Will Kyler Murray end up as a top fantasy QB against Atlanta?
Fantasy Football Live’s Andy Behrens and Matt Harmon look at the potential for a pair of Arizona players who are being added to fantasy rosters ahead of Week 10.
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ANDY BEHRENS: Hey, somehow, it's week 10. The fantasy playoffs are in sight, everyone. I'm Andy Behrens. I'm joined, of course, by Matt Harmon, and we are here to help you set the best possible lineups. We're going to take a look at the latest transaction trends in Yahoo leagues. You can follow along. Just go to the research tab in your league, then hit transaction trends.
Matt, let's talk about the Cardinals. Let's talk about Kyler Murray making his return from IR from that ACL injury. Of course, he's being added in thousands of leagues. What are your expectations right away?
MATT HARMON: Yeah, like you said, Andy, it's week 10. We kind of know where this season's going. Like, we're in the Tommy DeVito era of the season, which I didn't think we'd get there, but here we are. So there are very few things that like suddenly inject some life and enthusiasm into, I mean, honestly, the way we talk about the NFL season, because, again, we're just in that sort of as expected territory.
But Kyler Murray returning is pretty exciting. I find myself very fascinated by this entire situation. At times in Kyler Murray's career, he's been like a fringe MVP candidate. Like, that has gotten lost in the discussion, like how good he has been as a player. Certainly, how good he has been as a fantasy quarterback for us.
I think he's probably like just around a QB1 this week with some critical guys on bye. I don't think it's hateful to just throw him out there as your starter. And there is a lot of players on this roster that I think could be elevated by Murray.
I mean, Marquise Brown is one of the most underrated receivers in the NFL. He might be a clear cut set and forget wide receiver to rest of season with Murray. Michael Wilson, I think has shown an ability to beat man coverage and win downfield. And that's kind of my last point with Murray here.
This is a guy that I got tired of watching in the horizontal raid, Kliff Kingsbury like spread the field to the sidelines offense. Like this is an NFL offense with Drew Petzing calling plays that wants to push the ball downfield, that wants to run a lot of play action.
So I didn't think I'd be sitting here, Andy, in week 10 on a Sunday morning getting gassed up about the Arizona Cardinals, but the Kyler Murray return is kind of doing it for me.
ANDY BEHRENS: Yeah, no, you make a very good point, especially you look at the quarterbacks that are out this week, you got no Jalen Hurts, we got no Tua, we got no Mahomes. There is definitely a place for Kyler Murray I think in our fantasy plans this week.
I actually want to mention another name that's on the transaction trends list, and that's Trey McBride, one of Murray's weapons. Another guy who I think we can reasonably expect to get some sort of bump from Murray's return.
As nice a story as Josh Dobbs was, it's not like he was putting up huge passing totals each week. A lot of his fantasy contributions were on the ground. McBride has 30 targets and over 200 receiving yards over his last four games.
And again, that was without Kyler Murray at the controls. If he gets any sort of bump at all here, we're talking about a potential top 10 positional finish, top eight positional finish. I don't know. It's just tight end. It's not like there's that many stars.
The Cards are about to face an Atlanta defense that has just served up a couple of insane quarterback performances over the past two weeks. They gave up the Will Levis breakout game. That was followed, of course, by the Josh Dobbs just got here game. So there is definitely a path for Murray to make noise, and I think for Trey McBride to step up and have another huge game.
All right, those are just a few of the pregame transactions that the people are making. Let's make good fantasy choices in week 10.