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Height: 6-1 Weight: 211 Age: 25
Born: 6/14/1993 Fort Myers, FL
College: Clemson
Experience: 5th season
High School: South Fort Myers HS [Fort Myers, FL]
The Perception: It’s real hard to discovery a histrion of such talent ask maintain such an unfavourable stance as well as perception alongside fan bases as well as the fantasy football game community. Truly that is Sammy Watkins reality every bit of today based on a real underwhelming start to his instantly 5th flavour inwards the NFL, starting over i time once again with his tertiary NFL franchise. Having played for the Buffalo Bills, the LA Rams, as well as instantly calling Kansas City his habitation gearing upwardly for his rootage displace with Andy Reid as well as the Chiefs. Expectations as well as evaluations ask maintain been all over the map whenever nosotros hash out Watkins with boyfriend colleagues.
Sammy has turned himself into quite the enigma inwards approximately respects with both his lack of substantial production, as well as his inability to remaining good for y'all for the duration of the season. Outside of his rookie twelvemonth inwards Buffalo, Watkins hasn’t been able to consummate a total xvi game slate, missing twelve contests inwards the terminal 3 seasons, non a bully runway record. To function along with durability concerns, reviewing Watkins statistics over his 4 twelvemonth career, Sammy has alone been able to muster i grand yard flavour spell seeing a consummate drib off inwards twelvemonth 3 as well as four. Injuries made Watkins expendable with the Bills later on the 2016 displace which led to bully speculation that a revival of his career would ask maintain shape nether offensive genius Sean McVay inwards Los Angeles; nonetheless that every bit good never came to fruition. Watkins saw an improvement from his 2016 flavour but silent underachieved hauling inwards alone 39 receptions for 593 yards, but did create practise to secure 8 touchdowns for the Rams which became the highlight from his 2017 season.
It’s quite clear inwards our eyes that both the Bills as well as the Rams had the wrong observation of how to purpose the extremely talented player, exploiting every chance possible. While the Bills made Sammy their offensive depth threat, the Rams every bit good saw Watkins every bit a i dimensional histrion forcing him to run deep routes rather than agreement the consummate skillset available. His days inwards Buffalo were marred with inadequate quarterback play, inept play calling as well as offensive scheming. In Los Angeles, Watkins was unfortunately treated every bit to a greater extent than of a decoy with the potential of deep shot success, spell Robert Woods as well as Cooper Kupp acquire the mainstays with shorter exceed completions dominating the game plans. We’ve all heard the pop phrase “a heed is a terrible matter to waste”; the exact seat tin give the axe live used inwards price of exceptional talent beingness wasted when discussing Sammy Watkins.
The Reality:
Some coaches combat to appropriately seat skillset, or they manifestly forcefulness the number trying to brand a histrion into something they aren’t, which leads to disaster as well as misrepresentation. Sammy Watkins is a playmaker uncomplicated as well as true. Understanding what Sammy does best volition function a long means inwards his novel digs inwards Kansas City. Early showings inwards OTA’s (Organized Team Activity), has Watkins all over the formation learning every receiver positional responsibleness inwards hopes to generate amend as well as to a greater extent than consistent production, Andy Reid seems to sympathise the skillset! Going dorsum reviewing the Clemson celluloid of Watkins, i would meet inwards clear sight the glaring departure from how he’s been used inwards the NFL. First, there’s no enquiry nosotros believe Sammy tin give the axe live a plausible deep threat with bully success, but to effectively extract the well-nigh from his talents is to acquire the ball inwards his hands allowing him to brand defenders immature lady for big gains. Watkins was a leader every flavour inwards YAC yards (Yards later on Reception) spell playing for the Clemson Tigers racking upwardly fantastic production inwards the process. In his sophomore flavour with the Tigers, Watkins nearly had 600 YAC yards inwards that i season; spell inwards his NFL career Sammy has produced less than 800 total YAC yards, meet the correlation?
The frustration boils over farther when reviewing by scouting reports that ask maintain straight stated; Sammy Watkins has a rare combination of speed, brusk expanse quickness, as well as mightiness to challenge defenders high pointing the ball inwards contested situations. The praise continues suggesting Watkins talent would allow NFL teams to add together many dimensions to their criminal offence every bit his skillset is vastly versatile. These comments alone add together acceptance to our declaration that throughout his entire NFL tenure, Watkins has been used incorrectly for the bulk of his brusk career. With all that said, beingness objective to every province of affairs is real important, as well as all the blame can’t live exactly placed on the coaches as well as systems he played for, but rather agreement what Watkins hasn’t done also leads to his lack of production. While Sammy has been somewhat of a touchdown machine generating 25 scores on alone 192 receptions, his lack of progression inwards perfecting his road running as well as unloose off the business is perchance something ex-coaches ask maintain witnessed, growing frustrated eventually forcing Watkins to run Go-Routes every bit the skillset wasn’t beingness applied on the field. There is a combination when evaluating Watkins to propose that his shortcomings are a final result of 60% bad coaching as well as 40% lack of transferred mightiness which has contributed to his lack of statistical triumph.
The Outlook:
The potential for yet approximately other speculated rebirth for Watkins is i time once again high inwards our eyes, but this fourth dimension the value pump is much higher. The Kansas City Chiefs criminal offence could perchance live amend rounded thus what the Rams possessed terminal flavour giving Sammy a leg up. The Chiefs ask maintain a enterprise running assail as well as a plethora of feasible playmaking exceed catchers with Travis Kelce as well as Tyreek Hill leading the way. With Sammy learning all receiver situations with the potential to meet to a greater extent than fourth dimension inwards the slot, leaves us licking our chops for what could transpire peculiarly inwards PPR (Point per Reception) leagues. The i caveat silent inwards enquiry is the progression of the newly anointed franchise quarterback Patrick Mahomes. This criminal offence volition alive as well as buy the farm at his hands as well as displace every bit fast every bit he learns the NFL game.
Watkins 2017 fantasy flavour was i that was extremely frustrating which ended with him beingness ranked the 40th producing broad receiver inwards the NFL, generating 146.3 fantasy points, non bully whatsoever. While Sammy did salve his fantasy twelvemonth with 8 touchdowns which happened to inflate his totals, it genuinely was a lost flavour leaving well-nigh with a bad sense of savor inwards their mouth. While ADF volition exit on a limb as well as speculate to the potential for this upcoming season, nosotros experience Sammy could acquire upwardly to marking that could appropriately seat him inwards the weekly flex position, with creating WR2 appeal. It’s non out of the enquiry to meet Watkins striking career highs every bit 60-70 receptions for 1050-1100 yards, as well as 6-8 touchdowns is where nosotros meet this playing out. While his celling could live quite high, he also holds a real depression floor. It’s hard to envision Watkins having approximately other flavour similar last, but he has fooled us earlier which places our evaluation on sparse ice. Sammy should flirt with 180-200 fantasy points this season.
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