Russell Clay provides the targets and touches from Week 1 of the NFL season.
Targets and Touches is a weekly piece that dives into the structural usage of NFL teams from a fantasy football standpoint. Usage in NFL offenses dictates fantasy value. While some high-usage players aren’t top-scoring fantasy assets, low-usage players can sometimes overcome with efficiency. The general principle that “the more usage, the better” is the best advice any fantasy analyst can give.
One of the best ways to identify breakout players before the consensus is to look to volume and increase in the role. One of the best ways to identify players destined to bounce back is to see who’s still getting volume in offenses despite some negative results. Chasing fantasy points from previous weeks is one of the biggest blunders made in fantasy football, especially if those fantasy points don’t tell an optimistic usage story.
Each week this piece will provide a spreadsheet that contains both the full season target and touch totals, along with weekly target and touch totals, for every Running Back (RB), Wide Receiver (WR), and Tight End (TE).
