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BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~100 Overall
CURRENT ADP: ~114
ANALYSIS: After the great season Jared Cook had in 2018 while still a member of the Raiders, it was reasonable to be skeptical of his chances of repeating it last year. I mean, it is not often that you see a tight end being consistently great, Oakland wasn't a top-tier offensive team, and Cook's 193.6 PPR points in 2018 (to the tune of 68 receptions, 896 yards, and 6 TDs) marked his career-best mark by almost 50 points. While Cook indeed regressed in 2019 to 167.5 PPR points (705 yards on 43 receptions, with a career-best 9 scores), he still finished the year as the TE7, and if looked at closely, he played even better last year than he did in 2018.
Cook missed two games last season, so his PPG were virtually the same in back-to-back years at 12.1 and 12.0. Not only that, but he also was much more efficient playing in New Orleans. Playing under future Hall of Famer QB Drew Brees most of the year, Cook generated more FP Over Expectation (FPOE) in 2019 than in 2018 and only one game in which he "underperformed" in the second half of the season compared to four in 2018.
Cook's ADP skyrocketed the last offseason due to his booming 2018 but has now come back to earth, perhaps too much. PFF projects Cook to finish 2020 with 112 PPR points but the Saints haven't changed that much (they've added Emmanuel Sanders, though) and he should be able to reach that mark easily. As he's always done, Cook projects to be one of the most efficient TEs with a projection of 652 yards on just 47 catches. Cook has, in fact, the third-best Yds/Rec projection at 14.0 only behind O.J. Howard (14.1) and Rob Gronkowski (15.1).
Putting all of his numbers together, Cook is expected to finish the year as a low-end TE1 but playing in an offense where all of Sanders, Michael Thomas, and Alvin Kamara will take a lot of eyes off him, Cook should have great chances to rack up fantasy points and carries a very nice upside for the ADP he's currently getting off draft boards.
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