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Our 6 Favorite Fantasy Football WR Sleepers

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Jun 29, 2026
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Xavier WorthyMatthew GoldenBrock BowersKenneth Walker IIICooper KuppDenzel BostonJaxon Smith-NjigbaMalik WashingtonPatrick MahomesTrey Rucker
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Brock Bowers

PositiveProjection0:17

Brock Bowers is an awesome selection in fantasy football, though he is unlikely to replicate JSN's 36% target share and 50% air yard share from last season.

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PositiveProjection0:17

While Brock Bowers is an awesome selection in fantasy football, he won't hit the same target share (36%) and air yards share (50%) that JSN had in Seattle last year.

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Cooper Kupp

NegativeRole2:30

At 33 years old and with minimal receiver production, expected to be replaced by Shaheed in the Seahawks' two-wide receiver sets.

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Denzel Boston

PositiveRole0:22

Denzel Boston is expected to be a red zone threat for the Browns with a bigger body type that Todd Monken values, being selected two spots ahead of Casey Conpsion in current drafts.

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Jaxon Smith-Njigba

PositiveUsage0:18

Currently has a 35% target share with the Seahawks, which could decrease if Shaheed becomes more involved in the offense.

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Kenneth Walker III

PositiveRole0:13

Kenneth Walker is expected to change how defenses force the Chiefs offense to play, potentially opening up downfield passing opportunities for receivers like Xavier Worthy and Taekwon Thornton.

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PositiveRole0:31

Despite being the Super Bowl MVP, the Seahawks chose not to re-sign him, instead investing $51 million in Rasheed Shaheed.

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Malik Washington

PositiveDepth Chart0:18

Malik Washington is the second pass catcher on the Dolphins, drafted later than other teams' second options, making him a potential value target.

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Matthew Golden

PositiveSleeper0:05

Golden is a value-rich situation being drafted in the 10th round on Underdog and 15th on Yahoo despite the Packers being projected for the eighth most points in the league and Golden playing 72 snaps in one or two receiver sets as a rookie.

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PositiveUsage0:06

Golden played 72 snaps in one or two receiver set situations compared to Jaden Reed's eight pass routes in those same groupings, showing he's the clear target in the Packers' personnel packages.

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PositiveProjection0:07

Golden played 50% of Packers snaps as a rookie and is expected to play closer to 85% of snaps this year on a per-route basis, with 1.44 yards per route and 16 targets per route as a rookie baseline.

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PositiveBreakout0:07

Golden has evident explosiveness on tape and nearly connected on a couple long touchdowns; LaFleur simplified his role as a rookie with repetitive routes, but there's a pathway for him to do more and increase week-to-week consistency.

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PositiveProjection0:08

Golden was drafted 23rd overall by the Packers, signaling internal confidence in his development; he's a perfect sleeper where baseline case is his current ADP but upside is a first-round caliber wide receiver.

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PositiveSleeper0:08

Golden is a perfect sleeper pick as a first-round WR with development potential; on baseline case he's being drafted appropriately, but if he proves to be the best WR on the Packers, it's a huge win.

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PositiveRole0:08

Golden will be a complementary piece to Christian Watson rather than the top WR on the Packers, but a complementary piece on a good offense can provide valuable fantasy spots.

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PositiveBreakout0:09

If Golden gets a healthy offseason and more development with a tighter WR room, he has the opportunity to prove he should be a true starter for the Packers.

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PositiveSleeper0:29

Young WR with speed and a firm pathway to routes; low ADP makes him a good sleeper candidate who could break out with improved team environment and development.

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PositiveBreakout0:30

Young player with speed and a firm pathway to routes who could improve significantly with better team environment and a couple of long catches, potentially reaching top-30 WR production.

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Patrick Mahomes

NegativeProjection0:14

Mahomes' catch rate on downfield passes has been really bad over the last two years, with poor catchable ball rate contributing to incompletions.

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Trey Rucker

PositiveSleeper0:18

Trey Tucker is the alternative wide receiver option on the Raiders, but Jaylen Naylor is the preferred sleeper pick due to the coaching staff's deliberate effort to sign Naylor and his familiarity with the Kubak offense.

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Xavier Worthy

NegativeBust0:10

Last season was a disaster for Worthy; he was limited by injuries and Andy Reid was afraid to use him in certain route concepts like crossing routes due to his dislocated shoulder.

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PositiveProjection0:11

If Worthy returns healthy, Andy Reid indicated they will use him differently with more screens and crossing routes that were removed from the playbook due to injury concerns.

