Fantasy Football Daily - Week 9 Fantasy Football Top 10 Takeaways, Instant Reactions & Breaking News | 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 Week 9, fantasy football, top 10 takeaways, instant reactions, breaking news, and all the injuries you need to know about right here on fantasy points. Let's get it. What? What are you shaking your head? You're welcome. Week 9, recording this early, early Monday morning, usually recording this Sunday evening, but a lot to get through there with the Washington Seattle game. We're going to catch you up on that one a little bit later. but really just a wild week in fantasy football,

Starting point is 00:00:40 got through Bymageddon in Week Sick. Excuse me, last week. A couple weeks ago, we're going through multiple buy weeks. We're going through by weeks again this week, buy weeks next week, just getting through it. Bymageddon sort of in the books. Last week had to deal with six teams on by. This week four, it seemed a little bit easier

Starting point is 00:00:57 to kind of set those lineups, but still a number of challenges with players missing, players getting injured. We're going to get through all of that right now. The first thing that we've got to talk about, Brock Bowers. Brock Bowers, just unbelievable performance. Really, when he's on, Brock Bowers is one of the best players in the NFL, like no hyperbole. Brock Bowers is just an unbelievable talent.

Starting point is 00:01:23 We saw it last year. The tight end won overall as a rookie, just breaking records, breaking Pukunakua's, receptions total, like just looking like he's going to be an incredible force. and it's been a rough one for Brock Bowers managers sort of heading into this week. You not only had weeks where he missed with injuries, but Brock Bowers was the tight end 11 in points per game entering week nine. There was a lot of tilting going on. On my start sit shows and start sick questions I put out there on X,

Starting point is 00:01:57 I had people asking questions like Travis Kelsey or Brock Bowers, George Kittal or Brock Bowers. The answer, of course, every single time, in a start-sit decision at the tight-end position, except for maybe Trey McBride is Brock Bowers. And Brock Bowers is just a weapon of mass destruction. When he's on, he's completely on. This is the sort of post-buy usage that we love to see

Starting point is 00:02:23 for a mega talent like Brock Bowers. And when it comes to Bowers, like this was beyond exactly what you wanted to see. So just from a usage standpoint, 34% target share coming out of the buy week. We heard Bowers say how healthy he was, and he looked every bit. Incredibly explosive, and the production was unbelievable. Number one score on the entire week is Brock Bowers. 13 targets, 12 catches, 127 yards, and three touchdown grabs.

Starting point is 00:02:56 It was a wild game. Vegas loses by one. They go for two at the end instead of taking the tie. Bowers caught the touchdown at the end of overtime as well. So Bowers was just completely on Gino Smith four passing touchdowns. The lease on life for Gino Smith gets extended. And Gino certainly looks like more of a functional quarterback when Brock Bowers is in the lineup. So Bauer is completely back.

Starting point is 00:03:24 And this is a shift here. So the first half of the year, Brock Bauer's teams, you're either treading water. maybe you're not doing quite as well. There's a lot of people out there that'll look at a player and they'll say, you know, if you drafted him, your team's garbage. That's just not the truth. One pick is not going to ruin a team, even if it's a second round, first round pick like Brock Bowers.

Starting point is 00:03:45 So maybe you're treading water and now you have this weapon back where Bowers can be a 20 point per game score every single week moving forward, an incredible edge for you at the tight end position with Brock Bowers. one of the most valuable players you can roster in Dynasty period, regardless of the position. Brock Bowers is him. Brock Bowers is officially back. And another player who's officially back who's crushed it for us in fantasy over the seat last few years, really since he took on that unbelievable level of play in year two in 2019, Lamar Jackson.

Starting point is 00:04:22 Lamar Jackson is officially back. We didn't see Lamar Jackson really tested this past week. because he's going up against a Miami Dolphins team that's really, really struggling. But with Lamar Jackson, we just saw how efficient he is, how talented he is. Only 204 passing yards,

Starting point is 00:04:43 but four touchdowns, zero interceptions. Lamar Jackson from the state of Florida, and every time he plays Miami, he just cooks him. The last three times they played Miami now, 14 touchdown passes, zero interceptions.

