Christian Watson offers fantasy managers immense upside
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss what fantasy managers can expect from Green Bay Packers WR Christian Watson this upcoming season. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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All right, we agree on Christian Watson.
We love Christian Watson as a pick.
I mean, he's consensus wide receiver 27.
For us, he stands here as wide receiver 24.
I mean, he averages 17 and a half fantasy points per game across 13 games where he finishes above a 75% route share.
He should finish above a 75% route share a lot more in games a season, because they're not rotating and mixing and matching, and we would love for him to stay healthy, on top of it.
I mean, what I thought was a major part of his game to be consistent last year was that he had more catches on out routes last year than he had true, like, targets on out routes combined in the rest of his career.
Yep.
So, he's changed his game.
He's evolved, and, to me, the reason why we can get him so late is because of his medical history on top of it.
But we saw what he did last year coming back from the ACL, and he looked fricking awesome, and so I wanna swing for the fences.
You know, try to draft the upside, and Christian Watson has immense upside to me.
Yeah, I think that he's being utilized in a very effective way, and the fact that even, like, someone like Savion Williams, who was supposed to be their wide receiver four, he's now on injured reserve.
Like, they do not have a wide receiver four.
Like, this rotation that we've been used to in Green Bay is not going to happen because they literally do not have the bodies to put them out there.
I think that the Josh Jacobs absence, which could be, you know, let's say six games through the entire year, I think that's gonna make them more pass heavy.
They already went into this off-season wanting to be faster paced, get out of the huddle quicker, get up to the ball and snap it right away.
I think the play volume's gonna go way higher.
This team has been bottom five in neutral pass rate and neutral pace since Jordan Love took over in about 2022.
So, I think that all these guys can get home.
Christian Watson's the most proven guy, and the fact that he was on pace for over 1,000 yards in the same calendar year that he had ACL surgery, like, just shows you- Right how big of a freak this guy is.
