Fantasy Fix: Week 6 - 5 Up/5 Down
The walking wounded list from Sunday included Jimmy Graham (ankle), Randall Cobb (knee), Danny Amendola (head), Cecil Shorts (ribs) and Matt Schaub (hurt feelings).
Before the death toll gets too high, let’s run down the scene from Sunday. Here are the 5 up/5 down from Week 6 in Fantasy Football.
Five Up
1. The Crown Royal Reign On Player of the Week: Cam Newton, 30.68 fantasy points: Newton’s fantasy football life was reanimated Sunday as he completed 20-of-26 passes for 242 yards and three touchdowns, and tacked on nine runs for 30 yards and score. Were you one of the Newton doubters? If you’re team played against him this week he took a big bite.
2. Nick Foles, 30.04 points: Foles completed 22-of-31 passes for 296 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, and ran for another TD. Foles was one of my sleeper picks for the week. If you missed it, it is kind of late now unless you own a hot tub time machine. Foles will likely get the start again this week. Take your time Michael Vick, take your time.
3. Vernon Davis, 30.00 points: Davis caught eight passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns. This is the Davis people expected when they drafted him. Unfortunately, I was not one of them. I drafted Gronk. Gronk spent Sunday doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, got frustrated and broke his forearm again when he couldn’t find a three-letter word for “feline”.
4. Knowshon Moreno, 28.40 points: Moreno ran 15 times for 42 yards and three touchdowns, and caught seven passes for 62 yards. Moreno has 64 points in three games and right now there’s an expectant mother in Denver planning on naming her child “Knowshon”. Don’t do that.
5. Marshawn Lynch, 27.50 points: Lynch rushed 21 times for 77 yards and two touchdowns and added four catches for 78 yards. This is the “Beast Mode” we expected, now get him some Skittles.
Five Down
5. Danny Amendola, Randall Cobb, James Jones, Cecil Shorts: This all-pro group combined for 6 1/2 points and are now part of the Guru’s all-gimp team.
4. Calvin Johnson, 2.50 points: Johnson had three catches for 25 yards and two drops. Megatron also dropped a megaturd on your fantasy team this week and he doesn’t really care. How rude!
3. Torrey Smith, 1.20 points: It’s the all wide receiver addition of five down this week. Smith had only one catch for 12 yards and Joe Flacco didn’t even share his chicken wings.
2. Marques Colston, 1.10 points: A bad day for wide receiver’s all around and a truly miserable season for Colston who caught one pass for 11 yards. That’s one more catch than I had Sunday, but I only got off the couch twice.
1. Jimmy Graham, ZERO points: Surprise, surprise, another so-called Saint. For the first time since his rookie year Graham was held without a catch. He later got knocked from the game in the third quarter with an ankle injury and grown men wept. Need a tissue?
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