Free Agency - Part 2

Paul charchy In. My co host is Brian Johnson as usual and Brian Big Friday, Big Friday, Lots of movement Friday, the huge trade between the San Francisco forty Niners and the Miami Dolphins, and madness. Some might call it. I like it. It's the NFL version of March Madness. We're going to talk about all the ramifications of that trade and then many of the other free agent moves that we deemed worthy. Now, last week we did two positions.

We did quarterbacks and wide receives. This week we're going to do the free agent moves among running backs and tight ends. But we'll also fill in the blanks about new things that happened with last week's topic the quarterbacks

and primarily wide receivers. So lots to get to. Let's start with the crazy trade on Friday, though the Niners give up a this to move up from twelve to three nine spots, they give up a first round pick this year, first round pick, next year, first round pick the next year after that, this year's third round pick. That's a ton of capital. That's as I can't imagine them giving any more to you just you just you can't give more than that to make this kind of move.

And so let's talk about to follow. Let's start with the forty Niner side of this. What do you think this means for forty Niners and the especially the young receiver group that they've got there. Well, they've got a quarterback in mind obviously, right Francis, they must like at least three quarterbacks in this draft. You could never make that tray and yeah, and it's not gonna be Trevor Lawrence, know and so it's really now it's Zack Wilson and

Justin Fields, right, Zach don't. So it's all ability is very important for Kyle Shanahan. I mean, he loves to have those extended plays with the rolling quarterback. Yeah, but they don't know who it's gonna be. It's almost like they'll they're ready to quote unquote settle for someone at three, right, whether it's one of you, I don't think the view

it that way. You can't give three first round picks if you're settling at quarterball was for lack of better terms, But they don't know the quarterbacks are gonna be available at three, but they have. They must like three quarterbacks. They must feel like any of those. So I don't know. I don't think. I don't think it's to me. I don't I don't. Well, we'll see. I don't know that it's I don't know that Wilson's in this. We'll see

for this year. I don't think it bodes extremely well for the receivers for the forty niners, not like Jimmy Garoppolo is the starter. Makes me that much more excited. But I don't know. It's a big move, but it almost feels like a move for the future, not a not a win now move, because they're certainly mortgaging their their future beyond this year. Yeah, I I do agree with that. But if they especially if they keep Garoppolo

like they say, they're going to keep Garoppolo now. Right, So with thein moments of trade going down, all of a sudden, Adam Schefter and uh Ian Rappaport and Albert Breer. They're all reporting the same thing, which is I'm hearing the Niners are gonna hold Jimmy Garoppolo. Now. If that's the case, that tells me the Niners are still in like wind wind now mode and they're gonna go to World two quarterbacks in case one of them does not

work out, They've got another guy. If this rookie isn't ready to make a super Bowl run this year, they'll have Jimmy Garopolo brought the super Bowl two years ago. Yeah, from from a fantasy perspective, it's essentially a lateral move for George Kittle, rand Now, Yuk Tebo Samuel. Because Jimmy g likely to start the season. Then whatever rookie they draft, we assume he comes in at quarter point midpoint of the season. It won't be a downgrade from Jimmy Garopolo,

probably maybe a slate upgrade. So it doesn't really move the needle for me. When it comes to the forty, Niners will be nine receivers basically, so I think what the Niners may be doing here, Brian, they just gave up three first round picks to get out of starting Jimmy Garoppolo, So clearly Garoppolo is not in their long term plans. I think they're going to be patient and wait and find out which quarterback blows out is a c L and training camp and then moved moved Jimmy

Garoppolo for as much equity as they can get. People. It's not quite the herschel Walker trade, but man, they gave up a lot to move nine spots and not even the Ricky Williams trade, which is below the herschel Walker trade. But man, it's in that convo, it's in the ballpark. They better nail this sick. It does feel like it now From a dynasty standpoint, I love this for the young receiving group of the forty Niners, for

