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Your fantasy football drafts are right around the corner, but players are already practicing, depth charts are changing, and a lot is happening in the world of the NFL. So, to make sure you stay in the loop and can actually beat your friends and dominate your draft, in this video, we're covering the 10 players who are currently skyrocketing up my rankings, my fantasy draft board because of the news that has been coming out.
And the first player I have to start with is the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Rashid Shahid. He resigned a three-year deal with the team this off season. And let's be honest, the biggest reason why I have interest in him, other than the fact that he signed a three-year contract and good reports coming out of camp, is the guy is way too cheap in fantasy drafts.
Now, yes, when you look at it, last year, he joined the team from week 10 on. It took him a couple weeks to ramp back up. And although he played every single game, he actually played an extra game because of the trade, 18 games. He didn't have a by-week. He only had 59 catches, 687 yards. A lot of his production came in the first half of the season with the Saints when he had an entire off season to work with that team, that coaching staff, that quarterback as well. So, it's not shocking to me to see that when he goes over to Sam Darnold, a brand new team where he has to compete with the offensive player of the year in Jackson Smith and Jigba Cooper Cup who at that point at least in the season was still pretty productive. AJ Barner, a team that was running the ball almost more than anybody else. It's not shocking that Rashid Shahed wasn't insanely involved, but I do think there's a lot of hope for that because you can see right here in the first nine games of the season with the Saints as their clear number two behind Chris Ave 11.8 fantasy points per game, 7.3 targets per game. I get it, it was a totally different offense. He's now on Seattle, but Seattle should be throwing more this year. They're going to be a totally different offense for a few reasons.
First off, we look at the Seattle Seahawks dep chart. What has changed? There's no more Kenneth Walker at the running back position. They drafted first round picture with the last pick in the first round. Zack Sharpet ACL tear in the playoffs. We're talking about January surgery. Uh they don't really actually February surgery had the ACL tear in January. They don't think he's going to be back until November at the earliest. So that's basically the entire season. So you're going to look at a team now that doesn't have basically their top two running backs from last year. Their offensive coordinator who was amazing, he got poached, Clink Kubak, he's now on the Raiders. They're going to be skewing pass heavy. I mean naturally based on how much they ran last year. And then you factor in the injuries and the guys that are gone. And if we stay on this depth chart for a second, who is Rasheed Shahed's competition this year? It's JSN. Very tough competition. But if we're talking about for the second option in the passing attack, AJ Bartner, no. Cooper Cup, a 33-year-old wide receiver. Cooper Cup, not the same guy that he used to be. 1.4 yards per out run is not great. Like it's not the worst in the world, but it's not great. 63rd in the NFL last year.
Rasheed Shahid is going to offer, in my opinion, much more in that department. And like I said, they resigned him this off season. It was kind of a weak wide receiver market. What do they give him? A threeyear $51 million deal based on the numbers that he put up from them last year. Whether you factor in the special teams and the return touchdowns in the playoffs, like that's not worth that. But that just means the potential that they see in him to be their number two this year. And we're already seeing it in camp. Zayn Dhani over on Twitter. Be sure to follow him. Another pod confirming Rasheed Shahed may see an uptick in usage. Sam Donn and Shahed chemistry was strong in the spring. You can see right here, there's just some quotes that are basically being pulled about how they were very strong in the spring. We know that JSN is going to be the number two in this team, but in my opinion, we could be pretty confident since last year, the Seahawks threw the fourth fewest times in the NFL. They were a runheavy team. Naturally, that's going to change, especially with no Kenneth Walker, no Zack Charban, no Clint Kubak. They're going to throw the ball a lot more, and there's only so much more JSN can get. He had almost 1,800 yards last year. Rasheed Jahit is going to be breaking out this year, or at least the path to do so is there. And when he goes as the 135th overall player currently in fantasy drafts, and you're looking at him as like an 11th or a 12th, or actually a 12th round fantasy pick, feels pretty good.
