{"id":1029807,"date":"2026-10-17T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1029807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:24:17","slug":"christian-justus-watson-week-6-preview-vs-the-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1029807\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Justus Watson Week 6 Preview vs. the Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Justus Watson has a decent matchup when his Green Bay Packers meet the Dallas Cowboys in Week 6 (Sunday, 8:20 p.m. ET). The Cowboys have given up 227 passing yards per game, 21st in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Watson&#8217;s 26 receptions are good enough for a team-high 474 yards (94.8 per game) and six TDs this year. He has been targeted on 40 occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/973thegame.iheart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">97.3 The Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watson vs. the Cowboys<\/p>\n<p>Watson vs the Cowboys (since 2021): No games<br \/>\nDallas has allowed just one opposing receiver to pick up 100 or more receiving yards in a game in the 2026 season.<br \/>\nThe Cowboys have surrendered a TD pass to seven opposing players this year.<br \/>\nThree opposing players have hauled in at least two TD passes in matchups with Dallas on the season.<br \/>\nWatson will play against the NFL&#8217;s 21st-ranked pass defense this week. The Cowboys give up 227 passing yards per game.<br \/>\nOpponents of the Cowboys have put up 10 touchdowns through the air (two per game). The Cowboys&#8217; defense is 25th in the league in that category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/440195?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1436&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=Ef02WkDHUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch NFL action all year long on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watson Receiving Insights<\/p>\n<p>In three of five games this season, Watson has topped his prop for receiving yards.<br \/>\nWatson has been targeted on 40 of his team&#8217;s 185 passing attempts this season (21.6% target share).<br \/>\nHe is averaging 11.9 yards per target (eighth in league play), racking up 474 yards on 40 passes thrown his way.<br \/>\nIn four of five games this season, Christian Justus Watson has a touchdown catch, with more than one TD in two games.<br \/>\nHe has six total touchdowns this season (50.0% of his team&#8217;s 12 offensive TDs).<br \/>\nWith seven red zone targets, Watson has been on the receiving end of 25.0% of his team&#8217;s 28 red zone pass attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=Ef02WkDHUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Watson&#8217;s Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Justus Watson has a decent matchup when his Green Bay Packers meet the Dallas Cowboys in Week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[134042,230,229,257,2461,61566,7,345,6],"class_list":["post-1029807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-christian-justus-watson","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallascowboys","tag-ds-sports","tag-football","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117455058599431093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}