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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 1: am Paul Charchy and my co host today is Matt Harrison. Hi,
Speaker 1: Matt on the phone. Good you are. Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's weird times, man, you know, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is all it's all strange stuff right now.
Speaker 1: But that's just how it goes. And we don't mind. Um.
Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show, and we don't
Speaker 1: We've we've spent the two weeks ago you and I
Speaker 1: talked about all the quarterback changes around the NFL, so
Speaker 1: I think it only makes sense to turn around now
Speaker 1: and continue talking about some of the the wide receiver
Speaker 1: changes and the tight end changes. We'll stay with the
Speaker 1: passing game. How's that sound. Absolutely, Let's get those pross catchers.
Speaker 1: Let's get caught off on catchers. How about that? We
Speaker 1: caught up on pass catchers. Oh that's brilliant, brilliant. Um. Alright, well,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's begin. Let's begin here. Probably the biggest
Speaker 1: move of the offseason from the receivers, DeAndre Hopkins goes
Speaker 1: to Arizona. Now what he leaves behind is not all
Speaker 1: how that compelling? Maybe what do you think of Will Fuller,
Speaker 1: Kenny Still's Randall Cobb. I mean, I have major downgrades
Speaker 1: to Deshaun Watson and Will Fuller and Kenny Fields. We'll
Speaker 1: talking about Randall's Cobb in a little bit. But and
Speaker 1: here's where everybody's going to chime in now and go.
Speaker 1: But will Fuller's no wood receiver Warren in Houston. Well,
Speaker 1: Will Fuller has never been healthy, He's never played about
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins eating up double coverage. And people are paying
Speaker 1: more for Fuller dynasty right now. So if you own him,
Speaker 1: I sell him right now. It's just on the prospects
Speaker 1: of you can sell him as a wide receiver one
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, your genius. If you
Speaker 1: hold him or you're buying right now. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out, you're the goat here and not the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time. The other kinds I think I think
Speaker 1: those are I think that's really salient. I think the
Speaker 1: points you raise and will Fuller are There's are all
Speaker 1: reasons for caution. Now, if lightning strikes in a bottle
Speaker 1: and you know he stays healthy for sixteen games and
Speaker 1: they pour wide receiver one targets into him, you will
Speaker 1: rue the day you let him go. But I think
Speaker 1: there's there's there's more downside than upside, and the value
Speaker 1: for will Fuller is probably pretty high. Now, let's flip
Speaker 1: over go ahead wide receivers such a such a deep
Speaker 1: position to that, I think that you can find will
Speaker 1: Fuller like guys all over the place in Dynasty and redraft,
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about missing out on the wold
Speaker 1: Fuller train. Here. Let's flip over to Arizona, where now
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins has got Kyler Murray throwing him the ball,
Speaker 1: but he's also got a deal with Larry Fitzgerald, Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk and he Isabella Kim Butler might come back. He's
Speaker 1: one of my one of my favorite draft guys from
Speaker 1: last year. Um, what do you think about DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and is fit for the Cardinals? See, I didn't think
Speaker 1: that it's a downgrade at all. It's probably a better
Speaker 1: offense where since there seems to be more guys around him. Uh,
Speaker 1: the coach doesn't seem insane and having the ability to
Speaker 1: just drop a player like DeAndre Hopkins dropped that um
Speaker 1: in Dynasty. I have Hopkins the wide per student to
Speaker 1: right now, just behind Michael Thomas and just added Adams.
Speaker 1: They're all kind of grouped in that top tier for me.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that it's a downgrade at all.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray similar style to what Deshaan Wlasson is doing.
Speaker 1: There's those good wide receivers there. Kenyan Drake is probably
Speaker 1: an upgrade to any running back that he ever played
Speaker 1: with in Houston. So I think that he's in a
Speaker 1: good stab here. Uh. So just brought and I'll ask you.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this exact question after each of these guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: do you believe DeAndre Hopkins has more or less fantasy
Speaker 1: value this year than last year? I think slightly more
Speaker 1: but almost the same. Slightly more but almost the same.
Speaker 1: He was wide receiver ten last year. Okay, Um, you
Speaker 1: know I worry about the downgraded quarterback. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't know. Kyler Murray's obviously got will improve, He'll be
Speaker 1: a better quarterback this year, but in my mind, he's
Speaker 1: taking a step backwards from going from Watson to Murray.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Stefan Dick. Yeah, and I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Stefan Diggs and Buffalo. Now he leaves
Speaker 1: behind in Minnesota Adam Feeling and that's about it. B C. Johnson,
Speaker 1: Chad Bbe. I mean it falls off the table at
Speaker 1: least pre draft for the Vikings. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on what gets left behind in Minnesota with Stefan Digg's gone.
Speaker 1: I think it's an absolute major hit to Cousins and Feeling,
Speaker 1: probably the whole fantasy offense in general. I mean, bunk
Speaker 1: about Stefon Diggs drew coverage out of Fieland's lay, and
Speaker 1: he drew coverage out of Dalman Cook and the run games.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a pretty big hit to the
Speaker 1: Vikings overall. And I really think the Vikings have to
Speaker 1: be in place for one of these top fibers wide
Speaker 1: receivers in the first two rounds of the draft. Three
Speaker 1: in the first two rounds. So I think the Vikings
Speaker 1: are a major player in the wide receiver game in
Speaker 1: the draft. But I mean the thing is that Digs
Speaker 1: go into Buffalo. Gosh, that is a it's a super
Speaker 1: weird hit for him. He showed his Josh Allen, who
Speaker 1: had Pro Football focuses highest passing grade in passes under
Speaker 1: nineteen yards, but the worst passing grade in the league
Speaker 1: and passes over nineteen yards. So Biggs is gonna have
Speaker 1: to get these catches short and he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: make a lot happen with them. And that hasn't really
Speaker 1: necessarily been Digg's game in Minnesota for the last two years.