Deebo Samuel and George Kittle and Brandon Ayuk. This is to me, this is all, this is all great news. And whoever they end up drafting the forty Niners, that is the the QB two in uh your dynasty rookie drafts moving forward? I mean, Trevor Lawrence is gonna be the first one. But now this guy, because of the tools around whoever and whoever the Jets take, why not QB one. I get Kyle, I get a Kyle Shanahan coached team, um, which is very important. I get all

of those great young receivers with him. Whoever goes here might be dynasty quarterback number one this year. You might. You might be right, but not like this year. But we'll turn into the QB one from this class within a year or two years. It's talented, right, but he drops into arguably the worst position out of any of the first four quarterbacks that are going to be drafted. By the way, I think, for the first time in NFL history, we're gonna have quarterbacks go with the first

four picks. That's what I was about to ask. Has there been There hasn't been. The top three have gone quarterback before. Certainly tops to yeah, certainly top two many times U. Yeah, And I'm sure three has to. But but four has never happened before. Okay, let's talk about this from the Miami side. The the Laramie Tunsil trade

just continues to be unbelievable for them. They've now turned Laramie Tunsil into four first round picks, which we've heard above average tackle and the main catalyst, of course, going back to that draft day was unbelievable, unbelievable. So Miami clearly gonna stick with two that's come out of this even after Miami. So Miami went to pick twelve, and then they went up to pick six later on Friday, um with their trade for Philadelphia. Philadelphia gave up an

extra first round pick to move six spots. And the weird thing is they're not even a position to take a quarterback from here. They moved up six spots to get like a tackle. I don't know that's gonna be. That was another one. Just Miami crushed at the front office, just crushing. I love their offseason moves Will Fuller and others, and now now this so a great, great opportunity for them. Now, the teams that get screwed out of this this deal

on Friday, the Panthers and the Broncos. These were teams picking eight and nine, and both teams heavily repeatedly rumored to be looking to make a quarterback up grade. Bryan, Now they're dead because now these quarterbacks are gonna go. They're gonna, like I said, I think they go one, two, three, four in quarterbacks. And when none of those four are gonna hit pick eight, and it's became that much harder to try to trade up for one. It's the the Mac the Max scrap that they're gonna be vying for

Mac Jones. I think they're now then, and I don't. I don't think anyone wants to be talking themselves into Mac Jones. But I see I don't. I don't love him. No, I think I don't. I don't know that the small pocket of people there are there are there are Chris Simms loves him. There are people who do so if you're the Panthers of the Broncos now, and by the way, we let's be clear, the Jets are not moving the Jet.

The fact that the Jets didn't take this deal because you know, the Niners called the Jets and offered the same thing to the Jets and the Jets said no. So you know they're taking a quarterback. So um, this means the Jets staying quarterback. So we know the top three going quarterbacks Panthers and Broncos would have to try to maybe move up to Atlanta at pick four is about the only thing they can do if they want to try to get a quarterback. Otherwise, you could try

to fear the panthers of the Broncos. You could trade for a quarterback who is sixteen pending sexual assault lawsuits against him. You could rate for Jimmy Garoppolo um a quarterback who was so unwanted that the Niners spent three first round picks to avoid him. Or you could do the mac Jones as you mentioned. You could trade up with Atlanta, Cincinnati maybe, or you just start the guys. You've got Carolina and Denver should make a play for Gardner Minshew. In my opinion, he would come in and

push both Bridgewater Andrew Lock on the Denver side. And you can get Minshew for a song now because they're all in on Trevor Lawrence of course in Jacksonville. So yeah, for sure. Okay, let's talk about some of the some of the other big moose that happened from the wide receiver position since our last podcast, Brian, and then we'll go to running backs and we will go to tight ends. Uh in totality for this free agency period. So we

begin with Kenny Golladay going to the Giants. This is your former team, the Giants, they have now loaded with offensive talent. Are around Daniel Jones did really other than the offensive line, although in credib and fairness they put a lot of They've really tried to show up for that line. It just hasn't worked. Um they've given They're gonna give Daniel Jones every opportunity to succeed this year. Yeah, I'm more excited for Daniel Jones. I am Kenny Golladay.

