Offseason Winners!

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Some fantasy foot Yeah, let's do it. The next two those are dedicated to offseason winners and losers, because now with the draft behind us, free agency behind us, we can pretty fairly evaluate which guys just through all the off season machin nations ended up in a better spot than expected, and guys that ended up in worse well. And to clarify, we're really talking about guys who are on their existing team, Like we're not going to talk

about guys. Yeah, just sort of ended un All these players are on the same team they played for last year, and based on the off season moves and the draft, are they a winner or a loser based on the outcomes. Some of the times, and this is a perfect example, is going to be the first two. Some of the times it's guys who took a big swing, and other times it's just a gentle adjustment. We're gonna do winners this week because and losers next week because winners come

before losers. Yeah. Uh. As a side note, before we get into our off season winners. Brian guilloteen leagues the site expected to launch in about a little over a week or so, I would guess, So we're getting very close I out our final details and getting ready for the Guillotine League season. We encourage you to stay tuned for that. Maybe a very very special surprise, possibly yes, it's gonna be some fun stuff in there. We'll break

it down on the next thing, probably an excruciating detail. Yes, yes, there's gonna be a edition of Chop Podcast without you. By the way, on Monday, I'm having on JJ Zacharias and to talk about um how he went to and oh in his two guillotine leagues last year. He won them both that ain't luck and one of them was. One was an expert's league, so it was a very impressive. It should be offended, but I won't get mad about

getting bumped for JJ's not great. Great, he's a great guest. Yeah, and we're not I'm making you not have to come over here. I appreciate it. All right, let's into my kitchen, which is where we record these off season shows. What are the cookies. By the way, my wife's gone surprise, the house isn't on fire. Right. Uh. Quarterbacks are the first order of business, and I mentioned the first two quarterbacks.

This first guy took a big swing to the positive as his team does basically everything possible to make good on the draft position of to a tongo viola. Yeah, he is certainly a winner. Despite getting continually dragged on social media, it seems like uh the latest episode uh the underthrow video to a wide receiver will mention in a minute, but uh, yeah to a definitely a big offseason winner. Uh, mainly because of the trade for Tyreek Hill. Uh, you don't have to bomb to Tyreek Hill. You could

give him a little two yard shovel past. Yeah, we'll take it to the house. So yeah, that's it's a big boon for two who. Of course he has Jalen Waddle going to his second year. Uh. Dolphins also signed Cedric Wilson from Dallas. They did lose Davante Parker. I'd say Parker is still more talented than Wilson, but Wilson's more reliable in terms of staying. How the Damante Parker uh always seem to be getting injured. They maintained Mike Siki tight end, who's really a more so a wide

receiver than a tight end. They signed Chase Edmonds, who's a great pass catching running back presumably gonna be there starting running back, so the offense way better in Miami. They also signed left tackle Toronto Armstead, uh, coming over from New Orleans. Pro Football Focus has him ranked as the fifth best left tackle since the eighteen season. So that's not to his blind side because he's a lefty.

It's it's a massive upgrade for the offensive line and an upgraded head coach, at least from an offensive perspective, with Mike Mike McDaniel the offensive coordinator coming over from San Francisco under the tutelage of the Kyle Shanahan offensive mastermind. According to most, so, yeah to a toungo viola QB seventeen right now. But they've certainly uh top twelve upside

currently round ten and top ten. To be he's he'd have to he'd have to take a serious jump to get into top ten, I think, And I'll give out the I'll give out the current ADP for all of these guys, but when we talk about them, Brian, I didn't this time, but I will. I think we're gonna almost always say this guy's being under drafted because we think these are all winners of the off season, and in many cases more so than is being reflected in the a DP. Okay, next, I menttioned a gentle winner.

