3 years agoWhen was the last time Green Bay Packers wide receiver Sammy Watkins was a legit WR1/WR2 threat? In 2015? In 2017 maybe? Hard to know. What is easy, though, is to dig deeper into Watkins' numbers from his prime seasons and find out that he was an actual top-24 PPR-format fantasy WR just once in his career! The former No.4 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft topped at WR20 in 2015 and never reached that point of excellence again. Missed time, injuries, bad fits, etc., killed his upside steadily from 2016 to last season in different years at multiple places: Buffalo, Los Angeles (Rams), Kansas City, Baltimore, and starting in 2022, Green Bay. That's correct. So barren of talent is the pass-catching unit of the Packers that Watkins got signed, and he automatically got up to the WR2/WR3 spot in Green Bay's receivers depth chart. The Clemson product got to play 13 games in 2021 (his second-most in the past four years), but his production was mediocre at best. Watkins caught a meager 55.1% of the 49 targets he got (27 receptions) for a career-low 394 yards and just one receiving touchdown. Watkins is still just 28 years old and entering his age-29 season. Even then, though, his fantasy production has gone from a peak mark of 16.8 FP per game in 2015 to 11.5 in 2018 (on just 10 games played) and then on a constantly decreasing line from that point on: 9.9 to 8.7 to finally 5.4 last year in Baltimore. The Packers are determined to feature him heavily, though it is not that they have many better options outside of Allen Lazard and rookie Christian Watson. Yes, there will be targets available. And yes, Aaron Rodgers will be the one launching the passes. Even then, though, Sammy Watkins should be a draft-day afterthought and one to only target as a waiver-wire target down the road when seasons start plaguing the league.--Antonio Losada