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Targets, Touches and TDs: Week 15

A look at the most meaningful fantasy football streaks.

The fantasy football postseason is upon us in the majority of leagues, and team managers will be eager to keep riding — or seeking to avoid — the hottest hands.

So, with momentum in mind, we’re highlighting the currently active player performance streaks of note in this week’s TT&T and breaking down what they mean for the fantasy playoffs. Streak data, it must be mentioned, comes courtesy of the Stathead database maintained by the informative folks at ProFootballReference.com

Here goes, kicking off with …

Consecutive games with multiple TD passes

6: Kirk Cousins, Vikings

4: Justin Herbert, Chargers

3: Aaron Rodgers, Packers; Matthew Stafford, Rams; Russell Wilson, Seahawks

2: Tom Brady, Buccaneers; Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers; Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers;

Quick takeaways:

  • That only five quarterbacks own current streaks of three or more games with multiple TD tosses shows how much volatility there is, even at fantasy’s most consistent position on a week-to-week basis.
  • Cousins, the No. 1 QB on this list, continues to fly under the fantasy radar for the most part. He’s sixth at the position with 301.4 total fantasy points (Huddle Performance scoring) and has had at least 19.9 fantasy points in all six contests during his current TD-pass streak and in 10 of 13 games overall this season.
  • Basically written off early in the season, Jimmy G and Big Ben now are very much a part of the QB2/fill-in starter conversation, and both have fantasy playoff schedules (Weeks 15-17) ranked among the four most favorable at the position, according to The Huddle’s handy Strength of Schedule tool.

Consecutive games with 275-plus passing yards

4: Herbert, Chargers; Rodgers, Packers

3: Stafford, Rams

2: Brady, Buccaneers; Joe Burrow, Bengals; Garoppolo, 49ers

Quick takeaways:

  • During his four-game span, from Week 11-14, Herbert paced all quarterbacks with 1,277 aerial yards, 11 TD tosses and 112.18 total fantasy points. On the season, the Bolts’ second-year QB has climbed up to third at this position in total fantasy points (349.9) and TDs (30) and fourth in passing yards (3,822). He also ranks a surprising ninth among quarterbacks with 268 rushing yards and has tallied a pair of rushing TDs.
  • Burrow hit the 300-yard passing mark only twice in his first 11 games this season, but now has done it in back-to-back weeks with 300 and 348, respectively, in shootout-esque losses to the Chargers and 49ers.

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Consecutive games with a rushing/receiving TD

10: Jonathan Taylor, Colts

7: James Conner, Cardinals

6: Cam Newton, Panthers, Patriots

5: Austin Ekeler, Chargers; Alvin Kamara, Saints

4: Deebo Samuel, 49ers

3: Leonard Fournette, Buccaneers; Javonte Williams, Broncos

Quick takeaways:

  • Remember way back when Taylor hadn’t found his way into the end zone? Amazingly, that was the situation as we entered Week 4, but in the 10 games since, all the second-year Indy back has done is total 18 TDs — which leads Conner and Ekeler by two on the season as a whole.
  • As you can see, Newton’s touchdown streak dates back to his final two games with the Patriots, which included a receiving TD in Week 17 of 2020 — his final game in New England. But, as also must be noted with Cam circa 2021, he has as many rushing/receiving scores (six) as he does passing TDs during this six-game span, including a 4-to-3 rushing-to-passing edge in four games this season with Carolina.

Consecutive games with 15-plus touches

47: Derrick Henry, Titans

10: Taylor, Colts

7: Dalvin Cook, Vikings; Myles Gaskin, Dolphins; Kamara, Saints

5: Fournette, Buccaneers

4: A.J. Dillon, Packers; Devonta Freeman, Ravens

Quick takeaways:

  • Henry’s eye-popping streak, which began in Week 14 of the 2018 season, is the fourth-longest such streak since the 1970 merger, trailing only runs by LaDainian Tomlinson (72 games from 2003-08), Walter Payton (69 games from 1977-81) and Marcus Allen (1983-86). Henry, who has been out since suffering a Halloween foot injury in the Week 8 overtime win over the Colts, could return before the regular season is over, but it’ll likely be too late to matter in deciding most league championships.
  • Some might be surprised to see Gaskin included here, but he ranks 11th in the league with 199 total touches in 13 games this season and has averaged 19.4 during his current seven-game, 15-touch streak which began in Week 7. Gaskin did test positive for COVID-19 during Miami’s Week 14 bye, and will need to be cleared this week if he’s to play next Sunday against the Jets.

