Hope You Used Your Extra Hour to Improve Your Teams

Player mentions

Article text

Get these summaries delivered to your inbox each week!  It’s that magical post-Halloween time of year, where 4 PM kickoffs are mostly night games (on the East Coast, at least) and Christmas music in the grocery store hasn’t gotten old yet. The playoffs are close at hand, and the fantasy trade deadline is even closer, which means it’s the perfect time to start conversations around late-season deals. Your dynasty league’s equivalent of the Jets is probably similarly inclined to accept some picks for their best players, but only if you beat your league mates to the punch - so get moving! It’s tricky to balance winning now with positioning yourself for the playoffs, but luckily, we’ve got the takes and tips that you need to do both below as always. 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 that the internet has to offer, 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: Trade deadline fallout, of course (Rashid Shaheed to the moon) Whether to shoot for an undefeated season or start losing games to shape the playoff picture The LSU coaching vacancy (yep - we talk college ball too) The best NFL players’ Halloween costumes 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 ): • 0-1 wins: 3.1% • 2-3 wins: 13.5% • 4-5 wins: 53.8% • 6-7 wins: 90.6% • 8-9 wins: 99.1% WR highest passer rating when targeted this season (min. 20 targets): 1. Kayshon Boutte (142.1) 2. Rashee Rice (139.1) 3. Demario Douglas (135.1) 4. Mack Hollins (135) Greg Dulcich finished second in targets (5) on the Dolphins in Week 9 despite only running 20/43 (46.5%) of routes. Last 2 Cardinals QBs with 200+ passing yards, 2+ passing TDs in 3 consecutive games: • Jacoby Brissett (2025) • Carson Palmer (2015) Ja’Marr Chase has 29 more targets & 20 more receptions than Jaxon Smith-Njigba . JSN 99 more receiving yards than him. Derrick Henry is now just 72 yards away from eclipsing his high school career yardage total. Even if we count overtime as a quarter, Brock Bowers has essentially played 8 quarters of healthy football this year. His “per four quarters” averages in that span: • 10.5 targets (would rank ~WR3) • 115.0 receiving yards (~WR2) • 29.3 fantasy points (~WR1) Brock Bowers now has the highest points per game average of any tight end in NFL history in their first two years. In wake of the James Cook injury news. On Sunday Ty Johnson outsnapped Ray Davis 13-3. Davis hasn’t run more than 3 routes in a game since Week 2. Johnson has run 15, 11, and 10 routes in last three games. Colston Loveland since Week 3 among 30 tight ends: • 2.20 yards per route (4th) • 0.099 1st down per route (6th) • 0.22 targets per route (6th) The Chicago Bears are the most explosive offense in the NFL so far this season with a 14.1% explosive play rate. Tetairoa McMillan over the past 2 weeks: • 52.3% of team receiving yards (2nd best) • 36.4% target share (5th)…