– Where’s All the Scoring?
By Steven Van Tassell (@SteveVT33)
Even though I’m not doing a weekly recap article, I went with the title that likely would have been the title for a Week 6 recap article for this week’s preview article. It works for both as last week was very low scoring in the NFL and Dynasty Owner. Only two NFL teams scored 30 or more points in Week 6 (Dolphins and Jaguars) with 30 teams playing. In Week 5, there were seven teams with 30 or more points out of 28 teams playing. The fewest in the first four weeks was six teams with 30 or more points in Week 3, while 10 teams scored at least that many points in Week 2.
In Dynasty Owner, I didn’t see a team with over 200.0 points in Week 6. The highest I saw among the teams in the Chase for the Ring was 191.55 points and the most scored by a team in my personal Dynasty Owner leagues was 170.43 by Yorkshire Roses in beta league #3 (League #27483). Did anyone score over 200.0 points last week or see a team in one of their Dynasty Owner leagues with that many points? Take a screenshot of it and send it over to me on Twitter/X (@SteveVT33) so I can retweet it and share it with other Dynasty Owners.
Lower scoring is likely this week with six NFL teams on bye (Cincinnati, Carolina, Dallas, Houston, New York Jets, Tennessee). None of the top 10 players in Dynasty Owner scoring are on bye, but Christian McCaffrey ($16,015,875) is sixth and likely to miss Week 7 with an injury. The only top 25 players on bye are C.J. Stroud ($9,069,811), Adam Thielen ($8,333,333) and Ja’Marr Chase ($7,704,910). Adam Thielen is in the top 20 scorers in all of Dynasty Owner after six weeks, which is a crazy stat. However, plenty of Dynasty Owners will be missing players from their Starting lineup and have to use Bench players as Starters and Practice Squad players (if they have them) on their Bench this week. That should depress scoring a little bit more than usual.
Regardless, Week 6 was a low-scoring anomaly with only 551 points scored across 15 NFL games (36.7 points per game on average). In contrast, NFL teams scored 706 points back in Week 3 when Miami defeated Denver by a score of 70-20. That’s an average of 44.1 points per game. And that wasn’t even the highest scoring week. Week 2 had 796 points for an average of 49.75 points per game.
Individual players may score more or less than average, and this article is the place where you’ll find players who I predict will exceed or fall short of those scoring projections. Every week in this weekly preview article, I’ll present a player at each position (QB, RB, WR, TE) who you should have as a Starter in your Dynasty Owner lineup. These won’t be the obvious choices. No recommendations to go ahead and start Tyreek Hill ($30,000,000), Josh Allen ($43,005,667), or Tua Tagovailoa ($7,568,859) who are the top three scoring players in Dynasty Owner after six weeks and separated by just 4.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points. Other players who are rostered in 100% (or nearly 100%) of Dynasty Owner leagues with low ADPs and have scored lots of Dynasty Owner fantasy points won’t be mentioned either. Instead, I’m going to recommend you Start players outside the top players at their position, players drafted to be on your Bench or Practice Squad, or players who aren’t on a roster in every Dynasty Owner league.
After that, I’ll name one player per position who should be on your Bench or Practice Squad. For these Bench recommendations, it’s just the opposite. I’ll suggest players doing well so far, drafted early in Dynasty Owner startup drafts to be Starters, and also projected in the top 12 (QBs and TEs) or top 36 (RBs and WRs) in scoring this year. This section is where you might see some surprising players appear. However, the recommended Bench players shouldn’t be in your Starting lineup for the week based on matchups, past performance against a team or something else.
All stats cited are based on the Standard Dynasty Owner scoring system as outlined in the Dynasty Owner Constitution. Standard Dynasty Owner scoring gives you .1 points for every yard rushing or receiving, .1 point for every 2 yards passing, 1 point per reception, 6 points for a rushing, receiving or passing touchdown and 2 points for a successful 2-point conversion (rushing, receiving, or passing). Interceptions or fumbles lost cost you 3 points, while a fumble that is recovered by the player’s team is a loss of only 1 point. Bonus points are available for 100-199 yards rushing (2 points), 200 yards rushing or receiving (6 points), 300-399 yards passing (1 point) and 400 yards passing (4 points). There is also a 3 point bonus for clutch scoring, which is a score that results in a lead change in the final two minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime. Kickoff and punt return touchdowns are worth 6 points for the player and kickoff and punt returns are worth 1 point for every 40 yards.
