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Welcome Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. Co host Brian Johnson. Hello, what's up, charts.
We are fighting. We're not fighting the wildfires in Canada.
Not literally, they're not either, by the way. But yeah, we've got a serious air quality issue. So we'll be clearing our throats. Yeah a little bit at times. Yep, we may sound a little gravelly. We may be killing Mike's from time to time to uh clear the throats. Yeah, it's it's it's weird. You know.
New York got it bad. Yeah, I got a lot of family so friends out in that region. It looked way worse than here.
Yes, but here's the thing about Canada, and I say, why they're not actually fighting it. They're like, there's nothing we can do. It's so big. This thing is just gonna run until it puts itself out or winter comes.
Okay, I made an awful joke an awful tweet.
I'll share it here. You think they're so awful, you're gonna you're gonna share, all right, run run it by you.
Uh, how did it go?
Okay? Yeah? Uh?
You think they could control those fires up in Canada better with all the hosers.
Oh that's good. That's it. Yeah, that's It's a dad joke, but I like it the best jokes. That's really good. Uh. Like last you know, last week, we broke down the teams of the a f C and NFC East, and as I was prepping up for today's show, which is the a f C and NFC South, I realized, really what this is more than anything else, as we break down each one of these teams, For me, it's a
sleeper show. You know. I get all excited about some sleeper who I really think is sitting out of good years being being underdrafted, and we identify the most underdrafted player on each one of the eight teams that we're going to cover today and the most overdrafted player. So it's a sleeper bust show as much as anything else.
Yeah, I think can you recall at this point in the offseason, I mean we're in OTAs now where there's five six big name free agents still out there. Yeah, like DeAndre Hopkins, Dalvin Cook, yeah, Ezekiel Elliottree Fond yeah, Fournette Yeah.
So we'll preview all these we have to preview. We're at this point in the.
Off season where you're previewing teams, but right not every team is set in stone. But we'll just have to see where those guys end up. But as of right now, they are available.
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This is the fifty dollars one It's almost a quarter full already yeah, baby, teams will have multiples of those. And it's not too early to draft the aforementioned free agents we were talking about.
You get them cheaper now.
Since they sign, it doesn't matter where they sign, their value goes those up.
So it's true, it is not too early. And the people kind of people are listening to this show now. You know, our listenership goes way up as the as the season gets closer. The people are listening now. You man, you're you are way ahead of most on this and your ability to go crush a draft this time of year is better than it's going to be later when everybody catches up. All right, let's go to the FC south, Brian, what team would you like to start with.
Let's start with the Titans. Okay, off season moves it matter for Tennessee. DeAndre Hopkins perhaps maybe first team he visited, has not signed with Tennessee, so we'll just have to wait and see there. Other than that, not a lot of major moves in the off season. And now Robert Woods and tight end Austin Hooper are no longer with the team that leaves the receiving corpus Traylon Brooks really
the only guy you want. And then there's Nick Westbrook at keene and Kyle Phillips there they're deep league dark throats. It's really all about Treylon Brooks at wide receiver. And we'll talk about the other tight end a little later. Who's still with the team now that Hooper is gone. And lastly, the Titans drafted running back ty J Spears
and quarterback Will Levis. Both not an immediate threat to the you know the incumbents at the respective positions, Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill, but they should have an impact this year. We'll talk a little more about Spears in a minute. Will the offense be better or worse than last year?
This is kind of a loaded question.
It's gonna be better, It's gonna be a little bit better. I mean, Tannehill was a hurt a lot last year. Don't for Malik Willis, but now he's he's QB three and if something happened to Tannehill, Levis has I'm intriguing upside. He's got a lot of bust potential as well. But they're not gonna miss Robert Woods, a Ton nor Austin Hooper. Treylon Burks was injured a lot last year as well. Hopefully he's fully healthy and in his second year he should take a take a step, so we will go
towards better. My most underdrafted player by ADP, you'd think it's Chicka koon Quill, who is now the starting tight end. People are onto him, so yeah, he's he's like the consensus sleeper, so he's no longer a sleeper. Crazically, I've watched his ADP rise and rise jumped over month because I've been drafted since February, so he's not really a sleeper anymore. He's going off the board as tight end twelve right now, so that's that's a tight end one.