Next up, we got to talk about Greg Dolich. Uh, this might seem crazy to a lot of you. The 26-y old tight end, his fourth year in the NFL out of UCLA. I get it. It might seem absolutely wild to you that I'm talking about Greg Dolich here, especially when you look at his NFL career. He's played 10 games last year, nine the year before that. He's battled injuries. Two the year before that. This is a guy with 21 NFL career games. And in his receiving yards, 335 last year, 28 and 25 the years before that. The guy doesn't even have 400 receiving yards. The guy barely has 50 NFL targets. So why in the world s do I think Greg Dolich a tight end entering his fourth year now 26 years old on a what should be terrible Miami team overall a tanking team why do I think he's a good fantasy option why is he skyrocketing up the rankings well for starters he was extremely efficient on his very small sample of I get it 300 yards 30ome targets last year 2.54 yards per out run would have led the NFL last year and if we want really want to break it down right now last year Greg Dolich was great down the stretch over the final 10 games he outtargeted every single Dolphins wide receiver not named I'm Jaylen Wadd and oh yeah, look at the team changers tracker here in the fantasy blueprint. You can check it out at joinb blueprint.com. Just like 1% of the tools that you get this entire year from draft day to championship week if you want to win your league. Check it out at joinbooprint.com. It's all the tools that I use and over 10,000 others use for theirs.
You can see here, oh Jaylen Wadd's no longer coming back. Oh, they also got rid of Tyreek Hill. Makes sense. Oh, Nick Westbrook is also not there. Oh, well they obviously brought in some guys, right? No. Third round wide receiver Caleb Douglas. Third round wide receiver Chris Bell dealing with a torn ACL. Fifth round wide receiver Kevin Coleman. All these guys are rookies. Oh, but what about free agency? Oh, Jaylen Tolbert 22 Atwell. Yeah, there's not going to be all that much target competition on this team for Greg Dolich. The current projected starting wide receivers, Malik Washington, who Greg Dolich the final nine games, 10 games of last year, outtargeted and out yardage Malik Washington, mostly a slot receiver. Jaylen Tolbert, a depth wide receiver for the Cowboys, two out depth wide receiver around the NFL with the Rams I should say. So, like the way that you look at this, the Dolphins have the most targets. 53% of their targets last year, mostly Wadd and Tyreek, are now up for grabs. That's 240 targets to replace. Who is going to get all those targets? It's not going to be Malik Washington. It's not going to be a hodgepodge of the rookies. It's going to be probably spread out all over the place. And maybe going to the highly efficient tight end who was having success in the second half of the season last year. And Greg Dolich, new coaching staff, new quarterback. We can't just copy and paste last year, but the guy was getting open and producing. I think that means something. And once again, you can see Zayn Dani over here. He says ESPN spring surprises. Lots of big names. He goes through a whole list. Greg Dolich was the primary target and clear trust favorite for Malik Willis. Malik Willis has shown a lot of upside. He's going to be the new quarterback. Signed a two-year contract with the Dolphins this offseason. Comes over from Green Bay. He showed a lot of upside in that Green Bay system, but it's a totally different system. This isn't going to be like an offensive guru calling the staff here. And it was still a small sample for Willis. I expect him to lean on some checkdowns to Greg Doltage.
So Mr. Greg Doltage who currently basically goes free in drafts. He's 178th overall. He's like your 14th 15th round pick. Like if you really just wanted to wait on tight end and snag two or one in the later rounds or stream the position. I don't hate just streaming Greg Dolt and seeing where it takes you. I also don't hate drafting Tank Bsby in the later rounds this year. Arguably the best handcuff in all of fantasy football, but you can get him in like round 14 or 15 right now.
