Jakobi Meyers Fantasy Overview

2024 Summary

Production & Fantasy Finishes

Meyers posted a career-high 5.8 receptions per game in 2024, 0.9 higher than his previous best and 1.4 ahead of his first Raiders campaign.

Meyers ranked:

• 20th among WRs in total PPR points
• 24th in points per game
• 24th and 27th in half-PPR
• 32nd and 31st in non-PPR

He finished among the top 30 PPR wideouts eight times in the 12 games he played without Davante Adams, with four of those among the top 20 and two inside the top seven.

Usage & Role

Meyers played just the first three weeks with Adams last season, drawing a 15.3% target share that ranked 59th among WRs over that span.

Adams then missed two games before getting traded to the Jets. From Week 4 on, Meyers’ 24.5% target share (adjusted for games missed) ranked 12th at the position. He also checked in 13th in air yards share and eighth in rate of being the offense’s first read.

Meyers ranked 13th in expected PPR points per game over that span, 21st in actual points per game, and 43rd in fantasy points per route among WRs with 25+ targets over that span.

Efficiency Metrics

Meyers gained yards at almost exactly the expected level last season. His 0.1 yards per target over expectation ranked 62nd among 122 WRs with 25+ targets.

Meyers improved his yards per catch from 11.4 in his first Raiders season to 11.8, but that marked just the fourth-best rate among his six pro seasons.

Meyers also halved his TD total from 2023 to 2024, but that looks like a fluke. He actually drew five more end-zone targets last year than he did in 2023.

Offensive Context

After Adams left, rookie TE Brock Bowers provided Meyers’ only meaningful target competition last season. Bowers beat Meyers across most categories, en route to setting the NFL record for receptions by a rookie.

Both had to deal with lackluster QB play. Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell (plus one game of Desmond Ridder) combined for just 6.6 yards per attempt, a 3.0% TD rate, and a 2.5% INT rate. Meyers ranked just 75th among WRs in share of targets that were catchable.

Historical Production & Trends

Before last season, Meyers finished:

• 28th in PPR points per game in 2023
• 30th in 2022
• 31st in 2021

Injury History

Meyers lost two games to an ankle sprain last season but showed no lingering ill effects once he returned. He also sustained concussions in both 2022 and 2023.

Meyers missed two games earlier in 2022 with a knee injury. None of these issues carries relevance for 2025 – except, perhaps, the concussion history.

2025 Expectations

Projected Role & Competition

The Raiders added three rookies to the WR corps:

• second-rounder Jack Bech
• fourth-rounder Dont’e Thornton
• sixth-rounder Tommy Mellott, who’s converting from QB

That’s not much added target competition for 2025. Even Bech posted just one truly impressive college stat line among his four seasons. (And it came in his fourth year.)

Meyers should lead a shallow WR corps again.

Supporting Cast

The offense got bigger upgrades elsewhere. QB Geno Smith arrives as likely a big improvement over last year’s Minshew-O’Connell tandem – especially in delivering catchable targets to Meyers and the other Raiders pass catchers.

The backfield also got a large talent boost from No. 6 overall pick Ashton Jeanty.

Coaching & Offensive Scheme

Bet on the Raiders running at a higher rate than last year’s mere 35.7%. That team sported a terrible collection of RBs. But there’s also been a coaching turnover.

HC Pete Carroll returned this offseason to take over the Raiders, and he installed Chip Kelly as OC.

Kelly has long been known for his successful run games, especially in college. The four NFL offenses he has piloted to date – 2013-15 Eagles and 2016 49ers — combined to go 43.8% run vs. 56.2% pass. That pass rate would have ranked 20th in the league last season.

The run-pass split figures to draw influence from how competitive the Raiders can be. But this doesn’t look like a roster – or coaching staff – built to lean pass.