Alfredo Brown, Derek Brown, and Andrew Erickson break down 10 must-have fantasy football draft picks the experts are targeting everywhere in 2026. The guys focus on players going outside the first two rounds who can smash their current ADP.
Find out why Zay Flowers could make a leap in Baltimore’s new-look offense, why Christian Watson may finally deliver a full-season breakout, why Jordan Tyson and Carnell Tate have rookie upside, why Parker Washington could be mispriced in Jacksonville, and why Rachaad White still offers strong fantasy value as a pass-catching running back.
Plus, the crew closes with late-round sleepers to target in Round 13 and beyond.
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Intro - 0:00:00
Zay Flowers - 0:00:46
Christian Watson - 0:04:06
Jordyn Tyson - 0:08:02
Parker Washington - 0:12:15
Rachaad White - 0:17:37
Carnell Tate - 0:21:04
Draft Assistant - 0:24:13
Dylan Sampson & Tre Harris - 0:24:52
Jalen Coker & Deebo Samuel - 0:26:15
Outro - 0:27:28
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Alfredo Brown,
joined by Derek Brown and Andrew Rickson. Guys, today we
are talking about the ten must have players that the experts.
We're using the term experts loosely, but yeah, experts are
drafting everywhere in twenty twenty six. Don't give me that face,
Derek Brown. Guys, we're gonna be talking about these players today.
(00:22):
But I want to define the term must have because
must have is also gonna be relative to where they're
going in drafts. And that's a big thing that we're
talking about today because obviously anyone in round one or
even round two, these are like, yeah, of course there
must have players everyone wants some other team. But we're
gonna go a little bit deeper. We're gonna talk first
about players in rounds three through twelve, and now we're
gonna talk about some of those later round picks, and
(00:44):
we're gonna go pretty quickly through this one. Ericson, I'd
love for you to kick us off here with your
first must draft player at their current ADP.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Say Flowers, wide receiver, sixteen thirty sixth overall in average
draft positions, right around at three four turn talking about
Zay Flowers on multiple shows already over the last week.
Massive Ceiling talked about on the Bowld Prediction Show. I
think that he could be the wide receiver one overall
this season.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I mean, to.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Top it off, the guy just got paid here as
we're recording, he just signed a new contract one hundred
and forty million dollars, putting his a Flowers into that
top five wide receiver category. Because I think that the
Ravens are getting a headit it because they they've been
following Andrew Erickson on the Fantasy Pros account on Channel
they realize.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh no, it takes episode ericson They saw it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They Flowers is going to score some touchdowns this year.
We got to get ahead of this.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So for me, I think it's well deserved for Flowers
what he has done throughout his first three seasons in
the NFL. All he've done is gotten better and better
and better every single year. Last year, accumulating with over
twelve hundred receiving yards, eighty six catches, scored six touchdowns,
rushing and receiving finishes the wide receiver seven overall in
twenty twenty five. Very consistent at least four catches and
(01:57):
thirteen of his seventeen games played fifth and target chair
twenty eight percent, top twelven aer yards share, and I
think the biggest highlight was how efficient he was on
a per route basis fourteen yards per route run, behind
only Puka Takua, JSN and Luther Burden. Two of those
guys are top five receivers, top five overall picks and
fantasy drafts. And I think that Jay Flowers is showing
(02:18):
his peripherals of in a brand new offense with Decklan
Doyle that I expect to be much heavier paced. I
think that they could only throw the ball more because
last year they were dead last and pass right over
expectation and featuring him more in the red zone, because
that's really the one thing lacking from his profile. Up
to this point. He hasn't been able to score touchdowns.
But if he has that one outlier spiked touchdown season,
(02:39):
we know Lamar Jackson, who had a six point five
passing touchdown rate last year, We know that he can
fuel a top receiver. And I'm just not afraid of
any of these other weapons Mark Andrews, these rookie receivers,
wee Sean Batman can never stay healthy over fifteen PPR
points per game last year thirteen games with a helping
Lamar Jackson. Sky is the limit for Zay Flowers. The
ceiling for Jay Flowers. I think he's gonna have a
(03:00):
monster season, so he is a must have player for me.
And I just I get sick if I do mock
drafts or bestball drafts that I don't get Zay Flowers.
And that's really a key indicator of is he a
must draft player for you? If you don't get him
makes you feel sick.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, I was in a draft recently where I was
sitting at the three twelve and I was so excited
to get Zay Flowers and he went one pick right
before me. Sick is the opportune work how I felt.
You mentioned that ceiling for Jay Flowers. Dee bro you
had a few choice words prior to the recording on
the ceiling of Zay Flowers and what he's already done
in fantasy for us. Are are you kind of on
(03:34):
the same vibes here with Eric sonon Flowers?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Absolutely on the same vibes, And I think it's kind
of criminal that I broke this question to you all
before we turned the mics and the cameras on. How
many people would know if you asked him off the
cuff that Zay Flowers was the wide receiver twelve and
fantasy points per game last year and yet he's still
being ranked as a wide receiver two. And that's without
scoring touchdowns last year. Yeah, Sky's the one that for
(03:59):
JA this year. Love him.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I'm really excited for Flowers for that Declan Doyle
Ravens offense. We'll see how that one turns out. Debro
hit us with your next guy. It's another receiver where
a Sky feels like the limit oh.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Man every year, all year, all the time. Christian Watson, Baby,
it's always Christian Watson season. And again another player that's
being disrespected. Wide receiver twenty nine and ADP right now,
and you can get him in every single draft that
you want to get him as a wide receiver three
price tag. And he produced already last year as a
wide receiver two, and nobody wants to give him his
Flowers wide receiver twenty one fantasy points per game last year.
(04:33):
Week's eight through eighteen, and we look at this, just
look at the constitution of the Greenway packers passing attack
right now. They lost Romodops lost on Tavian Wicks. Christian
Watson only ran sixty eight percent of the routes last year.
All of this screams he's going up this year. And
if he keeps up this per route efficiency that has
been absolutely elite, He's going to be a top fifteen
(04:55):
wide receiver, maybe even a wide receiver one this year.
Like we're wondering, is Jayden Reid? Is it matth you
golden and two wide receiver sets? Okay, people can keep
speculating on that and drafts all they want to. I
could tell you that Christian Watson will be in those sets. Hell,
even when they go like thirteen personnel twenty one, the
only one one wide receiver on the field, Christian Watson's
not coming off the field this year, boys. And so
(05:16):
if he keeps all this up and just to throw
some more, you know, great metrics everybody's way for Christian Watson.
Last year fourth in yards per route run tenth and
first downs per route run, sixth in Fantasy points per
route run. So if the routes run go up this year,
even to the seventy five eighty percent route cheer range,
not even saying he has to be in the ninety
(05:37):
percent range. Watson's scoring is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, everything in Green Bay is gonna be looking a
little bit different this year. That target funnel has really
consolidated down to essentially these three receivers and Tucker Craft.
