A Day May Come When Travis Kelce Fails, But It Is Not This Day – Fantasy Games Won Week 5 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Week 1.

An hour of wolves and shattered wallets when the Age of Travis Kelce comes crashing down, but it is not this day! Today we fight!

By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, people that drafted a 33 year old tight end in round 2!

(The soldiers draw swords.)

(The hobbits, barely able to walk after having drafted Najee Harris, start climbing Mount Doom.)

Housekeeping

• Slight update this week to the replacement factor – reduced it a bit. Realized that replacement factor/penalty should probably shrink the longer a player is sitting, but haven’t done that analysis yet.
• Found an error that was taking the public % started even when expert rankings dropped the player off rank lists. Helped out Alvin Kamara a lot.

Who Won Week 5?

• Austin Ekeler taking to week 4 to get started. He’s an Ent.
• This will probably be best Tight End week until the random George Kittle Game later this year.
• That sound you heard was the forehead of every Josh Jacobs owner from 2019-2021 hitting the table.
• Justin Jefferson was on pace for 28 catches in a game after the first quarter.
• Meanwhile Gabe Davis was on pace for roughly 1200 yards and 12 touchdowns after the first five minutes. It was to spite me for saying, 5 minutes before the game started, something like “Gabe Davis 13 projected points? Silly Yahoo!”
• Kelce stealing all his points from CEH and the rest of the Legion of Last Names.
• Damien Harris, only 1.7. Less than half of what I’d hoped for.
• Russell Wilson, 9.16. More than half of what I’d hoped for…
• AJ Brown with his first dud. How are the Eagles 5-0? Miles Sanders doing his best Ricky Watters impression.
• Jared Goff doing his best Jared Goff impression.
• If Tee Higgins doesn’t play in a game, it feels like Ja’Marr Chase is going to get like 15 catches.

Leaderboards

• Josh Allen makes Josh McCown look like Josh Rosen.
• Cooper Kupp making Marvin Harrison look like Marvin Jones.
• Saquon Barkley making Charles Barkley look like Gnarls Barkley.
• Don’t look now but Derrick Henry is #2 in FGW over the last 3 weeks, behind only Kelce. They’re lighting the beacons.
• Josh Jacobs? Where was Josh Jacobs when the Westfold fell? Where was Josh Jacobs when our 2021 opponents closed in around us?
• Najee Harris, I summon you to fulfill your oath! As a first round pick!
• If Kyle Pits gets LVP, we’re renaming the award.
• Russell Wilson isn’t just the cringiest player in the league, he’s also the fantasy LVP (so far).

• Overheard in a fantasy league this past weekend:
  Dalvin Cook owner: “The team with Najee…nedin dagor hen u-‘erir ortheri. Natha daged dhaer!”
  Jonathan Taylor owner: “Then I shall die as one of them!”

The Full List

• Just in case you were feeling good about yourself, there are teams out there with Cooper Kupp, Josh Allen, and Mark Andrews.

Whelp, gotta go – almost first light of the fifth day and I have an appointment with some horselords. But for everyone that drafted Jonathan Taylor and Javonte Williams 1-2, just remember that we’re all going down in this ship together. It’s been a privilege and an honor.

I bid you good luck in Week 6!

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