Must-Have Targets + Running Back Fades + FFPC ADP Advice | Andrew Erickson

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can let other people draft. And then the final segment two we will go into running back targets and fades. We'll get into Chase Brown, Javonte Williams, Rashad White, players like that, and then it'll be the show tonight. It's gonna be a lot of fun. So glad to have Andrew aboard. And and this thing with Tom that that you're doing. Is that something new this year that you've been doing Andrew or were you doing this in years past with him too?

we could do it again sometime. And I've kind of been politely staying away, you know, from asking him to come on, because I know what a bear it is for him to do it. But he's great and obviously anybody who watched the streams that you do with him,

it's it's it's fantastic as well. All right. I was going to lead off with some breaking news because we don't often get breaking news on the show, And if I can pull up Schefter's Twitter right now, Andrew, I think he's the one who I who I saw this from, But I think this is an interesting way to lead it off. No, it wasn't Schefter, was somebody maybe his Rapaport.

But I'm seeing reports right now of Jalen Cocher being extended by the Carolina Panthers, Andrew, which is very very interesting when you consider that this was a player that was you know, what are the Panthers, what have they recently done? It is Rapaport who said that they've agreed to Coker on a new contract extension when you think about the Panthers have done the past couple of years.

McMillan Teteroa. McMillan was a first round pick right the year before that, it was Xavier Leaguett who was a first round pick, and we saw these Jalen Cocher truthers in the fantasy circle. Fantasy circles kind of talk him up. I've been drafting him here and there late. I just wonder what the ceiling is in that offense there. But I think this is a boon for anybody who's holding Jalen Coker on their dynasty teams, anybody who's already drafted him this year. Clearly the Panthers have made him an

important part of their future. And you know because of the contract too, Andrew, he's an important part of the present this year. What do you make of this Cocher contracts extension for Carolina and specifically what it does for him in redraft this year if anything.

we going to run it back with him again? So I think that the receivers are going to be the vocal points of the passing game.

more effectively. But now you've got weapons that you feel pretty good about. You have team at entering year two. Okay, he can be a superstar Jalen Cocor if he's healthy, because that's really been the big thing with him the

last two years. Barry banged up, dealing with a lot of lower body injuries, but when he's been on the field, very effective, and obviously he had that last last time he saw Jalen Coker freaking blowing up against the Los Angeles Rams, and the Kocas are just losing their minds, Derek Brown included. So I definitely think that Cocher again last nine games played average ten point one ppr, point

three and half ppr. He catches everything thrown his way seventy eight percent catch right, that was top five in the NFL last year. So he gets targets, he works out of the slot. I think that he fits really well with what they have in Chris Brazzle as this field stretcher, team ac as that all around alpha and

then Jalen Coker eating out of the slot. So maybe in all the Titan heavy offenses, I think the Panthers might be one of these teams that now we like eleven person ol, like, maybe we'll do three wide receiver sets. Let Bryce Young quote unquote cook because I got to figure out can he be the chef for the future.

believer that Young takes a step forward this year. And quite frankly, Andrew, if he doesn't, Carolina is probably going to be in the market for a quarterback in twenty twenty seven. This is this is the definitive make or break year for Bryce Young.

So interesting year, but I think for fantasy purposes, Bryce Young office ol jus as a rusher, got more weapons, and to his credit, he's improved every year he's been in the NFL. I know it's started out really rocky, really tough situation, but every year he's gotten a little bit better. I think maybe we get see the best year of Bryce Young yet. But is that still enough for the Panthers to be convinced he is a franchise future quarterback.

go to the AFC South next here. Andrew Cameron wolf had this report a couple of days ago from the NFL Network. David Montgomery apparently is quote ready to be a potential three down back if needed. Now that's what

Cameron Wolfe's that's the words he chose to use. I think what's interesting here is what, you know, what do we talk about Woody Marks when he got drafted last year while it was his past catching chops right, and then he was sort of miscast in the Panther in the Texans offense, beg your pardon last year as this three down guy out of necessity because they were so beat up with no Mixon obviously, and it was just not a good situation for Woody Johns or Woody Marx

to be the type of player that, you know, to accentuate his strengths. Now Montgomery comes down there, we would think that he will be the first and second down banger. This report from Cameron Wolf a potential three down back, does does this just mean that as long as Woody Marx is healthy, Montgomery's not catching passes on third down?

Or does this mean that Montgomery is a player that they believe could just be the de facto Bell cow relegating Woody Marx to I don't want to say spot duty, but you know, not even a regular third down guy. What's the way that you're looking at the Texans running back situation for drafts at this moment, Andrew, I.

he just profiles as a banger. That's why he was effective and how he was effective in Detroit playing alongside Jamir Gibbs and I think it's a role that he can potentially be useful. And I don't think he's a league winner by any means, but in terms of value, if he's going late enough in drafts as an RB two, I'm finally, David Montgomery, I agree with you that Woody Marks, I mean.

out on this Texas offensive line. They can revamp it and try to change it as much as they want, bring in different guys from different.

season with the Houston Texans. He did a lot of job as a receiver, but I still think mix in at his peak and when he entered at his first year with the Texas, I think he's still ahead of where Dave Montgomery is right now. So Montgomery, I think is fine, not necessarily someone that I'm like, oh, got pounded day with Dave Montgomery, but someone that they can be a value, especially earlier in the season where you need or where he's fully healthy and ready to go.

And I think that, yeah, he's probably the favorite to see a eas and chunk of volume.

worse when all said and done this year. And then there's other people looking at and seeing how proactive Houston was with getting new pieces on this offensive line to block for Montgomery. And then you also think, Andrew, what's the philosophy for Damiko Ryans and Nick Casario in Houston?

They got this unbelievable defense. Wouldn't you want to just be able to pound the ball control the game as much as you can make the necessary throws to Collins and Higgins and Dell and Schultz when you have to. But Montgomery and the offensive line should be the end to the yang of this dominant Houston defense. But specifically with the offensive line. I know you said the jury is still out. If I have to pin you down

right now. June eleventh, twenty twenty six, do you believe that the Texans offensive line right now is better than it was at the end of last season.

bit more optimistic about this runn game. I think Dave Montgomery is clearly better than every other running back that had last year.

He says his achilles is doing great, he's had no setbacks, and that it is realistic for him to come back eight months after rupturing that what is it attendant, It's attendant, right, The achilles tendon Anyway, He's gonna turn thirty three in October, so certainly time isn't necessarily on his side for a fast recovery here. I know there's plenty of FFPC players I've talked to talking up drafting Jake Tanjas because they believe that this guy is going to matter in tight

end premium leagues until Kittle gets back. The million dollar question, though, Andrew, is when is Kittle coming back? I know, and I was one of them. I was pretty down on Kittle missing most of the season, and now I'm kind of kind of walked back a little bit on that based on what I've heard now. I haven't heard anything concrete or read anything concrete from the Niners. I'm just going

off of kind of what Kittle says. And I always say that taking injury analysis from the player who is actually rehabbing the injury usually is not the best thing in the world, because they usually tend to paint themselves in a very positive light and it's just sort of the mentality they have to have to get back onto the field. Kittle believes he can come back and be ready week one. I still have misgivings about drafting Kittle

as high as he's going. You think about FFPC players right now, they're still taking George Kittle, even coming off this achilles at age thirty two, as tight end nine. He's going in the mid seventh round again tight end premium format. But Kittle is going ahead of Likely, He's

going ahead of Kelsey, He's going ahead of Kincaid. It's a price I don't know if I'm willing to pay at this point because quite frankly, we're still in the dark a little bit about how much time that we expect Kittle to miss Andrew As it stands right now,

when do you think George Kittle comes back? And the second part to that question, when he does come back, how much of real life Capital Letter George Kittle are we going to see or are we going to see a guy that is still clearly hamstrung a little bit by trying to recover and get into football shape with this achilles injury, Because that's another conversation to have as well.

