Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens discuss why Bills WR Khalil Shakir could be in for a big fantasy day against the Chiefs in Week 11. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on , , or
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Amari Cooper is, is maybe the biggest, he’s probably the biggest open question in this game.
He keeps putting in limited practices.
Dalton Kincaid, Kian Coleman also banged up here.
So Buffalo is just gonna need games from Dawson Knox from Khalil Shakir, who’s been outrageously good.
Khalil Shakir still catching almost 90% of his targets, which is just stupid for a wide receiver.
If you wanna beat the Chiefs, you try to beat them through the slot.
I think this is a big Shakira game.
I think he’s someone you should probably try to get in your lineups because last week, uh we saw him run around on 82.9% of the drop backs.
He was obviously the team leader in targets.
I think that’s gonna be the case again.
He didn’t, you know, six for 58 last week, especially in a game where there could be a little more back and forth.
I would imagine that that is gonna be uh an even bigger line for Khalil Shakir.
I really like him this week.
Yeah, oftentimes what happens on a small workload for a player one year, we try to project that out over like, you know, uh you know, inflate the workload in a massive way.
And is he gonna be the same guy?
And fantasy analysts commonly talk themselves into?
Of course, you know, if we just give this running back 270 touches instead of, you know, 80 look what he’d be, but in Shaker’s case, he’s gonna end up doubling or perhaps more than doubling his workload from last season.
And he is still just as like filthy efficient as he was last year.
And some of it is, you know, obviously these are, these are short range targets for him.
So, you know, maybe, maybe when we talk about about how he’s caught 90% of his targets, it’s ok, but they’re like four yards downfield.
But the other thing about Shaker is that he’s getting 8.5 yards after the catch, um, per reception this year, he’s so elusive after the catch.
It’s not just about, hey, uh, he caught the ball five yards downfield.
No big deal.
It’s the, it’s the nine yards he gets after that.
Um, that are, that are often so impressive.