Why Davante Adams may be too volatile to draft in fantasy
Yahoo Fantasy's Josh Norris and Hayden Winks dive into Adams' stats to debate if the veteran receiver is a boom or bust candidate. 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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Craziest Davante Adams stats, you guys will know what they are.
It's inside the, the red zone and outside of it.
He had a 27% target share, inside the red zone, and then outside the red zone, that drops down to an 18% target share.
He got 0% of his targets outside the red zone were screened, so nothing manufactured.
And outside the red zone for Davante Adams, his average depth of target was almost 16 yards downfield.
That's like up there with like Alec Pierce, like some of the highest players in the NFL.
It was completely boom-bust in, in two ways.
One, is he scoring a red zone touchdown, or two, is he gonna come up with something way down the field?
And as you can see, on the website that we have here, the production goes way up and down with Davante Adams because the injuries, because it's red zone touchdowns or it's downfield stuff.
None of the manufactured stuff's gonna go to Davante Adams.
That's why they have Puka and why they were also number one in rushing success rate.
They don't need to be throwing the ball left and right anymore.
If they're just gonna run duo, create all this, runway for Blake Corum and Kyren Williams to never make a mistake rushing the ball, that's what they're gonna do.
So he's gonna be very volatile.
He's like the most boom-bust wide receiver three.
That's where we're drafting him, but I do think that the volatility with Davante Adams is kinda here to stay unless Puka obviously got injured.
Yeah, I mean, when Davante Adams and Puka Nacua were on the field together last year, he out-targeted Puka 31 to 10 in the red zone and- That's wild 28 to four just on end zone targets.
Again, this, this travels with Davante Adams.
It was with the Jets, it was with the Packers, it was with the Viking-- Not the Viking, with the Raiders.
Like all these places, he's that go-to player when you abandon the run and you just have, you know, hand movements, checks, calls, and boom, your slant routes, your fades, all that.
He's scoring a touchdown.
