Packers-Bears Fantasy Reaction: One-legged Aaron Rodgers is still a top-5 QB

Week 1 is in the books for the Green Bay Packers and it was a rollercoaster of emotion. It was hard to care about fantasy football during that long hour that we thought Rodger’s season was over before it even began. Instead of having the season collapse all around us http://www.packerscheapshoponline.com/cheap-authentic-kentrell-brice-jersey , we saw perhaps Rodgers’ greatest feat yet and got some great fantasy scoring to cap it off. After falling into a 20-point hole, the game needed to become an air raid for the Packers to get back into it. The wide receiver mainstays were the beneficiary of this and hope to carry this momentum into a tough matchup against Minnesota next week. Stock UpAaron Rodgers, QB/DeityThe headline is not hyperbole. Despite missing a few series with a knee injury, Aaron Rodgers came back into the game after halftime and proceeded to crush Bears fans’ dreams. He wasn’t able to move around and scramble like we’re used to seeing, but he still erased a 20-0 deficit by throwing 3 TDs in the second half. Not being able to put a whole lot of weight on your lead leg in your throwing motion would cripple any other QB’s performance, but Rodgers was still deadly accurate and dropping dimes.In standard PPR, Rodgers scored the 5th-most points for quarterbacks on Sunday and said he should be good to go next week against Minnesota. The Packers season is still alive, and so is your fantasy team.Randall Cobb, WRThis might be the comeback season for Cobb. Admittedly, I’ve been low on Cobb for quite a while now and would still be hesitant to start him next week. But in a contract year, Cobb proved to be a valuable weapon in the Packers’ comeback — getting the go-ahead score on a 75-yard touchdown scamper. This could be an outlier performance Cheap JK Scott Jersey , but Cobb led the team in targets with 10 so that kind of attention is intriguing. Leading the team in fantasy scoring, Cobb grabbed 9 of those targets for 142 yards and a touchdown. Davante Adams, WRAdams was quiet in the first half and it didn’t help that Rodgers missed time with injury. The entire offense was sputtering before QB1 went out and it looked like at one point Adams tweaked his leg in the first quarter. Like Rodgers, though, I can only assume that they brought both players into the shop at half and replaced some parts. Adams finished the day tearing up corners with shifty moves and finding the endzone. Last season, Adams only played one game against the Vikings, but came away with five catches, 54 yards and one touchdown for a 16-point fantasy day. And that was with mostly Brett Hundley. Adams is still a safe start.Stock DownJamaal Williams, RBWilliams’ best play last night came on a blitz pickup to help keep the pocket clean late in the game. There wasn’t much happening for the running back and his 15 attempts only yielded 47 yards. Not that there were wide running lanes for the BYU product, but Williams isn’t a back who can turn nothing into something. His fantasy value at this point is pretty dependent on him finding the endzone. Next weekend against the Vikings will be a tougher look for him. The door is still open for Aaron Jones to take the lead back spot back when he returns from suspension.Jimmy Graham, TEGraham was largely absent in his regular season debut http://www.thepackersfootballauthentic.com/bryan-bulaga-jersey-authentic , only getting four targets. The Bears made it difficult for Graham to get a clean release off the line of scrimmage, but it also looked slightly like Rodgers was going back to the classics when the comeback was on (Cobb, Adams and Geronimo Allison).It should be noted that of the three touchdown passes from the Packers on Sunday night, only one of those (to Adams) was from within the red zone. Graham will be most valuable in the red zone until he builds that connection with Rodgers. Another game against an elite opponent, another blown opportunity for the Green Bay Packers.Just like last week’s loss to the Los Angeles Rams, last night’s defeat at the hands of the New England Patriots saw Green Bay keep pace for a big chunk of the game only for a crippling mistake to occur that all but ends their chances. The difference? This week’s mistake game much earlier in the fourth quarter and the Packers never recovered. When two consecutive long completions by quarterback Aaron Rodgers had Green Bay driving during a tied game, running back Aaron Jones fumbles the ball, New England recovered and Green Bay never did.As good teams do, the Patriots put the game away by seizing on the Packers’ mistake and put them away. The offense never recovered for the Packers and the It was again a microcosm of their season: show promise on both sides of the football, but then show maddening deficiencies. That’s a sign of a mediocre team and being mediocre doesn’t cut it in a city nicknamed “Titletown.” The season is at the halfway point and jobs are definitely on the line in the second half of the 2018 campaign.You can read more on the loss to the Patriots plus how New England’s creativity immediately knocked Green Bay on their heels in today’s cheese curds. Another opportunity slips away for the Packers—Packers.comEvergreen headline. The Packers can’t get out of their own way and whose shoulders does that lie on? The players? The coaches? They’d better get that figured out fast or they’ll miss the playoffs again, this time with Rodgers available for the whole season. That’s all sorts of embarrassing.Lack of balance topples Packers’ chances against the Patriots—PackersNews.comThe Packers will always live and die on the right arm of Rodgers Womens Lane Taylor Jersey , but does it have to be that way? You’ve got a weapon in Jones, fumble aside. In order for weapons to be effective, you have to consistently use them.Packers don’t hold up their end in Aaron Rodgers-Tom Brady showdown—ESPNIt was billed as a battle of two elite quarterbacks but everyone knew it would come down to the other 20 players on the field. The Patriots knew how to use theirs. The Packers? Not so much. It also doesn’t help when Rodgers, who normally excels under the blitz, was mediocre under pressure.Patriots get creative to separate themselves from Packers in win—USA TodayHe won’t be a popular name after leaving the Colts at the altar this offseason, but does anyone else salivate at the thought of Rodgers in a Josh McDaniels-led offense? Packers are crumbling: Three takeaways from loss to Patriots—Packers Wire People are going to pile on McCarthy and the coach deserves his share of the blame. You can’t let Rodgers off the hook, though. He’s been rattled, making poor reads and yet again holding the ball too long. He’s going to have to break those habits if the Packers want to make the postseason.