping get a better, get our heads wrapped around matchups, better, different matchup angles and stuff like that. So, yeah, it's, three days a week. It's on FFT Fantasy Football Today. You can check us out on YouTube. We have live chats and we love to interact with people there. So yeah, give it a look.

It's been a fun season. Yeah, highly, highly recommend all of Jacob's work and obviously Ryan Heath. We love seeing him on there as well. We talked about Trey McBride. Let's talk about another player who put up a monster week. The Jacksonville Jaguars, specifically

Trevor Lawrence, but also like sort of a player that there hasn't been enough hype about this. week because Lawrence put up this historically great quarterback performance, but also Travis ETN completely locked in as a fantasy asset. Liam Cohen is the quarterback whisperer, the running back whisperer, the team whisperer. He's the real deal and the Jaguars are trending up. Yeah, Liam Cohen and Ben Johnson were two of my absolute favorites going into the year. Clint Kubiak. I was really curious to see how these guys would pan out, especially the two

head coaches because it's not you know it's a little bit more complicated than like just being the opposite coordinator and they've really risen to the occasion like it's been so cool some of the most like profound impacts that we've seen in the NFL have been like new coaches like new england um and then these two instances too where it's like not only has it been great for fantasy but the real life success has been really cool to see especially here in jacksonville with Trevor lawrence who has been through you know the coaching carousel is in his fifth or sixth year now like a pretty much everybody's out on Trevor. I have, like, even I have been, like, one of the staunchest, like, wanting to believe

in Trevor, people out there, but I, by faith, honestly, wavered. The more I dug into it, this offseason with all the historical comparisons and everything and just watching the film, like he didn't feel like he progressed that much. And so he's kind of like Caleb Williams, where there's, there are clear limitations to their game, there's clear things that can be frustrating if you get stuck on certain aspects of their game. But both of these coach has been Johnson and Liam Cohen have really helped work with what they have and accentuate the strengths and really, really build the run game up. And especially in Jacksonville, that's been impressive because they don't have

the offensive line talent that Chicago has. But still, they've been a really effective run game. And so Liam also, Liam has also brought in all the screen game stuff that was working so well in Tampa. It hasn't been quite as effective in Jacksonville, but still he's doing it a lot. And so there's some, some target insulation for ETN. It's been a bit inconsistent week to week in terms of his targets. But this past week, we see three receiving touchdowns, you know, like that isn't something that was happening for him much with previous regimes. But remember at Clemson, he was a really electric receiver, you know, like I thought that was going to be part of his fantasy profile as a pro. We just hadn't seen it yet. So for Trevor, I've told you about the catchable.

air yards. I want to tell you this, that, because it's kind of crazy. He's QB3 in catchable air yards on the year behind only Dak Prescott and Matthew Stafford. And if you look at games, the number of games with 200 or more catchable air yards, you've got Justin Herbert and Caleb Williams, each have three, Drake May and Jordan Love each have four. Dak Prescott has five. And then Lawrence is next, the only one below Stafford. Lawrence has six. Stafford has eight he's insane um but that's that to me is just like it speaks to the consistency of this offense and consistency is never something that we could attribute to Trevor's game you know like it's always been a problem that we run into whether it's you know his struggle to like

get through his reads and find people that he needs to and get off of things just clinging to things a little bit too long and taking sacks whatever it is struggling against pressure it's been something that's killed drives and if you are running into that a lot then you're going to have more volatility game to game. But I think Cohen is, that's the most impactful thing he's done, is really clean that up and helped with the processing. And so we're seeing this where it's just consistently, like basically every game,

you're getting 150 to 250 catchable air yards. And so that even this weekend match against Denver has me feeling like maybe you can trust some of these players as scary as that sounds. Yeah, I mean, the Denver matchup is one we usually want to avoid. there's a counter argument that we just want to roll the hot hand and you can't sort of get away from this sort of proficiency. I think a lot of people benched Jacoby Berset last week and he ended up delivering with like the three touchdown passes

end up being like a fringe QB1. I think this is a matchup where it's scary, but if Jacksonville can hold up against the pass rush, I think they can put up points in this one. ETN completely locked in. It's a difficult matchup, but the fact that things are opening up for him as a receiver maybe that's a trend for this offense, and it's something that we continue to see heading into the NFL playoffs. Jacksonville is also 10 and 4. They're a live dog in this one. Denver playing for the AFC number one seed. This is a really, really fun game all around. So we're way more confident in Trevor Lawrence. I mean, it's complete narrative shift in the second half of the year. He's QB7 on the season in quarterback points per game. Travis ETN, complete narrative shift from last season. He's

nearly doubled his points per game from last year was like eight point something last year. He's up to nearly 16 points per game. My question for you would be the wide receivers here. Your thoughts on what you've seen from Jacoby Myers since he's come over. And last week we saw BTJ with a touchdown grab. Your thoughts on BTJ over the next two weeks sort of continuing to not necessarily be where we thought he was the beginning of the year, but stabilizing and offering the potential to put up a spike week, consideration for fantasy lineups.

