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Star little wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, Christian Watson, rookie, kind of really good rookie. Last year he finishes the wide receiver thirty three, but it was kind of the last half of the season, which you're really were kind of in tune with his ADP right now is wide receiver twenty three, and much like the player we had last week. He's kind of a tale of two halves. He's got. Weeks one through nine, he averaged one catch for nine point seven yards and one touchdown.
It was a rushing touchdown, and then he dropped that opening that opening season bomb touchdown. That was that I think haunted haunted Packer fans for quite a while. But you know, he could have had another touchdown.
Yeah, I mean, he started this season off really rough, and you hear Rogers talk about it, and because some of those Pat McAfee interviews, he's like he kind of struggling. Then after that Cowboy game, the kind of the floodgates really opened for him. He averaged after that game, which was in Week ten, he averaged three point seven catches sixty yards, but he had eight total touchdowns, which is crazy. All those came. Those eight total touchdowns came in a four game span.
Yeah, wasn't it two to two to two and two?
I think it was three to two. Something like one to one I think is what it was. Yeah, but still insane because he was the wide receiver nine in that.
Span to carry the one divide vices.
I think he had three in the Dallas game for sure.
Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, Now, in fairness to Watson, he was hurt through most of that first half of the season. Yes, so you know, it wasn't like he was out there and just not performing. Mostly he wasn't even on the field in the first half of the season.
Yeah. I mean, I'm a little weary because I mean, you mentioned the injury. But when he was healthy, like we saw the touchdowns. Everyone knows that he was scoring touchdowns. But outside of that, he didn't give you a lot of kind of the volume you hope to see in the passing game. He only had two games with five plus receptions throughout the whole season. He never had a game with more than six, zero games with double digit targets,
and he had a eleven point seventeen target share. Romeo Dobbs and Robert Tunnian were at eleven point nine percent, So they saw.
Robert Tunyan and Romeo dubbed Dobbs, who did like nothing all season, Yes, had a higher percentage team target share. M That doesn't make you feel great.
It doesn't make you feel great at all, and especially and it would be one thing if maybe you saw the production in college or kind of you've seen it before it because right wide receiver twenty three is a steep price to pay for. You're like, that's a quality receiver, probably a fourth or fifth round pick for you. So he only had like the most targets he ever had in college or the pros NDSU has high was forty three, and that gets targets, yes, targets target or no catch starr.
It was it was receptions that no, yeah, and NDCU the most he was forty three. And that's not that's not like he's playing the SEC or the Big ten. He's playing an NDSU.
NBSU is a really good Division two program, but they're.
Not in the No. Yeah, that fbs correct.
All right, Well, let's let's talk about where he can go from rookie season to sophomore season because obviously, at wide receiver twenty three, people are counting on him to have more production. The touchdowns are great, but if you're only gonna have three four receptions a game, no way does that touchdown productivity hold.
Yeah, So he's gonna definitely have to step up just from a pure volume, because we've seen the touchdowns. We know what he is in the red zone. We know what he can be used, kind of a as a down the field sort of option super fast. I just have questions whether or not he's going to be because he's being drafted like he is the one in this offense right now. And to say that he is, to say the Packers don't draft a Smith and Jigba or like one of those elite pass catching tit ends like
a Mayor or a Dalton Kincaid. That's really going to cut into his already low team targets. Yeare I mean he was fighting with anybody for targets last season? Oh?
Yeah, nobody right was running unopposed. Basically, yes, Alan Lazard did nothing. The team let him walk this year.
You also have to think about the whole Jordan Love aspects of this too, because we truly have just zero idea how good or how bad Jordan Love will.
Yeah, we think we know a little bit about Jordan Love, but not a lot. So I thought it would be worth He's to go back to his one career start, and he's had one. It was against the Chiefs, it was two seasons ago, and so I went back and rewatched every one of his passes. From that game. What a freaking disaster. I did not remember it being so bad. So the team got they got shut out through the first fifty five minutes of the game, and wow, Jordan
Love was awful. His technique looked so shaky. Now again, this is two years ago, right, so you know, take over a grain of salt. He improvised when he didn't necessarily have to. His passes were not accurate. He threw into coverage constantly. I mean, just really bad decision making. He was mostly a one read passer. He would stare down a guy and then covered or not. Here comes the ball. Now. A lot of times those guys were
Demonta Adams, who bailed out some bad passes. And that dude battled for some balls in that game, and that turned out okay. When he got blitzed, Jordan Love just folded. It was. It was way worse than I remember. Oh, by the way, he is a little bit more mobile too, so we did see some scrambling from him. You know, he's tall, he's kind of lanky, and he's got some he does have some running ability. He got forced out of the pocket a lot sometimes of his own accord.
But you know, for whatever it's worth, that one full game that we got out of Jordan Love was not at all promising.
Yeah, I also went we re watched the end of the Eagles game from last season when the Eagles blew out the Packers and they put in Jordan Love at the end, which I mean, you can say it was a blowout, so maybe the defense wasn't trying. It's hard, but I meant, I think he had a couple of good passes in there. I remember a long touchdown to I think Christian Watson actually, so maybe that can play
off something. But I'm just not entirely. Like I said, we just don't know, because you mentioned the game from two years ago. Two years is kind of a long time. You can't hopefully improved it that time.
