Fantasy Football 2021 Breakouts: Can Jalen Hurts Put Together A Top 10 Fantasy QB Season?

(CBS Local)- One of the biggest questions that phantasy shot owners inquire themselves earlier their league draught is which players could beryllium owed for a breakout year? Two years ago, Ravens’ QB Lamar Jackson was coming disconnected a coagulated rookie season, but past helium erupted into a phantasy monster. Last year, rookie moving backmost Jonathan Taylor and wide receiver Justin Jefferson made contiguous impacts, totaling 215 and 186 phantasy points respectively.

For breakout players, determination is ever a premix of rookies and second-year players who found themselves arsenic the stars of the phantasy season. With that successful mind, we took a look done the CBSSports.com phantasy shot experts lists of imaginable breakout players to place 2 astatine each presumption to watch. If you privation to cheque retired Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard, and Heath Cummings’ afloat explanations, CBS Sports’ phantasy shot hub has you covered.

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Quarterbacks

Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles

Hurts showed up connected our Top 10 QBs rankings database for phantasy this season, truthful it’s not truly a astonishment that Jamey and Dave person him listed arsenic a breakout subordinate arsenic well. One of the biggest reasons is, of course, Hurts’ quality to marque plays with his legs successful summation to his arm.

“Hurts looked the portion of Fantasy prima past year, erstwhile helium scored 20, 43 and 19 Fantasy points successful his archetypal 3 starts against New Orleans, Arizona and Dallas, and helium was connected gait for 4,517 passing yards, 27 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, arsenic good arsenic 1,269 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns implicit 16 games. That’s apt not realistic, but his rushing imaginable gives him a immense vantage implicit astir quarterbacks,” Eisenberg writes.

The projections person him throwing for 3,625 yards and 23 touchdowns portion adding different 794 and 5 TDs connected the crushed for a beardown 19.6 phantasy points per crippled average. At an ADP of 82 astatine the moment, Hurts is lasting into the sixth circular successful aboriginal drafts.

Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals

Burrow was connected his mode to being a breakout phantasy prima past twelvemonth earlier getting injured successful Week 11. He averaged 20 phantasy points per crippled past season, and the Bengals added his erstwhile teammate, J’Marr Chase with their first-round prime to upgrade his receiving corps.

In summation to expected betterment present that he’s seen NFL enactment and learned the gait of the game, Cummings points retired that the Bengals were 1 of the astir pass-happy offenses past season, averaging 40 attempts per crippled with Burrow nether center.

There’s nary crushed to expect that to alteration with Chase successful the fold. With a projection of 332 full points (19.5 per game) and an ADP of 106 astatine the clip of penning (eighth circular successful 12-team leagues), Burrow tin found himself arsenic a viable starting phantasy enactment this season.

Running Backs

Antonio Gibson, Washington Football Team

Gibson showed his quality to beryllium a origin successful phantasy past season, erstwhile helium totaled 165 points (11.8 per game) successful conscionable 14 games, 10 starts for Washington. His worth arsenic a walk catcher is what makes him plentifulness exciting, considering helium snagged 36 of 44 targets past season.

With Curtis Samuel added to the premix connected discourtesy and Ryan Fitzpatrick nether center, the thought is that Gibson should person much country to run than helium did astatine times past season.

D’Andre Swift, Detroit Lions

With Kerryon Johnson present successful Philadelphia and Adrian Peterson nary longer connected the roster, Swift becomes the apical backmost successful Detroit. The Lions added Jamaal Williams from Green Bay successful escaped agency, but each expectations bespeak that Swift volition get the bulk of the workload.

The Lions added to their violative enactment by bringing successful rookie tackle Penei Sewell with their first-round prime and, arsenic Cummings notes, Detroit’s discourtesy is apt to beryllium moving backmost friendly.

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“Anthony Lynn’s offenses person historically been precise moving backmost friendly, with the presumption garnering much than 30 touches per crippled astir years,” Cummings writes.

Swift is simply a origin successful the passing crippled arsenic good with 46 receptions for 357 yards past season, and that was with Detroit inactive having Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones (both gone) connected the roster. He’s getting drafted aboriginal (ADP of 17) but he’s conscionable extracurricular the Top 10 moving backs successful projections so, if you find yourself successful the mid-second circular looking to adhd different back, Swift is simply a coagulated choice.

Wide Receivers

CeeDee Lamb, Dallas Cowboys

This is beauteous simple. Lamb fell conscionable abbreviated of 1,000 yards receiving past play (935) and was conscionable extracurricular the Top 20 of phantasy receivers, contempt having a premix of Andy Dalton, Ben DiNucci and Garrett Gilbert throwing to him aft Dak Prescott went down.

Prescott is backmost steadfast and Lamb enters Year 2 arsenic portion of a unsafe Cowboys offense. As Eisenberg points out, Lamb was implicit 16.2 PPR points successful each crippled with Prescott past season, seeing 8 targets per game. No crushed to judge that won’t proceed arsenic the 2 physique much chemistry unneurotic successful a afloat year.

Ja’marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals

There person been reports precocious of Chase struggling successful grooming camp which is precisely the other benignant of quality that imaginable phantasy owners privation to hear. But, adjacent with the struggles, determination volition beryllium accidental disposable to Chase successful the Bengals offense.

As mentioned above, the squad was 1 of the astir pass-happy successful the league past play with Joe Burrow attempting 40 throws per game. Three receivers, Tyler Boyd, Tee Higgins and A.J. Green topped 100 targets arsenic a result. Green is present successful Arizona and Chase steps successful to enactment with his erstwhile LSU teammate. At the precise least, you’d expect him to get arsenic galore targets arsenic Green did (104).

Projections person him astatine 111 targets implicit the people of the play and totaling 144 phantasy points successful non-ppr leagues (223.3 successful PPR).

Tight Ends

Dallas Goedert, Philadelphia Eagles

Goedert appeared successful 2 of the 3 breakouts pieces frankincense far, and he’s expected to beryllium the starting choky extremity for the Eagles erstwhile they enactment up successful Week 1. The lone uncertainty present is whether Zach Ertz volition inactive beryllium with the team. If helium is, the ceiling for Goedert apt lowers some, arsenic Ertz is inactive a viable choky end. But, if Ertz is gone, Goedert showed what helium tin bash arsenic the main absorption astatine choky extremity past season.

“Goedert played 4 games successful 2020 with Ertz injured, and Goedert scored astatine slightest 18 PPR points successful 2 of those outings. And successful 2 afloat games with Hurts helium saw 14 targets,” writes Eisenberg.

The Eagles choky extremity made an quality connected the Top 10 choky ends ranking arsenic good and is projected to decorativeness wrong the Top 10 this season.

T.J. Hockenson, Detroit Lions

As alluded to successful D’Andre Swift’s notes above, the Lions passing crippled doesn’t person a ton of proven options successful the receiver corps. That’s what makes Hockenson precise appealing.

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He was targeted 101 times past play and hauled successful 67 receptions for 723 yards and six touchdowns. With an unsettled receiving corps aft the departures of Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones successful escaped agency, Hockenson whitethorn beryllium the champion disposable enactment for caller starting QB Jared Goff.