23-05-2025
Can Deebo Samuel return to elite fantasy form in 2025?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy analyst Andy Behrens discuss how Deebo Samuel built his reputation on his 1,405-yard season in 2021 and question whether or not he can return back to his peak form. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Debo Samuel last year, Andy in Reception Perception, 39.7% success rate versus man coverage.
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That is, I kind of forgotten this, but that's the third lowest mark I've ever tried, ever, ever, ever.
Like he's, he's in the Terrace Marshall rookie year zone, the Jalen Rager rookie year zone and like Debo's never been a great man beater, but I mean it was better than that previously and like the zone number is still, it's OK, but that's fallen off.
And by the way, this was consistent on film.
Before the pneumonia thing.
Debo is such a complicated player, um, because he obviously he he built his reputation on the, the one great season, right, the 1400 yard season, he was phenomenal and he's a, you know, Debo highlights are great when when things go well for Debo Samuel, it's, you know, one of the plays of the week.
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But like that one big season represents about 30% of his career receiving production, um, and the rest of the career is is full of, you know, isolated good games and a whole bunch of really quiet games and of course he did that within the context of San Francisco's offense and, and that's kind of a spin the wheel offense anyway, right?
Like it's Kittle one week and it's Ayuk one week and then it's Samuel.
Um, so maybe that's fine, but man, most of the production again is concentrated in one season that we are getting further and further away from, um, and those are pretty jarring numbers, uh, in terms of success rate last year, so he's got to be a lot better than he has recently been I will say that.
