2026 NFL Draft Preview + Rookie Evaluations + Dynasty Rookie Drafts | Matt Price

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Fantasy Football. You know him from the Dynasty League Football dot com website as well as the Dynasty League Football podcast. He is a senior writer over at DLF and he is an actual zoo keeper in southern California and one of the most glorious beautiful cities in the world. Please welcome in my good buddy and at Matt Price FF on the X Ladies and Gentlemen, Matt Price, Matt Happy NFL Draft Week to you, sir, how are you.

we'll probably go to new cities again. But we really kind of realize that we're really there for the draft and to hang out and you know, all the stuff in the city that is super cool that we probably should go out and see. We weren't really doing so just kind of pick the central location this year. We'll see what happened next year.

rookies something like that this season. So we start pretty much right up for the Super Bowl with the rookie talk and prospecting and go all the way up to the most recent show, which was just just yesterday. In fact, you know, I.

It's just so amazing to be able to find a group of people a community that you know, is as sick about this stuff as I am. Like, there's not a lot of people in my real life. In fact, I probably think there's one maybe that would want to sit down all day and watch a man stand up

at a ponium and read names off right. But when you find those people that are just as into it as you and let you really kind of express yourself and get all of the crazy things, all of the thoughts, all of the you know, stuff that's going on in the league out of your head at once, and it's just really nice to be able to come together and talk to people that are just as crazy about it as you are.

before the That's a grand minding. But it was so surreal being up there, you know, like you've been following the draft for decades I have, you know, to be up there, it did feel a little like a semi semi It felt like a semi religious experience, you know, like where you're close to It was very, very cool, and I wish everybody attending in person and Pittsburgh enjoy it. I've attended three drafts in person now, two in Chicago,

one in Green Bay. If it ever comes back to the Midwest, I'll probably go to it again.

Emma Johnson, Nick Singleton. We'll get into Judaian Price as well as the quarterbacks in Mendoza and Simpson, and that'll be our NFL Draft preview here on FFPC Insider Access. I'm going to lead things off tonight, Matt with something that is that came down on the pipe with in regards to the number three pick, and I'd love to know how you feel about this. So Schefter posted I think it was this morning, or maybe it was late last night, that the Cardinals have had calls about trading

the number three overall pick in the draft. Now, those

calls he defined as exploratory in nature. What I think is fascinating about this is we have heard this drum beat about Jeremiah Love potentially going to Arizona at three, despite them already having Tyler Algeer on the roster who they signed in free agency, and then restructuring James Connor's contract to keep him on the roster this year and still having you know, what are they, you know, two years removed, one year removed from drafting Trey Benson as well.

Not only do I not understand this, I don't think it's great management for your roster if you're Arizona, But we have to kind of throw that out the window. Understanding some teams at the draft. Some teams don't get the draft, and that's fine. We have to adjust as fantasy players. Now, if the Cardinals are going to deal this pick, it would be very interesting to see who would move up. Washington coming up from seven to three,

New York coming up from five to three. We've heard that two of the teams that were rumored to be discussing a trade for this pick were Kansas City and New Orleans, but both of them reportedly would be coming up not for love, but for a defensive player whoever, you know, between Reese and Bailey, whoever's left they would

come up and grab. My question to you is does the draft start at three and how significant do you think landing spot will be for a talent like Jeremiah Love who you know, arguably, I mean, we've heard reports Matt that he is the number one player in the draft on a lot of people's draft boards, and what would this do. I mean, honestly, the likelihood of him going to the Giants' is probably less than fifty to fifty,

but it's growing by the day. Your thoughts as it stands right now as a Dynasty player on where you'd like to see Jeremiah Love go and where realistically you think he is going to go in on Thursday in Pittsburgh.

you know, presumably the quarterback in place. Arizona will be searching for that, and I think if Arizona was to trade back, you know, that would probably be because they want to address that quarterback position, but they don't certainly don't need to take someone like tysonsin at three, they could do that, you know, with a later pick in the first or certainly early in the second, I think he might be there as well. I think the next

next one you're looking at would be the Giants. You know, there's been some steam that he would go there, But also that kind of doesn't make a lot of sense with cam Skataboo and you know, Tyrone Tracey. I guess you could you could argue that they could use some more superstar talent there, maybe the maybe John Harbaugh coming in. You know, he has no real ties to cam Scataboos, so maybe he's not going to show any loyalty there and would be happy to take a talent like love.

In terms of ideal landing spot, I'd really like it to be Washington, just because there is just nothing there, you know. That said, if he was to land in Tennessee or or Arizona, I guess I really don't think the Arizona what's going to happen? But Tennessee or the New York Giants seemed like the most likely if it's not going to be a team that trades up. You know, both of those places they do have competition, but We've

seen that happened to top backs before. You know, say, uh Bjon came in with with Tyler Algier at just coming off a thousand yard season, it didn't really matter. You know. You can say that Jon's a hair above Love is a prospect. That's fine, you can say that, but I would I would argue they're in that same kind of elite tear. Any of those running backs that go in that top ten range of the draft are typically just going to get a ton of workload regardless of who

is on the roster at the point. And the same with Tennessee, right like you have you obviously have Pollard and Spears there, but those guys don't seem like it would be too hard to move on from. So yeah, I think he is no matter where he goes, he's gonna be the top guy. The only argument you could really make for a place like Arizona or Tennessee, I think is that you're just trying to put butts in

the seat with an exciting player. So Washington is my ideal spot, but you know, probably is going to go before seven least is looking that way.

are just gonna wait and see. And you know, he put up such a great season before injury last year that I probably wouldn't do that. And then in Arizona, I mean I expected Al was here to get a lot more interest on the free agent market than he did it in up signing a very low low value contract with the Cardinals, who already have James Connor coming back and Trey Benson intol like you mentioned right, and

Tredy Benson's window kind of kind of closed. I think last year, right, he had that opportunity when Connor went down, but then he got hurt himself. So yeah, it's just you know, I just don't think it's really going to affect his workload. No matter where he lands, whether it's in Washington or a place with no talent there or a place that has a little bit of talent like Tennessee and the Giants, there will.

against New York. We had Adam Han always just checking in right now that Jerry Jones is going to trade up with the two first round out to go up and get Jeremi Love right after they signed Javonte Williams, which would certainly raise the blood pressure of a lot of Dynasty owners out there. I think that is going to be the most fun thing to watch in the first round. As far as running backs go, We'll get it to the wide receivers in a second before we

move off Arizona. I do want to bring this up here. Ian Rappaport reported that Jacoby Brissett is not attending Phase one of the offseason program. He's asking for an extension that pays him as a starter. Brissett has one year left on his deal. He's set to earn just over nine million dollars in twenty twenty six, but only a million and a half.

