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Targets and Touches: James Starks in Spotlight, Reggie Wayne Hits 20-Spot
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets and Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down... Running Backs • James Starks is getting a lot of press after his 18-carry, 73-yard NFL debut. He hasn't officially passed Brandon Jackson (four carries, 13 yards; 4-63-0 receiving) or John Kuhn (six carries, 13 yards, TD) on the depth chart, but there's an awful lot of speculation that ...
Targets and Touches: Dwayne Bowe Is Way Too Solid
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets & Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down ... Running Backs Strangely enough, the top scoring running back from Week 10 didn't have over 20 touches -- he had exactly 20. Redskins RB Keiland Williams had 16 carries for 89 yards and two scores and 4-50-1 receiving on seven targets. With Ryan Torain questionable with a re-aggravated hamstring ...
Targets and Touches: Peyton Hillis Carrying Fantasy Owners to Victory
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets and Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down... Running Backs • Peyton Hillis led all running backs on Sunday with 29 carries and 184 rushing yards. It was a dominant two-touchdown performance that propelled the Browns to an upset victory over the Patriots, who entered Week 9 with the best record in the league. Hillis, who also caught ...
Targets and Touches: LeGarrette Blount Going Strong, Marshawn Lynch Fading
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets and Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down... Running Backs • LeGarrette Blount had 22 carries for 120 yards and two TDs on Sunday, officially supplanting Cadillac Williams as the primary running back in Tampa Bay. Blount's memorable 48-yard run (the one where he hurdled a defender and could have gone all the way had he not been ...
Targets and Touches: Ryan Torain, Mike Williams Rising to Prominence
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets and Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down... Running Backs • Ryan Torain appears to have a stronghold on the starting RB job in Washington, even if Clinton Portis gets healthy. The explosive young back had 20 carries for 100 yards and one catch. He keeps the Redskins in games and is a qualified RB1 moving forward. • Ray Rice ...
Targets and Touches: Felix Jones, Jamaal Charles Can't Be Held Back
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets & Touches analyzes backfield data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down... Running Backs • Deji Karim, not Rashad Jennings (inactive), got the second-most carries for the Jags against the Bills on Sunday. Maurice Jones-Drew had 19 carries for 84 yards and remains a top five back. • Thomas Jones appears to have officially passed the torch over to Jamaal Charles, who got the bulk of carries ...
Targets and Touches: Jamaal Charles Sharing, Brandon Marshall Booming
By Antonio D'Arcangelis - AOL NewsFantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets and Touches is a new weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners and receivers being targeted by their quarterbacks. Of course, if players consistently see touches and targets and make little of those opportunities, you can expect offensive coordinators to steer their game plan in other directions. Conversely, you can expect more future involvement from runners who convert a few simple carries (especially on third down and in the red zone -- ...
NRCC's Target List
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyThe National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting 23 Democratic-held seats - including several freshman - and one open seat in this November's elections, Roll Call reports today (subscription). The paper obtained a memo prepared by the NRCC for a March 5 briefing to political action committee officials.A table that includes receipts and cash-on-hand for the Democrats currently in those seats and the best-funded Republican challengers can be found here. On the list of targets are 10 members of the House Democratic Blue Dog Coalition - a group of moderate-to-conservative Democrats. ...
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