Fantasy Football Week 9 Studs, Duds, and Sleepers: A revitalized Jalen Hurts feels like fool’s gold (for now)

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Has Jalen Hurts yet turned nan corner?

I’m not truthful judge because of nan full Nick Sirianni elephant successful nan room (I mean, c’mon), but caller returns person been promising for nan erstwhile MVP candidate. After a unsmooth commencement to nan year, Hurts is now sixth successful nan NFL successful expected points added (EPA) and completion percent complete expected (CPOE) composite, per RBDSM. Amid a three-game Eagles winning streak, Hurts has been an businesslike playmaking machine.

However, Hurts’ caller uptick came astatine nan disbursal of 3 moribund teams successful nan Cleveland Browns, nan New York Giants, and nan weirdly inept Cincinnati Bengals. It’s bully to spot progress, and I’m gonna wholly bargain him against different bad squad this Sunday, but I request to spot Hurts excel against elite title again earlier I commencement buying backmost immoderate of his franchise backmost banal successful earnest.

Hurts is simply a important attraction of this week’s studs and duds file astatine For The Win. There’s besides a definite marquee franchise quickly going obscurity (again). Oh, and there’s a young backmost (pun intended) abruptly showing signs of life.

Let’s jump successful and get you different imagination W.

Studs

QB Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles (vs. Jacksonville Jaguars)

Hurts has softly accumulated complete 700 yards of discourtesy by himself complete nan past 3 weeks while besides creating 9 touchdowns (four passing, 5 rushing). Jacksonville has nan NFL’s second-worst passing defense. This should beryllium a layup.

TE Brock Bowers, Las Vegas Raiders (at Las Vegas Raiders)

The Raiders are hapless and utterly unwatchable … isolated from for Bowers. The rookie No. 13 wide prime has been precisely arsenic advertised. He’s connected gait to go conscionable nan 3rd rookie tight extremity ever to eclipse astatine slightest 1,000 yards receiving (Mike Ditka, Kyle Pitts). Bowers whitethorn good moreover go nan first rookie tight extremity to drawback astatine slightest 100 passes. Phew. The Raiders are terrible, but Bowers is simply a must-start matchup problem each week.

WR DeAndre Hopkins, Kansas City Chiefs (vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Hopkins had a meager Chiefs debut, catching conscionable 2 passes for 29 yards. On nan season, he has yet to moreover surpass 20 full receptions. But thing tells maine Andy Reid is astir to make Hopkins a focal constituent successful a nighttime crippled against nan Buccaneers’ middling walk defense. It makes excessively overmuch sense.

RB Kyren Williams, Los Angeles Rams (at Seattle Seahawks)

Seattle averages allowing astir 150 squad rushing yards each week, 29th successful nan NFL. Enter Williams, who hasn’t rushed for little than 76 yards since mid-September and who has scored a touchdown successful each 7 of his 2024 starts.

Duds

Defense and typical teams, Dallas Cowboys (at Atlanta Falcons)

That’s right. If you are someway still a head of nan meager Cowboys defense, now is not nan clip to double down connected this portion against high-flying Atlanta. Needless to say, if you person immoderate Falcons violative rotational players available, I besides wouldn’t hesitate to commencement them connected Sunday.

WR Zay Flowers, Baltimore Ravens (vs. Denver Broncos)

A operation of nan Diontae Johnson waste and acquisition summation taking distant targets, on pinch a reliable matchup against Patrick Surtain II, has maine sour connected Flowers making a immense effect this weekend.

WR Tank Dell, Houston Texans (at New York Jets)

No Nico Collins and nary Stefon Diggs intends Dell has now drawn nan short straw of having to hit Sauce Gardner. Uh, bully luck.

TE Trey McBride, Arizona Cardinals (vs. Chicago Bears)

The Bears’ elite defense astir apt won’t person an reply for Marvin Harrison Jr., but they’ll still return distant something. I person a emotion it’ll beryllium McBride complete nan mediate of nan field, who is often nan straw that stirs nan Cardinals’ drink.

Sleepers

WR Calvin Ridley, Tennessee Titans (vs. New England Patriots)

I don’t emotion Ridley trying to flooded nan sticky sum of Christian Gonzalez. However, I could spot Tennessee force-feeding its de facto WR1 capable measurement — moreover successful imaginable garbage clip — to make Ridley a viable play.

QB Joe Flacco, Indianapolis Colts (at Minnesota Vikings)

Flacco was atrocious against nan past awesome defense he played, and now he has to look down a portion coached by Brian Flores. So, I’m not complete nan satellite astir his chances for success. However, nan Vikings’ defense hasn’t seemed arsenic formidable successful caller weeks, perchance opening nan doorway to different sneaky “elite” Flacco performance.

QB Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers (vs. New Orleans Saints)

If Andy Dalton is still incapable to play, I’m benignant of buying nan thought of Young for a fewer weeks. (Famous past words.) While he’s still unsmooth astir nan edges, Young showed capable poise and flash against an exceptional Denver defense past Sunday to judge that he tin fare moreover amended against nan discombobulated Saints.

WR Jaylen Waddle, Miami Dolphins (at Buffalo Bills)

Miami’s tenuous backmost business this twelvemonth has much aliases little stranded astir of its playmakers. But Tua Tagovailoa’s return does make almost everyone connected nan roster playable again. Count maine arsenic a Waddle believer to show up successful a testy section crippled successful Buffalo.