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Speaker 1: Now here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 1: am Paul Charchy and my co host is usual Brian Johnson.
Speaker 1: Great to talk to you. We tease this subject at
Speaker 1: the end of the show last week, and that is
Speaker 1: sophomores that we think are going to improve potentially dramatically
Speaker 1: over last year. So these are these are not There
Speaker 1: is not justin Jefferson, although I think he's going to
Speaker 1: improve as well. But these are the guys who under
Speaker 1: kind of underperformed last year and we think can have
Speaker 1: a much better second year. Super Softmares, if you will.
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Speaker 1: second year rookies, So last year was a tough year
Speaker 1: to be a rookie. Brian no o t a s.
Speaker 1: No rookie camps, no mini camps, no training camp, no
Speaker 1: preseason games, I mean, all those things working against that
Speaker 1: rookie class. Last year. They have the Zoom meetings in
Speaker 1: place of in person meetings. I mean just every almost
Speaker 1: everything outside of like injury that could be folly class
Speaker 1: of rookies happened and for some guys it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson was great last year. He's you know, he
Speaker 1: was Justin Herbert was great, and there were guys that
Speaker 1: didn't matter. But for many, there's every reason to think
Speaker 1: they'll make a big jump in year two with the
Speaker 1: benefit of a season under their belt and a full
Speaker 1: off season program. And now some of these guys will
Speaker 1: talk about didn't necessarily struggle, But when you just look
Speaker 1: at their full season, you know, the landscape of their
Speaker 1: production from last season, it doesn't tell the whole story
Speaker 1: of how big a jump they could make this year.
Speaker 1: I like it. Um Almost every highly drafted second year
Speaker 1: player has got room for improvement. Most players do get
Speaker 1: better in the second year. The one I'll say, the
Speaker 1: one thing they had going for them last year. He
Speaker 1: had all all the detractors, We still had the fans
Speaker 1: in the stands to tell them how much they were
Speaker 1: stud they were, they were getting food by their own
Speaker 1: home fans. Depends how south of them Dixon line you were.
Speaker 1: But yeah, um, so most of them. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any need to say for any of these guys, Brian,
Speaker 1: you know there's room for him to get better in
Speaker 1: your two. There's room for all these guys get better
Speaker 1: in your two. But we're gonna give Billed a case
Speaker 1: for about like fifteen guys here that we think all
Speaker 1: have the have the potential to take a big step
Speaker 1: up in year two. Okay, I'll go first with a
Speaker 1: rookie that I think has got a lot of room
Speaker 1: for improvement and can can get better in year two.
Speaker 1: That is Gabriel Davis, Buffalo wide receiver. His current ADP
Speaker 1: is around twelve wide receiver sixty, so you know you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna get him at a at a real value,
Speaker 1: and I like to he took a big jump over
Speaker 1: Buffalo's by week in Week eleven coming out of the
Speaker 1: by his snaps per game jumped by twenty one and
Speaker 1: that helped with injuries to John Brown who's gone and
Speaker 1: gold Beasley who's somewhat healthy. Yeah, but basically slot guy,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that will affect him a lout here.
Speaker 1: After the bye week, his targets for Gabriel Davis jumped
Speaker 1: from three per game to five per game. His yards
Speaker 1: doubled from twenty eight per game to fifty four per game.
Speaker 1: His touchdowns per game doubled from point three to point seven.
Speaker 1: Point seven touchdowns per game is a ton touchdown year.
Speaker 1: That's a double digit touchdown season that Gabriel Davis was posting.
Speaker 1: From week week twelve forward, he was the starter in
Speaker 1: every Buffalo game after the bye, and his average line
Speaker 1: for Gabriel Davis again after the bye three catches, fifty
Speaker 1: four yards and at the point seven touchdowns. I mentioned
Speaker 1: that was good enough for He was wide receiver thirty
Speaker 1: after the bye as a rookie. The attack Buffalo Bill
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, a team that passes all the time. Um,
Speaker 1: there are really no blockers to starting time. I mean
Speaker 1: there's Steffandiggs is gonna be a starter and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be h Emmanuel Sanders at all. Sanders will be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Sanders will be in the in the mix.