Yeah, I've been kind of pounding this BTJ drum for a few weeks now, and everybody hates it. But I do feel like he's, I think that we can kind of throw out the beginning of the year. Obviously, like, that feels like selection bias. But, like, they were asking to do different things at the beginning of year than they are now. And the offense was a lot more, it was finding its footing at the beginning of the year. They were trying to do something really hard with Travis Hunter with having him play both ways and everything. And I feel like Jacoby Myers has been a good stabilizing force filling that offensive role.

The Hunter was asked to fill. Trevor's playing better. The run game is working and everything. And everything is just like more cohesive. And BTJ doesn't, he's not being asked to do as much of it over the middle stuff. Also, some of his struggles was Wild Britain Strange was out. And I think him being back helps to where you've now got two dependable targets over the middle. And so you can basically just have BTJ weigh on the outside.

And we know that he can do that. And Trevor is delivering accurate throws down the field. So can you trust it? It's a volatile equation, right? If you're getting a lot of downfield targets, especially with BTJ, who doesn't, I guess, maybe have the most dependable hands is basically how I would say it, you know. So I don't know if you can trust it. It's pretty much any of these, like, deep threat only guys.

are hard to trust. But it's in a good offense with a quarterback who's playing at a high level. And it might not matter if you can trust that he can take anyone play and make your weak. You know, we know B2J has that in him. So that's kind of where I've arrived is like, I don't know if he can trust it, but there's very few receivers that I think you could trust. Jacoby Myers is one of them, you know, where it's like kind of like Juan Jennings is kind of a lower upside but higher floor equation.

But there's not that many of those guys. Most of the receivers are pretty dicey propositions at this point. Yeah, I think that's a great way of putting it. Myers offers you a ton of safety. BTJ doesn't offer you that, but he does offer you upside and the chance that he can get loose for a long one that could potentially win you your week. You know your matchup better than we do. A lot of times this time a year, if you're maybe a team won as a sixth seed last week, maybe you're a team with a buy week. Maybe you have a huge edge in sort of the projections. You can get by with using some of the floor guys. but if you're chasing upside, you have to swing for the fences in single elimination fantasy football, and certainly BTJ will be one of them. Myers, I've just been really impressed with ever since he came over there.

Love the fit with Liam Cohen, this offense. They seem to really, really value him. A huge shift from him in the production he had in Vegas versus what he's had in Jacksonville recently. What a tremendous trade. Things really, really worked out for them acquiring him. And the team is, again, trending up heading into the playoffs. Let's talk about Atlanta. Are we going to trust Kirk Cousins in week 16? I start looking through the streaming quarterbacks, and Cousins looks like one of them that I'm interested in.

You have last week the Kyle Pitts explosion, and love to hear your opinion on that one. Bejohn Robinson playing an exceptional level of football, and Kirk Cousins is targeting him at a high rate, and we're keeping a candle burning for Drake London, never say never, that he comes back this week. Your thoughts on this one, Jacob, plus matchup against Arizona. Yeah, this Arizona defense has been one of the best to attack.

So I do feel sort of optimistic about Kirk Cousins. You know, the underlying stuff is good. If you check out Fantasy Points data, they've got Kirk Cousins as the third quarterback on the list of 38 qualifiers, third in highly accurate throw rate on throws of Tenermore Air Yard. So if you watch him, there's still some limitation, driving the ball. There's some throws that he turns down because he can't quite make.

But, like, when he's choosing to throw it, he's been highly accurate. He's ninth overall, not just on throws of 10 and more air yards. But I brought it to 10 and more areas because I think that's interesting. He's been able to push the ball down the field with some accuracy when he chooses to do that. Another cool stat on him is his top games this year in terms of catchable air yards are he got 227 this past week, which I gave you that list of 200 plus, you know. that's a really good number for where it feels like we're at with Kirk Cousin's career, right? He's averaging 152 in games that he started, 152 catchable air yards.

