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If you want to actually win your fantasy league this year, you are in the right place because today we are talking about the five players that I would personally bet my house on this year. That's how confident I am in these guys.
Now, if you're not familiar, I'm Sal Vetri. I've helped over 10,000 people win their fantasy leagues the last few years alone and I plan to do the same for you with this video. And boy, oh boy, is it your lucky day. I just got a fresh cut. Shout out to barber. Look at the beard. Anyways, let's get into it.
Terry McLaurin here we're starting off with. Look, Terry McLaurin, if you know anything about me, if you follow my content the last, I don't know, three to maybe even eight years, if you're an OG, this guy's almost 31 years old. He's going to turn 31 years old during the early parts of the season this year. That's not usually a wide receiver, let alone any position, wide receiver or running back that I'm trying to target. However, it's very unique for Terry McLaurin. He's a guy who doesn't have a lot of target competition as of right now. He's a guy who has an MVP caliber quarterback in Jayden Daniels. But more importantly, he has a lot of vacated opportunities in his offense. And he's coming off of a down year, which is making him cheaper. Instead of a third or a fourth round pick, Terry McLaurin, you can get him in the fifth or sixth round as of this recording. Last year, he was the wide receiver 33 in fantasy points. Just three touchdowns, 10 less than the previous career high he had in year one with Jayden Daniels. There was a lot of hype for Terry McLaurin. He He was coming into a contract year. Everybody was in his corner to give him a contract. And then unfortunately for Terry McLaurin, in week three last year, like it happens too often with these guys who hold out and aren't in camp and maybe their bodies aren't in game shape, week three suffers a quad injury, keeps him out for six games. Not only does he miss six games, which is absolutely brutal, you have to factor in that the day he comes back, he's probably not 100%. He's just pushing to try and get back for the team. And his own quarterback, Jayden Daniels, was dealing with his own three injuries last year. Okay, so that's one reason why Terry McLaurin, and really the biggest reason why Terry McLaurin is dropping.
But let's not forget what he did in 2024, just a year prior with a rookie Jayden Daniels, who by the way did not have all that much experience at all because yeah, he was a rookie. Now he has two years under his belt. 82 catches, over 1,000 yards, one of his best receiving yards seasons ever, uh 13 touchdowns, which was a career high for him, second in the NFL across all positions that year. We know how good Terry McLaurin can be when paired with Jayden Daniels. I mean, heck, Terry McLaurin last year in this offense when he was actually out there and healthy, still putting up solid numbers. A 23.6% target share is very respectable by all accounts. Uh six targets per game, obviously that has to come up a little bit, but this is going to be heavily skewed by the fact that he's leaving multiple games early or he's limited in some games. That number's probably closer to seven targets per game. I'd sign up for that in the fifth or sixth round all day. Now, it doesn't stop there because his efficiency last year, despite the injuries, despite the injuries to his quarterback, was actually pretty solid. Check this out. He ranks fifth in first downs per route run, 13th in yards per route run, and ninth in yards per reception. He also had zero drops. Those first downs per route run, yards per route run, he ranked very highly. Those may be the two most important efficiency metrics for wide receivers. And maybe the most important factor heading into 2026 is, as of this recording, Jayden Daniels fully healthy. They said they're going to run a lot this year because he's healthy. That's perfect. And Terry McLaurin is healthy. So, we know they'll at least be out there. That's all we really need here. Because you know how good Jayden Daniels is. I don't have to get too deep into it at all. I mean, let's just go back to the 2024 rookie year where he exploded down the stretch for over 30 fantasy points per game in the fantasy playoffs, played in every single game, um 69% completion percentage, insane, averaged over 7 yards per attempt, solid, 891 rushing yards, obviously that's the cheat code upside, uh 25 passing touchdowns.
