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Speaker 3: Paul Chargian Fantasy Football Weekly Micro Edition. I am Paul
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Speaker 3: Tyler Kannabilely Guillotine Leagues Dot Com writer. Hey Tyler, Hello,
Speaker 3: Today we are breaking down and this week it's all winners. Veterans,
Speaker 3: no rookies, all veteran winners from the draft for one
Speaker 3: reason or another, and they're all different. Who were breaking
Speaker 3: down today?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I call Traylon Burks a veteran,
Speaker 1: but sophomore wide receiver. Treylon Burks finished last year as
Speaker 1: the wide receiver eighty one, currently the wide receiver thirty
Speaker 1: nine and twenty twenty three ADP, and personally my personal opinion,
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the biggest winners of this
Speaker 1: draft no one has talking about. I'm seeing all this
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins stuff we've done. And another one, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: huge winner in the draft. Two I was wrong about
Speaker 1: on this podcast, all about how they were in draft Someboddy, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they drafted Deuce Fond but not I would he's
Speaker 1: like Tony Pollard two point zero.
Speaker 2: And if he's like he's just taller short.
Speaker 3: Not Tony Pollard, and and and he is not gonna
Speaker 3: be as good as Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, but uh, trailing Burks like they
Speaker 1: he is right now on the depth chart, it is
Speaker 1: trailing Burks, and.
Speaker 4: It is nobody.
Speaker 1: Their leading receiver last year was Robert Woods, who had
Speaker 1: five hundred and.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven yards.
Speaker 3: That's and now Bears and now he's a leading receiver.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's not even just the wide receiver position, that's
Speaker 1: just anybody on the team.
Speaker 4: Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 3: But that also doesn't does not bode well.
Speaker 4: For trailing Burks.
Speaker 3: Trailing Burks couldn't get past Robert Woods five hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty seven yards. But trailing Brooks was he was coming
Speaker 3: off al by the way.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with all that concussion stuff, and he
Speaker 1: had some other naggy grind.
Speaker 4: He had a grind and he had a concussion.
Speaker 3: He played, he started eleven games, he finished ten of
Speaker 3: the eleven games.
Speaker 4: He got the grind and won.
Speaker 3: And I think they can cut which was still a
Speaker 3: full game.
Speaker 2: But yes, if you remember the play on the concussion.
Speaker 1: It was against the Eagles, catches the ball in the
Speaker 1: end zone, gets knocked out in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Concussions, right, So.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, thank you. I had forgotten about that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's nobody else on roster to steal receptions away from Burkes. Uh,
Speaker 3: Chig and Konkwo is the closest thing they have to
Speaker 3: a threat and Chig.
Speaker 4: But chicks can be very sexy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure, we should do We should do
Speaker 3: an episode in him sometimes I love to. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 3: be fun. Uh Man, he looked, he looked really good.
Speaker 3: Lots of question marks to me about trailing Burke's base
Speaker 3: and what we saw last year.
Speaker 4: I'm worried about volume. I'm worried about his role in this.
Speaker 3: Offense, and I'm worried about talent. I know you're not
Speaker 3: as much, but let's talk it through a little bit.
Speaker 1: I like so, I liked him coming out of college.
Speaker 1: I thought he's gonna be a really good receiver. Now
Speaker 1: he's not going to be one of these Garrett Wilson's
Speaker 1: where he's gonna get command a lot of targets. I
Speaker 1: think his comp and I hate that people gave him
Speaker 1: this comp coming out of college is more the AJ
Speaker 1: Brown in Tennessee, where a J. Brown wasn't necessarily catching
Speaker 1: ten balls a game. It was all those across the
Speaker 1: field drag routes, quick slants, and it was run after
Speaker 1: the catch. And that's where Treylon Burke can really excel
Speaker 1: is that run after the catch category. His kind of
Speaker 1: his one nice game was against Green Bay. We had
Speaker 1: eight targets, seven catches and one hundred eleven yards that
Speaker 1: I remember a deep ball to him I think late
Speaker 1: in the game to close that one out.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so but that was week eleven, right, so
Speaker 3: he posts sort of like a statement game in week
Speaker 3: eleven trailing Burg's does that You mentioned the seven catches,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eleven yards and you'd think based on
Speaker 3: that it would have continued, But no, it didn't. The
Speaker 3: next week had seventy yards and the next week I
Speaker 3: think he literally had no yards, had no catches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you remember their quarterback situation he was
Speaker 1: dealing with. Tannehill was kind of in and out of
Speaker 1: that lineup that. Yeahd Malik Willis for at least probably
Speaker 1: four games who they were like.
Speaker 2: We're done.
Speaker 4: They didn't even like pass.
Speaker 2: We've seen him though after.
