Fantasy Football: 7 Veterans Who Were Negatively Impacted By the Draft

Curtis Samuel, WR, Carolina Panthers

Pre-Draft ADP: 255

Back to a team that used their first round pick on skill position player, the Carolina Panthers made D.J. Moore the first wideout off the board in 2018, taking him 24th overall.

First-round receivers aren't nearly the locks for volume that running backs are, with only two of the seven receivers taken in the first round of the last two drafts topping 40 receptions in the NFL. It doesn't take much to drive down Curtis Samuel's fantasy value at this point, though.

Samuel was injured after only nine games in his 2017 rookie campaign, and while he notched just 26 targets, he did record games of 5 and 7 targets in his last two contests before his injury. Those two games were also his only two after the departure of Kelvin Benjamin, and he had a 24.0% target market share in those two outings.

As a still-unproven second-round pick coming off a serious injury, he wasn't a safe redraft pick pre-draft, but that volume did make him an interesting dart throw in the late rounds.

But addition of Moore doesn't speak much to the Panthers' faith in Samuel. His 10.7-yard average depth of target doesn't suggest enough big-play upside to make him fantasy viable with sporadic volume, and this should just about push him off your draft list.