Fantasy Football Outlook: Demario Douglas, Courtland Sutton, Jahan Dotson (Week 10)

Every week we’ll bring you my rankings and tiers. You can find the full weekly fantasy football article here. Below we dive into a few notable players ahead of this weekend’s games.

Fantasy Football Outlook

Courtland Sutton is a hard player to rank. He hasn’t drawn more than six targets in a game since late September, but he’s scored a touchdown in three straight games, and he has six touchdowns in eight games on the year. As mentioned in the QB section, Russell Wilson has averaged just 25.8 pass attempts over his last five games. I don’t think it’s a case of Broncos head coach Sean Payton trying to hide Wilson. Two of Denver’s last five games were against Kansas City, and it makes sense to try to run the ball against the Chiefs and play keep-away from Patrick Mahomes. Two of the Broncos’ last five games were against the Packers and Jets, who have run-funnel defenses. Basically, I don’t think Sutton’s target totals are destined to remain chronically low, so I’m above consensus on him this week, ranking him as a high-end WR3.

Keep starting Demario Douglas, who had a 5-55-0 performance last week on seven targets. Douglas doesn’t have a great individual matchup this week vs. Colts slot corner Kenny Moore, but by no means is it a prohibitive matchup. Douglas played a season-high 83% snap share last week. He’s averaging 1.81 yards per target on the season, and Douglas is averaging 5.9 yards after the catch per reception, which ranks ninth in the league, according to PFF.

Over the last two weeks, Jahan Dotson has been WR4 in fantasy scoring. People were cutting Jahan Dotson from their fantasy teams a few weeks ago. I’m slightly below consensus on Dotson, but I’m not trying to talk you out of starting him. He’s drawn 18 targets the last two weeks, and the Commanders have been an extremely pass-heavy team. But Dotson also took advantage of favorable matchups the last two weeks, going off against the Eagles and Patriots. Philadelphia has allowed the most receiving yards to wide receivers, New England the seventh-most. The good news is that Dotson has another promising matchup this week vs. a Seattle defense that has allowed the ninth-most receiving yards to WRs.