Speaker 1: That hasn't you know. Dig is great at a lot
Speaker 1: of aspects, and he creates a lot of coach and
Speaker 1: elite route runner um. He he would find ways to
Speaker 1: get open downfield and got frustrated when Kirk didn't hit
Speaker 1: him enough downfield. Well wait till he wait till he
Speaker 1: gets a load of Josh Allen and the downfield passing
Speaker 1: there um, so we'll see. I think I think the
Speaker 1: field shortens a lot for stuff on Diggs. I'm worried
Speaker 1: about the touchdown totals, which had been an ongoing problem
Speaker 1: for him anyway. And if you if you take away
Speaker 1: some of the deep passing, which is one of the
Speaker 1: things Kirk does really well. I don't know. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about about what Diggs can bring. He was He
Speaker 1: was Fantasy wide receiver thirteen last year. Do you believe
Speaker 1: his fantasy value goes up or down this year? I
Speaker 1: think it goes down, and in dynasty. On my trade
Speaker 1: value chart right now, I have him at wide receivers
Speaker 1: funny one because there's just a lot of really good
Speaker 1: wide receivers in fantasy right now. It's very deep that
Speaker 1: position overall, So I think that this is a downgrade
Speaker 1: for Diggs. He'ls. I think he sees a lot of passes.
Speaker 1: You know, John Brown will be deep speed guy. Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley will do what he does, roam in the middle. UH.
Speaker 1: Digs will probably lead the team in targets, which will
Speaker 1: be which will be helpful. Doesn't no way he falls
Speaker 1: off the table, I don't think. But yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: think he's still a wide receiver too into fantasy. I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely finding a way to be in the
Speaker 1: top in UH in le draft next year. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to Emmanuel Sanders, who is
Speaker 1: now a member of the New Orleans Saints. He leaves
Speaker 1: behind in San Francisco a pretty weird group. You've got
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel who looked terrific down the stretch last year.
Speaker 1: But then you have Kendrick Bourne all the dropped passes
Speaker 1: and the weirdness of him, Dante Pettis who was a
Speaker 1: total non factor last year, Jalen Heard who got hurt
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. This is another team
Speaker 1: that's a candidate to hit the draft again. Even though
Speaker 1: they've sunk a bunch of draft picks into these young players.
Speaker 1: This feels like another team that could end up going
Speaker 1: to the draft as well. What do you think about
Speaker 1: what what gets the passing game that he leaves behind
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Well, you gotta remember he has only
Speaker 1: risk of miners for eight weeks, so they probably don't
Speaker 1: miss him all that much. And the end of the
Speaker 1: stay there, he will banged up and a little injured,
Speaker 1: and he just wasn't as dynamic as a player, uh
Speaker 1: near the tail end of that season. So and and
Speaker 1: really that offense revolved around the running decks and George Kittle.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really worried about what he's leaving behind
Speaker 1: in uh San Francisco. I think he does leave an
Speaker 1: opportunity there's just you know they've got killed, of course,
Speaker 1: but Deebo Samuel. But after that, you know there's there's
Speaker 1: there's catches to be had there and who steps up
Speaker 1: at this time is still unclear. If they put a
Speaker 1: they put a relatively early picket receiver in this deep draft,
Speaker 1: that's that might be the answer to the the the
Speaker 1: question for San Francisco. But let's shift over to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's Michael Thomas. They've been unable to cultivate anybody
Speaker 1: else worth a damn um, Trey Kwon Smith, you know,
Speaker 1: Deante Harris, nobody, nobody else has been able to step up.
Speaker 1: So Austin Carr, so is, what do you think about
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanderson and the fit here for him with Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: We'll get this charge one year, Emmanuel Sanders goes from
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco to Jimmy Garoppolo to Drew Brees. That's that's
Speaker 1: terrible for a wide reason. Yeah, it's it's going on
Speaker 1: the correct way for him. Uh Sanders is at ninety
Speaker 1: or more targets in seven straight years, is certainly more
Speaker 1: of a possession slot guy. He probably rostering him in
Speaker 1: PPR league, but not much else. He's an age thirty
Speaker 1: three to him as a wide receiver forty four in dynasty,
Speaker 1: and I think he's like in a three wide receiver league,
Speaker 1: he might start as your third wide receiver, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: he's probably a flex play in most league. And and
Speaker 1: really I think he's a He's a PPR guy that
Speaker 1: you have to keep an eye on, you PPR league.
Speaker 1: I don't think Sanders is gonna take many rosters in
Speaker 1: your league. Um. I think he'll be raw struble, and
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not quite as down on him as
Speaker 1: you are. But Jared Cook's obviously a factor, Alvin Kmari's
Speaker 1: pass catching abilities a factor. There's you know, they still
Speaker 1: have other options, um, but clearly they wanted to. They
Speaker 1: were clearly the Saints were frustrated with the development of
Speaker 1: the young players, and they just wanted to plug and
Speaker 1: play guy that they knew could go catch passes. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what they've got in Emmanuel Sanders.
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll get you some and I
Speaker 1: think he'll be more than the spot duty Ted Gin.
