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With Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis leaving the Bills, many targets have been vacated in Buffalo. Rookie Keon Coleman might already be the best interview in the league and is easy to root for, but his 7.3 YPT was the second-lowest among this year’s WR prospects, and he was never a target hog throughout college. Khalil Shakir has had his moments, but he managed a lowly 14.2% target rate last season even when given a bigger opportunity.
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There’s been some Chase Claypool hype, but Curtis Samuel should be considered the favorite to be Buffalo’s top wide receiver in 2024. He’s a good fit in Buffalo, bringing a dimension the Bills’ offense desperately needs. Samuel badly outplayed Jahan Dotson in a hopelessly dysfunctional Washington offense last season, somehow producing five top-25 WR weekly finishes while catching passes mostly from Sam Howell. Samuel is likely to deal with an injury at some point, especially with an expanded role, but he looks like one of the best WR values in fantasy drafts right now.
The Bills went run-heavy after Joe Brady took over play-calling last season, but Samuel is still in a good situation to put up the best fantasy season of his career.
• Typically, I’m biased toward drafting younger players in fantasy football, but I’m making two notable exceptions in 2024, with Cooper Kupp being one. His performance unquestionably dropped last season, when he was clearly playing through injury. But a compromised Kupp still managed to match Puka Nacua’s targets when they were on the field together, including first-read target share. Nacua emerged as a true alpha as a rookie and will continue to demand targets, but Kupp enters 2024 finally healthy.
Kupp just turned 31 years old, but fantasy wide receivers traditionally don’t show much decline during their eighth year in the league. The Rams led the NFL in yards per play when their offense was fully healthy last season, and Sean McVay is…
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Publish date : 2024-06-24 14:21:29
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