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What won fantasy drafts last year? Was it taking the stud wide receiver like Jamar Chase in round one? Or instead, was it hitting on a mid to late round wide receiver that broke out like JSN? Oh, it was finding that value in the middle rounds. Drafting someone that has never done it before that all of a sudden turns into the definition of a league winner. That's what I'm going to try to do in this video. I'm going to rank the top 10 breakout candidates going from 10 to one. And how we are defining a breakout candidate is going to be a wide receiver that is younger than 26 years old. We're not looking at Devonte Adams here. And also has never averaged 14 points per game in a season. Of course, we can look at names that are young like Drake London has already done it, right? There's a reason he's going in round two of drafts. But again, I want to focus in on the guys that have never given us that top-end production and are still young enough to potentially make that leap.
Now, starting off with 10, Xavier Worthy is a name that is embarrassing to bring up. And the very simple reason for this is I told you to draft him last year. Yep. I'll admit it. I'm man enough. And I'm man enough to take my L as well. I mean, I could come through and say, "Oh my gosh, he tore his labrum in week one. Who knows what would have happened? Maybe he would have been a good pick in round five." No, no, no, no, no. I'm man enough to admit it wasn't going to work out, right? Right. The torn labrum is just a convenient excuse where I can maybe save a little bit of face and not act like a complete idiot. But if we look at Xavier Worthy, the issue dates all the way back to his rookie season. Xavier Worthy in his rookie year, not even looking at this past season in year two with the torn labrum. He was the wide receiver 43 in points per game. He averaged 11 points per contest, which is completely fine, right? We don't need to just look at counting stats and just go, "Oh, okay. He didn't score a ton of points per game his rookie season. He's toast." No, there'll be other wide receivers that fit that same mold that I'm actually into in this video. But the underlying efficiency numbers, they were a red flag. You played with Patrick Mahomes. Remember in 2024, Rashee Rice was cooked. Rashee Rice took a um dive to the knee from Mahomes himself that pretty much kept him out the entire season. And that should have allowed Xavier Worthy to really elevate and turn into at least a wide receiver two. At least an efficient wide receiver in an Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes offense with extremely little competition. For whatever reason, I wanted to overlook all of it. I wanted to say, "Oh, he was a round one pick. He was good at the University of Texas. He he looked good in the Super Bowl in garbage time. Uh, let's bet on the year two breakout last season." It simply didn't work. He fell down to 7.85 fantasy points per game. The efficiency remained the same. This is the biggest concern for me. We can actually look at that yards per route run number going from 1.32 in his rookie season to 1.35 in year two. Even with the torn labrum, I don't think we can ignore just how he's been historically an inefficient wide receiver in this Chief's offense. And now you have Rashi Rice fully healthy coming into this next season. You have Kenneth Walker presumably gonna give the Chiefs the ability to run the ball this year and Patrick Mahomes coming off a devastating knee injury of his own. Uh, maybe they skew a little bit more run-heavy. So with Xavier Worthy, I definitely think he has the chance to break out because he was a good prospect at Texas and he did have some flashes in his rookie season, but I think the breakout at this point is ultimately unlikely. And we can't just blame this past season's failure on the torn labrum because there'll be other wide receivers on this list that dealt with their own injuries this past season.