Speaker 4: One year of the leak and we stiled the ripcord
Speaker 4: on Lily.
Speaker 1: Not only was it after one year, We're gonna st
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs and it must win game against Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: So Dobb's gonna look that bad either, Actually.
Speaker 2: He didn't look that bad.
Speaker 1: But I think you give Burke some consistent quarterback play
Speaker 1: and you keep him in in what we've seen aj
Speaker 1: Brown be good on the top of it. It's not
Speaker 1: like it's not to say he like he's doom from
Speaker 1: the start. I think he can do it. It's just
Speaker 1: whether or not he's gonna take that next step if
Speaker 1: he can get some consistency in the offense.
Speaker 2: I think he's a very nice bet.
Speaker 3: Well, but Kenny get the consistency in this offense, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, so Tannehill's there. Tannehill got benched
Speaker 3: effectively this year this past year. Right, So then they
Speaker 3: added Will Levis top of the second round. Is he
Speaker 3: gonna be ready to make an immediate help? Is he
Speaker 3: gonna offer immediate help to trailing Burks?
Speaker 4: I think, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Do you like Will Levis?
Speaker 4: I like him?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I like him? Okay too?
Speaker 1: I think I like him more than people are making
Speaker 1: like he went. Probably there were teams in the back
Speaker 1: of the first round who were trying to trade up
Speaker 1: to get him, and because he goes at pick thirty, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah it look, I think Will Levis didn't have many
Speaker 3: landing spots in the latter part of the first round anyway.
Speaker 3: But but regardless, you know, the prospects of will Levin
Speaker 3: Levis in his rookie year powering trail in Burgs is low.
Speaker 4: Let me talk about some of the concerns I've got,
Speaker 4: and it's many.
Speaker 3: The biggest is is Mike Rabel going to make a
Speaker 3: seismic shift in his run first offensive philosophy, Because if
Speaker 3: he doesn't, Burks is gonna wither and die and it's
Speaker 3: not gonna matter even how good he is, He's gonna
Speaker 3: have too many games where he just doesn't get any volume.
Speaker 3: You know, we've seen that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: They brought in a new offensive coordinator, Tim Kelly. He
Speaker 3: was part of a massive offseason overhauled coaching staff. Kelly
Speaker 3: had been Tennessee's passing game coordinator last year. So I'm
Speaker 3: optimistic that he's gonna have a little more of a
Speaker 3: passing orientation here and with Derrick Henry on what feels
Speaker 3: like his last season probably in Tennessee, maybe that's gonna
Speaker 3: be Maybe it's gonna bode for a shift away from
Speaker 3: the run heavy stylings that Mike Vrabel has been known for.
Speaker 3: But without that, the volume just isn't there, and it
Speaker 3: ends up putting you in a position where trailing Burks
Speaker 3: gives you ls. So he started eleven games, he didn't
Speaker 3: even get to double digit fantasy points. Well, you only
Speaker 3: got to double digit fantasy points in the eleven starts
Speaker 3: in three games.
Speaker 4: That's how you lose games.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not trailing Burks.
Speaker 3: Was a league loser for you last year.
Speaker 1: Or your drafting though it was he really a league loser,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like you're that's if you started him.
Speaker 1: If you started him, yeah, if you started him, he
Speaker 1: hurt you. Here here's where I'm out trailing Burks. This
Speaker 1: is kind of my overarching kind of thoughts. Okay, his
Speaker 1: ADP is so low, and I think he has higher
Speaker 1: upside than almost anybody.
Speaker 3: That's what is what's trailing Burk's ADP right now?
Speaker 2: Why does he wear thirty nine? That's not that low.
Speaker 4: There's thirty two teams in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the names right here, and I
Speaker 1: think he has higher upside than all but maybe one
Speaker 1: of them. I think he just because he is the guy,
Speaker 1: he's going to be the only receiver in this offense.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't really like Chiga Concole. He doesn't
Speaker 2: really do it for me.
Speaker 4: He was the only guy in this offense.
Speaker 3: Last year, Robert Woods only had five hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but I think that was the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario last year. I think they it's only it
Speaker 1: can only get better from here. And you said the
Speaker 1: passing coordinator, he knows how good Trailing Burks is, hopefully
Speaker 1: hope so.
Speaker 3: So Brooks is a big body guy who I thought
Speaker 3: was going to provide touchdowns as early as his rookie
Speaker 3: year last year. Get this inside the red zone. So
Speaker 3: I'm talking twenty yards. I'm not talking about like inside
Speaker 3: the five yard line.
Speaker 4: Here inside the red zone.
Speaker 3: Last year, you know how many targets Trailing Burkes had?
