Five positive trends that will continue: D'Andre Swift leads the way

Throughout this fantasy football season, we've touched connected galore areas successful this play space, including imaginable trades to consider, players to cut, strategy trends, under-the-radar targets for deeper leagues and more. We premix it up here. Now that we're astatine the halfway constituent of the season, let's absorption connected the positives, the situations wherever the arrow is pointing up.

We'll commencement with a rushing onslaught that flipped the power coming retired of the bye week. We person a big-name backmost who is playing his champion shot of the season, seeing it accelerated and delivering the shot connected time, successful an discourtesy that has adjusted to acceptable its personnel. And there's a acquainted sanction successful a presumption to triumph the phantasy scoring title.

Bears' upgraded rushing attack

The Chicago Bears and manager Ben Johnson came retired of the bye successful Week 5 with a dedicated effort to tally the football. The foundational concepts didn't change. It's inactive zone, immoderate spread and perimeter schemes. But this was astir winning the edges and creating a much accordant violative tempo -- connected the ground.

The result? D'Andre Swift has produced back-to-back games with astatine slightest 20 phantasy points and 100 yards rushing, down an violative enactment that is creating question up front. And Swift looks different, too. He's overmuch much decisive arsenic a runner. Hit that downhill way and go. Plus, managers inactive get immoderate PPR upside with Swift, arsenic helium is averaging 2.7 receptions per game.

With the uptick successful the team's rushing volume, which besides opened the doorway for No. 2 RB Kyle Monangai to get touches (17.4 points successful Week 7 vs. New Orleans Saints), we person seen a caller dip successful numbers for wide receiver Rome Odunze, who had lone 5.0 targets per crippled implicit the past two, compared to 8.8 targets successful his archetypal four. Odunze has besides failed to nutrient much than six points successful back-to-back weeks, truthful this is inclination to support an oculus connected on with the play of backmost Caleb Williams.

For Swift managers, however, this caller tally of production, positive the upcoming docket (@BAL, @CIN, NYG), puts him successful the fringe RB1 range.

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