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Beware! Not all players will return their promised value in 2024 fantasy football drafts? The team at Yahoo Fantasy identifies five wide receiver fades to consider avoiding at their current ADP.
Christian Kirk, Jacksonville Jaguars
Kirk is hardly going in a range (70th overall in consensus ADP) where taking him will foil your fantasy season. However, he’s just a guy I’ve been drafting around in the mid-rounds this season at wide receiver. Kirk will hold an important role for the Jaguars offense as both a layup option and vertical slot target. His biggest block on the path to upside is that he’s a slot-mostly player who now shares a receiver room with two strictly perimeter options.
Gabe Davis is not a target-earner but he’s a snap-eater and as Dwain McFarland noted on a recent Yahoo Fantasy Forecast episode, he’s been on the field for 100% of Trevor Lawrence’s preseason plays. The target for me in this receiver room has been and remains rookie Brian Thomas Jr. The hulking receiver has all the skills to be a No. 1 in time and while he needs some development, should be the top target-earner for this team down the stretch. My enthusiasm for Thomas has pushed me off Kirk as a mid-round target. — Matt Harmon
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Davante Adams, Las Vegas Raiders
Adams may be on the downside of his career, but he still ranked second in the league in targets (175), target share (33.1%), target rate (31.1%) and red-zone targets (29) last season. He also ranked first in air yards share (44.2%) and first-read target rate (40.6%) and fifth in expected fantasy points per game (22.0).
However, Adams’ fantasy production has dropped three straight seasons, and wide receivers have historically seen a 34% decline in baseline production during their 11th year in the league. Adams’ yards per route run versus man coverage has fallen from 3.06 to 2.00 to 1.66 over the last two seasons, when he’s started to show real signs of decline…
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Publish date : 2024-08-28 15:45:50
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