Fantasy Football Insights: Ekeler vs. Williams Matchup

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00:00start sick. Everyone needs to know it. I'm going to start talking, stop talking and I'm

00:07going to let you start talking. Take the reins. Where are we going first? My man. All right.

00:11The first one we've got here is a running back duel between Austin Eckler against the

00:15Pittsburgh Steelers. No Brian Robinson Jr. So that enters into in the Pittsburgh defense.

00:20Very good against the run or Javante Williams against the Kansas City Chiefs. Also a team

00:24very good against the run, but a little bit different of a quarterback situation. So I'm

00:29going to go with Austin Eckler for this one. And here's why. Remember we mentioned a couple

00:34of segments ago about that big Brees Hall game against the Pittsburgh Steelers from

00:38the receiving side, not the rushing side. That's what I want to talk to here when it

00:42comes to, uh, yeah, when it comes to Austin Eckler, because right now Pittsburgh has allowed

00:47the ninth highest yards per reception and the fifth most receiving yards per game to

00:52running backs. That's a lot. So there's opportunity here where he's not going to get all the workload.

00:57You're going to see McNichols. You're going to see some other guys work in this backfield

01:00and it's probably going to frustrate a lot of fantasy managers, but there's opportunity

01:03for Eckler to be a, an RV to or flex this week, depending on what your lineups look

01:08like. So Brian Robinson, not being in certainly opens up a little bit more workload for Eckler,

01:14but that void is going to be filled by other players on this roster for the Washington

01:18commanders. But Javante Williams, again, last week we saw a tough matchup did not go well

01:24this week, just as bad of a matchup. He went from the number one defense against the run

01:28to the number two defense against the run. Like that's not going well for him in terms

01:32of schedule right now. And then if all your guests may starts to work into and get some

01:36more of this workload and they start to see what he is quote unquote, well, guess what?

01:39That's not good for Javante Williams. So hard pass for me, give me Eckler.

01:42All right. And that definitely starts to spawn ideas of an Eckler, perhaps all purpose yard

01:49prop play. Okay. The next play, where would you like to go here? I got Quinton Johnson

01:53here versus Tennessee and then DeMario Douglas at Chicago. Which way would you go? Interesting

01:59one here, because if it's a full PPR, DeMario Douglas is probably where I want to lead.

02:05Now here's the problem. He got a ton of targets last week, got a bunch of catches, but only

02:08for 35 yards. You know, when you catch seven balls for 35 yards, it's kind of a weird stat

02:13line, right? The a dot, not exactly exciting. You think that's probably better against the

02:17bear secondary. That's been pretty bad this month. That's the way I would look at it.

02:23But Quentin Johnson in the standard and maybe even the half PPR leagues probably has the

02:28bigger upside. You saw Quentin Johnson have that big touchdown catch last week against

02:32the Cleveland Browns when I missed coverage. And that's what QJ can do. He gives you that

02:36big splash play upside. That's not exactly DeMario Douglas's game. So if you need a floor

02:41of points, DeMario Douglas is the way that I would go. You take your 10, 12 points, you

02:46get out and you're happy. But potentially there's more if he should see the end zone

02:50this week against the bears. But then Quentin Johnson, let's say you are playing against

02:54Jamar Chase this week or against Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow this week already and you're

02:59behind. I would throw it all to the wall and see if QJ could maybe get me a big game, go

03:04over 100 with a touchdown or maybe even just a two touchdown game because we've seen him

03:07do that this year as well. The Titans offense is going to put too much pressure on the Titans

03:12defense, unfortunately. So at the end of the day, uh, QJ is the upside play. DeMario Douglas

03:18is the floor, but both I think are startable this week.

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