The Blitz

Darius Slayton – Emerging Star or Sell High?

Shawn Siegele
September 18, 2020

In The Blitz, RotoViz writers react to the latest news and help you place it within the context of our 2020 research and recommendations.

The RotoViz Range of Outcomes tool loved Darius Slayton as a second-year breakout WR, projecting him ahead of fellow exciting sophomores like Marquise Brown and Deebo Samuel. His first-year comps were fantastic as well. Names like T.Y. Hilton, Tyreek Hill, and Stefon Diggs had Cort Smith saying you were probably way too low on Slayton.

It didn’t take long for Slayton to reward his believers, slicing through a tough Pittsburgh defense for two scores in Week 1.

Slayton authored the third high-end WR1 performance of his young career, grabbing a 23% target share and ranking fifth in points and fantasy points over expectation (FPOE).

Answering the volume question in Week 1 is encouraging. Slayton owned a 17% target share in his 14 active games a season ago, but he rarely played with the full complement of Evan Engram, Sterling Shepard, and Golden Tate. Tate wasn’t active in this game either, but Slayton out-snapped Shepard and earned more targets than the inefficient Engram.

Can Slayton keep this up even when Tate returns? The answer will have you flooding the web with trade offers.

Darius Slayton Superstar

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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