Free Agency, Part II

into free agency with quarterbacks and running backs. This week we're focusing on wide receivers and tight ends. The tampering period starts Monday, so it'll be fascinating to see where these guys go. Who goes early, who goes late, has a lot of wide lot of wide receiver talent. Yeah, hitting the hitting the market and it's it's fascinating. And before we get to the wide receivers and the tight free agents, let's let's mention this. This Cam Newton decision

by the Patriots and Bill Belichick baffling. Not a I'm shocked they brought him back at any price, b at fourteen million dollars. I mean, that's starter quarterback money for a guy Bill Belichick benched three? Is it four times during the season, Brian, I'm I just I'm stunned by this. I've said it so many times. Bill Belichick GM undermines

Bill Belichick head coach all the time. I have no words, really my only this could just be the most Belichick thing ever where he has lulled the rest of the a f C East into think he may have a chance. And of course the Bills were the a f C championship. But I don't know, is this like this like the ultimate Kaiser? So's a play by Bill Belichick bringing back

Cam Newton who he benched. There's three that I can think of off the top of my head, and they can not finished last year through so five touchdown passes or something like that. I think it was a nine touchdown past season, which is unfathomable. Now here's what this. Apologists are saying, he had COVID. He was better before COVID, that after COVID he was never the same guy. So then it'll be further removed from COVID. Maybe bad receivers

and his his receivers were bad. The fair points, you know, the team had ten players on their COVID opt out list was the most in the NFL. I think the majority run defense. I think they had one offensive lineman. Um most of the you know, most of that was was defense. Still, it's just you know, the eye test. Look at Cam Newton and maybe the worst part of this, and there's no guarantee Cam Newtons the starting quarterback Week one, but at fourteen million dollars, he's in play for it.

Poor Damien Harris. Ye, that's torpedoes his fantasy value. Yep, that's the worst part of this. This is right up your alley. Signs st Beard right transition you need, and he would. I Belichick could go better than anybody he's faced. He's faced Stu Beard so many times. You know, if you need a transition quarterback to get you the Patriots, to get you to whoever's next, whatever young kid you've decided is your next up and coming quarterback, Ryan fit Patrick,

that's your guy. They don't have a they don't have an option outside of canis As. It seems like they're they're out on DeShawn Watson. I guess if someone's gonna trade for them, they're not gonna draft one of these maybe they're higher in the draft, and we ever see the Patriots. I think they're picking nine. I mean, you know, there's they It wouldn't take a lot from them to get from like nine and nine might get them one

of the big four quarterbacks. It might. It probably won't, but from them to get to nine to like six to go get one, you know, is possible. Do you think cam Newton was the one who was most surprised by this signing. It's got be like, oh my God, found money. I mean, just I gotta believe in. I gotta believe he was prepping himself to be a backup for two million dollars. Yeah, it's bizarre, unbelievable. All right,

let's go to the free agent wide receivers. There are a bunch of teams that have have wide receiver need. I'm just gonna list them off briefly. I see it Detroit, which has we're gonna talk about older receivers are going to free agents Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, in the Vegas, Miami, New England, the Giants, Jets, Philadelphia, Tennessee, in Washington. Alphabetically, there's a there's your laundry list of teams that have

real need at wide receiver. These are all teams that basically have got one receiver or less that they can really count on. So given that as a backdrop, let's let's look at some of the available free agent wide receivers a little background and where what got them to where they are today and ideal landing spots for each of these guys. I've done all the talking so far, Brian, but I'll go first, Ken eat Holiday. It's got to be the best name out of this crop, right, elite

level player, potentially on a Hall of Fame pace. The Lions decision not to franchise Glidy is a clear sign that they are in full blown rebuilding mode again, you know, perpetually rebuilding. And it is a team that's allowing its number one, number two, and number three wide receivers from this year all to walk in free agency. Unbelievable. They've also forced one of the greatest wide receivers of all

time into early retirement and Calvin Johnson. And they also drafted like five wide receivers in the first round in the early two thousands, like multiple years. That was Matt Millin's fault, of course, but yeah, curse that the wide receiver position essentially. Holiday played four full games last year was weeks three through six. He was a killer. He scored or topped one yards and all four of the games he might have been the highest scoring wide receiver

