Hey, folks! We’re back with our second block of games for the Week 4 NFL slate, and we’re staying with the early games on Sunday in this block. We’ve compiled the groupings of games here to make it easier to find the games you want:
We’ve compiled the groupings of games here to make it easier to find the games you want:
- Block 1: PIT-CLE (TNF), IND-WAS, NE-BUF, NYJ-CHI
- Block 2: JAC-CIN, ARI-NYG, LAR-PHI, GB-TB
- Block 3: TEN-BAL, DAL-HOU, MIA-MIN, KC-LV
- Block 4: DEN-SF, LAC-SEA, DET-CAR (SNF), ATL-NO (MNF)
“The Outlook” will give you details, stats, angles, recommendations and everything else you need to know to help you make your fantasy football decisions. Every fantasy-relevant player on each team playing will be profiled in this article. We want everybody reading this to bring home championships in your fantasy leagues!
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(All game/implied point totals listed were compiled via DraftKings Sportsbook on Wednesday evening for JAC-CIN, ARI-NYG, LAR-PHI, GB-TB.)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Cincinnati Bengals
- Favorite: Bengals -2.5
- Game Total: 51.5
- Implied Point Total: Bengals 27, Jaguars 24.5
Jaguars Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: WR Parker Washington
QB Trevor Lawrence
Lawrence went 19-of-29 for 182 yards and three touchdowns while adding 25 rushing yards in Week 3. He didn’t need to push the ball downfield (174 team air yards) with a big lead in hand, which capped his overall yardage. His lone interception came off a tipped pass rather than a bad read, and in another weird quirk, he had a gift-wrapped 16-yard rushing touchdown but slid at the 1-yard line and Bhayshul Tuten ran it in a play later. As one does.
Fantasy Advice: Lawrence has a beautiful matchup with the Bengals in Week 4. With the largest game total on the slate, you better believe Lawrence is a locked-in QB1.
RB Bhayshul Tuten
Tuten has taken over the backfield and punished a Patriots run defense that entered the game as a top-10 unit. In Week 3, Tuten tallied 15 carries for 73 yards (4.9 YPC) and a 1-yard touchdown, plus two catches for 17 yards on 48% of snaps. Tuten likely would have received more work had the score not been a blowout. The efficiency on limited snaps is the real boon, as even though Chris Rodriguez also scored, he’s a distant second to Tuten here.
Fantasy Advice: Tuten is a solid RB2 with big-time upside against the Bengals in Week 4.
WR Jakobi Meyers
Entering Week 3 with a 6% target share and an 11% air-yards share, Meyers caught 7-of-8 targets for 64 yards and a touchdown in the Jaguars’ 35-6 win against the spiraling Patriots, leading the team across the board. Meyers has been lying in the weeds for the last two weeks as he put up a combined three catches for 68 yards against the Browns and Broncos. With Brian Thomas Jr. seemingly being limited by 12 personnel utilization and head coach Liam Coen wanting Josh Cameron in there instead, the door is seemingly open for Meyers to reclaim some fantasy value as the second target after future Hall of Famer Parker Washington.
I kid. Or do I?
Fantasy Advice: Meyers is back in the high-end flex mix for a solid offense. With the highest game total of the week in this matchup, he’s a worthwhile start in Week 4.
Bengals Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: WR Ja’Marr Chase
QB Joe Burrow
Our PROE king Burrow just keeps chugging along, as he completed his first 14 passes and finished 28-of-37 for 282 yards (7.6 YPA) with three touchdowns. It was pretty much business as usual for Burrow, as it wasn’t his sexiest game for sure. However, he got his studs involved, and he was a top-10 fantasy quarterback for the week. Sometimes, not much news is good news.
Fantasy Advice: Keep Burrow firmly in the QB1 tier against the Jaguars in Week 4.
