Thursday Night/Showdown Slate
MIA@BUF
Dolphins have a great RB matchup, meh P matchup.
Bills have a great P matchup, good RB matchup.
Tua has a bad pass potential. Achane has a great rush potential.
Allen has a good pressure rate situation, and a great pass potential. Cook has a good rush potential.
Pace of play is 5th (meh).
- Achane had 21 opps, 10 targets, last week, playing over 90% of snaps and this was in a dominantly neutral game script, he has such a good floor with big upside, it is hard not to slot him in your lineup. Waddle is just not priced far enough away from Hill for me, so I will be underweight, the only positive he has is his RZ targets from Tua, otherwise Hill has his target share beat (22% to 18.5%), as well as aDOT, 16.2 to 10.8. Washington is playing 60% of snaps a game, and is averaging 5.5~ opps a game, if he plays, he is a low price option that can be targetted, if he is out, Ikhine jumps up. Neither TE was targetted last week, but in wk1 Conner had 4 targets (1 rz target), he is almost min priced at $800, 1 catch practically pays off his salary, and he could allow you to get the big dogs (this is assuming no waller). I think throwing in 1 or 2 of Washington/Conner, maybe Gordon/Ikhine (depending on injuries/etc) is the way to go.
Cook is averaging 20 opps (3targets/g), I obviously don't prefer him to Achane, and I like Allens floor/ceiling combo better, where I don't think you can get all 3 of these guys together. I will only have cook if mass entering and you want to get leverage/hope that all the TDs funnel through him, or in a BUF onslaught stack, where they win by like 24+ and put up 40+. I think picking the correct one (at the least 1) of the 3 WRs is where most lineups will be won or lost. The 3 WRs all see playing time Coleman/Shakier/Palmer are averaging 71/61/57% of snaps, 20%/16%/17% of targets, and 11.3/9.1/13.5 aDOTs, while all having multiple RZ targets already. I am most inclined to take Palmer as he is the cheapest of the bunch, with the biggest aDOT, and not that much lower snap/target share, followed by coleman than shakir. Kindcaid did not to much more than Knox last week, and he is more than doubled his price, I won't have him in my roster, while I think Knox (and palmer) can be added to that cheap group I mentioned with MIA above.