Jordan Akins (TE, HOU) - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups

Texans tight end (TE) Jordan Akins is a fantasy football waiver wire pickup to target as a free agent addition for Week 3 of the 2020 NFL season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues

ANALYSIS: They called a man crazy for recommending rostering Jordan Akins after his Week 1 performance. Now, they are calling him a visionary. Thank you, thank you, but I had this feeling I was going to be right. Sure, Akins W1 stats were the lowest of low volume numbers, but they were also hyper-efficient and most importantly, Akins was on the field for 48 snaps compared to TE2 Darren Fell's 25.

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While Akins could only catch his two targets in the first game of the season, he did so for 39 yards and a touchdown. That means he bagged 11.9 PPR points against the Chiefs and facing a much worse TE-defense in Baltimore's this past Sunday he excelled once more on a much higher usage/volume. Akins was targeted seven times in W2, caught all of those seven targets, racked up 55 yards, and only lacked the touchdown to put the cherry on top of a TE1-role-sealing performance.

Most fantasy GMs remained asleep in advance of Week 2 and left Akins available in virtually every league. Akins kicked them in the mouth with another good 12.5-PPR game. It is not that those points are going to win you the league, but he's definitely a more than 2% rosterable player. No brainer to get in deep leagues, with upside to turn into a TE1 for 12-team-league GMs if Houston keeps losing weapons on offense (Duke Johnson and Will Fuller V are banged up).

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