Free Agent Frenzy!

what if we we're Paul charchiing. He was just one person who did all the voices like he's been doing all of our voices for years. It's it's quite the impressive. He's like the Frank Oz of fantasy football. Umar charches out today under the weather. So Matt and Brian filling in on the weekly Fantasy Football Weekly show, and we're going to talk free agency all over today, the guys at all of the positions that may land on a different team this year. But we have to start with

the big trade. And because we're recording this on Saturday, we got to see this trade that went down Friday afternoon and the Bears trade out of pick number one overall to the Carolina Panthers. The Bears receive pick nine, pick sixty one DJ Moore, which might be the most interesting trade piece so far. Twenty four first and a twenty five second Brian instant reaction, instant reaction, definite upgrade for Jeffson Fields. Of course, it finally has a competent

wide receiver. Definite upgrade for DJ Moore too, right, it almost feels like a lateral movement. I don't know. It's not a bad thing, but um, people knock Justin Fields as a pastor. I think he's a good pastor. He's never had good weapons, he's never had a DJ more before. But true, I'm not bumping. He doesn't change a whole lot for me. I don't think it gets worse. It's not a worse situation for a more. Yeah, it certainly helps fuels more than it helps more. I think Taras

Marshall now is certainly very interesting on the Carolina side. Yeah, absolutely no one left there. Well, specifically, since they don't have a first or a second, they're not taking a wide receiver in the second round unless they're making some crazy moves here. Unlikely. Um, yeah, they're not with the first overall pick either you know Reiver. Well, maybe we'll talk about some wide receivers later in the show that

Carolina can pick up. So Taras Marshall bumped up and I believe it Shy Smith who's getting some run last year. Those are your two starting wide receivers for the Panthers, who also don't have a running back and I've never had a tight end. It's kind of a full rebuild except for Dan Arnold for a couple of weeks, but they traded him. That was stupid. But um, big win

for Chicago in reality football. But it was noted at at Indie at the combine that Frank Reich said that Bryce Young was a little short for the position and his liking. But so I'm interested to see if if the Panthers do go in on Bryce Young at number one overall, or if they've got CJ. Stroud penciled in there. Yeah, it's certainly going to be a quarterback if you're if you're a gambling man, and then we both are. I've already got my money on Will Levis. I do too.

I will Levis number one overall. Pick U bet in Vegas right now at MGM what odds did you get on it? I think it was like plus eighteen hundred or something I got. I got thirty to one. And yeah, it's gonna be a quarterback. I'm not sold on any of these guys. Yeah, I feel like the Panthers are gonna go with the high upside options and that's Richardson and Levis. Yeah, so I'm I'm I'm not saying Levis is the best, but I'm like with those at those

odds all day that I'll take my chance. It feels like a twenty five percent chance to me, it's just gonna be one of those guys. And if you're gonna give you thirty to one on one of them, I'm taking it. That's true. All right. So let's talk about some of the free agent guys, and uh, you know the guy that is probably the most interesting player who's not technically a free agent but kind of a free agent. That's Lamar Jackson, who's on the non exclusive franchise tag.

There's been a lot of reports out there that say the Falcons are out, the Dolphins are out, and the Dolphins actually said that they're going to pick up two as fifty year option. But There's there's a lot of steam out there that says a lot of these teams are out on paying two first round picks and then paying Lamar Jackson. I it kind of feels a little collusiony, like the Colin Kaepernick thing, Like nobody wants to give Lamar Jackson guaranteed money for some reason. Yeah, he just

wants more than Deshaun Watson got. I don't believe what anyone's saying about anything in a situation. It's strange. I've seen a lot of steam on the Colts maybe being the team that goes after Lamar Jackson. The Lions are getting thrown out there. Raiders would be an interesting spot. I don't know why the Jets aren't throwing their hat in the ring. I think I think the Jets and the and Rogers, the Jets and the Packers have a deal in place. They're waiting on Rodgers. Yeah, but still

