Reactions of Fantasy Football Week 7 and early departure of Week 8: Can you trust Deshaun Watson and these Texans?

Lamar Miller scored and has 100 yards. In Jacksonville. Against the Jaguars.

What??!??!?!?

In what may be the most unpredictable performance of the week, the Texans walked around Jacksonville, then in the middle of the Jaguars' defense. We feared a bad game from Deshaun Watson, and he did not do well, but that's because the Texans were able to run in one way or another. Of the 22 Miller races, 12 scored four yards or more. He played consistently and, despite the lack of important breakaway games, played well.

Well at least better than he had done in the week – Miller has amassed 105 yards in the last three games combined!

But it is this performance that has raised many concerns of Fantasy Football.

Miller may be an unlikely fantasy hero, but that certainly does not prevent him from playing at home against the Dolphins running defenseman on Thursday. Miami just made Kerryon Johnson look like Barry Sanders this week and Tarik Cohen was Walter Payton the week before. The Texans do not have half-heroes in the history of their franchise, so the best thing we can hope for is that Miller plays as Arian Foster during the eighth week. Then he will have Denver in the ninth week! If you need a two-week race solution, go get Miller. It should not be expensive in a trade.

Miller's good game, however, was to hide the bad game of Deshaun Watson, his second in three weeks. Watson completed only half of his 24 passes for 139 yards with a cool touchdown to DeAndre Hopkins his only score. He had 21 yards on five runs before putting two knees down to finish the match, so at least he rushed a bit more than last week. But it was supposed to be the quarterback who would give us fantastic fantastic points – now he's gone small in consecutive games.

And he was so hurt at the beginning of week 7 that he had to take a bus to Jacksonville instead of risking suffering during the flight of the team. Will he even be able to travel to Denver in Week 9 ?! It will be risky to launch Watson against the Dolphins during the short week. Fortunately, this year is the one of Fantasy shifts, so finding a replacement for one to three weeks always should not require a lot of work or money.

If Watson stinks, should he not darken the expectations of his recipients? Hopkins is simply too good to sit, but even he was not immune to Watson's hesitant passes and Jaguars' pass defense, capturing 3 of 8 targets for 50 yards. . Thank you my God for the touch! Will Fuller led the Texans with 68 yards on six catches but none of his wins were on deep passes – his longest reception was 18 yards (on a long pass). He had another catcher-race for 20 yards that was recalled by a penalty. Hopkins could become a good sell (keep it if you can not get a big ransom), while Fuller will be a risky starter until Watson starts playing.

And then there is the defense of the Jaguars. Admittedly, they were put in difficult situations because of Blake Bortles turnovers in the first half, but they still allowed more than 100 yards in the race for the second week in a row and more than 10 Fantasy points score half -offensive for the third week in a row. row. Could it be that they are not as dangerous as we thought? The Eagles will test them during the 8th week before a break, so we may not have an idea of ​​the quality of this defense / the degree of regression of this defense until they face the Colts during the 10th week.

Yes, the Colts have a racing game now! More on that in a second.

It's interesting to see how a surprising performance has created so many problems for Fantasy owners to consider moving forward. This is also the proof of the fantastic and uncompromising unpredictability of Fantasy Football.

Three big questions of the week 7

Should we expect such numbers from Marlon Mack?

If last week was only a taster (89 yards on 12 runs), Sunday was a real smorgasbord. Mack wiped out the Bills defense, scoring 126 rushing yards and 33 yards on 21 touchdowns with a total of two touchdowns. The only sad thing was that he was on 51% of CBS Fantasy benches – including mine! Indeed, Indianapolis has his best running back for the moment – and he runs to the Raiders in the eighth week.

If this is the beginning of Kerryon Johnson's big things, does that also mean that it's the beginning of bad things for Lions passing games?

On Sunday, the Lions were a running team. How could they not be after the fourth carry of Johnson went for 71 yards? He had 158 yards in 19 races, LeGarrette Blount had 50 yards on 10 runs and the Lions had the most yards in a game since 1997, according to the Detroit Free Press. That did not bode well for Matthew Stafford, whose 22 pass attempts were the third of his career. Not a single Lions catcher even had 40 yards. It has more to do with the Dolphins defensive defense than anything else, but the Lions can not ignore Johnson's potential anymore. The more effective it is, the more likely it is that Stafford will have a hard time. Sunday was his third straight outing with 30 assists or fewer. It's hard to imagine Kenny Golladay or Golden Tate as starting, and Marvin Jones is headed to waiver-ville.

Is Keenan Allen a failure?