NFL Week 12 latest buzz, fantasy tips and upset predictions - ESPN

Week 12 of the 2023 NFL season is here and league insiders Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano break down the biggest questions, latest news and notable buzz of the week. Plus, they picked which teams are on upset watch and which players should — or shouldn't — be in your fantasy football lineups.

With seven weeks remaining in the regular season, who is the league's most important player the rest of the way? Which teams are best set up to make a run? And with the Bears edging closer and closer to the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL draft, what's the latest on Justin Fields' future in Chicago? It's all here, as Dan and Jeremy answer big questions and empty their notebooks with everything they've heard heading into Week 12.

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Graziano: The remainder of the season is effectively an audition for Fields to keep the job. If the season ended now and the Bears had the top pick in the 2024 draft — they're projected to own it, via their March trade with the Panthers — my best educated guess is they'd take USC quarterback Caleb Williams and try to find somewhere to trade Fields. But if Fields lights it up over the next two months and shows improvement in the areas in which the Bears want to see it, it's not out of the question he could be their starter again.

There's just so much that's unknown about this whole situation, including the job statuses of coach Matt Eberflus and general manager Ryan Poles. Depending on the way the rest of the season goes, the people who spend the next couple of months evaluating Fields might not be the people who get to decide his future with the franchise.

Fowler: Yeah, that