Stat Nerd Thursday: Aaron Jones, James Conner, Trey Lance, Elijah Moore & BUF/LAR TNF preview
Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don are back for another season of Stat Nerd Thursday! Heading into the week 1 games, they go deep into their bag of stats and pull out reasons to be excited about Aaron Jones and James Conner, a debate between Trey Lance and Justin Fields, and Elijah Moore’s prospects with Joe Flacco as his QB. The guys close the show with a thorough fantasy preview of the Thursday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams, including some DFS recommendations.
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (injector.simplecastaudio.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don are back for another season of Stat Nerd Thursday! Heading into the week 1 games, they go deep into their bag of stats and pull out reasons to be excited about Aaron Jones and James Conner, a debate between Trey Lance and Justin Fields, and Elijah Moore’s prospects with Joe Flacco as his QB.
The guys close the show with a thorough fantasy preview of the Thursday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams, including some DFS recommendations.
01:15 NEWS / Bills sign TE Dawson Knox to contract extension
04:30 NEWS / WR Michael Thomas appears on track for week 1
05:10 NEWS / Joe Flacco is NYJ’s QB1 / Zach Wilson out for first 4 weeks
10:55 NEWS / Chris Godwin’s week 1 availability
15:40 STAT / Aaron Jones led all RBs with 300 snaps with a screen route percentage of 15.4%
20:55 Ranking Antonio Gibson for week 1
21:50 STAT / James Conner averaged 4.5 yards per carry running into light boxes (59% of his carries)
24:35 STAT / Top 5 QB scramble %
32:40 STAT / Dolphins plays the most man coverage (and it’s not close)
38:45 STAT / Top 7 players in air yards share
43:50 TNF preview: Buffalo Bills @ Los Angeles Rams
Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts
Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:
📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tv
And check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:
📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy
⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy
🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy
🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/