Fantasy Football Week 7 Wrap: Chiefs keep winning while 49ers keep losing (players)

Patrick Mahomes had another subpar fantasy football day in Week 7, but the Chiefs improved to 6-0. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

Kansas City Chiefs @ San Francisco 49ers

Brock Purdy had one of the worst games of his career, and Brandon Aiyuk was likely lost for the season (he’s feared to have suffered a torn ACL) during another tough 49ers’ loss to the Chiefs. Purdy was facing a stout Kansas City defense and unexpectedly missed Deebo Samuel (illness), so losing Aiyuk to a second-quarter knee injury didn’t help. Still, Purdy’s completion percentage over expectation (-9.6) was in the 15th percentile, and he was picked off three times. Aiyuk had a drop downfield, but Purdy’s picks were awful, including a late one in the end zone.

Purdy entered with the top Passer Rating (130.7) versus zone, but he ranked 32nd (59.3 Passer Rating) against man coverage, so Steve Spagnoulo’s defense is an especially tough matchup. Purdy still somehow finished as fantasy’s QB5 ahead of SNF and MNF thanks to two 1-yard TD runs (and QB production was also way down across the league this week). San Francisco’s red-zone woes continued, but look for Purdy to bounce back against Dallas in prime time next week.

Jordan Mason lost two short scores to his QB and was shut down by a KC defense allowing the fewest fantasy points to RBs, but he saw almost all the work returning from his shoulder injury. Isaac Guerendo fumbled during one of his two touches, and Mason became the first running back to run for 50 yards against Kansas City this season.

Samuel and George Kittle will see increased targets with Aiyuk out, and rookie Ricky Pearsall saw five in his NFL debut. Pearsall becomes a must-add, and he’s available in 87% of Yahoo leagues. Aiyuk’s season likely ends with the most targets (47) in the league without scoring a touchdown, if his injury truly is a torn ACL.

Patrick Mahomes got just 5.7 YPA with a 0:2 TD:INT ratio. But he added a career-long 33-yard run and made enough…

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Publish date : 2024-10-21 04:09:05

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