0:00There is so much on the line this week that I am legit nervous for my team in the flock league, for my underdog
0:06basketball teams. And I've probably spent more time making our weekly rankings than we have at any point this year cuz all I'm doing in videos from
0:15here on out is giving you weekly rankings. Nothing else matters. We only got two weeks left in the season.
0:20Starting off with the S tier, McAffrey, Gibbs, Devon Achan, as well as Bejan Robinson are going to be the players that are set it and forget it. no reason
0:28to talk about them. Any one of these guys can single-handedly win you your matchup. Maybe the only thing worth pointing out is Bejon typically is in a
0:38bad offense. Well, he gets to play against the Arizona Cardinals this week where you actually have the Atlanta Falcons with an implied team total of 25
0:46points. So, Bejon very easily could be going nuclear. Now, moving over to our A tier, we are going to have James Cook
0:53leading us off. Now, in theory, it's a tough matchup going up against the Cleveland Browns rush defense, which was very good at the beginning of the
1:00season. They've been much worse as of late. And why I'm going to stand by James Cook is this dude right now is
1:06averaging 19 fantasy points per game, 19.5 carries per game. He's averaging two and a half targets per contest. And the Buffalo Bills currently project to
1:17be the second highest scoring team in the league and have a spread in this game of 10 and a half points. So, they
1:23very easily should be able to go out there and win this contest and run the ball consistently. Now, with Jonathan Taylor, he was lower in our rankings
1:31this past week because he had a really tough matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. And with Philip Rivers under center, you actually had the
1:39Indianapolis Colts projected to be the second to worst offense in the league last week. Well, that's not the case this week. You actually have an implied
1:47team total of about 20 and a half points here for Indie, which of course isn't great, but it's not like they're
1:54supposed to be a horrendous offense. You are supposed to get a bounce back. So, I think you can start Jonathan Taylor and
2:00maybe not have the running back one overall expectations that he gave you early in the year, but I think he's going to be a-okay this week. Now,
2:08fingers crossed that Saquon Barkley does something for us here. Barkley over the past two weeks has had 20 carries in both games. And Barkley over the past
2:18two weeks has come through and finished as a top 12 running back-to-back.
2:22Now, am I going to come out here and dance my little booty off thinking that oh my gosh, Shaquin Barkley is all of a
2:28sudden going to win me my matchup in the Flock League and send me to the championship this week. It's tough to
2:34get there because Barkley has not had a single game all year with 20 points outside of the Giants in week eight.
2:40though. You have one game with 20 points this season and that's it. But the volume is consistently there. And when the volume's there, obviously this is an
2:49environment that we want to be playing our Eagles against a very bad Washington team. Now going over to Bucky Irving, it
2:57was very frustrating seeing Shawn Tucker take the goal line opportunity this past week. Well, Rashad White's still getting some work as well, but Bucky Irving is
3:06now going into his fourth healthy week at this point. So, I think we are going to assume that he is playing the full
3:12role that this Tampa Bay Buccaneers team would have for him in the playoffs. And this Tampa Bay Buccaneers team is in the
3:19most important game of the season for them playing at Carolina. The Bucks currently have an implied team total of about 24 and a half points. Bucky's
3:27averaged about 20 opportunities a game since coming back from his injury. So, I think you absolutely jam him. Now, a player that is extremely difficult to
3:35rank right now is going to be Josh Jacobs. Now, the reports at the moment are saying Josh Jacobs is walking around
3:41the locker room with a limp. Josh Jacobs is very clearly injured, but Josh Jacobs has been very clearly injured for a
3:48while now, and he's going out there toughening it up and he's playing anyway. Now, I have Josh Jacobs on my own team. If he goes up against the
3:55Chicago Bears, I'm going to be playing him with zero hesitation. Now, with that being said, I also have Emanuel Wilson on my team, and if Jacobs were to miss,
4:03Emanuel Wilson's the auto jam. But the expectations as of now will be that Jacobs is playing. Now Derrick Henry is going to be our next running back. I am
4:12very surprised to see this with how good the New England Patriots team is. I was honestly expecting them to be favored
4:19over the Baltimore Ravens even though Baltimore is playing at home. That shows how much of a casual I am, how little I
4:25know because you pull this up and Baltimore is actually favored by three points here over New England. We just saw James Cook go nuclear against this
4:34New England Rush defense a week ago.
4:37Derrick Henry gives you a relatively decent floor. The last time he scored fewer than 10 fantasy points was week five against the Houston Texans.