That's a tight end one. So I still love him, don't get me wrong, but he's he's not underdrafted by any means. I'm gonna go with ty J. Spears one hundred and seventy sixth overall running back, fifty four. He has crossover appeal in that if you draft Derrick Henry, you want He's one of my handcuffs, my must handcuffs Spears.
But he's also a guy I'm.
Drafting if I don't have Derrick Henry, because we're gonna talk about Dereck Henry in but yeah, ty J Speers, I don't like his long term potential per se because he basically has no knees left.
He's had some major knee issues.
But right this year I'm looking at this year, we're looking at an aging Derrick Henry and ty J Spears probably as healthy as he's going to be in his NFL career. So at running back fifty four, I'm loving the value there and.
Well, and you know, Henry has Henry could can falter a lot of different ways at this stage of his career. Right all the miles that are on him, he might just take a big step down. We all know what the running back position. When the end comes, it comes quickly. Derick Henry might be at the end right now. This could be it, so Spears could get used that way. He could finally break down. For a guy who's been a great workhorse back, Derrick Henry could finally break down too.
That would give Spears an opportunity to Yeah.
You basically, and that is why Henry Derrick Henry is my most overdrafted player right now, going off of the board at RB eight, twenty fifth overall. So he's end of the second, early third. But like you said, this is the epitome of mitigating the age Cliff he is at that age, especially for a running back. Gap twenty nine doesn't catch a ton. And yeah, it's not an exciting offense either. They used to have such a dominant offensive.
Line right of the case, so their line I think was ranked dead last and run blocking last year by Pro Football Focus.
I believe that early in the draft, whether I'm going for a running back or not, I mean, I'm I'm just not looking Derek heny Henry's way this year.
The most improved team in the NFL this year is going to be the Houston Texans, which isn't a super bowld stavement where they went like four games last year, including the mistake win in Week eighteen, so it's not super bold, but I'm really bullish on Houston. They traded away Brandon Cooks to Dallas. They drafted the ironically named Tank Dell just that he's just a weelow guy. I'm lu gormout and naim for fantasy purposes. They also signed
mac wide receivers Robert Woods and Noah Brown. They don't much for me.
Let me throw us out there about Tank Dell real quick. Some sites have him as Tank Dell and others have his real name, which is Nathaniel So.
Okay, yeah uh. They signed Dalan Schultz to replace Jordan Aikins, and I'm I am interested in Jordan. Schultz is a as as somebody that I think there's some value in.
So much with Brevin Jordan, he was one of my my sleepers briefly.
Yeah, yeah, that's did And they signed a Devin Singletary in the off season. He will be a back up behind Damian Pierce. So willis offense be better? I already tipped my hand on this. Yes, this Houston offense will be better once c. J. Stroud hits his stride. The offensive line isn't half bad. The loss of Brandon Cooks can be replaced with John Metchi, remember he's coming back from the leukemia, and Nico Collins should be better in
year three. I'm interested in Nico Collins too, and maybe most importantly in Houston, we have a new and presumably competent coaching staff. You get head coach DeMeco Ryans, who I love. New offense coordinator Bobby Slowick comes from the forty nine ers with Ryans where he was the passing game coordinator. So I love that that we're bringing forty Niner coaching reps to the Houston Texans. I just feel like this whole coaching staff is going to take a
sizeable step up. So who's the most underdrafted player? If you know me, you know I feel about Damian Pierce being drafted way too low. He's going off the border running back twenty, that's sixty fifth overall. Dude was quietly great last year, Brian, but a lot of people didn't see him play because he played for Houston, and he's got room to do a lot more receiving this year. He was a talented receiver at Florida. And again, back
to this forty nine ers offense. If we assuming we were getting some some variation of a forty nine Ers offense here, the offensive coordinator Bobby Slowk was part of the forty nine Ers offense that threw the ball seven times per game to running backs last year seven times. Love it. If we're gonna get anywhere close to seven, most that work is gonna go to Damian Pierce. He has got sneaky PPR upside that he did not tap into in his rookie year. So Damian Pierce to me,
is the most underdrafted player. Dalton Schultz is your honorable mention, the most overdrafted player by ADP. To me, it's Devin Singletary. I don't see him as to me totally just a guy. He's just an injured replacement for Peers. He doesn't bring much to the table stylistically, ability wise, he's not special. So really nobody from you since really getting overdrafted. He's running back fifty one hundred and fiftieth off the board. But I don't even want Devin Singletary at that price.
