Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs always seems to find his way onto fantasy rosters. He seems to do just enough to keep his name in the mix, while never truly making the leap to the next level. Should fantasy football managers be targeting Doubs as a late-round selection?
Romeo Doubs Fantasy Outlook
There’s a term in baseball called a Quad-A player. For those of you unfamiliar, there is no AAAA. There’s Single A, Double A, Triple A, and then the big leagues. So, what does it mean? A Quad-A player is essentially a player who is too good for the minors but not quite good enough to thrive at the major league level.
That’s how I feel about Doubs as a fantasy asset.
Doubs is never someone fantasy managers are excited to draft. The Packers seem to always draft another more exciting receiver with higher upside. But when push comes to shove, Doubs has his games where Jordan Love relies heavily on him.
Over the past two seasons, Doubs has averaged 10.2 and 10.3 fantasy points per game. To open the season, we’re never explicitly looking for 10 points in our lineups. However, as injuries and bye weeks hit, players underperform, holes in our lineups emerge, and sometimes, 10 points is good enough.
Doubs is a pretty reliable “won’t get you zero” guy. When he’s out there on waivers, he looks somewhat appealing. Then, when you have him on your roster, you never feel great about starting him. He’s too good for waivers, but not quite good enough to be rostered. He’s the Quad-A fantasy receiver.
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Over the past two seasons, Doubs has played 30 games. He’s scored at least 9.0 fantasy points in 16 of them. He’s never reached 20 fantasy points in a game, but rarely has a bad performance that he’s a crater in your lineup. He is the epitome of “you can do worse.”
Last season, Doubs earned a 19.7% target share. He was targeted on 21.9% of his routes run, 52nd in the league. He wasn’t imposing after the catch and isn’t a great separator.
Now, the Packers added first-rounder Matthew Golden to the fold. They still have Jayden Reed, their most talented WR, and a deep reserve of rotational WR3/4s. And this is all on an offense that does not throw the ball nearly enough to offer reliable WR production for fantasy.
The 2023 Packers had a 45% neutral game script run rate. In 2024, it was 53%, which led the league. If you look at the teams that are typically at the top of the league in neutral game script run rate, it’s the ones with mobile quarterbacks like Jalen Hurts, Anthony Richardson, and Lamar Jackson (those were the next three teams on the list). The Packers have a pocket passer and still ran the ball more than anyone else in a neutral game script.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, they played slow, averaging 29.4 seconds per snap, the ninth-slowest pace in the league. They also ran 540 plays, a staggering 26 fewer than the next-lowest team. By contrast, the Chiefs ran 839 plays, leading the league.
The concern for 2025 is, what exactly will change?
If the Packers are surprisingly terrible on defense, they will have no choice but to play faster and run more plays. But we have no reason to predict that. They will likely have an average to good defense and run a similar offensive scheme.
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Doubs projects to be the same guy he’s been the past two seasons. With a WR72 average draft position (ADP), he is on the border of being drafted in fantasy leagues. It just will never be by me.
A guy like Doubs will most likely be the last wide receiver on your roster. You want to swing for upside. You can find Doubs’ production on the waiver wire. Plus, whoever drafts Doubs will almost certainly drop him at some point anyway. I have Doubs ranked as my WR64. While that is above consensus, that far down rankings, a linear list cannot distinguish between reliable projections and upside. I am not interested in the Packers’ WR3.
Dan Fornek’s Romeo Doubs Projection
Romeo Doubs has quietly been the Packers’ most consistent wide receiver over the past three seasons. Since 2022, Doubs has averaged 78.3 targets, 49.0 receptions, 566.7 yards and 5.0 touchdowns per season. The veteran receiver has back-to-back seasons with at least 10.0 PPR points per game, but has never finished higher than WR47 in fantasy scoring.
Doubs has three straight seasons of at least 600 air yards and more than 10.0 yards per reception. He doesn’t get a lot of volume, but he’s a reliable veteran who makes the plays in front of him. Unfortunately, the Packers’ offense is designed to spread the ball to many playmakers, severely limiting his career upside.
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That won’t change in 2025. Not only do the Packers potentially return their top seven receivers (Christian Watson is rehabbing a torn ACL, and Bo Melton might be on the chopping block), but they added a first-round talent to the mix in Texas’s Matthew Golden. However, despite that, reports in camp suggest that Golden and Doubs consistently pair up on two receiver sets, suggesting another solid role for Doubs in his fourth season.
Doubs will be on the field for the Packers, which means he can earn targets throughout the season. Given how their offense operates, that isn’t going to be a high-volume role, but it could provide FLEX-level weeks in the right matchups or because of injuries.
