Week 3 has come and gone. Sixteen NFL games brought joy, laughs and tears to football fans and, of course, fantasy football faithful.

Today, we’ll focus on the latter sadness and break down just how close some came to achieving fantasy football glory. Critics might call this unnecessary cruelty, while supporters could claim it helps with understanding the full context of what exactly happened last week.

Either way: Welcome to the Sheesh Report.

What follows is a breakdown of all the tilting, near-miss moments from Week 3 that left fantasy managers and fans alike saying, "Sheesh." I’ve watched hours of film and combed play-by-play data to help determine instances when:

  • Pass-catchers could have scored or picked up big yardage with a more accurate pass
  • Pass-catchers did receive an accurate pass that should have resulted in a score or big gain, but the ball was dropped
  • Ball carriers managed to get all the way to the one-yard line, but didn’t score
  • Players scored or picked up big yardage, but the play was nullified by penalty
  • Other random shit tilted fantasy football managers of all shapes and sizes

First: The single-most sheeshy moment of Week 3 goes to…

Giants RB Devin Singletary … SHEESH

Singletary has had a solid start to his tenure with the Giants, racking up 255 total yards and a pair of scores to go along with a league-high 0.4 missed tackles forced per carry. This comes out to 14.2 PPR points per game — the 20th-highest mark among all RBs through three weeks of action.

That said: The 27-year-old veteran's decision to prioritize his real-life team's success ahead of loyal fantasy managers made for one helluva sheeshy end to Week 3. Roll the tape.

Annoyingly popularized by the likes of Brian Westbrook, Nick Chubb and Todd Gurley over the years, the technically smart and selfless decision to ice the game instead of putting another TD on the board is just about as brutal of a feeling that fantasy managers can experience as they hope for just a bit more production before the clock hits zero.

Of course, Singletary wasn't the only player to finish a mere three feet away from finding the end zone…

The Eagles RB special: Down at the 1-yard line, and no TD

Getting all the way to the 1-yard line but failing to score a TD is objectively a sheeshy feeling — particularly when fantasy managers are forced to watch someone else vulture away the score that was SO CLOSE to belonging to them.

Here’s the full list of Week 3’s players who managed to get the football within three feet of the goal line, but not quite across the plane, and ultimately didn’t score later on the same drive:

Plenty of these guys still put up solid numbers, but fantasy managers can certainly imagine what it would've been like had they manage to gain just one single yard more on those respective runs. Sheesh.

Speaking of productive performances that were nearly so much bigger…

Panthers WR Diontae Johnson almost had a MASSIVE day

The presence of Andy Dalton under center helped lead the previously dormant Panthers offense to 437 total yards and 36 points — easily more than the group managed in two games of the Bryce Young experience (13 points, 352 yards) to start the season.

Arguably nobody benefited more from the presence of The Red Rifle under center than WR Diontae Johnson, who caught eight of 14 targets for 122 yards and a TD. Pretty, pretty, pretty good stuff from the ex-Steeler, although Johnson realistically could have added not one but TWO additional TDs to his box score.

Maybe next time, Diontae, but rest assured you weren't the only pass-catcher to leave some production on the field last week…

Unrealized air yards are a helluva drug

We can help quantify sheeshy plays like Johnson's aforementioned near misses and (especially) missed downfield opportunities using “unrealized air yards,” which are derived by subtracting yards after the catch from every player’s receiving yards total before taking the difference with total air yards to pinpoint exactly how much opportunity through the air (not including potential YAC) a player failed to come down with for one reason or another.

We're essentially measuring the total distance of everyone's incomplete targets. A high number indicates a player had lots of fantasy-friendly opportunities but didn't capitalize on them for one reason or another. Cool? Cool.

ANYWAYS: 10 players racked up at least 85 unrealized air yards in Week 3 (including penalties):

Shaheed's missed opportunities were especially sheeshy to deal with considering a bunch of those unrealized air yards came on a specific target that coulda, shoulda, woulda resulted in six points with better hands…

RaSheesh Shaheed (sorry)

While drops are a somewhat subjective stat, you know one when you see one — and I unfortunately saw the following five dropped TDs with my own two eyes:

  • Saints WR Rashid Shaheed: Would it have been a lot cooler if Derek Carr threw the football a few yards further? Yes. Should Shaheed have probably come down with this potential 40-yard TD anyway? Also yes.
  • Bills RB James Cook: Nearly added to his big Monday night with a 28-yard TD reception ... but here we are. For those counting at home: This was Cook's fifth rather wide-open dropped TD since the beginning of last season.
  • Jaguars WR Christian Kirk: Let a potential 12-yard TD bounce off his face mask and fall incomplete. I'm not a doctor, but that seems to qualify as a drop/sheesh.
  • Cowboys WR Brandin Cooks: Got open down the sideline for a potential 16-yard score, only to let the reasonably well-thrown pass go off his hands and fall incomplete. Not the most egregious drop in the world, but certainly a ball you would have liked to see caught.
  • Panthers WR Diontae Johnson: Aforementioned six-yard TD drop admittedly wasn't the easiest catch in the world, but still: Sheesh.

