Fantasy Football Booms and Busts: Saquon Barkley gets revenge as Eagles eventually deliver in Week 7

Saquon Barkley ran wild in a win against his former team and delivered for fantasy managers. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images)

I don’t know why the Eagles can’t get started on time these days. Did they get bad directions from the navigation? Was it an a.m./p.m. problem with the alarm clock?

But even if the Eagles are usually late to the party, they generally make up for it. You can’t always get what you want, but you might get what you need.

Primary Eagles were all around the top of the Week 7 fantasy leaderboard with SNF and MNF left on the Week 7 docket. Saquon Barkley had a monster revenge game against the Giants (187 total yards, two touchdowns), pushing up to the RB2 spot. Jalen Hurts threw just 14 passes, but fueled by three touchdowns (two rushing), he was the top quarterback at 4:25 pm ET. A.J Brown had to make do with just five targets, but it doesn’t take much for him to come in. He caught all of them for 89 yards, including a 41-yard score. That slotted him at WR5 by mid-afternoon.

Philadelphia’s 28-3 win over the Giants had the common bugaboo — no first-quarter points. The Eagles shockingly don’t have a first-quarter point all season. Does it take Hurts a while to find a rhythm? Maybe play-caller Kellen Moore needs time to settle in. Of course, this is a small piece of trivia when the fantasy points eventually arrive. But sooner or later, a team is likely to pay for these wasted opportunities.

Barkley, Hurts and Brown also get a boost from the narrowness of the Philly usage tree. Hurts generally only focuses on three players when he’s passing — Brown, Barkley and DeVonta Smith — who was the lone fantasy dud from Sunday (two targets, one catch for minus yardage). Barkley ceded some work to Kenneth Gainwell and Will Shipley in this spot, but that won’t happen when games are competitive. Barkley’s fantasy day would have been absurd had the Giants actually fought back a bit in this game.

Add it all up and this offense has four set-and-forget players….

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Publish date : 2024-10-20 23:17:59

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