While end-of-season stats are useful, they don’t tell you how consistent players were from week-to-week or how often they would have helped your fantasy team. So Mike Tagliere is here to present the 10 Players who are Boom or Bust for 2021, and tells you how often players hit those points thresholds, how often they boom, and how often they bust.
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Jerry Jeudy (WR – DEN)
Don’t let 2020 fool you; Jerry Jeudy is a very good wide receiver. The targets that came from Drew Lock were not worth nearly as much as they should’ve been, and Jeudy owners should be hoping Teddy Bridgewater wins the job. He’s someone who’s more timing-based than Lock, and that would benefit the route runner that Jeudy is, as you could make a highlight tape of the defenders he made look silly last year, only Lock didn’t find him. The quarterback competition weighs heavily on Jeudy’s fantasy potential.
Will Fuller (WR – MIA)
Not only will Fuller finish up his suspension and miss Week 1 this year, but he’ll also be returning to the field with a new quarterback, and let’s just say that life without Deshaun Watson hasn’t been kind to him. In 20 games with non-Watson quarterbacks, Fuller has averaged 6.0 targets, 3.1 receptions, 38.7 yards, and 0.10 touchdowns, which is a far cry from his 6.5 targets, 4.5 receptions, 70.6 yards, and 0.67 touchdowns per game with Watson under center. Can Tua Tagovailoa take a step forward in his career in 2021? Sure, but he’s not going to be Watson, and there are suddenly tons of options for him to throw to, which means Fuller is going to have to fight for his target share. There’s more risk than you’d like with Fuller, who’s also had his fair share of injuries throughout his career. Getting him as a WR4 would be ideal, as you aren’t relying on him for production week-in and week-out.
Chase Edmonds (RB – ARI)
Have we seen Edmonds carry the workload for the Cardinals before? Well, kind of. Despite Kenyan Drake struggling through much of 2020, there were just two games where Edmonds finished with more than eight carries, which is certainly a concern. The Cardinals went out and signed James Conner in free agency, but he’s proven to be incapable of staying healthy with a full workload, and it wasn’t a pricey contract, so maybe we see Edmonds in a bigger role. Whatever the case, we know he has the pass-catching role locked down, which has value in itself, as he was a flex-type option most weeks (he was an RB3 or better 62.5 percent of the time). This offense is going to score points, so if Edmonds were to get a slight bump in carries, he could make his way into the RB2 conversation. Draft him as an RB3/flex and hope that’s the case. Just know that he’s still yet to crack 100 carries in a season.
