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Speaker 1: I am Paul Chargy and co host this week, Brian Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Some fantasy foot Yeah, let's do it. The next two
Speaker 1: those are dedicated to offseason winners and losers, because now
Speaker 1: with the draft behind us, free agency behind us, we
Speaker 1: can pretty fairly evaluate which guys just through all the
Speaker 1: off season machin nations ended up in a better spot
Speaker 1: than expected, and guys that ended up in worse well.
Speaker 1: And to clarify, we're really talking about guys who are
Speaker 1: on their existing team, Like we're not going to talk
Speaker 1: about guys. Yeah, just sort of ended un All these
Speaker 1: players are on the same team they played for last year,
Speaker 1: and based on the off season moves and the draft,
Speaker 1: are they a winner or a loser based on the outcomes.
Speaker 1: Some of the times, and this is a perfect example,
Speaker 1: is going to be the first two. Some of the
Speaker 1: times it's guys who took a big swing, and other
Speaker 1: times it's just a gentle adjustment. We're gonna do winners
Speaker 1: this week because and losers next week because winners come
Speaker 1: before losers. Yeah. Uh. As a side note, before we
Speaker 1: get into our off season winners. Brian guilloteen leagues the
Speaker 1: site expected to launch in about a little over a
Speaker 1: week or so, I would guess, So we're getting very
Speaker 1: close I out our final details and getting ready for
Speaker 1: the Guillotine League season. We encourage you to stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Maybe a very very special surprise, possibly yes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some fun stuff in there. We'll break
Speaker 1: it down on the next thing, probably an excruciating detail. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a edition of Chop Podcast without you.
Speaker 1: By the way, on Monday, I'm having on JJ Zacharias
Speaker 1: and to talk about um how he went to and
Speaker 1: oh in his two guillotine leagues last year. He won
Speaker 1: them both that ain't luck and one of them was.
Speaker 1: One was an expert's league, so it was a very impressive.
Speaker 1: It should be offended, but I won't get mad about
Speaker 1: getting bumped for JJ's not great. Great, he's a great guest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're not I'm making you not have to come
Speaker 1: over here. I appreciate it. All right, let's into my kitchen,
Speaker 1: which is where we record these off season shows. What
Speaker 1: are the cookies. By the way, my wife's gone surprise,
Speaker 1: the house isn't on fire. Right. Uh. Quarterbacks are the
Speaker 1: first order of business, and I mentioned the first two quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: This first guy took a big swing to the positive
Speaker 1: as his team does basically everything possible to make good
Speaker 1: on the draft position of to a tongo viola. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is certainly a winner. Despite getting continually dragged on
Speaker 1: social media, it seems like uh the latest episode uh
Speaker 1: the underthrow video to a wide receiver will mention in
Speaker 1: a minute, but uh, yeah to a definitely a big
Speaker 1: offseason winner. Uh, mainly because of the trade for Tyreek Hill. Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't have to bomb to Tyreek Hill. You could
Speaker 1: give him a little two yard shovel past. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: take it to the house. So yeah, that's it's a
Speaker 1: big boon for two who. Of course he has Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle going to his second year. Uh. Dolphins also signed
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson from Dallas. They did lose Davante Parker. I'd
Speaker 1: say Parker is still more talented than Wilson, but Wilson's
Speaker 1: more reliable in terms of staying. How the Damante Parker
Speaker 1: uh always seem to be getting injured. They maintained Mike
Speaker 1: Siki tight end, who's really a more so a wide
Speaker 1: receiver than a tight end. They signed Chase Edmonds, who's
Speaker 1: a great pass catching running back presumably gonna be there
Speaker 1: starting running back, so the offense way better in Miami.
Speaker 1: They also signed left tackle Toronto Armstead, uh, coming over
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. Pro Football Focus has him ranked as
Speaker 1: the fifth best left tackle since the eighteen season. So
Speaker 1: that's not to his blind side because he's a lefty.
Speaker 1: It's it's a massive upgrade for the offensive line and
Speaker 1: an upgraded head coach, at least from an offensive perspective,
Speaker 1: with Mike Mike McDaniel the offensive coordinator coming over from
Speaker 1: San Francisco under the tutelage of the Kyle Shanahan offensive mastermind.
Speaker 1: According to most, so, yeah to a toungo viola QB
Speaker 1: seventeen right now. But they've certainly uh top twelve upside
Speaker 1: currently round ten and top ten. To be he's he'd
Speaker 1: have to he'd have to take a serious jump to
Speaker 1: get into top ten, I think, And I'll give out
Speaker 1: the I'll give out the current ADP for all of
Speaker 1: these guys, but when we talk about them, Brian, I
Speaker 1: didn't this time, but I will. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: almost always say this guy's being under drafted because we
Speaker 1: think these are all winners of the off season, and
Speaker 1: in many cases more so than is being reflected in
Speaker 1: the a DP. Okay, next, I menttioned a gentle winner.
