Fantasy Football Outlook: De’Von Achane, Matt Breida, Raheem Mostert

Let’s plunge into Week 4. As always, feel free to use these tiered rankings as a tiebreaker for your difficult lineup decisions. Beneath the tiers, I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on some of the borderline start/sit guys and some other interesting cases. Here are my full fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 4. Below we’ll dive into a few notable players.

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Fitz’s Fantasy Football Week 4 Outlook

The last thing I want to do is untap the keg at the De’Von Achane breakout party. Achane’s combination of speed and contact balance reminds me of Warrick Dunn, who was a valuable fantasy asset for more than a decade in the ’90s and ’00s. But it’s not a mortal lock that Achane gets double-digit touches this week. Achane had 22 touches against the Broncos last week and rolled up 233 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns. But he was out-snapped by Raheem Mostert 37-30, and we can’t count on Achane to touch the ball on 73.3% of his snaps again. It’s also possible Dolphins RB Salvon Ahmed returns from a groin injury this week, but Ahmed could potentially dilute Achane’s usage. I have Achane ranked as a midrange RB3 this week vs. the Bills.

Matt Breida is a playable option this week barring an unexpectedly early Saquon Barkley return from a high-ankle sprain. Breida had 4-17-1 rushing in the Giants’ 30-12 loss to the 49ers last week and had three catches for 1 yard. Had it not been for a spritz of touchdown deodorant, it would have been a disastrous fantasy outing for Breida. But it’s worth nothing that Breida played 82% of the Giants’ offensive snaps in that game. He has a much better matchup this week vs. a Seattle defense that has allowed the 10th-most fantasy points to RBs.

-Pat Fitzmaurice