Fantasy Football - WR Rankings Countdown: 20-11 + Risky Picks - Podcast for 8/7

Then 25 last year, 29%. What about the $104 million they gave in this offseason? What does that say to his target share? It's amazing. If Zay Flowers was a guy who was used around the red zone and was a touchdown threat, this would be a guy easily in the second round of fantasy drafts because you know he's on a good offense. He's the clear-cut one with a high enough target share. The touchdowns are really, really holding them back. Now, you don't project.

I mean, Mike does. Mike projects, you know, 6.7 touchdowns. Might be a record. You don't, that would be his record, I'm sure. Without looking that up, I'm positive, that would be his record. You don't project him to have a ton of touchdowns. And I think could he have an outlier season? Sure, but that would be low odds. However, this is an archetype that is usually a really good fantasy football odds bet. Bet on a guy whose target volume is great on a great offense.

And touchdowns. It's only gone up. Touchdowns, they bounce around. If he ends up with seven touchdowns next year, he'll be probably a wide receiver one. And he's not being, he's being drafted pretty late. So I like taking a shot on Zay. Zay Flowers, number one, the talent, he's awesome. This is a new offense. So I think that that's what provides some excitement of.

We can look back historically over the first three years, five, four, and five touchdowns. This is different. There is an opportunity. There's a chance that Zay Flowers scores more touchdown. And this is like... Not when Jacoby Lane's taking them. This is a stretch, but it's just to prove my point. Remember when Trey McBride couldn't catch touchdowns? Yep. Three touchdowns. Sophomore year. Two touchdowns the year after that.

11. I'm not saying 11 touchdowns are coming for Zay Flowers, but it's when a variable changes, which one changed for Trey McBride last year, Jacobi came in. This is a different offense for Lamar, and I... He's just a little. He just a little guy. Yeah, but he plays big. All right, Jaylon Wadle comes in at 16. We've talked extensively about Waddle recently. He was on the Monday episode. He was Mike's fire pick. It is

You know, it's hard for me to be fully bought in on Jalen Waddle as much as I'd like to be simply because it's been a struggle fantasy-wise over the last three seasons for Jalen Waddo. I don't think on a per-play basis when you're watching him, you're like, oh, that guy doesn't have the same, you know, juice, the same wiggle. But the fantasy production has been slowed, and it's not like we didn't have confidence in his offensive coordinator the last three years. So part of it's been slowed by his injury situation, which is daily.

Yeah, as you say, it's not a great thing that when we bring him up on the show, he's already hurt. It's not a great thing that the only way that you give good numbers for Jaylon Waddle is to be like when he was healthy and when Tua was healthy and when this happens and that happens. When everything goes right, things are good. But I am excited about. That's not everything. Just health. I don't know. I mean, even when he was.

Yeah, but yeah, yeah, okay. I mean, the points per game is first and second season were his best, and we're three more years removed from it. So it's a little bit of caution, but look, we got them at 16 for a reason. Well, Mike's got him lowest. Yeah, Mike does have them lowest. What is happening? I don't know, man. You know you control your ranking. Who do I have ranked high? You know who you should talk to? You sound like the head coach that's like, I've got to get the ball to my running back more. And you always yell at them like,

You know you are the one that we're all trying to figure out who did this. I am trying to figure out. You're in a hot dog suit right now, my man. That's fine. I'm delicious. I'm trying to figure out what other weird names he's got so much higher. That's what I don't know. Higher than these guys that me and you obviously like. Yeah. Wait till the next episode, the top 10 is going to be wild. He's going to be crazy. Jack Bash.

No, but look, Waddle, we talked a lot about them on Monday. You know the story on Waddle, but we got them in 16. We'll take a break and we'll come back with the next five names. Football season is back. And whether you're tracking your lineups or cheering on your favorite team, DirecTV makes it easy to catch all your pro and college football action in one place.

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Ameca, Bucca is at 15. Unsurprisingly, Mike is the lowest on Ameca Bucca. Now when I stand by. I've got him at 11. So that's where I'm definitely. Bullish. Yeah, I mean, on the Monday episode, it was Abuka as the fire pick. So Mike's fire pick, Jan Lwato, my fire pick, Ameca, Bucca. I just think this offense is going to run through him. He's playing the Z position. I love Baker. I love the line situation. And I don't, you know, I just don't see anybody that's going to take.

away his target share. There's a bunch of ancillary players that are, they're talented. Godwin at this juncture of his career, talented possession receiver. McMillan, you know, Tess Johnson, Ted Hurst, are all, they're all talented. But it's going to be the Abuca office. Stealing my bits. Samma ranks. You have no one ranked in your top 50. No, I love a book. I made the case on Monday. So maybe Jason.

Where are you out? Because you're kind of between our rankings. I am a believer in the talent. He was my guy going into last year. The departure of Mike Evans in the off season versus an injury in season allows them to put Ibuka where he's going to succeed. The offensive line injuries, although I did see Tristan Worf's was injured right now, which is like, that is a really big deal for this offense. This is a great player. I think the offense should be good.