Any salaries, ADPs and roster percentages listed were current as of the morning of October 19th. All 2023 contract information is currently what is listed on the Dynasty Owner platform (number of years and salaries) and has been taken from Spotrac (https://www.spotrac.com/).
Dynasty Owner Player of the Week
Before we get into Week 7, let’s look at Week 6 and announce the Dynasty Owner Player of the Week. For the fourth week in a row, we have a first-time winner. We also have the winner with the fewest number of Dynasty Owner fantasy points in history. It also marks the first time that teammates at the same position have been the Player of the Week in the same season and the first time that we’ve had three players on the same team win the award in one season. If you haven’t figured it out yet, the winner for Week 7 is Raheem Mostert.
Mostert won even though he “only” had 36.2 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (115 rushing yards, 3 receptions, 17 receiving yards, 3 TDs). That’s the lowest number of Dynasty Owner fantasy points for a Player of the Week, which is fitting for a low scoring week. Mostert is the second Miami Dolphins RB to win this award this season as De’Von Achane ($1,359,362) was the winner in Week 3. In addition, Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill won the Week 1 award. Now that Achane is injured and with the prolific nature of the Dolphins’ offense this season, it’s possible that we could see a fourth Dolphins player being the Player of the Week later on. After all, Tua Tagovailoa hasn’t won yet despite being the overall #3 player in Dynasty Owner so far this season, having won this award once before in 2022 and QBs having won the award more times than the other positions combined.
Week 6 Points: 36.2
2023 Salary: $2,800,000
Cost per Point: $77,348
Dynasty Owner Value Player of the Week
Because this is Dynasty Owner and we’re all looking for value from the players on our roster, we also have the Value Player of the Week. While we have a new winner for this season, it’s a familiar name as we have someone who won this award three times last season. That’s right, our Value Player of the Week is Amon-Ra St. Brown.
This was the first week of the season in which neither Brock Purdy ($934,252) nor Puka Nacua ($1,021,244) had double-digit Dynasty Owner fantasy points, so it was time for someone else to finally win again. St. Brown stepped into the void with his best game of the season and the third best performance of the week with 30.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (12 receptions, 124 receiving yards, 1 TD).
St. Brown didn’t win his first Value Player of the Week award until last season even though he had four weeks with over 25.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points and five weeks with over 20.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points back in his rookie season of 2021. Last year, he broke through with three Value Player of the Week wins and now he has his fourth one. That puts him in a tie with Aaron Jones ($12,000,000) who won it four times in the 2019 and 2020 seasons when his salary was just $650,484. With Purdy and Nacua having down weeks, Amon-Ra picked a good week for a great performance to win his fourth all-time Value Player of the Week award.
Week 6 Points: 30.4
2023 Salary: $1,066,313
Cost per Point: $35,076
These Guys Should be Starters This Week
Before we get into the weekly recommendations, I always look at how my previous week’s recommendations did (Good, Bad or Just Ok) and give a recap. Week 6 was a low scoring week and three out of my four recommendations fell in line and didn’t score many points. Let’s find out how each one of them did.
QB: Dak Prescott ($40,000,000) – 29.6 (Good recommendation)
RB: Kenneth Gainwell ($953,882) – 2.7 (Bad recommendation)
WR: Darnell Mooney ($894,263) – 6.8 (Bad recommendation)
TE: Cade Otton ($1,123,486) – 2.5 (Bad recommendation)
For the fifth week in a row, I only had exactly one Good recommendation. It took until Monday night, but Dak Prescott had 29.6 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (272 passing yards, 40 rushing yards, 2 TDs) to finish as QB3 for the week. The other three recommendations were Bad.