Now, looking over at Ricky Pearsall, I want to come through and just diminish one thing that people are immediately going to say in the comment section because whenever I have brought up in the past that, oh, Ricky Pearsall has had a difficult time staying healthy, what does everybody say? Oh, he got shot. It's not his fault. I mean, how are you going to hold getting shot against him? And yeah, that is true, right? I'm not going to blame getting shot on Ricky Pearsall. It's incredible that he lived. It's incredible that he was able to play at all in his rookie season coming back in week seven. So, we can ignore the fact that Ricky Pearsall through the first six weeks of his NFL career missed time due to being hospitalized from getting shot. But what we can't ignore is since he did return, like Ricky Pearsall gets injured in week 10 of his rookie season, misses a three-game stretch. We go to 2025. Ricky Pearsall gets injured yet again in week four. Ricky Pearsall also misses games at the very end of his second season as well. None of this is complicated. I at least it's not complicated in terms of tying it with a gunshot wound. It's just completely separate injuries that are at this point beginning to stack up for Pearsall and becoming a very real red flag. The other thing that's a real red flag for Sticky Ricky for me is he is turning 26 years old in just a couple months, right? He's going to be a lot older than a lot of the other names that we see on this video. And with this as well, Ricky Pearsall has never averaged 10 fantasy points per game in his entire NFL career. Now, maybe that's not that big of a concern. Maybe you say, "Oh, okay. Well, Mason, come on, man. He's had a lot of target competition." No, he hasn't. In 2025, he legitimately had no competition whatsoever. Like, we of course had George Kittle for a large chunk of games, but I mean, Kittle missed time in his own right. And you had no one else in the entire year. Now, all of a sudden, it does appear that Mike Evans is healthy, on track to play week one, on track to be the legitimate alpha wide receiver in this offense. Um, Christian McCaffrey averaged 7.6 targets per game last year because no other wide receiver could get it done in San Francisco. So, I'm not buying Pearsall. I know he has the round one NFL draft capital. He has flashed, but ultimately he's never been super efficient. He's had the opportunity to get it done. He's had difficulty with injuries through the first two years of his NFL career. And now they're bringing in Mike Evans. So, Pearsall is going to be nine in this video. I do think that there are a lot of red flags here. Even though he's in a good offense, he is going into year three. So, he's definitely a breakout candidate, right? It won't be the most surprising thing in the world.
Now, this is where y'all are going to begin to maybe not like me very much in this video cuz I have to be the wet blanket when it comes to Parker Washington. Now, good news for Parker Washington is it was almost as if we saw a breakout at the end of this past year, right? Because we can go through and with Washington, we can see the final three weeks of 2025. Him scoring 26.5 points in week 16, him scoring 19 points in week 17, him scoring almost 20 points in week 18 as well. So during that three-game stretch to end this past season, he averaged over 20 fantasy points per game. So that is a very impressive mark and I know a lot of people are going to be excited about how he ended that past year. The other thing that I want to give credit to is he's still really young, right? We just looked at Ricky Pearsall who's going into his third NFL season and Pearsall is about to turn 26. Parker Washington is like a year and a half younger and he's going into his fourth NFL season. So, he's young. We saw the flashes at the end of this past year. So, a lot of people are excited, right? As of now, he is getting drafted as the wide receiver 33 in underdog drafts. If you were looking at the average ranking of Parker Washington on flockfantasy.com, this includes guys from Fantasy Land, Fantasy Domain, Fantasy Stock Exchange, Davis, myself, right? A ton of the creators that you watch on YouTube, you'll see that Parker Washington has an average ranking of wide receiver 44, 11 spots behind his underdog ADP as of today.
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But going to the negative side of Parker Washington for one minute, let's just call a spade a spade. Parker Washington has had two games in his three-year NFL career with 20 or more fantasy points. Parker Washington's breakout last season occurred when Travis Hunter was out for the year and Brian Thomas Jr., which has been confirmed at this point, was dealing with a multitude of injuries that severely limited him. Now, of course, I'm not expecting Travis Hunter to play over Parker Washington. I think Hunter is going to see a ton of defensive snaps, but he is going to be on the offensive side of the ball as well. Brian Thomas does appear to be fully healthy with all the reports that we have coming out of camp at the moment. So, I think Parker Washington is going to see more target competition this year than what we saw last year for him when he finished as the wide receiver 39 in points per game. And on top of this, if you pull up the updated sportsbook projections on flockfantasy.com, you will have seen that the Jacksonville Jaguars project to be one of the number one offenses in the league when it comes to regressing year-over-year. The Jacksonville Jaguars averaged almost 27.9 points per game last season, but their 2026 projection, according to sportsbooks, it actually has them closer to middle of the pack in the NFL at 23.2. So, Parker Washington has had two 20-point games in his entire NFL career. He's going to be in a worse offense this season with additional target competition, which is why I have him ranked well behind ADP. I'm not taking him very often, and neither are any of the other creators on flockfantasy.com.
