August 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Join Chris Welsh, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Jake Ciely as they highlight 9 rookies that the experts can’t stop drafting to their 2025 fantasy football teams!
You won’t want to miss this episode, as the pros break down which rookies are best suited to each league format, with some general favorites mixed in as well!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Tetaroia McMillan - 0:00:28
Matthew Golden - 0:03:21
Signed A.J. Brown Helmet Giveaway - 0:06:06
Re-Draft Target: Tyler Warren - 0:07:17
Best Ball Upside Rookie: Isaac TeSlaa - 0:08:19
Dynasty Future Star: Emeka Egbuka - 0:09:27
Late-Round Rookie Sleeper: Mason Taylor - 0:10:31
FantasyPros Draft Kit - 0:11:59
TreVeyon Henderson and Luther Burden - 0:12:44
Jayden Higgins - 0:13:48
Outro - 0:14:50
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Football Podcast.
I'm Chris Welsh, and today we are talking about the
rookies that experts love to draft, and the two experts
tippy top of the crop. We got Pat Fitzmorris for
Fantasy Pros and the Athletics own Jake Seeley both joining me,
and they're going to be laying down the rookies that
you need to have, and we are wasting no more time.
(00:22):
We're jumping right into it. Pat, who is the rookie
that you and everyone else has to own?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Tederoad McMillan, Wide receiver, Carolina Panthers. I've got him ranked
wide receiver sixteen right now. I don't think you need
to be that aggressive with him and drafts, but I
do want to be aggressive with a top ten NFL
draft pick who stands six foot five, who comes into
the NFL as an advanced route runner, and who averaged
one hundred and eight point eight yards per game over
(00:49):
his final two college seasons. Despite some pretty mediocre quarterback play,
McMillan is going to be Bryce Young's top receiver from
the jump, and the Panthers will probably have to throw
quite a bit because their defense is very much a
work in progress. Teteroe McMillan could be a top ten
target earner in the NFL as a rookie.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The preseason has only done nothing but help and rise
and rise, and experts continue to love Jake. Does this
expert love Teroa McMillan, No.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Question here here's why. Like I love tedter Roll McMillan
the player, I don't love ted Roll McMillan the Carolin Panther.
And it's funny, like I've been on the side that's saying,
similar to the OHIOA state wide receivers for the longest time,
is that we went into last year's college season like
McMillan's clearly the number one, and we kind of got
fatigued and everybody was looking for other reasons to say
(01:41):
other wide receivers at the other end of the year,
which I thought was crazy. Like McMillan was clearly the
best wide receiver in that draft class. There's a reason
where he went on the draft, and like maybe Hunter,
there's a debate, but their different styles and I think
Hunter went in front of him because the potential defensive
side of it. All that being said is even one
hundred and forty targets. I've been Bryce Young in this offense,
and I'm positive on Bryce Young, like I'm one of
(02:03):
the people saying, like, take a flyer on Bryce and
what he can do in fantasy, but I think some
of that is rushing. My concern is still that Bryce
Young isn't going to be the biggest a dot thrower.
Bryce Young is very much better in the middle intermediate
kind of game, and I think McMillan can do it all.
He can do short, intermediate and deep. I just think
that for McMillan to get to wide receiver one, even
(02:25):
top sixteen, top eighteen, you need a little bit more
touchdown equity and a little bit more on the yards
where I'm projecting and think he's going to be. I
have him as a top twenty five wide receiver. I
just think on half the other leagues are teams in
the league, he would be more in line with where
Fits has him. I'm not as aggressive just because I
feel more of like a maybe Jamison Williams type of
(02:47):
season coming on a thousand yards seven air touchdowns, but
it happens either one or two ways. One that still
comes on sixty and maybe I'm wrong on the A
dot or maybe it comes on eighty receptions. I just
don't think it's eighty and thirteen hundred and nine touchd downs,
which is what you kind of really.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Need rookies that experts except Jake Seeley love to draft.
