If you have a fantasy football matchup coming up this week, you are in the right place because

today we are breaking down the 10 must start players. They have to be in your lineup, flex options, whatever it might be, get them in your lineup because they're going to help you win this week. And let's start with somebody who I would consider an obvious start, but based on his last few weeks, J.K. Dobbins of the Denver Broncos, they recently acquired him this year, right? His last few weeks have been letting down some people.

He's had some duds the last few games, not getting it done in the box score, which is not leading to fantasy production, which is leading to a lot of people asking me now, can I even trust J.K. Dobbins, despite there being the bymageddon, six teams on by, and my answer is yes, here's why. Despite the bad games the last couple of weeks like he's

still averaging 75 rushing yards per game over 500 rushing yards is top 10 in the NFL like let's look at

these game logs right here obviously he starts to season off hot when everybody thinks that it's

going to be r j harvey it wasn't and he basically just goes for three straight weeks to start year

and he's like a top 15 running back oh another 11 points 11 points, another 15 points. But the problem is four fantasy points and nine fantasy points in back-to-back games. Now, I would argue his last game of 80 yards in a game where the Broncos offense wasn't doing anything for three quarters before having 33 points in the fourth quarter and finally getting going, including J.K. Dobbins. I would argue that that was a quality game given all the context to have 80 total yards. He just didn't find the end zone. Overall, this year, I think he's only probably had like one bad game. Even when he only had 11 and a half fantasy points for you, he had over 100 total yards, right? It's pretty astonishing what J.K. Dobbins is doing right now. He needs to be in your starting lineup this week, not only because of his own role and all the by weeks, but because the biggest one, his matchup.

He is a part of the Denver Broncos, who currently, according to PFF, have the number one ranked offensive line. Who is J.K. Dobbins facing this week? Well, J.K. Dobbins, up. I don't know why this reset here. Let's go to it. It's refreshing all the betting lines over here on

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week, the Dallas Cowboys. It is a game that is going to kick off in the 3 o'clock window. It is a game that's going to have a bunch of fantasy goodness projected for 50 points. It's at home for Denver. As you can see, they're three and a half point favorites. So you're telling me that J.K. Dobbins is at home, doesn't have to travel,

and he's going to be a favorite against the Cowboys. And if you do not know about the Dallas Cowboys defense in general or specifically their run defense, let me just tell you, it's pretty bad. According to PFF, they rank dead last in run defense so far this season. And like, depending on where you look, you can see right here. This is what a pretty good tweet from Ian Hart.

It's the best offenses in the NFL this year. Number one, the Dallas Cowboys. Number two, whoever is playing the Dallas Cowboys right here, according to basically a true media stat right here, combined offensive and defensive points allowed in games. The Cowboys are up into the right. The Colts are up there as well. The Ravens, right, these are going to be your bad defenses and quality offenses.

All the way up here are the Cowboys are up into the right. The Colts are up there as well. The Ravens, right, these are going to be your bad defenses and quality offenses. All the way up here are the Cowboys. What does that mean? Every game they're in for the most part is a shootout environment. You're seeing, I don't know, Russell Wilson throw for like 500 yards in an overtime game against the Cowboys this year and he did nothing the rest of the year and got benched for Jackson Dart. Yeah, the Cowboys defense just gives fantasy goodness to everybody facing them, including J.K. Dobbins this week. J.K. Dobbins, who by the way, still rings number one in the NFL amongst all running backs, yes, including Bejohn Robinson and Jonathan Taylor and Sequin Barclay and you name it, number one in explosive play rating. He has the third most breakaway runs of 15 plus yards this year. Everything is shaping up to be good for J.K. Domins. Let me remind you, the matchup against the Cowboys, some recent running back performances against them. Josh Jacobs had 86 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Also led the Packers with 71 yards. He had 30 fantasy points in that game. Bree Saul on on a terrible Jets offense, went over 100 rushing yards.

Oh, let's just go to Rico Dotto, who had 183 rushing yards, 200 total yards in a touchdown. This past week, the Cowboys got out multiple scores on the commanders, so Jacori-Kroski-merit, and then Jaden Daniels goes down. It was kind of just a mess of an offensive environment in general for the commanders. but every single running back for the most part that has had their healthy quarterback and been in a neutral script or a positive script against the Cowboys this year has crushed. Make sure J.K. Dobmans is in your lineup. I don't care if you're loaded at running back. He needs to be in your flex spot at the bare minimum. And a guy who could definitely be in your starting lineup this week or your flex spot, especially playing a multi-flex league you need to just fill some spots with all the buy weeks and injuries this week. Well, let's talk about Kate Auden because he's quickly becoming,

I mean, I know a Mecca Abuka is on this team. He's probably going to play this week. He's still battling a hamstring injury. So like, there's a world where Kate Otten is the number one target for the bucks, at bare minimum, a top two target in this offense. Because that's what he's basically been like the last two weeks this past week in a game where mike evans gets hurt, Chris Godman doesn't play in a Mecca, Bucca was pretty limited even though he had four catches for 58 yards. Seven catches on nine targets for Kdaun. The game before that, five catches 51 yards. He leads this team in targets. He leads this team in receptions the last two weeks. Now that has not translated to a ton of fantasy points. You're talking about 10 fantasy points and 13 fantasy points at the tight end position. This is good enough to easily be a top 10 tight end on the week. By the way, he hasn't scored a touchdown in any of these games yet. If you're going to keep seeing a lot of targets from Baker-Mayfield in this buck's offense that can score points, you're probably going to find the end zone as well and get some red zone targets. But moving forward, this team is not going to have Mike Evans, broken collarbone,

probably going to end his season at best comes back for the real life playoffs.

Not going to have Chris Gobbin. We don't even have an update on his fibula. Who knows if he's even going to play this season right now? Bucky Irving, not going to have him. it seems like he's not going to come back until after the bye week at best.

And let's remember last year,

when these guys were out,

talking about the wide receivers,

Gobwin and Evans,

there was a stretch of time when we saw

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