Now, let's move this over to Josh Downs. Josh Downs is an industry plant at this point. I'm willing to say it. Like, to be honest with y'all, I'm already thinking about making a video. I'm titling it "The Top 10 Industry Plants in Fantasy Football" and Josh Downs is going to be on that list because every offseason, every fantasy football creator, which I'm a part of, we all scramble over each other to see who can rank Josh Downs the highest. And the Indianapolis Colts and Josh Downs kind of had the best-case scenario last year, right? Like the Indianapolis Colts this past season um were at the very top of the NFL when it comes to their total points scored. Like let's just pull this up. They scored 27.4 points per game. The only offenses better than the Colts last year were the Rams, the Bills, the Lions, the Cowboys, the Seahawks, the Jaguars, and the Patriots. So we had the Indianapolis Colts as the eighth best offense in the league. Very similar to what we just discussed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. That projects to come back down to earth in a big-time way year-over-year. This season, the Indianapolis Colts project to be the 18th best offense in the NFL, which obviously is a massive step backwards. Now, the positive news that we have with Josh Downs is you have no Michael Pittman Jr., right? Michael Pittman Jr. is going over to the Pittsburgh Steelers, opening up a ton of vacant targets. I mean, if we look at Michael Pittman Jr., he averaged 46 receiving yards per game last season, 4.7 receptions per game, and 6.5 targets. So, a lot of people are thinking that Josh Downs is going to get a sliver of this. And while I think that may be true, right, let's go through and let's be optimistic here. Let's say that Josh Downs gets what um 25% of this Michael Pittman Jr. volume. I think that may be a fair assumption, right? I mean, that's a decent slice considering the fact you're going to have another wide receiver running those same routes. You're going to have Alec Pierce on this massive contract extension. You're going to have Tyler Warren going into year two. But still, let's go through the what-if situation. Let's give Josh Downs 25% of these numbers. That's going to move Josh Downs from a wide receiver who averaged 35 receiving yards per game last season to what? Um, somebody that is closer to 45 receiving yards per game. How how does that potentially move the needle? And at Josh Downs' size, we've never seen him be an effective touchdown scorer at the NFL level. I mean, we've I I'm not in on this. While yes, there are more targets available in the Indianapolis Colts offense, it's a rush-first offense that's supposed to be a hell of a lot worse this year. And Josh Downs is coming off a season where he just averaged 8.5 points per game in one of the league's top offenses. Alec Pierce was actually the guy who broke out in Indy last season, not Josh Downs, the guy every fantasy analyst was pumping. And this year, I'm going to be ranking Alec Pierce and Tyler Warren to be the pass catchers that you want for the Indianapolis Colts. But obviously, it's going to be a rush-first offense regardless and an offense that's going to be worse than they were last year.
Now, the guy that made it where I profited almost $30,000 in drafts last season was Mr. Quinton Johnston. He was going off the board in the wide receiver 70s. I decided, you know what? This is ridiculous. Let me make him my most drafted player in fantasy football. And it was a very simple equation. I looked at a wide receiver that was in a good spot, what projected to be a good offense with good quarterback play that had the round one capital that at 23 years old had just finished as the wide receiver 40 in points per game. And he was being drafted as the wide receiver 70 because everybody thought it was funny to make fun of his drops. He finishes the wide receiver 26 in points per game. We profited like 30k and thank you Quinton Johnston. I owe you everything. Now the problem that we have with Quinton Johnston this year is we're not getting that same type of discount. We were able to draft him around wide receiver 70 last season. This year he's going off the board as wide receiver 36. However, let me point this out to y'all. He just finished the wide receiver 26 in points per game. Now you have no Keenan Allen. And going over to those sportsbook projections, all of a sudden you actually have the Los Angeles Chargers projecting to be a much better team year-over-year in comparison to where they were last season. The Chargers last season averaged 21.6 points per game. But with the improvements that we see across this entire offensive line, primarily getting their tackles back, also the improvement with the offensive coordinator coming over from Miami, what we have the Chargers now projected to increase their offensive output by about two and a half points per game. So with Quinton Johnston, let's just run through the numbers. Finished as the wide receiver 26 in points per game last year. You now have less target competition with Keenan Allen leaving. The offense projects to be better than it was and you're able to draft him at wide receiver 36. While it's not so good of a value where I can run it back and I can make this my entire personality and I can put every dollar I have in drafts into Quinton Johnston. Not going to be able to do that again. But I think out of all the wide receivers we've talked about in today's video so far, he is by far and away the most exciting. And keep in mind he's still pretty damn young as well. Like Quinton Johnston hasn't turned 25 years old yet.
