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Welcome to Week 13, and Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend filled with the four Fs: Family, Friends, Food, and Football. There’s so much pro and college football on tap over the next five days that for some people out there, football is definitely the “F” word this week. For the rest of us who can’t get enough pigskin to go with our Thanksgiving meal and ensuing leftovers, buckle up!
The fantasy playoffs start in two weeks, so it’s officially crunch time – hopefully all your teams are still in it. This is a challenging week for fantasy managers. On the plus side, no teams are on Bye for the first time since Week 4. But on the minus side, while nothing is better than wall-to wall football, the schedule is staggered, with three games Thursday, one Friday, and then the usual Sunday and Monday games. That kind of spread schedule makes it hard to set lineups around players who are not certain to play.
Stats of the Week:
The Bills, Chiefs, and Ravens lost a combined 11 games last season. Through Week 12, they’ve already lost a combined 14 games this season.
Jaxon Smith Njigba is averaging 119 receiving yards per game and that puts him on pace to become the first player in NFL history to crack 2,000 receiving yards in a season. Calvin Johnson holds the current record at 1,964 yards (2012, 16 game season).
JSN has 1,313 receiving yards and that accounts for 47% of his team’s total. If that holds for a full season it would be the highest such percentage in the Super Bowl era. He’s also the first player in NFL history to record at least 75 receiving yards in 11 straight games.
The Giants have lost five road games this season where they had a double-digit lead.
Jahmyr Gibbs has scored 44 touchdowns in 43 career games played (regular season). I can do this math in my head — that’s more than one per game.
Dak Prescott is 36-9 as a starter vs. the NFC East and has racked up 19 straight wins at home vs. division foes.
Myles Garrett has 13 sacks over his last four games, a total that would tie him for the league lead if he had no other sacks. Guess what? He has other sacks. He has 18 on the season, and only needs five sacks across his final six games to break the NFL record of 22.5 (shared jointly by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt).
George Pickens has more receiving yards this season than all Steelers’ wide receivers, combined.
Will Reichert is the first kicker in NFL history to hit four FGs of 59+ yards in a season.
The Colts and Eagles were both held scoreless for the entire second half plus overtime of their Week 12 losses (to KC and DAL, respectively).
The Colts have played two consecutive games that...