Starting point is 00:04:58 The Ravens are, are in complete cruise control in this one. 28 to 6 win over Miami. Miami has just looked done. Baltimore could have won this game by more. And we also saw another strong performance from King Henry. 19 carries 119 yards. Three straight big games from Derek Henry.

Starting point is 00:05:18 So now you've got Derek Henry who's getting going. You've got Lamar Jackson, who is Lamar Jackson. And the Ravens are in a great position after a terrible start to win. the AFC North. Four of their next six games are against AFC North teams. Then they get the Jets who have one win on the season. And they get the Minnesota Vikings who are bouncing back and we'll talk about them a little bit later. But they're a team that I think Baltimore can also beat. That's going to be a big one coming up actually next week. That'll be a really big game to watch. So Baltimore's back. Lamar Jackson is back. Top three score at the quarterback position, rest of

Starting point is 00:05:58 season. I know Scott Barrett's saying he is the QB1 rest of the year. We'll see. It's going to be a little bit of a battle here. A couple of players are going to challenge him in that one. Mahomes, Allen certainly. We're going to keep an eye on that one with Lamar Jackson, but a huge edge for Lamar Jackson managers to get the player that they drafted most likely is the QB1 off the board back in their lineups. Really, really awesome stuff there. Let's talk about a league winner that's emerging in Carolina. And that's a player that if you've been watching this show on Fantasy Football Daily podcast, any of my shows, my School of Scott podcast with Scott Barrett, Dynasty Life even,

Starting point is 00:06:38 we told you to buy him weeks ago, my dynasty podcast, RICO Dowdell. RICO Dowdell looks like a league winner right now. Rico Dowdell looks like a league winner right now. And this is not hyperbole. This is just where we're at. Rico Dowdell, and this one will get some people going here. Rico Dowdle looks like this year's version of Josh Jacobs last year in the second half of the year. If you remember the Josh Jacobs experience, Josh Jacobs ramped his scoring numbers up throughout the second half of the year.

Starting point is 00:07:12 Green Bay had a ways to win where they kind of took the air out of the football. They leaned into Josh Jacobs. they became a very run heavy team throughout the second half of the year, got away from the balance that we saw from them in 2023. And Josh Jacobs ran wild. Jacobs had the best year he's had as a pro. And I think we're seeing that from Rico Dattle. And the Carolina Panthers had the biggest win that they've had

Starting point is 00:07:40 in the course of the Dave Canales era there. This was a huge one. They beat the five-win Green Bay Packers, and they shut them down on defense. Carolina's got a defense, guys. That defense keeps getting better. And they ride the hot hand in Rico Douddle. And Rico Duttle, 25 carries, 130 yards, and a touchdown.

Starting point is 00:08:02 So just unbelievable from Daudle. We're talking about 28 PPR points from RICO Duttle. Just unbelievable. And you add in the two receptions, that's 27 touches for him. 27 touches for Duttle, Chuba Hubbard only had five touches. So Rico Duttle is a bell cow. And Rico Dattle is the player that Carolina is leading on.

Starting point is 00:08:29 Dowdell looks like a offensive focal point, a bell cow, somewhere in the mid-RB-1 range with potential to give you top five running back numbers every single week. I'm not going to put him in the top five. I think he's probably somewhere in that RB6-8 range because Carolina is not a team that's going to go in there and put 30 on you and Dattle is going to benefit from these unbelievable game flows. But the volume, the production, and just how we've seen this in multiple seasons from Dave

Starting point is 00:09:00 Canales' offenses. Dave Canales is an R.B whisperer. Dave Canales is also an ADP whisperer. And those two things have come together now for three straight years. We saw it in Tampa Bay in 2023. If you had Rashad White, he gave you top six scoring number. huge ADP win with Canales's OC in Tampa. Last year, Chuba Hubbard, low-end RB1, high-end RB2 numbers in a very, very affordable

Starting point is 00:09:29 price tag heading into the season. Now we're seen again with Rico Dattle. And Rico Dattle might end up being the best of those three on a points per game basis. Just think about that one. If you picked up RICO Duttle off the waiver wire, you're feeling incredible. If you drafted RICO Dattle late, you're feeling incredible. if you traded for him in some dynasty formats, you're feeling incredible. So Rico Dowdell, we're here.