your own facilities, this is your first game back. That just seems like you're asking for trouble and bad things to happen. So I would say if the timeline is close to week one, maybe it is more like week two.

if he misses a couple of games. Well, if he's a George Kittle of old and posts those oh so juicy spike weeks, Because even healthy George Kittle, we know how it is. He has games where he basically does nothing as a receiver and is not involved whatsoever. So I don't think that's going away. I think coming back from this injury probably just amplifies that. But when we're in the second half of the year, George Kittle's cooking again. It's not like the other forty nine ers players are

all guaranteed bets to stay healthy the entire season. Between Mike Evans, Christian Kirk, Christian McCaffrey coming off a billion touches, I think you're they're gonna need George Kittle at some point, and you're gonna want that, especially when your roster, at least when you're drafting George Kittle, Well, the rest of your roster will be healthy when he's missing games, but down the stretch, you should have him while you're overcoming

some other injuries. So, especially in best ball, I don't really have too I'm not really against the price of where he's going.

and McCaffrey or whatever. And then you got that substation in Santa Claro's like that that, I mean Dejean's stribbling. I don't know what his college injury history is like, but that dude might all of a sudden start having soft tissue injuries as well. Anything's possible there regarding Kittle, what do you believe? So and I know you're not a doctor, but what do you believe? Like, let's say he does miss the first four games this season. Let's

say he's back active the first time in October. Do you expect Kittle to be doing the kinds of things that he was doing pre Achilles tire or do you think that this season is one that he kind of, for lack of a better term, muddles through to try to shake off that injury, grogginess in that Achilles, and then in twenty twenty seven we see him back to the peak of his powers. I'm just kind of curious that as to what version of Kittle you think we see when he does get back out on the field.

catch number. So I would guess that this year we'll probably see even if he has some big games here and there, I think overall we'll probably see a pretty substantial like, oh, like his efficiency his yards per out run all decreased, his yards out to the catch perception decreased.

That would be That wouldn't shock me at all, and that might be, Hey, yeah, even though he's not coming back from the Achilles injury, he's not going to end he won't really be that same George Kittle alpha player that we've called come to love and know, so I don't think that that's like bad necessarily because again it's tight end tight end.

that as well. So I think I still think people are drafting him a little bit too close, not to his ceiling, but I think there's I think I don't know, man, like I'm finding some of the tight ends that are going after Kittle right now, like I think, and I know he's dealing with the knee injury of his own, but I think Kinkaid is more exciting to me when you consider the drop off of a full round where Kincaid, we're not talking about puplist with that guy right now,

likely is a guy drafting quite a bit, very excited about him, especially with the elite neighbors stuff that's going on right now. I'm very excited to see what likely can do. And you know, if Travis Kelce had a different name in twenty twenty five and we just looked at his stat line, we'd be like, why is this guy going as tight end eleven? He should be going much higher too, So that's another player. I'd look at what all all the three of those guys have in common.

They're not coming off to horn Achilles. And certainly I think you could make the case. And if you're telling yourself a story of you, you know you're trying to win a million bucks in the FFPC main event or the big Gorilla win a million bucks like Kittle probably has your the best opportunity to help you do that. But I think the floor is a little bit lower there as well. Okay, we've talked about Kittle enough. We

have to move on. And I am curious here to and I guess this is not something In regards to Marvin Harrison Junior. This did not resonate with me as much as it probably should have. But there was a piece on ESPN on Sunday morning about the Cardinals and Marvin Harrison saying that as of right now, Andrew he's still trying to get back to one hundred percent. He said that whatever he's dealing with right now in his body, it's not going to prevent him from from from doing anything.

He's still gonna be doing everything that that the Cardinals ask him to do, but he says it's an ongoing process. Bear in mind, this guy had two different heel injuries last year. He had appendicitis and a concussion, missed five games. I know the appendicitis and the concussion, you know, I don't want to get into all that, but they're not soft tissue injuries, which you know. The heel thing is. In the fact that he had two of them, I think is more interesting here. I don't think I'm I'm

concerned about this. In fact, Andrew, you could probably spin this in a way of, oh, this is a reason two draft Marvin Harrison this year. He's not hurt, right, I mean, he's not going to be missing any time as of right now. Where As he missed five games last year, he was doing with dealing with two separate heel injuries. I've never had appendicitis, but I'm sure that was not fun to deal with if you're a football player, right, and then the concussion too, we know everything that goes

into that with Harrison. Dude, this is a player again that has gone down. His ADP has gone down every single year he's been in the league. I remember when he was a rookie and in FFPC drafts he was a solid second round pick as a rookie, and now he has fallen to the six oh seven behind Carnel Tait. Speaking of rookies, Jamison Williams, Roman Dune say they're all going in front of him. Harrison is wide receiver thirty one.

Right now, you read this injury report about Harrison, does this make you feel better about Harrison maybe having a bounce back year? And I think we also should talk about the kind of the quarterback situation that could happen with Carson Beck taking over potentially later on in the season during the money weeks as well. There's certainly a lot to unpack about Marvin Harrison this season.

games because he missed a lot of those games. So I do think that there's in the back of my mind thinking about Marvin Heerson Junior and what if he had played in a couple of those games, how much more expensive he would be in drafts after he posted a Michael Wilson s type of stat line, because when Michael Wilson and Marvin Heerson Junior were on the field at the same time, there was no contest who was getting the ball. It wasn't Michael Wilson. Like Michael Wilson's

target rate perute run just freaking gotten newked. He basically did nothing and you couldn't start him in fantasy. And then when Marvin Hereerson Junior missed time, Michael Wilson was a lock froowded top.

maybe he's gonna be fully healthy. I think he was turning the current or turning the corner at the second half of last year, but then he got hurt again. So I do think that I'm open to Marvin Harris Junior bouncing back. I have him inside my top thirty again, only a little bit higher than the ADP at wide receiver twenty eight because I acknowledge the quarterback, right, how high is the ceiling when Jacoby Brissett or Carson Beck or Gardner Minshews your quarterback and you are not the

number one target on your team. That's trade McBride and Michael Wilson. Will he be a thing? I personally, I mean I am lower on Michael Wilson. Then consensus as well, I would rather take Marvin Harris Junior at his ADP versus Michael Wilson and his ADP. But I can acknowledge

that this Cardinal's offense just sucks. That they all are going to be bad picks like that includes Trey McBride, who's one of the most expensive tight ends in this format, where I get really scared because I think he had the perfect runout last year where they were throwing all

the ball so many times per game. When you draft a running back third overall, that's a telltale sign to me that, yeah, they're probably gonna try to run the ball a little bit more than last year when last year they were down to their fourth string running back, So of course you're gonna you're gonna chuck the ball. You're like, we're gonna head it to Bam Night thirty times a game Like No, but Jeremiah love Hey, they might.