No, there are other backs in that range that are more intriguing, rookies or other backups like don Jerome Ford comes to my way. I'm not on Singletary too.
What team do you want to do next? Well, I got the Colts. Wait, actually, before we do Colts, let's take a break. Let's work in a quick break. We'll do the Indianapolis Colts, talk about the offseason moves and our most over and under drafted players. When we come back. Welcome back, Paul Charchion, Brian Johnson with you. Now, let's talk about the Colts.
The Colts yeah, a lot, a lot of a lot of change, yes, starting with quarterback Matt Ryan retired. Now, like a zombie extra on the Walking Dead set, I would imagine, I'm sorry, I can't shouldn't take my shots at Matt Ryan.
I feel bad for Matt right now. What's what's not to like?
His play was not a lot to like towards the end of his career. But anyway, he's gotten a bad rap for a lot of reasons.
You're gonna see him every Sunday? Is he I think he's Fox. He went to the I think he's in the Fox booth, right.
Yeah, I think that sounds about right. He seems like a Fox guy. But I bet he's good in the booth. But anyway, he's gone. As most know, the Indie drafted quarterback Anthony Richardson with the third overall pick.
I believe second.
I always get to give you a third. Yeah, second quarterback taken. They also signed Gardner Minshew who we'll talk about both those guys in a minute, but totally revamped the quarterback position in Indie. They also drafted wide receiver Josh Downs, who a lot of people are high on, including us. Figures to work a lot out of the slot. Also signed Isaiah McKenzie, who compete with downs Ye presumably presumably for those slot snaps, but like the rookie, a
lot more in that battle. But those are the most of the off season moves that matter. Well, the offense be better or worse than last year. It's got to be better. Shouldn't be hard to be better than last year. Jonathan Taylor needs to stay healthy. Of course, last year.
Got hurt in Week one. Never the same all year. Offensive line was awful.
Offensive line was awful. Matt Ryan struggle. There wasn't all his fault. It was a brutal year. So you can only things can only get better for the Colts. One would think the most underdrafted player. I know you'll love this one. They all come in pretty good value except one guy who will be the most overdrafted player. We'll talk about in a minute. But his tight end, Jolanni Woods.
Yeah, baby, all right talking. I mean he's.
Basically Woods tight end thirty three, just the absolute mountain of a man. He's bigger than the offensive lineman in the huddle, but he's athletic. Clear red zone target. There are other red zone targets with the Colts, and they still have Moley Cox, but Woods is They've gotta give Woods the snaps. I mean, this guy looks just like an absolute freak. So you know, if you're only three tight ends late, you know you're you're kind of fading tight ends throwing darts at the end, or you're taking
one backup. Gotta love Woods in the last round of virtually any drafter in with.
He's my favorite tight end sleeper across all thirty two teams. Johnny Woods and Shane Steichen came from Philly where he saw Zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard be massive parts of those offenses. And this is the guy. Woods is the guy who's got the athletic profile to do with what Ertz and actually he's got a better athletic profile than either Ertz or Goddard. Oh yeah, if it comes together for him as a sophomore this year, oh man, I'm
excited about Johnny. WI was hoping he's my second tight end in all my.
Leagues right on, and the most overdrafted player. And again we're talking strictly redraft here, really, not Dynasty Empire. It's Anthony Richardson quarterback ten, right.
Now, All that's just that's aggressive.
We're not sure he's gonna start the season. My hunch is they're gonna go with Minchew, see how it goes, and then go to Richardson, who he's gonna have growing pains. Of course, the potential, the sky is the limit if he can hit his ceiling with the rushing. Of course,
I he's got a cannon arm. But for all to come together in his rookie year and just to go at quarterback ten when it's such a deep position this year, that's yeah, you're sinking a lot of a draft capital into a rookie you might not even start the year. So he's being way overdrafted by me. Yeah not buy me too in my opinion. Yeah, look, I'm with you.
Quarterback ten gets you Kirk Cousins, who's gonna get you two touchdowns and two hundred and eighty yards every week. And that's super super safe. And you know, obviously we're totally aware of what rushing passing combo quarterbacks he's going to do for Daniel Jones.