There's still there's competition for Galladay when it comes to targets. Sterling Shepard still a factor, of course. I mean Golladay is the best wide receiver on the team. Will get me wrong by law Evan Ingram. We think he sticks around and then a healthy say Kwan Barkley is gonna command touches via the ground and the past. So I still like Golliday. I think people might get a little too over excited about him, bump him into the you know,

wide receiver twenty range. He was about wide receiver late twenties before the news And this doesn't really change a whole lot for me, but it makes the whole offense better and it boosts Daniel Jones is stock for sure,

it does. Jones is the winner here. Holliday is probably the loser because he goes down, He goes down in the quarterback quality that's throwing him, goes down a full step from Matthew Stafford to Daniel Jones embarrass If he stayed into Troit, he would add, that was what happened. That's right, that's right. So, um, Daniel Jones becomes to me a very intriguing young player. And you know, as a reminder that he played arguably the hardest schedule against

the past last year. Um, he he does make some really good and really bad throws and you just you know, part of that I just chalk up to him just style a play and also just him learning on the job. This becomes a mak or break year for Daniel Jones. And unlike the Jets who had a similarly you know, young quarterback couple of years in the league shrouded with no talent, and the Jets really don't know what they

have in Sam Donald. The the Giants are gonna find out everything they need to know about Daniel Jones this year and have a have an answer one way or another, barring major injury to his weapons they have. Daniel Jones doesn't get it done this year, then hopefully Getleman realizes it's time to move on. But I'll for himself move himself on. But yeah, ide both be hitchhiking on the parkway or the turn play together. Uh, t Y Hilton

stays in Indianapolis. He turned down the Ravens for the opportunity to stay with the team he's been a part of for ten years. And no one wants to be wide receiver in Baltimore. Baltimore's tried to team Johnson can run because schusterdal I'll take less money and stay with Ben Roethlisberger's arm. Yeah, t Y Hilton, this is the last It was a one year deal. He's at that age. He should have went for the money. But I know we're just talking fantasy here, but it doesn't move the needle.

He's on the decline. And you know, there's an obviously quarterback change in indeed, from Rivers to Wentz, which is kind of a lateral move. There's probably more upside. Where is more upside with Wentz. The arm is so much better than what Rivers had at the end of his career. But uh this the overall quarterbacking my not be that great for wins. The jury is still out on that,

but Yeah, Hilton still where he is. He's a a wide receives he's a bench player in redrafts and uh, you know Dart in best Ball, but nothing too exciting. Staying in Indie, the Lions picked up what might be their wide receiver one in Brishad Perriman. Yeah, it might be the best receiver on roster. Well, and then Tyrell Williams we talked about last week. That's like the gross that's like the most highly contested battle for the least

exciting wide receiver one in the NFL. Tyrelle Williams, I think Paman, if you can find the right spots, I actually think he's gonna be good. And here's why the Lions are gonna be losing a ton and assuming Pairman can stay healthy, there's gonna be a lot of just bombs away trying to catch up from behind, a lot of passing from golf and a lot of these games.

Is the Lions are obviously in a major rebuild, So I think Pairman is gonna be one of those guys you can just you can plug in from time to time. He'll be a super fun DFS guy and always has been. You can hit those big games of Harriman, you get paid big bank. Yeah, we're looking at a hundred plus targets easily from Perriman. So he's fantasy viable for sure. Last last receiver I want to mention that signed since our last show, DeShawn Jackson. He'll play for two games

for the Rams and then get hurt. Speaking of intriguing DFS plays, that's all. He's the best ball guy you want, you want to stash on your bench. But if he stays healthy, he'll make some noises year. I'm sure when Antonio Brown won the Super Bowl he was like, yes, I'm gonna get this big pay day, and you know

teams are gonna be clamoring for me. I I was a a significant cog to a Super Bowl team, Crickets for Antonio Brown, including his old team that has brought back basically the entire team except Antonio Brown had the franchise tag on Chris Godwin did not help Brown's prospects for the If that didn't happen, then it was probably

a foregone conclusion he'd resigned with Tampa Bay. But you know they like Scottie Miller, young guy, so at they're they're they're pretty heavy at receivers so and a couple of weeks ago, we mentioned Brown seems like the only Blakely landing place at this point in his career and his mindset. What Brown is, what landing place or not re landing place in Tampa Bay, in Tampa's he needs to stay with Tom Brady, does need to stay with