4:46Obviously, you have no receiving role.
4:48So, he is more so going to be a touchdown or bus running back, but the Ravens project score a ton of points
4:53this week. So, reasonably, there's a chance that Derrick Henry does go out there and score a touchdown for you.
4:59Javvante Williams is in a match up against the Los Angeles Chargers with a pretty high overunder. This game has an overunder of 49 and a half points this
5:06week. It's going to be one of the highest projected scoring games of the week. And Javvante continues to just give you consistent volume. I mean,
5:15right now this season, he's averaging 16.4 carries per game, 3.3 targets per game. So about 20 opportunities in a game in which the Dallas Cowboys should
5:24put up a considerable amount of points.
5:26Now Chase Brown is actually losing share in his own backfield. If you go through and look at Chase Brown with and without
5:33Sam perin this year, there's been a very clear difference between the two backs.
5:38Now with that in mind, Chase Brown has actually still been putting up fantasy points even though Sami Perine has been taking a considerable amount of snaps
5:48and touches over the past three weeks. I mean, you've had Chase Brown finishing as a top 13 running back every single
5:56week since week eight, and this matchup against the Miami Dolphins is a great one. Now, Travis ETN was an auto start
6:03last week. And the reason for that was you could go ahead and look at the usage with B shell tuning combine it with I
6:09believe the Jacksonville Jaguars projected as a top three offense with an implied team total of 26 and a half points last week according to sports
6:17books which leads to Travis CTN being an absolute jam and Travis ETN obviously came through and had three receiving touchdowns of all things and scores 31
6:27and a half points making him the running back one overall in the week. Now, ETN's going to be lower in our rankings this
6:33week than he was last week, though, because instead of the Jacksonville Jaguars projecting out to score 26 points, they only project to score 21
6:41and project to be a middle- of the road offense against a tough Denver defense at Denver. Now, Trevon Henderson was a
6:49running back that was, I believe, our RB17 last week. However, I am more confident seeing him expand his role in this backfield alongside Readadre
7:00Stevenson. He drops 30.1 fantasy points.
7:04Continues to look like one of the most electric running backs in the entire NFL. Right now, he's averaging 5.4 yards per carry. And at the same time, he's
7:14averaging about three targets per game.
7:17So now that you're less concerned about her Madre given the way that this usage is trending, I think Trevian's an absolute jam. But surprisingly, you do
7:25actually have sports books projecting the New England Patriots much worse than usual in this game against Baltimore with an implied team total of only 22
7:33and a half points. Like you actually have the Los Angeles Chargers with Amari and Hampton projecting to score more here. And with Amari and Hampton, he
7:42does indeed end up seeing 16 opportunities against Kansas City Chiefs, demonstrating that he is expanding his role over Kamani Vidal as
7:50every week that goes by, he's a little bit more healthy. Obviously, last week it was a really tough matchup against Kansas City. Well, this week he gets a
7:58beautiful matchup playing at Dallas.
8:00This Dallas rush defense is one that we for sure want to be targeting, especially if they're seeing injuries on that side of the ball. And while the
8:08Chargers have been a very bad offensive team as of late, this is a 24-point total for the Chargers offense this week, so they should be better. Now,
8:19going over to Kairen Williams, um, obviously he has been crushing. Even with Blake Cororm coming through and expanding his own role, it frankly has
8:29not mattered because Kairen Williams so far this season has a total of 10 rushing touchdowns and a total of 15 carries inside the 5yd line. So, he is
8:39still their goal lineback. He is still seeing a ton of touchdowns. And we know that this is typically one of the best
8:45offenses in the league when it comes to their projections. However, this is going to be a little bit of a different
8:51spot because this week they have to go up against the Seattle Seahawks. And obviously the Seahawks have one of the better defenses in the league. So right
8:58now you actually only see a total of 23 points here for the Rams. Much worse than usual. Now going over to RJ Harvey
9:05gets banged up this past week. So it's very difficult for us to put a solidified ranking on him here. I'm going to assume, of course, with this
9:15video that RJ Harvey is a okay and RG Harvey is going to be playing this week, no problem. And if that's going to be
9:22the case, I mean, the volume has been really good where he's had at least 17 opportunities every game since the buy.
9:29And I'm not too too concerned about this Jags defense. You do have the Denver Broncos favored in this contest. Now, another player that got banged up, it's
9:38going to be tough to know if he's playing or not, will be Woody Marks.
