Chargers vs. Ravens Fantasy Football Worksheet, Week 10

The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview by Rich Hribar, breaks down everything you need to know about the Chargers vs. Ravens Week 10 matchup on Monday Night Football.

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Chargers vs. Ravens Fantasy Quarterback Preview

Justin Herbert

Things continued to run poorly for Herbert and this offense on Sunday.

Against the Texans, Herbert completed 13 of 23 passes (56.5%) for 193 yards, a touchdown, and an interception.

Herbert injured his left middle finger and left the game, but there was no fracture, and he is set to play on Monday.

Herbert has not had a scoring week higher than QB21 this season, leaving him as a back-end QB2.

He has not thrown more than 1 touchdown pass in any game this season, and he has thrown at least 1 interception in every game.

The last quarterback to throw an interception in each of the first eight games of a season was Case Keenum in 2018.

If it is any consolation, some other quarterbacks on that list are Peyton Manning, Carson Palmer, Troy Aikman, and Dan Marino, among others.

The Ravens have been middle-of-the-pack against the pass so far, allowing a 65.2% completion rate (20th), 7.6 yards per pass attempt (23rd), and a 4.2% touchdown rate (14th) to passers.

Jacoby Brissett

Brissett will be the fourth different starting quarterback for the Ravens in as many weeks.

He is 23-50 in his career as a starter.

Brissett was let go for a reason in Arizona.

He was averaging a league-low 5.6 yards per pass attempt and 8.9 yards per completed pass.

That said, these are desperate times coming off what the Ravens put out on the field offensively last Thursday and in recent weeks without Lamar Jackson.

The bar for improvement is extremely low.

We are more looking for Brissett to bring life to the fantasy players on this roster than to have high expectations for him as more than a QB2.

We would happily take another viable starting quarterback, but all we are asking from Brissett is to do something similar to what Michael Penix has done for the Atlanta offense.

Brissett has already faced the Chargers.

In Week 1, he completed 27 of 37 passes (73%) for 277 yards (7.5 Y/A) and a touchdown, finishing the week as the QB15 (16.5 points).

The Chargers have masked some defensive issues by facing low passing volume, but that ended Sunday when they allowed 5 touchdowns to C.J. Stroud.

The Chargers have allowed a 65.7% completion rate (27th), 7.9 yards per pass attempt (26th), and a 5.6% touchdown rate (26th).

Chargers vs. Ravens Fantasy Running Back Preview

Derrick Henry

Henry has been a top-40 scorer in one of the past four weeks.

Without Lamar Jackson on the field, Henry has rushed for 3.5 yards per carry (38th).

He has been hit at or behind the line of scrimmage on 58% of those runs, the third-highest rate in the league.

Baltimore added center Ryan Neuzil at the trade deadline as another piece to try and correct the offensive line issues.

Neuzil could be a depth add, but he could also compete for playing time at guard over John Simpson, who has struggled.

Henry is averaging 0.79 yards before contact per rush, his worst rate since 2018.

There is still fragility here, but the Ravens are home favorites.

Henry is still averaging 20.8 touches per game, so he should have runway to be at least a volume-based RB1, with added upside if Brissett gets the offense afloat and generates more scoring opportunities.

The Chargers face the second-highest run rate in the league, leading to 25.1 backfield runs per game (29th) and 105.5 rushing yards per game (23rd).

They have also allowed 8 rushing touchdowns to backs (24th).

Chargers RBs

After whispers throughout last week that this backfield could become more consolidated, it was still a complete three-back split.

Omarion Hampton played 39.7% of the snaps, turning 13 touches into 60 yards.

Kimani Vidal played 39.7% of the snaps, posting 36 yards on 8 touches.

Keaton Mitchell played 25% of the snaps, having 10 touches for 67 yards.

A three-back timeshare in the league's worst offense is hardly something we can latch onto, leaving all of these backs as touchdown-or-bust options.

Baltimore has played the run well, allowing 3.6 YPC to backs (6th) with 0.83 yards allowed before contact per rush (7th).

Chargers vs. Ravens Fantasy Wide Receiver Preview

Zay Flowers

Flowers caught 3 of 6 targets for 6 yards on Thursday night and rushed 3 times for 17 yards.

