Flowers remains a fantasy WR2 despite Baltimore’s quarterback uncertainty

CBS Sports’ Week 5 fantasy football preview rates Baltimore receiver Zay Flowers as a WR2, tempering expectations while advising managers not to bench him outright.

The caution follows Lamar Jackson’s ankle injury and Tyler Huntley’s projected start. Huntley’s status is not confirmed in the source material.

CBS Sports cites Huntley’s career averages across 16 starts: 156.9 passing yards per game, with 10 touchdowns and nine interceptions. The preview uses those figures to frame a lower-ceiling passing environment for Baltimore’s receivers.

Its estimate for Flowers is about eight targets, five catches and 70 receiving yards, with a moderate chance of a touchdown. These are projections, not reported results.

The preview also points to Flowers’ 39.3 per cent target-per-route-run rate and says he accounted for 49.6 per cent of Baltimore’s receiving yards when on the field this season, up from 39.7 per cent last season.