Fantasy Football · Week 8
Usage
Who was on the field and who got the ball, for every player who saw the field — and what that usage should have scored before luck got involved.
What matters: snap share and target or carry share, because those stick from week to week. Air yards and red-zone touches tell you the kind of role. Luck is the part that tends not to repeat.
Week 8 · built Nov 3, 2026 · updates every Tuesday once the box scores are final
What do the columns mean?
- Snap %
- Share of the offense's snaps he was on the field for
- Carries
- Rushing attempts
- Carry %
- Share of the team's carries
- GL
- Carries from inside the five
- Targets
- Times the ball was thrown to him
- Target %
- Share of the team's targets
- RZ
- Touches inside the 20: targets plus carries
- Exp pts
- Expected points: what his touches were worth on average, given where on the field and how far downfield each came, before luck. A quarterback's expected points include his throws.
- Actual pts
- Fantasy points scored, in the scoring format selected above
- Luck
- Actual minus expected. Plus: he scored more than his touches were worth (a hot week). Minus: the usage was there and the points weren't (the buy-low list).
- Arrows
- A real change from the week before: five points of share, or two of anything else.
How to read it
Start with snaps and shares. Snap share is whether a player is on the field; target share and carry share are whether the offense runs through him when he is. Those two things together are most of what a fantasy season is made of, and they change slowly, which is why they lead every table here.
Air yards and depth of target tell you the kind of role. A receiver with a big air-yards share is being asked to make plays downfield whether or not they connected. Deep and end-zone targets, goal-line carries and red-zone touches are the chances to score, which are far steadier than the scores themselves.
Expected points is this site's own number: what a player's touches were worth on average given where on the field and how far downfield they came. Luck is his real points minus that. A big positive is a hot week; a big negative on good usage is the buy-low list.
Data: nflverse weekly stats, snap counts and play-by-play, used under CC BY 4.0 and adapted into these tables (shares, depth of target and expected points are derived here). Routes run and yards per route run come from charting companies and are not open data, so they are not here, and this page would rather leave a column out than guess at it.