Fantasy Game Changers: Players to trust in Lions vs. 49ers | Fantasy Football Live

Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Monday’s matchup between Detroit and San Francisco – and how Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown and George Kittle could impact fantasy managers.

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Yeah, we’re gonna bring the full squad in here.

Uh, we’re gonna get to some fantasy game changers for this week, powered by ram trucks where we’re identifying some of the most impactful players in one of the top fantasy matchups on the schedule.

The fantasy championship may very well come down to the drama known as Monday Night Football Detroit.

Visiting Levi Stadium to take on the Niners.

Detroit is still playing for the top seed in the NFC.

It’s gonna be a balmy 52 degrees.

The Lions favored by 3.5.

The over under a whopping 50.5 on this one.

When I say fantasy game changer to you, Matt Harman, you say.

Oh man, I say Jamir Gibbs, Lions running back.

A couple of weeks ago after Dave Montgomery went down on the Yahoo fantasy forecast, Dalton Del Donne said that I don’t, he wouldn’t take another back over Jamir Gibbs, the rest of the fantasy season.

I’ve never needed Dalton to be more right about a statement ever and him to be correct about this one.

And, and after one week, it’s looking pretty good on that call.

Uh, Jamir Gibbs led all running backs last week in expected fantasy points in the first three quarters of that game because obviously, uh, they didn’t have to do much to beat Andy’s Bears.

He played 73.6% of the snaps.

He had 84% of the team carries and a near 15% target share.

It wasn’t like, OK, Dave Montgomery’s out, let’s mix in another running back.

No, for Get that they just built the whole thing out of Jamir Gibbs, and I think Gibbs has played so awesome this year that he absolutely deserves that type of treatment.

The Niners run defense is pretty hit or miss.

They particularly struggle to defend some of those perimeter runs that Gibbs has been great on.

He got goal line carriers last week.

He definitely checks the box of the RB1 this week.

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