I would still be kicking the tires. Long story. I think he's gonna end up somewhere else, just even of course the Ravens can match any offer. Yeah, Jackson's heart is not going to be in that with that organization anywhere. It's true he didn't show up to the playoff game. He yeah, I think he's he's checked checked the box and he's done there. So he can't have more rushing value outside of Baltimore. It seems because Greg Roman, the

former offensive coordinator, created some running place for him. The good news is almost anywhere he goes, he'll have more more targets, better targets than Baltimore because they just do not incentivize that as a team. I was going to say the Ravens have the worst wide receiver room until the Panthers just traded away anymore. But yeah, basically anywhere else he goes. I mean, Mark Andrews is nice, nice tight end. We like likely and Rashad Bateman can play,

but he's not hasn't proven to stay healthy. But yeah, I think it's I like his prospects almost anywhere else over Baltimore. Interesting that Carol Anna just didn't pull the trigger on Lamar Jackson trading two first round picks. They could have kept Dj Moore traded the two first get Lamar Jackson. That would have been an interesting play too. So Todd Munkin is the new OC in Baltimore. His resume isn't super inspiring. He was the Browns offensive coordinator

in twenty nineteen. The team finished twenty second points twenty second yards. Before that, he was Dirt Cutters o C in Tampa with Jamis Winston. That was kind of a mixed bag of results there. I believe that was the thirty interception season for Winston. So yeah, let's get Lamar out of there. Yeah, long story short, let's get him out of there. Huh. Let's talk about Danny Dimes though, Brian, Well, he's obviously staying in New York, so nothing's really going

to change that. A whole lot we can get into if we think that contract is a good idea or not. That doesn't really matter in fantasy football. The one thing that stands out, one thing that resonated to me was next year. It's just one year, small sampler or every whatever, but he's gonna have a bigger hit against the Giants cap Daniel Daniel Jones than Patrick Mahomes is going to

have the Chiefs. Totally makes sense. So but you know, Dannydimes, he he uh, you know, exceeded expectations last year, so we'll see what happens this year. The Giants are probably gonna add a wide receiver or two. You would think they got Arkley still, but uh yeah, yeah, they have to add a wide receiver, but some weapons. You know, he got paid off of that Vikings game, and the Giants are not going to be playing the Vikings every week. That's true, So I think people are you know, the

recency bias. I wonder if he's sending a thank you card to the Vikings defensive staff. Done yead dontel getting the card in the mail, Donne Hill, send Danny Diames your venmo. Jimmy Garoppolo is a free agent. There's a lot of reason to doubt whether Jimmy Garoppolo can succeed outside of Kyle Shanahan's offense. He really never has had a chance much out of Kyle Shanahan's offense, but he

was a middling fantasy producer. When when surrounded by really some Hall of Fame level talent and Deebo and George Kittle, his value pretty much goes down wherever he goes because he's unlikely to be an offense in an offense anywhere as near as good as San Francisco's. I think that goes without saying one of the best offensive lines in the league, he's a backup, or he's going to be a guy that maybe starts the first four weeks in front of Bryce Young or CJ. Stroud and or Will Levice.

From the Jimmy Garoppolo camp, he wants to be a starter in the league. And I mean there's gonna be some starting jobs open. There's still about half of the league doesn't have a solid foundation of where they have as a quarterback right now. So I think Garoppolo probably will get a chance to start at the beginning of the season. We just don't know where. Probably an NFC team.

There's a lot of NFC teams game. He's not landing on an offense quite like the forty nine end of the end of the story there, So yeah, not too

thrilled about wherever he ends up. All right, let's move on to the running back position, where Josh Jacobs gets the franchise tag and sae Quon Barkley also got the franchise tag and interesting to me, Brian, does it seem like that might be the future of the running back position, Especially if you draft a running back in the first round, you you pay them their fifth year option, and then you franchise tag him one year, so you get them for the six years and then you let them ride

off into the sunset, maybe maybe four years and then the franchise year. But that kind of seems like a good way to play the running back position. If you're drafting a running back in the first or second round, just just let them let them go after doing a franchise tag year. Yeah. If I was with Giants um and for whatever reason, Bijon Robinson old all the way down there and you know you got I think he probably will go there in the twenties, it's very possible.

