Fantasy Notebook: All The Usage Data From Week 6
Week 6 Fantasy Football Usage Data To Know
Opportunity is king when it comes to fantasy football production. Therefore, it is important to be aware of each player’s opportunity share. Past opportunity helps us predict future usage and, in turn, future fantasy output. But I understand that not every fantasy gamer has the time or resources to stay on top of the recent trends. So, I am doing the research for you.
As a weekly series, I look at every box score, track target share, snap share, Route participation, and air yards. I compile all of the trends that I find useful or interesting here in order to help you make better lineup and roster decisions. Pair this with our team profiles, weekly rankings, matchups preview, start/sit assistant, trade calculator, and other articles to give your teams an edge over the competition. Without further ado, here is everything I took away from an exciting Week 6 of snaps, targets, air yards, and route participation.
Snap Share
- James Conner played just 27.6% of the snaps; Emari DeMercado led the way with 53.4%, Trey Benson 19%
- Bijan Robinson 55.7%, Tyler Allgeier 41.4%
- For the first time this season, Chase Brown led the Bengals backfield in snaps:
- Chase Brown 62.3%
- Zack Moss 45.3%
- With Jerome Ford leaving early with a hamstring injury, Pierre Strong led the Browns RBs with a 52.6% snap share. D’Onta Foreman played 35.1%
- Cowboys RB snap shares:
- Ezekiel Elliott 40.6%
- Rico Dowdle 27.5%
- It was the first time since Week 1 that Zeke out-snapped Dowdle
- Joe Mixon played 42.7% of the snaps in his first game back; Dameon Pierce and Dare Ogunbowale each played 27.3%
- Jaguars RB snap shares:
- D’Ernest Johnson 56.5%
- Tank Bigsby 27.4%
- Travis Etienne 17.7%
- In his debut, Kimani Vidal played 24.4% of the snaps
- With Rhamomdre Stevenson out, Antonio Gibson played 48.5% of the snaps; JaMycal Hasty played 31.8%, Terrell Jennings 21.2%
- Giants RB snap shares:
- Tyrone Tracy 83.5%
- Eric Gray 17.7%
- With Jaylen Warren returning, he played 37.3% of the snaps to Najee Harris’s 46.3%
- With Jordan Mason exiting with a shoulder injury, Isaac Guerendo played 26.2% of the snaps while Patrick Taylor played 24.6%
- Buccaneers RB snap shares with Rachaad White out:
- Bucky Irving 63.6%
- Sean Tucker 37.7%
- With Brian Robinson out, Austin Ekeler played 74.6% of the snaps. Jeremy McNichols played 37.3%
Target Share
- Michael Wilson had a 12.5% target share, his lowest since week 2
- Emari Demercado had a 21.9% target share
- Zay Flowers had a 36% target share while Rashod Bateman, Isaiah Likely, and Mark Andrews all had a 16% share
- Xavier Legette had just a 10.8% target share
- Ja’Tavion Sanders has set season highs with target shares of 14% and 18.9% over the last two weeks
- Roschon Johnson had an 11.5% target share; D’Andre Swift’s was 15.4%
- Chase Brown out-targeted Zack Moss 3 to 1 (13% to 4.3%)
- David Njoku had a 30.4% target share
- Rico Dowdle had a 14% target share
- No Packer reached a 20% target share (Jayden Reed led with a 19.4% share)
- With Nico Collins out, Tank Dell and Dalton Schultz led the way with target shares of 29% and 25.8% (Stefon Diggs 22.6%)
- Josh Downs had a 25% target share (Michael Pittman 13.9%)
- Evan Engram returned to a 28.6% target share
- JK Dobbins and Kimani Vidal each had 2 targets (6.5%)
- With Aidan O’Connell taking over at quarterback, Brock Bowers led the way with a 27% target share
- In Drake Maye’s first start, Demario Douglas led the Patriots with a 29% target share. Hunter Henry was second at 16.1%
- Bub Means had a 21.1% target share. That tied with Alvin Kamara for the team lead
- With Malik Nabers out again, Darius Slayton and Wan’Dale Robinson each had a 30.6% target share
- Tyrone Tracy had a 16.7% target share
- With Dallas Goedert leaving with an injury, Grant Calcaterra had a 16.7% target share (4 targets), equal to Devonta Smith
- George Pickens had a 34.8% target share
- Calvin Austin had a 21.7% target share
- Patrick Taylor out-targeted Isaac Guerendo 1-0 in relief of Jordan Mason
- Sean Tucker out-targeted Bucky Irving 3 to 2 (8.3% to 5.7%)
- Calvin Ridley out-targeted DeAndre Hopkins 8 to 6 (29.6% to 22.2%)
- Noah Brown led the Commanders with a 24.2% target share
Route Participation
*Route participation data was not updated in time for the publishing of this week’s article.
Air Yards Leaders
| Player | Team | POS | Air Yards | Team Share |
| DK Metcalf | SEA | WR | 166 | 40.6% |
| AJ Brown | PHI | WR | 152 | 62.0% |
| Rashid Shaheed | NO | WR | 151 | 49.3% |
| Calvin Ridley | TEN | WR | 133 | 54.1% |
| George Pickens | PIT | WR | 116 | 53.5% |
| CeeDee Lamb | DAL | WR | 110 | 33.6% |
| Allen Lazard | NYJ | WR | 108 | 40.9% |
| Marvin Mims | DEN | WR | 107 | 32.1% |
| Darius Slayton | NYG | WR | 107 | 44.0% |
| Noah Brown | WAS | WR | 106 | 40.5% |
| Alec Pierce | IND | WR | 105 | 32.3% |
| Ladd McConkey | LAC | WR | 97 | 36.3% |
| Drake London | ATL | WR | 95 | 52.2% |
| Stefon Diggs | HOU | WR | 94 | 37.2% |
| Diontae Johnson | CAR | WR | 93 | 36.6% |
| Gabe Davis | JAX | WR | 92 | 31.3% |
| DeAndre Hopkins | TEN | WR | 91 | 37.0% |
| Tyler Lockett | SEA | WR | 88 | 21.50% |
| Demario Douglas | NE | WR | 87 | 37.0% |
| Mike Evans | TB | WR | 87 | 39.9% |
| Jaxon Smith-Njigba | SEA | WR | 86 | 21.0% |
| Courtland Sutton | DEN | WR | 84 | 25.2% |
| Terry McLaurin | WAS | WR | 81 | 30.9% |
| Simi Fehoko | LAC | WR | 76 | 28.5% |
| Jerry Jeudy | CLE | WR | 74 | 56.9% |
| Jalen Tolbert | DAL | WR | 73 | 22.3% |
| Nathaniel Dell | HOU | WR | 71 | 28.1% |
| Christian Watson | GB | WR | 70 | 36.6% |
| Jalin Hyatt | NYG | WR | 70 | 28.8% |
| Calvin Austin | PIT | WR | 70 | 32.3% |
RANKINGS | Weekly | DYNASTY | ROS
Fantasy Football Season Is NOW At Underdog. Sign up and draft now! Use Promo-Code: YARDSPER to claim your Special Pick + First Time Deposit offer up to $1,000 in bonus cash!
