September 12, 2025 • 26 mins
Join Seth Woolcock and Derek Brown as they highlight six players that popped in “The Primer” this week who you should consider putting into your fantasy football lineups!
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Intro - 0:00:00
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QB: Dak Prescott vs NYG - QB12 ECR - 0:02:55
RB: JK Dobbins @ IND - RB27 ECR - 0:05:33
RB: Isiah Pacheco @ PHI - RB32 ECR - 0:09:37
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WR: Keenan Allen @ LV - ECR WR38 - 0:14:08
WR: Kayshon Boutte @ MIA - ECR WR53 - 0:17:17
TE: Hunter Henry @ MIA - ECR TE12 - 0:21:44
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, and welcome into the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast.
Week one of the NFL season is in the rear view,
and as the Great Bill Belichick once said, we're on
to Cincinnati. That's right, folks, it's our primer episode. We'll
give you our top must start players for week two
of the season. I'm your host of Seth Wilcock and
joined as always by the pen behind the Fantasy Pros Primer,
(00:23):
a man who's never afraid to dust them up with
the best of them on the internet. He's Derek Brown Debro.
How are you after consuming an entire slate, entire weekend
worth of data.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm pretty good, man, feeling pretty good. Week one betting
was not great because just it's a wild slate and stuff.
The one thing before we get this rolling, you started
throwing out Bill quotes. Man, I thought you were gonna
go with no baby, I can't talk. I'm trying to
coach a football game, or no Patriot scouts man or
the building. So I was kind of surprised with the
one that you chose. So just keep it in a
(00:55):
buck here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hey, gotta have a little respect for the glory days,
right if yeh? I forget those times. Man is starting
a look a little bit further in the review these days.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, Yeah, tough outing for him in North Carolina right
off the rope there in Week one. But not here
to talk college football. We are here to talk NFL
and deebra I gotta ask, Man, is there one thing,
without spoiling the rest of the program that really stuck
out to you when kind of looking through Week one
usage or production trends.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think a lot of guys were really close or
could have had big games, but they didn't because whether
certain plays didn't go their way, they didn't get the
usage they probably should have considering the matchups and stuff.
But I think I think week two is going to
be a reckoning. I think we're going to see some
things kind of go back to the center of guys
(01:45):
that probably should have had big games in Week one,
but because of the lag time, we might get that
in week two.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Seth.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, it's always, Derek, one of those situations where you
don't want to overreact to what you see in week one,
but you also can't underreact to some of the usage
you do see. So it's a great balance. It's a
great line we try to walk and excited to do it.
Here with you again in week two. Quick shout out
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(02:55):
let's go ahead. Let's jump right into it with your
must start quarterback for week two of the season.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Dude, it's gotta be Dak Prescott. He is a QB
twelve and ECR right now. And I know I'm kind
of cheating because I'm supposed to. You know, the crooks
of this video is to pick somebody outside the top ten,
and he's right there in the borderline. But this all
comes back to one of the discussing about players that
should have had a big game and things didn't go
their way. Dak Prescott has to be the poster guy
(03:22):
for this, like he is the one leading the conversation
when you're a quarterback that led the NFL and yards
lost in week one due to drops with sixty one
passing yards lost, and we can talk about multiple touchdowns
lost because whether it was Dak Nutt, you know, hitting
a seamball perfectly or guy's dropping it or bang bang
plays and then not holding on, Dak was so close
(03:42):
to a monster game. And I'm going right back to
the well man like looking at Dak Prescott again sixth
then catchuple, target rate third and hero throw rate in
week one. You marry this with the Giants defense and
secondary that really didn't they didn't show up. Man, they
weren't this defense that we thought we were gonna get
this year in twenty twenty five. And again it's one game,
(04:03):
but I think Dak Prescott comes ready this week. Man.
Like the secondary for the Giants just didn't hold up
great last week. I know it was versus Jaydon Daniels,
but Dak Prescott is still incredibly talented. Dallas is gonna
be chucking the ball, and the Giant secondary last week
gave of the eleventh highest yards per attempt. And for
as good as this defensive line is supposedly gonna be
this year, Seth had the eighth lowest pressure rate last week.
(04:26):
So Dak Prescott should have time in the pocket. As
long as CEEDE. Lamb doesn't drop every target thrown his way,
should have a big game.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. The big question I think, as you alluded to
there is will the New York Giants front get to
this younger Dallas Cowboys offensive line who I will say
they played really well in that opening game against the Eagles. Obviously,
Jalen Carter, you know, throwing himself out of that game
early in that one I think helped. But you know,
the tylers, the Guitens, the Smiths, the Bookers on that
(04:56):
offensive line really held them themselves up well. And I'm
not afraid of this giant secondary at all. So if
Dak Prescott has the time and Ceedee Lamb can make
some catches and George Pickens can get a couple of
calls going his way, nobody gets worse calls in the
NFL than George Pickens, by the way. I mean, this
guy has lost so many yards and touchdowns over the
years to some passing interferences or you know, bad calls dealers.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Homerism kind of a seeping into the show quite early,
and he thought we would have gotten to like take
four or five before that possibly came up. But hey,
here we are.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, here we are, baby. But Dak Prescott is in
for debro at the must start quarterback position. Let's move
to running backs where you're in on a different Denver
Broncos running back here in week number.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Two, dude, I feel like Sean Payton is just designed
to hurt me. Last week I talked about R J.
Harvey and nobody nobody out there, and I see you
all in the comments and blah blah blah, like nobody
thought the Denver backfield was going to enter Week one
as a three headed committee like Tyler Bady being part
of this was not in the cards at all, and
(05:59):
so so you know the Harvey call, like, come on,
he was the best guy on the field last week
for the Denver Broncos. I would have put his name
back in here, but like, I don't know what his
snap snapshare looks like in week two, whereas I'm gonna
go with JK. Dobbins here RB twenty seven and ECR
I think he honestly should be in RB two in
rankings this week, and looking at what his role is, well,
(06:23):
like we're still trying to figure out. Okay, Sean use r.
J Harvey, come on, come on, do it. Do it now?
