With the season already half way over many year long fantasy leagues are coming down to the wire. People are being eliminated from playoff contention and many others are frustrated with injuries. So now that we have a sizable sample underneath our belt I ask to you, who are the most valuable fantasy football players at the top positions? I think we can all agree that Julio Jones and Tom Brady are off to monster starts but would you pick anyone over them? Here are my picks for the most valuable players at Quarterback, wide receiver, and running back.
Quarterback: Tom Brady
Brady has had a monster season thus far and I think he will easily finish as the number one point scorer in all of fantasy. Through eight games thus far he's only scored under twenty points once. It seems like even in his growing age Brady is still one of the most elite players to ever play the position.
Wide Receiver: Julio Jones
I would say Jones has carried the entire Atlanta offense but the appearance of Devonta Freeman seems to have lessened his load. Still Jones appears to be in the prime of his career and has posted over 130 yards 5 out of his 9 games this season. With the rest of the Falcons schedule being what it is I think Jones should easily finish this year as the number one option at receiver.
Running Back: Todd Gurley
While Gurley didn't even start a game until week 4 he is still somehow the seventh highest scoring running back in fantasy. Since coming into the league he has gained over 100 yards from scrimmage in every start he has and barring an injury he looks to become a force to be reckoned with for quite some time to come. Even having missed four games I'm confident at the end of the season Gurley will be the most valuable player at the position and possibly even at any position.
So what do you think? Who will finish number one? Let me know in the comments.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Week 8 and Who I Like
Quarterbacks:
Philip Rivers: Rivers has been playing out of his mind over in San Diego. With the Chargers complete lack of a running game Rivers has been forced to throw the ball a lot this season and a high volume of passes against arguably the leagues worst pass defense in the Ravens sounds like a good outing for Rivers.
Alex Smith: While Smith isn't exactly an all-star QB he's pretty good in my opinion. He doesn't often throw deep or post huge numbers but going against a suspect Detroit secondary with Maclin coming back from injury sounds good to me. As an added bonus Smith has only turned the ball over 3 times this season so while he may not have a huge game he definitely isn't going to hurt you in the process. Given his extremely cheap price I like him this week.
Matt Ryan: While Ryan hasn't quite reached those big numbers his season long fantasy owners have been looking for he's been pretty solid. Now add in a division game against a Buccaneers team that just allowed Kirk Cousins to throw for 300+ and 3 touchdowns and I think we have a big outing on our hands. Hopefully they don't run away with the lead early so Ryan will keep airing it out to his man Julio Jones and give us a big fantasy performance.
Wide Receivers:
Julio Jones: I don't really need to justify picking Jones here. He's a total stud and has put up huge fantasy points already this year. Add in a bad Tampa Bay defense and we could be looking at another 30+ point outing from Julio this week.
Stefon Diggs: Relatively unknown until last week the Vikings rookie receiver has had quite a start in his first 3 NFL games. Now that he is the clear number one receiver in the Vikings offense we may see him get a lot of targets and catches against a poor Chicago Bears defense. When you consider the Bears will probably be focusing on bottling up Adrian Peterson this is going to leave the door open for Diggs who has yet to have under 80 yards in a game he's played. Given his cheap price tag I'm rolling with him this week and considering he's still available in a large number of season long leagues I'd try and pick him up there as well.
Keenan Allen: Allen should be a great double play with Rivers against a terrible Ravens defense. Given that Antonio Gates is looking like he'll miss this game this only adds to Allen's value. He should see plenty of targets and I'm looking for him to a have a breakout game.
Running Backs:
Todd Gurley: In Gurley's first three starts he has put up 433 yards and two touchdowns. In the first five weeks of this season the leading rusher was Matt Forte with 438 yards. That's five more yards in two more games. Gurley is running over defenses right now and until someone proves capable of stopping him I'm starting him in all leagues regardless of the match-up.
Philip Rivers: Rivers has been playing out of his mind over in San Diego. With the Chargers complete lack of a running game Rivers has been forced to throw the ball a lot this season and a high volume of passes against arguably the leagues worst pass defense in the Ravens sounds like a good outing for Rivers.
Alex Smith: While Smith isn't exactly an all-star QB he's pretty good in my opinion. He doesn't often throw deep or post huge numbers but going against a suspect Detroit secondary with Maclin coming back from injury sounds good to me. As an added bonus Smith has only turned the ball over 3 times this season so while he may not have a huge game he definitely isn't going to hurt you in the process. Given his extremely cheap price I like him this week.
Matt Ryan: While Ryan hasn't quite reached those big numbers his season long fantasy owners have been looking for he's been pretty solid. Now add in a division game against a Buccaneers team that just allowed Kirk Cousins to throw for 300+ and 3 touchdowns and I think we have a big outing on our hands. Hopefully they don't run away with the lead early so Ryan will keep airing it out to his man Julio Jones and give us a big fantasy performance.
Wide Receivers:
Julio Jones: I don't really need to justify picking Jones here. He's a total stud and has put up huge fantasy points already this year. Add in a bad Tampa Bay defense and we could be looking at another 30+ point outing from Julio this week.
Stefon Diggs: Relatively unknown until last week the Vikings rookie receiver has had quite a start in his first 3 NFL games. Now that he is the clear number one receiver in the Vikings offense we may see him get a lot of targets and catches against a poor Chicago Bears defense. When you consider the Bears will probably be focusing on bottling up Adrian Peterson this is going to leave the door open for Diggs who has yet to have under 80 yards in a game he's played. Given his cheap price tag I'm rolling with him this week and considering he's still available in a large number of season long leagues I'd try and pick him up there as well.
Keenan Allen: Allen should be a great double play with Rivers against a terrible Ravens defense. Given that Antonio Gates is looking like he'll miss this game this only adds to Allen's value. He should see plenty of targets and I'm looking for him to a have a breakout game.
Running Backs:
Todd Gurley: In Gurley's first three starts he has put up 433 yards and two touchdowns. In the first five weeks of this season the leading rusher was Matt Forte with 438 yards. That's five more yards in two more games. Gurley is running over defenses right now and until someone proves capable of stopping him I'm starting him in all leagues regardless of the match-up.
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