interesting college football season so far it's really it feels very wide open it feels like

there are 30 teams minimum probably more than that that could potentially make a playoff run

this year chart is with us as he is every th Thursday in this spot, at Paul Charchion on

X on Twitter. Fantasy Football Weekly and Chop are the podcasts. Before we get to, you know,

fantasy football talk specifically, not that it's that unusual. I think, you know, it always

grabs the headlines and people think,

wow, this is a run of injuries at the quarterback position that is unique. It isn't necessarily

unique, but Burrow, Daniels potentially this weekend, McCarthy in Minnesota, Brock Purdy in San Francisco,

Justin Fields.

Like, you know, what do you make of this?

Does it feel different?

Because I think we say that every year when it happens.

Yeah, I think it is a little different, Kevin, in that it's all hit us at once.

You know, it's not uncommon for these quarterback injuries, but, you know, everything's sort of detonated in one week and early in the season. So it's not like these players have been ground down over the course of many, many weeks. Right. Here we are two weeks in, and we've got five starting quarterbacks potentially not playing. I mean, you know, well, actually, I think four for sure, almost certainly, and one's still a question mark there in Washington. So, yeah, it's early already to have to go to some backup plans, but that's, you know, that's part of the fun of fantasy football as well, is, you know, trying to find out who's agile, who's staying on their toes, who's going to make some key pickups, and who's going to be able to ride out their, find wins, even without your starting quarterback. And that's, I don't know, it's part of fun of it, I think, if you embrace the challenge. You know what Robert Salas said after they played the Saints last week? He said Spencer Rattler is special and is going to be a very good quarterback.

Okay, very good is a stretch. I'm not ready to go that far, but the observation I tweeted halfway through that game was Spencer Rattler is non-awful. That kid can...

That's your new thing this year, not awful. Not awful. Yeah. The kid, he's got, he has a

requisite NFL arm. And I, I do kind of like him. And the fact that he won that

quarterback battle really early in training camp was one of the indicators that, you know, there was

a chance for him to be good. And I was really impressed. And suddenly, you look at the Saints, you don't think of the Saints is having a lot of weapons, but Chris Olavi, Rashid Shahid, and their tight end, if you haven't figured this out already, and you should have through two weeks, because he's like the number two scoring fantasy tight end. Juan Johnson's legit. So they've got, and you can throw to Alvin Camara.

So they've actually got a plethora of weapons for Spencer Rattler there.

Yeah. I was thinking about this because, of course, your team is Minnesota, the Vikings.

If Kevin O'Connell can do with Carson Wentz what he did with Sam Darnold. He is the quarterback whisperer.

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