{"id":97991,"date":"2020-11-15T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=97991"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T20:53:32","slug":"fantasy-football-studs-and-duds-for-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/11\/15\/fantasy-football-studs-and-duds-for-week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Studs and Duds for Week 10: Diontae Johnson, Adam Thielen, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy football is a rollercoaster. There\u2019s plenty of ups and downs throughout the season and week to week. One week your stud could be the stud you expect him to be and the next week he\u2019s a dud. So it goes in fantasy football. Each week there are players that everyone starts that bust and players that nobody starts that blow up. Figuring out which players are which is the tricky part. Let\u2019s take a look at some fantasy football studs and duds for Week 10.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fantasy Football Studs and Duds for Week 10<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Studs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Always lead with the good news. This is the feel-good portion of the article. These are the players you\u2019ll want to lay some money on doing well this weekend. That is unless you\u2019re not into that sort of thing and more of a casino bettor, and in that case, you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playersbest.com\/ca\/lab\/comparison\/casino-bonus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">juicy casino offers here<\/a>. To qualify for the \u201cstuds\u201d section, a player must be started in less than 70% of Yahoo leagues.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/10\/31\/week-8-draftkings-plays-kareem-hunt-keenan-allen-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Diontae Johnson<\/a> (PIT \u2013 66% Started) v CIN<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Diontae Johnson has been a hard player to pin down. He came out of the gates hot with 10 and 13 targets in the first two weeks of the season and looked well on his way to a big breakout season. That all came to a screeching halt when injury hit in week three. He\u2019s been injured on and off ever since. When Johnson\u2019s been healthy though, he\u2019s been awesome. In all four games he\u2019s played from start to finish, he\u2019s seen double-digit targets. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams\/bengals\/\" target=\"_self\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> defense he gets to face this weekend hasn\u2019t been able to stop a nosebleed this season. To add injury to insult, they are down to only three healthy cornerbacks, none of which can hang with Johnson. As long as Johnson stays healthy for the entire game, he should produce in a big way and be a fantasy football stud this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Honorable Mentions: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/11\/11\/nfl-fantasy-week-10-stream-team-duke-johnson-jakobi-meyers-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Duke Johnson<\/a> (HOU \u2013 67%) @ CLE, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/10\/31\/week-8-draftkings-plays-kareem-hunt-keenan-allen-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tyler Boyd<\/a> (CIN \u2013 57%) @ PIT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steelers&#39; Diontae Johnson leads ALL wide receivers in forced missed tackles since 2019 with 21. \ud83d\ude24<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXtBjW4Qdj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wXtBjW4Qdj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PFF (@PFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF\/status\/1309113026126192642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Duds<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is the bad news portion of the article. This is where you\u2019ll find the players that will severely underperform this weekend. These players are liable to score you single-digit points in a PPR league. To qualify for the \u201cduds\u201d section, a player must be started in at least 70% of Yahoo leagues.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/06\/16\/adam-thielen-fantasy-football-outlook-2020-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Adam Thielen<\/a> (MIN \u2013 84% Started) @ CHI<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Adam Thielen has had a very good year this year, make no mistake. He\u2019s currently the WR17 in PPR points per game despite two straight bad weeks. Speaking of those bad weeks, they\u2019ve directly coincided with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/11\/06\/week-9-draftkings-plays-dalvin-cook\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Dalvin Cook<\/a><\/strong> monster weeks. That\u2019s the biggest issue for Thielen: volume. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams\/vikings\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> want to be a run-first team in which they feed Cook as much as he can handle. That doesn\u2019t bode well for Thielen\u2019s fantasy prospects. He\u2019s had four games this season with five or fewer targets and three games with seven or fewer PPR points. This week\u2019s matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-teams\/bears\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Bears<\/a> doesn\u2019t look great. The Bears have been stingy against opposing wide receivers allowing the third-fewest fantasy points to the position. This sets up as a game in which the Vikings look to lean on Cook and win a close one. If that turns out to be the game script, Thielen could be a fantasy football dud this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dishonorable Mentions: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/10\/10\/fantasy-football-week-5-wide-receiver-start-em-sit-em-keenan-allen-d-j-moore\/\" target=\"_self\">DJ Moore<\/a> (CAR \u2013 70%) v TB, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/11\/06\/week-9-draftkings-plays-dalvin-cook\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Mark Andrews<\/a> (BAL \u2013 77%) @ NE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"ozX6g9_zQgBkgoir4c9wGA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1284629029\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ozX6g9_zQgBkgoir4c9wGA',sig:'gpFL4-gjjluJIJCEmWwZG_S6S95h5Mbw54gKy-3tl7A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1284629029',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Football Studs and Duds; Fantasy football is a rollercoaster. There\u2019s plenty of ups and downs throughout the season and week to week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3451,"featured_media":98015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1460,5702,1711,294],"class_list":["post-97991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasy","tag-adam-thielen","tag-diontae-johnson","tag-duke-johnson","tag-fantasy-football"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}