Titus Young (1 Viewer)

[DeaLerZ]

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Source: Detroit Free Press - Carlos Monarrez

Detroit Lions WR Titus Young, who is tied for third among rookie wide receivers with nine catches this year, will be a big part of the offense moving forward, according to head coach Jim Schwartz. 'There's a reason we drafted him so high and had such high expectations,' Schwartz said. 'He's going to make a lot of plays in this offense. He's a young player and still has a ways to go, but he made some really big-time catches. He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he's got really strong hands, and he's fearless going across the middle.'

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Young is an emerging talent that fantasy owners need to keep an eye on, and potentially add via the waiver wire in bigger leagues. The Lions will continue to use him effectively as a slot receiver which suits his skill set the best. Coming out of Boise State many in the scouting community compared him to Eagles WR DeSean Jackson because of his speed and big play ability.

I think obviously they are a lot of mouths for Stafford to feed right now... but does this guy have a chance at passing Nate Burleson on the depth chart?

 

[BroadwayG]

He doesn't need to pass Burleson. Plenty of balls to go around in Detroit. Just stay out of the casinos.

 

[eaglesfan7]

I'm not so sure for this season at least. Megatron gets the red zone work and deep balls. Pettigrew gets the receptions when Stafford is rushed and when they want to run the ball but realize they don't have a running back. Burleson gets targets in the slot and when Megatron is covered by the opposing teams number one cornerback. What is left? I'm not doubting the kids skill set but I don't think the Lions can possibly throw much more than they already are tossing the rock.

 

[The Doctor]

unless you have a big bench or its a 16 team league i dont see the need as of now

 

[BobbyLayne]

Targets Week to Week (catches/targets)

Best 5-8-7

Burleson 5-9-2 (14/16)

Johnson 10-7-11 (16/28)

Pettigrew 6-3-13 (16/22)

Scheffler 1-4-1 (3/6)

Young 1-7-8 (9/16)

 

[xenith]

I love T.Young as a deep bench stash, even in 12 team leagues. He's not a terrible BYE/Injury FLEX start now, and if Burleson, or shudder to think, CJ were to miss some time, he's a great FLEX start, potentially more in this offense.

I'm dumping my last bench spot for him tonight, or will try to anyway.

 

[Wet Doggg]

I really like his upside and as he gets more and more comfortable with the offense and Stafford his targets will only go up. I grabbed him off the WW last night to keep on my bench for a while.

 

[LOCO]

did he pass up Burelson?

 

[kevthegrad]

Nate Burleson has dropped off the face of the planet and I believe a missing persons report should be filed.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

did he pass up Burelson?

As a Young owner I hope so, but last I saw when in the 2 TE 2 WR formation, Nate was still the #2 WR.

 

[Raider Nation]

From what I have seen, Young is going to need to take a shallow crossing route and break a few tackles before getting introduced to the end zone. And when he does, he likely won't be in our lineup. But I'm holding, just in case. I'd love to see the Lions use him like Welker.

 

[Statcruncher]

I was big on Burleson's potential this year and drafted him as a late flier since we have deep rosters. IMO he has everything needed to quietly put up great numbers; an electric #1 WR that demands coverage on the other side of the field, an above average QB (with a good back-up QB), a passing oriented offense, and a non-elite defense. Unfortunately it's only taken 4 weeks to ground that flier. Until something changes with Detroit's playcalling there is no Detroit WR not named Johnson that's worth owning IMO.

Targets - Position - Player

41 WR Johnson

31 TE Pettigrew

28 RB Best

21 WR Young

20 WR Burleson

7 TE Scheffler

Detroit should have a pretty nice passing game all year, but not nice enough or consistent enough to be worthy of owning the 4th receiving option. Every 3rd week or so Burleson or Young will probably put up a good game, but I'm not enough of a gambler to try to chase those points. It will probably take an injury to Pettigrew and Burleson or Young before Burleson or Young become reliable fantasy starters.

That being said, I still have Burleson on my roster and have contemplated picking up Young so if the situation changes I'd have it covered. However I need the deep roster to churn RB's as I'm pretty deep at WR.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I just thought I'd bump this to see if anyone has any thoughts on whether Titus Young is emerging.

Last 2 games this has been the target distribution:

Player TM Wk8 Wk9 Wk10 Targ T/TmG T/G REC YD Y/R TD Rec%

Calvin Johnson DET 7 - 20 27 13.5 13.5 13 206 15.8 1 48.1

Nate Burleson DET 7 - 9 16 8.0 8.0 12 106 8.8 0 75.0

Titus Young DET 5 - 10 15 7.5 7.5 11 140 12.7 1 73.3

B. Pettigrew DET 4 - 9 13 6.5 6.5 8 46 5.8 0 61.5

Tony Scheffler DET 3 - 7 10 5.0 5.0 6 75 12.5 2 60.0

I get the idea that DET may not throw it 63 times every week like they did vs CHI but:

- Carolina is coming to town.

- The DET run game seems dormant without Best.

- Young just seems more talented than Burleson and indeed very talented altogether.

- Obviously the need to detract coverage away from Calvin continues but Burleson has not been doing teh trick.

Young's last 2 games (using 0.5 PPR):

8 10/30/11 @DEN 4 66 1 0 14.6

9 BYE - - - - - -

10 11/13/11 @CHI 7 74 0 0 10.9