Even If Your Team is Also 0-7, The Jets Are Still Worse

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Get these summaries delivered to your inbox each week!  We’re halfway there. Quick - what’re you thinking of - Bon Jovi or SpongeBob ? We won’t judge, but put that aside - it’s time to lock in, because we are indeed officially closer to the end of the (fantasy) regular season than we are to its start. Byemageddon is this week (six teams!), the trade deadline is looming, and Seattle’s coaching staff continues to mock me for thinking Kenneth Walker would be a bellcow back this year. Luckily, we’ve got a ton of analysis to help you navigate all that chaos and more over the second half of the regular season… and hopefully the playoffs. Before we get started pretending everything is okay even though we cost ourselves $50 by benching Bo Nix last week (it’s - my league has a weekly high score payout that I missed by three points), make sure you add a few minutes on your calendar tomorrow to listen to the new FF Newsletter Podcast (link is to prior episodes - new ones come out each Friday)! has taken the FF Newsletter to the next level, putting together a deep dive on three narratives we’re watching heading into each weekend. Feel free to hit us up in the comments here, our Reddit thread(s), or on Twitter if you have a mailbag question you’d like answered. If you’re looking for even more deep-dive goodness, as well as up-to-the-minute headlines and the greatest community of fantasy players out there, then join our premium subscriber’s community on Discord via Patreon for just $5 a month . Here’s a taste of what we talked about this week: Valuing keeper rights in a redraft trade How everyone managed to sleep on Jordan Addison Whether Joe Flacco could play his way into a QB controversy All of the outtakes from the Fun Stuff section (we have a great time) If you’re here from some non-email source (Reddit, Twitter, a friend who forwarded the email, etc.), make sure to subscribe so you get this email every Thursday AM and can act on it before your leaguemates get to it first. In case you missed the button to do so above, here’s another one: Subscribe now As always, let us know what stats helped you out in the comments, Reddit , or on Twitter @FFNewsletter! Onward to the news. Analysis & Hype: Odds of making the fantasy playoffs (per Yahoo! Fantasy 2024 results ): • 0-7: 3.5% • 1-6: 7.3% • 2-5: 19.3% • 3-4: 40.9% • 4-3: 66.2% • 5-2: 85.6% • 6-1: 95.5% • 7-0: 98.7% Yards per rush leaders when initial contact with a defender was met only one yard beyond the line of scrimmage or at/behind the line of scrimmage: • 3.41 - Jonathan Taylor • 3.33 - Javonte Williams • 3.27 - Bhayshul Tuten Wide Receivers to score 10+ PPR Points Per Game in every game this season (missed games/injuries not included): • Puka Nacua • Jaxon Smith-Njigba • Justin Jefferson • Jordan Addison Longest current streaks of double-digit PPR outputs at WR (only including healthy games): 5 - Amon-Ra St. Brown, Emeka Egbuka 6 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Justin Jefferson, George Pickens 10 - Rashee Rice 20 - Puka Nacua Percentage of runs gaining yards over expectation: 1. Jaylen Warren - 55% 2. Blake Corum - 53% 3. Rico Dowdle - 51% 4. James Cook - 50% 5. Kareem Hunt - 49% Travis Hunter (91) has run more routes than any player in the NFL over the past two weeks. Only Ja’Marr Chase, Trey McBride, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Drake London have more first-read targets. Rookie WRs since 2013 to average a +25% Target Share and +35% Air Yards Share: • Mike Evans • Justin Jefferson • Odel…