in fantasy football on a per game basis. You know, first four games, um and and he really he wasn't really truly healthy for even any of those four games. He played those four games hurt. It was hamstring injury at the start of the year, and then the hip injury that knocked him out for the rest of the year after that. And it was an unfortunate season for Kenny Golladay. But he's more than proven himself as an elite receiver. I think the ideal landing spot for him

is just any place with solid quarterbacking. The problem here is, though, Brian, the intersection of wide receiver needy teams with good quarterbacks and who have requisite cat salary cap space is very small. So here's the only teams that I think are possible landing spots. Houston with the Shawn Watson for the moment, Tennessee with Ryan Tannehill, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson and as a sneaky one Las Vegas, because I think Derek car

is sneaky competent, So that's it. I think it's I think there's only four really ideal landing spots for Kenny Golladay. The problem is Golladay he wants top tier wide receiver money, which he deserves. It's gonna to get it, but he hasn't proven to stay healthy, and that's where there's gonna be a big disconnect. I feel like in the in the market for teams asking price and what he's going

to be willing to sign for. But uh, yeah, if he plays sixteen full games, he's got wide receiver one, you know, top twelve wide receiver ability written all over him. In redraft leagues, I think Kenny Golladay's value here is medium high. His current ADP is only the fourth round in these in early drafting, but he's got room to go way up from there if he lands in the right spot. I mean, if he goes to any place with the competent quarterbacking, I think he goes, Kenny Golladay

could move as high as the second round. In dynasty. I think it's also medium high here. He's only twenty seven years old, so he's really entering the prime of his career, kind of in the prime and and and throughout this next contract that will probably like a four year contract, he'll be operating through the latter part of the prime of his career. So I think he's good for another three is years and I think Kenny Golladay remains very valuable. Let's go to our our next free agent,

wide receiver, Will Fuller. Will Fuller till turns twenty seven in April, So, like Galladay, entering the prime of his career, and despite only playing eleven games in twenty finished as wide receiver twenty four on a total points basis, and uh, he was tied for fifth in points per game because he was he was going off and that that included a Week two against Baltimore when he was literally blanked

zero catches. I think he might have had a target, but uh was this on an incredible pace the points per game pace, he was tied with A. J. Brown for fifth, only trailed Stefon Diggs, Calvin Ridley, Tyree Kill and Davante Adams and good company right there, very good company. Um. But as we all know, his season was cut short because of the pe D suspension and before this year,

Galada had some trouble staying on the field. Fuller, but yes, Fuller, yeah, my bead uh played eleven games in seven and ten seventeen. All it was always a hammy, I'm pretty sure for the most part. So did the p e D s keep him healthy make him a better player? There's some red flags there, but again he was going off last year. He was arguably the most reliable wide receiver in fantasy football, and right now he's going off. The board is wide receiver twenty seven in Best Ball, So that caution is

it's out there, for sure, it is. And you mentioned all the wide receiver needy teams, but ones ones that you didn't mention. I think the Packers and the Cardinals are are else also in the monent for a wide receiver. Packers for sure, about the Cardinals, but you're absolute right Green Bay should have been in that list. But if Christian Kirk leaves, you know, the Texans love shipping, uh. The Cardinals love receiving Texans over from Houston J J.

Wat DeAndre Hopkins in the like. But man Golladay m keep saying Gollady Fuller, Uh, he seems about right where he's at. I'm not I'm not fully on board with him staying healthy for a full sixteen game season without the help of p DS. I know it was an honest mistake. I'm not gonna throw him under the bus too much, but I think his value is right about right and uh in redraft and you gotta bump it up a little bit, a little bit in UH Dynasty, But I'm just not sold. He's a every week player

that you can rely on. You know, where I'd like him to go. I want his landing spot to be wherever Deshaun Watson is. How about that? You know, if Watson stays in Houston, I'd like will Fuller if to sign with his original team. Actually, we don't want him to go to Arizona because Hopkins is there and Hopkins always stabbed his talent outside his hands on hamstrings. But yeah, let's keep him and Hopkins away from each other. They're probably buddies, but they don't need to play together anymore.