Speaker 1: You know, like that that Hail Mary start that you'd
Speaker 1: give ted Gin once a year, Um, and just hope
Speaker 1: that this was the game when it when it connects
Speaker 1: this is I don't I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be that way here. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: more like, you know, four and five receptions a game,
Speaker 1: and it'll be a what much more steady producer than
Speaker 1: what we've had out of that number two receiver spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I just worried about his ability to convert touchdowns
Speaker 1: because if he looked after the past, he really hasn't
Speaker 1: had more than five or six touchdowns in a year
Speaker 1: at any given any given say with Michael Thomas being
Speaker 1: a big target and Jared Kirk and they got two
Speaker 1: good running bops, but from punch the ball in near
Speaker 1: the goal line, I just worry that he's not gonna
Speaker 1: get enough scores and his yard is just probably going
Speaker 1: to be eaten up I'm sure to intermediate or out.
Speaker 1: And so if he's getting four or five catches a game,
Speaker 1: you're probably looking at fifty six d R And well
Speaker 1: that's not terrible, it's it's very PPR oriented. You need
Speaker 1: those catches to make the points. And if you don't
Speaker 1: have the PPR point, I don't think that he's work
Speaker 1: ross all right, So Emmanuel Sanders. Is his fantasy value
Speaker 1: higher or lower than last year? I think it goes
Speaker 1: up just because he goes to a better offense and
Speaker 1: I think it's a good fit. But, like I said,
Speaker 1: a little nervous outside of PPR, Randall Cobb goes to
Speaker 1: Houston and he leaves behind in Dallas. Um really the
Speaker 1: slot duties right now? I guess or Tavon Austin. I
Speaker 1: guess you know they don't don't have an obvious slot
Speaker 1: guy at this point. Um it'll I'm guessing it'll be
Speaker 1: Tavon ston Um. But otherwise Dallas feels unchanged and he
Speaker 1: didn't have I think a lot of impact. He had
Speaker 1: some impact for Dallas. I think he's got potentially a
Speaker 1: lot more impact in Houston because DeAndre Hopkins has gone,
Speaker 1: and that they paid him three years, twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's a gigantic financial commitment, what
Speaker 1: a poorly run team, gigantic financial commitment for Randall Colaba
Speaker 1: slot receiver when they already had Kiki Kuti who was
Speaker 1: running out of the slot. Tad hasn't had n yards
Speaker 1: or had more than six touchdands since two thousand fourteen.
Speaker 1: He's the third wide receiver on the depth chart in Houston.
Speaker 1: He's not likely in fantasy rosters next year. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're doing because he's a lame, lame replacement
Speaker 1: for Hopkins. The Textans wanted the draft Condy Highley, they'd
Speaker 1: probably actually make another crazy trade to do so right
Speaker 1: now because they just don't have their picks anymore. So
Speaker 1: this is just a bizarre fit. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with Randall Cobb. He didn't be
Speaker 1: behind anything in Dallas either. Like Dallas is like, see it,
Speaker 1: have a good one new Randall Cobb, intimately if you're
Speaker 1: having him in Green Bays for years and years, and
Speaker 1: he was like, no, we can. I think they did.
Speaker 1: I think they just got the mistaking. I think Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy just got priced out of this deal. Um or
Speaker 1: the Jones family did three years, twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas just said, you know that, we're not
Speaker 1: even going to consider that, and they maybe they would
Speaker 1: have kept him at a better price. Um All right,
Speaker 1: So I think you and I differ here a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think that I think there's way more balls to
Speaker 1: go around here. In Houston and William more opportunity for
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb to get action than when he was playing
Speaker 1: in Dallas, where he had to he had to share
Speaker 1: balls with with Gallup and Cooper and trying to you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to be a third option there and he
Speaker 1: just wasn't on the field that much in balls didn't
Speaker 1: come his way. I think he's got a lot more
Speaker 1: opportunity to just be on the field more and be
Speaker 1: a bigger part of this passing offense that's missing DeAndre Hopkins. See.
Speaker 1: I think Randall cob went to a much worse offense
Speaker 1: in Houston. Dallas is offense pretty good, good wide receivers
Speaker 1: to help eat up the double coverage, a good running back. Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't know if David Johnson is Anny good anymore.
Speaker 1: If you can stay on the field, So I Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb won't be on any of my rosters. Who's coming here? Um?
Speaker 1: All right? So you're on. You believed Randall Cobbs fantasy
Speaker 1: that would be lowered this year, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be higher. Let's go to Robbie Anderson who migrates
Speaker 1: to the Jet from the Jets to the Panthers. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the Jet side. They've got Jamison Crowder Quincy
Speaker 1: and Nona Breshad Perriman, who will talk about more there
Speaker 1: what's left behind in New York And does that interest you? Well,
Speaker 1: Anderson was really the lone downfield threat in New York.
Speaker 1: And but everybody has already rumored the Jets to be
Speaker 1: very active in the draft in the first couple of
Speaker 1: rounds on a wide receiver. I've seen so many mocks
Speaker 1: with either Ceedee language Jerry Judy going to New York.
Speaker 1: I imagine that one of these top flight wide receivers
Speaker 1: games up in New York. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. But I mean, Church, we kind of when
Speaker 1: we talked about plenty Bridge about her the other day
Speaker 1: in Carolina, we were we were kind of planning Curtis
Speaker 1: Samuel and how he won't be able to touch these
Speaker 1: downfield paths. Well, Robbie Anderson is a complete downfield brit right,
Speaker 1: So I mean you could you could tell me how
Speaker 1: this is gonna work. We know how it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: Badly is how it's gonna work. It's um you know
Speaker 1: you're connecting. You know Robby Anderson's whole bit is is
Speaker 1: deep field speed and separation and Teddy doesn't throw those balls.