Speaker 1: I think that's Kirk Cousins because people in Minnesota will
Speaker 1: know this is or if you follow me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: This will not come as a shock that I'm a
Speaker 1: Cousin supporter that I believe have been held down by
Speaker 1: a Mike Zimmer offense and all of the necessities to
Speaker 1: run all the time and everything else never used to
Speaker 1: play action. This is gonna be a potentially far better
Speaker 1: season for Cousins, even though there was no significant change
Speaker 1: in personnel outside of an upgraded guard and the return
Speaker 1: to health of tight end Or Smith. But and and
Speaker 1: Adam feelings the last third of the season. Yeah, you know, if,
Speaker 1: um if with Kevin O'Connell there, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get an uptick in just opportunities for Cousin. Now you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw a lot more period and also probably much
Speaker 1: more effectively because they just haven't had strong offensive minds
Speaker 1: and orient and passing orientations with this team really since
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski left. Over the past four years, has any
Speaker 1: quarterback in fantasy football been is under drafted and has
Speaker 1: overperformed as much as Kirk Cousins, who every year goes
Speaker 1: off it finishes it like quarterback twelve and gets appears
Speaker 1: on cheat sheets at quarterback twenty. Current ADP I should
Speaker 1: mention QUB fifteen, So I think there is there is
Speaker 1: a little bit of love out there for Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: for sure. Next up, Jalen Hurts currently quarterback eleven, going
Speaker 1: off the board in round six. Yeah, his ADP has
Speaker 1: certainly started to rise since the trade for a J.
Speaker 1: Brown and that that is that's the major improvement for
Speaker 1: that Eagles offense. Uh, outside of Davante Smith who was
Speaker 1: a rookie last year. These are the guys heard S
Speaker 1: has been throwing too a wide receiver over the last
Speaker 1: two seasons. Jalen Reagor, Greg Ward, Quez Watkins, Travis Folgum,
Speaker 1: John Hyower, j j Arthega Whiteside, and Deonte Burnett Gross.
Speaker 1: But now you've got a J. Brown DeVante Smith. See,
Speaker 1: if you can't draft a good wide receiver, maybe you
Speaker 1: should just go buy one they already know is good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that was a great, great deal for Philly.
Speaker 1: And I also love Dallas Goddard this year. We covered
Speaker 1: we talked a couple of months ago, but to recap quickly,
Speaker 1: he didn't see a ton of targets last year, but
Speaker 1: zach Ertz was int got it was banged up a
Speaker 1: little bit, but Gottard average two point two points per
Speaker 1: target in PPR leagues, which is insane. Second in yards
Speaker 1: per reception among tight ends at fifteen, first in yards
Speaker 1: per route run let all tight ends, and completed area
Speaker 1: yards per target at six point four. So I love
Speaker 1: the weapons of the past game. Hurts obviously a threat
Speaker 1: on the ground as well. The protection upfront is great.
Speaker 1: The Eagles old line was ranked fourth overall by Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus last year in one. So I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, but there is a chance Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: is your top scoring He's got it if all if
Speaker 1: all the cards fall the right way for him, and
Speaker 1: it's all about passing. I mean, his passing has not
Speaker 1: been up to NFL levels to this point. But if
Speaker 1: it comes together in your three and he can put
Speaker 1: together passing yards and at thirty two touchdowns through the
Speaker 1: air and had in his in his rushing, that's how
Speaker 1: you get to quarterback one overall, which could happen. The
Speaker 1: next quarterback is maybe the biggest offseason winner of all quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and it's Derek Carr currently going off the board at
Speaker 1: quarterback sixteen with a round nine a average draft position.
Speaker 1: Last year, Derek Carr put up four thousand, eight hundred
Speaker 1: yards with Hunter renfro as his only reliable receiver. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Ruggs went away for ever, Darren Waller missed almost the
Speaker 1: whole season, you know, and obviously gaining Davante Adams giant,
Speaker 1: you know, gigantic move from them. But let's not forget
Speaker 1: they also added competence for depth at wide receiver Brian,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson, Keelan Cole, not guys that are gonna change,
Speaker 1: you know, change games, but guys who are just competent,
Speaker 1: which they didn't even have. They had no competent depth
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. So if these guys need to
Speaker 1: come on the field when they're four wide, or if
Speaker 1: they need to fill in and a handful of spots starts,
Speaker 1: at least the whole offense isn't at a massive downgrade
Speaker 1: like we had seen in the past with the Raiders
Speaker 1: depth chart. So if Carr can repeat last year's forty
Speaker 1: eight hundred yards with far better wide receivers, let's just
Speaker 1: say he repeats forty eight hundred yards Brian. And if
Speaker 1: you think Waller is good for ten touchdowns, and if
Speaker 1: you think Adams is good for fourteen touchdowns. That puts
Speaker 1: them that puts them in more touchdowns, and he had
Speaker 1: last year Derek Carr by by themselves. That puts them
Speaker 1: in downs right there. And if he's tracking thirty, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, he's gonna he'll sit right, He'll sit well
Speaker 1: over thirty at that point. I love Derek Carr. I'm accumulating.
