Rolling through Week 17 positional bargains. Today: wide receivers.
As always, injuries equal opportunities, and Tyler Lockett’s
season-ending injury opens the door for Jermaine Kearse ($4,500 FanDuel
price). Kearse earned nine targets last
weekend and has a nice floor against the porous San Francisco defense.
Dallas has nothing to prove Sunday.
But Terrance Williams ($4,700) has plenty. He’s a distant fourth in targets (56), as Dez
Bryant, Cole Beasley, and Jason Witten each have 90+. He, too, had 90+ last season. A free agent this offseason, Williams has
enough big-play ability to be a WR3+ in a game where he should be the leading
receiver when the Big Three are inevitably rested.
One of my preseason “bold predictions,” Kenny Stills ($4,900) has a
respectable eight games with 9+ fantasy points and is facing a beatable New
England pass D. He’s tied for 29th
in WR fantasy scoring on the season and should be started as a DJax-lite
boom-bust guy.
It seems like every week I hype up Sterling Shepard, and most weeks he
comes through. His $5,200 price tag is
ridiculously low. The Giants’ #2
receiver has scored in six of his past eight games and is a solid bet for 10-14
PPR points.
The biggest knock on Golden Tate is that he’s scored only three
times. But despite a painful start to
the season (134 yards and zero TDs through the first five games), Tate is
Matthew Stafford’s clear-cut #1 target (15th in the league with 125
looks) and is facing an exposable Packer pass defense in a must-win game. It doesn’t get any bigger than this. You better believe Detroit will lean heavily
on its best receiver.