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While the Jets' WR1 spot is locked in, the competition at WR2 only became murkier this off-season when the Jets added veterans Mecole Hardman from Kansas City and Allen Lazard from Green Bay to compete with Corey Davis. Davis has been a disappointment throughout his career, but after a near-1000-yard season for the Titans in 2020, his move to the Jets has been borderline disastrous. He caught just 32 passes in 2022 and while plenty of that can be blamed on the awful quarterback situation he had to deal with, it's also true that Davis just wasn't getting open at the rate the team needs from their WR2.
Given what we know about Davis' development, it makes sense to assume that Lazard, who joins the Packers after playing alongside Aaron Rodgers for the past five seasons, has the inside track to start the season as the Jets' WR2 opposite Garrett Wilson.
Lazard is coming off his best season as a pro, having led the Packers with 60 receptions for 788 yards and six touchdowns. While he's just not good enough to be a team's WR1, there's no reason to think that Lazard isn't talented enough to beat out perennial disappointments like Davis and Hardman.
For fantasy purposes, however, it's hard to imagine a scenario in which Lazard provides anything better than WR4 numbers for fantasy this season. He's likely to see fewer than the 100 targets he got in 2022 and with Rodgers' propensity to lean on his WR1, we could be looking at Wilson being the only Jets' WR worth rostering for fantasy. Still, Lazard and Rodgers do have some chemistry and if the Jets' offense ascends like many believe it will, there could be some reasonably productive weeks from Lazard and that could make him a decent occasional fill-in for fantasy managers in deeper leagues.
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