Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens break down what we should do with Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba after his stellar performance against the Rams. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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On the J SS N thing you mentioned people had him in lineup, man.

I was getting texts and messages from people all day about I benched JSN for this guy.

I benched JSN for this guy.

Uh I benched JSN for Cedric Tillman.

You know, it turned out, ok?

But like still it's fine.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not whining all night long about that, you know, I didn't bench him for, I don't know, like some goofball or something like that, Cedric Tillman was fine.

But what do we do?

What do we do with this JSN game?

Andy because he averages 17.5 air yards per target in this, in this contest.

And it's so difficult because, you know, again, I keep bringing up the listener email to the panic meter, you know, calling him Fancy Tyler Boyd.

Like Jason should not be fancy Tyler Boyd.

You know, like I, when I watch JSN play on film, I'm I'm confused every week why he's not getting more targets in the intermediate and downfield area.

And you mentioned like this is what we thought Ryan Grubbs often would be, this is what I thought JSN would be in Ryan Grubb's offense like getting him in ISO coverage, looks from the slot and having him, you know, GENO drop bombs to him from the, from the inside on these downfield intermediate routes.

I've been confused why this hasn't been happening.

It happens this game against a weaker secondary for sure.

For all the praise we can give L A upfront.

Uh the Rams pass rush and everything like that.

They're, they're weak in the secondary.

What do, what do we do after seeing this game from, from JSN?

Well, I mean, ideally if you, if you really wanted to feel good about JSN, you'd see this game with DK Metcalf on the field, right?

Um, and I, I don't, I don't know if that's coming.

Um, I'd be a little bit surprised if it is.

I mean, there was a lot of volume here for JSN.

He was great.

Um, he was, you know, no disrespect intended.

I just don't know that we're going to get, get a game in which both DK and JSN go off and DK has been and D K's been awesome.

Like you're not gonna, you're not gonna dial him back when he, when he returns and it doesn't seem like it was the most serious injury, it seems like he's gonna be able to get back relatively soon.

Um, I'm, I'm impressed by it.

I might, I might take it to the trade market in a lot of fantasy leagues though.

Yeah, I think it's more of an interesting, like dynasty question than a redraft question.

I think like what with this continual process of what is JSN?

Really?

Um I, I'm encouraged by this.

I hope to continue to be encouraged by it.

But yeah, you're right.

It is just one data point and, and we'll see what happens when TK like these guys should be working in concert off of each other.

And I think we've seen that at times, we saw it especially early on in the season, like on some of these shorter outbreak routes with JSN.

But yeah, let's get this guy the ball in those intermediate areas and, and that would be nice.

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