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Fantasy owners were excited about [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] this year -- you know, after he got done serving a season-opening four-game suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Since returning in Week 5, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is only third on the team in targets (20), behind Cotchery (30) and Edwards (23). Keller is at 17 and LaDainian Tomlinson is at 16.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is certainly talented, but the four-game suspension mixed with a move to run-dominant team with a lesser QB should've been of a red flag. That's all in the in the past, though, so the real concern is whether he'll turn it around.
After that, though, he was supposed to take off. He was certainly better than Braylon Edwards, right? After all, according to CBS' data, he had a higher ADP (112.93) than Edwards (113.85), despite the fact that, again, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] was going to miss the first four games of the season. And forget about Jerricho Cotchery (ADP: 134.57) -- that guy is yesterday's news.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is always capable of busting a big play, and, again, we know he's talented, but right now his name value is greater than his actual value. Dangle him out there in a trade and see what you can get. You might find the owner who thinks this is the week [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] really "becomes more comfortable in the Jets' offense."
But here we are heading into Week 9, and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] has done virtually nothing (10 catches, 131 yards, no TDs). It seems like we keep saying that he's about to get going, that he's becoming more comfortable with Mark Sanchez and the rest of the Jets' offense, but, really, what proof do we have of that? It sounds good, but it's entirely possible that [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is the third or fourth receiving option on a "running" team. Gulp.
The Jets have been airing it out (112 pass attempts) more than they've been running (91 rushing attempts) the past three weeks, so that's a positive sign for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but, ultimately, there hasn't been much success. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] isn't a big receiver who can outbattle CBs for jump balls, and with only a 2.3 yards-after-catch average this year, he's clearly not getting the ball in a position where he can do damage as a runner.
Matchup-wise, there are reasons to be optimistic. According to our Enhanced Schedule Grid, Jets' receivers have four remaining "favorable" matchups (Week 10 @CLE, Week 11 vs. HOU, Week 13 @NE and Week 14 vs. MIA), one "unfavorable matchup (Week 16 @CHI) and four "neutral matchups" (including this week's game against Detroit). That's pretty good, all things considered.
However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], here are the reasons not to be optimistic:
Perhaps even more worrisome is that Sanchez's play has regressed. After being nearly flawless in Weeks 2-4 (QB rating of at least 106.4 in every game; 8:0 TD:INT ratio), Sanchez hasn't had a QB rating above 60.1 in any game since and has a 1:4 TD:INT ratio in that span.

For whatever reason -- maybe it was the Super Bowl catch, maybe it was the career-high 1,248 yards last season -- [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] started getting treated like a safe, consistent WR1. There's really nothing in his history that suggests that's the case, though. Before last year, he had never had more than 942 yards in a season, and he's only topped five TDs once in his career.