Tom Brady anybody else. I think that's part of the concern is if you're any other team who has even passing into Santonio Brown, you gotta ask yourself, which am I gonna sure he was? He was fine while he was living in god Brady's house, Baltimore. No one wants to play wide receiver Baltimore. About double revenge games with the Steelers. Against the Steelers, I should say, let's go is a double revenge or single revenge? We'll double in that he gets the get the get Okay, all right,

I'm with you on that. We'll take a break when we come back. Let's go through the free agent running backs Chris Carson, Kenyan, Drake James White, Philip Lindsay uh and many others notable running backs. Leonard four Nette talked about the Bucks bringing back the gang. Leonard four Nett and him staying with Tampa. We'll talk about the fantasy implications of the running backs when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Giargian

and Brian Johnson with you. Let's recap the salient free agent running back moves from this off season, beginning with Chris Carson, who resigns with Seattle. To me, this was the best possible outcome for Chris Carson, and especially with Carlos Hide gone. Now the only thing that and they is a team that's traditionally used a workhorse, it'll beat Chris Carson. I I feel like he's vastly underappreciated, and I don't see Rashad Penny as a threat. How do

you see this? Yeah, I'm with you. This is the best case scenario for Carson staying in Seattle. Touched on this a couple of weeks ago. The most rushing yards since eighteens of the last three years regular season games only Derrick Henry number one, Ezekiel Elliott number two, Dalvin

Cook number three, Chris Carson. Report So people, listeners, no listener would have thought that, and that the line is essentially been garbage his whole tenure thrown down the gauntlet on this right, and if the front office is going to keep him, they need to protect him. But there there there. Maybe we're a couple landing places that would been a little more enticing for Carson, but staying in

Seattle is just fine, and he's undervalued right now. He's a guy everyone should be targeting in Dynasty, redraft all of it. I'm with you, um. One of the other landing places that could have worked out for Chris Carson was Atlanta, and instead they signed Mike Davis on a very cheap deal, and we saw Davis look awfully good and he walks into a three down starting role in Atlanta. He kind of reminds me. I feel like I'll be reminded of the Michael the Burner Turner days kind of.

They kind of see my comparable players. But yeah, I love the move a lot. Falcon is always a potent offense. Like you said, he's likely walking into a Bell roll. Todd Gurley long gone, not like he was much of a factor. And speaking of double revenge games, he gets Carolina twice a year now that he's the Falcons. And then I did extended to research because Davis has been around. He gets San Francisco this year too. Oh yeah, he's he started there. I think, well they drafted him and yeah,

but he had a little bit marred injury history. But sadly no Bears or Seahawks on the schedule because he could have had the quintuple revenge game because he's all been in the NFC. So I like to move from Mike Davis and I like to move for Atlanta. Like you said, got him on the cheap, and that's a three down starter that nobody's really gonna be thinking about. And he's gonna be an RB two this he's top twenty four range right now, easily for Kenyan. Drake goes

to the Raiders for two years. He will back up the oft injured Josh Jacobs and they're talking about having him play a little wide out as well, which whatever. I don't care about that, but um that we've seen the backups behind Josh Jacobs, have you know been plug and play guys, and you know Jacobs does get hurt a lot. Yeah, Drake pretty much the one the key handcuffs going into the season. If you invest in Josh Jacobs and yeah, like you said they want to use

him at wide receiver. I'm not saying you can't catch the ball. He's proven he can over the course of his career. Short career, but top fifteen receiving yards once last year with zero touchdown. So yeah, let's Kenyan Drake wide receiver. Okay. James James White resigns with the Patriots. His usage basically fell in half of Tom Brady out. I don't I'm not very interested in this move now, and if DA best bet um, we'll see what they