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PositiveUsage0:11

Worthy's screen rate dropped from 1.5 screens per game two seasons ago to 0.5 last season, and his average depth of target increased from 8.9 to 12.9, indicating a more vertical role due to injury limitations.

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PositiveSleeper0:11

Worthy is a first-round pick with limited target competition around him; betting on him being healthier with reduced competition from aging Travis Kelce and injured Rasheed Rice.

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NegativeBust0:12

Worthy has been underwhelming as a down-to-down WR despite his speed; he caught only 4 of 16 targets 20+ yards downfield last season versus 7 of 21 in his rookie year, suggesting cornerbacks play through his body easily due to his size.

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NegativeBust0:12

Underwhelmed by Worthy's performance as a down-to-down receiver despite his speed; he caught only 4 of 16 targets 20+ yards downfield last season and 4 of 13 in intermediate routes, suggesting cornerbacks play through his body easily due to his weight and size.

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NegativeRole0:13

Cornerbacks play through Worthy's body easily and physical corners force him to play at his speed rather than allowing him to play fast, which is a concern about his fundamental ability as a receiver.

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NegativeInjury0:15

Worthy's shoulder was severely injured early in the season when he ran into Travis Kelce on the first contact he had, which affected his performance throughout the year.

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NegativeProjection0:15

Only reached 80 yards receiving in 3 games across 34 career appearances, indicating a lack of consistent high-volume production.

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PositiveValue0:16

Going in the eighth round on Underdog but the seventh pick of the 12th round on Yahoo, showing significant ADP variance across platforms.

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PositiveSleeper0:29

Young WR with speed and low ADP; early career injuries may have impacted his development, but he has potential to improve with better team environment.

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PositiveBreakout0:30

Young player with speed and a firm pathway to routes who could improve significantly with better team environment and a couple of long catches, potentially reaching top-30 WR production.