So for reference, that's like top 12 if it was over the course of the full year. That would be just the head of like Jared Gough, Baker Mayfield, well behind Lawrence and some of those players we discuss. But pretty dang good for Cousins, better than Michael Pinnock was giving us. And at this point, I feel fine going to pits. We've been talking about him for four or five weeks now, like I'll be on the box score. It's what we saw last year when Drake London was out and Cousins was in, where they use him in pre-snap motion and all these ways to get him moving horizontally,

which is great. I do wonder if London comes back what the role might be, but I think just based off the coach speak, they're feeling really good about where they're at with pits and how he's playing. And so we might see them continue to design stuff to him. We've also seen before London play games where he's playing through an injury, it seems like, where he's not maybe quite his full self or he's even sort of a decoy. When I heard the London news initially and heard the coach speak on it and everything,

I was pretty nervous that we were going to see him at all again this year. And that's still kind of how it feels to me. But maybe he comes back. That would be great for me. we'll see but I overall yeah I feel great about Bijon feel fine about Cousins when we looked at streamers this week I said if you get Stroud that's probably your best bet CJ Stroud but he's only available in like 30% of leagues or something so

you're probably looking at Kirk Cousins is the top guy yeah it's interesting the London one it keeps feeling like there's this segment of people who think they're just going to shut them down for the year but my counter argument would be why haven't they already I feel like there's a little part of this coaching staff that wants to get them back out there that week 17 matchup against the Rams, that's a potential high scoring game. This week's a potential high scoring game. So sort of never say never. But the way that cousins treated Pitts last week, it's hard to see him getting away from it. Three touchdown catches, just absolutely

insane. And just a reminder, Kyle Pitts is going to be a free agent. The timing could not have been more fortuitous for Pitts to put up this sort of numbers to end the season. It'll be very, very interesting to see where Pitts ends up next year. I think there's going to be a significant market for him. A lot of teams remember him as a prospect. They think I can do a lot with this guy and he could be an impact player in the passing game. I'm not sure where he'll end up, but I think this could be a really, really fun offseason storyline. We could be really excited about Kyle Pitts all offseason long. And certainly, Bejohn, what a year for him. The receiving ability he has is just exceptional, the two-way ability.

completely locked in asset. You mentioned C.J. Stroud, another player who I know you were very bullish on, enthusiastic about when we podcast together in the summer was Nico Collins. 61 targets over his last seven games played. We saw his first two touchdown score game of the season this past week. The target volume was low, but it didn't matter. He's an absolute alpha on the outside. And it seems like this offense has figured out a lot of things with him that we weren't

necessarily seeing to start out the year, confidence level in Nico Collins and his ability to be a league winner right now? Yeah, I feel good about it. See, Des Stroud has played better. Two of his three highest catchable area yardage numbers have come over the past three games. Week 15 was not one of those. Week 15, it was extremely low average depth of target, and so the underlying volume stuff doesn't look that good for Nico and for a lot of these other players, but still, Nico is like the guy. when he gets down there and scoring distance. And he's the guy all over the place.

He's really, really hard to stop. So this feels good. At their by week, which was week seven, I was actually starting to get pretty dang nervous about Nico, because I love the guy to death. I'm probably overexposed to Nico Collins and fantasy. And it just wasn't feeling the same. New offensive coordinator,

Stroud wasn't playing very well. The offensive line, that felt the same. And that was a problem. And the way that they were utilizing Nico, it was like the offensive line was making, it really hard to get him the ball. And so his first retarget rate before the buy was at 27%, which was like way lower than it's been in the past.

And that got me pretty nervous. But since then it's been a lot better. It's 30% since then. And he's hit 27% or higher in six out of eight games, like this past game where it was just weirdly low, actually brought the number down. But if we're getting up in that 30% number and the offense is also playing better than it was last year and has at times this year, then I feel pretty good. league winner. I just don't quite trust the Texans enough to say that, but like it's definitely a

possibility. We know Nico can pop off. Yeah, that's the thing. When it comes to Collins, it's that ability to put up a 25, 30 point week. And just the consistency that we've seen, like you said, over the second half of the year. So maybe not quote unquote, the league winner, but a player that if you have in your lineup, you feel like you can get a top five wide receiver scoring week potentially for back-to-back weeks. So big narrative shift from Nico Collins this year. You love to see it. And I think he's sort of solidified himself that his draft capital next year might not be quite as high as it was this year at that one-two turn. But I think he's going to settle in somewhere in the late second round, two-three turn at the floor. He's just such a consistently