The best of the three Bad recommendations was Darnell Mooney who had 6.8 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (2 receptions for 48 receiving yards). I can’t blame Mooney’s performance on the injury suffered by Justin Fields ($4,717,989) as Mooney had just 1 reception for 39 receiving yards with Fields in the game for a little over a half. Both Kenneth Gainwell and Cade Otton had similar performances of under 3.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points. Gainwell had a season low three touches and only 2.7 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (13 rushing yards, 1 reception, 4 receiving yards). Cade Otton did slightly worse with just 2.5 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (1 reception for 15 receiving yards) on just two targets.
It’s time to start having more than one Good weekly Starting lineup recommendation. Here are the players who I think will be worth having in your Starting lineup in Week 7.
Desmond Ridder (QB – ATL): Look who’s improving after a poor start to the 2023 season. It’s Desmond Ridder ($1,340,740), that’s who. Ridder has thrown for over 300 yards in each of the past two weeks and scored 32.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (329 passing yards, 10 rushing yards, 2 TDs, 1 2-pt. conversion) versus the Texans and 21.1 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (307 passing yards, 18 rushing yards, 2 TDs, 3 INTs) versus the Commanders.
The Buccaneers aren’t allowing an average of 300 yards passing per game, but it’s close (265.0 yards passing per game) and they did just give up 353 passing yards and 30.9 Dynasty Owner fantasy points to Jared Goff ($33,500,000) last week. That yardage average is also a bit low because they faced Derek Carr ($37,500,000) a week after his AC joint injury, and he only threw for 127 yards against them.
Ridder probably won’t finish in the top 5, but all I need is a top 12 performance. That was only 19.1 Dynasty Owner fantasy points last week and with six teams on bye is likely to be in the same range this week. Ridder is averaging nearly that many Dynasty Owner fantasy points per week (17.3). That combination of factors, plus the fact that several backup QBs are likely to be starting in Week 7, gives me confidence that Ridder is worth having in your Dynasty Owner Starting lineup this week.
Roschon Johnson (RB – CHI): With so many starting RBs out with injuries, this should be a pretty easy pick. However, I’m not sure who will lead the Rams’ backfield against the Steelers, or if Jordan Mason ($856,667) or Elijah Mitchell ($915,892) will play the most for the 49ers against the Vikings. Out of all of them, I have the most confidence in Mason. Not enough to make him my RB recommendation this week though.
Instead, I’ll pick Roschon Johnson ($1,152,172) from the Bears and throw in a caveat that this pick becomes D’Onta Foreman ($2,000,000) if Johnson doesn’t make it out of the concussion protocol in time to play in Week 7. Johnson didn’t play last week, and Foreman had 6.7 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (65 rushing yards, 1 reception, 2 receiving yards, 1 fumble) would as the Bears’ starting RB in his place.
Johnson had a great Week 1 with 17.5 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (20 rushing yards, 6 receptions, 35 receiving yards, 1 TD) and then followed that performance up with just 17.5 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (102 rushing yards, 5 receptions, 23 receiving yards) in the next four games.
The Raiders have allowed an average of 12.7 Dynasty Owner fantasy points to their opponent’s starting RB this season. Regardless of who the Bears starting QB is in Week 7, I expect lots of checkdowns and running plays so whoever the Bears starter is at RB should get the ball in his hands a lot and score at least double-digit Dynasty owner fantasy points. That’s enough to make either Johnson (or Foreman) worth having in your Starting lineup.
Wan’Dale Robinson (WR – NYG): Follow the targets. That’s what I’m doing here. In the four games he’s played this season, Wan’Dale Robinson has been targeted 25 times by Giants’ QBs. It’s been a steady diet of targets in all four games with five being the fewest in Week 3 and eight being the most last week. The eight targets produced his first double-digit Dynasty Owner fantasy point week of the season with 14.2 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (8 receptions for 62 receiving yards).
With that many targets, you’d think Robinson would be ranked higher than WR70 for the season. He has only played in four games, but even if you take his per game average of 9.2 Dynasty Owner fantasy points per game and pretend he’s played all six games, he’d still only be WR50 for the season.
Robinson’s health hasn’t been the greatest so far in his career as he’s only played 10 out of 23 NFL games in his 1+ seasons in the NFL and he didn’t practice on Wednesday so this recommendation could end up being N/A (Not Applicable) if he doesn’t suit up against the Commanders this week. However, I’m going to roll with it and hope that Robinson does play because he’ll likely play well and be worth having in your Week 7 Starting lineup.
