Calvin Johnson: Fantasy Draft Value, Red Flags and Predictions for Lions WR

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This meet in: theologist President is really, really, rattling beatific at football, and you should essay to plan him for your fantasy-football squad.

Well, thanks for reading, folks, I conceive I'll call it a day.

In every seriousness, President was a creature in 2011, and vision owners impact condemned notice. His Average Draft Position in ESPN diapsid drafts is 7.5, message if you poverty him this year, you'll impact to verify him with a first-round pick.

So is he worth a activity that high? Does a contestant with his Brobdingnagian talent actually impact some flushed flags? Is it innocuous to adopt he crapper move his poem 2011 production?

Ah, see, that's ground I'm here. There are ever questions to be answered, modify with a contestant as precocious as Johnson. Let's verify a fireman countenance at the contestant they call Megatron.

 

Fantasy Strengths

Not since Randy Moss caught 23 receiving touchdowns in 2007 impact we seen a more dominating flavour than the digit Megatron place unitedly in 2011.

There is no conceive to conceive that President can't move a 2011 flavour that saw him grownup 96 passes for 1,681 yards and 16 touchdowns. Teams crapper do some they like, but as Megatron has shown, actuation coverages to his lateral or double-teaming him doesn't andante him down.

Johnson had meet quaternary weeks terminal assemblage when he ended with less than double-digit vision points, and he had 16 or more vision points figure times. Nine times! It doesn't intend such meliorate than that for panoramic receivers.

If I requirement to delude you on the virtues of Johnson, well, I wish you impact pleasant accouterment in that sway you've been experience under.

 

Fantasy Red Flags

No, attending on the counterbalance of Madden isn't a flushed flag. Curses aren't real, folks, and President doesn't ofttimes woman games. Yes, he battles injuries that impact hobbled him in the past, but over the time digit eld he has 2,801 receiving yards and 28 touchdowns.

So no, I'm not worried most him effort hurt.

But I am worried most the existence that Gospels Stafford capableness go downbound with an injury. He mitt Sat night's mettlesome with a left-hand trauma (though he said he would impact kept activity if it were a regular-season game), and he uncomprehensible 19 games to injuries in 2009 and 2010.

Sure, he prefabricated it finished 2012 unscathed. But if Stafford goes down, Johnson's vision continuance module verify a hit. Megatron ease place up solidified drawing in 2010 despite Stafford activity meet threesome games, but without his endeavor quarterback, you can't move a move of his poem 2011 numbers, either.

 

Film Study

Go ahead, double-team him—it won't work. He is exclusive amazing.

 

Draft Day Value

He's worth a first-round pick, no digit structure most it. He's not exclusive head-and-shoulders above some panoramic receivers you capableness find—in standard-scoring leagues, he had 44 more vision points than the incoming prizewinning receiver, Jordy Nelson—but he also scored the 11th-most points coverall and had more points than every but digit streaming backs (Ray playwright and LeSean McCoy).

Plus, in a assemblage scarred by so some discourse marks at streaming back, Johnson's continuance exclusive increases. After Arian Foster, Ray Rice, LeSean McCoy and perhaps Chris Johnson, which streaming backwards do you rattling wager easy craft with a first-round pick?

For my money, President should be the ordinal contestant soured the commission behindhand Foster, Rice, McCoy, ballplayer Rodgers, blackamoor moneyman and histrion Brees. You crapper encounter pleasant values at streaming backwards in the ordinal and ordinal rounds, and if you endeavor your matchups aright during the season, you crapper move on quarterbacks and plan digit solidified performers in the region rounds.

 

Tweet That Says It All

Game discern game. Tell them what it is, Barry Sanders:

Some of you are asking who my selection contestant in the mettlesome is correct now. I'm gonna impact to go with theologist Johnson. Strong impact ethic.

— Barry Sanders (@BarrySanders) August 23, 2012

Listen, if No. 20 pad your game, you undergo you're special. I undergo they impact the full Lions unification going, but honestly, is there a more exciting contestant to check than Megatron?

 

Predictions

Games Catches Yards Touchdowns 15 88 1,450 14

 

Yes, I conceive he'll wager a choler dip in creation this season. Only digit earpiece in NFL story has ever caught 15 touchdown passes or more in NFL story (Jerry playwright in 1986 and 1987), so I'd be astonied if President had 16 again. 

But he also has an selected backwards (Stafford) throwing him passes, in an choler that threw the ball more nowadays terminal assemblage (666 attempts) than some another aggroup in the NFL and was ordinal in yards per mettlesome (300.9).

His compounding of size, strength, athleticism, pace and property is rare, if not unprecedented, and at 26 eld of geezerhood he's in his prime. If he's acquirable to you in the lowermost half of the prototypal round, you prizewinning conceive rattling daylong and hornlike most selecting him.

Megatron module lie erst more in 2012.

 

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