And I was just charting Jordan Love for reception perception
the other day, and man, there is a different level
of trust that he has with Christian Watson where he
sorted does the well Watson down there somewhere and he
will launch those fifty to fifty balls, whereas with Jayden
(06:05):
Reid and Craft it's sometimes a lot of like near
the line of scrimmage stuff. And Matthew Golden they're still
working on that timing there, Erickson. Are we feeling as confident.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
About Watson, Yes, very confident. I don't think it's outlandaged.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think he could be a top twelve wide receiver
and kind of finally break the role. I know that
his price is a little expensive when you just look
at his body of work, because he really has never
really put it together for a full season. But if
he is healthy now he's not rehabbing his injury, I
mean the fact that he came back in all last year.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I had totally written him off.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I was like, can't draft this guy, and he basically
hit the ground running and was the best receiver for
the Packers from when he came back from his torn
ac L injury, which was a late season injury. So
this guy is showing that I'm a freak. And if
we're putting Matthew Golden from at least some of the
offseason reports about how they've been deploying some of these receivers,
if Matthew Golden is in that sacrificial X role that
(06:56):
Matt Harmon has talked about, then Christian Watson is no
longer this seventeen average depth of target player and oh,
we can use Christian Watson on drags like that is
just like churning out fantasy points, similar to Jamison Williams,
where hey, let's bring the average depth of target down
just a little bit, get this guy in some space
and watch him cook. So for me, the comparison is
(07:18):
Christian Watson is this year's Jamison Williams, Right, JMO, like
he had flashed the big playoff side, but never really
put it together in a full season. Because he was
either injured or dealing with an injury or suspended. Christian Watson. Again,
it's year five for him, but it's more like his
year four type of season because of how much time
he's missed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So Christian Watson, Yeah, I'm all board.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I think another fun name I'd love to comp him
to is a little bit of Chrystal Lava. A guy
who had never really reached that ceiling, but has the quarterback,
the offense, the target volume available to him. He can
make the plays downfield. By the way ericson, I promise
nobody in production after this will take the I'm a
freak quote out of context and put into something for.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Social that needs to be.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, Eric said, we're going back to you here, man.
Those first two receivers, those are guys that you guys
have both said could finish top twelve pretty easily with
great price tags. We're gonna start to work our way
down the board here a little bit later. Some names
that maybe the people coming back into fantasy football might
not be as familiar with.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, this one for me is Jordan Tyson, Wide receiver,
thirty six, ninetieth overall. This is just too cheap for
a wide receiver that was drafted inside the top ten.
If you knew nothing about Jordan Tyson, what he did
at Arizona State, whether he was dealing with injuries or not,
and all I told you Joe schmol at the bar,
Hey who should I draft?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like, what's a wide receiver? Sleeper?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'd be like, hey, draft a bunch of these undervalued
rookies across the board, because that's how I really feel.
And Jordan Tyson in particular is the one that I
think is in the sweet spot. If you just look
at receivers average production that are drafted in the top
ten over the past five drafts, they've averaged seventy eight
catches over one thousand yards six point four touchdowns as rookies.
That is fantasy wide receiver too production. So for me,
(09:02):
I feel like we're getting Jordan Tyson playing in this
up tempo in a Dome Saints offense, attached to an
up and coming quarterback, and Tyler Shuck, who showed last
year I can fuel a fantasy wide receiver one.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Again, we were just.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Talking about Olave. He had never made the leap. Well,
given Tyler Shuck and boom as a rookie, quarterback. He
was able to help Olive hit career highs and obviously
get a fat payday. So I'm just really excited about
this offense overall, and I think that there's enough volume
to go around between both Olave and Tyler or excuse me,
and Jordan Tyson as the number two the one B
(09:37):
in this offense. Because last year Rashi chihed before he
got traded to the Seattle Seahawks fifteenth in the NFL
in wide receiver targets, there was enough for both guys
to absolutely feast.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I think one of the most.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Undervalued strategies when we were talking about drafting receivers in
fantasy is just going after these real life wide receiver twos.
They comment a discount because they're not viewed as the
number one alpha when we see plenty of times that
getting a number two on an offense is actually better
than getting a number one on offense that doesn't really
throw the ball that much. So I think Tyson makes
so much sense here. The last stat that I'll leave
(10:08):
you guys off with here is looking at so again,
going back to top ten wide receivers drafted since twenty
twenty one, there have been nine of those guys ninety
percent have been wide receiver threes or worse like. So
you're looking at a top thirty six type of floor
just based on the draft capital alone, and that's where
you'reetting to get Jordan Tyson. So to me, it's an
all upside bet and that's why I love drafting him
(10:30):
in every Kingle draft.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I'm in yeah, and Jordan Tyson being drafted somewhat around
that like wide receiver three, wide receiver four value in
drafts and knowing what that ceiling can be in a
Kellen Moore offense. I mean, he loves to get that
ball downfield. That is somewhere where both Tyson and a
lave they win consistently. Derek Brown, you are wearing your
eye Love Jordan Tyson's shirt today on the pod. You
(10:54):
are closest to this team in terms of affection. Are
the vibes feeling like that coming out of camp that
Jordan Tyson could be way out producing this current ADP
that he's at.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Absolutely illy fully feel that way, and I'm I'm of
consensus on Tyson wide receiver thirty one versus consensus being
as a low end wide receiver three, high end four
and The best thing that I want to pull out
of everything that Ericson laid out there, when it comes
to supporting multiple players in a passing offense, we have
to go back to can the guy are in volume?
(11:26):
I think that we believe that in Jordan Tyson, But
is the volume going to be there? And the stat
that I'll leave everybody with is weeks twelve through eighteen
last year, the New Orleans Saints fifth and neutral passing
rate eleventh and pass rate over expectation. Quietly, this will
be a pass happy offense this season, and.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
This offensive line has gotten better.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
To yeah, or David Edwards baby shout out to David.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And in Week one they get the Detroit Lions, who
still have secondary issues from year. Shoot, my first sigh
it was Tyler Shuck doubles, Jamo bring back. Who says, no,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Guys, no one that's not I can't find anybody Erickson.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Detroit Lyons having secondary issues. That's yeah, that's that sounds
about right.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, that never happens, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, never, never, never, never, All right, Debro, let's go
to the next guy on here. I honestly think this
player that you're going to talk about is maybe one
of three of the most divisive and most talked about
and enigmatic players that I think will actually define fantasy
football for a lot of fantasy managers and fantasy analysts
(12:34):
this season, because I don't think I've gone a day
since June first without hearing this name. Go for it, depro.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
He is the most mispriced wide receiver in ADP. Right now,
I'm gonna lead it off with that. Parker Washington should
be a guy you're circling on every single draft board
wide receiver thirty and ADP. Right now, I've got him
at wide receiver twenty seven. I can make a case
to push him into the top twenty four. I will
remain above consensus on him and the reason that he's
(13:05):
languishing at this ADP at this cost in ranks all
the places is baking in the risk of But what
if Travis Hunter plays more? What if they take him
off the field, What if it's Brian Thomas Junior says
in all these different things. But the flip side of that,
what if he produces just like he did to end
the season. What if he does that? Guys, Because if
(13:27):
he does that, you're not drafting a wide receiver three.
