Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Sunday’s matchup between Minnesota and Green Bay – and how Jayden Reed, Josh Jacobs and Aaron Jones could impact fantasy managers.
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Let’s turn to our Fantasy game changers for this week powered by Ram Trucks where we’re identifying some of the most impactful players on one of the top fantasy matchups of the schedule.
We look at Lambeau right now.
We decided to take on the NFC North tilt with the three and oh, Vikings two and one Packers.
Uh Green Bay favored by 2.5.
The over under on this 1 43.5 as we look at that matchup.
All right, Andy, give me somebody that you identify as a fantasy game changer power by ramp trucks.
Yeah.
Listen, Jayden Reed has pretty clearly established himself as the most Fantasy relevant Packers receiver.
Uh, even if we haven’t seen a normal Packers game quite yet and we haven’t, uh, reed has operated primarily from the slot.
He’s run the second most routes on the team also has five rushing attempts on the season, at least one in every game.
He earns targets as a receiver and they manufacture opportunities for him as a ball carrier.
We of that, let’s remember also that he opened the season with 100 and 71 scrimmage yards and two scores against the Eagles.
Reed has that sort of upside in any given week with Jordan Love behind center.
And again, it’s beginning to look good for Love.
In week four, we cannot leave Reed on fantasy benches in this matchup.
He’s just, he’s too valuable as sort of the easy button against this Brian Flores defense.
All right, I love that pick by you.
I’m gonna go with the running back and not the running back.
You think, I think this is a bit of a statement opportunity for Josh Jacobs when you look at the way that the Green Bay Packers are forced to run the ball right now with Malik, a lot of that has come back to Josh Jacobs and his ability, even with Jordan love in, it’s been a bit of an awakening to see how good Jacobs could be.
Something obviously I saw for years as a Raiders fan, but when you look at his ability to turn negative and make it positive, he is a bit of a saver when it comes to the run game for Green Bay, they have learned to lean on him a couple of weeks ago.
I know it was a huge matchup.
They didn’t need him the same way against Tennessee to get that win.
I think in a game where frankly they wanna run the ball, they want to control the clock, they want to control the line of scrimmage, they want to control the variables.
Josh Jacobs has a big game here.
Feels like he’s a game changer no matter what.
Sal, who do you have your eye on?
I’m going to the other backfield here for the Vikings and it’s Aaron Jones against his former team.
Maybe a revenge spot kind of ended sour their relationship a little bit.
And Jones this year, maybe he’s been unlocked.
I wanna say he’s coming off of a game where he saw 24 touches, something we rarely saw him do with the Green Bay Packers.
He already has two top 12 finishes in fantasy at the running back position.
And also this guy right now, depending on where you look, if you’re looking at efficiency per touch, uh, broken tackles, explosive runs, he’s up there in the top 10 in all those metrics.
He looks like a young man right now and the injury concerns we have this off-season aren’t there and I like the matchup here.
He’s being schemed into the offense, not only obviously as a rusher, but also in the receiving game, we saw that last week.
He was split outsider as a receiver caught a touchdown and this matchup against the Packers.
You, you look back at week one against Taquan Barkley, a similar dual threat running back.
He was able to dominate these linebackers on the ground to the outside thanks to his speed and in the receiving game, I think Aaron Jones can do similar things in week four