The Players I Can't Stop Drafting in Every Round

If you want to dominate your fantasy draft, you are in the right place because today we are talking about the guys I cannot stop drafting in every single round of fantasy drafts. I've done dozens of mock drafts or best baseball drafts for real money this off season and it's become very clear to me that there are guys who will actually help you win leagues and other guys who won't in every single round and we could start right away in round one where I personally cannot stop drafting Justin Jefferson.

Now let's obviously get to the point where if you have a top three pick, you're not taking Justin Jefferson, you're taking a beja jiruka, right? But once we start to get to like this range of fifth overall, maybe sixth overall, that's where Jefferson comes into play. For right now on ADP, average draft position, he's going ninth overall. Now, of course, there's a reason why you can get him later than you ever have been able to get him in the last three to four years. And that's because of what he did last year. For Justin Jefferson standards, even though he went for over 1,000 yards, 11th most in the NFL, that's not going to cut it when you were a first round pick, top five pick in a lot of drafts last year. 84 catches, top 10 in the NFL. Like, you actually look at the accounting numbers, he was still a top 10 receiver last year. The problem was his quarterback play was just atrocious. That ended up affecting his yards per route run. 21st is one of the lowest ones of his career. It's still a very good number, two yards per route run. But again, for first round standards of Justin Jefferson, it is not good. And that's because his quarterback play, whether it was Max Bros, Carson Wentz playing, injured or JJ McCarthy last year, none of them were good. And from weeks 10 to 17, it got worse. He only averaged five and a half fantasy points per game, less than Keon Coleman, Jaylen Naylor, and Isaac Tesla. Obviously atrocious. Like if you draft him in the first round, you just had to keep starting him. And then you get to your fantasy playoffs, if you even made it. You probably didn't. And you're like, I got to keep starting the guy. And he just kept stinking. But like I said, it wasn't like Justin Jefferson fell off a cliff. He still earned a 30% target share, one of the best marks in elite mark in the NFL. 30% of his team targets. He was sixth in the entire NFL in wide receiver targets, 8.3 per game. The problem was his catchable targets were down. It was not good by any means. It was atrocious. That's why over that second half of the season, he was only averaging 37 receiving yards per game. No touchdowns over the entire second half of the season. Terrible.

But now the savior comes to town. And I say that a little tongue in cheek in Kyler Murray. But what I will say about Kyler Murray, despite him being injured last year, when we actually see this guy go out there and be healthy, he's a productive quarterback. Is he the best quarterback in the NFL? No. But in 2024 when he was actually healthy, 3,800 passing yards, and not the greatest Cardinals offense, 69% completion percentage, didn't have the best coaching. That's important to call out because this year he'll get Justin Jefferson, he'll get Jordan Addison, he'll get a solid offensive line, he'll get Kevin Okonnell, a very solid coach, if not one of the better coaches in the NFL. So, no matter what you think about Kyler Murray, like I said, he's not the best quarterback. He's not a top 10. Uh, on his best days, he is a top 15 quarterback, though, and that is definitely better than what the Vikings were putting out last year. Bottom four, this is a ranking in terms of worst to best, fourth worst passing yards per game, bottom five in efficiency, most interceptions in the league. All of these things are very bad, of course. So, again, is Kyler Murray one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL? No. But when he's actually has a good surrounding cast and he's healthy, he could be the quarterback 15 to 20. That's way better than what we were saying about JJ McCarthy last year. Also, for Justin Jefferson, it's basically the same target competition. You're just like the offense last year in terms of the starters on paper right now. Same running back, same wide receiver, too. You're swapping out Jaylen Naylor for Jawan Jennings. All right, maybe a little bit of an upgrade there at wide receiver three. Nothing crazy. And another year of an older TJ Hawinson who's had knee problems. So, like same target competition. We know the guy's elite. When I see Justin Jefferson at the end of round one, the second I'm on the clock and if I have like pick five, six through 12, if he's there, I'm probably taking Jefferson right now. And the best spot that I love to draft early on if you don't have a number one or number two pick is this range towards the end of the first round because I can get a Justin Jefferson and I can come back and get my second uh round pick in Saquon Barkley who is a player that I cannot stop drafting in round two.

