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I'm not sure if you're referring to now or the future with the bolded. He is the 21st ranked back in standard (28th in PPR) on a PPG basis right now. So depending on the format he's very much a weekly RB2 or flex and all you would need to do is point to the stats to sell that idea. Like I said, he's on pace for 1600 yards from scrimmage and that's definitely notable.
This is how it is. Not how it should be. But it's a dose of reality. People hate Carolina's run game. They hate the perception of either Cam or Tolbert vulturing goal line looks. They hate Jonathan Stewart running well now and on track to come back off the PUP. They should also hate (if they are well informed) the new OC Mike Shula who coaches out of his fathers playbook. One blowout victory in an otherwise dreadful season is like counting on Brandon LaFell scoring multi-TD games. It's a mirage.
Understood, but how many games would DWills have to produce at a RB2 level before you'd have to consider some sort of renaissance. All of the aforementioned players you mentioned haven't consistently produced like DWills (Cutler last night, Finely injury, Mathews almost non-existent).mr roboto said:
We know he is good for 3 more weeks, role wise - of course that includes this week, which is a bye. As noted, you assume that even if Stewart gets a significant role, it wont be in week 7, maybe not week 8.
In ppr this year...13, 8, 13, 9, 17, 7, 12 and now Stewart comes back. Could have passed on him for Bell, Woodhead, Moreno, Bearnard, or even Powell at RB. WRs ranked behind him were Gordon, Boldin, Moore, etc.
Yeah, his own health holding up and Stewart's continued problems helped his end of year ranking against other players that missed a few games, but there are always a few guys that you know will finish higher than their ADP, but they're ranked that low because you also know their ceiling is extremely low and they probably aren't going to help your team very much. A team had to be pretty strong elsewhere to win while trotting out DeAngelo as their RB2 all year. His PPG was much less impressive than his end of year ranking.
Except no one would have drafted him as a team's RB2. That's sort of the point. In my leagues, he went in the 9th to 11th rounds. He was a decent bench player and roster depth. He was drafted more as insurance than as a starter. For most teams, he would have been a flex play, bye week fill in, or emergency starter if the other RBs got hurt.
Well, then they got lucky. Stewart was supposed to be back by the time most bye weeks started. Drafting him expecting any production beyond week the first 6 weeks of Carolina's schedule (they had an early bye IIRC) was a poor bet. It worked out, but the logic is hard to justify. Personally, I saw him as a nice tandem if you wanted to draft a guy like LeVeon Bell since he was slated to miss a few weeks. So you could play DeAngelo while Stewart and Bell were out and by the time DeAngelo was in a RBBC, Bell would be back. I think there were a few other RBs that were supposed to miss a few early games, so I'm using Bell because he's the only one I can recall right now.
If you are lucky, one of them will get hurt and the other will put up RB2 numbers. For the price, I think it is worth it.
I think all of the above gives Williams some value, and he had a good YPC in the season opener. From what I hear, though, the Carolina O-line is horrible at run blocking. A Panthers homer may be able to speak on whether that info on the O-line is true.
