Week 3 Power Rankings
It’s officially fall. 🍂
The air is crisper. The leaves are starting to change color. And the smell of pumpkin spice is in the air. All of which is a sign that the fantasy season is in full bloom. It’s when pumpkin-flavored things are everywhere—pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin soap, pumpkin candles, pumpkin butter, pumpkin dog treats and of course, pumpkin spice lattes. And that’s just the stuff in my kitchen right now.
I don’t know why, but pumpkin makes everything better. Or at least that’s what Samantha thinks. Trust me, every year our apartment is suddenly awash in pumpkin things before the first leaf turns orange. So with that in mind, here are a list of things I wish I could just sprinkle a little bit of pumpkin spice on to make them infinitely better than the way they are right now:
Christian McCaffrey’s hamstring
Big Ben’s mobility
the San Francisco 49ers’ medical staff
the Chicago Bears’ offensive line (RIP Justin Fields)
Marquise Brown’s hands
the Denver Broncos’ first three opponents
the Manning-cast (just kidding Eli, you’re the best)
this kick from Matt Prater on the same day Justin Tucker broke his record
And last but not least, I wish there were a way for me to somehow sprinkle pumpkin spice on my terrible, no-good fantasy team. At least, their losing would smell better.
The Scoreboard
Samantha led all scorers with a season-high 186.92 points, taking down previously unbeaten Nick.
Where my ladies at?!
This week was a story of winning women with the ladies taking down the fellas in all five battles of the sexes. And Josh won too. In almost every case, previously winless team owners upended favorites to muddy the standings and bring everyone into the fray.
Leading the way was Samantha who knocked off Nick, giving him his first loss of the season and usurping the weekly prize. She’s not far behind in the Power Rankings either. (More on that below.)
Other team owners who got their first wins included Beth Ann, Jess and Greco who defeated Brandon, Geoff and Erik. Meanwhile, Whitney stayed undefeated by taking down Gray and is now the only 3-0 team in the league. Congrats to Nick and Whitney, who continue to kill it in 2021.
And finally, Josh got revenge on Alex for the Week 1 podcast smack talk, narrowly edging him out in a contest that came down to the wire on Monday night. How you like them apples?
Power Rankings
The gap narrows but Nick still leads…
Despite the fact that Whitney is our only 3-0 team, Nick remains on top of the Power Rankings for the third straight week. But the other team owners are not far behind, especially Samantha after her impressive Week 3.
As we do every week, let’s count it down from first to worst.
Samantha and Beth Ann are moving up! Week 1 darlings Erik and Geoff are on the way down…
1. Nick
2-1, .879 TW%, 147.7 ppg
It’s deja vu all over again.
Almost one year to the day that Nick lost first-overall pick Christian McCaffrey to a high-ankle sprain, it happened again, this time a week later and to a strained hamstring. As I mentioned in the group chat, this run of bad luck with the same player is reminiscent of Erik’s ownership of Jamaal Charles, which resulted in ACL tears in two different knees in 2011 and 2015. See #6 on this list of the Worst’s worst injuries.
As for McCaffrey, the current prognosis is that he could miss “a few weeks.” Of course, that was the hope last year too only for McCaffrey to miss six weeks before returning and immediately injuring his quadriceps muscle, which sidelined him for the rest of the season. Remember, in 2020, McCaffrey only played three games all season, which no doubt contributed to Nick having the worst season in Worst League history.
But here’s why I think this year might be different for Nick. First, the Panthers have not placed McCaffrey on injured reserve. So that means, there’s at least a thought in Charlotte that he could return before three weeks. Second, the Panthers are surprisingly off to a 3-0 start, which means they might have something to play for and thus a reason for McCaffrey to return. And third—this is the big one—Nick already owns McCaffrey’s handcuff, Chuba Hubbard. While Geoff was able to grab Mike Davis off the waiver wire last year, this time Nick wisely traded for Hubbard one week before the injury took place. I’m bet he’s glad he did that now.
Yes, Samantha put an end to his magical start to 2021. (More on her below.) But Nick seems far better positioned to weather the storm this year than he was last year. D’Andre Swift and Damien Harris are more than capable of holding things down at RB, and that doesn’t even take into account the potential impact of Chuba Hubbard. And while he will have to make do without the league’s top RB, his roster still happens to include the league’s top WR through the first three weeks—Cooper Kupp, an incredible value, considering he was taken with the last pick in the fourth round.
In other words, Nick is going to be just fine.
