Welcome to Pete's Pick 6–a new weekly recap column where I'll pick a grab bag of topics that caught my eye from Sunday's action.

Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly for yesterday's games …

From handcuffs to WR1–The Tyreek Hill story. 

At 10:30 AM ET Sunday morning, Tyreek Hill was literally in handcuffs after being detained by police in the morning for a traffic violation. This is a fantasy column so we won't belabor how excessive this response seems (plenty of comparisons to the Scottie Scheffler incidents were made), but Reek didn't let the incident derail his day.

In fact, six hours later he was sitting atop the Week 1 main slate as the top WR scorer after turning 7 catches into 130 yards and 1 TD.

He celebrated his TD in the only way you could possibly celebrate a TD after being put in handcuffs earlier that day. 

That's quite the day at the office.

The Konami Code hack is alive & well.

There is no bigger cheat code in fantasy football than QBs who run and that dynamic was on full display yesterday:

Allen's lone rushing TD was absurd–he literally jumped over Budda Baker to find the endzone.

Richardson had one of the more hilarious passing charts you'll ever see. It was all rushing and deep balls, nothing underneath. This is honestly sharp by the Colts. Play to your QB's strengths.

Daniels is going to absolutely smash his ADP if he keeps this up. He became the first QB in NFL history to go for 80+ rushing yards and 2 rushing TDs in his NFL debut. Please, please, please stay healthy.

J.K. Dobbins is the early comeback story of the year.

What Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins did yesterday should not be possible.

Over the past eight years, he has broken his leg, torn his ACL, and tore his Achilles.

Then in his 2024 debut, he rushed ten times for 135 yards and 1 TD. 

He had multiple explosive runs and deserves the lion's share of the touches going forward (Gus Edwards: 11 for 26).

Justin Herbert only threw the ball 26 times yesterday, so the upside here is massive if the Chargers continue to lean on the run. Wait, did I say if? Who am I kidding? This is Jim Harbaugh.

Dobbins is about to feast.

The Saints … are legit?

Time will tell if the Saints are legit or if the Panthers are just that bad, but I'm a half-glass-full kinda guy–kinda like this kid–so I'm going to give New Orleans the benefit of the doubt here.

Klint Kubiak's new system made things easy for Derek Carr (3 TDs), who was dealing this entire game as New Orleans clobbered Carolina 47-10. Rashid Shaheed (3-73-1), Foster Moreau (4-43-1), and Juwan Johnson (2-26-1) hauled in the passing today, while Alvin Kamara took care of business on the ground (15-83-1).

I wouldn't panic on Chris Olave, either. This offense is going to hum and he'll be leading the way soon enough.

Deshaun Watson is beyond cooked. 

Ok, I lied. I'm mostly a glass-half-full kinda guy, but we can't gloss over how unbelievably cooked Deshaun Watson is.

He completed only 24 of 45 passes for 169 yards and turned the ball over twice … all while barely completing a pass more than 5 yards past the line of scrimmage.

Fortunately for the Browns, they can easily cut bait and move on—

Wait, what's that? He carries a $72.9 million cap hit in 2025…and 2026?

At least the Browns didn't do something silly and also give up three first-round picks to–-

Oh ya, they did that too.

But look on the bright side, they still have Joe Flacco on the roster who was unbelievable down the stretch for them last year—

Oh, they let him walk in Free Agency and sign with the Colts?

It's joever and it couldn't have happened to a better guy and a smarter organization!

The Elite TEs flop. No, seriously. Like all of them.

Things started to slow on Thursday night for the Elite TEs with Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews doing very little. 

Well that trend continued in a big way on Sunday. The top 2 TEs yesterday were the two Saints guys (Moreau and Johnson) I just mentioned.

Kyle Pitts (TE3) had us praising the Lord after finding the endzone, but only had 3 catches.

Dalton Kincaid and Trey McBride combined for 41 yards.

David Njoku and Jake Ferguson got hurt.

It wasn't pretty, but there's reason for optimism. Per Dwain, the underlying usage for all three of Pitts, Kincaid, and McBride points to bigger days ahead:

  • McBride: 90% routes, 29% targets
  • Kincaid: 83% routes, 9% targets
  • Pitts: 100% routes