Two fantasy QB surprises & two QB debuts of significance before week 5

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Michael Beller and Brandon Funston return for the week 5 fantasy football conversation as they bring you two QBs who have surprised so far, including one in Seattle, plus two QBs taking over for teams that might have fantasy significance soon. All that and more, presented by KFC! 0:00 Jared Goff 5:30 Geno Smith 11:40 Zach Wilson 17:10 Kenny Pickett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Athletic Football Show is brought to you by Kentucky Fried Chicken,
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0:36.3	Hey everybody, what's up? Welcome in to the Athletic Football Show fantasy football edition presented
0:42.2	by KFC Michael Beller and Brandon Funston here with you week five of the NFL season just about
0:49.2	to get underway. We've got Broncos and Colts kicking off tonight, at least if you are listening to
0:55.2	this on the day that it publishes Thursday. So a big week five slate ahead of us, Brandon Funston.
1:00.4	We're going to talk about quarterbacks on this episode of the Athletic Football Show. How you doing,
1:04.5	my friend? I'm doing all right. How about yourself? I'm doing good, man. This has been a lot of fun
1:09.8	getting to do this with you on the Athletic Football Show and bring our fantasy to a new audience.
1:15.5	So it's been a lot of fun. Hopefully we can keep this rolling. Hopefully we can keep some of the good
1:19.4	calls rolling on this episode here. And what we're going to do on this one is focus on a quartet
1:26.0	of quarterbacks. Two guys who have surprised us and played as top 10 fantasy quarterbacks so far
1:31.5	this season. Two guys who made their 2022 debut last week and are going to be the starters for
1:36.9	their team for the foreseeable future. We're going to talk about their prospects. What they do for
1:40.8	their offenses, really all of that and how that affects the fantasy football world. Let's start with
1:45.0	those two guys who are surprising us thus far, Brandon Funston. Jared Goff and Geno Smith,
1:50.0	top 10 fantasy quarterbacks thus far this year. Jared Goff, the number five fantasy quarterback
1:55.7	in standard scoring leagues by standard. I mean standard for the quarterback four points for a
1:59.3	passing touchdown. One point for 25 yards passing. And then your boy Geno, I know you saw this one
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