Now, let's move over to our fifth breakout candidate, and this is going to be Marvin Harrison Jr. Now, with Harrison, the first thing that I want to reference is the type of prospect that he was. He was viewed as a generational prospect coming out of Ohio State. This wasn't just an average round one wide receiver. A lot of these guys went round one of the NFL draft whether it was Quinton Johnston, Ricky Pearsall, Xavier Worthy or Marv, right? Quinton Johnston, Xavier Worthy, most people viewed them as round one talents. Most people thought that the Niners ended up reaching on Ricky Pearsall, but Marvin Harrison was viewed as somebody that could have gone off the board as a top three pick very easily in NFL draft circles. The reason for this is simple. We can go back to Ohio State in 2023 and you can look at the production that we saw with Marv. This is an offense that had Emeka Egbuka, another name we're going to talk about one second. This is an offense that had Carnell Tate. This is an offense that had TreVeyon Henderson. Three players that were all very exciting. Now, of course, Carnell Tate much younger than Marv, don't necessarily want to make it that big of a deal, but with all that in mind, he had over 1,200 receiving yards in 12 games played in comparison to Egbuka with only 515. Like, he dominated some of the best wide receivers in college football at the best program in college football to a historic level. He gets to the NFL and if y'all remember in his rookie season, people were drafting this dude at the one-two turn in fantasy drafts. As of right now, Marvin Harrison Jr. is the first wide receiver off the board in drafts this year that's a rookie and he is going at the end of the fifth. He's going at the beginning of the sixth. And side note, we're not going to talk about rookie wide receivers in this video. I'm going to save that for another one. But everybody was so excited about Marv. And what did he end up doing in his rookie season? He averaged 11 and a half points per game. Efficiency, nothing special. 1.68 yards per route run. I mean, he had a ton of work, right? He had 6.8 targets a game. He had over a 22% team target share for the Arizona Cardinals. And then what happened in the following season? It got worse. He fell from 11 and a half points per game down to 10 and a half. And at the same time, we actually ended up seeing Michael Wilson, once he got the shot with Marvin Harrison going down, Michael Wilson broke out to be a legitimate league winner, right? I mean, where he had from weeks 11 through 18, two separate games with over 30 fantasy points and four separate games with over 20. So, up until this point, Marv is completely face-planted at the NFL level. However, he is still incredibly young. There are so many moving pieces in this Arizona Cardinals offense with the coaching staff, with potentially the quarterback play that I almost want to just bet on the talent, the talent that we viewed coming out of college. And I think Marv's fallen to the point where if he is off the board as a low-end wide receiver three, high-end wide receiver four, getting drafted currently as the wide receiver 34 in drafts, it's a fair price point, right? He hasn't even turned 24 years old yet, even though that's going to happen any day now.
Now, moving over to Rome Odunze. Rome is going to be my fourth breakout candidate here that I am most excited for. With Rome, he almost broke out this past year, right? Like through the first four games of this past season, he looked incredible. He had scored 15 and a half points in week one, 32 points in week two, then 15 in week three, 17 in week four. This had led to me ranking Rome Odunze by the time we got to week five as a top 15 wide receiver in our rest of season ranks. I thought we were seeing a full-blown breakout in the Ben Johnson offense with Caleb Williams. What happens in the middle of the season? The middle of the season, he breaks his foot. So, all of that gets derailed. Now, if we're looking at just his actual um per game numbers from the course of the 12 games that he played, hell, he only averaged 12.1 fantasy points per game. The efficiency was better this past season than it was in year one. He averaged 1.71 yards per route run in comparison to 1.32, but still nothing super special. We had reports earlier in the offseason with Rome regarding his broken foot saying, you know what, um this is just my new normal. I have to run in pain, blah blah blah. I have to adjust how I'm going. A lot of people got nervous from that. He recently posted a video of him on the treadmill sprinting. He looked just fine. Um, from what I have read on the situation with the foot injury, it doesn't sound like this is something that we really need to be concerned with. If he had an incredible rookie season, I would just be willing to look at the first four games that he played in 2025 and go, you know what, this is who he is. Let's rank him as a top 24 wide receiver in fantasy drafts. But because his rookie season was so underwhelming where he finished with eight and a half fantasy points per game, I can't completely ignore the drop-off we had this. I can't completely ignore the drop-off he had in the second half of this past year. So for that reason, I think I will prefer Luther Burden in drafts if we are just talking about like ranking these guys straight up. But with that in mind, I'm not the only person ranking Luther Burden ahead of Rome Odunze. Luther Burden currently, at least in underdog drafts. Obviously, we're going to get you those Sleeper draft sheets. I'm going to get your ESPN draft sheets, your Yahoo draft sheets very soon. We'll see where he ends up going in those drafts in August. But as of right now, in the drafts in which money's actually being exchanged, Luther Burden's the wide receiver 21 off draft boards. He is going nine wide receiver slots ahead of Rome