Falcons wr3: Laquon Treadwell vs Russell Gage

[meineymoe]

Historically, the Falcon wr3 has been a serviceable bye week/wr depth play. Bert Emanuel from the mid 1990s is still one of my favorite Falcon players. The little known Russell Gage even garnered notice this past season after the departure of Mohammed Sanu.

I've been a Treadwell apologist, and still hold out hope he will find his niche in the NFL. Could it be here, in the high-powered Falcons pass attack?

I am especially curious because I own both players on a roster that has a roster cut coming next month following the NFL draft, and I have a feeling this will be one of my final decisions to make.

Any thoughts? Insights?
Thanks!
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[JohnnyBoyRoss]

I also picked him up as a flyer in a few leagues. I was a bit skeptical of him coming out, but as his price sank, I bought low hoping that he’d break out at some point. What always made me curious about him is how certain guys who are similar can find success and others fail. Why are hopkins and juju successful, yet Treadwell and (from what we’ve seen so far) Nkeal Harry unsuccessful? All 4 players have very similar profiles coming into the league both physically and in terms of college success. And all 4 had very similar knocks on them coming in. So I am intrigued to see if maybe a change of scenery is the answer.

To answer your overall question, we saw devante parker finally break out after his 5th year, so I’d say the chances are about .5% but I think if treadwell can breakout, a new team is his only hope. If you could hold gage and treadwell I would, but If you could only keep one I’d say treadwell, but don’t lose much sleep over the decision lol.

[Paul717]

Tough call. According to this link...

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... geRu00.htm

...Gage was in on 44% of the snaps last year. Question becomes can one of these two emerge and garner such a share, or will they split in some sort of WR3/WR4 scenario where there isn't much difference? (and both are lower) (I guess that is the crux of your question, lol)

Personally, it would seem like the newcomer would be fighting an uphill battle for game time. It's really close and I'd love to see other fringe keep / drop players on this roster.

[meineymoe]

It's really close and I'd love to see other fringe keep / drop players on this roster.

12 team ppr idp, 30 man rosters after cutdowns.
I'll have 4 or 5 more to cut, depending on some pending trades. Corey Clement seems like an easy cut right now. TE Ryan Griffin probably. LB Alec Ogletree - I'm stacked at lb so don't need to hold out hope for him. RB Qadree Ollison of the Falcons on the bubble. And I have two dime-a-dozen dbacks I could probably draft back in our free agent draft - Tre Flowers and Kevin King.... though some times I like to hang onto favorite players since we have larger rosters...

I could keep both Gage and Treadwell easily enough. Might be the best option until we can see them in training camp.

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[Paul717]

It's really close and I'd love to see other fringe keep / drop players on this roster.

12 team ppr idp, 30 man rosters after cutdowns.
I'll have 4 or 5 more to cut, depending on some pending trades. Corey Clement seems like an easy cut right now. TE Ryan Griffin probably. LB Alec Ogletree - I'm stacked at lb so don't need to hold out hope for him. RB Qadree Ollison of the Falcons on the bubble. And I have two dime-a-dozen dbacks I could probably draft back in our free agent draft - Tre Flowers and Kevin King.... though some times I like to hang onto favorite players since we have larger rosters...

I could keep both Gage and Treadwell easily enough. Might be the best option until we can see them in training camp.

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I like this idea. The floor is probably a serviceable bye week WR + insurance. The ceiling is much higher if there are injuries to Jones and / or Ridley.

[Gator Sens]

Could hold both for now as mentioned.

[meineymoe]

Could hold both for now as mentioned.

yeah, I suppose it is too early to know which one will have more value. They are probably similarly weighted for different reasons.
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[FantasyFreak]

Gage. He did more his rookie year compared to anything Treadwell ever did.