Ex Up Marvin Jones. Uh. He got a lot of extra volume due to Kenny Golladay's mostly missed season last year, and he saw career highs and targets and receptions last season. But even with all that, Brian Marvin Jones didn't crack a thousand yards despite being the go to receiver and you know for at least twelve games. And here's an interesting staff that I came across. I believe he's the only wide receiver with nine or more touchdowns in three

of the past four seasons, which is pretty shocking. He finished last year's wide receiver fifteen. Not bad for Marvin Jones. Ideal ending spout from Rvin Jones any team where he doesn't have to be the top receiver. Unlike Fuller and Golliday that have proven they can be a top receiver, Marvin Jones can't. It's just you know, he had he had good quarterback in for Matthew Stafford and wasn't able to get to a thousand yards last season. I don't think he's a number one. He feels like a number two.

So then he could go to Baltimore behind Holliday, behind uh Hollywood Brown. He could go to Chicago behind Allen Robinson, Miami behind Parker, the Giants behind Sterling Shepherd and Darius Slayton, Tennessee behind A. J. Brown, Washington behind McLarin. I'd like to see him be a regular number two like he was for Kenny Golladay. What about Green Bay alongside Green Bay? Yeah, green Bay. Davante Adams perfect, I love. I love the double revenge game angle for any player. Marvin Jones readraft

value is medium low. I think unless he falls into a perfect spot in his dynasty, value is low. He's a thirty one year old and he's entering his tenth season, and you know, you forget he played four years for Cincinnati that we don't even remember anymore. I don't think it was John Kittener throwing him the ball or something at this point. But Scott Mitchell maybe even knowing not that old, not that old, but Scott Mitchell was Detroit. Did he finish his career in Cincinnati? And I forgot?

I thought we were talking about Detroit quarterbacks still there now, since that's how he got got crossed right there? All right? Talk to us about Antonio Brown. It sounds like he'd like to stay in Tampa. You would think he would want to stay in Tampa because I'm not convinced he can keep his head on straight without sharing bunk beds with tom Brady. Tom Brady keep him in line, even though Tom Brady is kind of like a drunk uncle

right about now. But yeah, Antonio Brown turns thirty three in July, so he's more than based in the twilight of his career for lack of better turn you see a single play last year that you would describe as like, you know, game breaking, like Antonio Brown used to be in his prime, not necessarily, but he did turn it

on towards the end of the year. Though. Here here's a random stat though most games with ten plus catches in NFL history, Antonio Brown with the most, twenty two with Andre Johnson, who never had a competent quarterbacks career but but more pertinent to fantasy football last year in in PPR points per snap, So this is essentially based on how much you play, right, how many points you produced per snap. Davante Adams was first at point for

eight PPR points per snap. God, that's a lot on a per snap basis cheats, and then number two Antonio Brown really point three nine, right ahead of Tyreek Hill. Yeah, so I mean Brown didn't come into you know, come into play into a week seven Week eight when Tampa Bay signed him, took some some time to get ramped up, but again as a season war on, he he looked great. That that helped with Mike Evans being hurt a little bit late in the season. But uh, Brown looked good.

But I'm not interested in him unless he stays in Tampa Bay. I think he's got to stay there too. Uh. I think Baltimore and Miami or just my gut, like those are places he could end up. I could see them taking up a flyer on Antonio Brown with him, probably not yet. The Dolphins maybe keep him in Florida. But right now, I Antonio Brown in on South Beach sounds like a bad comb. It does, especially with the Dolphins. But right now, Brown his redraft value. He's going around

wide receiver forty five. You're drafting him as a wide receiver three with upside. He's kind of more of a best ball play. And when it comes to dynasty, he has value, but not in a startup If I'm doing a start up draft, I'm not. I'm not drafting Antonio Brown anywhere. He's He's a wide receiver three reserve player for a contend in dynasty. In an existing league, of course, we're gonna take a break when we come back. Some of the other wide receivers and tight ends available in

free agency. As I mentioned deep deep pool. We still got guys like Juju Smith, Schuster, and Curtis Samuel to talk about. And that's just at the wide receiver position. Stay tuned for more Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson with you. You can follow us on Twitter at Paul Charchion at b t x J. Continuing with the wide receiver free agents,

