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Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Was Jaxon Smith-Njigba's breakout for real?

Our mission here is straightforward: to separate the truth from the lie. In sports, almost anything can (and does) happen in any given game. In addition to producing some true highlight reel plays by Garrett Wilson and Saquon Barkley, Week 9 gave us a lot of surprise fantasy performances.

No one’s going to look a gift horse in the mouth, or a zillion fantasy points in your column in our case, but some of these epic stat lines probably happened on your bench. Going forward, can you rely on continued production from these players, or would starting them be a desperate act of chasing points?