Consecutive games with 100-plus scrimmage yards (RBs)

5: Cook, Vikings

2: Conner, Cardinals; Kamara, Saints; Najee Harris, Steelers

Quick takeaways:

  • Yikes, this list is even shorter than we thought it would be, and consider that Cook had a week off (Week 13) during his streak due to a shoulder injury and that Kamara had four games off (Weeks 10-13) in between his two games as he dealt with a knee injury.
  • Of course it should be noted that the Colts’ Taylor — the league leader with 1,684 yards from scrimmage — was only three yards in Week 12 away from a current 10-game streak of 100-plus-yard outings. Taylor is averaging 129.5 scrimmage yards per contest and has a whopping 414 more yards than the next closest running back (Harris) on the season.
  • Kamara’s 27 rushing attempts Sunday against the Jets marked a career high, while his 31 total touches matched a personal best and marked only the third time in 76 career contests he’s logged as many as 30 in a game.

Consecutive games with 100-plus scrimmage yards (WRs + TEs)

3: Davante Adams, Packers; Tee Higgins, Bengals; Hunter Renfrow, Raiders

2: Chris Godwin, Buccaneers; George Kittle, 49ers; Cooper Kupp, Rams

Quick takeaways:

  • While rookie teammate Ja’Marr Chase has received most of the fantasy fanfare, ranking seventh among wideouts with 225.6 total fantasy points (PPR scoring) on the season, Higgins has paced all league wideouts with 366 yards over the last three weeks and ranks only behind Kupp (76.8), Renfrow (71.5) and the Vikings’ Justin Jefferson with 68.6 total fantasy points over that span. Chase, meanwhile, has totaled 168 receiving yards and 42.4 fantasy points over those three games.
  • Prior to his current three-game century-mark run, Renfrow had only topped 100 receiving yards in two of his previous 39 career games. And those came in back-to-back contests (Weeks 16 and 17) of his rookie season in 2019.
  • Although he’s missed three of the 49ers’ 13 games, Kittle ranks third among league tight ends with 170.1 total PPR points. A full 43.3 percent (73.7) of those points have come over the last two weeks as Kittle has caught 22-of-27 targets for 332 yards and three TDs against the Seahawks and Bengals. Kittle is now averaging a position-most 17.0 fantasy points per game, and the Ravens’ Mark Andrews (15.7), the Bucs’ Rob Gronkowski (15.5) and the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce (15.1) are the only other tight ends averaging more than 13 fantasy points per outing.

Consecutive games with seven-plus receptions

9: Cooper Kupp, Rams

4: Adams, Packers

3: Antonio Brown, Buccaneers; Renfrow, Raiders; Jaylen Waddle, Dolphins

2: Godwin, Buccaneers; Jefferson, Vikings; Kittle, 49ers; CeeDee Lamb, Cowboys; Amon-Ra St. Brown, Lions

Quick takeaways:

  • Kupp, who entered Week 14 as the only player in league history with 100 or more catches and double-digit receiving TDs in the first 12 games of the season, went ahead and tacked on a career-high 13 receptions for 123 yards and a TD in Monday night’s win over the Cardinals. Kupp has had double-digit targets and at least seven catches in 12 of his 13 games this season and is easily on track to win the receiving “triple crown” as he’s currently pacing the league in receptions (113), receiving yards (1,489) and TD catches (12) on a league-most 151 targets.
  • Renfrow, who had 105 total receptions on 148 targets over his first two seasons, is tied for fifth in the league with 86 catches but is 16th with 106 targets. That’s a model of efficiency with Renfrow’s 81.1 percent catch rate trailing only Cardinals rookie Rondale Moore’s among wideouts with at least 50 targets.
  • Brown, the Motor City rookie, has reeled in 18-of-24 targets for 159 yards and a TD over the last two weeks for a total of 40.1 fantasy points after averaging 4.7 targets, 3.5 receptions, 32.0 receiving yards and 6.7 fantasy points over his first 11 games.

