Evan Silva’s Matchups: Vikings at Raiders

Minnesota @ Las Vegas

Team Totals: Vikings 21.5, Raiders 18.5

Objectively bad in back-to-back losses, Josh Dobbs comes off Week 13’s bye at risk of an in-game benching in favor of fellow journeyman Nick Mullens. Dobbs has committed six turnovers over his last two starts and fumbled six times in four starts as a Viking. He should have thrown five interceptions in Minnesota’s Week 12 pre-bye loss, only for Bears CB Jaylon Johnson to drop the surefire would-be pick-six. The Raiders have played better-than-average pass defense this year, holding enemy QBs to the NFL’s 10th-fewest fantasy points keyed by DPOY candidate Maxx Crosby. I think Las Vegas is a sneaky D/ST streamer here. Dobbs is a boom-bust QB2 option with one of the lowest quarterback floors on the slate. … Against the Bears, Alexander Mattison out-touched Ty Chandler 12 to 5 and out-snapped Chandler 31 to 18. Turning 10 carries into 52 yards, it was one of Mattison’s better performances of an otherwise brutal season. The Raiders have allowed the league’s seventh-most fantasy points to running backs. Mattison remains a risky, largely touchdown-dependent RB2/flex option.

Justin Jefferson (hamstring) fully participated in practice all week and looks to be all systems go at Vegas, where he’ll avoid weather concerns and return as the obvious focal point of a well-oiled Vikings passing offense that has stayed productive amid heavy quarterback turnover.