NFL Week 11 Fantasy Football Recap: Buffalo Bills vs. Cleveland Browns

• Amari Cooper: 8 receptions, 113 yards, 2 touchdowns

• Devin Singletary: 18 carries, 86 yards, 1 touchdown, 2 receptions, 11 receiving yards

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CHI@ATL | PHI@IND | NYJ@NE | WSH@HOU
LAR@NO | CLE@BUF | CAR@BAL | DET@NYG
LVR@DEN | DAL@MIN | CIN@PIT | KC@LAC

David Njoku’s return: The Browns tight end returned from the ankle injury that kept him out for nearly a month, but he was back only on a limited basis.

• Njoku was on the field for two- and three-tight end sets, as well as most third downs, but was only on the field roughly 20% of the time for early downs in 11 personnel.
• Chances are Njoku will see more playing time next week, but it still might not be his usual workload. This might make it harder to put him in starting lineups.
• He caught two passes for 17 yards.
• Harrison Bryant was the other tight end seeing the majority of snaps. He caught four passes for 41 yards, but his playing time will likely decline.

Add Donovan Peoples-Jones: Peoples-Jones gained 60 or more receiving yards for the fifth straight game.

• He also caught his first touchdown of the season, albeit in the last 20 seconds of the game.
• His totals in targets, receptions and yards are good enough to make him a fantasy starter, but he hasn’t scored a touchdown this season.
• The Browns have two more games with Jacoby Brissett at quarterback before they turn to Deshaun Watson. Peoples-Jones could put up better numbers and start scoring touchdowns with Watson under center.
• Cleveland has the third-easiest schedule for fantasy wide receivers from Weeks 15-17.

Be cautiously optimistic when adding James Cook: The Bills rookie had the game of his young career, gaining 86 yards on 11 carries.

• Cook’s playing time didn’t really change for Buffalo. What did change is the Bills trying to get him the football on over 80% of his offensive snaps. That’s unlikely to continue.
• Ideally, his good play from this game is enough for him to earn more playing time in future games.
• Another cause for concern is that Nyheim Hines saw a slight uptick in snaps. The Bills will also be trying to get Hines more involved, which will make it harder to get Cook more involved.
• Cook can still be added just in case he sees a big increase in snaps, but don’t count on him in fantasy starting lineups this week.

Drop Isaiah McKenzie: McKenzie has recently been considered a waiver wire target with his playing time constantly increasing, but he went from a season high in percentage of snaps to a season low.

• Khalil Shakir was rotated in more often compared to previous weeks.
• McKenzie didn’t catch his only target.
• The game script contributed to McKenzie’s snap total, with Buffalo using more 12 personnel late. The Bills do have a relatively easy schedule over the rest of the season, so we could see this game script more often.

Table Notes

• Snaps include plays called back due to penalties, including offensive holding or defensive pass interference. The other three stats have these plays removed.

• Targets may differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would be from a clear thrown-away pass, where the NFL may give the target to the nearest receiver, while this data will not.

• Carries are only on designed plays. Quarterback scrambles won’t count for the total number of carries in the game.