Christian Watson’s chances at a breakout game against Minnesota<\/p>\n
After his two touchdown game against the Giants last week, you may have snatched up Christian Watson<\/a> in your fantasy league \u2026 only to find he has a “red matchup” in the Vikings this week and hesitate. Here’s the good news: while Minnesota has been generally good against wide receivers, they have a glaring weakness against the deep ball. They’re NFL Pro’s 31st-ranked defense on deep passes, allowing a 143.8 passer rating that’s easily the highest in the league, more than 12 points higher than the Commanders (next-highest). Opponents have completed 60% of deep attempts against Minnesota (highest in the league), with five touchdowns and zero interceptions. A.J. Brown<\/a>, DeVonta Smith<\/a> and Jameson Williams<\/a> all had 35+ yards and at least one TD on deep throws against this defense, with both Eagles topping 100 such yards in their Week 7 meeting.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Watson has seen 20+ air yards on a whopping 47.1% of his targets, the second-highest rate in the league by any receiver with 15+ total targets (Tyquan Thornton<\/a> is number one). With his consistent weekly target count since getting healthy in Week 8, that statistically translates to two deep targets a game, and against Minnesota at least one of those should hit for a big play. If that big play goes for a 30- or 40-yard touchdown, Watson would instantly validate anyone bold enough to start him. If he can put together a few more plays in an offense looking for a spark (and possibly missing Josh Jacobs<\/a>), Watson could be a sneaky WR2 with upside this weekend.<\/p>\n Fantasy Fallout: You’re not forcing Watson into lineups this week, but if you have a need in a WR3 or flex spot, I believe you can play him with unusual confidence in this matchup. He’s also a good DFS option in tournaments where you’re looking for upside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Watson’s chances at a breakout game against Minnesota After his two touchdown game against the Giants last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[28656,64,63,9841,1277,27248,595,6579,593,169658,19976,79557,85,6293],"class_list":["post-295896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-a-j-brown","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christian-watson","tag-daniel-jones","tag-devonta-smith","tag-fantasy","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-articles","tag-no-minute","tag-rhamondre-stevenson","tag-sports","tag-treveyon-henderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}