Darnell Mooney Profile: More Than Just a Target Hog? (06/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 19 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Jacob Gibbs makes a case for Darnell Mooney while Adam tries to pour some cold water on it. What do the metrics say?
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| 0:00.0 | Darnel Mooney went over to 1,000 yards last year. |
| 0:06.7 | Now what can you do as an encore? |
| 0:08.2 | He is currently the 29th wide receiver off the board. |
| 0:10.6 | Let's talk about the metrics on Darnel Mooney with Jacob Gibbs of Sportsline right now. |
| 0:14.7 | Just go to sportsline.com and follow Jacob on Twitter at J.A. Gibbs underscore 23. |
| 0:20.0 | Jacob, break it down for me on Darno Mooney. |
| 0:22.3 | What do you like about him in terms of advanced stats? |
| 0:25.8 | So it was somewhat by necessity, but still, Darno Mooney completely dominated the volume in |
| 0:32.7 | Chicago last year and, like, really an unprecedented way for a second year receiver, |
| 0:37.2 | for any second year receiver, for any second year |
| 0:38.0 | receiver, especially a fifth round pick who like wasn't even a sure thing to beat out Anthony |
| 0:43.2 | Miller when he was drafted, you know what I mean? For him to come in in year two and just like |
| 0:47.1 | dominate the offense with Al Robinson who was healthy for, you know, at the beginning of the season, |
| 0:51.5 | like we talked about on his episode yesterday, |
| 0:54.8 | Mooney accounted for 26% of Chicago's targets and 30, 36% of their air yards over the course |
| 1:01.4 | of the full season. Only six players reached both of those benchmarks last year. Justin Jefferson, |
| 1:06.8 | Devonti Adams, Tyree Kill, D.K. Metcalfe, Brandon Cooks, DJ Moore. |
| 1:22.7 | Here's another fun list. Receivers under the age of 24, who finished a season with a target share and an area auditor chair as high as Mooney's, 26 and 36, over the past 15 years. |
| 1:25.0 | Nine receivers, other than Darna Mooney to do this. |
| 1:28.0 | Brandon Marshall, Calvin Johnson, Josh Gordon twice, Kelvin Benjamin, Mike Evans twice, Odo Becken twice, DeAndre Hopkins, D. Kim McHef, Justin Jefferson. So obviously that is a... Not bad. That's a pretty good list to be on. Unless he's Kelvin Benjamin, like everyone else on there, is a really, really, highly efficient, wide receiver one for fantasy. Yeah. Okay. I'll get it. I'm not a huge Mooney fan, so I'm hoping you're going to be able to convince me here. Alan Robinson, not in the picture. And it took a while for him to really separate himself. Before Alan Robinson's injury, Mooney was the number one guy, but not in the substantial |
| 2:01.8 | way that he was after Robinson came back, but we don't have to worry about that anymore, |
| 2:05.7 | and they didn't really replace him. So what does this mean for Mooney? |
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