Editor’s Note: This Matchup was written by John Daigle, with input from Evan Silva.
Monday Night Football
Carolina @ San Francisco
Team Totals: Panthers 20.5, 49ers 27.5
All of San Francisco’s injuries on defense have caught up, with the unit permitting multiple TDs and 21 fantasy points to every QB since Week 8. Even if Bryce Young’s career-best marks in passing yards (448) and yards per attempt (10) from Week 11 were a fluke, the 49ers are disrupting enemy QBs at a league-low rate (20.6%), and Young leveraged his clean pocket against the Falcons for three TDs and 9.6 YPA. It’s the cleanest spot he’ll have all year as a streaming QB2. … Fantasy’s RB2, RB14, and RB16 since replacing Chuba Hubbard, Rico Dowdle’s out-touched his teammate 72-14 with his position’s 10th-highest target share (13.3%) in that span. That last note is key since the Niners are defending the NFL’s most RB targets weekly (7.7), gifting Dowdle a comfortable RB1 floor.
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