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Agholor

Agholor signed a one-year deal with the Ravens prior to the 2023 season and caught 35 passes for 381 yards and four touchdowns, playing in all 17 games. The 30-year-old was often a fourth option in the passing game, producing as a useful veteran pickup for Lamar Jackson and the receiving corps. Agholor would have become a free agent if not re-signed by Monday, but now the Ravens choose to bring the veteran back as depth for their wide receiver group in 2024.

30-year-old Agholor’s 381 regular season yards were a narrow improvement on his 2022 Patriots output, albeit in one more game. He did out-produce Rashod Bateman, but that says more about Bateman than Agholor. Headed back to free agency, Agholor will shop his wares as an experienced down-field role player.

Agholor served as the top pass-catching option for a Ravens team resting quarterback Lamar Jackson and wide receivers Odell Beckham and Zay Flowers. The team was forced to play tight end Isaiah Likely, who played under half of the team’s offensive snaps but did catch a touchdown. Agholor should revert to a situational role when the Ravens host a playoff game in the divisional round.

Agholor remains highly unlikely to see immense volume while playing behind Zay Flowers, Isaiah Likely, Odell Beckham, and Rashod Bateman, although he has proven to have a knack for the end zone of late. He remains a touchdown-or-bust fantasy option for the fantasy championship round.

Agholor’s second quarter score was his only target. It was a fluke play where the ball got tipped to him in the exact perfect spot. It was unclear if Agholor was even the intended recipient. Although Mark Andrews’ season-ending ankle injury is going to have a cascading targets effect in the Ravens’ skill corps, it is not suddenly going to make Agholor a WR4 after he has largely been phased out of the targets mix over the past month-plus.

Agholor has been targeted only twice in the last two weeks and has one catch for 12 yards. His most notable play came late in the fourth quarter when the Cardinals attempted an onside kick. Rather than high-point the kick to haul it in for the recovery, Agholor opted to let the ball plummet to the ground and attempted to scoop the recovery — which failed. The Cardinals would later kick another onside attempt in Agholor’s direction, which he leaped in the air to secure, giving the Ravens the win. A few 60-plus yard performances fooled fantasy managers into thinking Agholor could be a fringe WR3/WR4, but he can be dropped heading into Week 9.

Agholor caught his lone target for a first quarter touchdown against the Lions. On a lengthy scramble play, Lamar Jackson found Agholor in the endzone for the score. Agholor is working as the Ravens’ fourth or fifth option in the offense next to Rashod Bateman and has put up some fantasy-relevant weeks. However, his consistency is not enough to start him weekly. Agholor is best left on fantasy benches for Week 8 against the Cardinals.

Agholor was brought down by a shoe-string tackle on a 20-yard catch in the first quarter. He would have sprinted for a massive touchdown had he stayed upright. Agholor isn’t on the field enough to be a consistent fantasy option but does get enough work to thwart any odds of a Rashod Bateman breakout.

The Ravens could’ve used the long touchdown that slipped through Agholor’s hands in the third quarter, as Agholor beat his defender to earn a perfectly-throw pass from Lamar Jackson in a game that was chock full of blown opportunities. Agholor’s 64 yards were good for third-most on the Ravens, but his production has been hard to predict through five weeks. Agholor is a boom-or-bust play who is best left on the waiver wire.

Agholor was expected to step up with both Rashod Bateman and Odell Beckham out for Week 4. Lamar Jackson only attempted 19 passes, but two targets is still an underwhelming outcome. Agholor is best left on the waiver wire for Week 5.