Free Agent Wideouts and Tight Ends

Matt on the phone. Good you are. Yeah, it's you know, it's weird times, man, you know, it's just you know, this is this is all it's all strange stuff right now. But that's just how it goes. And we don't mind. Um. Good to have you on the show, and we don't We've we've spent the two weeks ago you and I talked about all the quarterback changes around the NFL, so I think it only makes sense to turn around now and continue talking about some of the the wide receiver

changes and the tight end changes. We'll stay with the passing game. How's that sound. Absolutely, Let's get those pross catchers. Let's get caught off on catchers. How about that? We caught up on pass catchers. Oh that's brilliant, brilliant. Um. Alright, well, let's uh, let's begin. Let's begin here. Probably the biggest move of the offseason from the receivers, DeAndre Hopkins goes to Arizona. Now what he leaves behind is not all how that compelling? Maybe what do you think of Will Fuller,

Kenny Still's Randall Cobb. I mean, I have major downgrades to Deshaun Watson and Will Fuller and Kenny Fields. We'll talking about Randall's Cobb in a little bit. But and here's where everybody's going to chime in now and go. But will Fuller's no wood receiver Warren in Houston. Well, Will Fuller has never been healthy, He's never played about DeAndre Hopkins eating up double coverage. And people are paying more for Fuller dynasty right now. So if you own him,

I sell him right now. It's just on the prospects of you can sell him as a wide receiver one and if it doesn't work out, your genius. If you hold him or you're buying right now. If it doesn't work out, you're the goat here and not the greatest of all time. The other kinds I think I think those are I think that's really salient. I think the points you raise and will Fuller are There's are all

reasons for caution. Now, if lightning strikes in a bottle and you know he stays healthy for sixteen games and they pour wide receiver one targets into him, you will rue the day you let him go. But I think there's there's there's more downside than upside, and the value

for will Fuller is probably pretty high. Now, let's flip over go ahead wide receivers such a such a deep position to that, I think that you can find will Fuller like guys all over the place in Dynasty and redraft, So I'm not worried about missing out on the wold Fuller train. Here. Let's flip over to Arizona, where now DeAndre Hopkins has got Kyler Murray throwing him the ball, but he's also got a deal with Larry Fitzgerald, Christian

Kirk and he Isabella Kim Butler might come back. He's one of my one of my favorite draft guys from last year. Um, what do you think about DeAndre Hopkins and is fit for the Cardinals? See, I didn't think that it's a downgrade at all. It's probably a better offense where since there seems to be more guys around him. Uh, the coach doesn't seem insane and having the ability to just drop a player like DeAndre Hopkins dropped that um

in Dynasty. I have Hopkins the wide per student to right now, just behind Michael Thomas and just added Adams. They're all kind of grouped in that top tier for me. But I don't think that it's a downgrade at all. Kyler Murray similar style to what Deshaan Wlasson is doing. There's those good wide receivers there. Kenyan Drake is probably an upgrade to any running back that he ever played with in Houston. So I think that he's in a good stab here. Uh. So just brought and I'll ask you.

I'll ask you this exact question after each of these guys. Uh, do you believe DeAndre Hopkins has more or less fantasy value this year than last year? I think slightly more but almost the same. Slightly more but almost the same. He was wide receiver ten last year. Okay, Um, you know I worry about the downgraded quarterback. You know, we

don't know. Kyler Murray's obviously got will improve, He'll be a better quarterback this year, but in my mind, he's taking a step backwards from going from Watson to Murray. Let's go to Stefan Dick. Yeah, and I think that's fair. Let's go to Stefan Diggs and Buffalo. Now he leaves behind in Minnesota Adam Feeling and that's about it. B C. Johnson, Chad Bbe. I mean it falls off the table at

least pre draft for the Vikings. What are your thoughts on what gets left behind in Minnesota with Stefan Digg's gone. I think it's an absolute major hit to Cousins and Feeling, probably the whole fantasy offense in general. I mean, bunk about Stefon Diggs drew coverage out of Fieland's lay, and he drew coverage out of Dalman Cook and the run games. So I think it's a pretty big hit to the Vikings overall. And I really think the Vikings have to be in place for one of these top fibers wide

receivers in the first two rounds of the draft. Three in the first two rounds. So I think the Vikings are a major player in the wide receiver game in the draft. But I mean the thing is that Digs go into Buffalo. Gosh, that is a it's a super weird hit for him. He showed his Josh Allen, who had Pro Football focuses highest passing grade in passes under nineteen yards, but the worst passing grade in the league