I hope he's better.
He had three years to sit behind Aaron Rodgers. Hopefully he's better.
Okay, but this, if you're the Packers and you know this Aaron Rodgers drama is not new. If Jordan Love looked like an above average NFL quarterback to the Packers, they'd already cut that sing with Aaron Rodgers. Would have happened last year, you know, not this year. The separation would have already happened, I think.
But I think Rogers one back to back MVP is when he when they draft Jordan Love and then it's MVP MVP. You can't want You cannot cut an MVP quarterback just.
Because traded him at higher value though, right.
I don't know. I just don't know, because I think at that time, the Packers like, Okay, we still we just went to the NFT champion or we got the back to back one seed. I think two times we're trying to make a run. Rogers are our best chance
to do that. We still have a Super Bowl winning roster probably in their minds, so they're not like they're not just gonna, We're gonna like this is probably the worst case narrow for the Packers, that Rogers is bad and then the whole, the whole thing s blows them there force it a it's a monsoon down there in Green Bounty, know what to call it. But I think that's I just back to Jordan Love. I don't know.
That's That's the only thing I can land on is I don't know, and I'm willing to take a chance that I don't know, because that's how you kind of get some of these really good values at ADP.
I would rather pay Jordan Loves ADP than Christian Watson's ADP. Oh, for sure loves. Probably I don't have him in front of me, probably going off the board his quarterback thirty. Yeah, so I would rather pay that than gamble on Christian Watson. And obviously Christian Watson can only be as good as Jordan Love lets him be.
Let's play the ADP game. Let's play the game. Okay, First one, DJ Moore? Why does he for twenty one?
I will take to prove in Dj Moore, Not not that he's ever been flashy, but this is the best downfield passer that he's ever going to get paired with now in justin fields?
Okay, Jerry Judy, why does hever? Twenty two?
You know for the moment, I'm gonna stick with again. Jerry Judy is a really good receiver and that offense gets better in Denver. I'll stick with Jerry Judy.
I'm with you. Drake London, why is hever? Twenty four?
I don't trust Atlanta's quarterbacks?
All right, here we go, I'm right, Drake, Drake, it might be my most drafted wid all right, because I at the end of the year with Ritters, he had an ungodly amount of targets and receptions. Like he he proved that he was a volume guy and he was a wae guy in college too. This guy put up over I think like twelve touchdowns over a thousand yards at college, eighty receptions.
Super productive.
Yeah, I'm with Drake.
You kind of selling me, actually, Andrake Christal Watson.
All Right, Keenan Allen, why does he for twenty five?
This seems too low. People are just bored of Keenan Allen. But he's still a good player. Health, the injuries and stuff, I get that. I mean that's you know, that is a that's a that's a real area of concern for him. So I would, but I'd still take Keenan Allen.
Speaking of criminally under ranked Christian Kirk, why does he for twenty six.
When he finishes wide receiver nine last year and Trevor Lawrence is just gonna get better? Yeah, that is a that's a terrible ranking for him.
Are you Are you in agreement that Calvin.
Ridley's gonna come back? Yeah, it's going to eat into someone. What Christian Kirk got last year, but still so.
We're pretty much in agreement that Christian Watson's.
Yeah, I've got I think there are all these players who are going right around Christian Watson. I'd take all of them. Yeah, yes, what Christian Watson and I just don't believe. You gotta have productivity. The touchdowns are great, but you can't sustain those kinds of touchdowns on three and four receptions a game. I'll do it. And then
the Jordan Love question mark. So yeah, too much, too much risk for my blood, particularly in a format like Guillotine, where you know, any any bad game could be your last. I can't. I can't advocate for Christian Watson any format. What do you think in Dynasty? Are you more intrigued about Christian Watson in Dynasty because the age and the upside trajectory that he could have.
Yeah, I think I shot on him in Dynasty just because he's he's young, and he's you see the talent, like you see the frame. You just gotta hope he kind of improves on some of those.
Frames of picket fence. I mean, the dude is tiny. Christian Watson, well, he's tall, but he's just so thin and lanky.
Is that true? I think I've seen him. He looks kind of big, if.
You think so, I see a track I see a track star playing in pads.
Okay, that's fair. But he's tall. Though it's tall. I feel like he's bigger than t Higgins though I mean I is tall, but I feel like he's more built to Bill Nagan.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't. I don't see it that way. Yeah, it's two bad because you know, I just watched that whole Jordan Love game, but that was two years ago, so I can get to see Christian Watson.
I'll put it this way. I'm not going out there and training for Christian Watson, Like he's not a buye for me. But if if I like stumbled my way into him, wouldn't be in Dynasty.
Yep, yeah, okay, all right, thank you for listening to this edition of Fantasy Football Weekly Micro edition. This was Christian Watson. We've got a new player coming up tomorrow. I don't know what we're supposed to say, should we say who's coming up next? It's one of my favorite players. I loved him. I was banging the drum for him at this time. Last year. Loved him all off season and then all he did was wow me during the
season last year. We'll talk about Damien Pierce on tomorrow's Fantasy Football weekly micro