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Our NFL Nation reporters reply phantasy shot questions each Tuesday during the NFL season. Here's what they had to accidental pursuing Week 12.
How bash you deliberation the people organisation betwixt DeAndre Hopkins, Rondale Moore and Marquise Brown looks erstwhile each 3 are active?
If I had to fertile them disconnected the bat, it'd spell Hopkins, Brown and Moore. It mightiness not look similar that successful existent clip due to the fact that of however defenses thin to rotation sum to Hopkins from the onset, leaving Brown and Moore unfastened earlier. It's pugnacious to connect a percent to the 3 of them, but Hopkins and Brown would person person percentages than Moore, who plays down the enactment of scrimmage much than the different two. Brown is much susceptible of making bigger plays than the different two, truthful helium mightiness not spot arsenic galore balls arsenic Hopkins oregon Moore, but his interaction mightiness beryllium greater. And past there's Hopkins, who's unquestionably the Cardinals' go-to WR1. He tin transportation an discourtesy by himself (which helium has) and that tin easy pb to 10 oregon 12 targets (even much astatine times), particularly if the different 2 get going. -- Josh Weinfuss
Something oregon nothing: Isaiah McKenzie sees doubly arsenic galore targets arsenic Gabe Davis and leads the squad successful receiving (96 yards) connected Thanksgiving successful Detroit.
It's something, but much for McKenzie than Davis. McKenzie went done a slower stretch, going six consecutive games without implicit 50 receiving yards, but his 96 receiving yards connected 10 targets and six receptions, successful summation to a touchdown, against the Lions was a measurement successful the close direction. Coach Sean McDermott said McKenzie enactment successful 2 bully weeks of signifier anterior to the game, and it wouldn't beryllium a astonishment if the Bills effort to proceed to impact him against a Patriots squad helium had occurrence against past year. Davis has seen accordant targets and volition proceed to, particularly with a fig of injuries astatine the position. -- Alaina Getzenberg
Tight extremity is simply a pugnacious spot to fill. Are you buying Hayden Hurst (nine targets, tied for the squad lead) arsenic a viable enactment erstwhile Ja'Marr Chase returns?
I'm selling. Hurst's people stock has been volatile passim the season. Over the past six weeks, Hurst has surpassed 5 targets connected conscionable 2 occasions. With QB Joe Burrow playing amended against Cover 2 looks than helium was earlier successful the season, it's hard to commencement Hurst with immoderate accumulation reliability. He is simply a vertical menace and tin marque plays successful the passing game, though, truthful anyone successful a pinch looking for a TE tin find worse options connected the waiver wire. -- Ben Baby
Michael Gallup saw a season-high 8 targets connected Thanksgiving. Can helium regain thing adjacent to his 2019 signifier that saw him spell implicit 1,100 receiving yards?
After the Thanksgiving triumph vs. the New York Giants, Gallup said helium is past the intelligence hurdle successful his instrumentality from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. His play the past 2 games surely suggests that. He is making hard catches erstwhile draped by defenders. And Dak Prescott trusts him. He is the Cowboys' champion deep-ball menace with his quality to spell up implicit a defender. It has taken him immoderate clip to get backmost successful form, but his timing can't beryllium better. Whether the Cowboys adhd Odell Beckham Jr. oregon not, they request this play from Gallup, particularly arsenic CeeDee Lamb, who has 2 100-yard games successful the past 3 outings, starts to vigor up. -- Todd Archer
With 19 catches implicit the past 2 games for Zay Jones, is it harmless to telephone him a PPR origin the remainder of the way?
Sure, arsenic agelong arsenic you're not expecting 9 catches each week. Jones has a career-high 58 catches truthful acold this season, but 28 of those catches person travel successful 3 games. Still, helium has had astatine slightest 5 targets successful 10 of the Jaguars' 11 games and has surpassed Marvin Jones Jr. arsenic the Jaguars' No. 2 receiver down Christian Kirk (even though Jones really has 2 much catches than Kirk). -- Michael DiRocco
If Rhamondre Stevenson has a afloat play arsenic the pb back, what would you task for transportation and drawback totals (six-plus catches successful 4 of his past 5 games)?
Stevenson has played 68.4% of the violative snaps. Since Week 2, helium has played 40 oregon much snaps successful each crippled but one. So this provides a bully instauration to task his numbers implicit a afloat play -- springiness him successful the scope of 240 carries, 1,200 rushing yards and 75-80 receptions. Bill Belichick has gushed astir the melodramatic complaint of maturation since helium arrived successful April 2021. -- Mike Reiss
With nether 55 rushing yards successful 3 of 4 and nether 15 receiving yards successful 4 consecutive for Saquon Barkley, bash you deliberation the dense usage aboriginal successful the play is simply a interest for the phantasy playoffs?
Not really. Barkley's caller dip astir apt has much to bash with shuffling connected the violative enactment than his dense enactment rate. If anything, Barkley should person seen a small spike post-bye. Instead, it has been a struggle, but not due to the fact that helium lacks explosion. It's due to the fact that helium lacks country to tally with teams selling retired to halt him. -- Jordan Raanan
Let's presume it's Mike White for the remainder of the regular season. Give america a Garrett Wilson projection (catches, yards, TDs) for the last six games.
Mike Evans has 3 consecutive games with nether 55 receiving yards, and 7 consecutive without a score. Should phantasy managers hesitate earlier locking Evans into lineups moving forward?
It's present 3 consecutive games with underwhelming ratio for Derrick Henry (64 carries for 178 yards). Is that origin for interest oregon conscionable a bump successful the road?
Henry had a pugnacious mates of games portion halfway Ben Jones dealt with a concussion implicit the past 2 weeks. Without Jones, Henry averaged 0.8 yards per unreserved earlier archetypal interaction against the Bengals connected Sunday, his second-lowest mean successful the past 3 seasons. Two weeks agone Henry averaged 0.9 yards per unreserved earlier interaction past week against the Packers. He finished with lone 38 yards connected 17 carries against the Bengals. That was the second-lowest full for Henry erstwhile helium had astatine slightest 15 carries successful a game. Henry is present averaging a career-low 1.70 yards per unreserved earlier interaction this season, ranking him 49th retired of 53 qualified rushers successful mean yards earlier interaction this season. -- Turron Davenport
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