We know what JK. Dobbins is going to do in
this backfield and that was very apparent in week one,
played fifty three percent of the snaps led the backfield
and snap saw all three of the team's red zone carries. Yep,
has got eighteen touches, So you're talking about a player
that probably ends up somewhere in that fifteen to seventeen
(06:46):
touch count, most of that being on early downs. If
he's gonna get the money touches near the goal line.
He'd looked good on a per carry basis. He had
a nineteen percent miss mistackles forest rate, two point six
three yards after contact per attempt, and with Bownix's struggles,
this is an other thing just looking at in my
mind's eye of how this game could go. I think
Denver could lean on their ground game this week with
(07:07):
bo Nick struggling out the gate. Indy Like, they just
absolutely crushed the Dolphins last week, so we really didn't
see the Dolphins able to really just invest in the
running game, lean on the running game because they were
down bad and down bad quickly that we just didn't
see it. But this is also an Indie run defense
set that last week gave up the highest yards of
the contact per attempt, the sixth highest rushing success rate,
(07:29):
and they had the eleventh lowest stuff rate. So if
Denver wants to lean into the ground game with Harvey
and Dobbins this week, they should be able to do
it Man with a lot of success.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, we need Tyler Batty out of there. I'm so slack,
whether it's him or whether it's you know, in the
past man. Julia McLaughlin. There's always this third guy just
taking a couple of these snaps and taking a couple
of targets away, and if you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Think it's all happened, but I don't know if it
happens this week for Harvey.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I think you just come to a point where you
got to play your better players, and Dobbins and Harvey
are both up ahead of him in my opinion. And Derek,
I really have a lot of respect for this call,
because you know, we have to be willing as fantasy
analysts and managers to adjust our priors. And I think
you and I and a lot of us here at
FP were very high on Harvey this offseason. But right
(08:15):
now it's one of those situations where it looks like
Sean Payton is going to trust the steadier hand, the
older veteran here in JK. Dobbins. The fifty three percent
of snaps they bode and tell that story as well
as those red zone stats that you're talking about as well.
So you know, I think it, you know, a lot
of respect coming your way to just correcting you know,
maybe some of our earlier thinking here, and I think
there is still a day for our J. Harvey I
(08:36):
just don't think it's here in week two.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I agree, And I think this backfield is going
to evolve as we move through the season. I think
Harvey is going to still be the leader of this backfield.
And I never said that Dobbins wasn't going to have
a role in this backfield. I always thought he was
going to have an early down role because Harvey wasn't
a guy that I thought Sean Payton was going to
load up with twenty five carries or twenty five touches
on a weekly basis. So I always this is going
(09:00):
to be a split backfield. But yeah, man, like I
think Harvey's eventually going to own the backfield in the
sense of like he's not like Tyler Beday is going
to go away. I think this is going to be
a two headed backfield. But yes, Dobbins, right now, the
matchup is there, the workload is there, and people need
to sit here and wake up. Like again, he's still
being ranked as an RB three. I think that's wrong, man.
(09:20):
I think that his workload is safe, and I think
you're looking at a floor of twelve touches and probably
more of like a median of fifteen to seventeen and
if he's getting the guy like the red zone carries,
then you're looking at fifteen to seventeen with touchdown equity.
That's an RB two, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Let's move to your second must start running back here, Derek.
And it's a player that I think a lot of
fantasy managers are going to have a hard time trusting
after a very dud not only in week one, but
in the opener there on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So I'm gonna caveat this with there is some risk here,
and I'm not going to shy away from that because
the risk we saw it, I mean it's prevalent based
off of what happened on week one. And that's Isaiah Pachecko.
So he's RB thirty two in ECR. So like the
ECR is is, you know, I mean, the ranking itself
shows you that there is risk here. With people ranking
(10:10):
him as an RB three, there's RB two top fifteen
upside if you're playing Pachecko this week. Now, I'm not
gonna say the downside is not there because what we
saw in week one could easily happen in week two
if the game script goes sideways. The Eagles put up
a ton of points and the Chiefs find themselves trailing.
And the other part of this, if Andy Reid wants
(10:31):
to Andy Reid as hard as he can Andy Reid
and just go away from the running game when last
week it was working. But Casey, it's like, I just
don't understand. If you're the Chiefs, Okay, the game is
not out of reach, it's close. You're having a lot
of success running the ball on the ground with Pachecko,
and yet you lose Worthy and you think the idea
(10:53):
is that we need to sit here and win this
game by feeding sixteen targets to Hollywood Brown. I can't
square that. And I'm not saying that this doesn't go
sideways for Pachecko. But if case does what I think
they should do and leans on their ground game this week,
and and Pachecko is spearheading that he's gonna walk away
(11:13):
with a really strong day seth for Look, fifty one
percent of the snaps last week, only got seven touches
and twenty eight total yards. I'm not telling anybody that's great.
If they would have given him more the backfield and
more of the touches last week, he would have had
a much stronger game. On a per touch basis, he
looked good, dude, twenty percent misstackle rate, three point two
yards of to contact per tent that I know, I'm
(11:33):
talking about a five carries, but still he did look
good in the work that he got. And Philly, you
can't attack them on the ground, man six lowest stuff
right in week one, seventh highest yards of the contact
per attempt allowed. So if you're kse the way that
I think they should attack this game, and I'm not
saying don't throw the freaking ball, I understand that they're
gonna have to pass, but they need to come out
(11:55):
and they need to lean on the run, chew up
some clock, keep the Eagles offense off the field, and
use Pacheco. And I'm not one of these old boomers.
I'm like, oh, that's the run. But they should be
running the ball, and they should feature Pacheco this week.
If they do that, he's going to have a good game.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah. I mean, we saw Javonte Williams last week fall
into the end zone twice against the Eagles. Obviously, Jalen
Carter again not in that mix. And you know, I've
kind of been pretty vocal that I never thought Pacheco
was going to have this seventy to eighty percent stat
share that he was seeing early last year. But how
did the Eagles win that Super Bowl? Well, the Chiefs
(12:32):
just didn't run the ball man they had. You know,
I think Pachecko and Kareem Hunt both you know, combined
for under ten carries in that Super Bowl game back
in February. So it's very dangerous if they want to
continue to let the Eagles chew clock of their own.
