Fantasy-Michael thomas

I can understand the concern fantasy players have for him. The concerns are valid and real. Realistically he's never going to see 185 targets again in his career. Even with a 17 games schedule he would need to average nearly 11 targets a game to reach that mark.

Even if MT comes back at 100% and he's still the player he was in 2019 the targets still aren't going to be there for a variety of reasons.

1. He's not the only viable option in the passing game. In 2019 he was the passing game. Obviously AK saw his fair share of targets but if you look at the other WRs and TEs who saw meaningful snaps, MT had more targets than all of them combined. Just look at this:

MT - 185 targets

Cook - 65
Ginn - 56
Josh Hill - 35
Tre'Quan - 25

Those four players combined for 181 targets. No way MT see more targets than the rest of the WRs and TEs combined this season.

2. Brees is gone with the wind. All due respect to Winston but he's no Drew Brees. Drew and MT developed a rapport that we haven't seen since Manning and Harrison were doing there thing two decades ago.

3. The offense is probably going to be different. With this defense DA is probably going to try to take care of the football and play complimentary football like we saw last season.