20 Fantasy Football Studs and Duds From Week Five

Another crazy week in the NFL and Fantasy Football.  Some new names on Team Stud and Team Dud.  Some players switched teams this week.  Let’s have a look at the top dog’s and the dog’s that laid down this week in fantasy football, including Individual Defensive Players (IDP)…

Team Stud:

QB: Aaron Rodgers, Packers

The Packers did not get the win against the Falcons but many fantasy owners got the win that started a hurting Aaron Rodgers this week.  Take away the interception, you have a QB who has shown you some toughness playing through the injury this week, and gave you 313 yards and three TD’s. 

From the looks of it Rodgers should be able to play this week against the Seahawks and despite what some fantasy sites say (KFFL) he is not a sleeper, he is a top three fantasy QB right now in points.

RB: DeAngelo Williams, Panthers

So if you have a handcuff on the Carolina backfield, chances are you had Jonathan Stewart in the starting lineup.  If you have listened to FootballJabber.com dating back to months before the season, you drafted Williams and stashed him away specifically for the week five bye week. 

You did?  Thanks for listening.  You didn’t?  Subscribe via RSS.  Okay, enough tooting of thy horn.  We don’t know how long he will hold Stewart off but the carries were almost equal (Stewart 19, Williams 20), and Williams made more of his touches.

RB: Brandon Jacobs, Giants

Brandon Jacobs came out like a monster against the Seahawks.  He lost carries later in the game but the damage was done.  136 yards and two TD’s.  Yippie for the Jacobs owners out there.  Next comes the Browns (22nd vs. the run) and the Niners (23rd vs. the run).  Jacobs only had 15 carries, which tells us he can get the job done while sharing time.

WR: TJ Houshmandzadeh, Bengals

Two weeks since his last appearance on Team Stud, Housh returns.  Houshmandzadeh found the endzone twice in a game performance by the Bengals against the Cowboys.  There has seemed to be some balance here and there with the distibution and performance between Housh and Chad Johnson.  It is clear nowdays that he is the one to have out of the pair.

WR: Andre Johnson

Those who drafted Johnson early, (ADP round and pick of 2.07 at Fantasy Football Calculator) have been waiting for a game like this.  For most at that position he was likely drafted as a No.1 fantasy WR.  He was a monster bringing the ball in nine times, once for a TD and 131 yards.  Hopefully this is a sign of things to come, even when Matt Schaub’s injury comes…if Sage Rosenfels isn’t ran out of town he can obviously get Johnson the ball.

TE: Chris Cooley, Redskins

Cooley was ranked as a Top Five TE in many rankings prior to the season.  He is playing like it.  109 yards and a TD on eight receptions.  This is the type of production you want to see out of your TE.  Considering it has taken the Redskins a little to adapt to Jim Zorn’s offense, we can forgive the Week One game and look at the recent weeks as an indication of what is to come.

DT/ST: Carolina Panthers

We know that the Chiefs have a terrible offense.  Forcing turnovers and sacks, thrown in with only allowing 127 yards in four quarters, the Panthers were money this week.

Individual Defensive Players (IDP)

LB: Patrick Willis, 49ers

The beast is alive!  Willis was throwing up average numbers every other game but broke that cycle this week with a whopping 14 tackles, four assists, and a sack.  Willis was the first LB off the board inmost IDP drafts and with good reason when you look at the totals for the season up to this point.

DL: Mike Patterson, Eagles

It’s not often that the top defensive lineman on the IDP scoreboard is a DT.  This week Patterson’s eight tackles and two assists were enough to put him up there.  If you say you saw this one coming we have to say you are not being honest with yourself or anyone else considering he has not topped a tackle in each game up to this point.

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