Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Early Breakouts for 2016, News, Mailbag

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, Marty. Oh, Marty. We've got to go back. Back in time, six drug tests to go. Wow. Welcome. Yeah, we'll get into it. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast for Tuesday, March 15th.

And we've got a lot to cover today. We got a great show. We really do. We have the best. Superb show today. Yeah, I mean, these guys agree with me. We've got breakouts. We've got all the news. We're fresh off a free agent news episode from Thursday of last week. And we've got some more news to break for you guys. Part of that being Martavis Bryant. And I guess we will get into that here.

at the top because my quick question relates to Martavis Bryant, so we can talk about that. But before we do, I do want to let everybody know where they can find us. We're on iTunes. And one of the ways that you can support us if you like to show and you subscribe, that's step one, subscribe on iTunes or wherever you're listening. Step two, leave us a review. That's another way that really helps our independent podcast. We're also on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We are on YouTube with the new set, got some cameras up, got things going. I think everything's working.

I don't know. We never know. We never know. But you can find us on the web at the fantasy footballers.com. We're also on Patreon at join the foot.com. And like I said, we got our breakouts today. Jason is here. Mike is here. Myself, we're all going to bring three different breakouts to you for 2016. These are early breakouts. These are subject to change if the draft or free agency throws something, you know, into the wheel. What do they say?

A wrench? A wrench. There it is. Real tough one. You know. And so, and then we got some mailbag, too. We promised we would answer some questions from last week we didn't get to, so we're going to do that as well. So the big news right now, Martavis Bryant, he has suspended, he's been suspended by the league for at least a year. And this is ultimately a very sad thing. Everything that the team and his agent and his family is saying is this is a cry for help.

This is six failed drug tests after being suspended at the beginning of last year. And from what we understand, there's some depression issues and things going on. And so very unfortunate that he's suspended yet again, and this is what we're talking about in the offseason. Yeah, and I think there was a communication breakdown because I believe when the Steelers were talking to Bryant at the Combine, he told him, he said, look, guys, I'm a burner.

And the Steelers said, oh, yeah, you are, you're fast. And he said, no, no, guys, I'm a burner. And then wink, wink. They overlooked it. Yeah, they didn't get it. Yeah. I mean, this is, Daryl Washington, Josh Gordon. We've seen Blackman. Yeah, Justin Blackman. Yeah, he had a different problem. But it is a repeated problem. It's something that has to get fixed at a deeper level. Johnny Mansell and his redundancy of errors is the problem here. And I mean, we got to remember.

These are 21, 22-year-old guys coming into the league. Getting rich. Different backgrounds, different people around them, and it just shows. They're also people. But this is, yeah. Sometimes we overlook the fact that these are human beings. They're not just stat lines? Yeah.

Speaking of stat lines, what do you expect from the Martavis Bryant suspension in terms of the Steelers' offense? One stat I looked at this weekend, they averaged almost seven points less per game without Martavis Bryant on the field. But you got Levi-on-Bel coming back, last year, and the year before, going back to his entire career since Martavis came in. You got Ladarius Green recently signed. You have Big Ben, you got Antonio Brown. Those are the, you know, and then you got Wheaton, Sammy Coats, but you have a lot of pieces.

Pittsburgh is one of the heaviest teams in terms of fantasy impact guys. So, Jason, what is your take on Martavis going down? Martavis going down is, well, the first thing that sticks out to me is that he was their number one red zone target. So when you've got the red zone target gone, when he was in, he was the most used guy, you got to go, okay, when they get to that spot.

Who are they going to use? And I have to think just in the red zone that it's going to be Ladarius Green. You've got a big giant monster of a man, a six-foot-six guy who presents a very good target. Obviously, Antonio Brown's going to get his. That's where I think you're going to have one big change, is Red Zone using the tight-in more. And then for me, I think that what this does is this allows that second and third receiver to really...

show who's better between Marcus Wheaton, who's going to have an opportunity to step up his game, or Sammy Coates. And the truth is that Pittsburgh plays so many three wide receiver sets that even if you go into the year and Sammy Coates is the third wide receiver and not the second, he's going to have opportunity to get the ball. I definitely think he'll play ahead of Darius Hayward Bay. Sammy Coates, to me, from a fantasy draft perspective,

is very interesting because he's going to be very low. I think people are going to overdo the Marcus Wheaton, bump him up too high, and overlook Sammy Coates, who I think is a really talented wide receiver. I will say this. Last year, with the four-gain suspension, we didn't know how much you could buy into a guy like Wheaton or whoever the next option was because you knew they'd be gone in a few weeks. Now you are making a judgment call on who you think will be.

that next guy. Yes, I'm sure Mike, who owns Antonio Brown in our League of Record, would love him to get 30 to 40 targets a game. Which might happen. But to be honest, I mean, but Wheaton flashed at times, good and bad. He did both. But there were games he made an impact and had a stat line for fantasy that would have been great. So I don't know if I believe that Coats, I think the talent's better than Wheaton.