Speaker 1: Remember I can now before everybody catches up to this,
Speaker 1: he's quietly been a very good quarterback the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, given what's been around him. And now he
Speaker 1: gets all the benefits of a totally new uh totally
Speaker 1: knew what should be improved coaching staff. Josh McDaniels offensive
Speaker 1: minded head coach. YEA so very very high. Derek Carr
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite offseason winners. We talk running backs.
Speaker 1: What's your running backs? And then then we'll take our break.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, we will just put it in right in
Speaker 1: the middle. We'll find out. We'll begin with James Conner
Speaker 1: Brian current ADP is running back twenty going off the
Speaker 1: board in round four. He was and a rather unexpected
Speaker 1: fantasy stalwart last year, pretty much a league winner. Eighteen
Speaker 1: total touchdowns last season and that's with Chase Edmonds taking
Speaker 1: nine touches out of that backfield. As we just talked
Speaker 1: about earlier, Chase Edmonds has taken his talents to Miami,
Speaker 1: kind of like Lebron James did. But Edmonds is not
Speaker 1: the Lebron James of running backs by any means. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Connor going way too late. Uh either it's RB twenty,
Speaker 1: I see him goes high, it's RB fifteen. He's a
Speaker 1: borderline first round pick. There should be um here is
Speaker 1: running back finishes and half point PPR during the weeks
Speaker 1: that Edmunds missed last year RB one, RB sixteen, RB eight,
Speaker 1: RB eleven, RB two and RB three finishes for James
Speaker 1: Conner without Chase Edmonds, And there is no Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: yet again, how I mean they didn't replace him with
Speaker 1: anybody that looks like a threat to Connor? No, not really.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Benjamin is still around. He flashed in
Speaker 1: one or two games when mcconnor was hurt, and they
Speaker 1: drafted Keyante Ingram in the sixth round. He's got a
Speaker 1: nice skill set, but there's not enough draft equity there
Speaker 1: to really concern you. So yeah, James Connor, I mean,
Speaker 1: be the opposite guy. You know, if you've gone wide receiver,
Speaker 1: tight end, wide receiver, and out, it's round four. James
Speaker 1: conn He's gonna be creeping up. His ad P will
Speaker 1: be creeping up as you get into the I think,
Speaker 1: what what what very reasonably gives people pause on Connor.
Speaker 1: He's not special, He's not a special talent. It's all
Speaker 1: opportunity here because Kyler Murray does not run the ball
Speaker 1: from inside the five yard line. It's all touchdown dependent.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are there are some there are some
Speaker 1: worries here compared to other elite running backs. You could
Speaker 1: go wal you know, I can see the talent in
Speaker 1: in in pick a guy Dalvin Cook mean, obviously uber
Speaker 1: talented player. James Conner is a pedestrian NFL starting running back.
Speaker 1: It's all opportunity and a better pass catcher than most realize.
Speaker 1: He's a good pass catching back. And it's worth noting, uh,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is gonna miss the first six weeks of
Speaker 1: the first six games of the season. They could trade
Speaker 1: for Mark He's brown, of course, but there's probably be
Speaker 1: a few more targets to go around out of that back.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk gone as well. Yep, the second running back
Speaker 1: that is an offseason winner. Say Kwan Barkley currently going
Speaker 1: off the boarder running back fourteen. That's round three. It's
Speaker 1: reasons for optimism is its second year off his a
Speaker 1: c L which is great. Giants brought in no competition
Speaker 1: unless you count Matt Brida. Matt Brita was with new
Speaker 1: head coach Brian Dable last year and Dable barely used him.
Speaker 1: Then Dable is gonna be pretty good. I think is
Speaker 1: a head coach field. You know, the Bill's offense was
Speaker 1: obviously super dynamic, and they Brian Dable wrenched every ounce
Speaker 1: of fantasy output out of that offense he possibly could have,
Speaker 1: which I love. And Dable target running backs nine times
Speaker 1: last year with passes. Barkley is a better pass catcher
Speaker 1: than anybody they had last year. Singletary has it got
Speaker 1: average hands, Zack Moss below average hands. Now, Sacan Barkley
Speaker 1: is a far better receiver, and he's the only guy
Speaker 1: who can really catch in that backfield. So your figure,
Speaker 1: if Dabele's gonna spread around passes to this backfield, Barkley
Speaker 1: might have eight of those targets. Oh yeah, we've seen
Speaker 1: him almost We saw him get targeted twenty times in
Speaker 1: a game a few years ago with Eli Manning. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's it's gonna be a big bounce back here
Speaker 1: for Barkley. I'm with you that. I think most people
Speaker 1: feel that way. Um his also a note here improvements
Speaker 1: to New York's offensive line the first round tackle of
Speaker 1: and Neil. They brought in guard Mark Glowinski and then
Speaker 1: guard center hybrid John Feliciano. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: improvements for that Giant's offensive line as well, and that's
Speaker 1: why a lot of people, particularly in PPR, are very
Speaker 1: very optimistic about s Kwon Barkley. Another winner for this offseason,
Speaker 1: and a massive downgrade on defense, losing corner James Bradberry
Speaker 1: due to the ineptitude of Dave Gentleman. So cap managing
Speaker 1: lots of lots of coming from behind for the Giants
Speaker 1: this year. Point chasing garbage time, glorinus, that's not a word.
