Chicago @ Kansas City
Team Totals: Chiefs 30, Bears 17.5
Even after he nuked Chicago’s coaching staff publicly on Wednesday, I’m open to contrarian takes on Justin Fields forecasting a breakout game. With short passing and few designed runs, OC Luke Getsy’s to-date game planning has minimized Fields’ strengths (athleticism and vertical throws) while highlighting his weaknesses. Fields has taken 10 sacks in two games after absorbing a league-high 55 sacks last year. Bears starting LT Braxton Miller (neck) joined starting LG Teven Jenkins (leg) on I.R. this week, while RG Nate Davis (personal) missed Week 2. Chiefs DT Chris Jones was the most dominant defensive player in the league last week. Kansas City’s D/ST is Week 3’s premier streamer. Yet if Fields plays loose as he vowed on Wednesday and flees the pocket aggressively as a runner, he can light up the box score. And there is a lot of potential for late-game garbage-time points. … I think rookie Roschon Johnson will take over as Chicago’s main back by October. The Bears’ lone bright spot in Week 1, Johnson earned a jump to No. 2 on the depth chart in Week 2 with D’Onta Foreman deactivated. Current starter Khalil Herbert led the backfield in snaps (31) and touches (eight), but Johnson (22, six) was close behind. Neither is playable behind a demolished O-Line against K.C.’s stout front, but Johnson needs to be stashed everywhere. The Bears’ coaching staff appears to prefer Johnson over Herbert as both a receiver and pass protector.
Fields’ Weeks 1-2 target distribution: Cole Kmet 13; Chase Claypool 10; Johnson and D.J. Moore 9; Herbert 8; Darnell Mooney 7; Foreman 3; Robert Tonyan and Tyler Scott 2. … Sam LaPorta (5/39/0) and Evan Engram (6/57/0) turned in fringe TE1/2-caliber PPR performances against the Chiefs in Weeks 1 and 2, and that’s right where I’d value Kmet in this spot.
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