The Ravens tried to put the ball in his hands last week, with Joe Fagnano making his first career start, showing Flowers is still a centerpiece of the offense.

Without Lamar Jackson for his career (296 routes), Flowers still has 29.6% of the team targets but has averaged 1.76 yards per route and 0.43 fantasy points per route.

Again, the bar is low here for Brissett to improve on Fagnano's output last week at minimum, but where does that leave us with Flowers?

Michael Wilson underperformed his expected output at the third-worst rate among wide receivers while playing with Brissett this season.

Like Carson Wentz entering on Monday night as a potential savior for Justin Jefferson, these situations are volatile when you place expectations on players who aren't good to begin with.

That said, I am staying as optimistic as possible and letting things breathe here because I believe in Flowers the player firsthand.

He is significantly more talented than Wilson is, and I say that with no shade to Wilson at all.

Flowers is just a special player.

If Brissett can at least be good enough at point guard to get him the football, that is a start to keeping the lights on here as a WR2/WR3 with upside, and we can see where things go.

Brissett is 19th in inaccurate throw rate over the past two seasons (10.5%), so the quality of target can be functional.

The one thing we are unlikely to see here, however, is the Ravens just leaning into a jailbreak operation like Brissett was part of last year in Arizona, when those guys just stacked garbage-time output.

I still expect the Ravens to try to get back to a base offense built on the run game.

Especially here as home favorites.

The matchup is solid per opportunity.

The Chargers are 31st in points allowed per target to wide receivers (2.11).

They have just covered some of by facing 16.9 targets per game (9th fewest).

Ladd McConkey

McConkey suffered a back injury pregame on Sunday, which kept him out of the lineup and left fantasy gamers reeling again after another incomplete game from him in their lineups.

It has been a nightmare season for the Chargers, and especially McConkey.

He has played in two full games this season, left four games early, and missed Sunday's game after warmups.

The top-down peripherals still look good.

McConkey is averaging 2.25 yards per route run.

54.2% of his targets result in a first down or a touchdown.

He just can't stay on the field.

This latest injury isn't expected to be serious, but the bridge is nearly scorched among gamers.

We will track his status throughout the week, but he is more of a WR3/FLEX as we hold out any slice of hope he can play in full.

Quentin Johnston

Johnston had only 1 catch on Sunday, but it resulted in a 58-yard touchdown.

Johnston has 13 catches this year, making him a touchdown-or-bust player for single-game DFS.

The offense has been bad, but McConkey has missed so much time, and targets still are not going to Johnston.

He has been targeted on only 13.9% of his routes and has accounted for no more than 13.3% of the team's targets since Week 3.

If you need to chase a big play and don't care about the floor, the Ravens have had issues on the back end, allowing 9.2 yards per target (25th) and 14.1 yards per catch (26th) to receivers.

Chargers vs. Ravens Fantasy Tight End Preview

Mark Andrews

Andrews is averaging 3.4 catches for 26.3 yards per game this season with 1 touchdown.

He may be on his last legs and cannot confidently be played as more than a TE2, but for single-game DFS we'll have one final grasp to see if anything still exists here with Brissett coming in.

Andrews has still been on the field for 71% of the dropbacks.

He was targeted on 28% of his routes by Lamar Jackson.

Believe it or not, ESPN's Open Score has him at the top of the tight end list.

Fantasy Points Data has him in the 83rd percentile in separation score this season.

We know Brissett has been fond of throwing to tight ends.

Brissett has thrown to tight ends on 30.7% of his career passes, second to only Lamar Jackson (31.6%) since he entered the league.

The Chargers have allowed a league-high 8.9 yards per target to opposing tight ends.

Chargers TEs

Oronde Gadsden (2-17-0) and Charlie Kolar (3-31-0) continued to split opportunities in the offense last week.

Gadsden ran a route on 59% of the dropbacks, while Kolar was at 38.5%.

We are still waiting to hear when David Njoku will return, which will further muddy things.

While he remains out, both Gadsden and Kolar are touchdown-or-bust plays.

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