Henry Ruggs III Week 2 Outlook -

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Sep 17th 2020, 9:27am EDT

Want to hear something crazy? Ruggs led the NFL in percentage of his team's air yards in Week 1. He saw 60.5 percent of Derek Carr's air yards, which is just stupid high. By comparison, Courtland Sutton led the league in that category last year with a 42.9 percent air yards share. While that number will come down for Ruggs, it's a good sign of his usage, though they need to do a better job at getting him the ball close to the line of scrimmage. It looked like Ruggs hurt his knee/ankle during their Week 1 game, but he played through it and appears to be okay. The issue waiting is the Saints cornerback trio of Marshon Lattimore, Janoris Jenkins and Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, which is extremely good. Gardner-Johnson is the one Ruggs will see a lot of, and while he allowed 6-of-6 passing for 41 yards in his coverage last week, I think you can call that a success against Chris Godwin. Ruggs played 59 percent of his snaps in the slot last week, but with an average depth of target of 18.5 yards, he's not getting those high percentage targets. Ruggs still carries that one-play upside and Gardner-Johnson doesn't have blazing speed. Ruggs should be considered a boom-or-bust WR3/4 option who we hope isn't playing through an injury.