I think that's Kirk Cousins because people in Minnesota will know this is or if you follow me on Twitter. This will not come as a shock that I'm a Cousin supporter that I believe have been held down by a Mike Zimmer offense and all of the necessities to run all the time and everything else never used to play action. This is gonna be a potentially far better season for Cousins, even though there was no significant change in personnel outside of an upgraded guard and the return

to health of tight end Or Smith. But and and Adam feelings the last third of the season. Yeah, you know, if, um if with Kevin O'Connell there, I think you're gonna get an uptick in just opportunities for Cousin. Now you're gonna throw a lot more period and also probably much more effectively because they just haven't had strong offensive minds and orient and passing orientations with this team really since

Kevin Stefanski left. Over the past four years, has any quarterback in fantasy football been is under drafted and has overperformed as much as Kirk Cousins, who every year goes off it finishes it like quarterback twelve and gets appears on cheat sheets at quarterback twenty. Current ADP I should mention QUB fifteen, So I think there is there is a little bit of love out there for Kirk Cousins for sure. Next up, Jalen Hurts currently quarterback eleven, going

off the board in round six. Yeah, his ADP has certainly started to rise since the trade for a J. Brown and that that is that's the major improvement for that Eagles offense. Uh, outside of Davante Smith who was a rookie last year. These are the guys heard S has been throwing too a wide receiver over the last two seasons. Jalen Reagor, Greg Ward, Quez Watkins, Travis Folgum, John Hyower, j j Arthega Whiteside, and Deonte Burnett Gross.

But now you've got a J. Brown DeVante Smith. See, if you can't draft a good wide receiver, maybe you should just go buy one they already know is good. Yeah, and I think that was a great, great deal for Philly. And I also love Dallas Goddard this year. We covered we talked a couple of months ago, but to recap quickly, he didn't see a ton of targets last year, but zach Ertz was int got it was banged up a little bit, but Gottard average two point two points per

target in PPR leagues, which is insane. Second in yards per reception among tight ends at fifteen, first in yards per route run let all tight ends, and completed area yards per target at six point four. So I love the weapons of the past game. Hurts obviously a threat on the ground as well. The protection upfront is great. The Eagles old line was ranked fourth overall by Pro

Football Focus last year in one. So I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but there is a chance Jalen Hurts is your top scoring He's got it if all if all the cards fall the right way for him, and it's all about passing. I mean, his passing has not been up to NFL levels to this point. But if it comes together in your three and he can put together passing yards and at thirty two touchdowns through the air and had in his in his rushing, that's how

you get to quarterback one overall, which could happen. The next quarterback is maybe the biggest offseason winner of all quarterbacks, and it's Derek Carr currently going off the board at quarterback sixteen with a round nine a average draft position. Last year, Derek Carr put up four thousand, eight hundred yards with Hunter renfro as his only reliable receiver. Unbelievable.

Ruggs went away for ever, Darren Waller missed almost the whole season, you know, and obviously gaining Davante Adams giant, you know, gigantic move from them. But let's not forget they also added competence for depth at wide receiver Brian, DeMarcus Robinson, Keelan Cole, not guys that are gonna change, you know, change games, but guys who are just competent, which they didn't even have. They had no competent depth

at the receiver position. So if these guys need to come on the field when they're four wide, or if they need to fill in and a handful of spots starts, at least the whole offense isn't at a massive downgrade like we had seen in the past with the Raiders depth chart. So if Carr can repeat last year's forty eight hundred yards with far better wide receivers, let's just say he repeats forty eight hundred yards Brian. And if you think Waller is good for ten touchdowns, and if

you think Adams is good for fourteen touchdowns. That puts them that puts them in more touchdowns, and he had last year Derek Carr by by themselves. That puts them in downs right there. And if he's tracking thirty, without a doubt, he's gonna he'll sit right, He'll sit well over thirty at that point. I love Derek Carr. I'm accumulating. Remember I can now before everybody catches up to this, he's quietly been a very good quarterback the last couple

of years, given what's been around him. And now he gets all the benefits of a totally new uh totally knew what should be improved coaching staff. Josh McDaniels offensive minded head coach. YEA so very very high. Derek Carr is one of my favorite offseason winners. We talk running backs. What's your running backs? And then then we'll take our break. Sounds good, we will just put it in right in

the middle. We'll find out. We'll begin with James Conner Brian current ADP is running back twenty going off the board in round four. He was and a rather unexpected fantasy stalwart last year, pretty much a league winner. Eighteen total touchdowns last season and that's with Chase Edmonds taking nine touches out of that backfield. As we just talked about earlier, Chase Edmonds has taken his talents to Miami, kind of like Lebron James did. But Edmonds is not

the Lebron James of running backs by any means. But yeah, Connor going way too late. Uh either it's RB twenty, I see him goes high, it's RB fifteen. He's a borderline first round pick. There should be um here is running back finishes and half point PPR during the weeks that Edmunds missed last year RB one, RB sixteen, RB eight, RB eleven, RB two and RB three finishes for James Conner without Chase Edmonds, And there is no Chase Edmonds yet again, how I mean they didn't replace him with

