For Week 5’s slate, Derrick Henry and Jordan Mason are facing two defenses that have been horrific against the run this season while the Jayden Reed and Jordan Love connection should continue to thrive against Los Angeles.
Since Week 2, Henry has cleared this mark in each game including going for an 87-yard score last week against the Bills. With the Ravens 2-2 due to their rushing attack, feeding Henry against a Bengals defense that has allowed 145.5 rush yards per contest this season feels like a no-brainer.
Cincy also lies in the bottom 10 of the league in opponent rushing first down percentage. This inability to stop King Henry at the line of scrimmage is going to haunt the Bengals all day long as they look to complete this upset to continue their winning streak.
Don’t bet against Henry, who is coming off his best game not only of the season, but maybe of the last few seasons.
With Tank Bigsby rushing for 8 yards per attempt over the course of two full games this season, Doug Pederson and the Jags are going to give him some more run in this game against Indy which in Jacksonville’s case seems like a must-win.
With Jacksonville 0-4, I’m expecting to see a different gameplan where Trevor Lawrence gets his receivers involved early in the short passing game while Tank Bigsby is the change of pace back rather than Etienne.
Travis hasn’t reached the 14-attempt mark at all this season and against a Colts offense that has plenty of playmakers, this game script might favor Bigsby and the Jags wideouts more than Etienne.
This Cardinals defense is an uninspiring group that will get out-matched against the 9ers this coming week. Arizona is coming off a beatdown against Washington where the Commanders ran all over the Cards for 216 yards on 37 total attempts.
With Jordan Mason continuing this work horse roll for San Francisco, there’s a very good chance we see a 100+ number put up from the new RB1 in the Bay Area.
Zona has allowed the 4th-most rush yards over the last three weeks at 152 per game.
With Jordan Love back and handling the rock for the Green Bay Packers, Jayden Reed is going to be one of the main beneficiaries of this offense. Jayden is nearing the 20 YPC mark on the season as his deep route running ability makes him so difficult to guard.
The Packers will face a Rams defense that has given up two big games this season to both Arizona and San Francisco and other than Jared Goff in Week 1, haven’t faced a true gunslinger quite like Jordan Love.
Although Green Bay got off to a shaky start against Minnesota at home last week, Reed and the Packers finished extremely strong as they are due to carry this offensive momentum into Los Angeles against the beat up Rams.