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The following is an excerpt from the latest edition of Yahoo’s Fantasy Football newsletter, “Get to the Points!” If you like what you see, you can subscribe for free here.Questions right at the start can make even the best fantasy managers nervous. Here’s a signal report to help you prepare for week 9.✅ Green lightVikings WR Josh DownsDowns has been the separation king all year long, and the Vikings, who delight in lightning strikes, are weak against long passes. All the Downs coaches (and coach Michael Pittman Jr.) were thrilled when Joe Flacco was given the starting quarterback job.TE Travis…

JK Dobbins’ amazing comeback story continues in week 9. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)It’s been a great week for late round running backs! Five backs with an ADP of 90 or higher were in the early top 10 in the draft, and they were some of my personal favorites heading into this week.Tony Pollard (ADP 90.8)Chase Brown (113.8)JK Dobbins (130)Rico Doodle (128.3)Tuba Hubbard (129.9)This production is not unusual. These backs continued to rise as the season progressed, proving their worth as high-value fantasy assets. However, the question remains as to how much we can trust their backs going forward.Tony Pollard,…

Jacksonville Jaguars @ Philadelphia EaglesSaquon Barkley blew up for a season-high 199 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns, finishing as this week’s top fantasy back. He broke multiple tackles and had a highlight play after the catch in which he hurdled a defender while backward. Barkley also lost a fumble that was returned for a touchdown, but he’s now totaled 497 yards over the last three weeks. His target rate has dropped with A.J. Brown in the lineup this season, but Barkley set a season-high with 40 receiving yards Sunday when Brown left with a knee injury. Barkley is clearly…

Jason Kelce confronted a fan and smashed a fan’s cell phone before the Penn State-Ohio State game on Saturday. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)Former Philadelphia Eagles center and current ESPN analyst Jason Kelce apologized on the network Monday night after getting into trouble with a fan over the weekend.”I choose to respond to hate with hate,” Kelce said Saturday as he confronted fans in State College, Pennsylvania, before Ohio State’s win over Penn State. Kelsey slammed a fan’s cell phone to the ground Saturday morning after the fan made a homophobic slur toward Kelsey’s brother Travis.”I’m not happy about anything that happened.…

.Seriously. How many times will this happen?We’ve seen Ja’Wuan Taylor do weird things in illegal formations when he didn’t get the whistle for a false start.And this time, it happened right in the middle of the game-winning run in the Kansas City Chiefs’ overtime win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday.Taylor was able to jump earlier than the snap and no flag was thrown. This was a huge flop and people aren’t too happy with the people involved, but we all benefit from a worthy rematch.See for yourself:By the way, Jawaan Taylor jumped so fast that he hit a…

NFL teams held their final roster votes on Tuesday as the league’s trade deadline arrives midway through the 2024 regular season.Eight players were traded before Tuesday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline, bringing the final number of moves during the league’s trading period to 18. Receivers accounted for the most frequently traded positions (six) and the most high-profile trades (looking at you, Davante Adams), while edge rushers ranked second and attracted four late starters.No team gave up a first- or second-round draft pick before the deadline this year, and the three trades involving third-round picks had caveats that complicated their value.So who…

U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday as hopes of a rate cut faded, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rallied above the 42,000 mark to close at another all-time high.The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.2% after the benchmark index closed at an all-time high on Thursday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) ended down 0.4%.Despite a lackluster start on Friday, major stock indexes ended the week higher. Much of that gain was driven by a market surge on Thursday, when investors bought into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s message that the central bank’s big interest rate cuts were…

Listen and subscribe to Financial Freestyle on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.Starting a business is not easy, and it’s common for Black entrepreneurs to feel alone in their journey when they first get started.But there is a wide range of resources available to business owners, many of which don’t require a lot of additional capital to acquire.Joy Butts, senior business consultant at JPMorgan Chase, told Ross Mac on Yahoo Finance’s Financial Freestyle (watch the video above or listen to the video below) that a community of entrepreneurs is one of the most important resources someone…

General Motors (GM) stock prices soared after the company raised its full-year outlook for the third time this year while posting a higher third-quarter profit.Profits helped push GM stock up 50% since the beginning of the year, even as other legacy automakers such as Ford (F) struggled.Morningstar U.S. Auto Stock Strategist David Whiston joins Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton to discuss market dominance and how GM is doing things differently than other automakers to support stock price growth. Analyze.GM is “controlling what it can control, especially when it comes to costs… continuing to reduce capacity going back to before the…

U.S. stocks rose on Monday as fears of war in the Middle East receded and ahead of a crucial week filled with Big Tech earnings, inflation updates and a key monthly jobs report. The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC), which has a high proportion of high-tech stocks, rose about 0.6%, and the S&P 500 Index (^GSPC) rose 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) also rose 250 points, or about 0.6%. The market was supported by Israel’s decision to limit its retaliatory attacks against Iran to military targets rather than oil and nuclear facilities, as had been feared. Oil futures fell…