FFW Micro - Gabe Davis

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Yeah, well, first off with Gabe Davis and Deandrey Johnson be any.

Far stylistically anywhere different? Yes?

All right? Well he was the why Dees? Hever thirty five last season? Why is he were thirty nine average points per game? And he's currently going off the borders? Why dece you were forty one? So a little bit of a hit to his adpcs from last season.

He's gone off the border like wide receiver night. So yeah, this is a huge drop coming off a bad year. But last year he hobbled his way through the entire season, injured his injured his ankle in Week two, high ankle sprain. They didn't call it that then, but then after the season people started saying it was high ankle sprain. And he played through it all year, and it turned Gabe Davis into really an irregular fantasy performer who was very touchdown dependent.

Yeah, it was very touchdown depending.

That's to put it lightly.

In games where Gabe Davis does not score a touchdown last season, he his weekly average finish was the widest heaver fifty three.

Yeah, that's tough. That hurt you, yes, badly.

But in games where Gabe Davis did score a touchdown, his weekly average finish was the wide receiver eighteen.

I would have thought higher if he had a touchdown as well.

What brought that stat down when I was looking it up was he finishes like the wide receiver one in five. I think we're two highest finishes, but there were there was one where he was like two catches in a touchdown, okay, and it was like twelve yards. But so like, if you exclude that one game, it's probably like wide siver close to wide sever twelve.

But that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense, all right. But I'm optimistic here in part because they like to go to Gabe Davis deep. And when you can connect on some deep passes, that's that's how you become a major fantasy force. So talk to me about the deep ball usage for Gabe Davis in this offense.

Yeah, so he was. First off, he's just number forty two in targets and number fifty two in reception, So he's not he he is the deep though. He's not this kind of guy who's gonna get it. He's not step On Dick. He's not to get ten catches the game. That's just not who he is. But he was number six and a dot average depth of target. He was number twelve in air yards, number twelve in deep targets, and he was number three in the yards per reception.

Wow, all right, So that all suggests that they throw deep him. They don't throw a lot of balls to Gabe Davis, so they didn't last year, but they throw deep to him this year. I want to believe, healthy without up running around on one ankle, that he's gonna spring free on these deep passes a lot more often. And when that happens. You've obviously got a massively strong armed quarterback who can get him the ball, and I think you're gonna just get more of the explosive games

One, exactly buy in. That's the thing is, you can get him so much lower than you did last year. And the team situation, like, yes, Diggs is still there and Dalton Kincaid is there, but they're they're not the same game. They don't have the same one.

Can aid into each other. Dalton k isn't like that, And we don't know if Kate's going to start a game this year. Yeah, who knows. Titans almost always take a long time to ramp up.

Yeah, So they don't have the same game. So he's not a deep threat, and it's just who else is going to be Like it feels like Gave Davis is Josh Allen's deep guy. He is the deep threat on one of the team with in a quarterback who has the biggest arm in the league or one of the biggest arms in the league. So it's one of those things where he's probably not great for a gueteen league type of format.

Because this is this is how you get cut in against Yet gave Davis this kind of Dave, But Gabe doesn't get the long passes. He's given you two catches for like nineteen yards or one catch for twelve and your dead.

Yeah, but he is great for like a best ball league, because best ball he could like I said, he had like two touchdo there was that game last year, like two touchdowns one of those like ninety nine yards. He can single handedly win you weeks like at the week seventeen bros. Who who I am on for a best Ball He's one of those guys who could win you a bunch of money because he just has this deep threat and this week winning ability that not a lot of other guys haven't in among wide receivers.

Yeah, we should note the team did not add a receiver that's gonna take any real any of the usage away, And that's what you were just really referring to. There's no there was no, there was no offseason edition. That's gonna really hurt Or gave Davis in a material.

I'm not scared of Deontay Hardy.

No, I'm not either. I think that's gonna work out fine. So I'm buying Gabe Davis that has at his adp, or at least I think I am. Let's talk about the guys going in that same neighborhood.

First one. We talked a little bit about on yesterday's micro. George Pickens, why does he we thirty nine?

Yeah? I walked out of yesterday's micro liking George Pickens a lot more than I expected to. But I'm really high on Gabe Davis being much closer to the guy that we saw I expected him to be last year. So I'm taking Gabe Davis.

I'm with you, Gabe Davis. Johan Dotson, why is hever forty?

Now? I like Dotson as well, and you and I broke down Dotson in late April on one of our other micros. And and I'm actually cautiously optimistic on Sam Howell. I watched Sam Howell's Week eighteen start and I walked away going, Dude's way better than I thought he was, and now I remembered him being and I spent I had I needed to have looked at that sooner. And I like how Dotson got so much better as the season went on.

Yeah, and even of how isn't that guy Jacoby? Yeah right, Mark Hooper's like, why is he your twelve four? Deshaun Watson came back last year?

So still I think I'm gonna take Dotson, But I still like gave Davis a lot, and I take all these guys earlier than where their average.

Ye, I'm I'm on Dotson too. Okay, Brandon Cooks? Why does he wear forty two? The number two in Dallas?

Now? Yeah, Gabe Davis, yep not, you're out on Brandon Cooks.

Done with them?

Yeah, it might be a career for Brandon.

Cooks, you think so?

Yeah, Yeah, it's been a long It's already been a long career. He's long in the tooth by a receiver standpoint, right.

Yeah, Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I'll take uh, definitely take gave Davis over over Cooks. And then the last one we got rookie Quinton Johnston going off the board is why does he wear forty three?

There's just too much there's too much competition for passes in that offense. Yeah, Keenan Allen's gonna go away at some point, probably this might be his last year coming up right, probably going to the Hall of Fame. Quinton Johnson iss got I like the I like what he I like what he can bring to the table here,

Yeah, I think Gave Davis actually, funnily enough, has a higher floor than Quinton Johnson does. Because of Quintin Johnson, just like the wideceaver three in this offense. He could just I don't know, he could just be one of those another kind of another guy, like another Josh Palmer from last season or something like that. Yeah, but if there were injuries, Quentin Johnson just could be like the guys. I think he has a higher season ceiling then.

Yeah, he told me, yeah right, if you told me Mike Mike Williams is gonna get knocked out for the Area team, might I mean dude's constantly hurt, so then you know that scenario might be different.

It'd be interesting to see what Gave Davis could do with like if Diggs were to miss time, Like, what would that look like? Is Gabe Davis just a seven catch guy? I don't know, probably not, but we'll see, right, Yeah.

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