Fantasy Football: One Breakout Candidate From Every NFL Team
Breshad Perriman, WR, Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are one of the more interesting teams in the league from a fantasy perspective. With some roles up in the air, it means opportunity is up for grabs, although the season-ending injury to Kenneth Dixon makes the backfield picture a little clearer (for now).
At receiver, Jeremy Maclin and Mike Wallace give the team a solid veteran one-two punch, but it's third-year man Breshad Perriman who is the wild card.
After sitting out his rookie year with a knee injury, Perriman played in all 16 games last season, logging 33 catches for 499 yards and 3 scores. He started to come on a bit over the second half of the campaign, going for at least 50 yards or scoring a touchdown in five of the Ravens' final eight games.
The slow start to his career has may have made some of us forget how explosive of an athlete he is (image via PlayerProfiler.com; click to enlarge).
The 4.30 40-yard dash puts him in the 100th percentile, and his height-adjusted speed score ranks in the 99th percentile. So, yeah, not bad. He averaged a whopping 20.9 yards per catch as a junior at UCF (another 99th percentile ranking), and he gained 20.8 yards per grab as a sophomore.
Perriman can make big plays, and lining up for a Baltimore team that's averaged 677.5 pass attempts per season over the last two years -- leading the league in 2015 and 2016 -- he may be able to get the volume necessary to bust out. The team reportedly wants to run more three-receiver sets, and Perriman is getting rave reviews this summer.
