Green Bay Packers
Jordy Nelson: 3-12-5-12-9-dnp (8.1), James Jones: 6-6-7-7-10-9 (7), Randall Cobb: 2-8-4-10-8-7 (6.2), Jermichael Finley: 5-5-5-4-2-6 (5.4), Greg Jennings: 10-3-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (7.3), Cedric Benson: 5-4-2-dnp-dnp-dnp (3), Alex Green: dnp-0-1-1-5-6 (2.2), John Kuhn: 4-0-1-0-1-dnp (1.3), Donald Driver: 1-2-2-0-1-2 (1.1), D.J. Williams: 2-dnp-4-dnp-0-1 (1.3), Tom Crabtree: dnp-1-1-3-0-1 (0.9), James Starks: dnp-dnp-dnp-0-dnp-2 (1)
With Jordy Nelson and Greg Jennings out, it made it much easier for opposing defenses to focus on Randall Cobb and James Jones. They led in targets, but have had better games when Nelson was there to stretch the field.
Alex Green continues to not get it done, but that’s two weeks in a row without James Starks getting any extra touches, so unless they trade for DeAngelo Williams, it looks like Green is the guy.
Minnesota Vikings
Percy Harvin: 11-6-10-14-5-12 (9.9), Kyle Rudolph: 6-5-7-11-4-2 (5.9), Michael Jenkins: 5-4-4-10-2-9 (5.6), Adrian Peterson: 4-4-3-8-4-1 (3.5), Jerome Simpson: dnp-5-3-dnp-1-7 (4), Toby Gerhart: 4-1-0-3-0-2 (1.8), Devin Aromashodu: 2-0-4-2-0-dnp (2), John Carlson: 1-1-1-2-0-dnp (0.9), Rhett Ellison: 0-0-2-2-0-1 (0.6), Stephen Burton: 1-dnp-1-0-0-0 (0.6)
The lack of depth on Christian Ponder’s passes is a little disturbing if you want the passing offense to ever open up, but thankfully Percy Harvin is the best run after the catch receiver in the business. But the lack of production for Kyle Rudolph is a little concerning. It wasn’t that long ago that he had five touchdowns in five games, but the yardage was never really there. That would lead us to believe that he needs touchdowns to even have a semblance of a good fantasy game. And that’s pretty much true for most tight ends, but I do believe Rudolph is going to need to see more targets going forward if they Vikings want to take any pressure off Harvin. Unfortunately Michael Jenkins is getting those targets at the moment, but he is just not as talented as Rudolph. I’m taking a wait and see attitude on Rudolph.
New Orleans Saints
Marques Colston: 4-13-18-BYE-10-10 (10), Lance Moore: 7-15-dnp-BYE-10-6 (8.8), Jimmy Graham: 8-9-2-BYE-dnp-10 (8.7), Darren Sproles: 3-7-7-BYE-4-9 (7.4), Devery Henderson: 7-2-10-BYE-3-4 (4.7), Pierre Thomas: 6-3-2-BYE-1-2 (3), Joseph Morgan: dnp-1-1-BYE-3-dnp (2), David Thomas: 0-2-0-BYE-4-0 (1.3), Greg Camarillo: 0-dnp-5-BYE-dnp-dnp (1.7), Jed Collins: 1-1-0-BYE-1-0 (0.7), Mark Ingram: 0-1-0-BYE-0-0 (0.3)
The Broncos shut down the Saints, but at least Jimmy Graham is back! He didn’t look 100%, but he also wasn’t hobbling around and he caught a garbage time touchdown for all those who held out hope that he would play. He also tied Marques Colston in targets, which seems about right, with Darren Sproles coming in third and lance Moore fourth. I think that’s how it will break down as long as Graham is healthy and if he is, just bank on him.
