Green Bay Packers
James Jones: 6-7-7-10-9-7 (7), Randall Cobb: 8-4-10-8-7-9 (6.6), Jordy Nelson: 12-5-12-9-dnp-1 (7.2), Jermichael Finley: 5-5-4-2-6-2 (5), Greg Jennings: 3-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (7.3), Alex Green: 0-1-1-5-6-4 (2.4), Cedric Benson: 4-2-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (3), Donald Driver: 2-2-0-1-2-2 (1.2), John Kuhn: 0-1-0-1-dnp-dnp (1.3), Tom Crabtree: 1-1-3-0-1-2 (1), D.J. Williams: dnp-4-dnp-0-1-0 (1.1), Jarrett Boykin: dnp-dnp-0-0-1-2 (0.8), James Starks: dnp-dnp-0-dnp-2-0 (0.7)
The quick exit of Jordy Nelson in Week 9 put James Jones and Randall Cobb in the spotlight once again and they ended up catching three touchdown passes. If Greg Jennings ever returns, it will hurt James Jones the most. Randall Cobb isn’t going anywhere.
Jermichael Finley on the other hand has gone to the dogs. He hasn’t seen a red zone target since week five and only has 14 total targets since then as well. That’s a measly 3.5 targets a game, which with Aaron Rodgers throwing to you in the red zone could still prove fruitful, but he isn’t and right now doesn’t seem like he will be anytime soon.
Minnesota Vikings
Percy Harvin: 6-10-14-5-12-6 (9.4), Kyle Rudolph: 5-7-11-4-2-2 (5.4), Michael Jenkins: 4-4-10-2-9-2 (5.2), Adrian Peterson: 4-3-8-4-1-4 (3.6), Jerome Simpson: 5-3-dnp-1-7-2 (3.6), Toby Gerhart: 1-0-3-0-2-2 (1.8), Devin Aromashodu: 0-4-2-0-dnp-1 (1.9), John Carlson: 1-1-2-0-dnp-dnp (0.9), Rhett Ellison: 0-2-2-0-1-1 (0.7), Stephen Burton: dnp-1-0-0-0-dnp (0.6)
The Vikings pass game is going down with the sinking Christian Ponder faster than you can spell Devin Aromashodu. Percy Harvin is getting the brunt of the targets and wear and tear in the passing game because Ponder is keying in on him since he’s the only player that can separate enough for Ponder to feel comfortable. And now with Harvin nursing injuries, the overall prospects are getting perilous for everyone involved. Even Adrian Peterson, who ran over the Seattle Seahawks last week, had trouble in the second half when the defense realized they only had one man to stop with Harvin hurting.
New Orleans Saints
Marques Colston: 13-18-BYE-10-10-4 (9.2), Jimmy Graham: 9-2-BYE-dnp-10-11 (9), Lance Moore: 15-dnp-BYE-10-6-2 (7.9), Darren Sproles: 7-7-BYE-4-9-dnp (7.4), Devery Henderson: 2-10-BYE-3-4-3 (4.4), Pierre Thomas: 3-2-BYE-1-2-3 (3), Joseph Morgan: 1-1-BYE-3-dnp-0 (1.7), David Thomas: 2-0-BYE-4-0-0 (1.1), Jed Collins: 1-0-BYE-1-0-1 (0.8), Greg Camarillo: dnp-5-BYE-dnp-dnp-0 (1.2), Mark Ingram: 1-0-BYE-0-0-2 (0.5), Courtney Roby: 0-0-BYE-0-1-dnp (0.3)
The return of The Reverend Jimmy Graham is complete. He led the Saints with 11 targets against the Eagles on Monday night and coincidentally, receptions and receiving yards. He’s back so don’t look back.
Unfortunately Graham’s presence is going to hurt Marques Colston. He caught a touchdown, but had his fewest receptions and yards since week three. The Saints throw the ball enough, especially in the red zone where they throw it a league high 71.2 percent of the time, so don’t go throwing Colston onto the garbage heap.
