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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Ceilings to Target (05/26 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies

Football, Sports

4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

SportsLine's Jacob Gibbs joins us to tell you why he's so excited about Michael Pittman and why Tee Higgins and Dalvin Cook are also worth targeting. 

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0:00.0

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Which players have higher ceilings than you might realize.

0:36.6

We'll tell you right now on Fantasy Football today in five. I'm Adam Azer. I'm joined by Jacob Gibbs. Follow him on Twitter at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23. Writer for Sportsline, great advanced metrics. And he's going to tell us about some players who, if they regress a little bit, the ceilings are really high. And these are guys that you're looking at in your draft. So let's go one by one here. Start with Michael Pittman. Yeah, I'm glad we're

1:00.5

starting with Pittman because we're probably going to spend maybe the majority of our time here.

1:03.5

I'm super excited about Pittman. There's a lot to unpack within his collegia and NFL, you know,

1:09.3

advanced analytical profile, and everything seems to be pointing the right direction for a NFL, you know, advanced analytical profile and everything

1:11.6

seems to be pointing the right direction for a huge, you know, year three breakout here

1:15.9

with Matt Ryan now under center.

1:19.1

So Pellon was actually, he was somebody that was not very high on heading into last year

1:23.1

in his time at USC and in his rookie season of the Colts, he had not shown any ability to draw

1:30.0

targets at a high rate. As a rookie, his target per outrun rate was only 16.7%. And the list of

1:39.3

players who have ran enough rats to qualify and had a route target per out run rate below 17% is really

1:45.7

unencouraging among rookie receivers really the only ones who have gone on to have any sort of a

1:50.8

productive career are corlin sutton and michael gallop and then at USC he was 66th percentile

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