So Jacob Oh, I have zero McMillan.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I am clearly the low person on I mean, even
though he's inside my top twenty five, I am the
low person. I'm a villain.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So you love or you hate great things, So let's
find yes you do love. Who is the rookie that
you feel that everybody should have.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm gonna go deeper. I'm gonna say Matthew Golden, who
I think similar McMillan is stepping in to be the
one for his team. I think there's no question. Even
if there was, it doesn't matter because none of the
other damn receivers are on the field right now. Everybody's
getting hurt up and down the line. Romeo Dobbs just
got hurt. And I thought Romeo Dobbs would be the
one with him, or the two with Golden Bee and
(03:42):
the one and more of the big play option where
Golden would have some of that. But kind of be
more of the intermediate, more of like the McMillan on
this team. But like I said, Dobbs is hurt, Reid's
bang up, Wix can't get on the field, Like there's
the other rookie savior on Williams was missing time. Like
there's just so many questions where the answer sitting here
has been and who can finally be the one for
the Packers. Last year, the most frustrating thing is fits
(04:04):
and everybody knows this is the Packers wouldn't use any
of their wide receivers more than sixty five, maybe even
seventy percent of the time on route participation. And we're
sitting here just frustrated for us in fantasy because we
don't know who's going to be the guy any given week.
You go back to last year, there's four different wide
receivers that were the leading wide receiver for the Packers
at some point, actually five if you include tight ends.
(04:26):
So that's how crazy it was. So I think the
real answer here is Matthew Golden could be walking into
almost the same target volume at not quite but almost
the same target volume as McMillan, which I don't have
him as heis McMillan. I only have Golden inside my
top thirty five, but he's going so far beyond that.
Because people are still worried about this, who's going to
be the guy for the Packers? Jordan Love bounces back
(04:48):
at all. Golden at thirty five inside my top thirty
five actually might be too low. He might be pushing
the top twenty five before we know it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, I love. It's talked about how he looks like
Christian Watson already at least to play some of that role.
I've fallen in a little bit of like there's just
so much with like the rotations and stuff. I almost
want to avoid the Packers wideouts, but they're also cheap,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What he's going to clear it up. He's gonna be
the one that doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Rotate, and I mean he's coming at a really low cost.
I mean top twenty five would be huge. Pat what
do you think about Golden? Do you think, especially with
you picking a wide receiver already, that you have to
own another wide receiver in that group? What do you
think about Golden as this pick? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I had my doubts about Golden and didn't love the
pick as a Packers fan because of his college production profile,
which was kind of iffy up until he started smashing
down the stretch for Texas last year. You know, before
he had been kind of an unremarkable University of Houston receiver,
like post tank.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Dell Isaiah Bond was better than him.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
For first he was, Bond was the number one receiver
for Texas. Then Bond got hurt and Golden started cooking,
and he was doing it against good defenses like Georgia.
But Golden is reportedly at a really good camp. He's fast,
like he's just what the doctor ordered for the Packers defense.
And yeah, I mean, like, I do think there's a
chance that he surprises, because there is definitely an immediate
(06:05):
opportunity for him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
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about the rookies that you have to own. Experts love
these guys. You guys love these guys, you want to
(06:49):
own them. Let's actually talk about format because sometimes format
can speak a little bit more to different rookies. So
we are going to go through you guys are going
to each get a different territory, a different spot here.
So we are going to target first a redraft player,
obviously not Tedoro McMillan within the first nine rounds half
PPR ADP. That's going to be our little bubble and Pat,
(07:12):
you are going to get this one. So pick one
rookie in the redraft format that people should be targeting.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Tyler Warren. If I do not get one of the
top tight ends, I am likely to wait it out
at the position and then draft two guys at tight end,
and I want Tyler Warren to be one of those
two guys. In the colts first two preseason games, Tyler
Warren has played thirty four of thirty five snaps with
the starters. He is a three down tight end from
a team that has been using a mishmash of Moe,
(07:40):
Ali Cox and Kylon Granson and yeah, it's just been
a mess. This guy's going to play at tight end
all the time for the Colts and he's going to
be a big part of their offense. Tyler Warren runs
people over. Last year at Penn State, Tyler Warren at
one hundred and four catches for twelve hundred and thirty
three yards and eight touchdowns. He counted for thirty five
point six percent of the Nitney Lions pass receptions last season.