I think you fight fire with fire here, and it
could be a good situation for him. I just hope
he's getting a little bit more of the share there.
(12:54):
But it does look like it is a little bit
of a three headed monster there. You're guy Richard Smith even,
you know, popping in and out a little bit here
and there. So I am excited and like, I think
this is one of those situations without Worthy, without receive Rice,
like Pachecko, in my opinion, is their second best offensive
player outside of Patrick Mahomes. And you know, kind of
depending what you feel about Travis Kelce right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now, yeah, I mean plus five check Travis Kelce. Like
in a game where Worthy goes out, he's basically a
ghost he's yelling at their offensive line. None of it
look good like they come on, man, Super Bowl rematch,
they got they can't get boxed here, They cannot get
absolutely just crushed here. And if they decided to try
(13:37):
to go pass heavy and do all this stuff, they
probably are. But we'll see how it goes. Man, I
think Pacheco could still walk away with a good game.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Though.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
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to get yourself started. All right, de bro, we're onto
your must start wide receivers for week number two of
the NFL season, and you're going back to the well
with someone you were high on coming into Week one.
I mean it didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Leave it let us down in Week one, man, it
was one of the good calls of the week. And
I don't understand what people are looking at to rank
Keenan Allen as the wide receiver thirty eight in ECR, Like,
what did you see out of the Chargers offense? People
right to rank Keenan Allen as a wide receiver four
Going into week two, he was the wide receiver ten
(14:39):
in Fantasy. Last week he led the Chargers targets amongst
seventy seven qualified wide receivers. Seth Keenan Allen twenty third
in separation, tenth in route win rate. He had a
twenty six point five percent target share two point one
yards per route run. And this week he gets a
(15:00):
Raiders secondary that gave up the eighth most Fantasy points
and the ninth most receiving yards to wide receivers in
week one, And I'm not scared of any corner on
that freaking depth chart. Fire up Keenan Allen as a
wide receiver two with confidence this week.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All in dude, Yeah, I mean, I loved the route
participation last week. I loved the target share for him
as well, and it was something that you hit on
in the offseason. I think we were doing a lot
of our Q and as over there on Twitch dot
tv Slash Fantasy pros. Is that Keenan Allen has this
trust of Justin Herbert. He has the trust of this organizations.
He's not dust, no, no, And we saw it down
(15:36):
the stretch last year. We saw it in Week one,
and this is the same Raiders secondary that while I
like their upfront pass rush presence, I don't trust the secondary.
I mean, we saw Booty last week go for over
one hundred yards and six receptions. Stefan Diggs, even though
he didn't look at one hundred percent wasn't playing a ton,
still double digit fantasy points for him to Mario Douglas
had seven targets in that game as well. It didn't
(15:57):
really make anything do with them. But I think there's
big games waiting for really all the Chargers pass catchers,
and for Keenan Allen to be ranked this low feels
like a bit of a miss. I don't want to
say a mishap, but you know, definitely an overlook by
some of the rankers.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, it definitely is man. But I mean again, we
talked about this in draft season when I said as
soon as they signed Keenan Allen, ADP wasn't gonna catch
up yep to where Keenan Allen should be getting drafted
and it still hasn't caught up. People are not putting
enough respect on his name, and it's like, bro, like
just throw all the priors into the trash, like m hmm,
all the Greg Roman stuff. People in the off season,
(16:33):
they're like, oh, they won't be pass heavy. Greg Roman
never does that, although we did it for a ten
game stretch last season, he won't do that again. They
come out firing Justin Herbert yep is in must start territory.
He's in the top six quarterbacks ranked for the week,
and people are like, oh, Lad McConkie's a wide receiver one,
but Keenan Allen can't start him. He's a wide receiver four.
(16:54):
Come on, dude, people got adjusted. He's gonna crush again
this week.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm so glad we had that conversation the preseason about, hey,
maybe Lad mcconky isn't the set in and forget it
wide receiver one that we are drafting him. You know,
most that early best ball season because Keenan Allen is
in the mix, and it was something we had to
take account for. And I moved guys like JSN above
him in my rankings and I'm very happy after a
week when I did just based on the usage, But Derek,
I did allude to him earlier. You're going after one
(17:20):
of these Patriots wide receivers that a lot of talk
on the internet about this guy because you know, one
time ago he was projected first round pick in the
NFL Draft, suffered some injuries late in his career at
LSU that really pushed him down boards and you know,
made him fall to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, I'm going to keay Shan Buttey here, wide receiver
fifty three in ECR. And this comes down to, like, yeah,
like we could talk about all the things that happened
as a prospect off the field, stuff crappy testing, when
he should have listened to his agent and said like, oh,
don't run, don't run then yeah you're slow, and you
know you're slow, don't run, Just just don't do it,
you know. But looking at him this week, man, like
I have nothing about the Dolphins secondary strikesphere in my heart.
(18:00):
And what Kashan Bute did in Week one I think
is more real than it is fake in the sense that, yeah,
he only earned a seventeen point four percent target chair,
but he led the team in first rechair with twenty
three point three percent, So I think easily this week,
like considering the matchup and stuff, we could see his
target chair creep into the twenties the mid twenties. If
everything goes right. Man put up two point five eight
(18:21):
yards per route run. His separation score looked good, his
route win rate, the deeper metrics that I look at
to evaluate wide receiver play both were really really good
and honestly, seth maybe we didn't give him enough credence
for what he did at the end of last season.
Two myself included Man like, I didn't even write him
up in the primer because I didn't know if he
was going to be a starting wide receiver in week one.