what he's done over the course of his career. The Cardinals did sign Gardner Minshew and Matt. I didn't look this up, but I know I read somewhere that Minshew is actually making more money this year than Jacoby Brissett, which maybe is part of the reason why Brissette's holding out here. But what this comes back to is ty Simpson. Because Simpson, we found out, is gonna be invited to

the festivities on Thursday night. The NFL this doesn't invite players, you know, for them to sit in the green room like Aaron Rodgers in two thousand and five. They invite them there so they can be part of the moment and be drafted. So to me, it's gonna be sort of a foregone conclusion that Simpson's gonna be taken on Thursday night. And I can't remember who said it, might have been Jeremiah or Yates or somebody posted an act that it's a foregone conclusion that that Simpson is going

to be a cardinal. So what do you I mean? This is maybe this is more of a best ball question than the dynasty question, but you can answer it in a dynasty format. Brissette versus Minshew versus Simpson. Do we need to start handling Simpson as if he's going to be a cardinal? And then at what point do you think Simpson, if he is drafted by Arizona, at what point does he take over this season as the starter, because that's gonna affect a lot of people on how

they're handling these guys in Best Ball drafts. Not only in Best Ball drafts, but in dynasty leagues as well as The Arizona quarterback room is very nebulous right now.

offense came alive under him last season. He's currently making, you know, not guaranteed money, but the total contract is about six point two five million. Mention is five point seventy five million, and you know that's way less than other starting quarterbacks. In fact, Davis Mills is making more than and Marcus Mariotte is making more than an Anthony

Richards is making more than them. So he should go out there and you know, look for like a My guess is he'd be looking for like a fifteen to twenty million dollar contract, right, something in that range seems fair that that would put him up and the like the twenties kind of range. Justin Fields is making twenty millions dollars this year. That's a different situation, of course, based on his final his last contract. But yeah, I think Arizona they're most likely is they're going to trade back.

I think I think they are going to target him. But another option I think that's out there is Tampa Bay. I think you got to think that they're looking for their next quarterback unless they're going to pay Baker. I think he has one year left on his deal, so they're going to be a team that's looking to do that.

And if if Arizona was wanting to trade back up, let's say they move the back from the three and get I don't know somewhere a pick somewhere in the top ten to fifteen, pick up another one on top of that, and then use their thirty fourth overall pick the second pick in in the second round. Combine that with the move back up somewhere in the first to

get Simpson. That if they felt like they needed to do that, and the team is probably likely to want to do that anyway to pick up that fifth year contract right a fifth year option on the contract rather, so yeah, you know, half a season, it'd be nice to see what he has. We don't really have a clear idea yet. I guess if we think Arizona is tanking or not. I don't know how you feel about that. I kind of feel like they are, but you know, they don't really want to see that. So Prissette, it

really is that perfect bridge quarterback. He's already been Therey pay on the extension. Go get your quarterback of the future, and if your competitive halfway through the season with Prissette, stick with it, and if not, bring in the rookie and see what you got. So you know what you have going into twenty twenty seven.

as well. But I think that's interesting to see how the I mean, like the Cardinals kind of holding that number three pick and knowing what their running back room looks like right now, and knowing what they're trying to do this year, and at least what Austin Ford's trying

to do to save his job. I think it's going to be fascinating to watch in that first tap ten, especially Matt, if what you're saying or if what you had mentioned comes true and the Cardinals do trade down to see what they do perhaps with multiple first round picks this year, would they get somebody on offense and defense? Would they go defense with both of them? Would they go defense and Simpson?

draft chart. Mike McCarthy said, quote, it would be a great story end quote if he were to reunite with his Super Bowl winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. They were together in Green Bay for thirteen years before McCarthy was fired. Rogers will be forty two at the start of the season. He threw for thirty three hundred

and twenty four touchdowns and seven picks. Last year, Rogers was one hundred and forty six year or tallied one hundred and forty six yards, no touchdowns and a pick in the twenty four point loss to the Houston Texans in the playoff. This year, I would imagine, regardless Matt of what Aaron Rodgers decides to do, Pittsburgh would probably take a chance on one of these guys like Carson Beck or Drew Aller to see what Mike McCarthy can.

and all those guys. We didn't see another receiver or a quarterback take until the fourth round, Like it was crazy, right, And we could see a similar drop off this year where Aler or beck Er, you know, Cole Payton or the ke nuss Meyer is another one. Green ont Arkansas would be another guy that we could see going the fourth round, maybe to Pittsburgh. And Mike McCarthy has said he sometimes gets more excited about floor for these guys rather than ceiling, which I think is kind of an

interesting quote. But in regards to the Steelers, let's forget all about that. Let's talk about this year for dynasty. I'm thinking about guys like DK Metcalf, Pat Fryer, Movement, Hittman, knowing that Rogers still has not given it. I mean like, for the longest time I was drafting Bestball teams, Matt

assuming Rogers is going to be back. The fact that he hasn't let him know yet, maybe I'm overreacting to that, But now I'm starting to get a little bit nervous, not necessarily about Rogers coming back, but what it's going to do to the rest of the Steelers offense. We can throw Jalen Warren in there as well. Your level of concern right now about these Steelers pass catchers knowing the sort of unknown at the QB one.

So yeah, I'm I'm operating that Rogers is going is going to be there. If not, then yeah, we're we're we certainly have very very little fantasy assets that we're looking at, although I'm not sure how excited we are with them. Even with Rogers in to he can certainly, you know, support at least one fantasy target, you know, more than that is up for debate. To me, his favorite target will be somebody like Michael Pittman, who's going

to offer easy throws over the middle. At his advanced age, you know, he could still chuck it downfield if he wants to, which is more of Dk Metcalf's game. But the fantasy consistency from a player like Metcalf, I think is going to be a lot more in question this season, with Rogers or without. And then they've also been tied to a tight end in the draft. They've been rumored to be interested in basically all of the tight ends, despite having Darnel Washington and Pat Fryar moved there another

They've also got Rico Dowbell. So you mentioned Jalen war and I kind of think Rico Dowbell might be the lead back this year. Again, another tie to McCarthy back from the Dallas days. He's I think he specifically brought him in. Caleb Johnson is there, but I don't I don't know if anybody is still his faith and and Caleb at this point. So, yeah, there's there's stuff to work with there. It's just are we even that excited

if Rogers is back about this offense? I think you if you want to take shots, you take shots on one of the one of the wide receivers. Uh and maybe one of the running backs for me would be Pittman and Dowdell. But yeah, there's not a lot of excitement in the Pittsburg offense from a fantasy standpoint this year in my opinion.

late first in this year's class. I feel like, I know we're going to get into the rookies, but I feel like there's a in super flex, there's the tier of like eight to nine guys that you feel really pretty good about, and even outside of that, I think in super flex formats, i'd be willing to move on for those guys if you can get like the one eleven, one twelve kind of range. I'm not sure I would necessarily jump in a second round pick for them, because

I think they are going to be productive assets. But yeah, they're probably they're probably holds. Like I can't imagine any Steeler at this point generating a ton of excitement for a trade partner.