and passes over nineteen yards. So Biggs is gonna have to get these catches short and he's gonna have to make a lot happen with them. And that hasn't really necessarily been Digg's game in Minnesota for the last two years. That hasn't you know. Dig is great at a lot of aspects, and he creates a lot of coach and elite route runner um. He he would find ways to get open downfield and got frustrated when Kirk didn't hit

him enough downfield. Well wait till he wait till he gets a load of Josh Allen and the downfield passing there um, so we'll see. I think I think the field shortens a lot for stuff on Diggs. I'm worried about the touchdown totals, which had been an ongoing problem for him anyway. And if you if you take away some of the deep passing, which is one of the things Kirk does really well. I don't know. I'm I'm nervous about about what Diggs can bring. He was He

was Fantasy wide receiver thirteen last year. Do you believe his fantasy value goes up or down this year? I think it goes down, and in dynasty. On my trade value chart right now, I have him at wide receivers funny one because there's just a lot of really good wide receivers in fantasy right now. It's very deep that position overall, So I think that this is a downgrade for Diggs. He'ls. I think he sees a lot of passes. You know, John Brown will be deep speed guy. Cole

Beasley will do what he does, roam in the middle. UH. Digs will probably lead the team in targets, which will be which will be helpful. Doesn't no way he falls off the table, I don't think. But yeah, it's I think he's still a wide receiver too into fantasy. I think he's definitely finding a way to be in the top in UH in le draft next year. That makes sense. All right, Let's move on to Emmanuel Sanders, who is now a member of the New Orleans Saints. He leaves

behind in San Francisco a pretty weird group. You've got Deebo Samuel who looked terrific down the stretch last year. But then you have Kendrick Bourne all the dropped passes and the weirdness of him, Dante Pettis who was a total non factor last year, Jalen Heard who got hurt at the beginning of the year. This is another team that's a candidate to hit the draft again. Even though they've sunk a bunch of draft picks into these young players. This feels like another team that could end up going

to the draft as well. What do you think about what what gets the passing game that he leaves behind in San Francisco. Well, you gotta remember he has only risk of miners for eight weeks, so they probably don't miss him all that much. And the end of the stay there, he will banged up and a little injured, and he just wasn't as dynamic as a player, uh near the tail end of that season. So and and really that offense revolved around the running decks and George Kittle.

So I'm not really worried about what he's leaving behind in uh San Francisco. I think he does leave an opportunity there's just you know they've got killed, of course, but Deebo Samuel. But after that, you know there's there's there's catches to be had there and who steps up at this time is still unclear. If they put a they put a relatively early picket receiver in this deep draft, that's that might be the answer to the the the question for San Francisco. But let's shift over to New Orleans.

Obviously there's Michael Thomas. They've been unable to cultivate anybody else worth a damn um, Trey Kwon Smith, you know, Deante Harris, nobody, nobody else has been able to step up. So Austin Carr, so is, what do you think about Emmanuel Sanderson and the fit here for him with Drew Brees. We'll get this charge one year, Emmanuel Sanders goes from Joe Flacco to Jimmy Garoppolo to Drew Brees. That's that's terrible for a wide reason. Yeah, it's it's going on

the correct way for him. Uh Sanders is at ninety or more targets in seven straight years, is certainly more of a possession slot guy. He probably rostering him in PPR league, but not much else. He's an age thirty three to him as a wide receiver forty four in dynasty, and I think he's like in a three wide receiver league, he might start as your third wide receiver, but beyond that,

he's probably a flex play in most league. And and really I think he's a He's a PPR guy that you have to keep an eye on, you PPR league. I don't think Sanders is gonna take many rosters in your league. Um. I think he'll be raw struble, and I guess I'm not quite as down on him as you are. But Jared Cook's obviously a factor, Alvin Kmari's pass catching abilities a factor. There's you know, they still

have other options, um, but clearly they wanted to. They were clearly the Saints were frustrated with the development of the young players, and they just wanted to plug and play guy that they knew could go catch passes. And you know, that's that's what they've got in Emmanuel Sanders. I think I think he'll get you some and I think he'll be more than the spot duty Ted Gin.

