MUST READ PRESEASON WEEK 3 HAIKU By Muntradamus MVP NATION. This is esentially going to be the team reports. We have seen all these teams in action long enough, now we can make our final judgements as we watch the starters drive down the field multiple times. DRAFT STRATEGY CHANGE WITH EDELMAN OUT Round 1. Follow Top 7. Round 2. Take Gronk. If Gronk was Round 1 pick or gone, Follow with Brady. Round 3. Get a Top 4 QB or Cooks. *If you took a QB in Round 2 and Cooks gone. Skip to Mark Ingram in Round 3. Round 4. Mark Ingram. If you miss Ingram, hope Lynch is there, follow RB List. If you miss Ingram ignore AP. If you took Ingram in Round 3, take AP in round 4. Round 5. AP. If no Ingram, then draft a RB on list and skip AP. If no RB standsout and you took AP in Round 4, grab Benjamin in Round 5. Round 6. Draft another RB on List. Whether that is 3rd or 4th RB. Keep an eye on any WR who standsout. If Kelvin Benjamin is there and you have 3 RB already, go with Benjamin. WR MONEY ROUNDS Round 7. Chris Hogan Round 8. Jordan Matthews Round 9. Marvin Jones. Round 10. Seattle D Round 11. Gostkowski if you own Brady. If not take Sterling Shepard. Round 12. Shepard Round 13. Sanu Round 14. RB or QB/K Kicker if not Gostkowski. Round 15. Jacksonville D Round 16. Jimmy G if you own Brady. Backup QB otherwise. NEW TARGET. CHRIS HOGAN. Take him basically new Edelman, but the Edelman role could definitely be a committee type of thing. Brady is not in love with any WR besides Gronk but Hogan definitely has big time potential. MASTER RANKINGS (UPDATED 8/28) IDP/DST UPDATE COMING THIS WEEK PRESEASON WEEK 3 HAIKU *UPDATES COMING ALL WEEKEND* 49ers Pierre Garcon moved to a Tim Brown crossing Route role. The role fits him and Hoyer trusts Garcon more than he can trust any WR. Garcon looks to be a safe WR3 and gets an upgrade. Constant targets. Carlos Hyde looking like a superstar and all that talk about benching him appeared to be hype for nothing. He will be an all purpose 3 down RB. Hoyer will throw his way a lot. 49ers Defense playing with some fire. Navarro Bowman looks good and Rueben Foster did not get enough love. Secondary still a bit in pieces. VIKINGS Vikings D continues a horrible preseason. Talent is there, likely to turn it around when season starts. Dalvin Cook and Latavius Murray will likely be in a RBBC. 70/30 Dalvin Cook advantage. Murray does not look as vintage as he once did, but he did his job and made good plays. Stefon Diggs is on the verge of a monster season. Bradford looks for him almost every play. BENGALS Jeremy Hill looks like vintage Hill. While Joe Mixon is the real deal, Hill will remain a viable RB3 with upside all season long. Ankle injury pending update here, but I am assuming he will be fine. When both healthy RBBC with Giovani as 3rd and long RB. Andy Dalton and AJ Green have their connection going. Green has a lot of plays designed for him and should be a BEAST if you push comes to shove and you own him because Gronk was selected early. John Ross good upside but still working his way into a role with this team. Bengals D looks very strong and Vontaze appears back to vintage form as well. REDSKINS Redskins playing soft zone D. Josh Norman not even locked up with AJ Green. Rob Kelley looks to be their RB but he struggled until up the Redskins last possesion. Matt Jones never got his shot to win the job, Perine is not that great. Kelley is a good late pick at RB, but Matt Jones is the handcuff in deep leagues. Terrelle Pryor had a lot of trouble. Dropped passes, not getting downfield quickly. He will be fine, but a little over hyped it seems. Jordan Reed looked fine but the Redskins stacked at TE. Crowder looked ok, but most important of all. Kirk Cousins does not look the same with no D-Jax and Garcon. BEARS Bears D better than we think. They impressed all preseason and completely shutdown the Titans on the road. Mike Glennon looks to be gaining confidence which can mean big things. Kendall Wright was stepping up the most with Cameron Meredith down. Even before Cameron went down, Wright has been one of the best looking WRs for the Bears this preseason. Kevin