New York Giants
Victor Cruz: 8-13-8-13-11-8 (11.1), Martellus Bennett: 7-3-4-2-7-6 (5.6), Hakeem Nicks: dnp-dnp-dnp-5-10-7 (8.6), Domenik Hixon: dnp-11-8-6-4-3 (5.4), Ahmad Bradshaw: dnp-4-6-1-5-0 (2.6), Ramses Barden: 10-4-dnp-0-0-1 (2.4), Rueben Randle: 3-1-9-0-0-2 (1.9), Andre Brown: 5-1-0-dnp-1-2 (1.6), Henry Hynoski: 2-1-0-1-1-0 (0.9), Bear Pascoe: 1-2-1-0-1-0 (0.8), David Wilson: 1-1-0-0-0-0 (0.5)
The Cowboys pass defense has shut down Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks twice this season. That is a tough task to accomplish once, let alone twice. Lawrence Tynes, the defense and Tony Romo are the reasons they beat Dallas. Don’t go throwing your quarterbacks and receivers at Dallas all willy-nilly.
Andre Brown took away another touchdown from Ahmad Bradshaw, but Bradshaw still had 22 carries, which shows that he is holding up, even with the foot issue. You should own Brown if you have Bradshaw, but he doesn’t get enough touches to consider starting.
Philadelphia Eagles
DeSean Jackson: 10-9-7-8-BYE-8 (8.7), Brent Celek: 6-5-5-8-BYE-5 (6.9), Jeremy Maclin: dnp-3-8-10-BYE-9 (7.5), LeSean McCoy: 3-4-5-8-BYE-3 (5), Jason Avant: 4-2-3-4-BYE-8 (4), Damaris Johnson: 11-1-0-dnp-BYE-dnp (3.2), Clay Harbor: 0-1-1-2-BYE-0 (1.7), Riley Cooper: dnp-dnp-dnp-3-BYE-1 (2), Stanley Havili: 0-2-0-0-BYE-1 (0.6), Bryce Brown: 2-0-0-0-BYE-0 (0.3)
The Eagles offense is sputtering and it’s hurting my fantasy players! But this isn’t about me, or is it? No, it’s not. Jeremy Maclin and Desean Jackson both had plenty of targets against the Falcons, but weren’t able to turn them into many fantasy points. But since the targets are there, I’m going to keep on keeping on until the wheels fall off.
LeSean McCoy is getting hurt by this offense right now, but managed to get into the end zone twice last week and his overall touches are almost identical to last year when he went off. I’m going to continue weathering the storm and hope the power gets turned back on soon.
Welcome to the NFC Targets for Week 9. They are much like the targets for the AFC from yesterday (if you click back there you’ll be magically transported), but there will be different words associated with them, but the same letters and numbers, but in completely different order. I have gone to the trouble of ordering those numbers and letters into a semi-coherent article about fantasy football.
Below you will find tight end red zone and every zone targets for the last four weeks. Tight ends need touchdowns to have much of a chance to be fantasy relevant, so I like to keep an eye on how often they have the ball thrown at them as they close in on the end zone.
Targets/Game (last four weeks) Red Zone Targets (last four weeks)
| Rank |
Player |
Tar/Gm |
|
Rank |
Player |
Tar |
| 1 |
Jason Witten |
12.3 |
|
1 |
Rob Gronkowski |
9 |
| 2 |
Rob Gronkowski |
8.8 |
|
2 |
Heath Miller |
8 |
| 3 |
Tony Gonzalez |
8.7 |
|
3 |
Jason Witten |
6 |
| 4 |
Aaron Hernandez |
8 |
|
4 |
Kyle Rudolph |
5 |
| 5 |
Brandon Pettigrew |
7.3 |
|
5 |
Marcedes Lewis |
5 |
| 6 |
Heath Miller |
7 |
|
6 |
Aaron Hernandez |
5 |
| 7 |
Antonio Gates |
7 |
|
7 |
Brent Celek |
4 |
| 8 |
Brandon Myers |
6.7 |
|
8 |
Dallas Clark |
4 |
| 9 |
Owen Daniels |
6.7 |
|
9 |
Tony Scheffler |
4 |
| 10 |
Dustin Keller |
6.3 |
|
10 |
Brandon Myers |
4 |
| 11 |
Jermaine Gresham |
6.3 |
|
11 |
Antonio Gates |
4 |
| 12 |
Jimmy Graham |
6 |
|
12 |
Anthony Fasano |
4 |
| 13 |
Brent Celek |
6 |
|
13 |
Jared Cook |
4 |
| 14 |
Kyle Rudolph |
6 |
|
|
|
|
To start saving space I’ll be showing you the last 6 weeks of targets on each individual player. I’m also changing the parenthesized number from total targets to targets per game. That should help even that number out for players that have missed games because of injury or bye weeks.
