Quentin Johnston Week 1 Outlook - Cardinals at Chargers

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Sun, Sep 13th 2026, 12:44pm EDT

Quentin Johnston could easily be the Bolts' WR1 this season because when he was healthy last season, that's exactly who he was. Last year, in Week 5, Johnston sustained a hamstring injury that lingered into his Week 7 and 8 usage (missed Week 6). In Weeks 7-8, Johnston had a 9.1% target share and zero targets (9.78% and zero first-read shares). Those were massive departures from his early-season usage and for the remainder of the season. In Weeks 1-4 and 9-18, when he was presumably healthy, Johnson had a 20.3% target share, 1.83 yards per route run, 12 red zone targets, 17 deep targets, a 27% missed tackle rate, and a 24.8% first-read share. During those games, Johnston led the team in EACH of those statistical categories while posting 13.9 PPR points per game. If Johnston had kept up that per-game output for fantasy all season, he would have been the WR16 in fantasy points per game. Johnston is a strong fantasy option for Week 1 against a secondary that allowed the ninth-most yards per target and ranked 16th in fantasy points per opportunity against perimeter wide receivers last year.