anybody that looks like a threat to Connor? No, not really. Uh you know, Benjamin is still around. He flashed in one or two games when mcconnor was hurt, and they drafted Keyante Ingram in the sixth round. He's got a nice skill set, but there's not enough draft equity there to really concern you. So yeah, James Connor, I mean, be the opposite guy. You know, if you've gone wide receiver, tight end, wide receiver, and out, it's round four. James

conn He's gonna be creeping up. His ad P will be creeping up as you get into the I think, what what what very reasonably gives people pause on Connor. He's not special, He's not a special talent. It's all opportunity here because Kyler Murray does not run the ball from inside the five yard line. It's all touchdown dependent. I mean, there are there are some there are some

worries here compared to other elite running backs. You could go wal you know, I can see the talent in in in pick a guy Dalvin Cook mean, obviously uber talented player. James Conner is a pedestrian NFL starting running back. It's all opportunity and a better pass catcher than most realize. He's a good pass catching back. And it's worth noting, uh, DeAndre Hopkins is gonna miss the first six weeks of

the first six games of the season. They could trade for Mark He's brown, of course, but there's probably be a few more targets to go around out of that back. Christian Kirk gone as well. Yep, the second running back that is an offseason winner. Say Kwan Barkley currently going off the boarder running back fourteen. That's round three. It's reasons for optimism is its second year off his a c L which is great. Giants brought in no competition

unless you count Matt Brida. Matt Brita was with new head coach Brian Dable last year and Dable barely used him. Then Dable is gonna be pretty good. I think is a head coach field. You know, the Bill's offense was obviously super dynamic, and they Brian Dable wrenched every ounce of fantasy output out of that offense he possibly could have, which I love. And Dable target running backs nine times last year with passes. Barkley is a better pass catcher

than anybody they had last year. Singletary has it got average hands, Zack Moss below average hands. Now, Sacan Barkley is a far better receiver, and he's the only guy who can really catch in that backfield. So your figure, if Dabele's gonna spread around passes to this backfield, Barkley might have eight of those targets. Oh yeah, we've seen him almost We saw him get targeted twenty times in a game a few years ago with Eli Manning. But yeah, yeah, he's he's it's gonna be a big bounce back here

for Barkley. I'm with you that. I think most people feel that way. Um his also a note here improvements to New York's offensive line the first round tackle of and Neil. They brought in guard Mark Glowinski and then guard center hybrid John Feliciano. So there's a lot of improvements for that Giant's offensive line as well, and that's why a lot of people, particularly in PPR, are very

very optimistic about s Kwon Barkley. Another winner for this offseason, and a massive downgrade on defense, losing corner James Bradberry due to the ineptitude of Dave Gentleman. So cap managing lots of lots of coming from behind for the Giants this year. Point chasing garbage time, glorinus, that's not a word. I'm blaming that on the allergy mids. Let's go to Miles Sanders currently going off the board a running back twenty seven, round six. Yeah, that's way too late. He

did have zero touch huns last year. That's what everyone's really focusing on I think, but uh, that's just an outlier to me. When healthy Sanders played more snaps inside the five fifteen of them, uh than Boston Scott and Kenneth Gainewell and Jordan Howard combined. So it was just bizarre he didn't get in the end zone. Jalen hurts of course, vultures and opportunities near the goal line as well.

But uh, I think Sanders bounces back this year. He's in a contract year, which some he was a bad thing, but I I like the fact he's in the contract here because they might just run him into the ground like de Marco Murray's last year and the classic example

of most famous example. And uh so yeah, I mean they Philly didn't draft any big name running back, or any running back for that matter, as far as I know, I do like Kenneth Gainwell, but he still feels like more of the change of pace back, UH might get more opportunities if Sanders gets hurt. Boston Scott is back. Uh scored seven touchdowns last year. How does a little tiny Boston Scott score seven and Miles Sanders gets notne

