Who to target and who to avoid in this Week 8 fantasy football matchup
Rarely do we see an NFL team as thoroughly awful on both sides of the ball as the Panthers.It is normally great for fantasy football — you know to sit the players from the bad teams and start those going against them.Carolina threw a bit of a wrench into that easy plan recently when it benched Bryce Young and inserted Andy Dalton.
All of a sudden, Diontae Johnson was useful.Chuba Hubbard could gain yards.
Dalton even gave you one good quarterback week.But you couldn’t put too much faith in them, because as they showed last week, a true offensive dud was still a part of their repertoire.Everybody pretty much stunk on the offensive side — expect for a surprise day from tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders.But don’t fear.
For as soon as you thought forecasting the Panthers impotence had become tricky, allow their misery to be your salvation.Dalton injured his thumb in a car crash, which forces Young back into the starting spot.And that drags down every Panther previously considered for a starting role.But wait, it gets worse.
Johnson, easily the team’s top receiver, is out with a ribs problem.Young has yet to show he can muster a legitimate passing offense at the NFL level with whatever the best he has is, and now he doesn’t have that.Young started the first two games of the season.
In those two games, exactly one Panther scored in double digits in PPR — Hubbard with 11.6 in Week 2 against the Chargers.This week, they face the Broncos, a team that has given up 100 yards rushing to an opponent just once since Week 2.They are the second-toughest against quarterbacks and wide receivers.So the Broncos don’t have to defend against the Panthers best WR.
The Carolina QB poses no threat, so they can focus all of their attention on stopping the immortal Chuba Hubbard.Who is going to beat them otherwise?Oh yeah, the tight end.
Right.After all, Denver ranks in the bottom half against fantasy tight ends.
Only, Sanders got a total of three targets from Young the fi...