• All three Baltimore Ravens tight ends find fantasy success: Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely and Charlie Kolar combined for three touchdowns and over 100 receiving yards.
• Injuries continue for the Miami Dolphins‘ skill players: The Dolphins have lost Tyreek Hill and Darren Waller in recent weeks, and they lost rookie running back Ollie Gordon II in this game.
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Justice Hill sees a reduced role: Keaton Mitchell has taken snaps away from Hill on early downs.

Last season, Hill played 39.6% of Baltimore’s offensive snaps. This included over 80% on third downs and two-minute drills, along with 26.7% of the early-down snaps. He ranked in the top-12 in receiving yards among running backs and finished as a top-40 running back in fantasy points. His role was even larger than last season over the first four weeks of this year. His role over the first six weeks this year was very similar to last season. His third-down and two-minute drill snap rates were over 90%, and his early-down snaps were up slightly to 28%. This led to a 45.4% snap rate. He was 32nd in PPR points during that stretch.

Mitchell averaged 8.4 yards per carry as a rookie but tore his ACL. He returned in 2024 but wasn’t the same player. Mitchell was a healthy inactive for the first four weeks of this season, as the team chose to make only three running backs active. Rasheen Ali had the edge over Mitchell due to his role on special teams. The Ravens had so many injured players for Week 5 that they had room to make Mitchell active. He’s been active every game since then. After the Ravens’ Week 7 bye, Mitchell played seven offensive snaps last week, finishing with four carries for 43 yards. He and Hill split the backup job on early downs.

This week, Mitchell was consistently the backup on early downs. Hill received his first carry late in the third quarter, after Mitchell already ran three times. Hill has been held to one carry or fewer in three of the four games where Mitchell has been active. Hill can be dropped in all redraft leagues. Even if Derrick Henry were to suffer an injury, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Mitchell would take over as the lead back instead of Hill. It would likely take injuries to both Henry and Mitchell for Hill to have fantasy value this season.

The Ravens tight ends shine: Isaiah Likely earned 60 receiving yards after gaining 24 yards over the last four games, while Mark Andrews scored twice, and Charlie Kolar scored once.

This was the first game of the season with Lamar Jackson, fullback Patrick Ricard, and all three tight ends. The Ravens’ tight-end rotation in this game was identical to last week, as well as all of last season when everyone was healthy. Andrews had a clear lead over Likely in 11 personnel, the two shared the field in 12 personnel, while Kolar took 21 personnel and Likely and Kolar shared 22 personnel.

There have been trade rumors around Andrews, but there has been no indication of the team moving away from Andrews based on usage. They could have easily started moving more toward Likely in 11 personnel, but that hasn’t been the case. Likely should be a top waiver-wire target at tight end, even if Andrews doesn’t get traded. While this tight-end rotation can be a nightmare for fantasy purposes, the Ravens’ schedule is near-perfect for both tight ends to succeed, like this week. Two of their next three matchups are similar to this week. From Weeks 13 to 17, all five matchups are against teams in the top five at allowing fantasy points to tight ends, including the team that has allowed the most points, the Cincinnati Bengals, twice.

Monitor Ollie Gordon II‘s health: Gordon suffered an ankle injury and did not return.

Gordon has spent the entire season as De’Von Achane‘s backup. Jaylen Wright has only played 20 offensive snaps this season and has been a healthy inactive more often than not, including for this game. Gordon played in 13 of a possible 34 snaps over the first six drives, with over half of his snaps occurring while Achane was also on the field. His playing time has been on the rise since Tyreek Hill’s injury, thanks to more plays with both running backs on the field.

After Gordon’s injury, Achane was the only active running back, so he started playing 100% of snaps. If Gordon were to miss time, Wright would be active and be the primary backup. There would likely be fewer snaps with two halfbacks on the field. There might be a slight uptick in Achane’s playing time, but not by much. Wright would be worth picking up in deep leagues where all handcuffs are on rosters, on the off chance Achane also suffers an injury before Gordon comes back.

Miscellaneous Notes

• Lamar Jackson was back in the lineup after missing his third straight game due to a hamstring injury. He was a full participant in practice all week. Cooper Rush was inactive as the emergency third quarterback.
• Baltimore wide receiver Devontez Walker was a healthy scratch, his third straight absence. He played 24 offensive snaps from Weeks 2-4 and received a 92.0 offensive grade in his minimal time, thanks to three receptions for 60 yards and two touchdowns on 14 routes. He was on the injury report Weeks 5-8 due to an oblique injury, leading him to be inactive in Week 6. He wasn’t given a game status in Week 8 but was still inactive. This week, he wasn’t on the injury report and was again inactive, suggesting he will continue being inactive in a typical week going forward.
• Tylan Wallace led a rotation with DeAndre Hopkins as the third wide receiver in 11 personnel over the first four weeks at 59.8% to 46.4%. Hopkins has been the clear third player over the last four weeks, and the split was larger than ever this week. Wallace didn’t play his first offensive snap until the third quarter.
• Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (illness, left thumb), wide receiver Malik Washington (knee) and fullback Alec Ingold (neck) were full participants in practice all week.
• Tahj Washington was active for the second time this season. He lost a fumble on his first NFL reception but continued to get rotated in. The Dolphins used six wide receivers this week, which mostly led to a decrease in playing time for Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.
• Dolphins wide receiver Dee Eskridge didn’t practice on Monday, was limited on Tuesday and upgraded to full on Wednesday. He was dealing with a shoulder injury and was initially ruled questionable, but he was active.
• Miami’s tight end Julian Hill didn’t practice all week due to an ankle injury. He was ruled out on Wednesday. Hayden Rucci was activated from the practice squad to take his place on the roster.
• Last week, Greg Dulcich was the primary receiving tight end, while Tanner Conner played more in run situations. This week, Conner played a slight majority of the snaps in both situations.

Table notes

• Snaps include plays called back due to penalties, including offensive holding or defensive pass interference. The other three stats have these plays removed.
• Targets may differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would be from a clear thrown-away pass, where the NFL may give the target to the nearest receiver, while this data will not.
• Carries are only on designed plays. Quarterback scrambles won’t count for the total number of carries in the game.