Odunze. Again, I understand why people are so optimistic. Luther Burden was an incredibly efficient wide receiver. Luther Burden in his rookie season averaged 2.78 yards per route run, which was the top five mark among all wide receivers in the league last year. He averaged 10.9 yards per target. The breakout happened exactly when you would have wanted to see it in week 17 where he scored almost 28 fantasy points. So, all of that has Luther Burden as a wide receiver that people are incredibly excited about. Like, Zack from Fantasy Land has him ranked at wide receiver 18. I have him down at wide receiver 25 if you were just looking at my rankings on flockfantasy.com. And I do want to point out a red flag with Luther Burden that I think a lot of people are just willing to straight up ignore because if you look at the rookie season comparisons with the flockfantasy.com range of outcomes tool, the names that will show up will be like Courtland Sutton, Rome Odunze, Robert Woods, Rashod Bateman, Tyler Lockett, Jalen Hurd, Keon Coleman, Michael Wilson, Treylon Burks. Like not the best names in fantasy. And you may wonder like, oh, why is that happening if he is so efficient and he's so dynamic when he gets the ball? It's because he couldn't get on the field his rookie season and not being able to get on the field in year one is a massive, massive red flag.
Now, this next section took me a ton of research. If you're ever going to go down there and drop a like on the video, do it now. But here with Luther Burden, I tracked every wide receiver over the past 10 years that was selected as a top 10 wide receiver in their draft class. Then I tracked their yards per route run for both the regular season and the NFL playoffs in their rookie seasons. I tracked the amount of routes per game that they run in their rookie season, both in the regular season as well as the playoffs. And I wanted to filter this and get some type of idea of like what range does Luther Burden belong in. And if we look at the only wide receivers that averaged more yards per route run than him, we have A.J. Brown, Chris Olave, Ja'Marr Chase, Brian Thomas Jr., Ladd McConkey, Justin Jefferson. An incredible list. The other guys that are close to him are Christian Watson, Tank Dell, Rashee Rice, Malik Nabers, Kadarius Tony. Again, a ton of hits. But that's only the efficiency numbers. But if we sort this by routes and look at the wide receivers that were selected as a top 10 wide receiver in their draft class that ran fewer than 20 routes per game, you have Kadarius Tony, Christian Watson, Rondale Moore, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, N'Keal Harry, Treylon Burks, DJ Chark, Isaac Bruce, Paris Campbell, Jalen Reagor, Marvin Mims, Mecole Hardman, Curtis Samuel, Mike Williams, Jahan Dotson, Dwayne Eskridge, Kyle Williams, T.J. Hockenson, Andy Isabella, Chris Moore. So, two things can be true at once. When Luther Burden got on the field, he looked very good. And that is a massive, massive green flag. And it's a great indicator. But it can also be a massive red flag that he did not get on the field over DJ Moore and Olamide Zaccheaus. So, um I am going to view this as like a high ceiling, very low floor type play, but you could see him very easily break out. That's why we are going to have him as my third name in this video.
Now, our next wide receiver is going to be Emeka Egbuka. A name that's legitimately impossible to look at what he did last season and try to figure out how it's going to apply to this next one because I've never seen it before. Legitimately never. I know we've talked about this a ton, but in the first five weeks of this past year, he was a top three wide receiver in fantasy. And then week six onwards, he had one usable week. He had one game with 11 or more fantasy points and he had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 games with fewer than 10. I can't comprehend that. Like, typically, we're supposed to see rookie wide receivers start off slow and get better over time. We have some changes here with the wide receiver room. Obviously, Mike Evans leaving Tampa, going to San Francisco, but Godwin was nothing last season, right? Like um the realistic expectation for Godwin in my mind is going to be that Godwin can only be better in 2026 than he was in 2025 where he only played nine games and obviously he missed the first half of the season in which Egbuka was going absolutely nuclear. The other thing that's worth noting is Jalen McMillan also missed the beginning of the year in which you had Egbuka go nuclear where McMillan wasn't able to come back until week 15 and they go through and they add Tedd Ginn Jr. this offseason as well. A decent little wide receiver prospect to bolster the wide receiver depth. So they lose Mike Evans, but Mike Evans was playing when Egbuka was dominant anyway. The guys that weren't playing when Egbuka was dominant were Godwin, McMillan, Tedd Ginn Jr. obviously was in college football at the time. Now I know you can blame a lot of this on Baker Mayfield where we can go through and we can look at Baker and he has a very similar drop-off, right? Like Baker Mayfield through the first six weeks um looked pretty damn good. He looked usable in fantasy. Like I mean if y'all remember in 2024 people were talking about like Baker Mayfield MVP level season and that kind of got carried over to the beginning of 2025 and then Baker completely fell apart halfway through the year where he only had one game with over 20 fantasy points after the first five weeks. So maybe everything just hinges on what we have with the projections for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where last season the Bucs averaged about 22.4 points per game. This year they're supposed to be slightly better, but about the same. Uh, sportsbooks have them at 22.9 points per game, an increase of about half a point per contest.