Arizona Cardinals
Larry Fitzgerald: 9-15-15-12-7-11 (10.6), Andre Roberts: 6-9-10-6-9-11 (7.6), Early Doucet: 1-7-7-3-6-4 (4.4), Michael Floyd: 2-8-3-3-1-11 (3.6), Rob Housler: 2-3-6-3-7-5 (3.4), Jeff King: 2-2-1-4-0-3 (1.9), LaRod Stephens-Howling: 0-dnp-dnp-2-5-4 (2.3), Todd Heap: dnp-dnp-dnp-0-dnp-dnp (4.3), Ryan Williams: 2-2-1-dnp-dnp-dnp (2), William Powell: dnp-2-4-1-1-0 (1.6), Anthony Sherman: 0-0-2-0-dnp-2 (0.9)
When you throw the ball 52 times and don’t get into the end zone, you aren’t doing a very good job, John Skelton. Yes, if you are reading this, you should do better.
The Cardinals only ran the ball nine times for seven yards, so there were plenty of targets to go around and Andre Roberts and Larry Fitzgerald both had 11. Fitzgerald still leads in red zone targets with 13 to five, as well as in total targets.
LaRod Stephens-Howling was the only running back to touch the ball against the 49ers. It seems that William Powell has been relegated to persona non grata, so The Hyphen is tentatively the starting running back.
Atlanta Falcons
Tony Gonzalez: 12-5-14-7-BYE-5 (8.4), Julio Jones: 7-8-15-8-BYE-5 (8.4), Roddy White: 8-12-6-8-BYE-4 (8.1), Harry Douglas: 2-2-5-7-BYE-dnp (3.8), Jacquizz Rodgers: 5-4-2-4-BYE-5 (3.3), Michael Turner: 2-5-5-1-BYE-2 (2.3), Jason Snelling: 1-4-1-0-BYE-3 (1.4), Lousaka Polite: 0-dnp-dnp-1-BYE-3 (0.8), Tommy Gallarda: dnp-dnp-2-1-BYE-0 (1), Michael Palmer: 1-dnp-dnp-dnp-BYE-0 (0.5), Drew Davis: dnp-dnp-0-0-BYE-2 (0.7)
Matt Ryan was Dexter-like in his dismantling of the Eagles defense in the first half completing 17-of-20 passes for 197 yards and three touchdowns. Of course two of those touchdowns went to non-fantasy relevant Drew Davis and Jason Snelling. And after that barrage, Ryan only threw for five more completions for 65 yards while Michael Turner ran into the line like a stuck Mario Brother.
No receiver saw more than five targets for the Falcons, but Julio Jones showed why his big play ability pays off as he took those five targets and caught each for 123 yards and a touchdown. He also leads Roddy White in red zone targets 10 to eight and has passed him in overall targets as well.
Michael Turner got plenty of opportunities with the big lead, but only had 64 total yards on 25 touches, while Jacquizz Rodgers had 80 yards on 13 touches.
Carolina Panthers
Steve Smith: 4-6-13-BYE-9-16 (9), Greg Olsen: 14-7-3-BYE-5-5 (6.3), Brandon LaFell: 5-3-3-BYE-8-4 (5.1), Louis Murphy: 3-1-2-BYE-9-4 (3.4), Mike Tolbert: 5-3-1-BYE-1-1 (2.3), Jonathan Stewart: dnp-1-4-BYE-4-6 (3.2), DeAngelo Williams: 2-2-2-BYE-0-0 (1), Kealoha Pilares: 0-1-0-BYE-0-0 (0.4), Ben Hartsock: 0-0-1-BYE-0-1 (0.3)
Mr. Smith is still alive and kicking, butt that is. He feasts on Bear flesh as often as he can and even though the Panthers lost, Smith showed he still has it. He is averaging 12.6 targets over his last three games.
Brandon LaFell also had a good game, but his concussion might leave him out of next week’s tilt against Washington. There’s not much depth at the wide receiver position in Carolina, but Louis Murphy would likely pick up most of LaFell’s starting snaps and sporadic targets.
