Who can fantasy managers really trust in Green Bay?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Ray Garvin explain how Packers quarterback Jordan Love is quietly elevating his weapons and finally delivering some fantasy consistency. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Jordan Love has only been pressured on 29% of his dropbacks.
This is the 5th lowest among starting quarterbacks in that span.
He is 7th in EPA per dropback, between the great Daniel Jones and Jalen Hurts.
He has 47 yards as a scrambler, which is 4th most.
Which is interesting, because that's not really a thing that we typically attribute to Jordan Love as a quarterback, and certainly why he's never been an elite fantasy quarterback.
He's never really just kind of taken off and run.
I think you've seen a little bit more willingness since coming off the bye.
Which is interesting.
The protection has been better.
That was a problem early on in the season as they dealt with some offensive line injuries.
Not saying it's been perfect, but again, I think he's been pretty good this season.
It's been very quiet, even in year-long metrics, as we're showing right now, 5th in completion percentage over expected, 7th in QBR.
3rd in success rate, 1st in adjusted EPA per play.
And I think that we're quietly, very, very, very quietly getting some consolidation in terms of the pass catchers in Green Bay.
Typically, it's this, oh my God, it's rotating, and there's a lot of bodies in and out here, but just the last few last two weeks since coming back from the bye, 3 players have been at 75% plus route participation.
It's been Dobbs, it's been Kraft, it's been Matthew Golden.
I'm interested to see what those guys look like from your perspective in the Trinity model, but like, not a lot of other players are getting the football thrown their way at this point because Wicks has been banged up.
So, I don't know.
I think this Packers offense we're always kind of trying to chase it and find the right answers.
But there might actually be some right answers here, and it's partly because their quarterback is quietly playing some good football.
This is a good pull from you.
You know, you talked about this last week, how we kinda, we, we don't really look at each other's notes to have some kind of shock value when we get on the show to react live with the people that are.
Watching, so I saw this come up and I was interested to see where you took it, and I love the point you made about consolidation.
I just went and looked at the usage for the Green Bay pass catchers, both tight ends and wide receivers since week 6.
The three guys that you talked about.
Romeo Dobbs at the top.
You got Matthew Golden right next to him, and then Tucker Kraft is the only one who's producing above what he probably should, given the volume.
So there is some upside for both of the other two pass catchers as well.
And then there's a huge gap.
Like there's nobody else.
Uh, it doesn't matter who else is next, it's those three guys, it's consolidated in that space right now.
I know there's talks about Christian Watson coming back and doing that, even if he does, I think that's just a bigger boost to the overall offense itself, opposed to him coming in and being this dominant fantasy scorer.
I know Romeo Dobbs is not a sexy name, he's not a high flyer.
He wears a huge pillow on his head for protection, for protection, that's why he wears that thing, right?
Not the most aesthetically pleasing.
But he's pretty solid.
Like he's just, he's, you know what you're getting out of him.
You're getting five for fifty plus, just about every week from Dobbs.
I still think there's more upside available in Matthew Golden's skill set.
Like it's not for a lack of trying from the Green Bay Packers and then Tucker Kraft is, he's a stud at the tight end position.
This was a good, this is a good little call out because this past Sunday, he didn't do a ton in that matchup versus Arizona.
It was a road game.
Cardinals came out, they played much better with Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, but Jordan Love is, is quietly like you say, he's figuring out who his guys are.