Chicago BearsOur read
Written Oct 17, from his facts through last season
The scoring chances are finally reaching him, and that is the reason to keep waiting. Through week 5 of 2026 he has gotten 14% of Chicago's red-zone carries and targets, 10 of 74, which puts him WR18 among 64 receivers with 20 or more touches of their own. Last year he had 4 red-zone touches all season and never touched the ball inside the ten. The deep work came along too: 27% of the team's air yards in his games, WR36 in that same group. This is a different usage shape than the 7.7-yard average depth of target he played at as a rookie.
The results have not followed yet. He is at 11.2 points a game against the 14.4 pace we set before the season, one touchdown on the year, and week 3 of 2026's 19.8 is the only lineup-worthy week on his page. Our 187-point projection had him as a back-end WR2, and we took him 65th overall while drafters spent the 50.7 pick, so the margin for error is thin. Ben Johnson still calls the plays, and Rome Odunze and Colston Loveland took 40% of Chicago's targets between them last season. Among receivers in this spot, scoring fell 0.9 points a game the next season on average, a drag the crowded room imposes.
He has played every week, and the schedule gives him Buffalo, Green Bay and Detroit over weeks 15 to 17 of 2026 before his week 10 bye even arrives. Deeper leagues are where we would keep him rostered, and we would sit him in fantasy lineups until the kind of 19.8-point spike he had in week 3 of 2026 shows up more than once.