The emergence of wide receiver Mike Evans in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offense this season has made it difficult for veteran receiver Vincent Jackson to do much accumulating: he came into Sunday with only two touchdowns and two hundred-yard games on the season. However, Jackson had his biggest fantasy game of the season on Sunday in Tampa Bay's 34-17 loss to the Detroit Lions.
Fantasy football waiver wire, Week 15: Vincent Jackson has huge yardage
The Tampa Bay receiver had 17 targets and his highest yardage of the season. We break down the fantasy implications.
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Jackson caught a season-high 10 passes Sunday for 159 yards. Evans got the team’s two touchdowns, but Jackson’s 17 targets easily bested Evans’ 11.
Fantasy impact: If he had just found the end zone, this would have been the kind of game we had grown accustomed out of Jackson in recent years -- occasional huge, week-winning games, but a bunch of lesser ones around it.
With Evans in the fold now, Jackson’s stock had been slipping rapidly. As long as he has these kind of games in his quiver, he still has some low-end value in fantasy, but with Evans getting the touchdowns, Jackson is very hard to count on.
