Fantasy Football Player Notes

Credit to the Buffalo Bills and Christian Benford for keeping Bowers in check last week. As the season progresses, we have started to see Bowers treated as a top wide receiver by defenses rather than a TE. This is good news in matchups without a big, physical, top corner. However, as we saw last week, this can limit his upside since there are no other weapons to take coverage away. Still, Bowers came through with 70 yards and was the TE14 on the week. If that's not a terrible "worst-case scenario." This week, they have another tough matchup against the Rams secondary. Bowers remains one of the clear top fantasy TEs, but don't be surprised if he has another relatively lacklustre performance against the defense allowing the second fewest fantasy points to the position. It may seem aggressive, but I have him as my TE5 this week behind Trey McBride, George Kittle, Isaiah Likely, and Tucker Kraft.

With Brock Bowers in the lineup, Michael Mayer is the TE10 in fantasy points per game with at least 12.2 PPR points in three of those four games. Since Week 3, Mayer has had a 13.6% target share with 1.90 YPRR, one red zone target, one deep target, and an 11.1% first-read share. Temper your expectations this week, though. The Rams have allowed the fewest yards per target and fantasy points per opportunity to tight ends this season.