do at quarterback. Patriots aren't done at the quarterback position. I don't believe, and that that could change our evaluation of James White. Philip Lindsay goes to the Texans a one year, three half million dollar deal. I think this is the worst possible landing spot for Philip Lindsay. He's gonna have to battle David Johnson and mark Ingram and I just think it's it's just too many miles to see the grossest backfield, terrible offense with we don't even

know the starting quarterback. Is gonna be a bad offensive line, and there's nothing to like here. Yeah, three years ago, these these guys are top twenty four running backs on draft day now, all on the same team, and I don't want to touch any of them. Damian Williams signs one year deal with the Bears, and you'll remember the Damien Williams knows Matt Nage's offense from Kansas City and he was with Bill Laser when he was with the Dolphins,

if you go back to previous spot. So a schematic fit here for Damien Williams and he backs up David Montgomery. And you know, while Montgomery clearly looked better last year, you know, I still think there's a plenty of room for Damien Williams to have a role in this offense. Three Cohen will come back though, and muddy the words as well. Yeah, you basically touched on it. All bad news from Montgomery. Basically, Williams will soak up some touches in a three Cohen who played what to three games

last year. But we're getting hurt clearly that the alpha receiving back on that team. So yeah, Montgomery is gonna go way too high this year. That's gonna be I'm it's March. I'm planting my flag in don't follow the adp on David Montgomery. It was justified before this move really because he did, like you said, you look great second half of the year last year. It's a little strong.

Great for David Montgomery or for a Bear. No knock on Allen Robinson, Ellen Robinson, you agreed to well Bears runners. I hear Peyton was good. Yeah. Uh. Jamal Williams signs in Detroit for two years. Uh. The market was really pretty soft for Jamal Williams. But he gets out of Green Bay and that it ends up that we have the resigning. Well, let's maybe we should go back to the resigning. So Aaron Jones resigns in Green Bay, Jamal Williams goes to Detroit. For Aaron Jones, it's a pretty

good it's a pretty good outcome. He was already a top five fantasy running back and now Jamal Williams out of the mix. I'm just envisioning someone with Aaron Jones and DeAndre Swift on their Dynasty roster and they're like, yes, Jamal Williams Green Bay, he's gonna sath My, DeAndre Swift shares and and Adrian Peterson cockroach unwilling to die. So yeah, again, sort of bad news for Swift, but I think Williams had more standalone value in Green Bay probably than he

will in Detroit. But yeah, he handcuff at best best Marlon max Stang in Indianapolis, he goes into a muddy backfield. I don't think we're gonna be drafting him at all. Um other notables, quasi notables. Uh, Mike Boone goes to the Broncos, where he will be the number two running back there, or at least as things currently stand. I think the Broncos are candidates to get a running back in the draft. Um. I like Mike Boon. I've been a Mike Boon apologist here in Minnesota for a long time.

I think he's requisitive RB two on a team, second running back. You know, get that with the Broncos and Melvin Gordon, we've seen the best of Melvin Gordon for sure, throughout his greer He's probably still the better running back. But yeah, Mike Boone is a guy you want to keep your eye on, not just as a handcuff. He's a back, a standalone backup i'd be looking at on draft day. I don't want to talk about these backups

that got that have new homes. But Tevin Coleman to the Jets, Carlos High to Jacksonville, Malcolm Brown to Miami, DeVante Booker to the Giants. These are all backups that need, you know, need a break or something to happen before any fantasy impact at all. Leonard for Nett stays with

the Bucks. What do you think that? So he had the big he had the big playoff run, he was instrumental to their getting them to the super Bowl, and then um, he uh, I think he thought there'd be a big market for him and it never really came together, and he's he languished on the free agency market for the better part of a week and a half and then finally he had to just resign with the box.

