Why you should keep an eye on Texans WR Tank Dell | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy writer Sal Vetri analyze Tank Dell's effective performance as a WR for the Houston Texans despite Stefon Diggs and Nico Collins dominating the headlines. Listen to the entire conversation on the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast podcast — and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

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Tank Dell and if you look at everything else that's going on around him, Nico Collins, who topped 100 yards in the first game.

Stefan Diggs caught not one, but two touchdowns.

They take all the attention away from Tank Dell when you look at the score and see that he only has three catches over 40 yards.

Not great.

Well I would just say this opens a bilo window for you since depending on where you look he ran 33 routes which was one more according to Pff.

Nico Collins then won less, but Stefan Diggs still had seven goals.

Led the team in one, deployed outside, 70% of his snaps and routes were outside, which is exactly the percentage he achieved all of last year when he was a top 20 fantasy receiver in points per game.

In his rookie year, he was in the top 15 in yards per outrun.

Yes, Stefan Diggs is there now, but as far as usage in this offense goes, Tank Dell looked really good, and by the way, Joe M carried the ball 30 times in this game, that's probably not going to happen.

In the future, they will play fewer games overall.

But you will get those 3,540 pass attempt plays from CJ Stroud.

And then Tank Dell has tremendous upside potential.

But I think he's been on top of things week in and week out and I think he's got a good chance after just a 40-yard performance.

No touchdowns from him that you can buy cheap.

Yes.

If your league mates aren't looking at the advanced data, you know, snaps and routes and air yards and all that, they're definitely getting out of this thing.

Well, Tank Dell is the third receiver, you know, and when I posted about Nico Collins, I got a lot of tweets saying, “Well, I like his point.”

Maybe number one, but is that just because he scored two touchdowns?

I don't necessarily think that's the case.

Tank Dell, outside receiver, pure flanker.

Uh, he's going to get some big targets down low, Nico for example is going to make some great plays in this game.

No question.

But if we just look at average depth of target, we have Stefan Diggs at 1.3, which is low because, you know, he scored some points in the red zone and things like that, which always pushes your average air yards on target down.

But I think Tank Dell 16.3, that should signal to us, Sal, that if Tank Dell hits, and if he doesn't, he's going to hit big.

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