Early WR Rankings: 11-20 + Buy/Sell, Bobby Bigtime! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/22

you know, as my first wide receiver, if necessary. He has never been in the double-digit touchdown range. I believe he has two eight touchdown years. He's probably around a six touchdown guy historically. Yeah, he had eight this last year. And obviously, you know, on 100 catches, 992 yards, not a lot. PPR guy, go-to receiver, first-down receiver.

You know, Mike, how do you feel about Keenan? You're the highest. Yeah, I, because I'm the highest. We score in, or these rankings are half point PBR base. So I know he's going to get targets. So he averaged over 10 targets a game, and that includes two injury games, where he saw two targets in week five. He saw three targets in week 15 because he was knocked out very early. He's going, like on a per game basis, he's just, he's going to see 11.

maybe even 12 targets a game. Justin Herbert is the real deal. He is a legit franchise quarterback, and he knows that Keenan Allen is his number one wide receiver. So, and he's just, it's other, it's supportive pieces. Besides Keenan Allen and Austin Echler, like Mike Williams is a good player, but he's a supporting.

wide receiver. Keenan Allen is a dominant number one who will see the target share that he deserves. So I, yes, I'm very comfortable with him as my number one because that also means that I have a stud running back on my roster. Now, one of the things that I think we do know, because he's been in the league so long, like the names that have gone before him, a few of them, Calvin Ridley, Justin Jefferson, D.K. Metcalf.

All of those players have potentially unreached ceilings, things we haven't seen yet, more explosive for your fantasy team, depending on how the balance of kind of risk-reward is. Alan is not going to let you down as long as he's on the field. He is going to be somebody that produces for you on your fantasy team, but he's probably not going to win you a week outright. Is that fair? Yeah, that's very fair. Okay, Alan Robinson, a different Allen. Alan Robinson at 12?

I got him at 11, Jason and Mike at 13, so we're very close there, 151 targets, 102 receptions, 1,250 yards, 6 touchdowns, finished as the wide receiver 12. It feels like if you sentence Alan Robinson into this continual life of pedestrian quarterback play, you're going to get the wide receiver 12 Alan Robinson. Like he is going to push his way through the muck and find his way into a valuable fantasy position, but not necessarily one that.

Again, much like Keenan Allen, he's not necessarily going to win you a week. Still just 27 years old. He's only got three games over 20 fantasy points in 2020. So doesn't win you a week with a monster performance.

but rarely lets you down because he's the first read on every single play. Yeah, I mean, he's a 150 target guy. Last year, that was what I had against him was it seemed like the 150 targets from the year prior had to deal with other weapons being injured. And I didn't think he would repeat at 150. But here he is for the fourth time over 150 targets. I think at this point you've got to call that an L on my part and just say, yeah, he's a 150 target guy. Andy Dalton.

It is not inspiring. He's no better. He's no worse. Terrible speeches. Exactly. Like I've never seen him pump up a crowd. Guys, let's go be okay. And, you know, but it's more of the same, right? Even though it's a different quarterback, I don't think I would have it being better or worse than Foles Tribisky. It's just more of the same. So I would rather have.

Keenan Allen. Looking at this, I've got Alan Robinson one spot ahead of Keenan Allen, but I think that is a mistake. I think I need to flip those back because I would rather trust in Herbert than Dalton. Yeah. Dalton might be the best quarterback he's played with. It's very possible. But he's still below any dreams that you would have for Alan Robinson. And in some ways, I wonder what.

A great quarterback in Allen Robinson would combine to do. We'll never know. No, that's been. We will never know. Fate has not allowed that. No, nor will it. No way. But he did get a lot of money on a franchise tag. So congrats, Alan. Number 13, Terry McLaurin. Yes. 134 targets last year, 87 for 11, 18, and 4. Third season for Terry McLaren. Last year, the ninth most targets. Six most yards after the catch.

explosive dynamic player, love watching and play football. They added Curtis Samuel this offseason. And you saw a big decline for Terry McLaren in the second half in terms of his yards per game. No wide receiver one weeks at all over the back half. That is because Mike is, yeah, as he say, he was hurt. Okay. People don't remember that Terry McLaurin was playing by the end of the year.

not on one, but two high sprains for his ankles. He talked about it after the season. This is what came out. Might as well have been his knees. That's how high they were. And he specifically talked about he's a captain on this team. He knows his production's going to be down, but he has to get out on that field. And like if you've ever watched any of the locker room stuff with Terry McLaurin, this dude is awesome. He is truly a leader in that locker room.

He knew he couldn't perform, but he had to be out there. And I am all about the Terry McLaurin life this year with the upgrade to Ryan Fitzpatrick, who. Yeah, you are the highest. You're at 11. I'm at 13. Ryan Fitzpatrick will force feed his number one wide receiver. That is locked. That is a proven fact of Ryan Fitzpatrick's career. So I am extremely excited for what Terry is going to do this year. Jason, you're the lowest at 15.

I'm really in the middle. Like, you can like a player a ton, but still see where he's not going to get you. And I'm afraid that that's what happens with me with Terry McLaren in terms of putting him up into a top 12 contention. Ron Rivera, the Washington defense, a dynamic Antonio Gibson, the addition of Curtis Samuel. This team, you're right. Ryan Fitzpatrick heavily targets his one.

