• Battle for the elite wide receivers: Both CeeDee Lam And Malik Nabers led the Dallas Cowboys And New York Giants offenses with more than 95 receiving yards each. They are both top 10 options across the country rest of the season.

• Wan’Dale Robinson becomes one of the top waiver options: The Giants slot receiver was already a top-36 wide receiver heading into the week, posting double-digit receptions.

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Dallas Cowboys @ New York Giants

• CeeDee Lam: 7 receptions, 98 yards, 1 TD, 3 carries, 8 rushing yards
• Malik Nabers: 12 receptions, 115 yards

Add Wan’Dale Robinson: Robinson is the clear second receiving option in the Giants offense.

Robinson entered the week as the season’s WR36. He had caught 15 passes, which was tied for 16th most, but he averaged just 8.2 yards per reception. In this game he continued his high number of short catches, making 11 receptions for 71 yards.

This week there has been a slight change in his role. Through the first three weeks, he played all 120 snaps when the Giants used three or more wide receivers, but only four of 76 snaps when there were two or fewer wide receivers on the field. This week he played five snaps in 12-man. While it was still Malik Nabers And Darius Slaytons more often than not, when Robinson was on the field it was more likely to be a pass play, and with Slayton it was more likely to be a run. If Robinson continues to take some snaps each week in two-receiver sets, it will raise his ceiling.

Robinson is the perfect wide receiver during bye weeks as a high-floor, low-ceiling option to deploy in imaginative starting lineups when you want to play it safe.

Jake Ferguson is a potential tight end in the top five for the rest of the season: Ferguson was finally starting to see the playing time he got at the end of last season.

Ferguson consistently played less than 70% of Dallas’ offensive snaps last September and early October and at least 79% in most games in December and January. He put together the best game of his career ending last season: 10 receptions for 93 yards and three touchdowns in the playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Ferguson suffered a knee injury in Week 1, which limited him to playing just four snaps in the second half. He had played 82% of Dallas’ offensive snaps in the first half, which is great for a tight end in 2024. He missed Week 2 and the Cowboys softened him up on 66% of their offensive snaps last week. However, they gave him the ball a lot, leading to six receptions for 95 yards.

This week, he again played over 80% of the Cowboys’ offensive snaps for most of the game until they focused on the run in the fourth quarter. He caught seven passes for 49 yards. Ideally, he would have broken a catch of more than nine yards, but his performance was still good enough to be a top-13 fantasy tight end every other week this season. He is the only tight end in the NFL who is healthy, plays a high percentage of offensive snaps and has a high target share this season. If he stays healthy, a top-five season is well within his reach.

The Cowboys’ backfield remains unchanged: The Cowboys’ backfield rotation was very similar to last week’s, once again leading to minimal fantasy production.

The Cowboys continued to do that Rico Dowdle as the starting running back, but Ezekiel Elliott kept going for some rides. Hunter Luepke remained the third down back, Deuce Vaughn played a few snaps again, and CeeDee Lam continued to take a few shots out of the backfield. At halftime, Lamb led the team in rushing yards.

Dowdle had some fantasy value this week thanks to his receiving touchdown, but this is a game where the Cowboys led most of the time and could have established the run if they wanted to. There’s a chance the Cowboys will use fewer running backs at some point, but until then, no one should be trusted in fantasy starting lineups. Dowdle is the only one of the group who should be on fantasy rosters right now, as he has the best chance at an expanded role.

Various comments

• The Giants running back was very similar to last week’s: Devin Singletair took the most work and Tyrone Tracy played some snaps on both early downs and third downs.
• Giants rookie tight end Theo Johnson led the league in tight end through the first three weeks at age 24. He wasn’t asked to pass the block as much in this game, but on five third downs the Giants opted to use 10 men on the field rather than have Johnson on the field. The Giants used 10 personnel just once in the first three games.
• Malik Nabers was diagnosed with a concussion after attempting a sideline catch late in the game. If he misses the game next week, expect Jalin Hyatt to take over as the outside wide receiver on the other side Darius Slaytons.

Table notes

• Snaps include plays called back due to penalties, including offensive holding or defensive pass interference. These plays have been removed from the other three statistics.
• Objectives may differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would be due to an obviously thrown pass, where the NFL could give the target to the nearest receiver, while this data does not.
• Carries are only possible on designed plays. Quarterback scrambles do not count toward the total number of carries in the game.