RB Chase Brown
A season-low workload limited Brown to 15 touches in total in Week 4 against the Steelers. Brown handled just 13 carries for 61 yards (4.7 YPC) and two receptions for eight yards as the passing game was used much more in the neutral game script. That happens! Brown still has firm command of the backfield, so there is nothing to worry about here.
Fantasy Advice: Despite the low touch total and relatively sparse involvement in Week 3, Brown is a firm RB2 option with RB1 upside in Week 4.
WR Tee Higgins
A contested touchdown right before halftime for Higgins tied the game at 17, and in the always-concentrated passing game for Cincinnati, Higgins caught six of his seven targets for 89 yards. Higgins and Chase combined for over 50% of the team’s targets and 75% of the Bengals’ air yards on the afternoon. This Bengals offense remains one of the most pass-friendly offenses in the league, and you can set your watch to this passing game.
Fantasy Advice: Higgins is what he always is, a high-end WR2 that flirts with top-five overall weeks at wide receiver for fantasy.
Arizona Cardinals at New York Giants
- Favorite: Cardinals -2.5
- Game Total: 44.5
- Implied Point Total: Cardinals 23.5, Giants 21
Cardinals Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: TE Trey McBride
QB Jacoby Brissett
Pressured constantly behind a struggling offensive line that ranks 31st in pass block win rate according to ESPN, Brissett went 38-of-52 for 280 yards and two touchdowns. Brissett still got the ball out in an NFL-fastest 2.62 seconds per NextGenStats and peppered McBride (9-75-1) and Michael Wilson (11-89-1) with 28-of-50 targets on the afternoon. Finishing as QB4 in Week 3, Brissett harkened back to the end of last season with the volume of passes and his fantasy-friendly style, with concentration on his main targets. We love to see it!
Fantasy Advice: Brissett has two good matchups coming up, with Week 4 against the Giants and the following week against the Lions. Consider Brissett a low-end QB1 and certainly a priority streamer for those matchups.
RB Jeremiyah Love
Finally unleashed as a true workhorse, Love dominated touches 26-to-6 over Tyler Allgeier, turning 21 carries into 90 rushing yards and adding five catches for 19 yards plus a receiving touchdown. With 78% of the team’s rushing attempts in Week 3 after Week 1’s 32% and 53% in Week 2, it was Love’s first game as a true three-down back as Arizona’s offensive line finally created room against a depleted 49ers defensive line dealing with multiple injuries. With Allgeier fading fast in the timeshare, Love looks like the clear bellcow moving forward.
Fantasy Advice: Love has to be considered a mid-range RB2 right now with a runway toward league-winning utilization.
WR Michael Wilson
A team-high 17 targets, taking almost 1/3 of Brissett’s 50 pass attempts, Wilson led Week 3’s pass-catchers in targets, turning those 16 looks into an 11-89-1-yard stat line against the 49ers. With Marvin Harrison Jr. basically an afterthought in the offense, we got a bit of late-2025 utilization out of Wilson. If we can get back to that here in 2026 with Brissett, Wilson is going to dominate fantasy football yet again.
Fantasy Advice: Wilson vaults into high-end WR3 territory right now with plenty of room to move up tiers in the coming weeks with great matchups against the Giants in Week 4 and the Lions in Week 5.
Giants Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: None
RB Cam Skattebo
NFL’s Next Gen Stats credited Skattebo with 74 yards after contact on 20 carries and 61 yards, as well as leading the Giants in receiving too, with three catches on four targets for 40 yards. All in all, it was a 12-7 win where both teams were offensively handcuffed and not by choice. I mean, the Giants didn’t score a touchdown.
Skattebo may get some added emphasis with the Giants clearly wanting to figure things out at quarterback in the wake of Jaxson Dart’s season-ending injury, and the acquisition of J.J. McCarthy potentially putting a clock on Jameis Winston’s time as the Giants’ starter. Even with multiple backs, Skattebo was the huge routes and snaps winner, on top of 24-of-33 total running back touches on the day.
