Adam Humphries 2019 Outlook: Will Changing Teams Hurt His Value?
6 years agoAfter spending the first four years of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wide receiver Adam Humphries left to join the Tennessee Titans this offseason. But does a new team necessarily mean an increased role for the fifth-year receiver? Last season, Humphries had career highs in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns, putting up totals of 76 catches, 816 yards, and five trips to the end zone. Humphries worked out of the slot on the vast majority of his snaps, which helped him finish 16th among wide receivers in receptions. He put up good numbers in terms of yardage after the catch as well. But Tampa Bay’s quarterbacks combined to throw for over 5000 yards last year, while the Titans didn’t even throw for 3000. That’s a huge disparity, and it could be a big reason why Humphries doesn’t deliver in his new surroundings. Factor in that the Titans have recently spent early draft picks on wide receivers Corey Davis and A.J. Brown, and you get a fairly crowded receiving corps on a team that just doesn’t throw the ball enough to keep all their options producing. Humphries ability to rack up catches out of the slot gives him a decent floor, but his overall ceiling doesn’t feel nearly as high as it did in Tampa Bay, making Humphries a risky fantasy pick in the later rounds.