Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to Week 3 of the season and pick a pair of players who can lift fantasy managers to victory. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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And for week three, as it always is, our key to winning is picking you guys that are gonna make the difference in your flex spots.
Uh Your player is kind of the poster child of maybe some volatility but maybe not so much anymore.
Hit me on Saints receiver Rashid Shaheed.
We love Rashid Shaheed and the boo bust upside that he brings on a weekly basis.
We’ve had two boom weeks in a row here, two straight weeks of 15 or more fantasy points, two straight weeks of a touchdown here.
And we’ve never had that before.
Are we going to get three straight weeks of Rashid Jem boom games.
I’m betting on it.
I am and this week’s matchup against the Eagles screams a rashid Shaheem boom.
W I don’t know if you’ve seen the memes online about CJ Garner Johnson.
I feel like Shaheed is going to give us another, another meme this week.
So we are going with Rashid Shaheed in our flex spot here.
I love that Call of the Saints have been one of my favorite offenses to watch this season.
So I’ll go from, uh, one of my favorite offenses to, uh, one of my former co-host in Austin Eckler.
Yeah.
Uh, Eckler has not been a big time fantasy contributor this year from a points perspective.
However, he’s been involved from the receiving perspective.
Uh, the run game has actually been very efficient in Washington and Austin’s been kind of like a nice change of pace.
The Bengals are one of the worst run defenses in the NFL.
I can certainly see Eckler being involved in the receiving game and negative game script because I think the Bengals will win this game.
So Washington chasing points, Eckler catching passes, the run game has been efficient.
I think Echo’s looked good this year rooting for my guy here to have a big week.
Number three.
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