2. Samantha
1-2, .758 TW%, 144.1 ppg
Down goes Nick!
Facing an 0-3 start and the league’s top team in the Power Rankings, who was coming off two straight weekly prizes, Samantha was not intimidated. Rising to the challenge, Samantha poured on 186.92 points, the most this season and the second-most in league history, narrowly missing the all-time record of 191.82 points by less than a touchdown. This blows Samantha’s previous high of 139.9 points from Week 3 of 2020 out of the water by nearly 50 points.
After two quiet weeks, Josh Allen exploded for 37.22 points in Week 3, finally rewarding Samantha for taking him as the second QB overall. In just one week, that was enough to push him from QB19 at the end of Week 2 all the way up to QB6. And obviously, it wasn’t just Allen. Scooping up Alexander Mattison on waivers one week before Dalvin Cook’s injury was certainly a timely decision. But it was her entire “triumvirate,” which finally came to play as she finished with the #1 QB, #3 RB and #1 WR in Week 3.
Except it wasn’t Allen, Ezekiel Elliott and Calvin Ridley leading the way. It was Allen, Elliott and Chargers WR Mike Williams, the latter of whom scored 33.2 points in Week 3 and is now WR2 on the season, trailing only Cooper Kupp and Derrick Henry in total points among flex-eligible players. If Kupp is an incredible value in the fourth round, Williams is an insane value given that Samantha snagged him in the 10th behind guys like Marquez Callaway, Darnell Mooney and, yes, the Buccaneers D/ST.
Now Samantha rises to second in the Power Rankings, her highest ranking since Week 6 of last season when she was also second. That year, despite her strong start, she would eventually trail off with the worst second half of the season of anyone not named Nick, ironically the two team owners atop the rankings now. But this year, things might be different. Now that she finally got off the schneid, it seems her team may be built to go the distance with a top QB, a top-10 RB, a top-3 TE and four top-25 WRs, which doesn’t even take into account third-round pick Allen Robinson.
And if Nick’s not careful, she could take the top spot in the Power Rankings too.
3. Whitney
3-0, .697 TW%, 125.1 ppg
No Dalvin Cook. No problem.
Whitney defeated Gray in Week 3 without her second overall pick, who unexpectedly missed the game due to an ankle injury he sustained in Week 2. Also, can we talk about how crazy it is that one year after Nick and Whitney both lost their first-round picks to injury in the same week, it nearly happened again? Thankfully, Cook’s injury is not as severe as Saquon Barkley’s was last season.
But luckily for Whitney, an injury to Darrell Henderson meant Whitney was easily able to insert his backup, Sony Michel (10.9 points), into her lineup to replace Cook. That helped. But it was largely thanks to the play of Tom Brady (28.68) and George Kittle (season-high 17.1) that Whitney was able to stage a comeback on Sunday night to defeat Gray.
The win means Whitney is off to the first 3-0 start of her career. In fact, she’s the only remaining undefeated team in the league this year and is the first 3-0 team owner since Josh in 2019 (the eventual runner-up that season). Remember, she only won five games all of last season, so this obviously puts her in a much better position to make the playoffs.
As we know, 12 teams in league history have started 3-0, and 11 (or 92%) went on to make the playoffs. Only Nick in 2014, who lost nine of his last 10 to finish 4-9, missed the playoffs after such a great start. And you know what this means? This is a perfect opportunity to resurrect one of my favorite charts below.
Historically, 53% of 2-1 teams go on to make the playoffs compared to 44% of 1-2 teams.
Updated with another year’s worth of information, the chart above shows the historic probability of making the playoffs at every possible record. To read the chart, find the square that corresponds to your wins on the vertical axis and your losses on the horizontal axis. The number in the middle of the square is the percentage of teams in league history with that record who made the playoffs (or would have with the current six-team playoff settings).
As you can see:
3-0 teams have made the playoffs 92% of the time.
2-1 teams have made the playoffs 53% of the time.
1-2 teams have made the playoffs 44% of the time.
And 0-3 have made the playoffs 25% of the time.
As the only 3-0 team owner, this is a really good sign for Whitney. As for the rest of the league, since there are no winless teams this season, everyone else is still jumbled in the middle with between a 53-44% chance. In other words, it’s still anyone’s game.
One last thing I’ll say about the chart above, in all those seasons, we only played 13 regular season games. Now that we play 14, those numbers could really shift. An extra game means more time for a team off to a good start to falter or a bad start to recover. And it probably also favors the “better” teams over the “lucky” teams because we would expect talent to win out over the long term. For example, one extra game would probably have helped Josh last year.