You're drafting a guy that could be a top twelve
wide receiver at a wide receiver three price tag. In
week sixteen through nineteen last year, so four games, this
dude averaged twenty two point three PPR points per game
while soaking up a ton of high cholesterol usage. In
those four games, six reds on targets, thirteen deep targets.
(13:49):
All of that matters because it's not just like, Oh,
he's running all these underneath routes and he's just a
checkdown guy and that's how they're running the offense. No,
he was Jacksonville's Aman Rossain Brown that you were able
to get at a wide receiver three price tag. He
had a twenty eight point nine percent target share, averaged
one hundred and thirteen point five receiving yards per game,
almost three point eight yards per route run, at a
(14:10):
thirty three point three percent first read share. Those are
elite wide receiver one numbers. Even if we talk about
a discount, he gets seventy five eighty percent of that
type of usage. He's a top fifteen wide receiver guys
that you can draft in every single league as a
wide receiver three that maybe outkicks that by a massive amount.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I just want to confirm. Did you say high cholesterol usage?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Uh? Huh, sure did. I'll steal that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Is it the good cholesterol or the bad cholesterol?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
A little bit of both. I stole that from Rith
three bar shout out to Reeves Baby.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, uh ericson your view on cholesterol and Parker Washington.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Cholesterol oil underrated. You got to make sure you get
the good cholesterol. They are good ways to get good
access to. It's not all bad.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Just like this was an eight eggs in the morning
kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, at one point, at one point it was probably
up to like that many eggs a day.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But limiting it. It's usually two eggs. That's that's what
I limited to.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And some eggs is nuts right now.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You can't be doing that. That is that is also
very better true. I am.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I am with debro here on Parker washing and I
think that's this one did take me a little bit
of time to kind of get around to because I
think that we were all trying to figure out how
to attack this Jaguars receiver room, and I just kind
of went into some more research about, you know, identifying
wide receiver ones and that year four is a very
very common season where we see these guys take that
(15:41):
major step and similar to the Christian Watson thing where
he is a year five guy, but just looking at
games play, Parker Washington's only started sixteen games in his
NFL career. Again as a former Day three pick. They
don't get thrust into the role right away. They got
to earn their reps, and I think that's just showcasing
this guy's really talented.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I remember it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Wasn't so long ago when this Jaguars franchise before Liam
Cohen showed up, was excited about, Yeah, we got Christian
Kirk for one more year and then the Parker Washington
show is going to take over. And it got delayed
a little bit because they obviously went out and draughted
Travis Hunter when they did, they wanted to see what
they got him out of the slot. But when he
went down last year, Washington steps into that slot role,
(16:20):
that Christian Kirk role that has been so great attached
to Trevor Lawrence wherever he has been being the quarterback
for the Jaguars, and he just absolutely went nuclear. So
I agree, I think our Washington is the guy that
you want to target from this Jaguars passing game, Toby Myers.
I think it's still really good value, but for in
terms of the ceiling play, it definitely is Parker Washington
for me. So again, Deebro, we are continuing to handhold
(16:40):
on this show.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let's go, let's go interesting. Okay, so the ceiling play
for your park Washington there, I think I would lean
more towards Brian Thomas being the ceiling guy, with Parker
Washington probably being maybe the safest out of this group.
I feel like someone's going to be really good out
of this wide receiver room or they're either all just
going to be disappointing and it's going to feel like
that Packer's wide receiver room every year where the ball
gets spread around a lot, especially with I know we
(17:03):
mentioned it here, Travis Hunter is playing still enough wide
receiver where it could get annoying with four different guys
in the field on.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Some right now the.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Snap share, and obviously it's just practice, so we don't
want to overinflate this. Right it's fifty nine percent playing
defense and forty one percent playing offense. I think the
good thing with this wide receiver room is you have
Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers, and Travis Hunter, who can all
play inside and outside, whereas Brian Thomas is going to
be that guy that's only going to play on the outside.
We kind of need to see how that ends up
(17:33):
working out for this Jaguars offense once we get into
the season. All right, guys, let's move on to the
next one. Here ericson, you've got a running back here.
I think this is this is the first running back
of the show. It is it is, yeah, hit us
with your guy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, because all the good running backs are in the
first two rounds and we weren't allowed to use those guys,
So I want to clear because it's like once you
gets to run three, it's like right dead zone and
that's where you feel a lot less confident. So without
us even basically stating it, it's, yeah, like this is
a great year to at least get at least one
hero running back, if not do your superhero RB start.
(18:08):
So for me, when it comes to these later round
running backs, mid to late rounds, Rashad White is the
guy that stands up the most of me. I think
that I've drafted him in every single draft that I
have done, and if I don't. Tom Strachan is usually
the guy that drafts him instead of me because I
let him fall. I just think he's one of the
most missed priced players on the board. Look, he is
going as the RB thirty eight, one hundred and seventh overall.
(18:29):
He has never finished worse than RB thirty eight in
his NFL career through four seasons. He's caught forty or
more passes in four straight years. And that's been the
biggest thing out of Washington Commander's training camp is yes,
they do want your Correy cross Ky Merit to take
on that bell cow role in terms of working on
early downs. But everything about Rashad White is pass catcher,
pass catcher, pass catcher, and when you play in full
(18:51):
half PPR formats, that's coorse fantasy points for you. So
I understand that Rashad White is not the sexiest rusher.
He is actually really boring to watching the open field
when he's running. But that's not what he's gonna be
asked to do here, Like that's gonna be cross Key
Merrit's role, you know, getting to the outside zone, ripping
off a big play. Attached to Jade Daniels. I also
don't think that's not getting Rashod White enough credit. Where
(19:12):
this is gonna be like one of the first times
he's attached to a mobile quarterback. I mean, he played
with Tom Brady, played with Baker Mayfield, but like an
elusive quarterback like Daniels. I think that can help boost
Rashad White's efficiency as a rusher and even last year
second rushing success rate second EPA per rush because he
was really good in short yardage and conversion attempts. So
(19:32):
I think that this commander's backfield has a chance to
be minimized into a two man backfield instead of three
where it was last year we had Rodriguez, Krosky, Merritt,
and you had like McNichols or Eckler working in on
passing downs. I think White is just going to see again,
quoting rich Riebar and Debro these high you know, cholesterol
targets and touches where he's catching passes and seeing red
(19:54):
zone opportunities. So even if he's losing out on touches
in between the twenties as a rusher, that's fine with me.
