Shonn Greene - Greene has been an overall disappointment thus far, but there is reason for hope. His first 7 games contained 5 top 14 run defenses while the Jets offense was experimenting with a more pass heavy attack (230 passes to 177 rushes). Greene, now coming off his first 100 yard performance of the season and a bye to rest up any bumps received is showing signs of life. As the stretch run of the season inches closer and the cold weather begins to make its mark, there will be a group of teams in this new pass heavy era that will look to "ground and pound" their way to the playoffs. The Jets will be one of those teams. That's their identity. That's how they win football games and with a remaining schedule containing the 20th, 9th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 19th and 28th ranked run defenses respectively the set up for Greene couldn't be much more ideal. With this recipe in the works Greene may very well become the player he was drafted him to be.
Antonio Brown - Coming off a 15 target performance Brown now leads the team in targets with 63 over Mike Wallaces' 58. He has back to back double digit fantasy games and there's no reason to believe his recent production will change. I believe this is just the beginning for Brown. Hines Ward is an inferior threat to defenses at this point in his career. Ward will continue to lose more and more snaps to Brown and the Steelers transition to a pass heavy scheme using many 3 WR sets only further solidifies his place on the field. When he's on the field Ben Roethlisberger looks his way often as shown with his target total. His route running which has been his lone knock, improves weekly. Opposing defenses will continue to game plan for Mike Wallace, putting emphasis on not allowing him to beat them. Brown will continue to find himself in beatable one on one situations down field and Roethlisberger will continue to deliver him the ball. Buy Brown where you can as he could hold WR2 value the rest of the way.
