So I drafted a college football team for 2020 fantasy football: Week 3 roster update
We’ve added a new QB as an ace in the hole.
Week 2 is in the books, and Fernando Rodney Scott’s BBQ is the top-ranked team in our 12-team NFL fantasy league. Our roster comprises a rag-tag group of first- and second-year players, with the exception of WR Calvin Ridley, who is our graduate transfer (and the top receiver in the NFL). We’re winning fantasy football with college players, and we’re winning by a lot.
We find ourselves at the midweek break of a fantasy football cycle, and now it’s time to update the roster. We first and foremost targeted RB Darrell Henderson of the LA Rams on waivers, since he’s in Year 2 out of Memphis and the Rams’ backfield would appear to be his after injuries have cut down those around him. We did not acquire Darrell Henderson, because we were low enough on the waiver wire order to see someone else pick him up in the meantime.
Our roster remains thin on RBs with any sort of volume. This is a difficult problem to fix, so hopefully our WR corps can drag us into a playoff matchup through the early-to-middle going.
QB UPDATE: WE’VE DROPPED TUA TAGOVAILOA, WHOM WE DRAFTED, IN FAVOR OF JUSTIN HERBERT, WHO’S GETTING REAL MINUTES AND WAS PRETTY GOOD AT OREGON
Our second target on waivers was QB Justin Herbert (LAC), in his first year outta Oregon. He had a steady debut showing on Sunday against the Chiefs in overtime, and he could be the Chargers’ guy moving forward for the foreseeable future since Tyrod Taylor has a punctured lung thanks to a team doctor(?).
In all likelihood, Herbert will not be our starting QB for Week 3, though this decision may likely bite us in the ass. Joe Burrow has thrown the ball a million times in two starts this season, but he’s also been HIT 22 times in two games. Therefore, our Herbert pickup is a placeholder in the event that Burrow’s health and/or numbers plunge as they otherwise might. It’s the Bengals, after all.
We’ll think on it, but Burrow’s up against PHIL in Philadelphia this week, who rank No. 14 against fantasy QBs, while Herbert’s up against Carolina, who somehow rank No. 2 against fantasy QBs. We’ll sit with it until the weekend, but our general feeling is to go with Burrow.
STARTING ROSTER WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED, BECAUSE ALL OF OUR STARTERS LAST WEEK TURNED IN VERY GOOD FANTASY STATS; OUR BENCH IS A PROBLEM, THOUGH
Ridley, Lamb, Metcalf: these receivers are good, and Metcalf in particular showed out against probably the best corner back in the NFL. DK is a full start from here on out. As is Ridley, obviously, and Ceedee Lamb has more or less secured his spot as a weekly starter based on volume and targets alone. He was the possession guy at Oklahoma, and he could rip off yards despite that positioning, and he’s getting similar work with Dallas. He’s good, and he’s a capital-M Member of this Offense.
The RB position remains one of our biggest holes. We rightly drafted CEH in the first round, but after him we have D’Andre Swift and … Alexander Mattison? A banged up Zach Moss? A Benny Snell, Jr. who can’t gain positive yardage? And Snell is clearly playing behind James Conner? If fantasy football is all about volume, which it is, we don’t want any of these guys.
Our immediate targets following this weekend are at RB, and that may force a trade we don’t altogether like.
SO WE’RE LEFT WITH THE FOLLOWING STARTING LINEUP THIS WEEKEND (AS OF THURSDAY NIGHT’S GAME FINAL), WHICH WOULD RULE IF YOU COACHED A COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM IN, SAY, 2019
CEH stays where he is, of course, as do D’Andre Swift, Calvin Ridley, CeeDee Lamb and Noah Fant. We currently have no other options at DST or K, so we’re sticking with #PutPittIn and Younghoe Koo, who kicks for a team that kicks a lot of field goals but also a lot of extra points. So long as Koo remains solid in high-scoring games with the Falcons, he’s gotta be our guy.
We are favored by 5.5 fantasy points this week, our first favored line all season. I’ve probably jinxed our Week 3 chances just by typing that.