Now with Saquon Barkley, he usually goes somewhere between like pick 12 and pick 16. So obviously if you have like pick 24, you're not getting him in round two. But if you're in that sweet spot of an earlier middle second round pick, which is the majority of people in your league, well then I feel really good about it. Just like Justin Jefferson, Saquon Barkley was a stud last year who went in the top five of a lot of fantasy drafts and he let you down. Now in general, over 1100 rushing yards, top 10 in the NFL is solid. But for Saquon Barkley standards when he ran for over 2,000 the year before, almost averaged six yards per carry, set records for explosive plays in 40 and 60 yard touchdown runs, it's not going to get you there. But obviously for Saquon Barkley, it wasn't a workload issue. He still saw workload. He had no competition. It was a Kevin Patulo issue. If you remember him, the offensive coordinator from last year did not really do anything great. Check this out. Under Kevin Patula, the offense cratered to being 19th in overall scoring, just 3.8 yards per carry, 39th in run blocking, and they had the second most stuff runs in the NFL. That is not something we were saying the year before that when Pulla wasn't calling the offense. And here's a stat that's pretty helpful from Brendan D. He said Saquon Barkley yards before contact the last two years. In 2024, he was averaging 2.64 yards before contact. That's how good the offensive line and the run scheme was first in the NFL. Last year, just 1.36, 24th in the NFL. So, new offensive coordinator Shawn Manian, a former NFL quarterback, his top priority. Fix the rushing attack and get Saquon more space. It sounds simple, but getting a healthier offensive line will do that. And just having a better play caller. Shawn Manian has not been a coordinator before. We don't know what to expect, but based on the past systems he was in with the Rams, Shawn McVey, he's acquainted there, friend with Shawn McVey. If he's going to go zone heavy, maybe get the running back involved in the passing game like we've seen in the McVey system and our Shanahan system, that could be good things for Saquon Barkley. There's some more rumors coming out of OTAAS in training camp. These are only rumors at this point, but it's interesting. Um, as of right now, just some beat reporters saying it's not a stretch to speculate that Saquon could have a greater role as a pass catcher this year. And he goes on to kind of just point to Todd Gurley in those McVey systems. Um, having these types of big passing seasons in 2017 and 18 with 84 targets. Saquon has the ability to do that like we saw in college like we saw him do earlier as a rookie with 91 catch and 91 catches and 121 targets from kind of a statue more statue than usual Eli Manning at that point in his career. the the the story you tell yourself with Saquon Barkley. He's not in the prime of his career, but he's still a very talented running back and he's in a run first offense in an offense that has a good offensive line and they're just changing the coordinator and there's no more AJ Brown, so they should feed the run game even more.

Now, you get to take him even cheaper in drafts. And talking about taking running backs cheaper in drafts, Bree Hall, you can get right now in the end of the third round, and I really like this for Bree Hall. One of my favorite stats when looking back at the offseason is just with these amazing running backs, and I would consider Bruce Hall an amazing running back. I would consider him a top 10 running back in the NFL. That's the highest level in football, meaning he's a top 10 running back basically in the world at that point. Yes. So, yeah, he's amazing. Bree Hall right here, over 1,000 rushing yards, 350 receiving yards. That means he went for over 1,400 yards, top six in the NFL last year in terms of all-purpose rushing and receiving for running backs. He did that in one of the worst offenses, the worst passing offense in the NFL last season. Now, of course, when Garrett Wilson gets injured, when other guys are dealing with injury on your team, when you have to trade for guys like John Metchy and Adai Mitchell mid-season, yeah, you're probably going to lean on the one focal point, an actual stable piece of your offense, pretty saw, but he was able to remain efficient because it's not like he was just getting a bunch of usage and not doing anything with it and just averaging three yards a clip. No, he averaged 5.1 yards per touch, 16th in the NFL. All these things are great to see. You can see right here, Joe Oro on Twitter says that Bree Hall has finished as a top 20 running back in fantasy points per game every season of his career. The only concern is if Gino Smith is good enough. And now that's a very big point to call out. Is Gino Smith good enough? Uh it almost doesn't matter if Gino Smith is good enough because like I said, Bree saw last year in this Jets offense that ranked dead last in passing yards per game. This offense that did not move the ball at all averaged 140 passing yards per game, just 2,300 on the