And this is this perfect storm of the Cardinals offense that we saw last year, with them getting down so early and seemingly every single game, not having a defense that could be competitive to keep them out of shootoutsu Brissette throwing the ball all over the field, setting records for most passes in a game, and and and everything like that, and and and as you mentioned it, you know, the top four running backs in Arizona's depth chart being

heard at any given time. I mean that this is all exactly what you need to produce the historic season that we saw from the Arizona passing game last year. Love comes in now, too, and that's another player that they're going to try to get the ball to. And so to echo your point, I am not only am I not targeting any Cardinals this year. I might be fading all of them, and that might include Jeremiah Love. Given his given his where he's going in drafts right now,

I guess he has slipped a little bit. He's now running back twelve. He's going at the two ten, right between Kenneth Walker and Derrick Henry. But that's still that's still a difficult ask for me to get a running back on a team that is going to have a lot of negative game scripts this season, that is not probably going to be a good offense, and that could be featuring Carson Beck when all the cash is being given away at the end of the season.

Brian Thomas is quoted as saying it doesn't hurt to run anymore. End quote. I don't I didn't know this was a thing last year to Andrew, but he said that he had a lot of things, a little things that he cleaned up this offseason. A lot of clean up procedures over the last couple of months. Seems like he was trying to play through pain. Certainly, I have heard that you know, when your body is not responding the way you wanted to, it can affect the way

you play. Maybe that contributed to some of those alligator arms we saw from him, especially early on in the season last year. But now, what are we saving? John Shipley from Sports Illustrated. Seemingly there's a positive report from him every single day about Brian Thomas either making a play over the middle or more importantly, deep down the field.

So this really seems like Brian Thomas Junior could have at the bounce back season that a lot of people are hoping he will, and quite frankly, the price on him is right, for lack of a better term here, Brian Thomas right now in FFPC Big Gorilla Drafts is going as wide receiver thirty five at the seven h six, which is now He's about a half round behind Parker Washington about this time last week, Andrew, those guys are

about neck and neck, but Washington surged ahead. I don't know if that's gonna last though, with all this positive stuff coming out of Thomas. Certainly, you don't want to be hyperbolic this time of year because it is you know, helmet and shorts and not much house shoulder pads or whatever, and there's not much going on there when it comes to that. It's not quote unquote real football. But you'd love to see these reports coming out about Thomas rather

than not seeing him at all. How do you feel about Thomas's chances at a bounce back season, Maybe not to get to the twenty twenty four level that he was at, but definitely better than what we saw last campaign.

throw to the running backs in Jacksonville. And they also have a guy that plays defense and also plays wide receiver in Travis Hunter, who is expected to play full time on wide receiver and a defensive back this year. So how does he kind of enter into the fold here? So I think with Brian Thomas Junior, you just question, yeah, okay, can he be the number one receiver on the Jaguars? Yeah, but what does that mean?

wide receiver. And although the planets aligned for him at the end of his rookie year with that monster season, this offense is looking a lot different than it was back then. There's a lot of new pieces and that's what concerns me. I think that what's interesting about the Jaguars the last two off seasons or last two draft seasons, the number one wide receiver drafted for the Jaguars in fantasy has not been the number one guy at the end of the year two years ago. Is Christian Kirk

not the guy. Last year was Brian tom Junior not the guy.

room too, what happens if there's an injury? So that's kind of like my take on again, I feel I don't feel great about fading the Jaguars pieces because I do like this offensive lot, especially with Trevor Lawrence, but the step he looked after the first five weeks in Cohen's offense, So this isn't like that Cardinals where I feel like I can just fully fade, But I feel like you got to take some shots here and there on some of these Jaguars receivers and Brian Thomas Junior.

I don't want to just forget what he did as a rookie because it was so fantastic, But as of right now, he's not someone that I'm trying to go out of a way targeting just because I don't know if he has it that built in chemistry with Trevor Lawrence like we've seen, I mean Trevor Lawrence. How long did it take fromim to bill chemisry with Kobe Myers like one game the Trader Ferm, whereas it always seemed like he was butting heads with Brian Thomas Junior. So yeah,

they can hit out a couple of big plays. He'll hit your best ball lineup as a result, but I'm not sure he's going to be dominating targets in this offense.

make sure he gets a piece of it. And I think that's a smart way to do it, you know. And you know, not loading up, especially with how nebulous this situation is for the pass catchers, but making sure you're acquiring pieces it could end up paying off down the stretch in the long run. Here, I want to keep the conversation on the Jacksonville Jaguars here and we go to the backfield here, and I know that Andrew you have some thoughts on this, so I'll just kind

of let you go. But Jacksonville dot Com had a report on Monday from Ryan o'haller and that Chris Rodriguez is expected to be a full go by training camp. Earlier this offseason, he had surgery on his left foot, did not participate in OTAs because he's still recovering from that. Sounds like he will not be participating in mini camp as well, but training camp could be a different story.

Rodriguez and base shall tuton, you know, there's truthers on both sides of these guys right now as we head into the twenty twenty six season, during the twenty twenty six drafting season, right now, you have definitely planned your flag on one of these guys. I love to hear you tell the viewers why you have done it and why you expect to be on the correct side of this call right now this year.

he complete zero in the passing game. And I think that Bachell two and what he showed last year when the team took Travis Etn off the field to put Bachelle two in red zone packages, I'm not worried about Chris Rodriguez as a red zone threat to Bachell two. I really think that he's going to be the guy. And the thing that I always think back, you know, scouting Bachell two, and he was one of the players that I got to meet at the NFL Draft when they were doing the podiums.

the NFL. And I think that has to do with not that he's not explosive, because he is. He has speed. We know that we saw him around forty yard dash in blazing time.

You're gonna see his expulsiveness out in front. I think the coaches are gonna see that, and especially compared to Chris Rodriguez, who look call spade of space. He's a plotter running back, like he's not an exciting running back. And yes it's coaches love when you can pick up three yards when you need exactly three yards. But Tuton did that last year too. He had the same high success rates Chris Rodriguez. He had the same yards after

contact for attempt at christ Rodriguez. So I just think that Bashelle Tutin can do everything Chris Rodriguez can do, and more so, why waste your time with Chris Rodriguez in the first place. I do think that the first couple weeks of the year, it's gonna be annoying, like we're gonna get Chris Rodriguez. Maybe he's gonna start the game and everyone is gonna freak out about Bachell tuned. So even if you don't draft him, obviously you have to draft them best ball drafts because you won't have

access to the waiver wire. But in re draft leagues, I can guarantee he's gonna be one of my favorite guys to trade for after Week one if I don't already have him on my roster, because I think that we've seen this kind of play out before, and and Pat Krane mentioned this, I think on his podcast a

couple of weeks ago. But how is this not different from the Zach Moss and Chase Brown scenario, where like, you clearly have a guy with so much juice that okay, yeah, they're gonna be annoying, Zach Moss is the veteran whatever. And then I know that Zach Moss ended up getting injured that season. But Chris Rodriguez is already recovering from an injury. He's also dealt with injuries a lot as

a part time player. He's a twenty six year old journeyman running back who wouldn't have bean sniffed the field last year if Brian Robinson again, another pretty jag running back hadn't got. But he's spending time with Jeremy, with Nichols and Jacorey krossky Merritt, who is a seventh round rookie, and he didn't even like assert himself to be the dominant running back in that backfield. So I just don't think that he has any staying power as a threat

in this offense. I think that Liam Coen brought him in because he's familiar with him, and he's like, hey, I need three yards. I can getree arts with Chris Rodriguez. But if Bachell Tutin really captures what he can be upside of what he's actually capable of doing, I think that they're going to realize, oh yeah, we could just use Twoton on everything instead, and like we don't need

to waste our time using Chris Rodriguez. So definitely not drafting Chris Rodriguez, definitely drafting Bachell two, and especially with I think his price is fine where it is.

