Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to this week’s action and pick a pair of players who can lift fantasy managers to victory. 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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Let’s toss it to our keys to winning, presented by Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL.
And of course, as it always is our keys to winning this week here in week 10 is to pick a couple of players that are gonna just be fantastic in your flex spot.
This week, you give me your first key to winning player this week.
It’s time to fire up your Khalil Shakir if you’ve been hesitant and not been rolling him out.
Now is the time the Buffalo receiving corps has been very intriguing since the arrival of Amari Cooper.
Um Shakir has been very steady despite his very solid involvement in the offense, fantasy managers, it feels like they’re just kind of hesitant to view him as a must start.
But now is the time, uh we’ve got Coleman and Cooper, both dealing with injuries.
Shakir should be the clear wide receiver one in an excellent match up against a struggling Indianapolis defense here.
We’ve got shaker with the most reliable hands in the league.
This could be the perfect alignment for him to finally achieve that, that true wide receiver one up side that, that, you know, is just kind of tapped somewhere in there.
I like it.
I know it.
I feel it in my bones that that upside is there and I’m very excited to see it.
Uh I’ll pick another slot receiver, definitely a route running type of player here for my key to winning player.
And that is Chargers wide receiver, Lad mcconkie.
Yeah, I I know Josh Palmer Quentin Johnson, those guys got in the end zone last week but make no mistake.
Ladd mcconkie is still the top receiver on this team.
Uh the volume data routes run target tree, all of that points to that way.
I love the way the offense is uh functioning.
I love the way lad mcconkie is being deployed and I love the way Justin Herbert’s playing.
There’s a lot of love for me for the L A Chargers right now.
And yeah, it, it, it seems like an on paper, tough matchup with this titan defense.
But if you really dig into some of the data, uh teams have been much more willing to pass on them than they’ve been to run on them.
And I think that’s the way the Chargers will approach this one, especially with the slot receiver matchup.
And Ladd mcconkie probably not gonna get a lot of uh tough coverage from the outside cornerback.
So Ladd mcconkie definitely a key to winning player this week along with Khalil.
Absolutely love these two separators here for, for this particular segment.