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Sky sportsNFL fantasy football guru Hannah Wilkes helps you navigate the 2021 season in her weekly column, where this week she gives a quarterly overview of the season across four weeks of a 17-game season.
Ashamed. But fear not guys, the season is still young and four weeks of information, we now know who is worth supporting and who no longer deserves a spot on our list – no matter how good they were last year.
With that in mind, I’ve put together a kind of quarter-pole report card for the key spots on your fantastic list. Some of them are surprises, some are overtly obvious, and some might throw in some ideas when you’re looking for a lineup update, and we move to the beginning of the goodbye weeks from Monday.
Of course… Patrick Mahomes is the best defender. Even though the Kansas City Chiefs sit at the very bottom of AFC West, their superstar QB completed 14 touchdown passes, dived for one, scored 1,218 pass yards and earned 111.92 Fantasy Points! This guy might be carrying your otherwise poor lineup – a fact that I draw attention to as revolutionary as “the sky is blue.”
Kudos if… you supported Jalen Herts or Sam Darnold when you were composing your QB. Ranked third and fifth on the QB Fantasy rankings (Tom Brady sandwich bread in fourth place, if you will), Herts is becoming more popular in Philadelphia (or better to say “roll” #breadpuns), despite the fact that team results are still no. very soon, and Darnold is living proof that the Adam Gas Effect was a reality in New York. He accidentally became the first QB in NFL history to rush for five TDs on his teams in his first four games of the season, and he hit five more touchdowns this season, in stark contrast to the nine overall results he scored in 2020 in New York.
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We apologize if… Like me, you were overstimulated by the Minnesota Vikings after a full three weeks of Kirk Cousins’ fantasy performances. A paltry 10.12 point against the Cleveland Browns is far from ideal. But maybe stay with him as the Vikings are holding the Detroit Lions this Sunday …
King… Derrick Henry does Derrick Henry stuff and is naturally leading the Fantasy runner in what I would call an overall unimpressive group this season (yes, I said that, come on). With nearly twice as many yards as runner-up Austin Eckeler in four weeks, there’s not much to say … other than expressing deep regret for beating Christian McCaffery in not one but two leagues.
*and cursing another victorious performance from the guy SITTING ON MY BENCH!
Kudos if… You’re stuck with Saqwon Barkley. After a couple of quiet appearances in the first two weeks of the season as he comes back from a cruciate ligament rupture, he looks back in shape and scores catches and fantasy points, scoring three times in the last two New York Giants games.
