Keelan Cole 2021 Outlook: Overachieving UDFA Fighting To Remain Relevant
4 years agoIt's been an impressive run for Keelan Cole over his four-year career given the fact that he never should've even made an NFL roster. I don't mean that to disparage him as Cole has ability. It's just the odds were stacked against him and he did well to overcome them. Cole has had bouts of fantasy relevance throughout every year of his career, but as often happens with UDFAs, he just couldn't sustain it. Cole finds himself away from Jacksonville and with the Jets where he will once again have to fight his way up the depth chart. It seems likely the Jets will cut Jamison Crowder, but until that happens, Cole remains fourth, if not fifth, on the Jets depth chart behind Corey Davis, Denzel Mims, the aforementioned Crowder, and possibly rookie Elijah Moore. Using 15 fantasy points as the general threshold for WR1 level production, Cole actually hit that number five times last season. When he's been given opportunity, he's proven capable of producing. Cole should not be drafted in any fantasy leagues, but if the Jets sustain injuries to their wide receivers to the extent they did last season where, at one point, they were rolling out Jeff Smith, Braxton Berrios, and Lawrence Cager, Cole is a guy you know can fill in on your fantasy team if the volume will be there. No one is drafting Cole and he has no shot at mattering if the guys above him stay healthy, but he's a name to keep in the deep recesses of your brain in the event the Jets need to start him for a game or three.