Today we are breaking down the seven must start players across all positions for this week in fantasy football.

And week 10 is a very important week because the playoff chase is starting right now. We're about a month away from the fantasy postseason. You have to win in week 10. So let's start with Tedd Earl McMillan. I've been getting a lot of questions about the top 10 overall pick, the rookie out of Arizona in Teddrell McMillan for the Carolina Panthers. this is a guy who continues, continues, whether it's Andy Dalton for a week,

Bryce Young playing good or Bryce Young. out of Arizona in Teddrell McMillan for the Carolina Panthers. This is a guy who continues,

whether it's Andy Dalton for a week, Bryce Young playing good or Bryce Young not playing good, to just see strong volume. 7.7 targets per game is 12th in the NFL. Again, this is a rookie. If you just break it down every single week right now, I mean it's consistent. It's not like these spikes and targets. Nine, 10, 8, 8. It is so consistent. 8, 10, 6, right? Even this past week or these past couple of weeks where he's had poor player, they're leaning on the run more 17 fantasy point game. Nine point game is not great, but it's a game where they ran the ball nonstop 25 times alone with Rico Dottle on the ground. Now, the fact that he's only averaging

10 fantasy points per game has a lot to do with the fact that he's just not finding the end zone. He had a multi-touchdown game earlier this year, but for the most part this season, he hasn't found the end zone compared to how much he should based on his targets. So that just means he's probably a candidate for positive regression. And this week, he has a nice matchup against to New Orleans Saints.

The Saints team that currently ranks 18th overall when it comes to their secondary.

They're allowing right now 18 touchdowns. If we go over to NFL Pro, 18 passing touchdowns this year, you can see right here, is sixth most in the NFL. They're allowing a strong completion rate. Basically every part of the Saints defense, whether it's tackling where they're dead last, so after the catch production is going to be there for McMillan. Everywhere you look is a good matchup for Tech. And I apologize. He doesn't want to be called Tetamo no more, so we'll call him T-Mack. Mr. T-Mack this week will go up against these cornerbacks for the Saints, assuming they're all healthy and we can see the snap leaders. Kool-Aid McKinstree ranks 75th out of

107 graded quarterbacks, according to PFF. Quincy Riley is going to be mostly a slot cornerback, and you're going to have Alante Taylor, who ranks 62nd. There is not a single, a single Saints cornerback on their roster right now, who's going to be a starter, who's going to be playing this weekend and facing off at times in man and zone coverage against Tedro McMillan that ranks in the top half of the league their cornerback play is not good in fact we just saw this same team get torched albeit against a good quarterback in Matthew Stafford and good wide receivers in Pook and Akua seven catches 95 yards in a touchdown despite leaving that game early with injury. Devante Adams, five catches, 60 yards, two red zone touchdowns as well, right? Even a rookie tight end, Terrence Ferguson, had 54 receiving yards for a guy who's been mostly quiet this year against that Saints secondary, those cornerbacks, even their linebackers when it comes to some of those zone coverages in the tight ends that we talked about. So it's a good matchup overall for Tedro McMill. When you look at what the game environment is going to be, it's probably not going to be the greatest game environment. If you look at it right here, according to Draft King's sportsbooks, our lovely partners, draft Kings, you can see over under just 39 and a half. So not really expecting a lot of scoring here. The Panthers are five and a half-point favorites in this game, so we're going to probably have to see a lot of first half production, hopefully out of

Tedro-McMillan.

But if indeed they are going to be leading by a touchdown, there's probably a decent chance

that they're going to rely on their best players.

RICO Dotto, Tedero MacMill.

So I have the Panthers rookie wide receiver.

Believe it or not, as of this recording, and flex plays for this weekend on Sunday. But as of right now, as a top 12 wide receiver on the week. Let's switch to the running back position where now I want to talk about Kenneth Walker, Kenneth Walker, who my, oh my, I get it. It's been frustrating. You probably drafted Kenneth Walker in the fourth round of your fantasy draft. And oh my goodness, if you did, it has been so frustrated. Because if we just look at his game logs, I mean, outside of the first couple of weeks

where Zach Charbonnet was dealing with some injuries and Kenneth Walker had a long touchdown run and he was a top 10 running back and back-to-back weeks, basically since then, this last month has been rough, the last four games for him. Nine fantasy points, 4.7, 6.6, 8.1. During that stretch the past month, I mean, the guy is barely averaging six and a half fantasy points per game.

That's not great. And when you look at his most recent performance, you might come out here and be like, okay, he only had 11 carries. That's not all that encouraging this past week in a good matchup when they played with a massive lead against Washington. But the good thing was, played a season high 57% of the snaps. Even more importantly, he played a season high 57% of the snaps in a game where they led by three to four scores the whole time and they easily didn't have to have him out there. I bring that up because the narrative this season has been that they're trying to save Kenneth Walker because Zach Charbonnet has just been spelling him so Walker can stay healthy. And that's true, but this is the exact time where you actually unleash him when you're down the stretch hoping to be a by week in the real life playoffs. And for your fantasy playoffs, it means Walker could get some more usage. And the interesting thing is that you can see right here, the first six games of the season when Zach Charbonnet and Kenneth Walker played together snaps inside the five yard line. It was all going to Zach Charbonnet. He had 14 carries

inside the five. He was their goal line back compared to just one for Kenneth Walker. In week nine, and it is just a one game sample, but in week nine, according to Jared Smola over on Twitter, be sure to follow him. Walker had four of those carries compared to just one for Zach Charbonnet. Now, you could say maybe it was just the way that the drives were going, but in the past, we've literally seen Kenneth Walker subbed out for Zach Charbonnet, even on Kenneth Walker's

birthday a couple of weeks ago, they subbed him out and Charbonnet scored a touchdown, right? So maybe this is a trend that we should pay attention to. Now, this week, Kenneth Walker is a home six and a half point favorite against the Arizona Cardinals. So not only is he a touchdown and a half favorite, which is great for running backs in general. He should see somewhere around a dozen plus opportunities on the ground. He's also facing a Cardinals defense

that over the past month has allowed a touchdown to Tony Pollard, as you can see right here,

has allowed 123 yards in a touchdown to Jonathan Taylor, has allowed 55 yards and multiple

touchdowns to Josh Jacob. So running backs have been getting there over the past month,

even ones, obviously the great ones like Jonathan Taylor, solid ones like Josh Jacobs, but even the ones who have basically struggled in every other matchup this year like Tony Pollard. That's encouraging for Kenneth Walker. So you want to start Walker. He's currently a top 20 running back for me this week. And you also want to start Quentin Johnston, who is somebody that as everybody has been kind of all out on Quentin Johnston, I was saying, why don't we actually give this guy a break?

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