season. Almost 500 less than the next worst team, which is atrocious, right? The Browns last year were absolutely terrible. Three to four different quarterbacks starting rotate. Well, I guess it was two to three rotating in and out and and still they were 500 passing yards better than the Jets last year. I get it there was no Garrett Wilson, but the whole point saying here is like there's no way Gino Smith can be that bad. What the Jets trotted out last year was historically bad in terms of a passing offense. Gino Smith, we know even last year when he was his worst year of his career in the past five at least, that was way better than what the Jets did last year. So, yes, Gino, when he was attached to an awful Raiders team where the entire staff gets fired and they bring in two new quarterbacks and like everything is changing there. I don't think it was a Gino Smith problem. I think it was a fundamental problem with the offensive coordinator, the coaching staff, maybe some nepotism going on there on that coaching staff. Now that's all gone. Gino is in a different environment. Gino, in my opinion, even if he's the 22nd best quarterback in the NFL this year is a big upgrade from last year. Now, if we're talking about Brie Hall, what his competition is right now, it's Brilen Allen coming off of a torn ACL, I'd like Brillin Allen. He came into the league young. He should be able to recover from this ATL qu ACL quick, but he's apparently 250 pounds right now in training camp. Totally different back than a Brie. Isaiah Davis can catch passes, but they've trusted Brie Hall, a far better pass catcher at this point into their careers. Also worth mentioning that like there's no competition in this backfield and the Jets went out improved that by not only not trading Brie at last year's trade lead line when they traded away their entire team. They also gave him a big contract extension recently this offseason, three years, $45.75 million. So Bree for me is somebody that I cannot stop drafting in the third round. If you're talking about running backs that go in round three, there's some good receivers in that round. Devonte Smith, Rashi Rice, I'm fine if you like those guys, but in terms of running backs, it's like Bree Hall or bust for me at that point.

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Now we get to round four. And this is one of my favorite pockets in like the entire draft. I really don't think you could do no wrong here. I mean, look at these options. Stud quarterback and Lamar Jackson, Garrett Wilson, who I really like. Lad Mani. I could even scroll a little bit more. Um maybe I have to go up. Yeah, Josh Jacobs is here who as of right now is going to start week one. There's just so many great options in this round of the draft. For the purposes of this video though, we have to pick one. And I find myself a lot right now taking Lad Mani. Lad Makanki, I think, is due for a massive bounceback year. This past season, uh, due to injuries to himself, like leaving games early, even though he didn't miss actual games, leaving games early often, playing limited, being on the injury report, only 789 receiving yards, 66 catches. His own quarterback, by the way, injured like towards the middle of the season, played through it. Uh, his efficiency, yards per out run, 57th is atrocious. Why is that so atrocious? Because look what this guy was doing as a rookie. The sixth most efficient wide receiver in the NFL, right? uh absolutely dominated for 1149 yards, top 10 in the NFL. Oh, then went on as a rookie in a playoff game to have nine catches, 197 yards, and a touchdown. He still has the exact same quarterback. Uh he now has a better offensive coordinator in Mike McDaniel. So, I can very strongly believe that that rookie version of Vlad Manki is still in there, especially with Oh yeah, Keenan Allen now gone from this offense. Keenan Allen, who earned 120 targets last year, were they downfield? Were they efficient? No. But he was still taking up six to seven targets per game from Justin Herbert. So, the way that I look at this, Keenan Allen is gone. They replaced him with a fourth round speedster Brendan Thompson. Not really the same role at all. Other than that, nobody else is coming in as of right now. So, it looks like the starting wide receiver room for Lad Mankey is going to be the same as last year. Quinton Johnson, Trey Harris involved, but no more Keenan Allen. So, you're going to tell me that Lad Maki, who's coming off of a down year due to his own injuries, due to his quarterback injuries, is now going to have less target competition, a better offensive coordinator, and an offense that actually is going to be moving the ball, throwing the ball, and sustaining drives. I'm going to buy into that. When he was a second round pick last year, people were buying into that. And now he's a fourth round pick. And oh by the way, when he and Justin Herbert were healthy from weeks 5 through 10 last year, he was averaging 14 and a half fantasy points per game, 26% target share, and was a top 20 fantasy receiver. So I like Lad in round four.