Jonathan Stewart had a tough road against the Bears’ number one defense, but was the main man once again with 53 snaps to DeAngelo Williams’ 14. Maybe he’ll have a little more room this week against Washington.
Chicago Bears
Brandon Marshall: 11-8-17-BYE-10-14 (11.4), Matt Forte: dnp-1-4-BYE-5-5 (4.3), Earl Bennett: 4-dnp-dnp-BYE-6-4 (4.8), Alshon Jeffery: 7-5-4-BYE-dnp-dnp (4.6), Devin Hester: 2-4-4-BYE-6-2 (3), Kellen Davis: 3-4-4-BYE-2-1 (3), Michael Bush: 2-1-3-BYE-1-0 (1), Matt Spaeth: 0-0-0-BYE-1-2 (0.7), Kyle Adams: 1-0-1-BYE-1-0 (0.6), Dane Sanzenbacher: dnp-1-2-BYE-0-dnp (1)
Do Bears poo in the woods? Probably, but they for sure pooed all over Soldier field in the first half against Carolina. They ended up pulling out a win, and that’s all that matters. Wait, that doesn’t matter at all! But thankfully, the two main offensive weapons for Chicago are really their only offensive weapons. Brandon Marshall continues to get force fed the ball and Matt Forte only conceded three rushing attempts to Michael Bush and also found the end zone. Both are great fantasy players because their team relies on them so much.
Dallas Cowboys
Jason Witten: 6-14-BYE-7-8-22 (10), Dez Bryant: 8-13-BYE-15-3-11 (8.9), Miles Austin: 9-6-BYE-5-9-16 (8.4), Kevin Ogletree: 7-5-BYE-4-6-3 (5.3), Felix Jones: 2-0-BYE-1-6-3 (2.7), DeMarco Murray: 4-7-BYE-1-dnp-dnp (3.6), John Phillips: 0-0-BYE-2-0-3 (1.1), Phillip Tanner: 0-3-BYE-0-1-1 (0.7), Lawrence Vickers: 1-0-BYE-1-1-0 (0.4), James Hanna: 0-0-BYE-0-0-1 (0.3), Cole Beasley: dnp-2-BYE-dnp-dnp-0 (0.7)
Jason Witten won all my target leagues for me by a mile. Well, I fibbed a little. There is no such thing as a league that counts targets. Well, there probably is, but I’m not in one of them. But I’d much rather count targets in fantasy than net yards for punters, which I’ve seen before and cried after that slight exposure. Anyway, Jason Witten broke the record for most receptions for a tight end, but he actually broke his own record of 15, but he was tied with Kellen Winslow, so now he has sole possession with his new record of 18. Mazel Tov Jason.
Tony Romo was gunning for Drew Bledsoe’s record of 70 passing attempts in a game, but he came up way short with a measly 62. His four interceptions were, well, four interceptions, but when you look at his fantasy points, he still finished as the eighth best fantasy quarterback on the week and helped three of his receivers to 100 yard games. If I was a Dallas fan, I’d be throwing things at his fat head, but his errant throws actually can sometimes help him need to throw more in the long run and end up giving his receivers more possibilities for receptions. I know it’s a backwards way of looking at things, but it’s the way it is.
Detroit Lions
Calvin Johnson: 12-12-BYE-13-11-8 (10.7), Brandon Pettigrew: 12-9-BYE-7-6-9 (8.1), Nate Burleson: 12-8-BYE-9-3-dnp (7.2), Titus Young: 7-3-BYE-5-8-9 (5.4), Tony Scheffler: dnp-3-BYE-5-3-8 (5), Joique Bell: 5-8-BYE-2-4-4 (3.7), Mikel Leshoure: 4-5-BYE-4-7-5 (5), Kevin Smith: 0-0-BYE-dnp-dnp-1 (2), Ryan Broyles: 0-1-BYE-0-4-5 (2), Will Heller: 1-0-BYE-0-0-0 (0.6), Stefan Logan: 1-0-BYE-0-0-0 (0.3),
Keiland Williams: 0-1-BYE-0-dnp-dnp (0.4)
Matt Stafford got back on track this week and instead of Calvin Johnson getting all the fantasy love, it was his new partner in crime, Titus Young Sr. Stafford distributed the ball fairly evenly, but Young had an easier time with less coverage. This bodes well for both receivers. If Young Sr. can continue to play well, opposing defenses won’t be able to bracket Calvin Johnson on every play.