Consecutive games with 15-plus PPR points

10: Taylor, Colts

9: Kupp, Rams

6: Keenan Allen, Chargers

5: Conner, Cardinals; Kamara, Saints

4: Ekeler, Chargers; Diontae Johnson, Steelers

Quick takeaways:

  • Allen, who is expected to return Thursday in Week 15 after missing Sunday’s game against the Giants due to a positive COVID-19 test, has put up double-digit fantasy points in all 12 of his games this season with high-water marks of 22.4 in Weeks 9 and 13. For the year, he’s had at least 14.8 fantasy points in all but a three-game stretch from Week 4-6.
  • Cards RB Chase Edmonds is due back soon from ankle injury sustained early in the team’s Week 9 game against the 49ers, but Arizona isn’t in too much of a rush with Conner having totaled at least 15.4 fantasy points in every outing during that five-game stretch starting in Week 9. Even more impressive, Conner averaged 25.8 fantasy points per game during that span, which trailed only Taylor’s 31.6 average among running backs. For the season, Conner ranks sixth at the position with 221.4 total PPR points (17.0 per game).

Targets, Touches and TDs: Week 10

Making sense of recent fantasy football performances.

Week 9 was the crazy, unpredictable, off-the-rails week we see every NFL season.

Ten of 14 pointspread underdogs covered and four touchdown-plus favorites lost outright.

The fantasy realm certainly wasn’t spared from the wackiness:

  • Journeyman New York Jets backup Josh Johnson was pressed into action Thursday night and wound up scoring more fantasy points (29.6) than Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow combined (26.3).
  • Arizona Cardinals No. 2 running back James Conner paced all players, regardless of position, with a career-high 40.3 fantasy points.
  • Elijah Moore, Olamide Zaccheus and Malik Turner were three of the eight wide receivers who finished the week with 20 or more fantasy points.
  • The top 10 highest-scoring fantasy tight ends of the week included a trio of Los Angeles Chargers in Stephen Anderson, Donald Parham Jr. and Jared Cook.

Like we said, unforeseeable unruliness.

But which of the eye-catching (or eyesore) Week 9 fantasy performances are we buying as indicators for the rest of the season, and which are we brushing off as one-week abnormalities?

Let us delve deeper into five of the more notable fantasy performances from the wild and wacky Week 9 …

Patrick Mahomes finished 24th among quarterbacks on the week with 12.1 fantasy points (Huddle Performance scoring).

Mahomes somehow got outscored by his quarterback counterpart in the same game, and that was Green Bay Packers second-year QB Jordan Love, who completed only 19-of-34 passes for 190 yards and a touchdown for 15.8 fantasy points himself.

Over the last four seasons, Mahomes’ 12.1 fantasy points Sunday marked his regular-season, full-game low point and only the fifth time in 62 career complete games, including the postseason, in which he’s failed to total at least 15 points.

BUYING or brushing off: Stunningly, two of those five aforementioned sub-15-point outings have come in the last three weeks and were sandwiched around an 18.75-point game in Week 8.

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Mahomes has thrown for two TDs and two interceptions in those three games and has averaged fewer than 5.89 yards per attempt. His career average is 8.1 yards per attempt.

Mahomes, obviously hasn’t been connecting for nearly as many big plays, but even the rest of the Chiefs’ aerial game is off as he’s completed 60.4 percent or fewer of his passes in each of the last three weeks — again well below his 65.9 career completion percentage.

Even more alarming, Mahomes and the Chiefs have the toughest remaining fantasy QB schedule in the league, according to The Huddle’s nifty Strength of Schedule tool.

Add it all up, and we’ve come to the shocking conclusion that Mahomes is no longer a set-it-and-forget-it, locked-in QB1 every week, depending on the week and your other options.

Joe Burrow scored 14.2 fantasy points in Sunday’s 41-16 loss to the Cleveland Browns, coming in 23rd at the position for the week.

It was a season-worst showing for the second-year Cincy QB, who posted only his second sub-20-point outing of the campaign.

Burrow entered the game on a serious fantasy roll, having thrown for three touchdowns and posted at least 24.85 fantasy points in three straight games. But even though the Bengals defense surrendered a season-high 41 points and the opposing Browns came into the contest allowing the eighth-most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks, Burrow couldn’t keep up. He failed to throw a TD pass for the first time in his last 12 games, dating back to last season, while tossing a pair of interceptions.

