"Bad offense" is one of the easiest labels to slap on a fantasy football player, and it can be useful. Bad teams score fewer touchdowns, sustain fewer drives and create fewer spike-week opportunities. But fantasy football is not just "which teams are good?" It's volume, role, game script and how much of an offense flows through one player. A bad team can still create fantasy value if the touches or targets are concentrated enough. The harder part is figuring out which players can survive the environment and which ones are just getting dragged down with the rest of the offense.
I looked at the bottom-five scoring offenses from each of the last five seasons and tracked how many fantasy-relevant players they produced, using half-PPR scoring and positional finish thresholds.
Using the following cutoffs, I looked at how many players we actually got consistent fantasy production from despite a mostly inept offense surrounding them:
QB1: top 12
RB1/WR1/TE1: top 12