Now, my number one breakout candidate in fantasy this year, this is all wide receivers that have not scored 14 points per game in a season before and that are younger than 26 years old, will be T-Mac, Jaxon McMillan, J.J. McMillan, whatever you want to call him. We're going to rock his jersey in so many videos, so many live streams because he is currently my number one most drafted player over 200 fantasy drafts. I'm getting him in round four of underdog drafts and I cannot stop taking him. If I pull up Jaxon McMillan, I have him at wide receiver 17 in my rankings on flockfantasy.com. I'm right in the middle of creators. We have Zack Avery higher on him. We have Danny and Corey lower on him. And I just want to run through it all. Jaxon McMillan was a phenomenal prospect coming out of college. If you weren't watching our dynasty stuff last offseason, let me just give you the quick overview. The 2024 Arizona Wildcats had Jaxon McMillan not only as their wide receiver one, he was their wide receiver with 1300 receiving yards. Do you know what the number two wide receiver had in this offense? 300. Hard to comprehend that level of dominance. It It truly is. The last time I can remember something like that at the collegiate level was a Mr. Drake London, right? I can pull up Drake London at USC. And London in eight games played went through and had over a thousand receiving yards. He averaged 135 receiving yards per game. And the number two name in his offense averaged 57. So I guess Jaxon McMillan was actually even more dominant than Drake London was at USC. What does this lead to? It leads to him getting selected not only as a top wide receiver in last year's draft, but as a top 10 pick overall going at pick eight to the Carolina Panthers. So baseline expectation isn't like a Jalen Hurd, oh we don't know if he's any good. I mean, he's kind of a guy that didn't do much in college, gets drafted later in the NFL draft, blah blah blah. No, base expectation is this dude was a freaking beast in college. He goes top 10 of the NFL draft. He's probably a stud. And then what does he do in the NFL? Oh, in his rookie season, he has 25%, yes, 25% of the targets for the Carolina Panthers. That is very similar to what Drake London did in his rookie season for the Atlanta Falcons. The efficiency wasn't bad either. 1.88 yards per route run, 8.3 yards per target. What did his rookie season comps look like, right? Not even taking into account that he was a beast of a college player. Just his straight-up raw rookie numbers. DK Metcalf, Cooper Kupp, Rashee Rice, Tee Higgins, Stefon Diggs, CeeDee Lamb, Chase Claypool, Brandon Aiyuk, and then Emeka Egbuka. How many of these wide receivers took a step forward from year one to year two? Metcalf, Kupp, Rice, Higgins, Lamb, and Diggs. The only two that didn't were Claypool and Brandon Aiyuk. And Claypool and Brandon Aiyuk weren't anything close to the collegiate player that T-Mac was. Now, I understand people are going to say, "Well, Mason, um, come on, man. You got Bryce Young under center. We we can't be excited about a Carolina Panthers offense." But if we look at current sportsbook projections, the Panthers project to score over 20 points per game this year. Like last year they averaged 18.3, but they're projected to increase by about 1.8 points per game. Bryce Young did show some flashes last season. And if we look at Young, um he's only 25 years old, right? There is room to believe that maybe he improves at 25. Like he was 24 last year. So, I think that the cost of T-Mac, who I'm drafting in round four of every single draft that we're essentially doing in the live stream every single night, that's his floor price if the Carolina Panthers are just a whatever offense how they have been over the past few seasons. However, if they were to surprise to the upside, I think you can see McMillan as the next Drake London and that's why I'm investing so much money into him right now.
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