Rise And Plight

     There are quite a few players I feel like are falling down the fantasy stairs, but here I will only single out three.  Marques Colston, who I mentioned in a previous post, had a total of 1 point yesterday.  The Drew Brees train is leaving Colston and moving on to Kenny Stills (24 points).  Tom Brady is not playing Brady football this year.  His young receiving core and lack of health weapons is making his play worse.  You could say, "His hand was swollen and he could not throw yesterday. Give the man a break".  However, there is no break to be given here.  Over the last three weeks, Chad Henne (Jax), rookie Mike Glennon (TB), and Big Ben (PIT) have outscored Brady.  The third player also plays for the Pats, Kembrell Thompkins.  The Pats are slowly phasing Thompkins out giving him only 18 snaps yesterday with no targets.  The middle players this week are Andre Ellington and DeSean Jackson.  You can add Ellington, but if there was no 80 yard TD run for Ellington, he would have finished with 7 points.  Jackson has had an up and down season.  Matt Barkley diminishes his value greatly.  On the rise is Harry Douglas, Jordan Reed, Andy Dalton, and Marvin Jones.  Harry Douglas has 19 receptions for 270 yards and a TD over the last two games.  I need not say more.  Jordan Reed is a great TE option and has 17 receptions for 224 yards and a TD in the last couple weeks.  Andy Dalton is averaging over 20 points per game over the three games.  He has a slightly less favorable next couple games against MIA and BAL, but after that he looks like gold.  Dalton finally discovered there are more WRs on his team and Marvin Jones has benefited greatly.  Over the last three games he has posted a 15/250/6 line.  He will not keep up with that insane 4 TD performance, but he does average 16 yards per catch.  As long as A.J. Green is healthy, Jones will get the ball in the redzone.