This article is part of our NFL Observations series.
I should be happier. Yes, I went 0-2 ATS Monday night, and I lost my head to head NFFC matchup with Dalton Del Don thanks to Tyreek Hill's no-show. But my two good NFFC teams won, even with Mecole Hardman's zero and a bad game by Andy Dalton, so the most important boxes were checked.
- Patrick Mahomes played well (8.7 YPA, two TDs, no picks and 36 rushing yards, a few of which were crushing first downs.) And he led the team to a win against a 4-1 Bills squad on the road. But his longest completion was a 37-yard play to Byron Pringle, Demarcus Robinson led the team in receiving with 69 yards, and there were no shots to Hill or Hardman.
- Clyde Edwards-Helaire (26-161-0, 4-4-8) ran like a man possessed in his last game pre- Le'Veon Bell, but for the second straight week he had a TD called back, and Darrel Williams got the call on 4th-and-short which he broke for the team's only rushing score.
- Travis Kelce (7-5-65-2) got his, but no skill player has had a monster game for the Chiefs through six weeks.
- Hardman dropped his only target, and that was with Sammy Watkins out. A second-year speedster in the league's best offense should have some upside, but that's only the case if he's on the field.
- The shine has come off Josh Allen's star the last two weeks. He managed only 4.5 YPA and 122 passing yards at home against a beatable defense. The 42 rushing yards were nice, but it was a modest fantasy day that ended on a pick, costing garbage time and a possible backdoor cover.
- Stefon Diggs (8-6-46-1) and Cole Beasley (7-4-45-1) were modestly productive, but that was about it
- No one made the case for Dak Prescott's contract better than Andy Dalton. Dalton took three sacks, threw two picks (though one of which should have been a defensive PI) and got only 4.9 YPA.
- Ezekiel Elliott (12-49-0, 11-8-31) had 16 PPR points, but he lost two fumbles and now has four on the year. He won't easily be displaced given his contract and long-term status as one of the league's top backs, but that's a lot of fumbles for a running back.
- The Cowboys as usual spread the ball around, with CeeDee Lamb (10-7-64) and Amari Cooper (10-7-79) catching some short passes in garbage time. Michael Gallup (6-2-23) saw a lot of air yards early, but he dropped an easy TD. (I was going against him in the NFFC Primetime, so I was happy to see it.)
- Kyler Murray had another monster fantasy game -- 188 pass yards and two TDs, no picks, one sack, 74 rushing yards and a rushing TD. He nearly overthrew a wide-open Christian Kirk (3-2-86-2) on the 80-yard TD pass, but Kirk was just able to catch up to it without falling to the turf.
- DeAndre Hopkins (8-2-73) didn't do much other than a 60-yard catch late, but chalk that up to game flow. Andy Isabella had only two targets, neither of which he caught, but they were both downfield bombs.
- Kenyan Drake was having a decent day (19-95-1), but no catches, when he took a 69-yard run to the house in garbage time against a Dallas defense that had quit. Hopefully that didn't cost you your week.