good fantasy asset on the outside. And there's just few alpha wide receivers like him in the NFL today. You love to see a big physical Nico Collins touchdown grab. It's just an awesome site. Let's take one more quick break. And let's talk about when we come back, a potential new cheat code for fantasy managers heading into the offseason. All right. So the player I wanted to talk to you about was Kenneth Gainwell. But Kenneth Gainwell sort of is part of a big like discussion here where We've seen now back-to-back years where simply just attacking free agent running backs has been a cheat code for finding ADP wins. Last year, it was at, like, the top of the food chain.

Guys like Saquan Barclay, Derek Henry, Josh Jacobs, and for that matter, Aaron Jones, Tony Pollard, all of those guys were ADP winners last year. Barkley, Henry, Jacobs really helped influence fantasy football leagues. performances from them. Then this year, we've continued to see it on sort of the lower end. Javante Williams has been terrific. The return on investment you got from drafting Jvante in like the ninth, 10th, 11th round has just been fantastic. He's consistently put up strong numbers for fantasy football. J.K. Dobbins started out the season very, very well, gave you a ton of running back utility. And then over the second half of the year, RICO Dowdell, one of the best waiver

wire pickups at the running back spot. And also Kenneth Gainwell, one of the best waiver wire pickups at the running back spot. Gainwell was sort of buried by fantasy managers. No one drafted him. People were on Caleb Johnson if you weren't on Jalen Warren. But if you look at Gainwell's performances over the last month of the season, excuse me, the last five weeks of the season, running back 5 in week 11, running back 9 in week 12. Then work 13 sort of came back to Earth against Buffalo. But the last two weeks, running back 12 overall, running back 9 overall, he's been a PPR cheat code, six catches or more in four out of his last five weeks.

Gainwell's looked really good. So your thoughts on Gainwell and thoughts of embracing new faces in new places next year and attacking free agent running backs? I'm really intrigued by the free agent running back thing when you, when I saw that on the show shoot, I was really curious what that was. But yeah, we've had some huge hits lately. I feel like we've all been sort of trained to like avoid these veteran cheap signings, you know, like Giovante Williams and the types. But it was a huge hit this year. So that's something to think about more for sure. I'm glad that you brought that up.

As far as game, oh, man, yeah, it's just been nuts. Like, he's been extremely good. Like, he's run well, well enough that they sometimes will give him, you know, some early down work, some drives and stuff like that. They'll even, you know, keep him in the red zone and stuff like that. And then also he has this built-in receiving role where the target shares of 26%, 19%, 18%, 18%, 26%, and four of us past five games. The lowest was 8%.

Like that's really, really, really good for the running back position. The only one who's getting that type of a target share is CMC. But because we're on this weird Steelers team that has like no pass-catching options, like Jono Smith hasn't become a thing. So there's like who are the short yardage targets? Like Washington, they're other tied in. Like that's pretty much it. It's him and Gainwell.

And Gainwell is the easier one to just dump off to. Rogers has loved doing that. So I feel like we're pretty much. much just locked into like, unfortunately for me, because I've got a ton of Warren, Gainwell being the better running back for fantasy right now as Warren's kind of battled through a few things at the end of the year here. And they're, and they're content using both guys. Yeah, it's, for me, it's, it's, it's super interesting the way it's gone. It's sort of like the Matthew McConaughey, Interstellar meme, Jalen Warren drafters,

looking at Kenneth Gainwell's weekly target share and yelling, no, no, no, that's supposed to be my guy. But yeah, it's this, this confidence level that Aaron Rogers has in him and also with the lack of pass catching weapons and the fact that Gainwell is just a good receiver. He's a reliable receiver out of the backfield. So he's a PPR compiler, but it's landed absolutely perfectly well. And also just to a credit to Arthur Smith, Arthur Smith's been a coach that's been able to just extrapolate running back fantasy scoring out of guys that we're not necessarily expecting it. The Corderole Patterson season, the Tyler Algear, 1,000 rushing yard season, and now the Kenneth Gainwell PPR scam season.

