7 Deep Fantasy Football Sleepers for Week 3
Benjamin Watson, TE, Baltimore Ravens
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The Baltimore Ravens love throwing to the tight end. Since 2011, Joe Flacco and company have averaged 8.3 targets per game to their tight ends. Last season, Dennis Pitta finished third among NFL tight ends with 121 targets. If Benjamin Watson can replicate the workload he saw in Week 2, the Ravens will have another tight end near the top of the leaderboard.
After a quiet Week 1, where the defense and running game stole the show, Watson emerged in Week 2, with Flacco targeting him a team-high eight times. Watson didn't waste his opportunity, as he finished with 8 catches for 91 yards. A repeat performance in Week 3 is not out of the question either, with the Jacksonville Jaguars up next.
The Jags have allowed 13.6 fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends in 2017, the third most in the NFL. With backup tight end Maxx Williams -- who had 4 targets of his own on Sunday -- missing practice with an ankle injury, the volume should remain for Watson, making him a top streaming target in Week 3.
