Fantasy Football Outlook: Gabe Davis, Davante Adams, Jakobi Meyers (Week 9)

Here are my fantasy football rankings and tiers for Week 9. As always, feel free to use these tiered rankings as a tiebreaker for your difficult lineup decisions. Beneath the tiers, I’ll offer a few brief thoughts on some of the borderline start/sit guys and some other interesting cases.

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We typically think of Gabe Davis as a boom-or-bust WR option with a high upside and shaky floor. Perhaps we should rethink that assessment based on the way the Bills used Davis in Week 8. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2022, Davis has averaged 6.1 targets, 3.4 catches and 55.2 receiving yards per game. The weekly target volume hasn’t been reliable, but Davis has averaged 16.1 yards per catch and 9.1 yards per target the last two years. Last week, Davis served as a possession receiver for Bills QB Josh Allen, finishing with 9-87-1 on 12 targets. As Chris Towers of CBS pointed out, Davis’ average depth of target in Week 8 was just 6.7 yards after being 15.1 yards over the first seven weeks. Maybe we’ll continue to see Davis be less of a lid-lifting deep threat and more of a volume receiver while Bills TE Dawson Knox (wrist) is out. Or maybe the Week 9 usage was an anomaly. I have Davis ranked WR28 this week, and while I’m habitually above consensus on him, I do think his usage in Week 8 makes him even more appealing than usual in a potential Week 9 shootout against the Bengals.

With the Raiders firing head coach Josh McDaniels this week and benching starting QB Jimmy Garoppolo, I’m fully expecting Davante Adams to get the squeaky-wheel treatment, with targets galore. Adams has been notably unhappy with his role in the Las Vegas offense, and the coach and QB changes suggest that the Raiders might endeavor to get the ball to Adams much more frequently. The changes might not bode as well for Jakobi Meyers, a favorite of McDaniels who has been enjoying a fine season. Rookie Aidan O’Connell will be making his second start at quarterback for the Raiders. In O’Connell’s first start, Adams had 8-75-0 on 13 targets. Meyers had 2-33-0 on just four targets. I have Meyers ranked WR30 this week, slightly below his consensus WR28 ranking.