The 2026 “My Guys” Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/26

any hyperbolic. I don't think there was an ounce of him being exaggerating. I think he genuinely is saying his goal is to set the new scoring record. Even better then. Even better. If you have the number one guy for a team that one of their goals is to be the highest scoring offense of all time, at a position that gives you a huge advantage over the rest of the league. I feel like last year people's arguments would have been, but can you can't on Caleb Williams? And I don't feel like that's been a part of any discussion this year, even though we didn't love the completion percentage.

You know, that's not a number that is, you know, well, we'll talk. We'll talk about him. Yeah, but it's just 10 targets, 13 targets, 16 targets, 10 targets. Which was, that was when the team was finally firing on all cylinders. They're not trying to figure things out. They're like, this is what's going to work for us in the big games that we have to win. I'm all in. Give me Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. Well, Jason, I'll let you go next. Okay.

All right, for my first, my guy of 2026, I'm going with Garrett Wilson. Yeah, baby. Yes, not Gino Smith. I know everyone thought I was going to go Gino Smith, not Gino Smith. He feels like you went Gino Smith. He's going to make a slight impact here. In a way, you did. In a way. Garrett Wilson is four years into his career, and I think that there is a lot of stank on the, the jet stank on his name is.

being a little overblown. He has played with and on one of if not the worst team in his entire career. Except here's a thing. In those stinky years with the stinky jets, he is still only one of five players to ever begin their career with 380 catch 1,000 yard seasons. And he did it catching passes from eight different bad quarterbacks. Zach Wilson, old flacko.

Mike White, Simeon, Boyle, Strevler, Old Man Rogers, and Tyrod Taylor, like. And Martin Van Buren. I mean, might as well throw him in, the ghost of. He has been an outstanding wide receiver, even for fantasy. You forget, he's already been a top 10 fantasy wide receiver on this Bad Jets team. And then last year, the most recent example, going into year four.

He had to deal with the literal worst passing offense, not like just of the year, which it was. I mean, I want you to understand how bad the Jets passing offense was last year. They were the only team. There's only one other team in the last decade who threw for fewer yards per game. They didn't hit 2,800 passing yards as a team. The second worst team last year, the pitiful Browns,

They threw for 400 more yards. And how did Garrett Wilson do on that putrid team? He was the wide receiver five before he went down to injury. You don't remember how good he was. And it was not just touchdown luck. I've heard that. Like, oh, he got touchdowns. He did have touchdowns. But if you take those out, he was on pace for 112 receptions and 1,300 yards on the literal worst passing environment that has been out there in the last decade.

It will be better with Gino. There's no way. I got a quote for you this morning just moments ago. Jets' offensive coordinator, Frank Reich, said he has, quote, been so impressed with Gino Smith's play. There's also a quote this morning talking about O.C. saying, Bell cow. Yeah, he's a bell cow. He gets a question about Omar Cooper Jr. And then at the end of that, he's like, yeah, Garrett Wilson is our bell cow.

Yeah, Breeze Belkow, Garrett Wilson Belkow. Consolidated offense, best players play. It just reminded me because people ask us, what do we listen to in coach speak time during training camp? The BGs. Oh, sorry. It's a great band. Go on. If you, if you're listening to a coach and he brings up a name unprompted, like you're, you know, he tried to judo throw an Omar Cooper Jr. Well, what I love about Omar is.

is Garrett Wilson. Like, those are things to pay attention to. Yeah, he had four top 15 finishes in the first five weeks before he went down to injury. Only JSN, Amunrah, and Puka accomplished that feat. And I know what you're saying. You're saying like, ah, those are great stats, Jason. You're so handsome and funny. And, you know, I love you. You inspire me to be a better person. But all those stats of Garrett Wilson are not even bald are from the past. What about 2026? What about that?