(18:42):
And then I went back and I was writing up
this week, and I was like, he really had some
good games done the back half of last year, like
Week sixteen through eighteen last year. I really like, we
got to give this to his flowers and talk about
how this isn't just a one off game. This started
last year Week sixteen through eighteen. He had a twenty
one point three percent target share, He had two point
seven nine yards per route run and a twenty five
(19:06):
point eight percent first read share. Those are all incredibly
strong metrics. So you married that three game sample with
what we saw in week one. You got a four
game sample, which is almost a quarter of a season,
and you're like, Okay, maybe this isn't smoking mirrors. Maybe
this is real. And I'm more on the real side
than the fake side with looking at his production. If
he does it two games in a row, yeah, dude,
(19:29):
I'm I'm in. I'm in. And I mean, what what
corner from Miami or is should anybody be worried about
for a secondary? They gave up the seven most PPR
points per target to perimeter wide receivers in Week one
and I know a one game sample, but please tell me,
are you worried about a Dolphins corner this week? Seth?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
No, I'm not. And the interesting thing about a prospect
like this is when he came into the NFL, I
think we all thought he was just gonna be someone
who probably you know, floats around a bench and is
just kind of a jagget if you would. And late
last season you said it over seven point five PPR
points in the stretch down there in five to last
ten games, So he was at least giving you a floor.
(20:09):
And I think when you look at this new England
Patriots pass catcher group, he's locked into that flanker role
right Like, I think he's gonna man that a ton,
because it's really Mac Hollins who's kind of been in
and out of the X with Stefon Diggs, splitting time
as he's getting back and of course he had pop guys.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Willers is nothing burger right now. Like he's not even running.
He didn't even run ten routes last week. The people
don't have to worry about him either.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, So I think, like I trust Booty at this
point more than I think I do someone like Stefan Diggs.
I really do, just because I think he's gonna be
out there more and he obviously has a connection with
Drake May. And I think that was an oversight on yourself,
on myself and really everyone in the fancy community this
offseason not giving him enough credence.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, dude, I think it's just one of these situations
where it was kind of like easy for him to
kind of get lost in the sauce of it when
it's like they added Stefan Diggs. He's getting the headlines.
We think he's gonna be number one. They added mac Hollins,
they added a talented rookie and Kyle Williams yep, and
then everybody who goes to Pop Douglas and they say, oh,
the New England.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Slot role with Josh McDaniels, Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yester year slot receivers. And then it's like, with all
of those narratives and other guys we're talking about, none
of us were talking about Kashean butet none of us
myself included. And so yeah, I think he just got
lost in the mix, lost in the equation. And when
You're looking at all these other guys and I'm like, okay, yeah,
but they made all these additions. So isn't that also
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kind of an indictment on Kishean Bute and Kishon Bute
like in week one was like uh ah. And he
came back and he I mean showed the rapport that
he had last year with Drake May and I again,
I think that's more real and there's more substance to
that than it is fool's gold.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Let's stick with the Newland pass catchers here where while
they had two's what got wrong?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah? Who do you have here for your must start
tight end of week number two.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Man two, pats, what could go wrong? I know my
Patriots takes did not age well like Milk in the
Sun from week one, but I'm back in on hi man.
I honestly would have picked Drake May for this and
gone a few different directions if he was in QB
ten and ECR right now. But this is partially a
Miami Dolphins take where I'm not scared about the defense
at all. And number two, it's gone under the radar
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two that and I know Hunter Henry is ECR. He's
tight end twelve right now. I think that's more of
a reflection of all of the injuries at the tight
end position than it is Hunter Henry people putting respect
on his name when looking at the tight end position,
because you know a lot of people are out there like, oh, man,
I'm I gonna play Brenton Strange? Am I gonna play
Harold fannin all these other guys off of the waiver
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wire before Hunter Henry? And I'm like, oh no, he
should be a tight end one this week. He should
be a top ten option. Honestly, because if you look
at Hunter Henry, his usage in Week one was fantastic. Dude,
seventeen point four percent target seriot at one point eight
three yards per route run. He had sixty six receiving yards.
That that's like, if you would have added a touchdown,
he'd have been a top five tight end for the
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free and week. But because he didn't score a touchdown,
it's kind of going under the radar just a little bit.
He also got a twenty percent first reach cheer that
was tied for second on the team. And now we
match this up against the defense for the Dolphins that
look I talked about. They cannot stop any wide receivers.
They can't stop tight ends either. And this is even
going back to last year. They allowed the twelfth most
receiving yards and the twelfth most fantasy points per game
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to opposing tight ends last year. Hunter Henry should be
a top ten tight end. He has top five to
six upside this week he gets in the end zone.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, I mean Miami, they allowed Tyler Warren to have
the top five day last week at the position, just like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
A freaking stud. Shout out to you for your what
did you have him top five in the offseason?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah? Ut to you, man.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Talk about some cajones. But the call is is looking
pretty good for you, Seth.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good with that Penn State
bias aside and Derek. The thing about Hunter Henry that's
funny here is I've always compared him a bit to
like a toxic X you keep going back to and
eventually they keep burning you. But the interesting thing here
is we're seeing the usage right ninety three percent. We
weren't seeing that in terms of snapshare last year. I
think there's a clear division that he is the best
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tight end on this team. For years, they kept trying
to give us different tight ends in the mix there.
Austin Hooper's just a guy right like, he's gonna be
out there. He's gonna help block some times. But Drake
may Man some of his best throws on the day.
I know some of his passes were very errant, but
some of the best ones worked to Hunter Henry. I
don't know if you saw that sliding one that he
got when may was on the move. That was excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So I did good, go ahead, go go ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
No. I was just saying I am excited about Hunter Henry,
but it just feels it feels wrong still, like I'm
going back and I'm gonna get cheated on again or something.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Shit, man, I don't think it's gonna happen. And the
last point I'll make and for everybody it's like, dude,
you're bringing up to Patriots. Can we also talk about
the volume should be there to support multiple pass catches
this week for a Patriots offense that came out and
passed at a top five rate.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Now that no, none of.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Us saw that coming, So that also needs to be
discussed here too, in the sense that yes, I picked
two New England Patriots. The passing volume will be there
this week for an offense that, like I thought they
were probably gonna come out and be middle of the
road on passing rate in week one, and Josh McDaniel said,
oh no, baby, we're gonna chuck it around the yard.