The big thing though for Terry McLaurin, if we pull this up here on the team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint, check it out, limited spots available for this year. Um over 10,000 people have used that the last couple years to win their leagues, win more in their leagues. I won 75% of my home leagues with the fantasy blueprint last year, including the Flock League $10,000 to first, flew my dad first class to Italy. If you don't know, now you know. It was a lot of words right there. Need to catch my breath. But the Washington Commanders, this is their off-season changes, uh most key changes just for offense right here. You can see the additions via free agency and trades. They get Jahan Dotson, they get a running back Rashad White, then they get some like depth wide receivers and running backs. They lose Deebo Samuel, pretty big. They lose Zach Ertz, pretty big in terms of the context of this team. Add a third-round wide receiver, late-round running back. Now, according to Four for Four's vacated opportunities, the Commanders rank second in the NFL with 52.4% of their targets for last year now gone and needing replacement. What does that equal out to? It equals out to 222 total targets, 46 48.1% of the air yard share. Outside of the Miami Dolphins who lost Tyreek, who lost Jaylen Waddle, aka their entire offense, the Commanders are next up in terms of what they have to replace from last year. And oh by the way, as I just showed you, they didn't really do much to replace this. Cheque Akonkou, Antonio Williams, third round rookie Van Jefferson, Dyami Brown, that's not much replacement. I will contest that maybe Brandon Aiyuk joins this team, it's heavily rumored. Maybe Stefon Diggs joins this team, it's heavily rumored. I'd be more scared of Stefon Diggs than Brandon Aiyuk at this point in their careers. However, neither of those guys would get me off of a Terry McLaurin in round four or round five or round six. And if he was to drop even more because those guys are on the team, even better for us. The current competition as it stands right now for Terry McLaurin is these are literally the starters right now. Luke McCaffrey, rookie last year who dealt with injury, didn't do much. Third round rookie Antonio Williams, Cheque Akonkou. Obviously depth charts, this is ESPN, they're not accurate. So, okay, let's look at the backups. Trey Lon Burks in the year 20 26. Dyami Brown taking his second stint with the team might actually be the second best wide receiver on this team. And Jalen Lane. Yeah, I think they probably have to get Stefon Diggs or Brandon Aiyuk cuz it's not looking good right now. And by the way, Stefon Diggs at this point in his career averages like seven yards per target. He's not doing much damage down field. Brandon Aiyuk, we haven't seen play football nearly two years. I don't really trust him either. We're also getting the coach speak from the new offensive coordinator. You can see from Full Command Show over on Twitter right here. He says David Blough, the new offensive coordinator, wants to feed Terry McLaurin 10 targets per game. His current career high is 8.9 targets per game. Look, I mean even if it is just closer to that eight targets per game, we'll take that where he currently goes in drafts. I would say the only downside, like the only obvious glaring downside for Terry McLaurin right now is durability. Durability for both him as a 30-plus year old wide receiver and his mobile quarterback Jayden Daniels. But if those guys can stay out of harm's way for the far majority, if not all of the season, Terry McLaurin is the 53rd overall player right now in the fifth round of fantasy drafts where he goes next to guys like Trey Veon Henderson who's still going to be in a split backfield, Bucky Irving who's banged up in a split backfield, Jameson Williams who's clearly like at best the number two, probably number three target on his team with Jamir Gibbs now going to be a workhorse. Give me Taron McLaurin here.