Fantasy Advice: The role is awesome for Skattebo despite some clear issues and problems with the Giants’ offense as a whole. Against the Cardinals, however, he’ll likely put up RB2 numbers in Week 4.
WR Malik Nabers
While Nabers is technically “healthy” and able to play, he had a 12-yard catch, but everything else stayed at or around the line of scrimmage, with just a 1.0-yard aDOT on the afternoon in a big weather game that was rainy and windy. Nabers ended up with five receptions for 26 yards on the day and led the Giants on mostly everything but Skattebo’s 40 receiving yards. This passing game should be downgraded, and if they go with McCarthy at quarterback at some point … well … you saw last season what he did to Justin Jefferson’s fantasy upside.
Fantasy Advice: Banged up and attached to a shell of a passing game, Nabers is more of a WR3 than the stud WR1 we’ve been used to when he’s active. Maybe the upside is in there somewhat, but it might lie dormant this season.
TE Isaiah Likely
After posting 13 catches on 17 targets for 111 yards and two touchdowns over the first two weeks, Likely came back to earth with just two catches on five targets for 13 yards against Tennessee in Week 3. Likely’s was still technically the second target behind Nabers, but what’s worth noting in this current Giants ecosystem is still very much a mystery. The connection with Winston clearly isn’t where it was with Dart. Likely remains schematically a focal point of this passing game, so some of the efficiency should bounce back, but expect volatility.
Fantasy Advice: Likely is on the TE1/TE2 fringe, where he’s worth starting, but the floor is low despite a decent reception-based ceiling.
Los Angeles Rams at Philadelphia Eagles
- Favorite: Rams -3
- Game Total: 43.5
- Implied Point Total: Rams 23.25, Eagles 20.25
Rams Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: WR Puka Nacua
QB Matthew Stafford
After a putrid start to the season in Australia, Stafford has made up for it and then some, with QB6 and QB9 performances in back-to-back weeks. On Sunday night in Denver, Stafford had a Week 3-high 55 pass attempts and 504 team air yards, throwing for 390 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. Passing volume; we’ll take it. Even with no Nacua over the last two weeks, Stafford has found receivers time and time again, like Davante Adams, Konata Mumpfield and plenty of others to make big plays.
Fantasy Advice: After two weeks of making up for the stinker against the 49ers in Week 1, Stafford gets another tough draw: in Philadelphia against the Eagles. Stafford is still a QB1 for that matchup, but the production could be up and down for the Rams in Week 4.
Rams RBs
Kyren Williams turned in his best all-around game of the year, with 15 carries for 88 yards plus six catches for 60 receiving yards, while Blake Corum saw his usage evaporate to just six carries for 15 yards after a near-even split through two weeks. Williams took a huge increase in workload and clearly took priority. The backfield split now trends firmly toward Williams on early downs and passing downs alike, while Corum will take low-value totes.
Fantasy Advice: With such a massive disparity in workload in Week 3, Williams does take a slight bump up to high-end RB2 territory, while Corum stays a solid flex play. I wouldn’t be surprised if Corum ends up working in a bit more in Week 4 against the Eagles to show that this backfield split is still a thing.
WR Davante Adams
A 7-137-0 line on a whopping 13 targets and 211 air yards highlighted another dominant outing for Adams, even without finding the end zone. Stafford missed him deep a couple more times that could’ve padded the total even further. Adams remains Los Angeles’ clear top passing-game target with Nacua out, and Adams’ hallmark route-winning ability still shines in his age-33 season.
Fantasy Advice: With Nacua possibly back in Week 4 against Philadelphia, hopefully this return to form from Adams doesn’t get put back in mothballs. I’d still play Adams as a high-end WR2 with obvious fantasy upside.
Rams TEs
Terrance Ferguson’s breakout Week 2 (6-54-1 on nine targets) didn’t carry over into Week 3; Ferguson caught just one of two targets for nine yards before exiting for good with an ankle injury. He’d been targeted on 39% of his routes run in Week 2 as the clear top-two target behind Adams. Ferguson’s absence would open things up for Tyler Higbee, as he earned 11 targets and put up a TE6 performance with an 8-61-1 stat line against the Broncos. With Colby Parkinson also dealing with knee and shoulder injuries, the Rams’ tight end room is getting thinned out a bit. Good thing the Rams have a billion of them!