White has more potential, with no Meredith, White can expect 120+ Targets. Jordan Howard looks good, if the Bears play D like they are, Howard will always get his touches. TITANS DeMarco Murray is definitely the lead back but Derrick Henry is also very talented. Titans offense will be running a lot this season, Murray should get his numbers, must handcuff with Henry if you draft him. Marcus Mariota looked inconsistent throwing the ball all game. Did not work with a few targets, but Rishard Matthews reminding us that him and Mariota have great chemistry, Delanie Walker made a big play too. Mariota looked better throwing short than long, either way day and night from Tom Brady. Titans D had trouble all game with Bears, not a great sign heading into Week 1. JETS Matt Forte and Bilal Powell both look good. If Josh McCown can have a decent season those two will produce when the matchup looks good. ASJ was open a lot did not get targets, no true #1 WR Robby Anderson too skinny and can only run deep routes. ASJ still good late sleeper TE2. Jets D was not great, lots of holes. GIANTS Eli Manning made some good throws. If he had Odell and Marshall out there, his day would have been unstoppable. Sterling Shpeard made some amazing plays and Eli missed him on a wide open TD. Evan Engram is emerging as a target and just like that, Eli automatic Top 10 QB. Giants D looks amazing JPP BEAST MODE all over again throwing people to the floor. Paul Perkins does appear to have the job with Vereen as 3rd down RB. Perkins still not impressive but he has some big play ability when Giants passing game is on. RAVENS Ravens D is vicious. Would not want to be hit by those guys. Terrance West continues to be electric. Buck Allen looks good as 3rd string, no Danny Woodhead but I don't see Danny lasting long with how hard the NFL is hitting these days. No Joe Flacco, Mallett missing his WRs every play no judge but Mike Wallace still looks good. BILLS Tyrod Taylor concussion protocol. Zay Jones looks like the clear cut #1 option after Jordan Matthews of course when he returns. Lesean McCoy had nice moves but the Ravens D is too fast and completely dominated the Bills. Almost showing no respect for their passing game. Bills D plays hard and fast still great Week 1 Stream. BROWNS Deshone Kizer looks like the next Dak. Corey Coleman was clear #1 target and he becomes a draft day target for late. Still after Sanu, he probably will not even be available. Kenny Britt I am sure will get his. Isiah Crowell and Duke Johnson pure RBBC with Crowell leading the way. Both will have some big weeks if Kizer is the QB he can be. Still neither are more than RB2 at most, Duke more of a low-end RB3. Browns Defense looking great on the road. Jabril Peppers brings a lot of spice to that team. BUCS Jameis Winston looked good leading all the backup WRs. He is definitely ready for the next leap. Doug Martin looked good on his one series, JacQuizz and Sims will likely form RBBC while Martin is gone. Bucs D played hard and fast completely shutdown the Browns running game despite their passing game making big plays. BRONCOS Trevor Siemian looks great. Emmanuel Sanders looks unguardable and when both him and Demaryius are on the field at the same time, the Broncos offense will excel. Great QB2, next Rich Gannon. CJ Anderson and Jamaal Charles both looked solid both will form a nice RBBC. Interesting to see what happens to Booker but DeAngelo Henderson the rookie looks very explosive too. Almost turning into your RB3/4 Package if you want CJAnderson and Jamaal Charles potentially. Denver D did a great job against Rodgers. They are ready. PACKERS Aaron Rodgers makes it look like he is playing backyard football. Davante and Jordy always capable of big plays, Cobb and Bennett always available underneath. Will be a big season in GB. Ty Monty G looking stronger this year than the past. Jamaal Williams is a good handcuff, but it is Ty's job. He will not be featured that much, but he is always capable of big plays coming out of the backfield. 