Fantasy Football Outlook: Jahan Dotson, Marvin Mims, Christian Watson, Anthony Richardson

FantasyPros’ experts Derek Brown and Pat Fitzmaurice took a deep dive into stats from every team and picked out the best for you to know heading into the 2023 fantasy football season. Below we examine a few of those stats to know for some of the top fantasy football draft targets.

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Jahan Dotson: Dotson had only 35 catches for 523 yards as a rookie, but he scored seven touchdowns despite playing just 12 games and had five weeks in which he was a top-20 fantasy scorer at the WR position. In Weeks 13-18 of last season, Dotson ranked 20th in target share (24%), third in end zone target share (50%), 17th in weighted opportunity, and 13th in yards per route run.

Marvin Mims: Marvin Mims ranked 26th or higher in yards per route run in two of his final three collegiate seasons (26th, 5th per PFF).

Christian Watson: As my colleague Andrew Erickson noted while listing Watson among his favorite draft targets, the Green Bay receiver’s 26% target rate per route run ranked 17th among all WRs with at least 400 snaps, and Watson’s 2.47 yards per route run ranked inside the top 10, tying Davante Adams in that category. Among 82 qualifying wide receivers, Christian Watson ranked 14th in open score last season, immediately behind Garrett Wilson (per ESPN analytics).

Anthony Richardson: Over the last nine years, 21 QBs have (with at least eight games started) finished with at least 500 rushing yards and less than 4,000 passing yards in a season. Among that sample, 85.7% have finished as a QB1 in fantasy points per game, and 38% have been top-five in fantasy points per game.