Week 1 — 2021 Gridiron Geniuses

Year three. Everyone's different. Nothing has changed.

Week 1 of the third season arrived with its usual promises and delivered its usual complications. Lineups that looked correct on Saturday looked like riddles by Sunday evening.

Jay H opened the QB-heavy season with 146.3 points. The QB is paying off immediately. He has already sent two messages to the group chat about this. Both were a single word: "Told."

Adam T debuted with 139.4 in a convincing win, the kind that makes you recalculate your preseason assessments.

Hillary T (defending champion) put up 127.8 — still dominant, if slightly more mortal than last year. The speed strategy continues.

Travis K returned with 132.6, right in the mix, exactly where he prefers to be through week 1: quiet and dangerous.

Joe M had the week's most painful result: 141.2 points in a loss, because his opponent put up 144.8. There is no recap that fixes that. There is only next week.

Lowest Score

Derek H, 67.4. He has posted a photo of his players' injury reports with the caption "tell me this is fair." We have reviewed the injury reports. Some of his players were healthy. He may have started the wrong ones.

Week 2 awaits. The standings mean nothing and everything simultaneously.