Fantasy options to trust: Commanders vs. Chiefs
Yahoo Sports' Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Monday's matchup between Washington and Kansas City and which players could help fantasy managers the most.
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Talking about Marcus Mariota and his potential as a streaming candidate for quarterbacks.
I think it's viable, uh, because in his two starts so far throughout the season with Jalen Daniels sidelined, Mariota has averaged 30 yards per game on the ground, so at least it gives you some idea of a potential floor for him.
He's going up against the Chiefs defense where we talked earlier about the secondary there.
The rush defense has been something of a beatable proposition for opposing quarterbacks.
Justin Herbert got 32 yards against them.
Jalen Hurts, 15 yards and a touchdown.
Even Russell Wilson back when he was starting, 27 yards, and of course Lamar Jackson got him for 48.
It's the 6th most yards per game allowed to rushing quarterbacks.
So there is something of a floor there for Marcus Mariota, but now, of course, their pass rush is 12th in pressure rate and 4th fewest passing yards per game allowed.
So it's going to be something of a tough out for Mariota.
But with Terrell McLaurin there, Deebo Samuel also there to help him as well.
I would say that again, if you're hurting at the quarterback position or need a backup plan, Mariota at least should be able to slot in and give you at least some help at the position for week 8.
All right, Harman, what you got your eyes on for Monday Night Football?
Yeah, last week only confirmed to me that we're gonna see the rest of the season, Patrick Mahomes and Rashee Rice just go absolutely crazy and demolish zone coverage all season long.
Patrick Mahomes on the year ranks 2nd in adjusted yards per attempt, 3rd in adjusted yards per attempt, and 2nd in EPA per dropback when going against zone coverage.
Rashee Rice immediately gets dropped right back into that role where he is moving around the formation.
He's a slot-heavy guy.
He's getting the short, layup targets against his zone coverage.
At one point in last week's game, they got him singled up in zone coverage across from Devin White, the linebacker for the Raiders, which is an unbelievable mismatch.
In this game here, particularly, the Washington Commanders give up the 2nd most points per dropback when they're in zone coverage according to fantasy points data.
So that's already a favor in, in the, in the, in the note to.
The Chiefs and Rashee Rice and Patrick Mahomes, but you look at those linebackers too for Washington, Bobby Wagner, Frankie Luvu, they're really good at going downhill, coming at you in the run game.
Not so much going side to side.
So I think we're gonna see a lot of motion, a lot of quick in-breakers, quick outbreakers for Rashee Rice.
You could pretty much just write 5 catches in pencil every single week and go from there.
I think he definitely exceeds that number by quite a bit in this game.
