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Exactly this. He still can't be trusted as an every week WR2 or even flex. He'll have his monster games though.
Not really (PPR): 9, 6, 9, 29, 10, 10, 26
Sure they do. Championship teams trot that out every week of the regular season. Especially from players they got late in the draft, or off the waiver wire.
They cant ALL be Julio Jones can they?
Tavon would be my WR 5. I'd be thrilled if I could get 10 points from him in a bye week start
I picked him up this week to be my WR4 and dropped Marvin Jones. Like you said his floor is reasonably decent and in my league we get double points for all TDs over 50 yards. I'd like to see him start getting double-digit touches but even if he stays around 8 or so a game it looks like they're finally using him intelligently and his big-play potential makes him a threat every time he touches the ball.
Which coincides with?
Bubble screens and jet sweeps for Austin should continue to be lethal with defenses focusing so heavily on Gurley.
Good luck predicting when though. I've had him in my lineup a few times this year, and been dissapointed every time. Then I see nights like tonight and wanna kick myself.
Yes. I kind of think the Rams wanted to do this because of how the Vikings were using Harvin with Peterson It has been an improvement replacing the offensive coordinator who did a poor job of utilizing Austin. This coach of course was fired but they apparently are keeping many of the constraint play elements that Austin excels at as a way to make teams pay for over committing to stopping Gurley. I was a little bit worried maybe some of that would go away after the firing of the coach. Good to see that is not the case.
He still pits up too many duds to be relied on. I traded him & Bridgewater for Romo earlier this year & glad I did.
David Johnson has 4 rushing TDs, 4 receiving TDs and a 108 yard kick off return TD.
I just bought Austin for rookie picks 2.06 and 3.09. I obviously don't expect Edelman numbers right away, but I think him and Goff can be a thing
I doubt Fisher knows how many catches Austin had last year. I wish this team was coached by someone else.
There is a nice chart at the end of this article breaking down all of routes Austin ran last season and the targets he got on each route and stuff like drops and YAC as well as how each of these things compare to the average.
Did not take note of this shift:
I'm just looking at this link for the first time. It's amazing how little Austin did as a receiver. If you remove the routes labeled "WR Screen", "HB Route", and "Jet Sweep", on the remaining actual receiver routes Austin is left with only 243 receiving yards on 48 targets with 2 TDs. That's very little production, and very inefficient - his 5.06 yards per target on actual receiver routes is even lower than his (already very low) overall YPT.