Look, Tank Bsby, is he going to be like some standout player who looks like he's going to be getting 15 touches per game? No. It's going to take an injury for Tank Bsby to get these 15 touches per game. But as of right now, you could see the guy has been efficient in his NFL career as of late. 4.66 yards per carry uh in 2024 when he was a member of the Jaguars. Then gets traded early in the season last year to the Eagles. Limited sample of course because Saquon was there and healthy, but 5.7 yards per carry, second in the NFL, uh 63 carries as well. He only had a couple of games, right? Only three games last year where he saw at least eight carries. In all of those games, he had over 50 rushing yards. In one of those games, he topped 100 rushing yards, the other one 75. Like, he was a highly efficient player when called upon behind a banged up Eagles offensive line last year. And you can see the areas where he was great. 5.4 true yards per carry when you take out kind of like kneel downs and just behind the line of scrimmage stuff as well. Uh like fumbles. 5.7 yards per carry. That's what we talked about earlier. 5.9 yards per touch. One of the best rates in the NFL. 48 and a half% juke rate. One of the best rates. You'll see him ranking 40th in evaded tackles. That that's that's skewed. He had 32 evaded tackles on just 60 carries. So like total tackles, sure, because he didn't get the ball a lot because Saquin was there. 32 evaded tackles on 60 carries is absolutely insane. So much so that you can see right here, no film analysis on Twitter says Tank Bsby led uh running backs last season in an explosive run rate and forced missed tackles, aka evaded carries. The guy was great. You can see Ian Harditage points out some amazing stats from him. Number one running back in yards after contact per carry since 2024. Tank Bsby RB2 in tackles avoided per carry only behind Kenneth Walker during that time. One of seven running backs with an explosive rush rate of 10% last year. Uh he's one injury away and this is the big piece here from Saquon. one injury from Saquon away to being like the most covered player in all like fantasy waiverwires. And that's the big one here. Saquon Barkley, who is now approaching very quickly, and this is crazy that he's almost already 30 years old. This is a 29 and a half year old running back. How did it go so quick? By the time February comes, he'll be a 30-year-old running back. He had 280 carries last year. I don't think Saquon Barkley is just all of a sudden going to be injuryprone this year. But guys who see 250 to 300 plus carries, you're getting more batter, more hits on your body, more chances to fall weird, roll an ankle, whatever it might be. If that happened to Saquon, who I like by the way this year in the second round of fantasy drafts, but if that happened, Tank Bsby steps up as the best handcuff in all fantasy football because based on reports, the only other running back in this backfield, Will Shipley, who was a lot of the times a special teams player last year, all the reports right now have Tanksby ahead of him. Thomas Peterson puts out right here. Uh, in terms of practice reports right now, standing out, it's Tank Bsby, uh, and Reek Woolen. And then you can see right here, Zayn Dani, once again, Tank Bsby and Will Shipley. Bsby sounds like the clear handcuff to Saquon. And Shipley is the clear number three as some quotes point out right here. He's clearly the player worthy of being on the field more in 2025. Talking about Tank Bsby over this report, um Will Shipley. So Bsby, the way that I look at it, 164th overall. Do I really like Blake Corm? Do I think he might actually be the best handcuff in all fantasy? Sure, he's going to see carries. He might split the snaps 60, 40, 55, 45 of Kyum Williams, but Blake Cororm also goes 70 picks earlier than Tank Bsby. That gap should not be anywhere near that. BSby should be a borderline top 100 player. He is the best or a top three or in tier one at least of the handcuff tiers for fantasy football.
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Next up, I want to talk about the Chargers. And we'll start with the Chargers here. A couple of guys. First off, Quinton Johnson, a guy who had eight touchdowns last year. Now Mike McDaniels is coming in to run the offense. I like Quinton Johnson and I get it. Like look, last year at the end of the year when you break it down, Quinton Johnson, despite his hot start to the season, he kind of cooled off. We saw some stretches with Justin Herbert dealing with injuries and the entire offense was struggling. But 12.2 fantasy points per game was a careerhigh still. Back-to-back seasons with eight touchdowns. Like these things are pretty nice to see. He had 735 receiving yards last year despite battling some injuries, missed a couple of games. That was all really nice. To start the season though, Quinn Johnson, a little bit of touchdown luck, but in those five games, 17.7 fantasy points per game, 8.2 targets per game, 75 receiving yards per game. He started at week one on Friday, uh, Friday Night Football, I believe it was, against the Chiefs, he looked fantastic, way better than Lad Mani looked like the best Chiefs player on the entire field. In that stretch to start the season when Quinton Johnson was averaging almost 18 points per game, Manku was only getting seven points per game. So like, he looked like the wide receiver won. And now when we head into this year, if I pull up the team changes tracker right here, a pretty big piece of this offense is gone. Even though he was a little bit older, Keenan Allen was still heavily involved in the offense last year. He had over 120 targets. That's now up for grabs. They did bring in some new bodies, specifically a fourth round wide receiver, Brennan Thompson, but he's not really going to impact Quinton Johnson's role in my opinion. He'll kind of have his own design plays as a speedster, one of the fastest wide receivers to ever attend the combine downfield.