Speaker 1: That's that's just the reality of it. And it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's a bad fit. I don't I don't love it
Speaker 1: here for Robbie Anderson, um, and I think his fantasy
Speaker 1: value is lower than last year. And I think he's
Speaker 1: got more guys to compete against, and d J. Moore
Speaker 1: and Curtis Samuel are good players, you know, with the Jens.
Speaker 1: With that to Church, it's worth mating that in the
Speaker 1: past four weeks, the Panthers have signed Robbie Anderson, Farrel Cooper,
Speaker 1: the Andrew White, Chief Kirkwood, and step Roberts to their
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps and they still have DJ More and
Speaker 1: Daniel in there. They said they have seven wide receivers
Speaker 1: right now. Not that all of those guys are gonna
Speaker 1: make a big difference, but that's just a lot of
Speaker 1: mounds on that roster ever going to get cut. But
Speaker 1: this is it's such a weird play that they're making
Speaker 1: in Carolina right now. All right, So do we both
Speaker 1: agree that Robbie Anderson's fantasy value is lower than last year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's pretty tanks, right, now, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. We're gonna track down more
Speaker 1: of the wide receivers who moved, and we're gonna work
Speaker 1: into the tight ends that have found themselves in new places.
Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly. All right, we are back, Paul
Speaker 1: Charchie and Matt Harrison with you have already broken down
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Stefon Diggs, Emmanuel Sanders, Randall cob Robby Anderson.
Speaker 1: Let's move to some of the third tier guys here,
Speaker 1: and we don't spend a lot of time on them.
Speaker 1: But Prishad Perriman was explosive at the end of last
Speaker 1: year when he when the Bucks had no choice but
Speaker 1: to throw him the ball with everybody else hurt. And
Speaker 1: now he goes to the Jets where he really takes
Speaker 1: over the Robbie Anderson role. But before we go there,
Speaker 1: let's just talk briefly about Tampa Bay and what gets
Speaker 1: left behind. That's Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and nobody else.
Speaker 1: Of note, Well, I don't think Tampa Bay is going
Speaker 1: to be hurt. And for a wide receiver, depths or
Speaker 1: guys you can catch Pasty day, So I mean we
Speaker 1: can we can talk about how Pairman really slashed at
Speaker 1: the tail into twenty nineteen. He had three games over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards the last few weeks and five touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the last four games of the season, So he
Speaker 1: showed a little bit. And remember he's got a first
Speaker 1: round pedigree. Last year was his on layer in Tampa
Speaker 1: and he spent the remainder of his career with Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: So I mean, Pleman might just be a guy who's
Speaker 1: starting to flourish just because he has adequate quarterback play.
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't Sam Donalds could be qualified as
Speaker 1: the an adequate quarterback. Yeah, you know, he's still young
Speaker 1: Pairman because he came out of school early. I want
Speaker 1: to say he's he's twenty six. He's twenty six right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's just too early to call
Speaker 1: him a bust. Maybe he can have a a fifth
Speaker 1: year kind of you know, uh, fifth year kind of explosion,
Speaker 1: a little bit like we saw Atavante Parker. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: gonna be Briushade Pereman. So now he's um, he's in
Speaker 1: New York and he's the go to guy, just like
Speaker 1: he was at the end of at the end of
Speaker 1: the year with Tampa. Bay. They got Jamison Crowder in
Speaker 1: the slot, Quincy and Nona in the slot. That's it.
Speaker 1: There's no other help there, and the Jets will probably
Speaker 1: draft a wide receiver. But I wonder if Pereman can't
Speaker 1: do a little bit. He doesn't have wins Jameis Winson
Speaker 1: throwing and throwing him the ball. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: he can't do a little bit of what we saw
Speaker 1: at the end of last year when the whole passing
Speaker 1: offense had to go through him and he exploded. Maybe
Speaker 1: that happens here with the Jets. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the downside is Robby Anderson from the last year right
Speaker 1: right where I think that he can kind of fill
Speaker 1: in that role completely. So I sho Praman suddenly becomes
Speaker 1: relevant and I think that he's worth a look. And
Speaker 1: there's mighty a lot of people who kicked him up
Speaker 1: on Dynasty or afters last year just near the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, he's get a stick on some
Speaker 1: of those Dynasty rofcas. And right now I love him
Speaker 1: at the Dynasty wide receiver number fifty three, and I
Speaker 1: think that might be a little low. I think that's
Speaker 1: west Brick and Sting Shepherd right now. Wide receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I rather would too, So I'm probably looking
Speaker 1: and moving him up in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I kind of like Praman in this bit um.
Speaker 1: It depends on who they draft in the first or
Speaker 1: second round, and if they get another wide receiver to
Speaker 1: go with him, it might dat him a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't think that I heard of all that much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, even if they even if they
Speaker 1: take a high profile first round wide receiver Pairman still
Speaker 1: walks in the door is probably probable number one, because
Speaker 1: because he's a veteran and you know, based on the
Speaker 1: play that we saw at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that wouldn't be the case. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I think the fantasy value here, I think we're
Speaker 1: both gonna agree higher then last year when you look
Speaker 1: at the totality of last year, not just the three
Speaker 1: games at the end of the year. Higher for Brushade
Speaker 1: Perriman is the go to receiver for the Jets. Correct,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Philip Dorsett as he migrates to see
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on this leaves behind in New England, Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: Nikkil Harry Mohammed Sanu. Those are your three starters there, Dorset.
