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Fantasy Football: 5 Wide Receivers With Major Touchdown Upside
Which players should you target for huge scoring upside in your fantasy football drafts?

Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals

Bruce Arians' Arizona Cardinals have been more pass-heavy than league average in the red zone in each of the last three seasons, while they rank ninth in red zone pass-run ratio in that span.

In what was a bounce-back year in just about every statistical category for Larry Fitzgerald, in 2015, he scored 9 touchdowns after scoring only 16 over the past 3 seasons combined. A big part of this success was a return to form in the red zone and on the goal line.

Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald has a 28.82% touchdown rate in the red zone (compared to the league average 23.00% in that span) and a 40.83% goal line touchdown rate (where the league average is 34.78%).

He saw a team-high 22.22% of the Cardinals' red zone targets and 30% of the goal line targets (with 12, while nobody else on the team saw more than 5), and his being an efficient receiver and the primary red zone threat on a potent offense puts him in a good spot in fantasy football.

The Cardinals had the league's top offense in 2015, ranking first in both schedule-adjusted Net Expected Points (NEP) per play with 0.19 and in Passing NEP per play with 0.31. There hasn't been much turn-over on that side of the ball for Arizona, and they're likely going to once again roll out a high-powered offense that should generate tons of scoring chances, giving Fitzgerald big upside.

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