Fantasy Football Take-Shopping: Nico Collins leads an elite Texans’ WR trio — but is that puzzle unsolvable?

C.J. Stroud is the rising fantasy football tide that lifts all boats — but will he do it for ALL the Texans receivers in 2024? (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

It’s June. No one has nor does anyone need “the answers to the test” yet — to use a silly analogy that somehow makes the very unserious pursuit of understanding and projecting NFL teams and players seem like some profound quest.

We’re writing thoughts in pencil and merely take-shopping, for now.

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That makes for a perfect backdrop to discuss one of the most difficult puzzles to solve with the current, limited offseason information we have: How will the production of the Texans’ wide receiver trio sort itself out?

The Texans threw a massive wrench into this room by trading for Stefon Diggs, an elite wide receiver in talent and production during his stretch with the Bills. That trade took a room with a clear-cut ascending duo of homegrown talents and created a crowded trio.

With the deserved high-level hype surrounding C.J. Stroud coming off a dynamic rookie season, people will want to get this Texans receiver room right. As always, the key will be to isolate player talent and specific roles.

Nico Collins

The first step in properly sorting through the Texans’ wide receiver room is to understand how good Nico Collins is right now.

Forget your preconceived notions about who Collins was before 2023; they probably weren’t correct, anyway. Most people label Collins as an unproductive “face-planter” receiver or a simple non-needle-mover when listing off Stroud’s weapons coming into last season. Those who did so just obsess over results and stats, never laying eyes on a single second of Collins’ game film. When you actually watched him in isolation, you could see plenty of reps featuring a quality, smooth separator against man and press coverage in Year 1 and Year 2 as a starting-caliber X-receiver. Wide receivers can’t just magic themselves the…

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Publish date : 2024-06-12 22:15:52

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