Ryan Broyles had a touchdown reception, but was still fifth on the team in targets. The good news is that he’s been targeted in the red zone three times in his last two games.
Green Bay Packers
Jordy Nelson: 3-12-5-12-9-dnp (8.1), James Jones: 6-6-7-7-10-9 (7), Randall Cobb: 2-8-4-10-8-7 (6.2), Jermichael Finley: 5-5-5-4-2-6 (5.4), Greg Jennings: 10-3-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (7.3), Cedric Benson: 5-4-2-dnp-dnp-dnp (3), Alex Green: dnp-0-1-1-5-6 (2.2), John Kuhn: 4-0-1-0-1-dnp (1.3), Donald Driver: 1-2-2-0-1-2 (1.1), D.J. Williams: 2-dnp-4-dnp-0-1 (1.3), Tom Crabtree: dnp-1-1-3-0-1 (0.9), James Starks: dnp-dnp-dnp-0-dnp-2 (1)
With Jordy Nelson and Greg Jennings out, it made it much easier for opposing defenses to focus on Randall Cobb and James Jones. They led in targets, but have had better games when Nelson was there to stretch the field.
Alex Green continues to not get it done, but that’s two weeks in a row without James Starks getting any extra touches, so unless they trade for DeAngelo Williams, it looks like Green is the guy.
Minnesota Vikings
Percy Harvin: 11-6-10-14-5-12 (9.9), Kyle Rudolph: 6-5-7-11-4-2 (5.9), Michael Jenkins: 5-4-4-10-2-9 (5.6), Adrian Peterson: 4-4-3-8-4-1 (3.5), Jerome Simpson: dnp-5-3-dnp-1-7 (4), Toby Gerhart: 4-1-0-3-0-2 (1.8), Devin Aromashodu: 2-0-4-2-0-dnp (2), John Carlson: 1-1-1-2-0-dnp (0.9), Rhett Ellison: 0-0-2-2-0-1 (0.6), Stephen Burton: 1-dnp-1-0-0-0 (0.6)
The lack of depth on Christian Ponder’s passes is a little disturbing if you want the passing offense to ever open up, but thankfully Percy Harvin is the best run after the catch receiver in the business. But the lack of production for Kyle Rudolph is a little concerning. It wasn’t that long ago that he had five touchdowns in five games, but the yardage was never really there. That would lead us to believe that he needs touchdowns to even have a semblance of a good fantasy game. And that’s pretty much true for most tight ends, but I do believe Rudolph is going to need to see more targets going forward if they Vikings want to take any pressure off Harvin. Unfortunately Michael Jenkins is getting those targets at the moment, but he is just not as talented as Rudolph. I’m taking a wait and see attitude on Rudolph.
New Orleans Saints
Marques Colston: 4-13-18-BYE-10-10 (10), Lance Moore: 7-15-dnp-BYE-10-6 (8.8), Jimmy Graham: 8-9-2-BYE-dnp-10 (8.7), Darren Sproles: 3-7-7-BYE-4-9 (7.4), Devery Henderson: 7-2-10-BYE-3-4 (4.7), Pierre Thomas: 6-3-2-BYE-1-2 (3), Joseph Morgan: dnp-1-1-BYE-3-dnp (2), David Thomas: 0-2-0-BYE-4-0 (1.3), Greg Camarillo: 0-dnp-5-BYE-dnp-dnp (1.7), Jed Collins: 1-1-0-BYE-1-0 (0.7), Mark Ingram: 0-1-0-BYE-0-0 (0.3)
The Broncos shut down the Saints, but at least Jimmy Graham is back! He didn’t look 100%, but he also wasn’t hobbling around and he caught a garbage time touchdown for all those who held out hope that he would play. He also tied Marques Colston in targets, which seems about right, with Darren Sproles coming in third and lance Moore fourth. I think that’s how it will break down as long as Graham is healthy and if he is, just bank on him.
