• What to make of Breece Corridor‘s up-and-down nature: The primary-round fantasy choose’s inconsistent manufacturing is irritating, however proceed to start out him with ease down the stretch.
• Buccaneers’ Bucky Irving is prospering: The rookie operating again has 235 dashing yards, 97 receiving yards, 187 yards after contact and 5 rushes of 10-plus yards because the PPR RB2 over the previous two weeks. He both ranks first or second to solely Saquon Barkley in every class.
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Getting ready for the subsequent week of the fantasy soccer season typically entails diving into potential waiver-wire provides or breaking down the extra covert developments from the previous week’s video games. Nevertheless it’s additionally helpful to guage what’s proper in entrance of us: the gamers who excelled and people who got here up wanting expectations.
BOOMS
WR Terry McLaurin, Washington Commanders
McLaurin has been as regular as they arrive this season. The season’s PPR WR4 by Sunday’s video games has scored 15-plus PPR fantasy factors in 9 video games and has gone below 10 factors in solely three outings — two of which got here within the first two weeks.
McLaurin adopted up his 21.2 PPR factors in Week 12 with a season-high 27.3 towards the Titans in Week 13. Rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels seemed McLaurin’s method early and sometimes, and the star wideout completed with eight receptions, 73 yards and two touchdowns.
Terry McLaurin at halftime:
🔥 52 receiving yards
🔥 2 TDs
🔥 23.2 PPR factors pic.twitter.com/UDIjl7JBNw— PFF Fantasy & Betting (@PFF_Fantasy) December 1, 2024
Scary Terry is about up for a career-best PPR season. McLaurin’s earlier greatest end was because the PPR WR14 in 2022.
Going Ahead: Excessive-floor WR1
RB Bucky Irving, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
This marks back-to-back weeks of Bucky Irving making the “Growth” portion of this text.
Irving adopted up his then-season-high 27.2 PPR fantasy factors in Week 12 with 27.5 in Week 13.
The rookie has 235 dashing yards, 97 receiving yards, 187 yards after contact and 5 rushes of 10-plus yards because the PPR RB2 over the previous two weeks. He both ranks first or second to solely Saquon Barkley in every class.
With one of many 10 best strengths of schedule for the fantasy playoffs, Irving is a sure-fire top-10 PPR operating again the remainder of the way in which.
Going Ahead: High-10 operating again
WR D.J. Moore, Chicago Bears
The Caleb Williams–to-D.J. Moore connection has lastly come alive.
Prior to now two weeks, Moore has scored 26.9 and 23.7 PPR fantasy factors because the span’s WR1.
Moore’s two-week stretch consists of 17 catchable targets (third most), 203 receiving yards (fifth most), 126 yards after the catch (second most), 4 receptions of 15-plus yards and 4 missed tackles compelled.
Williams appears to have figured it out just lately, rating as fantasy soccer’s QB3 over the previous two weeks. If the Bears’ offense can proceed to click on, Moore and fellow wideout Keenan Allen will assist fantasy managers in a giant method by the playoffs.
Going Ahead: Low-end WR1, high-end WR2
BUSTS
RB Breece Corridor, New York Jets
Growth-or-bust Breece Corridor continues …
After topping 30 PPR fantasy factors in Week 11, the first-round fantasy choose supplied managers with simply 6.0 in Week 13.
The Jets threw typically this week, with Aaron Rodgers recording 39 go makes an attempt to Corridor’s 12 carries. Corridor did nicely on that workload, going for 60 yards (5.0 yards per carry) however couldn’t discover the top zone or get a lot work within the passing sport. His lone goal fell incomplete.
Temperature Test: Unbenchable attributable to growth potential, but additionally a headache attributable to Jets’ offense
RB Chuba Hubbard, Carolina Panthers
This was Chuba Hubbard‘s worst outing since Week 1, producing solely 2.3 PPR fantasy factors in a sport that went to extra time.
Hubbard notched 12 makes an attempt for under 43 yards and misplaced a fumble within the additional interval, however fantasy managers should not panic. Panthers quarterback Bryce Younger threw the ball 46 (!!) occasions Sunday, so it was clear the sport plan was to air the ball out — which will not at all times be the case down the stretch.
Nevertheless, if there may be one factor to observe, it is rookie operating again Jonathon Brooks. He dealt with 33.3% of the Panthers’ operating again dashing makes an attempt towards the Buccaneers. I don’t see Brooks stepping in sufficient to take over the backfield, however he might do exactly sufficient to frustrate Hubbard’s fantasy managers. Brooks dealt with all the goal-line snaps (two) and a very good chunk of early-down snaps.
Temperature Test: Do not panic, however monitor Jonathon Brooks‘ utilization
TE George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers
Kittle secured one reception for 7 yards in a dreadful loss to the Buffalo Payments. We had been left with 1.7 PPR factors.
49ers quarterback Brock went 11-of-18 passing for simply 94 yards in snowy situations, so whereas Kittle might have been the dud of the week, he by no means had an opportunity to get going.
Starters got here out of the blowout early within the fourth quarter, so there is not a lot to proclaim aside from the 49ers had been outclassed and the climate situations appeared to hamper them.
Temperature Test: Nonetheless a high-end TE1