Brian Corey Davis finished his wide receiver twenty nine. He was an all or nothing fantasy producer who generally fared well against bad defenses, struggled against most of the rest of the league. He crushed to Jacksonville, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland. His big games were not connected to A. J. Brown's health,

which was interesting. You know, you might have thought, you know, when AJA Brown was there, either did really well with A J. Brown because Brown was sucking up all the big you know, all the best UH coverage, or maybe he wouldn't do you would do better with A D. Brown. Ow it didn't. It turns out it didn't really matter. H Pro Football Focus loved Corey Davis. They ranked him

as the eighth highest. They graded him eighth highest wide receiver eight by Pro Football Focus, immediately behind DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson, and Adam Feeland. Wow, that's some good company right there. And the guy who was essentially left for dead in draft season last year. He was like a late round flyer for in most leagues, undrafted, undrafted in most leagues. Yes, the ideal landing spot for him. I don't think Corey Davis feels like a wide receiver one

on any team. I think he's a wide receiver to He did very little for three seasons before last year, and that's going to give people a pause. And so, like Marvin Jones, I think he's best suited when there's another talent on the field, so he didn't have to try to be a number one, which he isn't. Baltimore, Chicago, Green Bay, Miami, the Giants, Tennessee, Washington all makes sense. The redraft value for Corey Davis here, I think it's

a medium low um. But he's still only twenty six years old, so in dynasty and Empire leagues, Yeah, maybe that makes a little more sense to roll the dice on him, and I could see him going a couple of rounds higher in the Dynasty League because he is still so young. Yeah, he probably will still remain undervalued wherever he ends up. He could blow up in your face, but he still has very high stealing It was not

long ago he was the top wide receiver. You know, he went to Central Michigan, a smaller school and all that, but he was a blue chip prospect not long ago. Let's go to Juju Smith Schuster. This very podcast absolutely nailed that Juju Smith Schuster would be heading to free agency last summer. We talked about it many times that we thought that odd man out of that crowded wide receiver room was gonna be Juju Smith Schuster. And here we are. He said it for a free agency Yeah, Juju.

Four seasons now he has played, and he just turned twenty four November. Got incredibly young a season to vet at twenty four years old and newly minted twenty four year old. And last season it wasn't as bad as I remembered, like off the top of my head, like he was a huge bust. He did have some landmine games, but it wasn't as bad as I remembered, especially starting from Week nine through the wild Card game, which was ten games. He scored in seven of those ten games

and four of his last five. He became incredibly reliable. And uh yeah, Pittsburgh letting him walk, and the Jets feels like the team for Juju because I believe Jameson Crowder might be leaving. I don't worry. I don't. I don't remember that. We don't have talk Crowder, but I don't know. All the wide receiver needy teams should be enticed by Juju because last year Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger is in the twilight of his career too. Juju is

very intriguing for any wide receiver needy team. He's gonna command twelve to fifteen million year as see him something like, you're gonna need cap space too. I would not pay him that much, but I wouldn't, but maybe some team will, um I it'll be fascinating to see where he goes. You know, he's a pure slot receiver, so that you know that that that really changes the window of the teams that could end up going after Juju. Smith Schuster and right now, right now, and redraft, he's like wide

receiver thirty. He's going after guys like Tyler Boyd, will Fuller, who he talked about earlier, Cooper Cup, Brandon Aiyuk And granted those guys might deserve to go ahead of Juju, but he's still met that range where he can outlive that a DP And I don't think he's gonna blow up in your face too much. He's not gonna bought them ount entirely. So I like his value and redraft and in Dynasty Tennessee, to me, would be the perfect

landing spot. So he gets Ryan Tannehill, highly competent quarterback, and they need a slot receiver. They let Adam Humphreys go. That would end up being a bad free agent contract that they gave him, and you know, maybe they give up. Maybe they tried Juju Smith Schuster. Curtis Samuel finished last year's wide receiver twenty five, and he's actually been sneaky productive for three seasons with seven seven and five touchdowns.

Last year. He said career highs in receptions, yards, rushes, and rushing yards for Curtis Samuel, and they use him more in that jackknife role where they asked Samuel will do a lot of different things, which I love. He is a true gadget player who can be used in a wide variety of ways. Generally runs his routes from the slot, but he's always been a hit or miss fantasy producer and actually, last year, looking through his his his game logs, his rushing production actually bailed him out

of some otherwise really bad games. And so if he continues to run the ball wherever he goes, it would be it would be fascinating to see what he could end up doing, and that does end up saving you a little bit. From a fantasy standpoint. The ideal landing

spot here is I think pretty broad. You know, Curtis Samuel has proven he doesn't have to have a lead quarterbacking to be good because he has never He's never had a lead quarterbacking And so all you gotta do is find a spot with an open slot receiver role like Green Bay, New England, Washington, Miami, Cleveland, Baltimore, Houston, Detroit, Las Vegas. All of them have got open slot receiver spots. You know, anybody any of those could work. I think