So that's not happening this year. If anyone's scoring seven touchdowns, it's gonna be Miles Sanders, who, as you said, running back twenty six right now, an insane value. And another guy will probably see creep up his ADP creep up as we get into the summer into drafts. Yeah, you and I may have been looking at slightly different places for our for for our ADPs. You may hear slight variations in I had seven twenty six, but people get the gist of it. Here's a here's a guy who

uh is not I don't know. This is a very I think, very slight winner. J K. Dobbins, Baltimore running back, currently running back eighteen, going off the board late fourth round. The Ravens must feel pretty good about him returning because between him and Gus Edwards, the team to not add any material help at the position um at. At this time last year, Dobbins was a second round a DP. He's had the full year to come back from the A C L and really, I mean he only has

to hold off Gus Edwards to some degree. We know it'll be a one to split, a one two punch. Mike Davi is totally not a factor here, and both guys to me at a heavy discount. Gus Edwards going off the board in the seventeenth round. Right now, huge blunder with a career average of five almost five and a half yards per carry. I think it's because he sounds his name. He sounds like he's like thirty four years old, but I think he's only years is an

old sounding name. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll talk about the wide receiver winners from the off season. When we returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back, segment number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson with you. We're going through off season winners. Next week we'll do the losers. That be a much more somber affair. Yeah, and we we we already started making the list. There are a lot of running back we could do. Also,

just on running back losing the whole season. Let's go to the wide receivers. Let's start with generically broadly, all the Broncos wide house. Yeah. I'm not gonna really get too into the weeds with this one. Maybe not so much. I'm gonna challenge you at the end of this time, the one the guy you would take first, because I've been back based on a DP. I mean, I'll let

you do whatever whatever you want. All the Broncos wide receivers who in order as of right now in ADP is Jerry, Judy Cortland, Sutton, Tim Patrick, and kJ Hamlerer. Judy and Sutton. The gap is narrowed, uh, mostly because of the legal trouble that Judy's kind of been in. But I kind of I'm more of a Sutton guy than a Judy guy. But it's you're getting. You're going from Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock to Russell Wilson and that's that's basically it. That is the biggest upgrade running

receiving corps in the NFL. So that's pretty much it right there. I mean, they're all winners as opposed to Teddy Bridgewater who can't throw more than thirty yards down field. And you know, we've seen Sutton have the big the big season because he was able to do it a couple of years ago. We feel like Judy is the most talented out of the group, but it hasn't materialized

on field and in box scores yet. Zero touch sounds for Judy, I believe last year, and then Tim Patrick is just a wild card that isn't on the field is often, but has managed to be productive every time he's had to sub in for one of those guys when they're injured, which has been a lot. So there's going to be opportunity for all of those and I think the fact that they're all relevant has pushed down their very They're all of their a dp s a

little bit. Sutton like se Kwon Barkley will be two years removed from a series knee injury too, so I'm

expecting a big bounce back from Sutton. But yeah, whether you're going a full full Broncos stack or if you're just drafting Judy or a Sutton, I think Tim Patrick is kind of that rare wide receiver hand you really want to have in the event that one of them is hurt or suspended in Jerry Judy's case, and uh kJ Hamm are really more of a best ball spike week flyer kind of guy, not a guy you want to decide to put in your starting lineup weegin in

week out unless he's clearly gonna have a full time role, which he doesn't right now. While we're talking Broncos, we had debated putting Albert Oh into this conversation of offseason winners, but ultimately decided not to just because that rookie tight end Greg Dulcinch, that dude's a beast, and he may really materially eat into Albert Oh's production at some point. It may not be this year because as we just we've talked about a million times, rookie tight ends generally

don't fare well. And he's a third rounder, not a first rounder like say a Kyle Pitts. But still, uh, you know, Albert Oh gets a certain amount of viability right now currently going off the board at tight end doesn't doesn't seem like the volume is going to be there for Albert I mean, we have to worry a little bit. Obviously, a great running game to in Denver

with Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon. You know, one of the thing I mentioned, there's a I think there's a large there's a big notion out that Russell Wilson can't feed tight ends, But in reality, over most of the past four or five six years, he's just had rotating tight ends that and he and he disperses the ball among a lot of different tight ends with the way they used him in Seattle, but if you rolled up all of their tightens together, he has usage on tight

ends is actually pretty NFL average. Yeah. And also a f C West, all of those divisional games are fireworks everyone between the Raiders and the Chiefs and the Chargers, they all feel like good games. So that's six. That's like almost six guaranteed shootouts for each a f C West team right there. I like, you know, those are the rare divisional games are gonna lave. Okay, So let's move on from Lebroncos to another offseason wide receiver winner

