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WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, NE (1 Viewer)
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FairWarning
Footballguy
No, but a far better version of Sammy Watkins.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
JJSS had 8 targets in Week 1?
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Name 1 Kansas City Chief that racked up over 51 yds receiving last night.
Who took his lunch money on the team?
CEH had 4 catches, Kelce had a team high 5
Memo to Fans...LAC pretty good at pass defense and a decent Defense overall.
In fact last night both the Chiefs and Chargers displayed much improved Defenses.
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Who took his lunch money on the team?
CEH had 4 catches, Kelce had a team high 5
Memo to Fans...LAC pretty good at pass defense and a decent Defense overall.
In fact last night both the Chiefs and Chargers displayed much improved Defenses.
Buy Low!
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Banger
Footballguy
This was one of those games that was a good football game and bad fantasy game. No one was fed the ball on either team except for Mike Williams ( and he got it due to Allen’s injury). Neither team ran well, the tds on both teams went to guys that largely no teams started. It sucks but it was one of those games…
zamboni
Footballguy
Good points. More broadly, the fantasy community may have overestimated the number of AFC West shootouts we'll see. The Raiders/Chargers last week certainly wasn't one, nor was last night. Perhaps the defenses are better than expected and that's weighing down the offense on both sides.
grateful zed
Footballguy
sore knee, running decoy.
metoo
Footballguy
He had 8 targets but the ball was spread around to too many receivers for me. For me, it seemed I wouldn't know which wide receiver would lead in targets/catches week to week. Now there's some new guy who used to play for Tampa.
ZADO
Footballguy
I wonder if it was game planned that way in order to get the other WRs more involved moving forward, its not like Kelce was peppered with targets either.
If they were playing from behind at the end i bet we would have seen JU JU and Kelce get the lion's share
Manster
Footballguy
Was commenting to my buddy last night during game that both teams are similar in that u can't really trust any players (fantasy wise) aside from the QB's, and the bona fide studs, ie Kelce, Allen, Ekeler, Big Mike, and Tyreek before he left.
I think everyone wants a piece of these high powered O's, but the reality is u end up chasing points week, to week.
I think everyone wants a piece of these high powered O's, but the reality is u end up chasing points week, to week.
The Frankman
Footballguy
Summer Wheat
Footballguy
Shuster seems better as a #2 or #3 option. More of a possession type than a true #1.
apalmer
Footballguy
That could be a function of the Steeler coaching staff, but it could also be a function of JuJu maturing a little, realizing how little demand for his services there was and becoming more concerned with learning the game than posting on TicToc.
EBF
Footballguy
I've had him in dynasty since he was in college, and it just feels like he lost his juice somewhere along the way there in PIT. As a young player in the NFL he was a threat to break big plays in addition to all the short stuff. For the last few years, it's been low YPR and no explosiveness. I don't know if the JuJu of 2017-2018 is ever coming back. Doesn't really feel like it.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
He isn’t looking good but maybe he is trying to play through injury.
zamboni
Footballguy
I'd give him a pass for last night (which is not much less than he caught from Mahomes) based on injury, but it's not like he's been lighting it up the previous weeks. Just doesn't seem to be even close to the guy we saw his first few years - perhaps there's good reason why teams would not offer him a big contract, as other less proven guys got, in the offseason.
rockaction
Footballguy
I dropped this guy after watching him the first two games. That may have been premature, and he was a mid-round pick of mine, but he looked awful at doing what he did. Even though he scored a bunch the first game, he just doesn't look right. Perhaps it's injury. One can never tell, and the teams sure won't tell you.
zamboni
Footballguy
Could be, although consistency has always been the issue with him. Maybe he's turned the corner, but Mahomes is just spreading the wealth.
As mentioned in the Skyy Moore thread, I'm probably just going to hold on the rookie. At least we don't know yet who he is.
zamboni
Footballguy
Not too dissimilar from his latter years in Pittsburgh - seems like that’s who he just may be at the ripe old age of 25.