Also note that Panthers WR Xavier Legette did his best Jonathan Mingo impression when the rookie seemingly jumped for a ball that he didn't have to and then failed to get two feet down inbounds on what should have been a fairly routine two-point conversion.

Of course, sometimes sheeshy non-TDs should be blamed a bit more on the person throwing the pass in the first place… 

Would have been a lot cooler if these throws were better

You know the moment. The receiver got open, the QB had a reasonable pocket to work from, the pass was there, the crowd stood up … and sheesh: Overthrown, underthrown, too high, or too low, and all that goes into the box score is an incompletion.

Below are roughly 13 of these unfortunate sequences (sheesh-quences?) that occurred during the last week of action with varying degrees of needed YAC:

  • Bears WR Rome Odunze: The aforementioned No. 2 unrealized air yards leader on the week got open enough downfield to theoretically add 38- and 57-yard TDs to his box score, but Caleb Williams couldn't quite put the ball on him. One miss was on the run while moving to his left, to be fair, while the other did indeed occur from a clean pocket, but admittedly would have needed a bit of YAC help to result in six points.
  • Texans WR Nico Collins: Received not one, not two, not three, but four consecutive end zone targets from Davis Mills at the end of the Texans' blowout loss to the Vikings. Unfortunately, each and every one of the targets fell incomplete, and in Mills' defense probably only one of them (the third one) should be considered an especially bad miss.
  • Commanders WR Terry McLaurin: Should have had an extra 35-yard TD to his total after breaking wide open across the middle of the field, but alas, the rookie QB wasn't perfect on his otherwise fantastic Monday night performance.
  • Giants TE Theo Johnson: Was all kinds of open in the back of the end zone for what should have been a routine three-yard score, but Daniel Jones sailed the target long and Johnson only managed to get one hand on the pass before it fell incomplete.
  • Colts RB Jonathan Taylor: I'm not saying JT was guaranteed to go 68 yards to the house with an accurate throw on this incomplete wheel route, but it certainly looked like he might have had the angle.
  • Giants WR Malik Nabers: Had several steps on a slot fade that should have been a chunk gain if not a 44-yard TD. Alas, Daniel Jones' intended pass was thrown long and fell incomplete.
  • Colts WR AD Mitchell: Per usual, got loose deep for a potential 59-yard TD, only for the pass to be badly underthrown and incomplete. Not a guaranteed score, but at a minimum, this should have been a chunk gain.
  • Panthers WR Diontae Johnson: The aforementioned potential one-yard score was overthrown largely due to pressure in the face of Andy Dalton.
  • Lions WR Jameson Williams: Looked like he had a step on a potential 55-yard score, but the speedy third-year talent never had a chance to make a play after Jared Goff sailed the target over his other shoulder and too long.
  • Cardinals WR Marvin Harrison Jr.: Similar to last week, it sure seemed like Marv was in position to haul in a 15-yard back shoulder fade, but Kyler Murray's target was a bit too wide and went off the fingertips — incomplete.
  • Falcons TE Kyle Pitts and WR Drake London: Yes, Pitts should have gotten a DPI flag. Also yes, Kirk Cousins could have, you know, thrown the ball high to his 6-foot-6 unicorn with the largest measured wingspan of a TE in the last 20 years. A similar sentiment is true for London on the next play: Throw that ball up to the goal post!

Man, these sucked. Of course, arguably the only thing sheesh-ier than near-miss TDs are scores that were initially counted … until they weren't.

Touchdown! Yay! Oh No: Flag.

TDs usually get nullified by a penalty for a good reason, but that doesn’t make the roller coaster of adrenaline any less sheeshful for fantasy managers to deal with.

There was technically only one instance of this in Week 3: Vikings WR Jalen Nailor hauled in a 30-yard TD that was nullified on offensive pass interference on Aaron Jones who was attempting to set a pick without technically setting a pick. Probably a good call, but still: Sheesh.

However, another play was even more sheeshy albeit technically not a nullified TD: Lions QB Jared Goff seemed to initially get the snap off just before the two-minute warning, only for his pass to get tipped and taken back the other way for six points. While the live viewing made it look like a true bang-bang situation, slow-motion seemed to clarify that the ball was indeed snapped with the game clock at 2:01. Say it with me, Cardinals fans and brave Arizona DST fantasy managers: Sheesh.

Our final category of sheesh is another decision left at the digression of the zebras.

What if defensive pass interference yards counted for fantasy points?

Defensive pass interferences can be finicky and don’t always occur in instances when the targeted receiver would have FOR SURE made the catch.

That said: They are very annoying for fantasy managers to deal with when the result could’ve, should’ve, would’ve been a chunk gain — and maybe even a TD.

The top nine players in most yards gained courtesy of drawing DPI flags were as follows:

Also note that 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk drew a 14-yard DPI and a defensive hold on a bomb down the middle of the field that best-case scenario could have been a 75-yard house call — or at least a 40-plus yard chunk gain — without the foul and/or a more accurate pass.

I think I speak for all of us when I say for one last time: Sheesh.

Thanks for stopping by. We're on to Week 4.