make about Touton and just let you wan this. Does does laquin Allen figure into stealing pass catches or targets in that backfield at all where that would maybe be a ding against Teuton? Or do you think that's not gonna be a thing this year Laquinn Allen.

you had Buckier being Sean Tucker and Rashad White. And then if let's say they use they do similar things in this Jacksonville Jaguars backfield where Tooton plays the Irving role, Rashad or what Quinn Allen is in the Rashad White role, and then you have Chris Ardriguez in the Shan Tucker role. So even with all that scenario playing out, buck you Irving was still a back end fantasy RB one and still had a over a thousand yards from scrimmage, was

really productive. Again, wasn't the primary pass catcher, but still caught enough passes where he was in a total zero.

offense we're excited about. He's really really cheap, So I don't think that he's like so like, I mean, he's someone that I was considered round twenty.

got traded mid season from New Orleans to Seattle. I expected him to take a significant leap forward fantasy wise. I was of the opinion that what Smith and Jigba had done up until that point was not sustainable over

the course of the season. I really didn't think we were going to see Cooper cupp all of a sudd resurge at the end of the season, and Tory Horton was dealing with an injury too, So I just thought, this is the perfect scenario for Shaheed to come in, make some noise and be fantasy worthy, perhaps even as high as a top thirty receiver. The rest of the way, it did not happen. From Week ten on he only catches eighteen passes, fails to notch two hundred and seventy yards,

no touchdowns. That's from Week ten through the playoffs, all the way through the Super Bowl as well, and then Seattle goes out. They extend them three years fifty one million, and certainly this would make sense that Cooper cup would start to take a back seat to some of these

younger guys like Shaheed and Horton this year. But you know, I think for me, seeing what I saw last year from Shaheed, or perhaps the better way to say it, the lack of what I saw from him last year, definitely gives me pause before I draft a player like this that I think is a hashtag betteran best ball guy. I don't know if I want to draft this guy in a managed league because I don't know when the

big players are coming. And quite frankly, after the stars seemingly aligned for Shaheed last year and he turned that into eighteen catches over ten weeks or eleven weeks or whatever it was, I'm not getting the warm fuzzies despite what John Boyle is reporting here, and despite the contract extension he got. Perhaps I'm wrong and you feel differently about this.

in the Kellen Moore offense. Do you think that Okay dropping in with Kubiak, someone that he's familiar with, they can get him fully integrated, But I think he just got kind of caught behind the eight ball and everything was working so well with the Seahawks were doing. Anyway, he did flash a little bit down the stretch in the playoffs with a couple of big plays, and ultimately

the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. So I know, she Heat doesn't seem like he was like the biggest factor that but hey, like he makes one big play in a playoff game, Hey we'll take it.

forty nine ers. They're paying a lot to wide receivers. Jaysen also signed a big extension contract this offseason. They signed Rashiji Heat. They made sure that Jake Bobo did not leave the building. I know the Jaguars like put in a tender. I also like that'll kind of caught my eye as like, are we gonna get more passes in this offense? Are we gonna put a little bit more on our quarterback Sam Donald versus well, we lost Walker Charbonay is injured. We did draft Daring Price we

were excited about, but he's still a rookie. Are we gonna put everything on our rookie? Are we gonna put on our super Bowl winning quarterback? I think I kind of leaned towards the ladder. So I think that Shaheed, because he's really talented. I think that best ball is still a really good format for him. He can make plays even on low volume. And Sam Donald has a pretty nice deep ball.

he was last year. But I think maybe it's because the Seahawks were just like running the ball and playing great defense and Sam Donald was just cooking with Jasen. It's like, let's not change this up, Like we're like we're dominating games, like we don't need Like Shaheed was gravy, we didn't have to use it last year till the very end. So I think this year, maybe they do need it a little bit more if the run game isn't as good as effective because of the you know, the change of running back.

Shaheed more involved? To your point, this year, different team, different season, maybe a different approach for Rashid Shaheed and the Seattle Seahawks. They are on offense. We go to New Orleans. Now the big easy. Sarah pel Cheski, Pelchus, Pelchowski, Pelchowski. I don't know. I had a report earlier this week, Andrew, that Kellen Moore says he's excited to get Alvin Kamara

quote in the fold. Now. He did not go as far to say that Kamara is going to be on the team this year, but he is preparing as if Kamara will be in the backfield for New Orleans this year. I think at this point of his career, excuse me, he's probably closer to Devin Neil, Kendra Miller than he is Travis Etchien. But Kellen Moore might see it differently.

This is not an Alvin Kamara question for you, Andrew, but for those people, myself included, who assume that Travis at Chien was going to be this three down back for New Orleans this year. How much of a monkey wrench is Kamara throwing into these plans? And do you believe that he's going to still be on the team come week one of the season.

game Onchristmas were he scored? Like yeah, like that that's like just something that you always remember, especially someone that is so into people that are watching you me about that love fantasy football. Everybody remembers that game and it's like Alvin Kamara. That being said, that's in the past. We're talking about twenty twenty six, and I think that Alvin Kamara is more like end of career Dalvin Cook Austin ec Like, I just think that this is like

the be this is the end. Like his rushing efficiency has been terrible over the last couple of years. The Saints were one of the worst teams in terms of rushing EPA last year, and that lot was cause of Alvim Kamara. Yes, still one of the most dynamic pass catchers in the NFL at the running back position. But how much more is he doing really after the catch anymore? How much more juice is he offering? So I think it's sooner rather than later that the team just kind

of like decides to cut ties with Alvin Kamara. So any discount that I'm getting on Travis a Chan as a result of those that believe Alvin Kamara is going to play a focal point in this offense. I mean, look, if it's not Kamara, they'll probably get someone else involved. I just think that it's going to be a chance they paid him for a reason in free agency. He's still in a good spot age wise, not super old. Look, Kamara, I just think this time has come kind of for

the Saints. And I know that he said he doesn't want to play for any other team, So it's like week one. Is he more likely on the Saints on another team or in Cankun? I mean, how am I bad on Cancun at this point?

stuff for the Saints. They play in a dome, they play and in that NFC South Division that I mentioned, could be ripe for shootouts this year. If we find out that Kamara is you know, cut, or is he is he's traded or he retires or whatever, how much room does et Chien have to move up from the three oh seven and running back fifteen. I feel like he'd move up a little bit, But I don't know if we're gonna see anything significant, would we I.

I think it's really just them trying to respect the player, to be honest, and I think I.

it just drives ADP. AJ Brown to the Patriots was basically a four gone conclusion, and then after the trade happened, his ADP went up anyway.

felt something in his hamstring, so he sat out. Todd Monkin says he does not give veteran rest days right now, so this was clearly an injury thing or they're being cautious at least to not make it worse. And the question here for you, Andrew is sort of twofold number one. Who are you taking as the as the best value for Brown's wide receivers right now? And then number two.

