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5 Players You Can Drop After Week 6

Joe Redemann  —  @TheIDPGuy Oct 17th, 2018
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​Antonio Callaway, WR, Cleveland Browns

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It should be concerning to any fantasy football player if their wide receiver is on a team with wide-open opportunities and a decent quarterback, and still they cannot do more than average 31 yards, 0.2 touchdowns, and 2.5 catches per game. That’s the situation we find ourselves in with Cleveland Browns receiver Antonio Callaway, who has continued to struggle despite the team trading away Josh Gordon, and seeing Rod Streater, Derrick Willies, and Rashard Higgins all go down with injuries for various amounts of time.

Sure, it helps that Callaway has averaged 8.5 targets per game since Week 3 (season-long pace of 136 targets), but he has a catch rate of just 35.3 percent, has dropped 15.4 percent of his catchable targets on the year (third-most among starting receivers per PlayerProfiler.com), and – shockingly, for a speed-based receiver – is getting the 19th-least average separation in the league when targeted.

There’s nothing that Callaway does extremely well right now, and he appears to be on a trajectory to replicate the ineffectiveness of Zay Jones's rookie season. In season-long leagues he’s absolutely droppable for an already-emerging player if one is on your wire.

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