Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Sunday’s matchup between Green Bay and Minnesota – and how Josh Jacobs, Aaron Jones and Jordan Addison 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 in one of the top fantasy matchups on the schedule.
It’s a huge matchup in the NFC North.
Packers versus Vikings, two of the best teams in the entire NFL at this point.
They’re taking each other on.
This is, uh, who knew?
Glory be to God.
It can happen.
It’s a Sunday game at 10 p.m. Eastern.
The Packers.
favor by 1, the over under 48.5, and gentlemen, I’ll go first here when you talk game changers.
It’s clear at this point that Josh Jacobs is the work horse for everything for the Packers’ offense.
This isn’t complicated.
Josh Jacobs is exactly who Josh Jacobs has been through the entirety of his career.
Once he gets rolling, he does not come off the field.
You can’t get him to walk away from the field, and he gets all the hard.
you could possibly imagine.
He did everything he could to get me a win over the weekend in our own fantasy contest on this show.
Came up a couple of yards short and broke my heart.
But the fact is, when you talk about the production, you know the carriers will be there, you know, the volume will be there, you know that he is going to get extra yards, you know he will get touchdowns.
He is always going to be a fantasy game changer.
I’m just keeping it simple.
Andy Barns, give us your fantasy game changer.
Yeah, for me this is Jordan Addison, and he spent the first basically half of his season as a boom bust guy, low volume, occasional big plays.
Over these last 6 weeks, which coincides with Minnesota playing its best football of the season, Addison has been a locked in, must start wide receiver one in those 6 games, 35 catches, 508 yards, 6 touchdowns.
If you extrapolate that level of production over a full season, you get 99 receptions for over 1400 yards, and that’s It’s about a third of a year.
I mean, he’s been playing that well.
When teams attempt to smother Justin Jefferson, Addison invariably goes off.
But even when they balance the coverage, it’s still 8 targets, 5 or 6 catches, good shot at finding the end zone.
Addison delivered one of those early season boom games against Green Bay already had 79 total yards earlier in the season, 2 touchdowns against them.
He certainly has a chance to do something very similar this week in a matchup that delivered 60 total points earlier in the season.
Sal, give me your fantasy game changer in this one.
Yeah, I got to go with Aaron Aaron Jones here.
Aaron Jones is somebody that the Packers didn’t want this offseason.
They chose Josh Jacobs over him.
Most of the fantasy community, including myself, didn’t seem too confident in Aaron Jones based on him falling into the 5th and 6th round of fantasy drafts, and we were more interested in the backups Ty Chandler.
And what does Aaron Jones do?
He laughed at all of us.
He’s now played in every single game this year.
Sure, he’s left for a couple of drives here and there as most running backs do, but he’s averaging over 19.
Opportunities for a game.
He’s averaging over 5 yards per touch, continues to be the same efficient Aaron Jones.
The first time he played the Packers in a revenge game this year, season high 100 or 26 touches, 136 total yards in that game.
He was fantastic.
He’s entering a game with a high total.
They’re at home.
They’re favorite.
Sam Darnold is playing well.
Expect him to move the ball.
Jones to be involved in the passing game in the red zone, everywhere, and for him to top 100 total yards again in 20+ touches.