Deebo Samuel missed San Francisco’s Week 9 matchup against Los Angeles due to a nagging hamstring injury. While his production has dropped off from his stellar 2021 campaign, fantasy managers have not gotten to see what he will look like sharing the field with Christian McCaffrey. It is one of the bigger question marks – whether they will eat into each other’s production or they will become something of a super duo. Samuel is trending in the right direction, so will he play in Week 10? Here’s what we know so far.
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Deebo Samuel logs second full practice Thursday
WR Deebo Samuel logs his second full practice of the week as he deals with a hamstring injury.
Fantasy Impact
Samuel missed Week 8’s game, but fortunately for the 49ers, they had a bye week in Week 9 to let Samuel heal. After logging consecutive full practices, it appears the two weeks off helped and he seems to be in line to play. An official game designation should be released Friday.
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What the Experts Are Saying
Samuel opened the week practicing in full (hamstring). With Garoppolo at the controls, Samuel has a 23% target share, 22.2% endzone target share (second on the team), and 19.9% air yard share. Samuel has returned to the low aDOT role of yesteryear with a 6.2 aDOT over this period. With Jimmy G delivering passes, Samuel is the WR22 in fantasy points per game, ranked 33rd in PFF receiving grade, and 30th in yards per route run (minimum 15 targets). Samuel is a WR2 that will run about 62% of his routes against Asante Samuel Jr. (60.4% catch rate, 90.4 passer rating) and Michael Davis (60% catch rate, 87.8 passer rating).
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