it really just depends on the team's willing. His fantasy value depends on the team's willingness to use him in the wide variety of ways that his skill set merits. Yeah, that wide receiver twenty five finishes impressive considering uh D J. Moore and Robby Anderson who are playing over him. Essentially, we're top twenty four wide receivers on a total points breaking basis. So yeah, read draft value for Curtis Samuel's medium low. He's unlikely to emerge as a focal point

of any passing attack. Uh in my mind, And you know, the dynasty value is probably medium. He's still really young. He's twenty four years old, and he's I just see, I kind of see. Curtis Samuel is a back off your roster, bye week filling guy for a long time. You know, whatever team he goes to next, you periodically start him and feel okay about it, and you know, maybe he's got a good matchups here and there and

you start him. But I don't know that i'd want to have Curtis Samuel a is a every week starter. He seems like a guy a team is gonna overpay for in the real world perspective. Sounds right, Um, final, why did you see we're gonna talk about Nelson Aglare, can you believe it? I didn't think we know. I thought it was done all last year, especially with you know,

Tyrrell Williams. Uh, the Raiders have like seven wide receivers ahead of Nelson Agiler that you would consider more relevant drafted one, Brian Edwards, Yeah, Brian Edwards, and Henry Ruggs is the guy who was gonna mention the first wide receiver taken in the in the draft last year. But uh, you had big time whoopsie there. Uh, which we've pointed out many many times over the course of this show

or since his tenure in the NFL. But Nelson Agilar eight touchdowns last year, the eighth most among wide receivers, same amounts guys like Stefan Diggs, Keenan Allen more touchdowns than guys like Justin Jefferson, DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson, Wow, Nelson Aglar and only on eighty two targets. That's I mean, Stefon Diggs had like so it's to he he only had about fifty catches nine hundred yards, but it's under understandable that he only total those numbers on eighty two targets.

He was top eight in average depth of targets. He just at fifteen plus yards. He just wasn't utilized a lot and with the Raiders. And I don't know if he's gonna go back to the Raiders because he essentially called them out for their the whole team, for their their their lack of effort towards the end of the ear. That's the thing he was right, most likely. But wherever he ends up, he's probably only going to see that

same eighty to ninety target share. He's not the guy, but he moved out of the slot role where he was rotting away in Philly. We used them more on the boundaries with Vegas, but this is really where he ends up. If he's the content, complimentary outside piece to say Davante Adams in Green Bay, I'm more intrigued than if he lands with the Giants and some you know, muddled roll or something like that. But uh, he's definitely

way more of a best ball play for me. I'm not a guy to be targeting in redraft or Dynasty, but in best ball he's womped in the mid sixties, which makes him a wide receiver four ish type guy. But uh dynasty. I think he's peaked essentially, but late round flyer more so. In Bestall Nelson. We're gonna take a quick break when we come back the free agent tight ends, and there's a bunch of good ones here too.

It's it's just a crazy year. We'll talk about the free agent tight ends, who matter and where we like them to go, possible uh dynasty and redraft value for the free agent tight ends coming up next. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Third segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a free agent related show. We've already broken down quarterbacks and running backs last week, Wide receivers last two segments.

Now the tight ends. We've got one, two, three, four guys that we want to talk about that we think our fantasy notable. There are a bunch of teams that have tight end need and money to spend. I think that looks like Arizona, Buffalo, Carolina, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, l A Chargers, New England, the Jets, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Tennessee. All teams that have tight ended need and money to spend. Let's

begin with Hunter Henry. His recap last year was a little more disappointing than I had remembered it being when I went back and looked. He's been productive by tight end standards, but just really, no season has he blown people away like we thought he would based on draft position, pedigree, size, athletic ability. It feels like in no season has it really all come together. If you want six hundred yards and four touchdowns from your tight end, he's your guy.

