Early Top 10 WR Rankings + Mystery Boxes, Dynasty Download - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/20

followed that up being the number one wide receiver in fantasy, and then he was the number two last year. So, I mean, when you're tied to Patrick Mahomes, you've got a skill set that literally can't be stopped on the field. We don't know who's going to have 15 touchdowns or 8 touchdowns or 12 touchdowns. I want the guy who is set up to just dominate physically on the field, tied to a great quarterback, Aaron Rogers, Pat Mahomes. There's a tear break for me.

after these top two. Like I see Devante Adams and Tyree Kill very, very, very similar. The next two guys, who I love, I just drafted one in the early mock draft that we're doing for the fantasy footballers. Check, check the website for that mock draft. I drafted the third guy on my list who is a tier down to me. Well, he's, the third guy on our list is my number two, so there's not a tier break for me at that point. But this year, only three games where Tyreek.

kind of posted disappointing performances, 81% consistency, which ranks them in A on our player profile, a 23% target share, absolutely dominant, nothing that you can really say that's negative for Tyree Kill, predictable situation, great head coach. This is why, I mean, drafting these top tier wide receivers, you know what you're getting barring injury. And he has, he's not just consistent where he's very good most of the time. And he also has weeks where he can give you.

269 yards and three touchdowns. He has halves where he can do. He has that built into him. We're not all, you know, like Michael Thomas, I mean, he's going to be a whole different discussion now that Drew a breeze is out of the way, but for Drew, for Michael Thomas last year, you weren't ever projecting like, oh, Thomas is going to go off for 175 and 2 this game. No, he's not explosive. Tyree kills as explosive as they come. Right.

Since 2017, most multi-touchdown games tied with Devante Adams. So if you want him to win you a week, he did that three times last year where he had multi-touchdown games. Stavon Diggs comes in at number three. He's my number two, which I think surprised you guys when you saw that. It did. Four on both of your lists. And last year was unbelievable. I mean, 127 catches on 166 targets, 1535 yards. Eight touchdowns finishes the wide receiver three.

You know, if that's 10, 12 touchdowns, things go the right way for Diggs on that front. And it's even more impressive. So finish the wide receiver three under double digit touchdowns. Him and Josh Stallion, look, the offense in Buffalo is going to look like it looked last year. And that means heavily targeting Stefan Diggs, who wins at every level of the defense and demands targets, both like.

with his voice because he wants them and with his play as he deserves them, number one in the league and targets. I mean, that's my kind of conviction on Diggs is that I, you know, it's splitting hairs between him and Tyree Kail. Sure. The Josh Allen, it will be fascinating to see what happened, the follow up to the transformation of Josh Allen, where he went from, you know, essentially the worst passer.

in completion percentage to one of the best just overnight. I know Stefan Diggs was on there, but a lot of the credit has to go to Josh Allen. He also jumped from 20 passing touchdowns to 37. His touchdown percentage, so the percent of his attempts that turned into a touchdown, that jumped over two full points, which is absurd to make that jump. So can Josh Allen follow up that season with anything remotely close?

When players overproduce like this, they fall back to their average, a little bit of like their average. But we don't know what the new average is yet for Josh Allen. So, Andy, are you confident that Josh Allen is a 30 plus touch, 30 plus passing touchdown guy and thrown for 4,000 yards? Yeah, I think 30 plus is in the bag for Josh Allen. But it's a fair.

The predictability of the quarterback position is a fair point against Diggs versus someone like Tyreek where you know what Mahomes is for a longer period of time. They were the number one team in terms of first down passes. They were number one in terms of three wide receiver sets. We watched it. I mean, this was a pass first offense in every respect. And it doesn't seem like this team's ready to bring in another running back and change their offense that worked so well last year. And I love McDermott. I think he's a great head coach.