I believed Pierre Thomas would be the main beneficiary of Darren Sproles’ injury, but the Saints did a good job of squashing all that business. Thomas was on the field for 21 snaps with nine looks, Mark Ingram had 18 snaps with nine looks and Chris Ivory had 14 snaps with 11 looks. That’s a recipe for fantasy football pain.
New York Giants
Victor Cruz: 13-8-13-11-8-11 (11.1), Martellus Bennett: 3-4-2-7-6-4 (5.4), Hakeem Nicks: dnp-dnp-5-10-7-4 (7.8), Domenik Hixon: 11-8-6-4-3-1 (4.9), Rueben Randle: 1-9-0-0-2-3 (2), Ahmad Bradshaw: 4-6-1-5-0-0 (2.2), Ramses Barden: 4-dnp-0-0-1-0 (2.1), Andre Brown: 1-0-dnp-1-2-0 (1.4), Henry Hynoski: 1-0-1-1-0-1 (0.9), Bear Pascoe: 2-1-0-1-0-dnp (0.8), David Wilson: 1-0-0-0-0-0 (0.4)
Eli Manning completed 10 passes on 24 attempts for 125 yards against the Steelers. That’s his worst game since 2008. He usually slumps mid-season, so I’m not going to wring my hands too much.
Victor Cruz is the stalwart of this group. He’s neck and neck with Reggie Wayne in the target race and Hakeem Nicks is hurting again. Cruz will continue to do his thing.
The #2 wide receiver if Nicks can’t go has been Domenik Hixon. Rueben Randle did have three targets to Hixon’s one last week, but Randle ran six passing routes to Hixon’s 13.
Philadelphia Eagles
DeSean Jackson: 9-7-8-BYE-8-7 (8.5), Brent Celek: 5-5-8-BYE-5-9 (7.1), Jeremy Maclin: 3-8-10-BYE-9-4 (7), LeSean McCoy: 4-5-8-BYE-3-3 (4.8), Jason Avant: 2-3-4-BYE-8-9 (4.6), Damaris Johnson: 1-0-dnp-BYE-dnp-0 (2.7), Clay Harbor: 1-1-2-BYE-0-4 (2), Riley Cooper: dnp-dnp-3-BYE-1-1 (1.7), Stanley Havili: 2-0-0-BYE-1-1 (0.6), Bryce Brown: 0-0-0-BYE-0-0 (0.2)
What happened to Jeremy Maclin? He’s getting seven targets a game, but the production is confined to just two games in which he has 226 of his 356 yards and two of his three touchdowns. Michael Vick is part of the problem, along with a culture of dysfunction, but I’m truly worrying that even a healthy Maclin isn’t going to turn it around anytime soon.
There is so much talent on this offense that it’s hard not to be somewhat in awe at how poor they play. It’s hard not to blame the offensive line for much of their woes and until they play better it’s going to be tough for any offensive player to be consistent going forward.
Welcome to the NFC version of Target Watch for Week 10. Below you will find the number of times a quarterback has chucked a ball at a player on his team.
But before that, let’s take a look at what teams are doing once they get into the red zone, passing or running?