New York Giants
Victor Cruz: 8-13-8-13-11-8 (11.1), Martellus Bennett: 7-3-4-2-7-6 (5.6), Hakeem Nicks: dnp-dnp-dnp-5-10-7 (8.6), Domenik Hixon: dnp-11-8-6-4-3 (5.4), Ahmad Bradshaw: dnp-4-6-1-5-0 (2.6), Ramses Barden: 10-4-dnp-0-0-1 (2.4), Rueben Randle: 3-1-9-0-0-2 (1.9), Andre Brown: 5-1-0-dnp-1-2 (1.6), Henry Hynoski: 2-1-0-1-1-0 (0.9), Bear Pascoe: 1-2-1-0-1-0 (0.8), David Wilson: 1-1-0-0-0-0 (0.5)
The Cowboys pass defense has shut down Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks twice this season. That is a tough task to accomplish once, let alone twice. Lawrence Tynes, the defense and Tony Romo are the reasons they beat Dallas. Don’t go throwing your quarterbacks and receivers at Dallas all willy-nilly.
Andre Brown took away another touchdown from Ahmad Bradshaw, but Bradshaw still had 22 carries, which shows that he is holding up, even with the foot issue. You should own Brown if you have Bradshaw, but he doesn’t get enough touches to consider starting.
Philadelphia Eagles
DeSean Jackson: 10-9-7-8-BYE-8 (8.7), Brent Celek: 6-5-5-8-BYE-5 (6.9), Jeremy Maclin: dnp-3-8-10-BYE-9 (7.5), LeSean McCoy: 3-4-5-8-BYE-3 (5), Jason Avant: 4-2-3-4-BYE-8 (4), Damaris Johnson: 11-1-0-dnp-BYE-dnp (3.2), Clay Harbor: 0-1-1-2-BYE-0 (1.7), Riley Cooper: dnp-dnp-dnp-3-BYE-1 (2), Stanley Havili: 0-2-0-0-BYE-1 (0.6), Bryce Brown: 2-0-0-0-BYE-0 (0.3)
The Eagles offense is sputtering and it’s hurting my fantasy players! But this isn’t about me, or is it? No, it’s not. Jeremy Maclin and Desean Jackson both had plenty of targets against the Falcons, but weren’t able to turn them into many fantasy points. But since the targets are there, I’m going to keep on keeping on until the wheels fall off.
LeSean McCoy is getting hurt by this offense right now, but managed to get into the end zone twice last week and his overall touches are almost identical to last year when he went off. I’m going to continue weathering the storm and hope the power gets turned back on soon.
San Francisco 49ers
Michael Crabtree: 8-7-7-6-6-5 (6.9), Mario Manningham: 5-5-5-10-dnp-4 (5.3), Vernon Davis: 8-2-7-5-0-2 (4.5), Randy Moss: 6-1-2-3-4-1 (2.8), Frank Gore: 2-2-0-4-6-1 (2.5), Delanie Walker: 2-4-0-2-1-3 (2), Kyle Williams: 3-0-2-4-4-1 (2), Kendall Hunter: 1-0-1-1-2-1 (1.1), Garrett Celek: dnp-dnp-1-2-0-0 (0.8)
Oh Michael Crabtree, how I despise your two-touchdown game! You do realize that you had only one touchdown before last week and you are averaging fewer than seven targets a game and you are averaging 55 yards per game? Oh, you do? Ok, carry on then.
I actually like Crabtree and in a different offense I believe he could be a consistent fantasy player, but it seems that I’ll never be able to feel comfortable starting a 49ers receiver. Just think if Vernon Davis played on the Patriots? Would he have averaged 2.3 targets over the last three games? I say no!
Of course they aren’t the Patriots and never will be. Just because they are a very good NFL team it doesn’t mean you can rely on them to produce fantasy stars. But I think we too often try to do just that. Volume and opportunity equal fantasy goodness, neither of which San Francisco will ever give to a single player consistently in the passing game.
Seattle Seahawks
Sidney Rice: 1-7-6-6-4-8 (5.8), Golden Tate: 7-3-4-6-3-7 (4.9), Zach Miller: 4-3-3-2-2-5 (2.9), Doug Baldwin: dnp-3-4-3-2-dnp (3.2), Anthony McCoy: 2-3-2-1-1-2 (2.1), Marshawn Lynch: 1-4-2-1-2-3 (1.9), Braylon Edwards: 0-0-1-3-2-dnp (2.1), Robert Turbin: 0-2-2-2-1-3 (1.6), Ben Obomanu: 3-0-0-1-4-0 (1.1), Charly Martin: 1-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-3 (2), Leon Washington: 0-0-0-2-0-2 (0.6), Evan Moore: 2-0-0-0-1-1 (0.6), Michael Robinson: 0-0-1-0-1-1 (0.4)
See above.