Let me saw what Daniel Jones did as a rushing quarterback last year and he I mean it's it's crazy to me. Yeah, it could be wrong. I'll die on this sill though.
We all want him to succeed, and I hope he's great, and I hope it's week one. But that's asking a lot of a kid who was who got so few starts in college. All right, Our final AFC South team is the Jacksonville Jaguars. A bunch of offseason moves that you should care about. First round pick a tackle for Anton Harrison, who replaces Juwan Taylor, and Taylor was good, so they needed somebody to fill that spot, and I
love they put a first rounder there. Third round pick on Tank Bigsby, who muddies the water for Travis etm. We'll talk more about that later. They gain remember Calvin Ridley off his season long suspension, They let Marvin Jones go back to Detroit, and then Evan Ingram got franchised. But then the team spent a third rounder on Brent Strange from Penn State, which range It was a little bit of a strange pick, literally, So will this offense
be better worse than last year? It was a lot better last year, but I think he gets a little bit better this season. Two Trevor Lawrence has the upside to be a top five passer in what is effectively a second season. Is going to throw out that rookie year Urban Meyer year. Yeah, Calvin Ridley's should be a major upgrade over Marvin Jones, and Tank Bigsby is far better than James Robinson or Snoop Connor. I mean, the depth chart gets a lot better with Tank Bigsby there. So
who's the most underdrafted Jaguar Brian going in? I would have I thought I was gonna be talking about Calvin Ridley, but the public is very, very bullish on him. His ADP is wide receiver sixteen, going before Christian Kirk, who is coming off a wide receiver ten season. So there's no there really isn't value to be had on Calvin Ridley. The most underdrafted player is Tank Bigsby going up the board right now, running back forty six, one hundred and forty fourth overall.
Man.
People are totally missing the boat on how this thing's gonna unwind. I'm confident Travis Etn will not be a workhorse back. He's not built for it, and Doug Peterson doesn't like to use single workhorse guys, and Bigsby's a fascinating prospect. He's one of my favorite rookie runners coming into this draft. And here's a critical component. Tank Bigsby's gonna be the goal line back. Travis Dtn got thirteen
carries from inside the five last year. You know how many touchdowns he got on thirteen carries, two three, that's it. And he averaged zero point seven yards per carry inside the five. These short yardage goal line carried, that's gonna go to Tank Bigsby, and I think he's gonna be in a regular rotation with etn SO.
And Trevor Lawrence. An underrated runner too, especially at the goal line. He's got some truck stick to him.
Yeah, he's gonna sneak in some too. Travis and so my most overdrafted player, as you can already see coming. Travis Etn's at eight is. I think if you had right now today this week, it's Friday, the sixteenth of June, if I had to pick one player to hang my hat on to disappoint fantasy players across all the teams, it would be Travis Etn. Not that he's a terrible player, but at running back fourteen thirty ninth player off the board. You were getting a player with a lot of limitations.
He's not gonna be the goal line guy. He was little used in the passing game last year, averaging just two catches per game. That's it. And then you add in Calvin Ridley, you add in Strange, you add in Tank Bigsby, and I think there's the ball's gonna find its way out of his hands, way more than people think right now.
Yeah, it's an easy pass to me. On ETN you can get guys like Aaron Jones, JK. Dobbins, Joe Mixon, like half a round. Yeah, around later and that this feels a lot safer than an.
Let's go to the NFC South. Which team would you like to start with, Brian, Let's go with the Bucks. We'll this shouldn't take get it over with Yeah, tear the band aid off on the Bucks.
So Tom Brady retired probably as of right now, he's retired. Bucks signed Baker Mayfield to compete with Kyle Trask. Mayfield likely to start the year, but really only a conversation for super flex leagues, and he's not a starter in super Flex League.
Neither are they.
They're both depth guys, So not a lot of excitement at the quarterback position. Maybe next year it will be exciting times at quarterback for the Bucks. The Bucks let Leonard for net Walk in free agency. They did sign Chase Edmonds, but he is dead to me after last year just killed me in many leagues.
I was pretty high on him. That was stupid. Not again this year.
So as of right now, it's the Chod the ri Chad White show that said, I think the Bucks are a candidate to land, probably not Leonard Fournette, and maybe Zeke Elliott, Kareem Hunt, maybe Dalvin Cook sort of close enough to his home in Miami. So we'll see if that backfield is cemented right now. But as of right now, it's Rachad White all the way. Others who are no longer with the Bucks, we don't really care about Julio Jones, Scottie Miller, Cameron Break, Kyle Rudolph.
