Trying to decide whether to start Davante Adams vs. the Tennessee Titans or Tetairoa McMillan vs. the Arizona Cardinals? Here’s our Week 2 fantasy football projections, plus analysis from PFSN’s Kyle Soppe.
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Week 2 Projections for Davante Adams and Tetairoa McMillan
Adams is projected to score 14.3 points in PPR formats, while McMillan is projected to score 14.2 points.
We project Adams to have 5.0 receptions, 63.5 receiving yards, 0.5 receiving TDs and McMillan to have 4.5 receptions, 70.8 receiving yards, 0.4 receiving TDs.
Week 2 Fantasy Analysis for Adams
Davante Adams caught 50% of his targets in Sunday’s win over the Texans, while all of his teammates caught 85%. You could leverage that stat to build a “”he’s washed”” case if you wanted to, but I think he just ran a little cold against a strong defense.
It happens.
He could draw some L’Jarius Snead attention in this game, and that’s not great, but if you’re telling me he gets eight Matthew Stafford targets, I’m telling you he’s a top-25 WR.
And that’s right where I have him. Puka Nacua is great, but he can’t do it all, and I trust Stafford to put a touchdown-scoring savant like Adams in positions to be successful. I have Adams ranked as a low-end WR2 this week, in the same range as Tetairoa McMillan and the always-stable Jakobi Meyers.
Week 2 Fantasy Analysis for McMillan
Not a ton of priors were confirmed on a sluggish Week 1 across the NFL, but Tetairoa McMillan being “”the guy”” in Carolina from the jump certainly was.
Playing mainly on the boundary, he commanded a 25.7% target share, caught five balls, and more than doubled the receiving yardage of any of his teammates. The rate numbers look impressive, and they figure to be all season long, but you can only do so much if the environment is suboptimal.
Bryce Young is still a work in progress. We can cite all the final month of 2022 stats that we want, but until he’s pumping out quality starts consistently, the production of the pieces around him is going to be spotty, even for a player commanding an impressive target share.
You drafted McMillan with the hope that you’d be able to feel good about playing him weekly, and, in a flex sort of way, I think we are there. That’s not to say his profile is bulletproof, and he’s my WR3 among rookies, but the usage/talent combination is enough for me to rank him above high-floor types like Jakobi Meyers.
Final Verdict: Adams or McMillan?
Based on our projections, Adams is the better start for Week 2. Adams offers a safer floor this week in this same-position matchup.