You know, you draft him, you got your brand new Barkley, you still have old Barkley. You try to make a run this year, you know things don't look good, You trade Barkley to a contender, and then you got Bijan because they're not gonna be paying Barkeley next year. No so, And the Jacobs thing is weird. We expect we said last year, ride Josh shake. The Raiders are gonna ride Josh Jacobs into the ground DeMarco Murray style, Marco Murray style, which they did and they'll probably do it again. But

now the Giants are gonna do that with Barkley. Yeah, and I'm kind of you know, bar people are drafting right now and literally they're drafting Bijan over Barkeley, which is nuts because Barkley's gonna get twenty five carries a game, Joan's probably gonna get Like you have to be bullish on both Jacobs and Barkley playing a tag like this. Yeah,

and redrafted leagues without a doubt. Now in Dynasty, they're getting old, sadly Barkley's but twenty seven almost Yeah, time flies a name that's getting old, but he's really not that old. David Montgomery, what do you think of his prospects in the free agent market? Brand, Yeah, it turns twenty six in June, so he's right tail end of his prime. But since his rookie year ficks the tail end of his prime. Running backs, it's a tough life, man, it's a tough life. They live. They really just churned

and burned. But m Monte's yards per carry since his rookie year three point seven, four point three, three point eight four point oh not very good at all, But yards per carry doesn't tell the whole story. Montgomery was top fifteen and avoided tackle rates in three of his four seasons behind a mostly below average offensive line in Chicago. And you know he was splitting time with Kuil Herbert, of course, who kind of looked better. It's a long

story short and Justin Fields an amazing Russian quarterback. I think I think It's prospects are better wherever he ends up. And I think Carolina certainly in the mix for running back. Denver would be because whereas Javonte Williams might not be ready for the season at all. Yeah, so I think wherever Montgomery ends up, he'll be given a chance to

produce a little more. They head in Chicago recently. Yeah, Miles Sanders is a free agent coming off a really good year in Philly, but the Eagles really never made him the focal point of the rushing attack. It was because of the scheme, maybe because Jalen Hurts is frankly awesome, especially near the stripe, or because Sanders just can't be a three down bell cow. Pro Football Focus grade at Sanders as the bottom ranked running back as a receiver.

Derrick Henry watches Sanders film and then laughs at Miles Sanders hands. It's true. It's true, Derrick Henry he's always laughing at others. Also, PF grade Sanders as the thirty eighth ranked pass blocker. That's not very good for a guy who's a starting running back. Will another team use Miles Sanders more or differently? I'm not really sure. It's it seems like he's just kind of a guy. Yeah, he's a Jag. Maybe he's a Jacksonville Jaguars back up.

Good news his next team won't have a quarterback stealing double digit rushing touchdowns. I think there's a decent chance he just resigns in Philly too. Speaking of a Jag or an ex Jag, Leonard Fournette, yeahs twenty turned to twenty eight in January, so he's an old man. Now. How long ago he was twenty seventeen, the fourth overall pick. Yeah by my Jaguars, big big whoopsie there. But um, I'm not I don't really want to hear about Leonard

Fournett anymore. He's he's gonna be a backup wherever he ends. He's not a starter. Don't you think it's kind of the way of Lashawn McCoy, Leveon Bell, Melvin Gordon, where he's just like kind of a forgotten asset at this point pretty much. And then granted Tampa Bay did not have a great offensive line, but Fournette dead last in his free agent class running backs in yards after contact, so you can't always blame that on the offensive line.

In most cases you can, So I'm not really there's other free agent running backs more excited about seeing where they end up than Leonard four ninth. Well, maybe Devin Singletary is one of those guys. He's probably out in Buffalo as James Cook likely inherits his job in Buffalo. Did you hear the thing that James Cook's middle name is Dalvin? Yeah? I heard that, and Dalvin Cook's middle name is James. Some serious brotherly love. Devin Singletary is

one of the best pass blockers in free agency. He's got pretty low mileage on him too, never topping two hundred and fourteen carries in a season, but he's never been a bell cow, probably because he's he's little. He's five to seven decent receiver, but not a natural receiver like a James White. He's probably a rotational back just as he was with another team. But it would be interesting to see a guy like Devin singletary. He seems

like an like a Kansas City Chiefs kind of a guy. Oh, I'll because so gross, Like yeah, like like doesn't it seem like that kind of player would just sign with the Chiefs on like a mid budget deal and split the backfield with Pacheco. Yeah, and they probably just want the inside info on Buffalo more than anything obviously. Yeah. Yeah. How about Damian Harris, Brian Damian Harris Charts loves Damien Harris.

We should. He spent way too much of the season on the injured list, well, the last three years here as games played, starving the most recent eleven, fifteen, and ten, so he's only sort of played one full season, so

he's not the most durable back out there. When healthy, he was effective average four point seven yards for carry, but I feel like that was more being a Patriot because they love to run, because they just run and over there four Romandre really popped off, and then of course Romandre looked like the better back even when both were healthy. So I need to see. I'm not like, it's not like Wherebert Damian Harris ends up. I'm in he's that talented back. I mean, he's a good running back.