So everything's sort of playing itself out. And when you look at the Steelers schedule, they play Detroit this week on the road in Detroit. There's potential not only for game flow to go in Gainwell's direction, but also for garbage time if the Lions can get off to a significant lead in this one and put it on the Steelers, there's a lot of sort of situations here. Then you've got Cleveland next week in a game in week 17 where you like Gainwell's chances in that as well. So I sort of have a trust level in Kenneth Gainwell. I realize we've seen what the floor can look like in that Buffalo week, but you have to sort of ride the wave here. And when people say it's a floor play,

Gainwell has those two monster weeks this year, 31-pointer and a 29-pointer, and he scored 20 points this past week. So, I mean, what's not to like here? Your confidence level in using him these next two weeks. Yeah, I've got him as a top 20 running back this week. And that's kind of where he's been for me is like top 24 for like a month now. And every week I'm shocked that consensus has him is like writing back 35 or whatever. It's muscle memory, muscle memory from a month. from rankers out there. They don't want to rank up high.

Yeah. I get that there's like a floor that you could worry about or whatever, like, that it could drop out because he's not like the every down back, but like there's plenty of every down backs that have got a really scary floor, like Brees Hall, Ashton Genty, you know what I mean? Like I've, I've come to a point where I'm just basically ranking him ahead of Ashton Genty. And Ryan and I argue about that every week on mastering batchups, but it's just like, I don't want to start these guys, you know? Like, Gainwell, I don't ask. actually think as far as that scary with the way the targets are going. The concern is that Pittsburgh's offense could bottom out and the targets might not be

there. You know what I mean? Like it might be like two targets, three targets, something like that if it's a really bad offensive game for Pittsburgh. What I'm saying is you can run into that with pretty much any of these running backs. And then there is some ceiling too. I mean, he's not quite Trevion Henderson ceiling or whatever, but there is some ceiling. So I feel pretty good about him every week, especially in a week like this against

Detroit. You brought up Gentie. Let's talk about Gentie and Brock Bowers. Are we considering benching them? Are we considering benching them this week? I mean, they play Houston Texans. Houston Texans defense has been lights out. They've allowed one single QB1 performance this year was to Jacoby Brissette.

They've been one of the best fantasy defenses in general. Or is there a chance that the garbage time, the game flow is, sort of going to dictate that Bowers and Gentie will get their way through touches in the second half. I mean, this is a scary thought. The idea of benching Brock Bowers at a one-off position like Tide-end is sacrilege. I don't even want to think about it, but it needs to be addressed. Yeah, we've arrived at a special point in the season where it's like, Brock Bowers or Colby Parkinson, what are we feeling this week? Like, what are you talking about? It's not good. They can't, they can't facilitate functional.

offense like it's i mean they're putting up historic lows like any given week it's it might be a new historic low type of game in some facet and it's just like yeah i don't want any part of it um so gentie has been outside of the top 24 basically two three four straight weeks or something like that um for me and bowers i've been all right putting up higher um in that range titan is obviously worse than running back and so it's not as big of a deal if you only get you know five six seven points or whatever um this week i i would probably i know fanning and like buffalo has been tough against tight-ins i'd probably rather start harold fannin junior you can make an argument for a lot of other players too like darren waller if you want to go for more upside and stuff like that

because it's like how does bowers even get you to a really good game like um he's so good that maybe he can break off a big play on his own but at this point it's like you're going against Houston, who is a fundamentally sound defense and knows that you're the only threat, really. Like, you and Ash and Gentier are the only threats. And so they're just waiting and waiting for you to get the ball and swarming you. I don't really see how you even create an explosive play in that environment. I feel really bad about him, man. Yeah, it's a terrible situation.

I think it's team dependent for you. I know I have one Bauer spot, a big spot that I got to use him. There's another spot where I'm considering. It's a Trey McBride Bauer's team. I know that's a humble brag. It's FFPC Dynasty team. So I don't need to use him at tight end. Do I put him in the flex, even in tight end premium?

I probably will end up doing it begrudgingly, but I'm not feeling confident about it whatsoever. We talked about Gentie. Gentie's an interesting conversation discourse for the offseason where I think when we look back on it, we're going to say that there was a lot of positives he was able to accomplish as a fantasy asset despite being in like this ridiculously awful situation.