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0:00Oh yes, it is time to unveil our favorite wide receiver sleepers for the season. A bit of a twist this year. Yes,
0:06we are including your home league drafts in this conversation. So, here are the parameters. Okay, each of these names has to be pick 120 or later. That's the
0:15end of the 10th round either on underdog or on Yahoo and even sometimes both because we want to include everyone here. Hayden, kick us off. Who's your
0:22favorite wide receiver sleeper this season?
0:24>> I got Rasheed Shahed from the Seahawks this off season. He signs a $51 million deal. three years, a lot of guaranteed
0:31money. It was actually even more money than Kenneth Walker uh signed with the Chiefs. So, the Seahawks told us with their own dollars that Rasheed Shahed is
0:38more valuable than Kenneth Walker. I'm paying attention. Remember, they also traded a third round pick. Did not have a great season uh on the Seahawks in
0:47terms of his receiving work. But if you go back to the Saints days, he had a 15ame stretch from 2024 to 2025. In
0:56those 15 games, he had uh 57 yards per game. He was the wide receiver 38 and wide receiver 30 usage. That was with
1:03Spencer Rattler and the injured version of Derek Carr as the quarterback. So, I think on a baseline level when he's being drafted as wide receiver 57 right
1:11now, I think that there's like a baseline projection uh positive uh case for him. And then you obviously have the contingent value if something ever
1:18happens to JSN who just had like a ridiculous like 35% target share. I think that can drop down a little bit.
1:25they get Shahed more involved. I wouldn't expect Cooper Cuff to be all that involved, especially if something happened to JSN. And then we also got
1:32ESPN's Jeremy Fowler just a couple days ago saying that Shahed had a major spring. He and Sam Darnold are hitting it off, which makes sense just based off
1:39how those two skill sets overlap.
1:41They're going to give him more short and intermediate stuff. He's going to be a big time player. I think that that last
1:47part there, the short intermediate stuff, he hasn't done that a whole lot in the pros.
1:51>> Yep.
1:52>> Just watching him. And Josh, you probably agree with me. He's got that that start stop ability where I do think
1:58in the right offense, if you do sprinkle in some of that stuff, I do think there's more value in that. So, I'm
2:04hoping that we're not just going to have this, you know, huge downfield role for him. I think that will pay off in
2:09baseball, but I do think there's a pathway by week wide receiver four, wide receiver three where you can throw him into your starting lineup. If he gets a
2:16couple more screens, couple little shallow crosses and runs after the wind.
2:20Uh, I think there's a chance here. is one of my favorite picks of the year, too. He's the fifth pick of the 12th
2:24round on underdog and then one pick later over on Yahoo. So, the same exact spot in both drafts at this very moment.
2:32I think there was some frustration last year because he and Clint Kubak had a history in New Orleans when that offense
2:38with a lav uh was one of the best in the league for the first three or four years uh of that partnership. And then when he
2:44goes to New Orleans, you think to yourself, "Oh, he knows the offense.
2:47He's just going to immediately be inputed into the team." and that just wasn't the case. Obviously, the special teams impact was massive and you could
2:55argue that was played a major part just getting them one of the top overall seeds in the playoffs and then obviously
3:02getting a Super Bowl ring at the end of it. But the receiver production, you know, since joining Seattle was extremely minimal. I mean, 15 of 26
3:08targets he caught in the regular season for just 188 yards since joining the Seahawks. Obviously in the playoffs he had three catches for 78 yards, but he
3:16went from being targeted on 22% of his routes in New Orleans down to 14% this last year. So let me ask you this,
3:22right? Seattle last year was 30th in 11 personnel, three wide receiver sets across the league at just 42%. So on this team, this is one of the true cases
3:33where all we care about is two wide receiver sets. You have to assume with this nomination and just overall with his talent
3:41>> that he is going to take over for Cooper Cup. Do you think that's going to be in week one or do you think that's going to
3:46be in week four, week five?
3:47>> I think that happened when they gave him $51 million. You know, Cooper Cup didn't do a whole lot. He was fine enough on
3:53his targets was not getting it home uh necessarily. Now he's 33 years old. So I think just the the financial investment
3:59they could have resigned Kenneth Walker who the Super Bowl MVP. They said no thank you. We'll figure that out later.
4:04We need Rasheed Shahed. Uh, and I think there's a reason for that. Him and Sam Darnold downfield is going to work out.
4:09I really do hope that if something ever happened to JSN, I think that Shahed can be uh show showcase more of a a
4:17underneath uh weaponry than he currently has. My my other last note here, uh I looked at the wide receiver two or the
4:24tight end two, whoever's a second in the depth chart in ADP uh on their teams and only the Dolphins, Raiders, and
4:30Commanders have a player in that wide receiver/tightend two category that's lower than Rasheed Shahi. Remember the Seahawks just were second in scoring and
4:4110th in passing yards. yet their number two pass catcher in the depth chart is one of the latest picks in fantasy to
4:48obviously JSN being so dominant explains some of that. I think there's a big part of that's unexplained and that's just because it's a bad ADP. So I think that
4:56he should be up a couple rounds from here. He's going to be very inconsistent if JSN stays the same. But if JSN does