How much value is there, Like, how significant are these guys going to be for fantasy Concepcion is a ten to eleven turn pick, Denzel Boston is going at the fifteen sixteen turn, and then Jerry Judy at the sixteen seventeen turn. When when you look at I know Boston's been performing well. Daniel Owiefussi had the report for ESPN, say he's been one of the standouts of Brown's camp so far. I don't know which one I view as

the best value. Maybe you can tell me what one you view is the best value, and then whether how significant this is going to be for our fantasy football teams this year, given that none of these guys have single digit round ADP at the.

of worried about here. It's like Deshaun Watson, Sure Sanders, Well, if they're just getting the ball to concepttion On on bubble screens and then he just breaks a tackle, rips off thirty yards, who cares how bad the quarterback play is?

think both are buying into. But I think the concept Sean is going to lead this team in targets probably. I get Harold Fannon is still involved out rookie season at the tight end position, But concept, I think is a really really talented player. And I think my first round pick in the tenth round signed.

just like, you know, how how is I mean? I certainly I guess he there's a non zero chance that he does become the number one there at some point on his rookie contract. I'm just seeing a lot of obstacles in front of him, whether it's quarterback play, whether it's you know, conceptsi On and Harold Fannins is another guy that they're gonna get involved quite a bit. It looks like they got a pretty good running back in Quinn Shawn Judkins, So I think Conceptsion is the guy

I like. I didn't understand the Boston pick, but I might be proven wrong by the Cleveland Browns going forward. Boston is in his first year in the league, and we know he's going to be a Brown. Brandon Ayuk has been in the league for several years and we have no idea where he's going to be playing this year. California authorities issued a warrant for Brandon Ayuk's arrest Andrew. If we've been paying attention to social media, Ayuk has had some rants indirectly directed. I guess at the forty

nine ers brass in the front office there. I just picked him as my seventh wide receiver in like the sixteenth or seventeenth round of a draft. I'm in right now, and it's a managed league, So if it rolls out as a route rolls into September and I have to submit waiver claims, and Ayuk is still, you know, in the same spot he's in right now. He's an easy cut for me, and that's why I picked him because I still do see some upside here. How much upside

do you see? And at what point in drafts would you be willing to Ayuk onto your roster?

good because we don't know what's gonna happen there. There's no one confident except I mean brand new Yuk doesn't know what's gonna happen because the forty nine ers are staying pat with no, we're not gonna release you for nothing when we want someone to trade for you, and they don't have to release him, so it's a slippery slope.

Of course, that's why he's upset, because he just wants to play for a different team because he knows he's not gonna play with the forty nine ers, but they have his contract and because he's on the I think it's like the NFI list, or it's on like one of those lists where it doesn't count of gets the ninety man roster, so they don't have to pay him. So they really have no incentive to just like let him go. Besides, like we want to be a good organization.

But clearly the fact that he has been ghosting them this entire time with his injury, that forty and I don't really feel obligated to, you know, do right by Brandon Nayuk unless you know someone comes to the table with a trade.

has as a talent. I know, we haven't seen him play in over a year, but you get seventy eight percent of brand nay Yuk maybe attached to Jade and Daniels. That's better than everyone else. That's going into eighteenth round, Like, that's like my main point is, like, just who's being drafted around? Yeah, he could be a total zero, no doubt about it, But what about all the other guys

going the eighteenth nineteen twentyth round. I would I guess my argument is the upside case for a Yuke is so much clearer and better and higher than so many of these other guys. That's kind of why I feel like Ayuk isn't okay click right now. Obviously could be a zero, just probably blow up and do nothing, but I think the upside is kind of worth especially with

it basically being free. So eighteenth round for me, that's where I took him and I didn't I basically I think tweeted it after two I said, brand now you can eighteenth round. I don't know about it, man, but like whatever I was, like, that's kind of how I feel about it.

at three. But you don't need to be counting on him if you're Washington in his rookie year, because you can have by you come aboard the other aspect to I don't know what that kneedes like, he didn't play all of last year, so that there's certainly something to

do with that too. Now. I think what would be interesting Andrew is, let's say the Niners did release him or or the Commander's traded for him, and not not if the commander's traded for him, beg your pardon if the if the Niners did outright release him and he's just hanging out there for like a week and then two weeks, it's like, Okay, we kind of know how the NFL feels about this guy. Maybe we should feel

the same way. But but it is interesting, and and Iukas is still a He's still a fun click at that point, uh later on in the draft where you don't know but it could it could could be good. Last thing I want to bring up here in this segment, and I'm gonna throw some ADPs at you that might shock you because they shocked me. Omar Kelly covers the Dolphins for the Miami Herald and he says Kevin Coleman Junior should be the starting slot receiver for the Dolphins

this year. He says he believes that Coleman is the best rookie receiver they have for Miami. And and if you look at how f FPC players are treating this Dolphins receiving game right now, it's it's pretty interesting. H Chan is a second round pick right now, Andrew in the f f SE big Gorilla. The next Dolphin off the board is Greg Dulsic in the fourteenth round. Again tight end premium scoring, So that's why you see Dulcie

as the next one. Caleb Douglass in the fifteenth is the top receiver drafted on average from Miami in this Chris Bell in the sixteenth, then you get into Malik Washington in the nineteenth. Coleman is nowhere to be found. What's your sort of how dialed in are you to Dolphins receivers this year? Are there any potential difference makers on this squad? I love Chris Bell for dynasty for redraft, I don't know, Man I just don't know how effective he's going to be year one.

I know we have a comment here from Adam halland two five to two three about dults can't stand the field. Totally agree, like that has been his bugaboo. Been really injury prone for the most of his NFL career, but he's only twenty six years old. Flashed a lot in yards out to catch perception, trailing only my guy last year, Tucker Craft. Greg Dulcich was second yards ap to catch perception elite in yards per out run among tight ends. Now a little bit of a small sample size, but

look the Dolphins brought him back. He has familiarity with the offensive coaching staff there, so I think And one thing that was really glaring to me that stood out was on a podcast with the new GM was asked, Okay, who do you expect to take a major leap this year? This is Greg Dulsch, right like, So that to me was just like wow, Like, that's pretty bold of a stance to make on a player that you signed like a one year contract to. But I just believe that

there's a talent with Greg Dolcic. We see tight end breakouts later in their careers all the time.

rookie wide receiver, it's not necessarily super super hard. I'm not surprised that like he would be maybe the guy over in the Leak Washington. He's kind of view as the Veterans thought player, but he's also attached to the previous regime, so they have no incentive like, oh, we gotta get Leak Washington involved. Not necessarily the case. I think it does behooves them to get see what they got out Vin Coleman, who I did actually kind of like a little bit as a prospect. I know Derek

Brown is also a big fan of Kevin Coleman. Kind of looked at him as like a discounted version of Antonio Williams, which.

Adam makes a good point that is a problem for him staying on the field, But you're having fourteenth, fifteenth round. If he gets hurt, it's not like you're married to the guy with your draft capital that you invested in. You can cut him and move on to somebody else. But certainly Dulsage is intriguing right now. Hopefully you've been intrigued for the remainder of the show. We're gonna step out take our first break. Andrew Erickson for Fantasy Pros

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New England this year. I have been of the opinion that I could foresee New England regressing a little bit this year, what with you know, super Bowl curse aside, they had a somewhat easy schedule this year. They're gonna have a tougher schedule this year. And then they get AJ Brown, and I'm kind of like, you know what, maybe I got to back off this this regression thing.