But six hundred and four is mundane, honestly, and you can almost stream your way to six hundred yards and four to four touchdowns in a season. So um, I think now, this is just who Hunter Henry is. And the fact that the that the Chargers didn't want to use their franchise tag on him tells you a little bit about where they how they feel about him. He's gone, He's gone from l A. I think so too. The ideal landing spots to me are Arizona that needs a

tight end. We're gonna talk about another Arizona tight end in a minute. Um, He'll be teamed there with Kyler Murray. Cincinnati to team up with Joe Burrow would be great. Buffalo needs tight end help and Josh Allen is there, and then Seattle assuming Russell Wilson stays Seattle always managed to manages to put together solid, tight end numbers with

the Ross Dwellies of the world. And you know, a bunch of guys coming and going New England also needs tight end And I remember, yeah the Chargers and yeah last last year, and there was a almost an awkwardly long embraced between Bill Belichick and Hunter Henry start there. So if I had to put money on it, I feel like he's going to the Patriots. Maybe they got money, they just don't have a quarterback, true, but yeah, us they do have a lot of money, and I did.

I actually I listed the Patriots there. But let's and and so back to Hunter Henry just for a second year. I think the re draft value in him is pretty low. Um does he get materially better in his next landing spot, I don't know. I mean maybe because he won't have Keenan Allen soaking up balls, but he also won't have a quarterback like Justin Herbert throwing either, probably where he goes,

So I don't know. I think it's medium low. He's he's only twenty six years old, so he's got another like four or five years of solid contributions left, but it's that's just that's all you get is the solid contribution and not outstanding play from Hunter Henry. No matter where he ends up, I feel like he'll could be overvalued on draft because he's just a name that sticks in football players mind, feels comfortable and easy, and there are always guys in your league who want that. All right,

let's go to speak of Patriots and tight ends. Let's go to Rob Gronkowski. Yeah, Rob Gronkowski, former Patriot of course current Buck, well not so current Buck. But you'd think he's gonna go back to Tampa. But turns thirty two in May might be the oldest thirty two, and it is a lot of miles. His liver is probably about fifty years old. But Gronk played in all sixteen games last year, finished tight end seven in total points,

but just eleventh in points per game. Um, he has some major landmine weeks mixed into his a couple of ditch catch games that's certainly have killed you in a guillotine league. But uh, he has to be resigning with the Bucks. I don't see. I don't play anywhere else. For whatever reason he does, He's dead to me. But even if he signs with Tampa Bay, which most people are expecting, he's going off the board right around tight end nineteen right now in redraft, and that he's a backup.

Would you rather Break or would you rather have Gronkowski in a redraft best ball scenarios rather than redraft Gronk? But in dynasty. If I'm doing a dynasty startup, I'd probably take Break. I mean, has value in a dynasty league, but as a backup. But if you're doing a first dear draft, just shoot for upside anywhere else outside of Gronk, We've kind of seen the best at him, but again, he he kind of came on strong towards the end of the year. He was more reliable than I expected

him to be. But the just pretty much avoid Gronk on draft day though for the most part. All right now, we turned our attention to two guys near and dear to our hearts, John John, You and Dan Arnold. Who loves who more? I would be like the ultimate cage match of devotion. I got it. I think I love John U John Wu more than you love Dan Arnold. I'll go first. So last year you'll remember Johnny John

has started the season on fire. Through week five, he was second only to Travis Kelsey in fantasy points and I looked freaking brilliant for five weeks and then and by the way, he hit five touchdowns through week five and he was averaging seven targets and five catches per game. Then he suffered an ankle injury in Week six, and

john U Johnu was never the same. Yeah, I think very gallantly he played through the injury, but they used to mostly as a blocker because he's actually a very good blocking tight end um and I think his mobility was very compromised, and that's such a big part of his game is the fact that he can run like

a running back after the catch. So uh is after after that Week six ankle injury, his usage dropped off dramatically, basically in half three targets and two catches per game half from week six forward down from against seven targets and five catches per game. He was tight end twenty one after that ankle injury. Well, he ran like a running back in the red zone where they utilized him.

He had like two or three rushing touchdowns too. Yeah, he's the uh yeah, he's like essentially the full package which comes to a football player at the fantasy football players care about that. But yeah, let us say he is a top five percent athlete for his position. Incredibly fast. Linebackers have a nightmare matchup because of his speed and size.

