Fantasy Football Busts To Avoid: Chris Godwin, Mike Evans, Marquise Brown (2023)

The wide receiver position is usually one of the deeper positions in fantasy football. Finding a sleeper late in the draft could have you soaring up the leaderboard, but if you get a bust early on, it could be hard to recover.

Last look at a few players that you should avoid drafting this season.

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Chris Godwin (TB): ADP 67 | WR 26 / Mike Evans (TB): ADP 73 | WR 31

This could impact Tampa’s offense as a whole.

The two primary receivers saw a lot of opportunities in the heavy passing offense. Mike Evans only saw less than eight targets in five of 15 games, was third in the league deep targets, had a 6.01 target quality rate, and a 74.2% catchable target rate. Godwin, out of the slot, saw a lot of easy balls, being tenth in catchable target rate and 17th in target accuracy. This is coming from the high-passing percentage in the league.

Since 2020, the best a Baker Mayfield offense finished in passing play percentage was 27th, and the best catchable pass rate was 36th. All these signs point to a regression for every pass catcher in the Bucs’ offense.

Marquise Brown (ARI): ADP 83 | WR 34

The trade to Arizona looked great for Brown as he was WR5 going into Week 6 last year. He was then sidelined with a foot injury, and upon his return, could not get that magic back, finishing as the WR58 from Weeks 12-18.

The injury and losing Kyler Murray were two large factors, and Brown could be playing without Murray for most of the season.