Week Five Wrap-up

As we've all noticed and bitched about over the past three weeks, the injuries to our beloved fantasy heroes are piling up. But no fantasy fairy tale season is complete without the unpredictable masked savior running rampant on opposing defenses and playing the villain to the rest of your league. While Mike Davis gave us a glimpse of a possible zero-turned-hero in this Covid-infected 2020 NFL season, his bid seems unrealistic given the fact that Christian McCaffrey's injury is temporary. Enter Chase Claypool, your week five fantasy points leader and front-runner to lead someone's squad into fantasy glory. 

Claypool logged four touchdowns and 110 yards receiving against the perennially overrated Philadelphia Eagles and continued to be Big Ben's go-to target whenever he needed an easy six points. I can't imagine every defense that the Steelers encounter will suck as bad as the Eagles, but Chase looks to be a co-pilot in the Pittsburgh air attack with my guy JuJu. He's most likely on your waiver wire so do what you can to grab him. 

Completely overshadowed by Claypool but not unnoticed in the same game was Eagles wideout Travis Fulgham. If you have no idea who that is, don't be ashamed of yourself. I had no idea who he was either and I'm the writer of the hottest fantasy football website to hit the internet since the YAC Bros found out that Jimmy is not their real father. Fulgham was targeted a generous 13 times by Carson Wentz and reeled in ten catches for 152 yards and a touchdown. Unlike Claypool, who was somehow wide-fulgging-open every time he ran a route, Fulgham made some impressive grabs in tight coverage. Fulgham had no catches prior to this season and this was only his second game this season. By my estimate, he is the best wide receiver on a terrible Eagles team that turns to Desean Jackson (a personal favorite of mine but past his prime) and Alshon Jeffrey as its starters. I'm most likely wrong but I'm guessing Fulgham is not done speaking his piece this season. 

Quarterbacks dominated the top ten in fantasy points with a noteworthy rookie Duck named Justin Herbert putting up another solid statistical performance in his team's fourth straight loss. 

Check out the Drip and Drop rankings to see who else you should scoop up this week. 

This was the big week. Mahomes vs. Lamar. Regular season MVP against Super Bowl MVP. Run first against gun first. But for those of us who have again put our fantasy trophy hopes on the shoulders of Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, week three was just the annual reality check that he is no Patrick Mahomes. 

Mahomes led all players in scoring this week, his team smacked the Ravens (again), and what was even more telling, was the Kansas City defense reducing Lamar Jackson to a complete non-factor. Yes, this is why I lost. 

First, we saw Saquon head to the locker room. We've seen that before and it has never been good. Then it was Raheem Mostert, who started the Niners/Jets game with an 80-yard trot to the end zone but wouldn't return after halftime. Then Jimmy G., Christian McCaffrey, David Montgomery had to visit the locker room, Drew Lock, Sterling Shepard, Parris Campbell, Davante Adams, Cam Akers, Tyrod Taylor and then to literally add insult to injury, James White was listed as inactive because his father passed away in a car accident on Sunday morning. 

In a year that we all wish we could toss in the garbage can and move on from, week two of the NFL season played the perfect role in the dramatic never-ending drama that is 2020. By the end of Sunday, the day's injury report read like a potential first-team all-pro projection list. 

If you survived week two without losing one of your stars, you won week two. I don't care if Dak Prescott and Aaron Jones had your fantasy team twomped by 11:15 AM PST, you won if you didn't lose anyone. The landscape in every league has drastically changed heading into week three and those who have healthy rosters are now the favorites. Yes, your starting backfield of Leonard Fournette, Chris Carson, and David Johnson is now crushing my backfield of Dalvin Cook, Christian McCaffrey, and Raheem Mostert. 

This injury-riddled Sunday is what makes Fantasy Football so exciting. The brutality of NFL football makes no guarantees. Third stringers become stars, number one picks become obsolete, and anyone has a chance. No matter how poorly you drafted, you still have a shot. 

It's tempting to write that week two of 2020 will go down in the Fantasy history books as the "Bloody Wedding" version of an NFL Sunday, but I have no doubt that there will be future game days that frown upon multiple stars again and leave fantasy owners scrambling to snatch the Chase Edmonds' and Mike Davis' of the world from the depths of the waiver pool. 

If you had Tyler, Lockett up. It took me nine seconds to think of that and I'm damn proud of it. 

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