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Is Keenan Allen worth a late-round fantasy stash?
ahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and contributor Ray Garvin explain why the Chargers' 33-year-old receiver could still be a regular flex option in a better offense. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Keenan Allen just recently signed back to the Los Angeles Chargers.
And you know, the one thing, Matt, that we have not really done this entire show is try to bake in injuries and talk about players being hurt.
Like there's a long time before the season starts.
Lads dealing with a little something something, but I don't think it's really going to impact them once we get to the season.
Keenan Howe was brought in for a reason and when you look at some of his metrics from last season, offense not very good, but Keenan Allen still commanded a decent chunk of that Chicago Bears passing attack.
He's competent at what he does and he's going to be what I call just one of those gnats around Ladd McConkey.
And I think it's one of the reasons why I think I moved Ladd down, not because he's getting a chunk taken away, but he's just that, it's just always around.
You, you're swatting and it won't go away no matter what you do.
Keenan Allen was brought in to do some of that, and you know what, he's probably a lot more trusted than Quentin Johnson right now or any of the tight ends.
They're down or running backs, so he's gonna factor into this offense.
He's got to be talked about here as one of those later round gems.
I mean, I think he could just, even if he's just like a PPR scam, right, where he's getting a lot of those like layup targets, he's, he's gonna be useful here.
He was actually 18th among wide receivers in team target share last year, which I don't think many people realized, but he was definitely used a lot.
Um, here's the thing that I think I'm excited about for Keenan Allen this year is that last year with the Bears took 52.5% of his snaps from the slot.
His yards per target were, you know, kind of right around 9, but like that's per target.
When you actually watch him play, he was running a lot of like deep routes up the seam.
I'm not gonna be doing that with the Chargers because Ladd McConkey is their intermediate guy.
They have vertical players and, um, you know, Quentin Johnson doesn't really catch the ball down the field and contest situations, but he runs deep routes.
They got Trey Harris maybe to be a sacrificial ex.
They've got Keanre Lambert Smith, who has made some plays this offseason.
He's got good training camp reviews, Hall of Fame game.
We know the deal.
He can rip it downfield.
So, they got downfield guys.
But Keenan Allen, I think, will be sort of again, maybe a compiler.
He could be a guy that catches what, like maybe 60-plus balls here, as in the late range of the draft.
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