Speaker 1: I'm blaming that on the allergy mids. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders currently going off the board a running back
Speaker 1: twenty seven, round six. Yeah, that's way too late. He
Speaker 1: did have zero touch huns last year. That's what everyone's
Speaker 1: really focusing on I think, but uh, that's just an
Speaker 1: outlier to me. When healthy Sanders played more snaps inside
Speaker 1: the five fifteen of them, uh than Boston Scott and
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainewell and Jordan Howard combined. So it was just
Speaker 1: bizarre he didn't get in the end zone. Jalen hurts
Speaker 1: of course, vultures and opportunities near the goal line as well.
Speaker 1: But uh, I think Sanders bounces back this year. He's
Speaker 1: in a contract year, which some he was a bad thing,
Speaker 1: but I I like the fact he's in the contract
Speaker 1: here because they might just run him into the ground
Speaker 1: like de Marco Murray's last year and the classic example
Speaker 1: of most famous example. And uh so yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they Philly didn't draft any big name running back, or
Speaker 1: any running back for that matter, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: I do like Kenneth Gainwell, but he still feels like
Speaker 1: more of the change of pace back, UH might get
Speaker 1: more opportunities if Sanders gets hurt. Boston Scott is back.
Speaker 1: Uh scored seven touchdowns last year. How does a little
Speaker 1: tiny Boston Scott score seven and Miles Sanders gets notne
Speaker 1: So that's not happening this year. If anyone's scoring seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Miles Sanders, who, as you said, running
Speaker 1: back twenty six right now, an insane value. And another
Speaker 1: guy will probably see creep up his ADP creep up
Speaker 1: as we get into the summer into drafts. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: and I may have been looking at slightly different places
Speaker 1: for our for for our ADPs. You may hear slight
Speaker 1: variations in I had seven twenty six, but people get
Speaker 1: the gist of it. Here's a here's a guy who
Speaker 1: uh is not I don't know. This is a very
Speaker 1: I think, very slight winner. J K. Dobbins, Baltimore running back,
Speaker 1: currently running back eighteen, going off the board late fourth round.
Speaker 1: The Ravens must feel pretty good about him returning because
Speaker 1: between him and Gus Edwards, the team to not add
Speaker 1: any material help at the position um at. At this
Speaker 1: time last year, Dobbins was a second round a DP.
Speaker 1: He's had the full year to come back from the
Speaker 1: A C L and really, I mean he only has
Speaker 1: to hold off Gus Edwards to some degree. We know
Speaker 1: it'll be a one to split, a one two punch.
Speaker 1: Mike Davi is totally not a factor here, and both
Speaker 1: guys to me at a heavy discount. Gus Edwards going
Speaker 1: off the board in the seventeenth round. Right now, huge
Speaker 1: blunder with a career average of five almost five and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry. I think it's because he
Speaker 1: sounds his name. He sounds like he's like thirty four
Speaker 1: years old, but I think he's only years is an
Speaker 1: old sounding name. Let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the wide receiver winners from the off season.
Speaker 1: When we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back, segment
Speaker 1: number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: with you. We're going through off season winners. Next week
Speaker 1: we'll do the losers. That be a much more somber affair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we we we already started making the list. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of running back we could do. Also,
Speaker 1: just on running back losing the whole season. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the wide receivers. Let's start with generically broadly, all
Speaker 1: the Broncos wide house. Yeah. I'm not gonna really get
Speaker 1: too into the weeds with this one. Maybe not so much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge you at the end of this time,
Speaker 1: the one the guy you would take first, because I've
Speaker 1: been back based on a DP. I mean, I'll let
Speaker 1: you do whatever whatever you want. All the Broncos wide
Speaker 1: receivers who in order as of right now in ADP
Speaker 1: is Jerry, Judy Cortland, Sutton, Tim Patrick, and kJ Hamlerer.
Speaker 1: Judy and Sutton. The gap is narrowed, uh, mostly because
Speaker 1: of the legal trouble that Judy's kind of been in.