(08:04):
Tyler Warren also ran for two hundred and eighteen yards
and four touchdowns. He also threw a touchdown pass. He's
a former high school quarterback. Draft Tyler Warren not only
because he's gonna be really good, but because it's gonna
be a heck of a lot of fun to have
him on your team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
All right, let's move to best ball, Jake. You're actually
literally doing the flex best Ball, Flex League best ball
right now. So a best Ball upside rookie who.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Do we got? Which I kind of hate the question
because everybody's good in best Ball, But the one thing
I will target is somebody that you might not normally
draft in redraft and somebody that's in an offense that'll
attack if something were to happen. It's Isaac Tesla. We
saw the Lions. They threw a lot of draft capital
to move up and get Tesla as it's a telling factor.
He's already the number three, they're already impressed with him.
(08:51):
And here's the biggest question about it is like how
do I find value with these best ball players? How
do I find and you know, not necessarily be able
to predict when it happens, is that even if everybody
stays healthy, there'll be weeks where Tesla ends up in
your starting lineup because he found his way to the
end zone or had one of those random big games.
But on top of it, you also get the upside.
If Saint Brown or Jamison happens to miss one, two, three,
(09:12):
four more games, then Tesla is gonna step in as
the number two, and that's the real appeal. Like remember
Tim Patrick, He's taken Tim Patrick's job and Tim Patrick's
has two or three usable games a year, so you
get that with Tesla plus the bonus if something were
to happen injury wise.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, we're moving down to dynasty. Hey, Pat, this
is perfect for you, a star of all of our
Dynasty content here at Fantasy Pros, future star rookie, future
star Dynasty pick. Who are you going with?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
A mechag Buka. During the Senior Bowl in the Combine,
when teams were conducting the interviews with the players, eg
Buka was reportedly one of the small handful of players
who every team just loved unanimously. The Buccaneers drafted Egbuka
nineteenth overall, which was earlier than expected, and now he
has reportedly been having a phenomenal training camp. Eg book
(10:00):
is a really good rot runner. It's probably the best
in the slot, but has the versatility to play outside
as a flanker, consistently makes yardage after the catch, and
maybe best of all, from a fantasy perspective, Agbuka was
always able to produce at Ohiot State, excuse me, despite
playing with other wide receivers who were college stars, like
he is going to be a star himself and he
could get there as early as this year. I'm not
(10:22):
buying that there are too many miles to feed in
Tampa for Eggbuka to pop as a rookie because he
is a mouth at Baker Mayfield won't want to feed
rookie sleepers.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's always an interesting thing. Rookies get all the hype,
but we know there's a lot of upsides. So Jake,
our final formatically here late round rookie sleepers, So this
is outside the first nine rounds. Tesla would have worked great,
but I understand what for the best ball format here?
So this opens up a little bit. Who's your pick
or you know picks?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just yeah, there's other names. If you go back to
their shows, go pay attention to the rookie show that
we did, all three of us together. It talks so
much about DJ Giddens. There's others that we're going to
talk about here in a second. I keep bringing up,
so I wanted to do something a little different a
name that I really hadn't brought up yet, and that's
Mason Taylor. And I think if you look at the
depth chart for the Jets, who's the number two option?
We're really getting excited about Josh Reynolds right now journeyman
(11:12):
at this point, and we're talking to Arian Smith that
the draft pick everybody thought they reached on, but now
Malchai Corley might get cut already and not make this
team after just being drafted just shortly ago. And you
look at the tight end position. They wanted Mason Taylor
out there. They finally got him out there because Taylor
was banged up. And as Pat says about these other players,
not only were the training can't reports glowing, his first
(11:33):
game action and everybody like, ooh, look what's happening here.
And if you look at Justin Field's second option, what
it has been, you make cole Comette valuable mostly turning
to him in the red zone. And I think that
if you're looking for a surprise tight end, that could
put his name in with the Loveland or Warren heck,
even potentially surpassed Loveland because he's more blocked with the
weapons on those teams. I think Mason Taylor is a
super super deep but a name that if you miss
(11:55):
on tight end, maybe you take a fire, but you
didn't take a second one. I think Mason Taylor could
end up being your answer.
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Here two players you just don't want to leave or
(12:41):
two rookie players you don't want to leave your draft with.
Pat Who are they?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Trevion Henderson and Luther Burden. Henderson is just a jolt
of electricity. He's going to be a time share back.
But Jamiir Gibbs is a time share back, and that's
not a comparison that should be made lightly. But Henderson
is really, really good and just electric with the ball.