You know, like that that Hail Mary start that you'd give ted Gin once a year, Um, and just hope that this was the game when it when it connects this is I don't I don't think it's going to be that way here. I think he's going to be more like, you know, four and five receptions a game, and it'll be a what much more steady producer than

what we've had out of that number two receiver spot. Yeah, I I just worried about his ability to convert touchdowns because if he looked after the past, he really hasn't had more than five or six touchdowns in a year at any given any given say with Michael Thomas being a big target and Jared Kirk and they got two good running bops, but from punch the ball in near the goal line, I just worry that he's not gonna get enough scores and his yard is just probably going

to be eaten up I'm sure to intermediate or out. And so if he's getting four or five catches a game, you're probably looking at fifty six d R And well that's not terrible, it's it's very PPR oriented. You need those catches to make the points. And if you don't have the PPR point, I don't think that he's work ross all right, So Emmanuel Sanders. Is his fantasy value higher or lower than last year? I think it goes up just because he goes to a better offense and

I think it's a good fit. But, like I said, a little nervous outside of PPR, Randall Cobb goes to Houston and he leaves behind in Dallas. Um really the slot duties right now? I guess or Tavon Austin. I guess you know they don't don't have an obvious slot guy at this point. Um it'll I'm guessing it'll be Tavon ston Um. But otherwise Dallas feels unchanged and he didn't have I think a lot of impact. He had

some impact for Dallas. I think he's got potentially a lot more impact in Houston because DeAndre Hopkins has gone, and that they paid him three years, twenty seven million dollars. I mean that's a that's a gigantic financial commitment, what a poorly run team, gigantic financial commitment for Randall Colaba slot receiver when they already had Kiki Kuti who was running out of the slot. Tad hasn't had n yards or had more than six touchdands since two thousand fourteen.

He's the third wide receiver on the depth chart in Houston. He's not likely in fantasy rosters next year. I don't know what they're doing because he's a lame, lame replacement for Hopkins. The Textans wanted the draft Condy Highley, they'd probably actually make another crazy trade to do so right now because they just don't have their picks anymore. So this is just a bizarre fit. I don't I don't want anything to do with Randall Cobb. He didn't be

behind anything in Dallas either. Like Dallas is like, see it, have a good one new Randall Cobb, intimately if you're having him in Green Bays for years and years, and he was like, no, we can. I think they did. I think they just got the mistaking. I think Mike McCarthy just got priced out of this deal. Um or the Jones family did three years, twenty seven million dollars. I think Dallas just said, you know that, we're not even going to consider that, and they maybe they would

have kept him at a better price. Um All right, So I think you and I differ here a little bit. I think that I think there's way more balls to go around here. In Houston and William more opportunity for Randall Cobb to get action than when he was playing in Dallas, where he had to he had to share balls with with Gallup and Cooper and trying to you know, just trying to be a third option there and he just wasn't on the field that much in balls didn't

come his way. I think he's got a lot more opportunity to just be on the field more and be a bigger part of this passing offense that's missing DeAndre Hopkins. See. I think Randall cob went to a much worse offense in Houston. Dallas is offense pretty good, good wide receivers to help eat up the double coverage, a good running back. Uh, we don't know if David Johnson is Anny good anymore. If you can stay on the field, So I Randall Cobb won't be on any of my rosters. Who's coming here? Um?

All right? So you're on. You believed Randall Cobbs fantasy that would be lowered this year, I think it's going to be higher. Let's go to Robbie Anderson who migrates to the Jet from the Jets to the Panthers. Let's start with the Jet side. They've got Jamison Crowder Quincy and Nona Breshad Perriman, who will talk about more there what's left behind in New York And does that interest you? Well, Anderson was really the lone downfield threat in New York.

And but everybody has already rumored the Jets to be very active in the draft in the first couple of rounds on a wide receiver. I've seen so many mocks with either Ceedee language Jerry Judy going to New York. I imagine that one of these top flight wide receivers games up in New York. So I think they're gonna

be okay. But I mean, Church, we kind of when we talked about plenty Bridge about her the other day in Carolina, we were we were kind of planning Curtis Samuel and how he won't be able to touch these downfield paths. Well, Robbie Anderson is a complete downfield brit right, So I mean you could you could tell me how this is gonna work. We know how it's gonna work. Badly is how it's gonna work. It's um you know

you're connecting. You know Robby Anderson's whole bit is is deep field speed and separation and Teddy doesn't throw those balls. That's that's just the reality of it. And it's, uh, it's a bad fit. I don't I don't love it here for Robbie Anderson, um, and I think his fantasy value is lower than last year. And I think he's got more guys to compete against, and d J. Moore and Curtis Samuel are good players, you know, with the Jens.

