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Fantasy Football Week 3 Key Stats: Garrett Wilson, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs (2022)

Fantasy Football Week 3 Key Stats: Garrett Wilson, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs (2022)

Let’s take a look at a few of the key stats from Week 3 of the fantasy football season.

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Lamar Jackson is the first QB in NFL history to have 3+ TD passes and 100+ rushing yards in back-to-back games. He currently leads the league in touchdown passes while also ranking top-five in rushing yards. For you baseball fans, he is the Shohei Ohtani of fantasy football: a QB1 and a RB1.

Derrick Henry caught five passes for the second time in his career and enjoyed a career-high 23.1% target share. Henry was the number one RB in fantasy before succumbing to injury last season, but this year has been a bit of a slog for him so far. It’s fair to wonder whether the Titans have a good enough offense or defense to play with a lot of second-half leads, so Henry’s fantasy managers will have to hope his newfound role in the passing game is a sign of things to come.

Clyde Edwards-Helaire had more rushing TDs (one) than rushing yards (zero). CEH is playing less than half of Kansas City’s backfield snaps and has been involved in barely than a third of the team’s rushing attempts and pass routes. He’s currently a top-three fantasy RB, but it is largely based on unsustainable touchdown production.

Josh Jacobs is one of four RBs to handle 80% of his team’s RB rushes in both Week 2 and Week 3. Jacobs’ status for Week 3 looked iffy at best when it was reported that he wasn’t traveling with the team on Friday due to an illness that had him listed as questionable. But Jacobs caught a flight on Saturday and stepped right into his usual role as the Raiders’ early-down bell cow. His upside is capped by a limited role in the passing game, but the guaranteed weekly touches do give him an appealing floor.

Garrett Wilson has the most targets (32) for a first round WR through three games in the last 25 years. Wilson missed several drives on Sunday with a rib injury, but was the Jets’ most-targeted receiver on the routes he did run. That high usage is a boon to his fantasy value even if he is playing fewer snaps than Elijah Moore and Corey Davis, but we’ll have to see how the transition from Joe Flacco to Zach Wilson affects things. Regardless, it looks like the Jets have got themselves a real talent.

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