QB Rankings Part Two + Cam Newton Hype, Best Ball Tips - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/14

in certain matchups. But who do you think has the best odds of being a consistent week-to-week player? The guy that I'm most excited about from that list is Baker Mayfield. He's a post-hyped sleeper. If you think about last year coming in, people drafted him in the fourth round. He had an incredible rookie season. He adds O'Dell Beckham and the sky's the limit. He was going to be a superstar. Dynasty drafts he was a first rounder. And now all of a sudden he's left for debt. And the reality is if O'Dell Beckham was injured and the offensive line did get worse and now they've certainly improved that,

There's a chance he just bounces back and actually is a good quarterback. So I'm willing to take the shot on Baker. And I'm going to go Joe Burrow. I think Joe Burrow, if you ask me right now to lock Joe Burrow or Baker Mayfield into my lineup for this season, I will lock Joe Burrow in. He's got a little bit of the ignored Arizona-like situation in Cincinnati where you have an up-and-coming high pass volume head coach, smart guy, AJ Green, T. Higgins, Tyler Boyd, as reliable as they get.

And then Joe Mixing out of the backfield, they can give you value there. I think Joe Burrow is going to have one of the best, if not the best rookie season for a quarterback that we've seen in some time. And for surprise, I would go to Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, one, because it would really be shocking. But just the, what he has set up with in Carolina with Matt Rule, I really do believe that Teddy Bridgewater can surprise. Not a top five surprise, but a, oh, I.

picked this guy up to stream him, and all of a sudden now I'm just playing him every week. What's amazing about these names as we move on, I can make a case from many more of them. Philip Rivers, great opportunity. Derek Carr, great weapons, great opportunity. Jimmy Garoppolo, yeah. I mean, he was, decent, has good weapons. What about the number two quarterback over the final stretch of weeks? Ryan Fitzpatrick. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Man.

Don't hold on tightly till you're Ryan Fitzpatrick pick, but it's nice when he's playing. Yeah. Bestball Breakdown, presented by Underdog Fantasy. All right, make sure you guys check out Underdog Fantasy.com. People have asked all offseason my DMs on Twitter, where do I play basketball? Draft is gone. Well, the team.

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Oh, he got a lot of million dollars. Yeah. All right. You got a few of them. We're done with you. Go on. So look, when you're in best ball, to me, the best part of this is I can draft upside players. And I don't go into the week and go, dang it. I knew I should have started them. I should have took them off my bench. And these are the players that make sure you have a plan to target these players. You know, you want to have a strategy. You're not just.

Picking off your rankings, you're using your tiered rankings. Know who your targets are going to be in these later rounds. And I want to highlight specifically a few of these guys. Curtis Samuel, I talked about Teddy Bridgewater, I think, and surprise. Curtis Samuel last year had, he was among the league leaders in air yards. He just had a quarterback who could not hit him. He was getting open. He just had really bad quarterback play. Brashad Perryman.

That's a good one. Look, he showed enough last year at the end with James Winston when he turned into a waiver wire championship type of a player. Denzel Mims, their second round rookie for the New York Jets. Look, he's injured. He's not practicing. Brashad Perryman is in. McCole Hardman, the one-touch man. He is absolutely unbelievable. And the last thing I want to highlight, James Washington. He is completely...

left off the radar for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's going in the 17th round or later or undrafted. It might be nice to have Washington on your side here. Thank you, Jason. I appreciate that. But all the hype is juju. It's Deontay Johnson. James Washington quietly produced as well last year for the Pittsburgh Steelers with the terrible quarterback play. It's possible that Washington really did level up his game. Or at least in basketball, we'll give you three or four weeks of just, you know,

Martavis like weeks. Well, that's what that's what this. I mean, I love this list. These are all double digit round wide receivers who you don't have to pick when it's going to happen, but know that you should be targeting these players and have a plan when you're going to draft. How many games will McCall Hardman have a 40-yard touchdown? Probably three. Three or four. In my mind, it was four. How many will James Washington have? No, no. My point is how many will you start him for in your redraft league? Oh, zero.

How many times will you get those awesome big plays monster scoring in best ball every single time? Yeah, I think bringing Brashad Perryman's name up right now with the Denzel Mims hamstring injury, which happened today. I didn't mention the news, but it's more significant. It's got no timetable right now. You're already a rookie. Perryman is probably being undervalued everywhere because there aren't weapons.

in New York outside of him. I mean, James and Crowder has his role, but he's a slot receiver. And Bashad Perryman on the outside probably just completely ignored right now. Wait, you're talking about the wider receiver two the last month of the season? Well, yes, Jason. That's what I mean, man. You turn into a championship winner. Sign up for Underdog today. Enter the best ball mania. As Mike said, you can win one million dollars or dollar in prizes by going to underdog fantasy.com. No, the sky's the limit. You could turn that dollar into dollars.

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