FFW Micro - Calvin Ridley

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Loretta Larks right now. Yes, I didn't know that. With his three sons, four sons. Yeah, he's got a bunch of kids. Uh yeah, in this area, as I recall, and they're all good athletes as well. Obviously, let's talk Calvin Ridley. We're here to break down Calvin Ridley. We thought a refresher would be great because obviously a year away from the game, and Ridley was an impact player prior to all the stuff that went down. Got traded to the Jaguars. You may or may not remember that

because you haven't played with the Jaguars yet. Finds himself in a far better situation than he would have been a head he stayed in Atlanta and it's not close. Let's start here, Tyler, give us a refresher on Calvin Ridley. What had where was he heading into the twenty twenty two season that never happened for him? Yeah, so, I mean before he was suspended and that we were kind of like you mentioned the twenty twenty one season where

he was just kind of on and off whatever. His first three leagues, first three, his first three years in the league, he finished as the wide sep. Twenty two, his rookie year wide receiver eight seen and then that third year he really broke out wide receiver four and average points with that because Julio Jones was constantly out of that. He constantly hurt that year, and so he turned into wide Receiver one when Matt Ryan was still good. Yeah, And I think it's one of the things as interesting

is I read his letter. I don't know if you had a chance to read. I did read that open letter that it was very insightful, kind of like behind the scene look of everything, and I just it was a really good letter. He mentioned on that that he was on painkillers for two straight years of because of bones spurs, and then he broke his foot halfway through twenty twenty, so he said he put up that wide Receiver four finished on like bones spurs, broken foot craz stuff,

which is insane, that is. And then twenty twenty is kind of where it went, kind of like your twenty twenty one where it went kind of down the hill for him. His house was broken into, which kind of really rattled him. It sounds like that's why he didn't go to that London game, if you remember, he didn't travel there, and there was the whole kind of mental health stuff being tossed around with him, and let's go

so let's just pause on this for a second. I've been subject to a break in, and it is unnerving. I don't anybody who's like, your house got broken into. Why couldn't you travel to London? Look, it mean it's to know there was somebody in your house who wanted to do bad things to you and your family. Is

I mean, it really does mess with you a bit. Oh, I bet I can't even imagine what that must be like, because he mentioned in that letter that that's kind of why that was like the breaking point when he took he to take some time off because he was genuinely worried about the safety of his girlfriend, his and his daughter. Yeah, so it was it was a really big thing that hit him, and I think he took some steps away

from the game. He obviously had the parlay that led into his suspension for the rest of for the rest of last year, So he included the Falcons in a eleven leg parlay three hundred dollars. Yeah, it was three hundred dollars to win. It was four hundred eighty one to one odds, So I think he would have won one hundred and twenty eight dollars or something in that. I don't know. Something in that ballpar I'm trying to do some top of a headmap that's something like that.

I would have ended up on br betting if you would have hit that, you know where they always just post winning tickets that are crazy. That would have had to hide the name Draft Kicks. But I think where it's important to talk about kind of where we are now with Calvin Realley. The last thing that I will say about the letter, he says that he's getting fourteen hundred yards. This healthy. Yeah, that's what you're saying. Anything they want. Adrian Peterson every year was like, I'm going

for three thousand yards. No you're not. Yeah, no, you're not. The fourteen hundreds at least getable though, which would be the most yards in his career. It's worth mentioning. But I think he, like you mentioned, this might be the situation where he gets done. This best situation might be in as a as a pro. For sure, we saw Trevor Lawrence take a massive, massive step forward last year.

He turned into the quarterback we thought he was going to be, you know when he was drafted, but obviously Urban Meyer blew up that whole rookie year start over, Trevor looked pretty darned good down the second half of the season in particular, and Calvin Ridley walks into a spot where, really, outside of Christian Kirk, who was very productive last year, Calvin Ridley, you know, he might be

the best. He might be the best, clear best receiver on the team if he's healthy and in the same kind of shape and ability that he had prior to last year. Even if we get like ninety percent of what he was that wide receiver for a year in Atlanta, He's definitely the best talent on this team at receiver, and you kind of look at the opportunity and you gotta like what you see from just an opening standpoint. So,

