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WR Kenny Golladay, NYG (2 Viewers)

Blough doing his best Stanton impersonation. When the opportunity arises, throw it up to your best guy so he can make you look good.

 
Benched him too. It was fine to do so - 3rd string QB, short week on prime time vs a decent secondary. Could have been bad. Hurts now though.  

He still only has 3 targets. Call me crazy but I’m thinking of benching him vs the Vikings next week as well lol

 
5 targets for Golladay and 150 yards. 8 targets for Amendola and 11 for Hockenson. 
 

2 TDs in 1St quarter while they play fast and loose. Nothing after that when they play not to lose. Saw a blurb that they have led at some point in every game this year. Amazing for a 3-8-1 team. Maybe they need to stop playing scared. 

 
5 targets for Golladay and 150 yards. 8 targets for Amendola and 11 for Hockenson. 
 

2 TDs in 1St quarter while they play fast and loose. Nothing after that when they play not to lose. Saw a blurb that they have led at some point in every game this year. Amazing for a 3-8-1 team. Maybe they need to stop playing scared. 
Playing not to lose is the Detroit way. The have a picture of the herminator where SB trophies should sit. 

 
5 targets for Golladay and 150 yards. 8 targets for Amendola and 11 for Hockenson. 
 

2 TDs in 1St quarter while they play fast and loose. Nothing after that when they play not to lose. Saw a blurb that they have led at some point in every game this year. Amazing for a 3-8-1 team. Maybe they need to stop playing scared. 
Lions, 49ers, Chiefs are the only teams to have a lead in every game this year. Mind blowing.

 
Kenny Golladay supplied six catches for 58 yards and a touchdown on eight targets Sunday in Detroit’s Week 14 loss to Minnesota.

The Vikings' defense was relentless Sunday, allowing David Blough little breathing room in Minnesota's 21-7 onslaught. But even with Blough's finger on the self-destruct button, Golladay still produced a halfway decent fantasy performance, saving his best for last on a 10-yard touchdown with 2:09 to go in the fourth quarter. That gave Golladay his 10th touchdown of the season, breaking what had been a three-way tie with Chris Godwin and teammate Marvin Jones for the league-lead in that category. Already over 1,000 yards receiving for the year, a hurdle he also cleared in 2018, Golladay should maintain WR2 value next week in a golden matchup with Tampa Bay's turnstile secondary.

 
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What are the thoughts on Golladay now that Marvin Jones is done for the year? 3rd string QB, 7th or 8th starting RB, no TJ Hock. KG is literally the only offensive weapon Detroit has left. Does that mean he gets all the targets or does he get 3 DBs chasing him around? 

Tempting start with TB up next, or a huge let down...

 
What are the thoughts on Golladay now that Marvin Jones is done for the year? 3rd string QB, 7th or 8th starting RB, no TJ Hock. KG is literally the only offensive weapon Detroit has left. Does that mean he gets all the targets or does he get 3 DBs chasing him around? 

Tempting start with TB up next, or a huge let down...
13.8 ppg last year in the 6 games without Jones. But that was with Stafford.

 
What are the thoughts on Golladay now that Marvin Jones is done for the year? 3rd string QB, 7th or 8th starting RB, no TJ Hock. KG is literally the only offensive weapon Detroit has left. Does that mean he gets all the targets or does he get 3 DBs chasing him around? 

Tempting start with TB up next, or a huge let down...
cant bench him, hes too damn good, Blough rebounds at home vs TB, TB might have the worst secondary in football

 
cant bench him, hes too damn good, Blough rebounds at home vs TB, TB might have the worst secondary in football
Tampa's secondary is not good, but they are 17 DVOA overall against the pass.  The fantasy numbers are skewed because they chuck and duck, too, and it leads to shootouts no matter who they play.  

 
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I can't wait to start him in a juicy match up where he is a primary receiver, just to have him screw me yet again. 

Like he did when I needed points from him in WK 3. And WK 7. And WK 11.

Or when I benched him vs CHI two weeks ago.

 
Indy went deep over and over on TB last week and it worked.  I can see Detroit trying the same.  Blough isn't afraid to chuck it. 

 
Kenny Golladay caught 3-of-7 targets for 44 yards in Detroit's Week 15 loss to the Bucs.

His performance from a production standpoint was disappointing, but Golladay did become the first player in Lions history to record two 1,000-yard seasons within the first three years following his 26-yard catch to help setup Wes Hills' second touchdown of the afternoon. His status as an afterthought can be directly attributed to David Blough's presence as Golladay has underwhelmed for 11/156/1 in his last 11 quarters after opening Detroit's Thanksgiving bout with 2/104/1 in the first 15 minutes with the undrafted signal-caller. Golladay will be a bet-on-talent WR2/3 opposite Chris Harris in Denver next week.

Dec 15, 2019, 6:03 PM ET

 
Kenny Golladay tallied six grabs for 66 yards and a touchdown on 12 targets Sunday in Detroit’s Week 16 loss to Denver.

The league leader in receiving scores added another to his season tally Sunday, lunging for a three-yard touchdown off a third-quarter screen pass from David Blough. Golladay did it the hard way, stretching for every inch en route to his 11th TD of 2019. Golladay, who has already established a new career-high in yards with 1,118, should have been credited with a seventh catch late in the fourth quarter (it would have been a fourth-down conversion), though apparently the officials didn't see enough to overturn their original call of incomplete. Even with backup quarterbacks throwing to him the past seven games, Golladay has still managed to put together a strong fantasy campaign. His final 2019 assignment will come against the Packers, who he ripped for 121 yards in Week 5.