In eight previous games this season, Burrow had at thrown for at least two TDs.

Buying or BRUSHING OFF: The Browns, fresh off a division home loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers and dealing with the Odell Beckham Jr. distraction last week, clearly entered Sunday’s game as a team on a mission and played like it.

Burrow was sacked a season-high-matching five times and was hit 12 times while completing 28-of-40 pass attempts for 282 yards.

Go-to wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase was targeted a game-high 13 times, but they only netted six completions for 49 yards and his third touchdown-less outing of the season.

In reality, though, Burrow is going to endure some ups and downs. He’s a second-year QB, who’s made 19 total starts with last season’s knee injury, and even with Sunday’s poor showing, he remains fantasy’s 10th-best quarterback with an average of 23.2 points per game.

And pairing Burrow’s talent with that of his young supporting cast, there’s simply too much upside to be had with the second-year passer.

James Conner scored a trio of TDs en route to 40.3 fantasy points — three more than any other player in Week 9, quarterbacks included.

Conner has now played in 59 career games, but Sunday’s showing produced a career pinnacle in fantasy points (point-per-reception scoring) as he topped 30 points for only the fifth time in five seasons.

To get there, it took 21 rushes for 96 yards and two TDs and five catches on five targets for 77 yards and another score to power the Cards’ 31-17 road upset win of the division-rival San Francisco 49ers. Starting QB Kyler Murray and leading wide receivers DeAndre Hopkins and A.J. Green were all absent Sunday due to injury/illness while — more significantly for Conner — starting running back Chase Edmonds left after only one 3-yard carry with what was later diagnosed as a high-ankle sprain.

That left Conner to shoulder the backfield load and he wound up accounting for 26 of Arizona’s 36 running back touches. Conner entered the contest averaging 12.4 touches, 49 total yards and 11.5 fantasy points per game.

BUYING or brushing off: With his three TDs Sunday, Conner leapfrogged the injured and idle Derrick Henry and standout wideout Cooper Kupp for the league touchdown lead with 11.

On Monday, word then came down that Edmonds would miss multiple games — likely to include an injured reserve stint — with his high-ankle sprain. Prior to Sunday’s one-carry game, Edmonds averaged 13.1 touches and 79.8 yards from scrimmage over the Cards’ first eight contests.

Now Conner moves into the lead role on the league’s second-highest scoring offense (32.8 points per game) with Eno Benjamin in relief. And if Sunday’s explosion is any kind of indication, Conner will be a weekly RB1 start as long as Edmonds remains sidelined.

Conner hasn’t been in that role since 2018 in his second season with the Steelers when he finished sixth among running backs with 280 total PPR points (21.5 per game).

L.A. Chargers WR Mike Williams totaled 7.8 fantasy points Sunday and wound up 46th in Week 9 scoring at the position.

In the Bolts’ 27-24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Philly, Williams caught two of his five targets for 58 yards and no TDs. One of his catches went for 49 yards, and he did finish second on the team in receiving yards and targets, but four other L.A. pass-catchers finished with more fantasy points, including the three aforementioned tight ends.

And if Williams’ five-target, two-reception stat line sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Those have been his exact totals from each of his last three games, totaling six catches, 104 yards, no scores and 16.4 fantasy points during that span.

In four of his first five games (Weeks 1-3 and 5), Williams had at least nine targets, seven receptions, 82 receiving yards and 22.1 PPR points while totaling six TD grabs in those four contests.

But in his other four outings (Weeks 4 and 7-9), Williams hasn’t more than five targets, two receptions, 58 receiving yards or 7.8 fantasy points while failing to score.

Buying or BRUSHING OFF: Just barely as we’re holding off for another game or so to see if things turn around.

Williams’ numbers certainly are trending in the wrong direction, and there have been reports that a nagging knee issue has helped slow him down in recent weeks.

But we remain big believers in the Chargers’ passing game. QB Justin Herbert ranks fourth with 211 total completions and fifth at the position with an average of 26.4 fantasy points per outing — and the 6-foot-4, 220-pound Williams looked way too good over the first five games of the season to believe he’s now only a WR 3/4.