14+ touches a game with upside. GB D looked okay, did not do anything special. CHARGERS Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen are back. Stronger than ever. Making almost every other WR/TE on that team semi inconsistent. Travis Benjamin got a nice deep bomb and it seems like he will get a few of those a game every week. Melvin Gordon looks ready to BEAST and with the passing game completely on track this year, the TDs should flow for Melvin all season long. Branden Oliver will only spell Gordon on breathers. Chargers D killed Goff reminding us how bad he is. RAMS As soon as I give any love to Goff, he looks like trash. Forget any love to any Ram, no Gurley but still Goff just looking like 2016 all over again. Sammy Watkins cannot get open and Goff does not have all day to wait for him to break routes. The long ball is very risky for Goff to throw making Watkins not a great option. Malcolm Brown looks like a good option if anything happens to Gurley. Explosive hungry player. Rams D and their secondary looked garbage. Gave them too much hype in last rankings after keeping them down for so long. COLTS Frank Gore looked like a RB shot from a cannon. He looks like he will be a fine RB2 to start the year and could surprise with an easy Top 20 season. Marlon Mack does look good and Turbin should have some role, but Gore looks better than I thought. Andrew Luck still out, but his weapons are all looking good. Dorsett climbing over players, Moncrief breaking tackles, Doyle catching everything over the middle, Kamar Aiken looks energized. With TY Hilton, Luck will be fine but his bicep surgery makes him too risky week to week. Colts D held their own against Steelers, good blitz timing. STEELERS Big Ben started rusty but he will be fine. Antonio Brown quickly reminding us that he could easily finish as the #1 WR. Martavis Bryant looks primed for big things and Eli Rogers slides open in the slot. Jesse James is the full time TE and another sleeper TE 2. Steelers D looked ok. Ryan Shazier looks BEAST MODE. CARDINALS John Brown made some big plays, still was not seeing consistent targets when David Johnson and Fitzgerald were in the game. Regardless, someone to keep an eye on as he does have that big time play ability. More of a GPP Daily Fantasy option. Carson Palmer will always continue to move the ball. David Johnson will do his thing. CJ2K definitely does not look vintage but should have edge over Ellington despite fumble in red zone. Jermaine Gresham was featured a lot and makes for a nice TE2 sleeper. AZ Defense was running fast and hard, Pass rush not the same without Calais Campbell. FALCONS Matt Ryan did not look great. Mohamed Sanu was clear favorite target and looked his way on 3rd down nearly every time. Julio Jones will get his but Ryan was afraid to throw to him with Peterson on field, Julio was clearly frustfrated about the no targets. Tevin Coleman looked very explsoive and should be an automatic RB1 if Freeman misses anytime. Even with Freeman healthy, Coleman is still RB2 status. Falcons D was okay nothing to write home about. SAINTS Just as we expected and hoped. Mark Ingram and Adrian Peterson spelled eachother nearly every couple of plays. Adrian Peterson ran very hard but that Texans Front 7 killed the Saints front 7 giving AP nowhere to run. Good to see him get preseason action after nothing last year. Mark Ingram looked to be almost go-to WR and was playing nearly every 3rd down role. He seems to be the Danny Woodhead of the offense which means huge things in PPR. Drew Brees spread the ball out a lot. Willie Snead was nearly non-existent and Ted Ginn Jr made a couple big plays and then became non existent. Mike Thomas is the #1 option but never guaranteed to be top WR of the day. Saints D played well, but Texans had no DeAndre. TEXANS Texans D is the real deal. They may be right there with Seattle and Denver. Tom Savage did not impress but no DeAndre made his night tough. Lamar Miller looked okay, but never explosive and if he cannot do it against the Saints it will be a long season. Avoid all Texans on your fantasy team, maybe their Defense. COWBOYS Zeke Elliot looked good taking any carry that should be 0 yards to 6 yards. Darren