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

Dede Westbrook and Keelan Cole, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars

Pre-Draft ADP (Keelan Cole): 148
Pre-Draft ADP (Dede Westbrook): 151

I'm not usually someone who reacts strongly to a late second-round pick, and often I'll even look to target players whose ADP falls because of a pick their team made in that part of the draft.

Jacksonville Jaguars wideouts were already looking over-priced before the draft, though, and this is one of those rare times that I think a late second-round pick is a red flag for the incumbents.

Cole and Westbrook both filled in admirably when the Jags lost Allen Robinson to a torn ACL last year. An undrafted free agent, Cole saw a reasonable role from early in the season, combining for 10 targets over Week 3 and Week 4, and he ended up seeing 83 looks in the regular season. An injury pushed back Westbrook's debut in his 2017 rookie campaign, but he also ended up seeing solid volume, notching 51 targets in seven regular season games, adding 14 in three playoff contests.

They had pretty solid seasons for first-year players, but the issue going forward is an extremely crowded depth chart on an offense that called the highest percentage of run plays in 2017. That's not a great spot for fantasy success.

While Allen Hurns is gone, the Jags re-signed Marqise Lee and brought in Donte Moncrief in free agency -- giving them two intriguing wideouts in addition to Cole and Dede. And then the team used their second pick of the 2018 draft to shore up the position, taking D.J. Chark.

It's hard to imagine the Jags making that move if they believed that they were flush with depth at wideout, and with investments made in Lee, Moncrief and Chark, it's going to be an uphill battle to fantasy relevance forCole and Westbrook.

Jacksonville's receiver depth chart will be one of the training camp battles to watch this summer, but as of now, it looks like a muddled mess in which the team's depth may end up hurting everyone's fantasy stock.