Golden Tate Week 3 Outlook -

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Sep 24th 2020, 9:58am EDT

It's possible that Tate is still trying to play through the hamstring injury that limited him through training camp and held him out of Week 1, as he went down to the ground without a fight against the Bears on multiple occasions, which is something we never see out of him, as he's typically among the league leaders in yards after the catch. It's something to monitor. K'Waun Williams is the one Tate will see in coverage most of the time, a cornerback who's played extremely well over the last two years, allowing just 5.35 yards per target and one touchdown on 82 targets in coverage. Now, to be fair, the 49ers run a lot of zone coverage, so Tate won't always line up against him, but that could be looked at as a negative as well. On 46 Golden Tate targets against zone coverage last year, Daniel Jones had just a 69.7 QB Rating compared to 108.9 in man coverage. Tate should be considered a middling WR4 who will get more targets now that Shepard and Barkley are out.