Brandin Cooks (WR, HOU) - 2021 Fantasy Football Sleeper

BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~85 Overall (PPR)

CURRENT ADP: ~106

ANALYSIS: Cooks is the ultimate trailblazer. He played three years for the Saints, one for the Pats, two for the Rams, and last season, he donned Texans threads for the first time in his career. He barely misses time (three games in the past six seasons) so that's not a concern for his fantasy GMs and his upside, and he's topped 220 PPR points in all of the last six years except 2019 (crowded Rams outfield; two games missed).

For how great Cooks has been, his ADP is ridiculous. Sure, he won't have Deshaun Watson tossing him the rock in 2021, but even then he should still thrive in an offense that lacks weapons everywhere. PFF has the Texans' skill-position starters (let's say the top-three WR, top-two RB, and top-TE in projected opportunities) projected to an average of 144 PPR points in 2021. Only Cooks tops 200 PPR points in those projections. Talk about a lack of talent...

Cooks has put up numbers all throughout his career and that shouldn't change next season, even with QB Tyrod Taylor manning the offense. All of Brees, Brady, and Goff were better playmakers at the quarterback position, sure, but those three franchises also had Cooks playing a much smaller role in their offenses than the one he will take on next season. That should balance things out and make Cooks one of the most undervalued and wrongly-forgotten wideouts in fantasy football.

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