They're top five again this week. Both these guys have
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like seven to ten target upside this week.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, I'm excited to see if some of that stuff
is sticky right there, I mean, just all across the league.
Between the high scoring game and the Steelers Jets one
in Week one, it was really interesting to see some
of those trends, so we'll see what's sticky here. But
Deebro appreciate all your analysis and insight that is going
to do it for us on this episode of the
Fancy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast, comment down below your favorite
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All right, and welcome into the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast.
Week one of the NFL season is in the rear view,
and as the Great Bill Belichick once said, we're on
to Cincinnati. That's right, folks, it's our primer episode. We'll
give you our top must start players for week two
of the season. I'm your host of Seth Wilcock and
joined as always by the pen behind the Fantasy Pros Primer,
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a man who's never afraid to dust them up with
the best of them on the internet. He's Derek Brown Debro.
How are you after consuming an entire slate, entire weekend
worth of data.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm pretty good, man, feeling pretty good. Week one betting
was not great because just it's a wild slate and stuff.
The one thing before we get this rolling, you started
throwing out Bill quotes. Man, I thought you were gonna
go with no baby, I can't talk. I'm trying to
coach a football game, or no Patriot scouts man or
the building. So I was kind of surprised with the
one that you chose. So just keep it in a
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buck here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hey, gotta have a little respect for the glory days,
right if yeh? I forget those times. Man is starting
a look a little bit further in the review these days.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, Yeah, tough outing for him in North Carolina right
off the rope there in Week one. But not here
to talk college football. We are here to talk NFL
and deebra I gotta ask, Man, is there one thing,
without spoiling the rest of the program that really stuck
out to you when kind of looking through Week one
usage or production trends.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think a lot of guys were really close or
could have had big games, but they didn't because whether
certain plays didn't go their way, they didn't get the
usage they probably should have considering the matchups and stuff.
But I think I think week two is going to
be a reckoning. I think we're going to see some
things kind of go back to the center of guys
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that probably should have had big games in Week one,
but because of the lag time, we might get that
in week two.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Seth.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, it's always, Derek, one of those situations where you
don't want to overreact to what you see in week one,
but you also can't underreact to some of the usage
you do see. So it's a great balance. It's a
great line we try to walk and excited to do it.
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let's go ahead. Let's jump right into it with your
must start quarterback for week two of the season.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Dude, it's gotta be Dak Prescott. He is a QB
twelve and ECR right now. And I know I'm kind
of cheating because I'm supposed to. You know, the crooks
of this video is to pick somebody outside the top ten,
and he's right there in the borderline. But this all
comes back to one of the discussing about players that
should have had a big game and things didn't go
their way. Dak Prescott has to be the poster guy
(03:22):
for this, like he is the one leading the conversation
when you're a quarterback that led the NFL and yards
lost in week one due to drops with sixty one
passing yards lost, and we can talk about multiple touchdowns
lost because whether it was Dak Nutt, you know, hitting
a seamball perfectly or guy's dropping it or bang bang
plays and then not holding on, Dak was so close
(03:42):
to a monster game. And I'm going right back to
the well man like looking at Dak Prescott again sixth
then catchuple, target rate third and hero throw rate in
week one. You marry this with the Giants defense and
secondary that really didn't they didn't show up. Man, they
weren't this defense that we thought we were gonna get
this year in twenty twenty five. And again it's one game,
(04:03):
but I think Dak Prescott comes ready this week. Man.
Like the secondary for the Giants just didn't hold up
great last week. I know it was versus Jaydon Daniels,
but Dak Prescott is still incredibly talented. Dallas is gonna
be chucking the ball, and the Giant secondary last week
gave of the eleventh highest yards per attempt. And for
as good as this defensive line is supposedly gonna be
this year, Seth had the eighth lowest pressure rate last week.
(04:26):
So Dak Prescott should have time in the pocket. As
long as CEEDE. Lamb doesn't drop every target thrown his way,
should have a big game.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. The big question I think, as you alluded to
there is will the New York Giants front get to
this younger Dallas Cowboys offensive line who I will say
they played really well in that opening game against the Eagles. Obviously,
Jalen Carter, you know, throwing himself out of that game
early in that one I think helped. But you know,
the tylers, the Guitens, the Smiths, the Bookers on that
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offensive line really held them themselves up well. And I'm
not afraid of this giant secondary at all. So if
Dak Prescott has the time and Ceedee Lamb can make
some catches and George Pickens can get a couple of
calls going his way, nobody gets worse calls in the
NFL than George Pickens, by the way. I mean, this
guy has lost so many yards and touchdowns over the
years to some passing interferences or you know, bad calls dealers.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Homerism kind of a seeping into the show quite early,
and he thought we would have gotten to like take
four or five before that possibly came up. But hey,
here we are.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, here we are, baby. But Dak Prescott is in
for debro at the must start quarterback position. Let's move
to running backs where you're in on a different Denver
Broncos running back here in week number.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Two, dude, I feel like Sean Payton is just designed
to hurt me. Last week I talked about R J.
Harvey and nobody nobody out there, and I see you
all in the comments and blah blah blah, like nobody
thought the Denver backfield was going to enter Week one
as a three headed committee like Tyler Bady being part
of this was not in the cards at all, and
(05:59):
so so you know the Harvey call, like, come on,
he was the best guy on the field last week
for the Denver Broncos. I would have put his name
back in here, but like, I don't know what his
snap snapshare looks like in week two, whereas I'm gonna
go with JK. Dobbins here RB twenty seven and ECR
I think he honestly should be in RB two in
rankings this week, and looking at what his role is, well,
(06:23):
like we're still trying to figure out. Okay, Sean use r.
J Harvey, come on, come on, do it. Do it now?
We know what JK. Dobbins is going to do in
this backfield and that was very apparent in week one,
played fifty three percent of the snaps led the backfield
and snap saw all three of the team's red zone carries. Yep,
has got eighteen touches, So you're talking about a player
that probably ends up somewhere in that fifteen to seventeen
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touch count, most of that being on early downs. If
he's gonna get the money touches near the goal line.
