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It’s Week 5, and the pick is starting to emergence to the apical successful phantasy football. These players are my champion bets to people astatine the moving backmost and wide receiver positions.
Running Back
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT, Cowboys
Elliott had an inauspicious commencement to his season, but helium has kicked things up a notch. Even with chap moving backmost Tony Pollard successful the mix, Elliott is playing 75% of violative snaps for Dallas, and he’s recovered the extremity portion 4 times successful his past 3 games. Elliott volition instrumentality his 37.8% TD dependency against New York this week, wherever he’ll look a Giants defence that is middling astatine champion against the run.
JAMES CONNER, Cardinals
The penning was connected the partition for Chase Edmonds’ TD chances erstwhile the Cardinals added Conner to the backfield successful the offseason. And existent to signifier Conner has been the lone 1 of the brace to people this season. He has scored 4 times successful his past 2 games. On the tract 42% of the time, Conner has 54.79% TD dependency, and he’s apt to support it erstwhile Arizona faces the 49ers and their tally defence that’s allowed the 10th-most phantasy points to RBs this season.
JAMES ROBINSON, Jaguars
Things didn’t commencement retired good for Robinson and the Jaguars discourtesy to statesman the season, but adjacent though they haven’t managed to propulsion disconnected a triumph yet, they’ve go competitory successful games with Robinson starring the mode by going implicit 75 yards and scoring 3 TDs successful his past 2 games. Without the injured Travis Etienne, Robinson has led the mode successful the Jaguars backfield, starring the league’s RBs successful drawback number (95%). He’ll look a Titans squad this week that conscionable gave the Jets their archetypal triumph of the season.
LATAVIUS MURRAY, Ravens
Murray assumed the relation of pb backmost successful Week 4 by carrying the shot 18 times against Denver. Ty’Son Williams didn’t adjacent spot the field. Murray’s drawback number leaped from debased 40% to much than 62% successful Week 4, and he’ll look to proceed to spot the bulk of touches against a Colts squad that is stout but not impenetrable, particularly against a squad that runs arsenic overmuch arsenic the Ravens do. With a 54.38% TD dependency, Murray stands a large accidental to people successful Week 5.
KAREEM HUNT, Browns
It’s been Hunt, not Nick Chubb, who’s been scoring for the Browns arsenic of late, scoring 3 times successful his past 4 games. And they’re not each from acold away, arsenic Hunt scored from 1 gait successful Week 4 aft Chubb failed to scope the extremity portion earlier successful that drive. Hunt really has a 53% drawback number to Chubb’s 47%, and he’ll proceed to flourish arsenic agelong arsenic the Browns proceed to thin heavy connected the run. This seems imaginable arsenic QB Baker Mayfield has struggled with consistency this season. Hunt volition person plentifulness of opportunities to adhd to his TD full successful what should beryllium a high-scoring matchup with the prolific Chargers successful Week 5.
Wide Receiver
CORDARRELLE PATTERSON, Falcons
Patterson is connected a rotation with his electrical play successful an different ho-hum Falcons offense, scoring 5 TDs successful his past 3 games, done the aerial and connected the ground. Patterson is connected the tract lone astir a 3rd of the time, but he’s utilized successful high-yield situations that often bring astir scores for Atlanta, arsenic indicated by his 45.87% TD dependency. The champion portion is that you tin usage Patterson arsenic a WR oregon RB successful astir formats.
DJ MOORE, Panthers
Moore is doing astir everything for the Panthers discourtesy portion Christian McCaffrey is sidelined, getting much than 30% of the team’s full targets close now. Moore has scored 3 times successful his past 3 games, and he’ll look to proceed his tally against an Eagles defence that has allowed 5 receiving TDs successful its past 3 games.
TERRY MCLAURIN, Washington
McLaurin has 34 targets successful his past 3 games, with QB Taylor Heinicke going to him plentifulness frankincense far. McLaurin is turning those targets into scores, reaching the extremity portion 3 times implicit that time. He’ll look a New Orleans squad this week that started strong, but has fixed up the ninth-most points to WRs truthful acold this season. McLaurin has the third-highest TD dependency (33.17%) of anyone with 38 oregon much targets this season, truthful he’s a bully stake to people erstwhile again successful Week 5.
JUSTIN JEFFERSON, Vikings
Jefferson has been arsenic productive, if not much truthful than Adam Thielen successful the reddish portion implicit the past 3 weeks, scoring successful each of those games. His hostile this week, the Lions, person lone allowed 1 WR to people successful the past 2 weeks, but past again they’ve played Chicago and Baltimore. They’re either low-scoring oregon run-heavy teams. Jefferson and institution should person nary occupation uncovering the extremity portion astatine location against Detroit.
DEEBO SAMUEL, 49ers
Samuel has been the favored enactment successful San Francisco this season, adjacent implicit choky extremity George Kittle. Scoring 3 TDs and averaging 10 targets a crippled truthful far, Deebo has besides posted 93 yards oregon much successful each but 1 game. On the tract for 89% of the violative snaps, he’s successful for a cardinal matchup against a Cardinals squad this week that has fixed up the eighth-most phantasy points to WRs this season.
This file was provided to The Associated Press by RosterWatch, www.rosterwatch.com.
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