It’s hard to know what to make of teams after only two games. Is the Bears defense really that good, or are the Seahawks with no receivers and Brian Schottenheimer calling the plays exactly as we should have expected? Maybe the answer is to the either/or is yes.

Week 2 wasn’t as bad as Week 1 – you can only die in Survivor once, and at least I had already priced in the Leonard Fournette/Le’Veon Bell absences. Of course, that doesn’t make it good. I dropped D.J. Moore to make room for Dante Pettis in the 14-team, QB-flex Stopa (Loan Pickle) League where I have Marquise Goodwin. It’s the same league where I bought Jameis Winston at a “discount” and opted for $2 Sam Bradford as my three-week fill-in instead of $1 Ryan Fitzpatrick. It seemed like a small, almost irrelevant decision at the time – in fact, Fitzpatrick faced a tough Saints D in Week 1, while Bradford had a home game against the Redskins, and it seemed there was a better chance Bradford would keep the job most of the year, giving me a valuable third QB in the QB-flex format.

Welcome to the second week of the NFL season and the RotoWire Football Championship hosted by FanDuel.

I’m happy that the first week of the NFL season is behind us. I hate the first week when it comes to picking players for fantasy football and that was indicative on how well I did, as I finished a robust 51st of the 55 contestants.

The RotoWire Football Championship is straight forward. We’re running a $10 contest in each of the first 10 weeks of the season, where the top 150 users double their cash. You’ll compete against fellow RotoWire readers as well as three experts: Kevin Payne, Jeff Erickson and Derek Van Riper. Beat all three experts in one week and you’ll earn entry to Week 11’s Free Play championship round. The top 120 players in that round will win a prize, with the first-place contestant coming home with $1,000 and a two-year subscription to RotoWire. You can sign up for this week’s competition here.

Meanwhile, the rest of the experts here at RotoWire will be competing in a parallel contest. Last year, Mike Doria claimed the title, with Tate McIntyre grabbing the silver and Hunter Van Asten coming home with the bronze.
And last week Payne came out on top with 194.04 FanDuel points as Kevin really collected off of the Chiefs-Chargers game where 89.04 points came out of it and you add Saints’ Alvin Kamara (38.6) and James Conner (31.7) equals winning the week.

You can check out the full expert leader board here, but here’s the current top 10:

1. Kevin Payne (kevinccp) 194.04
2. Darin Brown (dabsabre) 182.66
3. Shawn Cwalinski (cwalinski) 181.26
4. Davis Mattek (DavisMattek) 176.14
5. Joe Bartel (alphacool) 176.02
6. Michael Rathburn (burnnotice) 175.52
7. Joel Bartilotta (joelbartilotta) 170.76
8. Michael Gay (phislamajama10) 167.54
9. Jake Letarski (rotojakeski) 166.36
10. Scott Jenstad (oaktownsj) 165.96

When you have Survivor Pools, picks against the spread, an entry in the Supercontest, DFS action and eight fantasy teams, so rarely does an NFL game go almost exactly as you need it to. But that’s more or less what happened Thursday night.