Starting point is 00:09:55 We're here. Don't overthink this one. Dowdell was also a thousand-yard rusher last year in Dallas. This is not a player who just came off the street and is just some like spot start free agent. This is a guy who had 1,000 yards last year. This is back-to-back coaching staffs that had confidence in Dowdell to give him the rock at a very high volume. You also have Rico Dowdell supplanting a player. that the Panthers coaching staff loves in Chuba Hubbard,

Starting point is 00:10:21 and he's doing it without an injury. So I know that the injury gave him a foot in the door, but this is not that. Chuba Hubbard's healthy. Chuba Hubbard's out on the field, and he can't get a touch because RICO Dauddle is so good. RICO Daudel, league winner, this year's version of Josh Jacobs.

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Starting point is 00:11:08 greatest show on turf we talk about it every week greatest show on turf part two the indianapolis colts seems like every single week i'm hyping up Colt. So we got to talk about it when they struggle. They lose on the road in Pittsburgh. And this was a tough loss. Big win for Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh saw Baltimore coming off of that big win Thursday. I'm sure that rested on their minds, but Pittsburgh still has a advantage in this division. Big win for them. And this was the first game that we've seen that offensive line for Indianapolis that's been playing an extremely high level, really, really get kind of pushed around. Pittsburgh has five sacks, six quarterback hits, and Daniel Jones looked like Daniel Jones in the past.

Starting point is 00:11:52 And Daniel Jones has been terrific this year. We've talked about him how he's been sort of redefining what he is in the league. But three interceptions today doesn't get it done. Jonathan Taylor also shut down. Season low fantasy points for Jonathan Taylor. This is a tough one. But I think that the takeaway is it was 27 to 10 with six minutes and 50 seconds left. And Indianapolis sort of got things going and made it a game.

Starting point is 00:12:19 They lose 27 to 20. And even in a losing fashion, the Colts still had nearly 400 yards of total offense. So I think Indianapolis is going to bounce back. I don't think this is a sky's falling moment. I don't think this is a like we're going to have to reassess our Colts. I think this is a blip on the radar. Teams lose on the road in the NFL. And Pittsburgh played a very good game.

Starting point is 00:12:41 So hats off to Pittsburgh. Indianapolis will get it going. But yeah, we got to talk about a court. Oh, I will say Michael Pittman, Jr., another really, really strong game for him. Michael Pittman is trending towards having the best fantasy season he's ever had as a pro. Unbelievable turnaround after last year's injuries. And nice little professional segue. Let's talk about another wide receiver.

Starting point is 00:13:02 And anyone who watched my shows over the summer knows this was a guy that I was flag planning all summer long. It's Drake London. And Drake London is one where I thought maybe I was going to have to take an L on him because it was so slow out the gate with London, where we saw the week one, week two, week three, none of those games he scored more than 13 and a half points in any of those weeks. Then we saw the really big game against Washington in week four, and that sort of woken everything up for Drake London.

Starting point is 00:13:35 We now have four straight weeks of gameplay with London. Of course, he missed the one game with an injury, and he had the buy week. But four straight games played, with double-digit targets, where he's at least 10 targets in now four straight games played. The dream scenario with Drake London was with Zach Robinson in the Sean McVeigh coaching tree, we were going to get a Cooper Cup-like usage. And we certainly saw that yesterday, 38.8 ppr points.