9:42Now, if Woody Marx is a-okay, 100% playing, then I think you have to go ahead and jam him in. Considering the
9:50matchup that you see against the Raiders, where this Raiders team is arguably the worst team in the NFL at this point, the spread on this game is
10:0014 and a half points. The Houston Texans are going to absolutely stomp on the Raiders. And honestly, it could be to
10:08the same extent that we had with the Jags Jets game last week, which this week for the Jets should be a hell of a
10:15lot closer. While they were a 12-point dogs last week, this week against the New Orleans Saints, the spread in this game is actually only about 4 and a half
10:23points. So, I do think we're going to be in a small Jets bounceback spot. And for that reason, I have Reese Hall in my own
10:31team and I'm going to be starting them with little to no hesitation. Like right now, the Jets only project to score
10:38about two and a half points fewer than the New York Giants this week where Tyron Tracy obviously looked incredible this past week in a really easy matchup
10:48against the Commanders. Well, this week it's going to be a little bit tougher having to play against the Minnesota Vikings, but at least you're home and
10:56obviously the Giants could potentially win this game. They could potentially be going out there and running the ball consistently in the second half. Now,
11:05Rico Dattle did take a leap forward over Chuba Hubard this past week with the opportunities, but of course, it's not like Dow got back to where he was
11:14previously with 30 plus fantasy points.
11:16This ranking is under the assumption that Rico Dattle is a okay, 100% healthy for this game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And again, I would rank him
11:25in a very similar spot to where we did last week because I believe that he is still going to be the lead back in this
11:31back field. Going over to DeAndre Swift.
11:34DeAndre Swift had himself a phenomenal day this past week with multiple rushing touchdowns and he had 55% of the carries here for the Chicago Bears. That's a
11:44higher carry mark than any game that he has seen this season since week one. So it looks like Kyle Manungai maybe not
11:52the biggest threat at this point, but Kyle Manungi is still there. And of course, this Green Bay Packers matchup isn't as concerning with Micah Parsons
12:02tearing the ACL. Then going over to Quinn Sean Judkins, this Buffalo Bills rush defense is no bueno. But the Cleveland Browns currently project to be
12:11the second worst offense in the league this week. While the spread in this game is 10 and a half points. So Quinn Sean
12:17Judkins in this game especially is going to be a running back that does not catch the ball and a game that looks to be a
12:24blowout where he's on the wrong side of it. So, it's going to be tough to expect that he gets too too much volume, but
12:29those top 23 running backs are the auto starts. Those are the guys that you have to absolutely jam uh in most fantasy
12:36football formats. Obviously, if you're playing in a 10 team league where you only serve two wide receivers, one flex, maybe you can go ahead and bench one of
12:43those names. Now, where we get over to the players that I would prefer to bench if you can. It's going to start off with
12:50Devin Neil. Deon Deal, if I guess if he plays and he has zero um injuries, zero expectations, you could go through and
12:58you could say that he's going to be just fine, but more likely than not, I think Devin Neil is probably going to miss
13:03this week. The match up against the Jets would be great though if he did play.
13:06And if he is 100% healthy, you'll see a him a lot higher in our flex rankings later this week. Now, Ashton Genty going
13:14up against the Houston Texans, we are gonna have to rank him lower than we have at any point so far this year
13:20because if you look at the Raiders, they project to score 12 points this week.
13:26They projected to be the lowest scoring offense in the league last week against the Philadelphia Eagles with an implied team total of 13 and a half points which
13:35is why it was a pretty easy spot to say we could have Genty pretty low in our rankings but this week it is even worse
13:42with the projections. So he's going to be even lower. The only saving grace that you have with Ashen Genty is obviously the target volume has been
13:50consistent but the matchup playing at Houston is horrible for him. Now, Aaron Jones is a running back that last week had a good matchup against the Dallas
14:01Cowboys. And with that good matchup, he had 15 opportunities and only scored nine and a half fantasy points. This week against the Giants, I mean, the
14:09Minnesota Vikings have a fine total here, 23 and a half points. So, I guess you could look in his direction, but
14:15honestly, I'm actually probably going to move him a little bit lower because I have Kenneth Gainwell on my own team and
14:21I think I would rather start Kenneth Gainwell over Aaron Jones. Again, I have gained well on my team. He is going to
14:27be on my bench this week. Unless the comments can convince me to start him over, I guess the bench would be Bree
14:33Hall. If you can convince me to start him over Bree Hall, DK Metaf, or Jaylen Wadd, you work your magic. But with
14:40Gainwell, you love the fact that one, he's leading this team in receiving, and two, this match up against the Detroit Lions is one in which the Pittsburgh
14:48Steelers project to lose this game quite comfortably. And if that's going to be the case, there's a very realistic shot that they are just in garbage mode
14:57having to throw the ball consistently in the second half. Now going over to Kenneth Walker. Um Kenneth Walker horrible matchup against the Rams and
15:06Kenneth Walker himself has been horrible. Zack Charbanet continues to play just as much, sometimes more. This was the first game all year where
15:15Kenneth Walker did not see 10 carries.