The injuries to him and Baker last year, you know, you had a tail of two halves. And which half is the truth? I think both had some truth, but he's good. So I mean, I've got him right in the middle at wide receiver 15. I think that's right where he'll finish. As a high-end wide receiver 2, the question's just going to be draft price. Are you paying that or not? Currently, it looks like he's being drafted as wide receiver 19, so I'm in on taking the shot.

I don't have a problem with it. The upside is tremendous. I do think Godwin has more left in the tank. Speaking of ranks, I have Godwin ranked much higher than you guys. He's not a top 20 type of player, but I'm not 100% sure that it's like the Abuka takeover is what the outcome of this year is for the bucks. At number 14, it is the tried and true. Garrett Wilson.

Points per game in his career, 10.2, 9.7, 11.8, 11.6. Kind of always just, he just always is there when the team has the capability of getting him the football. He's been a target share machine, averaging 28%. You know, what could go wrong for Garrett Wilson? Oh, so much. I mean, he's 26 years old at this point. Gino Smith is throwing him the football. And for, it is difficult to remember.

Garrett Wilson was dominating for fantasy football last year. Before he was injured, he was the wide receiver five. It was a little, like there was some garbage time, stinkiness built into it, but it was just, this is a reminder of how good he can be. And it wasn't, like, he ran hot with touchdowns, but he was also, you know, in his, so he was pretty much healthy for five weeks. But in those weeks, he was averaging over 76 receiving yards.

per game, almost 10 targets in that time. So he just, he is a truly elite player. Can he score double digit touchdowns in New York, Mike? Can he? Um, no. 4374. Obviously missed a bunch of time last year. That's a big question for top 10 potential. I think you can get to 10.

He's good around the goal line. And if, I mean, it's not, it's not impossible that he gets 10, but it's not probable. 11 total red zone touchdowns in four years. Yeah. That's. But the nice thing is the team environment is, is significantly different. I want to remind people last year, this version, last year's version of the Jets through as a team for 2,385 yards, which is.

unimaginably bad. They've made significant improvements to the offensive line. They got a passing quarterback instead of a mobile quarterback in for this season. And, you know, Garrett Wilson is healthy. I am, for where he's being drafted, I'm all in. I think there's a guy who's guaranteed at least 140 targets, but he could end up with 170 targets. Pst. Yeah. Mike's the lowest on him. Yeah.

This is incredible. How can he be the lowest on all the players? I don't know. I don't know. I'm looking at the full rankings where it's the three of us. All right, we finally have one. I want to find out that Kyle's just goofing. No, I mean, look, we finally have someone he's higher on. I'm the lowest on this guy. Number 13. Rashi Rice. Mike has a little. Yeah, he has him at 13. Jason at 11. I'm at 16. I am. We talked about this briefly, I think, yesterday. I am.

I am cooling a little bit on Rashi Rice. I don't think he's a guaranteed wide receiver one. I do think he's a pretty guaranteed wide receiver two. But this is one of the offenses. We talked about this. The Giants scored seven more touchdowns than this team last year. And there were a lot of third down saves with Patrick Mahomes running the football. Now, I've seen design runs in camp already from Patrick Mahomes. He is seven months removed from that injury and looks fine. Yeah. But.

At the same time, you do need to manage that. It's different when the people are actually hitting you. Yeah. When you can take a shot to the knee. Yeah, I mean, so I've got him the highest at 11. Obviously, on a points per game basis, he's way better than that in his career. Through three years in the NFL, he's been targeted on 30% of his routes. So only Puka and Malik neighbors are higher than that. This is like...

The first read, the design play, the get the ball in the hands, yards after catch guy who has always been good. I did move him down recently to 11. He was higher than that solely because of I'm a little worried with the ramp up from the knee injury. Some of the videos look like he's not. He doesn't have that burst back yet. But we've got another month. And it was hard, you know, it's hard to rehab in jail. So I imagine.

Haven't been there. You said that like a man who knows what he's talking about. I apologize. For full clarity, I have not yet been to jail. What about rehabbed in jail? I promise, should I go to jail? I will not rehab. What about that is like a cool, like gym idea? Like it's like the prison gym. Oh, it's not like. But it's not like. Yeah, the prison yard is the name of it. And like you got to like. A lot of times people come out of prison jacked. Right. So maybe that's a good branding. It's like just in a parking lot. Right.

And there's like, oh, there's a chainling fence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all outdoors. Yeah, well, like, you've got to lean into the bit. Yeah. But you, like, burn out there. And then, like, people just. And they don't let you out until you lose weight. Right. And then they just punch you in the face as you're leaving. Like, lose 20 pounds or you stay. Yeah. And, and every, like, 15th time there, someone gets jumped. Shanked. Someone gets jumped. So you got to be in shape.