Don't get me wrong, but he needs to find a nice soft place to land for me to Yeah, absolutely be interested on draft day. Jamal Williams was the NFL's leading touchdown scorer last year. That blows my mind. Seventeen touchdowns. He's headed to free agency. He's kind of getting up there. He's a finisher. He's the tenth most yards after contact last year, but that number drops the thirty eighth in average yards after contact, which is bizarre. He's not a

dynamic runner. Finished forty eighth in breakaway runs per carry. Although he saw a lot of stacked boxes in short yardage, he doesn't catch. Best case scenario, he probably just stays in Detroit because we know how he'll be used there. Second best scenario, he joins another skilled backfield with a split where he's the short yardage specialist. Maybe maybe a place like Buffalo, maybe a place like Kansas City, something like that. Another former Kansas City Chiefs running at Kareem Hunt.

He wanted to be traded from the Browns mid season, but he didn't. What happened, Brian, Yeah, I don't know, huh. What happened to Kareem Hunt in general? Remember he was his rookie year, he was awesome. He looked like Jamal Charles with two I remember it was the first game of the season, like the Thursday in the open, and he had like the four touchdowns and I think I think it was against the Patriots. But Hunts turns to twenty eight in August. That's old again. But he should

have a lot of tread left on the tires. Outside of that his rookie year, he hasn't carried two hundred top two hundred carries in any other season. He's always

just kind of been the change of pace back. So I would love for him just to get a shot like in Carolina, um maybe in Denver if John Te Williams is the miss an extended amount of time, just to be the guy again because I don't remember exactly, he at least to be the one a kind of because when he was with the Chiefs his rookie year, he looked like he was going to be a Hall of Fame running back and then he derailed his career essentially in his life for a little while, got back

on track a little bit, got another or got a second chance with the Browns, but he's never you know, he's always been the you know, the Robin to Nick Chubbs Batman. So I'm very so like this whole exercise is good for anyone doing Best Ball drafts right now, or startup dynace leagues, or even if you're looking to make a trade in your dynasty league, because right now, all these free pending free agents there, they come into discount, yeah, and they're not gonna get They're not gonna really lose

any value because they've already discounted so much. Because everyone's kind of like hesitant because they don't know where they're gonna play, but they land in the right spot, like Kareem Hunt ends up in Carolinas, they're starting running back. Granted it's not gonna be a great offense, his ADP as a stands of right now will jump up three

rounds roughly something like that. Yeah, and what if he ends up in New Orleans or something like that, and Alvin Kamara is looking at a long suspension that So he's the guy I've been targeting in Bestball right now. It's hoping. I think he's got the talent that he's the running back a most except free agent running back,

I'm most excited to see where he lands. Last running back we'll mention is Jerick McKinnon, And I guess I have to get this one out for Jerick McKinnon because yeah, I called that one a little bit and probably found his stride in year seven. Weeks one through twelve, he was RB fifty and from week thirteen forward he was RB two, making him maybe one of the least likely league winners in Memory's probably like wide receiver like twenty two because he was really yeah, more so the receiving

than than the rushing. He was doing the age receiving touchdowns in the final six weeks. So yeah, Jeric McKinnon, I mean talking about long in the tooth. I mean his teeth got to be like, you know, sabertooth tiger tusks or any something like that. You gotta think that McKinnon's best option is to just stay in Kansas City

as long as he can. Yeah, I don't see like, yeah, anyone who's leaving, We're gonna talk about a few Chiefs wide receivers, Like anyone leaving Kansas City, He's not like, oh, this is gonna be better off, yeah in other place.

All right, let's take a quick break and when we come back, we'll talk about the wide receivers and tight ends that might make a difference in uh, you know, the next the next couple of rounds of your best ball drafts, your dynasty drafts, anything like that coming up next, and we're back to Fantasy Football Weekly Matt Harrison along with Brian Johnson. This week, Mat Hi good and true. We went on a break. When we take a break, we literally take a break from each other and then

we come back. And that's true. I haven't seen you since what December something like that. Yeah, good to see you. It's it's it's been a while. How how how how are the how's the new puppy? Hanul? Yeah? I saw that you tweeted a picture of her and Christopher walking. They look very similar. Someone pointed that out to me. I didn't realize it. In first I was like nah.

