 The NFL season is inching near and the second week of the preseason has given us a few key takeaways to focus on, whether that's good play, poor play or injuries. I'm branding a dual up managing editor at numberfire.com. I'll be breaking down three players who stock look to be on the rise entering the 2021 season based on this past week in the NFL. I'm going to start with a player who actually himself hasn't looked totally great, but it's more about the overall situation and that's San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance. Lance, of course, the third overall pick this season out of North Dakota State. His preseason stat line shows just 13 completions on 28 attempts, but that's been good for 230 yards, which is 8.2 per attempt. Now, drops have kind of plagued him. NFL's next-gen stats count three drops on Lance's 28 attempts in pro football focus has has credited his pass catchers with six drops thus far, but he also has been charged with five turnover worthy plays according to PFF as well. So it's not all perfect by any means that the pass catchers have had some issues, but he's also had his own issues. The bigger thing here is that Jimmy Garoppolo has not done much to suggest that he's going to be the locked in starter all season long for the 49ers, even though head coach Kyle Shanahan said he's still sticking with Garoppolo as the week one starter thus far. The point here is more that Lance can bring league altering upside in our fantasy leagues. He's got a 9.3 yard average depth of target. So he's pushing the ball down field pretty well. That's about three yards deeper than what we've seen from Jimmy Garoppolo lately. He's got rushing ability. He's got elite yards after the catch teammates as well in San Francisco. They're ranked top top five in percentage of yards gained after the catch last year. So pretty much a great situation for Trey Lance and we're not hearing that Kyle Shanahan is locked into Garoppolo. So that just makes it a matter of time before Lance gets a chance this season and you will want him on your fantasy teams. At running back, we could be seeing the return to relevance of last year's running back darling. That is James Robinson for the Jacksonville Jaguars. The primary reason for that is an injury to the Jaguars first round pick Travis Etienne. Etienne has sustained a list-frank injury and while we don't know yet the severity of it, reports are that the injury could have a timetable of a few days to a few months or honestly indefinitely. So we don't know yet, but I've been down on James Robinson all off season. You don't only draft a first round running back who happened to be former teammates with the franchise quarterback that you just drafted first overall and really not intend to play him. So I was up on Etienne down on Robinson, but if Etienne enters the season shy of 100%, Robinson just has a clear path to a primary role in the passing game and that's crucial. Last season Robinson averaged 4.3 targets per game, which was a top 15 number at the position. And if you account for the fact that targets are just more valuable than carries from a running back standpoint, from a fantasy standpoint, and you look at things from like an adjusted workload, Robinson had the fifth best adjusted role among running backs with at least eight games played last season. So even if Etienne's injury requires a shorter recovery, which hope it does because it's never fun to have these players get injured, Robinson's early season value still should be trending up and the Jaguars get some easy ground game matchups to start the season with Houston, Denver, Arizona, and Cincinnati to start the 2021 campaign. The last player who stock for me is really shooting up is New York Jets wide receiver Corey Davis. Before I reel off some really promising pre-season stats for Davis, I will add in the caveat that second round pick Elijah Moore has been limited this off season with a quad injury and that Jameson Crowder has been underutilized in the pre-season. But let's get back to those really promising stats for Corey Davis. Rookie quarterback Zach Wilson has thrown just 20 pass attempts this pre-season and 10 of them have gone to Corey Davis who in total has been targeted on 10 of his 13 routes, which is 77% and no player, no other player with at least 10 routes has been targeted on more than half of theirs. So I mean, that's a clear cut above. And yes, I understand how small of a sample that is, but two things to keep in mind. Moore and Crowder are going to be more of lower average depth of target slot receivers. And the competition on the outside for Davis isn't that great. I love Denzo Mims coming out of college, but certainly he's not been garnering a plethora of praise this off season. So Davis should be featured on downfield targets for the Jets, while also really pushing for and kind of being the main candidate to lead the Jets in target share. And those downfield targets matter a ton. A downfield target, so a target traveling at least 16 yards downfield is worth about 1.4 times as much as your average receiver target. And if he gets the lion's share of those for the Jets, that's going to matter over the long run. And honestly, through their first eight games shared last season in Tennessee, Davis was featured more than star receiver AJ Brown. So Davis really broke out last year, was fourth in the league in yards per route run. There shouldn't be much of a reason he won't be feature for the Jets who have a win total of six even on Fando Sportsbook that implies will be throwing plenty this season. And the early returns imply that Davis should be the primary beneficiary. So that's going to do it for me for this edition of the Fando hurry up. Best of luck this season. And I hope you all find this year's James Robinson in your fantasy football drafts.