Speaker 1: But I kind of I'm more of a Sutton guy
Speaker 1: than a Judy guy. But it's you're getting. You're going
Speaker 1: from Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock to Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: that's that's basically it. That is the biggest upgrade running
Speaker 1: receiving corps in the NFL. So that's pretty much it
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, they're all winners as opposed to
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater who can't throw more than thirty yards down field.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've seen Sutton have the big the
Speaker 1: big season because he was able to do it a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. We feel like Judy is the
Speaker 1: most talented out of the group, but it hasn't materialized
Speaker 1: on field and in box scores yet. Zero touch sounds
Speaker 1: for Judy, I believe last year, and then Tim Patrick
Speaker 1: is just a wild card that isn't on the field
Speaker 1: is often, but has managed to be productive every time
Speaker 1: he's had to sub in for one of those guys
Speaker 1: when they're injured, which has been a lot. So there's
Speaker 1: going to be opportunity for all of those and I
Speaker 1: think the fact that they're all relevant has pushed down
Speaker 1: their very They're all of their a dp s a
Speaker 1: little bit. Sutton like se Kwon Barkley will be two
Speaker 1: years removed from a series knee injury too, so I'm
Speaker 1: expecting a big bounce back from Sutton. But yeah, whether
Speaker 1: you're going a full full Broncos stack or if you're
Speaker 1: just drafting Judy or a Sutton, I think Tim Patrick
Speaker 1: is kind of that rare wide receiver hand you really
Speaker 1: want to have in the event that one of them
Speaker 1: is hurt or suspended in Jerry Judy's case, and uh
Speaker 1: kJ Hamm are really more of a best ball spike
Speaker 1: week flyer kind of guy, not a guy you want
Speaker 1: to decide to put in your starting lineup weegin in
Speaker 1: week out unless he's clearly gonna have a full time role,
Speaker 1: which he doesn't right now. While we're talking Broncos, we
Speaker 1: had debated putting Albert Oh into this conversation of offseason winners,
Speaker 1: but ultimately decided not to just because that rookie tight
Speaker 1: end Greg Dulcinch, that dude's a beast, and he may
Speaker 1: really materially eat into Albert Oh's production at some point.
Speaker 1: It may not be this year because as we just
Speaker 1: we've talked about a million times, rookie tight ends generally
Speaker 1: don't fare well. And he's a third rounder, not a
Speaker 1: first rounder like say a Kyle Pitts. But still, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Albert Oh gets a certain amount of viability
Speaker 1: right now currently going off the board at tight end
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't seem like the volume is going to be
Speaker 1: there for Albert I mean, we have to worry a
Speaker 1: little bit. Obviously, a great running game to in Denver
Speaker 1: with Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon. You know, one of
Speaker 1: the thing I mentioned, there's a I think there's a
Speaker 1: large there's a big notion out that Russell Wilson can't
Speaker 1: feed tight ends, But in reality, over most of the
Speaker 1: past four or five six years, he's just had rotating
Speaker 1: tight ends that and he and he disperses the ball
Speaker 1: among a lot of different tight ends with the way
Speaker 1: they used him in Seattle, but if you rolled up
Speaker 1: all of their tightens together, he has usage on tight
Speaker 1: ends is actually pretty NFL average. Yeah. And also a
Speaker 1: f C West, all of those divisional games are fireworks
Speaker 1: everyone between the Raiders and the Chiefs and the Chargers,
Speaker 1: they all feel like good games. So that's six. That's
Speaker 1: like almost six guaranteed shootouts for each a f C
Speaker 1: West team right there. I like, you know, those are
Speaker 1: the rare divisional games are gonna lave. Okay, So let's
Speaker 1: move on from Lebroncos to another offseason wide receiver winner
Speaker 1: see de Lamb. I think he's as big an off
Speaker 1: season winner as there is out of this whole list
Speaker 1: currently wide receiver eight. I have him higher in my
Speaker 1: cheat sheet. He's going off the board in round two.
Speaker 1: The off season trade of Amari Cooper is, of course huge,
Speaker 1: but so is the late season a C L suffered
Speaker 1: by Michael Gallup. His availability for the start of the
Speaker 1: season is very much in question. And then Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: who was good in relief last year, goes off to
Speaker 1: Miami and all they did was bring in James Washington,
Speaker 1: who has done nothing but underperform in his time in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: They did draft Jalen Tilbert, who's some, but he's he's
Speaker 1: a Brookie. He's he's a good project, the heal factor.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I'm with you. Ceedee Lamb not getting
Speaker 1: drafted as latest Cooper Cup last year, but he feels
Speaker 1: like the guy that could take that meteorc leap that
Speaker 1: the Cup did last year. Lamb. The biggest threats for
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb for targets are is running back in tight end.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just it's such a key spot.
Speaker 1: Frem and I'll mention this as well. Now with Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper out, Uh, he's gonna move outside. I really think
Speaker 1: they're gonna play him largely outside, where he was more
Speaker 1: and more effective and consistent fan of S producer then
Speaker 1: he has been when he's worked primarily from the slot.
Speaker 1: Next offseason winner Darnell Mooney wide receiver twenty nine in
Speaker 1: average draft position, round six. Yeah, he's going way too
Speaker 1: late for me. A guy I've been targeting Uh in
Speaker 1: drafts since January. But last season, one of sixteen wide
Speaker 1: receivers with more than eighty catches in one thousand yards,
Speaker 1: he forced twenty seven miss tackles on He has forced
Speaker 1: twenty seven miss tackles on reception since entering the league
Speaker 1: in twenty that's tied for seventh among wide receivers in
Speaker 1: that span. In that span, and this year, he'll be
Speaker 1: competing for wide receiver targets with Quinnemiss st. Brown Byron Pringle,
Speaker 1: Uh Villis Jones Jr. Probably one of the worst draft picks.