I don't need that to get the value from Rashad
White from a fantasy perspective, So again RB seven finish
overall in twenty twenty three. This guy has been a
top twelve fantasy producer not that long ago, and last
year RB twenty four points per game seven games weeks
five through twelve. So if we're looking at who could
(20:16):
be this year's Javonte Williams, for me, it's Rashad White,
just someone that, yeah, veteran kind of sick of this guy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He's on a new team. How good is he? Really? Well?
Scores fantasy points everywhere he goes, So give him shot. White.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's funny you mentioned Javonte Williams because last year, Javonte
Williams and Travis Etn we're two of the cheapest starting
running backs that you could get in drafts, both guys
with previous success with pass catching ability and good offenses.
And now here we are with Rashad White, who has
top twelve upside that he's done it before in a
potentially very good offense with past catching upside. It just
(20:50):
kind of feels like we're playing the same record over
again this year.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, nobody wanted Javonte Williams a screamed all last draft season,
and everybody wanted him but I'm with there on this.
Rashad White is a damn good draft pick this year.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, deep, bro, give us your not last but of
one of your top must draft players, because I really
like this one.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I'm in full agreement with you on this wide receiver.
Everything that Ericson laid out for the Jordan Tyson case
about rookie wide receivers drafted in the first round could
easily all fit Carneal tit Man and Carnal Tate. I
just think he's gonna explode in his rookie season wide
receiver thirty five and ADP. There is a runout where
Carneal Tate is rookie season Elik Neighbors. It's and it's
(21:32):
not hard to see. All we need is Cam Wore
to cook. We know Brian dave All is going to
run his passing game through one guy. Yes, I know.
Wando Robinson had a very good season last year, but
again that was when the entire depth chart disintegrated around him.
Elik Neighbors was out, he stepped up Wandall Robertson can
have a very productive season, but the number one wide
receiver in that passing attack will be Carneal Tait, and
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he came in as a prospect. Everybody wanted to shade
him and say, well, you never saw a top coverage.
He wasn't really that guy. He was that good? Is
he really fast enough? All these different things, and it
just feels like every year people try to like knock
these guys down a peg, like the top wide receiver
on the board, like we saw with Drake Lunn and
Tedo McMillan, because he didn't watch film, he wasn't fast enough.
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Cardinal Tate, I'm gonna continue to put respect on his
name because it's deserved. Man tenth in yards per route run,
fourth and receiving grade in his final collegiate season. He
finished with an other worldly sixty eight point eight percent
contested catch right zero drops in his final season despite
having an eight out of fourteen point six. So all
of this says that Cardinal Tate is underrated. He's awesome,
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and there's a runout where he's earning a twenty six
twenty seven percent target share for the Tennessee Titans, and
then we're just talking about Okay, well, the volume is
definitively there. Now the floor and ceiling is determined about
which version of cam Ward. Do we get do we
get the collegiate version of cam War with explosive plays
and all this off script stuff and Dave Ball's letting
him cook, or do we get last is cam Ward.
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I want to lean more towards the positive and his
ability to have a growth in a totally after spending
last year and languishing in a barken offense with no
pass catchers. He's surrounded by nothing but talent this year,
and Carnell Tate can be a huge byproduct of that.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, big thing that cam Ward loves to do is
get the ball downfield and put up those fifty to
fifty balls. He can hit a lot of those back
shoulder fades as well, and those are the things that
Cardell Tait was so good at coming out of Ohio State.
And I don't know if you guys have watched the
Netflix series Quarterback with cam Ward.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm watching it right now.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Oh you just see the light leave his eyes when
when Calvin Ridley is dropping passes, even his dad who's
in the stands, He's like, my dad never reacts to anything.
And the dad gets up and he's ready just to
like rip his jersey in half. There was a lot
of frustration going on last year man with that Titans offense.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I would love to see an armlessing match between cam
Ward's dad and Romadoonze's I feel like people would want
to see that. We need it for the timeline.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I mean, well, auto Backum Junior's dad might join the chat.
Oh she's a tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I've come here for this, this amazing content.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
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where you're gonna give us your sleepers for Round thirteen onward.
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these are the rapid fires that's gonna go thirty seconds
on each of these players. Ericson, You're gonna give me
two guys from round thirteen onward. That are your sleepers
that you are targeting.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Running back Dylan Sampson for the Cleveland Browns second in
yards per out run first and target per out run
among running backs last year. The other guys Christ McCaffrey,
Bejon Robins, and Jimior Gibbs. Maybe you've heard of him,
Maybe heard of those players. Pretty good company for Dylan Sampson,
and Todd Munkin took Derek Henry off the field for
Justice Hill. So just saying like, I'm not so sure
it's going to be Quinnchow Judkins three down workload, considering
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what we've seen from Monkey in the past with these
pass catching running backs, and he's also turning twenty two
year old this season. Dylan Sampson and then my other
guy wide receiver Trey Harris for the Los Angeles Chargers,
entering his second season. We're all excited about this Chargers offense,
and Harris to me just represents a very very cheap
piece when he should at least see a full time role.
I don't know exactly how Mike being able to deploy
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all these players. It's possible that Trey Harris is put
into this X role just kind of based on his size,
speed profile, but I think there's still a lot of
upside attached to that. So I'm willing to wait and
see how these Chargers receivers are used in this new offense.
And Albert Brier's actually done some reporting as well, all
that the team is really excited about Trey Harris taking
a big step forward, especially as a big body target.
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To me, that screams red zone, that screams touchdown upside,
and I want that on my fantasy roster, especially if
I can get at my last pick.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So Trey Harris is my second sleeper.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Debro Give me your two sleepers round thirteen and onward.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
My two guys, Jalen Cocher and Deebo Samuel Jalen Coker
checking in at wide receiver fifty six. The gap between
him and Tech should not be as large as it is.
When Coker was healthy last year weeks thirteen through nineteen,
he had a twenty percent target share out targeting Ted.
He had two point three yards per route run again
better than Ted, four red zone targets again better than Ted.
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And he had a twenty eight point three percent first
read share again that was better than Ted Roman Milan
during that stretch. So Jalen Cocher, the gap between those
two players should not exist. Deebo Samuel, Guys, this is
this year's Keenan Allen. As a veteran wide receiver that
gets that gets no respect, and he signed late, so
ADP will not catch up to where he should go
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drafts as a wide receiver. Three, he was not cooked.
