Preston Williams Week 1 Outlook -

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Fri, Sep 11th 2020, 1:11pm EDT

He was considered a long shot to make it back on the field for Week 1 after a Week 9 ACL tear, but Williams has apparently been balling out in training camp. He'll be out there in Week 1 and while DeVante Parker deals with Stephon Gilmore, he'll deal with Jason McCourty. That's not an easy task, as McCourty allowed just 5.31 yards per target in his coverage last year and didn't allow a single touchdown on 49 targets. Williams did catch four passes for 63 yards in their meeting last year, so it wasn't a completely useless performance. With it being the first game he'll play off his ACL, you should probably play it safe, especially when you consider there were just four wide receivers all of last year that finished as a top-24 option against the Patriots. Three of them were slot receivers. Williams is going to have some starter-worthy performances this year, but betting on one here to produce anything more than WR4/5-type numbers would be going against the odds. There's just not enough upside to justify playing him here over other sturdy options.