5:02go down, I think that he's going to be uh an every week starter and I do think that he's going to be way more in the
5:08mix this year than he was last year.
5:10>> I love that. Seattle projected for the ninth most points in the league this season. Uh that's exactly the type of
5:15offense we want to target. And yeah, I've got a need I've got a need for Shahed. He is just a much better pure
5:21individual wide receiver talent than I think give him credit for. And it makes sense that he couldn't crack the rotation when Cooper Cup was healthy
5:28because they won the freaking Super Bowl, you know, like why change all this stuff and we know the impact that he
5:34brought. So, this is like the perfect time, the perfect off seasonason for him to go out there and and command those
5:39two wide receiver set situations. Okay, my next name is Matthew Golden. And look, I didn't rank the Packer secondyear wide receiver as the best
5:49wide receiver in his draft class coming into the league like others did. In fact, I actually might be slightly less optimistic than others about his
5:56individual ceiling in the NFL just because I didn't see a whole bunch of pop after the catch outside of a couple
6:01catches and then, you know, he's more of like an on the ground player versus going up and getting it for his
6:06quarterback. But even with that said, I am drafting Matthew Golden in the 10th round on underdog and then on Yahoo, he's going in the 15th round way more
6:15than I'm just passing up on him because I think this type of player and this type of offense that's projected for the
6:21eighth most points in the league is exactly like a valuerrich situation that we should all be taking advantage of during the summers. I mean, look, all we
6:31have to do is now look at this wide receiver room that in the past has given us headaches, but now we move on from
6:37the Dantavan Wixes and whoever else you want to throw out there, the Romeo Dobs of the world, and it's a we believe
6:42strict three receiver set personnel in a team that used a lot of 11. Now, when they go to 12, we already saw that
6:49Matthew Golden played 72 snaps in one or two receiver set situations compared to his counterpart in Jaden Reed, who has only run a pass route on eight plays in
6:59one or two wide receiver sets. So no matter the personnel grouping and even if some people can argue good people on
7:07both sides what his actual ceiling is as a player, I still think like we want to find undervalued investments on really
7:16good teams and really good passing situations. And I think Jordan Love can really accentuate the strengths of someone like Matthew Golden in the
7:23league.
7:24>> Yeah, I mean the routes are going to come way up. He played about 50% of the Packer snaps as a rookie. That's going
7:28to be closer to 100% maybe. Let's call it 85% this year on a per route basis.
7:331.44 yards per route. Nothing crazy. 16 targets per route. Nothing too crazy, but for a rookie that's like at least passable on a per route basis. And the
7:42explosiveness is pretty evident on his tape. Uh in my opinion, uh they nearly came up down with a couple really long
7:49touchdowns that were just for whatever reason were not connected with. And I do think that Laflur kind of simplified uh Matthew Golden's role as a rookie where
7:57it was a lot of the same type of route over and over again. I think that he can do more than that. Uh I don't know that
8:04for sure. I think there's a pathway for him to do more than that. And if we do get that, then I think you're going to
8:09see his like week toe consistency kick back up. They draft him the 23rd overall pick. Like they they did not have to get
8:15rid of uh Dantavian Wixs. They could have resigned Romeo Dobs to some degree.
8:20That is them saying internally, we feel good about Matthew Golden who was an inexperienced young early declare coming out. We should expect this type of
8:30player in round one to develop over the next couple seasons here. So, I do think he's a perfect sleeper. Uh I think that
8:36on baseline case he's being drafted where he is. And if he does turn out to be, hey, guess what? That's a first
8:40round wide receiver right there. Uh all of a sudden, this could be a huge win.
8:43And look, when he was drafted in the first round, I thought there was a pathway for him to prove that he was,
8:48you know, the best wide receiver on the Packers, and that was also, you know, a time when Christian Watson was coming
8:54back from a significant injury.
8:55>> Yes, I don't think that's the case now.
8:57I think Christian Watson has developed into that good of a player that Golden's going to be more of a complimentary piece, but again, like that is totally
9:05fine here. like a complimentary piece on a really good offense can give you some extremely valuable spots, especially for a player that when we talk through his
9:14profile, started the University of Houston, was above average, was fine, and then went to Texas and really developed and really improved in a lot
9:24of areas. And I think the improvement for him last year was impossible to have based on the injuries that he had
9:30mid-season in the shoulder and wrist issues. And so if we get a healthy off seasonason here, if we get more development and again a tighter, more
9:38lean wide receiver room, then Matthew Golden, it's on him if he's going to fail, right? He's going to have the opportunity to go out and and show that
9:47he should be a true starter for this team. And I think at the very least, he's good enough for that. All right,
9:52next up, >> I got Xavier Worthy. And I will fully admit, not the best day to be uh pumping Xavier worthy bags after whatever we're
10:00calling that video of him running in the fields. First of all, I'm not even convinced that is Xavier worthy. I will