Speaker 1: But no way, no way. They've given him that an
Speaker 1: aging journey and veterans Davis decomposing corpse territory. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a guy when you need eleven yards
Speaker 1: and you need somebody just catch the ball that you
Speaker 1: throw to him, that's gonna be. That is gonna be
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, Gabriel Davis. So he's my first guy. Who
Speaker 1: is your your second year sophomore that you think can
Speaker 1: do can do better next year? Well, I got no quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: It might have been Jordan's love, but Aaron Rodgers still
Speaker 1: in town. So a nothing to mention at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And sadly, I'm not gonna mention Jalen Reagor and the
Speaker 1: Eagles might want me to, but I don't see a
Speaker 1: jump from Reager. It could be a decline, as sad
Speaker 1: as that may be. So the first guy I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is Brandon You of the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: who is already getting drafted as a top twenty five
Speaker 1: wide receiver. He's going right in the Kenny Golladay Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase, who was a rookie range but which is justified.
Speaker 1: But if he can replicate his epic six games stretch
Speaker 1: he had last year starting in like Week six or seven,
Speaker 1: where he totaled or sorry, averaged eleven tar gets, seven
Speaker 1: and a half catches, nine four yards per game, four
Speaker 1: touchdowns during that span with Jimmy Garoppolo and alrighty the
Speaker 1: cast of Castle character C J. Beth. Yes, so people
Speaker 1: are expecting the leap he's getting drafted as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Who but have that there's competition, of course, Deebo Samuels,
Speaker 1: their George Kittle and Jimmy Garoppolo rookie Tray Lance at quarterback.
Speaker 1: But still he's gonna make that leap. But he could
Speaker 1: go beyond bottom tier wide receiver two to top tier
Speaker 1: wide receiver two, lower tiered wide receiver one territory pretty easily.
Speaker 1: I think he has got that. If you watch them play,
Speaker 1: he's a freak of nature, like Across and very different
Speaker 1: from Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel is yard after catch guy
Speaker 1: you throw to. You throw a bubble screen to him.
Speaker 1: He's so strong he'll break the tackle and get you
Speaker 1: some yards. I Yuk is your big play, splashy down
Speaker 1: field receiver, and Trey Lance has a cannon. I love
Speaker 1: the potential of that connection for years to come. I
Speaker 1: hope we see Trey Lance sooner than later. That's all.
Speaker 1: I hope we see him when the time is right.
Speaker 1: And that's an offensive that's an offensive system that I
Speaker 1: think they'll get that right. The next sophomore I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is Buffalo running back Zach Moss. Current
Speaker 1: ADP is round nine running back forty two, and you
Speaker 1: get the lead back for an NFL team. Last year
Speaker 1: he was a bust and that hurt me. Grievously because
Speaker 1: I had championed his cause and I was mostly wrong.
Speaker 1: Nearly as big a bobo as you are. For Zack Moss, Um,
Speaker 1: the reasons he was a bus last year were opportunity
Speaker 1: and losing rushing touchdowns to his quarterback. The team barely
Speaker 1: ran it all last year, and Zack Moss only averaged
Speaker 1: eight rushes per game through of the time. At minimum,
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite that, but they were. They were. Ye
Speaker 1: hold on, you know go, I might have it in
Speaker 1: my notes here. Um. He never had more than four
Speaker 1: a team touches in any game, Zach Moss, so opportunity
Speaker 1: really hurt him. Buffalo didn't draft a running back, which
Speaker 1: suggests that they are confident in his improvement. And remember
Speaker 1: he said every meaningful Utah rushing records. Zack Moss did
Speaker 1: built to score touchdowns at two thirty pounds, but Josh
Speaker 1: Allen ran the ball eleven times from inside the five eleven.
