Let’s start at the bottom, because the bottom is where the news is. Jeff 121.06, Nick 37.54. Nick has D’Andre Swift in the Sunday night game and needs 83.53 from him, which would be the best running back game in the history of this league, so let’s call it what it is. Jared Goff 5.04. DK Metcalf 1.4. Parker Washington 3.6. Darren Waller 2.1. The Falcons defense, signed at noon, 3. Meanwhile Tyler Bass scored 16.0 on his bench behind Brandon McManus’s 6.0, Josh Downs 12.3 behind Washington, and the Packers defense 11.0 on Thursday night before Nick cut them Sunday for the Falcons. Jeff — Josh Allen 25.56, Tony Pollard 27.7, Dalton Kincaid 18.6 on the bench — will be 6-2 and alone atop the Smith House, barring that. The series goes to 7-11.

John E. 127.00, Tim 43.30. Tim’s lineup, slot by slot: Lamar Jackson, listed Out, started for the third straight week, 0.0. TreVeyon Henderson, listed Out, 0.0. Chris Godwin, 0.0. Nick Folk, 0.0. The Saints defense, on a bye and left in, 0.0. Five zeros. Brock Bowers scored 28.2 and Brian Thomas 8.2 and Quinshon Judkins 6.9 and that is forty-three points, with Rome Odunze tonight. John E. has Luther Burden tonight and leads by 83.70 — Ja’Marr Chase 31.1, Jonah Coleman 20.4, Trey McBride 20.2, the Jaguars defense he finally won on waivers 19. Tim needs 83.71 net from Odunze against Burden. The 6-6 series is heading for 7-6 John E., and the man who was 0-5 three weeks ago is heading for 3-5.

Kevin 89.48, Owen 45.80. Owen fixed the empty quarterback slot. He put Michael Penix in it, and Penix scored −2.9. Negative. Ka’imi Fairbairn, on a bye, stayed in at kicker for 0.0. Zay Flowers scored 0.0. And Tyler Allgeier — a healthy running back, on the Cardinals, on Owen’s bench — scored 36.1, the second-highest total by any player on any roster in the league today behind Tee Higgins’s 37.5, while DeMario Douglas scored 16.6 next to him. Owen’s bench has outscored his starters, 52.7 to 45.8. He has Emanuel Wilson tonight and needs 43.69. Kevin — Jaylen Warren 20.3, Bo Nix 17.28, Hunter Henry in the lineup after all for 6 — is going to level the series at 10-10 and be 5-3, which the market will find very confusing.

Josh 144.98, Michael 116.34. Michael is finished. Josh has Colston Loveland tonight and leads by 28.64, so barring something that has never happened to a tight end, Josh wins his third game, and it’s the week’s highest score so far: Tee Higgins 37.5, Joe Burrow 36.48, Chuba Hubbard 24.9, nineteen from the Steelers defense, with Carnell Tate, listed Out, scoring 0.0 in the lineup and McConkey and Shakir scoring 24 on the bench. Michael scored 116 — Mahomes 25.44, Harold Fannin 23.4, James Cook back from the bye for 18.1 — with Davante Adams, on injured reserve, in the lineup for the fourth consecutive week, for 0.0. That’s four straight games with a dead slot. Adams was not going to make up 28.64, but still. He is going to be 4-4.

John P. 99.96, Jonathan 54.80. John P. put the Buccaneers defense in and it scored 18, and Jahmyr Gibbs scored 24.8 and Rashee Rice 18.3, and Bryce Young scored 4.36 with Kirk Cousins scoring 27.18 on the bench, which is the second straight week Cousins has out-scored Young from the bench by double digits. Jonathan is 45.16 behind with Jayden Daniels and Stefon Diggs on Monday and Jaxon Smith-Njigba tonight; John P. has Jason Myers tonight. Jonathan needs 45.17 net from three starters, and Daniels has done 27 before. Kimani Vidal, won on waivers Thursday, scored 5.0. A John P. win is his 110th and puts the series at 11-9.

mike 106.88, Sean 100.90. The one that’s actually a game. Sean fixed both bye slots — Caleb Williams starts at quarterback tonight, Caleb Douglas (8.3) replaced Olave — and got 26.8 from Michael Wilson and 23.2 from Josh Jacobs. mike got 29.9 from Bhayshul Tuten and 25.0 from Puka Nacua and 7.28 from Matthew Stafford, and has Chig Okonkwo and the Commanders defense, both signed Thursday morning, on Monday night. Sean has Williams and the Seahawks defense tonight and needs 5.99 net. Sean has lost three straight; a fourth would make him 4-4 from 4-0.

Anthony 101.36, Timothy 75.70. Timothy benched Jordan Love for Dak Prescott this week, one week after benching Dak for Love, and Love scored 21.52 on the bench while Dak scored 15.8. Bijan Robinson 7.6. Samaje Perine, signed Sunday morning and started in the flex, 2.9. Timothy has Saquon Barkley on Monday night and needs 25.67 net of Anthony’s Dallas Goedert in the same game. Braelon Allen 23.3 and Chase Brown 16.1 for Anthony. The 8-7 series will either level or go to 9-7.

Where every game stands

Scores as of 7:05 p.m. Central, Sunday, November 1. Tonight = starter plays in CHI–SEA (Sunday night). Monday = starter plays in PHI–WAS. Kickers cannot score negative in this league; quarterbacks and defenses can, and one did.