And then let's go to the tight end position. My favorite tight end pick right now, based on where he currently goes in drafts, is going to be Tyler Warren, the former Penn Stater with the Colts. This was a guy who last year as a rookie just dominated, like very quietly. He had a great start to the season. Daniel Jones gets hurt. The offense goes off the cliffs. They don't make the playoffs, right? Everybody slows down. But great start to the season fueled this. 76 catches as a rookie tight end, by the way. The hardest position, in my opinion, to break out of on offense as a rookie is tight end. Six most receptions. Top five in receiving yards amongst tight ends. Number two in yards after the catch. Oh, let's not stop there. The opportunity, third most targets amongst tight ends, uh sixth overall in target share with a 21.2% and a 27% red zone share. That's all a lot of nerdy stats, a lot of percentages, a lot of numbers. I'm sorry I don't have my nerd glasses on. They're actually right over there. But anyways, it's just all to tell you he got the opportunity, he got the production, and he was efficient. All of those things are great. So, what's so good about 2026? Why isn't that enough? It gets even better. Because you start to look at it closely. you look at the 12 games that he played when Daniel Jones, his starting quarterback, was actually healthy before the Achilles tear. Oh, 13 fantasy points per game. That was top five production during that time at the position. That's fantastic, right? Okay, so there's that piece of it. Then there's the piece that they extended Daniel Jones, which was obvious they were going to based on how they handled that situation this offseason. $88 million up to 100 million. He's coming off of the torn Achilles. Okay. Why does this matter so much? You're talking about all these great things for Tyler Warren breaking out as a rookie entering year two, more upside, same quarterback coming off of an injury, probably has to check it down more. Michael Pittman is gone. They didn't replace him. They added Nick Westbrook and a seventh-round receiver, Deon Burks, who was one of the last picks in the draft. Michael Pittman is gone. That's very important, but it doesn't even stop there because it continues to get better for Tyler Warren. Because Alec Pierce, the reason why Michael Pittman is gone is because they needed money for Alec Pierce. Alec Pierce is now having a four-to-six-month recovery after his ankle injury. Four-to-six-month recovery that he ended up having surgery in March. That's not great. That's not great after you just gave him a bag. As Dr. Jesse Morse, an MD on Twitter, says, he says Alec Pierre has chronic left ankle surgery. What is this why does he do this? In January he had PRP injections, not stem cells, PRP injections. Had surgery shortly after. Basically what this Dr. Jesse Morris says is this is what happens when you try to fix a moderate to severe issue with a mild product like PRP. So at the end of the day it seems like he tried to do something else at first. It delayed what could have been two months quicker to come back from this surgery if he would have just had it in January. So now you're looking at a situation where he's bumping up against the season. September for his return timeline. That's not ideal because that's just when he's able to return, not even return to like 100% at Al Pierre from last year. So for Tyler Warren right now you're looking at a banged up and injured Al Pierre who by the way plays a totally different position than Tyler Warren. Obvious wide receiver tight end does Al, but no I mean like an outside pass catcher compared to Warren in the middle of the field. As Shane Dulon at this point, Nick Westbrook and Josh Downs. So all this stuff I'm saying also applies to Josh Downs by the way. He's a nicer late round option. But I'm talking about Tyler Warren here at the tight end position. All the upside in the world right now for Tyler Warren. Everything at OTAs looks good. Zane Dahani, he's put out a lot of good tweets on Twitter, be sure to follow him. He says a lot is coming out about Tyler Warren. He basically puts out a whole thread here. His specific stats says finding new ways that we can get him the football. Every off season we go through off season studies, look around the league on how guys are getting the ball. Always trying to evolve in that direction. So they're trying to get him the ball in different ways. Does that mean shuttles out of the backfield, more tight end screens? All of these things would be very good for fantasy production. In terms of what the downsides for Tyler Warren this season could be. Entering year two is just maybe Daniel Jones, right? Coming off an Achilles tear. We saw Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers struggle coming off of those Achilles tears. But those guys were also a lot older in their careers, not as young as Daniel Jones. Those guys also like were checking the ball down, which would help Tyler Warren. So Tyler Warren for me currently goes at the early fifth round of drafts. 49th overall, so the end of the fourth beginning of the fifth round. Tyler Warren is somebody that if you're like if you're in this situation where you already have your stud running back, you have two of your wide receivers, you're in that fourth fifth round turn and you can get another wide receiver for your flex and then Tyler Warren, that's a really good build. Like I don't know the exact layout on how that would work, but if you're getting a Bijan Robinson to start, you come back around and you your second and third round picks are somehow like maybe A.J. Brown's there and a Rashee Rice Rashee Rice and and uh Nico Collins, right? That's your starting lineup so far. And then you add Tyler Lockett at that four-five turn and then in the fifth round you add like a Terry McLaurin we talked about. At least as of right now, that feels strong.
