10 Fantasy Football Takeaways from Week 9: Brock Bowers returns with a statement game - NBC Sports
Brock Bowers returned to the lineup with the best fantasy performance of any player this year. He and Rico Dowdle are two of the hottest names in fantasy as the playoff push heats up.
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10 Fantasy Football Takeaways from Week 9: Brock Bowers returns with a statement game
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Published November 4, 2025 03:07 PM
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Week 9 is in the books, bringing us to the midway point of the NFL’s regular season. With the fantasy football playoffs fast approaching, these are the 10 storylines from Sunday’s game you need to know.
If you didn’t draft Brock Bowers this year, congratulations. You stared down utter annihilation and annihilation blinked first. Bowers being hurt for the better part of the first two months of the year might be enough to keep his fantasy backers out of the playoffs more often than not. Bowers has been healthy for two games this year: a 5/103 line in Week 1 and a 12/127/3 line in Week 9. His 43.3 PPR points on Sunday are the most for any player in a game this year. Despite mixing in three injury-plagued starts between those games, Bowers still ranks second in yards per route run (2.33) and seventh in YAC per catch (6.1) among all tight ends. He holds PFF’s No. 1 receiving grade among tight ends and ranks second in both target and air yards share. Bowers is on track to be a top-five fantasy pick next year.
The most divisive quarterback start of the year is seemingly McCarthy’s return to the lineup in Week 9. He completed 14-of-25 passes for 143 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. McCarthy was sacked six times and punched in a rushing touchdown. He made several impressive throws, particularly on back-shoulder targets outside of the sticks.
He missed several throws, too. But it's hard not to get excited about the upside when you see a guy do stuff like this, in career start No. 3, against one of the league's top teams.J.J. McCarthy's best plays vs. Lions: pic.twitter.com/Kvl8M6Rj0N
The game also looked entirely too fast for him at times. This notably showed up in his pressure-to-sack rate, which clocked in at 35.7 percent. His 38.9 percent pressure-to-sack rate on the year leads the league by a wide margin. McCarthy has the third-highest turnover-worthy play rate on the year when pressured an
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