I mean, they obviously have guys like Christian Kirk. He's mainly a slot guy though web Calvin was in Atlanta, he'd eighty eight percent of the time he'd lined up on the outside, So he'll be on field all the time. He'll be on exactly. Christian Kirk's not going to take any snaps away from Calvin Ridley. Also, Marvin Jones, he's a free agent. I mean, he hasn't we haven't heard any news about Marvin Jones, but I can't imagine he

will be back there. And then you got Zay Jones, who was kind of their outside guy last year, who's lined up there seventy percent of the time. He was the wide deceiver twenty six last year, which is pretty good for a guy like Za Jones right exactly, and doesn't have nearly at the athletic ability of Calvin Ridley exactly. So I'm just trying to imagine, like what the ceiling could be for Calvin Ridley if he is just that

number one guy. The only thing that might scare me is that there is Christian karrict Is, Evan ingrams A, Jones, as we mentioned, isn't terrible, and you have Travis Etn maybe eating some targets as well. But in terms of the offense that he's in there, there's definitely some room for Calvin Ridley to make some noise. Calvin. If everything breaks perfectly for Calvin Ridley, he's got wide receiver ten upside in him. Where is he going in ADP right now?

Right now? He's the wide receiver in nineteen. Wow, that's higher than I thought. Yeah, it's so about round four in best ball, which the format, and that's little different because it's a wide receiver heavy yeah, first, but still wide deceiver nineteen. I'm really surprised. Just I have figured a year away from the game, unknown situation with Jacksonville, that people would shy away from him. But it sounds like there's at least one believer in every league it's

willing to take him round four. Wow. That's um. I thought I was going to get better value and Calvin Ridley I thought, I'm like, I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna buy in, and Calvin Ridley I just said he came his wide receiver ten upside. That's if everything breaks perfectly, just the odds are it's gonna miss some games. He's we don't know what kind of shape he's gonna be in mentally, physically, where he's gonna be a year away

from the game. I know, is he up to speed in week one or do you have to wait until week eight f him to get his football legs under him? Again, we don't know. There's a lot of question marks in Calvin Ridley. I don't think wide receiver nineteen's too high. A yeah, I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know if it's too high for me personally. I just don't know, because you saw what he could, what he was in Atlanta, and people that next year were drafts him as a top five wide receiver, So we

know what the talent is. And I don't know if Trevor Lawrence is Trevor Lawrence better than Matt Ryan when he was with when Matt Ryan was actually good obviously, but because he's not that anymore, miney means. But I think I'll take I'll take a dart throw on on Calvin Ridley just because I think there is that top ten wide receiver finished potential with him, and this is something sometimes you just gotta take some shots and some players that you like. I think cal really we know

the talents there. It's just whether or not that he's gonna be acclimated to this offense in time. Yeah, And is Christian Kirk gonna still get fed? Churse Kirk was a top ten He was a top ten wide receiver last year too, so you know, if they're both, they're not both going to be top ten receivers and all probability and that is Christian kirking to give up a lot of that productivity to Calvin Ridley. I don't know,

there's a lot of questions here. If I'm like, if I'm asking myself, I'm in round four and I've got for me, I'd already have two wide receivers. But let's just say you're a normal person and you've only got one wide receiver. It's round four. You're on the clock. Calvin Ridley's there, I'm going some other way, some other direction. That's too early for me to take that risk, all right.

Let me throw out some players are kind of going around him right now then, Yeah, Terry McLaurin, Ridley, Michael Pittman, not knowing their quarterback but knowing it'll be a rookie, Ridley Ave, Chris All. I think i'd go Chris Alave. Yeah, he's I mean, he's proven himself to be very very good. I think I would go a love all right. Last one, Drake London. I'm bored with Drake London and that man. He is so underwhelming last year and again run first offense.

I don't know. That's yeah, I'm not I'm not sold on London, all right. I expected so much more from him last year. I don't think I'm ready to get about. So maybe it turns out I do like Ridley more than I thought. Maybe he's gonna be my guy wide receiver nineteen. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, um, that's yeah, that's that's It's an interesting case and a guy who's got massive upside and plenty of risk associated with him. But hey, that's how sometimes, that's how you win fantasy leagues. Right,

You take three or four big risk players. You hope two or three out of those three or four hit. Yeah. All right, thank you for listening for Fantasy Football Weekly Micro. Addition, we will be back presumably with more Fantasy Football Weekly Micro next week. Maybe this on experiment. We're still we're learning as we go. Tell us what you think at Paul Charcion on Twitter at Tyler Cannabily at Tyler Cannabily k N A E B L E. Talk to you'll later. Everybody, Bye bye