Prior to signing a huge deal with New Orleans Saints, wide receiver Michael Thomas was viewed as the No. 1 fantasy wide receiver in football. He made a strong case. In 2018-19 (32 games), Thomas caught 274 passes for 3,130 yards and 18 touchdowns. Since then, however, it has been all downhill.
Below, we look at Michael Thomas‘ 2022 fantasy football average draft position (ADP) and where you should draft him.
Thomas played in just 7 games in 2020 and inexplicably opted to have surgery 2 months before training camp and didn’t play a down in 2021. As he enters this season, his value has bottomed out and there are some who put him even lower than his ranking should indicate he goes.
Michael Thomas’ ADP: 56.60
(ADP data courtesy of MyFantasyLeague.com; last updated at time of this publishing – ADPs continually change as more drafts occur)
In a 10-player league, Thomas has fallen all the way to being a mid-level WR3 and is part of a clumping of wide receivers whose ADPs have them going in the 6th round.
Thomas finds himself in the middle of this cluster, behind DK Metcalf (Seattle Seahawks) at 52.52, Courtland Sutton (Denver Broncos) at 52.58 and Amon-Ra St. Brown (Detroit Lions) at 55.36 and ahead of Brandin Cooks (Houston Texans) at 56.19, Adam Thielen (Minnesota Vikings) at 56.60 and Allen Robinson (Los Angeles Rams) at 57.66.
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Michael Thomas’ 2021 stats (2020)
Games: 0 (7)
Receptions | targets: 0 (40) | 0 (55)
Receiving yards: 0 (438)
Receiving touchdowns: 0 (0)
Where should you draft Thomas?
If you go based purely on his talent, Thomas should be well ahead of this ranking, but after missing most of the last 2 seasons and not putting the team 1st in the timing of his 2021 surgery he has his share of critics.
At the point he is coming off draft boards he is no longer being viewed as a fantasy football starter so there isn’t the same kind of roster commitment needed from a WR1 or a WR2.
With that in mind, Thomas is worth rolling the dice on because if he comes back to his previous dominant form, he will be one of the steals of the draft at this point.
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