10:07fully retract this if that was Xavier worthy. If he was running, >> he did repost it. So, either this is the
10:13best long con and uh you know, great self-owned that we have seen or Xavier Worthy is uh you know, smarter than all
10:20of us here.
10:21>> Yeah. So, I I cannot explain this. I'm just hoping that whatever I was watching that was fake news. If that is fake
10:27news, I do think we're in for a bounceback season. Last year was a disaster. I'm not going to say that it
10:32wasn't a disaster. I think we can potentially contextualize this. And I'll go uh use Andy Reid here. Remember, he had the dislocated shoulder in week one
10:41because Travis Kelce ran right into him.
10:43Then he had two different ankle injuries week five one and then another setback in week 13. and maybe he was just, you
10:50know, training his ankles in like that 6 inch uh blades of grass in that park with the holes in it. Maybe he's just
10:56trying to develop his ankles. But if he's healthier now, I think they're going to use him differently. And Andy Reid had a a really interesting uh
11:03comment. He said, >> "I would tell you that we kind of after that were afraid to do certain things with Worthy. So, I think him coming back
11:09healthy, I think that opens up the whole picture you saw during training camp, this last year's training camp where he had a whole bunch of different routes.
11:17Uh what I think that means is some more screens. His screen rate, he had like one and a half screens per game uh two
11:24seasons ago. That dropped to only a half screen this last game. His average depth of target was uh at 8.9 two years ago.
11:31Last year was at 12.9 only a vertical role in the offense. And then he specifically mentioned crossing routes where when he had his big shoulder
11:40injury, they couldn't send him on crossing routes because you're going to get hit there and they couldn't afford him to have a setback. So, they took
11:45that off the menu in theory. I mean, that is a fantastic route for Xavier Worthy to be good at, and that's what he
11:51did two seasons ago when he was uh the wide receiver 27 in full PPR. So, last year was a disaster. I'm just betting on
11:59him being healthier. And I'm also just factoring in the downside case of Travis Kelce when he's what, 37 years old, getting married to Taylor Swift. And you
12:07know, Rasheed Rice, the the de facto wide receiver one, was just in jail trying to rehab a a knee injury that's
12:14been bothering him for a long time here.
12:17So, just give me Kansas City's number two wide receiver. We'll figure out the rest later. I'm not even convinced that Xavier is really good at football. But
12:26in theory, just like we had with Matthew Golden, this is a first round player where the Chiefs have a lot a lot of
12:31hope for him and there's really not that much target competition around him. I've been really underwhelmed by Xavier Worthy since he's been in the NFL. Uh
12:38not that he, you know, doesn't flash speed in certain situations and there are obvious moments where Andy Reid uses him effectively, but as like a
12:47downto-down wide receiver, I think he shows that just because you're the fastest receiver out there doesn't mean you're the best vertical player out
12:57there. Uh I mean, the numbers back this up. He caught four of 16 targets 20 plus yards down the field last season. uh
13:04during his rookie year he caught seven of 21 20 plus yards on the field and then just four of 13 in their
13:10intermediate section of the field.
13:13Part of me believes like cornerbacks just play through his body really easily and that makes sense, you know, with his weight and with his size. And then at
13:21the line of scrimmage, physical corners don't allow him to play fast. He they force him to play at at his speed. And I
13:30am a little bit nervous that this is just who he is. And unless Patrick Mahomes can have like this mindmeld perfect downfield ability, then this is
13:40all reliant on Kenneth Walker like changing how defenses are forcing the Chiefs offense to play which maybe this is >> maybe this is a you know Kenneth Walker
13:52point disguised as a Xavier worthy point where the Chiefs have said okay we've had success rate runs we've had effective runs but we are still getting
14:00these shells over the top and we haven't you know been successful downfield passing K9's going to change that and if they change that then we don't have to
14:08only rely on the underneath yak stuff Travis Kelce and we can get the Xavier Worthy and even Taekwon Thornton who was
14:16the best downfield receiver for this team last year get going.
14:19>> Yeah, I mean in theory Kenneth Walker and Xavier Worthy are correlated picks together just based off the whole kind of thing moving forward. Mahomes stays
14:27healthy and then like you said just the way that Xavier Worth is being covered down the football field and then for
14:32whatever reason the last two years >> Patrick Mahomes catch rate on downfield passes is like really bad. like it's just the catchable ball rate. So like
14:40obviously some of those incompletions are Xavier Worthy's uh fault and I agree that sometimes playing through contract has been contact has been a struggle but
14:46like the ball has also sprayed on Mahomes the last couple years. I'm not sure that you know a torn ACL is going
14:51to be perfect for that this year but in theory like Patrick Mahomes could go back to where he wasn't missing for like
14:56what three four years in a row and that would be really nice because there's plenty of times where Xavier Worthy would like catch the ball out of bounds.
15:02I was like well there goes my ADR touchdown that I was banking on. Uh but at the same time, Xavier Worthy was just
15:08not himself last year. Like coming out of his breaks, like it was just >> his shoulder got destroyed on like the
15:12first contact he had in the entire season running into Travis Kelce.