Starting point is 00:14:06 He had 31 points back in week six. So we're seeing London really, really getting going. three touchdown grabs, 14 targets, nine catches 118 yards, but three touchdown grabs. But it's the 41% target share that's just wild. And the secondary targets in Atlanta are Bejohn Robinson and Kyle Pitts. Only one other Falcon even had a catch.

Starting point is 00:14:31 And that was Darnell Mooney and he finished with one catch. So Drake London, unbelievable performance. I think Drake London is completely locked in. I think you're looking at a top five score at the wide receiver position rest of the way. And what else is significant here? He did this on the road. So we've talked about sort of the narrative that Michael Pennix and Drake London connect when they're playing in Atlanta. This one was on the road against a tough New England team.

Starting point is 00:14:57 Drake London just looks like an absolute monster, a beast out there, an alpha wide receiver one. Feel good if you picked up Drake London in the second round. And if you paired Drake London with the right player in round one, you are absolutely looking great. down the stretch here. Let's talk about a lot to take in here. This is like two takeaways combined here. Okay. So we had a wild, wild game, 47, 42 Chicago over Cincinnati, 47 to 42. So many takeaways here. The number one takeaway for me is fantasy managers, really successful ones, and you know these guys, maybe these ladies, like, like whoever you know in like your league who, continually does well year after year. Maybe the player, maybe the manager you're chasing.

Starting point is 00:15:46 Maybe you're that manager. If you're someone like yourself, you're watching a show like this, you're trying to find an edge. If you're reading fantasy points, you're listening to podcasts, you're like living it. You're about this fantasy football life more so than just some dude who shows up in August drafts and then just sets a lineup. Like, you're all about it. You're trying to find an edge. And there's always going to be fantasy managers. you know that are successful. And those fantasy managers might not have the same draft strategy. Some people are balanced approach.

Starting point is 00:16:17 I love a wide receiver and a running back. Some people are, I love wide receivers. I'm going to take them back to back. I'm going to get that wide receiver edge early in my draft, look to attack running back later. Then, of course, you know people who are robust running back drafters might draft three in a row and build their team that way. There's many different ways to be successful as a drafter.

Starting point is 00:16:37 And anybody who tells you differently hasn't competed enough difficult leagues because you're seeing different strategies effectively completed year after year. But the one thing that all successful fantasy managers have in common, all of them, literally all of them. And if you go to the highest like money earners in FFPC, the highest money earners in NFFC, they all have this in common. They're all grinding the waiver wire. And this game with Chicago and Cincinnati should be your reminder to keep grinding that wire throughout the year, throughout every single year, and every time. you're playing football, fantasy football in a competitive league, you know you need to go in and

Starting point is 00:17:15 grind that waiver wire. We saw it yesterday. Joe Flacco at the quarterback position, four touchdown passes. Right now heading into Monday Night Football, Joe Flacco is the QB2 on the week. Four passing touchdowns, 470 passing yards. This is the fourth most passing yards in Cincinnati Bengals history. He's been there a month. Joe Flacko's had four. games in Cincinnati. And he has the fourth most passing passing yards in a game of any single Bengal. The only Bengals quarterbacks to have more passing yards in a week than Joe Flacco now are Joe Burrow and Boomer Asiason. Absolutely ridiculous with Joe Flacco. And then opposite side of the field, you've got Kyle Menangai. And Kyle Monongai, 22.8 ppr points. DeAndre Swift misses the game.

Starting point is 00:18:08 and Monongai, a seventh round pick out of Ruckers, 26 carries, 176 yards, also adds three catches for 22 yards on five targets. Monongai, really an unbelievable week. Didn't you find the end zone, but did everything else right. Shout out to the DFS guys over at fantasy points. He told you had to play Monongai this week. He was chalky, but you had to play him, and he delivered. And when it comes to Monongai, I think that this is going to carve out a weekly

Starting point is 00:18:38 role where it's going to be a little bit more of a 50-50. I think Swift, maybe Swift in like a 55, 60% of the touches, but Monong guy's going to have a strong secondary role moving forward. He earned it this week. And that's sort of been what we've wanted to see with Ben Johnson offenses. So big shout out. Attack the Waver Wire with those guys. A couple other big takeaways from this game because this game was so fantasy friendly.