St. Louis Rams
Danny Amendola: 9-9-5-dnp-dnp-dnp (9.6), Brandon Gibson: 6-4-4-9-7-3 (5.2), Chris Givens: 4-3-5-7-5-4 (3.9), Lance Kendricks: 7-2-2-4-4-4 (3.4), Steve Smith: 3-dnp-dnp-2-6-1 (3.3), Daryl Richardson: 1-3-2-3-3-4 (2.4), Austin Pettis: 0-2-2-3-3-5 (2.5), Brian Quick: dnp-3-1-2-4-4 (2.5), Steven Jackson: 2-2-0-5-0-2 (1.9), Matthew Mulligan: 1-0-0-2-0-2 (0.9), Mike McNeill: 0-0-0-0-0-2 (0.4), Brit Miller: 0-1-0-0-1-0 (0.2), Isaiah Pead: 1-dnp-0-1-0-0 (0.3)
Chris Givens’ four-week run of 50-yard receptions is pretty crazy, but he’s got the ability to prove they aren’t fluky by any means. Of course last week in London the Rams were slaughtered at the altar for the amusement of Londoners, and after Givens caught the lone Rams touchdown early in the game, it was all-downhill. Austin Pettis led the Rams in targets with five. That’s how bad it was.
The running back situation remains pretty split and with no trade in sight, I think it will remain that way. At this point I’d probably lean towards Daryl Richardson, just because the Rams are going to continue looking toward the future and Steven Jackson is most likely gone after this year.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Vincent Jackson: 7-11-BYE-8-14-6 (9.4), Mike Williams: 6-8-BYE-6-8-11 (6.7), Doug Martin: 3-5-BYE-4-3-6 (4), Dallas Clark: 4-4-BYE-1-6-3 (3.4), Tiquan Underwood: 1-3-BYE-3-6-5 (3.6), Danny Ware: 2-2-BYE-2-1-2 (1.4), Luke Stocker: 3-2-BYE-0-1-0 (0.9), Arrelious Benn: 1-4-BYE-0-0-1 (1), LeGarrette Blount: 0-0-BYE-0-1-0 (0.3)
Last week the Muscle Hamster got free and ran all around the Metrodome and the Vikings defense couldn’t get him out of the walls until the game was over. His big game also coincided with an uptick in targets. He’s the all-around back we thought he was.
Mike Williams continues to put up good numbers. He has four touchdowns in seven games and is ranked 21st in fantasy points for wide receivers per game while Vincent Jackson ranks third. The Buccaneers offense is for real for fantasy.
Washington Redskins
Santana Moss: 3-4-5-4-4-9 (4.6), Leonard Hankerson: 7-11-1-3-8-4 (4.6), Fred Davis: 7-4-6-4-1-dnp (4.4), Josh Morgan: 3-5-1-4-2-8 (3.8), Logan Paulsen: 1-0-1-0-6-6 (1.9), Aldrick Robinson: 3-dnp-1-0-1-1 (2.1), Evan Royster: 4-3-1-1-1-1 (1.8),
Pierre Garcon: dnp-1-7-dnp-dnp-dnp (4), Alfred Morris: 1-2-1-2-2-0 (1), Niles Paul: 0-2-0-0-1-1 (0.9), Roy Helu: 3-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (2.3), Darrel Young: 0-2-0-1-1-1 (0.6), Brandon Banks: 1-0-0-2-0-0 (0.5), Dezmon Briscoe: 0-0-dnp-0-dnp-2 (0.4)
The Washington wide receivers did Robert Griffin III no favors against Pittsburgh last week and none are seizing their opportunity. Well, maybe Santana Moss, but he’s producing due to touchdowns that are not at all sustainable. At this point all I can hope for is a speedy recovery for Pierre Garcon.
Snap count data comes from our friends at Pro Football Focus, red zone data from our other friends at The Football Guys and target percentages from The Fake Football.