Oakland Raiders Fantasy Football Outlook: Studs, Duds, Sleepers, and Rookies
Sleepers: (The players you can get for a great value that may result in returns that are much higher than expected)
Derek Carr, QB — Flashback to Christmas Eve 2016, the Raiders were on their way to being 12-3 and Derek Carr looked to be a dark horse candidate for MVP. Then the Raiders hopes were broken along with the fibula of Derek Carr.
Flash forward to 2019 and Carr is coming off of his worst season to date and has been the subject of various criticisms this offseason. This is a make or break year for Carr and Jon Gruden.
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Fantasy Analysts have Carr ranked between 19th and 30th for QB’s with an ADP of 175 (according to FantasyPros.com). He is a bye week replacement with the upside of an MVP.
The additions of Antonio Brown and Tyrell Williams should give Carr targets to replace Amari Cooper and Jared Cook. The selection of Josh Jacobs should give the Raiders a bell-cow back to not only tote the rock but act as a safety valve in the passing game.
If Carr can capture some of the magic from less than three years ago, avoid injury, and not run for his life behind a revitalized offensive line that added Richie Incognito and Trent Brown, then he will have a legitimate chance to look like the man we saw on Christmas Eve 2016.
A flyer later in your draft is more than justified to see him with his most talented group of skill players since, Cooper, Michael Crabtree, andLatavius Murray were in Oaktown.
Tyrell Williams, WR — Ask JuJu Smith-Schuster, Martavis Bryant, and others what it is like to line up on the other side of the formation from Antonio Brown. They will tell you that part of the reason that they succeeded is because of the lack of defensive emphasis on them.
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Teams go with an “anyone but AB will beat us” approach which allows the other wide receiver to go up against single coverage or soft zones. Williams was able to show how productive he could be when Keenan Allen went down with an injury in 2016.
Carr has spread the ball effortlessly with Cooper and Crabtree; Williams should be his second option after he looks Brown’s way. 900+ yards and six to eight touchdowns are not out of the realm of possibility.
That is a great value for a receiver with an ADP of 146.