Jalen Cropper

Jalen Cropper is a 25-year-old wide receiver for New Orleans, out of Fresno State, entering his third year of NFL experience after being drafted in 2023. The data here has no targets, receptions, yards or snap figures, so it can't say what his role is or how he produces. What it does show is that his NFL appearances have been sparse: one game in 2024, three in 2025 and one so far in 2026.

His production has never registered as fantasy-relevant. He finished 2071st in PPR scoring in 2024 and 2037th in 2025, and he sits 1734th in the 2026 season in progress. Those ranks reflect season totals, so his limited games played drag them down, and one game this year is too small a sample to judge. The ranks also give no per-game scoring to compare across seasons. The trend is a modest climb, but every year it has stayed far outside any rosterable range.

The conflict for fantasy managers is the Clutch Edge projection of 17.5 PPR points per game, which ranks him 107th overall among QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs. That figure assumes a much larger role than anything in his history, and the data available here doesn't show what is driving it. DFS players weighing him as a low-owned flier should treat the projection as the entire case. Nothing in his track record backs it up yet.

The deciding factor is usage. If his next games show a meaningful workload, the projection starts to look credible and his value would come from a cheap price paired with real volume. If his appearances stay as sparse as they have been in every season so far, he stays off rosters regardless of what the projection says.

Written by a language model from the stat lines below. Numbers from Sleeper; the 2026 line is the season in progress.