FanDuel Tournament Pivots for the Divisional Round

Wide Receiver

Chalk

The best receiver in football is back from injury, and people are sure to take notice. Antonio Brown is practicing in full and is set to return after sitting out the last two weeks of the season with a calf injury. While the matchup against Jalen Ramsey and the Jags will be difficult, it's hard to overlook the fact that Brown compiled 10 catches and 157 yards against them in Week 9.

Yes, much of that was in comeback mode, but the Jags were up big on a lot of teams this year and didn't allow another 100-yard receiver all season (the next closest to Brown was Tyler Lockett with 90).

Pivot

Adam Thielen, (vs. New Orleans Saints)

Adam Thielen should have high ownership given his destruction of the New Orleans Saints in Week 1, but it'd be surprising if that actually happens. For one, people have short memories. While anybody can look up stats in an instant, Week 1 was months ago, and it is often hard to reconcile the distant past with the current situation. Secondly, Thielen has been fairly nonexistent of late from a fantasy perspective. He only saw 10 targets and scored at least 10 fantasy points once in his past five games. During that stretch, he has averaged 4.2 catches and 54.2 yards -- not exactly inspiring for a player that costs a pretty penny this week.

His matchup seems poor at first, but the Saints rank eighth against the pass by our metrics -- and nobody wants to face Marshon Lattimore -- but opposing wideouts have found success in the right schemes. New Orleans given up the 13th-most FanDuel points to opposing wideouts.

A Keemum/Thielen stack is a fine way to start out your tournament lineup building this week. With an expected close game against the Saints on tap, the points could be flying.