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Good morning.

It’s the holiday season, which means you’re at some kind of function every night, you’re drinking on a random Tuesday, and NFL football is suddenly played on Saturdays, too.

With your calendar full and the days seemingly blending together, it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on around the league. Luckily our weekly trends newsletter is here to fill you in on players trending up and down around the league, along with some starts and sits for tonight and Saturday.

Let’s get after it…

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MARKET TRENDS 🧐

Running Back

📈 Stock Up: Kenneth Gainwell. Since Week 10, Kenny G has out-snapped Jaylen Warren in all but one game, per Fantasy Points’ Chris Wecht. He’s averaging 18 fantasy PPG down that stretch and is quickly becoming a favorite of Aaron Rodgers’, who shouted him out in his press conference this week.

🚑️ Monitor the Texans RB situation. Nick Chubb returned to practice yesterday, but Woody Marks sat out. Jawhar Jordan may be an intriguing streaming candidate this week:

📉 Stock Down: De’Von Achane. Given his current average of 20.8 fantasy PPG and soft schedule, Achane was on track to be a league winner. Unfortunately, though, QB Tua Tagovailoa has been benched…

In games without Tua last year, Achane averaged just 8.6 fantasy PPG (compared to 22.5 PPG with him), per Own The League. Luckily the Dolphins play the Bengals this week, so he might still reach RB1 status, but this move certainly hurts his ceiling.

📈 Stock Up: Michael Carter. He’s the guy in Arizona. Carter handled 70% of all designed carries and ran 63% of the routes last week, including 100% of the carries inside the 10, per Fantasy Points Data.

📉 Stock Down: Quinshon Judkins. The Browns RB hasn't hit 4.0 yards per carry in a game since Week 5, and since Week 8, he's had just two runs of over 15 yards. Cleveland’s offensive line is a disaster, ranking dead-last in adjusted yards before contact per attempt generated (1.17), per Fantasy Points’ Ryan Heath.

🚀 Travis Etienne = League Winner?! Bhaysul Tuten injured his finger in the 3rd quarter of the Jags game in Week 15 and will be out for a few weeks. After he left the game, ETN played 92% of the snaps and handled 80% of the designed carries for the rest of the quarter, with LeQuint Allen only mixing in later in the 4th with the team up big, per Chris Wecht. ETN has a tough matchup this week against Denver, but the former 1st round pick should more than make up for that with this expected bellcow usage.

❌ Sit Ken Walker. You may be tempted to throw him in your lineup tonight since he had 20.1 fantasy points the last time he faced the Rams back in Week 11, but most experts are willing to bet that was just a fluke. L.A. has allowed the 3rd-fewest fantasy PPG to RBs, including just five TDs. They've also given up explosive runs at the 4th-lowest rate this season and 2nd-lowest since Week 11, per NFL.com’s Michael Florio.

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