No one cares.
The offense will be worse this year, even though Tom Brady was like fifty significant downgrade at quarterback. They're not going to get better with Baker Mayfield the most underdrafted player. It's kind of both to me, it's Mike Evans and Chris Godwin their quarterback.
They've both loft ceilings fall out. These are both guys being taken in what the top twelve last year Evan. Now they're going in the thirties. Right that receiver.
Evans is wide receiver thirty four. He's going like a round later than Godwin, so I'll go with him.
Again.
We don't like the quarterbacks, but Evans, he's still gonna to push for that one thousand yards you would think if he stays healthy seven eight touchdowns, So at wide receiver thirty four, that seems a little too cheap, even with Baker Mayfield throwing him the ball and the most overdrafted player. It's tough. I said, I like for Chad White, but right now it's him, Beau. He's the only bucket's really getting drafted.
There's nobody else that qualifies.
He's going as RB twenty six, eighty sixth overall.
Obviously feels about right.
It feels about right for now, but that that could get blown up with a free agent signing. So that's my only concern there really. But I like it a lot more in PPR than in standard leagues. But I still don't think he's gonna be a bell cow should mention Sean Tucker was an intriguing prospect coming out of Sarahcuse, but he had he basically didn't do any drills combine
pro day. He was signed as an undrafted free agent and people we had him as a top ten running back going to the draft, rookie running back, So a little intrigued by him. So I gotta keep your eye on so Richard White though, if I had to pick an overdrafted player, would be him.
Offensive line was battle last year, projects to be bad this year, although they're coming back healthy year, but just the talent drop off from from just as recently as a couple of years ago, it's been dramatic across that offensive line.
The tanking has started already. Yeah there, I mean they want Williams.
They do. I mean, you know, they're playing for next year's quarterback this year in Tampa, and it's totally the right thing to do. I'll go to the Atlanta Falcons. The offseason moves that matter really just one, and it was the draft day selection of Bejhon Robinson to an offense that had the second highest run play percentage last year. And here's what's really fascinating about the second highest run
play percentage from last year. All the teams, the teams that finished first, third, and fourth had Justin Field's Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts. They had rushing quarterbacks designed to place for their rushing quarterbacks. The Falcons didn't you know, they were not doing design plays for Marcus Mariota and Desmond Ritter, and yet they had the second highest run play percentage. Arthur Arthur Blank Smith Blank Arthur Smith loves to run the ball, so b John Robinson is a
tantalizing uh improvement. Also, the Falcons brought in a mac Collins who popped a bit in Las Vegas. Well, uh, I think he's I think he's got a little sneaky to him. Yeah, and he's gonna he's gonna start. He's gonna start opposite Drake London.
We talked about DeAndre Hopkins earlier in the show. He makes a ton of sense to me in Atlanta. He wants to compete. This is the softest division in the NFL right by far. And they needed wide.
They got Kyle. They got two wide.
Receivers and Kyle Pits and Drake one, and I don't know, and I think they have the money. It seems like it seems like there could be something there For me. You'd have to convince him there's that they're gonna pass. Yeah, which is really at the end of the day, what's killed Kyle Pitts more than anything else.
This team doesn't send, it doesn't pass anyway. Will the offense be better or worse this year? It's a second it's the second year for Desmond Ritter. Yeah, in the acquisition of Robinson Ssumably Kyle Pitts stays healthy and then if Kyle Pitts doesn't, they can actually improve the position with John Hu Smith. John hu Smith reunited with Arthur Smith from their days in Tennessee. Oh, I'm not rooting
for injury because we don't do that here. But if anything happens to Kyle Pitts game on John U Johanu. The most underdrafted player by ADP, Now, Brian, I know what you would say. The most underdrafted player by ADP is Kyle Pitts. By the way, going off the board is tight end five. I mean, there's really not value to be had there on Kyle Pitts. Tyler were he here, he would tell you that Desmond Ritter going off the board as quarterback thirty. He's very bullish on Desmond Ritter.