Wide receiver twenty nine and Fantasy points per game last
year amongst one hundred and nine qualifying wide receivers Deebo
Samuel eighteenth and target share ninth, best in yak per
reception twenty first and first read share ninth, best in
miss tackles force per reception. Again, he's not cooked, and
as we're recording this, he is the only guy that
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seems to be healthy on this freaking depth chart outside
of him and Christian McCaffrey, invest in Deebo Samuel this
year's Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, there you have it, the ten must have players
that the experts Debro and Andrew Erickson are drafting everywhere
in twenty twenty six. That's going to do it for
us today. As always, I want to thank you us
for watching or listening Allly through, for myself, for Debro,
for Erickson. We'll see you next time. Audios.
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Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Alfredo Brown,
joined by Derek Brown and Andrew Rickson. Guys, today we
are talking about the ten must have players that the experts.
We're using the term experts loosely, but yeah, experts are
drafting everywhere in twenty twenty six. Don't give me that face,
Derek Brown. Guys, we're gonna be talking about these players today.
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But I want to define the term must have because
must have is also gonna be relative to where they're
going in drafts. And that's a big thing that we're
talking about today because obviously anyone in round one or
even round two, these are like, yeah, of course there
must have players everyone wants some other team. But we're
gonna go a little bit deeper. We're gonna talk first
about players in rounds three through twelve, and now we're
gonna talk about some of those later round picks, and
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we're gonna go pretty quickly through this one. Ericson, I'd
love for you to kick us off here with your
first must draft player at their current ADP.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Say Flowers, wide receiver, sixteen thirty sixth overall in average
draft positions, right around at three four turn talking about
Zay Flowers on multiple shows already over the last week.
Massive Ceiling talked about on the Bowld Prediction Show. I
think that he could be the wide receiver one overall
this season.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I mean, to.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Top it off, the guy just got paid here as
we're recording, he just signed a new contract one hundred
and forty million dollars, putting his a Flowers into that
top five wide receiver category. Because I think that the
Ravens are getting a headit it because they they've been
following Andrew Erickson on the Fantasy Pros account on Channel
they realize.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh no, it takes episode ericson They saw it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They Flowers is going to score some touchdowns this year.
We got to get ahead of this.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So for me, I think it's well deserved for Flowers
what he has done throughout his first three seasons in
the NFL. All he've done is gotten better and better
and better every single year. Last year, accumulating with over
twelve hundred receiving yards, eighty six catches, scored six touchdowns,
rushing and receiving finishes the wide receiver seven overall in
twenty twenty five. Very consistent at least four catches and
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thirteen of his seventeen games played fifth and target chair
twenty eight percent, top twelven aer yards share, and I
think the biggest highlight was how efficient he was on
a per route basis fourteen yards per route run, behind
only Puka Takua, JSN and Luther Burden. Two of those
guys are top five receivers, top five overall picks and
fantasy drafts. And I think that Jay Flowers is showing
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his peripherals of in a brand new offense with Decklan
Doyle that I expect to be much heavier paced. I
think that they could only throw the ball more because
last year they were dead last and pass right over
expectation and featuring him more in the red zone, because
that's really the one thing lacking from his profile. Up
to this point. He hasn't been able to score touchdowns.
But if he has that one outlier spiked touchdown season,
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we know Lamar Jackson, who had a six point five
passing touchdown rate last year, We know that he can
fuel a top receiver. And I'm just not afraid of
any of these other weapons Mark Andrews, these rookie receivers,
wee Sean Batman can never stay healthy over fifteen PPR
points per game last year thirteen games with a helping
Lamar Jackson. Sky is the limit for Zay Flowers. The
ceiling for Jay Flowers. I think he's gonna have a
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monster season, so he is a must have player for me.
And I just I get sick if I do mock
drafts or bestball drafts that I don't get Zay Flowers.
And that's really a key indicator of is he a
must draft player for you? If you don't get him
makes you feel sick.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, I was in a draft recently where I was
sitting at the three twelve and I was so excited
to get Zay Flowers and he went one pick right
before me. Sick is the opportune work how I felt.
You mentioned that ceiling for Jay Flowers. Dee bro you
had a few choice words prior to the recording on
the ceiling of Zay Flowers and what he's already done
in fantasy for us. Are are you kind of on
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the same vibes here with Eric sonon Flowers?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Absolutely on the same vibes, And I think it's kind
of criminal that I broke this question to you all
before we turned the mics and the cameras on. How
many people would know if you asked him off the
cuff that Zay Flowers was the wide receiver twelve and
fantasy points per game last year and yet he's still
being ranked as a wide receiver two. And that's without
scoring touchdowns last year. Yeah, Sky's the one that for
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JA this year. Love him.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I'm really excited for Flowers for that Declan Doyle
Ravens offense. We'll see how that one turns out. Debro
hit us with your next guy. It's another receiver where
a Sky feels like the limit oh.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Man every year, all year, all the time. Christian Watson, Baby,
it's always Christian Watson season. And again another player that's
being disrespected. Wide receiver twenty nine and ADP right now,
and you can get him in every single draft that
you want to get him as a wide receiver three
price tag. And he produced already last year as a
wide receiver two, and nobody wants to give him his
Flowers wide receiver twenty one fantasy points per game last year.
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Week's eight through eighteen, and we look at this, just
look at the constitution of the Greenway packers passing attack
right now. They lost Romodops lost on Tavian Wicks. Christian
Watson only ran sixty eight percent of the routes last year.
All of this screams he's going up this year. And
if he keeps up this per route efficiency that has
been absolutely elite, He's going to be a top fifteen
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wide receiver, maybe even a wide receiver one this year.
Like we're wondering, is Jayden Reid? Is it matth you
golden and two wide receiver sets? Okay, people can keep
speculating on that and drafts all they want to. I
could tell you that Christian Watson will be in those sets. Hell,
even when they go like thirteen personnel twenty one, the
only one one wide receiver on the field, Christian Watson's
not coming off the field this year, boys. And so
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if he keeps all this up and just to throw
some more, you know, great metrics everybody's way for Christian Watson.
Last year fourth in yards per route run tenth and
first downs per route run, sixth in Fantasy points per
route run. So if the routes run go up this year,
even to the seventy five eighty percent route cheer range,
not even saying he has to be in the ninety
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percent range. Watson's scoring is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, everything in Green Bay is gonna be looking a
little bit different this year. That target funnel has really
consolidated down to essentially these three receivers and Tucker Craft.