He'd looked good on a per carry basis. He had
a nineteen percent miss mistackles forest rate, two point six
three yards after contact per attempt, and with Bownix's struggles,
this is an other thing just looking at in my
mind's eye of how this game could go. I think
Denver could lean on their ground game this week with
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bo Nick struggling out the gate. Indy Like, they just
absolutely crushed the Dolphins last week, so we really didn't
see the Dolphins able to really just invest in the
running game, lean on the running game because they were
down bad and down bad quickly that we just didn't
see it. But this is also an Indie run defense
set that last week gave up the highest yards of
the contact per attempt, the sixth highest rushing success rate,
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and they had the eleventh lowest stuff rate. So if
Denver wants to lean into the ground game with Harvey
and Dobbins this week, they should be able to do
it Man with a lot of success.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, we need Tyler Batty out of there. I'm so slack,
whether it's him or whether it's you know, in the
past man. Julia McLaughlin. There's always this third guy just
taking a couple of these snaps and taking a couple
of targets away, and if you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Think it's all happened, but I don't know if it
happens this week for Harvey.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I think you just come to a point where you
got to play your better players, and Dobbins and Harvey
are both up ahead of him in my opinion. And Derek,
I really have a lot of respect for this call,
because you know, we have to be willing as fantasy
analysts and managers to adjust our priors. And I think
you and I and a lot of us here at
FP were very high on Harvey this offseason. But right
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now it's one of those situations where it looks like
Sean Payton is going to trust the steadier hand, the
older veteran here in JK. Dobbins. The fifty three percent
of snaps they bode and tell that story as well
as those red zone stats that you're talking about as well.
So you know, I think it, you know, a lot
of respect coming your way to just correcting you know,
maybe some of our earlier thinking here, and I think
there is still a day for our J. Harvey I
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just don't think it's here in week two.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I agree, And I think this backfield is going
to evolve as we move through the season. I think
Harvey is going to still be the leader of this backfield.
And I never said that Dobbins wasn't going to have
a role in this backfield. I always thought he was
going to have an early down role because Harvey wasn't
a guy that I thought Sean Payton was going to
load up with twenty five carries or twenty five touches
on a weekly basis. So I always this is going
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to be a split backfield. But yeah, man, like I
think Harvey's eventually going to own the backfield in the
sense of like he's not like Tyler Beday is going
to go away. I think this is going to be
a two headed backfield. But yes, Dobbins, right now, the
matchup is there, the workload is there, and people need
to sit here and wake up. Like again, he's still
being ranked as an RB three. I think that's wrong, man.
(09:20):
I think that his workload is safe, and I think
you're looking at a floor of twelve touches and probably
more of like a median of fifteen to seventeen and
if he's getting the guy like the red zone carries,
then you're looking at fifteen to seventeen with touchdown equity.
That's an RB two, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Let's move to your second must start running back here, Derek.
And it's a player that I think a lot of
fantasy managers are going to have a hard time trusting
after a very dud not only in week one, but
in the opener there on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So I'm gonna caveat this with there is some risk here,
and I'm not going to shy away from that because
the risk we saw it, I mean it's prevalent based
off of what happened on week one. And that's Isaiah Pachecko.
So he's RB thirty two in ECR. So like the
ECR is is, you know, I mean, the ranking itself
shows you that there is risk here. With people ranking
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him as an RB three, there's RB two top fifteen
upside if you're playing Pachecko this week. Now, I'm not
gonna say the downside is not there because what we
saw in week one could easily happen in week two
if the game script goes sideways. The Eagles put up
a ton of points and the Chiefs find themselves trailing.
And the other part of this, if Andy Reid wants
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to Andy Reid as hard as he can Andy Reid
and just go away from the running game when last
week it was working. But Casey, it's like, I just
don't understand. If you're the Chiefs, Okay, the game is
not out of reach, it's close. You're having a lot
of success running the ball on the ground with Pachecko,
and yet you lose Worthy and you think the idea
(10:53):
is that we need to sit here and win this
game by feeding sixteen targets to Hollywood Brown. I can't
square that. And I'm not saying that this doesn't go
sideways for Pachecko. But if case does what I think
they should do and leans on their ground game this week,
and and Pachecko is spearheading that he's gonna walk away
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with a really strong day seth for Look, fifty one
percent of the snaps last week, only got seven touches
and twenty eight total yards. I'm not telling anybody that's great.
If they would have given him more the backfield and
more of the touches last week, he would have had
a much stronger game. On a per touch basis, he
looked good, dude, twenty percent misstackle rate, three point two
yards of to contact per tent that I know, I'm
(11:33):
talking about a five carries, but still he did look
good in the work that he got. And Philly, you
can't attack them on the ground, man six lowest stuff
right in week one, seventh highest yards of the contact
per attempt allowed. So if you're kse the way that
I think they should attack this game, and I'm not
saying don't throw the freaking ball, I understand that they're
gonna have to pass, but they need to come out
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and they need to lean on the run, chew up
some clock, keep the Eagles offense off the field, and
use Pacheco. And I'm not one of these old boomers.
I'm like, oh, that's the run. But they should be
running the ball, and they should feature Pacheco this week.
If they do that, he's going to have a good game.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah. I mean, we saw Javonte Williams last week fall
into the end zone twice against the Eagles. Obviously, Jalen
Carter again not in that mix. And you know, I've
kind of been pretty vocal that I never thought Pacheco
was going to have this seventy to eighty percent stat
share that he was seeing early last year. But how
did the Eagles win that Super Bowl? Well, the Chiefs
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just didn't run the ball man they had. You know,
I think Pachecko and Kareem Hunt both you know, combined
for under ten carries in that Super Bowl game back
in February. So it's very dangerous if they want to
continue to let the Eagles chew clock of their own.
I think you fight fire with fire here, and it
could be a good situation for him. I just hope
he's getting a little bit more of the share there.