I'm glad you asked and I'm glad you asked like that and phrase it like that. Target share for wide receivers is the stickiest stat per year and it is a predictive stat for future success. Through four seasons, Wilson is averaging 28% target share. Last year was 30% in seven games. If you sort your platform ADP by Target share, you will see one player who is not anywhere near the others.

All of the top 12 guys, anyone that had a 27% target share, they're all being drafted in the top 12. And then there's Garrett Wilson, who's being drafted around wide receiver 20. This is the list. It would go, J.S.N., then Garrett Wilson, then Jamar Chase, Puka, Amunra, Jefferson, Drake, Lundit, Flowers, AJ, Brown, and Chris Oliva. That's your top 12 because that stat repeats every year. Jason barely had enough breath for that. And the final, my final thought is,

I want to show you, like, the comparison here. Shake. Go on. Wait, what was the head shake? Oh, crap. He tried to catch me yawning again. This live show is taking it out of me, Phil. Yeah, listen. Yeah, you are putting in work. He's putting in a work. In that top. Sleeping on the job. If you look at those other players who had a 27% market share or better, they are drafted so high in every fantasy draft you're in.

Yeah, it makes sense for a lot of them, right? JSN, Jamar, Puka. What about Drake London? Drake London has a bad quarterback. He has a bad offense. Who's better? Pua, which is what I'm now calling Pinnix and Tua. Oh. Yeah, it's a benefir. Yes, exactly. You found it. It's not as good. Yeah, but it's Pua. Oh, no. But who's better? Pua or Gino-Smith? Let's say Pua is better, but it's, or not, it's like.

One of these guys is going in the second round, and the other is in the fourth round, fifth round on Yahoo right now for Garrett Wilson. And you go, well, but we saw it last year. We saw it last year with Drake Lundon with bad quarterback play. What are you talking about? Garrett Wilson outscored last year in games they played. Garrett Wilson had a point more on average with his bad quarterback play. So to me, Gary Wilson in the fourth, in the fifth, I love grabbing him. I'm so confident that he is.

Being drafted at his floor. He's being drafted around wide receiver 20 to 22. He's not finishing lower than that. And he has, to me, the potential to be a top 10 wide receiver this year. Did you see this was yesterday. There was Ian Rappaport. The quote came out. He believes that Tua's play has made the plan to make him the starter at the beginning of the season. Impossible. That's yes. Yes, it has. Pua. Like.

Holy crap. A man on the NFL network is saying, this dude is so bad, it's impossible. And we thought it was impossible for him not to get the job because of how bad panics was last year. Take Drake London in the second, if you want, or take Garrett Wilson in the fourth. One of the top trending names on Sleeper Dynasty leagues right now is the Falcon's third string quarterback. Do I remember what his name is? No, it doesn't matter. It's not Pua. All right, my first, my guy. You did it again. What?

Trevo? You did it again? After all that talk. You've been talking about Romandre. You're crazy. This was all a hoodwink. Dude, I didn't know it was that much in on handle. I get the apology now. I get the apology now. And it still worked. You ever seen Austin Powers 2? Gosh, dang it. It's hilarious. All right. So tell us why. It's not Trevo. Now I don't know what button to push to get my real, my guy. Oh, you should take it.

Dejean Stribling. How did I not see it coming? I don't know, man. Dejan Stribling wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers is the official my guy. You've taken the air out of that sale. Here's the deal. I want to take shots at rookie wide receivers and fantasy. That's what I want to do. Since 2019, we've had at least four rookie wide receivers finish and tied the top 36 every single year. Last year was an exception. We had two of them in that category. Things kind of didn't work out.