The Eagles will also, like the Steelers, begin their workout program on Monday, it's not expected to have AJ Brown in attendance. According to Mike Carafalo from NFL network. Brown has long been rumored to be a player not in the Eagles twenty twenty six plans, and also long to be a long rumor to be a member of the New England Patriots for the twenty twenty six campaign. Talks have stalled. That could be because Philadelphia's weighing their options.

New England maybe doesn't want to over commit. I don't know, but I would imagine based on the reporting that's come out about this, I don't think we see anything until after June first, and especially if it comes after June first, Philly can split the forty million dollar cap hit between this year and next year, which is something I'm sure they would like to do rather than taking on a

forty million dollars cap hit this season. When you consider how you've been managing your Dynasty League teams, Matt, when the ones that have Eagles on it, the ones that have Patriots on the specifically pass catchers and throwers Jalen Hurts, Drake may, Romeo.

spot for him. They've been making moves like acquiring Hollywood Brown and then last week or the week before bringing in a Wicks from Tavia Wicks from the Packers. He could fill that kind of ins and kind of roll for them. So it seems like they are preparing for this already and that it's a lot to happen. So I think it's an upgrade for for aj Brown. He's going to go to a team where he's going to be the clear alpha, and presumably they would want him

to be the clear alpha. Romeo Dubbs can still be that reliable target just like he was with the Packers as well. But I think this is a slam dunk for both sides, so it seems a lot to happen.

I do want to throw out the Eagles offense a little bit to you, Eric and see how you feel about that, because it seems like with Sean Mannion coming in, who again you're familiar with from the Packers, is going to come in and kind of change things up with with Jalen Hurts and make him do a lot of under center stuff, a lot of RPO stuff so that in the past he's not wanted to do. He's a quarterback that wants to operate out a shotgun, you know.

So the Philadelphia offense outside of DeVante Smith, who I am trying to acquire every rail right now, you know, it feels a little bit squeaky all the way around, right Like, it just doesn't feel good. Like I still like Hurts as a top five six option because of the running and the rushing and stuff like that, but

even that was down last year. So if he can't get on the same page with this new play caller, you know, I can't imagine it's worse than with Kevin Patoula last year, but if they're not on the same page, it could be a rocky season again. For the Eagles.

and play callers, right, And I wonder. And I don't want to overrate the impact of Manyon to Philadelphia, but I feel like this is something that could not only be impactful for us as fantasy players, but that Eagles locker room, specifically Jalen Hurts as well. Time will tell on that, but I know that a lot of people who have had Sean Manyon as part of their coaching staff have raved about him and talked about Now, maybe this is a year or two early, or maybe he's

not quite ready, But I don't know. With all these other younger offensive coordinators having a lot of success early on. I feel like this is really good for Philadelphia. And we also have to consider just natural regression, right that the Eagles offense was so bad last year and so inefficient last year, can it really be that inefficient again, even if you don't have aj Brown, If you have them on to Smith, I think Wis is a guy who when he was healthy, was really really good in

Green Bay. I think Goddard is underrated from a redraft standpoint this year as well. And I also think too that you're going to probably see Philadelphia. I said this

in the FFPC Dynasty email that went out today. I think you're going to see Howie Roseman take a long look at the wide receiver position both on Thursday night and Friday night of the draft this year, and you could see a guy who's maybe not contributing right away, but maybe at the very end of this twenty twenty sixth season, you're gonna see Goddard, Smith, Barkley, and you know, fill in the blank rookie being big contributors in this offense.

So yeah, I'm on board with the Eagles offense this year. I'm very excited to see what they do now. The DeVonta Smith thing is is interesting because I don't think he'll get to what Smith and Jigma did this past year. But yeah, yeah, I mean, but not only he has to at that point, like if he if he puts up you know, eighty percent of that or seventy five percent of that. You're right, you should still be looking

to acquirement anywhere you can get in dynasty. But I would imagine, Matt if you have been looking to do this, you're paying the iron price for him right now. It's not cheap to acquire Devanta Smith. I think that everybody understands like what is happening now, and at this point it's gonna be tough to get him on your team, I think, and even by the way I think that

you will talk. I mean you could talk to smart FFPC dynasty owners out there that are willing to pay a dollar ten or a dollar fifteen on the dollar right now for DeVonta Smith to acquire him.

gold Matthew Golden and Emmanuel Wilson. Then you're running back in Seattle, another another X packer, you know, a super flex format Gino Smith and a few and a first round pick for Devontae Smith Sam Darnold straight up for Devonte Smith in a super flex league. So you know, I think the prices are fairly reasonable if you've got capital to spend it at other positions, you can get there. If you want to throw in your late first on top of that, and that's that's the price I'd be

willing to pay. I would easily pay a first and a second this year to grab him. So if you can get to that level from your roster, the combination of players and picks, I think you have a chance of requiring him, and I think he's worth at that level once you get to the two first kind of valuation that's when i'd start to probably pull back a little bit.

kind of freakish. I know he had the Holy or the Unholy Trinity of acl tears in twenty twenty two or whatever it was, but it seems like he's rebounded from that. I'm not, you know, a total ostrich in the sand. I understand that the hamstring issues are still a concern, but we have seen players with soft tissue injuries in college. Once they get to the pros, they're

sort of a thing of the past. And I'm not saying that's gonna be the case with Tyson, but I understand the range of outcomes here where they could be. Tyson could be drafted number eight overall to the New Orleans Saints. They hosted him not this past Friday, but the Friday before that in New Orleans. Tyson was described by Underhill this is quote by far, the most talented wide receiver in this whole entire class, and that he would be quote unquote enticon for New Orleans to draft

him in the first round. Underhill also said, now that the Giants have two top ten picks at five and ten, Tyson could go five if they wanted to go with the Tyson route as opposed to the Tait route or the Styles route or the Love route, like whatever the Giants want to do at five, that's gonna be really compelling to watch you But Tyson going in the top ten, I think the biggest thing for me, man is if

he goes in the first top ten picks. The NFL is saying, like, we believe in this player, we are not condemning him to a career of injuries if they If he gets top ten draft capital, very excited to see what happens with him at the next level. But you weigh in, man, I don't know, maybe you have a completely different opinion on Jordan Tyson as an NFL player. How does he rank with you as far as the rest of the receivers specifically in this class.

and then he went out and showed he's fine. He didn't run the forty or any had like the testing things that you want to see, but he went out and ran twenty twenty five routes whatever it was, and showed his cutting ability and all the stuff that made

him an exciting player. And in terms of like the catastrophic d injury, like I don't understand why that's still a big issue for people, because he's already shown that he's come back from that, Like he came back from that and posted two really great seasons in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Right, So to me, he's past that one and he's he's currently my wide receiver two in the class, just behind Carnel Tait, just ahead of Concepcion. So yeah, he's I will be very excited

to see him go in the top ten. I've put some you know, I don't know if this is a gambling podcast, but we've put some down on Yeah, we put some bones down on him to go in the six to ten range. I think ten is probably his four. If he makes a pass there, then I'm not sure if somebody's probably coming up to get him if he makes it out of that range. So I've put some money down on the six to ten range for Tyson. I love the player, and I'm not that worried about the injury stuff.

