- Questions walk back answered: There were questions about how Snaps would be divided into both Backfields. Although none of the running backs recorded many fantasy points, there were generally positive signs for Isiah Pacheco of the Kansas City Chiefs and Omarion Hampton from the Chargers.
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Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers
Omarion Hampton Dominates the running workload of the chargers: Hampton started the game and was the clear primary that ran back in all situations.
The chargers continued from their top two runners from last season, JK Dobbins and Gus Edwards, and invested in Top Free agent Die Najee Harris and first round Pick Omarion Hampton. Harris missed the entire training camp because of an eye injury. Harris, however, was a full participant in practice throughout the week and stated to play. Hampton was considered a top 20 that ran back in fantasy concepts, while Harris was a late round pick.
Hampton’s playing time is everything that fantasy managers could have wanted. He played each of the first 14 snaps, including the first two complete discs, before he played. He played in early Downs, on third downs and in short-yar-day situations. The general assumption Before this competition was that Hampton could be started every week, and this competition made it even clearer.
Hamton’s playing time was able to get more intense than he gets more practice with the team in this game, but for the time being this was a favorable start for the Rookie. Unfortunately, his Statlijn did not meet his Snap Count, but that should change against other opponents.
First look at the rebuilt chargers wide recipient room: Los Angeles has made various changes this season to his wide reception room.
While Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston remained at the top of the Chargers’ depth map, the team brought the old franchise presence back after his one year at the Chicago Bears, and added second round Pick Tre Harris and fifth round Pick Keandre Lambert-Smith.
McConkey and Johnston were the clear most important broad recipients in two-wide receiver sets, similar to last season. Allen joined three broad recipient sets quite consistently. Both McConkey and Allen have been in the first place slot machines in their career. McConkey remained the primary final receiver, but he was also on the outside more often than last season.
Lambert-Smith was usually the backup of Johnston at the X-receiver spot, which indicated the chargers in the preseason. Surprisingly, Derius Davis was the backup for both McConkey in two-receiver sets and all in sets with three recipients. Harris’ playing time was limited to 10 employees. This makes it unlikely that Harris will soon have fantasy value. Even if there was an injury to McConkey or Allen, Davis would take a lot of that playing time.
McConkey remains a must-start player, while both Johnston and all are worth roasting in most competitions. The chargers may not have to pass as much in the future weeks, but if every game is like that, both Johnston and all will be worth considering in starting line -ups. Although you never want to give up a rookie after a week, it is fine to drop Harris for another high-upside, young player, who seems to be a larger part of their team’s plans.
A tight final rotation to prevent: The Tyler Conklin of the Chargers and it seems unlikely that they will produce a lot of consistent fantasy value.
The attack by Los Angeles contained one that got a tight end and a Runblocking tight end last season. The unit rarely used two tight end sets and opted for a Runblocking tight end with fullback Scott Matlock in run situations and 11 employees for passing situations. The chargers were the rare team to use both 21 and 22 employees more often than 12 employees. They started with disleb as their blocking tight end and Hayden Hurst as their tight end. As soon as Hurst went with injuries, Disly went to the receiving tight role and Tucker Fisk became the blocking tight end. Los Angeles continued this season from Hurst and Backup Stone Smartt and replaced them by veteran Conklin and the fifth round Rookie Oronde Gadsden.
Gadsden and Fisk were both healthy inactives, so Los Angeles only left Conklin and Disly. The two split time, with Disly who tends to play on Early Downs and Conklin when passing downs. While Disly was more often on the field on early Downs, his loss on third downs led to an overall decrease in Snaps. For Conklin this was a considerably reduced role compared to his time with the jets. To make matters worse, the Chargers used 10 employees on five plays, after this last season only 13 times. This means that there were different passing plays in which neither of them was tight on the field.