Starting point is 00:19:03 We saw a T. Higgins game. We've seen Joe Flacco unleash Jamar Chase and just have Jamar Chase playing at this ridiculous level after sort of sporadicness under Jake Browning and sort of like Jamar Chase fantasy manager is sort of being a little bit frustrated at times where we've seen Chase get it going. Chase is so good with Flacco recently that we're really disappointed by a six catch 111 yard, no touchdown performance. So Jamar Chase still gets you. you know, your 17 PPR points. But it was T. Higgins here. Seven catches, 121 yards, and two touchdowns. T. Higgins is now averaging 19 points per game with Joe Flacco.

Starting point is 00:19:48 He was averaging 8.2 in games without Joe Flacco. So Joe Flacco has now sort of unlocked both Bengals, wide receivers. You're feeling fantastic about those ones. Joe Flacco is 17 years older than the quarterback. opposite him and Caleb Williams. But we got to give our shoutout to Caleb Williams here. We're just giving shoutouts all around in this game because it was so fantasy friendly. But Caleb Williams, your number one QB on the week, flawless game from Caleb.

Starting point is 00:20:17 And I've criticized Caleb Williams. We saw sort of multiple poor efforts coming out of Chicago's biweek. Of course, the Washington game, Caleb Williams had some positivity there. But the last two weeks have been really dreadful for fantasy. the Baltimore game, the Saints game, really low scoring numbers from Caleb. Now sort of all is forgotten. He's the QB1 overall on the week. 280 passing yards, three passing touchdowns,

Starting point is 00:20:47 adds a 53-yard rushing performance, which is the most rushing yards he's had since week one. And I know this Bengals defense is really, really soft. But at the end of the day, Caleb Williams also connects with Colston Loveland for a end of the game, very, very late touchdown pass. Loveland came alive today, year of the rookie tight end, gets it going. So Caleb Williams, huge performance from him. This is the most points that the Chicago Bears have scored offensively since 2020.

Starting point is 00:21:19 Ben Johnson effect, everyone. Ben Johnson is one of the realest ones we've ever seen at the offensive coordinator position, certainly over the last 20 years. Ben Johnson since over the last three plus seasons. So this is now would be the fourth season. So we'll go 2025 season, 2024, 2024, 22. 12 times a Ben Johnson coached offense has had 40 or more points scored. Now you're starting to see it in Chicago.

Starting point is 00:21:46 This offense is coming alive. You're seeing Colston Loveland. You're seeing multiple backs produce. Dandre Swift having one of his best seasons ever. now you've got Kyle Monongai in there. If Caleb Williams can get it together, we're looking really good. And you've got the fact that the wide openness of the NFC North right now, where the NFC North is completely open, you've got multiple teams that are going to be competing

Starting point is 00:22:14 for a playoff berth, and that's including the Chicago Bears. Chicago Bears have really turned it around. They have five wins on the year. That puts them tied with Detroit. both five and three. Green Bay, five, two, and one. They had that tie against Dallas. And then Minnesota, who we'll talk about a little later, at four and four, Ben Johnson effect, and keep hitting that waiver wire. The L.A. Rams, let's talk about them. The passing game is truly, truly elite in L.A. L.A. completely controlled New Orleans. Just a complete, just destruction

Starting point is 00:22:50 of the Saints. Back-to-back weeks, the Rams are completely untested. They smoke the Jaguars overseas. Then they come back after their by week and it was just methodical. Kairn Williams gives you 114 rushing yards and a touchdown. But the story is the passing game. Pooka Nakua and Devante Adams combined for three touchdown grabs and a 48% target share. Matt Stafford is just playing at an unbelievable level. He had five touchdown pass against Jacksonville. He had four yesterday against the Saints. Nine touchdown passes. His last two weeks. And he's had three touchdown passes or more in three out of his last four games.

