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Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft
Week 13 of the 2022 phantasy shot play featured immense performances by Christian Watson, Amon-Ra St. Brown and the Eagles tandem of A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Which different developments from the week are worthy speechmaking into? Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft connection their analysis.
Christian Watson stays hot
Straight-line foodstuff -- and scoring upside. With 2 much touchdowns successful the Week 13 triumph implicit the Bears (one receiving, 1 rushing), Watson has present logged a ridiculous full of 8 touchdowns successful his past 4 games -- with astatine slightest 20 PPR points successful each of those matchups. Even if the touchdown totals statesman to decline, Watson is inactive a accordant menace to make explosive plays fixed his traits and deployment successful the Packers' offense. The rookie tin get escaped connected verticals, tally distant from sum successful the reddish country of the field, and the alert sweeps (which we saw connected Sunday) tin get Watson connected the edge. The Packers caput into the bye but instrumentality successful Week 15 for a matchup with the Rams, wherever Watson volition stay a high-ceiling WR2. -- Bowen
Jaguars person nary answers for Amon-Ra St. Brown
Say hullo to your apical scorer from the 1 p.m. ET games, and aft St. Brown scored 34.6 PPR phantasy points, is it clip to state him "Mr. December"? You cognize this tale: St. Brown scored 24.8 PPR phantasy points successful what was his archetypal vocation double-digit-target crippled connected Dec. 5 of past twelvemonth (also Week 13), past went connected an outrageous 89.6-point, 46-target tally successful his last 5 games of 2021 to astir single-handedly determine galore a phantasy league title. And if not for the ankle wounded that outgo him Week 4 and derailed his momentum astatine the time, St. Brown might've extended that scoring prowess done the entirety of 2022. During the past 4 weeks, however, helium has again looked similar the wide No. 1 helium seemed successful September, scoring a combined 99.6 points connected 41 targets. The commercialized of T.J. Hockenson, coupled with injuries to immoderate of the team's different receivers, has again made him Jared Goff's wide go-to target, and there's each crushed to judge St. Brown mightiness determine a bully fig of phantasy league championships again successful 2022. -- Cockcroft
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Eric Karabell breaks down Amon-Ra St. Brown's phantasy banal aft a large show vs. the Jaguars.
Eagles receivers enactment connected a show
Now that's what tin hap erstwhile a brace of receivers with an MVP-caliber backmost meets a large matchup! A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith some hauled successful receiving touchdowns successful Week 13, the 3rd clip this play that some did truthful successful a game, but this is the archetypal clip that some exceeded 20 PPR phantasy points, arsenic Brown scored 31.9 and Smith delivered 21.2. Unfortunately for them and the Eagles, nary of the team's remaining matchups is rather arsenic favorable arsenic this was -- the Bears successful Week 15 correspond the closest happening to it, with the Giants (Weeks 14 and 18) adjacent -- but these are inactive fantasy-worthy receivers each week, Brown adjacent the WR1/2 borderline and Smith a high-end WR3. After all, each has had greater than a 20% people stock successful the aforesaid crippled successful 7 of 12 games this season. It lone helps that Dallas Goedert's wounded further shifts Jalen Hurts' absorption to his wideouts. -- Cockcroft
Nobody tin dilatory down Davante Adams
The week's apical scorer -- helium had 37.7 PPR phantasy points, his astir successful 2022 and his 4th astir successful immoderate of 83 vocation NFL games -- Adams has been connected an unreal blistery streak since scoring 1.2 points successful Week 8, which were his fewest successful immoderate crippled successful which helium ran astatine slightest 25 routes. Adams has 3 games of aggregate receiving touchdowns and astatine slightest 30 PPR phantasy points successful his past 5 games, and helium has totaled 149.4 points during that clip span, astir successful the league and 34.36 much than immoderate different wide receiver has. He'll look a mates of challenging matchups down the agelong -- the Patriots successful Week 15, the 49ers successful Week 17 -- but volition stay 1 of the position's precise best. -- Cockcroft
Deshaun Watson struggles successful return
Watson's instrumentality to NFL enactment was thing but disappointing successful phantasy terms, arsenic helium scored 5.34 phantasy points, his 3rd fewest successful immoderate of his 54 vocation NFL starts (and the lone 2 worse came against pugnacious defenses, the 2019 Ravens and 2018 Bills). This 1 was mostly a substance of rust, unsurprising considering Watson hadn't played a competitory shot crippled successful astir 2 years, champion evidenced by the disfigured interception helium coughed up. Expecting him to request a mates of games at least to get backmost to afloat velocity was rational, and there's crushed to hesitate to usage him arsenic a QB1 successful either of the adjacent 2 weeks against the Bengals and Ravens, particularly aft helium couldn't get overmuch done connected the crushed against 1 of the league's weakest defenses. I mightiness fertile Watson wrong my apical 10, if lone due to the fact that he's got that elite mobility, but I consciousness overmuch little assured astir it aft this showing. -- Cockcroft
Ravens suffer Lamar Jackson to genu injury
Perhaps the astir troubling improvement of Week 13 was Jackson's aboriginal departure from Sunday's game, arsenic helium suffered a genu sprain connected a unsmooth deed during the team's 2nd violative series, prematurely ending his day. Jackson had antecedently been dealing with a quadriceps injury, truthful he'll beryllium 1 of the names astir needing to beryllium monitored during the signifier week. Coach John Harbaugh indicated aft the crippled that Jackson's wounded won't extremity his season, but it sounds similar 1 that'll surely outgo him immoderate signifier clip and mightiness good shelve him for Week 14. Tyler Huntley, who had a 35.90 phantasy constituent fill-in commencement but a specified 16.20 per-game mean successful his 4 starts successful Jackson's spot successful 2021, scored 15.58 points successful relief, again doing astir of his harm with his legs. Should Huntley beryllium needed to capable successful for aboriginal weeks, he'd beryllium a mid-to-high-end QB2 chiefly owed to his mobility and his acceptable successful the Ravens' violative scheme. The Ravens bash person a brace of highly favorable matchups against the Steelers, successful Weeks 14 and 17, truthful Huntley could beryllium a streaming prime if pressed into duty. Here's hoping, though, that Jackson volition heal rapidly capable to beryllium capable to capitalize upon some of those matchups. -- Cockcroft
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Eric Karabell breaks down Tyler Huntley's phantasy worth arsenic helium replaces the injured Lamar Jackson.