And I was just charting Jordan Love for reception perception
the other day, and man, there is a different level
of trust that he has with Christian Watson where he
sorted does the well Watson down there somewhere and he
will launch those fifty to fifty balls, whereas with Jayden
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Reid and Craft it's sometimes a lot of like near
the line of scrimmage stuff. And Matthew Golden they're still
working on that timing there, Erickson. Are we feeling as confident.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
About Watson, Yes, very confident. I don't think it's outlandaged.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think he could be a top twelve wide receiver
and kind of finally break the role. I know that
his price is a little expensive when you just look
at his body of work, because he really has never
really put it together for a full season. But if
he is healthy now he's not rehabbing his injury, I
mean the fact that he came back in all last year.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I had totally written him off.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I was like, can't draft this guy, and he basically
hit the ground running and was the best receiver for
the Packers from when he came back from his torn
ac L injury, which was a late season injury. So
this guy is showing that I'm a freak. And if
we're putting Matthew Golden from at least some of the
offseason reports about how they've been deploying some of these receivers,
if Matthew Golden is in that sacrificial X role that
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Matt Harmon has talked about, then Christian Watson is no
longer this seventeen average depth of target player and oh,
we can use Christian Watson on drags like that is
just like churning out fantasy points, similar to Jamison Williams,
where hey, let's bring the average depth of target down
just a little bit, get this guy in some space
and watch him cook. So for me, the comparison is
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Christian Watson is this year's Jamison Williams, Right, JMO, like
he had flashed the big playoff side, but never really
put it together in a full season. Because he was
either injured or dealing with an injury or suspended. Christian Watson. Again,
it's year five for him, but it's more like his
year four type of season because of how much time
he's missed.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So Christian Watson, Yeah, I'm all board.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I think another fun name I'd love to comp him
to is a little bit of Chrystal Lava. A guy
who had never really reached that ceiling, but has the quarterback,
the offense, the target volume available to him. He can
make the plays downfield. By the way ericson, I promise
nobody in production after this will take the I'm a
freak quote out of context and put into something for.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Social that needs to be.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, Eric said, we're going back to you here, man.
Those first two receivers, those are guys that you guys
have both said could finish top twelve pretty easily with
great price tags. We're gonna start to work our way
down the board here a little bit later. Some names
that maybe the people coming back into fantasy football might
not be as familiar with.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, this one for me is Jordan Tyson, Wide receiver,
thirty six, ninetieth overall. This is just too cheap for
a wide receiver that was drafted inside the top ten.
If you knew nothing about Jordan Tyson, what he did
at Arizona State, whether he was dealing with injuries or not,
and all I told you Joe schmol at the bar,
Hey who should I draft?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like, what's a wide receiver? Sleeper?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'd be like, hey, draft a bunch of these undervalued
rookies across the board, because that's how I really feel.
And Jordan Tyson in particular is the one that I
think is in the sweet spot. If you just look
at receivers average production that are drafted in the top
ten over the past five drafts, they've averaged seventy eight
catches over one thousand yards six point four touchdowns as rookies.
That is fantasy wide receiver too production. So for me,
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I feel like we're getting Jordan Tyson playing in this
up tempo in a Dome Saints offense, attached to an
up and coming quarterback, and Tyler Shuck, who showed last
year I can fuel a fantasy wide receiver one.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Again, we were just.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Talking about Olave. He had never made the leap. Well,
given Tyler Shuck and boom as a rookie, quarterback. He
was able to help Olive hit career highs and obviously
get a fat payday. So I'm just really excited about
this offense overall, and I think that there's enough volume
to go around between both Olave and Tyler or excuse me,
and Jordan Tyson as the number two the one B
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in this offense. Because last year Rashi chihed before he
got traded to the Seattle Seahawks fifteenth in the NFL
in wide receiver targets, there was enough for both guys
to absolutely feast.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I think one of the most.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Undervalued strategies when we were talking about drafting receivers in
fantasy is just going after these real life wide receiver twos.
They comment a discount because they're not viewed as the
number one alpha when we see plenty of times that
getting a number two on an offense is actually better
than getting a number one on offense that doesn't really
throw the ball that much. So I think Tyson makes
so much sense here. The last stat that I'll leave
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you guys off with here is looking at so again,
going back to top ten wide receivers drafted since twenty
twenty one, there have been nine of those guys ninety
percent have been wide receiver threes or worse like. So
you're looking at a top thirty six type of floor
just based on the draft capital alone, and that's where
you'reetting to get Jordan Tyson. So to me, it's an
all upside bet and that's why I love drafting him
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in every Kingle draft.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I'm in yeah, and Jordan Tyson being drafted somewhat around
that like wide receiver three, wide receiver four value in
drafts and knowing what that ceiling can be in a
Kellen Moore offense. I mean, he loves to get that
ball downfield. That is somewhere where both Tyson and a
lave they win consistently. Derek Brown, you are wearing your
eye Love Jordan Tyson's shirt today on the pod. You
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are closest to this team in terms of affection. Are
the vibes feeling like that coming out of camp that
Jordan Tyson could be way out producing this current ADP
that he's at.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Absolutely illy fully feel that way, and I'm I'm of
consensus on Tyson wide receiver thirty one versus consensus being
as a low end wide receiver three, high end four
and The best thing that I want to pull out
of everything that Ericson laid out there, when it comes
to supporting multiple players in a passing offense, we have
to go back to can the guy are in volume?
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I think that we believe that in Jordan Tyson, But
is the volume going to be there? And the stat
that I'll leave everybody with is weeks twelve through eighteen
last year, the New Orleans Saints fifth and neutral passing
rate eleventh and pass rate over expectation. Quietly, this will
be a pass happy offense this season, and.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
This offensive line has gotten better.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
To yeah, or David Edwards baby shout out to David.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And in Week one they get the Detroit Lions, who
still have secondary issues from year. Shoot, my first sigh
it was Tyler Shuck doubles, Jamo bring back. Who says, no,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Guys, no one that's not I can't find anybody Erickson.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Detroit Lyons having secondary issues. That's yeah, that's that sounds
about right.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, that never happens, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, never, never, never, never, All right, Debro, let's go
to the next guy on here. I honestly think this
player that you're going to talk about is maybe one
of three of the most divisive and most talked about
and enigmatic players that I think will actually define fantasy
football for a lot of fantasy managers and fantasy analysts
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this season, because I don't think I've gone a day
since June first without hearing this name. Go for it, depro.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
He is the most mispriced wide receiver in ADP. Right now,
I'm gonna lead it off with that. Parker Washington should
be a guy you're circling on every single draft board
wide receiver thirty and ADP. Right now, I've got him
at wide receiver twenty seven. I can make a case
to push him into the top twenty four. I will
remain above consensus on him and the reason that he's
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languishing at this ADP at this cost in ranks all
the places is baking in the risk of But what
if Travis Hunter plays more? What if they take him
off the field, What if it's Brian Thomas Junior says
in all these different things. But the flip side of that,
what if he produces just like he did to end
the season. What if he does that? Guys, Because if
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he does that, you're not drafting a wide receiver three.
You're drafting a guy that could be a top twelve
wide receiver at a wide receiver three price tag. In
week sixteen through nineteen last year, so four games, this
dude averaged twenty two point three PPR points per game
while soaking up a ton of high cholesterol usage. In
those four games, six reds on targets, thirteen deep targets.