Red Zone Pass/Run Plays
| TEAM | Pass% | Run % | CMP | ATT | PTD | INT | RSH | RSHTD | Total Plays |
|---|
| NO |
71.23% |
28.77% |
31 |
52 |
17 |
0 |
21 |
3 |
73 |
| GB |
66.67% |
33.33% |
31 |
46 |
16 |
0 |
23 |
2 |
69 |
| JAX |
65.96% |
34.04% |
16 |
31 |
6 |
0 |
16 |
1 |
47 |
| ARI |
62.86% |
37.14% |
20 |
44 |
7 |
1 |
26 |
4 |
70 |
| CLE |
62.79% |
37.21% |
13 |
27 |
3 |
2 |
16 |
4 |
43 |
| STL |
62.75% |
37.25% |
14 |
32 |
4 |
3 |
19 |
2 |
51 |
| IND |
62.12% |
37.88% |
19 |
41 |
7 |
2 |
25 |
5 |
66 |
| OAK |
60.76% |
39.24% |
23 |
48 |
9 |
0 |
31 |
2 |
79 |
| TEN |
60.00% |
40.00% |
17 |
33 |
6 |
0 |
22 |
4 |
55 |
| DAL |
59.38% |
40.63% |
20 |
38 |
6 |
2 |
26 |
3 |
64 |
| DET |
59.09% |
40.91% |
24 |
52 |
8 |
3 |
36 |
10 |
88 |
| MIN |
57.14% |
42.86% |
29 |
48 |
10 |
2 |
36 |
6 |
84 |
| PHI |
55.26% |
44.74% |
18 |
42 |
7 |
2 |
34 |
3 |
76 |
| PIT |
53.93% |
46.07% |
27 |
48 |
11 |
0 |
41 |
5 |
89 |
| ATL |
53.16% |
46.84% |
29 |
42 |
14 |
2 |
37 |
5 |
79 |
| MIA |
52.63% |
47.37% |
14 |
30 |
3 |
0 |
27 |
9 |
57 |
| BAL |
51.92% |
48.08% |
13 |
27 |
7 |
1 |
25 |
9 |
52 |
| DEN |
51.81% |
48.19% |
28 |
43 |
15 |
1 |
40 |
5 |
83 |
| BUF |
51.06% |
48.94% |
16 |
24 |
8 |
1 |
23 |
4 |
47 |
| TB |
50.65% |
49.35% |
22 |
39 |
12 |
1 |
38 |
5 |
77 |
| CIN |
49.25% |
50.75% |
17 |
33 |
8 |
0 |
34 |
5 |
67 |
| SD |
48.75% |
51.25% |
25 |
39 |
11 |
1 |
41 |
4 |
80 |
| CAR |
46.97% |
53.03% |
13 |
31 |
4 |
2 |
35 |
8 |
66 |
| SEA |
46.75% |
53.25% |
20 |
36 |
8 |
0 |
41 |
3 |
77 |
| CHI |
46.27% |
53.73% |
17 |
31 |
6 |
0 |
36 |
6 |
67 |
| NE |
44.35% |
55.65% |
31 |
51 |
12 |
1 |
64 |
12 |
115 |
| NYG |
42.06% |
57.94% |
18 |
45 |
7 |
1 |
62 |
10 |
107 |
| NYJ |
41.03% |
58.97% |
13 |
32 |
8 |
3 |
46 |
5 |
78 |
| KC |
36.73% |
63.27% |
10 |
18 |
3 |
1 |
31 |
3 |
49 |
| WAS |
35.44% |
64.56% |
16 |
28 |
4 |
0 |
51 |
10 |
79 |
| HOU |
28.75% |
71.25% |
9 |
23 |
6 |
1 |
57 |
12 |
80 |
| SF |
25.45% |
74.55% |
10 |
14 |
7 |
1 |
41 |
7 |
55 |
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: 15-15-12-7-11-12 (10.8), Andre Roberts: 9-10-6-9-11-7 (7.6), Early Doucet: 7-7-3-6-4-4 (4.3), Michael Floyd: 8-3-3-1-11-7 (4), Rob Housler: 3-6-3-7-5-9 (4), LaRod Stephens-Howling: dnp-dnp-2-5-4-4 (2.6), Jeff King: 2-1-4-0-3-1 (1.8), Todd Heap: dnp-dnp-0-dnp-dnp-dnp (4.3), Ryan Williams: 2-1-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (2), William Powell: 2-4-1-1-0-0 (1.3), Anthony Sherman: 0-2-0-dnp-2-1 (0.9)
It’s a weekly struggle, but Larry Fitzgerald continues to get his targets, including plenty of red zone looks. The production though, continues to be inconsistent. He’s currently 24th overall for receivers in fantasy points per game and just behind his teammate Andre Roberts. And this comes on the heels of a six catch, 74-yard day with a touchdown. He’s a #2 wide receiver living in an elite receiver’s body.
Andre Roberts on the other hand is exactly what he is, a #3 receiver with touchdown upside. His 7.6 targets a game keeps him relevant each week.
