Quentin Johnston Week 1 Outlook - Chiefs at Chargers

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Sep 4th 2025, 1:05pm EDT

It's impossible to have any confidence in flexing Quentin Johnston in Week 1. I don't see Ladd McConkey or Keenan Allen in any danger of leaving the field, but Johnston could see his routes cut into by Tre Harris or KeAndre Lambert-Smith (or both). For you deep league degens, I'll still discuss his outlook, though. Johnston had two up and down meetings with Kansas City last year, even as a full-time player with a WR89 finish in the first go around and a kinder WR22 finish in Week 14. Last season, Kansas City had the second-highest two high rate last year (60.9%). In 2024, against two high, Johnston had only a 19% target per route run rate but he managed 2.37 yards per route run rate and a 21.6% first-read share. Johnston could turn only a handful of targets into a decent day, but it's impossible to bet on him in most leagues because of this volatility, when we haven't seen how the Bolts will deploy their wide receivers after McConkey and Allen.