After a fairly strong start, Johnson has struggled to find consistent running room and didn't find much against a strong New York Jets defense. Johnson saw his carries go to power runner Jackie Battle in the second half who was far more successful running the ball.
Johnson's value right now is dropping slightly but the weather also played a factor since Johnson isn't a grinder. You do have to wonder why the Titans aren't getting him out in space.
Brown finished with five catches for 26 yards. Those numbers are not impressive but he had seven targets. It is his third game in a row with at least seven targets. After leading in targets the last two weeks, he tied for the second-most on the Lions. He is heavily targeted on a team that throws 65 percent of the time, the fifth-most in the league. The ceiling isn't super high, but he has a reliable floor.
Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman has been up and down, but he has just one game with fewer than eight fantasy points in his last five. That gives him a safe enough floor to quantify as a bye week replacement in a week when a bunch of receivers will be on bye.
Last week he had 12 targets, which seems like an anomaly, but he has been used more as of late. He is an upside shot if you are in need of one due to all the byes. Browns WR Donovan Peoples-Jones led Cleveland in receiving with yards and two touchdowns, catching five of eight targets.
He led Browns receivers with 78 percent of the snaps. This was coming off his five catch, yard game last week. He has at least five targets in each of the last two games. He may soon have more target competition as Jarvis Landry is nearing a return. But DPJ has likely played his way into three wide receiver sets and Cleveland will certainly take some deep shots with him. He is a bye week replacement in Week 7. He has between nine and 19 fantasy points in three of his last four games.
The only issue is in that other game he was shut out. Washington WR Dyami Brown had six targets catching three of them for 30 yards.
Its not a huge day and his volume is in jeopardy if Washington gets some key pass catchers back from injury, but the rookie does have some explosiveness. He can be used in deeper formats if Curtis Samuel is out next week. Jaguars WR Jamal Agnew is on bye next week but his recent usage is worth pointing out. He had five catches on six targets for 78 yards. He's had at least six targets in the last two and topped double-digit fantasy points in both.
He caught four for 44 yards. He has the potential to be a good red zone weapon for Houston. Washington TE Ricky Seals-Jones played percent of the snaps and saw six targets, catching four for 58 yards and a touchdown. That is a week after he played 99 percent of the snaps and had eight targets.
He has nine and He is a startable tight end while Logan Thomas is sidelined. Chargers TE Jared Cook is on bye next week but can be a streaming option after that. He was targeted seven times, caught four for 25 yards and a touchdown. He has seven targets in two of the last three games, scoring The Chargers have been featuring their tight ends in the red zone as well.
Cook could be useful with the byes hitting. He has topped eight fantasy points in three straight. It's no secret that Chris Johnson is moments away from being labeled the bust of In , Chris Johnson set the world on fire when he rushed for 2, yards and 14 touchdowns. Contributing to those absurd numbers were the 49 rushes that Johnson broke for 10 or more yards. In , the total number of rushes that Johnson gained 10 or more yards dropped by almost 25 percent to 37 such gains.
While that seems somewhat significant, it's also important to note that Johnson's total number of carries dropped from in to in , so a portion of the drop in big-play rushes can be attributed to the fact that he received fewer opportunities. Johnson has only 93 rushes in six games, good for an average of That is down from In terms of big-play rushes, Johnson has just three such rushes for the whole season. To put that into better perspective, Johnson has had 14 games in his NFL career in which he had at least three rushes that went for 10 or more yards.
Based on this information, it's time to sell Chris Johnson for whatever you can get. If you own him, you feel obligated to start him, because he was your first-round pick. Because his performance has been so pitiful, he's likely dragged your whole team into the gutter.
Some might feel as if the only way they can overcome Johnson's horribleness so far this year is to hope someone on their team puts up the monster numbers that Johnson was thought to be capable of posting. As they look at their rosters the memory of Johnson posting those types of numbers can easily cloud their judgment. If you are one of those people, you need to come to grips with the fact that Johnson is a bust. You don't want this cancer on your fantasy squad.
Receiving yardage is variable because so much of it is dependent on where the quarterback elects to throw the ball. The variations in the number of times a player is targeted by his quarterback may greatly alter a player's value. It's important to look at the underlying target metric on a weekly basis to determine which stud performances were flukes and which dud performances can be written off to a bad day.
With that in mind, the table below not only lists those players who are averaging seven targets a game during the past four weeks, but also provides the standard deviation of the game numbers. Players with a low deviation have a similar number of targets each game, where players with larger deviations have larger swings in the number of targets seen on a game-to-game basis. The following is a list of players who are averaging seven or more targets per game during the past four weeks.
I know I have been, so I decided to find out for myself. In order to answer these questions, I watched every single snap Chris Johnson took in , as well as numerous games from and It's clear that several factors affected his performance. Did missing training camp and the preseason hurt his conditioning and productivity? There is clearly a rhythm and speed to an NFL football game that cannot be replicated by training in a gym at home, or whatever Johnson utilized while holding out of training camp.
In watching the comparative play of Johnson's first three games of , it seemed apparent that he was struggling to find his groove. There seemed to be something missing in his vision and ability to follow blockers and hit holes. He was definitely more cautious and insecure in his approach to the line of scrimmage. In those first few games, Johnson did a lot of uncharacteristic lateral movement, bouncing out and running prematurely to the sideline.
He also looked to be much slower changing directions and in his stop-and-go movements. This could be a sign of not being in the shape he needed to be. There were other obvious effects on his level of comfort, particularly when you consider the coaching change and that Johnson had to learn a completely new offensive system without a summer of practice and exposure. But there must be a much more going on here, considering Johnson did have his ups and downs throughout the course of the season.
In fact, his final four games may very well have been his worst stretch of games ever. In the season led by offensive coordinator Chris Palmer and new quarterback Matt Hasselbeck , the Titans became a pass-first team who also heavily favored passing formations.
These types of offenses are nearly impossible to stack the line against successfully. The Titans were constantly lined up in three-wide receiver sets with one back in the backfield. This is an interesting realization and perhaps a rather telling one. To some degree. The Titans' formations were very telling as to whether the play was going to be a run or a pass.
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