The fantasy football landscape shifts each week, bringing fresh opportunities and unexpected challenges that separate the prepared from the pretenders. Savvy managers know that last week’s performance tells only part of the story, and diving deeper into the underlying metrics reveals the accurate picture.
This week presents some intriguing decisions. Here’s insight about key New York Giants players heading into their matchup with the Dallas Cowboys to help you craft a winning lineup.
Jaxson Dart, QB
Is Jaxson Dart a Tier 1 fantasy QB in 2026?
The unique skill set is obvious, and he’s getting a chance to develop out of necessity.
What do I mean by that?
Well, we’ve seen Sam Darnold rely heavily on Jaxon Smith-Njigba and situations of that ilk, where a QB can lean so much on one player that he has a single point of failure that makes him a risky fantasy option over the course of a season.
Dart is doing his thing with Malik Nabers sidelined and Cam Skattebo on a scooter. In December, he’s completed 15-of-22 passes in play-action settings, not bad given where the offense sits from an on-field talent standpoint.
Josh Allen is his own animal, but would it surprise you at all if Dart was the next best fantasy option at the position?
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Devin Singletary, RB
Devin Singletary ran for his fourth touchdown of the season on Sunday, but this isn’t a player with much of a 2026 outlook.
He’s signed for another year in New York, and while Cam Skattebo’s health is still TBD at some level, the Giants made it clear that they like the fit of Tyrone Tracy next to Jaxson Dart, and I’m not rostering an RB3 under any circumstances.
They’ve given him reasonable work (10+ carries in four of his past five), and in a game of dead teams, maybe he can score double-digit PPR points for those still playing this week, but he’s going to average a career low in touches this season. I think it’s more likely than not that he finishes 2026 with under 100 opportunities with the ball in his hands.
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Singletary has been on the wrong side of this committee sans Skattebo, and while he’s gotten the edge in goal-line work, Tracy is the more explosive and versatile player. If the Giants are going to compete at a reasonable level, something I very much expect them to do in an effort to take advantage of a QB on a rookie deal, this is going to be the Skattebo show with Tracy sprinkled in.
At this moment, I wouldn’t consider Singletary even a viable handcuff: if all 32 teams were in action and Skattebo was out next September, I don’t think he’d crack my top 30.
Tyrone Tracy Jr., RB
Tyrone Tracy finished this fantasy season with 14+ carries and multiple targets in three straight games and in five of six. I find his skill set interesting as a former receiver that also has post-contact skills as a rusher (better than average after contact on 65.2% of his carries this season), but make no mistake about it: this is Cam Skattebo’s backfield.
Could Tracy earn a role that sees him touching the ball 6-8 times per game? Sure, but that’s not worthy of standalone value in standard-sized leagues. If you’re like and expecting a reasonable jump from this offense, the value rests in Tracy being a Skattebo handcuff, an RB ready to be a top-20 option should he be featured in any given week.
Darius Slayton, WR
We are now seven seasons into the career of Darius Slayton, and he’s never averaged under 13 yards per catch for a season.
He also hasn’t scored more than four TDs in a season since his rookie year, which some managers continue to chase.
The name of the game is to get open. That’s literally half of the job description for the position: get open and catch the ball. Slayton’s next 100-target season will be his first, and while the splash plays are fun to watch, the struggles to cross the goal line have limited just how impactful those bombs can be in a given week.
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This New York offense has a wide range of outcomes as they prepare for Year 2 of the Dart era, but I don’t think they really have a wide range of fantasy outcomes. Assuming health, this offense is going to funnel through Malik Nabers and Cam Skattebo, with the Wan’Dale Robinson and Theo Johnson tandem handling much of the middle-of-the-field action.
How does Slayton grow?
If you want to sell me on him over Rashid Shaheed or Alec Pierce types, I get it. The upside of Dart certainly lends itself to big games here and there, but if you’re drafting him with the thought of him developing into a piece you count on regularly, I think you’re asleep at the wheel.
Wan’Dale Robinson, WR
In this great sport of ours, there are currently just five players with 90+ catches in each of the past two seasons, and you’ll never guess why I’m mentioning that stat in this section:
- Ja’Marr Chase
- Amon-Ra St. Brown
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba
- Trey McBride
- Wan’Dale Robinson
You can call him a PPR scam all you want, but his aDOT is up at 9.0 this season, and he’s near 80 air yards per game. Of course, his bread is buttered with the shorter targets, but that’s his primary dimension, not his only dimension.
Sunday in Vegas was his first double-digit catch game of the season, but his seventh with double-digit targets. The volume will take a hit next year with Malik Nabers back in the fold if the Giants retain Robinson (pending UFA), but could he have more 15-point games than single-digit performances like he has this season?
I think so.
Drafting Robinson is never going to get a reaction from your competition, but that level of stability is hard to find, and in an offense that has the arrow pointing up, that’s a player I want shares of.
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Theo Johnson, TE
This Giants offense is coasting into the offseason.
For the record, I don’t hate it. Actually, I support it. Why take any more risk during a season that has seen your franchise WR go down with a serious injury, your bellcow of the future suffer a similar fate, and your prized QB visit the blue medical tent more often than my brother hits up an open bar.
Theo Johnson was shut out on his 14 routes in Week 16 before sitting out over the weekend with an illness. We need to see more from him as a target earner, but the low-volume passing attack is likely here to stay for two more weeks, and that makes penciling in any sort of upside nearly impossible.
Johnson is a plus-plus athlete, but his upside has been capped at 10.7 PPR points over his past five, and he’s been held under seven points in the majority of those contests. With his last red zone touch coming in Week 9, there’s not even a cheap touchdown thread to pull.
Don’t lose track of the name for 2026, but there’s no need to make this click in 2025.
