Week 7 Fantasy Football advice

Fantasy Football, when your favorite NFL team is garbage it makes Sundays a lot more enjoyable. A team drafted of players from multiple different teams in an effort to score more points then your opponent based on how the players do in real life. If you have never played before I highly recommend trying it out. Now I don't claim to be a "Fantasy Expert" like Matthew Berry or the guys at ESPN, but I do engage in my own research to help my teams succeed and to win some money. Who doesn't love getting easy money? Over the course of my years playing Fantasy Football and learning the ways I have become quite good at it, while earning myself a decent sum of cash. With this Q&A I will be having almost every week I hope I can help answer your questions and help you win the league for bragging rights and to put some extra bills in your pocket.

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Q : I started Marshawn Lynch at the flex on accident, he ending up getting ejected

and leaving me with a big 0. I have 3 RB's and only 2 spots open. The players are

Kamara, Mckinnon , and Christian McCaffery. Who should I start?

A: Well you can't blame yourself too much. None could have predicted Beast Mode

would come off the bench running to help his friend, while in the process pushing a

referee like he was a rag doll and getting ejected. Anyways you are in a bit of a

tough spot at this point needing major, breakout production from your two RBs

to make up for the big fat 0 on the board. Kamara is an automatic start for me

with Adrian Peterson being traded to the Cardinals giving even more touches to

Kamara. The Saints new weapon is used on passing downs and 3rd and longs. He

is a trusted checkdown target to Drew Brees. The matchup also is setting him up

for a good game with the Packers allowing 24.5 FPPG (fantasy points per game)

to running backs this season along with 3 receiving touchdowns, something

Kamara excels at. The 2nd spot is a little tricky. McKinnon, the new starting Vikings

RB due to Dalvin Cook tearing his ACL, has had back to back 20+ point games. He

now faces a Ravens defense who has been struggling against the run recently and

ranks 29th out of 32 teams in total rushing defense On the other side CMC plays

the Bears, a middle of the road rushing defense. Now if you know me, you know I

love McCaffery on my Panthers but I have a hard time playing him with the breakout

possibility of McKinnon. Also the Panthers run blocking has been very suspect and

even with starting center Ryan Kalil coming back I would wait a week to truly see if

the run game improves. Start Kamara and McKinnon.

Q: Do I start the Falcons D or Jets D?

A: What do the Bills and the Dolphins have in common? Being bad at throwing

the ball and having a QB who isn't expected to wow you with their passes or to

rip open defenses. But they also have one more thing in common. Beating the

Falcons in their own new 1.5 Billion dollar stadium. The Bills and Dolphins both

rank in the bottom 3 of the league for average passing yards per game. This

Falcons defense let Jay Cutler, someone who can barely throw for over 100 yards

a game and doesn't care one bit come back to beat them last week. AT HOME. I

can't forget to mention that they made Tyrod and the Bills with a lackluster offense

look like world beaters (No disrespect to Tyrod, I quite like him). Well maybe those

two weeks were anomalies and sure you could convince me of that and have me

tell you to play them this week.. If they weren't playing Tom Brady, the future hall

of famer and 5 time Super Bowl champion in New England. You might know him,

he's pretty good. The same QB who beat the falcons in the past super bowl overcoming

a 28-3 deficit to win in overtime. Also If the Falcons can't stop some of the worst

passing offenses at home, how will they stop the best passing offense in the league?

I don't even have to talk about how the Jets have a good matchup against that same

Jay Cutler guy I described earlier. Give me the other option all day when the first is

the Falcons this week. Sorry Falcons fans.

Q: Do I start Ty Montgomery, Aaron Jones, or Demarco Murray?

A: Ty Montgomery returned to the lineup last week versus the Vikings after suffering

a rib injury two weeks before. Montgomery was supposed to be catching passes from

his All Pro QB Aaron Rodgers until he went down in the first quarter with which we would

later find out was a broken Collarbone. With Rodgers most likely shut down for the year

Brett Hundley takes over the reigns at the position and lets just say its not good for Ty's

fantasy value. Montgomery played 30% of the snaps compared to Aaron Jones handling

65% of the snaps. With Rodgers gone, Montgomery owners can't count on Hundley passing

to him as much, score as many points, and be as efficient without Aaron at the helm. Im

starting Jones, with Montgomery not showing much promise after the first two weeks,

I wouldn't expect him to be useful as of right now. Which leaves Aaron Jones to get the

bulk of the carries. Also Murray is a game time decision on Sunday leaving too many

question marks about his health and how many carries he could get. Play it safe, start

Jones.

Q: Evan Engram or Jimmy Graham?

After a very odd week 6, the New York Football Giants somehow came out with a W

when leaving Denver. With their two star wideouts gone for the season with injuries

a rookie stepped up and took over the receiving corps. His name, Evan Engram. I

have liked Evan since he announced he was entering the draft and was hoping the

panthers would be lucky enough for him to sneak into the 2nd round. My hopes were

crushed when the Giants took him when it came their time to pick. In every game he has

played in except 1 he has had 4+ receptions with over 40 yards to match. With Elis top

two options out, the targets were expected to increase and they did against the Broncos.

Engram lead the Giants in receptions, targets , yards , and touchdowns finishing the night

with 5 receptions for 82 yards and 1 score. His volume should only continue to increase

each game and is the clear #1 target for Eli. On the other side Jimmy Graham has had

solid fantasy production through the last 3 weeks having 4 or more targets in the Seahawks

last 3 games. This would seem to set up as a quality game with the Giants giving up the

most fantasy points to TEs, but the only problem is how long will Russell Wilson have before

his makeshift offensive line gets him killed. Even with the Giants D struggling, anyone can

get through this line making it hard for me to trust anyone on the Seahawks offense in

fantasy. Engram and it isn't close.

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