Fantasy Football Player Notes

What an embarrassing performance for the Cowboys in the opening week. I'm sorry, Cowboys fans, but that was a dominant win by a Giants team that is very beatable on paper. Thankfully, the Cowboys have all the offensive talent in the world and are supposed to have an improved defense. Although this did not come across in the first week, they can bounce back against the Commanders, who allowed Jalen Hurts to dice them up for three passing touchdowns. Thankfully, we did see Lamb find the end zone, something he only did three times last year. This should be a "get right" game for the Cowboys and Lamb can have another solid fantasy outing.

If the Chargers didn't exist, the Cowboys would take the award for most disappointing Week 1 performance. Getting dominated by their divisional rival Giants, this was not the Cowboys many praised heading into the season. Even with an elite receiver duo, the Giants held CeeDee Lamb and Pickens to a combined 72 yards. All offseason, we heard reports that Pickens had potentially supplanted Lamb as the top target in the offense. In Week 1, this was not the case, however, they have another divisional game on tap this week. The Commanders held the Eagles receivers in check for the most part; however, they let Dallas Goedert accumulate 77 yards and two scores. On paper, this Commanders' defense should not threaten the Cowboys offense. It's too early to panic, but if the Cowboys can't get it done against the Commanders, we may need to reevaluate our preseason opinions of this offense.

Last week, Jake Ferguson had a quiet game with a 66.7% route share, a 73.1% snap rate, a 5.9% target share, six receiving yards (0.25 YPRR), one red zone target, and an 8% first-read share. Ferguson could be busy in Week 2 against a Washington secondary that allowed the most yards per target and the most fantasy points per opportunity to tight ends last season. Last year, in his two games against Washington, Ferguson finished as the TE4 and TE23. The TE23 finish in Week 17 last year, he played only 30.4% of the snaps. I wouldn't be shocked to see Ferguson finish as a TE1 this week.