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Written Sun 12:01 am Central, for week 6
Jefferson sits out week 6 of 2026 entirely, because the Vikings are on a bye and score no points for anyone who has him. Keep him parked on your bench and keep him rostered, no moves needed on his account this week. His next game comes in week 7, at home against the Colts. He looked like himself in week 5 with 18.8 PPR points after missing week 4, and he carries WR19 in our rest-of-season order at 122.7 PPR points. No designation for him on Sunday's report, so the only job this week is patience.
Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season
Last season is the whole question. He went from 18.68 points a game in 2024 to 11.85 in 2025, and yards per target fell from 10 to 7.5. He cleared 15 points in only 4 of 17 weeks, and the red-zone work leaned thin, 12.6% of his own touches, WR95 among 223. That is a real fall, not a one-week bad stretch, and it has to sit in the note before anything good does.
The case for the bounce-back is that everything around the scoring held. He took 30% of the targets and played 94% of the snaps, WR7 and WR4 among qualifying receivers, and 40.1% of the team's air yards. Among players in his spot, points a game rose about 5.8 the next season off a target share like that, 2.9 off the snap share, and 2.1 off an 11.8 average. The first five weeks point the same way: 15.4 a game over four played, 29.2 in week 1 of 2026, and the red-zone share is up to 16% of his team's carries and targets, WR7 among 64. He sat out week 4 of 2026 but carries no designation since before week 5.
Our number was 271 before the season, 18.1 a game over the 15 games we expected, and the middle range runs 231 to 312. That needs the 2024 version to show up more than once. We would start him every week he plays and hold him, but we want three straight weeks over 15 before we call the 2025 slide a fluke.