Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Sunday’s matchup between Seattle and Atlanta – and how Bijan Robinson, Drake London and DK Metcalf could impact fantasy managers.
Video Transcript
All right.
Let’s turn to our Fantasy game changers for this week powered by Ram Trucks where we’re identifying some of the most impactful players in one of the top fantasy matchups on the schedule.
Seahawks versus Falcons early window on Sunday.
One of the top totals of the week 51 on that one.
Big points.
Brent.
This is the moment that we all love.
Like everybody sees points, everybody sees big points totals, feels good.
So Andy, give me a fantasy game changer that you’ve got your eye on.
Yeah, really fun game.
Give me, give me Bijon Robinson.
He finally gave us one of those games last week.
Right.
The sort that we expect from a first round fantasy pick finished with 18 touches against Carolina over 100 total yards, two touchdowns and Tyler Algier was good as well.
Algier isn’t going away.
He’s a good player, but Robinson just a great back.
There’s, there’s one or two things that he does every game that just make you say, oh, that’s probably the best back in football.
Um, perfect modern era running back.
He’s headed for a 60 season efficient on a per touch basis.
He crushed a favorable matchup last week and he gets another with Seattle on deck.
This week, the Seahawks have allowed five yards per carry on the season over 100 and 40 rushing yards per game, which is obviously near the bottom of the league, given the matchup and given what we just saw from Bijon, I’d say that an overall RB one finish is definitely within his range of outcomes this week.
Algier can still be useful too.
It doesn’t have to be one or the other, but Robinson to me, a true game changer.
Uh I mean, that’s a great take by you.
I will stick with the Falcons offense and give you a fantasy game changer because of targets.
And that’s Drake London.
The number we need to consider is 1013 and 12.
Those are the targets each of the last three weeks respectively for Drake London.
What we are seeing at this point is that Kirk Cousins is becoming really comfortable forcing the ball into tight windows to, to Drake and as much as we have our eye on Kyle Pitts and what everything means.
What we know is that Kirk likes big wide receivers and tight ends.
He finds that guy, he zeros in on that guy.
It’s happening right now with Drake London who is using his body to box out like he’s a basketball player and he’s getting tough catches.
I really love where Drake is in this offense, but most importantly, I love that.
Kirk is finding him in this offense and once Kirk has rhythm with the guy, he does not stop.
That’s part of what makes Kirk cousins good at his job.
I think the numbers are gonna be through the roof the rest of the year.
It’s time to start recalibrating how we talk about Drake London because he’s having a season and it’s not gonna end.
All right.
Sal give me somebody you’ve got as a game changer.
Yeah, I’m looking at DK Metcalf who is the clear number one receiver on the Seattle Seahawks team and everything we wanted this off-season with new play.
Caller, Ryan Grubb coming from Washington, coming from college football.
We wanted more, passing more downfield shots and we’re getting that right now with DK Metcalf.
Uh, this entire offense leads the NFL in pass attempts per game.
Geno Smith DK Metcalf threw his first five games for six games this year has his most targets of his career.
He ranks top five, nearly 10 targets per game right now.
He’s an alpha receiver.
And if you look at his game logs lately, you’re like, oh, it hasn’t hit 10 fantasy points in back to back games.
Yeah, that’s not really his fault.
I would say he’s been getting extremely unlucky couple weeks back tackled on the one yard line last Thursday.
If you recall watching that game 50 plus yard called back for a kind of a phantom illegal shift, then he had a touchdown just missed by like an inch of the back of the end zone only had three catches on 11 targets in that game.
He was frustrated, but I think those frustrations will change this week against Atlanta in a positive match up a lot of points expected there.
And then moving forward, he has a lot of good spots.
Buffalo, the Cardinals.
I think this is a guy who can pop off the next 5 to 6 weeks in fantasy.
