Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Top 15 Wide Receivers, Fantasy Updates

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Hey, this is Alan Robinson from the Jacksonville Jaguars, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Park here. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast, coming to you from the Fantasyjocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in, everybody. Hey, everybody. Hey, welcome to the show. It's good morning. It is a good morning. It's a Tuesday morning.

It's a top list show. No, no, no, no, no. No, it... Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Annunciation. Professional. Top list. The human torch was denied a bank. We have a wide receiver top list. Also, we could just say our wide receiver rankings. Yeah, but saying it's a top list show sounds so much better. We're going to have to mark the episode for a different...

User rating. It is what it is. We're doing an awesome top list show. D for Dangerous. We don't want any of that. Hey, welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers, Andy, Mike, and Jason back again. As always, five days a week from here through the entire season. Excited to talk fantasy football with you today. We're going through our top 15 wide receivers on the show today, debuting those rankings. In fact, they have, if you have been to our website and you've looked at these rankings,

They're different than what they were the last time you looked. Ooh. I actually, I spent a lot of time this morning. I changed over 45 different players in my rankings, adjusting some up, some down, just based on some of the preseason. A lot of it's just how the depth charts are shaking out. So Green Beckham is out of your top 10? Right. I finally took them out of the top 10. That was prudent.

Proof. Yeah. So we're going to get into a little bit of news as well before we get into the wide receivers. So I'm excited about that. We're going to kick the show off with a game of Keep Trade Cut for a quick question. Keep Trade Cut. Tough one here. Well, I know Mike's answer, but Sterling Shepard, Michael Crabtree, and we've got Marcus Wheat.

Keep trade cut, shepherd, Crabtree, Wheaton. I wanted it to be as difficult as possible for you guys. This one is quite easy for me. Real? What? Yes. Well, and I can, I'll explain why I think it's easy because Crabtree to me is, we talked about it last show. He's a very good fantasy football player who has no respect.

He's not going to be drafted high. You're not trading Crabtree for value. Nobody's going to be like, oh, I've got to get my hands on him. Or Wheaton. Or Wheaton. So who can I trade? Sterling Shepard. Someone out there is going to be super high on him. I think Crabtree ends the year ahead of Shepard, fantasy-wise. I think I can get more out of Shepard trade-wise. So I'm keeping Crabtree, trading Shepard, and I'm going to cut Marcus Wheaton. I thought I could get you. I'm going to go ahead and keep Sterling Shepard.

There we go. You talk about my rankings. Stirling Shepard is ahead of Crabtree in my rankings. I think I will try to take advantage of some Martavis Bryant, sad person that wants Marcus Wheaton. And I'm going to cut Michael Crabtree just because I like cutting Michael Crabtree. Because I have something against wide receiver twos. No, not really. I move Crabtree up as well in my rankings. I just...

I'd rather hang on to Shepard and see what happens in that offense. I actually want to verify whether I have Crabtree or Shepard higher in my rankings. Yeah, well, you can go ahead and do that. Mike, who you got? I'm going to keep Crabtree. I completely agree that he is very undervalued for fantasy purposes. I'm not actually sure who you would get more for if you're trying to trade Wheaton or Shepard because I think that both of these guys have a little bit of hype, but I think Shepard will.

maybe fetch a little bit more. So I'll cut Wheaton and trade shepherd. I thought it would be a done deal. I mean, Marcus Wheaton is your Jerome Simpson. Sure. Look, if it's just, you just said Sammy Coates's two fumbles were good for him yesterday. I didn't say that. That's how it sounded to me. Okay. We should go back to the tape. That's a, that's an interesting tape. If it was like, hey, you could hurt Marcus Wheaton's feelings by cutting him in this game.

You would do it? I would do it. Take that. No, I'm just kidding. All right. But I think those guys are close of what you could fetch. All right. I do indeed have Crabtree three spots higher than Shepard. Wow. How high is Shepard for you? 36. I have Shepard. I should say, how low is Crabtree for you? 33. I have Shepard at 29 now. Hey, all right. Got them inside that top. Wide receiver 3 zone.

For Shepard. I'm impressed by him, and I just don't think Cruz can get back, and you're talking about a lot of targets. All right, before we get into the news and notes, have some exciting things that happened this morning. I want to give a shout out to all the listeners out there. We really appreciate you, subscribing to the show, leaving reviews on iTunes, supporting the show on social media and the ways that you do that. We really appreciate it. That's why we do this show, and we don't want you to think that we forget that. The Foot Clan's the best.

Yeah, that is the refrain. Jason repeats over and over, and it's the truth. We really appreciate all of the listeners, all the ways that you support us. And so I just wanted to say thank you to everybody out there that's been doing that for us. Shout out to everybody on our community over at jointhefoot.com and their support. And make sure you guys all follow us on Twitter. We got a lot of good stuff going on. In fact, I got to see, I was able to see some of the early footage from our combine. Oh, and it looks pretty good.

