5 NFL Red Zone Trends to Monitor for Week 8

The Giants' Receiving Work

The New York Giants' offense has only five instances of a player seeing at least three red zone target in a game this season. None of those came before Week 4, when Sterling Shepard became the first on the team to do it.

Of those five instances, three of them belong to Shepard, who has now seen at least three red zone targets in three of his last four games, matching Odell Beckham for the team lead with 12 on the season.

A 29.7% market share ties the duo for 20th in the NFL. That's an underwhelming mark for a guy like Beckham, who we want to see top-end touchdown numbers out of to justify his first-round draft cost from the offseason.

For Shepard, though, sitting top-20 is very promising. He's only got two touchdowns on the season, and only one of those has come in his last four games. He's already showing plenty of fantasy value, and that stands to increase even more if he can convert some of these looks into scores, giving his ceiling a nice boost.