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And another guy that you could add in that Tyler Lockett lineup instead of a Terry McLaurin in round five and sometimes six is Christian Watson of the Green Bay Packers who might be like the number one breakout candidate across all of fantasy football right now at least at the wide receiver position. I mean, lots of things to like here. First off, when he was healthy last year, which is always a big if for him, top 15 wide receiver in fantasy. I'm about to show you why he was one of the best wide receivers in all of football last year. But, that was his overall stats, top 15 if you look at it right here. He averaged 13.2 points per game, but when he finally got healthy, his final seven games of the season from week 11 on, was a stud. Over 15 fantasy points per game, he was a top 12 wide receiver, that is a wide receiver one during that stretch. And his game, outside fast wide receiver, he's now developing as a route runner. He can take stuff across the field and the rounds. It just fits perfectly with Jordan Love, who is going to take those shots down field and he's going to create explosive plays for Christian Watson. Now, here's what I'm talking about when I say Christian Watson was literally one of the best wide receivers in football last year when he was on the field. If you're a Packers fan, you know this. He was absolutely dynamite. Top 10 in first downs per route run. First downs per route run just shows how involved you are in your offense, how important you are, how clutch you are. Your your offense is going to you. Fourth in yards per route run. I still say it's the holy grail of wide receiver metrics, yards per route run. It's just one metric, but it's still the holy grail in my opinion. Top five in that metric. Like everything for him is just fantastic. Oh, you want to talk about yards per target and yards per reception? Top five in both of those areas. Like this was a guy who was highly efficient, highly productive when he was on the field. We just have to get that guy to stay on the field. Because for the first time since having Davante Adams, the Packers have gone all in in my opinion on a guy being their wide receiver one. This off season, they let Romeo Doubs walk in free agency. He was going to cost too much. He goes to the Patriots. In my opinion, they somewhat surprisingly trade Dontayvion Wicks to the Eagles and they only replace these guys nobody in the NFL draft, very surprisingly. They sign Sky Moore, who at this point might just be a special teamer for them. So, you're looking at a Packers wide receiver room that from last year to this year ranks fourth. We showed you the stat earlier. Fourth in the NFL having to replace 37% of their targets from last year. That is insane. 37% of their targets, 13% of their targets inside the 10, so that's 50% of their targets inside the 10. A lot of those were Romeo Doubs. This is going to be just the first time in a while that we've seen a Packers wide receiver room that is very thin and not rotating. is that exact wide receiver room. As you can see right here, the Packers starters are going to be Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, who also got extended this off season, and Matthew Golden, second-year player, former first-round pick. That's a pretty solid starting wide receiver room, but then it's Samion Williams. I don't think he's ready to take the next step. Bo Melton, who was literally a defensive back for them just like a year ago. And Sky Moore, who I think is a special teamer. As it stands right now, I think your starting three receivers are clearly Watson, Reed, and Golden. But there's just levels to this. Reed, I think is a solid wide receiver, no doubt about it. But Watson, based on what we've seen him do the last two to three years when he's actually out there on the field, he's a clear wide receiver one in this offense. And the Packers are paying him like that. They just extended him on a four-year deal for a hundred and ten million dollars. Now, a lot of that is not going to be like majority guaranteed or as much guaranteed as the Alec Pierce deal because of these injuries for Christian Watson, but they just said this is our guy. They played the Christian Watson contract situation great before this past year. Gave him a one-year extension so they didn't have to pay him big money this off-season. And then this off-season, they give him money the Alec Pierce contract or so. So, next year when the cap goes up, they don't have to pay him a lot. They're taking a gamble that he's once again going to be their number one receiver. All the stars are aligned. So, for me, Christian Watson, who goes as the 64th overall pick, guys. Like, this guy is a clear-cut fifth round wide receiver. He is the the George Pickens of last year, a late fourth, early fifth round pick, except he's the clear number one receiver in this offense. He's going in the sixth round. Look, I get it. The injuries are obviously there, but Christian Watson has never been up set up better in his career, and now he's a sixth round pick. There is no more bigger slam dunk bet your whole house, whatever. Obviously, call to uh don't bet your whole house. I'm just kidding. This is humor, people. Uh Christian Watson in round six is a stud. And I'm on one today. This is what happens when I rest my voice and I get rested and I don't have to be on camera for like three days. I get all the energy back in me. Let's keep going.
