Austin Ekeler Week 3 Outlook - Commanders at Bengals

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Sep 19th 2024, 1:05pm EDT

Ekeler has been a viable, if not strong, flex play after two weeks. He has averaged a 48% snap rate with 8.5 touches and 73.5 total yards per game. His snap rates haven't changed much overall to when the Commanders have been trailing, so even if we project Washington to trail for much of this game, it won't bump up Ekeler. Ekeler has logged a 20% missed tackle forced rate and 2.3 yards after contact per attempt, which aren't bad metrics at all, even with the small early down sample size. The Bengals were tough against receiving backs last year, allowing the seventh-fewest receiving yards and the 10th-fewest receptions. This is a week to sit Ekeler.