One more week. One more week will decide if you're in or out. In one more week you're either playoff-bound or praying to the fantasy football gods to keep you out of the toilet bowl. Or maybe you've already secured your first-round bye. (In which case why are you even reading this? Seriously.)
Or worse, maybe you've been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. To those of you in that scenario I say: DO NOT BAIL ON YOUR LEAGUE. Keep setting your lineup, keep combing the waiver wire, and for the love of all that is football, don't drop top-tier players just to cause chaos. Now, onward to the receiver rankings!
Target Monsters
Although it's normally the Antonio Brown show in Pittsburgh, this week belonged to JuJu Smith-Schuster. The second-year receiver amassed 17 targets. And somehow, that's not a season-high. (Smith-Schuster had 19 in Week 2.) Averaging a clean 10.0 targets per game, JuJu has a tougher matchup this week with a strong Chargers' secondary. You still play him as a WR1.
Calvin Ridley collected double digit targets for the first time this season, and it wasn't at the expense of Julio Jones, who had 14. But Ridley faces the Ravens this week, who look like a big slice of pecan pie facing off against receivers with severe peanut allergies. Stay away!
Jermaine Kearse was back in the thick of the Jets' passing attack last week with 12 targets. But if there's one thing I know about Jermaine Kearse...it's that you never play him. The guy is completely untrustworthy, even against a Titans' defense that has quietly given up the 2nd-most fantasy points to receivers.
More trustworthy is Emmanuel Sanders, who also recorded 12 targets, and turned it into 7 receptions for 86 yards and a touchdown. Sanders continues to thrive with Demaryius Thomas out of the lineup, and looked to be the only game in town for the Broncos' receiving corp.
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