The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast on Hayden Hurst

PodcastThe Show: Training Camp Sleepers, Market Score Comp Projections, and MoreJuly 23, 2026

From the episode

without Tua, we saw H and be completely useless in fantasy football. Like we've, we've literally seen the floor. The floor is not what happened last year... Tua was still elevating him just from a, a pure, um, you know, how we, how we score fantasy football perspective.

Mentioned at 21:48 – 23:12

STACKED’s take

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Zachariason warns Hurst's value is Tua-dependent; floor lower without him.

JJ Zachariason cautions that Hayden Hurst's fantasy value is heavily dependent on Tua Tagovailoa; notes that without Tua, Hurst was 'completely useless in fantasy football' last year, and while Hurst may maintain a 20% target share, the floor is significantly lower than 2023 production because Tua was elevating him; expects Tua to provide a floor but not guarantee the same ceiling.