Starting point is 00:23:32 Red hot, absolutely red hot. 17 touchdown passes, only two interceptions on the year. Puka Nakua left the game. But this is one where Sean McVeigh, after the game, sort of seemed unconcerned about it. It seemed like it was a preventative thing where they just wanted to play it safe with Puka. I don't think this is anything. We're going to monitor that.

Starting point is 00:23:53 Make sure you're tuning in here on the fantasy points. podcast network and Fantasy Points YouTube all week long. We're going to update you on all these injuries. But Pukina Kua, just unbelievable player. But Devante Adams, two touchdown grabs, had three touchdown grabs last week. Devante Adams, if somebody in your Dynasty League wants to sell him high here because he's older, take it. You're getting a wide receiver one rest of the season.

Starting point is 00:24:16 I traded Ricky Purcell for Devante Adams straight up in a Dynasty League last week. Oh my gosh, Theo, you traded a young guy for an old guy. Yeah, I did. Devante Adams going to help my team. team win a title this year because he's playing so locked in. And Matthew Stafford, if you're struggling with the quarterback position, Matthew Stafford looks like a locked in low end QB1. Again, no rushing production with Stafford, but the passing game is so good in LA.

Starting point is 00:24:41 The Los Angeles Rams are a legit contender for the Super Bowl coming out of the NFC. I think we're going to hear that take a lot more over the next few weeks, but they look completely, completely locked in. talking about a team with another big win, the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen, another regular season win over Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. The playoffs have not been as kind to the bills, but the regular season, they're getting wins over Kansas City. Huge, huge performance from Allen again,

Starting point is 00:25:12 273 passing yards and a touchdown. Also rushes for two touchdowns. And this is significant. Josh Allen leads all quarterbacks in rushing touchdowns on the year, has seven rushing scores. That gives him six rushing touchdowns in eight straight seasons as a pro. He's the first quarterback to ever do this. You've also got Dalton Kincaid. We keep looking for a wide receiver that we can sort of hang our, excuse me, a receiver in general that we can hang our hat in, our hat on week in, week out with Dalton Kincaid being

Starting point is 00:25:47 one of these contenders in Buffalo. Khalil Shakir's had some really, really strong performances as well. But this gives Dalton Kincaid. It's been sort of a swing here, but Dalton Kincaid now has four games played with 15 points or more scored. And he scores a season high, 22.1 ppr points against Kansas City. It sort of makes, it sort of like makes sense here that Kincaid would do this against Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs. It seems like Buffalo was trying to draft their Travis Kelsey with Kincaid when they took them in the first round a few years back. They haven't gotten that. But Kincaid is going to be a valuable player for them down the stretch. If you drafted Kincaid, he looks like an ADP winner.

Starting point is 00:26:28 But the takeaway here is Josh Allen, just unbelievable stuff from Josh Allen. I pick the chiefs in this one. I'll wear the L on this one. If you're watching this on YouTube, Buffalo Bills fans, let me have it on this one. But we do a pick them every week as a staff at fantasy points. We pick each and every game. I pick KC. Wish I could get that one back.

Starting point is 00:26:47 Buffalo huge win there. Let's talk about a little Christian McCaffrey appreciation. Christian McCaffrey is unbelievable right now. He pushed his scoring average up to 25.7 points per game. This would be his second highest scoring season ever besides his 2019, 29 point per game season. In 2019, Christian McCaffrey had the second most PPR points all time by a running back. And right now he's got the second most points he's scored. So really, really tremendous stuff with Christian McCaffrey.

