NFL Week 16 Fantasy Football Recap: Cleveland Browns vs. New Orleans Saints

• Alvin Kamara: 20 carries, 76 yards, 1 touchdown, 2 receptions, 34 receiving yards 

• Taysom Hill: 9 carries, 56 yards, 1 touchdown

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ATL@BAL | DET@CAR | SEA@KC | NO@CLE
HOU@TEN | CIN@NE | NYG@MIN | BUF@CHI
WSH@SF | PHI@DAL | LVR@PIT

The Saints without Chris Olave and Jarvis Landry: New Orleans had to dig deep down the wide receiver depth chart in this game.

• Landry joined Michael Thomas and Deonte Harty on injured reserve earlier in the week with an ankle injury.
• Olave didn’t practice all week with a hamstring injury but could be back as early as next week.
• Undrafted rookie Rashid Shaheed has been an up-and-coming wide receiver over the past month. He led the team in routes, targets, receptions and receiving yards.
• Tre’Quan Smith joined Shaheed for most passing plays but was held without a target.
• Marquez Callaway and Keith Kirkwood also saw significant playing time. Callaway was almost exclusively a blocker, whereas Kirkwood played in both run and pass situations. Neither caught a pass.
• The Saints play the Philadelphia Eagles next week, a game in which they will need to throw much more than 15 times.

Consider sitting David Njoku: Njoku put up a disappointing two catches for 14 yards, and next week might not be much better.

• Njoku has been held under 30 receiving yards in four of his past five games since returning from injury.
• His poor performance was partially due to the weather, as the two quarterbacks combined for a 50% completion percentage in the high winds and cold.
• It was also predictable because he was facing a Saints defense that has allowed the second-fewest fantasy points to tight ends this season.
• The only team that has allowed fewer fantasy points to tight ends is the Washington Commanders, who happen to be the Browns' opponent next week.

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.