Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Explain Yourself! Ranking Debates & Hot Takes

Could be a post-type sleeper. Could be. Yeah, we have, and that's how Andy views Devante Parker. Jason and I have him in the low 40s. But Andy, is this number still current. It is. Yep. Andy has him at 29. Yeah, and I feel super comfortable with that. The Terrell prior area. No, sorry, go on. For you. Yeah, for you. No, that makes sense. No, I, I'm not like all up in Devante Parker's.

world. I don't think he's the greatest player that's ever played, but he's high draft capital guy, and he's been an incremental guy, and you know what else? He's a third-year-wide receiver. I like what Adam Gaze has done with that offense, and when you look at what Ryan Tannehill has done and succeeded with in the NFL, and how they have found a way to help him succeed. When Devante Parker has at least three catches from Ryan Tannehill, Ryan Tannahill, Ryan Tannoh averages four or five, a little over four more fantasy points per game. So he succeeds.

with Devante Parker on the field and with Devante Parker being targeted on a regular basis. I think we've seen some reasons to believe Jarvis Landry no longer needs to be or will be the 110 type of catch guy anymore. And obviously a piece of that's J. Ajai. But you go from year one for Devonte Parker, 26 catches, 494.

to year two, 56 catches, which is more than double, 744 yards. This year I have them in the 68 catch range for about 1,000 yards. That's a good enough. That's a hot take for me. That's good enough for him to get up into that 29 range. It's not like this is a late round wide receiver that doesn't have the potential. This is a high investment draft capital type of guy who we've seen make absolutely huge plays. That's actually been one of the things where Tano is throwing the ball up to him and he's gone up and made

Really incredible. Down the field catches. To me, I just see a stair step. And a stair step still makes them a three. I was going to say, you know, I can't really complain or disagree with this ranking. Obviously, my ranking says, you know, 48 versus the 29. But you have to keep in mind every single year, certain players.

improve and you have to project them forward. I am not projecting Devante Parker forward, but if he takes that step forward, he's going to be where you have them. That's what's kind of nice about having consensus rankings between the three of us is that when one or two of us actually project that step forward, it's not just getting those repeat numbers of, okay, everybody's going to do what they did last year. Right. You know, and so if he does take that step forward, which I do believe a year two.

in Adam Gay's system with continuity there at the wide receiver position. You know, Ryan Tannahill is exactly to me like Devante Parker. I have statted him to not take a step forward just like Devante Parker, and yet there is a decent chunk of me that believes that this could be a step forward year. So I like the fact that our rankings have, you know, that neutral year mixed with that step forward year.

No, that's a good point. Wouldn't shock me. I think a lot of the times when we look at these guys, we're looking at range of outcome possibilities. At least with Devante Parker, you have a range of outcome possibility to me. He's built like a prototypical number one wide receiver. He's in a system where number one receivers have succeeded. I think everybody probably just says, well, the number one star is slandry. And you're probably right. But at least that's a possible outcome as opposed to, I don't know, if you draft.

Anquan Bolden or Kamar Aiken, you don't have a possible outcome of, you know, top 15 numbers. And I agree that it's there. Why I don't think Devante Parker is set to have the explosion year is the Ajai shift for the team from week five forward. Ryan Tannenhill is throwing the ball 28 times a game per average. And that includes an outlier huge number where they were trailing the whole game and they said to throw, throw, throw, throw. But.

That's 446 attempts on the season. That's lower than Alex Smith. That's lower than Dak Prescott last year. Very low. And it's, I just, Jarvis Landry is still going to command a bunch of targets. Landry had 131 last year. I still think that he's going to get the predominant share. And they paid Kenny Stills. They want to keep them around. The Miami Dolphins run a three-wide set, farm a...

high majority of the time more than other people in the NFL, but that just leads to spreading the ball around a little bit more. So I feel like Parker instills limit each other because it's a run-first team and you have just so many options. Run first, pass to Jarvis Landry first-ish, and then the other two guys are just afterthoughts. But it'll be interesting to see how will Parker get used because you have his rookie year.

where he was averaging 19 yards of reception. And that's when he was really making those sensational down-the-field types of catches. But if I'm correct, that was not Adam Gase, because Adam Gase, that was his first year. And the yards per reception dropped it down to... They did. They went from 17 to 13.1. Right. The usage changed. Obviously, the yardage went up and the catches went up. But, I mean, that's a good point. We'll see what that offense can do. That is it for the... Explain your sale. We will definitely do another one of these. Obviously, the big...

Jason highlighted the key to having consensus rankings. And those rankings and projections and all of that, you can find the rankings on the website. You can find the detailed projections at every position in the ultimate draft kit at ultimate draft kit. And this, the nice thing about this, and I got an email this morning. They said, hey, I want to use your ultimate draft kit. But I don't really understand everything that's inside of it. Is this something that you're going to ship me? Is this something that I can bring to my draft?

uh this is something that we know and then yes yeah we're not going to ship you anything it's a digital product but that's what makes this product unique as opposed to buying a magazine in the uh the supermarket is we update this thing almost daily if not daily i mean when things change when when news breaks when depth chart depth charts change when camp battles break out you don't have a piece of paper that you can't edit you have a

consensus ranking and projections from three of us who spend way too many hours of the day looking at it, updated all the time. And we have printable cheat sheets with tiers that you can print out, bring to your draft if you are a fan of that and having that checkbox and being able to have that right in front of you. And if you have a draft at the beginning of August and you have a draft at the end,

You can print it out another time because things will have changed and migrated. And there is a ton inside the draft kit, including what I just mentioned earlier, 100 plus player profile videos where we break down, much like on today's show, you hear these debates on each player. If there's one guy that you're going, you know, I'm not sure about him.

You can go listen to that video, see our opinions, see different perspectives on that guy. And it's jam-packed. You've got the reception perception. It's just going to say, we have an exclusive with Matt Harmon's reception perception on our top 50. And if I know Matt Harmon, which I do, he'll sneak some more in there as well. He really likes Terrell Prior, too. He does. I really like Terrell Prior to. Liar!

Look, Terrell Pryor is going to be valuable in fantasy next year. If he's, as I'm projecting him, a wide receiver three. He's going to be started every single week. He's not going to be valuable to my dynasty team where I got him slot it in as a two. Well, that's your fault, bro. But yeah, check it out, Ultimate DraftKit.com. You have 14 days left to get it at the cheapest price possible. It's all pre-order right now, but it releases June 1st. Thank you for tuning in. Brooks, you doing okay over there? Oh, yeah. You know, all right. The best. Terrell Pryor.

Thumbs up, thumbs down. Let me see. Oh, thumbs up. The best part of spending an entire show in your in full defense, you've got to explain yourself. You know what you've got to do right afterwards. Getting a fight with the wife? You've got to treat yourself. Oh, you've got to treat. Come on. Okay. That's much smarter. Some halotop. Hey, now you're talking. Hey, check off fantasy jocks.com for all your fantasy trophy needs. And you use our promo code. Footballers. Goodbye.

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