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BALLER MOVE: Target ~85
CURRENT ADP: ~90
ANALYSIS: Just like every other Green Bay WR that was not Davante Adams, Randall Cobb's season was essentially lost once Aaron Rodgers went down. Cobb averaged over 5.5 receptions and eight targets per game with Rodgers directing traffic compared to just 4.1 catches and 5.5 targets without him. Health was also a factor that played into Cobb's struggles in 2017.
Cobb opted for offseason ankle surgery to clear up the issue. Also impacting GB is the departure of Jordy Nelson, which opens up a hefty target share for the rest of GBs pass catchers. While Adams will open the season as the teams WR1, there's a massive question mark regarding who will assume the role as the team's WR2. The best bet at this point has to be Cobb.
Only the Oakland Raiders targeted the slot on a higher percentage of pass attempts than the Packers did last year. Cobb took the lion's share of the slot work, drawing 60 of the teams 188 total slot targets. Cobb ran over 77 percent of his routes out of the slot. The departed Nelson actually drew the team's second-most slot targets with 27 of them.
Cobb is not the only slot guy worth noting on this roster, however. Given the Packers' knack for targeting the slot, as well as Cobb's ankle situation, there is an incentive to include Ty Montgomery on your radar. While Montgomery had his own share of injury woes last season, he has eaten out of the slot over his past two seasons. He was a perfect 10 for 10 on slot targets in 2016; both metrics were second at the RB position behind just David Johnson. Montgomery's receiving usage has seen an uptick over the past two seasons with Cobb off the field as well. In the three games Cobb has missed that Montgomery was active in since the start of 2016, he has averaged five catches and nearly 7.5 targets per contest.
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