DeAndre Hopkins, Andre Johnson's Instant Fantasy Reaction After Week 7

The shift from veteran Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson to DeAndre Hopkins in terms of fantasy football relevancy continued on the Week 7 edition of Monday Night Football.

Johnson's Texans visited the Pittsburgh Steelers just one week removed from the best fantasy performance of his disappointing season, which saw him post seven catches for 99 yards and a score for 13 points.

Through three quarters on Monday, Johnson was only targeted twice and made one catch for four yards. In that same span, Hopkins was targeted a team-high six times and had four grabs for 60 yards to lead the team in receiving.

Johnson rebounded in the final frame as he suddenly got four more targets with his team trailing, which bumped him to three catches for 49 yards. Still, Hopkins did more with his opportunities by the end of the night:

	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	TGTS	Fantasy Pts
D. Hopkins	6	108	18.0	0	9	8
A. Johnson	5	77	15.4	0	9	7

This is not some new thing. Look up the list of scorers this season, and Hopkins' name is well above that of his veteran mentor. Johnson's Week 6 showing generated his first touchdown and double-digit output of the season. Hopkins had three of those and a trio of scores entering Monday.

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If owners did the homework, both should have been on the bench anyway for Monday's affair considering the Steelers allow the seventh-fewest points to wideouts.

There is hope for both in the coming weeks, though, as the Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns all rank horribly against wideouts.

Ideally, owners would have sold high on Johnson after last week's outburst. It may be too late now, as Johnson once again confirmed he is hardly a borderline WR2—especially as he gets older and is in a run-first attack with journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick under center.

It is hard to recommend Hopkins as anything more than a matchup-based WR2 for those same reasons, along with the fact that Monday was only the fifth time this year he had caught a minimum of four passes.

Both are risky matchup-based plays as they fight for production in a miserable situation.

All fantasy information is courtesy of ESPN.com.