Speaker 1: Only Cam Newton among quarterbacks had more rushing attempts inside
Speaker 1: the five than Josh Allen did. But eventually almost all
Speaker 1: quarterbacks stop running the ball. It's part of the progression
Speaker 1: of keeping your your quarterback up right and maybe that
Speaker 1: will happen this year with Allen and maybe they'll start
Speaker 1: dialing back some of that running. And then there's Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary who just isn't a very good runner, and they
Speaker 1: could face him out of the running game in particular,
Speaker 1: almost entirely. So if you believe Mosque gets better, you
Speaker 1: think that Josh Allen is not gonna run the ball
Speaker 1: eleven times inside the five, if you think Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: is not that good, there's your window for Zack Moss
Speaker 1: to improve on his current ADP. Right, And I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you, And I was a little high. It's
Speaker 1: about I'm gonna guess it's about sixty eight percent for
Speaker 1: it was sixty two on the season, but the last
Speaker 1: five games it was, which is incredibly high for any team,
Speaker 1: especially Buffalo over the past ten years. Right, correct, Okay, Brian,
Speaker 1: or who is your next sophomore? I'm going with the
Speaker 1: wide receiver of the Los Angeles Rams Van Jefferson, who
Speaker 1: they sunk a lot of draft capital into the seventh
Speaker 1: overall pick overall past and the jettison Josh Reynolds, which
Speaker 1: is fairly significant here, and they signed to Shan Jackson,
Speaker 1: which um I'm assuming he's in a walking boot already,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna call Jefferson the wide receiver three right
Speaker 1: now basically, and and an injury to the big two
Speaker 1: Robert Woods or Cooper Cup opens up a huge door
Speaker 1: of opportunity for Jefferson on an offense that is upgraded
Speaker 1: significantly with Matthew Stafford now the quarterback over Jared goff
Speaker 1: Now Jefferson who has good sized by the way six
Speaker 1: to two d plus pounds. So at least five targets
Speaker 1: in a four games last year. One was in the
Speaker 1: Divisional round against Green Bay, but he had at least
Speaker 1: four catches in each game, and he caught six, including
Speaker 1: a touchdown in that playoff game against the Packers. So
Speaker 1: he's proven to be an able receiver if given the volume.
Speaker 1: So and again, he was a rookie last year. Not
Speaker 1: all wide receiver rookies pop off. He's got the pedigree
Speaker 1: and right now and best best ball redraft, he's going
Speaker 1: wide receiver eight three with Marquez Valdez Scantling and Tyrell
Speaker 1: Williams and Marie Rogers and that's the Packers cast offs.
Speaker 1: I love the upside for Van Jefferson at the bignet
Speaker 1: him at I'm with you on that Stafford is going
Speaker 1: to I think the Rams are a sneaky super Bowl
Speaker 1: team and a Stafford's gonna make that offense much better.
Speaker 1: And Jefferson is a guy you might find in your
Speaker 1: dynasty rookie drafts who just got cast off after last year.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna drop their teams are gonna drop him off
Speaker 1: and how deep. But definitely the next sophomore I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is Jets wide receiver Denzel Mims. His
Speaker 1: current ADP is the fourteenth round wide receiver seventy nine,
Speaker 1: so he's in that same Van Jefferson range. Brian, You'll
Speaker 1: remember that Mims had a triple whammy last year. Like
Speaker 1: all rookies, he missed the whole preseason, then he suffered
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury that costs him the first six weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, and then of course the third whammy
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze. When Mims did play, he started, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't terribly effective. He did not score a touchdown last year. Remember,
Speaker 1: he was the first pick of the second round of
Speaker 1: the deepest wide receiver draft in a generation, and he
Speaker 1: would have been the first wide receiver taken in some
Speaker 1: years drafts in all probability, tall and range, you with
Speaker 1: a massive catch radius, very fast. He'll be catching passes
Speaker 1: from Zach Wilson, who appears to be pretty NFL ready,
Speaker 1: and Wilson throws a great deep ball, and that was
Speaker 1: much of Mims's success at Baylor. Um. It's a crowded
Speaker 1: wide receiver field right now, Corey Davis and Keelan Cole
Speaker 1: and Jamison Crowder um. But Mims has got a pedigree
Speaker 1: that none of those guys really have, and so he's
Speaker 1: got He's got a ton of room to improve here.
Speaker 1: I I don't love Denzel Mims, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: I think this conversation might be better in one but
Speaker 1: this uh he almost by default we'll get better this year.
Speaker 1: He has the potential to I think be the best
Speaker 1: wide receiver in this draft class in a few years.
Speaker 1: He's not would I know, there's justin Jefferys, I know,
Speaker 1: I know right he's ceedee Lamb. He was not in
Speaker 1: good spot last year and it's not still spot. But
Speaker 1: I think if Zach Wilson is his requisite of the
Speaker 1: number two pick overall, then Denzel Mims can grow with him.
