Week 3.
Off the list: Patrick Mahomes, Tyler Lockett, Tom Brady
8- Justin Herbert- Back on the list after a one-week hiatus! Herbert has been playing lights out. Sundays win @ Kansas City, the most impressive win on the young season for ANY quarterback.
7- Myles Garrett- I’ve been wanting to get a defensive player on this list, Garrett has earned it. Myles set a Browns single game record on Sunday with 4.5 sacks. He also accounted for 4 stuffs at the line of scrimmage, and 7 tackles in total. Dude is a game-wrecker and a cannibal – because I’m pretty sure he ate Justin Fields alive.
6- Cooper Kupp- This man has been a monster early on this season. 25 catches, tied for the most in the league, 5 TD’s leads all wide-receivers, only Travis Kelce has converted more first downs for his offense in the receiving game. The Rams are unbeaten and he’s a big reason why.
5- Derrick Henry- Another dominant performance on the ground game and he did so in a game where the Titans needed him most. Julio Jones was in and out of the game with hamstring tightness, AJ Brown left the game, Corey Davis is on the Jets – Tannehill becomes average really quick when that happens. Henry is the only back in the league averaging over 100 yards per game right now.
4- Derek Carr- Slides back one spot this week, but its not his fault…Carr is throwing this team into relevancy right now, he leads the NFL in pass yards by 200 (1,203), and only Tom Brady as attempted more throws. His QB rating is outside of the top 10 right now and I see some regression coming for Carr, but right now, he can’t be denied.
3- Lamar Jackson- He is putting this Ravens team on his back right now. RB’s all banged up and the ones that are left are just not that good. Hollywood Brown dropped 14 points worth of catches thrown his way on Sunday and Lamar STILL made key plays to put Justin Tucker in position to break an NFL record. Very impressed with what I’ve seen from him early on.
2- Kyler Murray- You’re allowed to have a bad game. He’s held firm at the top spot for the first 2 weeks of the season and while he didn’t do anything to inspire real confidence (outside of running in another touchdown where a defender wasn’t within 10 yards of him) I’ll allow the lull. You get one more week Murray! This top 8 is a meat grinder.
Number 1!- Matt Stafford- Up to the top spot after an impressive showing against the GOAT. Stefan called this one last week, Stafford was either moving up or way back after the game against the Bucs. Couldn’t stay at 4 for 3 weeks in a row. 343, 4 TD’s and no turnovers against a good Bucs defense. He was only sacked once on top of it. Really impressive. On the season, 9 scores, 1 INT. This is a new man.
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