You know what I think is what I should have thought more last year, especially playing daily, is just pretend the Buck's backfield doesn't on no part of it any format Fantasy football. Now it's bad. Yeah, unfortunately, all right, we'll take a break when we come back. The tight ends, and it was a it was a lot of movement on tight end. I'm excited about one. I know you are. I'm excited about one too. We'll talk about the free

agent tight end moves from this offseason. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, welcome back Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson with you. The free agent tight ends conversation begins with the Patriots because they got the number one and the number two best tight ends. And I I've said it a million times, I'll continue to say it. Best head coach ever, Bill Belichick, worst GM ever, Bill Belichick. I don't understand. I think I can understand signing one

of these two. And I know you can play two tight ends a lot. And I know about Aaron Hernandez and Gronk playing together, don't care. That was with Tom Brady and this was a and when they were at their their height, they had Randy Moss and West Welker, and you know that was a luxury d F two tenants. This is a team that had no good wide receivers and instead of signing their second tight end, they could

had Kenny Golladay. You know it's time close. We you know the they paid Nelson Aglar and Kendrick Borne no big money, the big to sign Juju and Will Fuller

like head scratch, just baffling moves. So John and Johnno gets four years from the Patriots, and and when when he was the first guy to sign, they signed him right out of the gate with a probably the flashiest day one signing to eight tight end easily right there, right then, at that in that moment, he was he was back right back into the top ten, even with Cam Newton throwing him the ball. You're like this. They

obviously love him, they paid him so much. And then one or two days later the Patriots signed Hunter Henry for three years and a similar deal like million bucks. Unbelievable and that that I think it all but ruins the fantasy value of both guys not in team tight end leagues. Yeah, tight end, this is the best scenario there is. I just don't know that you're ever gonna be able to guess which guy is gonna score, even

when you've got a primo tight end matchup. How am I supposed to know if it's a johnno Smith game over a Hunter Henry game. Yeah? Uh, tough to call from a daily prospective week to week. And when it comes to redrafts and even dynasty startups at this point, I just not touching it. Now. They're gonna stab each other's value so distantly really really unfortunate for both of those guys. And now if somehow they get themselves the Patriots get themselves back to a meaningful quarterback. Brian Um.

I don't know the trade for Jimmy Garoppolo or Sam Donald maybe even you know, if they have some semblance of passing prowess in the you know, then maybe I'll reconsider. But I'm I'm very very nervous right now for Hunter Henry and John new Smith. All right, let's go to uh Rob Gronkrowski. He resigned with the Bucks for one year. We saw a lot of his work had sapped up by Cameron brad Um and then, you know, trying to figure that out every week was almost impossible for fantasy

owners as well. Hey, Gron finished tight end eight nine on a total points basis, but points per game. He he was kind of brutal, had some really gasp played most of the season. That's why he was able to finish top ten among tight ends. But he's he's a backup when it comes to fantasy. That's bottom one. Speaking of backups for fantasy, Jared Cook, who has got who the Saints had zero interest in retaining, goes to the Chargers to fill in for Hunter Henry. Yeah, and really

Donald Parham. The Parham I don't know pronouncing the other one correctly, but the former XFL star is a lot more exciting Jared J. I think it's from a from a long term perspective. Maybe cook Out performs Parham this year, but Donald Parham is really the guy to keep your

eye on it tight end for the Chargers. Anthony Firkster resigns with the Titans for one year Without John hu Smith there, Ferkester becomes actually very interesting in this offense, and we've seen him perform well when John who was playing hobbled in the for the you know, the last second half of the season last year. First it was actually you know, a guy you could you could throw a dart ad from time to time. Now with Jonas Smith gone, he'd been and Corey and Corey Davis gone.