Speaker 2: How many four? Four? Here's a lot of years where
Speaker 2: I will push back on that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You say he's a bigger guy, and he is. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's the bigger, like possession receiver that Mike
Speaker 1: Evans is. I would compare him more to Deebo, where
Speaker 1: like Debo's not running fades, jumping over you, grabbing out
Speaker 1: your head. That's not Debo's game. Hylan Burks' game is
Speaker 1: more similar to Debos, where he's a big body, like
Speaker 1: get the ball in his hands and he's gonna make
Speaker 1: something for you happen after the catch.
Speaker 3: Defenses gave Trailing Burks seven yards of average cushion at
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage, which ranked six the most among
Speaker 3: all wide receivers. But in a lot of ways, that's
Speaker 3: an eth e, a compliment. That's like, you know the
Speaker 3: cornerback is seven yards away from you, because why bother?
Speaker 2: It means your respected speed. That's what I meant. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's what it is. That's not Trailing burks game.
Speaker 4: It's not it's not blazing speed.
Speaker 2: Now blazing speed.
Speaker 1: But he's a deep I consider him like a deep
Speaker 1: deep field threat kind of guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you and I just have a fundamental
Speaker 3: disagreement on who Trailing Burks is at this level.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's play the ADP game and see
Speaker 1: just see how how far part we are Cadarius Tony Well.
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't try so.
Speaker 3: Cadarius Tony's in the same adp as trailing Burks. I
Speaker 3: can't trust Cadarius Well. Tony gives me huge upside, Like
Speaker 3: if you promised me sixteen games. Well, okay, wait, that's
Speaker 3: what I keep saying about. That's what people said about. Uh.
Speaker 3: A lot of different Kansas City receivers who haven't who
Speaker 3: have not panned out right, me Cole Hardman, Well, if
Speaker 3: Mikol Hardman is gonna play every game, it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: To back it up. I think more than me Cole
Speaker 2: had him.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Burks.
Speaker 1: Oh there we go. Point for me, point for you,
Speaker 1: take books too. Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 4: Touchdowns will be better this year. They have to be zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had zero and all those catches, you know,
Speaker 3: like ninety catches no touchdowns. I'm taking the sure thing
Speaker 3: that is Deontay Johnson and which should be a better offense.
Speaker 3: Your two in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Do you think Troyling Burks has more upside than Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson though you're two for Kenny Pikett.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I mean at this point to Deantay Johnson
Speaker 3: has proven himself to just be and he's all like,
Speaker 3: you know, give me the eight catches for the eighty
Speaker 3: yards and he probably won't score. So you don't get
Speaker 3: the upside that Johnson has. So if you're drafting for upside,
Speaker 3: I would concede Trailing Burk's there, all right, Brandon.
Speaker 4: Cooks now in Dallas, Dallas, I'll take.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw out last year, which was just a
Speaker 3: lost season for the whole Houston offense outside of Damian Pierce,
Speaker 3: and I think I'd go back to Brandon Cooks in
Speaker 3: a much better offense.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna throw out last year for trailing Burks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take trail on Burks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2: I like it, all right. Gabe Davis, you.
Speaker 3: Couldn't get it done last year, so what makes me
Speaker 3: think this year is gonna be any different? And they
Speaker 3: drafted another receivers a lot like Gabe Davis, so I
Speaker 3: you know, he couldn't put pull it together through the
Speaker 3: whole of all of last season.
Speaker 4: So I'm out on Davis.
Speaker 1: Doltink and k could sneakily be their what like past
Speaker 1: receiving option number two of that offense.
Speaker 4: It's not impossible.
Speaker 3: We talked about him enough Friday's Fantasy Football Weekly because
Speaker 3: he was a first rounder. We did all the first rounders.
Speaker 3: Dude's gonna be a stand up tight end. He's not
Speaker 3: gonna be in the line guy. He's gonna be standing
Speaker 3: in the slot constantly. He might have a higher touchdown
Speaker 3: total than gave Davis Will this year.
Speaker 2: All right, last one, Johann Dotson.
Speaker 3: We broke down John Dotson, and I came out of
Speaker 3: that way more impressed.
Speaker 4: Than I thought I would. So, yeah, I'd take Dotson.
Speaker 2: I'll con see done this one. I'd rather have Dotson
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yep, all right, thanks for listening everybody. It's been a
Speaker 3: blast talking. Some of the winners were not quite done yet.
Speaker 3: We've got one more veteran winner from the draft coming
Speaker 3: up for you tomorrow, and then we've also, of course,
Speaker 3: got this week the full version of Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 3: in which we're going to recap the notable players that
Speaker 3: went in the second round and beyond, so we encourage
Speaker 3: you to stay tuned for that as well. Thanks everybody,
Speaker 3: Bye bye,