Why I’m Buying Brandin Cooks In All Of My Leagues (And You Should Too)

What is Brandin Cooks’ 2020 fantasy football outlook? Coming into the 2019 campaign, Cooks was coming off of an impressive four consecutive seasons with more than 1,000 receiving yards. To make it even more special, the then-26-year old had achieved this feat in three different systems with three different quarterbacks.

The 2018 version of Cooks was a handful of yards behind leading receiver Robert Woods in a Rams offense that could move the ball seemingly at will. He was also receiving passes from the $100,000,000 right arm of Jared Goff.

What could go wrong?

The 2019 Brandin Cooks Debacle

In 2019, Copper Kupp was healthy for a full season, Woods became a prominent piece of the offense, Goff stopped throwing TDs for the full month of November, and Cooks saw his targets drop off nearly 40% from 117 in 2018 to just 72 in 2019.

On top of that, Cooks missed games for the first time since his rookie season. He suffered multiple concussions throughout the year and playing only a handful of snaps from Week 8 through Week 11.

It was the perfect storm to knock Cooks off of everyone’s fantasy radar and for good reason. Another promising young WR lost in a system that couldn’t get him the…