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0:12So, I need to go ahead. I need to get some rankings out there to help you all out. I'm going to give you wide
0:15receiver, running back, tight end, and quarterback over the next week or so.
0:19So, make sure you drop a like and subscribe. Now, starting off with the S tier, I'm going to keep it stupid
0:25simple. Puganua will be the wide receiver one. Now, there are going to be a couple different things changing from 2025 to 2026 with Puka. One, the most
0:34concerning will be that Matthew Stafford's going to be another year older. The second thing though, which is very much worth talking about, is
0:42Devonte Adams is probably not going to lead the league in receiving touchdowns yet again. Now, of course, we'll talk about Devonte Adams later in this video.
0:50I'm ranked around 30, but I think Puka could actually expand his role in the red zone. I will be concerned that you
0:56do have overall touchdown regression or overall passing volume regression coming to Los Angeles though. Now Jackson Smith and Jigba is going to be our next name
1:05with JSN. 21 fantasy points per game, 105 receiving yards per game in his third NFL season. He's actually one of the youngest wide receivers out of this
1:14list. And if you go over and you look at what we have with the range of outcomes tool on flockfantasy.com, you'll see that similar age 23 seasons
1:23to JSN were CD Lamb in 2022. What did he do the following season? Oh, he improved to 23 points per game. Puka Nakua in
1:312024. Oh, what did Puka do this past season? Oh, he was the wide receiver one in fantasy. We saw Jefferson from 2022
1:38to 2023. Odell Beckham Jr., Yes, was the one wide receiver that had as strong of an age 23 season 2 JSN that got
1:47significantly worse the following year as well as DeAndre Hopkins, but with Odell as well as Hopkins, I do think that those are outlier type scenarios,
1:55especially knowing that that was the year Hopkins had to deal with Brock Osweiler, very safe bet for JSN to absolutely dominate. And one thing that
2:03I do want to point out as well is if you are looking at the JSN pickum on underdog for the big game right now you
2:13are seeing a projection of higher lower 93 and a half receiving yards and this was what we saw pretty much all season
2:19last year. There's no reason to believe that those weekly projections are going to be any lower this next season. Now of
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2:49One is a free gimme pick. The other one's going to be I think they have two different profit boost packs up to 200%.
2:55So, if you're ever going to get on Underdog, now's the time. code flock link in the description as well as the
3:01comment section. Now, with Jamar Chase, much worse this past season, 19.6 fantasy points per game, but he did actually lead the NFL in targets per
3:10game at 11.6. If we go ahead and use the player comparison on flockfantasy.com and compare the games in which Jamar Chase played with Joe Burrow verse
3:18without Joe Burrow, obviously he was much better with Joe Burrow. That receiving yards number moved from 83 per game up to 92 per game. He is the wide
3:27receiver four in points per game in the games in which Joe Burrow did play. You can remove what we had this season, look
3:34back to last year where he's the number one overall player at the wide receiver position and the reason why he went at
3:40the 101 in this year's draft. Now moving over to the A tier, we are going to have a Monroe St. Brown. St. Brown's super
3:47boring. I don't really think we need to spend much time talking about him. Even with Jameson Williams coming out and performing quite well in the second half
3:55of the season, this was still St.
3:57Brown's third straight year finishing as a top five wide receiver from a points per game perspective. And if you look at
4:04the fact that he plays at least 16 games every single season, if you're going for total fantasy points, he is actually
4:11currently sitting as a top three wide receiver over the past three seasons.
4:16So, one of the safer projections you're going to have. And then with CD Lamb, obviously he got injured this past season, which led to the emergence of
4:24George Pickins. And we did see the overall target share in this offense fall from 29.9% in 2023 down to 24% this past season.
4:34And I would expect that George Pickkins is a Dallas Cowboy yet again this next year. But CDL Lamb still incredibly young in his prime going into his age 27
4:43season. We actually saw a very comparable year to Stefon Diggs in 2019 going to 2020. And what happened the following season for him was he exploded
4:53to 20 and a half points per game. Now moving over to our next here, we are going to be led off with Drake London.