Now, the first running back we're going to talk about, Amari on Hampton today. Look, I think this guy's going to be a really strong second round pick this season. Like Christian Watson, a lot of things are setting up for him. If you remember back in college, workhorse stud. This is why he went in round one. Final year of college at UNC, almost 1,700 rushing yards. When you pair that with his 373 receiving yards, he had like one of the quietest 17-touchdown uh two 2,000 total yard seasons. Uh like, not a lot of people remember that about Amari on Hampton. He had 2,000-plus yards in a season in college. And oh yeah, the year before that he had like 1,800-plus yards. This guy is a beast. He is a three-down back. A three-down back who tested like a freak at 220 lbs, a 4.46 40-time, top 10% speed score and burst score to ever attend the NFL Combine in the last 30 or so years. The guy is really good. His own new running back teammate, Keon Mitchell, is saying that, "I don't even think he knows how strong he is. In the weight room, he's going on the heaviest weight there is possible and he's just going to drag across the weight room. This is all pause. This is all going to help a lot heading into the season. There's no doubt about it. Amari Hampton is the red zone goal line back for this team, in my opinion. He's the third down back for this team. There's going to be other guys involved. We'll get into that. But Hampton is the guy. Former first round pick for Jim Harbaugh. Still there, Jim Harbaugh. The guy in this offense. But unfortunately, his rookie year wasn't the greatest. Like overall total yards, 545 rushing yards, 192 receiving yards because of that injury he suffered. But on a per game basis, 60 rushing yards, over 21 receiving yards. Like 80 total yards per game isn't terrible. The problem, as you probably know by now, he had an ankle injury that ended up keeping him out like what was it over here? Yeah, eight games overall, five more weeks on the injury report. Basically his entire rookie season. After like week five, it was over. Which is very unfortunate because in week three when Najee Harris goes down with a torn Achilles, it is now officially the Amari Hampton show after a slow start to the season. For those next three games without Najee Harris, while Hampton was the clear cut RB1 on his team, he was balling out. 21.8 fantasy points per game. 80 rushing yards per game. 5.6 catches per game. PPR monster. He will be the passing down back on this team. He was a beast. With his rushing and receiving, he was going over 100 yards per game. But then he suffered that ankle injury. However, if we look at some of the stats here, this is Amari Hampton propaganda courtesy of Ian Hardison on Twitter. This is looking at a metric here. Tackles avoided per carry by running back yards after contact and tackle avoided in 2025. Who is at the top tippity top of this list right here? All the way to the upper right is your best players. Bijan Robinson and Amari Hampton before his injury. Obviously a small sample of just five games, but that's how good this guy is. Do not forget how good Amari Hampton is just because he had a bad opening Friday night game in his rookie season against a tough Kansas City Chiefs defense in prime time. This guy was balling out before injury. And now everything just got way better for him this off season. Mike McDaniels coming over, formerly