Brock Bowers' fantasy owners were feeling good after his monster Week 9. Those warm and fuzzies quickly went away after he managed just one catch for 31 yards in Thursday night's loss to the Broncos. Bowers was simply invisible for much of this game. His lone target in the first quarter fell incomplete. There was another incompletion in Bowers' direction early in the second quarter. He ran away from rookie DB Jahdae Barron on a crossing route later in the second for a 31-yard gain -- Vegas' biggest play of the night. And that was it. Not another target for Bowers over the final 2.5 quarters. His only other touch came on a jet sweep that was blown up for a four-yard loss by EDGE Nick Bonitto.
We'll give the Broncos defense some credit for keying on Bowers. But there's no excuse for the Raiders getting their best player just three targets.
"We were trying to get the ball to Brock Bowers all night long," HC Pete Carroll said after the game "The calls were going that way, and the ball just didn’t get there. We didn’t try to disguise it. We had calls one after another, and Denver did a nice job of getting guys on him."
Try harder.
The Raiders not surprisingly mustered just seven points on 188 yards of offense in Denver.
Expect the coaching staff to make an even bigger effort to get Bowers the ball going forward. He gets a much better Week 11 matchup against the Cowboys.
But Bowers still has four more games against top-9 TE defenses. Overall, it's the toughest TE schedule from Week 11 through 17.
Bowers, of course, remains a must-start in fantasy lineups. But his weekly floor is much lower than it should be in this wildly inconsistent Raiders offense.
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