Fantasy Advice: Higbee would be a high-end TE2 for managed leagues and a solid DFS punt play in salary-cap DFS in Week 4.
Eagles Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: None
QB Jalen Hurts
An eventful night for Hurts as the Eagles were shell-shocked by the Bears and Case Keenum on Monday Night Football. Hurts threw for just 153 yards and an interception to go along with 25 yards rushing and a short score. The Eagles were just out of sync the entire night, and sometimes, those games just happen. No quarterback is perfect in all 17 games.
Fantasy Advice: Hurts has a somewhat tough matchup against the Rams at home in Week 4, so with the running game struggling a bit, Hurts may have to throw a little bit more. We’ll take that as a mid-range QB1 this week.
RB Saquon Barkley
After ripping off 73 rushing yards in the first half, Barkley was completely shut down after halftime, managing just nine yards on his four second-half carries as Philadelphia’s offense stalled. Barkley ended the night with 82 yards on the ground and -2 yards on one reception. The extreme first-half-to-second-half split points to the Bears keeping their offense on schedule and chewing up clock, especially in the fourth quarter, as Chicago had the ball for all but two minutes of the final stanza.
Fantasy Advice: Barkley is a high-end RB2 at this point, as he rarely gets much receiving work and the one thing that’s been a constant in the offense, the offensive line, has had some issues recently.
WR DeVonta Smith
Smith was held relatively in check with a 6-65-0 receiving night on a rough one for the whole offense. Clearly the Eagles’ top target in the passing game, Smith still received eight targets and was plenty involved. Only two other Eagles had more than one reception. At the very least, we know where Smith stands here, and it’s in a comfortable place as the team’s clear WR1.
Fantasy Advice: Smith remains Philly’s clear WR1 target-earner even in a down week, so no hesitation here to fire up Smith as a low-end WR1 against the Rams in Week 4.
WR Dontayvion Wicks
A quiet follow-up to Wicks’ hot start in Week 3 as he caught just two passes for 32 yards on four targets. The awesome thing for Wicks is that he’s staying involved in this condensed target tree, but Makai Lemon could overtake him down the road as a first-round pick. That’s where the volatility lies with Wicks, but why he’s not being touted more as somebody who is running 90% of routes per dropback. As a top-three receiver in a concentrated personnel grouping, Wicks is probably getting those routes anyway, even if he’s overtaken.
Fantasy Advice: For now, Wicks is a solid flex play against the Rams with some upside as he’s pretty generally well through three weeks.
Green Bay Packers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Favorite: Packers -3.5
- Game Total: 38.5
- Implied Point Total: Packers 21, Buccaneers 17.5
Packers Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: None
QB Jordan Love
Just like Adam Sandler in the movie "Big Daddy," Love papered over a LOT of terrible line play. Per Rob Demovsky of ESPN, the Packers’ 16% pass block win rate is the worst through the first three games of a season since ESPN began tracking it in 2017. Love threw for 312 yards plus a pair of touchdowns and an interception on the night, but this offense is going to have to find some concrete solution to fix this offensive line. Their first attempt was throwing two 34+-year-old veterans and Mekhi Becton at the problem. Still, for fantasy, Love registered 42 pass attempts in Week 1 and 53 in Week 3. The lack of a run game is spiking production in the passing game out of necessity.
Fantasy Advice: Minus a run game, the Packers are going to have to pass, pass and pass some more. That’s fine for fantasy, as volume is the name of the game. Against Tampa Bay, Love is a solid streamable quarterback, but probably more of a QB2 in Week 4.