I got like plus three or four something, But I liked I liked the idea of that because there is and we'll get into Carnel Tatan a little bit, but there's a potential for a semi slide for him. We'll see what happens. Yeah, comfortably in the first half of the first round. But dude, these wide receivers this year, and and I have a macro discussion that we need to open up that wide receiver discussion with in the next segment.

let's say twenty two man rosters. Is he that perfect third tight end you want to have marinate as a future top ten, top maybe even top five talent and in his uh in his heyday or at his peak in the NFL, I'm curious as to what you think about Oscar delps NFL ceiling.

any kind of consistent fantasy value. The third option on the offense is fine, but you're probably going to be looking at some some bad weeks here and there, and that's that's most of the position if we're being honest in terms of this year's where he's at in this year's class, you know, he's it's such a strange class because outside of like Sam Rausch, they're like all just

you know, six three two forty. It seems like all of them are six six six forty, you know, all all the way up to Sadik Rights, who six three two forty one at the combine. So he's he's got

some athleticism too. The I guess the concerning part for me with him would be that he didn't take a step forward after he after both Bowers and lad mcconkeey moved on, you know, like a once those two big prospects moved on, you would think that the production jumps up and it just didn't really do that used in line a lot you know, pretty good blockers, so he

will be on the field. I think some of the concern with the light the light tight ends and the in terms of weight and size in this class is will they be on the field enough to both block and and and and be able to leak out for receptions and things like that. With Delp, but he's proven he can do that, so I think it's more likely that someone like him than I don't know, like a Justin Jolie or people are really into into Michael Trigg,

who I like quite a bit too. But these are players that, you know, not are not the accomplished blocker that an inline player that that Oscar Delp is. So yeah, he's right in that mix. I would say, I think it's for me, it's it's the deck, it's Tours, and then maybe Claire is the third guy, and then after that, you know, pick your faceavorite player out of these. Raush

is interesting just because of the size. He just presents such a different kind of archetype than the rest of the tight ends in this class, So that would be considered that would be considered at the top of your rookie drafts or in the I guess I would say the second third round of the fourth round of your rookie drafts.

So knowing that when you come into the NFL draft, is it just the team by team base or when you know because like when a player gets drafted and you know how great he can be from a fantasy standpoint, but you also know that his NFL upside is limited because NFL teams will not want to put that player on the field on running plays, and if he's on the field only on passing plays, obviously that kind of

neuters the upside a little bit because defenses know what's coming. Matt, how do you weigh that with those specific players really talented pass catchers but not a whole lot of blocking in the run game.

So this year I'm been really trying to dial it back on my excitement over these smaller tight ends that are going to profile as primarily pass catchers. Now, the caveat to that, I think is that we saw such an increased usage of twelve and thirteen personnel with two and three tight ends on the field last season you know, propagated a lot by the McVeigh tree and some other teams, and I think that is going to be something we

see a lot more of in twenty twenty six. You know how it is the NFL as a copycat league, so we're going to see more of that. That gives me a little bit of hope for these guys because maybe they're not the best blocker at that position, but there's they're probably a team that drafts them probably will have someone on their team who will play that role

for them, allowing them to go out there. It's just are they going to get above that sixty five seventy percent snap threshold where we really need them to be to be consistent you or at least have a chance to be consistent fantasy options. So it remains to be seeing. You kind of have to look at which teams are running a lot of that kind of scheme. You know, the Falcons with Pitts, you know, maybe they're looking for somebody like Rauh so Pits can go out and do that.

Whereas the Steelers maybe they're looking at one of these more athletic guys because they have somebody like Friar Moutmouth and Darnel Washington that can play that that blocking role if they need them to. So yeah, it's gonna be a team fit and what that team wants to run, what kind of base kind of offense they want to run.

But there's there's a lot of these like undersized pass catching tight ends in this draft that's white so hard after those top two to three guys to really put them in any order before we know landing spots in draft.

to four on Sunday. I you know, from the stuff I've read on the internet, which has got to be true, it's it sounds like he wasn't. It wasn't like as nefarious as it as it sounds. And listen in I don't know how you feel about Branch. I'm about to find out. But in all the red flags and the concerns I have with zech RYA Branch, this is not. It pales in comparison with some of the other problems I have with him. Now, he did run, excuse me,

a four, three, five forty at the NFL Combine. This is a player that's probably gonna get draft to our Day two draft capital in Pittsburgh this Friday. He ran so many screens, he caught so many passes behind the line of scrimmage, He had so much stuff schemed up for him, And I think, wasn't he correct me if I'm wrong, Matt, wasn't he with Jacoby Lane and Makayle Lemon and USC and then transferred to Georgia. And so this is a guy that's just never really become that guy, which.

fifteen percent chance of being Tyreek Kill. As far as how you handle the draft, I'm just kind of out on this guy. I think I'm gonna find better ways to spend my draft capital. But I'll pose it to you, Matt, how do you feel about Zachariah Branch And I'll let you weigh in on this arrest too, and how you think that plays in or how you think it's going to play in to his draft capital later on this week.

Linus Green, seventy six percent of his targets came within ten yards of the line of scrimmage. Nearly sixty six percent of his career receiving yards came either again behind the line of scrimmage or under ten yards, including thirty nine percent screen rate. His aight hot ranks it in the lowest one percent among receivers since twenty nineteen. So he just wasn't asked to win downfield or even in

the intermediate areas of the field. So to me, these speed guys, like they just at the wide receiver position, they often don't work out. And I'm not saying it can't work out. Sure, I would probably not put us fifteen percent chance of him being Tyree Kill, maybe more like five percent or less, just because it's just such a projection. And again I'm not saying you can't do it.

It's just I didn't see it, and I'm not going to, you know, take him in the first round of rookie drafts or even probably even second round of rookie drafts, to be honest with you, for that kind of profile. So this is just one more thing on top of it, a top of the profile that he didn't like anyway,

and another reason for me to stay out. I guess the silver lining for dynasty managers, maybe not so much people an NFL teams drafting branch, but maybe this calls that causes him to fall unto that point where you know, we haven't talked about it, but the tears are just so big once you get that far where I would

be willing to consider branch. So if he does drop until that mid to late third round of dynasty drafts and you just want to throw a dart frow and see what happens with it at that's the point where I would do it. So maybe this news bad news, I guess, kind of pushes him down to that board a little bit too and gives people that do like him a way to acquire him even cheaper.

