Fantasy Football Draft Podcast for 2015 - Free Agent Wide Receivers and Rookies

Well, you let it be detrimental by not sitting and getting it taken care of. He said all year there was no problem. Every time he was interviewed after a game and they would say, is this a problem? He goes, no, but you guys are making this up. There is no problem. There was a problem, and he was detrimental in how he dealt with it. Are you calling Michael Crabtree a liar? I'm calling Michael Crabtree. How dare you? I'm calling him maybe not the most intelligent wide receiver.

Yeah, and honestly, in 2012, he was relevant. True. It's 2015 now. Was that what it was? It was 2012? Yeah, he had 85 catches. He had 1,100 yards. He had nine touchdowns that year. 2013 was shot. He had, what, one game. That was the Achilles. He seems like a candidate. And then last year, he didn't miss any, I mean, to speak to the injury point, he's 16, 15, 16, 16.

with the Achilles year out. He plays through it. Poorly. He plays through it poorly, probably. But, you know, last year four touchdowns, 68 receptions. He's down 20 from the year before. So let's talk, does he stay or does he go? He goes. He goes. Yeah, I agree. San Francisco's not going to, they're not going to give him money. And Crabtree's shown he wants money. He's going to, he feels like he was a holdout. He was a holdout guy.

Yeah. He held that when he was drafted. He was one of those guys. Now, obviously these top five cap space teams aren't going to get every receiver. So where might he go on a decent team? Do you see any decent teams? He could go to Chicago? He, Crabtree strikes me as a guy who is going to, he's going to shoot for a large contract. Those contracts will not show up. And he will take that one, two-year deal for where it's the,

five million guaranteed or whatever as he bets on himself to say, I'll show you, and then he'll stink. Do you think there's any... Do you think there's any chance he goes to the Raiders, just to stick it to the Niners, just to stay in the Valley and get paid? I would put... I mean, you asked for an outside-the-box team, and that's why I said the Bears, but I think the Raiders are by far where he ends up. Yeah. I think he ends up in Oakland. He seems like a Raiders guy. He does. He does. He does seem like a Raiders guy.

I'm never a fan over the last five years or so of Raiders wide receivers, and he strikes me as exactly the guy that's going to go there, get drafted decently, and not be a part of any of my fantasy rosters. Yeah, I don't think he'll be drafting Crabtree next year. What if he stays? I will not be drafted Crabtree. A problem... Let someone else do it. And I don't have actual...

I haven't done any research to look it up. This is just eyeball test when I watched San Francisco play. Whoever lines up, let's see, because Kaepernick's left-handed, correct? No. He's not? No. That's a... He's not left-handed. Okay, well, I was... Man-liner. For some reason, I'm thinking he's left. But whatever. When you line up to his non-dominant side, he's not going to look at you. Yeah, and you're just saying because of his...

quarterbacking right because he's they split the field you're saying and yeah he's he's not a progression looking at all his reeds guy he's going to look at his one to two guys on his strong country to his defense is as a much better ppris receiver than he is a

front-end standard scoring receiver. I mean, you're going to get targets with Crabtree, and he's a quantity guy. So Jim Tom Sula is moving to the read option where he's going to run more and look at one target. I mean, that's pretty much goes into the wheelhouse of Kaepernick. So wouldn't that benefit Crabtree? It depends on which spot they give him. True. If he's not the one. But who else would be? In Quan Bolden? Yeah.

Bolden is, man, he just gets it done. And Bolden is very reliable. He would be fantastic in that kind of a situation. Let's talk about this. Let's say Crabtree goes to Oakland and let's say they don't sign any other wide receivers. Where do you value Old Man Bolden? He's a value. If News is trending in that direction of they're really going to go run option and then I see it, well, I guess they probably wouldn't show it in the preseason.

But I still wouldn't put a ton into it. Here's what you get with Bolden. You get 16 games played. You get the same amount of targets every year. And you get maximum effort. You get a value in the late rounds. You get a great. Here's an example. I'll take Anquan Bolden.

Every single day over Tori Smith is my ridership. And you'll get him three rounds later at least. People do not like drafting Anquam Bolden. And if I've got to take, you know, my later picks, I try to take flyers. And so it's hard to take someone that's like an Anquam Bolden. But when you've got that kind of value where in the late, you know, eight, nine, tenth round, you can find a guy who could be a wide receiver one of an offense. You kind of have to take him. At this point on today.

Is why I'm saying this. I would draft Tory Smith first. If Crabtree stays in. That's fine. I mean, because you're looking for, I mean, you get youth. It's just, for me, Bolden's never had a season of under 100 targets. He's just Mr. Reliable. He's not sexy. Nobody likes that. And he doesn't score touchdowns, not to the clip that somebody like Smith does. So I don't blame me for that at all. But for me personally, you know.

I'm really curious about this next guy we're going to talk about, because I've got my opinions, and I feel like they're going to be very different. Well, I think we should probably pick out maybe one more guy each and take a look at that. Well, then I'll bring the next guy to the table. Kenny Britt used to be great. He's a head case. I think he's been arrested nine times since 2009. Is that a real number?

