The name Mike Boone may go down in fantasy football history.
Either the Minnesota Vikings running back will come out of nowhere on Monday night against the Green Bay Packers and deliver a fantasy championship, or he will be an epic bust. And there will be a ton of fantasy owners who have title games riding on him.
Getting to this point was a headache to begin with. By Saturday, around when the first of three NFL games kicked off, fantasy owners knew Dalvin Cook would be out but that Alexander Mattison’s status was up in the air while he practiced in a limited capacity. So putting Boone — an undrafted free agent in 2018 who scored twice in Week 15 after Cook went down with an injury — into the lineup was already a risk. The matchup was too good to pass up — the Packers give up the eighth-most yards to opposing rushers and the Vikings have attempted the sixth-most rushes in the league. But what if Mattison played and split time or took over the job entirely?
Then came this tweet Sunday morning from ESPN’s Adam Schefter:
So here we are. It’s likely the Mike Boone Show. This is the nature of championship week, when a name like C.J. Anderson comes out of nowhere and surprises the world.
Best of luck and here are some other people who are in the same boat you might be in:
