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Westbrook-Ikhine

It was Westbrook-Ikhine’s second game in a row without a score, a fact that would not be all that noteworthy for most players. Westbrook-Ikhine, however, scored nine touchdowns despite being mostly uninvolved on offense for the first four weeks. Tennessee’s No. 2 wideout enters free agency for his age-28 season with a 32/497/9 seasonal receiving line. A Titans lifer who has been on the team since — we swear we’re not making this up — the days of Corey Davis, Westbrook-Ikhine may draw some interest in free agency despite the outlier feel of his season by virtue of his established big-play ability. It doesn’t hurt that he’s also still a good special teamer.

Westbrook-Ikhine is the Titans’ No. 2 perimeter receiving option, though the Titans’ offense does not yield many high-leverage opportunities. This makes Westrbook-Ikhine’s role a boom-or-bust fantasy play, and in this case he converted half of his targets for a middling 37 yards. He was the target on Mason Rudolph’s last pass of the day, but the play was broken up in the end zone. Westbrook-Ikhine can remain out of fantasy consideration for Week 18.

Westbrook-Ikhine no longer has weekly deep target touchdown opportunities with Mason Rudolph at quarterback. Calvin Ridley is the primary perimeter target, leaving Westrbook-Ikhine seeing occasional outside targets. He did catch a six-yard touchdown pass to give him nine scores on 25 catches this season. Westbrook-Ikhine is a boom-or-bust WR5 against the Jaguars for Week 17.

Westbrook-Ikhine rejoined his teammate on Friday, practicing in full after resting through Week 16’s first two practices. The highly volatile WR could secure a long pass or two with Mason Rudolph now under center. Westbrook-Ikhine is a WR5 against the Colts.

Westbrook-Ikhine evidently sprained an ankle in Week 15 and slot receiver Tyler Boyd continues to ineffectually play through a foot injury. This could be a notably high-volume week for Calvin Ridley. Westbrook-Ikhine’s Thursday and Friday practice reports will clarify his Week 16 status.

Westbrook-Ikhine’s run of deep touchdowns has soured with Will Levis struggling and Mason Rudolph coming in against the Bengals. He has totaled just three catches for 28 yards over his last two games and can be returned to fantasy benches. Westbrook-Ikhine is a boom-or-bust WR5 for Week 16 against the Colts.

Westbrook-Ikhine had scored eight touchdowns over his last eight games entering Week 14, but only saw two targets against the Jaguars. The Titans ran a few plays to free up Westbrook-Ikhine deep, but a combination of Will Levis’ banged-up shoulder and the Jaguars’ quick pass rush led to no deep targets. He was targeted in the endzone on 4th-and-goal on the Titans’ last possession, but could not reel in a high throw. Westbrook-Ikhine is a boom-or-bust WR5 for Week 15 against the Bengals.

Westbrook-Ikhine led the Titans in every major receiving category in Sunday’s loss to the Commanders and found the end zone twice in the defeat. With less than 30 seconds to go before halftime, Westbrook-Ikhine hauled in a 27-yard touchdown pass to give the Titans’ offense a spark after going down 28-0. Then, in the fourth quarter with the game well out of reach, Westbrook-Ikhine scored again from 17 yards out to give himself a career-high eight touchdowns. Fantasy managers starting him will be left disappointed when the touchdown luck inevitably runs out, but Westbrook-Ikhine will have some Week 14 viability against the Jaguars.

Make it six touchdowns in seven games for Westbrook-Ikhine. If you told us this Titans season was a pyramid scheme to enrich the career special teamer, we couldn’t argue with you. The yardage counts — outside of last week’s 98-yard-influenced score — don’t look great. Neither do the target counts. But all Westbrook-Ikhine does is catch touchdowns, and so he is on the TD-or-bust line against the Commanders in Week 13.

Pretty much all of Westbrook-Ikhine’s yardage came on a 98-yard touchdown in the third quarter. With the Titans on their own two-yard line, the Vikings sent a blitz and Levis fired a deep shot down the sideline where a coverage mistake by the defense left Westbrook-Ikhine behind the safety. You’ll take the fantasy production, and he remains the second-most-targeted player in the offense but days like this will be rare.