15:15>> Yeah. I mean, just completely annihilated. And by the way, that does happen when you're a buck 40, uh those are the risks that you take. I just
15:22think that in general, if something happens to Rashi uh Rashi Rice in the next couple months here, >> he would be way way mispriced and it's
15:32hard to trust the other guys in this offense.
15:33>> Yeah. Again, we we just posted a video talking about Kenneth Walker and why you and I are both in. On some level, there
15:39are opposites in their skill sets, even if you know, both are 0 to9 yard pass catchers over the last few years, but
15:45like you know, this team is really built at wide receiver with linear skill sets in Rashy Rice and Xavier Worthy and
15:51Taekquin Thornton and and that's about it. Uh you mentioned 80 yard touchdowns.
15:54Here's a stat for you from Reeves. Uh Xavier Worthy just three games of reaching 80 yards receiving over 34 appearances uh in his career so far.
16:03>> Not great. Hey, we used to call this the third year breakout. We don't we don't have the patience for that, but I mean
16:09this is when we used to call it.
16:11>> I'm going to pick a name who moved in free agency and this off season and I think shocked a lot of people based on
16:20the contract that he was given, but not this show because we brought up in our free agency episode. That's Jaylen Naylor now of the Las Vegas Raiders. By
16:29the way, Xavier Worthy uh was going, I believe, in the eighth round over on Underdog, but is the seventh pick of the
16:3712th round on Yahoo. So, that totally lines up with our uh rubric here. But on Jayen Naylor, 13th round on underdog,
16:46undrafted over on Yahoo. And I'm going to package this a little bit with what, you know, Clint Kubak did in Seattle
16:53versus now what the Las Vegas Raiders have with their passing attack. I mean, JSN led the NFL in share of team targets
17:01at 36%. And then share of air yards across league of the passing attack at 50%. As much as I love Brock Bowers, as
17:09much as I think Brock Bowers is an awesome selection in fantasy football, and tell me if you disagree, I don't think he's going to hit those two
17:16numbers this year. in terms of 36% and 50% of targets and air yards for his team. And so we are constantly when we
17:23do this searching for and asking who are the top two pass catchers on any given offense because that's the stable, you
17:30know, predictions that we can give on each week. Jaylen Naylor is that for me and it's unquestioned with the Raiders attached to Brock Bowers. And I think if
17:39you all spent a little bit of time and went back and watched what he did with the Vikings last year, he was a very
17:44consistent piece of that passing attack.
17:45back. I mean, there's one play against the Atlanta Falcons. It's a third and six. There's trips to the right on a
17:50condensed split, two inside routes, and then he is kind of the outside breaker on a little bit of a wheel action at the
17:57line of scrimmage. The corner is always working from behind, but again, his cuts create even bigger separation and a bigger gap. Then he elevates straight up
18:06while working to the sideline for a 14- yard gain. Again, I think there's a lot of overlap here between what he did with
18:11KOC and what Clint Kubak asks. I talked about the condensed splits. their stacks, he's breaking routes, he catches passes off frame. And you know, while
18:20there's some questions in some other productive players that have been, you know, in previous seasons on this Raiders roster, to me, it's Brock
18:27Bowers. And then a gigantic jump all the way down to round 13 for the next guy on the Raiders, Kirk Cousins, Fernando
18:35Mendoza, and that is Jaylen Naylor here.
18:38>> Yeah, I mean the Dolphins, the Commanders, the Raiders, I mentioned Rasheed Jahed. I mean, these are teams where the second pass catcher is not
18:46drafted until we're nearly in the 150s.
18:48So, only Malik Washington's the second pass catcher on the Dolphins. Uh, he's the only one that gets drafted later as a team's second pass catcher. It's
18:56Jaylen Naylor. Now, interesting with Naylor. Trey Tucker is the next wide receiver. So, it's Trey Tucker versus uh Jaylen Naylor. That's the tossup. Who's
19:04going to be I would go with Jaylen Naylor. Like the coaching staff like went out of their way to to bring back
19:09or to to sign Jaylen Naylor. also like the uh there's more upside if like something dramatically has changed. So we talk about young players. So like
19:16there's learning, you're changing teams, you're ch changing coordinators. That's where I think there's some like an easier path to hit uh upside. And I do
19:25think with Naylor in particular like >> he's been like up against Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison his entire career. Like that's that's tough
19:32competition. And to your point KC verticalbased offense and that's what exactly what Kubak brings. So there is some sense of familiarity. So I would be
19:40on team Jaylen Naylor over Trey Tucker.
19:42I think this is a great selection here.
19:43>> Yeah, I mean look, the Vikings made a move for Adam Thelen last training camp who, you know, should have had plenty of
19:48overlap with that Viking staff and that organization and Jay Naylor just effectively kept him on the bench and got him cut by the end of the season.
19:55And I understand if Nailaylor's not the biggest name. He had 12 catches during the first two years of his career. But
20:01again, when watching him as an individual talent, there's a lot of stuff to like these breaking routes outside, inside, and just playing off
20:09his frame. He can work as an inside or outside pass catcher on top of it. And he can kind of be the movement piece
20:15other than Brock Bowers. And I think the two are going to be used in unison a lot on the same side of the field, too. And
