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Coby Fleener, New Orleans Saints

ESPN Ownership: 25.1%

I know, guys. I know.

You're sick of Coby Fleener. He's hashtag bad at football. The dude has stone hands. I get it.

But his talent level doesn't matter much, because we're playing fantasy football and not real football. Volume is king in fantasy. Last year, Kyle Rudolph was the TE2 thanks to leading the position in targets, while the likes of Cameron Brate, Dennis Pitta, and Jack Doyle all finished as top-13 options in PPR formats.

It's not going to be fun to place your trust in Fleener once again. But, with Willie Snead suspended and Brandin Cooks playing on Thursday Night Football for the New England Patriots, the Saints head into this game with 49.6% of their targets from last season unaccounted for. That's a lot.

Who is going to take those targets? Ted Ginn Jr.? Even over his past two years with the Carolina Panthers -- the two best of his career -- Ginn accounted for just an 18% target market share. Due to the nature of the routes he runs, he's unlikely to be a high-volume target. It is far more likely that the beneficiary of New Orleans playing shorthanded is Fleener, who runs most of his routes in the middle of the field, an area where Snead and Cooks thrived in recent years.

Perhaps it won't matter and New Orleans will struggle to put up points against a stingy Minnesota Vikings defense. But, at least on paper, Fleener appears to have some fantasy relevance once again.