Week 15 PPR WR fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more

Welcome to Week 15 of the NFL season. Week 14 brought us a signature game from the top fantasy wide receiver in the league, as Ja’Marr Chase went off on the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. He caught 14-of-18 targets for 177 yards and two touchdowns. That game helped separate him even more from the rest of the fantasy wide receivers, as he now is over 80 PPR points ahead of Justin Jefferson with 317.4. The only NFL player with more fantasy points is Lamar Jackson! And despite his six touchdowns last week, Chase is ahead of Josh Allen. It was probably a good idea to draft running backs early this year, but if you got Chase, you’re happy about your decision.

No more bye weeks!

McConkey missed Week 14 against the Chiefs due to shoulder and knee injuries. His status for this week is iffy still, but he did get in some limited work at the end of last week. The Chargers have a good matchup against the Buccaneers, so if he can play, he’s a must start. If he can’t, both Josh Palmer and Quentin Johnston make for good starts.

Pickens doesn’t look like he’ll be able to play again this week after an MRI showed a hamstring injury. How long he’ll miss is very much up in the air at this point, but with the Ravens on the schedule in Week 16, they’ll need all the help they can get.

Head coach Shane Steichen was noncommittal about Downs’ status going into their bye week. We’ll need to see him get in a full practice before feeling good about his status I believe.

Brown reportedly will return to practice this week and have a shot to play the following week. His ability to play a full game and put up fantasy points before the fantasy season is over is suspect at this point, but you never know.

Tillman has missed the last two games due to his concussion. He also hasn’t been put on I.R., so the team must believe he’ll be back sooner than later. Jameis Winston has spread the ball out well and often, so Tillman has a shot to be fantasy relevant as soon as he’s back in the lineup.

Doubs missed last week’s matchup with the Lions, but appears to be close to being cleared, as he returned to practice last week before being ruled out. Unless he’s had a setback it seems likely that he’ll muddy the Packers pass-catching waters for fantasy when they take on the Seahawks.

Coleman was able to get in three limited practices last week, but was ultimately held out against the Rams. He should have a decent shot of returning this week in a big game against the Lions in Detroit.

The last time these two teams met in Week 12, Moore caught 7-of-7 targets for 106 yards and a touchdown. The Vikings led throughout in this game, pushing Caleb Williams to throw 47 times. The Vikings have a strong defense, but they do give up a lot of targets and receptions to wide receivers as teams try to make up ground. On the season they’ve seen the second-most targets, the most receptions, and the most receiving yards to wide receivers. Teams don’t have a good completion percentage against them when targeting wide receivers, but the sheer number of attempts ends up giving us plenty of fantasy points.

We saw what Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson did to this Falcons defense last week and it wasn’t pretty. On the season the Falcons are allowing the third-most receptions, most fantasy points per target, and worst completion percentage to wide receivers. Meyers has plenty of questions at quarterback, but the matchup is too good to pass up on this week.