Starting point is 00:27:25 Yesterday, terrific. 28 for 106 and a touchdown on the ground really was able to control the Giants, start to finish here. Five catches for 67 yards and a touchdown as a receiver. And it's been the consistency from McCaffrey that stood out the most. Elite scoring, but it's also consistent scoring. Eight out of nine games with 22 points or more scored for CMC. just an unbelievable performance from Christian McCaffrey.

Starting point is 00:27:55 San Francisco looking good. Again, we've got a tight one. I mean, I think we're also going to get some shootouts here in the NFC West. NFC West right now, you've got the Rams with six wins, 49ers or six wins, Seattle Seahawks with six wins. This is going to be a fun division down the stretch. It's a very strong division. Just like we talked about with the NFC North,

Starting point is 00:28:18 where NFC North now has four teams. sort of fighting for it. We're going to see a really, really fun stretch run in the NFC West. Hopefully a number of those games are going to be very, very fantasy friendly. Also saw some strong stuff from Brian Robinson. If you're rostering Christian McCaffrey, make sure you have Brian Robinson. This is the time of year you want to handcuff your guy. If CMC misses a week, Brian Robinson would be a top 15 score at the running back position, I think fairly easily. So make sure you're rostering Brian Robinson if you have CMC. We'll keep an eye on that one. Let's talk about the backfield takeover in Minnesota.

Starting point is 00:28:55 Two players here. J.J. McCarthy comes back. Carson Wentz done for the season. A lot of trepidation, a lot of fear in the marketplace with J.J. McCarthy. Not here at fantasy points, though. This is a player that we were high on coming out as a prospect. And the guy's a winner. I mean, and people hate that simplistic term.

Starting point is 00:29:16 And a lot of times winning is a result of the environment you're in. the team you're on. But with J.J. McCarthy, J.J. McCarthy was Michigan's quarterback. He never ever lost in the state of Michigan, not once. He had one loss as Michigan starter and didn't lose in the state of Michigan yesterday. Minnesota was written off by a lot of people in this one. McCarthy wins on the road in Detroit, 27, 24. We'd like to see the passing yardage be a little higher, 143 passing yards, but he had two touchdown passes. He also had. He also had, a touchdown run and nine rush attempts for J.J. McCarthy. So McCarthy gives you three touchdowns. He shows you the mobility and wins the game. The other big takeaway, Aaron Jones. Now,

Starting point is 00:30:06 Aaron Jones gets banged up and had to leave the game. But before he left the game, he was dominating the running back usage and the production. He had 11 touches for 98 combined yards. Aaron Jones looked like Aaron Jones of last year. He looked like Aaron Jones in Green Bay. He looked really good to start this game. He had 11 touches for 98 yards. Jordan Mason had 11 touches for 37 yards. Jordan Mason officially goes back to our benches unless Aaron Jones miss his time.

Starting point is 00:30:37 Aaron Jones, if he's healthy, we're putting him back into our starting lineups. And the Minnesota Vikings at 4 and 4, huge, huge game this week against the Baltimore Ravens. Think about a difference a week makes here. Vikings were smoked by the Chargers 27 to 10. Come back this week, get that big win over Detroit. Got to feel pretty good about things in Minnesota. The offense stabilizing and the offense scoring touchdowns yesterday. A really big win for Minnesota.

Starting point is 00:31:07 Detroit will get it together. Detroit will get it together. But that's going to be a tough, tough division for Detroit to win. Up in the air in the NFC North. Let's talk about a couple of late takeaways here. Let's talk about the Seattle, Washington game. Talk about teams going in opposite directions of one another. Last year, Washington, everything went right, made it to the NFC championship game.

Starting point is 00:31:32 Of course, they had that big win over Detroit in the playoffs. Now they're three and six on the season. Wasn't even close last night. And we have to talk about Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold, a terrific performance. 330 passing yards. four passing touchdowns. And a lot of it came in the first half.

Starting point is 00:31:51 The guy was like 16 of 16 to start the game. I mean, he was completely lights out. 21 of 24. Unbelievable efficiency from him. We continue to see Jackson Smith and Jigba putting up big game after big game after big game. Eight catches for 129 yards on nine targets. JSN is a top five wide receiver for the rest of the season. He also had a rush for 11 yards, a manufactured running play for him.

