ESPN’s Matt Bowen believes the second-year WR will have a breakout season
As we get closer to football season, more and more fantasy football talk will pop up. Our own Patrick Holloway will be doing fantasy videos weekly with Ben Ammar to discuss everything fantasy related. That will kick off late next month if everything goes to plan.
Expectations are higher than they’ve ever been during his life for San Francisco 49ers second-year wide receiver Dante Pettis headed into the 2019 NFL season. Pettis can be a star. We will wait and see whether that happens this year, or the following season. ESPN’s Matt Bowen believes that Pettis will breakout this year:
“It’s a small sample size from Pettis’ rookie season, but based on his 17.3 yards per catch (fourth overall in the NFL) and the five-week run at the end of the 2018 season in a heavy, play-pass system under Kyle Shanahan, the 49ers wide receiver could have the highest ceiling of this group.”
I am far from a fantasy expert. I tend to gravitate towards the guys that get a lot of volume, touchdowns, and big plays. Pettis will likely get all three of those.
The numbers Bowen referenced towards the end of the season between the duo of Pettis and Nick Mullens from Weeks 12-16: 20-of-31 targets for 259 yards, four scores, and 7.49 yards after the catch. I’ve heard the “Pettis put up those numbers in meaningless games.” Well, he also did it with an
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