I believe that's, I believe that. No, that's got to be wrong. Look it up, but I believe he's been arrested nine times since 2009. That is an egregious. That's just way too many. Okay, well, my apologies, Mr. Brett. Wait, maybe nine charges. Yeah, I guess. He might have nine charges against him. But he's obviously a physical freak. Some of his injuries in the past have derailed him. He hasn't played for a good quarterback.

To be quite frank, I don't think he can stay there. They're in a very bad cap position. I think he goes somewhere else to a team that's paying to bring him on. Do you have a verdict there yet, Andy, on the arrest situation? He might be right. Mr. Britt, I rescind my apology. He has a total of eight times. So close. No, nine times. You heard it here first. Because it was eight based on 20.

12. So not the penny. I offer my apologies to Mr. Crabtree for the... Forget about the arrests. He also has an ACL and MCL injury. What? Right now? No, I just... Historically, he is. He likes to muddy his background with an ensemble of arrests and an ensemble of major knee injuries. Kinney Britt is a guy that the last two years pretty much has not been drafted, and rightly so.

And it was, you know, before that, he was drafted high. He was a big breakout potential candidate. But if he goes to a team that is the right fit, I think he could actually be a bounce back candidate. So I find him as someone that I would never have really spent a pick on the last two years that I might actually take a flyer upside pick on in this coming draft, depending on his situation. His bounceback potential is the same amount of bounce.

that I get when I hit the concrete by falling down and fly to stairs. The same amount of bounce he gets when his bones in his knee, touch the bones in his knee. I actually think Kenny Britt's in the best shape if he can stay there. Really? I think he has to. I don't see anybody giving him. Here's some guys that Kenny Britt finished ahead of last year. You ready for this? I am. Pierre Garcin. Oh, Pierre. Larry Fitzgerald. Yep. Reggie Wayne. Dwayne Bow. Percy Harvin.

Dwayne Ball. Come on. All right. The name. But, yeah, I mean, there's some names in there. Now, he's shown that he has wide receiver one potential in the past. Now, maybe that's just gone. Maybe he's just, maybe he's dead and that's gone. Without looking this up, how old is Kenny Britt? He's got to be like, I'm going to guess 25.

Wow, you guys split the difference. 26. So he is still, I think, capable of putting up big numbers. He's shown he can do it in the NFL. He's come back now from his ACL MCL injury, had enough rest from that to where I think he's going to be healthy. He's going to be the healthiest he's been in several years. And I think that if he wins... So you heard it here first. He's Jason's first wide receiver. First wire receiver one, Kenny Britt.

Over Under on an arrest this year has been 3.5 arrests? I don't think he'll get arrested. I think even if I had interests in Kenny Britt, which I do not. He's going to be back on the Rams. I think he likes Jeff Fisher. He likes to play for Jeff Fisher. I'm assuming since he followed him from Tennessee to St. Louis. And the quarterback situation.

in St. Louis is Sam Bradford, who has he even completed an entire season? I think he'll be gone. You think they cut him? Yeah. I think they restructure him because they... Well, I guess we'll see. You've got to tell him you're taking a pay cut or you're hitting the bricks. Yeah. It's what you have to do. But their quarterback situation is just bad. They're not...

nearly high enough in the draft to get one of the big two guys. I would like to see Kenny Britt go to the Minnesota Vikings and play with Teddy Bridgewater. I like Bridgewater. And if he does something like that, goes to a place with a decent quarterback because he's not going to cost a ton. I would spend a pick on him. But I think we've spent enough air on Kenny Britt. Yeah. But I actually, I think that's a, that's a possible landing location.

For a guy like Kenny Britt. Yeah. So who you guys got? Hitman? Oh. Sorry. Is there anybody that stands out as a free agent and wide receiver? Let's ask this question, and I'm going to box you into it. Is there someone that lands somewhere else that does perform? Oh, so he switches teams and he can go up. I mean, you had guys that kind of like, I mean, somebody like Eddie Royal who had kind of like these burst games as a...

You know, does he go and are any of these guys relevant? Some guys are talking about here are Cecil Shorts is going to leave Jacksonville. Yeah, okay, so he's the guy who I would say. If he goes somewhere, he can perform. Cecil Shorts, the third, I think. I think he's the third. He is the third. I, I, I. If he goes, he's a, he's a guy who I would.

I've never heard I-I-I refer to it. But that is correct, right? Cecil, he's Cecil Shorts, I-I-I-I. Yeah, that's his name. He's a guy who, you kind of stole my thunder where I can see him landing in a place like Minnesota because he'll be a low-cost receiver. If... You can say if you can stay healthy. Yeah, if you can stay healthy. Because it can't happen. I mean, he's got concussion problems. He's got leg problems. But he's, he is a shifty,

mostly sure-handed receiver and I think he could he could really shine if given the the potential of a of a top a one or two spot with a above average quarterback here's the only wide receiver free agent that's going to improve in a way that matters for fantasy this year and it is if any wide receiver goes to

uh green bay or the broncos assuming the loss of say you know uh julius thomas or and the loss of randall cop if they lose them and the loss of west walker maybe i assume that's latimer maybe but if they if they lose

You know, it's very realistic that Julius Thomas goes and that Randall Cobb goes. If they lose those guys and go and sign a guy, I'm saying whoever that is, I mean, you know, if it's one of these guys we're talking about at all, then that guy is a guy I'm going to put Emmanuel Sanders type chips on because they are they're putting money.