So let's talk about a rookie running back that we're really excited about the situation and the way he's trending. Build, play, and display with the 3-1 Megablocks preschool sets. The building go race car revamps into a pickup truck and hot rod, and the build and enchant unicorn transforms into a puppy and Pegasus. Each easy-to-build set comes with,

with rolling wheels, 26 blocks, and easy-to-read building steps, compatible with other megablocks sets for endless big building fun. Shop 3-1 megablocks at Walmart for ages 3-plus. The post-by-week production and usage for Trayvion Henderson was really, really strong. The home run hitting ability from Ohio State has completely translated to the NFL level. Not only one big long touchdown, but he had a second. one in this one. The Patriots lose to Buffalo, but a big win for Henderson managers. Sort of the fear of the rugpole with Romandre Stevenson wasn't there.

Stevenson's involved, but it's Henderson's the guy there. Your thoughts on what you've seen from him this season. I mean, this is going to be a player, Jacob, that we're going to be talking about just how high do we push him in 2026 rankings. It's going to be pretty damn high. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I feel really, really good about Henderson. So I'll start by saying, I mean, before I get people too hyped up, Baltimore's defense worries me a little bit, where they're not maybe quite as susceptible to some huge plays and leakiness and stuff like Buffalo's. And we could even get a weird game where Baltimore plays well, and the Patriots are playing

from behind, which seems to be, based off of what we've seen most recently from New England, seems to be the most likely failed situation for Henderson as if they're playing from behind, then I think we've seen more Ramandre Stevenson. so remandre had a much higher snap rate than henderson again this week um but i think that was mostly empty snaps where he was past protecting um in the second half this is an instance you know my the podcast is beyond the box score this is one where it's like even further it's like beyond the advanced stats and everything um with henderson and in a lot of different ways here so like snap rates and stuff like that is kind of like the next layer beyond the box score and it's

important but then like i go and watch the game and it's like they're being so intentional with getting Trevian on the field. And it's something they haven't been doing that much in the past. So the very first carry goes their Montre. Montre gets his start. And then the very next play, they bring Trayvion onto the field to get him like an outside look. And I was just like, okay, that's cool. Like right away first drive, we're going to him on the second play.

Then they get down in the red zone of that first drive and it's Travion who's in. Drake May scores on the RPO, but Trayvion's in on the field, I think, from the six-yard line or something like that. he gets another red zone carry later in the game like he was actually getting those looks ahead of remandre um there was another driver was like mandre started the drive but then travion came in immediately on the second play because they designed something to get him on the outside where it's like coming out of the by they're intentionally getting stuff for him to try to get him a runway um and it's not just like he's kind of the backup running back in the past we've seen remandre be out there for whole drives and stuff like

that. And so I was a little worried when I saw, I think it was 67% snap rate for Amanda. I was a little bit worried that it was going to be a bad again. But then I wouldn't watch the game. And it was not that way at all. They were very intentional with getting Treve on the ball and obviously ends up with way more carries. And then the other thing is like, you know, beyond the advanced stats is like you might look at this game and see the Trayvon had a ton of yards before contact and think, you know, that maybe it's something kind of fluky. You just had like some big holes or whatever. That's him, man. Like that was so much of that was him. I feel like his vision and his pacing and tempo is showing up much, much better as the year

goes on. And he just does stuff where it's like, nobody else is doing that. Armandre sure is hell ain't doing that. But like the two touchdowns, both of them, the first one was the 36-yard touchdown or whatever wasn't anything like exceptional. But it was good timing and tempo and everything through there. But the second one we reverse his field is just like, there's very few players who can do that. And I think the more of that that he shows us and shows New England, the more we're seeing them be like, this is a weapon. This is the only thing in our offense that gives us this explosive playability. And when he hit that one to go up 21-0 on Buffalo, it just, it felt so impactful. Obviously, they don't end up winning the game because it's, you know, Buffalo is really good

and Josh Allen and everything. But like, in that moment, it's like, this is why you got to get this guy in the field because it adds this extra level of volatility and variance where you can just, you know, turn a two-score game into a three-score game. Just one play, he can just like do that. And all of a sudden, close on the ropes you like you guys have them on the ropes because of this one player he's really special i feel yeah i mean if you look at some of the backs over the last couple years that have made huge fantasy impacts the jameer gibbs devon a chan james cook for that matter they all sort of have what henderson has with this explosive high value touch big playability where you can just hit that home run and i think henderson next year could just be exceptional with

it we've seen sort of the leaps that guys like gibbs have taken I think Henderson's right there. So people hated the hyperbole last year of Jamir, this is the next Jamir Gibbs, Patriots draft Jamir Gibbs. But fantasy-wise, this might be the closest thing we've seen since Gibbs. So I'm super excited about this one for Henderson. And I'm really excited to put him in my lineup this week and next week as well. He is absolutely trending up.