In his hands. We want players who just move differently
than other players at their position. It's why I'm excited
(13:06):
about Henderson. It's also why I'm excited about Luthor Burden.
I have some good friends who went to college at Missouri,
so I pay pretty close attention to Missouri football and Burden, Man,
that guy was just a human joystick at Missouri. And
don't be scared off by this silly talk about Ilaminade
as a kas being the Bears slot receiver, Like, I
want more of that talk to make it easier for
(13:27):
me to draft Burden. It's going to be Luthor Burden
in the slot for the Bears, and he could quickly
become one of the better slot guys in the.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
League, regardless of their ADP, regardless of your team construction, Jake,
who are a couple rookies that you can't leave your
draft without?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, so Pat stole one of mine, and everybody knows
by now his team Trevion Henderson. So I'm okay with that.
I will mention the second one. And similar to what
Pat just said about the Luther Burner situation, I hope
this talk continues for OHS. Jaden Higgins truly the number two,
or is it going to be Christian Kirk or is
he only playing behind Nico Collins Because you saw some
(14:03):
of that report after the second game, and I want
that talk to continue because I want to get Jaden
Higgins at a discount and I want to get Jaen
and Higgins into double digit rounds because it was just
ten days ago where it's like Jaden Higgins is locked
up the number two, it's not even a question. And
then the second game rolls out and everybody's like, oh, well,
maybe he's behind Nico Collins and it's going to be
Christian Kirk and all this mismatch of other options. No, please,
(14:24):
if you're talking talent second round pick, they didn't spend
the second round, or Jane and higgas and be like,
oh cool, let's see if we can get Christian Kirk
to stay on the field for all seventeen games as
our slot option. Anyway, Higgins has Nico Collins' ability.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I won't go that far.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's Dame Bruler from the Athletic Mine was Marvin Jones.
Even if you get Marvin Jones as a wide receiver
four and he's only a wide receiver four, you're getting
him in double digit rounds and I'm going to smash
Jadan Higgins every single time as a double digit round pick.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Who are your favorite rookies to own that we talked
about here? And who did we not talk about that
you guys are screaming in the comments, We'll drop them
and let us know the rookies that you guys have
got to We want to hear from you and we
want to see you get them in your draft for
Fantasy Prose, Mister Pat Fitzmorris and the Athletics Jake Sealey,
I'm Chris Welsh. Thank you guys, and good luck with
all your drafts and rookie drafts. We'll talk to you
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Hello friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Football Podcast.
I'm Chris Welsh, and today we are talking about the
rookies that experts love to draft, and the two experts
tippy top of the crop. We got Pat Fitzmorris for
Fantasy Pros and the Athletics own Jake Seeley both joining me,
and they're going to be laying down the rookies that
you need to have, and we are wasting no more time.
(00:22):
We're jumping right into it. Pat, who is the rookie
that you and everyone else has to own?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Tederoad McMillan, Wide receiver, Carolina Panthers. I've got him ranked
wide receiver sixteen right now. I don't think you need
to be that aggressive with him and drafts, but I
do want to be aggressive with a top ten NFL
draft pick who stands six foot five, who comes into
the NFL as an advanced route runner, and who averaged
one hundred and eight point eight yards per game over
(00:49):
his final two college seasons. Despite some pretty mediocre quarterback play,
McMillan is going to be Bryce Young's top receiver from
the jump, and the Panthers will probably have to throw
quite a bit because their defense is very much a
work in progress. Teteroe McMillan could be a top ten
target earner in the NFL as a rookie.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The preseason has only done nothing but help and rise
and rise, and experts continue to love Jake. Does this
expert love Teroa McMillan, No.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Question here here's why. Like I love tedter Roll McMillan
the player, I don't love ted Roll McMillan the Carolin Panther.
And it's funny, like I've been on the side that's saying,
similar to the OHIOA state wide receivers for the longest time,
is that we went into last year's college season like
McMillan's clearly the number one, and we kind of got
fatigued and everybody was looking for other reasons to say
(01:41):
other wide receivers at the other end of the year,
which I thought was crazy. Like McMillan was clearly the
best wide receiver in that draft class. There's a reason
where he went on the draft, and like maybe Hunter,
there's a debate, but their different styles and I think
Hunter went in front of him because the potential defensive
side of it. All that being said is even one
hundred and forty targets. I've been Bryce Young in this offense,
and I'm positive on Bryce Young, like I'm one of
(02:03):
the people saying, like, take a flyer on Bryce and
what he can do in fantasy, but I think some
of that is rushing. My concern is still that Bryce
Young isn't going to be the biggest a dot thrower.