You have trevi On Henderson in year two, you have a pretty good offensive line, you have the alpha on the perimeter now, and AJ Brown clearly a franchise quarterback in Drake May. You could make the case that he might be a top five NFL quarterback. If you're starting your franchise right now, He's probably gonna be one of the top five players chosen there. I like the defense. The head coach too, seems to know at least football

off the field. Whatever. But but you can wax poetic here on AJ Brown and tell all the listeners and all the viewers who aren't sure about drafting AJ Brown right now as the wide receiver eight at the two to eleven. Oh, he sneaked up into the first time I've seen him in the second round. He is going on average in the second round right now, Andrew, maybe it's because of you you've been pumping this guy up.

I got a wide receiver sixth. And I can't be the lowman on AJ Brown against a non Patriots I am also on Patriots, and you can if you can't tell from the battles of the Patriots stuff, I can't be the lowman on Patriots players, especially a guy like AJ Brown, who I loved when he wasn't even a Patriot, especially when Derek was so sound with the analysis of well, okay, so do you want Justin Jefferson with Kyler Murray's quarterback over AJ Brown with Drake May who you just talked about,

like third year guy second in the MVP voting last year.

So I think if the planets aligned for AJ Brown and he gets used in this offense like DeVante Adams with the Las Vegas Raiders, with Josh McDaniels or even throwing it back to I love calling this guy back Brandon Marshall.

don't know who his quarterback is going to be. In fact, we don't know if he's gonna have the same quarterback every week of the season. It's it's a very unsettled situation there with with Penix and Tongue by Loa and you know, a lot of the people I've talked to Andrew over the last couple of months, if you have London, I think most, not all, most people have said they

want to see Penix in that quarterback. If they have London, they are a little bit nervous about Tongue by Loa throwing the ball in that Falcons offense as to what London is going to do to try to pay off that two oh six ADP. Is Drake London a must have for you in drafts this year?

inside the top seven of fantasy wide receivers. But if Tua his his quarterback, I just don't have a ton of faith that Tua is the best fit. The last two seasons with Michael Pennix as his quarterback, Drake London full PPR has averaged almost twenty points per game, which is like the threshold we're looking for with a difference making elite wide receiver that you want to draft in

the first two rounds of your fantasy drafts. So if Tua is the start to open the year first month of the year, it's gonna be more b Jhon Robinson. Well these underneath bubble screens. So that's where I get concerned about London. It's just the quarterbacks. And this is also an opportunity to where maybe Drake London is a trade for target. When you get Michael Pennox back on center in the later portion of the year, Drake London smashes.

So I think I would try again. If I'm drafting a bunch of best ball teams, I don't want zero Drake London. I want to be clear with that, because I do think that he has a ton of upside, especially Michael Penix takes over as quarterback. But to your initial point, who do you want throwing the ball to you? Drake May to or Michael Pennix? You want Drake May throwing ball And if it's close enough for me, it's like that just gets me a little bit to lean towards a J.

don't think it's necessarily all that close anymore. The ADP we have on Waddle is wide receiver twenty four, Courtland Sutton is wide receiver thirty eight, five oh six, and the eight to oh four, So it's basically three rounds of separation here. So Wattle, his ADP has moved up, but he's still a mid fifth round pick. Is he must have considering what this Broncos offense is going to be this year with Wattle into a player that they

didn't have last year. Quite frankly, they were this close to going to the super Bowl at home in the AFC Championship game. Didn't happen because they didn't have bo Nicks. Certainly there's some weather there as well. Not that I'm you know, not praising what your Patriots did because they went out and won that game. But I think Waddle adds a new element to this offense.

So I think Jaalen Waddles must have this year. If you guys have followed me at Fantasy Spros, even if my days at PFF, I think I've drafted Jaalen Waddle every single year through all the ups and the downs, So it's asn't always been a fun ride, especially because he seems like he has a time share in the Blue Medical ten, which I don't like for Jalen Waddle, even though he doesn't always get hurt, he just seems

like he's banged up through games constantly. But last year I think that he was really held back by the circumstances and we just didn't get the chance to see him operate without Tyreek Hill, right because the minute that terryk Kill went down, the offense just turned into this run funnel and they just didn't want to throw the ball at all downfield. And then he got banged up towards the end of the year. But he's flashed so

much talent throughout his NFL career. He's won in different ways, whether it was his rookie year when he saw a ton of volume, whether it's been in years past when even alongside Tyreek Hill. He's had monster yards performances, very efficient yards per route run last year. His yards problem is still very very good. So I don't think he's falling off in his game. And now he's going offense, it's actually gonna throw the ball like that's the biggest thing.

And it's not with Tyreek Hill opposite him, it's with Courtland Sutton, who I think sutton his own right as a player that's been really effective. Obviously great season last year, but at times he was losing out on targets and red zone opportunities to Troy Franklin of all players last year. So if Jalen Wattle is able to take up some of those goal line opportunities, whether it's two point conversions, whether it's red zone attempts, like that's the missing piece

with Wattles they haven't really been a touchdown guy. Well, if he goes to an offense that likes to throw the ball a little bit more than they did in Miami he used more in the red zone, we already nobody can do fromn efficiency standpoint, especially with defenses not really honed in on him. As Okay, we have to stop Jayla Wall because the Denver Broncos have a lot of depth between all the receivers they use, the running backs, the tight ends. I really like Wattle this year, especially

where he's going in the round five. So another year of Wattle, We'll see, uh see how it shakes out. But I'm gonna be here for the ride.

more involved. Think back to that playoff game, who was getting Pepper with targets Pat Bryant, Right, So, Sean Paynoy's pulls the shenanigans where we always have to focus on one guy, and I think that's still in the range of outcomes of the bad side of things, where Wattle's not a gonna see double digit targets every single week. I don't think that's necessarily the case, but I think it's he can win with efficiency and he can win

with touchdowns. Like That's kind of what I'm betting on with Jalen Wattle, not that he he doesn't profile to me and he's never really profiled as oh, he's gonna

be a volume hog. I think that he's just gonna do a lot of damage with the targets and opportunities he does get, even it's only by a slight margin, because we know the Broncos like to, you know, spread the love between all their players, and the fact that Champagne's not calling plays either it's gonna be Davis Webb doing it this year does help me or it reminds me to like stay a little bit more open to Denver Broncos players, because usually Cheon Payne just does everything

to like piss us off and fantasy like oh I'm gonna tag this guy my joker and then to screw everybody over and not actually use it at all. So maybe with Davis webcoms shots we get maybe more of a little bit more concentrated offense, but that remains to be seen.

Jackson should have a big bounce back year. And they got a lot younger too. You think about Hiddener and it was a Quavis was the other tight end that they had drafted. And then the receivers Jacobe Lane, Elijah Surat all of a sudden, the Ravens skill position players

are a lot younger. There are many players out there, many fantasy players myself included Andrew, that have been fading Derrick Henry to our own detriment, and I feel like Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, you know the meme, like he can't keep getting away with this, and yet Dereck Henry gets away with it every single year. At some point, it's not going to be there for him. And I don't necessarily think he's the type of player where he

just falls right off the cliff. I think we might see a season where it there might be a gradual season and then a cliff season. We haven't seen the gradual season yet, it could be this year. And if it is, and the Ravens are still getting back to respectability in the playoffs, wouldn't you think that a huge reason why they get back to that level of success is one Za Flowers, a player who's never lived on touchdowns. Quite frankly, I don't know if his body is built

for a lot of touchdowns. But he does get a lot of catches, he does get a lot of targets, he does get a lot of yardage. Is he a must have for you this year as wide receiver? Seventeen at the four to h four in Big Gula drafts.

conversation with those particular players. I'm not denying that. We know he has a quarterback that can throw a ton of touchdowns. Lamar Jackson has done it before. He's one of the highest passing touchdown rates in NFL history. So it's not more well his touchdowns Ward Grass, No, like he's more than capable of doing it. I think that Jay Flowers is eons above every other receiver on this roster. I know he liked some of the rookies they drafted, but at this point, I think Mark Andrews is kind

of cooked. I think that the Ravens made a big mistake by not bringing back Isaiah likely in extending Mark Andrews instead, And I think they're just bringing a new offensive coordinator in Declan Doyle at least opens up the possibilities that they use. They do use A Flowers a little bit more in the red zone. He to me, is someone that can create a lot of explosive plays.