I just like Diggs a little bit more. That's it. It's fine. Yeah, when I look, so for me, my three and four are Diggs and Hopkins, the next guy on our list. And when I look at those two players, the tiebreaker for me is, and we've talked about this recently with the Josh Allen versus Kyler Murray. I think Josh Allen and what we saw last year, I think he's legit.

Like, he's not going to disappear or revert to some bad quarterback. But I do think that that is basically what his ceiling is, 4,500, 37. I don't expect him to grow from their stat-wise. The team wasn't good at running the ball. They want to fix that. Now, whether or not they're going to be able to fix that, if they end up drafting another running back or doing anything, they might not be able to. But there are ways that I could see it. They're passing offense regressing a little bit.

Whereas there are ways I could see the passing offense for the Cardinals improving with Kyler going into the next year. So that's why I've got Hopkins one spot ahead of Diggs. All right. Hopkins is four. And you guys both have them at three. I haven't been four. Last year had 160 targets, just six behind Diggs, 115, 14.07. And I think a sad six touchdowns. We were just looking at some of the team offensive stats for Arizona.

You know, they were sixth in football in yards per game. But then down at 13 in points per game, again, the same refrain. Problems around the goal line for Arizona. Clifford. Is that his name now, Clifford Kingsbury? Yeah. I like it. That's a loser name. And, you know. That's a loser name? Clifford Kingsbury. Do you know how many Clifford's out there are extremely insulted? I apologize to any. It's a big red dog. I apologize to any Clifford Kingsberries.

I'm not just saying Clifford is a bad... Clifford Kingsbury is a loser. Clifford Kingsbury owns many castles. There is no way he doesn't own some chateaus. That is definitely a wealthy man's name, but not a...

You know, not a great football mind. So many tapestries. So many. Yeah. Brooks, you know him. I'm sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, he brings and Brooks. He gets all his Faberge eggs from him. You know, Clifford? Oh, yeah. We're connected. Okay. I imagine you share the same. They're on a staff. It's a social media platform that we've never even heard of. Yeah, for the wealthiest. Yes.

No, but Arizona, it was part Cliff Kingsbury's play calling around the goal line and part execution problems where you just saw Arizona consistently go to weapons that weren't DeAndre Hopkins around the goal line. It's as simple as that. When you throw to him, he's good. He demands the defense, but he can make a play over a DB much smaller than him that they didn't give him enough work down there.

And so we go into year three with Cliff Kingsbury, AJ Green on the other side. There's really nothing to say about Hopkins that he didn't prove to everybody. Like he, everything we worried about last year, he proved everybody wrong. He could switch teams, remain elite, great quarterback, great offense. You know, he might be, I mean, he's safe. He's probably safer than Diggs.

Yeah, I would say both are relatively safe. But if you want to speak to being safe, you've got him being a top five fantasy wide receiver five of the last six seasons. And he's done it with so many different quarterbacks. So, yeah, I certainly think Hopkins has, he can still be better because of the touchdowns that I think should come his way that didn't based on his yardage, his targets. Hopkins, you know.

I think he'll have a better fantasy season in 2021 in year two with Kyler than he had last year. He had a really good season. Finished us, the wide receiver five. Yeah. All right. Before we get to our wide receiver five breakout monster extraordinaire, want to thank today's sponsors LinkedIn. Look, I've run several businesses over the course of our life. And we know for a fact that hiring makes.

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last season, 70 for 10, 75, and 11, played 14 games, got off to such a slow start due to the knee injury that the perception of A.J. Brown, with all of the excitement coming into the year, it just didn't match, right, to begin the season. I know Jason, you had him on your team, I think with Tyreek and you were just so excited. I was all excited to start the year strong, and it was basically week five.

Before I got to experience AJ Brown last year because of that injury. Was it worth the weight? And it was worth the weight. He was great. And the reality is it's his show now. You know, last year you had a really strong showing from Corey Davis who, you know, surprised, I think a lot of us to show that like, yeah, he's an NFL wide receiver. He's not a complete bust. But he's gone. In fact, the targets across the board are.