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Diontae Johnson is a potential fantasy football wide receiver draft sleeper for the 2020 NFL season. Target him is a mid-to-late round WR value pick in drafts.
BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~85 Overall
CURRENT ADP:~104
ANALYSIS: Last season, his first as a pro, Diontae Johnson put on a show playing for a virtual quarterback-less Pittsburgh Steelers. That's not a joke. Johnson racked up all of 163.1 PPR points in his freshman year, which ranks 15th-best among rookie-wideouts since 2015 and beat the tallies of past stud-rookies such as Stefon Diggs, D.J. Moore, or Courtland Sutton.
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Johnson saw a catchable target on 72.8% of balls, good for 81st in the league. To put things in perspective, his 59 receptions for 680 yards were mighty impressive. Most impressive, however, was the fact that Johnson led the league in target separation at 2.39 yards. He only dropped just three passes all season. Simply put, Johnson is an elite technician at the wide receiver position.
At the time of this writing, with not much more than a week for the season to kick-off, Johnson is getting off draft boards as the WR40 with an overall ADP of 104. That feels a little too low for what he can offer as Pittsburgh's WR2. PFF projects Johnson to reach 175 PPR points over the year for a WR3 finish, although after what he showed as a rookie he definitely brings enough upside to enter the WR2 tier.
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