But what I’ll be most interested to see at the end of the season is the new number of wins that are required to make the playoffs now that the regular season is 14 games. Previously, 8-5 was a certainty with 74% of 7-6 teams making the cut and even 11% of 6-7 teams. But I find it hard to believe six wins will be good enough in this new world order. Better shoot for at least seven, if not more.
For Whitney, she’s almost halfway there.
4. Alex
2-1, .636 TW%, 129.4 ppg
Is Saquon Barkley back?
The Giants RB scored 21.4 points in Week 3, including a touchdown plus six receptions for 43 yards. Yes, it’s now PPR scoring, but that’s the most points Barkley has scored in a Worst League game since Week 12 of 2018, his rookie season. That’s over two years ago.
Remember, Barkley was rated the biggest value of the first three rounds based on where he was drafted compared to his ADP, falling 4.2 spots to Alex with the 12th pick. And while it may have taken a couple of games for Barkley to get his legs underneath him, he could turn out to be a steal for Alex.
Case in point, in Week 3, Barkley finished ninth among all RBs in scoring. Combine that with Nick Chubb (RB10 on the season) and you’ve got a potent duo that could potentially rival Nick’s twosome of Christian McCaffrey (when healthy) and D’Andre Swift or Josh’s platoon of Aaron Jones and Antonio Gibson for the best RB room in the league.
If Barkley is able to maintain this production, it’s a good sign for Alex’s potential growth as he currently ranks next-to-last in RB scoring with just 27.1 ppg. That means there’s plenty of room for improvement, and Alex is already doing pretty well. Besides Nick and Samantha, the two teams at the top of the Power Rankings, Alex is the only other team owner who has finished in the top half of the league in scoring all three weeks. With 136.16, 128.1 and 123.84 points scored, that’s some consistently good production.
He may have lost the battle this week to Josh. But in the long run, I’m seeing more long runs in Alex’s future. Sorry, I’ll just see myself out…
5. Beth Ann
1-2, .606 TW%, 124.8 ppg
Nothing like a matchup with Brandon this season to cure what ails you.
Beth Ann scored 141.24 points in Week 3, second-most in the league, which helped push her past Brandon and up the Power Rankings. Now in fifth place, she’s the biggest riser of the week, jumping four spots. Most importantly, she gets her first win of the season.
Key in her victory was the acquisition of Hunter Renfrow, the league’s best move in a week that saw a flurry of activity on the waiver wire and in free agency. Needing a flex option with Diontae Johnson out with injury, Beth Ann wisely turned to the Raiders WR. Bypassing the likes of Jamaal Williams and Kenyan Drake, both on her bench, Beth Ann opted for the waiver wire leftover instead, still available on Thursday after waivers had run. Quintez Cephus? Zach Pascal? K.J. Osborn? No, thank you. Renfrow responded with 18.7 points, good enough for WR15 on the week. Not bad.
Thanks in part to Renfrow, Beth Ann now ranks first in WR scoring with 55.8 ppg from the position. With two solid games in a row, she’ll hope to keep it going against Erik in Week 4.
6. Josh
2-1, .576 TW%, 119.4 ppg
How’s that crow taste, Alex?
Since I’m eating some of it too, I’ll help you out and say, “not good.” After starting out 11th in the first Power Rankings, Josh has strung together two standout weeks of production and, with them, two wins. Now at 2-1, he finds himself all the way up in sixth place in the Power Rankings and fifth in the official standings. That’s a nice turnaround.
Despite not having a single player go for 20 points in Week 3, Josh got solid production across the board, narrowly defeating Alex by 3.0 points, the second-closest game so far this season. And most impressively, he did it without recent trade acquisition Tee Higgins, who missed the game with a shoulder injury, not to mention one of the other guys in the deal, Rob Gronkowski, who missed more snaps than he normally would have due to a rib injury.
Meanwhile, the QB carousel goes round and round as Josh continues to search for a more permanent solution. In three weeks, Josh has started Ryan Tannehill, Ben Roethlisberger and now Daniel Jones. With just 16.54 points, Jones has been the best of the bunch. But as a result, Josh ranks last in QB scoring with just 14.8 ppg. League average is 22.44 so far this season.
This week, it looks like Josh will try out a fourth QB as it appears Derek Carr will get a swing at the job. With Justin Fields looking dreadful in his debut, here’s hoping Carr is at least a temporary solution.
