L.A. Chargers @ Minnesota
Team Totals: Chargers 27.5, Vikings 26.5
Fantasy’s overall QB6 two weeks in, Justin Herbert encounters a Vikings defense yielding the NFL’s eighth-most fantasy quarterback points beneath Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium dome. Minnesota’s defense ranks bottom 10 in pressure rate (19%) and bottom eight in points allowed (27.0 per game). After Herbert’s aDOT spiked above 10 yards in Week 2, I like his chances of flaming Vikings DC Brian Flores’ group. … Josh Kelley predictably ran in place in last Sunday’s meeting with Tennessee’s stout front but logged a robust 79% snap rate and now draws a Minnesota defense that Bucs and Eagles RBs pasted for 60/286/1 (4.7 YPC) rushing in Weeks 1-2. Austin Ekeler has a high ankle sprain, and, per the Chargers, “no timetable” for return. Coming off a near-impossible matchup, Kelley enters a prime bounce-back spot.
Herbert’s Weeks 1-2 target distribution: Keenan Allen 19; Mike Williams 18; Gerald Everett and Josh Palmer 6; Ekeler, Donald Parham, and Quentin Johnston 5; Kelley and Elijah Dotson 2. … DeVonta Smith (4/131/1), Mike Evans (6/66/1), and Chris Godwin (5/51/0) turned in fantasy-viable or better box scores against Minnesota in the first two games. Each coming off eight-catch outings, Allen and Williams are upside WR2s.
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