NFL Week 10 Fantasy Football Recap: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New Orleans Saints

• George Pickens: 3 receptions, 32 yards, 2 rushing attempts, 23 rushing yards, 1 rushing touchdown 

• Juwan Johnson: 5 receptions, 44 yards, 1 touchdown

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SEA@TB | DET@CHI | CLE@MIA | DEN@TEN
MIN@BUF | HOU@NYG | JAX@KC | NO@PIT
IND@LVR | DAL@GB | ARZ@LAR | LAC@SF

The Steelers without Chase Claypool: The Steelers traded Claypool over a week ago, but Pittsburgh was on a bye last week, making this the team’s first game trying to replace him.

• Claypool had played 60-of-84 snaps in 12 personnel over the first eight weeks. George Pickens unsurprisingly took most of those snaps, playing 19-of-27 snaps from that personnel grouping, including 17-of-18 on pass plays.
• The trade also left the Steelers using more 12 personnel than they had earlier in the season.
• Gunner Olszewski and Steven Sims handled an even 22-to-22 split out of 11 personnel.
• Sims was the player to take over for Pickens in 12 personnel in running situations, which is why Sims played more offensive snaps overall.
• Pickens has been a waiver wire target most weeks, and he’s still available in plenty of leagues.
• It was a team effort taking over for Claypool, making no other player a waiver target.

Add Jaylen Warren: Najee Harris put together his best rushing performance of the season, but that didn’t stop Warren from seeing more offensive snaps than usual.

• Warren was the team’s third-down back, as has been the case in recent weeks.
• The difference this week is that Warren saw a higher percentage of snaps on early downs, as well as some time in short-yardage situations.
• Warren gained 37 yards on nine carries and caught three passes for 40 yards.
• He could become a bigger part of the pass game after the Claypool trade, as he is no longer the clear fifth receiving option for the Steelers on third downs.
• There is still a chance Warren overtakes Harris on early downs this season, as we’ve seen happen with other rookie running backs this week.
• Harris is a clear sell-high candidate after this performance.

Jarvis Landry’s return: The Saints wide receiver rejoined the lineup after last playing in Week 4.

• He went straight to being one of the top options on the offense, playing a clear majority of snaps and finishing second in routes run and targets on the team.
• His potential for targets is even higher than it was last time he was healthy since Michael Thomas is out for the season.
• Marquez Callaway was a healthy inactive with Landry back.
• Landry caught three of his targets for 37 yards.
• The Saints lost the time of possession battle. Landry’s role will lead to more fantasy points when the Saints are running more plays.
• This makes him a waiver wire target.

Table Notes

• Snaps include plays called back due to penalties, including offensive holding or defensive pass interference. The other three stats have these plays removed.

• Targets may differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would be from a clear thrown-away pass, where the NFL may give the target to the nearest receiver, while this data will not.

• Carries are only on designed plays. Quarterback scrambles won’t count for the total number of carries in the game.