So, what is Quinton Johnson looking at in terms of target competition? Well, Lad Mani is still there. Aronda Gadson and David and Jooku will split tight end snaps. He'll probably run a lot of 12 personnel. Trey Harris is there entering year two. didn't do much as he was buried as a rookie behind Johnston, lad Macy, and Keenan Allen. So, it's kind of like Clinton Johnston is just another year in this system, another year to improve. Mike McDaniel comes in who's just been proven to provide very fantasy friendly offenses and there's not that much target competition or at least not increased target competition since last year. And you can see some of the things Mike McDaniel is saying about Quinton Johnson. I think he's a guy that has some traits in his game that are similar to some very powerful, explosive, productive wide receivers I had in the past, namely Julio Jones and Andre Johnson. So, we are pushing him. Obviously, that's a stretch, but this is what Mike McDaniel is saying. A guy who has coached these players is saying, "I see some of the traits, whether it's the size, whether it's the yards after the catch ability, something, the speed, something is there." McDaniel would also go on to say that the scheme has him set up for yards after the catch. In college, I was a big yards after, or this is Quinton Johnson talking about Mike McDaniel's scheme. He says, "In college at TCU, I was a big yards after the catch guy. So, when introduced some of those things to us, it lit me up a little bit inside. The last couple years in the NFL, Quinton Johnson has not gotten a lot of yards after the catch opportunities. he's better or just run a vertical route downfield. Mike McDaniel is going to change his role to get him in open space. That's good for fantasy football.
So, I like Quinton Johnson. He's moving up my rankings right now in terms of ADP. He goes as the 76th overall player. That's a nice spot for an offense that should be improving. But I also want to talk about his teammate that we briefly touched on when looking at the depth chart in Trey Harris who is entering year two in the NFL. Trey Harris is a player who in college was an absolute dynamite prospect. His final year, despite dealing with injuries, he had a thousand yards um on 60 catches in just nine games. This was a guy who in that final season, look at these game logs from Trey Harris. This is why he went in the second round back in the 2025 draft. He starts his season off with 179, 130, 94, 225, 176, 81, and 120, and 102 yards. Then he gets hurt. He only has one catch for 43 yards against Florida. Gets hurt in that game, doesn't play the rest of the season. But this was a guy before that injury that was basically going out there and averaging like 150 receiving yards per game. The guy was absolutely dominant. He goes in the second round of the NFL, but unfortunately the Chargers signed Keenan Allen and he's kind of blocked for year one. Trey Harris, at least that is. Now, he's set up to be a starter in this offense under Mike McDaniel. And as you can see right here, um there's a quote that came out about like why didn't the Chargers have any interest in AJ Brown? And basically, they said they weren't interested in Brown primarily because of the wide receivers they've already invested in via the draft. So, Vlad Maki would be the one, Quinton Johnson another first round pick. But a big part of that was Albert Brerier says they had a few occasions that Harris specifically Trey Harris came up as a breakout uh candidate for them this year. Some of the chargers are internally high on. So whatever that means, Trey Harris is going to have a bigger role this year. He currently sets out to be a starting wide receiver in this offense with Justin Herbert, with Mike McDaniel. Now I get it like Vlad Maki, Quinton Johnson are better options, but Trey Harris might be one of the best wide receiver threes in the entire NFL in my opinion for fantasy upside. And he goes as the 163rd player. What are we trying to do with these late round picks, one of the last picks in your draft? We're not just trying to have a guy who sits on our bench. He's a dusty old veteran. You cut him by week two or week three. We're trying to see if a player has juice. Trey Harris in college had juice and now he's going to have a role to have or opportunity to have more of a role this year. So if when week one or week two we see a larger role for Trey Harris, he's seen five, six targets a game, at least he's already on your team rather than having to spend some fab budget or waiver priority on it.