7. Gray
1-2, .485 TW%, 119.6 ppg
Gray holds steady at seventh in the Power Rankings, though he loses the game to Whitney, dropping to 1-2 for the first time since 2018—also the last year he missed the playoffs.
The good news? Clyde Edwards-Helaire looked alright, totaling 16.9 points and finishing as a top-20 RB for the first time this season. And even better, seventh-round pick Odell Beckham returned to the lineup for the first time this season, looking serviceable while outscoring his projection with 13.7 points. The latter is going to be especially important because…
The bad news? This team continues to be desperate for pass-catchers. With just 21.9 ppg, Gray ranks last in WR scoring and is almost a full 10 points behind the team owner in 11th. (That’s me! 👋) With DeAndre Hopkins battling a rib injury that left his participation in Sunday’s contest in doubt, the next-best option may be Tim Patrick (who benefits from this week’s season-ending injury to KJ Hamler). And when is the Kyle Pitts breakout game coming? Until it does, Gray is averaging just 8.3 ppg from TEs, which ranks ninth in the league despite the fact that Gray was the fifth team owner to draft one.
Until Gray finds a solution at WR (either through free agency or trade), the best option may be just to lean into the run game. That’s something Gray is good at. Prior to PPR scoring, three of the top-11 seasons in RB scoring belonged to Gray, which includes his championship season in 2013 and his GOAT team from 2016. Currently he ranks second with 42.0 ppg from RBs. With Austin Ekeler (RB5), Clyde Edwards-Helaire (🤞) and a healthy Darrell Henderson (who missed Week 3 with a rib cartilage injury), that’s a potentially powerful trio.
For now, Gray continues to lurk in the background.
T8. Erik
1-2, .424 TW%, 129.8 ppg
After almost winning the weekly prize in Week 1 with 172.16 points, Erik has failed to score more than 115 points in consecutive weeks, ranking in the bottom three in scoring each of the past two weeks. The result is that he continues to rank high in total points scored (third with 129.8 ppg) but has fallen substantially down the Power Rankings into a tie with Geoff for eighth.
But this week, I’m hijacking Erik’s spot in the Power Rankings to talk about the schedule. Specifically, now that we’re three games in, every team owner has now played the three owners that they will meet again in the final three weeks of the regular season. Which leads me naturally to wonder, who has the toughest rivals?
You might recall that during the preseason, we looked at the new schedule in depth and determined that Geoff, Alex and Whitney had the toughest schedules based on the career TW% of their rivals. But of course, team quality fluctuates. And now that those three have gone a collective 7-2 against the supposed “toughest” opponents, let’s run that analysis again, this time with more relevant data from just this season.
Here are the team owners ranked by the average of their three rivals’ TW%:
1. Samantha: .687 (Gray, Whitney, Nick)
2. Gray: .626 (Samantha, Geoff, Whitney)
T3. Whitney: .616 (Beth Ann, Samantha, Gray)
T3. Beth Ann: .616 (Whitney, Nick, Brandon)
5. Greco: .525 (Nick, Brandon, Erik)
6. Nick: .485 (Greco, Beth Ann, Samantha)
7. Jess: .475 (Erik, Josh, Geoff)
8. Brandon: .444 (Alex, Greco, Beth Ann)
9. Alex: .424 (Brandon, Erik, Josh)
T10. Geoff: .404 (Josh, Gray, Jess)
T10. Josh: .404 (Geoff, Jess, Alex)
12. Erik: .293 (Jess, Alex, Greco)
It’s a completely different result. Which is maybe not-so-surprising considering some of the “historically good” teams like Brandon, Jess and Greco are struggling so far this season.
For example, before the season, it seemed like Geoff would have the toughest schedule because he plays Josh, Gray and Jess twice. But those team owners are currently ranked sixth, seventh and 11th in the Power Rankings. Not nearly as bad.
After a few games have been played, the toughest schedules appear to belong to Samantha, Gray and Whitney. Samantha, in particular, has to play both Nick and Whitney twice who are currently ranked first and third in the Power Rankings.
But to bring this all the way back to Erik, take a look at the bottom of the schedule rankings. With an average TW% of just .293, Erik faces Jess, Alex and Greco twice. While Alex is a solid team, Jess and Greco rank 11th and 12th in this week’s Power Rankings and have won just eight (out of 66) true games between them.