We don't know if Fitzpatrick will be there for the entire year. And I think that Ron Rivera will rein in some of those tendencies because of the makeup of this team and how he builds this team. I still think McLaren will be great, but I put him just outside, obviously, those previous two guys. Yeah, I mean, you illustrated kind of my tempered expectations. I would love for Terry McLaurin to get 160.

fits magic targets. And then he could be a top five wide receiver. He's got blazing speed and, you know, he's just awesome to watch on the field. I would love that to happen. But I do think because of the running game and the defense, they're not going, they're going to try to win games versus try to just go out there and, you know, Tamabay Buccaneers chuck the ball over and over because you've got a bad defense. So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm tempered.

with my Terry McLaren expectations, but my hope is certainly very high. And Devante Parker had the very flamboyant into two seasons ago, but didn't really start last year on fire despite Fitzpatrick winning those games. Mike, the highest Terry McLaren can finish in fantasy football is the wide receiver. Three. Jason, the highest Terry McLaren can finish in fantasy is the wide receiver. Three? That's what I said. Well, then you are smart.

You're smart. Oh, you're handsome. Even though you both have a differing opinion here, you both think that he would be able to have a ceiling. Yeah, and even if the targets are down, he has home run ability to have two receptions in a game, and he took 150 yards to the house. So I think that's, we both agree on the ceiling. I'm just a bit more bullish that Terry McLaurne is going to hit it. How many 75-yard touchdowns over the course of the season?

can Keenan Allen score? Because the answer is zero. Zero. One-ish? He could do it. I would say if the line was 0.5, I would take the under. I would. Yeah, I would bet the under. You just ask, can he? But when it's, but that's the thing with Terry McLaurin is he could have four or five of them. Yeah, but I, I want to.

highlight the fact that this is a huge upgrade where he's positioned here at 13. That's a huge upgrade on where he finished last year. Even last season, injuries for part of it, whatever. He had four out of 15 weeks where he was the wide receiver 1. Finished as the wide receiver 21. So yes, this is an upgrade. Yeah. So I think if you finish at 13, that means that he's doing all those things and getting all that benefit from Ryan Fitzpatrick that you want. Omari Cooper at 14.

14's where Mike and myself both have them in our early wide receiver rankings, Jason at 11. Last year, 92 for 11, 1114 yards and five touchdowns. Dak is back in 29 career, full games with Dak. He's averaged eight targets, eight and a half targets, 80 yards receiving. That's absurd. Somehow still 26.9 years old. Almost there. Very young.

I saw an incredible tweet, Brooks. Maybe you can find this. I believe he is the same exact age as Calvin Ridley. They both went to Alabama and they never played together at Alabama. What? Yeah. There's a tweet. You can probably find it, Brooks. I think that's it, though. I mean, that's the gist. They both went to Alabama, both the same age, never played together.

Because of just Amari came in so young. And Calvin was old when he got into the league. Yeah, Mari Cooper's entering his 22nd.

year in the NFL, which is really, really impressive. Look, I think you guys are too low on Amari Cooper. I think I am too. Amari Cooper, we've had so many discussions over the years of somehow, some way he'll find a way to be good half the year, bad half the year, whether it's a mixture of games or the first half, second half. Once again, this last year, he found a way by getting rid of his quarterback to be disappointing after the hot start. But the reality is, DAC is there. And he is still going to be the number one.

I flipped because going into the offseason, I was convinced that it was going to be C.D. Lamb as the one who was going to take over that role this year. And the more that I've thought about it looked at, I don't think that's true. I think we're still another year away from it. And Amari Cooper, if he retains that number one role with CD on the outside or in the slot, you know, to draw some defenders away, he's just on a great offense with a bad defense as the number one target who's always been.

great with him. And I think Amari Cooper is going to have a fantastic year, assuming that he and Dak are both healthy. I'm fine with my ranking. At 14? I'm fine with it. Yeah. I mean, you know, C.D. Lamb is a very, very talented player. Zeke in this offense, Dak thrown to Gallup. I don't know if Cooper demands much of a different stat line than he put up last year. Like, that's an impressive stat line. He should be proud of himself. It was a tough year.

He put up 92 and 1100. Yeah, with Dalton and Ben Danucci. Yeah, yeah. He was on a 1,600-yard pace with Dak. Granted, that was short sample. Yeah, he was the wide receiver 7 through the first six weeks of the year. That's a compelling argument. Wide receiver 30 the rest of the way. I don't think any of us believe he was necessarily going to stay at that wide receiver 7 level. Maybe Jason does. Yeah, I mean, I do. The funny thing about wide receiver 7 through the.

first six weeks is, you know, Dak went down what? He only had the first four weeks with Dak, where he was significantly better. I mean, Seedy Lamb was a brand new baby. Yeah, that's true. You know, week five that's in that top six weeks, he was the wide receiver 79. So, I mean, those first four weeks with Dak were fantastic. I think that's what people want to see from Omari Cooper over a full season to believe in him and to raise his ADP is to see.

Kind of a complete year, not just the end of the Dallas season, not just the beginning of this one. Give me a full year and we'll be on board. And it comes down to the defense to me. Because through those first four weeks, if you remember what happened with Dallas, where it was absolute insanity each and every single week. And Dak, I don't have the yardage in front of me, but it was absolutely absurd.