Let's keep going here. This is going to be another late round tight end, the 23-year-old Terren Ferguson. Former second round pick. This is his second year in the NFL. Terren Ferguson is interesting. He's on the Rams if you're not familiar. And I want to talk about Terren Ferguson for a few reasons here. First off, like when you just look at what he did last year. We'll pull it up here on player profiler. Nothing crazy stands out. He had 11 catches. He had 231 receiving yards, 40 yards after the catch, like obviously it was a very limited role. It was a crowded tight end room where there was like three or four other guys. Davis Alice is Davis Allen is gone from last year. So that's good. But the big thing for Terence Ferguson, his limited, and I mean very limited, opportunities last year despite only having 11 catches. The dude was number one amongst all tight ends in the NFL with 14 deep targets. That's despite him only going out there and seeing, let's pull it up right now, 38% of the snaps. How many total routes did this guy run? 163 routes. And he still led the NFL. I mean, this is like a quarter of what actual tight ends are running in the NFL or a third of that, right? And he led the NFL in deep targets. A bigger role should be coming this year for Terren Ferguson. I mean, we're already getting reports of it. ESPN's analyst Mike Clay believes that there's a breakout for him and to be the tight end one on the Rams. That would be awesome. Zayn Dani points out here about the entire Rams. He did a whole write up. Be sure to check it out. Terrence Ferguson again was being mentioned as being the de facto wide receiver three in this offense after Devonte, after the Puka. That's awesome when you're attached to Shawn McVey and an MVP, reigning MVP, Matthew Stafford. What else do we have here? Here's some coach Peak Index. A great account to follow from Shawn McVey. Terren Ferguson is everything and that much more that we hoped he would be. I had him tremendous, had tremendous high hopes for him, and I think he's going to be a huge part of what we have to offer this year and for years to come. Terren Ferguson to me is a guy that Shawn McVey wants to get involved this year. He's a guy that fits a lot of boxes, downfield usage in this offense, spread some things out, all the attention to Puka and Devonte Adams. Terrence Ferguson is going to have a lot of open looks in 2026. And the most beautiful thing about it, he currently goes as the 189th player. I would prefer Greg Dolich, like we talked about earlier, a late round tight end because he just has no target competition. But Ferguson despite that tough target competition in Pukanukua and Adams kind of makes up for it just because he's so cheap and he has Matthew Stafford a good offense in Shawn McF.
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Next up, let's talk about Rashad White. We don't have to spend too much time here on Rashad White because quite simply, you know who Rashad White is. This is a guy who back in the day, 2023, in his rookie year, um, he ended up going out there, actually, it was his second year. He ended up going out there with his with the Bucks and having a 1500 yard season, 990 rushing yards, although he wasn't all that efficient, uh, but he still had 99 990 rushing yards and 549 receiving yards. So, this was an extremely productive player. Had over 300 touches that season. I bring this up because it just goes to show you that he can do it again. Now, in my opinion, he's with the Commanders now. He signed this offseason. Rashad White profiles out as a clear third down back on this team. Two and four-minute offense. He's the best passc catching running back they have because the rest of their running backs are Jakori Krosky Meritt doesn't catch passes had like single-digit catches last year. Kron Allen a rookie not known for catching passes and Jerome Ford at best mediocre to below average at catching passes. So Rashad White is going to be out there on third downs, two minute and probably four-minute offense, pass protection downs, third and longs, whatever it might be. So he already has a role and all he has to do now is be better than Jaka Ky Merritt who over the second half of last year when Chris Rodriguez was healthy, Jakory Ky Merritt lost his job to Chris Rodriguez. Like he was not good. He was averaging 30 rushing yards per game. So am I extremely high on Rashad White? No. But when you tell me that he's going in the 10th round, the 110th overall player in fantasy drafts and he kind of fits that mold like last year of like a Javvante Williams. Although Rashad has a little bit more target backfield competition this year with Jakori Koski Merritt. It's still a situation where guys going into double digit rounds and could be the RB1 on his team and does have a a history a couple years ago of being a workhorse. Rashad White's interesting. He's moving up the rankings.