And it feels like a player that's going to have a big moment in the NFL playoffs as well. and there's always this sort of recency bias that carries its way to fantasy football. The NFL playoffs might raise Henderson's ADP like three, four spots, Jacob. You could just see it, him ripping off a big one in a national TV audience. Let's finish the show by talking about

two wide receivers sort of heading in opposite directions. What's going on with George Pickens back-to-back weeks of lower production after an outstanding season? Can he get things together? What's your confidence level for Pickens? over these next two weeks. Terrified.

I drafted or I traded for a lot of pickings. Probably the player I traded for the most in Dynasty this year. And the plan was always to like, let's get to the off season and then decide what we want to do. Like maybe we sell off about half of these, you know, me and my brother do it together. And like, I feel so bad about it, man. It's so weird. The vibes are so weird.

And you just don't, I don't know. I feel like when there's smoke is fire and you don't get this very often in the NFL, where it's stuff like this, where national broadcast, people, are talking about it during the game and everything, and you get weird stuff, even coming out from DAC about it and stuff, and it's just like, I don't know, man. This is, this is so clearly his opportunity, like, just if he can lock in through this season, this is so clearly his opportunity to, like, cash in big, and we're having these lapses in the end of the year, and that just gives me no confidence at all.

So, like, week to week, at this point, absolutely no expectation as to what you're going to get from Pickens. I'm ranking him outside of the top 20 receiver, which sucks, because he would. was locked in as like a top five or six guy from each week. I mean, that's a stunning ranking for Jacob to say that this week against the Chargers in Dallas. And then that Christmas Day game against Washington, that felt like a game where when you looked at the schedule six weeks ago, that could be a 30-pointer from George Pickens.

Fantasy managers could win their league with him. Now you've got to sort of measure starts-it decisions. For most fantasy managers, it's still sort of a, if you got here with Pickens, you're probably playing them you don't have enough options to pivot off of him um but yeah it's certainly lower your expectations and he's been such a mercurial guy where you you just hate seeing it this time a year uh really really a difficult one and a tilting name one player though to kind of going to jack's not going to 20% 25% first three target race he's past two games those are like his lowest since like the first two months of the season and do you think that's that's a specific like that's something

that could flip the script this week against L.A.? I mean, it's hope casting. If he shows up, sure. But I feel like it's just kind of clear what's going on. It's like he doesn't feel like he's presenting a trustworthy target. And so, Dax's like, well, I know CD's doing it. And honestly, Ryan Flora and I was busting his ass too. So like I'm going to look at him, you know, like I don't really feel good about going to you.

It's just what it looks like. Wild times, man. Absolutely wild times and scary times. let's cleanse the palate here. Jameson Williams, absolutely cooking, the narrative shift this year. I love bringing this up to guys who maybe weren't into him. Scott Barrett, I've tried to talk about him every week on School of Scott recently. But your thoughts on Jameson Williams, we have the two zeros.

But if you take the zeros out, this has been a player that's been a, like a, he's like a top six wide receiver. And he's a wide receiver won, despite the really low scoring weeks. Last week, I thought it was a wonderful sign. We saw him put up a massive week with Almond Ross St. Brown having season highs and catches, targets, receiving yards. Jameson Williams looks fantastic. Yes, he does. Feel good about it and pretty good spots here to end the season.

The volume has been great. So three of his four highest first three target rates have come over the past three weeks, up to 44% a few weeks ago in week 13. love to see, and that was obviously like Amon Ra factoring in there, but like the fact that they're willing to go to him in such a huge way, I think, and that we're seeing that kind of lock in here at the end of the season.