This can be the norm for the chargers, which one of the tight ends yields a considerable fantasy version. We will probably not know what tight end the other from one week surpassed. Gadsden can also become involved later this season. Neither Conklin nor DILLY can be regularly roasted in fantasy competitions. Only consider them if weeks take place for a replacement of a week.
Isiah Pacheco regains an early role: Pacheco played much more on early downs compared to the end of last season, even if the box score did not show it.
The Chiefs had several questions to run back in week 1. The first is how much Isiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt Snaps would split on early downs. Pacheco consistently played less than 50% of snaps after returning an injury last year, splitting time with Hunt, despite the average of 60% of the snaps in 2023 and more than 66% of snaps in his first two games last season. The second question is who would play on the third downs. Jerick McKinnon was the third-down of the Chiefs back from 2021 to 2023, while Samaje Perine handled the role in 2024, but neither stayed on the Roster. Finally, how much would the seventh round Rookie Brashard Smith mix?
Pacheco played the clear majority of Snaps on early Downs. Smith also mixed and was the primary backup on early downs, where Hunt was still somewhat involved. Hunt took over when the third back, which is a role that he has led to the Cleveland Browns. While Perine played consistently in the two -minute drill last season, it was Pacheco who took all Snaps in the drill of two minutes to end the first half. Usually, if a team has a clear early back that also plays in two minutes’ exercise, they are a must-start fantasy player.
Interesting is that Hunt was consistently on the field for short-yardage situations. They were all third and fourth downs, but in the past the Chiefs did not necessarily have used their third downrugs on the third and discount. In the past, however, they were also not in Korte Yardage for Hunt above Pacheco. I would be inclined to say that this was used to how this game took place, and that Pacheco will see more short-yardage and in particular goal rule in the future.
This did not play in the box score, because the Chiefs constantly played from behind. However, we expect them to lead in most games, which should lead to more possibilities for Pacheco. He is a player to buy low after this week.
Monitor Xavier worthyHealth: WORTHY sustained a shoulder injury after the first three plays and was later excluded for the competition.
The Chiefs have reworked their wide reciprocal room for the 2024 season and added free agent Hollywood Brown and worthy to become a member of Rashee Rice. We saw the trio together for one Snap in one pre -season match last season and have since seen them play side by side. This will be true this season for the first six weeks, because Rice serves a suspension. The Chiefs have set up Jalen Royals in the fourth round this season, partly because of his similarities with Rice, but Royals missed this competition due to a knee injury.
The top three broad recipients of the Chiefs in this game were the same as the Super Bowl, but they continued from Deandre Hopkins and Justin Watson and replaced them with Tyquan Thornton and Jason Brownlee. As a result, Brown and Juju Smith-Schuster left the two primary recipients, with Tyquan Thornton joining them in sets with three recipients. Brown was the primary final recipient, with Smith-Schuster at X and Thornton at Z, although the Chiefs move their broad recipients more than most teams. Worthy did not play any of his three snaps from the slot machine, despite excellence there last season in the Play -Offs.
Brown was the group of the group and registered several short catches together with a deep reception of 49 meters. Brown is the best distance in the group of the group, but his role can be reduced or changed once Royals is healthy. Smith-Schuster finished second in the team in receiving recruiting, and he could also be considered in some competitions, depending on how long is worthy.
Various notes
• Running Elia Mitchell and tight end Jared Wiley were healthy inactives for Kansas City.
• Travis Kelce played slightly less than normal. He generally plays less in big wins and more in narrow games and losses, so this was remarkable. Even with slightly fewer snaps, his playing time and routes will be better than most tight ends in the competition.
Table notes
• Snaps include plays that are mentioned back because of penalties, including keeping offensive or defensive pass -interference. The other three statistics have removed these plays.
• Goals can differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would come from a clear shot pass, whereby the NFL can give the target to the nearest recipient, while this data does not.
• Carries are only on designed plays. Quarterback Scrambles do not count for the total number of Carry’s in the game.
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