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Youth Josh Allen Jersey , allegedly, are rostered by people who play fantasy football. When the Bills lost 22-0 to the Green Bay Packers this weekend, it was a literal lose-lose situation for any Bills fan who also deploys Buffalo players in fantasy football.This week's fantasy football numbers are low. Really low. Here are the Bills' top three scorers this week.RB LeSean McCoyCall me crazy, but I'd have thought that the game plan for beating a team quarterbacked by a future Hall of Fame player on the road might have called for the Bills to feed their most talented offensive player the ball. Even though McCoy was coming off a painful rib injury, he was healthy enough to appear on 60% of the team's offensive snaps. So when we see his line (5 carries, 24 yards, 6 targets, 3 catches, 13 yards), it's perplexing. The Bills did not trail by more than two scores until the 11-minute mark of the third quarter, yet McCoy only had 3 first-half carries, and he touched the ball last with 4:31 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Overall
White Jordan Poyer Jersey , he accumulated 5.2 fantasy points thanks in large part to a poor game plan.WR Zay JonesBuffalo's number two wide receiver has been exactly that for much of this season. At times, it seems as if he isn't even on the field, even though he has appeared on 82.1% of the team's snaps, which is far and away the highest total for wide receivers on the roster (Kelvin Benjamin is next at 64.9%). Even with that high snap count number, he's only been targeted 17 times, hauling in 10 passes on the year for 144 yards. On Sunday, he caught 4 passes for 38 yards, giving him 5.8 fantasy points. That was the second-highest total on the team.TE Charles ClayI was beginning to think that the last time I'd seen Clay's face was on a milk carton, but it appears that the veteran tight end was found a bit this week. He saw a season-high six targets, bringing his total for the year to 14. He also saw season-highs in receptions (4) and receiving yards (40). Clay is available in 85% of Yahoo! leagues, so if your tight end isn't among the league's elite, you could roll the dice and hope that the Bills remember to use Clay again next week.Bills D/STWell
White Jeremy Kerley Jersey , we were close to right on one thing, at least! The Bills' defense tied Clay for the lead in fantasy scoring, turning in a 6-point day. The Bills had 2 sacks, 1 interception, and 1 fumble recovery on the day. Had the offense done a little more, their performance might have been even better.Football Outsiders breaks down rookie quaterback Josh Allen Wyoming's Josh Allen is one of the more polarizing rookie quarterbacks drafted in the last decade. Some scouts love his big arm, pocket presence, and mobility, and they feel he will be a perennial Pro Bowler. Others think he is the most likely quarterback to bust from the Class of 2018, citing his poor completion percentage (56.2 percent) and his 16-11 record during parts of three years at Wyoming. Declaring for the draft as a redshirt junior, the Buffalo Bills traded up and selected Allen with the No. 7 overall pick in the NFL Draft. They have given him every opportunity to show off his rocket arm and athleticism so far in the preseason. We asked Football Outsiders for thoughts on what they have seen from Allen so far, and about his potential in Buffalo. "The sky is the limit if Allen can actually be coached to play football well
Youth Zay Jones Jersey , which is the reason why he is 'polarizing' rather than 'maligned'," Rivers McCown said. "Because he was not even a good college quarterback. Drafting Allen in the first round was like when baseball teams used to select pitchers that threw 100 miles per hour and figured they could make them learn how to actually pitch later."Allen's play has generated plenty of buzz this preseason, and he has shown a lot of potential in completing 18-of-32 passes (56 percent completion rate), for 176 yards with two touchdowns and a 92.7 quarterback rating. This preseason success has not swayed Football Outsiders' original pre-draft opinion of Allen: that he is a gifted athlete with all the physical tools in the world, while also representing as risky of a pick as there was among rookie quarterbacks, especially considering the decrease in his yards per attempt from his sophomore season to his junior year (from 8.6 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2017). "Allen had the worst QBASE score of any quarterback in this draft class. He struggled to dent college defenses like Oregon and Iowa. He was drafted in the first round because he is tall and because his arm generates ridiculous amounts of velocity," McCown said. "Every piece of empirical evidence we have on Allen leads to him being a failure. Even the big-armed guys like Joe Flacco and Derek Carr have struggled to actually complete deep balls in the NFL, and they are far more polished than Allen is at this point. If the Bills turn him into a great quarterback, awesome. I'll be happy for them and happy for your readership. But it is incredibly hard for me to believe that will happen."The Football Outsiders Almanac is available now.