5:00So overall, the Atlanta Falcons offense wasn't super super exciting. And if you go through and look at the play of Michael Penn, it's not like we can
5:08assume that the quarterback play is going to be worse this next year. London was making lemonade out of some sour lemons this past season. If you go
5:16through and if you look at the volume numbers, this was most impressive about Drake London. He actually had 30.7% of this team's targets here. He had over
5:2610 targets per game. He had a whopping 83 receiving yards per game in an offense that effectively was not able to
5:34throw the ball. You go ahead and you look at his range of outcomes being an incredibly young wide receiver. Drake London was only 24 years old this past
5:42year. You can go back and look at Michael Thomas with a very similar age 24 year old season in 2017. The
5:49following year he jumped up to almost 20 points per game. You can look at Alshon Jeffrey, Mike Wallace, Jaylen Wadd, and
5:55then obviously you had some guys fall off like Randall Cobb. But honestly, I think London can go in like a different
6:01bucket just because he also had the draft capital. So great prospect coming out of the USC. And it's not like he
6:07came out of nowhere either coming into the year. He's already going at the one-two turn. Now, Justin Jefferson was probably the worst first round pick
6:14outside of Malik Neighbors this past year. And Jefferson was probably worse than Neighbors because you kept on starting him and getting absolutely
6:20nothing. And it's hard to ignore the fact that this man went from being a top seven wide receiver in points per game
6:30every single season through the first five years of his NFL career to being the wide receiver 31 in points per game
6:38this past season. If you look at total fantasy points, I mean, this is a player that had 317
6:47two seasons ago, dropping down to 201.
6:50And the main reason, at least in my opinion, was going to be the play of JJ McCarthy. You go ahead and you look at
6:57the games in which Justin Jefferson played with JJ McCarthy. He scored 10.7 fantasy points per game, which was good for being the wide receiver, 33. And in
7:08the games with no JJ McCarthy, this is with freaking Max Bromer, this is with Carson Wentz, he had 16.3 fantasy points
7:16per game, and he was good for the wide receiver 10. So, I still believe that Justin Jefferson is arguably a top three
7:23talent at the wide receiver position, if not a top two talent in the league.
7:27Clearly, he's dealing with some of the worst quarterback play in the NFL. It's very difficult to rank him this early on. If we knew for sure it was going to
7:35be JJ McCarthy, maybe to be a little bit lower, but I hope the Vikings make a play. Now, Malik Neighbors is a wide
7:41receiver that obviously from a talent perspective has been incredible. the volume numbers were really unheard of as a rookie where
7:52he had 11.3 targets per game. Good for a 35% team target share as a rookie. And then obviously you go through and you
8:01look at what he did at the beginning of this season. He had 12.1 37.7 and then only 3.3 fantasy points. But you had
8:09that ceiling where he had already had 32 targets the first three games that he had played this year. Now you have the
8:15upgraded coaching staff. Not only do you have the upgraded coaching staff, but Jackson Dart looks to be the best quarterback that the New York Giants
8:22have had in a long, long time. My hesitation with Malik Neighbors is I have made the mistake over and over and
8:28over again, especially in early underdog baseball drafts. Like I made a video last January or last February talking about some of my favorite values. And I
8:37actually put Chris Godwin there because I'm an idiot and honestly I have underestimated the impact of these injuries going into the following year.
8:46and Malite Neighbors was not a clean torn ACL. Malite Neighbors had to wait a significant amount of time to have surgery due to the swelling. So, from
8:55what I've read, it does seem like this is going to be something that lingers through training camp and in basketball drafts in particular. Typically, these
9:02injured players that aren't at camp, you can actually get a discount on in August and September. But obviously I've been an idiot ranking these injured players
9:11for years now. So it's very difficult for me to come through and talk with confidence about neighbors. Now moving over to our next year, we are going to
9:19have George Pickkins. Now Pickkins's overall numbers incredible, right? I mean this was a wide receiver averaging 17.2 fantasy points per game this
9:29season. He was the wide receiver eight and this was the first time he finished as a top 36 wide receiver from a points
9:36per game perspective. Now, if you look at the historical range of outcomes, unbelievable for George Pickkins, his age 24 season was similar to Michael
9:45Thomas, AG Green, Odell Beckham Jr., Brandon Marshall, Dez Bryant, Nico Collins, Jaylen Wadd, Randall Cobb, and then Drake London this year. Now, one
9:53thing that is worth pointing out is George Pickkins was good all season long. I'm not gonna say he wasn't, but there was a very big difference between
10:02the games in which George Piggin played with CD Lamb versus without CD Lamb. The games without CD Lamb, you actually had
10:10George Pickins averaging 24.2 fantasy points per game. And he was the number one overall wide receiver in fantasy. In comparison to the games with CD Lamb, he
10:20was actually at 16.8 fantasy points per game, which was still good for a low-end wide receiver one finish. Now, I am
10:26gonna assume that he is the Dallas Cowboy this next season. And while it's very difficult to ever project two wide receivers from the same team, both
10:34finishing top 10, we just saw these guys do it. They're both young. Dak's young at the same time. So, in my opinion, no
10:41reason to believe that they can't do it again. Now, ranking Rashi Rice is also very difficult. Rasheed Rice was the wide receiver six in points per game.