With that to Church, it's worth mating that in the past four weeks, the Panthers have signed Robbie Anderson, Farrel Cooper, the Andrew White, Chief Kirkwood, and step Roberts to their wide receiver corps and they still have DJ More and Daniel in there. They said they have seven wide receivers right now. Not that all of those guys are gonna make a big difference, but that's just a lot of mounds on that roster ever going to get cut. But this is it's such a weird play that they're making

in Carolina right now. All right, So do we both agree that Robbie Anderson's fantasy value is lower than last year? Yeah? I think it's uh, it's pretty tanks, right, now, all right, we're gonna take a break. We're gonna track down more of the wide receivers who moved, and we're gonna work into the tight ends that have found themselves in new places.

It's Fantasy Football Weekly. All right, we are back, Paul Charchie and Matt Harrison with you have already broken down DeAndre Hopkins, Stefon Diggs, Emmanuel Sanders, Randall cob Robby Anderson. Let's move to some of the third tier guys here, and we don't spend a lot of time on them. But Prishad Perriman was explosive at the end of last year when he when the Bucks had no choice but to throw him the ball with everybody else hurt. And now he goes to the Jets where he really takes

over the Robbie Anderson role. But before we go there, let's just talk briefly about Tampa Bay and what gets left behind. That's Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and nobody else. Of note, Well, I don't think Tampa Bay is going to be hurt. And for a wide receiver, depths or guys you can catch Pasty day, So I mean we can we can talk about how Pairman really slashed at

the tail into twenty nineteen. He had three games over a hundred yards the last few weeks and five touchdowns in the last four games of the season, So he showed a little bit. And remember he's got a first round pedigree. Last year was his on layer in Tampa and he spent the remainder of his career with Joe Flacco. So I mean, Pleman might just be a guy who's starting to flourish just because he has adequate quarterback play. And uh, I don't Sam Donalds could be qualified as

the an adequate quarterback. Yeah, you know, he's still young Pairman because he came out of school early. I want to say he's he's twenty six. He's twenty six right now. I mean, I think it's just too early to call him a bust. Maybe he can have a a fifth year kind of you know, uh, fifth year kind of explosion, a little bit like we saw Atavante Parker. Maybe that's gonna be Briushade Pereman. So now he's um, he's in New York and he's the go to guy, just like he was at the end of at the end of

the year with Tampa. Bay. They got Jamison Crowder in the slot, Quincy and Nona in the slot. That's it. There's no other help there, and the Jets will probably draft a wide receiver. But I wonder if Pereman can't do a little bit. He doesn't have wins Jameis Winson throwing and throwing him the ball. But I wonder if he can't do a little bit of what we saw at the end of last year when the whole passing offense had to go through him and he exploded. Maybe

that happens here with the Jets. I mean, I think the downside is Robby Anderson from the last year right right where I think that he can kind of fill in that role completely. So I sho Praman suddenly becomes relevant and I think that he's worth a look. And there's mighty a lot of people who kicked him up on Dynasty or afters last year just near the end of the season. Yeah, he's get a stick on some

of those Dynasty rofcas. And right now I love him at the Dynasty wide receiver number fifty three, and I think that might be a little low. I think that's west Brick and Sting Shepherd right now. Wide receiver. Yeah, I think I rather would too, So I'm probably looking and moving him up in the next couple of days. But yeah, I kind of like Praman in this bit um.

It depends on who they draft in the first or second round, and if they get another wide receiver to go with him, it might dat him a little bit. I don't think that I heard of all that much. Yeah, I mean, you know, even if they even if they take a high profile first round wide receiver Pairman still walks in the door is probably probable number one, because because he's a veteran and you know, based on the play that we saw at the end of last year,

I wonder if that wouldn't be the case. So yeah, I'm I think the fantasy value here, I think we're both gonna agree higher then last year when you look at the totality of last year, not just the three games at the end of the year. Higher for Brushade Perriman is the go to receiver for the Jets. Correct, Let's go to Philip Dorsett as he migrates to see I don't I don't want to spend a lot of time on this leaves behind in New England, Julian Edelman,

