Fantasy Football Snap & Target Report Week 11: Tank Dell, Devin Singletary, Jaylen Warren

It’s difficult to cross sports when it comes to giving examples, but I’ll try. The NBA has 80 games, so a random regular season game on a Tuesday doesn’t mean as much as every regular season game in the NFL. An NBA team has five players on the court and may field nine or ten players throughout the season, but when the playoffs approach, the team’s bench tightens up, and only seven or eight players see the court.

The same is true in the NFL. By Week 11, coaches rely more heavily on their impact players. For instance in the last two weeks, there were six receivers who were targeted 10 or more times each week … and two of them have had three consecutive weeks with 10 or more targets. Half of those players are in the top four in targets for the season.

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Fantasy Football Snap & Target Report Week 11

Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Target Leaders

Tyreek Hill, Miami Dolphins: In the last three weeks, Hill has been targeted 44 times. On Sunday he played 41 snaps and was targeted 11 times with a very efficient 10 receptions for 146 yards and a TD. 

Tank Dell, Houston Texans: Dell has emerged out of nowhere for the Texans, along with rookie QB C.J. Stroud, to help lead the team to a surprising 6-4 record. Other than Hill, he is the only receiver that has been targeted in double digits in each of the last three weeks, totaling 35. On Sunday, his stat line was eerily similar to Hill’s. He was on the field for 51 snaps with 10 targets and eight catches, 149 yards, and a TD. If the Texans can even get 80% of what Hill is, they’ve hit a home run with Dell.

Keenan Allen, Los Angeles Chargers: Allen has averaged 15 targets over the last two weeks, and for the season he has the most targets among all receivers, with 113. On Sunday he caught 10 passes for 116 yards and a TD.

Davante Adams, Las Vegas Raiders: Adams is second among receivers with 111 targets for the season. And although his production has been spotty and inconsistent, the switch away from Jimmy Garoppolo has helped him. He has had 13 targets each of the last two weeks, although on Sunday he only caught 53.8% of the passes thrown to him.

Mike Evans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Evans only caught 41.6% of his targets on Sunday, and for the season he is under 60%. But he has 780 receiving yards, which is 11th in the league, and has seven TDs.

Adam Thielan, Carolina Panthers: What Thielan is doing this season with rookie QB Bryce Young getting him the ball is borderline remarkable. He’s been targeted 21 times over the last two weeks and, for the year, is just outside the top 10 with 97 targets. He has also caught an amazing 78% of his passes, making him a PPR monster.

Fantasy Football Running Back Touch Leaders

The biggest evidence that this is a passing league is that there are only two RBs who have had over 20 touches in each of the last two weeks.

Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers: Why wouldn’t McCaffrey have the most touches this past week? He has the most rushing and receiving yards among RBs, and the second most touches in the league, only behind Josh Jacobs. Ezekiel Elliott made the “feed me” hand gesture famous, but that really should belong to McCaffrey.

Devin Singletary, Houston Texans: As of late, Singletary has emerged as a very important offensive weapon for the Texans. He’s had 55 touches in the last two weeks. He was on the field for 57 snaps in Week 11, with 22 rushes and 112 yards while adding a TD.

Jaylen Warren, Pittsburgh Steelers: The Steelers have had a long history of impact RBs, from Franco Harris to Jerome Bettis, and they currently have Najee Harris, and now Warren. In a limited role, Warren again dominated, gaining 129 rushing yards, which was the most among RBs this week. He was only on the field for 26 snaps with 12 touches. He only had nine rushes but averaged 14.3 yards and added a TD. 

Out of the top 10 RBs in touches this season, only four have an average of over four yards per rush.

Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers: He’s had 217 touches with 174 rushes for 825 yards, so he is averaging 4.7 yards per carry … oh, and he has 14 total TDs.

Saquon Barkley, New York Giants: Barkley has had 180 touches with 153 rushes on 4.3 yards per carry for 651 rushing yards.

D’Andre Swift, Philadelphia Eagles: Swift’s numbers are nearly identical to Barkley’s this season. They each have had 180 touches, and only six rushes and 39 rushing yards separate them for the season. And they each have five rushing TDs. Swift has a slightly better average with 4.7 yards per carry.

Derrick Henry, Tennessee Titans: It definitely feels like the end of King Henry’s reign, but he is still inside the top 10 in touches with 178, and he is sixth in rushing yards with 663. He has four TDs and is averaging 4.2 yards per carry for the season.