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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 7 of snaps, targets, air yards, and routes.
Snap Share
- Cardinals RB snap shares: Eno Benjamin 73%, Keaontay Ingram 30%
- Ravens RB snap shares: Gus Edwards 36%, Justice Hill 31%, Kenyan Drake 27%
- Panthers RB snap shares: D’Onta Foreman 54%, Chuba Hubbard 46%
- Melvin Gordon regained the lead in the Broncos backfield with a 51% snap share
- Travis Etienne played 80% of the snaps
- Chiefs RB snap shares: Jerrick McKinnon 44%, Isiah Pacheco 30%, Clyde Edwards-Helaire 27%
- Josh Jacobs has played at least 80% of the snaps in three-straight games
- Leonard Fournette played a season-low 60% of the snaps while Rachaad White played a season-high 43%
- Commanders RB snap shares: Brian Robinson 47%, Antonio Gibson 39%, JD McKissic 16%
- Terrace Marshall played a season-high 86% of the snaps
- Foster Moreau played 96% of the snaps with Darren Waller sidelined
Target Share
- Eno Benjamin had a 17% target share
- Gus Edwards and Kenyan Drake were each targeted once (6%)
- Panthers RB Target Shares: Chuba Hubbard 14%, D’Onta Foreman 9%
- Joe Mixon had a season-low 7% target share
- Broncos RB target shares: Melvin Gordon 9%, Latavius Murray 7%
- Craig Reynolds had a 12% target share
- Aaron Jones had a 29% target share
- Josh Jacobs has had double-digit target shares in four-straight games
- Since Brian Robinson’s return, Antonio Gibson’s target shares have been 11%, 18%, 12%. Before Robinson’s return, Gibson’s target shares were 20%, 9%, 2%, 7%
- Brian Robinson and JD McKissic each had a 6% target share
- DeAndre Hopkins had a massive 48% target share in his season debut
- Rondale Moore’s target share fell to 7%
- Drake London had a season-low 8% target share. His previous low was 21% in Week 1
- Rashod Bateman had a 31% target share
- DJ Moore had a season-high 45% target share
- Terrace Marshall had a season-high 14% target share
- Cowboys WR target shares in Dak’s first game back: CeeDee Lamb 24%, Noah Brown 28%, Michael Gallup 8%
- Parris Campbell has had target shares of 19% and 20% over the last two weeks
- Keenan Allen had a 4% target share in his first game since Week 1
- Wan’Dale Robinson had a 27% target share
- For the first time this season, Curtis Samuel did not out-target Terry McLaurin. Instead, they had the same number of targets (8; 24%)
- Greg Dulcich had a 20% target share
- Foster Moreau had a 19% target share in Darren Waller’s absence
- George Kittle has had a target above 20% in three-straight games
Top-5 RBs in Target Share
- Aaron Jones 29%
- Rhamondre Stevenson 29%
- Austin Ekeler 24%
- Alvin Kamara 18%
- Jonathan Taylor 18%
Top-5 WRs in Target Share
- DeAndre Hopkins 48%
- DJ Moore 45%
- Tyreek Hill 37%
- Davante Adams 33%
- Equanimeous St. Brown 33%
Top-5 TEs in Target Share
- Kyle Pitts 38%
- David Njoku 26%
- Tyler Conklin 23%
- Travis Kelce 22%
- Dalton Schultz 20%
Top-15 In Air Yards (% of Team Share)
- Mike Evans 217 (73.6%)
- Tyreek Hill 171 (49.6%)
- Chris Olave 168 (45.4%)
- Courtland Sutton 135 (28.6%)
- DeAndre Hopkins 131 (60.6%)
- Christian Kirk 130 (30.7%)
- Marvin Jones 122 (28.8%)
- Tyler Boyd 117 (32.2%)
- Jerry Jeudy 114 (24.2%)
- KJ Hamler 109 (23.1%)
- Ja’Marr Chase 106 (29.2%)
- CeeDee Lamb 106 (39.3%)
- Marquez Valdes-Scantling 106 (39.3%)
- Zay Jones 102 (24.1%)
- Mike Williams 98 (31.6%)
Route Participation
- DeAndre Hopkins had a 90.6% route participation rate in his season debut
- Eno Benjamin ran a route on 75% of the drop backs
- Panthers RB routes: Chuba Hubbard 11, D’Onta Foreman 10
- Terrace Marshall ran a route on 95.8% of the drop backs
- Melvin Gordon ran 27 routes (56.3%) to Latavius Murray’s 15 (31.3%)
- Greg Dulcich ran 34 routes (70.8%). No other Broncos TE ran more than eight
- Craig Reynolds led Lions running backs with 11 routes (34.4%)
- Travis Etienne ran 20 routes to James Robinson’s 2
- Keenan Allen ran a route on just 24.6% of the drop backs in his first game since Week 1
- Wan’Dale Robinson’s route participation jumped up to 78.4% in Week 7
- Tyler Conklin ran a route on 75% of the drop backs
- George Pickens ran three more routes than Chase Claypool
- Rachaad White ran 20 routes. Leonard Fournette ran 24
- Cade Otton had a 72.5% route participation
- Commanders RB routes: Antonio Gibson 12 (34.3%), JD McKissic 10 (28.6%), Brian Robinson 8 (22.9%)
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