Note: While a large part of fantasy football research attempts to assess the performance of players when they move to a new team, it is also critical to address what the old team does to replace those players. It is an opportunity for players to step up and fill the void. In this series, we’ll be examining six teams that had major off-season departures and must find new ways to replace major fantasy productions.
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The crows It was saved for the last installment of the alternate series because it’s an odd case.
Such as titansAnd the headsAnd the PackersAnd the hawks And the Brown Before them, they lost a lot of receiving production. The difference is that Baltimore hasn’t made any marquees or even any off-season fringe moves to replace what was lost.
Instead, the plan seems to restart it with the belief that it’s healthy Lamar Jackson It will increase crime. This isn’t exactly a reckless approach.
Jackson, a former player of the year, had the worst season of his career in 2021, battling through injury and COVID-19 as the Ravens missed the playoffs. His return to center – supposedly for 17 games – is already an upgrade on his own. And despite what Baltimore lost, I kept my best take-out option: a tight end Mark Andrews.
However, 45.1% of the Ravens’ goals from last season are available, the fifth-highest mark in the league, according to 4for4.com. This number is unsurprising after Baltimore was selected for the first round of 2019 Marquis Brown In the night project to basics.
Brown set his career highs in goals, catches, and yardage receipts before a season. It also allows the front office of the future veteran Sammy Watkins She walks off-season, and the team-collected backroom for 2021 is gone after she perished due to injury. The Ravens’ 70 vacated goals are the most in the NFL.
Jackson and Andrews and the realization of the venture capital Baltimore has invested in as receiver in recent years (although not particularly in 2022) will determine whether this traffic offense can return to 2019-2020 levels.
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Mark Andrews
Andrews drove all tights in goals (153), receptions (107), receiving yards (1,361) and tying first in touchdowns (nine) on his way to his first All-Pro Nod. He was the Ravens’ top attacking player last season and could be in line for more work.
Andrews was also one of nine NFL players to be targeted at least 150 times in 2021 and was the only party to break that limit, winning Travis Kelsey By a large margin. He played 75% of Baltimore’s offensive shots and had no competition in the tight end room – the other three tight ends on the roster combined for 18 goals, despite Charlie Kolar Drafted into the fourth round this spring.
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Heading into his fifth season, Andrews emerged as the elite pick-up option in the tight final position and a killer red zone goal at 6’5″. He scored all nine touchdown points he made a season ago in the red and scored nine of his career top 10 points inside the 20 streak. yards in 2019, the year Jackson won MVP.
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Andrews has led the team in takeovers for two of the past three years, and now has less competition to be Jackson’s number one target.
My colleague Sean Childs wrote of Andrews: “His catch average (69.9) requires more chances. The trick is Baltimore throws the ball high enough to support a follow-up in 2022.” The Ravens’ success rate of 56.4% ranked 22nd in the league in 2021.
Rashid Bateman
Baltimore eliminated the twenty-seventh pick of the 2021 draft on Pittman and did not make his debut until the sixth week due to a thigh injury. It was an inauspicious start to the team’s first-choice second-round second receiving round in a three-year period: four catches for 29 yards.
Bateman flashed at various points during the season – six catches for 80 yards against dolphins, seven for 103 against Brown – but he found the finish zone only once across 12 games and finished third, far behind Andrews and Brown in the receiving standings. Now, Pittman is set to be WR1 in Baltimore.
That role was fruitful for Brown’s rushes, even given Baltimore’s penchant for running the ball and a senior receiver job that doesn’t necessarily translate into leading the team in goals. Bateman has shown great ability to play in his best season Minnesota, averaging better than 20 yards per hunt despite high use. That number dropped to 11.1 YPC as a rookie with ADOT from just 8.8 that number goes up this season.
back running room
It is not uncommon to redistribute the vacated volume on the running backs. But that might not be the case for this Ravens roster, at least when it’s at its best.
JK Dobbins And the Joss Edwards Both tore their ACLs before the first week in 2021, a massive blow that forced the team to cycle between the likes of Defonta FreemanAnd the Latvius Murray And the Levon BellNone of them have returned this season.
Edwards and Dobbins are still rehabilitating their injuries at the end of the season and neither of them were particularly passers-by before their injuries. Dobbins had 15 assists in 15 games as a rookie in 2020 and topped 26 receptions in three years in Ohio State. Meanwhile, Edwards has only 22 career goals in 43 appearances.
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This brings us to the in-depth addition the Front Office made in the off-season: Mike Davis. The guy running backwards was pretty frustrated a season ago AtlantaBut he scored consecutive seasons with at least 44 times and missed only one game.
Going to the bottom of the depth chart, there Judge HillWho tore his Achilles tendon before the start of last season. But Hill, 2019 was picked out OklahomaNot much of a threat as a recipient either. And to add this back room, he crafted the crows tyler is awesome from Missouri in the sixth round. He had 126 assists across four seasons in college and had 54 assists in his senior year.
Those are five players, three of whom are out from end-of-season injuries, one on a million-dollar-a-year deal and another named near the bottom of this year’s draft. Receiving work may make running appear as a whole, but it’s hard to predict who’s more confident, especially given the injury side.
Other receivers
The reception room in Baltimore is incredibly small, especially considering it Devin DuVernay He is the most experienced of the group.
The Texas third-round pick played 32 games in two seasons and has only 473 yards and two touchdowns to show when attacking. He earned All-Pro honors as a kick return last season and led the NFL in yards per kick return.
DuVernay will take over for WR2 and the numbers to see more action than the 47 goals he sent in a season ago. His ADOT was only 6.0 in 2021, a number to improve.
The approximation of the starting receiving group is James Broochburned in the third year of SMU. Proche entered a bet back as a starter and moved to the receiver in 2021 but has only seen 20 goals in 14 games. He was a major threat in college and made frequent trips to the end zone, although he had yet to score in the NFL.
Moreover, the depth chart is located Tylan Wallacewhich was drafted in the third round of Oklahoma That same year as Bateman but only got two passes last year. Beyond him, there are a few erratic newbies to big time programs—Alabama‘s Slade Bolden Ohio State Benjamin Victor then there Jaylon Moore From Utah Martin.
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