Evan Silva’s Matchups: Raiders at Bills

Las Vegas @ Buffalo

Team Totals: Bills 27.5, Raiders 19

The Raiders trek cross country to Buffalo for a 1:00 p.m. ET game but do stand to benefit from the Bills playing on a short week. Jimmy Garoppolo does not stand to benefit from the loss of Jakobi Meyers, the two-TD star of Week 1 who suffered a scary concussion at Denver. … HC Josh McDaniels would be smart to lean on Josh Jacobs after Jets RBs torched the Bills for 224 total yards and 6.9 YPC last Monday night. Jacobs is coming off a painfully unlucky opener in which he logged five carries inside the 10-yard line and failed to execute on any of them. Jacobs did handle 21 of 23 (91%) touches in Vegas’ backfield and remains a locked-in RB1 here. … Meyers’ absence should increase McDaniels and Garoppolo’s emphasis on feeding Davante Adams, who did draw nine targets on Opening Day. He needs to see double digits here, and when Adams does so, he cooks. Adams’ last six stat lines on double-digit targets are 7/153/2, 8/177/2, 7/74/0, 7/141/2, 9/126/1, and 10/146/2. … Hunter Renfrow, Kristian Wilkerson, and DeAndre Carter rounded out the Raiders’ active wide receivers in Week 1. They all played equally and combined for one target. … TEs Austin Hooper and Michael Mayer are sharing time almost right down the middle. No fun.

This is a prime bounce-back spot for Buffalo’s offense after the hyper-talented Jets defense put clamps on Josh Allen last Monday night. The Raiders were barely tested by game manager Russell Wilson in Week 1, but DC Patrick Graham’s unit coughed up the NFL’s eighth-most fantasy quarterback points in 2022, and this year’s defensive personnel looks negligibly better.