see de Lamb. I think he's as big an off season winner as there is out of this whole list currently wide receiver eight. I have him higher in my cheat sheet. He's going off the board in round two. The off season trade of Amari Cooper is, of course huge, but so is the late season a C L suffered by Michael Gallup. His availability for the start of the

season is very much in question. And then Cedric Wilson, who was good in relief last year, goes off to Miami and all they did was bring in James Washington, who has done nothing but underperform in his time in Pittsburgh. They did draft Jalen Tilbert, who's some, but he's he's a Brookie. He's he's a good project, the heal factor. But yeah, no, I'm with you. Ceedee Lamb not getting drafted as latest Cooper Cup last year, but he feels like the guy that could take that meteorc leap that

the Cup did last year. Lamb. The biggest threats for Ceedee Lamb for targets are is running back in tight end. I mean, it's just it's just it's such a key spot. Frem and I'll mention this as well. Now with Amari Cooper out, Uh, he's gonna move outside. I really think they're gonna play him largely outside, where he was more and more effective and consistent fan of S producer then he has been when he's worked primarily from the slot.

Next offseason winner Darnell Mooney wide receiver twenty nine in average draft position, round six. Yeah, he's going way too late for me. A guy I've been targeting Uh in drafts since January. But last season, one of sixteen wide receivers with more than eighty catches in one thousand yards, he forced twenty seven miss tackles on He has forced twenty seven miss tackles on reception since entering the league in twenty that's tied for seventh among wide receivers in

that span. In that span, and this year, he'll be competing for wide receiver targets with Quinnemiss st. Brown Byron Pringle, Uh Villis Jones Jr. Probably one of the worst draft picks. Uh proved me wrong, Vilis, but everyone's down on Villas. Dante Pettis, your old boy, Dante Pettis used have a shot for Don and J sharp, so I will be well, I didn't, I did not know Don. Hey Pettis, I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help me. He was you know what you didn't. What you don't always know

is that a guy ain't that sharp. It's hard to know from the outside, and I think that's what's derailed Dante Pettis's career as much as anything else. But I will be shocked if Mooney doesn't command at least fifty targets this season. And like Ceedee Lamb, his primary competition is probably gonna be his tight end cole Commit and probably running backs to its, notably to other wide receivers poor justin fields they've given. We'll talk about justin fields

next year. Him we're talking about losers because he is steadfastly in that group of off season losers. Next winner Risshad Bateman Baltimore Ravens wide receiver, currently wide receiver forty in a DP going off the board in round nine. Now, it was a disappointing rookie season for a shot Bateman. I think, no matter how you look at that season, he had he lost the first third of the season to injury. Then he came in and just didn't do any very much with the opportunity. But the team loses.

Marquis Brown traded Marquis Brown away. I think they had decided already Brown didn't want to be there. We know that he wanted to go elsewhere and maybe teamed up with his college quarterback Kyler Murray's. They trade him away and maybe they decided already they weren't going to pay him when Markus Brown was gonna want to get paid. But the next biggest target threat among wide receivers for a Shot Bateman is Devin DuVernay, who they even scored

just once last year. UM, and even when his his snap counts started to go up in December, and it never liked went massively up. But when it went up and he was getting like fifty five sixty snaps a game, the productivity still wasn't there. And you know, Brian, I went back. I looked at a handful of plays from last year, trying to get more more looks at him. And then I went to all the metrics like cushion

yards and yards after catch and targeted air yards. I'm trying to find anything to counter at my eye test and Rashad Bateman, that just he looked so pedestrian and unlike how he looked as a Minnesota Golden Gopher when he was dominating defenses. UM. But your best reason for optimism here. In four games in which he had eight or more targets last year, Rashad Bateman averaged seventy three yards. Yeah, he'll be he'll be more of a force in PPR full PPR. That's exactly where I think he's going to

help out. And I think the one land mine that Bateman and Darnell Mooney need to avoid, it's the last big name receiver that is still a free agent, and it's not Julio Jones and it's not Odell Beckham because they're both pretty much decomposing corpses at this time. But uh is will Fuller, and I think he's a great fit for the Bears or the Ravens one or the other. So we'll see what happens with him. But as of right now, Will Fuller is not a Bear nor a Raven.