Round five is is pretty clear for me. Like if you really wanted to take a stud tight end and Tyler Warren, I don't blame you. I think DeAndre Swift is good in this range. I take those guys as well. Same with Jaylen Waddle. But the guy I'm taking the most in this range as of right now is Terry McLaren. This can change this off seasonason, but as of right now, it's not going to. Last year, throw it out the window. Like last year was a loss season for the Commanders. Not only did Terry McLaren in week three deal with a quad injury that forced him to miss six games. By the way, he missed six games, but he was still limited and on the injury report for two to three to weeks, two to three weeks after that. So, you're looking at a guy who missed two months, the majority of the fantasy season last year. And oh, by the way, his quarterback in week two, if you look up Jayden Daniels injuries, week two, Jaden Daniels ends up suffering an injury against the Packers. He plays through it, suffers another injury, he plays through it, suffers another injury that ends his season. So really Terry McLaren and Jaden Daniels last year played like two to three healthy games together. That was it. So how can we even look at last year as an example for Terry McLaren having a bad year? Of course he did. Like these guys aren't superheroes, right? McLaren had 38 catches, 582 yards. In my opinion, that's astonishing considering he didn't get to play with his quarterback healthy for more than two to three games last year at all since they were both dealing with stuff. So I'm not concerned by that. I'm more uh concerned with what it looks like this year. And what it looks like this year is Jayen Daniels is currently healthy. Tara McLaren is currently healthy. The last time that happened, we only have a one season sample of that. But Jayen Daniels was a rookie MVP candidate with 3,500 passing yards, 69% completion percentage. Uh obviously the rushing was amazing, 891 yards. Uh you tack in 31 touchdowns with his passing and rushing touchdown. So like if we get that Jayen Daniels or not even to that extent to when he was literally like a top three quarterback down the stretch as a rookie and we just get a top 12 Jayden Daniels, his number one target, Terry McLaren, is going to beat a fifth round price tag. At at bare minimum, he's going to he's going to produce like a fifth rounder. Best up case scenario, he produces like a second round. And oh yeah, look at the target competition. There's no more Debo Samuel. There's no more Zack Herz. Over 170 targets up for grabs. They bring in Chinga Kanku. Let's just say he's a one for one replacement for a Zack Herz. Maybe he's a little better since he's younger. Okay, fine. Okay, Debo Samuel's gone. Replaced with a third rounder Antonio Williams. I mean, I know Debo was old last year, but he was productive to start the season before he dealt with some injuries. Luke McAffrey, season ending injury last year. He's going to be a starter. Maybe Damian Brown, who they brought back, will get involved. Maybe Trayon Burks. Oh, S. But aren't they going to sign Brandon Aayuk? It seems like a foregone conclusion. They'll trade for him and they'll sign him when the 49ers cut him. Sure, Brandon Iuk, who hasn't played football in nearly two years, is in now out of his prime. I'm supposed to think that he's going to be a serious threat. Like, for fantasy purposes, if you want to take Brandon Iuk in the 15th round of your draft or wherever he ends up settling by the time that you draft, sure, go for it. But I'm not going to say that that guy's going to crater Terry McLaren's floor and upside because he's not. So, McLaren for me who has a new offensive coordinator and David Blau is already saying all the right things this offseason. Of course, it's just coach speak, but he's saying the right things. He says Mcllen wants him to average 10 targets per game. Makes sense when your other best options are Chaaku and Luke McAffrey. So, McLaren for me in round five.

