Are you advancing to the finals of your fantasy football league? If so, there's a good chance you did it the old-fashioned way — through the backfield. When the early slate of games closed on Sunday, was littered with signature performances. , romping for 218 yards and three touchdowns for 39.
8 fantasy points against the Titans. Chuba Hubbard (30.5 fantasy points) was right behind Taylor on the scoresheet, with 152 rushing yards and two scores, including .
Saquon Barkley (27 points), James Conner (24.6 points before getting hurt), Jahmyr Gibbs (23.4 points) and Bijan Robinson (23.
3 points), those stars were in the highlights all day. The hit rate has been absurdly high. When that early window was completed, nine of the top 11 running backs in play had exceeded their projected fantasy score (we'll squeeze in James Cook, who topped his projection before the half of his late game).
Only Chase Brown (12.4 points) and Joe Mixon (7.6 points) came in under expectations.
Mind you, there's always room for some quibbling. Derrick Henry (19.9 points) hasn't scored a touchdown in a month.
Conner suffered that knee injury, wrecking what could have been a monstrous game. Gibbs managers love the 27 touches and 154 total yards, but maybe they're a little greedy — they'd like more than one touchdown. The Lions were kind enough to steer a touchdown to all four of their plausible skill-position starters.
Even some of the sleeper and quasi-sleeper plays came home. Gus Edwards punched in two .
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