Atlanta Falcons
Roddy White: 12-6-8-BYE-4-10 (8.4), Julio Jones: 8-15-8-BYE-5-6 (8.1), Tony Gonzalez: 5-14-7-BYE-5-5 (8), Jacquizz Rodgers: 4-2-4-BYE-5-5 (3.5), Harry Douglas: 2-5-7-BYE-dnp-2 (3.6), Michael Turner: 5-5-1-BYE-2-1 (2.1), Jason Snelling: 4-1-0-BYE-3-3 (1.6), Lousaka Polite: dnp-dnp-1-BYE-3-1 (0.8), Michael Palmer: dnp-dnp-dnp-BYE-0-1 (0.6), Tommy Gallarda: dnp-2-1-BYE-0-0 (0.8), Drew Davis: dnp-0-0-BYE-2-0 (0.5)
The Falcons passing game just keeps on rolling and even tough matchups aren’t slowing it down. That’s a good sign, especially with a decently easy schedule coming up. Roddy White and Julio Jones didn’t score last week, but both topped 100 yards in the same game for the first time this season. They’re hitting their stride now.
Michael Turner keeps proving people (me) wrong, but all in all his numbers are down from his 1,350 yards, 11.5 touchdown average over the last two seasons. His totals extrapolate out to 1,034 yards rushing and 8 touchdowns. He’s currently ranked 19th in fantasy points per game. Good, not great, but he does get the Saints twice the rest of the way. They ain’t so good at the defense.
Jacquizz Rodgers has been playing better of late and will continue to be in on passing downs. His usage is dependent on the flow of the game. But his five-target average over the last two games is good to see and as Turner wears down, we should continue seeing Rodgers used enough for a possible flex play.
Carolina Panthers
Steve Smith: 6-13-BYE-9-16-7 (8.8), Greg Olsen: 7-3-BYE-5-5-9 (6.6), Brandon LaFell: 3-3-BYE-8-4-dnp (5.1), Louis Murphy: 1-2-BYE-9-4-2 (3.2), Mike Tolbert: 3-1-BYE-1-1-1 (2.1), Jonathan Stewart: 1-4-BYE-4-6-1 (2.8), DeAngelo Williams: 2-2-BYE-0-0-0 (0.9), Kealoha Pilares: 1-0-BYE-0-0-1 (0.5), Gary Barnidge: 0-0-BYE-0-1-1 (0.2), Armanti Edwards: 1-0-BYE-0-dnp-1 (0.3), Ben Hartsock: 0-1-BYE-0-1-0 (0.3)
With Brandon LaFell out, Greg Olsen got a bump in targets last week. Unfortunately he didn’t really take advantage with some poor play. Steve Smith continues to get the majority of the work, for good reason, but is currently sitting 29th in fantasy points per game for receivers. That is due mostly to his having only one touchdown reception, which he got last week. He’s still on target for 76 receptions and 1,260 yards receiving, so if the touchdowns start coming, his outlook is still great.
The running back situation went from hopeful to apocalyptic last week. The Jonathan Stewart as every down back experiment didn’t last. Last week he played 55 percent of the snaps to DeAngelo Williams’ 34 percent which was much closer than the previous two weeks where Stewart played 76 percent to Williams’ 13 percent. Unless we hear otherwise, we are now back into a running back quagmire.
Chicago Bears
Brandon Marshall: 8-17-BYE-10-14-10 (11.2), Earl Bennett: dnp-dnp-BYE-6-4-8 (5.3), Matt Forte: 1-4-BYE-5-5-2 (4), Devin Hester: 4-4-BYE-6-2-2 (2.9), Alshon Jeffery: 5-4-BYE-dnp-dnp-dnp (4.6), Kellen Davis: 4-4-BYE-2-1-0 (2.6), Michael Bush: 1-3-BYE-1-0-1 (1), Matt Spaeth: 0-0-BYE-1-2-0 (0.6), Kyle Adams: 0-1-BYE-1-0-0 (0.5), Dane Sanzenbacher: 1-2-BYE-0-dnp-dnp (1), Evan Rodriguez: dnp-dnp-BYE-dnp-dnp-1 (0.5)
With Alshon Jeffery hurt, Brandon Marshall has stepped up his game even more. Jay Cutler lets him fight for the ball and he’s winning more often than not. The targets will continue.
