Fantasy Game Changers: Players to trust in Ravens vs. Cowboys | Fantasy Football Live
Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks ahead to Sunday’s matchup between Baltimore and Dallas - and how Derrick Henry, CeeDee Lamb and Zay Flowers could impact fantasy managers.
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Let's turn to our Fantasy game changers for this week powered by Ram Trucks where we're identifying some of the most impactful players in one of the top fantasy matchups on the schedule.
It's a big one down at Jerry's the world.
We got Lamar and the Ravens taking on the Cowboys in a pressure filled.
Oh my God, overreaction game that everybody's waiting for.
So Andy Barns, who do you look at this one as your fantasy game changer powered by Ram Trucks?
Yeah, I'm not here to tell you that it has been a perfect season for Derek Henry.
Uh but he does have a touchdown in each game to open the season along with 100 and 30 rushing yards.
Would we like to see him play a few more snaps?
Sure.
Uh But he's been as advertised for Baltimore and he's in a really good spot this week.
Dallas just allowed a huge day to Alvin Camera and they couldn't stop Jerome Ford the week before four.
So this has been a very easy team to run on.
Um They're giving up nearly five yards per carry over 100 and 40 rushing yards per game.
Baltimore has already ventured into must win territory here at O and two and I think they lean on Henry in this one, against a very vulnerable run defense.
I won't make any receiving promises with Henry, but I think he finds the end zone again for a third straight game.
Yeah, I think offensive coordinator Todd Monet needs to use him in the fourth quarter and maybe the Ravens will win.
Uh, that, that brings me to when you look at, I like the receiver in this and I like CD in this a lot.
Look, obviously because of my Raiders fandom, all eyes were glued on this.
But if you watch that game, once the Raiders committed to not running the football against the Ravens and essentially said we're just gonna throw on you for the entire fourth quarter.
They did and Devante Adams and Brock Bers eight, I'm looking at both of them and say as good as they both are CD Lambs either even better.
So if I gotta look at somebody that I think has a breakout game, I'm talking about, I want to get the stink of the Saints off of everything about an organization.
I think that they come out flinging the ball to CD early and often they are going to try and absolutely expose the Ravens secondary, which I believe can be done.
So I think CD is not just good in this game.
I think he's huge in this game Sal, who do you have your eye on?
Yeah, I'm looking at the Ravens wide receiver, their number one wide receiver with a bullet right now.
And that's Zay Flowers who currently through two weeks as a 28% target share from Lamar Jackson twice as high as any other Ravens wide receiver to this point last week, we actually saw some steamed up plays for him to get going downfield.
Now it's just a one game sample.
We saw that a couple of times last year, but it's something to monitor because if he starts to get on locked down field, that is huge for fantasy moving forward this week.
Specifically, the matchup against the Cowboys.
I really can't figure out the secondary came into the season with an injury to Duran Bland right now on paper, it looks like the stats are good for their secondary, but it's because as Andy mentioned earlier, everybody's running on them through two weeks.
The Browns ran on them.
Alvin Kamara ran all over them last week.
So they really haven't been tested and whether they are a good secondary or not.
I don't think it matters for Zay Flowers because he moves all over the field.
He'll be put in the slot, he'll be put in motion, he'll get put into the best match up by Todd Monken.
So I think he's going to be the biggest game changer in this one for the Ravens