10:49This past year, he averaged 9.8 targets per game. But a couple different things happening here. One, you have Mahomes coming off a torn ACL. Mahomes tore that
10:56ACL very late in the season, but he did have surgery pretty much immediately.
11:01The second thing with this is I don't know if y'all saw the post on Instagram, but Rasheed Rice continues to prove that
11:09he's a jackass. All right, not somebody you want to root for, not somebody you want on your fantasy team. I rank these
11:16guys in terms of just the raw amount of fantasy points that they are going to score. So, this ranking has a little bit
11:22of Rashid Rice suspension risk banked in. But, if I'm going to be honest, it seems like the NFL just frankly doesn't
11:29really care. I mean, ultimately, at the end of the day, the news coming out about Rashid Rice, that Instagram post, it happened early January when the NFL
11:39playoffs were happening where the Kansas City Chiefs were out of it. We got a long six, seven months till the NFL
11:44season starts. I'm going to assume that the NFL PR team sweeps it under the rug.
11:48I'm going to assume that they make sure people aren't talking about it. It's typically what happens. So, while I would like to say like, oh yeah, he's
11:56going to get suspended. He's going to miss time this he's probably playing.
12:00Now, Nico Collins will be our next wide receiver. Nico Collins did take a slight step backwards. Obviously, we can look at CJ Strad in the playoffs and
12:06absolutely clown on him, but ultimately Nico Collins had three straight seasons with at least 15 fantasy points per game. though it is hard to get away from
12:14him, especially knowing that he actually did have one of those games that he left early with a concussion that did impact
12:20his fantasy points per game this season to the negative. Now, going over to Crystal Lave, one thing that I wanted to
12:26do with flockfantasy.com is one, we can check his historical range of outcomes and actually see that Calvin Johnson, Tyreek Hill, Amanra St. Brown, Brandon
12:34Marshall, TAN, Terry McLaren, Deontay Johnson, and Jerry Judy all had similar age 25 seasons. Now, obviously guys like Jerry Judy, Deontay Johnson got much
12:43worse at 26, but Tyreek Hill, Calvin Johnson, Aman of Monro St. Brown got better at 26. So, not necessarily an age
12:51where you'd assume that these wide receivers start just naturally declining. He's still in his prime. But the other thing I wanted to check in on
12:57the site is I looked at the games in which we had Tyler Shuck starting versus Spencer Rattler because obviously Chris
13:06Ave went nuclear in the fantasy football playoffs which allowed us to actually have a very good score and a very good
13:14payday in underdog drafts this year.
13:16Thank you Chris Ave and with Tyler Shuck averaged 18.2 fantasy points per game.
13:23He was the wide receiver five in points per game during that stretch versus Whisperer Rattler. He was actually the wide receiver 18. So you saw him go from
13:32a mid wide receiver too to a top five guy. Now a couple different things. One, do I believe that Tyler Shuck is some
13:38incredible NFL quarterback and this going to continue forever? No, I don't.
13:42Two, Chris Ave still has serious concussion concerns. One hit to the head as somebody who's had brain surgery in the past and if you hit me in the head,
13:51I probably die. One hit to the head for Chris Ave. It's not going to be great.
