NFL Week 15 Fantasy Preview (Playoffs Edition): Green Bay Packers at Oakland Raiders, Aaron Rodgers, Randall Cobb, James Jones, Eddie Lacy, Amari Cooper

Dec 17, 2015 03:35 PM EST
Eddie Lacy
Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy rushes for yards during a 2015 game."

Green Bay Packers

Randall Cobb/Davante Adams/James Jones (Wide Receivers): Randall Cobb had his best fantasy game in a very long time in week 14 however he still did not record a touchdown. In fact Cobb has not recorded a touchdown in 3 weeks as this wide receiving core gets more and more unreliable. Adams has more drops than he does catches in most games and had an extremely low output last week. Jones is en route to a revenge game against his former team so I wouldn't be surprised if he was the primary target this week.

Aaron Rodgers (Quarterback): Rodgers is facing a defense that allows the 8th most fantasy points to quarterbacks and Rodgers is rolling. Rodgers has 5 touchdown passes in his last 3 games and is facing a defense that allows 271 passing yards a game. With Mike McCarthy back to calling the plays for this Packers offense they have started to regain some of that swagger and production that they had last season.

Eddie Lacy (Running back): Lacy seemingly learned from his mistakes and turned a corner last week as he ran for over 100 yards and a touchdown. He had 20 plus carries and looked a lot faster so he could be in line for a big workload this week as well. The Raiders defense has allowed no more than 44 yards on the ground to a running back since week 10. Lacy should test this Raiders run defense.

 

Oakland Raiders

Amari Cooper/Michael Crabtree (Wide Receivers): Cooper and Michael were both shut down against the Broncos. Cooper had it worse going catch-less all game, he was also held out of practice on Wednesday. Crabtree just signed a contract extension so he should be on cloud 9 and is likely to see double digit targets. The Packers have given up the 7th fewest fantasy points to wide receivers all season long.

Latavius Murray (Running Back): Murray has had trouble running the ball in the second half of the season. He will likely have his workload cut in half as the Packers should score a lot more points a lot faster than the Raiders. With the Raiders playing catchup Murray will likely bring home a small stat line.

 

 

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