Almost every year in fantasy football there's always an "X Factor". A guy who comes outta nowhere late in the season and takes the league my storm. In the fantasy football world he's deemed a "league winner". The biggest example of this was during Matt's remarkable title run back in 2014. Matt had a middle of the road team, not horrible, but not really a championship caliber squad, until one guy, who started the season hurt made a HUGE difference. That guy was Odell Beckham Jr. He literally changed the landscape of our league and helped Matt pull off the biggest upset in our league's history taking out Mayra's undefeated team. This year...it's looking like Aaron Jones is "that guy". After a 4 game suspension and then weeks of splitting carries with both Ty Montgomery and Jamaal Williams, the past 3 weeks it seems like Aaron Jones has finally taken the reins of Green Bay's starting running back and he's not letting go. Drew's team has struggled most of the season, thanks to Dalvin Cook's hamstring injury, but Todd Gurley had taken Drew's team on his back and the very least kept Drew in playoff contention. Aaron Jones though..looks like he can not only help Drew make the playoffs, but win it ALL. Drew's 3 headed monster of Gurley, Aaron Jones, and healthy Dalvin Cook could might end up being the best stable of running backs this league has. Jones did not disappoint as he had nearly 25 points and has given Drew the early upper hand against Kenny for the week in a must win game for him. The scary thing is...it SHOULD'VE been much more, but for some idiotic reason, the Packers abandoned the run in the 2nd half, limiting Jones touches. If Drew is able to make the playoffs...watch out. A matchup that just got a little bit more interesting is Mike/Mark. I kinda had written off Mike but after Davante Adams set a career high in yards with 166 yards on 10 catches, this is now looking like a legit coin flip of a matchup. That could have a HUGE trickle down effect as not only would keep Mike's small playoff hopes alive, but Mark wouldn't be such a shoo in for that 1st round bye after all. It could open up numerous possibilities. Also if Albert doesn't beat Alex this week I should just give Alex the 1st place money right now, because there's no logical way he can win this week. He's already burned 3 plays (Tyler Lockett, Mike Daivs, Jamaal Williams) and none of them did anything. They combined for a measly 16.2 points. He's on pace to score 73 points. All Albert's guys have to do is play mediocre and he should still blow Alex out. That's obviously huge as well as Alex losing will really hurt him because of points. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's a bad omen that after proclaiming Leland would never lose again this season, he starts off the week with a dud play in Marquez Valdes-Scantling. MVS was held to 1 catch for 8 yards. Aaron Rodgers was good for Leland with nearly 24 points, but it's not enough to mask the disasterous MVS performance. Leland is still in the driver's season as far as projections go...but his win margin has shrunk a bit. And finally in the "Irrelevant Bowl" it seems like Dad has the upper hand after Doug Baldwin scored and basically had his best game of the season with 14.7 points. That combined with Ryan losing Jimmy Graham to injury has Dad in the driver's seat as he tries to stay away from being last place.
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