Cooper Kupp Might Have Ended Your Fantasy Football Championship Dreams

The 2024 fantasy soccer playoffs started on Thursday evening, because the Rams confronted the 49ers in what was speculated to be a high-scoring affair. Sadly, based mostly on the unbelievable lack of statistical success, the fantasy playoffs may need already ended for numerous followers, too.

Extra to the purpose, those that began Cooper Kupp are actually dealing with an uphill battle.

The Rams’ celebrity vast receiver, who was began in near one hundred pc of leagues throughout all platforms, didn’t rating a single level within the recreation. Not one. It’s solely the tenth time in his NFL profession that he’s been held underneath 5 factors, and it got here on the worst time for managers.

Kupp wasn’t the one participant who had a nasty stat line, although.

The competition didn’t characteristic a single landing, because the scoring was restricted to 6 discipline targets. Each quarterbacks, Matthew Stafford and Brock Purdy, mixed to attain 12.2 factors. Going into the evening, Stafford had averaged 14.7 factors whereas Purdy averaged 17.6 factors.

Stafford’s 8.2 factors is the seventh fewest he’s scored in 55 regular-season video games with the Rams. As for Purdy, his four-point stinker is his third-worst whole in his 34 begins with the 49ers. The 2 kickers, Joshua Karty and Jake Moody, outscored each quarterbacks.

They weren’t the one ones who scored fewer factors than these two booters, both.

Karty’s 13 fantasy factors had been greater than Isaac Guerendo (11.5), George Kittle (10.1), Jauan Jennings (5.1), and Deebo Samuel Sr. (4.9). Karty almost equaled the fantasy stats from Kyren Williams (13.4), who entered the week averaging greater than 17 factors per recreation.

Puka Nacua was the lone participant who didn’t fail to fulfill expectations. He scored 17.8 factors on seven catches and 108 whole yards. However general, the dearth of statistical success from virtually each startable fantasy participant on this contest (none greater than Kupp’s zero factors) has put loads of fantasy managers in a deep gap heading into the weekend.