Speaker 1: They try to replace him like nine times, right, I
Speaker 1: mean just constantly trying to replace him. No way, no,
Speaker 1: nine times there. I think Dorsette comes in at the
Speaker 1: widestab three behind Lockett, metcalf obviously in a run first
Speaker 1: off that features the tight end in the red zone
Speaker 1: a lot, and they get three decent tight ends and
Speaker 1: Greg Alston Jacob Hollisturing will disintly. I don't think Dorsett's
Speaker 1: fantasy viable this year. I agree. I don't think you'll
Speaker 1: be drafting him. Um, he will be a bye week
Speaker 1: agency plug in barring injury to Metcalfe or lock It.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Devin Funchess, who's going to be cut
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, a wide two different wide receiver deficient
Speaker 1: teams Carolina and Indianapolis didn't want him and have let
Speaker 1: him walk, and he's coming off injury and forget it.
Speaker 1: I think that's a terrible signing. Yeah, you always love
Speaker 1: it when a player hits his third team in three years.
Speaker 1: And the best thing about Punchest is that Aaron Rodgers said,
Speaker 1: did you hear about the guy named Punchest he got
Speaker 1: spun himself in the same name. Do you know it's
Speaker 1: going to be pretty good dynasty wide receiver. I like
Speaker 1: it good Nelson al goes to Las Vegas, um and
Speaker 1: he does. He leaves behind in Philadelphia all Sean Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, and not a lot else j j Arthega Whiteside,
Speaker 1: who was not good last year. That's um, you know.
Speaker 1: For Aguilard, they desperately needed him to step up last
Speaker 1: year when everybody got hurt and he couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: And he's always he's got to play in the slot.
Speaker 1: He has never been any good anywhere else, and now
Speaker 1: he's got to share time in the slot with Hunter
Speaker 1: renfro In in Las Vegas. I don't like this move
Speaker 1: in particular. No, I don't. I don't think he can
Speaker 1: pass Hunt a run for on the depth chart, and
Speaker 1: the Raiders are in play for a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: around one or two, so I think that it's going
Speaker 1: to be tough for Aguilar to find snaps this year.
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's on rosters either. All Right,
Speaker 1: we agree, Let's let's talk briefly about some wide receivers
Speaker 1: who are staying put. Uh. And that includes a Marii
Speaker 1: Cooper five years, a hundred billion dollars and he stays
Speaker 1: put there. Where do you have him in your Dynasty rankings?
Speaker 1: It's got to be at or near the top, considering
Speaker 1: he's also teamed with a young, very good quarterback in
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Yeah, I have him at Dynasty d receiver
Speaker 1: number five. Don't sleep on Michael Gallop, by the way,
Speaker 1: who almost equaled Mary Cooper's numbers last year. I think
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup people are really sleeping on. And he's like
Speaker 1: at Marty Cooper light in that offense. I like him
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Uh. And Cooper is digged out for
Speaker 1: most of last year, still finished twelfth in that wide
Speaker 1: receiver points to games. I still like super quite a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think his fantasy value this year is potentially higher
Speaker 1: because he won't be injured. Roly going into the season
Speaker 1: with a serious foot injury won't be injured this year,
Speaker 1: So I think he's got room too. He's got wide
Speaker 1: receiver one overall highest scoring wide receiver upside Amari Cooper does. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Let's go to a J Green getting the franchise tag um.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the crazy lost season with the
Speaker 1: ankle injury that you know happened in the middle of
Speaker 1: August and didn't recover until late December, and then he
Speaker 1: had a hamstring injury couldn't play. So you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people believe that he didn't want to play
Speaker 1: for the Bengals, so he didn't you know, he was
Speaker 1: not being honest about the ankle injury and its status,
Speaker 1: and maybe not the hamstring injury. So yeah, that's a um,
Speaker 1: there's I'm a little bit surprised at that he got
Speaker 1: the franchise tag because if you're the Bengals, why do
Speaker 1: you want to have a guy on your team who
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be on your team. Yeah, and remember
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Green on the field since Marvin Lewis
Speaker 1: was a coach there, and he's you have a new quarterback,
Speaker 1: probably Joe Burrow at quarterback. You don't know how he's
Speaker 1: been all ups there in the Zach Taylor offense. But
Speaker 1: rookie do tend to focus on their favorite targets and
Speaker 1: not to restrough a ton of reads. So if Green
Speaker 1: is one of the top two reads, and most of
Speaker 1: these uh, most of these past plays. He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of targets. I haven't had a Dynasty's
Speaker 1: value of wide receiver twenty nine right now, mostly because
Speaker 1: he's thirty one years old and coming off a pretty
Speaker 1: bad injury, and I think that it is valued is
Speaker 1: a little bit lower right now. But he's a guy
Speaker 1: that I think you could gobble up uh at a
Speaker 1: cheap price right now, if you're looking to make some
Speaker 1: Dynasty trade. He's a guy that I ended up getting
Speaker 1: on most of the night Dynasty rosters last year just
Speaker 1: because I was thrown away a couple of the blacks here.
Speaker 1: But it's a nice guy of years right now. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, with Joe Burrow, if you believe Burrow is
Speaker 1: gonna be great, and honestly I do, I think you know,
Speaker 1: he looks as promising as any any quarterback we've seen
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in recent years, then I want his best
Speaker 1: receiver and that's still a j Green right now, and
Speaker 1: you can get up. You're right, you can get him
Speaker 1: in Dynasty and Empire leagues for virtually nothing. Matt. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break. Let's turn our attention to tight ends.
Speaker 1: A lot of tight end movement and action and in
Speaker 1: ordinate number this year. Let's talk tight ends when we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Giarchian and Matt Harrison via phone. Because social distancing.