Then the more I looked at it, I was like, wow, you were like this a certain light like when it's really bright, like it really brings out or walking like eyes. All right, let's talk about some of the wide receivers out there. And um, I'm trying to find the tweet. But Ian Hartitz, who's kind of a friend of the program. He tweeted out something about some of the last decade of free agent wide receivers and how they almost never

work out. Like the best one has been Christian Kirk and that was that was the best one by far. It certainly wasn't Kenny Galladay in recent memory, or Mark has Valdez scantling Alan Robinson. But I still love you, Alan Robinson. I'm not giving up on you. Yeah, it's it's been a disaster. But Juju Smith Schuster hits free agency for a second straight year. What do you think, Juju, who's gonna do? Do we alluded to this before the break? I don't care, or jujus, I don't I don't even

care if Juju stays on the Chiefs. To be honest with you, only two games over one hundred yards with Kansas City. Technically he was only two games over ninety yards because he had like eighty eight and eighty nine. But I don't like me in that much of a sticklers, But like, you've never even top ninety yards, but only two games over one hundred yards? Only three touchdowns of

Kansas City last year, including the playoffs. Clyde Edwards Hilaire had three receiving touchdowns in just ten games, like Juju had the twice as many games. He had twenty games. He had his chance, he didn't. He didn't come. You know, in Kansas City, they'll probably bring in if he even if he stays. I don't, I don't, things will be worse off if he goes somewhere else. Obviously there's you can't imagine that they'd signed him to big money, right,

he would probably take a pay cut to stay. He's certainly not going to go to the Eagles, who get jumped as soon as he goes off the plane. Who they kind of need a slot receiver too. That would be something else they if he just went to the NFC East, what about the Giants? Thankfully, I don't care anymore. But again I don't, I don't. Juju is not on my radar whatsoever for the rest of my life, all right. Jacoby Myers was a quietly consistent flex level producer as

a as a Patriots wide receiver, which is impressive. From Week five forward, he averaged four catches for fifty yards and about half a touchdown per game. That's roughly twelve PPR points. That's enough to be a flex starter in most cases. Tried to find some advanced stats about Jacoby Myers to be particularly good at anything. Nothing. He's just kind of a dude. Five years, he's never topped nine hundred yards or six touchdowns. He had that long open

of his career where he had never scored. I think he went like twenty some games without scoring a touchdown to start his career. Jacoby Myers a just an average guy. That's what it looks like. Looks like on paper for sure, but New England worst placed in the world to be a wide receiver basically, unless you were Randy Moss in two thousand and seven. Outside of that, there's been no success at the wide receiver position for the Patriots, and

I test Jacoby can make play. I'm excited to see where he If he gets put in the right spot, I think he could be surprising people and if he stays healthy. Interesting spot. After the Vikings dropped, Adam feeling maybe maybe Minnesota for Jacoby Myers is kind of a sneaky landing spot, kind of on a prove it deal kind of thing. He's not along justin Jefferson. He's not a solely a slot guy either he can line up outside. Should be an interesting spot and the guy are about

to talk about here. I think can end up in Minnesota as well. Jaywicky Wicky Shark, Yeah, or he would be a good fit for DJ Turns twenty seven in September. So he's still got plenty of gas left in the tank. I'm like Adam Feeling, who I decided to laugh granted, not knocking Feeling whatsoever. Paul Famer, Yeah, certainly will be on the Vikings Ring of Honor. Whoever first reported it. I think it was a Tom Pella sero, but it just in his tweet. He's like, still with plenty of

gas left in the tank. Theland was looking to content you signed the contender and you're like, plenty of gas in the tank. Did you watch football last year? Yeah? If he wasn't getting it done with Justin Jefferson getting triple covered and dealing anyway and t J. Hockinson drawing a lot of coverage for the second half the year. Yeah, Theland's thirty three, So so I guess out of the way, how about I don't think anything's better. He's not gonna be better off anywhere else. If you didn't get it

done in Minnesota last year. So DJ charcol though, I think I like his prospects if he can stay healthy. The problem is he's played just fifteen games over the last two seasons, with the Lions last year and then with Jacksonville the year before. He was drafted sixty first overall by the Jags in twenty eighteen, so it was somewhat of a blue chip prospect. He broke out in his second year with a thousand plus yards and eight touchdowns, but since then he's struggled with injury as total just