And one thing I want to note too about Jasn and how special his season was last year, he how did he achieve it was with an elite target chair and elite efficiency. Those are two things A Flowers can definitely have. But JSN last year also didn't have this Like he had a good red zone role, but he wasn't always the main red zone guy. He was actually

the first receiver. Talking about receivers, because what I usually gravitate towards when I'm looking at who could be the wide receiver one overall is the wide receiver one overall. Six of the last seven Fantasy seasons has been the

leader in red zone targets. Last year was an outlier, like JSN and Pukuinakua were not the main red zone guys in the NFL last year was obviously Demonte Adams, who had basically every single red zone target for every for the Rams all year long, and then Jasn was more middle of the pack, but he was still able to be a top one, top two wide receiver overall because of elite efficiency and explosive plays. What does A

Flowers do? Generate a lot of explosive plays? And I was one of the first thing Decklan Doyle mentioned about when he became the offense accordion for the Ravens was we want to generate explosives. So I think with A Flowers, even if he's not seeing a ton of red zone work, I think that maybe it's just hey, well he's gonna score a lot of touchdowns from outside the red zone.

I have one of those special outlier seasons where he rips off a thirty yard touchdown, he rips off a fifty yard touchdown because I know that it's in his range of outcomes because of the player that he is coming out.

Brandon Aiyuk earlier and George Kittle earlier. Mike Evans, I mean Andrew wide receiver twenty five at the five oh seven, I'm scratching my head and I'm trying to think the last time I've seen an ADP this low on Mike Evans. I don't know if there's ever been an ADP this low on Evans, even when he was a rookie, where he's slipping behind Jalen Waddle, DJ Moore, Luther Burden, Terry

McLaurin and he goes to San Francisco. Now a player that I think fits their offense well and an archetype that they really haven't had in that offense in several years, maybe ever with Kyle Shanahan. There is Mike Evans a must have for you when you consider you can get him in the mid fifth round right now, my friend.

on a hot streak. I think that he could have a very DeVante adams S type of season where maybe he's not even the leading receiver on his own team, but the touchdown equity he has I think is really real and a player that I think if you draft him, especially in redraft leagues, after the first month, you're gonna be really happy. Had Mike Evans on your roster and then maybe you consider flipping him and moving away from because.

one slot above Za Flowers. Right now, he's wide receiver sixteen at the four h three. Certainly he doesn't have to contend with Mike Evans this year, although we've heard some really positive reports about Chris Godwin lately. Jalen McMillan's there, and they drafted Ted Hurst, not necessarily thinking that either of those guys are going to usurp at Buka's role. But I do think it's worth talking about how much they eat in to volume and targets for Agbuca this year.

Is he a must have at the four h three at wide receiver sixteen.

even though I mean because it was so good. In the beginning of the year, he was a runaway favorite for Rookie of the Year. It was locked and loaded, he's gonna win this award, and then he didn't because things just fell off so dramatically, And I think it's interesting.

not like what actually happened is Rookie Year. If anything, I'm more encouraged that he did flash the ceiling, like that's what I was more concerned about, because i know the floor is eventually going to be there, so I'm not concerned about the fall off in the second half of the season. I'm just happy that he flashed the ceiling because i know there's going to be a floor

with him. So I think like Buka is a player that Drafters should be going after, and he's someone that I have to probably move up in my rankings to kind of catch up with ADP because I don't disagree. I think that's a really strong case for a Buka to take a major second year leap, and I know that he is also being drafted close to Luther Burden. I'm taking a buco over Burden for sure.

But if we were too sort of because it seems like there's a lot of pass catchers in Los Angeles that we're very excited about, or we're very excited about the Los Angeeli's passing offense this year, but who to be excited about among the pass catchers With McConkie and Johnston and Trey Harris and Djoku and Bronde, Gadsden and Omari and Hampton, there's all these guys out there. Your

thoughts on McConkie being a must have right now. He's sort of in that Zay Flowers at Buca area, although he's going a little bit after him wide receiver nineteen at the four h seven Baffo Huge rookie year took a little bit of a step back last year. I would imagine that the true McConkie lies somewhere in between those years.

bring keen Allen back. I really like him, and that's kind of disaster outcome where we have to run this offense back again with Keenan Allen potentially vacuum up a ton of targets, especially on third downs where that's where you're hoping the lad can really carve out a good, good chemistry with Justin Herbert in year three.

football and for them to be super super efficient. So I think Laddy gets back to his rookie year, closer to his rookie year when he was I think top ten in yards per route run, very very impressive. I like Lad a lot this year, like Justin Herbert a lot this year. So it's a stack that I'm definitely trying to draft.

to see what happens. Dave is kind of like he's going for the one oh one next year, who's acquiring all this first round draft capital, which he's doing a good job of two by the way, but Herbert, I'm excited to have Lamar Jackson in that league as well, so to roll those two guys out every week is

gonna be a lot of fun. We moved the tight end here, a player I had just drafted in another one of my leagues, probably because I knew that I knew some of the guys that were drafting on the end of that and I knew Likely wasn't making it back to me, and so I decided to take him. He was like tight end nine, tight end ten or whatever.

Dude with this neighbor stuff and Darius Slayton recovering from surgery and them signing three off the street free agents in the same day, I feel really good about Likely. I can't remember what giants beed reporter it was, but they said that it looked like in Ota is the top two pass catchers in New York were the two tight ends in Likely and Theo Johnson. Now that's obviously without Neighbors on the field, but Likely was the guy he listed first. This is a guy you know with

tight ends. You mentioned it in the first hour. You're looking for ways where these guys can get a lot of volume, and certainly Likely is a player that might be the number two pass catcher on this team even when Neighbors is healthy.

count for Isaiah Likely last year? Where he's like at the one yard line and he fumbles the ball or he drops the ball or his foots out about like just that could consistently happen just to frustrate the heck out of Isaiah Likely managers. But I think that wheels are up all the way for Likely this particular season with Harbaugh as the head coach of the Giants, with neighbors banged up, he could be the number one got to start the year and then have a role as

the number two as the season progresses. We're excited about Jackson dart and during his second season. Don't love Matt n Aggie to be honest, don't think that he's the greatest offensive mind. I don't love the offensive coaches they haven't placed there. But I think Isaiah Likely at least is gonna get enough routes, get enough targets to be a fantasy tight end one this season.

could be the number two pass catcher there. I know there are people out there, the haters if you will, that will say if Okonko is any good, he would have shown us in Tennessee. He didn't, and now he's in Washington. He gets to catch passes from Jane Daniels Man. If they don't sign Ayuk or Stefan Diggs or Keenan Allen and they go to battle with Antonio Williams as their number two wide receiver. Chicka Conko might turn out

to be a nice pick. I don't know about must have Andrew, but might turn out to be a nice pick this year if the commander's roster stays the way it is at this point. All the way up to Week.

