WEBVTT - Free Agency, Part II 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.200 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.880 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.600 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:25.280 here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.920 Paul Scharchi, and my co host, as he frequently is 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.040 almost every week, Brian Johnson. Hi, Brian, what's up charge, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.440 Good to talk to you again. Last week we dove 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.160 into free agency with quarterbacks and running backs. This week 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.279 we're focusing on wide receivers and tight ends. The tampering 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.400 period starts Monday, so it'll be fascinating to see where 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.840 these guys go. Who goes early, who goes late, has 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.040 a lot of wide lot of wide receiver talent. Yeah, 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.200 hitting the hitting the market and it's it's fascinating. And 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.840 before we get to the wide receivers and the tight 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:06.560 free agents, let's let's mention this. This Cam Newton decision 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:13.119 by the Patriots and Bill Belichick baffling. Not a I'm 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.720 shocked they brought him back at any price, b at 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.679 fourteen million dollars. I mean, that's starter quarterback money for 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:24.680 a guy Bill Belichick benched three? Is it four times 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.160 during the season, Brian, I'm I just I'm stunned by this. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.840 I've said it so many times. Bill Belichick GM undermines 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:37.800 Bill Belichick head coach all the time. I have no words, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.119 really my only this could just be the most Belichick 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.640 thing ever where he has lulled the rest of the 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.360 a f C East into think he may have a chance. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.760 And of course the Bills were the a f C championship. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.640 But I don't know, is this like this like the 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.320 ultimate Kaiser? So's a play by Bill Belichick bringing back 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.720 Cam Newton who he benched. There's three that I can 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.160 think of off the top of my head, and they 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.440 can not finished last year through so five touchdown passes 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.680 or something like that. I think it was a nine 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.760 touchdown past season, which is unfathomable. Now here's what this. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.799 Apologists are saying, he had COVID. He was better before COVID, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.560 that after COVID he was never the same guy. So 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.320 then it'll be further removed from COVID. Maybe bad receivers 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.480 and his his receivers were bad. The fair points, you know, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.960 the team had ten players on their COVID opt out 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.920 list was the most in the NFL. I think the 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.400 majority run defense. I think they had one offensive lineman. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.560 Um most of the you know, most of that was 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.320 was defense. Still, it's just you know, the eye test. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.800 Look at Cam Newton and maybe the worst part of this, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.320 and there's no guarantee Cam Newtons the starting quarterback Week one, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.240 but at fourteen million dollars, he's in play for it. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:54.600 Poor Damien Harris. Ye, that's torpedoes his fantasy value. Yep, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.920 that's the worst part of this. This is right up 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:05.200 your alley. Signs st Beard right transition you need, and 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.720 he would. I Belichick could go better than anybody he's faced. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.600 He's faced Stu Beard so many times. You know, if 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.720 you need a transition quarterback to get you the Patriots, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.520 to get you to whoever's next, whatever young kid you've 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.160 decided is your next up and coming quarterback, Ryan fit Patrick, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.520 that's your guy. They don't have a they don't have 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.320 an option outside of canis As. It seems like they're 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.840 they're out on DeShawn Watson. I guess if someone's gonna 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.840 trade for them, they're not gonna draft one of these 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.160 maybe they're higher in the draft, and we ever see 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.560 the Patriots. I think they're picking nine. I mean, you know, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.480 there's they It wouldn't take a lot from them to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.120 get from like nine and nine might get them one 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.520 of the big four quarterbacks. It might. It probably won't, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.520 but from them to get to nine to like six 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.960 to go get one, you know, is possible. Do you 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.839 think cam Newton was the one who was most surprised 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.160 by this signing. It's got be like, oh my God, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.160 found money. I mean, just I gotta believe in. I 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.320 gotta believe he was prepping himself to be a backup 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.840 for two million dollars. Yeah, it's bizarre, unbelievable. All right, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.840 let's go to the free agent wide receivers. There are 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.479 a bunch of teams that have have wide receiver need. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.040 I'm just gonna list them off briefly. I see it Detroit, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.400 which has we're gonna talk about older receivers are going 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:28.120 to free agents Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, in the Vegas, Miami, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.840 New England, the Giants, Jets, Philadelphia, Tennessee, in Washington. Alphabetically, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.359 there's a there's your laundry list of teams that have 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.919 real need at wide receiver. These are all teams that 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.560 basically have got one receiver or less that they can 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.479 really count on. So given that as a backdrop, let's 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.960 let's look at some of the available free agent wide 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.159 receivers a little background and where what got them to 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.840 where they are today and ideal landing spots for each 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.599 of these guys. I've done all the talking so far, Brian, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.520 but I'll go first, Ken eat Holiday. It's got to 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.599 be the best name out of this crop, right, elite 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.520 level player, potentially on a Hall of Fame pace. The 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.599 Lions decision not to franchise Glidy is a clear sign 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:16.719 that they are in full blown rebuilding mode again, you know, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.720 perpetually rebuilding. And it is a team that's allowing its 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.480 number one, number two, and number three wide receivers from 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.839 this year all to walk in free agency. Unbelievable. They've 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.600 also forced one of the greatest wide receivers of all 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.760 time into early retirement and Calvin Johnson. And they also 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.240 drafted like five wide receivers in the first round in 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.240 the early two thousands, like multiple years. That was Matt 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.960 Millin's fault, of course, but yeah, curse that the wide 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.880 receiver position essentially. Holiday played four full games last year 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.960 was weeks three through six. He was a killer. He 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.359 scored or topped one yards and all four of the 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:56.320 games he might have been the highest scoring wide receiver 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.200 in fantasy football on a per game basis. You know, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.880 first four games, um and and he really he wasn't 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.599 really truly healthy for even any of those four games. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.239 He played those four games hurt. It was hamstring injury 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.520 at the start of the year, and then the hip 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:10.920 injury that knocked him out for the rest of the 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.919 year after that. And it was an unfortunate season for 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.520 Kenny Golladay. But he's more than proven himself as an 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.599 elite receiver. I think the ideal landing spot for him 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.800 is just any place with solid quarterbacking. The problem here is, though, Brian, 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:30.680 the intersection of wide receiver needy teams with good quarterbacks 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.480 and who have requisite cat salary cap space is very small. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.320 So here's the only teams that I think are possible 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:43.080 landing spots. Houston with the Shawn Watson for the moment, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:49.320 Tennessee with Ryan Tannehill, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson and as 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.440 a sneaky one Las Vegas, because I think Derek car 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.240 is sneaky competent, So that's it. I think it's I 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.279 think there's only four really ideal landing spots for Kenny Golladay. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.440 The problem is Golladay he wants top tier wide receiver money, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.360 which he deserves. It's gonna to get it, but he 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.280 hasn't proven to stay healthy, and that's where there's gonna 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.000 be a big disconnect. I feel like in the in 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.040 the market for teams asking price and what he's going 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.400 to be willing to sign for. But uh, yeah, if 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.760 he plays sixteen full games, he's got wide receiver one, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.000 you know, top twelve wide receiver ability written all over him. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.760 In redraft leagues, I think Kenny Golladay's value here is 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.480 medium high. His current ADP is only the fourth round 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.280 in these in early drafting, but he's got room to 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.560 go way up from there if he lands in the 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.360 right spot. I mean, if he goes to any place 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.040 with the competent quarterbacking, I think he goes, Kenny Golladay 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.080 could move as high as the second round. In dynasty. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.160 I think it's also medium high here. He's only twenty 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.600 seven years old, so he's really entering the prime of 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.720 his career, kind of in the prime and and and 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.840 throughout this next contract that will probably like a four 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 year contract, he'll be operating through the latter part of 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.040 the prime of his career. So I think he's good 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.280 for another three is years and I think Kenny Golladay 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.760 remains very valuable. Let's go to our our next free agent, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.840 wide receiver, Will Fuller. Will Fuller till turns twenty seven 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.960 in April, So, like Galladay, entering the prime of his career, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.280 and despite only playing eleven games in twenty finished as 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.120 wide receiver twenty four on a total points basis, and uh, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.280 he was tied for fifth in points per game because 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.360 he was he was going off and that that included 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.480 a Week two against Baltimore when he was literally blanked 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.320 zero catches. I think he might have had a target, 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.400 but uh was this on an incredible pace the points 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.520 per game pace, he was tied with A. J. Brown 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.520 for fifth, only trailed Stefon Diggs, Calvin Ridley, Tyree Kill 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.920 and Davante Adams and good company right there, very good company. Um. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.040 But as we all know, his season was cut short 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:53.160 because of the pe D suspension and before this year, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.440 Galada had some trouble staying on the field. Fuller, but yes, Fuller, yeah, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:04.320 my bead uh played eleven games in seven and ten seventeen. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.360 All it was always a hammy, I'm pretty sure for 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.839 the most part. So did the p e D s 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.880 keep him healthy make him a better player? There's some 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.640 red flags there, but again he was going off last year. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:23.440 He was arguably the most reliable wide receiver in fantasy football, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.000 and right now he's going off. The board is wide 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:32.080 receiver twenty seven in Best Ball, So that caution is 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.520 it's out there, for sure, it is. And you mentioned 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.240 all the wide receiver needy teams, but ones ones that 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.320 you didn't mention. I think the Packers and the Cardinals 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.560 are are else also in the monent for a wide receiver. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.320 Packers for sure, about the Cardinals, but you're absolute right 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.360 Green Bay should have been in that list. But if 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.199 Christian Kirk leaves, you know, the Texans love shipping, uh. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.400 The Cardinals love receiving Texans over from Houston J J. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.959 Wat DeAndre Hopkins in the like. But man Golladay m 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.560 keep saying Gollady Fuller, Uh, he seems about right where 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.240 he's at. I'm not I'm not fully on board with 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.959 him staying healthy for a full sixteen game season without 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.080 the help of p DS. I know it was an 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.680 honest mistake. I'm not gonna throw him under the bus 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.880 too much, but I think his value is right about 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.439 right and uh in redraft and you gotta bump it 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.160 up a little bit, a little bit in UH Dynasty, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.480 But I'm just not sold. He's a every week player 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.000 that you can rely on. You know, where I'd like 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.760 him to go. I want his landing spot to be 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.000 wherever Deshaun Watson is. How about that? You know, if 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.319 Watson stays in Houston, I'd like will Fuller if to 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.120 sign with his original team. Actually, we don't want him 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.800 to go to Arizona because Hopkins is there and Hopkins 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:45.000 always stabbed his talent outside his hands on hamstrings. But yeah, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.360 let's keep him and Hopkins away from each other. They're 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.360 probably buddies, but they don't need to play together anymore. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.960 Ex Up Marvin Jones. Uh. He got a lot of 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:56.160 extra volume due to Kenny Golladay's mostly missed season last year, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.640 and he saw career highs and targets and receptions last season. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.160 But even with all that, Brian Marvin Jones didn't crack 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.760 a thousand yards despite being the go to receiver and 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.920 you know for at least twelve games. And here's an 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.360 interesting staff that I came across. I believe he's the 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.679 only wide receiver with nine or more touchdowns in three 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.559 of the past four seasons, which is pretty shocking. He 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.600 finished last year's wide receiver fifteen. Not bad for Marvin Jones. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.839 Ideal ending spout from Rvin Jones any team where he 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.160 doesn't have to be the top receiver. Unlike Fuller and 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.520 Golliday that have proven they can be a top receiver, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.640 Marvin Jones can't. It's just you know, he had he 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.800 had good quarterback in for Matthew Stafford and wasn't able 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.719 to get to a thousand yards last season. I don't 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.720 think he's a number one. He feels like a number two. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.560 So then he could go to Baltimore behind Holliday, behind 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.640 uh Hollywood Brown. He could go to Chicago behind Allen Robinson, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.000 Miami behind Parker, the Giants behind Sterling Shepherd and Darius Slayton, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.240 Tennessee behind A. J. Brown, Washington behind McLarin. I'd like 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.640 to see him be a regular number two like he 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.000 was for Kenny Golladay. What about Green Bay alongside Green Bay? Yeah, 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.600 green Bay. Davante Adams perfect, I love. I love the 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.080 double revenge game angle for any player. Marvin Jones readraft 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.679 value is medium low. I think unless he falls into 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.800 a perfect spot in his dynasty, value is low. He's 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.280 a thirty one year old and he's entering his tenth season, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.520 and you know, you forget he played four years for 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.000 Cincinnati that we don't even remember anymore. I don't think 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.760 it was John Kittener throwing him the ball or something 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.760 at this point. But Scott Mitchell maybe even knowing not 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.439 that old, not that old, but Scott Mitchell was Detroit. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.600 Did he finish his career in Cincinnati? And I forgot? 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.880 I thought we were talking about Detroit quarterbacks still there now, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:41.760 since that's how he got got crossed right there? All right? 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.920 Talk to us about Antonio Brown. It sounds like he'd 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.600 like to stay in Tampa. You would think he would 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.319 want to stay in Tampa because I'm not convinced he 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.360 can keep his head on straight without sharing bunk beds 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.520 with tom Brady. Tom Brady keep him in line, even 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.400 though Tom Brady is kind of like a drunk uncle 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.600 right about now. But yeah, Antonio Brown turns thirty three 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.560 in July, so he's more than based in the twilight 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.000 of his career for lack of better turn you see 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.760 a single play last year that you would describe as like, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.480 you know, game breaking, like Antonio Brown used to be 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.720 in his prime, not necessarily, but he did turn it 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.560 