(12:54):
But it does look like it is a little bit
of a three headed monster there. You're guy Richard Smith even,
you know, popping in and out a little bit here
and there. So I am excited and like, I think
this is one of those situations without Worthy, without receive Rice,
like Pachecko, in my opinion, is their second best offensive
player outside of Patrick Mahomes. And you know, kind of
depending what you feel about Travis Kelce right.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now, yeah, I mean plus five check Travis Kelce. Like
in a game where Worthy goes out, he's basically a
ghost he's yelling at their offensive line. None of it
look good like they come on, man, Super Bowl rematch,
they got they can't get boxed here, They cannot get
absolutely just crushed here. And if they decided to try
(13:37):
to go pass heavy and do all this stuff, they
probably are. But we'll see how it goes. Man, I
think Pacheco could still walk away with a good game.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Though.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
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to get yourself started. All right, de bro, we're onto
your must start wide receivers for week number two of
the NFL season, and you're going back to the well
with someone you were high on coming into Week one.
I mean it didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Leave it let us down in Week one, man, it
was one of the good calls of the week. And
I don't understand what people are looking at to rank
Keenan Allen as the wide receiver thirty eight in ECR, Like,
what did you see out of the Chargers offense? People
right to rank Keenan Allen as a wide receiver four
Going into week two, he was the wide receiver ten
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in Fantasy. Last week he led the Chargers targets amongst
seventy seven qualified wide receivers. Seth Keenan Allen twenty third
in separation, tenth in route win rate. He had a
twenty six point five percent target share two point one
yards per route run. And this week he gets a
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Raiders secondary that gave up the eighth most Fantasy points
and the ninth most receiving yards to wide receivers in
week one, And I'm not scared of any corner on
that freaking depth chart. Fire up Keenan Allen as a
wide receiver two with confidence this week.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All in dude, Yeah, I mean, I loved the route
participation last week. I loved the target share for him
as well, and it was something that you hit on
in the offseason. I think we were doing a lot
of our Q and as over there on Twitch dot
tv Slash Fantasy pros. Is that Keenan Allen has this
trust of Justin Herbert. He has the trust of this organizations.
He's not dust, no, no, And we saw it down
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the stretch last year. We saw it in Week one,
and this is the same Raiders secondary that while I
like their upfront pass rush presence, I don't trust the secondary.
I mean, we saw Booty last week go for over
one hundred yards and six receptions. Stefan Diggs, even though
he didn't look at one hundred percent wasn't playing a ton,
still double digit fantasy points for him to Mario Douglas
had seven targets in that game as well. It didn't
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really make anything do with them. But I think there's
big games waiting for really all the Chargers pass catchers,
and for Keenan Allen to be ranked this low feels
like a bit of a miss. I don't want to
say a mishap, but you know, definitely an overlook by
some of the rankers.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, it definitely is man. But I mean again, we
talked about this in draft season when I said as
soon as they signed Keenan Allen, ADP wasn't gonna catch
up yep to where Keenan Allen should be getting drafted
and it still hasn't caught up. People are not putting
enough respect on his name, and it's like, bro, like
just throw all the priors into the trash, like m hmm,
all the Greg Roman stuff. People in the off season,
(16:33):
they're like, oh, they won't be pass heavy. Greg Roman
never does that, although we did it for a ten
game stretch last season, he won't do that again. They
come out firing Justin Herbert yep is in must start territory.
He's in the top six quarterbacks ranked for the week,
and people are like, oh, Lad McConkie's a wide receiver one,
but Keenan Allen can't start him. He's a wide receiver four.
(16:54):
Come on, dude, people got adjusted. He's gonna crush again
this week.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm so glad we had that conversation the preseason about, hey,
maybe Lad mcconky isn't the set in and forget it
wide receiver one that we are drafting him. You know,
most that early best ball season because Keenan Allen is
in the mix, and it was something we had to
take account for. And I moved guys like JSN above
him in my rankings and I'm very happy after a
week when I did just based on the usage, But Derek,
I did allude to him earlier. You're going after one
(17:20):
of these Patriots wide receivers that a lot of talk
on the internet about this guy because you know, one
time ago he was projected first round pick in the
NFL Draft, suffered some injuries late in his career at
LSU that really pushed him down boards and you know,
made him fall to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, I'm going to keay Shan Buttey here, wide receiver
fifty three in ECR. And this comes down to, like, yeah,
like we could talk about all the things that happened
as a prospect off the field, stuff crappy testing, when
he should have listened to his agent and said like, oh,
don't run, don't run then yeah you're slow, and you
know you're slow, don't run, Just just don't do it,
you know. But looking at him this week, man, like
I have nothing about the Dolphins secondary strikesphere in my heart.
(18:00):
And what Kashan Bute did in Week one I think
is more real than it is fake in the sense that, yeah,
he only earned a seventeen point four percent target chair,
but he led the team in first rechair with twenty
three point three percent, So I think easily this week,
like considering the matchup and stuff, we could see his
target chair creep into the twenties the mid twenties. If
everything goes right. Man put up two point five eight
(18:21):
yards per route run. His separation score looked good, his
route win rate, the deeper metrics that I look at
to evaluate wide receiver play both were really really good
and honestly, seth maybe we didn't give him enough credence
for what he did at the end of last season.
Two myself included Man like, I didn't even write him
up in the primer because I didn't know if he
was going to be a starting wide receiver in week one.
(18:42):
And then I went back and I was writing up
this week, and I was like, he really had some
good games done the back half of last year, like
Week sixteen through eighteen last year. I really like, we
got to give this to his flowers and talk about
how this isn't just a one off game. This started
last year Week sixteen through eighteen. He had a twenty
one point three percent target share, He had two point
seven nine yards per route run and a twenty five
(19:06):
point eight percent first read share. Those are all incredibly
strong metrics. So you married that three game sample with
what we saw in week one. You got a four
game sample, which is almost a quarter of a season,
and you're like, Okay, maybe this isn't smoking mirrors. Maybe
this is real. And I'm more on the real side
than the fake side with looking at his production. If
he does it two games in a row, yeah, dude,
(19:29):
I'm I'm in. I'm in. And I mean, what what
corner from Miami or is should anybody be worried about
for a secondary? They gave up the seven most PPR
points per target to perimeter wide receivers in Week one
and I know a one game sample, but please tell me,
are you worried about a Dolphins corner this week? Seth?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
No, I'm not. And the interesting thing about a prospect
like this is when he came into the NFL, I
think we all thought he was just gonna be someone
who probably you know, floats around a bench and is
just kind of a jagget if you would. And late
last season you said it over seven point five PPR
points in the stretch down there in five to last
ten games, So he was at least giving you a floor.