Pigskin Fanatic
Footballguy
he really did have a bad game yesterday, so if he was injured or there's something else going on, I'd understand. His first catch was the 5th throw his way of the game. Of the first four, two should have been easily caught and one could have been a great catch that was not thrown quite on target. Only one was uncatchable. His reception o/u was 4.5, so I was watching all of his targets very closely. he should have hit the over on that in his sleep based on those targets all in the first half. thinking MVS got the looks down the stretch because of these drops, at least for last night. it doesn't look like any one of these guys is "the guy" yet, but before the game started last night Troy quoted Mahommes saying that Juju is the guy he feels most comfortable throwing to right now.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Who did you guys draft in rounds 16-20 that are better than all these 3-5 rounds picks people are giving up on????
rockaction
Footballguy
It was very early to do that, and I sort of was wondering why I did, but then I went back through it and I'm satisfied with my process. It's who one adds early on the wire given one's needs that really determines whether or not it was an effective move. I decided to add Darrel Williams in a league with reasonable benches because James Conner was already hurt. I looked at James Cook (who I thought might help later in the year), Darrell Henderson (who looks better than Akers), Damien Harris (another starter), Rashod Bateman (clearly over JuJu), Russell Gage (arguably better than JuJu and Godwin was out), and Ryan Tannehill (at the time my backup QB) and decided that Smith-Schuster had to go. Cook is the only guy one can really question from that list, but I'm holding for the long term.
So that's how it works. If you draft well enough in Rounds 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 10 and beyond, you can drop a Smith-Schuster for an early waiver wire phenom. Or perhaps he turns his year around and the guys I'm adding don't amount to a hill of beans and I learn the hard way.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to get a handle on how you guys don't have junk sitting around somewhere that you drafted late. I can see it in short bench leagues, but 18+ round x 12 teams. I'm seeing tons of guys like Watkins, People-Jones, Conklin, Austin III, Golladay, Fant, OGun, Spiller, Davis, etc that could be jettisoned. I also only carry one QB
rockaction
Footballguy
Naw, no sweat. It's a casual league in the FFA. Competition and fun only. The league is start eight (QB WR WR RB RB TE W/R/T D/ST) and six on the bench. That probably goes a long way to causing your confusion if you're comparing it to a league whose draft went eighteen-plus rounds. Perhaps I'm the one without the league that most approximates standard, and I should have qualified my post that way.
I see what you're saying. It felt early to drop him when I realized days later I had (I think I did late night, sleepy waivers), but in the end, I'm not upset with it. Yet.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
So so glad I avoided this guy
Wigglytuff's Gruff
Footballguy
Packaged him and James Conner for what will likely be a mid 2nd a few weeks ago in a big rebuild.
Feel good about it. I really thought he'd be better though. He must have lost a step with all his time off injured. It happens.
Feel good about it. I really thought he'd be better though. He must have lost a step with all his time off injured. It happens.
smbkrypt24
Footballguy
I am surprised at juju’s fall from his great start to his career in the NFL. I had picked him up for free last season and sold him when he signed with KC. Many said I lost the trade (juju,eary 2 for late 1). I was fine with losing the trade, but I did not expect this poor of performance by him.
The Frankman
Footballguy
Banger
Footballguy
I hope so but am skeptical. Too many mouths to feed unfortunately. Mahomes will throw about 6 times to rbs, about 12 to TEs (9 to Kelce), and about 19 to the wr's. Of those WR targets he gets the most but only by a slight margin. Juju 35%, MVS (30%), Hardman (19%), Skyy (10%), Watson (6%) among wrs. The distribution is pretty consistent so Juju's real value is if he scores a TD or not which is impossible to predict. So IMO he's a decent bench player in the event of an injury to a key player on the offense/spot starter for bye weeks/injury fill-in but not someone you want to roll out on a weekly basis.
The Frankman
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The Frankman
Footballguy
The Giants lined up Toney outside but he also took a good amount of slot snaps. Juju can play outside but for now I'd think the biggest impact is to Mecole Hardman, since Hardman's 'gadget' role is basically what Toney did in college.
EDIT: I also posted FantasyPros take on the KC WR room in the Kadarius Toney thread.
EDIT: I also posted FantasyPros take on the KC WR room in the Kadarius Toney thread.
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Banger
Footballguy
i have Juju and picked up Toney as well….I certainly don’t think it helps Juju, I just don’t know how much it will hurt him. Toney has the most talent so he has the most upside but he’s completely unreliable. I‘m annoyed as a Juju owner because it just seemed like he was starting to click over the past couple weeks and this throws everything we though we knew up in the air.
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