I'd sure like to see somebody catch the ball consistently that Wheaton, Hayward Bay, and Coates, I think that's what's going to be the definer. Well, we talked about Coates last year a little bit because there was interest in him third round pick. We had a lot of listeners were saying, what do you see for Sammy Coates and looked back on the research and the fact was that Pittsburgh simply doesn't use their rookie wide receivers.

Yeah, going all the way back. Antonio Brown hardly used Martavis. It took him forever to even get on the field. Wallace. Manuel Sanders. Wallace wasn't okay rookie year, but it just doesn't happen. Sammy Coates, big guy for receiver, you know, 6-1, 212, and fast. The guy is very athletically gifted. That's where my not Antonio Brown wide receiver chips were probably going to go.

Really? Okay. And I'm going to stay with the Wheaton because I do think they have confidence in him. And now that the role is defined, I'm going to, as of today, I like Wheaton quite a bit. So let's go ahead and talk about what's been happening in the NFL over the last three or four days. News and notes from around the league. Well, if Jason loves Latavius Murray, then Mike loves C.J. Anderson. And C.J. Anderson has been signed to a four-year, $18 million deal with...

The winners of every offseason, the Miami Dolphins, CJ Anderson comes in, and now all of the J. Ajai hype train can, I don't know, settle down, slow down. If the Broncos don't match. That's sad. And I do believe they could. Really? Do they still have time? Yes. As of this recording, they still have time. That being said, I don't know why you would wait to the last minute. It's not like.

You either know you're going to match or you're not. What we do know is that C.J. Anderson is going to be the third highest paid running back from this off season. They front-loaded his contract specifically so that Denver would have a harder decision to try and match it. As far as fantasy, it's not my favorite thing that he went to Miami if they really do like a Jai, like they were talking up. You got Adam Gays there familiar with C.J. Anderson? So, I mean, I like it.

Just not as much as him sticking in Denver and with the possibility that Ronnie Hillman won't be there. I think Anderson is a tremendously talented back. There was a funny exchange on Twitter where I can't remember the play. Oh, it was Chris Harris, the defense defender. And he tweeted, I was like, wasn't Adam Gaze the one who called Anderson fat? You know, like I'm going to shake my head.

And C.J. Anderson replied, yeah, he did. Yeah, that's so great. So Anderson's like, yeah, he did. And I fixed the problem. And Anderson became a monster. So there is tremendous upside here for Anderson. I don't know where he's going to get drafted, so that his value in the draft could be an issue. All right, I don't want to linger here too long, but.

The reports have confirmed that the Bears offered more money to C.J. Anderson. And I just want to ask you the question right now. Jeremy Langford's sitting there. It's still the starting running back. But they've made offers now, and they want to bring somebody in. So where do we think the Jeremy Langford train is heading towards the draft season? Because I like him, but I like him because of the opportunity. I don't like him because I think he's an otherworldly talent. I don't think he's a bad running back. I honestly think he's probably a better running back than C.J. Anderson, if he asks me. That is, you get to pump the brakes there. I do.

You know what I think C.J. Anderson does? I think he runs hard. I think he runs really hard. It's a good trait. So what about Jeremy Langford? Jeremy Langford is a guy, I completely agree with you. He is an opportunity play. And right now it looks like he has a great opportunity in front of him. I think opportunity is more important than talent.

Talent is second place to that. And right now, all of the best running backs are gone. So the only way that they're going to bring someone in who's going to supplant the opportunity of Jeremy Langford is if they draft like Ezekiel Elliott, which I don't expect the Bears to do. They've been working hard this offseason, and I would say successfully so, at their defense and kind of reshaping that.

And so I would not expect them to take a top flight rookie, but they'll draft a rookie or bring in another veteran back, who I think now will probably slide in behind Langford as opposed to someone like C.J. Anderson or a top flight guy who would go in and rock the boat. Yeah, Langford is, it's all opportunity. And I don't know if I've thrown this out on the main show. I think I brought it up on our Patreon Mailbag show. But Ezekiel Elliott has been officially dubbed.

EasyE. He will, Mike will take every opportunity to let people know that this is official. What you got to throw? Have you filed the paperwork with the league? The trade mark is coming.

That's a great nickname. You're going to throw the flag in the ground because you've got to let people know that... His name starts with easy, and then his last name starts with E. It's easy E! No, no, I get it. I think we all understand the actual nickname and how it works. We know spelling. All right, Muhammad Sanoo was signed by the Falcons to a five-year deal. He gets the opportunity to be the guy that gets thrown the ball when Julio Jones is tired. So, Muhammad Sanoo, where do you put him in fantasy? I mean, is he...