13:56So, I'm going to bank that into his price, but obviously top five wide receiver down the stretch with Tyler Shuck looks very promising. Now, going
14:03over to Tedo and McMillan, I thought he was an incredible prospect coming out of school. He was a young rookie as well.
14:10And this is one thing that I think is very cool about the range of outcomes tool on flockfantasy.com.
14:16You can go ahead and we can look at Tedo McMillan's age 22 season and see who it comps to historically. We have Keenan
14:24Allen, Drake London, DK Mechaf, Percy Harvin, Stefon Diggs, Jeremy Macklin, Michael Crabtree, Jordan Addison, and Kenny Stills. Now, there were a couple
14:34of these 22-year-old wide receivers that got worse at 23, aka Jordan Addison, who had JJ McCarthy and Kenny Stills. I'm gonna be honest. I don't remember what
14:43happened to Kenny Stells in 2015, but the vast majority of the instances of these 22 year old wide receivers, whether it's Keenan Allen, DK Mechaf,
14:53Drake London, as you see a significant step up in points per game going from their age 22 to their age 23 season,
15:00especially with the guy that we like the prospect profile of. So, I'm going to give Tedo McMillan the benefit of the
15:06doubt. And I just realized we're taking a long time with this video. We're talking a lot about these guys. If you
15:11can't tell, I'm very excited to be back and talking fantasy football. Now, T.
15:15Higgins will be our next guy. With Higgins, you have to give him the same treatment that we gave with Jamar Chase,
15:19right? We got to look at the games with Burrow versus without Burrow. The games with Burrow, the man averaged 14.2 fantasy points per game. He was a mid
15:26wide receiver, too, as he's always been.
15:28Now, the concern with Higgins is one, his own injury risk, and two, obviously, Joe Burrow's injury risk. But when Burrow's healthy, when Higgins is
15:37healthy, we have seen a long, long track record of TH. Higgins being a wide receiver too in fantasy. Now going over
15:44to Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson dealt with maybe one of the worst organizations in the NFL this past season. Maybe one of the worst
15:51quarterbacks in the NFL this past season at multitude of points. The thing with Wilson is, is this situation going to get better? This I don't see how it
16:02does.
16:03What are the Jets? Are they going to bring in Kyler Murray? Is that going to save the New York Jets?
16:09I don't know. Wilson back-to-back seasons as a top 24 wide receiver. He's very good. When he's on the field, he had a 34% team target share this past
16:19season, soaking up all the New York Jets targets. Now, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's a
16:24young, very talented wide receiver, and the Jets quarterback situation can't be worse than what it was last year. I'm going to rank him at 15, but obviously
16:33we're going to have to see what this team does in free agency. Now, going over to AJ Brown, very different seasons
16:40for AJ Brown in the first half versus the second half. If you look at weeks 1 through nine, AJ Brown was the wide
16:46receiver 34 in fantasy points per game versus the second half of the season, weeks 10 through 18, he was the wide
16:53receiver eight. AJ Brown just played his age 28 year old season going to be 29 this next year. If we look at the range
17:02of outcomes tool, should we expect a wide receiver with the profile of AJ Brown to get worse from age 28 to 29?
17:10There are some guys that got worse such as Kenny Britt, Jacobe Meyers, Nate Washington, Brighton Cooks, but there are also some guys that stayed about the
17:20same, maybe got slightly better like Mike Williams, Amari Cooper, Tyler Lockett. It's not necessarily an age where we're going to assume that you
17:26just get natural regression. Clearly AJ Brown's not happy being a Philadelphia Eagle. I'm not a contract savant, but from what I've read on Twitter, it does
17:34seem like the Philadelphia Eagles would have a very difficult time trading him getting out of that contract. So, I'm going to rank this right now as Adrian's
17:42probably a Philadelphia Eagle this next season. Now, let's go over and let's look at some of these rookies. Now, on the Dynasty channel did a super brief
17:51introduction to this year's rookie class. Um, in short, there are three pretty good rookie wide receivers. Lemon is probably my favorite guy because he
18:00has the clear production profile. We actually just did get Daniel Jeremiah's first NFL mock draft as well, and he did have Lemon going as the first wide
18:08receiver off the board, but all three of these players are pretty much locked to be round one NFL draft picks. I think
18:15they all have the upside to be top 10 picks individually as well. And they all have very intriguing prospect profiles.