Speaker 1: So that's just how it works right now. Um, I
Speaker 1: was surprised that the Falcons let Austin Hooper go. Now
Speaker 1: he signed a big deal with Cleveland. Um, but he
Speaker 1: was so good last year. He was one of the
Speaker 1: great great fantasy finds of last season. And um, it's
Speaker 1: it's an it's too to me a little bit surprising
Speaker 1: that Atlanta decided, after spending all that time him to
Speaker 1: get him to be such a big part of the
Speaker 1: offense after he was, you know, started his career as
Speaker 1: really almost a non factor. Um, that they ultimately let
Speaker 1: him go. He's in he's in Cleveland. Now, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Austin Hooper as a brown Um? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Hooper was one of like about three tight ends that
Speaker 1: really outperformed ADP last year last year tight end as
Speaker 1: a whole, the players that were good, we're still good,
Speaker 1: but they didn't get you the stats that you wanted.
Speaker 1: And it was Hooper, Mark Andrews and Darren Waller who
Speaker 1: were the guys that I think really outperformed ADP and
Speaker 1: you probably saw those guys on a lot of championship
Speaker 1: rosters in the league last year. UM Cleveland had a
Speaker 1: very similar offense to Atlanta too, good wide receivers, a
Speaker 1: decent running game, some offensive line question marks well with
Speaker 1: a high draft pedigree, a little bit fewer offensive lines
Speaker 1: with question marks. With the signing of Jack Conklin, the
Speaker 1: top tackle in the free agent market, mean that that
Speaker 1: helps a lot right there, and that might free up
Speaker 1: Hooper to have to have to block less. Well, then
Speaker 1: he enters Kevin's to Fantacy's offense, which was pretty tight
Speaker 1: end neutral last season with the Vikings. The Vikings finished
Speaker 1: fourteen in team tight end fantasy points last year with
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph and Herbs Smith. Although the Vikings did have
Speaker 1: eight tight end touchdowns last year, which was good for
Speaker 1: seventh in the league. The brown had nine tight end
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year, which was taught for fourth in the league. Right, so,
Speaker 1: I think that there's some upside for Hooper here. I
Speaker 1: still have them there's a tight end number seven in dynasty.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty five years old, but see if you
Speaker 1: can do it again, Yeah, and and then that could
Speaker 1: end up that could end up being the case here. Um,
Speaker 1: I think you you identified my biggest worry for Austin Hooper,
Speaker 1: and that's just is there enough ball to go around? There?
Speaker 1: There's a great running team, um with arguably the best
Speaker 1: one to running back punch in the NFL, and that
Speaker 1: there's just is there enough balls to go around to
Speaker 1: make Austin and Hooper as successful here as he was
Speaker 1: in Cleveland? So do you believe that Cooper's fantasy Austin
Speaker 1: Hooper excuse me? Do you believe his fantasy value is
Speaker 1: higher or lower this year compared to last year? Is
Speaker 1: the same? I think he's right there. I think he's
Speaker 1: actually right about the same. Tight Ends seven is where
Speaker 1: I have him, and I think that that's a really
Speaker 1: good stafford him right there. I think I think it's
Speaker 1: actually down just because again I think I think and
Speaker 1: it's not that I think he's gonna be a worse
Speaker 1: player he was he was tight end seven last year.
Speaker 1: I think he's uh. I think he's right. I think
Speaker 1: he's just worry that Oh, b J. Jervis Landry, Kareem Hunt,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. There's just a lot of miles to feed there.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's go to the team he left Atlanta.
Speaker 1: They acquired Hayden Hurst via trade and this really, you
Speaker 1: know Mark Andrews. This helps Mark Andrews a lot. So
Speaker 1: let's start there. Does where does this put Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: in your mind into that that Kelsey Kittle converse nation
Speaker 1: knowing that hayden Hurst isn't going to be there to
Speaker 1: draw out balls away from away from Mark Andrews. I
Speaker 1: think Mark Andrews is probably either your tight end three
Speaker 1: or four going into cheat Sheets season next year. Um,
Speaker 1: I would guess Kittle and Kelsey are one and two,
Speaker 1: and you can make a case for Darren Waller as
Speaker 1: number three, but it's Waller and Andrews who I think
Speaker 1: are the next year along with the neck hurts there.
Speaker 1: So he's definitely a top fired tight end there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's I think he's tight
Speaker 1: end three. That's how I like Mark Andrews that much,
Speaker 1: and think he's got room to grow into from last
Speaker 1: year's numbers where he still scored the ten touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: I think the receptions and the yardage numbers can be
Speaker 1: even higher now. And that's that puts him into stratospheric category,
Speaker 1: at potential category at tight end. What do you think
Speaker 1: about what do you think about hayden Hurst as a
Speaker 1: member of the Falcons where you'll have to compete with
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley for balls. Hayden Hurst is
Speaker 1: moving into a good offense that just saw Hooper died
Speaker 1: last season. Atlanta has been top ten in tight end
Speaker 1: receptions each of the last two years, and if you
Speaker 1: think of the eighteen and Austin Hooper wasn't doing this,
Speaker 1: they're still top ten in tight end receptions that year.
Speaker 1: So I Hurst at tightened plenty in dynasty right now
Speaker 1: that the opportunity is there, and he may be a
Speaker 1: big time sleeper. Um. So I kind of like him
Speaker 1: as one of those guys who can all perform a
Speaker 1: DP and they'll probably be moving up my Dynasty ranks
Speaker 1: and Redraft ranks a little bit more as we near
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, I think he belongs higher than twenty.