Speaker 1: Let me say one of the best. All right, that
Speaker 1: might be a small potential and more sane. Right, let's
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back, we've got more
Speaker 1: sophomores we thinking have a significant growth spurt this year.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. We're talking about sophomores that
Speaker 1: we think are in a position to have a far
Speaker 1: better season next year. I think if you're redraft or dynasty,
Speaker 1: this is a very salient conversation. I thought of the
Speaker 1: title of the show just now during the break, Sophomore
Speaker 1: slump Busters. I kind of like it. Sophomore. Let me
Speaker 1: write that down slump busters. Okay, so done, that'll be
Speaker 1: the title of the show. I did it. All right,
Speaker 1: we've done it. Jaguars wide receiver Laviska Channel. It's Chanel.
Speaker 1: I found out we've been calling him Channel. I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: you're yeah, You're this moment old, I'm learning at Laska
Speaker 1: che Uh. Current ADP is the ninth round wide receiver forty.
Speaker 1: He gets a massive quarterback improvement going from the combination
Speaker 1: of Mike Lennon, Gardner Minshew and Jake Luton remember him
Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence, the first player taken in the draft.
Speaker 1: He's luten free Now, I love it. Uh, you may
Speaker 1: have forgotten. Laviska Chanel scored four times in the final
Speaker 1: five weeks of last year. From week twelve forward. Lavishka
Speaker 1: Chano was wide receiver twenty two. Last year he was
Speaker 1: a stopper. Oh that's pretty good too, that's excellent. It's
Speaker 1: heating up in Minnesota, Keen Keelan Cole, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: now with the Jets stole a lot of his work
Speaker 1: from the slot last year. Calls gone gone, he leaves
Speaker 1: behind five hundred thirty four snaps. Keiling Cole does so. No,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on the field constantly. Remember he was
Speaker 1: a second round pick last year. He's a jack of
Speaker 1: all trades type. They run him a bit. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to like about Laviska sho number two. He's very
Speaker 1: much a Curtis Samuel in the making for sure. I
Speaker 1: think you're right, all right, who's your next sophomore slump buster? Now,
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, this guy was gonna bust
Speaker 1: all the slumps because he was gonna be the starting
Speaker 1: running back for the Packers. And that's j Dillon. Because
Speaker 1: we all assumed Green Bay was going to let Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones walk after failing to let him run year after
Speaker 1: a year, but they resigned Jones, so a little bit
Speaker 1: of a pullback on a J. Dillon. I'm one of
Speaker 1: those dynasty owners that was counting on that. But regardless,
Speaker 1: he's he's an absolute monster and it's not a one
Speaker 1: trick pony and this is gonna run you over. He
Speaker 1: does have some wiggle, he can catch the ball. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of potential, and he figures the factor
Speaker 1: at the goal line this year at the very least
Speaker 1: you'd hope so, and his size demands it. He didn't
Speaker 1: have a ton of opportunities last year, but if you
Speaker 1: really look into his two carries inside, he had nine yards,
Speaker 1: so he basically took every yard that was given to
Speaker 1: him and opportunities no one, and he scored on one
Speaker 1: of them. All right, four carries for sixteen yards inside
Speaker 1: the tent. So he's a force inside, in the in
Speaker 1: the in the gold zone, the infrared zone, whatever we
Speaker 1: call it. But Aaron Jones clearly a blocker. I still
Speaker 1: think Dylan takes a significant leap from last year. They're
Speaker 1: still gonna want to spell Jones at times, especially now
Speaker 1: that they paid him, right, and and they will they
Speaker 1: always do. Jones is never a workhorse. And you know
Speaker 1: with Jamal Williams gone, all that extra works gonna go
Speaker 1: to Dylan. Yeah, I'm with you. And right now Dylan's
Speaker 1: lumped in. He's like RB thirty three ish right with
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, Ronald Jones, Raheem Moster, David Johnson, Kenyan Drake.
Speaker 1: Give me Dylan over those guys all day long. It's
Speaker 1: based on like, of course, one injury to Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's it. It's to the moon for Dylan.
Speaker 1: So expect we're not gonna get the production we were
Speaker 1: hoping for right most like starters production, but he will
Speaker 1: see a significant increase in touches, one would hope. I
Speaker 1: think he's a j. Dylon shaping up as a flex
Speaker 1: level running back this year. The player who has turned
Speaker 1: the most heads in Broncos O t a s. Jerry Judy.
Speaker 1: It's not you, it's it's Jerry Jude Beauty. I like it.