Cutler has been looking toward Earl Bennett more with Jeffery out, but with Matt Forte and the defense continuing to be effecting (in the case of the defense, extremely so), it’s going to be difficult for any receiver other than Marshall to have fantasy worth.
Dallas Cowboys
Jason Witten: 14-BYE-7-8-22-8 (9.8), Miles Austin: 6-BYE-5-9-16-9 (8.5), Dez Bryant: 13-BYE-15-3-11-4 (8.2), Kevin Ogletree: 5-BYE-4-6-3-4 (5.1), Felix Jones: 0-BYE-1-6-3-5 (3), DeMarco Murray: 7-BYE-1-dnp-dnp-dnp (3.6), John Phillips: 0-BYE-2-0-3-0 (1), Phillip Tanner: 3-BYE-0-1-1-0 (0.6), Cole Beasley: 2-BYE-dnp-dnp-0-2 (1), Lawrence Vickers: 0-BYE-1-1-0-1 (0.5), Lance Dunbar: dnp-BYE-0-0-0-2 (0.5)
Jason Witten’s 20 targets in week nine skew his numbers, so in reality, Miles Austin has been just as or more important to the Cowboys passing game over the last three weeks while Dez Bryant deals with nagging injuries. But if Bryant gets back on track health-wise, he’s also shown that he could be the main target.
Austin ranks 12th for wide receivers in fantasy points per game and has been steady, whereas Bryant ranks 32nd and has not been steady. I am a big proponent of superior skill and am happy to keep taking my lumps by keeping Bryant around, but I’d be cutting off my nose to spite my face to advocate Bryant over Austin going forward.
Detroit Lions
Calvin Johnson: 12-BYE-13-11-8-8 (10.4), Brandon Pettigrew: 9-BYE-7-6-9-3 (7.5), Titus Young: 3-BYE-5-8-9-5 (5.4), Nate Burleson: 8-BYE-9-3-dnp-dnp (7.2), Tony Scheffler: 3-BYE-5-3-8-3 (4.7), Joique Bell: 8-BYE-2-4-4-4 (3.8), Mike Thomas: 2-BYE-dnp-3-7-0 (3.4), Mikel Leshoure: 5-BYE-4-7-5-2 (4.5), Ryan Broyles: 1-BYE-0-4-5-6 (2.7), Kevin Smith: 0-BYE-dnp-dnp-1-1 (1.8), Will Heller: 0-BYE-0-0-0-1 (0.6),
Stefan Logan: 0-BYE-0-0-0-0 (0.2)
Matthew Stafford had one of his better games on the season, but didn’t throw for one touchdown pass. As a Stafford owner, I feel your pain. He has been scuffling all year and now that he looks to be back on track and facing a weak Jaguars defense, the Lions run for four touchdowns and pass for zilch. Thems the breaks I spose!
Calvin Johnson was a game time decision and still had seven receptions for 127 yards. You don’t sit him. After Megatron the passing game wasn’t needed, so the numbers spread out pretty thinly. It was good to see Ryan Broyles catch six-of-six targets and I really like him for PPR going forward. He may be hurting Brandon Pettigrew, but against better offensive teams there should be plenty of targets to go around.
Green Bay Packers
James Jones: 6-7-7-10-9-7 (7), Randall Cobb: 8-4-10-8-7-9 (6.6), Jordy Nelson: 12-5-12-9-dnp-1 (7.2), Jermichael Finley: 5-5-4-2-6-2 (5), Greg Jennings: 3-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (7.3), Alex Green: 0-1-1-5-6-4 (2.4), Cedric Benson: 4-2-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (3), Donald Driver: 2-2-0-1-2-2 (1.2), John Kuhn: 0-1-0-1-dnp-dnp (1.3), Tom Crabtree: 1-1-3-0-1-2 (1), D.J. Williams: dnp-4-dnp-0-1-0 (1.1), Jarrett Boykin: dnp-dnp-0-0-1-2 (0.8), James Starks: dnp-dnp-0-dnp-2-0 (0.7)
The quick exit of Jordy Nelson in Week 9 put James Jones and Randall Cobb in the spotlight once again and they ended up catching three touchdown passes. If Greg Jennings ever returns, it will hurt James Jones the most. Randall Cobb isn’t going anywhere.
