Keenan Allen, Malcom Floyd, Eddie Royal's Instant Fantasy Reaction After Week 7

The San Diego Chargers were not the only folks upset over the team's Week 7 home loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Fantasy owners of wideouts Keenan Allen, Malcom Floyd and Eddie Royal took a trip down disappointment lane, too.   

Led by quarterback Philip Rivers, San Diego entered with the No. 6 passing attack in the league and had a somewhat favorable matchup against a Chiefs defense that entered ranked right in the middle of the pack against wideouts, having allowed three of five opponents to score 21 or more points.

The odds did not exactly play out in favor of the owners, as the final numbers show:

	REC	YDS	TD	TGTS	Fantasy Pts.
K. Allen	6	58	0	10	5
M. Floyd	3	50	0	7	5
E. Royal	1	20	0	5	2

Allen, wisely owned in 99.1 percent of leagues, has been a mystery all season long. Sunday's five points are better than four of his outings this season, with his season-high 13 points coming against Jacksonville in Week 4.

In other words, Sunday was par for the course despite a hefty amount of targets, something Bleacher Report's Alessandro Miglio suggests has more to do with Rivers than Allen:

Royal has actually been the go-to guy for Rivers this season, although he seems due for such an outing every now and then. After outbursts of 16 and 22 points beginning in Week 3, he posted just four points in Week 5.

Royal is a touchdown-based play, so his 43.2 percent of owners were surely upset to see him come up with some strange drops Sunday, as noted by Kevin Acee of U-T San Diego:

Floyd came back down to Earth as expected. After a season-high 16 points last week in Oakland, he continues to tout just two performances in double digits this season and a pair of nine-point showings.

Two of the three are extremely risky bets in the coming weeks, elite quarterback or not. Denver, the Week 8 opponent, gives up the third-fewest points to wideouts. The matchup also comes on a short week (Thursday night) on the road. An encounter with Miami right before the bye means a duel with a unit that surrenders the 13th-fewest points to the position. 

Floyd and Royal are WR3 material at best, with the latter being of the high-upside variety if he can actually find the end zone. Allen would be someone to buy low on, as the odds of him getting back to WR1 form are certainly worth betting on at the moment.

Allen has yet to explode, but of all the targets in San Diego to invest in, it would be him. A low price tag for a potential return to WR1 form is hard to pass up. It certainly beats hitting the wire for a lesser-known name with what is likely a lesser arm getting the ball to him in the coming weeks.

All scoring info courtesy of ESPN standard leagues, as is points-against info and ownership stats. Statistics courtesy of ESPN. Philadelphia, Tampa Bay on bye.