Speaker 1: Current ADP is the eighth round, He's wide receiver, thirty seven,
Speaker 1: his solid rookie season. I think it's been overlooked by many. Brian,
Speaker 1: you had fifty two catches eight hundred fifty yards and
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Despite really inconsistent quarterbacking in Denver, he was
Speaker 1: held back by drops. He had twelve drops last year
Speaker 1: I saw. I don't have the exact stat but a
Speaker 1: lot of his drops or in completions were accounted to
Speaker 1: the court to Drew Lock. Essentially they weren't really his. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I would not be surprised by um. I
Speaker 1: think there's a sixty chance Teddy Bridgewaters the starter. You know,
Speaker 1: Teddy has many deficiencies which long time listeners know how
Speaker 1: I feel about it. But he does catch a very
Speaker 1: he throws a very catchable short pass and so there's
Speaker 1: there's that for Judy. Hopefully it'll be it'll be more
Speaker 1: accurate here. Um. He'll also be helped I think by
Speaker 1: the return of Courtland Sutton, which will mean he will
Speaker 1: not need to carry so much of the burden of
Speaker 1: the receiver's group and he will not he will not
Speaker 1: receive as much coverage because Courtland Sutton is on the field. Also,
Speaker 1: there's a chance Aaron Rodgers is throwing balls to Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy that is that is possible here um. Remember he
Speaker 1: was a first round pick. He has got fantastick folk
Speaker 1: work a great yard after catch at Alabama. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy is my next sophomore slump buster. Who is
Speaker 1: your next sophomore slumpbuster. We're going to the tight end position.
Speaker 1: It's a cold commit of the Chicago Bears, who was
Speaker 1: the overall pick last year in the second und got
Speaker 1: a draft capital there, and uh, the Bears were one
Speaker 1: of seven teams last year they got double digit touchdowns
Speaker 1: from their tight ends. Yes, Jimmy Graham accounted for seven
Speaker 1: or eight of those, but and he's still on roster.
Speaker 1: But talk about decomposing corpses, Graham is decomposing more by
Speaker 1: the day. He's gonna be goal line package guy. Most
Speaker 1: likely not gonna factor between the twenties, which isn't great
Speaker 1: for commit. Graham could get cut very Yeah, he's definitely
Speaker 1: gone and age and everything else. Yeah, they drafted him
Speaker 1: to be tight into the future for sure, drafting him
Speaker 1: in the second round last year. And Chicago also top
Speaker 1: twelve in UH tight end catches last year. So there's
Speaker 1: a nice role for commit waiting this year. And there's
Speaker 1: an upgraded quarterback either way, whether it's justin Fields or
Speaker 1: any Dalton over Mitch Drubisky or Nick Foles. So Chicago
Speaker 1: utilizes their tight end, and UH, if I'm investedly heavied
Speaker 1: to the invested. If I'm invested heavily at tight end,
Speaker 1: like drafting Travis Kelsey or Dale and Darren Waller, Uh
Speaker 1: commits a guy I'm looking at, uh tight end eighteen
Speaker 1: right now, he's going right after your boy John U,
Speaker 1: John U. But he's right there with Gronk and Austin Hooper.
Speaker 1: H cam me commits upside here. I like what we're
Speaker 1: gonna see out of him in his the year two.
Speaker 1: My next sophomore slump buster is Raiders wide receiver Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs ADP is Round ten wide receiver fifty one. Remember
Speaker 1: he was the first wide receiver taken in the draft
Speaker 1: two years ago. Uh, and a disastrous season unfolded for him.
Speaker 1: Despite starting twelve games, he never more than three passes
Speaker 1: in a game and he only scored two times. Do
Speaker 1: you remember either was two touchdowns? Off the top of
Speaker 1: your head, the one was total bs to beat the Jets,
Speaker 1: That's exactly that's right. It was the five seconds left
Speaker 1: on the clock falls on the forty six yard line.
Speaker 1: They have to go forty six yards to pass with
Speaker 1: a touchdown to score, and Greg Williams dials up a
Speaker 1: blitz dumbest call history of football maybe, and it ended
Speaker 1: up ended up being a disaster for the Jets. At
Speaker 1: the time, it was one of the Henry Ruggs touchdowns.
