Fantasy football Week 6 got underway Thursday with the New York Giants visiting the Chicago Bears. Let's check out the fantasy football-worthy news that came out of the game.
-Good rebound by Bears QB Jay Cutler who rebounded from last week's turnover slopfest by throwing for two touchdowns and 262 yards. The biggest key was no turnovers. Cutler is certainly getting the job done with his touchdown tosses as he now has 12 on the season. You can keep running him out there if need be but Cutler will still be reckless with the football at times.
-Eli Manning. What else can you say? Three more interceptions including one returned for a touchdown. At this point you would start Geno Smith or Carson Palmer over him. Even Matt Schaub. Yeah that bad.
-I told you all during the week that Brandon Jacobs actually looked decent running the football last Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles if you can get the lost fumble out of your mind. Given his first starts of the season with David Wilson out perhaps for weeks with a neck injury, Jacobs ran for 106 yards on 22 carries with TWO touchdowns. We all knew Jacobs is a big time goal-line back even at his worst but the fact he averaged 4.8 per carry after really missing a year sitting on the San Francisco 49er bench is surprising. Jacobs will continue to get the majority of carries going forward with Wilson out and we sign off on a pickup as a lower end RB 2 in standard leagues.
-Matt Forte had his customary excellent PPR game. He doesn't usually run for over 100 yards due to the Bears' pass-happy ways but his average is always good. Forte wound up rushing for 67 yards on 19 carries while catching 6 passes for another 44. The receiving game is where Forte always stands out among the running back crowd and he leads the NFL in receptions by a running back. PPR gold at its finest.
-There we go Brandon. After both Brandon Marshall and myself pouted about his lack of receptions last week, Cutler made it a point to find his number 1 guy early and often. Marshall was a monster against a depleted Giants secondary in catching 9 passes for 87 yards and 2 touchdowns. Those who own Marshall like myself head into Sunday with a sizable lead in their fantasy football matchup no doubt.
Of course Marshall's big game came at the expense of Alshon Jeffrey on the other side who caught only 1 ball for 27 yards. Ouch. Cutler doesn't seem to ever want to spread the wealth around. Big time negative for Jeffrey owners who have been spoiled the last three weeks. Hold the fort though as Jeffrey is worth using as an every week guy.
-In this past week's ADDS/DROPS I told you to pick up Reuben Randle who is showing more and more signs that he has big time potential. In fact Randle reminds me of Jeffrey in his ability to make big plays down the field. Randle scored for the third time in two games in catching 3 passes for 75 yards. Get him in there.
Relatively quiet games by Hakeem Nicks off last week's monster outing (4 catches for 70 yards) and same goes for Victor Cruz (4 catches for 68 yards). By the way if you haven't already dropped tight end Brandon Myers than you have already given up on the season. Myers has quickly shown that what he did in collecting all those garbage time catches with the Oakland Raiders last season was a fluke as he was shut out of the passing game and was responsible for the game-deciding interception to go off his hands into Bears CB Tim Jennings' hands.
There you have it. Any thoughts on the game? Let's hear it below.
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