So that dude stole ten million last year. Let's go to Michael Pittman. He's currently wide receiver twenty one. His average draft is Asian is in the in the fourth round, the Indianapolis Colts receiver. Why do you feel like he was an offseason winner? Uh? Just six touchdowns last year, but he was top fifteen in catches and yards among

wide receivers. Um. But it's basically he had an upgraded quarterback with Matt Ryan, who I'm not a huge fan of, but it's still a massive improvement over over Carson Wentz in my mind. And they did draft Alec Pierce in the second round out of Cincinnati. The Colts did, who I like, but I think Pierce's presence will only help Pittman will help Pittman. Pittman help Pittman more than hurt him, um, because defense is really focused on him in terms of

the passing game. If the Jonathan Taylor, of course the Colts offense ran through him. But uh, Pittman's just a beast uh six four like to forty just speaking of beasts, not with mo Alei Cox and Gelanni Wood like they got some they and Alec Pierce is a pretty big guy too. I think six two six three some serious size and that in that Colts offense. But yeah, Michael Pittman right now, going you said wide receiver twenty, I've

seen late teens. He's another guy who I think we could see creep into that top twelve uh range among wide receivers. So I just think, yeah, they didn't. They didn't draft a big, big name. Alex Pierce is gonna be a good player, but I don't think he steals an up shine from Pittman this year. So I think Pittman is gonna be in for a big, big season

next up. Alan Lazard, green Bay Packers wide receiver offseason winner wide receiver fifty going off the board in round eleven, green Bay could have reasonably used both of their first round picks on wide receivers. As it turns out, they didn't use any of them on wide receiver, and I think ultimately that helps. They did add, obviously, Christian Watson in the second round, and I think ultimately that's a

win for Lozard, although I like Watson too. Um because Lazard opens the year as the air apparent to a lot of Davante Adams absurd one hundred sixty nine targets last year. I mean, though one sixty nine are gonna have to go someplace, it's not all gonna go to rookie receiver Christian Wattson. Lizard is gonna get a lot of it. Lazard is not a special talent. He's I think he is a fairly ordinary receiver talent. But he comes in as the outstarting the number one incumbent veteran

receiver for Aaron Rodgers. That's worth a lot Randall Cobbs the only other receiver with any kind of history with Aaron Rodgers, and just I didn't buy virtue of being a veteran receiver catching passes from Aaron Rodgers. Lazard is being drafted too late wide receiver fifty. To me, he feels like a guy you could just put into your wide receiver three spot every week and just forget about it, and he'll pay off, you know, half of the time, two thirds of the time, solid games. Forty catches, five

dred yards, eight touchdowns on sixty targets. That's it. Double the targets, right, You're talking a thousand yards and double digit touched, digit touchdowns and close to right wide receiver fifty. You know, way too late. Yeah, agreed. Let's go over to the tight end position, Brian, and let's talk about the offseason winners. There. We begin in Dallas with Dalton Schultz. We already talked about Ceedee Lamb. We talked about all the receiving options that are now gone at Dalton Schaltz

stands to benefit as well. Yeah, we pretty much alluded to this already. You said he could, uh, Dalton Schultz, that is, could easily be the top option in the passing game after Ceedee Lamb. And I'm with you, And Schultz wasn't the second option last year. He was. I would still call him third behind Ceedee Lamb and Mary Cooper, but uh, he was one of three tight ends with at least eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns. The other

two were Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews. A. Yeah, he was also one of six tight ends the top one hundred targets and finished third and catches at the position as the third, maybe even fourth option in the past game, probably at least of the third, and like you've said a couple of times already might be the second uh Dak Prescott's second option in the past game. So big time winning for Dalton Schultz and Blake Jarwin. I don't I don't know if he's even in the league anymore.

He's gone, he's on. He had I remember we talked about this when we're doing like divisional reviews. He had a hip injury where no football player had suffered it or returned from it, return from it only like hockey is like an athlete come back from this kind of hip injury. So that sucks for Jarwin and in Dallas. The way hockey players use their hips all the time, use it to skate, you get hip checked, you get you know, there's all kinds of things that's good, that's

weird that hopefully hopefully Jarwin can skate. That's that's the case. Um, you put this on my list, and I'm a little bit hesitant to even go here, but Travis Kelsey is an offseason winner. I don't necessarily agree as much as you do on this, but I will I will. I'll give it a slim pickens a tight end. So he's

thirty two years old, which doesn't make him dead. But Kansas City did not acquire via draft or free agency or anything else, any other tight end or any air apparent to Travis Kelsey, so presumably he'll have the same fairly massive role that he had before. Of course, you know, Tyreek Hill leaves, but for me, this is a push

on Tyree Kill leaving. Sure, he's not gonna be siphoning off all the time touches that Tyreek Hill had, and sky Moore is not going to get all of those touches, but he also doesn't have Hill to open up the middle of the field like he used to mean. Tyreek Hill running out of the slot and dashing through the middle of the field was pulling linebackers and safeties away from Travis Kelsey, and you'll lose that a little bit.