Bryce Young is very much better in the middle intermediate
kind of game, and I think McMillan can do it all.
He can do short, intermediate and deep. I just think
that for McMillan to get to wide receiver one, even
(02:25):
top sixteen, top eighteen, you need a little bit more
touchdown equity and a little bit more on the yards
where I'm projecting and think he's going to be. I
have him as a top twenty five wide receiver. I
just think on half the other leagues are teams in
the league, he would be more in line with where
Fits has him. I'm not as aggressive just because I
feel more of like a maybe Jamison Williams type of
(02:47):
season coming on a thousand yards seven air touchdowns, but
it happens either one or two ways. One that still
comes on sixty and maybe I'm wrong on the A
dot or maybe it comes on eighty receptions. I just
don't think it's eighty and thirteen hundred and nine touchd downs,
which is what you kind of really.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Need rookies that experts except Jake Seeley love to draft.
So Jacob Oh, I have zero McMillan.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I am clearly the low person on I mean, even
though he's inside my top twenty five, I am the
low person. I'm a villain.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So you love or you hate great things, So let's
find yes you do love. Who is the rookie that
you feel that everybody should have.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm gonna go deeper. I'm gonna say Matthew Golden, who
I think similar McMillan is stepping in to be the
one for his team. I think there's no question. Even
if there was, it doesn't matter because none of the
other damn receivers are on the field right now. Everybody's
getting hurt up and down the line. Romeo Dobbs just
got hurt. And I thought Romeo Dobbs would be the
one with him, or the two with Golden Bee and
(03:42):
the one and more of the big play option where
Golden would have some of that. But kind of be
more of the intermediate, more of like the McMillan on
this team. But like I said, Dobbs is hurt, Reid's
bang up, Wix can't get on the field, Like there's
the other rookie savior on Williams was missing time. Like
there's just so many questions where the answer sitting here
has been and who can finally be the one for
the Packers. Last year, the most frustrating thing is fits
(04:04):
and everybody knows this is the Packers wouldn't use any
of their wide receivers more than sixty five, maybe even
seventy percent of the time on route participation. And we're
sitting here just frustrated for us in fantasy because we
don't know who's going to be the guy any given week.
You go back to last year, there's four different wide
receivers that were the leading wide receiver for the Packers
at some point, actually five if you include tight ends.
(04:26):
So that's how crazy it was. So I think the
real answer here is Matthew Golden could be walking into
almost the same target volume at not quite but almost
the same target volume as McMillan, which I don't have
him as heis McMillan. I only have Golden inside my
top thirty five, but he's going so far beyond that.
Because people are still worried about this, who's going to
be the guy for the Packers? Jordan Love bounces back
(04:48):
at all. Golden at thirty five inside my top thirty
five actually might be too low. He might be pushing
the top twenty five before we know it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, I love. It's talked about how he looks like
Christian Watson already at least to play some of that role.
I've fallen in a little bit of like there's just
so much with like the rotations and stuff. I almost
want to avoid the Packers wideouts, but they're also cheap,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What he's going to clear it up. He's gonna be
the one that doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Rotate, and I mean he's coming at a really low cost.
I mean top twenty five would be huge. Pat what
do you think about Golden? Do you think, especially with
you picking a wide receiver already, that you have to
own another wide receiver in that group? What do you
think about Golden as this pick? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I had my doubts about Golden and didn't love the
pick as a Packers fan because of his college production profile,
which was kind of iffy up until he started smashing
down the stretch for Texas last year. You know, before
he had been kind of an unremarkable University of Houston receiver,
like post tank.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Dell Isaiah Bond was better than him.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
For first he was, Bond was the number one receiver
for Texas. Then Bond got hurt and Golden started cooking,
and he was doing it against good defenses like Georgia.
But Golden is reportedly at a really good camp. He's fast,
like he's just what the doctor ordered for the Packers defense.