Nikkil Harry Mohammed Sanu. Those are your three starters there, Dorset. They try to replace him like nine times, right, I mean just constantly trying to replace him. No way, no, nine times there. I think Dorsette comes in at the widestab three behind Lockett, metcalf obviously in a run first off that features the tight end in the red zone a lot, and they get three decent tight ends and Greg Alston Jacob Hollisturing will disintly. I don't think Dorsett's

fantasy viable this year. I agree. I don't think you'll be drafting him. Um, he will be a bye week agency plug in barring injury to Metcalfe or lock It. Let's go to Devin Funchess, who's going to be cut in Green Bay, a wide two different wide receiver deficient teams Carolina and Indianapolis didn't want him and have let him walk, and he's coming off injury and forget it. I think that's a terrible signing. Yeah, you always love it when a player hits his third team in three years.

And the best thing about Punchest is that Aaron Rodgers said, did you hear about the guy named Punchest he got spun himself in the same name. Do you know it's going to be pretty good dynasty wide receiver. I like it good Nelson al goes to Las Vegas, um and he does. He leaves behind in Philadelphia all Sean Jeffrey, DeShawn Jackson, and not a lot else j j Arthega Whiteside, who was not good last year. That's um, you know.

For Aguilard, they desperately needed him to step up last year when everybody got hurt and he couldn't do it. And he's always he's got to play in the slot. He has never been any good anywhere else, and now he's got to share time in the slot with Hunter renfro In in Las Vegas. I don't like this move

in particular. No, I don't. I don't think he can pass Hunt a run for on the depth chart, and the Raiders are in play for a wide receiver in around one or two, so I think that it's going to be tough for Aguilar to find snaps this year. So I don't think he's on rosters either. All Right, we agree, Let's let's talk briefly about some wide receivers who are staying put. Uh. And that includes a Marii Cooper five years, a hundred billion dollars and he stays

put there. Where do you have him in your Dynasty rankings? It's got to be at or near the top, considering he's also teamed with a young, very good quarterback in Dak Prescott. Yeah, I have him at Dynasty d receiver number five. Don't sleep on Michael Gallop, by the way, who almost equaled Mary Cooper's numbers last year. I think Michael Gallup people are really sleeping on. And he's like at Marty Cooper light in that offense. I like him

quite a bit. Uh. And Cooper is digged out for most of last year, still finished twelfth in that wide receiver points to games. I still like super quite a bit. Yeah. I think his fantasy value this year is potentially higher because he won't be injured. Roly going into the season with a serious foot injury won't be injured this year, So I think he's got room too. He's got wide

receiver one overall highest scoring wide receiver upside Amari Cooper does. Yeah. Absolutely, Let's go to a J Green getting the franchise tag um. You know, he had the crazy lost season with the ankle injury that you know happened in the middle of August and didn't recover until late December, and then he

had a hamstring injury couldn't play. So you know, a lot of people believe that he didn't want to play for the Bengals, so he didn't you know, he was not being honest about the ankle injury and its status, and maybe not the hamstring injury. So yeah, that's a um, there's I'm a little bit surprised at that he got the franchise tag because if you're the Bengals, why do you want to have a guy on your team who

doesn't want to be on your team. Yeah, and remember we haven't seen Green on the field since Marvin Lewis was a coach there, and he's you have a new quarterback, probably Joe Burrow at quarterback. You don't know how he's been all ups there in the Zach Taylor offense. But rookie do tend to focus on their favorite targets and not to restrough a ton of reads. So if Green is one of the top two reads, and most of these uh, most of these past plays. He's probably gonna

get a lot of targets. I haven't had a Dynasty's value of wide receiver twenty nine right now, mostly because he's thirty one years old and coming off a pretty bad injury, and I think that it is valued is a little bit lower right now. But he's a guy that I think you could gobble up uh at a cheap price right now, if you're looking to make some Dynasty trade. He's a guy that I ended up getting on most of the night Dynasty rosters last year just because I was thrown away a couple of the blacks here.

But it's a nice guy of years right now. Well, you know, with Joe Burrow, if you believe Burrow is gonna be great, and honestly I do, I think you know, he looks as promising as any any quarterback we've seen rookie quarterback in recent years, then I want his best receiver and that's still a j Green right now, and you can get up. You're right, you can get him in Dynasty and Empire leagues for virtually nothing. Matt. Let's take a break. Let's turn our attention to tight ends.