McFadden should have the go-to role with Zeke out but Morris will mix in, like expected. Jason Witten benefitied from Dez being doubled nearly every play. Something to worry about this season for Dez. Cole Beasley will have nice moments as well. Dak and the Cowboys running a lot of shotgun, live and die by the arm of Dak while Zeke is suspended. Cowboys D looking swiss cheesy all game. Big plays to be had. RAIDERS Marshawn Lynch ran with power and is far superior to Washington/Richard. The 200 carries is just hype like Arian Foster from a few years ago. This is Marshawn's world. Was great to see Marshawn on 3rd downs as well. Derek Carr has a ton of weapons, Cooper and Crab should dominate but consistency will be hard to come by. Cord Patterson great #3 WR and Jared Cook looking big catching passes over the middle. Raiders offense will be dynamic, Seth Roberts at WR #4 not bad either. Raiders D on the other hand, better than what they have been but still not stopping everything. PATRIOTS Tom Brady might throw a TD on every possesion this season. Patriots not only go no huddle, they don't waste anytime on the playcock. No Julian Edelman (3 catches/53 Yards/2 Minutes) does hurt, but Chris Hogan who the Patriots way overpaid last year to join the team is proving to be a perfect fit. Great pick in Round 7/8/9 with huge upside. Malcolm Mitchell should see a lot of PT, Danny Amendola will sprinkle in. Gronk looked big and the defense had to committ penalities on him twice which prevented TDs. James White/Dion Lewis/Mike Gilli. 3 headed monster, all will get value each week, all will be unpredictable. They rotate a lot. Even play White/Lewis at the same time, nearly impossible to guard. Patriots D is pretty lock down. Made the Lions look silly and their offense is not bad at all. Stephen Gostkowski game winning FG and a QB/K FG while Brady was playing. LIONS Matt Stafford and Marvin Jones is looking vintage as ever. Marvin Jones worked with Randy Moss in the offseason and you can see the results are going to be there. Golden Tate still a viable option he will likely go higher than the Draft Strategy allows, let him slide. No Eric Ebron tonight, but we can see his role will be just fine with the team. Stafford will be fine but his ceiling is not what it once was when Megatron was on the team. Lions do appear to want to give Ameer Abdullah the keys to the car. Theo Riddick will come in at 3rd down frequently. Zach Zenner and Dewayne Washington do deserve a little role. Avoid all. Not going to grade the Lions D. Patriots are the best. CHIEFS Tyreke "Sheep Pill" Hill is dropping everything. Embarrasing for all the other Experts who gave him any love, which is all. Spencer Ware was BEASTING but a knee injury knocks him down. Look to snag late if you draft this weekend. Do not touch Kareem Hunt, he is small and gets killed on every tackle. By the time Ware returns, Hunt will need to breathe. Travis Kelce will see a lot of targets all season long with Hill dropping everything. Chiefs D looks good, Russell Wilson is running well which makes him hard to sack. SEAHAWKS Defense is amazing. Every hit they make has your bones chilling. Make sure you grab this unit. Russell Wilson never afraid to spread the ball around, but Doug Baldwin and Jimmy Graham always make big plays when he looks in their direction. Seahawks offense looks to be taking a step up this season. Would not trust any other WR option on the team. RBBC is going to be the case. Chris Carson and Eddie Lacy both look strong, Thomas Rawls is listed as the #1 and he can run like a #1. CJ Prosise great 3rd down RB. JAGUARS QB Battle still up for anyone. Chad Henne did not look great but the Jags tried to run the ball way too much. Especially against a tough Carolina D. Whoever is the QB, you must be in a deep league to start either. Chris Ivory took over the RB duties with Leonard and Yeldon out. He did not look great, there was not a lot of space for him to run and that can just be how good this Panthers Run D is. If you draft Fournette, draft Ivory as the handcuff. RB Corey Grant can breakout next week. Allen Robinson was by