Through the first half of the 2023 regular season, Packers WR Romeo Doubs was making his money in fantasy football as a touchdown merchant for Jordan Love. His seven touchdowns through Week 11 were the third-most of any receiver in the NFL in that time span, and he was a very solid flex play thanks to scoring a touchdown in six of his ten games played. But since Thanksgiving, the emergence of promising rookie Jayden Reed and other names including Bo Melton and Dontayvion Wicks saw Doubs fall critically out of favor, posting single-digit fantasy points in five of Green Bay’s last seven games. The outlook was bleak heading into a Wild Card matchup with Dallas, but just as all hope appeared to have been lost, Doubs turned things around with a banner day in Big D.
After registering just a 17% target share over the course of the entire 2023 regular season, Doubs was the Packers’ lead wide receiver in targets, receptions, and receiving yards in Green Bay’s victory over the Cowboys this past Sunday. His 151 yards on the afternoon marked his first-ever 100-yard receiving game as a Packer, an achievement he was unable to complete in two full regular seasons in the NFL.
Doubs’ 29% target share was also his second-highest mark of the season behind only his 38% mark in Week 4 against the Lions, and his targets per route run skyrocketed to 38% - his highest mark on the season in that department. Of course, running wide open with no defenders within a fifteen-yard radius of you on multiple occasions will undoubtedly lead to a huge fantasy day, but the fact remains that after showing next to no life in the Packers’ passing offense for the majority of the season, Doubs may have re-established himself with a role moving forward after a career day against the Cowboys. Jayden Reed is still the receiver to target in this offense moving into 2024, but Doubs has bought himself and his fantasy managers some time and won’t be an afterthought as he would have been had he put up a performance similar to what we had seen in the regular season.