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Youboty was trying to break up a deep pass to Damian Williams when he went down. He’s questionable to return. The Jags’ already banged-up secondary is getting shredded by the Titans.

He added four carries for 10 yards. A successful onside kick and a quick three-and-out while trailing in garbage time gave Mayfield time to compile an additional 165 passing yards and make the overall line quite respectable. There were portions of this game where the Buccaneers looked overwhelmed without Mike Evans and Mayfield was fortunate to escape with only three sacks. A 4-3 mid-off with the Falcons awaits for pole position in the NFC South. It’s hard to predict how Mayfield and Liam Coen will adjust without Chris Godwin and with Evans likely questionable at best for the game, but Mayfield should at least be a plausible low-end QB1 in Week 8.

Dissly stepped into the lead tight end role after Hayden Hurst was deemed inactive 90-minutes prior to first kick, going on to lead the team in target, receptions, and receiving yardage against the zone-heavy Cardinals defense. Although he is unlikely to return many fantasy performances as good as this one, managers in deep leagues can do worse than Dissly for as long as Hurst remains out of action.

Vidal played well behind lead back J.K. Dobbins in this one, with the lead back’s 17 opportunities trumping the four of the rookie’s. Vidal has a chance to carve out a greater workload when the Chargers face a Saints defense allowing the most yards before contact per attempt in the league in Week 8.

The Chargers managed just 2.7 yards per carry as a team against a Cardinals defense that had allowed 153 yards on the ground per game during the first six weeks of the 2024 regular season. With Dobbins struggling to find running room, the Chargers turned to the air as quarterback Justin Herbert attempted a season-high 39 passes. Even so, Dobbins remained the clear and away top running back with Gus Edwards on injured reserve, meaning we should see better fantasy days ahead for the oft injured veteran. Dobbins and the Chargers get a beautiful on-paper matchup against a Saints defense allowing the most yards before contact per rush attempt in the league in Week 8.

He added a 19-yard carry. Really helped you out, didn’t he? Flowers also had a fumble clank off his helmet when he was in motion in the second quarter. This was largely about Rashod Bateman winning deep routes and Lamar Jackson rewarding Bateman rather than anything Flowers did wrong. Flowers falls back into the WR3 ranks with Bateman’s recent emergence, even if he is the more consistently-targeted player.

The Chargers clearly struggled in the red zone after managing just five field goals and no touchdowns, but the bigger story was an ineffective run game that averaged only 2.7 yards per carry against a Cardinals defense that had allowed 153 yards on the ground per game during the first six weeks. Herbert turned to his tight ends against the zone-heavy Cardinals defense, feeding Will Dissly 11 targets on the evening. The 3-3 Chargers fall another half game behind the Chiefs in the AFC West and need to turn things around after starting the season with two consecutive wins as they fight to stay alive in the AFC wildcard race nearing the halfway point of the season. Up next for Herbert and the Chargers are the injury-riddled Saints at home in Week 8.

Likely has been targeted four times in each of the last two games, but has largely remained a hard-to-trust, touchdown-or-bust option since Week 1’s 9/111/1 line.

Of course he did. Andrews was left free to roam in a zone hole on his first score, a nine-yarder. He added a four-yarder in the third quarter where Jordan Whitehead completely lost track of him. Perhaps we all should have listened when the Ravens said he’d have big games. He’s back on the TE1 radar against the Browns, though this year should tell you he’ll be hard to trust until we see more volume.

Bateman reeled in a 49-yard deep shot touchdown to help the Ravens (mostly) put Tampa Bay away in the third quarter. He added another field-flipper in the second quarter for 59 yards. It’s going to be hard to predict when Bateman will explode and his target volume has remained fairly low, but this is three games over 58 yards in a row and two touchdowns over those games. Perhaps this is finally the year Bateman fulfills some long-forgotten fantasy promise.

Hill’s 18-yard touchdown scamper came as Tampa sent a full blitz at Lamar Jackson, leaving Hill and four offensive linemen alone to truck ahead the rest of the way through the red zone. Hill continues to be dynamic when targeted in the screen game, but he’ll remain a what-the-heck FLEX at best behind Derrick Henry.