Luke Musgrave (TE – GB): While Sam LaPorta ($2,366,498) has rightfully gotten a lot of attention for his TE2 start to the 2023 season, Luke Musgrave ($2,118,933) has quietly been a pretty large part of the Green Bay Packers’ offense. He’s third on the team in targets (23) and fourth in targets per game (4.6), which compensates for the fact that Christian Watson ($2,310,258) missed the first three games of the season. Musgrave has played almost twice as many snaps as any other TE on the Packers’ roster, despite suffering a concussion in Week 4 and being held to only 1.1 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (1 reception for 1 receiving yard) on a single target. In his place, Josiah Deguara ($1,136,942) had 7.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (4 receptions for 34 receiving yards).
Musgrave has yet to score a TD, but he has put up three solid weeks with 10.9 Dynasty Owner fantasy points in Week 3, 9.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points in Week 5, and 8.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points in Week 1. Now, Musgrave gets to face the Denver Broncos’ defense that is the only one to have allowed over 100.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points to TEs this season and 27.6 Dynasty Owner fantasy points to another NFC North TE, Cole Kmet ($1,894,445) in Week 4. Yes, Denver’s defense has played better since giving up 70 points to the Dolphins, but they still got lit up by Travis Kelce ($14,312,500) to the tune of 21.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (9 receptions for 124 receiving yards). Musgrave isn’t likely to put up Kelce numbers in Week 7, but half of that would be 10.7 Dynasty Owner fantasy points and enough to make him a top 12 TE.
The final reason for getting Musgrave into your Dynasty Owner starting lineup comes from the team’s coaching staff. It’s a good thing when your offensive coordinator is saying “He’s one of those guys that we need to find ways to get more involved for sure.” I’m happy to have guys who the coaches are actively trying to get involved more in the offense in my Starting lineup and other Dynasty Owners should do the same thing.
These Guys Should Be on the Bench (or Practice Squad) This Week
Now it’s the time to look at how each of my Bench recommendations from Week 6 worked out (Good, Bad or Just Ok) and see if they were low-scoring enough to be Good recommendations.
QB: C.J. Stroud ($9,069,811) – 19.1 (Just Ok recommendation)
RB: Jerome Ford ($995,537) – 11.1 (Just Ok recommendation)
WR: DeVonta Smith ($5,035,348) – 9.4 (Good recommendation)
TE: Sam LaPorta ($2,366,498) – 7.6 (Good recommendation)
For the most part, they were as none scored 20.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points, and none were Bad recommendations. I had two Just Ok and two Good recommendations for just the second week of the season, along with Week 1, with no Bad recommendations.
Both DeVonta Smith and Sam LaPorta fell short of 10.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points on 11 targets and were Good recommendations. It took Smith a season-high in targets to even reach 9.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (5 receptions for 44 receiving yards). That left him well outside the top 24 WRs and even outside of the top 36 WRs to be a FLEX starter. There were enough TEs with 10.0 or more Dynasty Owner fantasy points to make it the bar for a Starting lineup TE. LaPorta didn’t reach the bar with just 7.6 Dynasty Owner fantasy points on his 11 targets.
Both Stroud and Ford were Just Ok Bench recommendations as they finished as the lowest of low end Starters in Week 7. Stroud had 19.1 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (199 passing yards, 2 rushing yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT). In a low-scoring week with just four QBs having more than 25.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points, you may have thought that 19.1 would be enough to make it a Bad recommendation, but there were quite a few QBs in the 20.0 to 25.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy point range to make Stroud finish as QB12 for the week. Finally, Jerome Ford had fewer Dynasty Owner fantasy points with 11.1 (84 rushing yards, 2 receptions, 7 receiving yards) than his teammate Kareem Hunt ($1,350,000) who had 16.1 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (47 rushing yards, 3 receptions, 24 receiving yards, 1 TD). However, Browns fans don’t care that their team worked Hunt more into the offense at Ford’s expense and caused Ford to be a low-end RB2. They are just happy that the Browns won.
