Matchups, schmatchups.
Week 2 certainly seemed to buck matchups expectations, at least as far as quarterback play was concerned, as Trevor Siemian beat the Cincinnati Bengals in a road game, while Marcus Mariota struggled at home against the Oakland Raiders.
As we do each Sunday right here, we recap the week's winners and losers from a fantasy perspective, complete with applicable game and historical data. Check back after the conclusion of the 1 and 4 p.m. ET (and, when applicable, Sunday Night Football) games for our picks of the week's best and worst.
Winners
Marvin Jones, WR, Detroit Lions: What a free-agent signing! Jones is off to an outstanding start to his first season with the Lions, his 32 fantasy points tied for the week's leading total through Sunday, giving him 51 through three games. To put that into perspective, only once during his nine-year NFL career did former Lions star wide receiver Calvin Johnson score more fantasy points than that through three team games: He had 56 through three games in 2011.
Carlos Hyde, RB, San Francisco 49ers: Talk about a turnaround! Hyde, who was started in 37.7 percent of ESPN leagues despite a brutal matchup against the Seattle Seahawks, had nearly locked up his place in the "Losers" section through three quarters on Sunday, but he scored two touchdowns and a two-point conversion in the final eight minutes of the game to completely recover what seemed to be a lost day. His final tally: 24 fantasy points, which led all running backs through Sunday, and is only five shy of his career best (29, 2015 Week 1). Twenty of Hyde's 24 fantasy points came in the fourth quarter, which is the most by any running back during the fourth quarter since Jerick McKinnon had the same number in 2015 Week 16.
Kansas City Chiefs defense: Eight turnovers. It's the most accrued by any defense since the Seattle Seahawks had the same number in 2012 Week 14, and it resulted in a week-topping 32 fantasy points for the Chiefs D/ST. That's a difficult point total to achieve, having occurred only 20 times since the turn of the century, and only one other time since 2013 (35 by the Arizona Cardinals, 2015 Week 16).
Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford, QBs, Green Bay Packers and Lions: Both quarterbacks, who went head-to-head on Sunday, managed 26 fantasy points, giving Stafford 66 and Rodgers 64 for the season.
Trevor Siemian, QB, Denver Broncos: Practically no one expected this one: Siemian ranked outside our staff top 25 quarterback rankings and was started in only 0.7 percent of ESPN leagues in Week 3. He delivered the most fantasy points of any quarterback through Sunday, with 28, that coming in his third career NFL start. Only 11 quarterbacks since 1950 have managed a greater score in one of their first three career starts, led by Eric Hipple's 42 in his first career start (1981 Week 7).
LeSean McCoy, RB, Bills: His 23 fantasy points was second-best among running backs, through Sunday, which is actually a somewhat unusual feat for this player whose strength is typically his weekly consistency. Oddly enough, this was McCoy's best single-week score since 2013 Week 16 (27), and it was only his 12th game out of 105 in his career in which he has managed at least 20 fantasy points. Still, consider this: McCoy managed double-digit fantasy points in 18 of the 30 games he played between scores this big.
Zach Miller, TE, Chicago Bears: With his 19 fantasy points on Sunday Night Football, Miller captured the lead among tight ends through Sunday's action. It's his second-best single-game performance in his career, trailing only his 22 fantasy points in 2015 Week 10. It also gave Miller 89 fantasy points total since (and including) Week 9 of last season, which is fourth-best at the position, behind only Delanie Walker (122), Jordan Reed (119) and Greg Olsen (102).
Terrelle Pryor, WR, Browns: Week 3's "every man" scored a career-best 23 fantasy points, and keep in mind that he had 10 prior career starts at quarterback (the most fantasy-friendly position). Pryor did it with three completed passes (for 35 yards), four rushing attempts (for 21 yards and a score) and eight receptions (out of 14 targets for 144 yards), making him the first player to have at least that many of each type of attempt and the first player to have at least that much of each type of yardage since at least 1960.
DeMarco Murray, RB, Tennessee Titans: His rebound season continued on Sunday, with a 21-point fantasy game that brought his season total to 51. To put that number into perspective, consider that during Murray's 282-fantasy point career year of 2014, he managed 54 points through his first three team games.
Emmanuel Sanders, WR, Broncos: Well that was unexpected. Sanders, who totaled seven fantasy points through his first two games of 2016, scored 23 on Sunday, his third-best single-game total. Unfortunately, since the beginning of 2015, Sanders has been unpredictable on a week-by-week basis, scoring 15 or more fantasy points five times and three fantasy points or fewer five times in his 18 games played during that time span.
Jeremy Hill, RB, Bengals: Raise your hand if you were bold enough to start Hill versus the vaunted Denver Broncos defense? Don't lie -- we know that his owners in the 92.6 percent of ESPN leagues in which he is owned started him in only 28.7 percent. Hill's 21 fantasy points were his most since 2015 Week 4 (24), and represent his fourth-best single-game total in his three NFL seasons.
