Week 2 Player Props: Receiving Yards for Jakobi Meyers from EV Insight

Jakobi MeyersReceiving Yards

Right now, Jakobi Meyers’s receiving yards prop is set at 46.5 yards (-110/-125).

The public has bet up the OVER up to 46.5 (-110) after it opened @ 45.5 (-115).

Pros

Jakobi Meyers has run a route on 91.8% of his team’s dropbacks since the start of last season, putting him in the 90th percentile among wideouts.
THE BLITZ projects Jakobi Meyers to notch 6.8 targets in this game, on average, ranking in the 78th percentile among wideouts.
Jakobi Meyers has notched a whopping 72.0 air yards per game since the start of last season: 80th percentile among wide receivers.
Jakobi Meyers has been among the best WRs in the league since the start of last season, averaging a terrific 54.0 yards per game while ranking in the 80th percentile.
The Pittsburgh Steelers safeties grade out as the 9th-worst group of safeties in football since the start of last season in covering receivers.

Cons

The Patriots are a 3-point favorite in this week’s game, indicating a rushing game script.
THE BLITZ projects the New England Patriots as the 9th-least pass-heavy offense among all teams this week with a 56.5% pass rate, based on their underlying tendencies and matchup dynamics.
THE BLITZ projects this game to have the 2nd-lowest volume of plays run out of all the games this week at 121.6 plays, based on the tendencies of each team and game dynamics.
The New England Patriots have run the 5th-least plays in the NFL since the start of last season, averaging a mere 60.3 plays per game.
Jakobi Meyers has been among the bottom wideouts in football at picking up extra yardage, averaging just 2.76 yards-after-the-catch (YAC) since the start of last season while grading out in the 8th percentile.

Projection

THE BLITZ
54
Receiving Yards