And yeah, I mean, like, I do think there's a
chance that he surprises, because there is definitely an immediate
(06:05):
opportunity for him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
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about the rookies that you have to own. Experts love
these guys. You guys love these guys, you want to
(06:49):
own them. Let's actually talk about format because sometimes format
can speak a little bit more to different rookies. So
we are going to go through you guys are going
to each get a different territory, a different spot here.
So we are going to target first a redraft player,
obviously not Tedoro McMillan within the first nine rounds half
PPR ADP. That's going to be our little bubble and Pat,
(07:12):
you are going to get this one. So pick one
rookie in the redraft format that people should be targeting.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Tyler Warren. If I do not get one of the
top tight ends, I am likely to wait it out
at the position and then draft two guys at tight end,
and I want Tyler Warren to be one of those
two guys. In the colts first two preseason games, Tyler
Warren has played thirty four of thirty five snaps with
the starters. He is a three down tight end from
a team that has been using a mishmash of Moe,
(07:40):
Ali Cox and Kylon Granson and yeah, it's just been
a mess. This guy's going to play at tight end
all the time for the Colts and he's going to
be a big part of their offense. Tyler Warren runs
people over. Last year at Penn State, Tyler Warren at
one hundred and four catches for twelve hundred and thirty
three yards and eight touchdowns. He counted for thirty five
point six percent of the Nitney Lions pass receptions last season.
(08:04):
Tyler Warren also ran for two hundred and eighteen yards
and four touchdowns. He also threw a touchdown pass. He's
a former high school quarterback. Draft Tyler Warren not only
because he's gonna be really good, but because it's gonna
be a heck of a lot of fun to have
him on your team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
All right, let's move to best ball, Jake. You're actually
literally doing the flex best Ball, Flex League best ball
right now. So a best Ball upside rookie who.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Do we got? Which I kind of hate the question
because everybody's good in best Ball, But the one thing
I will target is somebody that you might not normally
draft in redraft and somebody that's in an offense that'll
attack if something were to happen. It's Isaac Tesla. We
saw the Lions. They threw a lot of draft capital
to move up and get Tesla as it's a telling factor.
He's already the number three, they're already impressed with him.
(08:51):
And here's the biggest question about it is like how
do I find value with these best ball players? How
do I find and you know, not necessarily be able
to predict when it happens, is that even if everybody
stays healthy, there'll be weeks where Tesla ends up in
your starting lineup because he found his way to the
end zone or had one of those random big games.
But on top of it, you also get the upside.
If Saint Brown or Jamison happens to miss one, two, three,
(09:12):
four more games, then Tesla is gonna step in as
the number two, and that's the real appeal. Like remember
Tim Patrick, He's taken Tim Patrick's job and Tim Patrick's
has two or three usable games a year, so you
get that with Tesla plus the bonus if something were
to happen injury wise.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, we're moving down to dynasty. Hey, Pat, this
is perfect for you, a star of all of our
Dynasty content here at Fantasy Pros, future star rookie, future
star Dynasty pick. Who are you going with?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
A mechag Buka. During the Senior Bowl in the Combine,
when teams were conducting the interviews with the players, eg
Buka was reportedly one of the small handful of players
who every team just loved unanimously. The Buccaneers drafted Egbuka
nineteenth overall, which was earlier than expected, and now he
has reportedly been having a phenomenal training camp. Eg book
(10:00):
is a really good rot runner. It's probably the best
in the slot, but has the versatility to play outside
as a flanker, consistently makes yardage after the catch, and
maybe best of all, from a fantasy perspective, Agbuka was
always able to produce at Ohiot State, excuse me, despite
playing with other wide receivers who were college stars, like
he is going to be a star himself and he
could get there as early as this year. I'm not
(10:22):
buying that there are too many miles to feed in
Tampa for Eggbuka to pop as a rookie because he
is a mouth at Baker Mayfield won't want to feed
rookie sleepers.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's always an interesting thing. Rookies get all the hype,
but we know there's a lot of upsides. So Jake,
our final formatically here late round rookie sleepers, So this
is outside the first nine rounds. Tesla would have worked great,
but I understand what for the best ball format here?
