Zach Pascal (WR, IND) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues

OWNED IN: 1% of Leagues

ANALYSIS: You know something is wrong when your top-two targeted players are both starting plays off the backfield. That's what happened with Indianapolis' offense in Week 1, as both Jonathan Taylor and Nyheim Hines finished with 7 and 8 targets respectively, and above each and every wideout of the Colts. Yikes. Zach Pascal, though, was the only Colt at the WR position to get targeted five times, which should account for something.

Pascal, he of the ridiculous 1% rostership, logged those 5 targets in 69 snaps played--91%, still fewer than Michael Pittman Jr.'s 74--while catching 4 of those passes for 43 yards and two touchdowns on the day against the Seahawks. Pascal was the only receiver with more than three receptions on Sunday, and the only scorer (accounting for both rushing--of which there were none--and receiving TDs).

With veteran T.Y. Hilton out for the season, it made sense to watch Pascal getting the heaviest load Sunday and a sizeable one going forward on a weekly basis. Both Taylor and Hines will keep getting his targets, but it's going to be hard to find the two of them beating all of the WRs of the team in that department week in, week out. That bodes well for Pascal, who was the only Colt at the position to score more than 6 PPR points after finishing with 20.3 in Week 1. I wouldn't expect Paspal to reach those levels on a per-game basis, but he should be good enough to slot in your WR3/FLEX position most weeks--assuming QB Carson Wentz stays at the top of his game.

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