Of course, a lot of this is academic. These strength of schedule rankings will shift over the course of the season as teams improve or falter. And I wouldn’t sweat a particularly “tough” or “weak” schedule. That’s because these numbers are really a reflection of what’s already happened than what’s going to happen. The “hard” or “easy” part is behind us. From this point on, every team owner plays every other team owner exactly one more time for the rest of the season.
Game on.
T8. Geoff
2-1, .424 TW%, 120.8 ppg
This week’s battle of two team owners determined to score the fewest points was between Geoff and Jess. And Geoff won, which is to say, he lost.
The loss ends Geoff’s blissful 2-0 start to the season and—with the worst score of the week—drops him five spots from third all the way to the backend of a tie for eighth. Welcome back to the harsh reality of fantasy.
But if I’m Geoff, I’m not sweating this week at all. We’re all allowed one bad week. (Heck, I’ve had three.) And there were lots of encouraging signs. Most notably, rookie Najee Harris had 14 receptions on 19 targets, which helped Geoff tie for the league lead in receptions in Week 3. Adam Thielen also looked good (quietly WR4). Flex is still a bit of a work-in-progress after disappointing outings for Ty’Son Williams, Will Fuller, DeVonta Smith, Rondale Moore and Mark Ingram (buzzworthy names in the early going who all scored seven points or fewer in Week 3). But let’s remember, this is the same squad that ranked third in scoring through the first two weeks.
The real outlier this week was the play of Geoff’s defense and kicker. Give him even a below-average performance of three points from each and he wins, which is a good reminder not to lose sight of those somewhat flukey positions and how they can impact the narrative.
For example, with a tasty matchup with the Jets in Week 3, Alex’s Denver duo of the Broncos D/ST and Brandon McManus totaled 33 points. By comparison, Geoff’s tandem of Greg Zuerlein and the Buccaneers D/ST (-3 points for the second time by the way) combined for just two. Swap those defenses and kickers and Geoff wins going away with 121.38 points while we’re talking about Alex’s league-worst 92.84 points in Week 3.
I’m not saying Geoff’s team is the runaway favorite or anything, but I’m still a believer.
10. Brandon
1-2, .273 TW%, 107.3 ppg
🚨🚨🚨 Hoo-boy, this not good. 🚨🚨🚨
If your name is listed here or below, I’m sending some major panic vibes your way. And that includes me.
Looking at the Power Rankings, there’s a clear delineation between the rest of the league and this bottom three. All three are losing more than 70% of their true games while averaging fewer than 110 ppg. The bottom two are under 100.
The good news is that Brandon, Jess and Greco all have at least one win, which is miraculous considering that none of us have a single game that ranks in the top half of the league in scoring in a given week. At this point, we’re just relying on wins off each other or lucking into a down week from another team owner.
If we stay this bad, there’s no way any of us is making the playoffs. Even with a crazy string of luck, the worst TW% any team owner has ever had and still made the playoffs is .287, which is when one of Terryn’s teams went 8-5 despite a true record of 40-101-2. We’re all below that number.
But… that doesn’t mean we’re all going to stay this bad. Just last year at this time, Jess ranked 11th with a TW% of .303, but she rebounded and still made the playoffs where she won the consolation game. So as we count down the rest of the Power Rankings, let’s take a look at each of the teams in the bottom three with an optimistic eye, speculating on what could go right. Because, to be frank, it would take a whole lot longer to talk about what’s gone wrong.
Okay, so let’s start with me:
Another week, another injury. This team can’t catch a break. And I don’t mean to complain because other team owners have faced multiple injuries and are doing just fine (see: Alex with Gus Edwards and Jerry Jeudy or Whitney with Dalvin Cook, Diontae Johnson and Michael Gallup), but the hits keep on coming, often resulting in doughnuts on the scoreboard. After injuries to Raheem Mostert and Elijah Mitchell, plus Brandon Aiyuk’s undisclosed injury in the preseason, A.J. Brown left the game early in Week 3 with a strained hamstring. That’s my second-, fourth- and sixth-round picks plus a handcuff to the latter.
But that’s fantasy. And the upside to injury is that players can recover. Brandon Aiyuk already looked better in Week 3, scoring his first touchdown with a snap count equal to Deebo Samuel. Elijah Mitchell may be back as soon as this week. And A.J. Brown is officially “week-to-week.” Mostert aside, this team could theoretically be back to full strength as soon as Week 6. Fingers crossed!
