Todd Gurley sure is finding himself some fans within the fantasy football community. Heck, some of us are close to buying a St. Louis Rams jersey and calling it a day.
Following a 163 total yard performance that saw him put up his first two touchdowns in the NFL, Gurley has now tallied 482 yards over the past three games. During that span, the rookie top-10 pick has touched the ball a whopping 74 times — the most in the NFL among running backs.
I guess that happens when you combine a talented running back with someone of Nick Foles' ilk at quarterback. Let's just hope the Rams don't run Gurley into the ground ... literally.
Speaking of running into the ground, the Houston Texans defense is an absolute abomination. It allowed nearly 300 yards of total offense to the Miami Dolphins in the first quarter alone on Sunday. Heck, Lamar Miller had 175 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the first half. Want more? Miami had five touchdowns on the board before the Texans had five yards.
Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill completed his first 18 passes of the game en route to a four-touchdown performance. If, for some reason, you decided to start the Texans defense in DFS contests. Well, sorry ... it gave you negative points.
What's up with that, J.J. Watt?
Speaking of the Texans, you know what really grinds this one scribe's gears? DeAndre Hopkins. That's who. How dare he not put up a record performance with nearly a quarter of FanDuel teams rostering him?
After putting up 726 receiving yards on 52 receptions in the first six games, Hopkins tallied only six catches for 50 yards — good enough for a 40th ranking among fantasy receivers.
For the Dolphins part, it almost literally was a fantasy come true. Miller finished Sunday's action as the top fantasy running back. Tannehill came in third among quarterbacks. Meanwhile, Jarvis Landry was your fourth-ranked receiver with Rishard Matthews coming in 13th.
If you owned Danny Woodhead, it's time to thank the fantasy football garbage time god's (seriously, that's a thing). The San Diego Chargers running back, AWOL in the first three quarters of his team's blowout loss to the Oakland Raiders, found a way to score two garbage time touchdowns with the game out of hand in the final stanza.
That enabled him to finish the day as the fourth-ranked fantasy running back. If you lost out on some money in DFS contests because of Woodhead, message me on Twitter — we can send a flaming bag of poop or something to his Chargers locker. Easier than that, maybe just roster him next time.
Two weeks after being one of the top waiver-wire pick ups and a few days after being one of the most dropped fantasy football players, Kansas City Chiefs running back Charcandrick West did an amazing troll job on Sunday. He gained 129 yards and a touchdown on 24 touches. If you were among those who kept (and started) him after a 31-yard performance against the Chicago Bears last week, I have a special Internet cookie for you.
Who doesn't love a Kirk Cousins - Jordan Reed stack? While, Washington Redskins linebacker Keenan Robinson prefers to call out his team's fans for leaving the game with Washington down 24-0 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I would rather focus on these two guys:
Seriously, why even do that?
Anyway, Cousins and Reed led an amazing comeback in what ended up being a 31-30 Redskins win.
Cousins ended the day completing 33-of-40 passes for 317 yards with three touchdowns and zero picks. That was good enough for him to finish as the top fantasy quarterback of the day.
Meanwhile, Reed, making his first appearnace since suffering a concussion in Week 4, caught 11 of the 13 passes thrown in his direction with two touchdowns, including a game-winning six-yard reception with 24 seconds remaining. He's the top fantasy tight end heading into Monday's game.
It might have taken Tom Brady 54 pass attempts to beat the New York Jets (and prove his skeptics wrong), but he was able to finish Sunday with 355 passing yards against the top defense in the NFL. Brady, who also had two touchdowns without throwing a pick, has now been picked off once in 251 passing attempts.
Though, some are still putting an asterisk around that intereception, especially considering it WAS ALL Julian Edelman's fault. If Brady finishes with just that one interception, expect Edelman to receive Wes Welker-like treatment from Gisele.
Overall this season, Brady has thrown for 2,054 yards with 16 touchdowns and one interception. That puts him on pace for 5,477 passing yards, 43 yards and three interceptions. Deflate that.
Remember the preseason Sam Bradford hype train? You know, what one that started after he put up some huge numbers in consecutive possessions in August? Well, that's been burned and sunk in the Schuylkill River by angry Eagles fans that were originally prepping a Bradford statue next to the Rocky Steps.
As you already know, Bradford isn't really that outstanding at this football thing.
He completed just 26-of-46 passes for 206 yards with zero touchdowns and an interception in Philadelphia's 27-16 loss to the Carolina Panthers. This makes Bradford the 25th-best fantasy quarterback heading into Week 8.
Though, this isn't all on the crazy-eyed quarterback. Jordan Matthews seemed to drop at least a half dozen balls. And when he actually caught one — in the end zone, mind you — it didn't count.
Yeah, that sound you hear right now is everyone that stacked Eagles offensive players in preseason drafts all taking to DFS contests as a way to forget about their momentary lapse of reality back in August.