The weather here in Southern Ontario, most of Canada and the upper United States has turned and I’m afraid we are in for the long haul.Yes, we will likely get more cold, wet days mixed with rain, sleet, snow and potential heavy winds, which we saw this weekend, but let’s keep our heads up because fantasy football playoffs are just around the corner.
The last time we have seen two running backs be viable fantasy options might be back in 2009 when both Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams literally carried the Carolina Panthers offence. Both of those players averaged over five yards per carry and over 78 total yards per game and finished 11th and 14th in standard scoring among running backs.
The fact that it took Matt Patricia until Week 10 to really unleash Swift and give him a full workload over an aged Adrian Peterson and an ineffective Kerryon Johnson was mind-boggling, to say the least. To have a guy with Swift’s skillset and give him between 10-14 touches is just not enough. In games where he has 16 or more touches, Swift averages 87 rushing yards, 36 receiving yards and one touchdown per game. Those are RB1 type numbers.: the real Cardinals RB1
His target share percentage is only slightly better than Johnson’s but with the talent in that Pittsburgh offence, there was never really going to be an alpha, at least not this season. Smith-Schuster doesn’t really fit the mould of a WR1, primarily because he runs the majority of his routes out of the slot and doesn’t run deep routes , but that doesn’t mean he can’t be a great asset.
The typical recovery time for fractured ribs is at minimum four weeks for an athlete and when you couple that with a collapsed lung, it makes for a more uncertain timeline.The remaining schedule for the Saints has plenty of positive matchups for the quarterback position, so even with the threat of interceptions, it should be a pretty good stretch.
If you’re hurting at quarterback and miss out on Jameis Winston, can I interest you in some Alex Smith?This was going to be the year that we saw a big surge in usage from the tight end position and players were going to blossom. TJ Hockenson, Noah Fant and Hayden Hurst were going to emerge, Travis Kelce, George Kittle, Mark Andrews and Darren Waller were going to continue to dominate and a whole host of others would prove to be viable fantasy tight ends.