Speaker 1: I mean twenty, you're in like at twenty and like
Speaker 1: the Darren Fells level, right, the Greg Olson level. I
Speaker 1: would much rather have hayden Hurst. So we both agree
Speaker 1: he's wrote around Kyle Rudolph, greg Olston, John and Smith's
Speaker 1: those town of guys. Yeah. I like Jhonna Smith too,
Speaker 1: Actually one of my favorite sleepers. Um, but that's a
Speaker 1: that's a conversation for another another podcast. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Tyler and we both agree Hayden Hurst value goes up.
Speaker 1: It's without a doubt this is any one Tyler. I
Speaker 1: want to spend just a moment on some of the
Speaker 1: other guys that don't matter as much, not a lot
Speaker 1: of time. Tyler Eifford goes to Jacksonville. He has not
Speaker 1: played a full season since his rookie year. In the
Speaker 1: past sixty four Bengals games, Tyler Eifford has started eight
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, since he's not going to miss him
Speaker 1: at all because he was never on the field anyway. Correct.
Speaker 1: Plus an off injured player coming into an offense that
Speaker 1: hasn't used the tight end, it's just a bad fit.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville tight ends have only total ninety nine receptions in
Speaker 1: the last two years total. Wow, teams had more than
Speaker 1: that last season alone, and Travis Kelsey had ninety seven
Speaker 1: receptions on his own last year. So this is a
Speaker 1: bad fit for effort. Yeah. The only good news is
Speaker 1: he's basically unopposed in Jacksonville. Presumably rolls into the season
Speaker 1: healthy and will be the starter. And so for anybody
Speaker 1: who slufts that tight end position to the eighteenth round,
Speaker 1: here's a starting tight end who has proven he can
Speaker 1: be effective when he's on the field. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron, who goes to Pittsburgh. Um, this leaves Jack
Speaker 1: to me more interesting. You know, he goes into a
Speaker 1: battle with fans McDonald for playing time, just like Jesse
Speaker 1: James did a couple of years ago. But Jack Doyle's
Speaker 1: now your full time starting tight end for the Colts.
Speaker 1: I think that might be the most interesting part of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best, the best part of this because we
Speaker 1: don't have to play the Doyle Ebron getting game anymore.
Speaker 1: I actually kind of would I like to see Ebron
Speaker 1: stay in Indie with Rivers, who's focused on the tight
Speaker 1: end a lot in his past. Ebron might have been
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting with Rivers in Indie this year,
Speaker 1: but he's in Pittsburgh now and he said on Twitter
Speaker 1: that he's the best tight end in the astre North.
Speaker 1: I think Mark Andrews and paper and maybe he's advanced
Speaker 1: McDonald that that's something to stay about. That's right. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a bad move for Ebron. He moves to a
Speaker 1: time share. He's titled twenty in my book. Right now,
Speaker 1: I don't really like him in the spot at all.
Speaker 1: And now some signings. I really don't like Jason Witten
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. Why he's stuck behind Darren Wall. He's
Speaker 1: not even be a starter, he's starting. He's fifteen year veteran.
Speaker 1: Why did why? Why did you why go be a
Speaker 1: backup in Las Vegas? I can tell you exactly why
Speaker 1: he wanted to go. Get tips and John Druden on
Speaker 1: how to be somewhat successful in the booth that might
Speaker 1: be Um, maybe most notably Blake Jarwin is now you're
Speaker 1: starting tight end for Dallas, and you know if you
Speaker 1: roll Blake Blake jar Wins um three touchdowns five yards together. Um,
Speaker 1: and you add that into what Jason Witten was bringing
Speaker 1: to the table, you know, you start to you know,
Speaker 1: you start to roll that in. And now we're talking
Speaker 1: about a combination of almost a thousand yards and ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So I mean this is well not quite ten seven touchdowns. Um.
Speaker 1: This is where it gets a little bit interesting. Is
Speaker 1: you know what Blake Jarwin end up doing with Jason
Speaker 1: went and gone Yeah. Our co host Brian Jason has
Speaker 1: been on Jarlin for about a year now, and I
Speaker 1: think it might actually work out too. But he answers
Speaker 1: season number three Jason waitning, and he said it's gone
Speaker 1: grandall Cobb is going to That's a few vacated targets
Speaker 1: that will probably go his way. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to replace another big time wide receiver in there.
Speaker 1: Cooper and Gallup are probably near capacity for targets right now.
Speaker 1: I mean Jaren's max since he didn't top fifty eyes
Speaker 1: one last season and he didn't score in any of
Speaker 1: his final eight games. And also Mike McCarthy is a
Speaker 1: known tight end of later but still I have him
Speaker 1: a tight end fifteen on my Dynasty trade value chart
Speaker 1: right now. He's right next to Jack Doyle and Jured.
Speaker 1: One of the dumbest signings of the year was Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham to Chicago. Great for Jimmy Graham, will gets sixteen
Speaker 1: million dollars on a two year deal. Um and unless
Speaker 1: Trey Burton suddenly gets healthy and effective, I think Graham
Speaker 1: probably starts for Chicago, but I don't have an I
Speaker 1: don't have any belief that he'll be any more effective
Speaker 1: here than he was when Aaron Rodgers was throwing him
Speaker 1: the ball. Remember how we talked about Emmanuel Sanders quarterback progression. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham went from Drew Brees to Russell Wilson to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgersias or Mitchell too. Disky. I was on it.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have many chances this time of
Speaker 1: year to give the sad trombone ski, But there we go.