Another player moving up the rankings right now is Xavier Worthy. This is a guy that you used to have to spend like a fifth round fantasy pick on. Now he goes in kind of like the eighth maybe ninth round of fantasy drafts. And look at the end of the day is Xavier Worthy. He's still a 23-y old player. He came into the league at 21 years old. Still 23. Still has all the talent in the world. Still has Mahomes and Pat Patrick Mahomes, right? Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. You look at it though. Xavier Worthy 14 games played last year. He literally got hurt on like the first play of the game. The first second or play of the game, Travis Kelce comes in, pops out his shoulder. He has to deal with that for the next eight to 10 weeks of the season. He played through it. He also had an ankle injury. So like last year was kind of a wash. If literally the third play of the game, you're popping out your shoulder, a two-month recovery that you play through, by the time you're back, your quarterback tears his ACL, it's a wash of a season. So now we come into this year where Mahomes is trending to play week one. Rashi Rice is still there, but other than that, they just resigned Taekwon Thornton. They resigned Travis Kelce. He's another year older. The depth at wide receiver is Nico Reimi. Cyrus Allen, Jaylen Royals, like there's nothing here. Uh Xavier Worthy is once again set up to be now year three in the NFL, finally healthy. Once again set up to be the number two option in this passing attack, the second best option, the fastest player, still a 23-year-old who has all the potential in the world. He's still set up for a lot of targets. 100 plus in a Patrick Mahomes offense. As you can see right here, based on offseason reports, Rashi Riceworthy and Taekquin Thornne are the primary threats and the offense makes sense based on what we already know from the depth that we just showed you. All this makes a lot of sense. The Chiefs also rebuilt the offense around more structure, more accountability, and more run game. As you can see right here, their breakout pick for the offense this year is Xavier Worthy. Based on reports, Worthy now goes as the 94th overall player. Last year, you had to take Xavier Worthy in the 50s or 60s. You now get him four rounds later. So, yes, Xavier Worthy is a buy low, buy the dip type candidate.
Now this one's going to be gross. And again, we're not trying to hit home runs all the time in fantasy. We're trying to get the guys who can go in like round 11 or round 12 and give us a seventh or eighth round value. And I do think Jayen Aaylor is someone who could do that. He could be a flex option for you, getting you 10 to 12 g points per week, especially in some by-week or injury situations. Jaylen Naylor, who is Jaylen Naylor, you might be asking if you're not super deep into the weeds. He's been the wide receiver three and a very good wide receiver three, one of the best in the NFL uh the last couple years for the Minnesota Vikings. A wide receiver three who despite being behind Justin Jefferson, TJ Hawinson, Jordan Addison, he's still been able to put up 400 plus yards in each of the last two seasons and he's played every single game he's been reliable. The funny thing is this off season out of all the wide receivers available and there weren't a lot. The Raiders who needed wide receiver help didn't take any in the draft until ground six a speedster Malik Benson they needed wide receiver help. Who was their big splash signing? Jaylen Naylor on a threeyear $35 million contract. This now sets up Naylor to be maybe the wide receiver one in this offense. Now look, Brock Bowers is the wide receiver one, right? But he's a tight end, but he's a wide receiver one. Ashen Genti is going to catch a good amount of balls and have a lot of targets. He had 73 as a rookie last year. But like in terms of wide receivers, Trey Tucker who had like a couple of flashes with Gino last year for the most part wasn't great. Jack Bes who didn't do anything last year will have a bigger chance this year now that Jacobe Myers is gone the entire season. But then it's Jaylen Aaylor. He's like the proven veteran on this team which is absolutely crazy at the wide receiver position. So there's a good chance that he could be the wide receiver one on this team. The offense hopefully is a little bit better with Fernando Mendoza number one overall pick. Kirk Cousins now at quarterback. Klay Kubak who won a Super Bowl with the Seahawks great offensive coordinator coming in as the coach to call plays. like offense should be better. And as of right now, the Raiders are based on the beat reports, they view Jaylen Aaylor as the wide receiver, too. At worst, on this team, he'll be asked to step up and be at least the Raiders number two wide receiver after being the number three in Minnesota. Uh, makes sense based on the money, giving him over $10 million per year, but there's also a chance that he's the wide receiver one. Trey Hucker's a downfield threat. Jack B is unproven. To me, he looks like the wide receiver won possession wide receiver. So, does that mean he's a league winner? No. He goes 147th overall in fantasy drafts. He's a 13thround fantasy pick. So, if you take him in the 13th round, I think there's a lot of value there because I think as a potential number one receiver uh for a very accurate quarterback in Fernando Mendoza who kind of fits the style like Jaylen Aaylor fits the style of some of the things Indiana was doing last year in college. Like, if he finishes as an eighth round value and gets you 10 to 11 fantasy points per game, that's amazing. That's great. That's an awesome flex number two or wide receiver three in your lineup.