Cameron Brate, TE, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Presented with a larger opportunity following the Buccaneers' decision to waive Austin Seferian-Jenkins on Friday, Brate ranked second among tight ends through Sunday with 16 fantasy points. That's seven more points than he scored in his previous seven games combined.
Carson Wentz, QB, Philadelphia Eagles: Though his 21 fantasy points fell seven shy of the week's lead (through Sunday), Wentz's performance was yet another positive step in his rookie campaign. He now has 102 career pass attempts without an interception, trailing only Warren Moon's 103 for the most by a quarterback through his first three NFL games since 1970, and he has 52 fantasy points total through three games, tied for 24th-best since 1950. Incidentally, among players who didn't have that many fantasy points through three games: Drew Brees, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson.
Christine Michael, RB, Seahawks: It took 25 NFL games and a detour through Dallas, but Michael finally enjoyed a breakout performance, scoring a career-best 22 fantasy points, 12 more than he had in any previous game. His ESPN start percentage rose a whopping 44.7 percent (from 4.3 to 49.0 percent) in Week 3.
Sterling Shepard, WR, New York Giants: For the third consecutive game to begin his career, Shepard managed double-digit fantasy points, making him the first player to do that since Martavis Bryant (2014 Weeks 7-9), and only the seventh wide receiver to do that since at least 1950.
Losers
Kelvin Benjamin, WR, Carolina Panthers: The league's leading fantasy scorer among wide receivers through two weeks (37 points), Benjamin's start percentage soared to a whopping 90.5 percent of ESPN leagues on Sunday. He let his many confident owners down, scoring zero fantasy points on only one target, which came with less than three minutes to play in the game.
Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Pittsburgh Steelers: Many fantasy owners started Roethlisberger with confidence -- he was active in lineups in 81.2 percent of ESPN leagues -- and he promptly let them down with only six points. It's only the 20th time in his 174 career games that he has scored that few, though he did perform that poorly (or worse) twice in 2015, in Weeks 3 (5) and 16 (4).
DeAngelo Williams, RB, Steelers: It wasn't only Roethlisberger; Williams disappointed with only four fantasy points of his own. It was only the fourth time in Williams' 13 career starts for the Steelers that he was held to single-digit fantasy points, which was a huge letdown for a player started in 97.7 percent of ESPN leagues.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, QB, New York Jets: What does a six-interception game -- the first of its kind since Peyton Manning had the same number in 2007 Week 10 and only the third instance this century -- look like? Simple: Minus-3 fantasy points, which fortunately was only absorbed by fantasy owners who started him in 10.6 percent of ESPN leagues. It's the worst score by any starting quarterback since, well, Manning had a minus-7 in Week 10 of last season.
Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall, WRs, Jets: When things go that poorly for your quarterback, it's difficult as a wide receiver to fare much better. Such was the case for Decker and Marshall, who combined for a mere five fantasy points, despite their totaling 16 targets. This was an extremely unusual occurrence for the duo, who in 18 games as Jets teammates had never previously scored fewer than 12 fantasy points combined (that 12-point game happened in 2016 Week 1). In fact, in 2015, neither individual player finished with fewer than six fantasy points in a game (though Decker did sit out Week 3 due to injury).
Carson Palmer, QB, Arizona Cardinals: What happened?! Thanks in large part to his four interceptions, Palmer provided his fantasy owners who started him in 74.9 percent of ESPN leagues a sorry four fantasy points. It was his worst regular-season performance since he scored only three fantasy points in 2013 Week 16, and it brought back eerie memories of his four-interception performance during the 2015 NFC Championship, which would've been worth only one fantasy point using ESPN scoring.
Marcus Mariota, QB, Titans: Though his four-point fantasy stinker didn't affect a significant number of fantasy teams -- he was started in just 13.9 percent of ESPN leagues after being tabbed our No. 15 quarterback for Week 3 via our staff rankings -- some boldly streamed him accounting for the matchup, or had him in there as a QB2 in two-quarterback leagues. After all, the Oakland Raiders defense had allowed an NFL-most 57 fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks through their first two games, with Drew Brees (30) and Matt Ryan (27) finishing second at the position in scoring in the first two weeks, respectively.
C.J. Anderson, RB, Broncos: After he posted double-digit fantasy point totals in Weeks 1 (25) and 2 (14), Anderson's Sunday total shrunk to three, despite 15 touches. He was started in 98.0 percent of ESPN leagues.
Randall Cobb, WR, Packers: Cobb tends to generate a good share of trust in fantasy leagues; he was started in 61.1 percent of ESPN leagues on Sunday. Unfortunately, he scored only three fantasy points on three targets, giving him three consecutive single-digit scores to begin his 2016. In fact, Cobb has now been held to eight fantasy points or fewer in his past 11 regular-season games as well as in 15 of his past 16 games played.