RB/WR Opportunity Breakdown For Week 3
Fantasy Football Opportunity Breakdown
The most important thing in fantasy football is how many fantasy points a player scores. But that's not the end of the story, not by a long stretch. The peripheral statistics also tell an important story. Looking at things like snaps played, snap share, targets, and target share gives you a more complete picture of a player's usage during football games. If a player isn't producing but they are getting snaps and opportunities then your concerns can be tempered because they are still part of the game plan.
Conversely, if they are scoring points, but on minimal usage, you also might want to temper your expectations for them going forward. As a FantasyData subscriber, you have access to a number of tools including, statistics, advanced metrics, and efficiency metrics, to help you navigate the fantasy football map. We now have two weeks of data, which can start to show signs of a pattern and not just a one-week anomaly.
Running Backs
The Los Angeles Rams backfield is one to avoid for now. A week after playing on 82.1% of snaps, Darrell Henderson dropped to a 56.5% snap share this past week. Conversely, Cam Akers saw his snap share increase from 17.9% to 43.5% from Week 1 to Week 2. Henderson's drop in playing time also resulted in less usage, he fell from a 72.2% share of the rushing work in Week 1 to 38.5% in Week 2 and saw no targets in Week 2. Akers captured 57.7% of the rushing share and saw three targets. Taking a look at the usage inside the 5-yard line doesn't give much guidance either as Henderson had two attempts to one for Akers. Looking at the tea leaves, we could assume that based on the most recent usage, Akers is working his way back to 70/30 ownership of the backfield.
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Shane Manila
Shane Manila is currently a writer for Dynasty League Football, co-host of the Dynasty Trades HQ podcast, Manic and Chill (DLF YouTube), and Dynasty Intervention. Don't let all the dynasty talk fool you though, Shane loves redraft (almost) as much as he does dynasty football. An FSWA member, Shane formerly contributed his redraft insights via FantasyPros.com. At its core fantasy football is a weekly game, regardless of what format you are playing, and helping you make the correct decisions every week is Shane's only goal. Well, and to entertain you. No reason you can't be informed and entertained at the same time.