In round six, it is almost a no-brainer. Like, if you haven't gotten your quarterback and you like the mobile quarterback in this range, it's Jaylen Herz. If Jaden uh Daniels falls to the sixth round, that's a slam dunk pick as well. But otherwise, like skill positions, running back, wide receiver, tight end, give me Christian Watson all day long. The clear number one wide receiver for the Packers. Now, I say that and you look at his overall accounting stats and you're like, how the heck is the guy who's had 600, 620, and 420 receiving yards the last three years the number one Packers receiver? Well, obviously that's impacted by injury. misses seven games last year, two games the year before that, eight games the year before that. Last year he was coming back from a torn ACL the previous season. But when you actually look at his stats last year when he was healthy, playing full snaps, ramping up from the torn ACL. Week 11 onward, he was averaging 13.2 fantasy points per game, had all six of his touchdowns during the stretch and was a top 12 fantasy receiver. I can't recall if I said Christian McCaffrey by accident instead of Watson. Anyways, obviously Christian Watson, also Christian Watson during that time. Number four in yards per route run. People will look at the massive contract extension he got this off seasonason, a four-year deal for $110 million because he was in the final year of his deal. And if he produced at all this year after producing last year, if Watson produced at all this year, he'd be a $40 million receiver next year. That's where the cap is going at bare minimum 35. So if anything, the Packers is kind of a sweet spot. They get some bargain there. Obviously Watson gets his big $100 million deal, but at the end of the day, like he was one of the best receivers in all football last year. If he continues to do that this year, it's going to be a slam dunk for the Green Bay offense. And when you factor in that Green Bay this off seasonason is putting all their chips into Christian Watson based on how much they paid him based on the fact that Romeo Dobs is gone. They let him walk. They traded away actively traded away Dantavian Wixs to another NFC team contender in the Philadelphia Eagles tells you what they think about Dantavian Wix. And now you have a starting wide receiver room of Christian Watson. Jaden Reed who's talented signed an extension this offseason. Matthew Golden who it's yet to be seen had a good playoff game against Chicago but that was basically it in his rookie year. Did nothing else. These are your starters. Tucker Craft off a torn ACL. the backups are thin. Like your best backup player is maybe Bo Melton, a former defensive back for this Green Bay Packers team and former wide receiver, right? He's flipped back and forth. So yeah, they're putting all their eggs in the carton of Christian Watson being a legit stud. Sure, Tucker Craft might have a 700 yard season, but Christian Watson right now, they're saying, "Go get us 1,000 yards if you can stay healthy." I surely believe that he can do it in my opinion. I don't really see what's going to be holding him back. The way that he perfectly combines now, like last year, he took the step forward to being not just a speedster, but a nice route runner in the intermediate ranges. And that pairs well with a big arm quarterback in Jordan Love.

Round seven we go. And there's a lot of decent running back options here. You have Jaylen Warren who's going to catch a lot of passes, right? Um I want to talk about Tony Per here. And if you know anything about my contact content, um I'm not really the guy that wants to be taking a 29-year-old running back. Like this is not the guy that I want to be and like not the greatest offense either. So it's obviously scary, but this is a guy who continues to produce, right? One of his best efficiency seasons last year very quietly after starting extremely slow in a rookie offense and not a great offense. I think they fired their coach, one of the first teams to fire, if not the first. Four and a half yards per carry despite all that. This was a guy last year that ended the season very hot as well over the final four weeks of the season. So, obviously if you drafted him, you probably didn't get to the playoffs. Well, I guess he was a later round pick, so it didn't matter. But if you got to the playoffs, if you traded for him, if you held on to him, 17 fantasy points per game, 113 rushing yards per game, he rewarded you. He's one of only two running backs next to Derrick Henry, according to Ian Hardest on Twitter, to have 1,000 plus rushing yards in four straight seasons. Now, of course, when you're playing 17 games now, a thousand rushing yards isn't all that impressive. But it just shows shows you that he's durable. Early on in his career with the Cowboys, he had like the foot injury, and people are like, "This guy's not durable. He's too small." He's played 68 of his last 70 games. He's reliable, and he's going to have another big role in this offense, in my opinion, this off seasonason. They bring in nobody in free agency. I guess technically they bring in Michael Carter as like a camp body. I don't even know if he makes the team. They still have Tai Taj Spears on the team. And they draft a fifth rounder out of Penn State, Nicholas Singleton. Now, as somebody who went to Penn State, who watches Penn State, I wouldn't really say I root for them these days, but watches Penn State football often in Big 10 football. Nick Singleton in his junior was great. Last year, not the same guy. Was it motivation? Was it the quarterback going down? Was it the coach getting fired? Could have been all those things, but at the same time, he does have very inconsistent vision. I think he can give Taj Spears a run for his money as the RB2. But in terms of giving Tony Pard a run, probably going to take an injury or just some like otherworldly play out of Nick Singleton that we've yet to ever see in college. So, yes, I do think that Tony Pard is the clear-cut RB1 on this team. And the hope is that this team has improved under Brian Dable, who last year comes over from the Giants, was number two in rush attempts. We know whether it was with the Bills or the Giants. This guy wants to establish the run. He's going to have to probably do that at least to start the year through Tony Pard. He gets some help at wide receiver, signing Wanda Robinson, Calvin Ridley back from injury, drafting top five um prospecting wide receiver out of Ohio State, Carnell Tate. So, if this offense can just click, like even if just two of these guys click and Cardinal Tate Wel and Calvin Ridley this year, and Cam Ward takes a step forward, which he was already doing pretty nicely down the stretch last year, I think that you're going to be in a nice spot for Tony Pard. It's not going to look like the worst offense in the league. It can start to push towards like league average. And it's very early, but according to mini camp and OTAA reports, you can see Zayn Zahab, who follows all these uh camp reports over on Twitter, he said that Tony Pard looks like a clear starter. It makes sense like this early like the rookies aren't going to stand out in some of their first ever practices. Taj Spears has gotten beat out by Tony Pard the last couple years, so like that makes sense. It's not really that big of a statement.