15:18And it's not only that Kenneth Walker hasn't been getting the opportunities.
15:23At the same time, over the past two games, Kenneth Walker's had 19 total carries and the man hasn't even cracked 50 total rushing yards. Over the past
15:33two games, he's had four targets and he's had one positive receiving yard.
15:37Like Kenneth Walker doesn't look great.
15:39The workload doesn't look great. Um Tony Pard, the workload looks better for. And honestly, at this point, Pard may look like the better back between the two, as
15:47crazy as that sounds. Like Pard's averaging 4 and a half yards per attempt for the Tennessee Titans. But the issue with Tony Pard, and I have him on my
15:56team as well. I plan on benching him this week, too, is one, you're still a Tennessee Titan. That has not changed.
16:02And two, you have to go up against Kansas City Chiefs. Now, Jaylen Borin continues to lose more and more to Gainwell. And y'all heard me say a
16:11thousand times at this point, the dude hasn't cracked 20 fantasy points at any point so far this season. Um, yeah, does
16:18not look great in this matchup against the Detroit Lions is one in which the Lions are heavily favored by about a
16:24touchdown. So, I'd assume that the Steelers are having to throw the ball in the second half. Now, Michael Carter could end up being much higher in our
16:33flex rankings once we get to them. Yab no Bam Knight. All eyes are going to be on if Dermacado plays or not. But if
16:40Dermacado does not play, Michael Carter's in a really good matchup against the Atlanta Falcons where the overunder this game's 47 and a
16:48half points. They're going to be a ton of points scored. We know the Arizona Cardinals just go into I mean garbage
16:53time the second that the game gets kicked off. And Michael Carter is a receiving back so he should be able to
16:58get a ton of target volume. Kyle Manungai um committee back that's had double digit carries every single week over the past five weeks. But if the
17:08touchdown's not there, he's absolute garbage. And again, I don't love the matchup against Green Bay. Um David McGomery continues to get phased out of
17:15this offense. If it wasn't for the Wildcat touchdown this past week, he would have been unstable. He scored a touchdown in the past three games, but
17:22if you remove that touchdown, then he would have scored 38664 and 10 fantasy points over his past six games. Now, Juba Hubard, committee
17:32running back. Uh, I guess you could go through and play him if you really need to, but it doubles healthy. No reason
17:38to. Um, Blake Cororm, the lesser of the committee with Kairen Williams. Blake Cororm looks like an incredible talent.
17:455.5 yards per attempt so far this season. horrible match up against Seattle. Kamano Vidal is getting phased out of this offense, of course, with
17:53Amari and Hampton back in, but the benefit that you have is it's a great matchup against the Dallas Cowboys. Um, Zack Sherbanet in a garbage matchup
18:02against the Los Angeles Rams. Really tough team to go up against. Going over and looking at Chris Rodriguez or Stevenson, Tyler Algier, maybe
18:10somebody's interested in this group of guys. We didn't rank Chris Rodriguez last week in our running back rankings.
18:15Honestly, I didn't even know that he was going to miss the game. I just thought that oh, no interest in a starting
18:20running back for the Commanders is not going to catch the ball, especially not that they have to play against Philadelphia Eagles this week. Madre is
18:27losing more and more of course going up against Trevion. And then with Tyler Algier, it's a great matchup against Arizona Cardinals, but he had two
18:36carries last week. So, I think that's all we got for y'all in this video.
18:40Again, I understand the stakes could not be higher this week. I'm going to do my absolute best with the weekly rankings
18:46every single day until we get to kickoff. Um, and yeah, I'm not only rooting for my teams heavily, but I'm going to be rooting for yours as well.
18:55Best of luck, ladies and gentlemen. I'm really, really hoping you take it down this week. And yeah, thank you for
