Big Blue View
Welcome to Week 7! After this week’s games wrap up, we’ll be halfway through the fantasy football regular season. It’s been a brutal six weeks from an injury standpoint. Part of the challenge in handicapping this coming week for fantasy is figuring out who’s going to be able to return from injury (and at what level of effectiveness), and who isn’t, and what the impact is.
For example, if Puka Nacua doesn’t play in Week 7, that’s a big problem for those who have him rostered, but beyond that it impacts the fantasy prospects of Matthew Stafford and the other pass-catchers on the Rams. The list of fantasy-relevant players whose availability is in question this week is long. I’ll try my best to navigate that.
Before we get started, I’d like to talk to the good people of London. Good people of London, I love your city. I spent a college semester there in the 80s and have returned many times since. Your passion for American pro football is great to see. That passion was tested on Sunday. I’d like to apologize for the abomination that the League sent your way last weekend. Of all the completely unwatchable NFL games of the 2000s, and there’ve been a few dozen at least, Broncos 13, Jets 11 was right up there. We’re sorry you had to see that. Give American football another chance! Check out Rams-Jaguars this Sunday. There’s this great young receiver on the Rams you’ve gotta see! He’s leading the league in catches and is second in receiving yards, and get this, he was a fifth-round draft pick! Oh, wait…
On to Week 7.
Stats of the Week:
Jaxson Dart is just the third quarterback to rush for 50 or more yards in each of his first three NFL starts (joining Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts).
The Browns haven’t surpassed 17 points in any of their last 11 games.
Rico Dowdle is the first undrafted player since 1971 to have 200+ yards from scrimmage in back-to-back games.
On Sunday, Justin Fields became the first quarterback to have nine or fewer completions while suffering nine or more sacks in a game since…Justin Fields, in 2021.
The Jets had -10 net passing yards on Sunday, and for the game their offense averaged 1.4 yards per play.
There has only been one instance in the Super Bowl era of left-handed quarterbacks starting against each other (2006, Michael Vick and Chris Simms). Over the next two weeks, the Dolphins and Tua Tagovailoa will face the Browns and Dillon Gabriel, and then the Falcons and Michael Penix, Jr.
The Ravens are 1-5. Only four teams in NFL history have made the playoffs following a 1-5 start (most recent: 2020 Washington, who finished 7-9).
The Titans have scored six TDs in six games. That’s two fewer than Jonathan Taylor.
The Falcons’ defense hasn’t allowed 300 yards of offense in a game this season.
Bonus stat, having...
