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Week 9

Weekly
Grade
Towns
6-3 89.2
107.51
 
VS
proj
Cardinalllll
82.44 2-7
85.43

Towns defeat Cardinalllll for third straight win, 89.20-82.44

Towns extended their win streak to three games with a hard-fought win over Cardinalllll, securing an 89.20-82.44 victory. Towns leapt out to a 47.1-point lead early Sunday afternoon behind 55.9 points from Christian McCaffrey (146 Rush Yds, 2 Rush TDs, 20 Rec Yds, 1 Rec TD) and Kirk Cousins (220 Pass Yds, 3 Pass TDs) and never looked back. Mike Evans (12 Rec, 180 Rec Yds, 1 Rec TD) and Phillip Lindsay (92 Rush Yds, 1 Rush TD) did their part for Cardinalllll in the loss. Towns (6-3) will look to keep it rolling against Jaymin, while Cardinalllll (2-7) will meet tonglin8015 in an effort to get back in the win column.

Matchup Timeline

  Towns   Cardinalllll

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

McCaffrey (146 Rush Yds, 2 Rush TDs, 20 Rec Yds, 1 Rec TD) scored 34.6 points against the Titans in Week 9. His scoring output was 70.6% more than his 20.28-point projection and was much higher than his 22.71-point season scoring average. McCaffrey ranks #2 among all fantasy players this season and will face the Packers next week.
Christian McCaffrey

Top Player Comparison

Towns
Points
% of total points 89.2
1
Christian McCaffrey
RB
34.6
20.28
38.8%
2
Kirk Cousins
QB
21.3
19.71
23.9%
3
DJ Moore
WR
10.1
7.35
11.3%
4
Darren Fells
TE
6.1
5.29
6.8%
Cardinalllll
Points
% of total points 82.44
1
Mike Evans
WR
24
12.03
29.1%
2
Phillip Lindsay
RB
15.2
8.05
18.4%
3
Carlos Hyde
RB
14
9.57
17%
4
Aaron Rodgers
QB
12.94
22.74
15.7%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Both teams had players with big-time moments early Sunday, but after the smoke cleared, Towns had a 75.30-28.20 lead. For Towns, Christian McCaffrey had a 58-yard touchdown run. Carlos Hyde made the highlight reel for Cardinalllll with a 48-yard run.
Sunday Late
Phillip Lindsay had a 30-yard touchdown run and a 40-yard run for Cardinalllll, who trailed 89.20-80.34 after the late afternoon round of games.

Points By Position

  Towns   Cardinalllll

Game Notes

Only four of the nine starters on Towns exceeded their projected scoring totals.
Cardinalllll had only four of their nine starters score higher than their projected points.
Towns won despite starting Adam Thielen, who scored zero points.
Both teams failed to reach their season scoring average.
Neither team was able to achieve its projected point total.
The matchup's 6.76-point margin was the second-closest in the league this week.
Towns managed to earn the win, but failed to cover the 22.08-point projected margin of victory.
Despite the loss, Mike Evans (24 points) posted the second-best score for a wideout this week.

Coach Talk

Towns
Sure, we ultimately got the win, but there's really no other way for us to spin this, Towns: our wide receivers were thoroughly outmatched this past week. Buoyed by DJ Chark Jr. (32 total yards, no TDs) and DJ Moore (101 yards, no TDs), our three WRs combined for only 13.3 points in Week 9. The starting wideouts for Cardinalllll showed us up by recording a score of 35.2. We need to put some more effort into scouting those upcoming defenses!
Cardinalllll
With not a single target thrown in their direction this past week the starting RBs for Cardinalllll should remind their QBs to check down more frequently (and dial up a screen play or two).