18:21If you go to flockfantasy.com, look at the prospects page, look at their FSC score, look at the historical hit rates, they're good prospects, and these are
18:29the three guys that I'd be most excited about. Now, obviously, this is going to change so much as the offseason goes
18:34through. Now, Z Flowers is going to be our next wide receiver. So, Z Flowers seemed completely unusable at points this year. like Zay Flowers looked like
18:43absolute garbage for a good stretch of the season. Now, thankfully week 18 when nobody's playing fantasy football anymore, he bookends the season in the
18:53most hilarious way because week one, Zay Flowers was the number one wide receiver in fantasy. Week 18, he was the number
19:01one wide receiver in fantasy. So, this actually led him to finishing as the wide receiver 13 in points per game. I
19:08know this was a season in which Lamar Jackson had a significant dip. I know a lot of people want to blame this on a
19:15Lamar injury. I would be a little concerned with a quarterback that runs the ball as much as Lamar does. If you
19:21just see some of that athleticism naturally go, what it possibly means for the overall offensive upside, but Zay Flowers was better this season than he's
19:29ever been in fantasy. Again, finishing as the wide receiver 13 with 15 fantasy points per game is nothing to overlook.
19:36Now, Jameson Williams is somebody that historically I've not liked, right? Um, and JMO, the first half of this season was absolute garbage. Jameson Williams
19:44with the wide receiver, 51 in points per game in weeks 1 through nine. But if you look at weeks 10 through 18, he jumped
19:51up to being the wide receiver 11 with 16.1 fantasy points per game. He jumped with his targets. He jumped with his
19:58target share, his receptions, receiving yards, receiving touch. Look at this from flockfantasy.com. literally every single statistical category, he got better in the second half of the season.
20:07Now, I do want to point out that you did have Sam Leaporta going down to the second half of the year, opening up more
20:12targets. But this is interesting to note as JMO is still an incredibly young wide receiver. And if you go through and if
20:18you look at the range of outcomes tool on flockfantasy.com, you do have some of these age 24y old wide receivers of
20:24similar seasons like Amari, Brandon Cooks, Terry McLaren who were able to get better at age 25. Now, let's move over to Igbuka. Igbuka is so difficult
20:36to evaluate. I think this team's going to tell us a lot about him in the offseason, but weeks one through five,
20:42he averaged 20 and a half fantasy points per game. He was the wide receiver, three in points per game. Every comment
20:48was calling me an idiot, saying I need to move him up my rankings. Then he gets injured playing San Francisco. In weeks
20:56six through 18, he's the wide receiver 56 in points per game. He goes from averaging 20 and a half fantasy points
21:03per game to 7.8. I've never I've never seen anything like it ever. And what was even crazier is his target share went up
21:10during this time. In the first five weeks, he only had 23% of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers targets where in the final 12
21:1813 weeks, he had 25% of this team's target share. So I I literally have no idea what happened. I mean, I think he
21:24was a great prospect at the same time, but he definitely flashed like Vlad Mcconi. Another one of these instances where you got to ask what the hell
21:33happened cuz as somebody who y'all know drafted Quinton Johnson as his most drafted player in the wide receivers 70s. I think my best score this year was
21:45a big dog team on underdog for about 50,000 which Quinton Johnson was on and I would not have won that 50,000 if it
21:50wasn't for him. Um, I I was rooting against Lad Mccon all season. I was rooting for Quinton Johnson to score the
21:57touchdowns. I was rooting for him to be the guy. And it was great that the Big Q had 12.2 fantasy points per game in
22:04comparison to Lad at 11.3. But it is just so confusing for a wide receiver to show so much talent in his rookie season
22:14where he finishes as the wide receiver 19 in points per game to fall down to the wide receiver 44.
22:22the the the end of Lad Manki's rookie year. He scored 18 14 20 17 15 29 16 fantasy points. He was a wide receiver one down
22:34the stretch and then he completely falls off. Now what may save Lad this next season is he probably won't have Kenan
22:41Allen and they do run a very similar route tree. Now going over to Courtland Sutton. I at this point Sutton seems a
22:48little bit boring. Like you kind of understand what he is. He's a low and wide receiver two, high and wide receiver three that we can pencil in.
