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BALLER MOVE: Target Around ~40 Overall
CURRENT ADP: ~46
ANALYSIS: The only reason Johnson is falling outside of the first four rounds of fantasy drafts must be the fact that he's playing for a team that employs Mitchell Trubisky and Kenny Pickett as quarterbacks, right?
But wait a minute! Hasn't Johnson excelled at this thing called football even playing for an underperforming QB named Ben Roethlisberger in the final years of his career?
Roethlisberger only played two games in 2019, but came back for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, virtually completing them in full both times. Johnson, playing with this old man at the helm, still found a way to average 14.8 and 17.2 FPPG in those two years and finish the last two seasons as the WR21 and WR8 in the NFL.
Johnson is as quarterback-proof as it comes, so don't worry a bit about him playing under Trubisky/Pickett's wings.
Johnson has raised the touchdown-scoring bar yearly going from 5 to 7 to 8 and posting eerily similar rates in terms of TD% and averages on his YPR marks, which screams stability and doesn't call for any major regressions on any front.
The opportunities he's had in the last two years have stayed fairly similar (though on the rise, mind you) so that's another positive.
JuJu Smith-Schuster, Ray-Ray McCloud, and James Washington were shown the door while unproven commodities like George Pickens, Calvin Austin, and Miles Boykin were brought to fill the holes.
Draft Johnson with confidence, he's going to do his thing no matter who the Steelers have under center.
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