Speaker 1: Uh proved me wrong, Vilis, but everyone's down on Villas.
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis, your old boy, Dante Pettis used have a
Speaker 1: shot for Don and J sharp, so I will be well,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I did not know Don. Hey Pettis, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help me. He was
Speaker 1: you know what you didn't. What you don't always know
Speaker 1: is that a guy ain't that sharp. It's hard to
Speaker 1: know from the outside, and I think that's what's derailed
Speaker 1: Dante Pettis's career as much as anything else. But I
Speaker 1: will be shocked if Mooney doesn't command at least fifty
Speaker 1: targets this season. And like Ceedee Lamb, his primary competition
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be his tight end cole Commit and
Speaker 1: probably running backs to its, notably to other wide receivers
Speaker 1: poor justin fields they've given. We'll talk about justin fields
Speaker 1: next year. Him we're talking about losers because he is
Speaker 1: steadfastly in that group of off season losers. Next winner
Speaker 1: Risshad Bateman Baltimore Ravens wide receiver, currently wide receiver forty
Speaker 1: in a DP going off the board in round nine. Now,
Speaker 1: it was a disappointing rookie season for a shot Bateman.
Speaker 1: I think, no matter how you look at that season,
Speaker 1: he had he lost the first third of the season
Speaker 1: to injury. Then he came in and just didn't do
Speaker 1: any very much with the opportunity. But the team loses.
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown traded Marquis Brown away. I think they had
Speaker 1: decided already Brown didn't want to be there. We know
Speaker 1: that he wanted to go elsewhere and maybe teamed up
Speaker 1: with his college quarterback Kyler Murray's. They trade him away
Speaker 1: and maybe they decided already they weren't going to pay
Speaker 1: him when Markus Brown was gonna want to get paid.
Speaker 1: But the next biggest target threat among wide receivers for
Speaker 1: a Shot Bateman is Devin DuVernay, who they even scored
Speaker 1: just once last year. UM, and even when his his
Speaker 1: snap counts started to go up in December, and it
Speaker 1: never liked went massively up. But when it went up
Speaker 1: and he was getting like fifty five sixty snaps a game,
Speaker 1: the productivity still wasn't there. And you know, Brian, I
Speaker 1: went back. I looked at a handful of plays from
Speaker 1: last year, trying to get more more looks at him.
Speaker 1: And then I went to all the metrics like cushion
Speaker 1: yards and yards after catch and targeted air yards. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find anything to counter at my eye test
Speaker 1: and Rashad Bateman, that just he looked so pedestrian and
Speaker 1: unlike how he looked as a Minnesota Golden Gopher when
Speaker 1: he was dominating defenses. UM. But your best reason for
Speaker 1: optimism here. In four games in which he had eight
Speaker 1: or more targets last year, Rashad Bateman averaged seventy three yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll be he'll be more of a force in PPR
Speaker 1: full PPR. That's exactly where I think he's going to
Speaker 1: help out. And I think the one land mine that
Speaker 1: Bateman and Darnell Mooney need to avoid, it's the last
Speaker 1: big name receiver that is still a free agent, and
Speaker 1: it's not Julio Jones and it's not Odell Beckham because
Speaker 1: they're both pretty much decomposing corpses at this time. But
Speaker 1: uh is will Fuller, and I think he's a great
Speaker 1: fit for the Bears or the Ravens one or the other.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with him. But as of
Speaker 1: right now, Will Fuller is not a Bear nor a Raven.