22:55But it doesn't appear that anybody in Denver is threatening this. Um Devont Smith, I drafted a ton of them this past
23:02year. I thought I was a genius for it and then he fell flat. Didn't really do anything. Wide receiver 30 in points per
23:07game. I still think that he's a very strong talent. He just didn't really score the touchdowns this year. But this was his fourth straight season of
23:14averaging at least 60 receiving yards per contest. And you do have the upside if anything were to occur to AJ Brown
23:22with a trade that he could move a lot higher. Now, let's go over to two wide receivers that are very difficult to
23:29rank. Marvin Harrison and Michael Wilson. Now, same exact conversation we had with Quinton Johnson. I'm very biased here. Michael Wilson was a top
23:36five wide receiver drafted for me this year. He's one of the reasons we won a lot of money on underdog this season.
23:41Thank God. But the reason I was drafting Michael Wilson was not because I knew he was any good. I thought he was horrible.
23:51I just looked at the amount of routes that he ran in his first two seasons.
23:55Looked at the depth chart of the Arizona Cardinals and went, "Well, you know what? Here at the very end of an
23:59underdog draft, you can't find many wide receivers that are guaranteed to be full-time players. So, I drafted all of them." And somehow he goes from being
24:07one of the worst wide receivers in the NFL to being amazing.
24:13His second season, he had 1.1 yards per route run. That is unfathomable how bad that is. For him to
24:22jump from that mark to then all of a sudden turn into a legitimate league winner off the waiver wire. You don't
24:30see this at wide receiver. In the first 10 weeks, Michael Wilson was the wide receiver, 84 in points per game. But in
24:37weeks 11 through 18, he averaged 21 fantasy points per game. He was the wide receiver of two in fantasy, 11 targets
24:45per game, seven receptions, almost 100 receiving yards per game in the second half of the season.
24:52I I I want to root for him. I do. I will say when Marvin Harrison was healthy, Marv did appear to be the wide receiver
24:59want here. Now with Marv, um he got worse from his rookie season. He went from 11.2 two fantasy points per game
25:07down to 10.7. And this is with Jacobe Brousette fueling a ton of passing volume in this offense as well. So I I'm
25:14going to give the benefit of the doubt to Marv. I'm going to be honest with you'all. I haven't hopped in an underdog
25:18draft yet. I haven't even looked at the ADP. Maybe that's something I should do right now. Making sure that none of
25:23these rankings are horribly off. But let me pull this up. Who who are drafters taking between Michael Wilson and Marv at the moment? They got Michael Wilson
25:32wide receiver 35 on underdog and Marv is currently wide receiver 37. So apparently I'm too high on these guys.
25:40But anyway, Roma was garbage in the second half of the season. Like he took whatever Ibuka did and took it to the
25:49next level. Like 19.9 fantasy points per game in the first four weeks. He gets injured in week five, sits out. Then
25:56when he comes back from his injury, he averages 8.3 fantasy points per game.
26:00absolute train wreck. Horrible. And he looked like he was turning into a legitimate league winner at the beginning of the season. Now, situation
26:08going into this next year, who knows how big of a role DJ Moore has. Luther Burden is going in the right direction.
26:15And at the same time, you do have Coulson Leland as well. And again, Caleb Williams was already phenomenal this past year. You can't blame the
26:23quarterback play. Going over to Alec Pierce, Alec Pierce looked great.
26:27Averages 12.2 fantasy points per game.
