Welcome, everyone of the score, fantasy football live.

I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

Always appreciate you tuning in here, whether you're watching live, whether you're listening after the fact to the podcast, just the audio episode. That's fine, too. We appreciate you all the same. And I put it out on my Twitter feed this week. One thing I want to mention before we get going here, I'm taking part in this charity auction and I'm trying to help raise money for the Oakville

Milton Humane Society. And what I've given is you have a chance to bid on a one-on-one

video call with me. So at some point in the season, we could set that up, talk about your team,

ways you can improve your roster, some trades you can make, maybe how to set you up for the fantasy playoffs or, hey, we just hang out and crack jokes the whole time, whatever you want to do. But if you're interested, it's a silent auction. I've pinned the tweet at the top of my Twitter feed. So you can check that out. And if you want, you can bid. I think the bids are open until, I believe, the middle of next week. So check that out

if you want. All right. Let's dive into the show here. This week, I'm not going to talk that

much about the Thursday nighter. Yes, Ernest Johnson absolutely went off, had a massive game there.

You had Jarvis Landry get dinged up again. You had Odell Beckham in and out of the game.

You had Donovan People's Jones get hurt during warm up. So just a ton of injuries. You also had Baker Mayfield out.

And none of it really mattered because Johnson went off 24 touches, 168 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown.

Just a monster game there with Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt sidelined.

And Chubb, they're saying that Stafansky said he's pretty hopeful that Chubb will be back next week. There was some talk that maybe he could have been back for this game if it was on Sunday as opposed to Thursday. So I don't know how long that we can see these kind of performances from Johnson, but he definitely, with the way he played, he's going to slot into that number two role.

We know in this offense, they like to use

multiple backs. So it's a situation where we're probably not going to see Nick Chubb end up getting

that kind of top five usage. Chubb's probably going to stay in a similar role. And then you'll

have Johnson kind of eating into that a little bit. So we'll see if Chubb can go going to stay in a similar role. And then you'll have Johnson kind of eating into that a little bit.

So we'll see if Chub can go next week.

I'm pretty hopeful.

I have Chub on a lot of teams.

So I'm really crossing my fingers and hoping that he's going to be back for that one.

But we got to monitor all these skill position players for the Browns right now because it feels like everybody on that team's hurt.

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