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Hit rates by week, WR
Over 2019–2025, 47 games played. Bars show this player's rate against the WR rate over the same games.
Usage, WR
6 targets / game
16 games
[2025,2026] season, 16 games played. Share of team targets against the WR median.
Indianapolis keeps producing slot receivers the way other towns produce weather, and Downs is the latest smallish North Carolina product to make a living underneath. He arrived as a third-round pick and has simply been useful ever since, which is more than the league expected and less than fantasy owners dream about. The honest sentence is that he is a professional football player in a job that mostly rewards outliers.
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The week's coverage centres on Josh Downs' growing role in the Colts offense. NBC Rotoworld Football named him among its Week 2 takeaways as a receiver on the rise, and a follow-up piece tied a projected boost for Downs and tight end Tyler Warren to fantasy fallout surrounding Alec Pierce. The Fantasy Footballers went further, making the case that Downs is now the Colts receiver to start in lineups. Downs and head coach Shane Steichen spoke to reporters ahead of Indianapolis' divisional matchup, per the team's own preview coverage. No injury concerns or target counts were specified in the reporting, so managers are left with a consistent picture of an expanding role rather than any firm usage numbers.
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