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Robert Woods

New Titan a value, if healthy

There was a story yesterday that Robert Woods is feeling great in his recovery from a torn ACL. "I actually feel like they're holding me back a bit," he says in a story at the team website. If so, he might turn out be a very underrated 2022 wideout.

In our Experts Draft earlier this week, Woods was selected in the 9th round, the 42nd wide receiver drafted. Receivers selected just before him include DJ Chark, Christian Kirk and Drake London. If Woods is healthy at the start of the season, he should be better than those players.

Tennessee surprisingly shipped off A.J. Brown, which means their top wideouts should both be newcomers: free-agent signing Woods, and first-rounder Treylon Burks. (Burks was taken a round later in the Experts Draft.) Woods is coming off injury, but he has a pretty nice body of work the last few years.

Over the past five seasons, Woods is one of just 23 wideouts to catch at least 300 passes. Only 10 of those players have averaged more yards per game than he has. Yes, he was working in a high-flying Sean McVay offense, and now he's going to Tennessee. But there were a lot of other receivers around him with the Rams to take targets away from him. Not nearly as much now.

WIDE RECEIVERS, 2017-2021 (300-PLUS CATCHES)
PlayerGRecYdsYds/GTD
Michael Thomas55418481387.523
Davante Adams71506619587.357
Julio Jones66382572086.721
DeAndre Hopkins72472609484.645
Tyreek Hill75418603780.550
Cooper Kupp71433551777.740
Keenan Allen78509591875.932
Mike Evans76368572375.348
Stefon Diggs77459576074.841
DJ Moore63301431368.514
Robert Woods68367462668.023
Adam Thielen70375471867.443
Brandin Cooks77358505665.726
Chris Godwin72342464364.529
Amari Cooper76362485363.935
JuJu Smith-Schuster63323385561.226
Jarvis Landry75400454760.624
Tyler Lockett80357480660.138
Marvin Jones71307419859.136
Tyler Boyd71334396855.923
Robby Anderson79313408751.726
Larry Fitzgerald61307310350.917
Cole Beasley77332342444.518

It will need to be confirmed, come July and August, that Woods is 100 percent healthy. But I think it's pretty safe to say he'll be this team's No. 1 wideout, and putting up good numbers each week. If he's available in the ninth round in drafts, I imagine he'll make it onto a few of my teams.

--Andy Richardson

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