A lot of tight end movement and action and in ordinate number this year. Let's talk tight ends when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Giarchian and Matt Harrison via phone. Because social distancing. So that's just how it works right now. Um, I was surprised that the Falcons let Austin Hooper go. Now he signed a big deal with Cleveland. Um, but he was so good last year. He was one of the

great great fantasy finds of last season. And um, it's it's an it's too to me a little bit surprising that Atlanta decided, after spending all that time him to get him to be such a big part of the offense after he was, you know, started his career as really almost a non factor. Um, that they ultimately let him go. He's in he's in Cleveland. Now, what are

your thoughts on Austin Hooper as a brown Um? Yeah, well, Hooper was one of like about three tight ends that really outperformed ADP last year last year tight end as a whole, the players that were good, we're still good, but they didn't get you the stats that you wanted. And it was Hooper, Mark Andrews and Darren Waller who were the guys that I think really outperformed ADP and you probably saw those guys on a lot of championship

rosters in the league last year. UM Cleveland had a very similar offense to Atlanta too, good wide receivers, a decent running game, some offensive line question marks well with a high draft pedigree, a little bit fewer offensive lines with question marks. With the signing of Jack Conklin, the top tackle in the free agent market, mean that that helps a lot right there, and that might free up

Hooper to have to have to block less. Well, then he enters Kevin's to Fantacy's offense, which was pretty tight end neutral last season with the Vikings. The Vikings finished fourteen in team tight end fantasy points last year with Kyle Rudolph and Herbs Smith. Although the Vikings did have eight tight end touchdowns last year, which was good for seventh in the league. The brown had nine tight end touchdowns last year, which was taught for fourth in the league. Right, so,

I think that there's some upside for Hooper here. I still have them there's a tight end number seven in dynasty. He's only twenty five years old, but see if you can do it again, Yeah, and and then that could end up that could end up being the case here. Um, I think you you identified my biggest worry for Austin Hooper, and that's just is there enough ball to go around? There?

There's a great running team, um with arguably the best one to running back punch in the NFL, and that there's just is there enough balls to go around to make Austin and Hooper as successful here as he was in Cleveland? So do you believe that Cooper's fantasy Austin Hooper excuse me? Do you believe his fantasy value is higher or lower this year compared to last year? Is the same? I think he's right there. I think he's

actually right about the same. Tight Ends seven is where I have him, and I think that that's a really good stafford him right there. I think I think it's actually down just because again I think I think and it's not that I think he's gonna be a worse player he was he was tight end seven last year. I think he's uh. I think he's right. I think he's just worry that Oh, b J. Jervis Landry, Kareem Hunt, Nick Chubb. There's just a lot of miles to feed there.

All right, so let's go to the team he left Atlanta. They acquired Hayden Hurst via trade and this really, you know Mark Andrews. This helps Mark Andrews a lot. So let's start there. Does where does this put Mark Andrews in your mind into that that Kelsey Kittle converse nation knowing that hayden Hurst isn't going to be there to draw out balls away from away from Mark Andrews. I think Mark Andrews is probably either your tight end three

or four going into cheat Sheets season next year. Um, I would guess Kittle and Kelsey are one and two, and you can make a case for Darren Waller as number three, but it's Waller and Andrews who I think are the next year along with the neck hurts there. So he's definitely a top fired tight end there. Yeah, I think he's I think he's I think he's tight

end three. That's how I like Mark Andrews that much, and think he's got room to grow into from last year's numbers where he still scored the ten touchdowns, but I think the receptions and the yardage numbers can be even higher now. And that's that puts him into stratospheric category, at potential category at tight end. What do you think about what do you think about hayden Hurst as a member of the Falcons where you'll have to compete with

Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley for balls. Hayden Hurst is moving into a good offense that just saw Hooper died last season. Atlanta has been top ten in tight end receptions each of the last two years, and if you think of the eighteen and Austin Hooper wasn't doing this, they're still top ten in tight end receptions that year. So I Hurst at tightened plenty in dynasty right now that the opportunity is there, and he may be a

big time sleeper. Um. So I kind of like him as one of those guys who can all perform a DP and they'll probably be moving up my Dynasty ranks and Redraft ranks a little bit more as we near the season. Yeah, I think he belongs higher than twenty. I mean twenty, you're in like at twenty and like the Darren Fells level, right, the Greg Olson level. I would much rather have hayden Hurst. So we both agree he's wrote around Kyle Rudolph, greg Olston, John and Smith's

those town of guys. Yeah. I like Jhonna Smith too, Actually one of my favorite sleepers. Um, but that's a that's a conversation for another another podcast. Let's go to Tyler and we both agree Hayden Hurst value goes up. It's without a doubt this is any one Tyler. I want to spend just a moment on some of the other guys that don't matter as much, not a lot of time. Tyler Eifford goes to Jacksonville. He has not

played a full season since his rookie year. In the past sixty four Bengals games, Tyler Eifford has started eight of them. Yeah, since he's not going to miss him at all because he was never on the field anyway. Correct. Plus an off injured player coming into an offense that hasn't used the tight end, it's just a bad fit. Jacksonville tight ends have only total ninety nine receptions in the last two years total. Wow, teams had more than that last season alone, and Travis Kelsey had ninety seven

receptions on his own last year. So this is a bad fit for effort. Yeah. The only good news is he's basically unopposed in Jacksonville. Presumably rolls into the season healthy and will be the starter. And so for anybody who slufts that tight end position to the eighteenth round, here's a starting tight end who has proven he can be effective when he's on the field. Let's go to Eric Ebron, who goes to Pittsburgh. Um, this leaves Jack

to me more interesting. You know, he goes into a battle with fans McDonald for playing time, just like Jesse James did a couple of years ago. But Jack Doyle's now your full time starting tight end for the Colts. I think that might be the most interesting part of this. Yeah, that's the best, the best part of this because we don't have to play the Doyle Ebron getting game anymore. I actually kind of would I like to see Ebron stay in Indie with Rivers, who's focused on the tight

end a lot in his past. Ebron might have been a little bit more interesting with Rivers in Indie this year, but he's in Pittsburgh now and he said on Twitter that he's the best tight end in the astre North. I think Mark Andrews and paper and maybe he's advanced McDonald that that's something to stay about. That's right. Um, it's a bad move for Ebron. He moves to a time share. He's titled twenty in my book. Right now, I don't really like him in the spot at all.

And now some signings. I really don't like Jason Witten to Las Vegas. Why he's stuck behind Darren Wall. He's not even be a starter, he's starting. He's fifteen year veteran. Why did why? Why did you why go be a backup in Las Vegas? I can tell you exactly why he wanted to go. Get tips and John Druden on how to be somewhat successful in the booth that might be Um, maybe most notably Blake Jarwin is now you're starting tight end for Dallas, and you know if you

roll Blake Blake jar Wins um three touchdowns five yards together. Um, and you add that into what Jason Witten was bringing to the table, you know, you start to you know, you start to roll that in. And now we're talking about a combination of almost a thousand yards and ten touchdowns. So I mean this is well not quite ten seven touchdowns. Um. This is where it gets a little bit interesting. Is you know what Blake Jarwin end up doing with Jason

went and gone Yeah. Our co host Brian Jason has been on Jarlin for about a year now, and I think it might actually work out too. But he answers season number three Jason waitning, and he said it's gone grandall Cobb is going to That's a few vacated targets that will probably go his way. I don't think they're going to replace another big time wide receiver in there. Cooper and Gallup are probably near capacity for targets right now.

I mean Jaren's max since he didn't top fifty eyes one last season and he didn't score in any of his final eight games. And also Mike McCarthy is a known tight end of later but still I have him a tight end fifteen on my Dynasty trade value chart right now. He's right next to Jack Doyle and Jured. One of the dumbest signings of the year was Jimmy Graham to Chicago. Great for Jimmy Graham, will gets sixteen

million dollars on a two year deal. Um and unless Trey Burton suddenly gets healthy and effective, I think Graham probably starts for Chicago, but I don't have an I don't have any belief that he'll be any more effective here than he was when Aaron Rodgers was throwing him the ball. Remember how we talked about Emmanuel Sanders quarterback progression. Yeah, Jimmy Graham went from Drew Brees to Russell Wilson to Aaron Rodgersias or Mitchell too. Disky. I was on it.