So this opens up a little bit. Who's your pick
or you know picks?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just yeah, there's other names. If you go back to
their shows, go pay attention to the rookie show that
we did, all three of us together. It talks so
much about DJ Giddens. There's others that we're going to
talk about here in a second. I keep bringing up,
so I wanted to do something a little different a
name that I really hadn't brought up yet, and that's
Mason Taylor. And I think if you look at the
depth chart for the Jets, who's the number two option?
We're really getting excited about Josh Reynolds right now journeyman
(11:12):
at this point, and we're talking to Arian Smith that
the draft pick everybody thought they reached on, but now
Malchai Corley might get cut already and not make this
team after just being drafted just shortly ago. And you
look at the tight end position. They wanted Mason Taylor
out there. They finally got him out there because Taylor
was banged up. And as Pat says about these other players,
not only were the training can't reports glowing, his first
(11:33):
game action and everybody like, ooh, look what's happening here.
And if you look at Justin Field's second option, what
it has been, you make cole Comette valuable mostly turning
to him in the red zone. And I think that
if you're looking for a surprise tight end, that could
put his name in with the Loveland or Warren heck,
even potentially surpassed Loveland because he's more blocked with the
weapons on those teams. I think Mason Taylor is a
super super deep but a name that if you miss
(11:55):
on tight end, maybe you take a fire, but you
didn't take a second one. I think Mason Taylor could
end up being your answer.
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Slash Premium. You had to have these rookies at the
tippy top. Now, these are guys you really don't want
to leave your draft with. These are some quick hitters.
Here two players you just don't want to leave or
(12:41):
two rookie players you don't want to leave your draft with.
Pat Who are they?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Trevion Henderson and Luther Burden. Henderson is just a jolt
of electricity. He's going to be a time share back.
But Jamiir Gibbs is a time share back, and that's
not a comparison that should be made lightly. But Henderson
is really, really good and just electric with the ball.
In his hands. We want players who just move differently
than other players at their position. It's why I'm excited
(13:06):
about Henderson. It's also why I'm excited about Luthor Burden.
I have some good friends who went to college at Missouri,
so I pay pretty close attention to Missouri football and Burden, Man,
that guy was just a human joystick at Missouri. And
don't be scared off by this silly talk about Ilaminade
as a kas being the Bears slot receiver, Like, I
want more of that talk to make it easier for
(13:27):
me to draft Burden. It's going to be Luthor Burden
in the slot for the Bears, and he could quickly
become one of the better slot guys in the.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
League, regardless of their ADP, regardless of your team construction, Jake,
who are a couple rookies that you can't leave your
draft without?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, so Pat stole one of mine, and everybody knows
by now his team Trevion Henderson. So I'm okay with that.
I will mention the second one. And similar to what
Pat just said about the Luther Burner situation, I hope
this talk continues for OHS. Jaden Higgins truly the number two,
or is it going to be Christian Kirk or is
he only playing behind Nico Collins Because you saw some
(14:03):
of that report after the second game, and I want
that talk to continue because I want to get Jaden
Higgins at a discount and I want to get Jaen
and Higgins into double digit rounds because it was just
ten days ago where it's like Jaden Higgins is locked
up the number two, it's not even a question. And
then the second game rolls out and everybody's like, oh, well,
maybe he's behind Nico Collins and it's going to be
Christian Kirk and all this mismatch of other options. No, please,
(14:24):
if you're talking talent second round pick, they didn't spend
the second round, or Jane and higgas and be like,
oh cool, let's see if we can get Christian Kirk
to stay on the field for all seventeen games as
our slot option. Anyway, Higgins has Nico Collins' ability.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I won't go that far.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's Dame Bruler from the Athletic Mine was Marvin Jones.
Even if you get Marvin Jones as a wide receiver
four and he's only a wide receiver four, you're getting
him in double digit rounds and I'm going to smash
Jadan Higgins every single time as a double digit round pick.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Who are your favorite rookies to own that we talked
about here? And who did we not talk about that
you guys are screaming in the comments, We'll drop them
and let us know the rookies that you guys have
got to We want to hear from you and we
want to see you get them in your draft for
Fantasy Prose, Mister Pat Fitzmorris and the Athletics Jake Sealey,
I'm Chris Welsh. Thank you guys, and good luck with
all your drafts and rookie drafts. We'll talk to you
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next time right here on Fantasy Pros.
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