Kellen Winslow, doin’ work (USAT Photographs)
Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know the issues right here, and they don’t seem to be minor. I’m about to push a pair of Jets, which looks as if a terrible fantasy plan — especially in a non-bye week. And these explicit Jets are playing on Thursday night, on the highway, on simply 4 days relaxation. And New York is beginning a rookie quarterback. And there’s rain in the forecast.
It’s not a perfect fantasy scenario, granted. No argument right here. In an eight or 10-staff league, nobody needs to own any Jets.
However, the thought with these Thursday fliers is to find 1-2 broadly obtainable choices (think 35 p.c-owned or much less) for the deep league crowd, guys who have a puncher’s probability at fantasy relevance. I’ll offer you loads of duds here, with the occasional winner. We can’t have a Julius Thomas/Marlon Brown double-success each week. However I’ll attempt.
Let’s test the brand new leads…
Kellen Winslow, TE, NYJ (30 percent owned) — Production at tight end was so ridiculously high in Week 1 that you might have missed Winslow’s glorious Jets debut. He caught seven balls on eight targets, ending with 79 yards and one score. Geno Smith found him on screens, on intermediate routes and in scramble situations. Smith, when given time to survey the sphere, wasn’t a catastrophe. (When not given time, he did some unhealthy things — airmailing passes, retreating into unnecessarily huge losses. It wasn’t a perfect day.) New York only managed two landing passes in opposition to the Patriots last season, however both were caught by tight finish Dustin Keller. The New England protection allowed the fifth-most fantasy factors to tight ends in 2012.
I’ve added Winslow in a pair of leagues this week, as a potential fill-in for the injured Jermichael Finley (toe. IN FACT HE IS HURT ALREADY. Not sure why I anticipated anything completely different.) So this isn’t a kind of situations the place you may accuse me of hyping a participant I am not utilizing myself. Like with this man…
Stephen Hill, WR, NYJ (4 p.c) — Realistically, in the event you’re even thinking about Hill in Week 2, it is as a result of A) you’re involved in a very deep format — a league where forty-plus receivers begin every week — and B) you whiffed on including Edelman, Hankerson and Brown. I am undoubtedly not saying that Hill is a must-start, in all places. However the kid had his moments in New York’s season-opening win, hauling in six passes on 9 targets. (And a couple of those targets have been throw-aways. Hill mainly caught all the things he had an opportunity to catch.) With Jeremy Kerley concussed and dominated out for Thursday, Hill should not lack alternatives against New England. Hill played seventy two snaps in the Jets’ opener, so it’s not like he is an element-timer. The child is 6-foot-4 and he has silly velocity (4.36), so he belongs on the fantasy radar, without query.
fantasy fliers, Week 2: Kellen Winslow and Stephen Hill
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