Cooper Kupp Week 12 Outlook - 49ers at Rams

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Wed, Nov 25th 2020, 7:51pm EST

It was great to see the Rams exploit the best matchup on the field last week, getting the ball in Kupp's hands 11 times for 145 yards. It's so great when coaches actually use mismatches to their advantage. Is Week 12 another one of those games? It should be considering the 49ers are missing their starting slot cornerback K'Waun Williams, who suffered a bad ankle sprain. In steps Jamar Taylor, a slot cornerback who's been on six different teams in the last four years. He's had limited playing time with the 49ers, allowing 14-of-20 passing for 185 yards in his coverage. We have a large 300-plus target sample size with him in coverage that shows he's allowed 9.30 yards per target in his career. When you think about the fact that Richard Sherman is likely coming back, the perimeter matchup against him and the combination of Jason Verrett and Emmanuel Moseley, the slot is where they should be attacking. Kupp only finished with 3/11/0 in their first meeting, but he lost a bomb that would've gone for a touchdown in the lights, and then he dropped a touchdown later in the game, so it should've looked a lot different. Keep plugging him in as a WR2.