Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live team looks forward to Sunday’s matchup between Dallas and Denver and which players could help Fantasy managers the most.
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Matt Harmon, give me someone you think is going to have a blast in this game.
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I think it’s Gervonta Williams in a revenge match against his old team.
Look, he can say whatever he wants about how he feels about this, that and the other.
He wants to go out there and prove they made a mistake letting him go, even though the grass was greener for him in Dallas.
And I look, it’s a more difficult match.
The Broncos defense is obviously good, but in this Cowboys rush game, I still feel like people aren’t giving it the credit it deserves for how good it is.
Currently, so far, among running backs who have touched the ball more than 50 times, Gervonta Williams is behind only Bijan Robinson in yards after contact per rush attempt.
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So he adds to his own ecosystem and what he’s given from a blocking standpoint because he also has one of the lowest stuff rates in the league.
They consistently get good push with this offensive line.
Gervonta Williams benefits more with his ability to break tackles.
He looks.
Good there.
It plays on the transmission.
It’s like, guys, I think if we rephrase today, Gervonta Williams could be a top 6 or 7 running back on the board.
So he’s a guy that, even in a tough match, I still have very high expectations for.
Well, it works for my pick in this game, because if Pickens is going to be the one catching balls down the field and forcing the Broncos to throw the ball down the field as well when they get the ball back, Cortland Sutton should be the beneficiary of that type of game environment, even if throughout 67 games.
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For Cortland Sutton, he hasn’t been the wide receiver we would really expect by 2025.
Just a 21% target rate, which ranks him 29th among active wide receivers.
But when Bo Nix looks downfield in most passing situations, that’s when he looks to Cortland Sutton.
Obvious passing situations, 30.9% of the team’s targets go to Sutton.
When Bo Nix is under pressure or blitz, he is first on the team at 27.3%.
The targets, even in the red zone, even though he’s behind George Franklin, the guy I was talking about earlier, 22% of the targets are going to Cortland Sutton.
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We know the Cowboys secondary is one we’d like to target from a past games standpoint, with the number of quarterbacks who have faced them and performed well leading to their receivers also performing well in box scores.
So, talking about Troy Franklin earlier, if there’s one wide receiver I’d like to target on the Broncos side, it would have to be Cortland Sutton.
