Fantasy Football: One Wide Receiver to Target in Each Round of Your Draft

Pierre Garcon, San Francisco 49ers

ADP: 8.12 (WR37)

Quietly, Pierre Garcon was having a good season last year before getting injured and missing the second half of the campaign. In total, he finished with 40 catches (on 67 targets) and 500 yards. It went under the radar a little bit because he played just eight games and failed to score a touchdown.

But Garcon's per-game averages were pretty much right in line with what he did in 2016, his last season in Washington, when he racked up 79 catches for 1,041 yards and 3 scores on his way to a WR23 finish in PPR formats.

He did all his work last year with Brian Hoyer and C.J. Beathard, who are very much not Jimmy Garoppolo. We should be wary of the small sample size, but Jimmy G was freakin' great last year, playing like the league's top quarterback, per our numbers, once he took over the starting gig.

Even though Garcon failing to score once on 40 catches and 500 yards was likely to due bad luck more than anything, his scoring upside looks more promising with Jimmy G at the helm as the 49ers should be making more trips into the red zone this season. Instead of rolling with a unit that was among the league's worst, which is what he did for the entirety of his 2017 season, Garcon will be a part of an offense we project to be the league's ninth-best.

Marquise Goodwin emerged in Garcon's absence last year and will be a key piece to this San Fran offense. But outside of Goodwin and George Kittle, a chic late-round sleeper, there's not much in the way of target competition at tight end and receiver.

We project Garcon as the PPR WR29, making him a sweet value at the end of the eighth round.