20:21that'll be the primary uh, you know, direction that Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza look into. So, I I I'm really drafting.
20:29I think part of the reason why we incorporated home league ADPs into this is because round 10 and beyond over an
20:35underdog this year is a bit of a minefield or let's say the vast majority is a wasteland. Uh Jay Naylor is one of
20:41those names that constantly stands out to me once you get to round 13, round 14.
20:46>> Yeah, I think deep leagues full PPR. I think that Naylor could get in the mix.
20:49There's obviously like some semblance of a lack of a ceiling with Jaylen Naylor, but like I think odds of like just
20:54straight up beating out this this ADP even if you're not going to win your league, I think are pretty high with
20:58them. Okay, we got two more names. Who's your last one?
21:00>> Case Conpsion. He's probably the most fun player that we've talked about just because we're finally getting to a rookie. A rookie that you and I
21:08absolutely loved watching his tape. I thought that he was Z Flowers Plus. It's uh not uh too surprising that Todd Mon
21:18really likes Casey Conpsion. He's compared Casey Conpsion to Z Flowers, who he's obviously just was coaching uh for the last couple years in camp. uh
21:27not training camp and the other parts of camp here. Uh ESPN's reporter on the Browns has said that they're getting Casey Conpsion the ball on deep targets
21:36underneath stuff and even as a rusher.
21:40Not a surprise because he was exactly that in college. His special teams tape was beyond electric. I thought he played bigger than his frame and that's where
21:49actually like Conpsion's uh college tape even more than Z Flowers college tape.
21:53So there's a huge ceiling to chase here.
21:55He's the first wide receiver that goes in ADP on the Browns, but that doesn't happen until we get till the late parts
22:02of the 10th round. There's a pathway for I would say by Halloween, that's when we really start getting excited about Casey
22:08Conpsio. And I'm assuming Jerry Judy's going to be hard to overtake in week one, but I think that he could be a
22:13full-time player. I do think he'd be a manufactured touch player in ways that Jerry Judy can't do because he's I think
22:18he's just more physical. And if he does hit this upset we're talking about, like I thought there was like a little Steph
22:23digs to this. So, it's the damn Browns.
22:26It's not going to be pretty out there, but I think as the season progresses, hopefully we can come on stats versus
22:31film in the middle of the week and show you guys some clips on Casey Conpsion.
22:35>> So, he's going in the 10th round over an underdog, but in your home leagues on Yahoo, 15th round right now. And in
22:41fact, Denzel Boston's being selected two spots ahead of Casey Conception right now, which if I can kind of reverse engineer that mindset like Jerry Judy,
22:50the veteran presence to open the year.
22:53Denzel Boston, bigger body, maybe some believe that his game can translate easier from college. Obviously, Todd Monin has already talked about how
23:01Denzel Boston's going to be a red zone threat for them. They didn't really have his body type, which I I really like
23:06Denzel Boston, so I I can totally see that. But Casey Conpion is just an awesome talent. I mean, I can maybe see
23:13a slow start with this one. Maybe some of that's his fault. A lot of it's probably the quarterback situation fault, and maybe that lends itself to an
23:19entire season of a slow start. But this is someone who we know he has speed. We know he separates on legit routes. We
23:27know he has strength after the catch, too. And he is the player to me that Todd Monkin wants to build this passing
23:34attack around for the long term. And so, we're going to have some down weeks.
23:37That's what happens when, you know, we talk about the Raiders and we talk about the Browns where both are bottom five
23:43and projected points this season. But if there are certain games that we get average quarterback play out of, then that's really going to benefit someone
23:51like Casey Conpion, who is just, I think, an unbelievable talent at the wide receiver spot.
23:56>> Unfortunately, the baseline case, like the Browns are too bad, and even if we like him, is just not going to be enough
24:01to get it going in fantasy. But I just thought that his ceiling as a receiver and as a prospect was so obvious to me
24:09that like he's perfect for this episode that like in 25% of outcomes, he's just so obviously the Browns best wide receiver and most teams at least have
24:18one wide receiver at least in the mix.
24:20>> Yeah. And just keep in mind by weeks typically that's happened when you know wide receivers and rookies have a much
24:28better post by week and then you know this can also be a player seven or six final weeks of the season final games of
24:35the season. That's when they really blast off. It will be better I think under Todd Mona than it was last year
24:40for Browns wide receivers. uh the entire wide receiver room in Cleveland. So, six of them averaged as a total seven receptions for 86 yards per game last
24:51year.
24:53>> That's worse than George Pickins.
24:55>> Yeah, I know. Like we're like literally hoping that Deshun Watson is like just like better than what they had last year
25:00and like we've watched Deshun Watson the last couple years has not been pretty.
25:04Okay, I've got one more and that's I believe quite possibly the most underrated wide receiver in the NFL.
25:12>> Whoa.
25:12>> And his name is Ryan Florenoi.
25:15>> Wow.
25:15>> Of the Dallas Cowboys. Yes. Hit up your Google machine. He's a 14th round pick on underdog. Obviously undrafted on Yahoo. He's on the Dallas Cowboys. Four
25:24games last year. CD Lamb was either out or played less than 50% of snaps due to injury. And two of those, Ryan Florenoi