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All of that matters because it's not just like, Oh,
he's running all these underneath routes and he's just a
checkdown guy and that's how they're running the offense. No,
he was Jacksonville's Aman Rossain Brown that you were able
to get at a wide receiver three price tag. He
had a twenty eight point nine percent target share, averaged
one hundred and thirteen point five receiving yards per game,
almost three point eight yards per route run, at a
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thirty three point three percent first read share. Those are
elite wide receiver one numbers. Even if we talk about
a discount, he gets seventy five eighty percent of that
type of usage. He's a top fifteen wide receiver guys
that you can draft in every single league as a
wide receiver three that maybe outkicks that by a massive amount.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I just want to confirm. Did you say high cholesterol usage?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Uh? Huh, sure did. I'll steal that.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Is it the good cholesterol or the bad cholesterol?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
A little bit of both. I stole that from Rith
three bar shout out to Reeves Baby.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, uh ericson your view on cholesterol and Parker Washington.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Cholesterol oil underrated. You got to make sure you get
the good cholesterol. They are good ways to get good
access to. It's not all bad.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Just like this was an eight eggs in the morning
kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, at one point, at one point it was probably
up to like that many eggs a day.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But limiting it. It's usually two eggs. That's that's what
I limited to.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And some eggs is nuts right now.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You can't be doing that. That is that is also
very better true. I am.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I am with debro here on Parker washing and I
think that's this one did take me a little bit
of time to kind of get around to because I
think that we were all trying to figure out how
to attack this Jaguars receiver room, and I just kind
of went into some more research about, you know, identifying
wide receiver ones and that year four is a very
very common season where we see these guys take that
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major step and similar to the Christian Watson thing where
he is a year five guy, but just looking at
games play, Parker Washington's only started sixteen games in his
NFL career. Again as a former Day three pick. They
don't get thrust into the role right away. They got
to earn their reps, and I think that's just showcasing
this guy's really talented.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I remember it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Wasn't so long ago when this Jaguars franchise before Liam
Cohen showed up, was excited about, Yeah, we got Christian
Kirk for one more year and then the Parker Washington
show is going to take over. And it got delayed
a little bit because they obviously went out and draughted
Travis Hunter when they did, they wanted to see what
they got him out of the slot. But when he
went down last year, Washington steps into that slot role,
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that Christian Kirk role that has been so great attached
to Trevor Lawrence wherever he has been being the quarterback
for the Jaguars, and he just absolutely went nuclear. So
I agree, I think our Washington is the guy that
you want to target from this Jaguars passing game, Toby Myers.
I think it's still really good value, but for in
terms of the ceiling play, it definitely is Parker Washington
for me. So again, Deebro, we are continuing to handhold
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on this show.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let's go, let's go interesting. Okay, so the ceiling play
for your park Washington there, I think I would lean
more towards Brian Thomas being the ceiling guy, with Parker
Washington probably being maybe the safest out of this group.
I feel like someone's going to be really good out
of this wide receiver room or they're either all just
going to be disappointing and it's going to feel like
that Packer's wide receiver room every year where the ball
gets spread around a lot, especially with I know we
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mentioned it here, Travis Hunter is playing still enough wide
receiver where it could get annoying with four different guys
in the field on.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Some right now the.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Snap share, and obviously it's just practice, so we don't
want to overinflate this. Right it's fifty nine percent playing
defense and forty one percent playing offense. I think the
good thing with this wide receiver room is you have
Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers, and Travis Hunter, who can all
play inside and outside, whereas Brian Thomas is going to
be that guy that's only going to play on the outside.
We kind of need to see how that ends up
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working out for this Jaguars offense once we get into
the season. All right, guys, let's move on to the
next one. Here ericson, you've got a running back here.
I think this is this is the first running back
of the show. It is it is, yeah, hit us
with your guy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, because all the good running backs are in the
first two rounds and we weren't allowed to use those guys,
So I want to clear because it's like once you
gets to run three, it's like right dead zone and
that's where you feel a lot less confident. So without
us even basically stating it, it's, yeah, like this is
a great year to at least get at least one
hero running back, if not do your superhero RB start.
(18:08):
So for me, when it comes to these later round
running backs, mid to late rounds, Rashad White is the
guy that stands up the most of me. I think
that I've drafted him in every single draft that I
have done, and if I don't. Tom Strachan is usually
the guy that drafts him instead of me because I
let him fall. I just think he's one of the
most missed priced players on the board. Look, he is
going as the RB thirty eight, one hundred and seventh overall.
(18:29):
He has never finished worse than RB thirty eight in
his NFL career through four seasons. He's caught forty or
more passes in four straight years. And that's been the
biggest thing out of Washington Commander's training camp is yes,
they do want your Correy cross Ky Merit to take
on that bell cow role in terms of working on
early downs. But everything about Rashad White is pass catcher,
pass catcher, pass catcher, and when you play in full
(18:51):
half PPR formats, that's coorse fantasy points for you. So
I understand that Rashad White is not the sexiest rusher.
He is actually really boring to watching the open field
when he's running. But that's not what he's gonna be
asked to do here, Like that's gonna be cross Key
Merrit's role, you know, getting to the outside zone, ripping
off a big play. Attached to Jade Daniels. I also
don't think that's not getting Rashod White enough credit. Where
(19:12):
this is gonna be like one of the first times
he's attached to a mobile quarterback. I mean, he played
with Tom Brady, played with Baker Mayfield, but like an
elusive quarterback like Daniels. I think that can help boost
Rashad White's efficiency as a rusher and even last year
second rushing success rate second EPA per rush because he
was really good in short yardage and conversion attempts. So
(19:32):
I think that this commander's backfield has a chance to
be minimized into a two man backfield instead of three
where it was last year we had Rodriguez, Krosky, Merritt,
and you had like McNichols or Eckler working in on
passing downs. I think White is just going to see again,
quoting rich Riebar and Debro these high you know, cholesterol
targets and touches where he's catching passes and seeing red
(19:54):
zone opportunities. So even if he's losing out on touches
in between the twenties as a rusher, that's fine with me.
I don't need that to get the value from Rashad
White from a fantasy perspective, So again RB seven finish
overall in twenty twenty three. This guy has been a
top twelve fantasy producer not that long ago, and last
year RB twenty four points per game seven games weeks
five through twelve. So if we're looking at who could
(20:16):
be this year's Javonte Williams, for me, it's Rashad White,
just someone that, yeah, veteran kind of sick of this guy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
He's on a new team. How good is he? Really? Well?
Scores fantasy points everywhere he goes, So give him shot. White.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's funny you mentioned Javonte Williams because last year, Javonte
Williams and Travis Etn we're two of the cheapest starting
running backs that you could get in drafts, both guys
with previous success with pass catching ability and good offenses.
