Kendrick Bourne leads Cards WRs

Bourne got going with a 15-yard catch-and-run on the Cardinals’ third drive. He earned a third-down end zone target from the Rams’ three-yard line, running an out route just inside the goal line, but he was unable to secure the pass, resulting in a close incompletion. He later bagged a tight-window catch on the Cardinals’ first drive after halftime, helping the offense down the field for one of their six field goal drives. The crafty veteran remains a PPR FLEX starter against the Broncos next week.

Bourne looks like a viable FLEX starter for those in need. His 70 receiving yards were a team high, and his eight targets trailed only Trey McBride (10). The journeyman receiver delivered two 20-plus-yard gains via post routes, the first coming on the Cardinals’ first drive and the second on the seventh. Jacoby Brissett tried to force another downfield shot to Bourne on the latter drive, but it didn’t work out. Bourne is running high-value routes in the center of the field, playing for a garbage-time team with a cannon-armed quarterback. The results could be volatile at times, but he is worth starting in the FLEX against the Rams next week.

Bourne operated as the Cardinals’ No. 3 wide receiver, seeing just three targets in a high-volume passing day. The team’s pass-catching hierarchy seems to have settled in, with Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison operating as the top wide receivers and Trey McBride the top tight end. Bourne will get some looks behind this group but won’t be fantasy relevant without an injury ahead of him.

Bourne earned his first target on the Cardinals’ fourth drive. The throw was a tad late, and Bourne’s hesitated while running his route, so the pass glanced off his hands in the flats. He caught the next two, but barely cleared double-digit yardage. Bourne does not need to be rostered in 12-team leagues.

The deal has a max value of $12 million. Bourne has been a consistent depth receiver throughout his career, most recently catching 37 passes for 551 yards for the 49ers in 2025. He has cracked 500 yards three times in nine seasons, profiling best as WR3 or lower on the depth chart. He’ll be exactly that for the Cardinals, who are fortifying the pass-catchers behind Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson as they figure out their quarterback plans.

Bourne went for 142 yards in Week 4, 142 yards in Week 5, and 180 yards from Weeks 7-18. It was a fun ride. Bourne enters free agency as a respectable outside depth receiver, but he hasn’t cracked 600 yards since 2021 and will need extreme circumstances to be fantasy-relevant going forward.

He played 37-of-42 snaps and out-targeted Kendrick Bourne four to one in San Francisco’s finale. Assuming Ricky Pearsall is able to play in the Wild Card round, this won’t matter much. But it is worth noting that Robinson could be the DFS punt we’re interested in — rather than Bourne — if Pearsall is sidelined again.

The offense was focused heavily on George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey throughout, likely invoked by the heavy Cover-3 rates of the Indianapolis defense in the absence of Sauce Gardner. Robinson snuck in an early touchdown as the two teams traded blows in the first half before disappearing into irrelevancy once more. Fellow role-playing wide receiver Kendrick Bourne caught 3-of-5 targets for 27 yards while playing more offensive snaps than Robinson, earning a sizable $500,000 bonus for going over 500 yards on the season.

We miss the Mac Jones/Kendrick Bourne friendship. Since going for exactly 142 yards in back-to-back games in Week 5 and Week 6, Bourne has managed a total of 111 yards in four games, with just nine targets. If you were holding on to him hoping that Mac Jones would eventually get back to his main man, you can let go of those dreams. It looks like it will take injuries to make that happen again.

Bourne began October with a pair of 142-yard games as the 49ers dealt with a slew of skill position injuries. He has totaled seven catches for 92 scoreless yards in three games since. With George Kittle and Jauan Jennings healthy, Bourne is off the fantasy radar heading into Week 10.