Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy contributor Sal Vetri break down Tank Dell’s effective performance at WR for the Houston Texans, despite Stefon Diggs and Nico Collins stealing the headlines. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
Tank Dell and when you look at just everything else happening around him, Nico Collins topping 100 yards in the first game.
Stefan Diggs catching not one but two touchdowns.
They’re taking all this attention away from Tank Dell when you look at the box score and he only has three catches for 40 yards.
Not great.
Well, I would just say this opens a bilo window for you because he ran 33 routes depending on where you look, which was one more according to Pff.
Then Nico Collins won less than Stefan Diggs still had seven targets.
Led the team in a was being used on the outside, 70% of his snaps and routes on the outside, which is the ex exact same percentage that he saw all of last year when he was a top 20 fantasy receiver points per game.
His rookie year, top 15 in yards per outrun his rookie year.
Yes, Stefan Diggs is now there, but in terms of the usage in this offense, it looked really good for Tank Dell and by the way, Joe M and ran the ball 30 times in this game, that’s probably not gonna happen.
Moving forward, they’re gonna run less plays overall.
But you’re gonna get those 3540 pass attempt games from CJ Stroud.
And that’s when Tank Dell has massive upside.
But I think he has a week in and week out and I think there’s a good chance after just a 40 yard performance.
No touchdowns that you can buy low on him.
Yeah.
If your league mates are not looking at the advanced data, you know, snaps and routes and air yards and all that, they’re definitely coming out of this thing.
Well, Tank Dell is the number three receiver, you know, and, and I got a lot of tweets when I was posting about Nico Collins like, oh, well, digs his clue.
The number one maybe, but is it just because he scored two touchdowns?
I don’t necessarily think that’s the case.
Tank Dell outside receiver, pure flanker.
Uh, he’s gonna get some big time a deep targets like Nico hit some big plays in this one.
No question about it.
But if we’re just looking at the average depth of target, you’ve got Stefan Diggs at 1.3 which is low because he was, you know, getting some red zone scoring target, things like that, that’s always gonna depress your air yards average at the target.
But Tank Dell 16.3 I think what that, what that should signal to us sal is that when Tank Dell hits and, and it is when not, if when he hits, he’s gonna hit big.