far the go-to WR. He will have good games and is definitely on the WR1 cusp. His QB play makes him unreliable as an every week go-to guy, but no Julius Thomas should increase resobilility. Allen Hurns and Marqise Lee are really hit or miss just because the QB situation is so ugly. If one of those guys can turn to form, they can each put up sleeper WR2/3 numbers on a very inconsistent basis all season. Jason Myers looked good this week at kicker, but Jacksonville offense will likely not be in the red zone often. Jags D looks very fast, started slow but finished 1st half strong not allowing another TD after the first drive. They have potential as a unit, but have yet to show gamebreaking ability. Still a lot of strong players, future is bright. PANTHERS Panthers going to try to run the ball a lot. Still fine for Kelvin Benjamin who is looking like the new Brandon Marshall this year, add another TD. He will be open a lot and Cam is ready to trust him like a true #1 moving Olsen to the #2 option. Greg Olsen will still finish as a Top 3 TE guaranteed when it is all said and done. Cam should have a fine year, but the Panthers running the football so much does not help the cause. RBBC is going to be the truth. The hits continue to pile up for Danny Woodhead, I mean Chrisitan McCaffery. Jonathan Stewart will see a lot of work this year and CAP continues to be the BEAST of the preseason. Continue to avoid all. Panthers D breathes with their front 7. Jacksonville did not try to pass a lot on Carolina's secondary. Not sure if Panthers will get a lot of sacks they just control the line of scrimmage making it tough for offenses to move forward. Secondary did not breakdown, still not ready to trust those back 4. Graham Gano should be busy this year, still not a kicker we are leaning on. QB/K DOLPHINS Jay Cutler led the Dolphins to 3 TD. In the 1st Quarter! While 1 of them happened because of an INT, Jay was masterful and is showing the Dolphins have BIG TIME potential. Jay Ajayi is now a safe Top 5 RB. He is arguably just as valuable as Lesean McCoy. However it is never a good idea to get too excited about Jay Cutler and I will leave Jay as the #4 RB. MVP/VIPs from seasons past will remember I said he runs like a young Ricky Williams, well that Ricky Williams is now real. Julius Thomas does not look as slow as he did last season, but not as fast as he was on Denver. Still, Cutler will fire the ball to the TE a lot and the Dolphins have a lot of weapons on the outside to free the middle. Jarvis Landry and Davante Parker will both have good games, the tricky part is the consistency. We can see Parker's role rise, but Jarvis Landry is still a stud and Cutler has no problem throwing his way. Kenny Stills has a ton of speed on the outside, Dolphins offense can impress more than we think. Dolphins D did get good pressure on Wentz, but they broke down in coverage a lot and that cannot happen during the regular season. Strong Run D was nice. Andrew Franks will be busier than we think. EAGLES LeGarrette Blount still appears to be the starting RB. Wendell Smallwood did look good, but Darren Sproles is still considerably better. Blount will have role, in the end. Look for mostly Blount/Sproles. Hard to get dependable fantasy value, but Blount did look good at the end of the Quarter. Tons of Burst and he will be the Goal Line guy for that team. Carson Wentz will find his ways to move the football down the field. Seems like Alshon Jeffery is by far the #1 target as he should be, but Zach Ertz is now ready to take over the role that Jordan Matthews left behind. Ertz was making a lot of catches over the middle. Torrey Smith is HR or nothing, him and Nelson Agholor are really after thoughts if PLAN A/B/C are not there. Eagles D did get good pressure like they do, but they lost a lot of 1 on 1 WR balls, something that could be a problem because of their small corners. They did an average job at best tackling Jay Ajayi, this is the worst the Eagles D has looked all preseason. Yet the turnovers continue to come. Calib Sturgis will kick a good amount of FGs. Inconsistent option compared to the greats.