Jermichael Finley on the other hand has gone to the dogs. He hasn’t seen a red zone target since week five and only has 14 total targets since then as well. That’s a measly 3.5 targets a game, which with Aaron Rodgers throwing to you in the red zone could still prove fruitful, but he isn’t and right now doesn’t seem like he will be anytime soon.
Minnesota Vikings
Percy Harvin: 6-10-14-5-12-6 (9.4), Kyle Rudolph: 5-7-11-4-2-2 (5.4), Michael Jenkins: 4-4-10-2-9-2 (5.2), Adrian Peterson: 4-3-8-4-1-4 (3.6), Jerome Simpson: 5-3-dnp-1-7-2 (3.6), Toby Gerhart: 1-0-3-0-2-2 (1.8), Devin Aromashodu: 0-4-2-0-dnp-1 (1.9), John Carlson: 1-1-2-0-dnp-dnp (0.9), Rhett Ellison: 0-2-2-0-1-1 (0.7), Stephen Burton: dnp-1-0-0-0-dnp (0.6)
The Vikings pass game is going down with the sinking Christian Ponder faster than you can spell Devin Aromashodu. Percy Harvin is getting the brunt of the targets and wear and tear in the passing game because Ponder is keying in on him since he’s the only player that can separate enough for Ponder to feel comfortable. And now with Harvin nursing injuries, the overall prospects are getting perilous for everyone involved. Even Adrian Peterson, who ran over the Seattle Seahawks last week, had trouble in the second half when the defense realized they only had one man to stop with Harvin hurting.
New Orleans Saints
Marques Colston: 13-18-BYE-10-10-4 (9.2), Jimmy Graham: 9-2-BYE-dnp-10-11 (9), Lance Moore: 15-dnp-BYE-10-6-2 (7.9), Darren Sproles: 7-7-BYE-4-9-dnp (7.4), Devery Henderson: 2-10-BYE-3-4-3 (4.4), Pierre Thomas: 3-2-BYE-1-2-3 (3), Joseph Morgan: 1-1-BYE-3-dnp-0 (1.7), David Thomas: 2-0-BYE-4-0-0 (1.1), Jed Collins: 1-0-BYE-1-0-1 (0.8), Greg Camarillo: dnp-5-BYE-dnp-dnp-0 (1.2), Mark Ingram: 1-0-BYE-0-0-2 (0.5), Courtney Roby: 0-0-BYE-0-1-dnp (0.3)
The return of The Reverend Jimmy Graham is complete. He led the Saints with 11 targets against the Eagles on Monday night and coincidentally, receptions and receiving yards. He’s back so don’t look back.
Unfortunately Graham’s presence is going to hurt Marques Colston. He caught a touchdown, but had his fewest receptions and yards since week three. The Saints throw the ball enough, especially in the red zone where they throw it a league high 71.2 percent of the time, so don’t go throwing Colston onto the garbage heap.
I believed Pierre Thomas would be the main beneficiary of Darren Sproles’ injury, but the Saints did a good job of squashing all that business. Thomas was on the field for 21 snaps with nine looks, Mark Ingram had 18 snaps with nine looks and Chris Ivory had 14 snaps with 11 looks. That’s a recipe for fantasy football pain.