You got to feel good about it. Of course, the week 12 game was brutal. And I think in theory, that kind of thing could happen at any time with JMO. So like I've said a million times here, like wide receiver feels pretty dicey. And that's because even players like him who are like probably a top eight

guy on paper or something like that, top 10 receiver on paper each week, there's a very real floor that exists. But the role since Dan Campbell was taken over has felt like it's much more built around getting him rolling, getting him horizontally breaking routes where he can run, getting him more and more of these hitch routes where he was one of the most effective receivers last year that that hitch route rate has spiked since Dan Campbell took over. So I feel pretty good about him. We feel good about the offense overall. This is one of the best units to be attached to at the end of the year here, I think. Yeah. And Jameson Williams now is like, you just feel so confident where there was weeks where you didn't want to start him at the beginning

of the year. Certainly the loss of Sam Laporta helped tighten everything up, but I think the quality of the play here. And also, only 24 years old, it's just a player really coming on to his own. Detroit wisely gave him that contract this past off season. completely, completely locked in. This week again with Pittsburgh, and then next week against Minnesota, both of those games, a ton of fantasy managers need the lines

to put up numbers in those ones. And we love it. We love single elimination fantasy football. If you can't get stoked about playoff fantasy football, then you're playing the wrong game. This is just an awesome time of the year for us. Jacob, give me one sort of hot take, bold prediction,

or one flag plant, a player that you were really, excited about a big prediction you have sort of for this week or for the fantasy playoffs in general. So yeah, I said that Dan and I on Beyond the Box Corps did our flag plans. It was three weeks ago for who we thought were going to be the player you needed to have to win. And Dan's was Tram McBride. I went a lot riskier. And I went with Trayvion Henderson. And I was with Armandje, you know, coming back. We didn't know exactly what it would be. And I feel good. I feel really good about it. And the thesis was basically like that he,

he can, even if he doesn't get an expanded role coming out of the by week, that he can still get you there on any given week with the big plays. And if he does get the expanded role, then it's like you're looking at a, I don't know, top 15, top 20 running back floor, you know, because he's in one of the best offenses in the league. And if he gets the explosive plays, then he's the weak winner. And I think that's kind of just where we're at with Trevion is he can get receptions. he can get touchdowns. I love that we saw him on the field and in short yard situations in this past game.

And he can get you the big plays at any given point. And they're apparently willing to give him this many carries, you know, I think we're just locked in. Like, it feels really, really good with Trayvion. And we have the potential of the game against Baltimore in Baltimore. That could be a game. I'm not sure the way the game flow is going to go. Baltimore completely shut down.

Cincinnati last week. New England, I think, is going to put pressure on them to make it a little bit more of a free-flowing, higher-scoring game. But then you've got just unbelievable timing for fantasy managers. The Jets are completely lying down. The Jets can't stop literally anyone. The Patriots might put 40 points on the board in week 17 against this Jets team. You know, Mike Frable, also a little cutthroat kind of guy, not going to mind putting it on somebody. So agree with you. is in a fantastic spot. He's going to continue his climb, maybe up to the one-two turn in 2026 redraft rankings. I could just see it now.

Jacob, let him know once again where they could find your work. It's beyond the box score. And real quick, I wanted to give it James and Williams' stats. Sorry, this isn't, yeah. I looked it up and without Sam Laporta on the field over the last two years, this is a 281 route sample size, which is not as big as these other players. So the side-by-side comparisons aren't perfect. But it's not a small sample size necessarily.

300 is the number of routes I typically look for as like a kind of stable, it's relatively stable number. 2.8 yards per route run. The only players who have a higher rate are like Pooka Nakua, Amanra, St. Brown, you know, like that's truly elite stuff. And it's also a really good first down per route run rate, 11%. That's in the same vicinity as Jamar Chase, Devante Adams, A.J. Brown. he's he's been freaking phenomenal when given any opportunity.

The only reason to be concerned about him early on, I think, I don't speak for Scott, but for me was like, just didn't know if he was going to get the targets. You know, there's a lot of amounts of fees, a lot of really good pieces in this offense. New office and coordinator didn't know how he's going to go,

but now it's like we've got to play call around who's locked in on getting into the ball. And I think while I've had some concern about what Jamie will develop into long-term is a route run and everything, like the fact that he's been this productive when given opportunity when more of a feature part of the office, offense I think is relevant. They paid them. I feel really good about them. But yeah, for all my stuff, it's you can follow me on Twitter. It's at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23.

Do check out Beyond the Box Score. That's anywhere you stream your podcasts. And then it's also on YouTube. We're going to be doing that throughout the off season, helping you all feel better about your dynasty decisions, helping you get ready for next year's draft, helping you understand these incoming prospects and all that. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, highly recommend all of Jacob's work. Stick with us here at Fantasy Football Daily. We've got you covered. Startsit with Graham Barfield, WaiverWire Show with Joe Dolan, Tom Brawley, my takeaway show that drops every single Monday. And then School of Scott, Scott Barrett and I, Dynasty Life,

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