Zay Flowers Week 16 Outlook - Patriots at Ravens

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Dec 18th 2025, 1:35pm EST

Zay Flowers had to deal with DJ Turner's shadow coverage in his two recent meetings with the Bengals, and he'll likely have to deal with shadow coverage again this week. Except in Week 16, Christian Gonzalez will follow him. Gonzalez has shadowed four times this season, following Emeka Egbuka, Darius Slayton, Tee Higgins, and Jerry Jeudy on 61.3-78% of their routes. None of those wide receivers scored a touchdown or surpassed 60 receiving yards, with Gonzalez following them. Temper your expectations for Flowers this week, as Gonzalez could easily be in his back pocket for 60-70% of his routes. Overall, Flowers is the WR23 in fantasy points per game with a 27.2% target share with 68.5 receiving yards per game, 2.40 yards per route run, and a 33.2% first-read share. Flowers has only eight red zone targets this season, but he has amassed 17 deep targets. Flowers will still be started in most leagues and for most fantasy teams, but I'm not expecting a boom week.