And while Garoppolo could probably catch I mean not in Arizona anymore because they signed Minshew and certainly anybody can get hurt and Garoppolo could could you know, pop on there. But I think this is really interesting. I don't know if he thought maybe he'd be taking over for Stafford in Los Angeles, and now with this news that they're

extending him, maybe he doesn't see that pathway. To me, I look at this is not only a good boon for Matthew stafford dynasty value, but pukin Acua, maybe DeVante Adams to a certain extent as well. I think one of the things that people had a problem with matt about putting Pokin A Coua as their number one dynasty wide receiver was the unknown at quarterback. And now maybe it's more of a known given that the Rams already traded a first round pick for a win Now corner

from Kansas City, right, and now they're extending Stafford. This is this is probably good news for pukuin Acua's dynasty value and maybe to a certain extent, Matthew Stafford's and super flex leagues as well.

behavior for him this offseason and in multiple instances. Right, So hopefully the off the field stuff comes back to he's he's getting the help he needs from a mental health standpoint, and he's going to continue doing what he's been doing since his rookie season. But that would be more of a concern for me at this point than the the Matthew Stafford stuff.

where he's wearing the mouthguard as well. Can't bite people in the shoulder when you're wearing a mouth guard, can't make anti Semitic comments when you're wearing a mouthguard, or at least legible or understandable uh anti submitic comics. So that's something that we can look at for and I'm sure Pooka Nakua fantasy owners would love that as well.

this draft. So far, He's made five Top thirty visits. He's met a bunch with Houston, Tampa, the Rams, Denver, and Carolina too. So Carolina doesn't take Sadik in the first round, certainly they would be in play for Max Clair.

think there's something there as well. I think Claire, especially in tight end premium leagues, Claire might be a little bit underrated right now since everybody's talking about Sadik and Stowers and how athletic those guys are. Claire's a guy we can't be sleeping on.

State as a negative for him. Again because of the competition, you measure, he was not the guy anymore. He went there presumably to go win a national title, get on a bigger stage, and see what he could do. And you know, he performed admirably under those conditions I was talking about. For fantasy, I want, I want a top two option on the offense. He was not a top two offense off option in this offense. He was the third option and at times the fourth option, So uh yeah,

I completely agree with you. A very high floor option anywhere from like the I guess maybe maybe you might have to spring a little higher and tight end freemium leagues. But somewhere in the middle second round, I think you're starting to look at Claire after the second and third tier wide receivers are kind of wrapping up, and you know, the running backs are a whole nother story. But once you get into that middle of second round, Claire is certainly an option worth considering.

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this year's draft? Even picks in the top one hundred, including two in the top thirty, one at eleven to one at thirty. You know, I've been saying this for basically since they traded Jalen Waddle and everybody was like, oh my god, you know this is Malik Willis Is left with a dumpster fire here in Miami. And I said, let's just wait until after the NFL Draft, because Miami could draft not only one, but maybe two pass catchers.

And then once the compensatory formula kind of dissolves itself after the NFL Draft, maybe Juwan Jennings finds his way to Miami. Maybe Stefan Diggs finds his way to Miami. Keenan Allen would be another guy. This wide receiver room for the Dolphins could look radically different in the week's coming after the NFL Draft. I want to get your

thoughts specifically on rookies here. Mat Do you have any inkling of what you think the Dolphins with new head a new GM john Eric Sullivan and new head coach Jeff Haffley, will be doing with the skill position players in the draft.

surprised if they still move on for him. I know there was some talk of them, you know, trying to work out a long term extension, but we'll see on that. But yeah, they have to draft multiple pass catchers. They have to draft offensive linemen to protect their their new quarterback. They have they have holes on defense. Like it's just like, I don't know where they're going to go at eleven.

If they want a top end pass catcher, that's going to have to be be that at eleven, whether it's Lemon to come in and play like a reliable role for them, Like I think the dream would be aild

that that that Carnel Tay does all of them. He he to me profiles as a you know, really the next kind of alpha wide receiver in the n A fell and the Dolphins certainly need a more traditional X because right now we're working with two two at well, and uh, you know, uh struggling took toll Bird and Washington right like, I just I don't know, man like like if right now, as if the team stands right now, it seems like they're going to run the ball six

hundred times this season, right the quarter of those from their quarterback. So and he's gonna have to with the with the offensive science line situation till he addressed that. So yeah, I would expect one, if not two pass catchers within the within the Day one or Day two of the draft, maybe both in the first round. I don't I don't really have a handle on that. So sorry, I don't have a good answer, But yeah, they need everything.

Every pick is a good pick for the Dolphins because I get everywhere, and I would I would hope they would help out their quarterback with some of those topics.

he's me twenty six, twenty seven. Maybe that's still good enough, and maybe h Chan holds up long enough for that. But I still go back to what Jeff Haffley was saying when he got hired, and John Eric Sullivan said the same thing. When they have to go up in November and December and January and play teams like Buffalo and the Jets, whatever, but the Patriots like those are all cold weather situations when they have to play them later.

but in the spots I did. I was never really looking to sell him, but I am considering, like, you know, this Dolphins offense, you know, we talk about how they need pass catchers and tight ends that can catch passes as well, Like it could look radically different as far as like the philosophy of the team that off the type of personnel that are on this offense going into the twenty twenty six season than it does right now.

Mike McDaniel spent several years building this team for speed, and now it's like strength power, Like that's what they're going for in Miami. So I don't know, like maybe maybe I'm I wouldn't say I'm out on a Chan because I know how good he was the last couple of years, but I do know the efficiency that went

into that as well. And for him to have a down twenty twenty six season, the year he is being a you know, slam dunk number one or at least one two turn pick in redraft leagues, I don't know, like I could easily see him having a downturn and maybe this is the time to get out on a Chan. I haven't been actively looking for that, but I at least recognize it.

overall condition of that offense. But you know, with with Malik Willison there, we know we have a long history lots and lots of data points of rushing quarters electing to take off and run rather than dump it off

to their running back. With such he's going to have to again be like one of the most efficient players in the league, I think, to really pay off on his current price tag, and with the offense being less efficient in general, he's going to have to be scoring from twenty thirty forty yards out and how many of those can we expect in a given year. Like I am not afraid of the talent of Devon h Chan, it's just the situation, the new way that this team

might use him, a new coaching staff coming in. That again, we see this all the time. It's certainly less of an issue when they're just absolute studs like Chan. We see this all the time where coaches come in and do not have any loyalty to the players that were there. He's the last kind of holdout that they have decided to keep on their team, right, So that says something in one regard, but it also says that this is a bad team and I just don't know how much

fantas success he's going to have. I did move on him from H one league. I wasn't looking to move on either. I think I probably sold a little bit. I think I got it was actually in the FFPC league. I think I got the one oh seven and the two oh one, which it's on a rebuilding team, so okay, you know it's probably borderline. I would say that's like right in the like fair value, maybe a little bit

under fair value. But I was really trying to move off from that to be able to add some more picks to kind of maneuver around in the draft better. But yeah, like I think you would really like to get two first, but you're probably not going to get that from him if you're looking to move on from him.

So you either stuck it up and hope he has an incredible another incredible season despite a bad situation, and if that doesn't happen, you're probably looking at even less of a return next season, unless he unless they decide not to extend him. You know.

He's had it was eighty seven targets in twenty twenty four, eighty five targets in twenty twenty five, so you're talking about an average of eighty six targets over the last two years. I wonder how big of a hit that takes as well for a cham this year with Willis under center.

