The fantasy playoffs are here, and there are five players who are pretty quickly rising up the fantasy rankings and becoming league winners. In my opinion, these are the five guys that you're going to need on your roster the next month to actually win your league. And it starts with Amari Cooper, yes, the Bills wide receiver, somewhat new Bills wide receiver Amari Cooper, who for the most part this season, since joining the Buffalo Bills, he had that first game where he played like 12 snaps scored a touchdown. It looked good. Since then it's been bad. Amari has dealt with

multiple things, injuries which kept him out until week 11, so that's an issue. He came back and he was limited. He only earned 8% of the targets. Then in week 13, he comes out here and he plays in a snow game. he finally gets his routes up 63%, sees 18% of the targets.

But again, this was the snow game against the 49ers.

They were running the ball in 9. game. He finally gets his routes up, 63%, sees 18% of the targets. But again, this was the snow game

against the 49ers. They were running the ball nonstop. James Cook had a big play, right? There really wasn't much need for the passing attack given the conditions. And because of this, when you pull up the game logs on player profiler, since he joined the bills right here, here's that 16 and a half points on a limited role.

Great.

Since then,

1.7 points,

four points.

Like,

everything has been really bad.

Most people were

ranking Amari Cooper out. right here. Here's that 16 and a half points on a limited role. Great. Since then, 1.7 points,

four points. Like, everything has been really bad. Most people were ranking Amari Cooper outside their top 36 receivers for week 14, despite 16s being on by, right? So all of this was bad, but we finally got to see it. We finally got to see it in week 14 for Amari Cooper. He comes out here, Look at this.

14 targets more than double any other player on the team.

And those 14 targets were not only a season high for Amari Cooper, but also a season high for any Bills wide receiver this year. That's meaningful. That translated to a 38% target share. And this was a game where they were trailing pretty much the whole time, but still it was good to see that they relied on Amari Cooper for 14 targets. Six catches, 95 yards was targeted, not only in the short parts of the field where he saw a lot of receptions, but also downfield, especially late in the game. He continued to get targeted downfield as the main priority option, usually three, four times in a row at certain points in the fourth quarter from Josh Allen. And here's the thing when you look at it. Like the target competition remains the same. It's pretty much just Khalil Shakur is the main piece of target competition. Shakur had over 100 yards in this game. He's had a nice season all year. Matt Collins is in there, right? He had a red zone touchdown in this game. We'll see what happens when Keon Coleman returns. But it's nice to see we finally got to see Amari Cooper, who for the most part this season, since he's joined the Buffalo Bills, has either been limited because he joined the new team, so he had to learn to playbook, limited because of a potential injury he was dealing within his wrist or bad weather. This past week was like the first week we actually got to see it all come together. And now he's shaping up to be a league winner because look at this in week 15. Like you might say, oh, the bills aren't going to trail in most games. Well, this week they're actually underdogs against the Detroit Lions.

The potentially two best teams in football, a 54 point total in this one. There's going to be a lot of points. There's probably going to be a lot of passing for Buffalo. That's a nice spot against a banged-up line secondary. You look at the rest of the season. They'll go up against a Patriots bottom 10 secondary. that's a nice spot as well and then the Jets in the fantasy championship a shaky defense as of late

we just saw tua in week 14 drop over 330 passing yards and two touchdowns against them. So Amari Cooper, not just this week, definitely next week against the lines. And moving forward into the fantasy playoffs is looking like a league winner. And so is this running back. Maybe even more so this rookie running back, former wide receiver in college is a fifth rounder for the New York Giants. And that is Tyron Tracy who look, there is a little bit of a concern heading into that Thanksgiving game in week 13 because Tracy fumbled in week 10 and week 12 by in week 11. So it was back to back games or he had fumbles. Now you can see that usage right here. In week 10, he was still the clear RB1, 79% of the snaps, 53% of the rush attempts. Week 12, he fumbles, he ends up getting benched later on in that game.

He comes in and garbage. here. In week 10, he was still the clear RB1. 79% of the snaps, 53% of the rush attempts.

Week 12, he fumbles. He ends up getting benched later on in that game. He comes in in garbage time for some checkdowns, but only 41% of the snaps, 45% of the rush attempts. So the question becomes, will he start to lose more work in week 13 to Devin Singletary? Well, we got that answer, and the answer was just pretty much no. And it makes sense because he's so dynamic, you can't keep him off the field.

71% of the snaps, 45% of the rush attempts in week 3rd, in week 13 on Thanksgiving Day against the Cowboys, he sees 11 total touches, puts up over 60 yards in a touchdown, gets back into the nice fantasy friendly production box score with 14 and a half points. And this usage continued. It continued into then week 14 this past week, where we got to see yet again Tyron

Tracy take on the work of the lion's share.

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