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Now, we're into round eight. And these rounds, you should like not really I mean, ADP matters, but like if you want to reach like 10 picks for a guy, go for it. Like, if you think he's the best guy in the range and round eight, like I mean Sam Leorter across positions look good. Uh, round eight is kind of a dead zone if I'm being completely honest with you. I don't think DK Mack's a terrible pick. I'm not trying to take him. I don't want Alec Pierce. I don't want Justin Herbert in my opinion. I'm not really dying to get R.J. Harvey. I don't want Trevor Lawrence. Um Courtland Sutton I don't want. Right. Like this is just kind of a dead range. So I almost default to Rico Dole a lot of the times in this range unless I reach on another guy. Now Rico Do the things to know about him his last two seasons have been like a spitting image of each other. 236 235 carries,76,79 yards, 4.6 yards per carry every season. Oh it does not stop there. Uh 39 catches in each season and 7 and five touchdowns. He's averaged 12.7 and 12.4 fantasy points per game each of the last two years. During that span, he's getting you 1300 total yards per season across two different teams. Now, he's back to the same coach he had in 2024 when he first broke out in Mike McCarthy, who always spoke glowingly of Rico Doto, saying he was like a bowling ball. He always allowed him to make the team with the Cowboys. He liked Rico Do. Finally gave him an opportunity in 2024 and he beat out Zeke. And last year, if you had Rico Dole on your team, if you added him on waiverss, if you just stashed him, if he was a handcuff for Chuba Hubard, it worked out for you because from weeks 5 through 10, when Hubard was missing games and working his way back from injury, 20 fantasy points per game for Rico Dole, a couple of 200 yard performances, 20 carries per game, 107 rushing yards per game. He was fantastic during that stretch. Eventually towards the end of the year, he started to slow down. They gave Cha Chuba Hubard, who was one of the captains of this offense, more work, a guy they gave an extension to the year before that. And Rico Do left in free agency. They weren't going to pay him a lot of money. They already had Chuba Hubard on the roster. They had Jonathan uh Brooks coming back from an injury as well. They knew that Roto was gone. He signs with Pittsburgh and he opened up with Pittsburgh having 825 rushing yards as his line, which is kind of crazy. Since then, it's been bet down to 749 and a half. That's probably a little bit more proper, but that is the leading rusher for the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of Jaylen Warren. Now, that does that mean he's going to be the clear-cut RB1 on this team ahead of Warren? No. I think Warren is pretty primed to catch minimum 50 if he stays healthy. maybe 60 or 70 balls like a Kenneth Gable did in this offense with Aaron Rogers last season. But that doesn't mean that Rico Do can't have an 800 rushing yard season, another 300 receiving yards, another five to six touchdowns. And if you're going to start to pile up an 1100 yard season, five to six touchdowns, catch 25 balls at a minimum, and that's if Jaylen Moore staying healthy, that's going to be a slam dunk of an eighth round pick.

