Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Fantasy managers rely on statistics to inform their decisions, but sometimes numbers are just numbers. Sometimes a player has a breakout game, compiles a gazillion yards and is a fantasy darling for one week. He’s the top target on the waiver wire that week—and then promptly fades into fantasy irrelevance.
Every Sunday evening, the NFL Communications staff sends out a “Six From Sunday” email with interesting statistical-based notes about that day’s games. Often, they come up with some crazy combination of scenarios that has only happened once or twice in history. After Week 7’s Sunday slate, the NFL gave us this note about Bengals QB Joe Burrow:
Burrow is the third player in NFL history with at least 475 passing yards, three touchdown passes and one rushing touchdown in a single game, joining Norm Van Brocklin (September 28, 1951) and Billy Volek (December 19, 2004).