Speaker 1: At the time, it was one of the smartest thing,
Speaker 1: right because they were probably still trying to lose unfeeded
Speaker 1: at the time, right, not not undefeated, but yeah, then
Speaker 1: who did they beat? That doesn't matter? But yet, so
Speaker 1: Ruggs walks in this year and they they basically they
Speaker 1: let most half of the receivers go. Tyroll Williams has gone,
Speaker 1: Nelson Agilar is gone. So he's wide receiver one on
Speaker 1: this team. Listen to the other receivers on the Raiders,
Speaker 1: Z Jones, Brian Words who was somehow even worse than
Speaker 1: Ruggs last year, Hunter Renfro who plays the slot, and
Speaker 1: John Brown adds it, I mean Rugs in with his pedigree.
Speaker 1: He is wide receiver one on a team led by
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, who was shockingly productive last year. He threw
Speaker 1: twenty seven touchdowns and four thousand, one hundred yards. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns are they're not all going to Darren Waller
Speaker 1: next year. So with that, if if you think Derek
Speaker 1: car is gonna be around that twenty seven touchdown range
Speaker 1: and you think Waller is gonna account for twelve of them, right,
Speaker 1: we still fifteen on accounted touchdowns. That gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 1: How about his number one wide receiver, Henry Ruggs, It
Speaker 1: better go to Ruggs again, drafted over Jerry Judy Steedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. I know we we hated that, we hated
Speaker 1: that draft pick them when it happened live. We did
Speaker 1: not like that draft pick. Um. It was a mistake
Speaker 1: for sure, But Ruggs has got massive room for improvement
Speaker 1: and and we'll have the opportunity which is which is
Speaker 1: half of it. Okay, your next guy another tight end,
Speaker 1: and you know most rookie tight ends don't produce, so
Speaker 1: we look at them in a year two. Hopefully Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts breaks that mold. We won't go there right now.
Speaker 1: And it's Adam Troutman of the Saints, who was a
Speaker 1: high high draft pick by New Orleans last year, the
Speaker 1: undred and fifth overall pick. That's a third round pick.
Speaker 1: And uh, Jared Cook, he gone. Troutman. Troutlan is the guy,
Speaker 1: and right now he's lumped right with committing a DP
Speaker 1: at tight end twenty, going right after Hooper and uh
Speaker 1: Gronk and like I said, commet right in that range.
Speaker 1: And only six team targets last year, not a ton
Speaker 1: of tape on Troutman. Only one went incomplete though, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume it was Taysom Hill's fault on that one,
Speaker 1: so that I don't know he's the starting tight ends
Speaker 1: for the Saints, who had historically utilized their tight ends
Speaker 1: in that offense. There's question marks at quarterback, but I
Speaker 1: don't know there there's a tight end twelve, tight end
Speaker 1: fifteen upside with Troutman if he sees the eight hundred
Speaker 1: targets requisite requisitive getting you there. So I got my
Speaker 1: on Adam Troutman in late rounds too. If you're again
Speaker 1: either gonna just back up an elite tight end or
Speaker 1: if you're just gonna dumpster dive, and you know, hoard
Speaker 1: three of these guys in the late teens and early twenties.
Speaker 1: Troutman is a guy to keep your eye on. But
Speaker 1: I gotta finish this by saying, keep your eye on
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold more than who's going way later than both
Speaker 1: of these guys. Still, I don't get it. But someday
Speaker 1: the world will catch him, all right, done his own
Speaker 1: teams don't seem to don't seem to share that thought.
Speaker 1: As he's a high third team in three years, I
Speaker 1: will have my day, all right. I've got two guys
Speaker 1: that I think are very obvious, So I've left him
Speaker 1: to the end here. Uh And I don't think you
Speaker 1: have any left. I think you're done right, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: Chief's running back Clyde Edwards Alaire. I think most people
Speaker 1: think like I do. By the way, a DP is
Speaker 1: the third round running back seventeen, It's almost impossible for
Speaker 1: a Chief's running back to be as a mimic of
Speaker 1: a fantasy producer as Clyde Edwards a Laire was last year.
Speaker 1: He only scored four games and during the regular season
Speaker 1: he only topped one hundred total yards twice, and that
Speaker 1: was Week one and Week three, when we still thought
Speaker 1: he was going to be a top ten running back.
