De'Zhaun Stribling fantasy football insight from Hayden Winks - PPR Rankings

Understandably, the analytics/dynasty community is completely out on the 23.5-year-old late breakout who only averaged 54 YPG in his final season at Ole Miss. Most of these types flame out early. Stribling has some things going for him to potentially buck that trend, however. First off, Stribling is a high character, willing blocker who can flirt with snaps on that alone. It's a role Jauan Jennings ran with over the past couple of seasons and a role unaccompanied by right now. Beyond that, Stribling is a fantastic athlete with 87th percentile hands and 4.36 wheels at 6'2"/207. He looks the part and really pulled away from Georgia defenders for a 75-yarder. He finished some plays with a mean truck stick, but also was knocked off his route too often for my liking. All in all, Stribling was someone I projected as a real starting No. 3 receiver pre-draft as my No. 64 overall player. That was ahead of consensus. Kyle Shanahan raises me to 33rd overall, and they even said that they would've taken him in Round 1 if not for the slight trade down. That is very real draft capital, even if we properly discount it for being a reach on consensus in a very bad overall draft class. Stribling's primary competition is Christian Kirk for 3-WR set snaps, but it's not that crazy to think he can mix into 2-WR set snaps if his blocking skills are as valued as the staff said they are. It doesn't take full-time snaps in this offense to hit a couple of random spiked weeks in best ball. Jennings and Ricky Pearsall were the WR39 and WR56 per game last year.