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Pat Freiermuth totaled 21.4 fantasy points Monday night to wind up pacing all Week 9 tight ends.

The rookie tight end reeled in five of his team high-matching six targets for 43 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the Steelers’ 29-27 win over the Bears.

It was the third straight game with at least 12.8 fantasy points for Freiermuth, who has totaled 16 receptions for 145 yards and three TDs during that span, which includes Pittsburgh’s Week 7 bye. It’s also an average of 16.2 fantasy points during that stretch, which is tops among tight ends who have played multiple games since Week 6.

BUYING or brushing off: Most definitely.

It’s the tight end position, first and foremost. Nothing more needs to be added there.

And it’s also the perfect offense for a tight end to thrive in.

Aging QB Ben Roethlisberger entered the week ranked 25th among passers with a 6.6-yard average per attempt, and one of his prime short-area targets of recent seasons, WR JuJu Smith Schuster, was lost for the season in Week 5 with a shoulder injury.

Enter the Penn State rookie who has stepped up and showed out in the Steelers’ three straight wins.

Put it all together, and that makes Freiermuth a TE1 going forward.

Fantasy Football Market Report: Week 4

Which direction are some of your fantasy players trending?

It’s never too early to be a step ahead of the rest of the owners in your fantasy football leagues. We’re heading into Week 4, which is the penultimate week before fantasy teams start crumbling and having their bench strength tested.

Thanks to an 18-week, 17-game schedule, bye weeks start in Week 6 and extend all the way to Week 14 – a record nine weeks with anywhere between two and six teams sidelined.

While some fantasy owners made a point to keep an eye on the bye weeks on the night of their auction or draft — in most cases, that was a month and a half ago. A lot of has changed on rosters since.

The NFL is going to get rid of 10 teams for a week in Weeks 6 and 7 – the Falcons, Saints, 49ers and Jets in Week 6 and Bills, Cowboys, Chargers, Vikings, Steelers and Jaguars in Week 7. It’s an annual grind, but one not all owners in a fantasy league are aware of at this point.

You have two tasks as you head into Week 4, accomplished by quietly tipping away from the herd unnoticed. First is make sure you haven’t morphed into a roster that can get killed during a week or two of bye week season. Wins are hard enough to come by. You don’t give them away.

Second is to look at other teams that have owners who are too heavily invested in the 10 teams that are opening up the bye week period. Now is the time to see if you can swing a deal to “help them out” of their predicament.

A lot of times better positioning yourself comes with advanced scouting. Nobody else is talking about bye weeks now. By the time Week 4 is over, it’s going to be all the chatter heading into Week 5, because once Week 6 comes, there won’t be a week without byes until the weekend before Christmas.

Do your homework while others are oblivious.

Here is the Week 4 Fantasy Football Market Report:

Fantasy Football Risers

WR Ja’Marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals

Chase was a controversial franchise pick when OT Penei Sewell was on the board to be a decade-long anchor for Chase’s former college QB, Joe Burrow. However, through three games, he is making it impossible not to start him in fantasy lineups. He isn’t running the route trees of Tyler Boyd or Tee Higgins but is averaging 20 yards per receptions and has four touchdown catches – including on passes of 34, 42 and 50 yards. He is kind of a one-trick pony, but it’s a great trick. He can only get better as more routes are designed to make him the first option instead of the streaking deep threat. If you don’t have him, make a trade to get him. If you have him, the return offers may be crazy.

Kirk Cousins, QB, Minnesota Vikings

I’ve never been a fan of Cousins. He has tended to choke on the biggest stages at critical times of games and seasons. Every year, it’s difficult to endorse him as a full-time fantasy starter, but he has become a more polished field general. This season, he has thrown for 918 yards with eight touchdowns and a passer rating of 118.3. If you want a consistent option, Cousins is your guy. He has gone 17 straight games with a passer rating of 90.0 or above – only one player in NFL history under the passer rating standard has done that. That would be Peyton Manning (23). Name every great QB in the history of the game and, aside from Peyton, nobody other than Cousins can make that claim.

