Fantasy Football Outlook: D’Andre Swift, Zack Moss, Kenneth Gainwell, Joshua Kelley

Pat Fitzmaurice has you covered each week with his rankings and positional tiers. This will help guide your lineup decisions. You can find Fitz’s full Week 3 fantasy football rankings and tiers article here. And below we dive into a few players of note ahead of this weekend’s games.

Fantasy Football Outlook (Week 3)

Zack Moss returned from a broken arm last week and played all but one of the Colts’ offensive snaps against the Texans, rolling up 18-88-1 rushing and 4-19-0 receiving. It’s possible the fantasy value of Moss will go up in a puff of smoke when Jonathan Taylor comes off injured reserve in Week 5. But Moss has completely displaced Deon Jackson, and with heavy usage likely on tap this week as well, Moss is a midrange RB2, even with a tricky matchup against the Ravens.

Pressed into starting duty because of a rib injury to Kenneth Gainwell, recent trade acquisition D’Andre Swift went off against the Vikings last week, rushing 28 times for 175 yards and a touchdown. What happens if Gainwell, who started for the Eagles in Week 1, returns in Week 2? Gainwell out-snapped Swift 41-19 and out-touched him 18-2 in the season opener. The guess here is that Swift is the genie who won’t be stuffed back into his bottle anytime soon but that the Eagles will still give Gainwell considerable playing time. I’m ranking them as if we’ll see roughly a 60/40 workload split in Swift’s favor.

Send Joshua Kelley to your bench if Austin Ekeler is able to return from an ankle injury. But if Ekeler is out again, Kelley will be a decent fantasy option this week against a Vikings run defense that D’Andre Swift laid to waste last week. Kelley is by no means a gifted runner, and his 13-39-0 rushing day against the Titans in Week 2 was a letdown to the fantasy managers who started him. But the Titans have a terrific run defense. The Vikings do not. I understand the hesitation to throw Kelley back into the fray but don’t spite-bench him.