Speaker 1: So that dude stole ten million last year. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Michael Pittman. He's currently wide receiver twenty one. His
Speaker 1: average draft is Asian is in the in the fourth round,
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts receiver. Why do you feel like he
Speaker 1: was an offseason winner? Uh? Just six touchdowns last year,
Speaker 1: but he was top fifteen in catches and yards among
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Um. But it's basically he had an upgraded
Speaker 1: quarterback with Matt Ryan, who I'm not a huge fan of,
Speaker 1: but it's still a massive improvement over over Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: in my mind. And they did draft Alec Pierce in
Speaker 1: the second round out of Cincinnati. The Colts did, who
Speaker 1: I like, but I think Pierce's presence will only help
Speaker 1: Pittman will help Pittman. Pittman help Pittman more than hurt him, um,
Speaker 1: because defense is really focused on him in terms of
Speaker 1: the passing game. If the Jonathan Taylor, of course the
Speaker 1: Colts offense ran through him. But uh, Pittman's just a
Speaker 1: beast uh six four like to forty just speaking of beasts,
Speaker 1: not with mo Alei Cox and Gelanni Wood like they
Speaker 1: got some they and Alec Pierce is a pretty big
Speaker 1: guy too. I think six two six three some serious
Speaker 1: size and that in that Colts offense. But yeah, Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman right now, going you said wide receiver twenty, I've
Speaker 1: seen late teens. He's another guy who I think we
Speaker 1: could see creep into that top twelve uh range among
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So I just think, yeah, they didn't. They
Speaker 1: didn't draft a big, big name. Alex Pierce is gonna
Speaker 1: be a good player, but I don't think he steals
Speaker 1: an up shine from Pittman this year. So I think
Speaker 1: Pittman is gonna be in for a big, big season
Speaker 1: next up. Alan Lazard, green Bay Packers wide receiver offseason
Speaker 1: winner wide receiver fifty going off the board in round eleven,
Speaker 1: green Bay could have reasonably used both of their first
Speaker 1: round picks on wide receivers. As it turns out, they
Speaker 1: didn't use any of them on wide receiver, and I
Speaker 1: think ultimately that helps. They did add, obviously, Christian Watson
Speaker 1: in the second round, and I think ultimately that's a
Speaker 1: win for Lozard, although I like Watson too. Um because
Speaker 1: Lazard opens the year as the air apparent to a
Speaker 1: lot of Davante Adams absurd one hundred sixty nine targets
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, though one sixty nine are gonna
Speaker 1: have to go someplace, it's not all gonna go to
Speaker 1: rookie receiver Christian Wattson. Lizard is gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of it. Lazard is not a special talent. He's I
Speaker 1: think he is a fairly ordinary receiver talent. But he
Speaker 1: comes in as the outstarting the number one incumbent veteran
Speaker 1: receiver for Aaron Rodgers. That's worth a lot Randall Cobbs
Speaker 1: the only other receiver with any kind of history with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and just I didn't buy virtue of being
Speaker 1: a veteran receiver catching passes from Aaron Rodgers. Lazard is
Speaker 1: being drafted too late wide receiver fifty. To me, he
Speaker 1: feels like a guy you could just put into your
Speaker 1: wide receiver three spot every week and just forget about it,
Speaker 1: and he'll pay off, you know, half of the time,
Speaker 1: two thirds of the time, solid games. Forty catches, five
Speaker 1: dred yards, eight touchdowns on sixty targets. That's it. Double
Speaker 1: the targets, right, You're talking a thousand yards and double
Speaker 1: digit touched, digit touchdowns and close to right wide receiver fifty.
Speaker 1: You know, way too late. Yeah, agreed. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the tight end position, Brian, and let's talk about
Speaker 1: the offseason winners. There. We begin in Dallas with Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: We already talked about Ceedee Lamb. We talked about all
Speaker 1: the receiving options that are now gone at Dalton Schaltz
Speaker 1: stands to benefit as well. Yeah, we pretty much alluded
Speaker 1: to this already. You said he could, uh, Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: that is, could easily be the top option in the
Speaker 1: passing game after Ceedee Lamb. And I'm with you, And
Speaker 1: Schultz wasn't the second option last year. He was. I
Speaker 1: would still call him third behind Ceedee Lamb and Mary Cooper,
Speaker 1: but uh, he was one of three tight ends with
Speaker 1: at least eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns. The other
Speaker 1: two were Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews. A. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was also one of six tight ends the top one
Speaker 1: hundred targets and finished third and catches at the position
Speaker 1: as the third, maybe even fourth option in the past game,
Speaker 1: probably at least of the third, and like you've said
Speaker 1: a couple of times already might be the second uh
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's second option in the past game. So big
Speaker 1: time winning for Dalton Schultz and Blake Jarwin. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's even in the league anymore.
Speaker 1: He's gone, he's on. He had I remember we talked
Speaker 1: about this when we're doing like divisional reviews. He had
Speaker 1: a hip injury where no football player had suffered it
Speaker 1: or returned from it, return from it only like hockey
Speaker 1: is like an athlete come back from this kind of
Speaker 1: hip injury. So that sucks for Jarwin and in Dallas.
Speaker 1: The way hockey players use their hips all the time,
Speaker 1: use it to skate, you get hip checked, you get
Speaker 1: you know, there's all kinds of things that's good, that's
Speaker 1: weird that hopefully hopefully Jarwin can skate. That's that's the case. Um,
Speaker 1: you put this on my list, and I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit hesitant to even go here, but Travis Kelsey is
Speaker 1: an offseason winner. I don't necessarily agree as much as
Speaker 1: you do on this, but I will I will. I'll
Speaker 1: give it a slim pickens a tight end. So he's
Speaker 1: thirty two years old, which doesn't make him dead. But
Speaker 1: Kansas City did not acquire via draft or free agency
Speaker 1: or anything else, any other tight end or any air
Speaker 1: apparent to Travis Kelsey, so presumably he'll have the same
Speaker 1: fairly massive role that he had before. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill leaves, but for me, this is a push
Speaker 1: on Tyree Kill leaving. Sure, he's not gonna be siphoning
Speaker 1: off all the time touches that Tyreek Hill had, and
Speaker 1: sky Moore is not going to get all of those touches,
Speaker 1: but he also doesn't have Hill to open up the
Speaker 1: middle of the field like he used to mean. Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill running out of the slot and dashing through the
Speaker 1: middle of the field was pulling linebackers and safeties away
Speaker 1: from Travis Kelsey, and you'll lose that a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I really, in my heart, I believe there's more,
Speaker 1: just like a push off season for Travis Kelsey, but
Speaker 1: I think some could see it as an upsider. I
Speaker 1: just think Mahomes will lean on him a little more
Speaker 1: than usual. He certainly has leaned on him a lot already. Now,
Speaker 1: Kelsey's ADPs tight in one right now, one round, almost
Speaker 1: exactly one round ahead of Andrews. We've talked about, we
Speaker 1: talked earlier about how the Ravens have very few other
Speaker 1: places to go here. I think you can make a
Speaker 1: case that Andrews is more of an off season winner
Speaker 1: than Kelsey is. With the dearth of receiving options there,
Speaker 1: who would you take first, Kelsey or Andrews? Really? I
Speaker 1: know this isn't the answer you want, but it's neither.