In the ninth round, there's a lot of guys that you can kind of take stabs on. I used to like Michael Pitman when he went in the 10th round. Now he goes at the top of the ninth round. Jonathan Brooks is starting to get steamed up because people just like the pedigree. I get it. A second round pick out of Texas, although he's dealt with two two separate ACL injuries since the last time we actually saw him in his prime at Texas. Josh DS is now starting to get steamed up into the ninth round. I liked him more in the 10th round. Um, you can kind of go a couple of ways here. I love Ricky Pieraw in this range. I've been taking a lot of him, but about 50% of the time, if I'm not taking a Persaw, I'm taking a Jacobe Myers in this round of the draft. And there's a couple of reasons for that. First off, Jacobe Myers did not have the greatest start to the season last year. But once he was traded away to the Jacksonville Jaguars, he took like one week to learn the playbook. He didn't get a ton of snaps. We can pull up the game logs here on Player Profiler and just kind of close some of these shitty ads. Um, so if we pull it up here, if you look at his snaps last year, you'll see the game where he comes over. He only plays 43% of the snap. From that point forward, Jacobe Myers became one of the most consistent like wide receiver twos in fantasy, if not more. 11 fantasy points per or 11 fantasy points. 15 21 15 12. Then he gets a little rut. 88 nine. In this last game, he didn't really play much, but you're talking about a guy who averaged over 12 and a half fantasy points per game, was a top 25 wide receiver, and led the team that he just got traded to with a 24% target share ahead of Brian Thomas, Parker Washington, Travis Hunter, whoever you want to call. Well, Hunter was hurt, but whoever you want to call, that's good to know. Like, he immediately was trusted by Leon Con. This is a guy who hasn't dropped a football in like two years. Jacobe Myers, he was immediately trusted from Trevor Lawrence, who had the best season of his career last year. 4,000 passing yards, 29 touchdowns, top 10 in passing volume under Leon Con. And at the end of the day, like there's no more Travis ETN. They're probably going to skew a little bit more run heavy even though Con likes to or pass heavy even though Con likes to run the ball because your passing game is Trevor Lawrence, Brian Thomas, Jacobe Myers, Parker Washington. Oh, your backup is Travis Hunter. Oh, you have a good tight end in Brentton Strange. Like all your personnel is in the passing attack when your backfield with the Bay Children is a little bit more unproven. So, we'll see how that ends up panning out. But the way that I see it right now, Brian Thomas is going in like the sixth or seventh round of fantasy drafts as it stands today and you can get Jacobe Myers rounds later. Parker Washington's going in a similar range of the draft. Like I'd rather just be taking these cheaper guys and Parker Washington and Jacobe Myers. If I had to lean on one, I'd take the veteran who led this team in target share when he joined it and now for multiple years has been a consistent piece in the NFL.

Now we get to round 10 and like Ricky Pierce all falls to round 10 often. When Josh DS does, I still like taking him there. Uh, the guy that I just can't stop drafting in round 10 and really in all of fantasy football, the closer we get to August and some serious drafts is Kyler Murray in round 10. My guess is by the time like late August comes in September, he'll be steamed up into round nine, very similar to like Drake May last year. It just doesn't make any sense. Like, yeah, Kyler Murray played five games cuz he was hurt and there was contract issues and they didn't want to put him out there last offseason. Okay, completely fine. Like, we're not going to count that against him, right? Okay. Year before that, great. 69% completion percentage. We talked about it earlier with Jefferson. We don't have to get into all the numbers for Kyler Murray, but at the end of the day, when this guy starts in his five out of seven seasons when he's been fully healthy, he's been on average a top 10 fantasy quarterback. That is insane with finishes in the top five as well. And now this is probably the best situation of his entire career because he's playing with the best wide receiver of his career and Justin Jefferson. He's played with some good ones like DeAndre Hopkins, right? Maris Brown, Jordan Addison's there, probably maybe the best number two receiver he's played with in a roster as well. Maris Brown and DeAndre Hopkins season would say something about that, but it's close. Joan Jennings probably the best wide receiver. three he's ever played with. TJ Hawinson, a solid tight end, a good offensive line. You're going to get a borderline elite offensive line when it's actually healthy and they get those guys back this year. Kevin Okonnell who every veteran quarterback he's ever had week in and week out a top 12 score over his career. So, and that's Josh Dobs, Nick Mans, Kirk Cousins, Sam Donn, like, not the greatest quarterbacks in the world. Kyler Murray is arguably more talented than all of those guys. And oh yeah, he has the rushing upside that they didn't. So, as of right now in fantasy drafts in round 10, I am taking so much of Kyler Murray. I appreciate you all tuning in. These are the players that I cannot stop drafting in every single round of my drafts right now. I hope this video helps you out a ton. Now, before you go, most people are drafting the wrong wide receivers this year. I see it everywhere right now in drafts. But if you want to make sure you're drafting the right wide receivers, ones that will actually help you win leagues, you can check out this video right here to make sure you're not making the same mistakes as everybody.