For the second time in three games, Cincinnati Bengals running back Jeremy Hill ran for more than 150 yards Sunday. He was held out of the end zone, but the rookie did offer good overall production in the Bengals' 27-10 win over the New Orleans Saints.
Fantasy football waiver wire, Week 12: Jeremy Hill accumulates, but Giovani Bernard looms
The Cincinnati rookie has tallied huge yardage twice in three games, but will the starter’s impending return hurt him? We break down the fantasy implications.
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Hill ran the ball 27 times Sunday for 152 yards. He also caught a pass for 13 yards, giving him 16 fantasy points total. Hill has started for the Bengals the last three weeks with Giovani Bernard on the shelf, though reports from the Bengals tend to indicate Bernard could return for Week 12.
Fantasy impact: Hill has averaged 15.3 fantasy points a game in his last three, but that masks the fact that one of those games was the three-point disaster for Hill in Week 10. Still, his ceiling shows that, as long as he has the starting gig in Cincinnati, he’s a surefire fantasy starter as well.
The question, then, is how long Hill will have the starting role all to himself. Bernard has been approaching his return, and, while Hill has shown more than enough to stay heavily involved in the Bengals’ offense, Bernard isn’t going anywhere, either. Bernard’s return will make Hill more of a flex play.