You know, how replaceable is this position within my lineup? And if I what is the cost benefit of me move on from him, even if it's a little bit

less than I think he's worth. So, yeah, the pass catching is by far the biggest part of concern of it that And I mean he's getting squeezed on both sides, right, So the Miami offense is not good enough to score a lot of touchdowns and they're gonna run the ball a lot more instead of dumping it off to h H. And he's not getting the high value touches from the receiving game, and he's not getting the high value touches from the goal line standpoint, especially like you mentioned, if

they decide to start using their bigger backs like Ollie Gordon more and then he gets squeezed from a player in addition to the poor offense, so it just it just doesn't feel good. I'm happy to get out for anything in that one and a half first kind of range for him.

as well. Something to be following which we will be on this show going forward. Okay, let's get into some rookie spotlights. I want to take a wide scope look at.

And if it is underwhelming to you, if it is not all that great as far as top end talent goes, is there something to be said for understanding that when we get to week nine, Week ten, Week fourteen, Week fifteen of the season and none of these rookies are taking off, we should have known that we were unfairly pumping up these receivers based on draft capital and not

based on pure talent. In other words, Carnel Tate, mkayle Lemon, Jordan Tate, Jordan Tyson, they could all get top fifteen, top twenty draft capital this year, but maybe that is not traditional like that, that's not going the value that we get from those guys at that draft capital this year is not the same draft capital that we would get from players going in a similar area.

to explain it better. But that's that's kind of my main concern heading into draft week here.

workout either. I'm looking at you, Marvin Harrison Junior. Right. So yeah, I think that we have at least I think we have four to six guys we should feel very good about and four guys that we should really really good about. So I'm not I'm not fussed about this class in terms of last year. You know, we don't have the crazyness or that was the surrounding Travis Hunter. Is he going to be a wide receiver? Is he not? We we're pretty sure Teed McMillan was going to be

the top receiver and he was. And otherwise, you know, it was a it was a fine class, not an amazing class. I would I would say this one is equal to that. Maybe not somebody. Again, it was clean to prosperusiness, as even Tet McMillan. But I would say the ceiling is higher for some of these guys, especially someone like Tyson who we talked about earlier. If the health works out, and a couple other guys. I think we are are are kind of selling short a little

bit here. So you know, we do this every year. I think I think every year we say that the next class. We're waiting for the next class, and the twenty seven twenty seven class is absolutely exciting. But last year at this time we were talking about how good the twenty twenty six class was going to be. So, you know, people just need to lower expectations a little bit and realize if if a player that you really literally like and gets good draft capital isn't performing the

first half of the season. And we see a time and time again that the second half of the season is when these rookies really start to come on, especially at the wide receiver position. Once they get you know, they learned the offense better, once they gel with their quarterback, they've really learned to play back, all that kind of stuff, and the game kind of stops slow. It starts slowing

down for them. So I guess the only the actual piece of advice here is don't sell out on a guy like you know, Karnel Tate, mckaya, Limon, Jordan Tyson, a casey conception, and even we can go a little bit deeper than that, but especially those guys like if they're having a struggle struggle the first half of the rookie season, you know, don's see what happens in the final eight weeks.

people want to make the move. You know, I'm going to trade my late first round pick this year for you know, gamble and maybe they'll have a better pick in the in the in the following year. Class. I'm starting to see that as early as like the one oh seven and certain lyas and to me at the one oh seven. Sometimes that's Kenyon Sadek. Sometimes that's Casey Concepts one. Sometimes uh sometimes Omar Cooper is there, and

these are all players that can contribute. You know, maybe maybe not necessarily right away, depending on landing spot, but certainly before that twenty twenty seven pick is going to produce for you. So yeah, I think we're getting a little too over our skis on on out of that, And there's no way you can move like the one, ten, eleven, twelve for your pick for the first next year. Nobody is making that deal right now unless you're putting a little something else on top.

control and flexibility to adjust to off target throws. You see him make, you know, contort his body in mid air to make outside the frame catches. I guess you could say maybe you know he he he lacks some some some yards up through the catch abilities. I wouldn't

call him like a catch and fall down receiver. But he's not gonna make a bunch of people missing the open field with quick twitch moves like somebody like Tyson or concepts you might too, But in terms of like how he profiles as an NFL ride receiver, like that's why I think he's such a good fit in Miami's because they don't have a prototypical X receiver. And you know, for fantasy purposes, you can say that this is not the type of archetype that that really you know, blows

it up with massive seasons. You know, those are the the pukinakuas as we talked about the Jamar chase, is that gona that that are gonna win a lot with athleticism, But you know, the floor is just so high with him, You're not You're not gonna miss whereas you have maybe you're concerned with the medicals with Tyson or or if following in the draft, maybe not so much this week

with Lemon being primarily a slot only player. You know, David Boston was talked about early in the process, you know, back in February January was talked about up in this range. But he is He's like the arbitrage play I would I would argue on Carnel Tate. He's he's the next big X guy, but not quite as good as somebody like Tate. So he just offers the best combination of

floor and ceiling. I think of any of these top three to four prospects, depending on how you're you're you're sorting them out, uh, and you want to feel safe with your probably in one quarterback league is a the one oh two pick, and then super flex league's probably the one o three, one oh four range. Right, But that's not to say he's going to be consensus like I expect, especially the top three with Tyson, Lemon, and Tate, I expect those three to go in a different order,

and a large percentage of draft is right. It's not going to come down to just who gets selected first in the NFL draft. I don't think with these guys, So you know, put those top three in any order to me. I just feel like Tate is the safest in terms of a floor and presents some ceiling too, depending on landing spot, you know.

What's the range of outcomes for him, especially if he ends up in a situation next to Fan and next to neighbors, next to a lobby where he could become the alpha and be the number one over those guys. That's that I think that's a little bit of a.

the imagination. He seems like he would be a perfect heir apparent to McLaurin in Washington and in New Orleans. Like to give Olave a running mate that can actually do wide receiver things instead of just run fast down the field like they try to put out there many years, would be would be good for him too. You know, I think he's you could say he's more reliable at the catch point than somebody like Olave. I would say. You could certainly say that his health is a little

bit more reliable than somebody who like Olave. But those two would work really well in tandem together, So I don't I don't know. I'm not really worried about any landing spot for him. I think He's going to find opportunities no matter where it is. And I think I could say that for most of these top three recip tree to four receivers.

do you make of him at the next level? And and by the way, I'm very excited and I hope it happens. We'll see if it does, but him in a Kyle Shannan offense would be chef's kiss good.

and thirty nine yards and ten touchdowns. And you mentioned the low a dot stuff. He kind of pivoted when he went to his first season or sorry, his final season at NC State, he kind of became a low A dot guy eight point seven yards per catch, and then in twenty twenty five show he could play again on the outside with just eight literally doubled like eight point seven to the fifteen point one his final season.