New York Giants
Victor Cruz: 13-8-13-11-8-11 (11.1), Martellus Bennett: 3-4-2-7-6-4 (5.4), Hakeem Nicks: dnp-dnp-5-10-7-4 (7.8), Domenik Hixon: 11-8-6-4-3-1 (4.9), Rueben Randle: 1-9-0-0-2-3 (2), Ahmad Bradshaw: 4-6-1-5-0-0 (2.2), Ramses Barden: 4-dnp-0-0-1-0 (2.1), Andre Brown: 1-0-dnp-1-2-0 (1.4), Henry Hynoski: 1-0-1-1-0-1 (0.9), Bear Pascoe: 2-1-0-1-0-dnp (0.8), David Wilson: 1-0-0-0-0-0 (0.4)
Eli Manning completed 10 passes on 24 attempts for 125 yards against the Steelers. That’s his worst game since 2008. He usually slumps mid-season, so I’m not going to wring my hands too much.
Victor Cruz is the stalwart of this group. He’s neck and neck with Reggie Wayne in the target race and Hakeem Nicks is hurting again. Cruz will continue to do his thing.
The #2 wide receiver if Nicks can’t go has been Domenik Hixon. Rueben Randle did have three targets to Hixon’s one last week, but Randle ran six passing routes to Hixon’s 13.
Philadelphia Eagles
DeSean Jackson: 9-7-8-BYE-8-7 (8.5), Brent Celek: 5-5-8-BYE-5-9 (7.1), Jeremy Maclin: 3-8-10-BYE-9-4 (7), LeSean McCoy: 4-5-8-BYE-3-3 (4.8), Jason Avant: 2-3-4-BYE-8-9 (4.6), Damaris Johnson: 1-0-dnp-BYE-dnp-0 (2.7), Clay Harbor: 1-1-2-BYE-0-4 (2), Riley Cooper: dnp-dnp-3-BYE-1-1 (1.7), Stanley Havili: 2-0-0-BYE-1-1 (0.6), Bryce Brown: 0-0-0-BYE-0-0 (0.2)
What happened to Jeremy Maclin? He’s getting seven targets a game, but the production is confined to just two games in which he has 226 of his 356 yards and two of his three touchdowns. Michael Vick is part of the problem, along with a culture of dysfunction, but I’m truly worrying that even a healthy Maclin isn’t going to turn it around anytime soon.
There is so much talent on this offense that it’s hard not to be somewhat in awe at how poor they play. It’s hard not to blame the offensive line for much of their woes and until they play better it’s going to be tough for any offensive player to be consistent going forward.
San Francisco 49ers
Michael Crabtree: 7-7-6-6-5-BYE (6.9), Mario Manningham: 5-5-10-dnp-4-BYE (5.3), Vernon Davis: 2-7-5-0-2-BYE (4.5), Randy Moss: 1-2-3-4-1-BYE (2.8), Frank Gore: 2-0-4-6-1-BYE (2.5), Kyle Williams: 0-2-4-4-1-BYE (2), Delanie Walker: 4-0-2-1-3-BYE (2), Kendall Hunter: 0-1-1-2-1-BYE (1.1), Garrett Celek: dnp-1-2-0-0-BYE (0.8)
The 49ers used the bye to find where Vernon Davis ran off to.
Seattle Seahawks
Sidney Rice: 7-6-6-4-8-4 (5.6), Golden Tate: 3-4-6-3-7-6 (5), Zach Miller: 3-3-2-2-5-3 (2.9), Doug Baldwin: 3-4-3-2-dnp-3 (3.1), Anthony McCoy: 3-2-1-1-2-0 (1.9), Marshawn Lynch: 4-2-1-2-3-2 (1.9), Braylon Edwards: 0-1-3-2-dnp-dnp (2.1), Robert Turbin: 2-2-2-1-3-1 (1.6), Ben Obomanu: 0-0-1-4-0-dnp (1.1), Charly Martin: dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-3-0 (1.5), Michael Robinson: 0-1-0-1-1-3 (0.7), Evan Moore: 0-0-0-1-1-0 (0.6), Leon Washington: 0-0-2-0-2-0 (0.6), Jermaine Kearse: dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-2 (2)
If you take out the 49ers game, Russell Wilson has gone 20-for-29 for 234 yards and 2.7 touchdowns a game over the last three (non SF games). That’s not too shabby. But unfortunately for the wide receivers, there still aren’t enough consistent targets. It is difficult enough to stay fantasy relevant with just seven targets per game, but lower that to five and you are in real trouble.