I am going to take the discarded remains of Tyler Algier as the most underdrafted player. His stock is plummeted to running back forty eight, one hundred and fifty fifth overall, and we don't know for sure going to get into the most overdrafted player here too. B. Jhon Robinson's going off the board is running back three, tenth pick overall, running back three. And I love the guy, don't get me wrong. I think he's gonna be a very good player.
But do we know for sure that Arthur Smith will a ditch the committee that he has used ever since he got to Atlanta, including the shockling effective Tyler Algier, who I think you can make a case for is being significantly underdrafted. And B is he gonna throw to his runners something he's never done in Atlanta or Tennessee. Is Bjhon Robinson gonna get all the PPR help that you need to validate a running back three overall top ten draft pick. We don't know that that's the case.
And there's also a case to be made for Arthur Smith to look at this team and go, you know what, is this the year I want to put three hundred and twenty touches onto Bjhon Robinson this year? Maybe not? I mean this isn't like their Super Bowl run year, right, That would presumably be next year if it turns out Desmond Ridder is good enough to has got.
To prove to be the guy. It's like fully unleashed Bijon. Yeah, and the Marshall Falk Yeah, like we got our current Warner types. But yeah, a guy like Bijeng going in the first round if his backup who is a capable backup Tyler.
Algier was we know from last year at over a thousand yards.
Yeah, he's a pretty easy buy even if you, like I said, the crossover appeal. He's a he's gonna be a handcuff if if you're worried about Bijon being if you don't have him, Uh could be a league winner if something were to happen to Bijon, and something could happen to anyone.
In this game. Correct, Let's go to Carolina, all right.
A lot of a lot of change in Carolina. Boy drafted Bryce Young number one overall traded DJ Moore as part of that package. More no longer a wide receiver in Carolina. They brought in wide receivers Adam Thielen and DJ Shark via free agency, drafted Jonathan Mingo. So a lot of change at wide receiver.
Yeah, that's your one, two and three receiver right there, and they're all new.
So much for the Terriss Marshall truthers. I don't know if that's ever gonna come to fruition, but we'll see, you know, Adam feel and see what he's got in the tank. DJ Shark has struggled to stay healthy at times, but as of now, those are the top three. Dante Foreman left via free agency. He's on the Bears too now with DJ Moore. So, the Carolina signed running back Miles Sanders. He is you're starting running back as of right now.
A little I'm not.
Too excited about Sanders. We'll talk about him more in a minute. And Uh Hayden Hurst also signed uh in free agency as a starting tight end. So like basically a totally revamped offense. YEP, in Carolina offense should be better. I mean we're going like from Sam Darnold they traded Christian McCaffrey last year. They they basically had DJ Moore and that was about Yeah, so even though Bryce Young is a rookie, they did they did bulk up at
receiver Sanders. I would call that an upgrade over Dante Foreman Hayden Hurst.
I don't know.
They never used their tight ends in Carolina, So we'll see how that goes, but I'll say the offense will be better. My most underdrafted player is Chuba Hubbard, though going off the board as oh interestinging back fifty six, that's one hundred and eighty second overall. That's because Miles Sanders is my most overdrafted player going off the board is RB nineteen. People expecting him just to be this
magical bell cow. He's never been on better offenses where he's kind of The door was open for him in Philly, but he.
Just never Everybody assumed it was scheme, and you know, like coaches. The coaches didn't want to make him a workhorse less than he could be a workhorse. But I don't know about that.
Yeah, I just don't think he was good enough to command the line share of the touches. So and you can't convince me that just apples to apples. Miles Sanders is that much better of a running back than Chewba Hubbard.
So Cuba Ubbard has had opportunities or they needed to start him.
He's had some good games when he's.
Got little touches.
It's just I don't know, if you're not getting one of the top three or four running backs, you're kind of stockpiling running backs this year because you know, again, the bell cow is a dying breed, and just Chuba Hubbard is a late round target that I'm going back.
I kind of like Theling because here's why. I think Thelan's gonna get the vast He's gonna buy buy a lot. He's gonna be the target leader on the Panthers. He's for a young quarterback, Adam, theland's gonna be in the right place. He's got elite hands. You know your young quarterback knows if I just deliver a catchable ball there, my guy's gonna catch it. I think Theling's quietly sitting on not a totally non explosive but still competent year
as a number one receiver. So yeah, he's going off the board at like wide receiver forty.
Yeah, he was in the mix in this con though, but I don't know. He looked like he lost a step last year. Hopefully did he get the best step. But we'll see see what happens.
