Golden Tate Week 8 Outlook -

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Mon, Oct 21st 2019, 12:39pm EDT

He's been a favorite of Jones since entering the lineup, amassing 26 targets over three games, though it has helped that Sterling Shepard has been out of the lineup. Tate has been good, totaling six catches in each of the last two games with yardage totals of 102 and 80 yards. He now gets to play against his former team. He's going to be matching up with Justin Coleman in the slot, a cornerback who's done a solid job for the Lions this year. He's allowed just 4.81 yards per target while covering the slot which is among the better marks in football, though the silver lining for Tate is that he's allowed three touchdown on 37 targets in coverage. Of the top-six performances the Lions have allowed to wide receivers this year, four of them were to slot-heavy receivers, including Larry Fitzgerald, Nelson Agholor, Keenan Allen, and Olabisi Johnson. Wide receiver groups have averaged 24.3 targets per game against the Lions, so knowing that Tate has 26-of-62 receiver targets (41.9 percent) since entering the lineup is pretty big. Keep him in lineups as a solid WR3 whose floor will dip a bit when Shepard returns, though he has the better role for production in this offense.