Speaker 1: Weirdly underutilized in the passing game despite being a very
Speaker 1: good pass catching running back. He caught zero, one or
Speaker 1: two passes in half of his games that was disappointing,
Speaker 1: and then he battled injury and end up missing a
Speaker 1: month of time at the end of the year as
Speaker 1: people remembered into the playoffs. So here's Kansas City. They
Speaker 1: were number one and offensive touchdowns two years ago, they
Speaker 1: were number eight last year. They're averaging three point two
Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns per game, last year three point two. And
Speaker 1: as great as Patrick Mahomes is. If if your offense
Speaker 1: is averaging three point two touchdowns per game, shouldn't one
Speaker 1: of those three go to your lead running back? In
Speaker 1: a typical offense, one would think I would think I
Speaker 1: was an English major not great with math, but I
Speaker 1: think that math has doesn't it feel about right? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know Mahomes is, you know, like three passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: a game, but even then some of those should go
Speaker 1: to should go to the running back too. So I
Speaker 1: think his diminutive side, probably dominut diminutive size, caps his
Speaker 1: upside for Clyde Edwards a layer, but it's still feels
Speaker 1: like he's got room to approve on his ADP of
Speaker 1: RB seventeen. And the last Gale mention is another one
Speaker 1: that's obvious that I think most people already think it's
Speaker 1: going to be much better than year two. And that's
Speaker 1: Baltimore running back j K. Dobbins, because he was so
Speaker 1: good at the end of last year. Current ADPs round
Speaker 1: three running back fifteen UM. Dobbin's owner is frustrated with
Speaker 1: that split time between Ingram and Gus Edwards. But Ingram's
Speaker 1: gone and they didn't replace him with anybody who's gonna
Speaker 1: steal carries. It's gonna be Gus Edwards and j K Dobbins.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, by the way, going really far too low
Speaker 1: to UM. Last year's three headed monsters down to a
Speaker 1: two headed monster. That's you know, we can manage that
Speaker 1: a little bit. Dobbins surged down the stretch of his
Speaker 1: rookie years, scoring in seven straight games, including the playoffs,
Speaker 1: to finish things up, and that's why he's being pressed
Speaker 1: up to the third round right now. When UM, when
Speaker 1: he was given at least thirteen carries last year, his
Speaker 1: average game ninety three rushing yards, one touchdown per game,
Speaker 1: and six point six yards per carry. Again, those are
Speaker 1: in games in which he at least thirteen carries. When
Speaker 1: you give j K. Dobbins just the thirteen carries, which
Speaker 1: isn't even close to like the twenty elite back would get.
Speaker 1: He still produces gigantic numbers, so you know the Ravens
Speaker 1: are always gonna be run heavy. Um and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: opens up a lot of things for his running backs,
Speaker 1: So J K. Dobbins and I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people already on Hilaire and Dobbinson. They barely warrant to
Speaker 1: mention here, but I still wanted to get them in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and guys that people are on and names you probably
Speaker 1: didn't hear or you didn't hear this podcast, like Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: Seedee Lamb, Justin Jefferson, Antonio Gibson, everybody get better, could
Speaker 1: get better already could their household names already, so we
Speaker 1: didn't touch on them. Totally agree. And Tyler Johnson. I
Speaker 1: was hoping to mention Tyler Johnson wide receiver for the Bucks,
Speaker 1: but they just resigned Antonio Brown recently, so it makes
Speaker 1: it top might have to wait another year for Tyler Johnson. UM.
Speaker 1: I thought about Damien Harris, but that were more Uh,
Speaker 1: Stevenson is a real blocker for him. I thought about
Speaker 1: Donovan people showns the Cleveland wide receiver and mentioning him
Speaker 1: because he did. He did show some signs of life
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. But it's I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's I don't think he does. Just doesn't
Speaker 1: gonna get starters reps. I don't think I got one
Speaker 1: more three named wide receiver Antonio Gandy Golden. It's that's deep.
Speaker 1: He's He's got bumped down that depth chart pretty well.
Speaker 1: He did in the one season. We'll see that. Bryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick's gonna help that whole offense. I'm excited, and I
Speaker 1: don't like rooting for the Washington team, but that offense
Speaker 1: is gonna be exciting. You just don't. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: one thing to say you don't want the good things
Speaker 1: to happen to their owner. You know that fan base
Speaker 1: has been through the Ringer Man. They deserve they deserve
Speaker 1: good things. You know, they've had to live with Dan
Speaker 1: Snyder for twenty years as their owner. They deserved good
Speaker 1: things to happen. I used to live out there and
Speaker 1: I interact with a lot of that fan base, so
Speaker 1: I beg to differ. There are some good there's some
Speaker 1: good ones in there. Yet, uh, we encourage you to
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