Top 5 Fantasy Football Takeaways: Surprises & Disappointments

Two NFC North teams had positive showings with fantasy ramifications in Week 10. An AFC contender got massive contributions from a pair of rookies on Sunday. Conversely, two young quarterbacks aren’t playing well enough, and they warrant further examination.

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Top 5 Fantasy Football Takeaways

Let’s dive into the biggest takeaways from Week 10.

Fantasy Football Week 10 Surprises

Dan Campbell Pushed the Right Buttons for Detroit’s Offense

Detroit’s offense put the belt to Washington’s booty, hanging 44 points on the Commanders. They got off to a fast start and never looked back. As it turns out, head coach Dan Campbell took over the play-calling duties.

Dan Campbell on taking over play-calling from OC John Morton: pic.twitter.com/W0354yeZLr

— Colton Pouncy (@colton_pouncy) November 10, 2025

Jared Goff was brilliant, with Campbell pushing the right buttons. The veteran pocket passer completed 25-of-33 passes for 320 yards, three touchdowns and zero interceptions. He also wasn’t sacked.

The passing attack largely funneled through their best weapons. Amon-Ra St. Brown paced the team in targets (eight) and had five receptions for 58 yards and a touchdown. Sam LaPorta caught all five of his targets for 53 scoreless yards.

The biggest winner of the play-calling change was Jameson Williams. The speedster had seven targets, six receptions, 119 receiving yards and a touchdown reception. According to Pro Football Focus (PFF), the field-stretching wideout also led the receivers in snaps (61, matching Goff’s 61) and routes (32).

Williams had a favorable matchup, and one stellar showing doesn’t make him a must-start player. Still, it’s an intriguing data point, especially given Campbell taking over play-calling duties from John Morton. It will be interesting to dig deeper into the target depths for Williams to see if there were meaningful changes.

Jahmyr Gibbs was the headline-grabber for the Lions, though. He had 15 rush attempts for 142 yards and two touchdowns, adding four targets, three receptions, 30 receiving yards and a touchdown through the air. David Montgomery also had 15 carries for 71 yards and a reception for zero yards.

Montgomery played 38 snaps and ran 17 routes to 35 and 16 for Gibbs. The elder running back in Detroit’s talented one-two punch is an RB2 who’d instantly be an RB1 if anything happened to Gibbs.

The Commanders were a mouthwatering matchup for the Lions, but Campbell’s first game as the play-caller is a net positive for the fantasy value of everyone, as a high tide raises all ships.

New England’s Rookies Stepped Up

Sunday was the breakout game for TreVeyon Henderson that his drafters envisioned back in August and early September. He played 51 snaps versus six for D’Ernest Johnson and five for Terrell Jennings. Henderson also ran 25 routes compared to three for Johnson and Jennings combined.

Henderson parlayed his workhorse role into 14 carries for 147 yards, two rushing touchdowns, one target, one reception and three receiving yards. He was explosive, and one of his touchdowns was a nice 69-yard run. Henderson can’t be counted on for that level of output every week, but the Patriots can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, and Henderson should be locked into lineups.

Kyle Williams didn’t match Henderson’s excellence, but his performance on Sunday also warrants a shout-out for gamers in deeper leagues. Kayshon Boutte was out, leading to Mack Hollins pacing the receivers on the Patriots in snaps (48), routes (30), targets (10), receptions (six) and receiving yards (106), also putting him on the radar in deeper formats.

Stefon Diggs played 36 snaps, ran 28 routes and had eight targets, five receptions, 46 receiving yards and a touchdown. However, instead of slot wideout DeMario Douglas occupying a larger role, he remained stuck in an ancillary role, playing only 13 snaps and running 11 routes.

Instead, Williams played 34 snaps, ran 21 routes and turned two targets into a 72-yard touchdown reception. He’s not a threat to unseat Boutte immediately, but his big-play ability could make him an emergency dart throw in larger leagues if Boutte misses more time.