WR Christian Watson
Currently the WR5 in PPR formats, Watson kept his strong start going as he put up a 7-96 line on 10 targets, with a touchdown to boot in the Packers’ loss to the Falcons on Thursday Night Football. It’s his fourth touchdown in three games this season. Watson continues to win as a big-play threat and target-earning, which was the big question if he could earn targets consistently. That’s two games of 10+ targets in a row, and Watson is on the cusp of must-start territory. I’m just slightly worried about the offensive line and how that will affect everything else the Packers want to do on offense.
Fantasy Advice: Watson has been one of the biggest winners so far in fantasy football through three weeks. He’s in mid-range WR2 territory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 4 with overall WR1 upside each week.
WR Matthew Golden
Golden notched his first 100-yard game in Week 3 and has led the Packers in targets in two of three games so far. He’s up to 253 receiving yards so far - not bad for a second-year player who’s taking a clear step forward after a disappointing rookie campaign. With Watson commanding the deep-target volume and Golden now flashing this kind of per-catch explosiveness, the receiver room in Green Bay is incredibly dangerous with those two wideouts and Love slinging the ball.
Fantasy Advice: Golden is locked in now in Green Bay’s offense, and we have to update our priors after three weeks. If you were to redraft fantasy football, Golden is probably a fourth-round pick. Think of him as a low-end WR2 going forward, especially in Week 4 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
TE Tucker Kraft
Kraft finished Week 3’s loss to the Falcons with a modest four catches for 26 yards. Through three games, he has nine grabs for 105 scoreless yards - a far cry from Watson’s 284 yards (and four TDs) and Golden’s 253 yards (and one score). After Kraft’s ACL tear in the middle of last season, it’s looking like some of the explosiveness just hasn’t caught up yet. He’s been a clear third in the passing game with Watson and Golden both looking dynamic. Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say, but we’ve got to get a little production here soon from Kraft.
Fantasy Advice: Kraft remains a streaming fringe TE1/TE2 option given his route volume and what we saw last season. With quiet fantasy production over the first three weeks of the season, Kraft could explode at any time.
Buccaneers Fantasy Notes
Must-Start Players: None
RB Bucky Irving
Facing a tough Minnesota Vikings front, Irving managed just 46 yards on 15 carries (3.1 YPC) in Tampa Bay’s 23-16 defeat in Week 3. The offense also lost Baker Mayfield to a dislocated thumb during the game, clouding Tampa’s offensive outlook heading into Week 4. Irving’s receiving work has been a solid floor booster for his fantasy value, and that could be something that carries over with rookie Jalon Daniels taking over at quarterback for the next few weeks.
Fantasy Advice: Irving has the best chance out of anybody in this Buccaneers’ offense to retain most of his previous fantasy value from Mayfield to Daniels, but Irving could slide into the low-end RB2 range until we see what this offense looks like against the Packers in Week 4.
WR Emeka Egbuka
Egbuka led everything for a capped Buccaneers’ offense with five catches for 62 yards on a team-high nine targets. With Mayfield’s thumb injury now a huge factor that limits everybody else in the offense, Egbuka’s route volume gives him a solid floor even if this Tampa offense’s fantasy ceiling shrinks in the coming weeks.
Fantasy Advice: Egbuka has been wholly unspectacular this season, so finding even a floor has been difficult, but Daniels at quarterback brings Egbuka down to flex consideration in Week 4 against the Packers.
WR Chris Godwin Jr.
An absolutely BRUTAL holding penalty negated an 85-yard touchdown, and Godwin settled for catching 3-of-4 targets for just 25 yards - his least productive game of the season. It’s been hard to stomach this season, with Godwin averaging less than four targets per game and, now, a backup quarterback who is a true mystery. Godwin is really just a name brand right now rather than a fantasy asset.
Fantasy Advice: It’s hard to trust Godwin right now as anything but a low-end flex, given the state of the offense and his play through three games.
This article originally appeared on The Huddle: The Outlook - Week 4 (JAC-CIN, ARI-NYG, LAR-PHI, GB-TB)
