Chase Claypool 2020 Outlook

[GeneralTsou 81]

3 hours ago, sSektor said:

Marcus Peters is good for 1 or 2 horribly blown coverages each game. Mapletron TD is a lock this week.

cheers to that

[Whitemist 32]

Anyone else seeing him as a fade this week?

Big Ben had only 182 passing yards last game vs Baltimore, and weather not looking good Tuesday night? ...Basically TD or bust game most likely.

I have guys like Devante Parker, Brian Hill over him at WR2/flex in one league this week.

[JacobThunder15 321]

1 minute ago, Whitemist said:

Anyone else seeing him as a fade this week?

Big Ben had only 182 passing yards last game vs Baltimore, and weather not looking good Tuesday night? ...Basically TD or bust game most likely.

I have guys like Devante Parker, Brian Hill over him at WR2/flex in one league this week.

Im not starting any PIT/ BAL players if i dont have to. This game could leave you with 0 if it gets canceled late

[Thrill22 82]

Not scared of the matchup at all. Scared of the COVID circumstance. If they play I think he will be solid. PIT air attack is hard to shut down

[hard1 2,468]

Hump day like to see kid put in some work

[Poopyfist 25]

Rolling with Claypool this week, not super confident in the start but he's gotten 8-10 targets each week for the past 6 weeks, so the opportunity is there.

[hard1 2,468]

If its the back up qb he may get more targets 

[zorndogs 107]

Claypool is their best at short routes right and YAC? I assume if the Skins have any sense they will be bringing a lot of pressure to the QB with their robust D Line. I can see a lot of dump offs to Chase

[cheezor42 534]

4 minutes ago, zorndogs said:

Claypool is their best at short routes right and YAC? I assume if the Skins have any sense they will be bringing a lot of pressure to the QB with their robust D Line. I can see a lot of dump offs to Chase

 

Diontae gets the most short area targets on the team by far, lots of 5-7 yard catches, but Claypool gets used on a couple gadget plays a game like end-arounds and usually get a few deep targets up the seam and stuff.  It's kind of a crapshoot.  I think out of all the WR's for the Steelers I'm most nervous about Claypool for this one and most confident about Diontae but we'll see how it goes. 

[zorndogs 107]

I agree to an extent, but these are two of the teams I watch the most, I'm a Skins fan. I think theres going to be a tricky gadget type TD play to Claypool. The skins D line is the best right now IMO, and I think the Steelers would be best off letting Claypool create his own plays with quick dump offs in this game. 

[Drewfus 128]

Has apparently lost his job to James Washington. This has to be his fewest snaps since week 3.

[hard1 2,468]

Yeah wtf 

He pissed someone off cause he was killing it all year

[Drewfus 128]

Has to be some disciplinary situation. I can't imagine they think Washington is a better option. 

I hope this is addressed by the coaches so we know whether this is what to expect going forward. 

[TheDude4bides 147]

The few plays I saw him in on, he was often corrected and told he was in the wrong position, once even the wrong side of the formation altogether... I'm confused, as I didn't remember that being a weak spot for him...

[King Gonzo 147]

Clearly played behind Washington all game. Even when they played with an empty backfield, they lined up Ebron and Samuels at WR.

[fantasymad 377]

Kid did something Tomlin didn't like. 

[TTo34 2,956]

The shine is starting to wear off.  I guess I'm seriously going to have to consider Keke over this cat.

[JacobThunder15 321]

Johnson can drop 6 balls in a row and he is still the number 1 on this team

[Drewfus 128]

3 minutes ago, TTo34 said:

The shine is starting to wear off.  I guess I'm seriously going to have to consider Keke over this cat.

It's not like his play has fallen off, at least not that I can see. He just got benched at the expense of the team. 

[Drewfus 128]

14 minutes ago, TheDude4bides said:

The few plays I saw him in on, he was often corrected and told he was in the wrong position, once even the wrong side of the formation altogether... I'm confused, as I didn't remember that being a weak spot for him...

I noticed this too. Kinda weird this late in the year for someone who's played so much. 

[jwilsonxo 153]

Didn't watch the 2nd half. He got benched? LOL

 

Imagine benching Randy Moss 2.0. They deserve that loss.

[stay_woke 1,244]

pretty bad timing with playoffs starting next week. Idk how you can start him without Tomlin coming out and literally saying "Claypool is out of the doghouse". Bummer of a situation

 

 

 

[Chippa 1,363]

7 minutes ago, jwilsonxo said:

Didn't watch the 2nd half. He got benched? LOL

 

Imagine benching Randy Moss 2.0. They deserve that loss.

......

Right..

[Drewfus 128]

18 minutes ago, stay_woke said:

pretty bad timing with playoffs starting next week. Idk how you can start him without Tomlin coming out and literally saying "Claypool is out of the doghouse". Bummer of a situation

 

 

 

First time under 60% of snaps since week 2. Washington's most snaps since week 5. That's one way to help your rookie's confidence down the stretch, I guess. 

I wonder if this actually started last week. I thought it was odd that CC wasn't on the field in crunch time in that game. And then Washington made a nice grab to ice the game. 

[Theschill38 129]

30 minutes ago, jwilsonxo said:

Didn't watch the 2nd half. He got benched? LOL

 

Imagine benching Randy Moss 2.0. They deserve that loss.

You're confusing Claypool with Metcalf.