You know, I don't have many chances this time of year to give the sad trombone ski, But there we go. What do you think green bas really high on prospect Robert Tonyan and we'll watch him closely throughout training camp and see if he's going to be potentially a sleeper for Green Bay. Greg Olson goes to Seattle lots of injuries the last three years, and over those last three years he has scored two four and one touchdowns in

those seasons. I'm not interested very much in in Greg Oldson, who also has to deal with Will Disley and Jacob Hollister. To me, that's just a loss. I assume you feel the same way. Um, not quite. The Seahawks have been a top eight tight end touchdown scoring team in each of the last four season. It's almost all red zone too.

Where Greg Olson kind of throbs. So if you can stay healthy, and I mean we're still coming back from injury, Jacob Hollister was with the third string tight end there, greg Olson might kind of walk into where Jimmy Grant has a few years back when Seattle score fifteen tight end touchdown, just like three years ago. So now I'm not calling that, but I could see Greg Olson being

in the six to eight touchdown range. That's viable for a fantasy tight end, especially a guy you can probably pick up the feat with the last pick in your draft or on the waiver wire, and you would take a chance from the catcher for the ten minutes he's healthy. Ian Thomas is the star for Carolina. I'm not I've ol there are a bunch of people like Ian Thomas. I've not ever seen anything from me, I and Thomas that suggests to me that he can jump into a

regular fantasy viability. But Teddy Bridgewater, you know, tight ends Rome right in that Teddy Bridgewater range the ten yard pass, and so I think he could be a PPR helper in a pinch. But that's all that's all I think about Ian Thomas. Let's go to Carolina Christian McCaffrey. Everybody, Yeah, that too. All right, let's go to let's go to one more tight end that I want to talk about, Hunter Henry, who um is going to stay. He resigns with resigns with the Chargers and we'll be catching passes

from Tyrod Taylor. Uh, we'll have to compete against Keenan, Keenan Allen and Mike Williams for balls, but has proven he can do that. And in what are your thoughts on on Hunter Henry here one of the better young tight ends. Do you really think it's going to be Tyrod Taylor starting the York Charges starting starting starting the year, Probably yes, but maybe not ending the year because that's Tyrod doesn't usually end the year as the starter. The

Chargers are pick six in the draft. Um, I know I wanted Max have had them taking a quarterback, maybe Jordan's Laws or maybe two falls. But I've also seen a lot of mocks for the Chargers trade up he number two to take to which I'll have to do that franchise. Yeah, somebody to kind of believe in if they can get a good quarterback there and Tyrod met Dad, but he's replacement level then I love Hunter Henry quite

a bit. I still have him tight end number six in Dynasty because he's just been an actually stead when healthy. So I don't think we can take that away from him. Whenever he's on the field, he's been absolutely dynamated. He's been he's been great, and I you know, I don't. I don't think the past injuries are a suggestion that he kept due to the nature of the injuries, that he will sustain more. And it's all about your right, It's all about the quarterback position and whether or not

they can get anything going. This is a team, by the way, they've got like eight the like eight of their ten best players are all going to be free agents next year, and so this is a team that's in serious flux right now, and they're sort of a win.

I don't know how you could be winning now with Tyrod Taylor, but I I wonder if they don't end up sort of bottoming out at the end of this this coming next year, um don't resign a lot of their key players and just go through a massive rebuild, and that that might be your long term prognosis for the Chargers. Well, and the Chargers could go the route of the Dolphins this last year and just start trading off pieces, especially with Hunter Henry in the final year

of his contract as a franchise guy. He could definitely be dealt during the season to a tight end meting team. And maybe maybe a team like New England comes to Colin, who have always really valued the tight end position. It would be interesting to see him armed up on a team that really values the tight end, and I think he could get dealt this year. All right, Matt, it's been fun. We managed to talk for forty one minutes of just the content portion of the show. Holy cow,

that's that's a lot of us too much. Yeah, well, I think people probably really enjoy it. At this time of their life. There's been a lot of walking outside. I'm going to walk every little and pop into podcast in my years. It's fantastic the way to keep saying right now, Yeah, I know for those of us that are already craving football, and more so this year than

any other time, there's no no sports diversions. Um, the draft is gonna be absolutely huge, Fantasy football season will be absolutely huge, and I believe the fan I believe the NFL season will will go off on time, even if they have to play in empty stadiums. I know most people don't see it that way. I do. Um it'll be it'll be fascinating, but there's definitely pent up demand out there for fantasy info. Hopefully this breakdown of

the receivers and the tight ends has been helpful. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it all right, everybody else, we'll talk to you next week. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.