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Let’s take a look at a few polarizing players and what fantasy football expert Derek Brown advises. And you can find all of DBro’s fantasy football outlook in this week’s fantasy football primer.
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Mark Andrews has finished as a TE1 in each of the last two games, but touchdowns fueled it. Since Week 9, Andrews has been the TE5 and TE9 in weekly scoring with three red zone targets and three scores. Since Week 8, he hasn’t seen more than five targets in a game or finished with more than 34 receiving yards. It has been a tough season for Andrews. We can’t depend on him to score weekly to float his fantasy value. Overall, he is the TE19 in fantasy points per game, with a 16% target share, 27.1 receiving yards per game, 1.41 yards per route run, and a 21.1% first-read share. The Browns have held tight ends to the seventh-fewest receiving yards per game and the 14th-fewest fantasy points per game. Sit Andrews this week.
Last week, Njoku’s route share dipped to 48.8% with only a 6.3% target share and a 7.4% first-read share. If Njoku’s only a part-time player now, he’s off the fantasy radar. I don’t know if that was a one-week blip or a sign of things to come, but I can’t play him this week until we see if that is the beginning of a usage trend.
Since Week 5, Otton has been the TE11 in fantasy points per game, drawing a 21.4% target share with 63.8 receiving yards per game, 2.20 yards per route run, and a 16.7% first-read share. Otton has zero touchdowns in this five-game sample, which isn’t surprising when you consider that he has ZERO red zone targets or deep targets during this stretch. I don’t want to stream Otton this week. You’re just point chasing. Buffalo has allowed the fewest receiving yards per game and fantasy points per game to tight ends this season.
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