Michael Gallup

Week 9 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Amazingly enough, Gallup had his best volume game of the season with Ben DiNucci under center last week when he received 12 targets. Of course the sorry state of the Dallas offense meant he only turned those targets into seven catches for 61 yards and no touchdowns. The knock on Gallup all season in fantasy was his lack of consistent volume, and it looks as though he may be used more heavily with Dak Prescott injured. That being said, the efficiency of the entire offense, including Gallup, has taken a massive hit with Prescott hurt and all of the Dallas skill players will be risky plays moving forward, particularly this week when they take on a tough Steelers defense.

Week 7 at Washington Football Team
Michael Gallup's role as Dallas's deep threat was volatile for fantasy purposes with Dak Prescott under center. Now Gallup has to deal with Andy Dalton's general inability to push the ball downfield for the remainder of the season while still competing with Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb, Ezekiel Elliott and Dalton Schultz for targets. That is not a recipe for fantasy success. Gallup has still shown his talent and big-play ability in spurts this season, but it is just so hard to predict when those explosive games will come and the lack of shorter targets means Gallup will be a boom or bust play most weeks. Gallup saw six targets from Dalton in Week 6, placing him behind Cooper, Lamb, and Elliott, and it hard to project him for much more than that any given week unless Dallas suffers an injury on offense. Gallup is an extremely risky WR3 in fantasy and should be on the bench if you have better options.

Week 5 vs. New York Giants
Michael Gallup is quickly evolving into a total boom or bust fantasy play. The arrival of CeeDee Lamb has relegated Gallup to a one-trick deep threat role, making him volatile in fantasy on a weekly basis. Gallup boomed in Week 3 against the Seahawks, but Week 4 was another bust with him only catching two of five targets for 29 yards. What is troubling for Gallup is that Dallas is throwing for a ton of volume to compensate for their atrocious defense and he still cannot get consistent usage. He's only exceeded five targets in one game this season, and it was the one game where he turned in a big day. Projecting similar performances in future games will be exceedingly difficult given how crowded the target tree is from Dak Prescott. Barring an injury somewhere in the Dallas offense, Gallup is no better than a boom-bust flex play on a weekly basis.