St. Louis Rams
Danny Amendola: 9-5-dnp-dnp-dnp-BYE (9.6), Brandon Gibson: 4-4-9-7-3-BYE (5.2), Chris Givens: 3-5-7-5-4-BYE (3.9), Lance Kendricks: 2-2-4-4-4-BYE (3.4), Steve Smith: dnp-dnp-2-6-1-BYE (3.3), Daryl Richardson: 3-2-3-3-4-BYE (2.4), Steven Jackson: 2-0-5-0-2-BYE (1.9), Austin Pettis: 2-2-3-3-5-BYE (2.5), Brian Quick: 3-1-2-4-4-BYE (2.5), Matthew Mulligan: 0-0-2-0-2-BYE (0.9), Mike McNeill: 0-0-0-0-2-BYE (0.4), Isaiah Pead: dnp-0-1-0-0-BYE (0.3)
The Rams used their bye to comb Jeff Fisher's stache.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Vincent Jackson: 11-BYE-8-14-6-4 (8.8), Mike Williams: 8-BYE-6-8-11-8 (6.9), Doug Martin: 5-BYE-4-3-6-5 (4.1), Dallas Clark: 4-BYE-1-6-3-5 (3.6), Tiquan Underwood: 3-BYE-3-6-5-2 (3.3), Danny Ware: 2-BYE-2-1-2-1 (1.4), Luke Stocker: 2-BYE-0-1-0-2 (1), Arrelious Benn: 4-BYE-0-0-1-0 (0.9), LeGarrette Blount: 0-BYE-0-1-0-0 (0.2), Nate Byham: dnp-BYE-dnp-0-0-2 (0.7)
The Tampa bay offense is hitting on all cylinders right now. Of course their opponents haven’t been exactly the 2012 Bears, but they are putting up numbers that run-of-the-mill teams don’t put up, even against poor opponents.
We all know what Doug Martin did, but the play of Vincent Jackson, Mike Williams, and Josh Freeman has been much more consistent than people ever dreamed. Williams is on pace for 58 receptions, 1,008 yards and 10 touchdowns. Jackson for 62 receptions, 1,420 yards and 12 touchdowns. Freeman for 4,094 yards, 32 touchdowns and 10 interceptions and that was after a pretty poor start to the season.
With Martin now firmly hitting his stride, this offense has plenty of staying power if Freeman can stay on track. It will be interesting to see how the second half of the season plays out.
Washington Redskins
Josh Morgan: 5-1-4-2-8-12 (4.7), Leonard Hankerson: 11-1-3-8-4-4 (4.6), Santana Moss: 4-5-4-4-9-2 (4.3), Fred Davis: 4-6-4-1-dnp-dnp (4.4), Logan Paulsen: 0-1-0-6-6-8 (2.6), Evan Royster: 3-1-1-1-1-4 (2), Aldrick Robinson: dnp-1-0-1-1-2 (2.1), Pierre Garcon: 1-7-dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp (4), Niles Paul: 2-0-0-1-1-2 (1), Alfred Morris: 2-1-2-2-0-1 (1), Brandon Banks: 0-0-2-0-0-2 (0.7), Darrel Young: 2-0-1-1-1-0 (0.6), Dezmon Briscoe: 0-dnp-0-dnp-2-1 (0.5), Chris Cooley: dnp-dnp-dnp-dnp-1-1 (1),
Keiland Williams: 1-dnp-0-dnp-dnp-0 (0.3)
The Redskins receivers are horrid for fantasy, real life and Robert Griffin the Third. With no end in sight for Pierre Garcon’s foot ailment, there’s no end in sight for the passing game woes. If RGIII wasn’t throwing the ball so accurately, the lack of wide receivers wouldn’t be quite so devastating, but he has and it is.
Garcon is close to droppable depending on your situation and the rest of the crew shouldn’t be owned at this point.
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.