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Buccaneers wide receiver (WR) Tyler Johnson is a fantasy football waiver wire pickup to target as a free agent addition for Week 6 of the 2020 NFL season.
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ANALYSIS: Welcome to the party, Tyler! It took a bunch of banged-up players for Johnson to have his final, true chance of playing big-time snaps for Tampa, but he finally was able to do so last TNF. After debuting in W3 but playing only 21 and 25 snaps that week and the following one (he wasn't targeted at all), Tyler Johnson put on quite a nice performance in his W5 affair with Chicago.
Johnson finished his first valuable game with 10.1 PPR points, catching 4 of his 6 targets for 61 yards and a very sweet 15.2 yards per catch and 10.1 yards per target. You might not be astonished by that line, but it was Johnson "first" game as a pro and the kid carries a very high upside and hype with him given his college exploits during the last few years.
While Johnson will clearly go back to a WR4 at most when all of Mike Evans, Chris Goodwin, Scotty Miller, and Justin Watson are available, this game could very well have put him on Bruce Arians plans going forward and he will undoubtedly feature on more Bucs' plays during the next weeks.
Tampa is facing average defenses against WRs in the next three matches (14th, 12th, and 20th-best at preventing FP from the position) so it makes sense for Johnson to keep getting reps (even more with Las Vegas and the New York Giants among those teams; potential easy wins). Don't get too high on Johnson because of his low usage in a stocked offense, but definitely stash him in your roster as a "what-if" play with upside if someone goes down injured for long.
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