26:29same exact as Rome, but he finished the season very strong. Like, he jumped from 10.6 fantasy points per game in the
26:37first nine weeks to 13.7 fantasy points per game in the second half of the season. Now, I'm going to rank Alec
26:42Pierce here primarily for like an underdog basketball draft. Like, if I was doing these just straight up reddraft rankings, I'd probably have
26:48Alec Pierce lower. Um, DK Mechaf, I have no idea what's going to happen with I I don't know what the situation's going to
26:54be in Pittsburgh. I don't know what their quarterback play is going to be like. DK Mechaf is a 28-year-old wide receiver though that um has been super
27:03underwhelming. I mean like if we go through and look at the seasons in which he has finished higher than the wide
27:09receiver 20. It's he's done it once and that was 2020. He was just the wide receiver 33 in fantasy points per game
27:15this past year. And the Steelers don't really have a path to like completely overhaul this offense with the quarterback. Now I don't know what's
27:24going to happen with Devonte Adams either. We can look at the fact that he was the wide receiver 11 in points per
27:28game. Look at the fact that the man came through and he had 14 receiving touchdowns, which was the second highest mark of his NFL career and say, "Yeah,
27:36he he is great, of course." But do want to at least acknowledge he was drafted in 2014. Is there any other player in
27:45these rankings half this high in 2014?
27:48No. Nine times out of 10, a wide receiver going into his age 34 season is going to decline. Now, not every time.
27:57Reggie Wayne had a very similar age 33 season. He got better at 36. Larry Fitzgerald had a very similar age 33
28:04season. He got better at 34. Adam Thielen stayed about the same, but you had Emanuel Sanders, Andre Johnson, Michael Floyd, Reggie Whites, and AJ
28:14Green all falling off the face of the planet. So, I'm very agist. I I'm going to look at the data and say, you know
28:20what, a lot of these guys do fall off at this age, and I'm going to rank Devonte Adams pretty low because of it. Now,
28:26moving over to Gtier, I I don't even know what to discuss here with Brian Thomas. Like, Brian Thomas did the lad
28:33mcconi, but 10 times worse. He was a better rookie and an even worse secondyear player. Like, if you would have told me, "Hey, Mason, just to let
28:40you know, Trevor Lawrence is going to be third in MVP voting. just let you know.
28:44Um, Travis Hunter is going to go out for the season. I would have been like, "Oh my gosh, should we be drafting Brian
28:50Thomas at the 101? Should he be the number one overall play?" No, he's the wide receiver 47 in fantasy points per
28:57game. 47.
29:00That was a falloff from the wide receiver, 13 in points per game as a rookie.
29:06I I I literally can't I can't explain what happened. They extended Jacobe Meyers. Myers was clearly the wide receiver one on this team in the second
29:13half of the year. I'm gonna give Brian Thompson to benefit it out though because again he was the wide receiver one as a rookie. Now Christian Watson
29:19will be our next guy. I didn't even think Christian Watson was going to play this past year with the torn ACL but he
29:23came in. He was the wide receiver one for the Green Bay Packers. Of course with Christian Watson you always do need
29:28to be concerned about injuries. Looking over at Jaylen Waddle and I'm afraid that this Miami team is just going to be
29:34an absolute debacle. No quarterback. Um, coaching staff looks like it's a downgrade at least on the offensive side of the ball, but I'm gonna assume that
29:43Tyreek Hill doesn't really make a difference this season with his injury.
29:46Quinton Johnston, the big Q, you know, you know, I'm probably going to get suckered into drafting him. I have him here at wide receiver 35. Where are
29:55people drafting him on underdog right now? Is he going to be my most drafted player yet again? Now, he's wide receiver 42 on underdog. So, it looks
30:02like I may end up with a lot of him. He continues to get slightly better every year. Went from wide receiver 77 as a
30:08rookie, wide receiver 40 as a secondyear player, wide receiver 36 as a thirdyear player. I think the Chargers offensive line should be greatly improved if
30:16they're just able to stay healthy, which is no reason to believe they can't. Now, Luther Burton, I know everybody wants to
30:22look at the yards per route run data.
30:24Um, he was at the very top of the NFL in yards per route run at 2.92 and everybody wants to be super excited
30:29about he didn't get on the field. You have Lovelind, you have Roma Dunce, you have DJ. Caleb Williams was already very
30:36good. I don't know how much better you can assume that Caleb's gonna get. So, I haven't checked. Let me see where
30:42underdog drafts are taking him. Now, I'm going to assume based off what I see on Twitter that I'm going to be super
30:47underweight Luther Burden. Yeah, Luther Burden is the wide receiver 25. If you look at similar rookie seasons to Luther Burden, like it's not great the
30:57historical hit rates that we have. Like Roman Dunce had a similar rookie season.