Speaker 1: I'd wait a little longer until I didn't take my book,
Speaker 1: but if I had to, I mean, I would still
Speaker 1: take Kelsey first. I'm on Andrews just be you know.
Speaker 1: And I love Kelsey and I've got him in a
Speaker 1: bajillion leagues last year, you know, the last several years,
Speaker 1: I've lobbied for people to take him in the first round. Um.
Speaker 1: The thing with Andrews his like he had a great season,
Speaker 1: but he had like his monster games. We all with
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley. I think not Lamar Jackson. Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: have a get a third amount of based on Kelsey
Speaker 1: had like a six week long last year. That rattled
Speaker 1: me just a little bit, and it just started to
Speaker 1: plan at the seed, like do I want to get
Speaker 1: out a year early on Andrews or sorry on Kelsey?
Speaker 1: I want to you know, do I want to be
Speaker 1: the guy? Do I don't do? I you know, I'd
Speaker 1: rather get out of year early. This could certainly be
Speaker 1: the year that the torch is passed from Kelsey to Andrews.
Speaker 1: But no, Kyle Pitts is gonna snatch that torch and
Speaker 1: away with it. I could, but I listened to the
Speaker 1: show last week and I heard you and Matt I
Speaker 1: have to take a jab at me and Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: and it wasn't appreciated. But I still like you guys.
Speaker 1: I guess thank you. Cole Commet currently tight ends seventeen.
Speaker 1: You believe he is an offseason winner. Yeah. It kind
Speaker 1: of just goes back to the Darnell Mooney discussion. We
Speaker 1: just had um commit probably going to be the second
Speaker 1: option in the passing games. Zero touchdowns last year not
Speaker 1: a good thing. But Jimmy Graham had three touchdowns. He's
Speaker 1: he's gone, I would hope. So I'm not confirmed that.
Speaker 1: I'm just assuming he has gone. But Commit one of
Speaker 1: nine tight ends with at least sixty catches six hundred
Speaker 1: yards and no no, no threat came in at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, and it's it's gonna be Commit in
Speaker 1: the in the red zone. I would think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the top option for justin fields, not saying that
Speaker 1: being the red zone a lot in Chicago, but at
Speaker 1: tight end fifteen right now, I think there is top
Speaker 1: ten upside with Commett if you if you can see
Speaker 1: the volume, and I think he will. David and Joeku
Speaker 1: from the Browns currently tied in number twenty two, an
Speaker 1: average draft position. He got the offseason franchise tag, which
Speaker 1: I did not see coming at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: off season, and it suggests that Ninjoku's spike in usage
Speaker 1: last year probably not a fluke. They let Austin Hooper
Speaker 1: go in the in the off season, and Harrison Bryant
Speaker 1: just didn't develop in year two last season. Still plenty
Speaker 1: of turmoil among Cleveland's quarterback positions, which makes me a
Speaker 1: little bit worried about in Joko and then in Joeku
Speaker 1: has just been incredibly untrustworthy and unpredictable as a fantasy
Speaker 1: factor throughout his entire career. You're really banking on him
Speaker 1: becoming a lock number one, beating out Harrison Bryant, not
Speaker 1: being part of a rotation, and becoming a predictable fantasy producer,
Speaker 1: none of which has ever been the case that throughout
Speaker 1: his career. Cleveland's got to give him that chance. This
Speaker 1: year they took him in the first round back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's he's only he's gonna turn twenty six this summer.
Speaker 1: He's still going. Yes, I mean, they should have done
Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago. They never shouldn't even
Speaker 1: signed Austin Hooper in my opinion, So yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the time to give in joekup hundred targets at least,
Speaker 1: and she's a hundred I take it. How about That's
Speaker 1: that even that would be a massive uptick for him,
Speaker 1: But we'd take that too. Um. I think that's it's
Speaker 1: I think it's a little stretch, but I would. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him do it. They paid there, they
Speaker 1: franchised him, so obviously they plan to use him. You
Speaker 1: don't franchise a guy that's not an integral part of
Speaker 1: your offensive scheme, at least in theory. Next week losers,
Speaker 1: the big goal losers, Well we'll talk that through next week.
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