But Dejohn's struggling right now. We talked about this weeks ago. I actually told Jason yesterday, I feel like he's sort of ruining the my guy here by playing too well in the preseason and getting everybody's attention. But the fact is, there's just not enough time between now and draft days, or two weeks ago in draft days, for his ADP to move up to a place that I would be uncomfortable taking Dejaun Stribling. This is the 33rd overall pick in the NFL draft. There are some things hanging over Dejon Stribling in terms of

why people have been slow to buy in and believe. One of them is the propensity for the 49ers to overdraft players that don't work out. We've seen it with Trey Sermon. We've seen it. I mean, you could go to Dante Pettis. You can go to any of these other guys. It's really difficult to trust them, taking a player that not everybody projected to be drafted this high. Dejohn Stribling, the actual player is somebody that you're going to fall in love with week after week after week.

for the 49ers, not to, you know, not even saying anything about the fact Mike Evans is barely on the field right now. Ricky Pearsall has been knocked out. George Kittles coming back from an Achilles at an older age. Christian Kirk's already been hurt. Like they don't have other options in the receiving game, but it's not just, hey, strivenly is going to succeed because he's the last man left. Strivingly is going to succeed because he is a dynamic, great NFL-wide receiver.

He's 6-2-207. You've watched the, if you haven't gone back on watch Collegiate film, you've probably seen some highlights from the preseason. This is a huge catch radius guy. This is the best friend of quarterback's great hands, elite ball tracking skills. And really, if you see him with the ball in his hands, above average yak for a big guy. Great acceleration, ran a 4-3-6 at the Combine. And when you look at what he did on the collegiate level, a lot of the big performances came.

right up until the final college playoffs. He averaged 84 yards a game over his last five games. But what I love to see, he put up huge games against Georgia, right? One of the best teams in college football, three for 94 in a touchdown, seven for 122. The fact that they believe in this rookie wide receiver on this level that Kyle Shanahan has put so much trust in him, we got to remember. It was Dante Pettis in the doghouse forever. It was Brandon Ayyuk could not get the kind of playing time.

And really what I like, a focal point of the offense, right? Shanahan draws up. We've looked at this in years past. We've talked to Use Check. Like he draws up, plays four players. He designs offenses for the strengths of their players. To me, the camp buzz combined with what we saw in the preseason, the draft capital, the availability of other players. Shanahan came out and said to...

said that Stribling was picking up things in a hurry, in his presser, continues to look like if healthy, he could have a fairly extensive role early on. He's broken every record in terms of preseason target share for rookies. Brock Purdy said he's a really smart dude. He's been a guy that's come in and shows that he understands everything. To me, this is actually the strangest situation for fantasy, which is a safe rookie-wide receiver. That's what I think DeJohn Stribling is. That is right now, what's his ADP?

13th round on ESPN, maybe that's a little delayed. 11th round in Sleeper, 10th round in Yahoo. Let's call him a 10th round pick, 10.01. I'd take him ahead of that. I'd take him way ahead of that. I'm with you of this is a shot worth taking of maybe you've got to jump in early and you're like, I'm going to take him into eight. Okay. Great. He's an eighth round pick. Like the true upside options in the eighth round. Like in the eighth round, you're like, I hope I get a guy who's going to be in my flex all year.

Take some shots here. I love it. Like you said, Andy, Shanahan makes game plans around single players. It's been killed before? Yeah. Debo. Debo is the guy to me that, like, I don't think if Debo was drafted for the Jets would have been a sensational superstar. I don't think his skill set was very unique to him. He was a tackle breaker or yards after catch guy.

this is the type of player that Shanahan is going to get the ball in his hands in space. I think if he had gotten a Luther burden or a stribling, it's just a match made in heaven. So I do love that. And there's been some talk. I think it was Malik Turner, another guy on the wide receiver depth chart, was taking snaps above Debo, who is on this team. Yeah, I think Debo's buried. But like Debo's involvement in this offense is just not something that's going to impact stribling. All right, Mike. Let's go back to you. All right.

You blew us away with the fact that you like Colston Loveland. There's another guy that I have just been waiting, waiting for him to finally be allowed. Mike could be in this show. Mike could not resist it. It's time, I guess. It has to. It has to be. Kenneth Walker. Yeah, baby. It's time.