Rashod Bateman Profile: Breakout Coming? (07/24 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Can Rashod Bateman fill Marquise Brown's shoes? What do his metrics from 2021 and from college suggest?
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| 0:00.0 | Big opportunity for Rashad Bateman will lead to a big season. |
| 0:08.1 | Let's find out what the advanced stats have to say with Jacob Gibbs. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Fantasy Football today and five, your Sunday audio edition here. |
| 0:16.7 | You can wait until the 80s to pick Rashad Bateman according to Fantasy Pro's average |
| 0:22.8 | opposition, full PPR. |
| 0:25.5 | What do you see from Rashad Bateman? |
| 0:26.5 | You've already hyped up Gabriel Davis at your three receiver. |
| 0:29.2 | Now I need to know your two receiver. |
| 0:31.6 | What do you think about Rashad Bateman this year? |
| 0:33.8 | Yeah, Bateman and Davis are kind of similar in my mind and that they really struggle in |
| 0:38.7 | year one and the rates that they posted really were discouraging. |
| 0:42.9 | But I'm trying not to overreact to them. |
| 0:44.9 | I think that they both have shown some medications. |
| 0:47.4 | They're really good players and they could progress in larger roles here. |
| 0:50.6 | Similar thing happened for Michael Payton last year where he really had discouraging |
| 0:53.5 | per-route rates as a rookie and then really stepping the larger role in year two and |
| 0:58.6 | ship those off and was extremely productive for Fantasy. |
| 1:02.2 | So I'm hoping we see something similar from Bateman here. |
| 1:04.0 | He was only targeted on 16% of his routes as a rookie. |
| 1:07.2 | I only average 1.26 yards per out run. |
| 1:10.1 | And the list of rookie receivers who have run 400 and more routes and had rates that low |
| 1:14.6 | is really discouraging. |
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