Other observations:
Jalen Hurts, QB, Philadelphia Eagles: Hurts dropped a season-high 34.4 phantasy points connected the Titans' defence successful the Week 13 win. And it was the walk crippled here, arsenic the Eagles' coaching unit attacked the sum tendencies of Tennessee with vertical concepts. Hurts, who finished with 380 yards passing successful this one, threw 3 touchdowns of 29 yards oregon more. And helium besides added a touchdown unreserved successful the debased reddish zone, too. With six consecutive starts of 20 oregon much phantasy points, and dual-threat upside, Hurts volition stay a top-three play versus the Giants successful Week 14. -- Bowen
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Tristan H. Cockcroft lays retired however Eagles QB Jalen Hurts has been historically palmy successful phantasy this season.
Joe Burrow, QB, Cincinnati Bengals: I thought Burrow played lights retired successful the Week 13 triumph implicit Kansas City. 30.04 phantasy points. 25-of-31 passing. Three full touchdowns (two rushing, 1 passing). He threw the shot with determination and anticipation. The mobility showed up, too. And helium was chromatic acold successful large crippled moments. With Ja'Marr Chase backmost successful the premix for Cincy (seven receptions, 97 yards), Burrow controlled the tempo of this game. And present helium gets the Browns' defence successful Week 14. He's a midtier QB1 successful my ranks. -- Bowen
Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Cincinnati Bengals: In his archetypal crippled since Week 7, Chase checked successful with 16.7 PPR points, catching 7 of 8 targets for 97 yards. And I didn't spot immoderate limitations for Chase present aft helium missed the past 4 games with a hep injury. The wide receiver looked explosive, and we saw the competitory traits aft the catch, too. In short, helium played similar a No. 1 connected a big-game stage. You tin fastener successful Chase arsenic a top-five WR for the Week 14 crippled versus the Browns. -- Bowen
Justin Fields, QB, Chicago Bears: Two late-game interceptions dropped Fields' phantasy full to 19.26 points, breaking a streak of 5 consecutive starts with astatine slightest 20 oregon much points. Now, Fields did implicit 20 of 25 passes successful this one, showing his deep-ball limb endowment present connected 2 explosive play throws. And with 71 yards rushing, positive a touchdown connected a 51-yard play that highlighted his quality to accelerate/shift gears, the Bears backmost has tally for a touchdown successful six consecutive games. Fields and the Bears deed the bye adjacent week. And they are backmost connected the writer astatine Soldier Field successful Week 15 versus the Eagles. -- Bowen
AJ Dillon, RB, Green Bay Packers: A recurrence of Aaron Jones' shin wounded successful the 2nd 4th of Week 13 opened the doorway for Dillon to instrumentality implicit arsenic the Packers' starring moving back, and portion Jones did yet return, it was wide that the squad shifted its absorption to Dillon for the game's remainder. Dillon dashed for 20.9 PPR phantasy points connected 18 rushing attempts and a 3-of-3 time catching his targets, reaching a velocity of 18.0 mph, per Next Gen Stats, connected his 21-yard touchdown. The Packers present person their bye week, affording Jones the accidental to heal, but with his injuries piling up, the playoffs inactive a agelong changeable and the squad having outs connected his declaration aft some this and adjacent season, 1 tin lone wonderment whether Dillon mightiness spot an expanded relation successful the coming weeks. He mightiness good elevate his phantasy banal to the low-end RB2 range, portion pulling Jones' backmost to lone a fewer ranks higher -- and possibly the displacement could beryllium much melodramatic than that if Jones' injuries don't heal swiftly. -- Cockcroft
Nick Chubb, RB, Cleveland Browns: I had Chubb ranked arsenic my RB3 this week. I looked astatine the matchup versus a subpar Houston defense. Take that for sure. And I expected a run-heavy publication successful Deshaun Watson's archetypal commencement of the season, too. Yeah, I was looking for top-five numbers from Chubb here. The Cleveland moving back, however, failed to station double-digit PPR points (8.0), finishing with 80 yards rushing connected 17 carries successful a crippled that lacked violative operation and reddish portion scoring opportunities for the Browns. Chubb gets the Bengals' defence up adjacent successful Week 14. -- Bowen
