The Football Guru

Sorry to hear that. Dynasty questions are definitely welcome, though.

Please keep those questions coming for Week 17 ...

I feel the most confident in Jones.

I have a strong feeling that Detroit might light up the Steelers in the dome. I don't think the Jags have a great secondary, but their defense has played well during the winning streak. I think there is a much better chance Goff gets to 300 and 3 than Nix.

Not sure I will have the time to get around if I wait: I would start Evans. I'm still not at a point where I trust Cousins, who apparently has a grudge against the Bucs and nobody else. Brissett all day at QB. I know there is a path for Love to outperform him, but the garbage time has been good to JB. I think there is a real chance that the game turns into a bit of a shootout.

I'll get the TE part of your question now because Parkinson plays on Thursday. Parkinson is my answer. Waller is tough to bench given the ridiculously good matchup, but I don't want my fantasy fate tied to a rookie quarterback making his first start, especially one I didn't like all that much in the draft process. Johnson probably gets a little bump because Vele is out, but I think it is just as likely that the Saints try to exploit the Jets LBs with their running backs in the passing game (just like the Jags did last week). I think weather might be the only thing that keeps TNF from being a smash spot for Parkinson.

I'll answer that here since you already used your get-one-free token Neal is out. I would pick up Estime ASAP if you can and hope that we get some clarity on him getting the start. If that happens, he would be one of my starters. I want nothing to do with Terry vs. PHI if I can help it, but I'm not sure you can bench him here. Ferguson vs. LAC is Goedert and Kelce also did really well against the Bolts. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me since that should that is something Derwin James takes care of. Stevenson has been fine since his return (at least 77 total yards in his last two plus an equal share of work in the passing game ... he appears to be trusted more in that role than Henderson), but he doesn't have the upside that most of use need at this point. In short, if you can pick up Estime, I would go with him and Ferguson (although I don't feel great about Fergie this week). If you can't get Estime or stash Jawhar Jordan - just in case neither HOU back is ready - then I would go with Ferguson and McLaurin.

I appreciate you taking the initiative of continuing the thread.

I am pretty sure I answered everyone's questions, either here or in the article. Let me know if that is not the case.

CeeDee is good to go. The way I would rank the others: Smith, McConkey, Jefferson ... I don't know how we can have faith in Jefferson right now. I'm sure he'll have a great game again soon, but I'm clueless which one it will be. Dallas' defense is better than Washington's ... about that, I am sure.

Based on strict probability, I would say Stevenson and Neal have a pretty low chance of scoring. Stevenson had two tries from the 1 against the Bengals a couple of weeks ago and was turned away both times. He has only scored in two of 10 games, although he did score twice in the first game against Buffalo. In short, I don't even know if he is the preferred goal-line option at this point. The Saints only have three RB scores all year, so I think that hoping they can get two in two weeks is a long shot. I don't like Sutton as much now as I did before the Bryant rule-out, but I still like his chances of scoring more than the two backs.

I will answer this question as part of someone else's question in my article, but I would roll with Robinson over Wilson. I liked Robinson over Egbuka FWIW. I ended up projecting Jennings for 5-53-0 this week. The stats suggest this will be more of a CMC and Kittle week. If it means anything to you, Jennings is the best bet among the WRs to score IMO.

I'll get to your question in the article, but for the purposes of beating the clock on TNF ... I would start Adams and Egbuka based on my projections, but I admittedly feel very uneasy about it given your other options. As for the RBs, keep tabs on Jacobs' knee issue. If he goes, Barkley-Jacobs-Irving. If he doesn't, Barkley-Irving-Hampton. Again, I'm not feeling much confidence with these selections, but you do have great options

Rest of season (ROS?) or just for Week 15? I assume PPR?

I want you to get this well in advance of the start of the TNF game. I have Egbuka as the fourth-best play and projected for 5-63-1. I would start him.