NFL Week 17 is right here and with it comes fantasy football championships. For some, it is a time of euphoria as desires of lifting that championship trophy dance in our heads like so many sugar plum fairies. For these much less lucky, it felt just like the nutcrackers had carried out their job. There’s nothing worse than struggling by a 14-week common season solely to see these gamers who helped get you to the playoffs exit when it issues most.
In a season dominated by working backs, the primary spherical of the playoffs was a depressing week. Saquon Barkley, presently on tempo to interrupt Eric Dickerson’s single-season speeding document, put up a paltry 65 yards in Week 15 and upset everybody. Derrick Henry, De’Von Akane and Chubba Hubbard did the identical. And worse, as if to troll those that have been bounced out of the primary spherical of their playoffs, all of them posted dominant performances in Week 16, turning their house owners into the belle of the ball of their comfort brackets.
The working backs weren’t the one tormentors. Sam Darnold, Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford and Brock Purdy all sat out Week 15, and so as to add insult to harm, Josh Allen went from hero to zero in week 16. Some might wish to throw Jalen Hurts beneath the bus as effectively, however at the very least his failure was harm associated. The remaining have completely no justification. Robust matchups and momentum carried over from earlier weeks have been thrown right into a container within the again, ready to be ignited.
Additionally residing in that dumpster are a variety of large receivers who delivered the products all through the common season however vanished into skinny air as soon as the fantasy playoffs started. Cooper Koop now lives on a milk carton, Amari Cooper does the identical, and one of the precious picks within the 2024 fantasy soccer draft, Darnell Mooney, has spent the final two weeks asking these two guys if he can sleep with them. Jerry Judy pulled the rug out from beneath him with the Browns quarterback commerce, and if anybody on the market sees Jawan Jennings, kindly inform them the fantasy neighborhood is finished with him.
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It is a brutal strategy to get into fantasy soccer. The common season is an absolute grind. You scratch and claw your method by rejections each week, endure a number of the most premature accidents, and if you lastly make it to the massive dance, you’ll be able to’t even boogie with the blokes who acquired you there. Begin your spikes, they are saying? Heartbreaking. Completely heartbreaking. The most effective you are able to do now’s sit again and hope the ache wears off sufficient that you do not move on these guys in subsequent yr’s drafts. They could not harm you that a lot once more, might they?
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