think that getting Jane Daniels is an immediate upgrade. Who was getting Pepper with targets last year in this offense. Zach Ertz forty five year old zach Ertz who's never broken a tackle in his entire life. Now that titan gets replaced with Chicka cong Quo, who is at breaking tackle machine. Thirty yards after the catch per reception last year, first in that category as a rookie.

like a true alpha alpha. He's a good number one, but not like a Justin Jefferson Malik neighbor type of thirty percent target share guy. I think Chicka con Quo is another great late round type pick, and I like pairing him with another guy like you're gonna go with Isaiah like me late then draft Chicka Congo too. Draft Greg Dolsch and Chicka Konko. I like mixing and matching some of these late round guys because I think there's

a lot of good options. Obviously, if they signed Stefon Diggs, it just it sucks because it feels like the Deohondre Hopkins thing all over again.

next three years or four years or whatever. We'll go rapid fire on these quarterbacks here tell me if any of these guys are must haves for you, and I'm gonna give you their ADP in the f FPC big Gorilla here Andrew when I when I recite their names, are any of these guys must haves for you? Caleb Williams quarterback six nine o three, Brock Purty quarterback twelve eleven oh seven, and cam Ward quarterback twenty three eighteen oh one.

my Bowl predictions earlier this year. But when we're playing the value game, which is what I usually like to do. I mean, last year, did Drake Man was like the easiest pick in Fantasy. It was just sometimes every year you get just like really easy picks, you don't have to overthink it. Rock Purty I think is a really

good value this year, particularly at the quarterback position. Look at last season he was second in passing touchdowns per game, behind only Matthew Stafford only played half a season because he miss gained with his foot injury, but I still think he has enough weapons to work with. I like the forty nine ers opening schedule. They play the Rams early New Year. Believe it's then the Dolphins and the

Cardinals I think is who they play. So a pretty favorable schedule for the forty nine ers to start the year. Maybe they start three to oh. I think that Brock Prady can get it done. I think he's being just a little bit undervalued at QB twelve I have as a top ten guy. He's some of that I like, but again, must have quarterbacks. I think Justin Herbert is probably my favorite.

Malik Willis a guy that can make plays with his legs. I think that he just has the opportunity to run so much in this offense that he's going to end up being a low and fantasy QB won when it's all said, none kind of similar that like to Justin Fields to the extent where he has certain games where he just like flashes such a high ceiling. I do think Milik Willis might be just a little bit higher as a passer than Justin fields Is. And I mean

Fields obviously had no weapons last year either. That obviously didn't work out. But I think Willis has a little bit more job security than Fields did last year. The Green Bay staff obviously knows him now in Miami, they signed him for a reason. I think he's going to probably play all seventeen games. I think he's gonna run so much in this offense, so I think by lake Willis just trust the process, trust the mobile quarterbacks, especially

going outside the top twenty. If he starts all seventeen games, I think he's gonna easily crush his ADP.

You know what you need to say about these guys. There are plenty of people having a tough choice at the one on one. I'm I'm not sure anybody's fading Jamior Gibbs. But if you had the one on one pick, is it Gibbs over Robinson for you?

know some of that. There was some talk in the YouTube chat about him earlier, but James Cook right now running back six at the two to oh one might be his highest ADP I've ever seen. This is a guy that I expected the last couple of years to have some regression and it hasn't happened. Is it going to happen this year? Is he a target or fade for you? At that one two turn?

trends don't tend to stay year over year. I just asked the really healthy twenty twenty four Baltimore Ravens how things shaped up in twenty twenty five.

year when Joe Burrow came back. We all want pieces of this offense, and yet we don't think that Chase Brow would be a tophig run back. I think that he really much can so give me Jase Brown improved every single year of his career, great in pass pro receiver out of the backfield. Joe Burrow loves him. The head coach, Dac Taylor loves him. I think that this is like the Kyrien Williams thing all over again, where it's like, ah, like, should we buy into it? He's

a Day three pick? Should we buy into it? A Day three pick? And then by the time you just like finally buy into it's too late and he's already just continuing to smash.

definitely faster than Hampton. But this offense should be really good and in Hampton it should be the Bell Cow there is he would would he ride to a target Moniker for you?

people are concerned about Keaton Mitchell. I'm not really concerned. I just want this Chargers offense in every which way, Like I just I'm upsessed. It's probably unhealthy, but especially because it's the Chargers who are as Adam in the chat is pointing out a curse franchise. I would say they've been less cursed since Harbaugh arrived there, but still a very curse franchise.

perfect fit in the Chiefs offense. I think that even if his efficiency isn't great to start the year, I think he makes up for it in volume. And then as Mahomes kind of gets his legs under him coming back from his ACL injury, maybe Walker they take a little bit of the load off of him if they

were trying to make a playoff run. But then you see that efficiency resurface because we know how good he is your death to contact, we know how how good he is effective at forcing mistackles, and everyone talks about again except Chris Collinsworth ken Walker is a good receiver. Okay, Like it was such a stark comment he made during the super was like, this guy can't catch pass like Chris. Yes, he can, Like, come on, like he can catch pass. Like he's not going to pass bro Like that's true.

But he can clearly catch pass out of the backfield. So I'm excited about Cam Walker.

I think that he is when you're looking at who you can get, is your RB two Getting him that late he's kind of one of my like javonte A, chan Brice Hall, those guys you can get at your RB twos, Like that to me is just kind of like, Wow, there's a lot of value here with even like I know we talk about like some of these top tier

running backs at the top of the draft. We love these guys, but there's a lot of depth going down the board here in this RB two range where I feel like there's RB one upside with guys like Travis ah Chan and Brisaw and Javonta Williams who did it last year.

been growing since January and FFPC drafts. Brooks, you know, went from being like a late round flyer to running back thirty four in the seventh round right now, Andrew, how do you feel about him at that price tag?

and not a very good pass catcher. So I think it makes sense that the Panthers are open to the idea of, like, yeah, we want Jonathan Brooks because we think that he can be more explosive.

of the backfield. So again, if I you're making me pick up Panther's running back, I'm gonna take Jonathan Brooks.

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gonna have some more articles for that. So I have my player targets up now my perfect Draft, which is more of just like a choose your own adventure of a million different scenarios because it's June and I don't really know exactly what my perfect draft is going to be in August, but I kind of paint the framework of Okay, here's what I'm thinking. It's really long, but I think it's really fun for you, die hard. You're looking for something to read that'll be dropping next week

as well, So just really excited. Man.

I'm still working on trying to put something special together. But regardless, we will have a show at seven o'clock on Thursday. High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour will not air on Wednesday. We will not have extra reps next week. Why because we are covering a live FFPC Big Gorilla Draft at ten pm Eastern Time next Friday, June nineteenth, So make sure you're checking that out. There are spots still available in that I believe. I don't think it's full yet. Look it up at my ffpc dot com.

We just don't have the time to do it right now. But if their spots still available, pop in there. We'll send you a link to the stream. Maybe you could pop on and make a few picks live on the air. That's always fun as well. That does it for our show. For Andrew Ericson, I'm Eric Walkman. This has been FFPC Insider Access. We'll talk with you again next Thursday. Everybody for more FFPC insider accent