Speaker 1: What do you think green bas really high on prospect
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan and we'll watch him closely throughout training camp
Speaker 1: and see if he's going to be potentially a sleeper
Speaker 1: for Green Bay. Greg Olson goes to Seattle lots of
Speaker 1: injuries the last three years, and over those last three
Speaker 1: years he has scored two four and one touchdowns in
Speaker 1: those seasons. I'm not interested very much in in Greg Oldson,
Speaker 1: who also has to deal with Will Disley and Jacob Hollister.
Speaker 1: To me, that's just a loss. I assume you feel
Speaker 1: the same way. Um, not quite. The Seahawks have been
Speaker 1: a top eight tight end touchdown scoring team in each
Speaker 1: of the last four season. It's almost all red zone too.
Speaker 1: Where Greg Olson kind of throbs. So if you can
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and I mean we're still coming back from injury,
Speaker 1: Jacob Hollister was with the third string tight end there,
Speaker 1: greg Olson might kind of walk into where Jimmy Grant
Speaker 1: has a few years back when Seattle score fifteen tight
Speaker 1: end touchdown, just like three years ago. So now I'm
Speaker 1: not calling that, but I could see Greg Olson being
Speaker 1: in the six to eight touchdown range. That's viable for
Speaker 1: a fantasy tight end, especially a guy you can probably
Speaker 1: pick up the feat with the last pick in your
Speaker 1: draft or on the waiver wire, and you would take
Speaker 1: a chance from the catcher for the ten minutes he's healthy.
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas is the star for Carolina. I'm not I've
Speaker 1: ol there are a bunch of people like Ian Thomas.
Speaker 1: I've not ever seen anything from me, I and Thomas
Speaker 1: that suggests to me that he can jump into a
Speaker 1: regular fantasy viability. But Teddy Bridgewater, you know, tight ends
Speaker 1: Rome right in that Teddy Bridgewater range the ten yard pass,
Speaker 1: and so I think he could be a PPR helper
Speaker 1: in a pinch. But that's all that's all I think
Speaker 1: about Ian Thomas. Let's go to Carolina Christian McCaffrey. Everybody, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that too. All right, let's go to let's go to
Speaker 1: one more tight end that I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry, who um is going to stay. He resigns
Speaker 1: with resigns with the Chargers and we'll be catching passes
Speaker 1: from Tyrod Taylor. Uh, we'll have to compete against Keenan,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and Mike Williams for balls, but has proven
Speaker 1: he can do that. And in what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on on Hunter Henry here one of the better young
Speaker 1: tight ends. Do you really think it's going to be
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor starting the York Charges starting starting starting the year,
Speaker 1: Probably yes, but maybe not ending the year because that's
Speaker 1: Tyrod doesn't usually end the year as the starter. The
Speaker 1: Chargers are pick six in the draft. Um, I know
Speaker 1: I wanted Max have had them taking a quarterback, maybe
Speaker 1: Jordan's Laws or maybe two falls. But I've also seen
Speaker 1: a lot of mocks for the Chargers trade up he
Speaker 1: number two to take to which I'll have to do
Speaker 1: that franchise. Yeah, somebody to kind of believe in if
Speaker 1: they can get a good quarterback there and Tyrod met Dad,
Speaker 1: but he's replacement level then I love Hunter Henry quite
Speaker 1: a bit. I still have him tight end number six
Speaker 1: in Dynasty because he's just been an actually stead when healthy.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we can take that away from him.
Speaker 1: Whenever he's on the field, he's been absolutely dynamated. He's
Speaker 1: been he's been great, and I you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think the past injuries are a suggestion that
Speaker 1: he kept due to the nature of the injuries, that
Speaker 1: he will sustain more. And it's all about your right,
Speaker 1: It's all about the quarterback position and whether or not
Speaker 1: they can get anything going. This is a team, by
Speaker 1: the way, they've got like eight the like eight of
Speaker 1: their ten best players are all going to be free
Speaker 1: agents next year, and so this is a team that's
Speaker 1: in serious flux right now, and they're sort of a win.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could be winning now with
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, but I I wonder if they don't end
Speaker 1: up sort of bottoming out at the end of this
Speaker 1: this coming next year, um don't resign a lot of
Speaker 1: their key players and just go through a massive rebuild,
Speaker 1: and that that might be your long term prognosis for
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Well, and the Chargers could go the route
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins this last year and just start trading
Speaker 1: off pieces, especially with Hunter Henry in the final year
Speaker 1: of his contract as a franchise guy. He could definitely
Speaker 1: be dealt during the season to a tight end meting team.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe a team like New England comes to Colin,
Speaker 1: who have always really valued the tight end position. It
Speaker 1: would be interesting to see him armed up on a
Speaker 1: team that really values the tight end, and I think
Speaker 1: he could get dealt this year. All right, Matt, it's
Speaker 1: been fun. We managed to talk for forty one minutes
Speaker 1: of just the content portion of the show. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of us too much. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think people probably really enjoy it. At this time
Speaker 1: of their life. There's been a lot of walking outside.
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk every little and pop into podcast
Speaker 1: in my years. It's fantastic the way to keep saying
Speaker 1: right now, Yeah, I know for those of us that
Speaker 1: are already craving football, and more so this year than
Speaker 1: any other time, there's no no sports diversions. Um, the
Speaker 1: draft is gonna be absolutely huge, Fantasy football season will
Speaker 1: be absolutely huge, and I believe the fan I believe
Speaker 1: the NFL season will will go off on time, even
Speaker 1: if they have to play in empty stadiums. I know
Speaker 1: most people don't see it that way. I do. Um
Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be fascinating, but there's definitely pent up
Speaker 1: demand out there for fantasy info. Hopefully this breakdown of
Speaker 1: the receivers and the tight ends has been helpful. Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it all right, everybody else, we'll talk to
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