25:32finished as the wide receiver 13 and the wide receiver six overall that week. Six scraps, 114 yards, then nine of 13
25:41targets for 115 yards and a touchdown.
25:44Look, in a normal game with all three wide receivers healthy, he will play anywhere from 45 to 70% of snaps. We
25:51know the Cowboys love to utilize three wide receiver sets. So he's not, you know, at the base value a complete zero
25:58with no standalone value here. But when one of those names misses, either CD Lamb or George Pickins, and maybe that's even for a long stretch, watch out for
26:07Ryan Florenoid because he has earned a role in the top three of this Cowboys wide receiver room. I mean, he is a
26:15nightmare to cover out of the slot with his two-way goes. Uh he's so good with his feel for zone. He instantly gets up
26:22field after the catch. Obviously, the slot is his best friend, but I don't think he's slot only. I think he can do
26:28a a decent number on the outside as well. So, this is a team that's projected in the top six in points. Uh
26:35they have really recycled that third wide receiver in your Jaylen Tolberts to whoever else we want to throw out there too. But Ryan Florenoi is a name that if
26:45he ever does hit for agency, I think is going to get paid a heck of a lot of money and really surprised me when he
26:52got major run in those four games because I saw a legit NFL wide receiver.
26:56>> I think it's the same way. I think that he's just a really good football player.
26:59He's going to be in three wide receiver sets and the second one of those two wide receivers misses times, he's going
27:04to be the uh thumbnail for the waiverwire column. And you know, that just that's just how it goes. He's also interesting because when somebody that
27:11goes to Central Missouri, Iowa Western, and Southeast Missouri State could get drafted, there's something going on there. And then when that player can get
27:22drafted in the sixth round and then sneak onto the starting lineup, to me, there's just like more potential in like that kind of uh archetype of player
27:30where he had to overcome. I mean, just schools that you don't even know that there's a direction attached to that school name. uh they're all of a sudden
27:38mattering that that's on my radar here.
27:40He's also 6' 202, 444 in the 40 yard dash. There's no like physical limitations. He had a 40in uh vertical jump as well. So, he's just like
27:50continued to just outkick his previous uh job. And I do think that his tape it's like hard to ignore. It's hard for
27:58like a team's third uh wide receiver to matter in fantasy. It has happened before like the Tyler Boyd years. uh you
28:06have to pretty much have like MVP level quarterback play. Dak Prescott has done that before and I like the coaching staff, everyone in the offensive line
28:14returns, yada yada yada. So, of all the teams wide receiver threes, he at least has a chance to get there. But the the
28:20big thing here is like the contingent value is very real. So, in baseball, I like him. Deep leagues like him as a
28:25stash and like the second one of those guys misses time like Florida's going to get legit. We talked about this last
28:31year with Ryan Heath, uh, that a great predictor of breakout seasons is the previous, uh, first downs per route run.
28:41And Ryan Florenoi, if you know, minimize the routes down to about 240 as the baseline here. Uh, he actually had 274.
28:49He was top 13 last year. Wow. In first downs per route run. And it shows up when you watch, man. I mean, he is a
28:57legit talent out there. Uh, and I just hope they're able to showcase that a little bit more. That's for sure. Okay,
29:03one more name I just quickly wanted to bring up, and we talked about him at length on the EP last episode, so go and
29:08watch that if you want a much longer conversation. Quinton Johnson on Yahoo right now, is going so damn late, it's actually egregious. 148 overall, that's
29:19the fourth pick of the 13th round.
29:21Hayden, that one caught my eye significantly because, you know, this is a player who finishes the wide receiver 22 in points per game. Even an underdog
29:29now is going as the wide receiver 38, but you and I believe that as much as we'd love Lad Makanki, that this team is
29:35probably going to be able to support two wide receivers. And QJ's fit with Mike McDaniel, while he has flaws, is going
29:42to accentuate his strengths. And uh this is someone who should not be anywhere close to being on the board in the 13th
29:49round.
29:49>> Yep. I mean, if this is where the Yahoo uh ADP is, then like he's everybody is gonna be drafting him that watches our
29:55show. It's like that obvious. I will also say Matthew Golden, Xavier Worthy, like the Quinton Johnson pass that we talked about where it was not pretty and
30:05then all of a sudden the team environment is so good. You make a couple improvements and you catch a couple long passes and then all of a
30:12sudden you got like a top 30 wide receiver season. Like I think that he's a good example of zoom out for a second,
30:17especially when the ADPs are this low on some of these young players with speed with like a firm pathway to routes and
30:26maybe they just get better all of a sudden because they're they're young.
30:28>> Obviously QJ his situation early in his career uh vaulted him to make even more mistakes and accentuate his flaws with
30:35the Worthies and especially Matthew Golden. The early career injuries might have done that a little bit too.
30:41>> All right, that does it. As you can tell, it's sleepers week. We're gonna have tight ends and quarterbacks and close out this week with running back
30:47sleepers. So, lock in the channel, hit subscribe. We've got some great names coming at you over the next few days.
30:53We'll see you the next one.

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