Boost Watch: October is paid

The second Future Stars update paid exactly what Boost Watch, Week 7 projected. Ten cards are 88, Avieon Terrell is 87, Jadarian Price 85, Fernando Mendoza 84 and Jordyn Tyson 83. Two updates are left, and the ten at 88 can still reach 94.

The October update has landed, and a set that launched as fourteen 82s now holds five different ratings. Ten cards played every October game they had and took +3 for the second month running, on the rating and on each of the three stats under it. That puts all ten on 88. Every one of the fourteen is in the Player Database on its new number, so a challenge built here is costed against what the cards are worth today.

Where all fourteen stand

Two updates in, this is what each card has climbed since it launched at 82:

• 88, up six: Caleb Downs, Makai Lemon, Arvell Reese, Anthony Hill, Max Iheanachor, Kenyon Sadiq, Olaivavega Ioane, Jake Slaughter, Peter Woods and Derrick Moore.
• 87, up five: Avieon Terrell.
• 85, up three: Jadarian Price.
• 84, up two: Fernando Mendoza.
• 83, up one: Jordyn Tyson.

The ten at 88 have not missed a game all season. Every point the other four are behind comes from games missed, and none from how anyone played.

The Week 7 numbers held

Boost Watch, Week 7 closed October with a projection for every card: ten at +3, Terrell at +2, Mendoza at +1, and nothing for Price or Tyson. The update paid all fourteen exactly that. A month is settled by the games a card misses, and each week’s Boost Watch keeps that count. Plan November off its projections the same way.

Four missed pays nothing

September left the bottom of the ladder unpaid. Missing all three games that month still paid +1, because three missed sits inside the band that pays one. October ran four games, and Price and Tyson missed all four. Both took nothing, the first time a Future Star has gone a month without moving.

Every rung on the ladder has now paid a card:

• No game missed: +3, ten cards in October and twelve in September
• One missed: +2, Avieon Terrell in October
• Two or three missed: +1, Fernando Mendoza in October, and Mendoza and Tyson in September
• Four missed: nothing, Jadarian Price and Jordyn Tyson in October

November is five games long, which opens the one case the game has not paid yet: a single game played and four missed. The published bands do not cover it. Mendoza, with no November bye and a starter ahead of him, is the card most likely to settle it.

The four below 88

AVIEON TERRELL — CB, Atlanta Falcons. An 87, one point behind the ten, and the point was his Week 7 inactive with a back injury and illness. The job is the bigger problem. A.J. Terrell is off injured reserve and expected to start, which puts Avieon behind his brother. Atlanta’s bye is in Week 11, so November asks four games of him, and as a backup he has to be active for all four.

FERNANDO MENDOZA — QB, Las Vegas Raiders. An 84 off one October appearance, his debut in the Week 5 blowout. Kirk Cousins played every snap of the close games either side of it. Las Vegas has no bye in November, so he needs a snap in all five games for +3, and in at least two to be sure of +1.

JADARIAN PRICE — RB, Seattle Seahawks. An 85 and unchanged, after a month on injured reserve that covered all four games. He is eligible to return in Week 8, and Seattle’s bye is in Week 11, so November is four games for him. Activated for Week 8 and kept on the field, he takes +3. A Week 9 return caps the month at +2.

JORDYN TYSON — WR, New Orleans Saints. An 83 and unchanged, still waiting on his first snap of the season. New Orleans has its bye in Week 8, and the reporting has pointed to a Week 9 home debut against Cleveland. If that holds, all four of his November games are ahead of him and a clean +3 is open.

What it means for your database

All fourteen are on their new ratings, so nothing needs typing in. If you raised one by hand already, your number is kept rather than overwritten.

The spread changes what each card is for. The ten 88s are two updates from 94, and submitting one hands over a card with up to six points still to come. Terrell at 87 and Price at 85 are Rare Gold with them. Mendoza at 84 and Tyson at 83 are the only two still in the Gold band, which makes them the only Future Stars a Gold row will take. Team of the Week cards fill Gold slots too works through why a set card counts as its metal.

If a Future Star has to go into a challenge this month, spend Mendoza. He is an 84 with the hardest path to another boost in the set. Tyson is a point lower, but a Week 9 debut gives him a clean path to +3 that Mendoza does not have.

Going into November

November is Weeks 8 to 12, five games, and the longest month left. Two updates remain, for November’s games and December’s, so the ten at 88 can reach 91 next time and 94 at the last. Seven of the fourteen get a bye to shorten the month:

• Week 8: Arvell Reese and Jordyn Tyson.
• Week 9: Anthony Hill and Max Iheanachor.
• Week 10: Makai Lemon.
• Week 11: Avieon Terrell and Jadarian Price.

The other seven need all five: Caleb Downs, Olaivavega Ioane, Kenyon Sadiq, Jake Slaughter, Peter Woods, Derrick Moore and Fernando Mendoza. What to expect from the fourteen:

• Likeliest +3: Caleb Downs, Jake Slaughter, Arvell Reese, Anthony Hill, Max Iheanachor and Makai Lemon. All six start, and four of them get a bye to shorten the month.
• Clean so far, with no cushion: Olaivavega Ioane, Kenyon Sadiq, Derrick Moore and Peter Woods. All four need five games. Ioane comes back from his knee into five in a row, and Sadiq and Moore are on shrinking snap shares.
• Back in play: Jadarian Price and Jordyn Tyson. Each has four November games ahead of him, and a return on schedule pays either one +3.
• Hardest to move: Avieon Terrell, a backup behind his brother, and Fernando Mendoza, a backup quarterback who needs a snap in every game for +3.

• ▲RiserMakai Lemon — Two clean months, a first touchdown and the most routes on the team. Up six to 88, with a bye in Week 10.
• ▲RiserCaleb Downs — An every-down safety on 196 of 204 charted snaps. As safe a +3 as November has.
• ●WatchJadarian Price — Eligible in Week 8 with four November games. Activated on time, a clean month pays +3.
• ●WatchJordyn Tyson — Still waiting on a first snap. A Week 9 debut puts four games and a full +3 in front of him.
• ▼FallerAvieon Terrell — One point behind the ten, and now behind his brother at corner.
• ▼FallerOlaivavega Ioane — A +3 banked on one quarter in Week 7, then five straight games on that knee.

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