of the 49ers, formerly of the Miami Dolphins. All he does is call efficient and very good run games. Oh, just ask Raheem Mostert. Why do I bring up Raheem Mostert? The last time we saw Raheem Mostert um um relevant is the word I'm looking for. There you go, Sal. In the NFL, RB4 in fan in fantasy, 21 touchdowns. Oh, by the way, in this exact same year, which was 2023, I believe. Yep, 2023, Raheem Mostart, Devon Achane was a rookie and ranked top 10 in fantasy points per game. The last 2 years in fantasy, Devon Achane has ranked top 10 in fantasy points per game under Mike McDaniel. That means over the last 3 years, Mike McDaniel has had four running backs ranked in the top 10 in fantasy points per game. He knows how to call a productive and efficient running game. Mike McDaniel also brought in his guys, as you can see from the team changes tracker right here. You can see he brings in Tyler Biadasz, a badass center. Charlie Kolar, a blocking tight end. Cole Strange, a beast of a guard. Alec Ingold, the fullback. Keion Mitchell, a fast running back who's like, uh, Devon Achane light in some ways in terms of efficiency. You're getting all of these run game pieces coming in in free agency. It continued in the draft. A speedy wide receiver, that's Mike McDaniel's blueprints. Uh, and then three offensive linemen. So, this entire off season, all they've done is add speed, Mike McDaniel with the Dolphins, right? That's all he did there. A bunch of offensive linemen, pass or a run blocking fullbacks and tight ends. They're going to run the ball. They're literally showing you based on all their moves this off season. Now, Raheem Mostart's competition, Salvon Ahmed who filled in nicely for him, had a couple of big games last year when Raheem Mostart was hurt. But, it's still Salvon Ahmed. Keion Mitchell, Keion Mitchell who they signed this off season has dealt with his own injuries. Smaller back, totally different back than Raheem Mostart. But, I do think it's going to be this one-two punch. It's going to be a Raheem Mostart and then Keion Mitchell. And by the way, I like both guys. Like, Keion Mitchell is like, you can get him in, I don't know, at this point around 13, 14, depending on your draft and league size, maybe even later. I'm fine with Keion Mitchell that late. Like, I'm not trying to handcuff guys in most of my leagues, but I'm fine with Keion Mitchell that late if you're taking Raheem Mostart in the second. Lot of boom or I should say not boom bust. That's a you can take that a different way in terms of like good or bad. I would say like just a lot of upside for Keion Mitchell and a lot of security in Raheem Mostart. Both of these guys can provide a lot of upside for you, but obviously we're talking about Raheem Mostart here. In round two, I'm not concerned about Mitchell being a workhorse back. The guy is like 175 lb soaking wet. He's not going to be a workhorse back. So, Raheem Mostart currently goes in the middle of the second round. I mean, I would like it if he could just go to like RB 18 instead, that'd be perfect, but this is like exactly where he should go. I much prefer Saquon Barkley over him who goes ahead of him, so that's fine. But then you start to get in like this Trey McBride range, like Kenneth Walker. I think he starts to deserve to be in that range of players in round two. I think there's a lot of upside there for Amari on Hampton.