So I really, in my heart, I believe there's more, just like a push off season for Travis Kelsey, but I think some could see it as an upsider. I just think Mahomes will lean on him a little more than usual. He certainly has leaned on him a lot already. Now, Kelsey's ADPs tight in one right now, one round, almost exactly one round ahead of Andrews. We've talked about, we talked earlier about how the Ravens have very few other

places to go here. I think you can make a case that Andrews is more of an off season winner than Kelsey is. With the dearth of receiving options there, who would you take first, Kelsey or Andrews? Really? I know this isn't the answer you want, but it's neither. I'd wait a little longer until I didn't take my book, but if I had to, I mean, I would still take Kelsey first. I'm on Andrews just be you know.

And I love Kelsey and I've got him in a bajillion leagues last year, you know, the last several years, I've lobbied for people to take him in the first round. Um. The thing with Andrews his like he had a great season, but he had like his monster games. We all with Tyler Huntley. I think not Lamar Jackson. Yeah, he did have a get a third amount of based on Kelsey

had like a six week long last year. That rattled me just a little bit, and it just started to plan at the seed, like do I want to get out a year early on Andrews or sorry on Kelsey? I want to you know, do I want to be the guy? Do I don't do? I you know, I'd rather get out of year early. This could certainly be the year that the torch is passed from Kelsey to Andrews. But no, Kyle Pitts is gonna snatch that torch and

away with it. I could, but I listened to the show last week and I heard you and Matt I have to take a jab at me and Kyle Pitts and it wasn't appreciated. But I still like you guys. I guess thank you. Cole Commet currently tight ends seventeen. You believe he is an offseason winner. Yeah. It kind of just goes back to the Darnell Mooney discussion. We just had um commit probably going to be the second option in the passing games. Zero touchdowns last year not

a good thing. But Jimmy Graham had three touchdowns. He's he's gone, I would hope. So I'm not confirmed that. I'm just assuming he has gone. But Commit one of nine tight ends with at least sixty catches six hundred yards and no no, no threat came in at the wide receiver position, and it's it's gonna be Commit in

the in the red zone. I would think he's gonna be the top option for justin fields, not saying that being the red zone a lot in Chicago, but at tight end fifteen right now, I think there is top ten upside with Commett if you if you can see the volume, and I think he will. David and Joeku from the Browns currently tied in number twenty two, an

average draft position. He got the offseason franchise tag, which I did not see coming at the beginning of the off season, and it suggests that Ninjoku's spike in usage last year probably not a fluke. They let Austin Hooper go in the in the off season, and Harrison Bryant

just didn't develop in year two last season. Still plenty of turmoil among Cleveland's quarterback positions, which makes me a little bit worried about in Joko and then in Joeku has just been incredibly untrustworthy and unpredictable as a fantasy factor throughout his entire career. You're really banking on him becoming a lock number one, beating out Harrison Bryant, not being part of a rotation, and becoming a predictable fantasy producer, none of which has ever been the case that throughout

his career. Cleveland's got to give him that chance. This year they took him in the first round back. Yeah, and he's he's only he's gonna turn twenty six this summer. He's still going. Yes, I mean, they should have done this a couple of years ago. They never shouldn't even signed Austin Hooper in my opinion, So yeah, this is the time to give in joekup hundred targets at least, and she's a hundred I take it. How about That's that even that would be a massive uptick for him,

But we'd take that too. Um. I think that's it's I think it's a little stretch, but I would. I'd like to see him do it. They paid there, they franchised him, so obviously they plan to use him. You don't franchise a guy that's not an integral part of your offensive scheme, at least in theory. Next week losers, the big goal losers, Well we'll talk that through next week. Thank you for making to the end of the Fantasy

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