Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to Week 4 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 as always here, our key to winning is picking some guys you need to start these players.
These are gonna make the difference in your flex spot.
So I’ll throw this to you first, Tara, who is your keys to winning player this week?
My keys, the winning player is T Higgins this week.
Last week.
I I rarely trust, uh, it T Higgins in particular coming off of an injury, but despite that belief, um he was actually pretty encouraging last week, played 90% of snaps.
So we’re feeling like he got the proper amount of rest there.
He’s fully healed.
There were no limitations on the field this week.
I expect to see more targets and I love this matchup against Carolina.
Their defense has struggled, but we also have the addition of now.
We’ve got a confident Carolina team here, a Carolina team that is capable of pushing Cincinnati’s flailing defense.
So maybe we get a little potential shootout in this game in this, in this Andy Dalton revenge game Carolina secondary has some strong players, maybe focusing on chase and that’ll give the opportunity here for T Higgins to thrive as the wide receiver too.
I love that call.
I think D Higgins is gonna hit for you and I’m gonna stay in that maybe freaky weird little shootout, Andy Dalton revenge game.
But I’m gonna go to the other side of the ball here.
Carolina Panthers running back.
Chuba Hubbard, look a lot of reasons why I think you should play Juba Hubbard this week.
He’s the top back here.
Miles Sanders is involved, but Cuba had 60% of the team carries.
Uh, he had five targets on eight routes.
He’s, he’s still this lead back here.
And the biggest thing here is, uh, the Bengals defense is hapless.
The Bengals defense might be one of the worst in the league.
They’re certainly one of the worst run defenses in the NFL right now.
So I feel like Tuba Hubbard is set up to shine in week four for your fantasy teams.
He is a guy who I have right now as a top 20 back this week, which means, hey, unless you’re really, really strong at running back, you probably gotta find a way to get Tuba Hubbard in your maybe running back two spot, if not just your flex spot, certainly outright.
I think this is the week to get Tuba Hubbard in your lineup.
