Outperforming Expectations: Week 2

Bryce Young

Young has thrown for 648 yards and six touchdowns through two games while adding another score on the ground. The emergence of Jalen Coker as a legitimate threat has helped, but the duo through two weeks has been outstanding.

Week 2: 23/38 • 287 yards • 3 TD • 0 INT

Against Atlanta, Young finished with a 110.3 passer rating, averaged 7.55 yards per attempt and generated +0.277 EPA per dropback. When looking deep, Young completed 5 of 6 passes traveling 20+ yards for 161 yards.

Patrick Mahomes

Patrick Mahomes outperforming expectations sounds strange. He remains an elite NFL quarterback, but his fantasy expectations had fallen considerably compared with his reputation. Questions about his mobility after his 2025 injury and whether Kansas City’s veteran weapons could still produce pushed him down preseason fantasy boards.

Week 2: 32/49 • 382 yards • 3 TD • 0 INT

Mahomes posted a 109.4 passer rating and +0.263 EPA per dropback against Indianapolis. Even more encouraging after last year’s injury, he has already produced 44 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown through two games.

He sits at QB3 in EdgeLine scoring through Sunday.

Tyler Shough

They’ve got a gunslinger in New Orleans. If this were a baseball pitcher, we’d be talking about the workload on that arm. Through two games:

98 pass attempts • 662 passing yards • 4 passing TD

New Orleans asked Shough to throw an incredible 61 times in Week 1. He responded with 410 yards and three touchdowns, although two interceptions tempered the performance.

Week 2 looked different. Shough completed 27 of 37 passes for 252 yards, threw another touchdown and, importantly, didn’t turn the ball over. He also added 8 carries for 24 yards and a rushing touchdown, including six designed carries.

The physical profile has already drawn some comparisons to Josh Allen. At almost 6'5", Shough is virtually identical to Allen in height and ran a faster 40 at the Combine — 4.63 versus 4.75. He’s 18 pounds lighter, so this isn’t an Allen-style power-running profile, but six designed carries in Week 2 make the rushing component worth watching.

That’s enough to put him at QB5 through Sunday.

D’Andre Swift

Swift is currently RB5 in EdgeLine PPR scoring. Week 2 gave us something more interesting than his rank: his usage in the passing game.

Swift caught all five of his targets for 54 yards against Minnesota. Those receptions generated 69 yards after the catch. The lingering question for Swift will be the impact of an injured quarterback, but the volume here is what catches the eye.

He has also caught all six of his targets for 64 receiving yards. If that receiving involvement becomes a regular part of the offense, his early RB5 ranking becomes much more interesting than a two-week touchdown spike.

Jalen Coker

Two performances: one explosive, one solid.

18 targets • 16 receptions • 204 yards • 2 TD • 48.4 PPR points

The targets are what should keep fantasy managers interested. This isn’t simply a player living off two touchdowns in Week 1. Coker commanded 26.5% of Carolina’s targets in Week 1 and 28.1% in Week 2.

Coker currently sits at WR5.

Christian Watson

Watson opened 2026 with the type of game we’ve always known he could produce:

6 catches • 147 yards • 2 TD

He averaged a massive 15.9-yard aDOT and turned eight targets into 32.7 PPR points. Naturally, the question was whether it would continue.

Week 2 didn’t produce another monster box score, but Watson received 11 targets and commanded 37.9% of Green Bay’s targets against the Jets. He also received two red-zone targets and accounted for two-thirds of Green Bay’s red-zone targets.

His final line was only 4/41/1. But we’re not chasing last week’s fantasy points. Through two weeks Watson has 19 targets and sits at WR6.

Dalton Kincaid

This might be the most compelling underlying profile in the article.

14 targets • 12 receptions • 225 yards • 1 TD • 40.5 PPR points

That’s 16.1 yards per target. And Kincaid isn’t accumulating those yards exclusively on underneath tight-end routes. His Week 1 aDOT was an absurd 16.3 yards. He received two deep targets and turned six total targets into 130 receiving yards.

Kincaid isn’t being used like a traditional tight end. In 2025, 66.9% of his alignments came from the slot or out wide. Buffalo pushed that even further in Week 1, detaching him on 72.5% of his snaps — including 37.5% lined up out wide.

Now let’s talk target share: 21.4% in Week 1 and 28.6% in Week 2. Against Detroit he caught 7 of 8 targets for 95 yards and a touchdown.

Kincaid is currently TE2 through Sunday. Isaiah Likely still plays Monday night, so that ranking could move — but compared with his preseason TE12 ranking, the early role change is impossible to ignore.

Dalton Schultz

Dalton Schultz is currently TE4. He has zero touchdowns.

This guy is a target machine for Stroud. Schultz opened with eight targets against Buffalo. Then Houston targeted him 14 times in Week 2. He caught 12 of them for 140 yards — a 28% target share in one game from a tight end.

22 targets • 16 receptions • 175 yards • 0 TD

His TE4 ranking hasn’t required touchdown variance to prop it up. If the volume continues and touchdowns eventually arrive, there’s room for the fantasy production to get even better.