Last one for the show is New Orleans Saints. Derek Carr replaces Andy Dalton, and I'm to talk more about that and why it may be way more of a lateral move than you think it is. Details coming. They added two runners to a backfield that already had Alvin Kamara, rookie Kendry Miller, and last year's touchdown leader Jamal Williams. So will this offense be better or worse than last year? I believe it's going to be much more similar to
last year than most people do. Everybody thinks that this is this isn't an offense that's going to be a lot better. Allow me to repeat some of the stuff we talked about on the Chris o'lave Fantasy Football Weekly micro about Derek Carr and Andy Dalton. I think you will be surprised. Completion percentage Dalton was seven percent more complete, more accurate than Carr. So advantage Dalton, yards per attempt
Dalton seven point six, car seven point zero. Everybody thinks that this is going to unlock a deep downfield passing attack with Derek Carr not necessarily Advantage Dalton PFF passer grade. Dalton was sixth sixth among passers last year. Carr was twenty fifth, and remember they benched him and let him walk for nothing from the Raiders. Advantage Dalton. In next gen stats expected completion percentage, Car was sixth worst and all five quarterbacks under him were starters who got bench
during the season. Advantage Dalton.
I feel like I'm watching the tennis match right now.
Advantage Dalton got a tennis name. Deep passes. They're both bad. Cars adjusted completion percentage was thirty nine percent. Dalton's was thirty one percent. They're both bad. And here's the here's the last thing I'll mention in these two Troublingly, Dalton last year in New Orleans was better than Carr and all these metrics, and he had the second shortest time
to throw in the NFL. Here comes Car. If he's got the second shortest time to throw, I can't tell you he's going to be better than he was last year, even an improvement over Andy Dalton. So then at in the depth. Running back is gonna be nice and that part helps this offense. But I think the passing game is going to be way more even from what it was last year to this year. The most underdrafted player by a mile and one of my favorite sleepers Brian
Probably one of mine too, Rashid Shahed. Baby, I do love to say, Rashid Shahed wide receiver, seventy five going off the board pick one sixty six. Remember last year, undrafted rookie, lightly used until the midway point of the season, and then suddenly dudes are making splash plays. He debuted in Week seven, promptly scored a forty four yard rushing
touchdown a fifty three yard receiving touchdown. Over his final five games, all of them as a starter, Rashid Shahed went from undrafted wide receiver to starting the December game for the Saints. Over those five games, he averaged four catches for sixty five yards. Undrafted receiver, he caught eighty two percent of his passes. On the year. He had a very healthy a dot of eleven and a half yards. He finished thirtieth in yards after catch per catch, which
isn't bad. Dude can be he's fast. He's Rashid chaheat is fast. He get this. He finished last year's Pro Football Focus Is twenty six ranked wide receiver, ahead of Jerry Judy and Chris Godwin and DJ Moore and a dozen other household names. He's gonna beat out Michael Thomas and he's gonna be the starting number two receiver for the New Orleans Saints. Rashid Shaheed, I love it.
Yeah, what's the over underun games played by Michael Thomas?
Like six? I'll take six. What do you think? Well, I was gonna say eight and a half. Set the lineup eight a half games season one, about four years. Yeah, I'll believe it. Yeah, when I see it, the most overdrafted player, I gotta go. Chris all love even though I love the guy and totally love the skill set, but everything I just told you about Derek Carr not really being the upgrade. He's going off the board at wide receiver twelve. He finished last year as wide receiver
twenty four. So he's got to make a jump from twenty four to twelve to be good at that eight, to meet that ADP expectation. I don't I don't know if he can.
Yeah, I'd take DeVonta Smith. Well, so he's going before DeVante Smith. T Higgins definitely would take t Higgins over a lave Ebo Samuel going more about a round later than a Lave, which is kind of crazy. Amari Cooper, Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of a lot of risk baked into a Lave this year. For sure, love him as a player like you do, but might not be the best situation.
We'll be back next week. We will break down the teams in the West, AFC West, the NFC West. We'll talk through those and again a lot of it's just unearthing some of the great sleepers and values that we have, and the players were nervous about it where they're getting drafted, getting you ready to draft and hopefully at a guillotine league. Talk to you a week everybody, Bye bye. Fantasy Football
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