And you know, I just I want to see John and John who go to a team that will utilize him and utilize the things that make him special, the athleticism. You know, Seattle's got a history of getting great production out of nobody's at tight end. I'd like to see him teamed up with Josh Allen's big arm. That could because I think he can be a downfield receiver. Justin Herbert would be a great fit for downfield passing if he wants to replace Hunter Henry. Way more dynamic than

Hunter Henry. So those are all some places I like. I think John U John is redraft value is middle of the pack for tight ends. With the right team, I think he'll slot in around tight end ten in redraft leagues. You know, with the wrong team, I think he slides like tight end fifteen or twenty dynasty value. He's still young. He's only twenty five years old, and he's got a ton of tread on the tire after being lightly used in Tennessee. So I think his dynasty

value is a little higher than that. Now, when you said top five in terms of athleticism when it comes to tight ends, what a segue for Dan Arnold oh perfect who turns twenty six on Monday March period starts it's it's gonna be a birthday and my guy deserves to get paid. Yes, he only finished his tight end twenty one on a total points basis last year, but

missed a couple of games, only saw forty five targets. Now, for reference, guys like Hunter, Henry, Noah Fant, Dalton Schultz, the full time Cowboys tight in last year, Mike Kasicki, Eric Ebron all saw roughly ninety targets from like eighty five to nine. All these guys in that range. So if you double Dan's uh forty five targets into that ninety range, he would have finished with sixty one catches,

eight hundred and eighty yards and eight touchdowns. That will put him in the top five or some five comfortably among tight ends. But you have to but you're doubling his output not a safe assumption, but on a per target basis. He was money and there is lots of love in the underlying metric. First among tight ends, an average depth of target last year twelve point six yards. That's like wide receiver caliber dot ninth in yards after the catch per reception, a total force in the red

zone and the end zone more specifically. And he he's still somewhat raw. He had some pretty crucial drops towards the ends of the end of last year. But I still think he can put it all together. And uh, if he's given the target, you know, workload, he can be a top eight, top ten tight end quite easily in the right spot. And Arizona might not be the

right spot. They don't utilize their tight end, never had, and they still gave Max Williams adequate targets and even some other guy I can't remember his name caught a couple of touchdowns for the Cardinals or third string tight end. So tight end thirty six right now for Dan Arnold in in redraft, A lot of appeal for me at that price, especially in dynasty leagues, if you went like the one team we didn't mention that has a gaping hole at tight end, the Carolina Panthers yeah, yeah, I

don't even know their quarterback is gonna be. But the Carolina may they may end up with a really good quarterback, either through the draft because they're drafting, you know, they're moving their draft position would make that possible. Or maybe they there's a lot of rumors are gonna do something splashy at that position. Maybe they make they may they pull off a trade, maybe they get to Shaun Watson.

Who knows. And we should say that this might be one of the deeper tight end classes when it comes to the NFL draft to We'll talk about that in future weeks. Kyle, if you had, if you said charts right now, you have to name one player out of this year's draft to go to the Hall of Fame. kW pits, I hope you're right. I got I got him as a debbie player last year and one of my they made up for, you know, Benjamin being my debbie player year before. But yeah, Kyle Pitts, I got

this going into this year, so I'm feeling good. But Dan Arnold, no shocker coming from me, and keep him on your radar. So back, okay, uh eno, Benjamin. I don't know that we dropped him quite yet no ill in these long in these in these you know, big big roster debby leagues and dynasty, you know, because Kenyan Drake's gone, right, you know, Benjamin and a lot of running backs. It takes two years, two year window on running backs. I don't mind that he got basically don't

work in year one. I wonder if he is not a regular change of pace player this year, if he hasn't basically this year's Chase Edmonds, and Chase Edmonds is the is now the lead back? Yeah, I mean, like you said, Drake likely gone. And if they don't draft another running back unless it's like way late in the draft or sign Uh, they're not gonna sign mark Ingram. We know that. But yeah, you know Benjamin that there's

still a pulse there for sure. Even though I wish I didn't drop Lynn Bowden in favor of you know, Benjamin, the tiebreaker Wash you know, was my debbut player. And this is before the Dolphins released. This is like week four, week five. But I'm regretting holding out the eno over Linn Bowden right about it? Doesn't I don't think he looks Is there anything about Lynn Odin that makes you

feel like you really missed the boat on him. No, at least he was playing football last year though, But uh yeah, I like the I like the you know, Benjamin close, that's uh, it's about his head ease. It gets for a tight end wide receiver. Podcast for talking you know Benjamin, don't you know it's the off season. Thank you for it's Thank you for listening. Got to the end of the podcast some I don't know whatever

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