31:02Donovan Peoples Jones, Rashad Baitman, Jan Dodson, Cadarius Tony, Trayon Burks, Dobson. Like literally the best jump that we had from a rookie season like
31:11this to his secondyear wide receiver was Roman Dunes.
31:16So I I I know everybody's going to absolutely hate this because he went crazy with his yards per out run. Ended
31:21the season somewhat strong at least with one big game. And what we saw last year, that week 17 when all the money's won on
31:28underdog, whatever player goes off, that's what people are going to remember. We saw Marvin Mims be horribly overdrafted this past season. You all
31:36remember the Gabe Davis year. I almost think that Luther Burton's going to be somewhat similar to that. Now, of course, I'm going to rank Luther Burden
31:42with respect is one, I think he's a good player. Two, I think he's in a good offense. Three, he's a rookie, so we're
31:48going to assume that he gets better. But so I'm not gonna have him like wide receiver 70 like Marvin Mims, but I
31:53don't know if I can get to him being a top 24 guy. Now, Michael Pitman Jr., I don't exactly know what the
32:01situation's going to be with the Indianapolis Colts this next season.
32:05Obviously, Pitman did come through and just kind of repeat what he did the year prior with his overall volume numbers.
32:126.9 targets backto-back seasons. Um about 49 50 receiving yards back-to-back years. You kind of understand what Pitman is. He's going to be a wide
32:20receiver three. Um, going over to Terry McLaren. Terry McLaren dealing with an injury, had the hold out, possibly led to it. Honestly, I I know he's an older
32:30wide receiver and if you look at the historical range of outcomes here, it's not great with Terry. Um, but with him
32:36going into his age 31 season, I may be a little too low on him just knowing that if he is healthy as well as Daniels
32:44being healthy, like he was the wide receiver 16 in points per game two years ago. Let me see where's his ADP right
32:50now. Underdog drafters are taking him at 32. So, it does appear that maybe I'm too low. Um, Jordan Addison I think is a
32:57great player. I just think that again Minnesota Vikings offense, it's super tough to rank any of these guys until we actually see what they do at
33:04quarterback. And then let's just rapid fire this last tier. I mean, obviously the lower we get in these rankings, the more I'm going to need to adjust and
33:12we're going to adjust these all offseason, don't you worry. We got Boston Conception as the other two rookie wide receivers that have a chance
33:18to go in round one. Ricky Pierol look good at times, but can he stay healthy?
33:23Juan Del Robinson.
33:26Yes, he was much better than a lot of wide receivers were ranking him after, but you're gonna have Malikite neighbors this next year. Jacobe Myers was the
33:33wide receiver one for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second half of this past year, but a little bit worried that we
33:39get Jags regression. I think that you have a higher ceiling with Brian Thomas and you have the outside chance that Travis Hunter, they still want to play
33:46at receiver. Um Jawan Jennings looks like he could be in play to be the wide receiver one in San Francisco. Um,
33:53obviously older wide receiver, limited sample, but I mean, hell, he's the guy down the stretch. Xavier Worthy, I drafted a ton of them this past year.
34:00One of our worst calls, absolutely nothing. Godwin and Evans, two old, crusty guys dealing with injuries this past season. Really hard
34:08to take much away. Khalil Shakir, he's never gotten the job done with no competition in Buffalo. I think the Bills address wide receiver this
34:15offseason. And then DJ Moore, very inefficient. I think Luther Burden as well as Roma Dunce and Coulson Lovelin all expand their roles in their second
34:24third years. But I think that's all I got for y'all. Again, if you want to hop in drafts right now, they're on
34:29underdog. If you want to check out any of those Super Bowl projections and get that gimme free pick, it's going to be
34:34something along the lines of Drake May higher lower half total yard for the big game. You can find the link to underdog
34:40fantasy in the description in the comment section. Code flock. It's going to get you $75 added to your account after you play your first five. And on
34:48top of that, you'll get those gimme picks and you'll get all the bonuses.
34:51The two biggest weekends for underdog gimmies are going to be the big game as well as NFL opening week. Make sure you
34:59take advantage of those two weeks, please. But much love, ladies and gentlemen. I really appreciate you and I'll hit you up with the running back
35:05rankings soon.
