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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Advanced Stats on Some Key WRs (11/13 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Gibbs is back with the advanced stats you need to know. He'll tell you why Diontae Johnson has such a favorable matchup, why Jerry Jeudy could thrive this week and if this is a Keenan Allen or a Mike Williams week.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We'll be talking about three wide receivers that you may have high expectations for this week.

0:07.7

What to be advanced stats tell us. Find out right now on FFT in five.

0:11.9

I'm Adam Azer. Here's Jacob Gibbs of Sportsline. Follow him on Twitter at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23.

0:19.3

And check out all his content on Sportsline.com, which is a terrific product, very

0:24.4

affordable, great gambling content, great fantasy content, check it out. All right, Jacob, let's start

0:29.3

with Deontay Johnson. So no clay pool this week. And coming off a disappointing week for Deontay Johnson,

0:36.0

I know you're a big Deontay Johnson guy.

0:37.6

Is he going to bounce back?

0:39.2

Yeah, I only have four receivers projected for more points than Deonté Johnson this week, which

0:44.8

obviously could, you know, that could, that projecting could get thrown off by just the bad

0:50.7

offensive environment in Pittsburgh or Detroit.

0:53.5

If either one of those offenses implodes, then it could be a bad week for him.

0:57.9

But yeah, I have Deonté Whitey 305, and it's mostly just about the target projection.

1:02.9

With Claypool out, there's really no one to challenge him for targets, especially

1:08.0

on downfield looks, which is particularly interesting in this matchup.

1:11.2

The Lions have the highest opponent average depth of target, and it's not even close.

1:14.8

They're like 20% above the next highest team, which is really absurd.

1:19.7

When games are relatively close, teams are attacking aggressively downfield against this defense.

1:26.1

And I think that's going to lead to a lot of targets for Deonti because who else is,

1:30.8

he's the other two guys that he's going to be looking at throwing to our James Washington,

1:34.0

Ray Rory McLeod, or, you know, maybe Anthony Miller, those guys have some of the lowest

1:38.4

target pro ron rates of any players in the entire NFL.

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