ten touchdowns in the three seasons since. But again, if he can stay healthy and lands in the right spot like he signed with the Minnesota and he's opposite Justin Jefferson, yeah, who's still going to see double coverage every game? Well, I think Shark is very intriguing. So he's a guy I've been scooping up and just hoping he gets uh, you know, lands in a good spot, starting gig nice offense, and wherever he lands, it's probably the best quarterback of

his career for sure. I mean, Goff was decent, but he didn't even play. He only played like nine ten games last year. But hey, nine times nine waiting to use that button. Yeah, all right, Alan Lazard, he's a packer, well, at least he will was a packer with Davante Adams gone. Last season, everything was in place for Alan Lazard's breakout year and he went backwards. He's a clear second wide receiver at best, maybe a third option, and that was

on an Aaron Rodgers offense. And he's probably not going to sign in a spot where he's going to get a better quarterback seventh worst cushion, fifteenth worst separation per Next Gen Stats. We've seen him score touchdowns, He's had fourteen over the last two years. Maybe that's like the hope is that he finds a landing spot where he can just be like a short yardage threat. You know.

Like that's another one where you're just like, if you're a big Alan Wizard fan, you hope he ends up in Kansas City, or you hope he ends up in Buffalo, or you hope he ends up, you know, as justin Herbert's third wide receiver. Yeah, I'm not not too thrilled about wherever Alan Lazard ends up. And uh, definitely not. I don't even want to get into this next guy, but google for a second, Kole Hardman another chief. I don't, I don't. I'm not gonna say dislike, but I'm just

I'm about excited. It's about Kole Hardman ends up as am about Juju Smith cheer. All I want to do is just go back and see what Kansas City could have done. Instead of drafting Hardman in the second round fifty sixth overall in twenty seventeen, you could have had wide receivers in the same range like uk Metcalf, oh God, Deonte Johnson, Terry McLaurin all could have been Kansas City chiefs. So but again, anyone leaving Kansas City, you're not gonna

be like, oh, they're gonna do better here. Nope. And then especially not Hardman. We didn't get done in Kansas City ever. So I would contend, even in kind of a shaky wide receiver draft class, that it's probably better taking a rookie wide receiver than any of these guys that we've mentioned in drafts this year. If, especially if you're doing early best ball drafts, you can wait five or six rounds and take a rookie wide receiver over Juju or Jacoby Meyers. Yeah, this is the least exciting

free agent class I can remember. So and the last one we're going to talk about is Paris Campbell, a chart favorite nor. Last year, his fourth season, Campbell finally played a full year with okay results six hundred yards, three scores. In fairness, the Colts were just bad. They were diseased, and it was catching passes from the undead corpse of Matt Ryan, first time starter Sam Ellinger Ellinger sorry, and journeyman Nick Foles. What a trio of quarterbacks right there.

Back to the combine, he was an athletic freak though, top ninety percent guy just about everything. His ideal landing spot is a team that needs a starting slot wide receiver like New England, Baltimore, Cleveland, tons of other teams. Uh, several options for him, but he's a slot guy, and like the prototypical slot guy that is maybe four five catches a game, and you hope he breaks one. But but that's that's the high end. That's the upside for

Paris Campbell is a five catch game in my opinion. Yeah, that's enough Paris Campbell talk for me. Okay, let's move on to the tight end position. Dalt Schultz as a free agent, and it would be surprising to me if he left Dallas. But what do you think? I don't know if they're gonna be able to afford to pay him, so I'm pretty much envisioning he's gone. I've been scooping up Jake Ferguson everywhere I can in the last round,

anticipating that Dalton Schultz leaves. Washington would certainly be an interesting, interesting landing spot for Schultz. Um turns twenty seven in July, still pretty young, tight end standards. His first two seasons, he's really spent most of them is a backup, so not a lot of wear and tear on Schultz. But man, Dallas was such a tight end friendly offense and has been for like, yeah, twenty years. It seems like yeah,

