Antonio Callaway 2019 Outlook: A Crowded Receiving Corps In Cleveland
5 years agoLast year, the Cleveland Browns drafted Antonio Callaway and he was a popular sleeper pick for fantasy owners due to the team’s perceived weakness at the wide receiver position outside of Jarvis Landry, who the team had traded for prior to the NFL Draft. But the Browns landed a huge asset this offseason, trading for Giants star receiver Odell Beckham Jr., which leaves Callaway in a precarious position. He’s still got the speed to give quarterback Baker Mayfield a deep threat, but with Landry serving as the team’s best underneath option, Beckham able to work down the field, and tight end David Njoku able to make a strong impact as well, projecting what Callaway will do this year will be difficult. It's made even more difficult because of a four game suspension that Callaway must serve to open the year. He could emerge as a great field stretching option, someone similar to Houston’s Will Fuller, or he could be a non-entity in an offense with this many mouths to feed. Drafting Callaway in the latter rounds of your fantasy drafts would have been a move that presents good upside, but the suspension changes that, as he's now a boom-or-bust option who'll miss a quarter of the NFL season. Maybe he's worth a flyer in a deep league, but it's hard to see Callaway be anything more than a WR4 on a per game basis. That's not really worth the hassle of waiting out the suspension.