Derrick Henry, RB, Tennessee Titans: The Eagles' 35-10 drubbing of Henry's Titans had a batch to accidental successful his 5.8 PPR phantasy point, 13-touch stinker, but it's worthy pointing retired that the prima moving backmost has been held beneath a 3-yards-per-carry mean successful 3 of his past 4 games. Before that stretch, helium had been held to that mediocre a complaint successful lone 9 vocation games successful which helium had double-digit carries. Henry had been fantabulous down the agelong successful 2018, 2019 and 2020, a "momentum" benignant of backmost who tends to prevention his champion for aboriginal successful the year, but the Titans' violative woes look to beryllium present hampering him. He should rebound with a amended matchup successful Week 14 (@JAX), however. -- Cockcroft
Garrett Wilson, WR, New York Jets: In his 2nd crippled with Mike White astatine backmost for the Jets, the rookie wide receiver posted a season-high 162 yards receiving connected 8 catches (out of 15 targets). Wilson has present logged back-to-back games of 24 oregon much PPR points with White throwing the ball, and we are seeing the dynamic traits/playmaking quality helium brings to the field. Wilson tin make aft the catch. He has third-level ability. And the item successful his way moving is progressing. With 23 targets implicit the past 2 weeks, and large play ability, Wilson volition stay successful the WR2 treatment for the Week 14 crippled versus the Bills. -- Bowen
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Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down however Garrett Wilson's matchups could propel him to WR2 territory moving forward.
Cam Akers, RB, Los Angeles Rams: So overmuch for the Kyren Williams buzz, arsenic Akers was the Rams' Week 13 star, scoring 19.0 PPR phantasy points, the 2nd astir helium has had successful a crippled successful his career. Akers played 73% of the violative snaps and had 17 carries to Williams' one, showing bully imaginativeness successful this one, particularly connected his 6-yard touchdown tally successful the 4th fourth that astatine the clip gave the Rams the lead. If this is simply a motion that Akers' banal is backmost connected the rise, and that he'll get an extended look for the 2023 starting role, this breakthrough show comes astatine a bully time, considering the Rams look large matchups successful the Raiders (Week 14), Packers (Week 15), Chargers (Week 17) and Seahawks (Week 18) successful 4 of their last 5 games. -- Cockcroft
Jared Goff, QB, Detroit Lions: Goff should stay astatine the apical of your database for imaginable streaming options astatine the backmost position. With 2 touchdown throws successful the Week 13 triumph implicit Jacksonville (his 2nd consecutive crippled with aggregate touchdowns), positive 340 yards passing, the Lions backmost finished with 21.6 phantasy points. And this Detroit discourtesy has playmakers connected the perimeter, with a steadfast DJ Chark (five receptions, 98 yards) backmost successful the premix to complement Amon-Ra St. Brown. If you tin springiness Goff cleanable platforms and schemed play-action throws, helium volition deed the windows. Up adjacent is simply a Week 14 matchup versus Minnesota. And that's a crippled I similar for Goff against the Vikings' split-safety portion coverages. -- Bowen
Jeff Wilson Jr., RB, Miami Dolphins: While it's pugnacious to beryllium overly captious of his performance, considering the trouble of his matchups arsenic good arsenic the information that his Dolphins trailed connected the scoreboard for the bulk of the day, Wilson's constricted usage adjacent erstwhile the crippled was competitory is simply a concern. He played lone 38% of the violative snaps and had lone 1 rushing effort and 2 targets (neither caught), whereas Raheem Mostert, who returned from a genu injury, played 60% of the snaps and had 7 carries. Wilson's 0.3 PPR phantasy points were his fewest each season, letting down managers who started him successful 39.5% of ESPN leagues. He'll beryllium pugnacious to spot adjacent with a imagination matchup adjacent up against the Chargers. -- Cockcroft
Cleveland Browns D/ST: Two antiaircraft scores successful the Week 13 triumph implicit Houston. One connected peculiar teams too, with Donovan Peoples-Jones taking a punt backmost for 76 yards. And 4 forced turnovers. That's 31 phantasy points for the Browns D/ST, the highest full successful a azygous crippled this season. And it's the astir points scored by a D/ST since the Eagles posted 35 successful Week 5 of 2019. This truly conscionable confirms that you should perfectly watercourse defenses against the Texans. Looking astatine the past 5 games of the twelvemonth for Houston -- astatine Dallas, vs. Kansas City, astatine Tennessee, vs. Jacksonville, astatine Indianapolis -- lone the Cowboys D/ST are rostered successful much than 50% of ESPN leagues. Get successful connected this. -- Bowen
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