The split in Week 6 still leaves me with a majority (54%) of Good Bench recommendations. Hopefully I can keep it up with these recommendations of low-scoring players to leave on your Dynasty Owner Bench for Week 7.
Kirk Cousins (QB – MIN): The first week for Kirk Cousins ($35,000,000) and the Minnesota Vikings without Justin Jefferson ($3,280,701) didn’t go so great offensively. They only had 220 yards of total offense, 12 first downs and were 2 for 13 (15.4%) in third down efficiency. And that was against the Chicago Bears defense!
Cousins and the Vikings don’t catch a break in Week 7 as the 49ers arrive in Minnesota for Monday Night Football and are likely a bit upset at losing in Week 6 to the Browns. The 49ers’ defense is in the top half of the NFL in passing yards allowed per game (215.7) and has allowed less than a passing TD per game (5 passing TDs in 6 games played).
After a hot start to the 2023 season, Cousins has only averaged 16.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points and 201.3 yards passing per game in his past three games. He seems unlikely to do much better than that against the 49ers, especially without his best offensive weapon. The 49ers also do a good job against opposing TEs and could limit T.J. Hockenson’s ($9,392,000) production and challenge one of the other skill position players on the Vikings to step it up.
Cousins will probably have another pedestrian performance in Week 7 and score around the same number of Dynasty Owner fantasy points that he’s been averaging over the past three games. That won’t be good enough for your Dynasty Owner Starting lineup, so get Kirk on your Bench if you have another healthy QB who’s not on bye (or usually a backup).
Rachaad White (RB – TB): So far this season, Rachaad White ($1,282,500) has had three games with fewer than 10.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points, one game with 10.8 Dynasty Owner fantasy points and his big Week 2 when he had 21.3 Dynasty Owner fantasy points. All total, he has 52.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points and ranks as RB25 for the season. Taking injuries and bye weeks into account, he is a clear mid-range RB2 (RB17) in Week 7. It’s kind of a perfect display of the running back situation in 2023 that White is a mid-range RB2 with only one really good game so far.
The Buccaneers get to play Atlanta this week and during Arthur Smith’s tenure as Falcons head coach, no Buccaneers RB, including Leonard Fournette ($7,000,000) has run for more than 56 yards against them. Fournette had 35.9 Dynasty Owner fantasy points in Week 5 last year, but that was built on 10 receptions for 83 receiving yards and 2 TDs, not his 56 rushing yards. Similarly, this year’s Falcons defense is allowing 3.7 yards per carry, hasn’t given up more than 80 yards to a single RB in a game and held Washington to 72 yards rushing last week.
White is going to need volume to get enough yards to be a Starting RB for your Dynasty Owner team and he only got seven carries last week against the Lions, while Ke’Shawn Vaughn ($1,188,999) also carried the ball six times. Does that mean more carries in the future for Vaughn, or was it a one-time only event? I’m not sure and with White not performing up to expectations this season (ADP 58.2), it’s fair to be worried about his usage and production against Atlanta given the Buccaneers’ recent history. Leave White on your Dynasty Owner Bench this week and hopefully you have a better option available.
George Pickens (WR – PIT): The potential return of Diontae Johnson ($18,355,000) plus a matchup against the Los Angeles Rams who are surprisingly stout against the passing game in general (upper half of NFL defenses in passing yards allowed) and WRs in particular, could equal a subpar Week 7 game for George Pickens ($1,688,045). The Rams have allowed just 64 receptions for 790 receiving yards and 1 TD against WRs this season, which ranks them in the top 5 best defenses against WRs.
Johnson had a full practice on Wednesday and seems ready to come back after spending four games on Injured Reserve. This is good news for the Steelers’ offense, but bad news for Dynasty Owners with Pickens. The Steelers aren’t really well equipped offensively (Blame Canada!) to support two fantasy relevant WRs as they are averaging less than 200 yards (187.8) passing and 20 completions (19.6) per game. Both are sixth worst in the NFL.
Pickens has been very good this season and ranks as WR23 despite having a bye last week. He has two games with over 20.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points with over 100 receiving yards and a TD. That’s unlikely to happen this week with the return of Johnson so temper your expectations and leave Pickens on your Dynasty Owner Bench.
