All eyes in the fantasy football world are going to be on Derek Carr of the Las Vegas Raiders. Despite posting solid yardage numbers and decent touchdown production, he has never been afforded fantasy football respect – and it appears that continues despite the arrival of Davante Adams.
Below, we look at Derek Carr‘s 2022 fantasy football average draft position (ADP) and where you should draft him.
Carr has been an iron man and should be acknowledged. For any fantasy player, your best ability is your availability. He has missed just 2 of 129 games, has thrown more than 500 passes every year of his career and set career highs for attempts, completions and passing yards last season. Still, he is mired in the Friend Zone of fantasy quarterbacks as a quality QB2.
Derek Carr’s ADP: 90.77
(ADP data courtesy of MyFantasyLeague.com; last updated at time of this publishing – ADPs continually change as more drafts occur)
There seems to be a clear cut-line when Carr is coming off draft boards in proportion to those in front of him and those behind him. He’s closing ground on those in front and distancing himself from those behind.
Carr has an ADP at 90.77 — a 9th or 10th round pick and the high end of the QB2 grouping. In front of him are Trey Lance (San Francisco 49ers) at 82.97 and Matthew Stafford (Los Angeles Rams) at 89.21 and behind him are Kirk Cousins (Minnesota Vikings) at 100.19 and Tua Tagovailoa (Miami Dolphins) at 116.80.
As the 14th ranked QB, if Carr moves the dial in any direction, it is much more likely to be moving up rather than moving down.
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Derek Carr’s 2021 stats
Games: 17
Passing yards: 4,804
Completions | attempts: 428 | 626
Passing touchdowns: 23
Interceptions: 14
Carries | rushing yards: 40 | 108
Rushing touchdowns: 0
Where should you draft Carr?
When you make the decision to draft Carr, you understand that he is going to give fantasy points only with his arm, not his legs. He’s never been a rusher and, if he hasn’t been by now, he never will be.
While I’m not willing to push him past Stafford, despite concerns about his throwing elbow, I would definitely be much more inclined to take him over Lance — a very raw prospect on a team that is going run as many times as it throws and will have defenses in attack mode to rattle him from the first play.
In his current positioning, Carr has the chance to be a QB1B rather than a QB2. Paired up with someone like Aaron Rodgers — who gained a lot of fantasy football fame throwing to Adams — fantasy owners have the option to mix and match based on matchup. His ranking makes Carr a very strong value pick and one that should be grabbed as a tag team partner for whoever was taken as QB1 for a fantasy roster.
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