Cincinnati @ San Francisco
Team Totals: 49ers 24.5, Bengals 19.5
The healthiest they’ve been all season following Week 7’s bye, the Bengals visit a suddenly slumping San Francisco team. The 49ers’ pass rush has evaporated; in last Monday night’s loss to the Vikings, DC Steve Wilks’ unit managed six hits and zero sacks on 45 Kirk Cousins dropbacks. Fantasy’s overall QB7 in Weeks 5-6, Joe Burrow is a confident QB1 starter this week with Tee Higgins (rib) and LT Orlando Brown (groin) back near 100%. Neither showed up on Week 8’s final injury report. … Joe Mixon’s ongoing efficiency woes render him a volume-based RB2 play you just have to hope falls into the end zone at some point. Mixon hasn’t hit 100 total yards in a single game this season and is averaging under 3.6 yards per carry over his last four. San Francisco has allowed four touchdowns to running backs through seven games.
Jordan Addison (7/123/2) and Amari Cooper (4/108/0) poked enough holes in San Francisco’s backend over the last two weeks that we can confidently dial up Ja’Marr Chase as an elite WR1 and Higgins as a WR3 with WR2 upside despite his painfully slow start.
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