Evan Engram (TE – JAC): Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence ($9,198,372) is hurt. He might still play or C.J. Beathard ($2,250,000) might be under center tonight (Thursday) for Jacksonville against a good New Orleans defense. It’s ironic that the Jaguars are playing against the Saints as the Saints were in a similar situation with Derek Carr ($37,500,000) a couple of weeks ago. Carr ended up playing, but only giving his Dynasty Owner 3.4 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (127 passing yards, 1 rushing yard, 1 lost fumble) against Tampa Bay. The Saints should have started Jameis Winston ($4,000,000) instead.
What does this have to do with Evan Engram ($13,750,000) and why is Lawrence not listed above as your Bench QB? Good questions! Let’s start with Lawrence. He’s been average all year and honestly, will probably do what he’s been doing and score between 18.0 and 23.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points, just like he’s done in five out of six games this season. Engram is a different story even though his play has been similar and pretty consistent.
Engram relies on getting 7-8 targets per week from Lawrence as he’s yet to score a TD this season. He’s turning those targets into an average of 6 receptions and 50 receiving yards per game, which is 11.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points. Even a slight decline in his targets could result in a reduction big enough to drop him into being a high-end Bench option. Tight ends are averaging just 5.2 targets, 3.2 receptions and 28.5 receiving yards per game against the Saints. Those averages equal about 6.0 Dynasty Owner fantasy points per game. If we even split the difference, it’s 8.5 Dynasty Owner fantasy points per game. Either way, Engram would likely be outside the top 12 TEs and should be on your Bench.
I’m more confident in Lawrence getting his average than Engram, so I’m recommending that you Bench Engram in Dynasty Owner. You can Bench Lawrence as well if you have a better option at QB. However, with six teams on bye and most of those starting QBs have a firm hold on their starting position, some Dynasty Owners may not have another option. They should at TE and use that player if they can.
Free Agent Auction Targets Update
Now it’s time to recap the players recommended in Jay’s weekly Free Agent Auction targets article and see how much their Dynasty Owner roster percentage has increased since the start of Week 7. Even after a low-scoring Week 6, Jay still found five players to recommend picking up, even though his top pick has a Week 7 bye.
There have been two Free Agent Auction runs already this week – Wednesday at 5 AM (Eastern) and Thursday at 5 AM (Eastern), so some Dynasty Owners have had two chances to go pick up these guys in the Free Agent Auction. Hope you bid enough if you wanted to get them!
| Player | Position | Team | Salary | Week 6 Roster % | Current Roster % | Change |
| Malik Willis | QB | TEN | $1,290,025 | 79.69% | 80.84% | 1.15% |
| Tyson Bagent | QB | CHI | $906,667 | 8.43% | 68.97% | 60.54% |
| Craig Reynolds | RB | DET | $1,080,000 | 42.15% | 67.05% | 24.90% |
| Kendrick Bourne | WR | NE | $5,000,000 | 65.90% | 70.88% | 4.98% |
| Chris Rodriguez | RB | WAS | $1,004,422 | 77.39% | 77.01% | -0.38% |
We have the most picked up player off the Free Agent Auction so far this season and his name is Tyson Bagent. There’s no shame if you hadn’t heard his name before this week as he’s an undrafted rookie free agent QB who played Division II college football at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Last year, he threw for 296 yards and 3 TDs (plus had a 1-yard rushing TD) in a 47-14 victory against West Chester (PA) on October 22nd. This year, on October 22nd, he’ll likely be the Bears starting QB versus the Las Vegas Raiders at Soldier Field. Good luck to Tyson and all of the Dynasty Owners who grabbed him off the Free Agent Auction and seemingly plan on using him at least on their Bench in Week 7 with only 26 starting QBs available. I was not that brave, or desperate depending on your opinion.
Dynasty Owners finally are warming up to Craig Reynolds who made his first appearance in Jay’s Week 6 article, but was only picked up in 6.13% of Dynasty Owner leagues for last week’s games. He was picked up in four times as many leagues over the past two days (24.90%) after this week’s appearance on Jay’s list.
