FanDuel: On offense, talent will shine through

This happens sometimes in regular fantasy (or FanDuel, which is what I'm actually talking about here), of course - this year, Sammy Watkins has had trouble getting the ball consistently, and Larry Fitzgerald and Andre Johnson have famously struggled with the same throughout their careers. We all think Christine Michael will be a good running back, but Marshawn Lynch has to get out of his way first. That sort of thing.

• There are some quarterbacks this week who get to play the Jets, or the Jaguars, or what-have-you, and I've seen questions about whether to start them or Andrew Luck ($10,000). Let me just say this: If I had a season-long fantasy team that somehow had both Luck and Peyton Manning, I might bench Luck. Probably not, though, and I don't see how you bench him for anyone else. His only drawback in FanDuel this week is his salary.
• Time Pointing This Out No. 23948594: Drew Brees ($9,800) is a different quarterback at home and on the road. He's only had one home game so far this season, but Sunday against Tampa Bay is his second, and you need to use him whenever you can find the space. Whether you pair him with Jimmy Graham or not, I expect a big game.
• The week-by-week fantasy scoring of Tony Romo ($7,500): 9, 11, 15, 24. He's only been intercepted once since that disastrous Week 1 first half. We all reacted to harshly to the way he started the season, but he's fine.

• Matt Ryan ($8,500), on the road, in an outdoor game. Sometimes they just write themselves.
• I'm including Kirk Cousins ($7,600) here mainly for a laugh. C'mon, you weren't using him against Seattle.

• Knowshon Moreno, Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis have all had great games against the Patriots' run defense; why not Giovani Bernard ($8,800)? Should be good times.
• I covered this in my Friday piece on my own rosters, but Rashad Jennings ($7,200) could not have more things going in his favor this week. Take that one and run. (Or, if you're competing in any of my tournaments this week, don't, you big jerk.)
• Yes, the Bills are a good run defense, but Reggie Bush ($7,000) catches pass, too, and with Joique Bell banged up and Calvin Johnson maybe-still-banged up, the Lions are hurting for high-end options right now.

• Okay, if I'm in a year-long league and I have LeSean McCoy ($8,300), I'm holding fast. If I don't have him, I'm buying low. But in a weekly league? Let him re-prove himself before we commit that big a chunk of our salary cap.
• It's a friendly matchup for Arian Foster ($7,900) this week against Dallas, but his injury questions just won't go away, and I'd like to be more sure of an expensive running back.

• We (I) always talk about the Bears' struggles against running backs, but so far this year, Chicago has actually been worse against wide receivers. The Panthers host the Bears this week, and with all the struggles of the running game, Kelvin Benjamin ($7,100) and tight end Greg Olsen are all they have. Benjamin's a nice play.
• Week 4 was the first big game of the year for Keenan Allen ($7,000), who had a lot of his owners worried. He's fine, though, and he gets a Jets' defense this week that really struggles against the pass, and with Donald Brown looking terrible so far, what the heck else are the Chargers going to do?
• If the Bills didn't think they had at least a chance of contending in a rough AFC East this year, they wouldn't have switched to Kyle Orton at quarterback. And with that in mind, the team is going to treat every game with Orton as one it has to win, which will lead to lots of looks to the team's best receiver, who is Sammy Watkins ($6,600), and it's not close.

• I'm the only one not drinking the Emmanuel Sanders ($8,000) Kool-Aid, but he's got better weapons ahead of him, and I expect the Broncos to wring every bit of value they can from Wes Welker for fear of another concussion. Sanders doesn't interest me at all.
• The Colts have very subtly been really good against opposing wide receivers in fantasy so far this year, and there's just no way Steve Smith Sr. ($7,200) continues his torrid pace. This is a good week to step away from him.

• The Titans' wide receivers have been flat terrible so far this year, which means the team's passing game has to go through Delanie Walker ($6,400). This year, he's been up to the challenge and then some. There's not much reason to think it stops now.
• With Mike Evans on the shelf, the Buccaneers are going to have to dig a little deeper in the offense, and I don't think that means more Louis Murphy. Evans and Austin Seferian-Jenkins ($4,700) are the exact same height; so it stands to reason that the team just bumps Seferian-Jenkins into Evans' role, more or less.

• I already liked Travis Kelce ($5,300), but him making me a nice little profit in last week's FanDuel means I loooove him now. That said, only the Ravens have allowed fewer fantasy points to opposing tight ends so far this year, and the Ravens haven't played against Jason Witten/Martellus Bennett/Zach Ertz. Could be tough sledding for Kelce.

• It's been something of a slow start for the Seattle defense ($5,500), with only 14 fantasy points through three games, but a game against turnover machine Kirk Cousins after an extra week of rest really ought to remedy that.
• Sue me, this isn't too insightful. But only three teams are allowed opposing fantasy defenses an average of 10 or more points a game. The Rams are allowing 10.3; the Bucs 12.5. The Jaguars are giving up 14.8 points per game to opposing defenses. Use the Pittsburgh defense ($5,400).

• The Bengals have allowed negative-3 fantasy points total to opposing defenses through three games. We all saw Kansas City carve New England's defense ($5,300) up a week ago, right? Now they have a short week against a rested team that destroys defenses. Oh no.