Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Sunday night’s matchup between Dallas and Pittsburgh – and how CeeDee Lamb, Justin Fields and Najee Harris could impact fantasy managers.
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All right, 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 in one of the top fantasy matchups on the schedule.
Sunday night football, Dallas taking on Pittsburgh.
Uh We know this game, everybody’s got eyes on it.
This game is in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers are a 2.5 point favorite.
The over under on it is 44.
So when I say fantasy game changer, Matt, you say, yeah, I mean CD Lamb, Fantasy game changer, I, I guess we, we, we can talk about CD Lamb.
But my question here is like, is there anything in Dallas we care about besides CD Lamb from a fantasy perspective?
You know, I write a weekly preview column and, and part of it is give me the biggest storyline for this team every week.
I’m kind of like, I, I don’t know what to talk about with the Cowboys.
Like, ok, Brandon Cooks is not playing Brandon Cooks was really doing that much anyways.
He didn’t look like the same player.
So we’re getting Jalen Tolbert a role promotion.
Jake Ferguson.
Can he continue to look like one of the right answers in Dallas uh at the tight end position.
Let’s hope so.
Now that he’s a little healthier.
So for me, it’s just, I, I, again, I could sit here and tell you about it.
Wow.
CD lamb, great player coming off a great week.
Uh Joey Porter Junior mostly plays outside.
It’s probably not as big of a matchup because as people think cause zi lines up so much inside.
I’m more so curious when we turn this game on tonight, are we gonna find out like, oh, is Ric o’dell a bigger player than we think is, couldn’t, can Jalen Tolbert step up and be a number two wide receiver?
Those I think are the more pertinent questions uh going forward not starting them against the Pittsburgh defense.
I wouldn’t be going that deep for the dow old Tolbert types.
Ferguson probably has a good match up here but again, beyond Lamb, we’re just searching for things to talk about with these Dallas Cowboys.
It’s crazy that the offense is one dimensional, which it has been for the last several years and they still won 12 games this year.
Doesn’t look like they’re headed to that result.
Tara, uh What do you got when I say fantasy game changer in this one?
I feel like I can’t talk about anything but Justin Fields and his miraculous turnaround from escaping Chicago.
Uh Sorry, Andy about that, but Justin Fields is coming off his uh his best performance of the season remaining very efficient.
He’s a changed man over here about six, completing about 65% of his passes.
He broke 300 yard marks for literally the first time this season, um, about the second time in his entire career and then adding a passing touchdown on that and he had carry’s on the ground, two rushing touchdowns, three total touchdowns overall.
QB one finished for the week.
He was fantastic and he just looks great.
And you have to say that this is the guy again who we now see him in maybe a different light against now, a, um, a net defense last week in Indianapolis.
But even against Dallas this week, I feel comfortable with ranking him and pushing him higher up the rankings.
We’ve talked about Dallas and their woes.
They have had woes on defense as well, dealing with injuries.
It’s not the same that we’ve seen in the past.
So I feel like Justin Fields can absolutely take over this game both from a game manager perspective and from a volume perspective and on the ground, he’s got it all in this matchup.
Say it with me coaching matters.
That’s all I’m saying when it comes to offensive coordinators, particularly Andy Barns, when I say fantasy game changer, you say, well, first of all, how about Harmon disrespecting Fantasy League winner, Brandon Aubrey?
Um, that’s outrageous.
He’s, he’s carrying us.
Uh I’ll go however, with Nae Harris here.
He is just in an incredible spot this week.
It’s an almost perfect storm situation in fantasy.
First of all, Jalen Warren and Cordell Patterson are out this week against Dallas, the Cowboys defense.
We’ve talked about it already.
They’ve been generous against the run all season, given up over 100 and 45 rushing yards per game.
And this week Dallas is without Parsons, they’re without warrants.
I realize Harris has been a relatively inefficient back this season.
Um, but he does have at least 16 touches and 70 plus scrimmage yards in every game.
So volume hasn’t been an issue to this point.
He could be looking at a season high in touches this week, given the state of the backfield, I think we’re getting 100 total yards and a touchdown from NAJ.
This week, the Cowboys have allowed the third most fantasy points to opposing running backs.
And again, that was with a better version of this defense.