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Lamar Jackson 2022 Fantasy Football Projections, Rankings, & Outlook

Lamar Jackson 2022 Fantasy Football Projections, Rankings, & Outlook

The 2022 NFL season is nearly upon us, and that means that it’s time for fantasy football draft preparation. Make sure to leverage our tools, including our free fantasy football draft simulator and our expert consensus rankings, to help dominate your draft. Along with our bevy of fantasy football tools, we have our Fantasy Football Draft Kit. Between our tools and our content, we will have you covered for fantasy football draft season. Here’s our expert outlook and rankings for Lamar Jackson.

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Lamar Jackson had a season to forget in 2021, as he dealt with a plethora of injuries/illnesses and regressed immensely as a passer. Two key metrics at PFF that are important to analyze for QBs are performance in a clean pocket and throwing at the intermediate level.

Jackson ranked 28th in passer rating from a clean pocket (90.4) and 22nd in PFF passing grade at the intermediate level (70.0). Despite all his shortcomings as a passer, Jackson still finished the season second in expected fantasy points per game (23.8) and seventh in fantasy points per game (21.3).

His expected fantasy point per game output marked the highest of his career thanks to the Ravens’ willingness to throw more in 2021. From 2019-2020, Jackson had 37 or more passing attempts in a game only four times. He did so five times in 2021, with Baltimore throwing at a 60% clip.

However, I would not anticipate the pass-heavy approach to continue into 2022. Their philosophical change on offense was forced out of necessity based on the injuries. But a lack of passing doesn’t impact Jackson the way it does most other QBs with his greatest fantasy asset being his legs.

Jackson may never recapture his 2019 rare MVP form when he averaged north of 28 fantasy points per game, but a 22-point per game average seems like his norm based on his last two years of fantasy production. In 2020, he led all QBs in fantasy points per dropback. That cements him as a clear-cut top-5 fantasy QB.
– Andrew Erickson

Lamar Jackson 2021 fantasy points

Lamar Jackson 2022 Projections

PASS CMP PASS ATT PASS YDS PASS TDS PASS INTS RUSH ATT RUSH YDS RUSH TDS FUMBLES POINTS
340.4 523.6 3701.8 24.3 13.9 166.1 947.4 4 4.3 341.1

 

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