Rest of Season Fantasy Football Rankings might be the most underrated, underutilized tool in the game. These rankings can be used for waiver value, trades, and identifying players we should be dropping. Next week we will be producing Rest-of-Season Rankings with Underdog.com’s Best Ball Resurrection Contest in mind.
Looking at the overall meta of scoring this year it seems that defenses have gotten sophisticated enough that QB's can't get clean pre-snap reads. Leading to not being able to get the ball to wide receivers consistently, and overall scoring is WAY down because of it. Strong run game and short passes are the way to defeat the cover-2 defense, so running backs get more touches. It doesn't seem as if there is some sort of bell-cow running back Renaissance, it's just that all other parts of offenses are getting stopped.
Rest of Season Rankings
There aren't many places we can get full rankings that have the rest of the season in mind, let alone rankings as accurate as ours. These Rest of Season Fantasy Football rankings have been among the most accurate over the past five seasons.
Malik Nabers now has three games with at least a 35% target share through Week 4. Only six wideouts since 2011 have started a season with a 35% target share in three of their first four games. @LateRoundQB
The Colts are not considering injured reserve as an option for Jonathan Taylor (ankle), who sustained a 'mild' high-ankle sprain during the team's 27-24 win over the Steelers in Week 4, Mike Chappell of Fox 59 News Indianapolis reports. Even if Taylor's high-ankle sprain isn't as serious as similar issues he's dealt with in the past, these injuries more often than not result in players having to spend some time on the sideline. Trey Sermon will figure to operate as the Colts' starting running back if Taylor can't suit up on the road against Jacksonville on Sunday, while Tyler Goodson would step into the No. 2 role. Source: RotoWire
Rico Dowdle's running back rush shares in Weeks 1 and 2: 32.0 percent and 33.3 percent.
Rico Dowdle's running back rush shares in Weeks 3 and 4: 61.5 percent and 61.1 percent.
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Kareem Hunt has been complete dust over the past year and a half, but he saw two-thirds of Kansas City's running back rushes and a 10.7 percent target share on Sunday, leading the KC backfield in Week 4.
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Wan'Dale Robinson saw a 37 percent target share in Week 4 and has dropped below a 24 percent target share in just one game this year. His season-long target share is 27.9 percent, per @LateRoundQB
Jordan Whittington saw a full-time role in Week 4 Whittington had a; 97 percent route participation, 28 percent target share, and a 26 percent air yards share. It won't be long before Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua return, but we could see something in Week 5 against the Packers.
Dontayvion Wicks is a solid starter for the short term while Christian Watson is out. He reportedly will not be going to go on the IR with his ankle injury, but it looked bad enough that he could miss three to four weeks. There are multiple ways Wicks pays off for the entire rest of the season. He could win the job outright, the talent difference between Wicks and Watson is negligible at this point. In Watson’s first games back from injuries over the past two years he saw just 25 percent, 9 percent, 46 percent, and 41 percent of the team snaps, making him unusable for fantasy. Wicks also has contingency value if any of the other receivers go down.
Tucker Kraft ran 48 routes to Luke Musgrave's 17 in Week 4, per PFF. Kraft has seen at least a 15 percent target share in each of his last three games. @LateRoundQB
Erick All saw a season (and career) high 13 percent target share on Sunday, but his route participation (30%) wasn't much different from his previous two games. @LateRoundQB
Players We Can Drop
When we make waiver claims most of the time we can easily determine who to add, but we struggle with which players to drop. It is very difficult to give-up on a player we thought was worth drafting in the first place. If you are struggling, you should be dropping your questions or concerns in our FREE Discord channel. Don't be afraid of it, I'm over 50 and navigate it fairly well.
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