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Now let's go to the quarterback position. We talked about this guy earlier when talking about his teammate wide receiver Terry McLaurin, but it has to be Jayden Daniels. There's a world where like all the guys in this video I love. That's why I would bet my house on them, but there is a real chance that Jayden Daniels is my favorite pick in all of fantasy football right now depending on how you build your lineups. Some people like early quarterback with Josh Allen, some people like later quarterbacks, Brock Purdy, Kyler Murray, those types of guys. But Jayden Daniels in round five or round six, that's that's so so good. So it's insane. Look, I get it. Last year he didn't do much for you. He had only seven games played. He dealt with three different injuries. Like are you really going to blame the guy who didn't have his number one wide receiver from week three on? And then oh yeah, by the way, he himself in week two suffers a knee strain, misses time. A hamstring strain for a mobile quarterback basically ruins his season if the knee strain already didn't in terms of fantasy. And then oh yeah, he gets shut down after a week nine left elbow dislocation. He was having no blocking last year. He didn't have Terry McLaurin for that stretch of time from basically like weeks through weeks three through nine when he was getting all these injuries. So everything was a nightmare season for the Commanders last year, but now it's different. And it's mostly only different because he's actually healthy. And the last time he was healthy as a rookie, he was top five in EPA, top three in QBR, the guy in the fantasy playoffs in his rookie season, 32.3 fantasy points per game. Like this is what Brock Purdy was doing in the playoffs last year. Just absolutely dominating. 91 rushing yards per game in the fantasy playoffs. The guy is absolutely unreal. Now, is the pass-catching group great? We like Terry McLaurin because he didn't have any target competition. For Jayden Daniels, losing Deebo Samuel, who was a bit dusty last year but productive early on, and losing Zach Ertz, who has been a very good security blanket for him, does hurt. But you're replacing Zach Ertz with a more efficient, I would say, and and definitely a more athletic Chig Okonkwo, a younger player. The big concern for the Commanders is finding that second weapon. I do think they're going to add Brandon Aiyuk or Stefon Diggs or a veteran like that. I don't think they'll bring back Deebo Samuel, but somebody Keenan Allen, maybe somebody along those lines here, which I think is enough to kind of get you over the hump, assuming you can get anything out of Dyami Brown, Luke McCaffrey, Antonio Williams this year as like your number two or number three option outside of Chig Okonkwo and Terry McLaurin and whoever they add. But let's be real here. Jayden Daniels has Terry McLaurin. He gets whatever he gets out of the second best option on this team, maybe it's Chig Okonkwo, and then he has his rushing upside. That's all we're really caring about here for a fifth or a sixth round pick. And oh yeah, you might be saying he was so hurt last year they're not going to run. No, not at all. You can see right here the Commanders are already reporting to run a heavy play action game this year. Um they're going to few few feature a lot of bootlegs with Jayden Daniels in space creating other types of weapons for the offense that come off of that. He's going to be running the ball if he's healthy this year. It's literally the entire reason why he was a standout MVP candidate towards the end of the stretch in his rookie year. He's going to use that piece. Maybe he'll be a little bit smarter, but he's going to use it. Uh right here you can just just see some stuff trending about Stefon Diggs potentially becoming a Commander. He's talked about it. Uh it's a lot of hopes. We all kind of figuring it out, working through some things. Basically just giving you like a PC answer there. But whoever they add, Brendon Ayuk I wouldn't to that high on. Stefon Diggs, Keenan Allen, these guys are basically dusty, but they can get you those 8 yards per target. Not great for fantasy, but for moving the chains on this offense as like a number three option in it, that's fine for Jayden Daniels. So, right now Daniels currently goes as the 61st overall player. He's a fifth or a sixth round pick. I'm I'm just I'm I'm loving how these types of drafts start to shape up. Like, he's at that turn where you can pile on a stud RB, three great wide receivers, maybe even got your Tyler Boyd at your last pick, and now you're getting Jayden Daniels. He's going in a very similar range, I will say, as Drake May, who I do rank higher. Um so, like if you're in this range, you're probably taking Drake May, but maybe you wait a couple a round or a half a round later, and Jayden Daniels is there and Drake May is gone. Like, these guys, Drake May, Jayden Daniels, they are the new We talked about this in a previous video. They're the new third round quarterback. It used to be Lamar, Josh Allen, even Jalen Hurts in years past. Now you can wait till the fifth or sixth round and just get a Drake May, a Jayden Daniels. I'm pretty sure Jalen Hurts Yeah, Jalen Hurts goes in this range now. Love it.
So, there you have it. Those are the five players I would bet my house on in fantasy football this year. Now, if you want to see my number one draft strategy, the best strategy for fantasy football this year as of this recording, you can check it out right here. That is the number one perfect draft strategy to smack around your friends. Check it out right now. Appreciate y'all a ton, and I'll see you in the next one.