The 2024 Fantasy Football Champs - Coca Cola Kids Shoot for Back-to-Back Update 12/16/24

The Coca-Cola kids, the 2024 Champions of their Fantasy Football League, are ready for a new season.  The draft is done and we head into the second week of the season with a 1-0 record.  The team this year doesn't have quite the powerhouse players as last year's team, but the Kids look to be competitive again this year.  Slow and steady is the way to win this year!  Maybe there will be a couple surprise, highlight seasons from a couple guys to push the Kids to a back-to-back championship.  

Here is the roster of the Coca Cola Kids as of Week 1:

QB - Kyler Murray, Arizona

WR - CeeDee Lamb, Dallas

WR - Puka Nacua, LA Rams

RB - Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit

RB - Raheem Mostert, Miami

TE - Sam LaPorta, Detroit

W/R/T - Brandon Aiyuk, San Francisco

Q/W/R/T - Derek Carr, New Orleans

K - Jason Sanders, Miami

DEF - San Francisco

Bench:

Will Levis, QB Tennessee

Terry McLaurin, WR Washington

Calvin Ridley, WR Tennessee

Courtland Sutton, WR Denver

Jordan Addison, WR Minnesota

Trey Benson, RB Arizona

Brock Bowers, TE Las Vegas

Week 1:  1-0  "The Kids Return to Their Winning Ways in 2024"

Coca Cola Kids: 136.89

Roll Tide: 131.46

Week 2: 1-1 "The Kids Stumble in Week 2" 

The Watergirl: 180.11

Coca Cola Kids: 167.09

Week 3: 1-2 Headline: "Missing: The Coca-Cola Receiver Squad"

Rittz Boyz Blitz:  196.01

Coca Cola Kids: 125.41

Week 4: 1-3 Headline:  "Manager Goofs: Leaves 30.50 points on the bench"

Blood Sweat and Beers: 144.25

Coca Cola Kids:  143.27

Week 5: 2-3 Headline: "The Kids Bring in Lawrence to Blow Away the Opponent" 

Coca Cola Kids:  221.05

LukeIAmYourFather: 136.40

Week 6: 2-4  Headline: "Kids Shoulda Played Tyrone Tracy Jr." 

Foot Wedge Mafia: 157.90

Coca Cola Kids: 156.59

Week 7: 3-4  Headline: "The Kids Shake the Can to Blow Out the Queen"

Coca Cola Kids: 208.63

Crimson Queen: 84.70

Week 8: 4-4 Headline: "Kids Hit Their Stride to Even Their Record at 4-4"

Coca Cola Kids: 219.25

Pigskin Princess:  172.32

Week 9: 4-5  Headline: "TE Brock Bowers with Solid Performance in Loss" 

Border Czar: 160.86

Coca Cola Kids: 114.04 

The roster changes throughout the season, so here is the Week 8 Roster: 

QB - Kyler Murray, Arizona

WR - CeeDee Lamb, Dallas

WR - Terry McLaurin, Washington

RB - Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit

RB - Javonte Williams, Denver

TE - Brock Bowers, Las Vegas

W/R/T - Courtland Sutton, Denver

Q/W/R/T - Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville

K - Jake Bates, Detroit

DEF - Denver

Bench:

Bo Nix, QB Denver

Calvin Ridley, WR Tennessee

Jordan Addison, WR Minnesota

Tyrone Tracy Jr., RB New York Giants

Zach Charbonnet, RB Seattle

Alexander Mattison, RB Las Vegas

Puka Nacua, LA Rams

IR:  Brandon Aiyuk, WR San Francisco

Week 10: 4-6 Headline: "Kids Struggle with the Run, Hit a Buzzsaw with Roll Tide"

Roll Tide: 201.49

Coca-Cola Kids: 170.53

Week 11: 4-7 Headline: "Bo Nix Tries to Bail out the Kids, Goff says Nope!"

The Watergirl: 205.19

Coca-Cola Kids: 187.43

Week 12: 4-8 Headline: "Blitz Ride the Back of Barkley's 70 Point Outburst to Shake the Kids"  

Ritz Boyz Blitz: 243.34

Coca-Cola Kids: 199.14

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Week 13: 5-8  Headline: "The Kids Keep Slim Playoff Hopes Alive with Win"  

Coca-Cola Kids: 189.29

Blood Sweat & Beers:  149.05

Week 14: "The Kids Sneak into the Playoffs with Win over LukeIAmYourFather"

Coca-Cola Kids: 198.42

LukeIAmYourFather: 141.96

Week 15 Quarterfinal:  "The Kids End the Season with a Crushing Blow from Roll Tide" 

Roll Tide: 174.26

Coca-Cola Kids: 134.98

Final Roster: 

QB: Kyler Murray, Arizona

WR: Calvin Ridley, Tennessee

WR: Jordan Addison, Minnesota

RB: Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit

RB:  Tyrone Tracy Jr., New York Giants

TE: Brock Bowers, Las Vegas

W/R/T: Sam LaPorta, Detroit

Q/W/R/T: Bo Nix, Denver

K: Jake Bates, Detroit

DEF: Seattle

Bench

Russell Wilson, QB Pittsburg

Cee Dee Lamb, WR Dallas

Terry McLaurin, WR Washington

Courtland Sutton, WR Denver

Javonte Williams RB, Denver

Zach Charbonnet, RB Seattle

Ameer Abdullah, RB Las Vegas

Brandon Aiyuk, WR San Francisco IR

The Coca-Cola Kids end the 2024 season in sixth place.  

This post will be updated each week as the 2024/2025 Season progresses.   

Coca Cola Kids - Fantasy Football Champs!!

Now that we have cleaned up all the confetti, we can finally sit down and reflect on the 23/24 Fantasy Football season.  It was a season that started in a pedestrian sort of way for the Coca-Cola Kids with a 3-4 record by week 7.  But then the kids went on a 5-game win streak and found themselves in the hunt with an 8-4 record then ending the regular season at 9-5.  

After that slow start, the Kids' manager started making some tremendous waiver wire pick-ups and seemed to play the hot players at the right time.  It was masterful managing (luck) to earn the five-game win streak as players like Sean Howell emerged mid-season.  When the Kids' manager realized that he had squeezed all he could out of the Miami Dolphins' defense, he swiftly turned to the Buffalo Bills defense which really brought the points the last several weeks of the season.  

Throughout the season Dak Prescott, Stefon Diggs, Amon-Ra St.Brown were stalwarts whom the Kids could count on every weekend.  Genius waiver wire pickups like Najee Harris, Howell, and late-season pickups of Isaiah Likely and Jake Browning kept the winning ways through the end of the season and playoffs.  

The Kids had a playoff run like no other season winning in the following ways: 

Quarterfinals: Bye

Semifinals: 216.70 - 198.26 over Roll Tide (8-6) the 2020 champions

Final: 207.48 - 149.41 over The Watergirl (12-2) the regular season champions. 

The season was topped with raising the Last Murray Standing Fantasy Football League Champion trophy.  The Kids become one of two teams to win the league since 2013 with their second league championship.  To their credit, the other multi-league winning team, LukeIAmYourFather has won the league six times.  

But, the Coca Cola Kids are the 2024 League Champions!