D’Andre Swift Reprised His Role

Kyle Monangai steamrolled the Bengals in Week 9, and D’Andre Swift was questionable for Week 10 after missing Friday’s practice due to a personal matter. Obviously, Swift played. More importantly, he reprised his role as the lead running back.

Swift handled 13 of the backfield’s 20 rush attempts (65%), with Monangai handling the other seven. Swift played 42 snaps and ran 23 routes compared to 26 and 16 for Monangai. Swift rewarded Ben Johnson for sticking with him as a starter by rushing for 80 yards and securing five receptions for 18 yards on eight targets.

Swift had a whopping 21 opportunities (rushing attempts plus targets) compared to only eight for Monangai. The rookie scored the backfield’s only touchdown on an eight-yard run, but Swift is an RB2, and Monangai is only a bench stash with emergency bye-week fill-in value at RB2 or Flex in favorable matchups.

Fantasy Football Week 10 Disappointments

The Broncos Have a Bo Nix Problem

According to StatHead, Bo Nix has scored 515.8 fantasy points (18.42 per game) in 28 games in his career. In 15 road games, he’s scored just 243.72 fantasy points (17.4). The second-year quarterback’s home-road splits made him a dicey option on the road but a decent one at home.

However, Nix had a home clunker on Thursday Night Football against the lowly Raiders, and he also had a home stinker in Week 1 against the Titans. Nix’s only fantasy-friendly home contests were against the Bengals, Giants and Cowboys this season. Those should be viewed through a different lens, knowing how incompetent each of those defenses is. Gamers can’t even count on a good performance from Nix at home, and his 190.9 passing yards per game on the road in his career won’t cut it.

Since Week 6, Nix has fallen short of 175 passing yards three times in five games. According to the Fantasy Points data suite, among 32 quarterbacks with at least 50 dropbacks since Week 6, Nix is 24th in passing yards per game (204.6), 29th in yards per pass attempt (5.88), 23rd in quarterback rating (83.6) and 25th in completion rate over expectation (-1.6%). Nix’s ugly numbers were masked by tossing 10 touchdowns.

Nix’s inaccuracy and inability to produce yardage will make it nearly impossible for him to support both Courtland Sutton and Troy Franklin. It also ruins Nix’s fantasy value. Furthermore, Denver’s defense is so talented that Sean Payton could decide to play even less aggressively and lean on it. Nix has created a lousy fantasy football ecosystem, rendering Sutton and Franklin volatile WR3s in 12-team leagues.

Carolina’s Offense is a Dumpster Fire

Bryce Young‘s eye-catching finish after getting benched last season appears to be fool’s gold. He drizzled down his leg in a plum draw against the Saints in Week 10, completing 17-of-25 passes for 124 yards, zero touchdowns, one interception, a 13.2 quarterback rating and a 62.8 passer rating.

Young had an outlier 328 passing yards and three touchdowns in a frantic comeback attempt against the Cardinals in Week 2, accounting for 21.7% of his season’s passing yards and 27.3% of his season’s passing touchdowns. Young has passed for fewer than 200 yards in his other eight games. Pathetically, he’s logged 138, 102 and 124 passing yards in his three most recent starts. Young has also failed to throw a touchdown in three starts and tossed only one in another three.

Young is a full-blown trainwreck. Tetairoa McMillan managed to tally eight targets, five receptions, and 60 scoreless yards, but the rookie wideout has a capped ceiling with a non-NFL caliber starting quarterback leading the Panthers. Unfortunately, Young’s ineptitude also threatens Rico Dowdle‘s fantasy value.

Fortunately, Dowdle had a workhorse role, handling 18 of the backfield’s 21 rush attempts and running 15 routes to eight for Chuba Hubbard. Dowdle had 63 scrimmage yards, three receptions and a rushing touchdown. Dowdle’s bell-cow role locks him into RB2 value, but touchdowns could dry up in such a dreadful offense.

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