What a insane Week 5 it was with the Bengals shocking the world by coming back to beat the Seahawks and improve to 5-0 on the season.
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Peyton Manning owns 3 of the 33 performances, or just over 9 percent of them. Hue Jackson has Andy Dalton dialed in; A.J. When Luck was playing, his offensive line looked like garbage and he tried to do too much. Sometimes, you just want to scour the waiver wire to see what you can find even if you don’t need any help with your team.
The Broncos have two great wide receivers and the Raiders are giving up more than 310 passing yards a game, second-most in the NFL.
Average and Deep Leagues: Antonio Andrews (23%) is not going to win you fantasy glory, but he might get you flex starts to get through other bye weeks. He stumbled out of the gate in Week 1, but has picked it up since then and topped it off with a monster performance on Sunday.
Aaron Rodgers, similar to Tom Brady, is known for spreading the ball around to his receivers, so it could be feast or starvation for anyone in Green Bay’s offense.
Louis are on bye this week, so Derek Carr, Jameis Winston, Nick Foles and whoever Dallas trots out at quarterback won’t be available. If only we had a time machine!
Hyde’s a gamble against the Ravens, a defense that’s holding opposing rushers to 3.8 yards per game and has allowed just four rushing scores. The Falcons have the flawless gameplan in place for Freeman and he is making the most of his opportunity. All you can do is ride it out with him. He went off on the Eagles secondary for 141 yards on Sunday.
“I think he should be fired after the season”, Bissinger said in a radio interview. I have softened my stance considerably – I’m not that stubborn – but I still need more evidence. Alshon Jeffery and Eddie Royal should both be back on the field soon, and that gives Cutler a really nice collection of weapons. Barnidge erupted for eight catches and 139 yards against the Baltimore Ravens.
When you gain the trust of Drew Brees, I’m paying attention. That’s why it is so important to have a guy like Eifert on your team, to anchor the thinnest position in all the fantasy game.
He’s gotten it done for the most part this season and he finally had a big game in Week 5. Can they beat another of the NFL’s top teams? That’s how I felt as I watched replay after replay of Jamaal Charles essentially blowing out his knee.
Browns tight end Gary Barnidge was another one of our recommended adds a week ago, but he’s still not owned in enough leagues. There’s no quarterback controversy in Detroit, but Stafford has been a bust so far this season. I feel bad for the fantasy general managers who just had the rug pulled out from under them and I feel bad for the player, in this case, Jamaal Charles, who suffered a season-ending ACL injury for the second time in his career.
Everything. Charles’ speed, vision, versatility and big-play ability makes him a threat every time he touches the ball, which means he’s someone teams have to game-plan for. Backup Knile Davis had been the guy to step in capably when Charles missed time previously, but Charcandrick West – a former undrafted free agent out of Abilene Christian – appears to have overtaken Davis.
Anderson has been just as disappointing as Murray. I am playing in several leagues for fun, but I am 3-2 in my competitive league and I am going to have to manage flawlessly to get my trophy back.
In this edition of our weekly fantasy football recap, we look at a few of the players who have disappointed and surprised through five weeks of the season.
Though Davis will be used – perhaps close to the goal line – and is worth an add, West is the smarter look off the waiver wire this week.
Derek Carrier, WSH – The Redskins and Kirk Cousins love using tight ends, and Carrier found the end zone.
Nelson Agholor – Eagles: The Eagles rookie WR had high expectations entering the season, but has failed to live up to the hype after the first 5 weeks of the season.
TJ Yeldon, RB: Yeldon is coming off his best game of the season in Week 4 at the Colts with 22 carries for 105 yards and two catches for 4 yards. Featured on NFL.com, Fantasypros, Football Diehards annual magazine, local AM sports radio, podcasts everywhere and SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio. Fitzgerald is older (32 years old), so there’s definitely a possibility that his production tapers off. There are a lot of question marks, but Fitzgerald has been great and if you played him you’ve been winning a lot of games.
2012 FantasyPros Most Accurate Fantasy Expert.
Sammy Watkins, WR, Bills (calf)… Keep expectations tempered, at least for this week.
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Week 5 has been a week low on breakouts and high on studs being studs, duds, or thuds, highlighted by the thuds and their trickle-down effect to be the agency of change that injuries are to every fantasy football season.