on towards the end of the year. Though. Here here's 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.680 a random stat though most games with ten plus catches 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.960 in NFL history, Antonio Brown with the most, twenty two 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:31.720 with Andre Johnson, who never had a competent quarterbacks career 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.560 but but more pertinent to fantasy football last year in 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.320 in PPR points per snap, So this is essentially based 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.599 on how much you play, right, how many points you 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.319 produced per snap. Davante Adams was first at point for 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.240 eight PPR points per snap. God, that's a lot on 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.160 a per snap basis cheats, and then number two Antonio 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.760 Brown really point three nine, right ahead of Tyreek Hill. Yeah, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.400 so I mean Brown didn't come into you know, come 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.720 into play into a week seven Week eight when Tampa 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.920 Bay signed him, took some some time to get ramped up, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.000 but again as a season war on, he he looked great. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.640 That that helped with Mike Evans being hurt a little 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.559 bit late in the season. But uh, Brown looked good. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.400 But I'm not interested in him unless he stays in 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.640 Tampa Bay. I think he's got to stay there too. Uh. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.720 I think Baltimore and Miami or just my gut, like 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.640 those are places he could end up. I could see 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.480 them taking up a flyer on Antonio Brown with him, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.440 probably not yet. The Dolphins maybe keep him in Florida. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.680 But right now, I Antonio Brown in on South Beach 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.800 sounds like a bad comb. It does, especially with the Dolphins. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.960 But right now, Brown his redraft value. He's going around 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.840 wide receiver forty five. You're drafting him as a wide 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.920 receiver three with upside. He's kind of more of a 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.080 best ball play. And when it comes to dynasty, he 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.960 has value, but not in a startup If I'm doing 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.920 a start up draft, I'm not. I'm not drafting Antonio 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.360 Brown anywhere. He's He's a wide receiver three reserve player 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.560 for a contend in dynasty. In an existing league, of course, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.120 we're gonna take a break when we come back. Some 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.000 of the other wide receivers and tight ends available in 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.000 free agency. As I mentioned deep deep pool. We still 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.520 got guys like Juju Smith, Schuster, and Curtis Samuel to 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.200 talk about. And that's just at the wide receiver position. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:21.000 Stay tuned for more Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.200 Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson with you. You 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.080 can follow us on Twitter at Paul Charchion at b 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.400 t x J. Continuing with the wide receiver free agents, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.400 Brian Corey Davis finished his wide receiver twenty nine. He 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.880 was an all or nothing fantasy producer who generally fared 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.920 well against bad defenses, struggled against most of the rest 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.200 of the league. He crushed to Jacksonville, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.520 His big games were not connected to A. J. Brown's health, 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.800 which was interesting. You know, you might have thought, you know, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.520 when AJA Brown was there, either did really well with 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.000 A J. Brown because Brown was sucking up all the 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.440 big you know, all the best UH coverage, or maybe 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.880 he wouldn't do you would do better with A D. Brown. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.360 Ow it didn't. It turns out it didn't really matter. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.400 H Pro Football Focus loved Corey Davis. They ranked him 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.480 as the eighth highest. They graded him eighth highest wide 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.480 receiver eight by Pro Football Focus, immediately behind DeAndre Hopkins, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.880 Allen Robinson, and Adam Feeland. Wow, that's some good company 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.200 right there. And the guy who was essentially left for 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.240 dead in draft season last year. He was like a 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.920 late round flyer for in most leagues, undrafted, undrafted in 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.480 most leagues. Yes, the ideal landing spot for him. I 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.880 don't think Corey Davis feels like a wide receiver one 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.760 on any team. I think he's a wide receiver to 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.960 He did very little for three seasons before last year, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.880 and that's going to give people a pause. And so, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.120 like Marvin Jones, I think he's best suited when there's 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.040 another talent on the field, so he didn't have to 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.760 try to be a number one, which he isn't. Baltimore, Chicago, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.040 Green Bay, Miami, the Giants, Tennessee, Washington all makes sense. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.440 The redraft value for Corey Davis here, I think it's 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.840 a medium low um. But he's still only twenty six 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.720 years old, so in dynasty and Empire leagues, Yeah, maybe 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.360 that makes a little more sense to roll the dice 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.040 on him, and I could see him going a couple 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.040 of rounds higher in the Dynasty League because he is 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.080 still so young. Yeah, he probably will still remain undervalued 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.720 wherever he ends up. He could blow up in your face, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.879 but he still has very high stealing It was not 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.560 long ago he was the top wide receiver. You know, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.919 he went to Central Michigan, a smaller school and all that, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.960 but he was a blue chip prospect not long ago. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.600 Let's go to Juju Smith Schuster. This very podcast absolutely 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.840 nailed that Juju Smith Schuster would be heading to free 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.040 agency last summer. We talked about it many times that 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.360 we thought that odd man out of that crowded wide 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.479 receiver room was gonna be Juju Smith Schuster. And here 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.040 we are. He said it for a free agency Yeah, Juju. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.879 Four seasons now he has played, and he just turned 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.440 twenty four November. Got incredibly young a season to vet 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.439 at twenty four years old and newly minted twenty four 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.199 year old. And last season it wasn't as bad as 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.320 I remembered, like off the top of my head, like 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.720 he was a huge bust. He did have some landmine games, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.280 but it wasn't as bad as I remembered, especially starting 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.040 from Week nine through the wild Card game, which was 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.080 ten games. He scored in seven of those ten games 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.200 and four of his last five. He became incredibly reliable. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.080 And uh yeah, Pittsburgh letting him walk, and the Jets 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.080 feels like the team for Juju because I believe Jameson 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.919 Crowder might be leaving. I don't worry. I don't. I 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.960 don't remember that. We don't have talk Crowder, but I 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.000 don't know. All the wide receiver needy teams should be 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:33.880 enticed by Juju because last year Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.520 is in the twilight of his career too. Juju is 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.920 very intriguing for any wide receiver needy team. He's gonna 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.439 command twelve to fifteen million year as see him something like, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.320 you're gonna need cap space too. I would not pay 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.040 him that much, but I wouldn't, but maybe some team will, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.000 um I it'll be fascinating to see where he goes. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.760 You know, he's a pure slot receiver, so that you 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.760 know that that that really changes the window of the 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.359 teams that could end up going after Juju. Smith Schuster 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.560 and right now, right now, and redraft, he's like wide 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.560 receiver thirty. He's going after guys like Tyler Boyd, will Fuller, 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.800 who he talked about earlier, Cooper Cup, Brandon Aiyuk And 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.480 granted those guys might deserve to go ahead of Juju, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.640 but he's still met that range where he can outlive 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.560 that a DP And I don't think he's gonna blow 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.120 up in your face too much. He's not gonna bought 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.880 them ount entirely. So I like his value and redraft 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.200 and in Dynasty Tennessee, to me, would be the perfect 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.120 landing spot. So he gets Ryan Tannehill, highly competent quarterback, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.199 and they need a slot receiver. They let Adam Humphreys go. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.240 That would end up being a bad free agent contract 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.600 that they gave him, and you know, maybe they give up. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.080 Maybe they tried Juju Smith Schuster. Curtis Samuel finished last 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.280 year's wide receiver twenty five, and he's actually been sneaky 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.919 productive for three seasons with seven seven and five touchdowns. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.360 Last year. He said career highs in receptions, yards, rushes, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.280 and rushing yards for Curtis Samuel, and they use him 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.959 more in that jackknife role where they asked Samuel will 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:05.840 do a lot of different things, which I love. He 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.800 is a true gadget player who can be used in 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.640 a wide variety of ways. Generally runs his routes from 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.960 the slot, but he's always been a hit or miss 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.880 fantasy producer and actually, last year, looking through his his 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.200 his game logs, his rushing production actually bailed him out 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.000 of some otherwise really bad games. And so if he 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.200 continues to run the ball wherever he goes, it would 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.480 be it would be fascinating to see what he could 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.600 end up doing, and that does end up saving you 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.560 a little bit. From a fantasy standpoint. The ideal landing 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.040 spot here is I think pretty broad. You know, Curtis 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:42.600 Samuel has proven he doesn't have to have a lead 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.120 quarterbacking to be good because he has never He's never 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.399 had a lead quarterbacking And so all you gotta do 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.280 is find a spot with an open slot receiver role 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.320 like Green Bay, New England, Washington, Miami, Cleveland, Baltimore, Houston, Detroit, 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.000 Las Vegas. All of them have got open slot receiver spots. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.200 You know, anybody any of those could work. I think 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.439 it really just depends on the team's willing. His fantasy 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.679 value depends on the team's willingness to use him in 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.000 the wide variety of ways that his skill set merits. Yeah, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.960 that wide receiver twenty five finishes impressive considering uh D J. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.160 Moore and Robby Anderson who are playing over him. Essentially, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.800 we're top twenty four wide receivers on a total points 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.120 breaking basis. So yeah, read draft value for Curtis Samuel's 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.320 medium low. He's unlikely to emerge as a focal point 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.439 of any passing attack. Uh in my mind, And you know, 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.960 the dynasty value is probably medium. He's still really young. 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:38.320