So to me, he's so versatile. He can play all three of the positions you wanted to play, and he really just is like the perfect wide receiver for today's NFL, the archetype of that tower out there running ISO routes, and I think you could throw Carnel Tate and certainly Denzel Boston in this. They just struggle to produce massive fantasy outcomes in today's NFL the way defense are playing

these guys. So sure he has schemed up touches for him, but you know, so does Jamar Chase, And you're fine with that, right, So I just don't think that's as much of a negative. It is as part of the play calling process in the NFL, you want to design plays that get your best players open in space and let them do what they do best with the ball in their hands. And to me, that's case he concept shown too, you know, just like a perfect description of him.

So I'm not worried about about that really at all. In terms of the drops, I think drops is the most overrated thing in fantasy. The more targets you get, the more drops you're gonna have. Sure it will be very frustrating. You're gonna wart watching him on Sunday, and he does his little clap attack that sometimes he does when when he when he's attacking the ball instead of really using good technique. It's gonna drive you nuts on the occasion, but on the next play he could have

a seventy yard touchdowns and it'll erase that completely. Right, So you're gonna have to deal with some drops probably. I'm sure there will be some lots of technique being cleaned up in his first off season with an NFL team and all that stuff. Just don't overrate drops in turn when you're when you're doing prospecting or even looking at you know, veteran NFL players that have struggled with drops in the past. Remember Devonte Adams after his freshman

year or a first season in the NFL. We were we were done with them, we were off of him completely, and.

factor in my dynasty wide receiver evaluation. They're speaking of evaluations. Omar Cooper has being reportedly being a value as potentially the second wide receiver chosen on Thursday Night, which I'm not willing to go that far, but I also recognize I don't speak in absolutes, and that certainly could could happen a lot of speed. We've heard the Jets, we've heard the Steelers, we've heard some other players or other teams, and the teams being mentioned as players for Omar Cooper junior.

You know, especially if he goes to the Jets or perhaps the Dolphins, this could be really really good for him as far as not only his Year one contributions, but how much volume this dude could get with this kind of draft capital in future years, which is what we care about for Dynasty as well, not only this year but in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. What's your read on Omar Cooper, Matt.

was ninety percent outside and ten percent of slot. So a very versatile player that they can play from everywhere. I do think his natural position NFL is probably more towards the slot role. But you know, we've said the same thing about a Mecca, BUCA and j and JSNS rookie season, and we've done this all the time with players that we think are slot only players and they show that they can play plenty well on the outside,

and I think Cooper is the same way. Some people comp them to a player like Debo, which we try to do every year with one player, right, But he's certainly not Debo. He's not two hundred and twenty pounds like Debo is. But he is very good like a run in the open space in the middle of the field, like a running back. And I think that's really the crux of the argument for making the Debo comparison. He's just has such a football IQ. Understands leverage and how

to manipulate angles. Running down the field, he closes cushions so fast, creating a vertical separation, and you know, the body control, I would say in the air especially, is just like an under somebody like Jordan Tyson. So if teams are looking at him as the second wide receiver

off the board, I think that would be surprising. But I think is absolutely going in the first round somewhere, and a team is going to have a nice yards after the catch a specialist from the seven point one yards after kepts perception with six in this class, so very good at generating chunk yards, and we'll be a part of NFL offense.

shifted in recent years. And I wonder, like you know, I brought this up a couple of weeks ago, I wonder if he'd be better served to go late in the first round to a good you know, quote unquote good team rather than go early in the second round to a you know, quote unquote bad team. Boston is an interesting guy and quite frankly, I haven't been able to handicap how I feel about him. I've sprinkled him in some best balls. We'll see what happens in the NFL draft to see what kind of capital he gets.

Your thoughts on Boston. What you've scouted and seen from him so far in his collegiate career.

safe player, a very safe prospect in the NFL. But speaking strictly from a fantasy standpoint, it's just these are the players you have to rely on touchdown high a touchdown upside to really make a difference in fantasy, right, I would I would comp them to somebody like like he could play be a dynamite power spot, somebody like Michael Pittman junior, you know, so something something like that.

I'm just not sure that he's gonna get a ton of fantasy goodness playing a traditional X role where he lands up on one side of the field and you know, he's just running, you know, not very nuanced routes. He's not getting the scheme open. This is is the kind of role that we have hated for Marvin Harrison Junior over the past the past few seasons, right, Like, that's the kind of role you kind of see for him,

them putting him out an island. He can certainly do that, and he could certainly have success in it from an NFL standpoint, but I'm just not sure it's the kind of kind of profile we want for fantasy. You know. Here he thrives on elite contested catchability, which is awesome when it works out, especially in the red zone. He's a very smooth athlete for his size. He runs a diverse route tree. He blocks in the run game, but he's not an explosive athlete. He struggles with pet press coverage.

It seems like he always has a defender in his back pocket, so he doesn't really have that separation quickness that you see snapping in and out of routes. And he's I'd say he's, you know, averaged to blow average in terms of a run after the catch guy. He's going to be a chain mover, a possession receiver, a very good boundary receiver at the NFL level, But for fantasy purposes, I'm just not sure. He's a notch below the other guys we've talked about. I have him as

my ride receiver six right now. From from from a Dynasty rookie standpoint, my co host Dan Miler would disagree. I think he has him in the top three to four guys. He's a sucker for that kind of profile. But for me, I want a little bit more ceiling on my fantasy output. If I'm going to take a pick with a like a middle first round pick, you know.

last you know, quote unquote safe guy. You know, once you get past past Denzel Boston, you're looking at for me, Bryce Land Skyler Bell, Jeremy Bernard, Antonio Williams, Elijah Rod. You know, once you get into that tier, you really feel a lot less confident that they're going to have immediate success at the NFL level.

He can create big plays on screens and short routes in addition to the vertical stuff, and plays well above the rim. But I just I'm like you, I just have this, like you know, gut feeling that it's not quite going to work out for him either. And now we have a little bit of off the field stuff with with Brasel too, so it's just another another thing that pushes him down the board a bit for me. So you know, I could see the ceiling, but the floor to me is is lava, right.

runs routes very well. He just explodes off the line of scrimmage that time, each cushion quickly. He's he's a he's a terror on crossers and drags and outbreaking routes and he's just a bully at the at the catchpoint. So yeah, I like him quite a bit. It's just again, are you do you want to spend a first round pick? Probably, I guess maybe he's probably not even in the consideration for the first round Rocky drafts, but certainly in the

second round. Do you want to spend that a capitol on a player who probably you get literally nothing from in year one. It could certainly work out, and we have, but we have a long history of players, whether it's injury or for whatever reason, that they don't produce in year one, that they're less likely to do so in year two and beyond. So I really like the player. It's unfortunate the injury. So yeah, I think I have

them at like twide receiver twelve right now. I'd be willing to take a shot, probably in the late second, but before that, there's somebody I can find that I would prefer because I think I might get something for him in twenty twenty six.

And it's just hard to see that happening for Chris Bell unless he gets on the field at the the end of the season and blows up, you know.