I mean, think of all the targets that are gone out of out of the Tennessee receiving group. Anthony Firster is going to be a popular sleeper. Yeah, he showed he could play last year. He had a couple of really big games like yeah, like yards in a touchdown, has some big chunk yardage games. So yeah, there was a looking good and really Josh Reynolds the only ad for Tennessee at wide receivers, not not much one. So

Adam Humphrey's gone as well. That's another vacated target. And keep in mind the new offensive coordinator for Tennessee is Todd Downing. Who was the tight end coach? You like? I think those things can matter. It's just you know, when you were the position coach, you know everything there was to know about that player and who can really be helpful for you? So I think that might ultimately help Anthony Ferchster, he's going to be one of my It's again it's March, but he's one of my favorite

early sleepers. Anthony Kster. We'll save the best for last year. Ready, speaking of favorites, go ahead, Dan Arnold to the Panthers, and I didn't appreciate how uh, well, it's not Rhodo wire anymore. What are the artists ABC Sports Billy or something like that. They broke the news to me saying Panthers take flyer on receiving tight end Dan Arnold two years, six million, four point five million of that six was guaranteed that doesn't sound like a flyer to me, that

sounds like guy. And you know who's not the guy is Ian Thomas. Ian Thomas, by the way, top ten and snaps as a receiver among tight ends last year. God, he didn't produce like that at all. Then that was the same amount of snaps at you know, split out his receiver as t J. Hockenson. He was more than Mark Andrews, more than Robert Tonyan, more than anything. Twenty receptions. You and Thomas had one touchdown. Now inside Dan Arnold playmaking.

Dan Arnold reunited with I don't know if it's the O C or the tight ends coach off the top of my head, but from his days with New Orleans, so you know they lured him in to Carolina and mentioned it last week or a week or two ago. Arnold, only you saw forty five targets last year. Uh. To put that into perspective, guys like Hunter, Henry Noah Fan, Dalton Schultz, Mike Kisiki or Hebrons saw roughly ninety targets.

And if you doubled Arnold's production on the forty five targets at ninety, he would have finished with over sixty catches yards and eight touchdowns. That's like top five, top six tight end territory. Sure if I double his production. Look at he's not an offensive with Arizona, well, not as production, just as targets. I mean, it's not apples to apples. But Dan Arnold stock way up in my mind. Okay, he is draftable as a backup tight end right now with tight end one upside in that being a top

twelve tight end. A couple other notes that aren't necessarily related to running backs or tight ends. The Niners they kept their the highest graded tackle from last year by Pro Football Focus, Trent Williams, and then they added center Alex mac who played for Shanahan in Atlanta, and maxim older player and I was thirty five years old, but still this. I love the fact that that offensive line, which can be very good, stays intact for the forty Niners.

And on the other side of the coin, the Raiders jennison four of their starters from last year, Rodney Hudson, Gabe Jackson, Richie Incognito, and Trent Brown roll gone. That is a lot of change on an offensive line, and you know, we know that when you bring all these new bodies together. It takes like half a year to get the cohesion on that offensive line, and I think

that think that line is gonna be a wreck. I'm with you, and one more team I think we should make mention of again is the Giants from a non fantasy perspective, but it's gonna have implications as them signing cornerback a Dory Jackson, which might give them the best cornerback duo now with Brad Berry on the other side, and that defense is not a shutdown cornerback. He's not a shutdown shadow cornerback, but he's reunited with Logan Ryan

from when he was good with the Titans. I'm saying the Giants defense you want to you want to fade on a certainly from a deli perspective, just looking at NFC East teams like the Giants are no dormat anymore, even though they're I'm not gonna get into Dave Petleman. I'm done. Last thing I'll mention about the Packers. They lost their center Corey Lins Like he was a great player, and that is a that's a sizeable loss. Chargers pick

him up. I love to see the Chargers working their offensive line and I think they're gonna hit it in the draft as well, because they've got a great quarterback that they need to protect, and they've had offensive line woes for twenty damn years and I want to see them get better. So the Packers will be without him. And Aaron Rodgers was the least pressured quarterback last year. This could put a ding in that um Packers did put did get Robert tany in on a second round tender,

and he's unlikely to leave the team. And I'm glad to see tany and stay there because of what the success he had. What is the big wide receiver signing for the Packers. I kind of expected what the heck? Uh, you know, and I realized they hadn't They didn't have money to burn. Blaga was super expensive last year. You know, Aaron Rodgers is extremely expensive. Antonio Brown or Samue Watkins's freaking sucks. Uh. De goes back to Green Bay's bounce.

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