Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens discuss how Jameis Winston is a viable fantasy option who can support multiple receivers each week. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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The headliner fantasy wise for this week is probably what we got from the Browns offense and, and Jameis Winston Winston with over 300 yards, three touchdowns.
It wasn’t as clean a game as the box score will look like, right, like there were, you know, there’s a dropped interception in this one.
There were some balls that I don’t even know where Je was going with them, but that’s just, that’s part of the experience.
Um If you’re, if you’re new to fantasy football and you’re just getting your first taste of the Jameis Winston experience, it’s, it’s not always this good, but it’s always this fun.
Um Yeah, buckle up.
Um but you know, it would have taken, I mean, it was taking Deshaun Watson like three games to put together the stat line that Jameis did today against Baltimore and obviously Baltimore had banged up secondary today.
There were some issues there.
Jameis is clearly somebody who can support multiple start receivers in any given week.
Um You know, and Joko comes through for us, Jerry Judy even makes some noise again til in the big day.
So they have a, they have a bunch of really tough matchups coming up like they, they, um, you know, they got, they still have Pittsburgh coming up twice.
It’s just nothing but difficult defense.
I think they have the Chargers next week.
Right.
So it’s not, they don’t have any easy opponents for the next like, month and a half and they’ve got to buy in there too.
But man, um, J Jameis is gonna chuck the ball downfield and they have some playmakers.
So that’s a, that’s a pretty frisky offense 9.7 air yards per completion for Jameis Winston at, according to Nextgen stats like that is the Jameis Winston experience.
He’s gonna push the ball downfield and like these guys are good players, man, that’s what’s been crazy about this.
Like Elijah Moore is good.
I I’ve seen it with my eyes.
I know he can get open.
Uh, you know, Jerry Judy is Jerry Judy.
He’s, he’s been an overrated player at certain points in his NFL career, but he’s not like dust, ok?
And Cedric Tillman, man, Cedric Tillman is just, he was, you could tell that this, this team was trying to get him on the field even during the off-season.
They talked about, well, maybe we’ll play him over Elijah Moore, one of these guys or something like that.
And then it just kinda, it’s kinda clear like he can only not, he can only, but he primarily should be playing ex receiver, which is Amari Cooper’s role, but it’s clear that this team believed in him and liked what they saw and you see it out here.
I, I feel so good about my Courtland Sutton comparison.
People seem to hate this.
Courtland Sutton comparison.
Um, maybe I need to say pre ac L Courtland Sutton to make everybody feel better about it.