This is a guy that's been getting incredible steam over the last month or so, Matt, are you buying into the hype of Skylard bel knowing he's not going to be a first round pick but definitely Day two and landing spot will be crucial. But if we look at if we just narroscope and look at the talent here, what do you think?

explode out with that hip sync. The double moves in particular, I think are especially exciting. With them the slugo or Slanton go route, he sells the vertical so easily breaks to the slant and then takes off up the field. He separates at all three levels. You know, a little bit concerning that he didn't produce a ton until his is his season, his second or is his final season

the league. It will be a good production in twenty twenty four as well, but it didn't truly break out into his final season, so that's always a little bit of a concern. Way you don't see that early production in terms of a top end talent, right, But he does everything you want a wide receiver to do. He can play in the slot. I think he can also play outside and win from pretty much every level of

the field. You know, maybe not the most physic physical player, maybe a little bit slow off the off the line sometimes maybe he gets knocked off his path easily on crossing routes from when line bikers are safer, just kind of deliver contact. But you know, he does all he does. He does enough good stuff for me to put him in the middle of the sorry, the top end of that that second tier receivers, third tier receivers.

much to really be a consistent fantasy producer. So there's a little concern to that. But then, like we talked about with Stours, maybe he doesn't have the blocking ability to be on the field enough and really reach those upper end snap shares that we need. So there there's enough good with both of them and enough bad with both of them to keep them pretty close to me. I know that Sidikad just destroyed the combine, right, but but Stours had a very very good combine as well.

So yeah, they're very close to me, and I think they're both they're both into the first round picks, I think the one, ten, eleven, twelve, and once you get into that like that, really outside of those top five to six receivers, you know, I think they should be in consideration for you.

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every possible way, especially in the passing game. Just not and you know, you expect it again, just like with Carnel Taite and the receivers there, you expect somebody playing alongside Jeremiah Love to not have a ton of usage in the passing game because he's so good at it, but for it to be just a complete projection like that.

I just don't feel comfortable taking him there. And then you have Zach Scharbonay coming back at some point if if he was, even if he was to get that prime landing spot, right, I actually probably feel better about him if he landed somewhere, like if Washington missed out on If Washington missed out on Jeremi I love, and for some reason Price fell to the second round. You you you'd almost like that situation a little bit better.

I think so. I like the player. You know, he's clearly very talented as a runner, very talent as talented as a kick returner as well. So he's gonna be a be on the field, you know, as a special teamer at the very least low mileage. But yeah, he's a good runner. I just you know, I'm not sure he has the ultimate ceiling unless he has one of

those mega touchdown seasons, you know, double digit touchdowns. Otherwise we could be looking at an early down option that doesn't catch passes and and is more of that between the twenties kind of player and not a lot of high value touches.

Only has one drop in his career, also only one career fumble, so very safe and secure with the football. The question mark with him is athleticism, and we know that athleticism really translates for the running back position, and we just have no testing data for him, right, so you have to you have to rely on what you see.

I think it's pretty clear he doesn't really have a quick step or long speed like that, doesn't really have that second gear to turn on, but you know, very shifty between the tackles, very reliable, going to be somebody that coaches love. So I just, you know, how what's the ceiling for fantasy? I'm not I'm not sure he's going to need to land in a perfect landing spot where he can truly be a major part of a committee.

I don't think he's ever going to be a true workhorse in the NFL outside of, you know, filling in for for injuries and that. I certainly think he could handle the load in like a four to six game window something like that, or maybe longer if the starter was to go down. But he's not somebody who you're going to be confident and at the end of the season saying that he is a locked and starter for the next three years. You know, don't know if we're going to get that level of confidence with him.

little bit. And when that happens, you open yourself up to getting the ball punched out. And Mike Washington, I think I believe the number is one fumble every fifty one carries. That's not good enough. That is not good enough. In the NFL. We do have backs that clean up those fumbling problems. Tiki Barber is the classic example, but it does not happen as much as you think it happens. In fact, I'm struggling to think of one recently that

has gotten better, significantly better in that regard. So, yeah, you love the talent, you can see it coming together if it in the very you know, pristine situation, But he just doesn't. He's more athlete than running back. I guess I would put it that way. I'm not sure that's what we're looking for.

probably the best one in the class at that. He lined up in the slaughter out wide on eighteen percent of his stap, so he's out there playing wide receiver at times. Is a nineteen point two percent best season target share, ninety two career receptions. You know, he's very good on wheel routes and swings and screens. As a runner, he's absolutely shifty enough. He just knows where to go with the football. He's got I would say elite vision, like he sees lanes so well and so quickly, especially

the cutback lanes. He has a jump cut that's really nice to get him started. All of that said, oh I should say I'm also a twenty seven and a half percent miss tackles force rate, which was second in the class, and only eight percent of his runs failed to gain yards, which was first in the class. And when he was hit by at her behind the line of scrimmage he gained yards and seventy five percent of those, which was also first in the class. However, he goes

down on first contact far too often. Out of sixty two eligible running backs, he was fifty fifth of those with at least one hundred and forty carries in yards after tech per attempt at two point nine to five. He's not big, he's not powerful, he's not fast. He doesn't make a ton of plays after contact. He struggles

a little bit in pass protection. So a lot to like from an offensive point scoring standpoint, But is our NFL running backs or NFL coach is going to want to give him enough opportunity on the ground in addition to the pass catching ceiling to really kind of give us a floor to work with as well. Right, so wide range of outcomes. Really really liked the player. He's my third running back three in the class. But you see enough there that you know, maybe he doesn't reach that ultimate ceiling.

is crazy to say. It's like a Mechaguka last year oh Ohio State's all time leading receiver, but it's true Singleton versus Allen this year. This last question I will ask on this show prior to the NFL Draft Draft.

Capital will you know have to be assessed afterwards, But when you look at these players in a vacuum right now, wouldn't you rather own Singleton because of the athletic traits or would you rather have Allen in your rookie draft because he just seems to have more of a natural feel for the pos ship.

in the passing game. But he's to me is the more of the early down player. And in the next Singleton, if he does hit his ceiling, he could be he could be absolutely be special. It's just like you said, like he came out so hot as a freshman and he just never really got better. So that is a major concern. And then of course the injury. I think

that was it at the Senior Bowl. I believe, yes that yeah, like that, I mean that crushed him, Like you really wanted a player like Singleton to hit the hit the combine and show off all that athleticism, which we know he still has. But you know, I think that certainly has has reduced his his attractiveness to the

NFL team. I've seen him go in like in recent marks as late as like the fifth, sixth, seventh round in some cases, which at that point I think he's a value for both an NFL team and a fantasy standpoint. But I'm not sure either of these guys are long term dynasty starters. But shoot for the ceiling, Shoot for Nick Singleton. If you're gonna pick.

oh yeah, baby, here we go. The price is going to be so low, and you know the ceiling with Singleton, he's going to be that classic like yet, let's just see what happens.

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