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Stefon Diggs, Adam Thielen, Kyle Rudolph Post-Week 10 Fantasy Advice

Fantasy Football
November 13, 2016

The Minnesota Vikings dropped a 26-20 game to Washington on Sunday, but some of their primary receivers provided a silver lining for fantasy football owners.

Wide receiver Adam Thielen and tight end Kyle Rudolph each found the end zone, while Stefon Diggs racked up an impressive 164 receiving yards in the losing effort. Here is a look at the final tallies and a breakdown for the three playmakers.

                                                  

Stefon Diggs

The Vikings have lost four straight games and are no longer nursing leads and leaning heavily on the run game. While that isn’t welcome news for Minnesota fans, it has resulted in more targets for Diggs as the team’s top receiver.

Diggs’ Sunday yardage was notable, but so were his 15 targets. No other Vikings wide receiver notched more than four (Rudolph had eight), and it was clear quarterback Sam Bradford trusted the speedy Diggs in a number of situations.

The most promising trend for fantasy owners is the fact that Diggs has 42 combined targets in his last three games (14 per outing). If that continues, he will easily surpass 1,000 receiving yards on the season (currently at 710) and remain a top-notch fantasy weapon down the stretch.

                                      

Adam Thielen

Thielen is far from the surefire fantasy starter Diggs is on a weekly basis, but he is in the middle of the best season of his career. His 144 receiving yards last year marked a previous career high, but he has 453 this year, including a 127-yard game against the Houston Texans.

Despite the turnaround, Thielen’s second touchdown of the year saved what would have been a lackluster showing Sunday with a mere four targets. What’s more, he has only topped 60 receiving yards and five targets in two games this season.

While he is performing at a personal-best level, it is hard to trust Thielen as a fantasy starter without a proven track record and with Diggs eating up so many targets.

                                    

Kyle Rudolph

Rudolph’s ceiling is limited, given that he hasn’t tallied more than 70 receiving yards once all year, but he’s also a consistent option at a tight end position that isn’t loaded with playmakers.

His eight targets on Sunday marked the seventh time in nine games he’s tallied at least six, and he also has five touchdowns on the year as a proven red-zone threat in Bradford’s offense. 

Rudolph is not going to single-handedly win any fantasy games, but he is also reliable for a solid performance almost every week.

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