Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - 5 Ways to Become a Better Fantasy Football Player in 2017

Quick question about keepers. I can either keep Julio Jones in ODB in the first and second round or get throw prior and belay pound in the 11th and 12th round. Let me know what you guys think. I was feverishly writing down. I was writing down the options and then I stopped writing down as soon as the options were have incredibly great players.

mediocre players. But a value. With a value. And to me, I'm going with the combo of incredibly great players. It's a great question to come on the heels of the Ezekiel Elliott or Michael Thomas. Because Michael Thomas, to me, is still a great player. Belal Powell is. A lot of potential. What if I told you, what I agree, and what you're saying is to go with Hulu and ODB. Yes. What if I told you, because obviously he's not going to lose his first and second round pick if he went prior and Powell, right? Right.

So what if I told you he would end up with either Julio or ODB for that first round pick? I would say that would be great. I mean, because that might be the situation. These two are going to go back in the draft. Sure. So if. Or would you ever take prior and ODB? Would you ever do something like that? Try to take, take ODB in the second prior and the 11th? Probably can't do that. Yeah, I was going to say. They're right. Both first. I'm going to take the studs. Are you first and second? Okay. I mean, I guess if you've got.

If it turns out that you are the second pick in the draft, and so you know that Julio and ODB would be there, then maybe you picked the other two and one of those guys. All right, Cameron in Sarasota Springs, New York says, hey guys, love the show earlier in the offseason. You posted an article about how unproductive rookie wide receivers have been historically. However, after the Titans drafted Corey Davis, you buried my man, Richard Matthews. He was...

The 15th wide receiver and standard 22 in PPR, and most of his production came in the second half of the season after he had developed a solid rapport with Marcus Mariotta, particularly in the red zone. At the time of my writing, he is your consensus, wide receiver 46 and half point per reception leagues. Explain yourselves! I think this one is... Fair, fair question. It's a fair question, but it's easy to explain. Just because...

Corey Davis may not be... May not produce at a fantasy football stud level because he's a rookie. It doesn't mean he's not taking every single one of those snaps possibly away from Richard Matthews. If he comes into that role and eats into his snaps into his ability to produce, even if you said, okay, Richard Matthews, if he's in that role, would outproduce Corey Davis in that role this year.

They won't do that because they're going to put their future superstar in that role right now. That's kind of where the Titans are at. Now, I agree. Maybe we've dropped it too much because Richard Matthews isn't going to disappear. Maybe he will go, you know, and be the two and the wide receiver two sets. Maybe we dropped him too far. Yeah, I don't look at those as interchangeable. I just looked at it the way you did. Last time that I had checked, we had Corey Davis, like, consensus 49. Right. And we have, so that means we have Matthews higher.

It's just a matter of seeing how things shake out in camp a little bit. These situations with the rookies in particular, you've already seen it in Los Angeles, with Mike Williams getting a little banged up, Tyrell Williams getting adjusted. There are targets that are going to go, Corey Davis's way. He brings up the fact that Richard Matthews did most of his damage the second half of the year. If you actually look at when that happened, it was when Andre Johnson. Yes, Andre Johnson retired. Yeah, when Andre Johnson left the scene.

Then all of a sudden, Richard Matthews came into a good role. Well, now... What was he over the first half? Oh, nothing. I mean... About 46? Yeah. So, I mean, we could have them too low. That's fair. I'm waiting a little bit. I want to see what Corey Davis starts to look like. I want to see what else they do in the offense. Yeah, and there's certainly upside with Matthews. Nine touchdowns, though.

outlier. Yeah, I think that's an outlier for Matthews as much as I like him. Yeah, we've always liked him. I like he's a good player, but it, the, the Corey Davis was one body blow you had to absorb. And then you had Taywan Taylor just a couple rounds later. It might be just too much for Matthews. Yeah, aren't they saying Tayon Taylor's looking really good? Yeah.

Yeah. If there's one thing we know from Richard Matthews is he can play well and then get completely kicked to the curb. Yes. It's happened before. He has the ability. All right. That is it for today's podcast. Thank you so much for tuning into the show, supporting the podcast. Don't forget to check out Footclan giveaway.com if you want to win a left bell jersey. And if you're in the market for a trophy for your league, check out fantasy jocks.com. Use the code footballers.

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