 
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Destined to be stuck on a team of losers like Calvin and Barry. Best hope for fantasy is that the defense sucks bad enough that they actually have to try and put up points. It's the Detroit Lions way.

 
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Destined to be stuck on a team of losers like Calvin and Barry. Best hope for fantasy is that the defense sucks bad enough that they actually have to try and put up points. It's the Detroit Lions way.
Seems to be a perfectly fine place for fantasy success. 

 
As long as the D stinks. If Fatty Patricia gets a D, then the IO will suffer. They have never been a team that even wants to blow another team out of the stadium.
Last I checked they were in the bottom quarter of the league. Combine that with their subpar running game in the 21st century and I'm fairly confident the game script will remain there.

 
Stafford was leading the league in YPG when he called it quits last season.  He was behind only Wilson in TD's, but Stafford had already had his bye.  The Lions were averaging 25.5 PPG through Stafford's 8 games.  When Stafford took a seat, so did the offense.  They lost all 8 remaining games, and averaged only 17.1.  From what I have read, Stafford should be at full health to start 2020.

Kerryon Johnson will not stay healthy.  That you can take to the bank.  Golladay is set up nicely to have another WR1 season. 

 
Stafford was leading the league in YPG when he called it quits last season.  He was behind only Wilson in TD's, but Stafford had already had his bye.  The Lions were averaging 25.5 PPG through Stafford's 8 games.  When Stafford took a seat, so did the offense.  They lost all 8 remaining games, and averaged only 17.1.  From what I have read, Stafford should be at full health to start 2020.

Kerryon Johnson will not stay healthy.  That you can take to the bank.  Golladay is set up nicely to have another WR1 season. 
It's why drafting a qb #1 this year is crazy talk.  Backups won zero games.

 
Kenny Golladay laughs in the face of regression as the safest fantasy football option on the Detroit Lions

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Kenny Golladay led all receivers with 11 TDs in 2019, and he’s now being taken as the seventh WR in drafts. Will touchdown regression ruin his potential fantasy ROI, or is his production safe thanks to Stafford's return?

Scott: I’m not going to sweat regression for Golladay, given that he’s likely to get a full year tied to Stafford. Those 11 touchdowns came despite two months of absolutely grotesque quarterback play in Detroit. And even if Golladay slips to seven or eight scores, so what? It’s the era of the wide usage tree (something the Lions, incidentally, do not have); a mere three players had double-digit touchdown catches in the NFL last year. Only injury can keep Golladay from set-and-forget status; he’s a very reasonable target in the second or early third round.

Matt: Odds are he scores fewer touchdowns in 2020 but that doesn’t mean he can’t return on an ADP that falls within the top-10 wide receivers and the top-25 overall picks. Kenny Golladay truly came into his own as a true No. 1 receiver. He beat press coverage routinely and separated at all levels of the field. While Marvin Jones looks like a value at his ADP, for sure, that doesn’t mean he has to wreck Golladay’s ceiling. In fact, Golladay delivered 80.5 yards per game at 21.1 yards per catch with Jones on the field compared to 56 yards per contest without his teammate. Some of that is noisy because of Stafford’s injury absence but having both of these guys on the field makes the offense more efficient.

Liz: I’ve been high on Golladay since his days as a Huskie. I even have an FF squad — Rosé all Golladay — named after the 26-year-old. There’s no doubt that Golladay has emerged as one of the league’s most exciting deep threats. In 2018 he posted a top-15 total target depth and top-nine contested catch rate, illustrating how he could best be used. 

As a third-year player in 2019, he officially broke out and averaged 4.3 catches and 80 yards per contest with Matt Stafford under center. Even after a back injury prematurely ended Stafford’s season, Golladay continued to put up numbers, posting at least a top-20 fantasy finish in four of seven games with Jeff Driskel and David Blough starting. In fact, from Weeks 10 through 14, before Marvin Jones hurt his ankle, Golladay averaged 73.6 yards per contest and managed three spikes. If he can be productive with Driskel, he’s going to smash with Staff.

 
Lions placed Kenny Golladay and T.J. Hockenson on the COVID-19 reserve list.

They will remain sidelined until they are able to pass multiple tests and show no symptoms during re-checks. Golladay and Hockenson are obviously both vital parts of this explosive passing offense and need to be fully healthy for Matthew Stafford to lead this team to a playoff birth. If fully healthy, Golladay is a fourth-round target in all fantasy formats as a borderline WR1/2. Hockenson, meanwhile, can be had in the double-digit rounds next to the breakout tight end candidates. 

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T.J. Hockenson

SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter

Jul 29, 2020, 5:40 PM ET

 
PFT's Mike Florio reports the Lions are "closing in on" an extension for contract-year WR Kenny Golladay.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport is hearing differently, as he reports talks on an extension have yet to even begin. With LT Taylor Decker locked up, Detroit is expected to get Golladay in the fold for the long haul. Golladay hasn't made a big fuss about his deal, but he would like to be secured before Week 1. He has back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and scored 11 touchdowns last year. Golladay is being drafted as a top-eight wideout in fantasy.

SOURCE: Profootballtalk on NBC Sports

Sep 2, 2020, 9:34 AM ET

 
Staff to Golladay is going to be the best combo in the NFL this season.  

 
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