Kendrick Bourne has steadily moved up in roster percentage and is finally now rostered in over 70% of Dynasty Owner leagues after his nearly five percentage point increase over the past two days. That’s what scoring 19.3 Dynasty Owner fantasy points (10 receptions, 89 receiving yards, 4 rushing yards) will do for you.
Lastly, few Dynasty Owner picked up Malik Willis, and Chris Rodriguez was dropped in more leagues than he was picked up in. For both, it’s likely because they were only available in barely over 20% of Dynasty Owner leagues. Willis is on bye in Week 7 and none of the RBs ahead of Rodriguez in Washington got hurt last week, so he might not be in line for more playing time quite yet. Both are affordable Practice Squad stashes if you have a roster spot and enough salary cap room to make it work. Happy bidding and hope everyone got who they wanted, even guys not on Jay’s list, in the Free Agent Auction.
Match-Up of the Week and Chase for the Ring Leaderboard
Are you missing the Dynasty Owner Match-Up of the Week and Chase for the Ring standings that used to appear here? It was back over on Twitter/X for Week 6 and if you follow me there (@SteveVT33), you may have seen it. I got one match-up for Week 6 and used it, but need another one for Week 7, even if it’s projected to be low scoring.
The updated Chase for the Ring Leaderboard will also be posted on Twitter/X as well even though anyone can access it at https://app.dynastyowner.com/chase-for-the-ring. Check it out before things change during the Thursday Night Football game since the leaderboard is live and can change at any time. That means your team name could pop up in the top 100 during the game.
Slightly longer versions of the Match-up of the Week and the Chase for the Ring Leaderboard will also appear on the Dynasty Owner thread on Reddit, as well as Facebook and Instagram on occasion. Plus, the Chase for the Ring leaderboard Top 10 will definitely appear in a weekly newsletter sent out on Fridays by Dynasty Owner.
Conclusion
I’m looking for some low scoring Dynasty Owner games this week because of the bye weeks. Not sure about the NFL games though. Dynasty Owners need to do their best to fill out a complete Starting lineup and Bench to maximize your points for the week. The Bench scoring might even secure you a victory if your weekly match-up is close, but your Bench has a better week than your opponent’s. That’s one of many things that makes Dynasty Owner unique among dynasty fantasy football leagues and platforms.
NFL and Dynasty Owner teams will be back to full strength, or as full as possible with injuries, in Week 8. No NFL teams are on bye. I’ve written this before and likely said it on the Livestream or on a podcast, but I don’t know why there are no Week 8 byes. I understand having no bye weeks for Thanksgiving as the NFL needs enough games to cover all day Sunday in addition to three games on Thanksgiving itself, the new Amazon Prime Friday afternoon game and Monday Night Football. Giving even two teams a bye that week would mean one less game. Why there are no teams on bye in Week 8 and two weeks (Week 6 and Week 14) with two teams on bye and two weeks (Week 7 and Week 14) with six teams on bye is something that I just don’t understand.
If you know why or just want to pass along a crazy theory you have, then feel free to reach out to me or Dynasty Owner on Twitter/X, or post on Facebook, Instagram or Reddit. You can also let your fellow Dynasty Owners know if your Dynasty Owner team is projected to score more points this week than normal or after the Week 7 games are over if you did. You can also mention if Bench scoring made a difference in any of your match-ups or anything else. Please comment in all of those places when this article is published and let everyone know if you like, or dislike, my weekly recommendations, or think you can do better. You can even agree, like the article and add your comments on any of those social media platforms. We appreciate the feedback from our fellow Dynasty Owners.
The Week 7 Free Agent Auction targets article was published on Tuesday and Jay Pounds will be back every Tuesday during the 2023 season with a list of at least five widely available players in Dynasty Owner to help everyone with their Free Agent Auction bids for the first Auction run of the week on Wednesday at 5 AM (Eastern). We also have the weekly Livestream with me and Dynasty Owner CEO Tim Peffer. It’s back to being live this week on Thursday afternoon at 4:00 PM (Eastern). It was at Noon last Thursday and if you missed it or want to see a previous episode, then go watch on the Dynasty Owner YouTube channel.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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