Fantasy options to trust: 49ers vs. Colts
Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Monday’s matchup between San Francisco and Indianapolis and which players could help fantasy managers the most.
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If you look over the last six weeks, four of these six weeks, Jonathan Taylor has not had a run of 20 yards or more.
So, what you're talking about is now everything's just closer.
Everything...
This is what happens when you're not scared of The passing game, necessarily.
Like, everything just suddenly gets more Compact.
So you're talking about a running back that Over the last, uh, few games, went 25 carries, 21 carries, 21 carries, 16 carries, all of those.
Ever since the 32-carry, 244-yard huge game that he had against Atlanta, itit's just not there.
The yards per carry are efficient, but it's not great.
The explosives aren't there.
He's getting the volume of work.
It's just not resulting in massive yardage.
Because I don't think defenses are scared of Anything else.
So here we get all the way to this point in the Season, and you feel like Jonathan Taylor's gonna be your league winner.
And the problem is, it's not necessarily just a Jonathan Taylor thing.
This is why we talk so much in the off-season about how teams build complementary football Because when you do not have complementary football in December, You just don't get the same level of explosives across the board.
Which is gonna put a lot of us in a bad spot for these fantasy playoffs.
Chris Allen, what do you have your matchup, uh mind on this one?
So I'll take the quarterback on the opposite side of this matchup.
And I'll look at Brock Purdy here.
And Boone laid it out earlier.
I think Brock Purdy put all questions about his health to rest after last week, cause remember, He was a bit uneven after coming back in week 11.
He was fine against the Cardinals, then he threw threethree picks in primetime Against the Panthers, and right after the bye, Myles Garor right before the bye, rather, Myles Garrett was chasing him all around Hunting Bank Field.
But he looked fully back against the Titans, and I'm not just talking about his passing.
Acumen, 'cause we should've expected that against Tennessee's secondary.
Like I mentioned earlier, Davis Mills, Shaquorrious Sanders, The list goes on.
The only quarterback to not throw a touchdown.
Against them was Kyler Murray, which says a lot.
But anyway, Purdy hitting season highs in EPA per drop back and passing success rate, and adjusted yards per Down, all of that makes sense.
But it was seeing his mobility back that was The trigger for me.
I mean, across his four games since aggravating The toe injury, Purdy's scramble rate sat around 2%.
3%, somewhere in there, up to 13% against Tennessee, and he nearly matched his season Total in terms of the amount of rushing Touchdowns he was able to create on ground In that game alone, I think it was four, and I think he was Sitting around a season total of about seven.
So, after that game, Uh, George Kittle was referring to him as a Jesus Christ lizard.
Uh, the basilisk, how they run across the water, run across the water, And he compared that to how Purdy was running.
I've never heard him called that before, But it was just funny hearing it, Kittle say it or compare him to that.
But we haven't seen that level of mobility for Purdy pretty much since Week One.
So if we're already getting the high efficiency from a passing standpoint from this offense, Getting the yards after the catch from his receivers, and we're also getting that sneaky Mobility, then Purdy should be able to get fantasy managers through Week 16 without too Much of a struggle at all.