(20:09):
And I think when you look at this new England
Patriots pass catcher group, he's locked into that flanker role
right Like, I think he's gonna man that a ton,
because it's really Mac Hollins who's kind of been in
and out of the X with Stefon Diggs, splitting time
as he's getting back and of course he had pop guys.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Willers is nothing burger right now. Like he's not even running.
He didn't even run ten routes last week. The people
don't have to worry about him either.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, So I think, like I trust Booty at this
point more than I think I do someone like Stefan Diggs.
I really do, just because I think he's gonna be
out there more and he obviously has a connection with
Drake May. And I think that was an oversight on yourself,
on myself and really everyone in the fancy community this
offseason not giving him enough credence.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, dude, I think it's just one of these situations
where it was kind of like easy for him to
kind of get lost in the sauce of it when
it's like they added Stefan Diggs. He's getting the headlines.
We think he's gonna be number one. They added mac Hollins,
they added a talented rookie and Kyle Williams yep, and
then everybody who goes to Pop Douglas and they say, oh,
the New England.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Slot role with Josh McDaniels, Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yester year slot receivers. And then it's like, with all
of those narratives and other guys we're talking about, none
of us were talking about Kashean butet none of us
myself included. And so yeah, I think he just got
lost in the mix, lost in the equation. And when
You're looking at all these other guys and I'm like, okay, yeah,
but they made all these additions. So isn't that also
(21:28):
kind of an indictment on Kishean Bute and Kishon Bute
like in week one was like uh ah. And he
came back and he I mean showed the rapport that
he had last year with Drake May and I again,
I think that's more real and there's more substance to
that than it is fool's gold.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Let's stick with the Newland pass catchers here where while
they had two's what got wrong?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah? Who do you have here for your must start
tight end of week number two.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Man two, pats, what could go wrong? I know my
Patriots takes did not age well like Milk in the
Sun from week one, but I'm back in on hi man.
I honestly would have picked Drake May for this and
gone a few different directions if he was in QB
ten and ECR right now. But this is partially a
Miami Dolphins take where I'm not scared about the defense
at all. And number two, it's gone under the radar
(22:15):
two that and I know Hunter Henry is ECR. He's
tight end twelve right now. I think that's more of
a reflection of all of the injuries at the tight
end position than it is Hunter Henry people putting respect
on his name when looking at the tight end position,
because you know a lot of people are out there like, oh, man,
I'm I gonna play Brenton Strange? Am I gonna play
Harold fannin all these other guys off of the waiver
(22:39):
wire before Hunter Henry? And I'm like, oh no, he
should be a tight end one this week. He should
be a top ten option. Honestly, because if you look
at Hunter Henry, his usage in Week one was fantastic. Dude,
seventeen point four percent target seriot at one point eight
three yards per route run. He had sixty six receiving yards.
That that's like, if you would have added a touchdown,
he'd have been a top five tight end for the
(22:59):
free and week. But because he didn't score a touchdown,
it's kind of going under the radar just a little bit.
He also got a twenty percent first reach cheer that
was tied for second on the team. And now we
match this up against the defense for the Dolphins that
look I talked about. They cannot stop any wide receivers.
They can't stop tight ends either. And this is even
going back to last year. They allowed the twelfth most
receiving yards and the twelfth most fantasy points per game
(23:21):
to opposing tight ends last year. Hunter Henry should be
a top ten tight end. He has top five to
six upside this week he gets in the end zone.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, I mean Miami, they allowed Tyler Warren to have
the top five day last week at the position, just like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
A freaking stud. Shout out to you for your what
did you have him top five in the offseason?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah? Ut to you, man.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Talk about some cajones. But the call is is looking
pretty good for you, Seth.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good with that Penn State
bias aside and Derek. The thing about Hunter Henry that's
funny here is I've always compared him a bit to
like a toxic X you keep going back to and
eventually they keep burning you. But the interesting thing here
is we're seeing the usage right ninety three percent. We
weren't seeing that in terms of snapshare last year. I
think there's a clear division that he is the best
(24:10):
tight end on this team. For years, they kept trying
to give us different tight ends in the mix there.
Austin Hooper's just a guy right like, he's gonna be
out there. He's gonna help block some times. But Drake
may Man some of his best throws on the day.
I know some of his passes were very errant, but
some of the best ones worked to Hunter Henry. I
don't know if you saw that sliding one that he
got when may was on the move. That was excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So I did good, go ahead, go go ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
No. I was just saying I am excited about Hunter Henry,
but it just feels it feels wrong still, like I'm
going back and I'm gonna get cheated on again or something.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Shit, man, I don't think it's gonna happen. And the
last point I'll make and for everybody it's like, dude,
you're bringing up to Patriots. Can we also talk about
the volume should be there to support multiple pass catches
this week for a Patriots offense that came out and
passed at a top five rate.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Now that no, none of.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Us saw that coming, So that also needs to be
discussed here too, in the sense that yes, I picked
two New England Patriots. The passing volume will be there
this week for an offense that, like I thought they
were probably gonna come out and be middle of the
road on passing rate in week one, and Josh McDaniel said,
oh no, baby, we're gonna chuck it around the yard.
They're top five again this week. Both these guys have
(25:24):
like seven to ten target upside this week.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, I'm excited to see if some of that stuff
is sticky right there, I mean, just all across the league.
Between the high scoring game and the Steelers Jets one
in Week one, it was really interesting to see some
of those trends, so we'll see what's sticky here. But
Deebro appreciate all your analysis and insight that is going
to do it for us on this episode of the
Fancy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast, comment down below your favorite
(25:50):
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