And in the interim, it’s possible that players like Zack Moss (RB10 in ppg) or Jaylen Waddle (tied for fifth in receptions this season with 25) could hold down the fort. Plus, you know I’m going to do everything I can to somehow scratch and claw my way to contention.
Honestly, I don’t even care if you’re reading this right now. This has just been a pep talk for myself. And judging by how bad my team has been, I really, really needed it.
11. Jess
1-2, .152 TW%, 99.7 ppg
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why this team is this bad.
But the spreadsheet don’t lie. With just 93.82 points in a Week 3 win, Jess was the first team owner to win with a score of less than 100 points this season. It was also the third-fewest points in a victory in the PPR era. Ironically, that record belongs to a team owner (Beth Ann) who defeated Jess with just 86.42 points in Week 10 of last year.
On the bright side, I still see reasons for optimism. With the exception of Chris Carson (RB14), none of her first five picks have played up to preseason expectations. But I just think that means they’re bound for a bounce back. Let’s look at each one:
The Bills broke out in Week 3 and Stefon Diggs is getting the targets. So you have to think the touchdowns will come.
Jonathan Taylor didn’t get many touches in Week 3, but he was very efficient with the ones he got (averaging 6.4 yards per carry) and is still the guy in Indianapolis.
Robert Woods has been bad. But Cooper Kupp has been on fire. And that production has to even out eventually. Right? RIGHT?!
And finally, if Peyton Barber can score 23.2 points in a timeshare with Kenyan Drake for the Raiders, then so can Josh Jacobs when he’s healthy again.
And don’t forget about Deebo Samuel, still leading the 49ers with 10 targets in Week 3 and currently WR8 on the season. Plus, Kirk Cousins has actually been great and is the reason why Jess ranks fourth in QB scoring despite waiting longer than anyone else to draft one.
Yes, TE is a dumpster fire. Jess hasn’t even gotten a game of at least 3.0 points from a TE all season. But that’s fixable. Maybe…
So hang in there Jess. Things are sure to turn around eventually.
12. Greco
1-2, .091 TW%, 92.6 ppg
Finally, we come to Greco, who is still 12th, but actually improved this week.
After finishing last in the league in scoring in Weeks 1 and 2, Greco defeated Erik with a season-high 110.14 points, which was at least better than three other teams in Week 3. Luckily, one of those team owners was Erik, who she was playing, which means she gets her first win.
And if we’re looking on the bright side with Greco, she actually could have won this game by a lot more. The decision to bench third-rounder James Robinson in favor of 12th-rounder James White cost her 24.8 points as Robinson finally broke out with his best game of the season. At TE, Mike Gesicki also had his first big game, scoring 18.6 points, also on Greco’s bench behind Jack Doyle. If she had rolled with those two starters like she had in the first two weeks, she would have scored 151.54 points. That’s a whole lot of points!
It wouldn’t have won the weekly prize, but it would have been fourth-most all season. And that doesn’t even take into account the flukey-bad performance of her defense and kicker. Just as we mentioned with Geoff, Greco’s defense and kicker combined for 0.0 points in Week 3. If we give her the league average score of around 15 points combined between the two positions, she jumps to 166. And what about those Marquise Brown drops?! That could have been an extra 10 points at least. And then we’re singing a very different tune about Greco.
Suddenly, this week’s writeup is about how Greco jumped both Jess and Brandon in the Power Rankings and is climbing her way back to the top.
So yes, I feel optimistic about this team too. The news that James White is now likely out for the season is definitely a bummer. Jarvis Landry is still on IR. And Robby Anderson sure does look like he may be one of the biggest busts of 2021. But the aerial attack we predicted is finally taking flight. In Week 3, Davante Adams and DK Metcalf combined for 53.9 points and finished second and sixth among all WRs. If James Robinson can produce more games like he did Sunday, there still might be hope for Greco yet.
Looking Ahead to Week 4
In Week 4, the spouses wage war. Whitney takes her perfect record on the road to face Nick. Meanwhile, Samantha, fresh off her weekly prize win, faces a beleaguered Brandon.
Among the non-married-to-each-other team owners, Alex and Geoff will battle to see which team owner can get to 3-1. Josh looks to exact some revenge on Greco for stealing his playoff spot last season. And finally, Jess vs. Gray and Beth Ann vs. Erik will feature two matchups of 1-2 team owners hoping to avoid falling to 1-3.
That’s it for the Week 3 Power Rankings! Good luck to everyone. And let’s all raise a pumpkin spice latte to fall and more fantasy football victories.
Mmm… that tastes good.
