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TL;DR Fantasy Football Week 14
Week 14 Byes: New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, Carolina Panthers
Must-Know Quarterback Fantasy Football Stats
Caleb Williams (QB – CHI)
Chicago’s run offense has become one of the best in the NFL lately. Unfortunately, that has hurt Caleb Williams‘ fantasy value after an excellent start to the year. Furthermore, the former USC star has struggled lately, completing 50.5% of his pass attempts for 195.3 yards, 1.3 touchdowns and 13.8 fantasy points per game over the past three weeks, totaling one or fewer score and fewer than 10.3 fantasy points twice. Last week, Williams completed 47.2% of his pass attempts for 154 yards and 9.5 fantasy points, setting season lows in every category.
While Jared Goff had 256 passing yards, two touchdowns and 20.6 fantasy points against the Packers last week, Green Bay’s pass defense has been outstanding lately. The Packers held quarterbacks to 143.3 passing yards and 6.6 fantasy points per game over their previous four contests, allowing fewer than 202 yards and 12.1 fantasy points in every outing. Furthermore, they gave up only one passing touchdown to quarterbacks during that stretch. Expect Ben Johnson to lean on his run game and defense, limiting Williams’ fantasy upside in a poor matchup.
Jordan Love (QB – GB)
Jordan Love is a volatile signal-caller, with three games without a touchdown in his previous six, but three, two and four passing touchdowns in the other three games.
Love has two games with 330+ passing yards and three passing touchdowns this season, one with 292 yards and two touchdowns and another with 234 yards and four touchdowns.
Must-Know Running Back Fantasy Football Stats
Chase Brown (RB – CIN)
The third year back out of London, Ontario, has six straight 100-yard games. Not only is this a Bengals franchise record, but Chase Brown has also been a top-15 back in five straight games. Arguably, what is most impressive is that he has done this while only scoring three times on the season. With Joe Burrow back under center, scoring opportunities should come more frequently for this entire offense.
This week, the Bengals face the Bills in a must-win game for their playoff hopes. The Bills are allowing the fourth-most fantasy points, the third-most rushing yards and the most rushing touchdowns to the running back position on the season. Josh Allen against the Bengals’ defense is not suitable for all audiences. As a result, Burrow and company will need to pull out all the tricks to keep them in this game. As a result, Brown should be heavily featured and primed to find the end zone for only the fourth time this season.
Zach Charbonnet (RB – SEA)
Last week, the blowout win for Seattle distorted the snap counts. In the first half, Zach Charbonnet played 45.5% of the snaps with a 5.3% route share. Charbonnet was the early-down assistant to Kenneth Walker III and the team’s red-zone back as he had an 83.3% snap share inside the 20-yard line in the first two quarters.
Since Week 11, Charbonnet has averaged 11 touches and 44.6 total yards as the RB39 in fantasy points per game. Overall, among 55 qualifying backs, Charbonnet ranks 21st in missed tackle rate and ninth in yards after contact per attempt. Charbonnet remains a decent Flex option this week.
Since Week 9, Atlanta has allowed the fifth-most rushing yards per game, the ninth-highest rushing success rate, the 13th-most yards before contact per attempt and they have logged the fifth-lowest stuff rate.
Must-Know Wide Receiver Fantasy Football Stats
Devaughn Vele (WR – NO)
Devaughan Vele is coming off a big game for the Saints, where he hauled in all eight of his targets for 93 yards and a touchdown. The Saints wideout has combined for 15 targets in his last two games.
You have to like the matchup against the Buccaneers this week, as they rank 22nd in fantasy points per game allowed to wideouts. Vele is firmly within the WR3 range for this week.
Brian Thomas Jr. (WR – JAX)
Brian Thomas Jr. returned in Week 13, and the results were very underwhelming. He wasn’t limited and ran the second-most snaps of any receiver behind Jakobi Meyers, but had just two receptions on three targets for 28 yards. Parker Washington left the game with an injury, but it’s tough to imagine his absence having a major impact on Thomas’ production.
Thomas has had just two games with double-digit fantasy points in half-PPR this year and just one finish inside the top 10.
George Pickens (WR – DAL)
After getting a star on his helmet, George Pickens wasted little time becoming a breakout star himself. One week, to be exact. After a modest Week 1 performance, Pickens posted 30+ fantasy points in two of the next five games, a stretch that included six trips to the end zone. A piece of this stretch came without CeeDee Lamb, but Pickens hasn’t slowed down since Lamb returned to the field. He’s currently the WR2 in total points, while his 19.8 PPG places him at WR4.
Pickens is averaging 17.6 PPG in the eight games the wide receiver duo has shared the field, but coming out of the team’s Week 10 bye, he’s notched point totals of 29.4, 29.6 and 16.8, including two games of 140+ yards. Despite sharing the targets with Lamb, Pickens is seventh in the NFL in first-read targets with 77. He’s also seventh in yards after the catch with 322, second in fantasy points per target and fourth in first downs per route run with .145.
Must-Know Tight End Fantasy Football Stats
Brenton Strange (TE – JAX)
Since his return, Brenton Strange has been the TE4 and TE7 in weekly scoring. Since Week 12, he has had a 15.8% target share with 69 receiving yards per game, 2.94 yards per route run and a 15.4% first-read share. In those two games, he had one red-zone target and four deep targets.
Strange’s usage is increasing at the perfect time for a boom game this week. Indianapolis has bled out production to tight ends all season, allowing the second-most receiving yards per game and fantasy points per game to the position.
Oronde Gadsden II (TE – LAC)
The Eagles are the third-toughest matchup on paper for opposing tight ends, allowing just 7.1 points per game to the position. Only Evan Engram (11.3) and Cole Kmet (11.1) have scored more than 8.6 half-PPR points against them, and they both needed a touchdown to get there. On average, Philadelphia gives up just 35 yards per game to tight ends.
This is all bad news for Chargers rookie tight end Oronde Gadsden, who burst onto the fantasy scene around the midway point of this season. He has also been trending in the wrong direction anyway, averaging just 3.7 points over his last three outings. Especially with Justin Herbert potentially set to miss this game after undergoing surgery on his non-throwing hand, I recommend starting to look for another option now if you have been relying on Gadsden as your TE1.
Colston Loveland (TE – CHI)
Colston Loveland is still dealing with Cole Kmet cutting into his playing time. I don’t see that changing for the rest of 2025. That hasn’t stopped Loveland from being productive when he has been targeted, though.
Since Week 9, he has a 60.3% route share, a 14.8% target share, 58 receiving yards per game, 2.42 yards per route run and a 16% first-read share, per Fantasy Points Data. In those five games, he has recorded three red-zone targets and three touchdowns. Loveland will continue to be a midrange streaming option at tight end for the remainder of the season.
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