Starting point is 00:32:19 JSN is just lights out. But what's significant for Seattle is we saw two young players step up. Cooper Cup misses the game. And a lot of us have talked about Cooper Cup sort of being cooked, looking cooked. And Cooper Cup misses the game. He's banged up. We saw Tori Horton with two touchdown grabs. If you've been reading my WaverWire column,

Starting point is 00:32:40 if you've been watching our WaverWire show here on Fantasy Football Daily, and Fantasy Points YouTube. We've been talking about Tori Horton as a guy you need stash, who had maybe the most contingent upside of any wide receiver in football because of the quality he has as a player and because of the fact that Cooper Cups older, we saw it. So Tori Horton only gets four targets, but two of them go for touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:33:05 This is a theme for him. Not a lot of touches, but a lot of touchdowns. I think he's done enough to warrant a much bigger role moving forward. wouldn't be surprised if he's going to be the wide receiver two rest of season, even when Cooper Cup comes back and that becomes a little bit more balanced. We also saw Elijah Arroyo, only two targets, but he catches a touchdown. So Seattle is drafted incredibly well over the last few years. You look at all the players on the field that they've drafted that are starting

Starting point is 00:33:35 and making contributions for a six and two team. Really fantastic stuff from Seattle. We got to talk about Jayden Daniels. Jane Daniels leads our injury discussion here. Terrible. Dislocated elbow for Jaden Daniels. I don't know how long he's going to be out. I'm sure we're going to get an update early in the week.

Starting point is 00:33:52 I know he's getting an MRI. Not good. It looked terrible when it went down. It looked like a season ending injury when he went down on the field. We'll find out soon. But again, the three and six Washington commanders, they will be cautious with this one. There's been terrible misfortune for Washington,

Starting point is 00:34:08 missing a lot of guys. I think they need to do a little self-evaluation of their franchise this offseason. They need to add some youth. They need to add some juice at these skill positions. They tried to moneyball the running back position. They have two older wide receivers. They have an older tight end.

Starting point is 00:34:26 And they have this quarterback, Jaden Daniels, has gotten banged up multiple times this year. So got to do a little self-evaluation in Washington this off season. But it's looking like it's going to be a little bit of a lost year. Marcus Marriota, Adam, in waivers. He's a locked-in starter in Superflex any single week. week that Jaden Daniels misses. Got to also talk about potential season ending injury for Tucker Kraft. Heading into week nine, Tucker Kraft was our tight end one overall. Devastating,

Starting point is 00:34:55 devastating news for Tucker Kraft managers. I mean, this one really, really hurts because I have a lot of Tucker Kraft. He's a player that we had on multiple main event teams. And Tucker Kraft just looked fantastic. I wrote about him this week in my Dynasty Market report. You can read that over at Fantasy Points. Sign up for any package using the already discounted packages using the code Theo and get 15% off. But I write the Dynasty Market Report. And in week eight, we saw a 33 point game from Tucker Craft. Yesterday looks like he's done for the entire season.

Starting point is 00:35:30 Sounds like it's an ACL. Really not good. Suffer to torn ACL is what we're hearing. We'll have a little bit of clarity on this on Monday. Luke Musgrave becomes your next man in. It's a huge downgrade, though. I think Green Bay offensively, you're going to tick up maybe the wide receivers slightly.

Starting point is 00:35:53 Josh Jacobs will get as much as he can handle. Another touchdown from Josh Jacobs yesterday. And you're going to see some of these wide receivers like Romeo Dubs, Christian Watson, be a little bit more viable moving forward. And I don't think they're going to use the tight end position quite the same way. huge, huge loss with Tucker Kraft. Make sure you're tuning in to Fantasy Football Daily. We've got you covered all week long right here on Fantasy Points YouTube if you're watching it

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