And now here we are with Rashad White, who has
top twelve upside that he's done it before in a
potentially very good offense with past catching upside. It just
(20:50):
kind of feels like we're playing the same record over
again this year.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, nobody wanted Javonte Williams a screamed all last draft season,
and everybody wanted him but I'm with there on this.
Rashad White is a damn good draft pick this year.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, deep, bro, give us your not last but of
one of your top must draft players, because I really
like this one.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I'm in full agreement with you on this wide receiver.
Everything that Ericson laid out for the Jordan Tyson case
about rookie wide receivers drafted in the first round could
easily all fit Carneal tit Man and Carnal Tate. I
just think he's gonna explode in his rookie season wide
receiver thirty five and ADP. There is a runout where
Carneal Tate is rookie season Elik Neighbors. It's and it's
(21:32):
not hard to see. All we need is Cam Wore
to cook. We know Brian dave All is going to
run his passing game through one guy. Yes, I know.
Wando Robinson had a very good season last year, but
again that was when the entire depth chart disintegrated around him.
Elik Neighbors was out, he stepped up Wandall Robertson can
have a very productive season, but the number one wide
receiver in that passing attack will be Carneal Tait, and
(21:54):
he came in as a prospect. Everybody wanted to shade
him and say, well, you never saw a top coverage.
He wasn't really that guy. He was that good? Is
he really fast enough? All these different things, and it
just feels like every year people try to like knock
these guys down a peg, like the top wide receiver
on the board, like we saw with Drake Lunn and
Tedo McMillan, because he didn't watch film, he wasn't fast enough.
(22:17):
Cardinal Tate, I'm gonna continue to put respect on his
name because it's deserved. Man tenth in yards per route run,
fourth and receiving grade in his final collegiate season. He
finished with an other worldly sixty eight point eight percent
contested catch right zero drops in his final season despite
having an eight out of fourteen point six. So all
of this says that Cardinal Tate is underrated. He's awesome,
(22:39):
and there's a runout where he's earning a twenty six
twenty seven percent target share for the Tennessee Titans, and
then we're just talking about Okay, well, the volume is
definitively there. Now the floor and ceiling is determined about
which version of cam Ward. Do we get do we
get the collegiate version of cam War with explosive plays
and all this off script stuff and Dave Ball's letting
him cook, or do we get last is cam Ward.
(23:00):
I want to lean more towards the positive and his
ability to have a growth in a totally after spending
last year and languishing in a barken offense with no
pass catchers. He's surrounded by nothing but talent this year,
and Carnell Tate can be a huge byproduct of that.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, big thing that cam Ward loves to do is
get the ball downfield and put up those fifty to
fifty balls. He can hit a lot of those back
shoulder fades as well, and those are the things that
Cardell Tait was so good at coming out of Ohio State.
And I don't know if you guys have watched the
Netflix series Quarterback with cam Ward.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm watching it right now.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Oh you just see the light leave his eyes when
when Calvin Ridley is dropping passes, even his dad who's
in the stands, He's like, my dad never reacts to anything.
And the dad gets up and he's ready just to
like rip his jersey in half. There was a lot
of frustration going on last year man with that Titans offense.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I would love to see an armlessing match between cam
Ward's dad and Romadoonze's I feel like people would want
to see that. We need it for the timeline.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I mean, well, auto Backum Junior's dad might join the chat.
Oh she's a tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I've come here for this, this amazing content.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, guys, we're gonna hop into the rapid fire section
where you're gonna give us your sleepers for Round thirteen onward.
But before we do that, I want to mind everybody.
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Pros Premium at fantasypros dot com Backslash free. All right, boys,
these are the rapid fires that's gonna go thirty seconds
on each of these players. Ericson, You're gonna give me
two guys from round thirteen onward. That are your sleepers
that you are targeting.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Running back Dylan Sampson for the Cleveland Browns second in
yards per out run first and target per out run
among running backs last year. The other guys Christ McCaffrey,
Bejon Robins, and Jimior Gibbs. Maybe you've heard of him,
Maybe heard of those players. Pretty good company for Dylan Sampson,
and Todd Munkin took Derek Henry off the field for
Justice Hill. So just saying like, I'm not so sure
it's going to be Quinnchow Judkins three down workload, considering
(25:24):
what we've seen from Monkey in the past with these
pass catching running backs, and he's also turning twenty two
year old this season. Dylan Sampson and then my other
guy wide receiver Trey Harris for the Los Angeles Chargers,
entering his second season. We're all excited about this Chargers offense,
and Harris to me just represents a very very cheap
piece when he should at least see a full time role.
I don't know exactly how Mike being able to deploy
(25:45):
all these players. It's possible that Trey Harris is put
into this X role just kind of based on his size,
speed profile, but I think there's still a lot of
upside attached to that. So I'm willing to wait and
see how these Chargers receivers are used in this new offense.
And Albert Brier's actually done some reporting as well, all
that the team is really excited about Trey Harris taking
a big step forward, especially as a big body target.
(26:06):
To me, that screams red zone, that screams touchdown upside,
and I want that on my fantasy roster, especially if
I can get at my last pick.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So Trey Harris is my second sleeper.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Debro Give me your two sleepers round thirteen and onward.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
My two guys, Jalen Cocher and Deebo Samuel Jalen Coker
checking in at wide receiver fifty six. The gap between
him and Tech should not be as large as it is.
When Coker was healthy last year weeks thirteen through nineteen,
he had a twenty percent target share out targeting Ted.
He had two point three yards per route run again
better than Ted, four red zone targets again better than Ted.
(26:39):
And he had a twenty eight point three percent first
read share again that was better than Ted Roman Milan
during that stretch. So Jalen Cocher, the gap between those
two players should not exist. Deebo Samuel, Guys, this is
this year's Keenan Allen. As a veteran wide receiver that
gets that gets no respect, and he signed late, so
ADP will not catch up to where he should go
(27:00):
drafts as a wide receiver. Three, he was not cooked.
Wide receiver twenty nine and Fantasy points per game last
year amongst one hundred and nine qualifying wide receivers Deebo
Samuel eighteenth and target share ninth, best in yak per
reception twenty first and first read share ninth, best in
miss tackles force per reception. Again, he's not cooked, and
as we're recording this, he is the only guy that
(27:21):
seems to be healthy on this freaking depth chart outside
of him and Christian McCaffrey, invest in Deebo Samuel this
year's Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, there you have it, the ten must have players
that the experts Debro and Andrew Erickson are drafting everywhere
in twenty twenty six. That's going to do it for
us today. As always, I want to thank you us
for watching or listening Allly through, for myself, for Debro,
for Erickson. We'll see you next time. Audios.
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