Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to Week 2 of the season 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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And for week two, our key to winning is picking guys that are gonna make the difference in your Flex spot.
So Tara give me the name of one player.
The fantasy managers might be debating starting this week, putting in that final starting Flex spot, but are actually worth it and they gotta get him in their lineup this week.
You know, I was actually debating a lot here as well and spoiler alert, I was debating between the guy that, uh that you chose for your start of the week.
Yeah, so I’m with you on that one, but Tony Pollard is the one that I turned to.
I want us to lean into Pollard this week based off what he did last week, but also lean into Pollard because I think that even if they increase the volume of Taj Spears, Pollard is still going to be RB one with plenty of volume in this offense.
And when we’re looking at this matchup, I think that they’re going to want to aggressively rely on the ground game, especially in this matchup.
You don’t want to attack through the air.
If they rely on this ground game and push, they could see, you know, a decent amount of volume from him.
Maybe a couple of goal line opportunities here and Pollard will continue to have strong production, very worthy of a flex spot here.
I like that call.
I’m also gonna go with a running back sort of in the same range and I’ll go with Naji Harris.
Pittsburgh Steelers in week 1, 20 of the carries of the 41 total for the Pittsburgh Steelers went to Naji Harris.
It was almost 50%.
Uh, he had two targets in the passing game as well.
He had 38 snaps by far led the backfield even if Cordell Patterson snuck in there a little bit.
So I think if you’re looking to break ties in favor of some of these running backs, like I like the Tony Pollard call, I think that Naji Harris is probably a guy that should be in your RB two range for Fantasy rankings this week.
Definitely somebody I am trying to get in my lineup.