Monday night's game features a massive showdown between two teams with playoff aspirations. The Baltimore Ravens are coming off a two-point loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, where the entire offense struggled. Should we expect bounce-back games from Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers this week?
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Chargers won a shootout against the Cincinnati Bengals. Against a weak secondary for the second week in a row, what should we expect from Quentin Johnston?
Here are the best PrizePicks player predictions for Monday Night Football between the Baltimore Ravens and the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Monday night's game features a massive showdown between two teams with playoff aspirations. The Baltimore Ravens are coming off a two-point loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, where the entire offense struggled. Should we expect bounce-back games from Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers this week?
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Chargers won a shootout against the Cincinnati Bengals. Against a weak secondary for the second week in a row, what should we expect from Quentin Johnston?
Here are the best PrizePicks player predictions for Monday Night Football between the Baltimore Ravens and the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Monday Night Football PrizePicks: Ravens vs. Chargers
The fact Quentin Johnston has only topped this number twice shows just how great this matchup is. The Ravens are allowing the most passing yards per game this season, and they're allowing 11.0 yards per reception. Johnston has been exclusively a deep threat this season, averaging 16.1 yards per catch.
The biggest concern entering this game is that Johnston only has 22 receptions in eight games. That lack of production has led to him managing just 354 yards. However, he was targeted eight times last week when Justin Herbert was forced to throw a lot against a weak secondary. I expect similar results this week. Johnston only needs one catch to hit the more than.
Derrick Henry leads the NFL in rushing yards, but he has run for fewer than 70 yards in back-to-back games. He's failed to top this number in three of his last four, and he's about to take on the 11th-best rush defense in football. Yet, there is reason to have hope for him on Monday night.
Henry has five 100-yard games this season. While the Chargers are very good against the run, they're still allowing over 110 yards per game on the ground. Last week, Chase Brown had 86 yards, despite the Chargers playing with the lead for nearly the entirety of that contest.
Henry is currently averaging 6.0 yards per carry, so even if the Ravens fall behind, which I don’t see happening, he could clear this line with just 15 carries.
It's been a boom or bust season for Zay Flowers. He has five games with at least 90 yards, but he has fewer than 40 yards in his other six games. He's gone for fewer than 40 yards in back-to-back contests. I worry he's in for another tough performance in a very tough matchup.
The Chargers are allowing just 206.6 passing yards per game this season. Though they allowed 342 last week, that was an outlier I don't expect to become a trend, even going up against one of the best offenses in football. During last week's game, the Chargers held Ja'Marr Chase to just 75 yards. While Tee Higgins had a massive 148-yard game, that just shows how hard of a time top receivers, even the best ones in the league, have in this matchup.
Flowers has been far too inconsistent to trust in a matchup this difficult.
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