Another guy who fits this mold, and I know we're getting to the dusty players, but sometimes those guys have some potential is Jerry Judy. Two years ago, he was a top 10 NFL wide receiver on a points per game basis. And now he's going as the wide receiver 65 in fantasy drafts for good reason. He's in a terrible offense with a terrible quarterback situation and more weapons coming in. But despite the terrible year last year in this really bad offense, he still played every single game. Like he's he's reliable. He's out there after having like an ankle injury a couple years ago at the start of his career. He had 106 targets with bad quarterbacks. Yeah. He only had 602 yards because Dylan Gabriel wasn't good. Because Shador Sanders wasn't good. Nobody was good on that team. I get that those guys are yet again here this year, which is not all that reassuring. Deshaawn Watson is probably even going to start at this point. So like all these things I get are very gross. But Judy, who is expected to be traded or cut as of right now, not traded or cut, probably won't be at this point. He's going to be the veteran presence in this wide receiver room. Like it's Jerry Judy. David and Jooku is now gone. Yes, they drafted Casey Conception wide receiver in round one. He's my favorite wide receiver here. He goes way earlier in fantasy drafts than Judy for good reason because he has a lot more upside. that if we look look at the team changes tracker here in the NFL draft first round pick Casey Conception second round pick Denzel Boston so like yes there's going to be more talking competition in terms of like explosive players but the way that this shapes out Denzel Boston on the outside Judy's going to move on the outside and into the slot with Casey Conception there's a lot of upside for where Judy goes in drafts similar to a Jaylen Aaylor because Judy goes as the 177th overall player if you told me Judy was going as the 120th player I would say that's a terrible pick in round 10 he has too much target competition on a bad offense but once Jerry Judy is going as the 177th pick. We're talking about a 15th 16th round fantasy pick, last pick in your draft, probably on many waiver wires. I have to at least point out that he is the clear-cut veteran now that David and Jooko is gone in this passing attack. Is Deshaawn Watson, if he starts week one off of multiple Achilles tears, a guy, terrible person, terrible at football at this point. But is he going to rely week one on an unproven guy in Casey Conception in Denzel Boston? Maybe he'll rely on these guys by like week five, six, seven. Or is he going to lean more on a proven veteran in Jerry Judy who he knows can get open and he has some chemistry with and history with? I think he's going to rely on Jerry Judy. This is not the guy who's going to win you your league. But for the first four to six weeks of the season before those rookies get caught up to speed, do I think Jerry Judy can be productive as a 16th round fantasy pick? Yeah, I think he can beat that price.
So, these are the players who are currently skyrocketing up the rankings for one reason or another. A lot of this has to do with training camp, mini camp, OTAAS, all that stuff starting up and actually getting some quotes and some reps of these players. Now, and oh, this is a big one. If you want to see the players that I am betting everything on this year in fantasy football, they're my guys, the guys I'm flaging, whatever you want to call it, right? You can check out this video right here. These are the guys you want to make sure are on your fantasy team because they'll help you win your league.