N'Keal Harry (WR, NE) - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED: 35% of Leagues

ANALYSIS: After an injury-derailed rookie season, N'Keal Harry is finally enjoying a full-time playing year as a sophomore. He has already surpassed his receptions, targets, and receiving yards from last season in just over half the games he played a year ago, has one score (he had 2 TDs last season), and his yards per target and aDOT are both up from 2019. Not bad for the often-criticized young receiver.

Now, for the bad news: New England won't have Newton for Week 5. On the bright side of things, though, the Patriots face a Broncos Defense that ranks fifth-worst against WRs in fantasy points allowed to the position through four games. If only for a week, Harry should definitely be on your WW radar.

N'Keal Harry has been up-and-down since the start of the year in terms of production, but the volume has always been there for the second-year player. Harry has been targeted 4+ times in every game, 6 times in two, and saw a season-high 12 targets in W2. So far, he's 18-for-28 in receptions (64.2% catch rate) and just this past Monday he scored his first TD of the year against the no. 1 defense against the position. Not bad.

If Brady were still in town, I'd advise acquiring Harry also in shallower leagues, but with the current situation at the QB position and Cam Newton (and the whole team) having more of a running approach to games, Harry's upside is a little short for that. Don't get me wrong, though. Next weekend he should explode against a really bad defense, and a bye week comes after that. Get Harry, play him as a FLEX with upside to enter the WR2 realm, and if you're not satisfied just drop him next Monday and look at other options.

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