WR Brandin Cooks, Houston Texans

The Texans are a hot mess, but they are forcing the ball to Cooks – their only viable offensive weapon. Everyone has suffered without Deshaun Watson in Houston’s offense. Cooks dominating the team’s target share (35.6 percent) is on par with that of Green Bay Packers WR Davante Adams (35.8) over the first three weeks of the season. The Texans have thrown 90 passes – 32 to Cooks. They have completed 58 – 23 of them to Cooks. Nobody has more than nine targets or six receptions. It’s difficult to endorse anyone from the Texans. Given these numbers, some defenses may make it a mission to bracket him, but his value at the moment is as high as it may ever be.

QB Sam Darnold, Carolina Panthers

I will be the first to admit that I’ve never been a “Darnold guy.” I thought he was overhyped coming into the draft and the Jets’ willingness to cut bait with him lent to that argument. However, in his first three games in Carolina, he has accounted for two touchdowns in each outing (three passing and three rushing), topping 300 passing yards twice and reaching 279 in the other. While he’s not getting a hearty endorsement, with bye week season coming up, it’s nice to have a replacement – even if just for a week – who has shown consistency in scoring points.

WR Cooper Kupp, Los Angeles Rams

Typically we don’t put players who are obvious weekly fantasy starters, unless they’re playing so light’s out for your team, someone might come to you with a crazy trade offer to include him. Kupp is having that kind of start with Matthew Stafford. Through three games, Kupp has been targeted 33 times, caught 25 passes for 367 yards and scored five touchdowns. Robert Woods, on the other hand, has numbers of 19-11-124-1 through three games. Kupp has three more receptions than the next two Rams combined and has almost 100 more receiving yards than the next two teammates combined. It’s hard to imagine many fantasy owners with Kupp aren’t 3-0, because this is rarely seen dominance, especially with a new quarterback.

Fantasy Football Fallers

New England Patriots tight ends

Through three games, if a fantasy receiver had 20 catches for 184 yards and no touchdowns, he would be no great shakes. Unfortunately, those are the combined numbers of Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith (10-109-0 for Henry, 10-74-0 for Smith). Then there is the matter of their contracts (three years, $37.4 million for Henry, four years, $50 million for Smith). You kind of get the idea the front office thought Cam Newton was going to the be the QB when free agency opened. While both were likely brought onto fantasy rosters to be regular starters, they’re killing owners who have them.

WR Stefon Diggs, Buffalo Bills

Diggs was the league leader in targets, receptions and yards in the league last year. This season, he has 19 receptions for 191 yards – never hitting 70 in any game – and one touchdown. He’s second on the team in receptions, third in receiving yards, and third in touchdowns on his own team, much less the league. With Josh Allen at the wheel, the big days will come along. But, for now, if fantasy owners have options, it won’t take long before they start looking elsewhere, if they have viable options and Diggs has an unfavorable matchup.

RB Jonathan Taylor, Indianapolis Colts

Taylor was an investment in most leagues to be RB1 and a cornerstone player. Granted, his first three games were against Seattle, the Rams and Tennessee – all playoff teams last year – but still, the numbers are pretty brutal. He hasn’t hit 65 rushing yards in a game, his number of carries has dropped in each contest (17-15-10), he has just eight receptions (six in Week 1 and two since), and he hasn’t scored a touchdown. For a Colts team that hasn’t won yet and has its season swirling like a toilet bowl, those forced to keep riding Taylor can’t wait for the Texans and Jags to show up.

TE Kyle Pitts, Atlanta Falcons

The fourth overall pick was expected to be an impact player right out of the gate. While he has flashed the ability to be a downfield threat, the reality is that he is fourth on the team in receptions – behind retread Cordarrelle Patterson for receptions, yards and touchdowns. In three games, he has caught just 11 passes for 139 yards and no TDs – with 35 or fewer yards in two of them. He’s going to be an immense talent, but, for now, he’s an anchor tied to a fantasy owner’s leg, and the Falcons don’t have the look of an offensive juggernaut anytime soon.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers running backs

Both Leonard Fournette and Ronald Jones were viewed not necessarily as starters, because they were slated to split time. But few could have expected how little they would have to split up. Fournette is the lead dog by default but has just 24 carries for 92 yards. Jones has just 15 carries for 52 yards. The only rushing touchdowns the Bucs have are from Tom Brady and Chris Godwin. Brady has thrown the ball almost six times as often as Fournette and Jones have run the ball. At this point, both are too poisonous to play, unless you’re forced into it.