So I don't know. It's not like he was really compete Jake Ferguson and I was named Peyton Hender shoot shock, they were. They were stealing some snaps. But um, wherever Schultz ends up, he's likely going to be the main guy. But I really want to see where it is. But I don't think it can get any better than Dallas for him. No, it seems like that was a good landing spot for him, and the spot it may be better than the talent, so he might get paid like a super talented tight end, but I'm not sure if

he fits that mold. He wasn't a full one system tight end, but a partial, partial system tight end. Mike Gasicki obviously wasn't a system tight end in Miami, at least not the new system. He's got high draft pedigree though, and really, you know, the perfect designed body to play tight end, but it's just never come together for Mike Gasicki. He limps into free agency off his worst season since

his rookie year. He always started one game last year for the Miami What does that mean, Like he wasn't on the field for the first snap or something that. But because he's not a he's never been a prototypical tight end in that he doesn't block. Yeah, and you don't want that in fantasy football though, so that's a good thing in my mind, But he was just never a good fit in Miami. He was more of a wide receiver and they had much better wide receivers on

my Ye, Tyrie Kill and Jalen Waddle. But um, I'm sorry, if you weren't done with Kiki. But he's another guy who I've been grabbing him late in drafts because if he you know, I'm not calling him Travis Kelsey, but he's like Travis Kelsey light light, Like he could be light light. He could be, you know, essentially a wide receiver that you can put in your tight end position

in fantasy football. He's kind of that kind of like he doesn't block, he's always lined up in the slot or outside, and if he's a gets sent to a high functioning offense. I'm intrigued by Asiki. Based on his price tag, he's like barely inside the top two hundred players right now, so an interesting landing spot. We've talked about this a little bit because of the trade, but how about Carolina That that would be a kind of a cool landing spot for him because he'd probably be

the top receiving option immediately in Carolina. I like that, And you could get him at a pretty sizable discount over some of the free agent wide receivers because his tight ends go for less than wide receivers. Yeah, I'm with that. I like that idea. Hayden Hurst is the last guy on the list. And Brian I know that

he's near and dirty your heart. Yeah. Hayden Hurst most famous for getting drafted by the Ravens with the twenty fifth overall pick in twenty eighteen, seven picks before Lamar Jackson, sixty one picks before the Ravens selected Mark Andrews in the fourth round, and the Hurst was also picked before Dallas Goddard and Mike Asiki. So I guess never forget that. That's just the weirdest draft in the world. How went before? Yeah, absolutely Jackson and then Mark Andrews rounds later, But anyways,

turns thirty in August. I'm pretty much out on Hurst and re draft and Diansty Obviously zero spike weeks in the regular season with the Bengals last year, Ye was so much you'd get a little bit more out of him from from that standpoint. His best game was six catches fifty three yards and a touchdown. He only which is a good game, but he's the only good game. He only scored one other touchdown the rest of the

season and never topped sixty yards at all. Like he just you can't get a better situation than then walking into that one too. And of course you're competing for targets in the Bengal who he was with te Higgins and Jamar Chase. But I don't know. Hurst doesn't have like the skill set to go somewhere and just be an impact player. I don't know. I'm it didn't work out. I was really in on him last year when he shot the Bengals. Was expecting something but got nothing. So

kind of dead to me now, sorry, Hayden. Dan Arnold a free agent, by the way, No, unfortunately not, he's still under contract locked in if yeah, he's one more year with Jacksonville, and I'm gonna get emotional. I'm I got nothing against Evan Engram, and I'm not gonna say Dan Arnold is a better player than Evan Ingram, but comparable skill sets. Arnold would have put up great numbers if Evan Ingram was not on the Jaguars last year. And they just tagged Ingram in Jacksonville, so he'll be

there again. But I'm very excited for the team overall. But yeah, I don't know. Dan Arnold's don't have to wait one more year or he'll need injury. But uh, and on the Dan Arnold note, we wrap up the show usually how it goes. You can follow Brian on Twitter at BTXJ. You can follow me on Twitter at Explosive Output, can follow Dan Arnold, who follows me on Twitter. That's true. I don't know who's handled though, off the

top of my head at Dan Arnold. Yeah, just just look at my top eight ad isn't that my space is? They're probably people out there, like the twenty year olds, like, what the hell is he talking about? Top eight? You know my space? If Elon threw in a top eight, I'll on my Space onto Twitter? Would that be an improvement? Rule? And then the profile you remember, you get your own song, you get on your page. Yeah, my Space was peak peak for about but that's then then the whole world

went to hell. Absolutely all right. Well, well, uh, we're gonna hope that Charch is feeling better and ready to go next week, and we'll be back with another Fantasy Football Weekly next Friday. Thank you guys for listening, and we'll talk to you later. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.