Why fantasy managers should jump on Michael Carter
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Justin Boone explain why the Cardinals running back is set up to be a fantasy league-winner. Check out the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Michael Carter, and he's going against the Falcons this week.
I brought him up on the Waiver Wire Show on Monday.
I thought he was the top ad, somebody that people should be going out aggressively to get.
Um, and, you know, this is the reason why I don't think we should stress about fantasy.
Football, because you look at this backfield and it's like, Who would have predicted, before the season James Conner goes down, Trey Benson goes down; now Bam Knight is gonna be out for the next couple weeks here.
Amari DeMarcato dealt with an injury.
He came back last week.
But didn't play very much.
We'll see if he gets more work this week.
And that just leaves us all from Michael Carter to potentially be that real surprise late Season league winner type.
Last week, 80% of the snaps, 94 scrimmage yards, four receptions, had 18 total touches.
And that was against the Texans' defense, who we know is like the scariest unit out there At the moment.
Now, he gets the Falcons.
They're a positive matchup for fantasy running backs, and if he holds down this lead back job, which I think he is going to, and if your team gets a win this week, Then he gets the Bengals in Week 17.
Ugh.
And we have eyed these matchups up for a while With every single back, we were talking about Trey Benson before he Didn't return, right?
"Oh, he's gonna get these great matchups in the Fantasy playoffs."
All right, he's not coming back.
It's gonna be Bam Adebayo.
No.
Well, now, we're jumping on Michael Carter.
Hopefully, that's not a curse, and hopefully he's not gonna get hurt this week, and they're Gonna have to go to somebody else here.
But I think he does have this thing o- on Lockdown going into this game.
I'm very excited about potentially playing him.
It just depends on what your options are here.
DeMarcato's explosive.
He had some big plays earlier in the season, but, like I mentioned, He got hurt, and I think the coaching staff still holds something against him for that.
Fumble at the goal line.
II feel like they don't look at him the same.
Since that happened, the way they talked about him in the media and stuff.
So, I think they're gonna give Carter his shot.
And he has two games this year where he's Gotten at least 15 touches, Harmon.
The first was obviously the one I just Mentioned last week, which was a great fantasy outing.
The other one was against an easier opponent the Titans earlier in the season, at week five.
He had 23 touches.
He turned that into 73 yards and a score.
And I think that is definitely possible here.
I think we should see him get 70.
75-plus scrimmage yards and find the end zone.
He's gonna be the guy around the goal line.
This one.
I really like him.
I might even move him up higher.
Right now, I have him as a high-end RB3.
Hmm.
I wanna push him up into that low-end RB2 range.
Because I do think he is gonna have a great game this week.
