NFL Week 17 is right here and with it comes the fantasy soccer championships. For some, it is a time of euphoria as desires of hoisting that championship trophy dance via our heads like so many sugar plum fairies. For these much less lucky, it felt just like the nutcrackers did their job. There’s nothing worse than combating via a 14-week common season solely to see these stud gamers who helped carry you to the playoffs come up brief when it issues most.
In a season dominated by operating backs, the primary spherical of the playoffs was a depressing week. Saquon Barkley, at present on his method to breaking Eric Dickerson’s single-season dashing document, delivered a paltry 65 yards in Week 15 and let everybody down. Derrick Henry, De’Von Achane and Chuba Hubbard all did the identical. And what’s worse, as if to troll those that have been bounced from the primary spherical of their playoffs, all of them posted dominant performances in Week 16, making their homeowners the belle of the ball of their comfort brackets.
Working backs weren’t the one tormentors. Sam Darnold, Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford and Brock Purdy all got here up brief in Week 15 and so as to add insult to damage, Josh Allen went from hero to zero in Week 16. Some might need to throw Jalen Hurts beneath the bus as nicely, however at the very least his failure was damage associated. The remainder of them have completely no excuse. Sturdy matchups and momentum carried over from earlier weeks have been tossed right into a dumpster out again, ready to be set ablaze.
Additionally residing in that dumpster are various large receivers who delivered the products all through the common season however vanished into skinny air as soon as the fantasy playoffs started. Cooper Kupp is now residing on a milk carton, Amari Cooper is doing the identical and one of many best worth picks in 2024 fantasy soccer drafts, Darnell Mooney, spent the previous two weeks asking these two guys if he might bunk with them. Jerry Jeudy bought the rug pulled out from beneath him with the Browns quarterback change, and if anybody on the market sees Jauan Jennings, kindly inform him the fantasy group is completed with him.
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It’s a brutal method to go down in fantasy soccer. The common season is an absolute grind. You scratch and claw your means via waivers every week, endure a number of the most premature accidents, and once you lastly make it to the large dance, you may’t even boogie with the blokes who introduced you there. Begin your studs, they are saying? Heartbreaking. Completely heartbreaking. One of the best you are able to do now could be sit again and hope the harm dissipates sufficient that you just don’t go over these guys in drafts subsequent 12 months. They couldn’t presumably harm you this a lot once more, might they?
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