Chris Godwin Week 14 Outlook - Vikings at Buccaneers

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Dec 10th 2020, 8:22am EST

He's been the consistent one in this offense, while Mike Evans and Ronald Jones have their ups and downs. Godwin has seen in-between 6-10 targets in every game and has finished in-between 5-9 receptions in seven of them. He's still yet to have a 100-yard or multi-touchdown game, which means he hasn't lived up to his second-round ADP this year. Even if he were to have played all 16 games, his pace would be 98 receptions, 1,124 yards, and six touchdowns. Not great, but not bad. To be clear, those are solid WR2 numbers. The Vikings secondary has been abused all year long and wide receivers have reaped the benefits, averaging 2.00 PPR points per target, which is the second-highest mark in the NFL behind only the Cowboys. There have been nine wide receivers who've posted WR16 or better numbers against the Vikings but just one of them was a slot-heavy wide receiver. Rookie Jeff Gladney has covered the slot, allowing 33-of-51 passing for 378 yards, which isn't bad at all, but he has allowed five touchdowns on those targets. It should be noted that Gladney did have to leave the game against the Jaguars last week with a calf injury. Unfortunately, Godwin has seen just six targets inside the 20-yard-line this year, while Evans has seen 17 of them and Gronkowski has 10 of them. Godwin is still someone you're playing as a WR2, but this matchup might favor Evans a bit more.