Yeah. And so I'm very excited to, we're still editing that video, but we'll let everybody see it very soon, unless, you know. Unless it's not done. Unless it's not done. Also, as a thank you for our listeners, aren't we giving away a jersey right now? We are. We're doing a free giveaway at footclane giveaway.com. We got a David Johnson autographed jersey we're sending out there. We're giving away a.

A fantasy footballer sticker pack and photo. Yeah. And we're giving away an Ultimate Draft Kit from Ultimate DraftKit. We love giving things away. It is kind of fun. Speaking of David Johnson. Saturday. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're in Arizona, check it out. Pristine auction is doing a meet and greet with David Johnson. We'll be there. And we will be. Well, it's not a meet and greet with the football. Sure it is. It is now. We're taking it over. Yeah. So you can check that out. Let's go ahead and get into the news.

News and notes from around the league. Yeah, if you want details about that, I tweeted them yesterday. Information about meeting David Johnson and hanging out with us. So, all right, the big news that broke this morning, Dorio Green Beckham has been traded on August 16th to the Philadelphia Eagles. Ruben. That is a horrible indictment of Ruben Randall. And of Dorial Green Beckham. And of Dorio Green Beckham.

Look, this is the problem that people thought might exist for Greenbeckham in the NFL. He's got the physical tools. They told him to come into camp ready to go. He came in out of shape. He didn't display any consistency. You noticed the coaches after every single practice in game. Well, you know, up and down, up and down. And so Philly comes in and they grab him trying to turn him around. They don't have a lot at the wide receiver position, it seems.

Doreal Greenbackum traded the Eagles. He's in our ultimate draft kit as a bust. So I guess... Nailed it. Yeah. Well, now we've got to think about whether or not he can actually have value in Philadelphia because I doubt that they're going to trade for him and put rookie wide receivers ahead of him on the depth chart like Tennessee did. This is also, I think, good news for...

wide receiver value in Tennessee. Even Delaney Walker, yeah, it just takes one more mouth to feed out of that offense. I gave Walker a few more receptions today. I moved Kendall Wright up a little bit, and I move Richard Matthews up a little bit. I really hope Kendall Wright can get healthy and get out there for week one, because if he can, he's a sneaky sleeper. I'm still, I still believe that. I definitely believe that in a PPR format. Right. Because I think he, I think what we saw last year when he was healthy was that Mario likes to go to him the way he likes to go to Delaney Walker.

You know, underneath a very safe, sure-handed receiver. Underestimating the sneakiness. Underestimated. Jamal Charles has been activated from the PUP. Yeah. That's great. Yes. Mike slams the desk in joy. Oh, I was very, very happy to see this. Is this just now you don't have to be as nervous? Yeah, I would say so. We just talked about Spencer Ware yesterday. And I believe that the way that this functions is he is, he cannot now. That was a weird.

sentence, he can't be put on the pup to start the season. Right. So they're activating him because they think that Jamal Charles is going to be ready for week one, which means I am ready for Jamal Charles week one to feast upon the charges run defense. He's going to be great this year. And this is what we were talking about, you know, a week or so ago when he was still on the pup was, I doubt he plays in preseason games. But that doesn't worry me because he is off the pup. He's going to be.

practicing and doing things with the team, they're just going to keep him healthy. I love it. Yeah, Adrian Peterson doesn't even know there are preseason games. Nobody's actually ever told him. The Seahawks say that CJ Pro Seize returned to practice on Monday. I saw a report breaking this morning from Beat Riders in Seattle believing that Thomas Rawls was firmly entrenched as the starter, thinking that he would lose maybe six to eight carries a game to Christian Michael. Just another kind of every running back.

loses five to six years. Yeah, I mean, if you want to know the numbers, I mean, look back at Ariam Foster's heyday, and I think he was in 65% carry percentage, something like that. So everybody loses some, but just some information from there. It's not, you know. That's good stuff. All right. We have Rob Grunkowski went off of practice yesterday. Probably put some panic into Twitter exploded. Yeah. They say it's minor. I know he's not at practice today, but I mean.

It's Rob Grancowski. They handle him with kid gloves. Yeah. When it's Gronk, it's news because of his injury history and his value. I was going to say, and being a first round draft big. Yeah. And last bit of news, I think I did some major fist pumps in the office when I saw this yesterday. You guys know I went out on a limb making Latavis Murray my fantasy MVP for 2016. At least the news is trending the right direction. Coach Jack Del Rio said Monday that one of the Raiders' goals this season is for Latadius Murray to finish with.

even more carries than he had last year, which is always a nice thing to hear when you've got an improved offensive line and Latavius-Marie was like the third most touches last year. And it...