Fantasy Football 2018 - The TRUTH About Fantasy WRs in 2017, Part 2

be able to function is his mobility. So if you question mobility, I'd question now, Sean Jeffrey. So do you question mobility? Is the following? I'm not willing to speculate on his recovery yet. Well, hold on. Breaking news. He's a schedule. Yeah, but look, here, Jeffrey, speaking to what you said, you know, he obviously, he goosed his way in the championship week to the 154th rank. But.

The previous seven weeks, six of the seven, he finished inside the top 24, three of those inside the top 12. That was pretty darn nice. And he was a scoring threat. I like his future with Wins in general. And so, yes, in general, I think with the four-year deal he signed, he's the top 15 wide receiver. You're going to have to pay up for Alshan Jeffrey next year.

You're going to have to pay more than Robbie Anderson. You can have to be more than Golden Tate. You can have to pay more than... I think he'll go in front of Mike Evans. If he does, I'll happily take Mike Evans. That'll be interesting. And I would take Evans too. Stefan Diggs, number 19, his teammate, Adam Thielen, we talked about him as the final guy. Oh, we sure did. Number 10 on the Tuesday show.

I was just remembering. You were saying he was busting in all the wrong places. That's, that is what I was referring to. Yes, he busted during the wrong weeks. Stefan Diggs, however. He was great. He had a great finish. 14 games, once again dealt with injury. Talked about it before the year. You know, it was 14 games played, but it wasn't 14 games played healthy. Right. And he was 64 for 8, 49, and 8, still a game-breaking talent.

busted 36% of the time, but had two weeks that were in that top five category. Really a much better player at home. If you look at his game log and how he started the year on fire, you know, I think two of the first three weeks, he was the number one wide receiver. He was double digits in three of those first five weeks. Then he gets injured, has that clear bust game. As he does. When he gets injured. And then as he came back, it seemed like he struggled to get back. But by the end of the year, he was.

You know, rock solid. We just said it. In the fantasy playoffs, he was great. I think Diggs has the chance here to be, I mean, it all comes down to health, and so this is one of the reasons I bought in. I really liked what he was doing this past off season to ensure health, and it still didn't happen. If he plays a full 16, I don't think anyone's going to end a year unhappy with having Stefan Diggs, but we can't predict injury around here.

And I don't see Diggs as a guy. I will say this. He's not one of those people that I think is inevitable, can't play 16 games. There are certain guys that are that way. And I think many people would put Diggs in that category. I still don't. Okay. Yeah, he's pretty close to that for me as far as injury. It's not going to scare me away from drafting him. But the numbers, the splits on him.

It would scare me away from leaning on him. Yeah. It's going to be draft price dependent for Stefan Diggs, but he was much better against poor defenses and much better at home. So it was at least you knew when to play him if you were following the chance. Or maybe you know now. Yeah. Demarius Thomas, the 20th ranked wide receiver with a consistency rank of number 17.

I don't know if I ever felt like playing him this year. 16 games, 83 receptions, 949 yards and five touchdowns. He's Mike Evans. His stat line's a little bit different, but good 44% of the time versus 40, busted 25% of the time versus 20. And no great game. Exactly. So the splits a little bit better at home, a little bit better versus bad defenses.

as expected with the quarterback's situation going on for the Denver Broncos. It doesn't look like that quarterback situation is going to be solved. Yeah. Anytime soon. Solved by who. I think free agency. Because if I'm a, I think they make a hard push. I do. Alex. Yeah. Alex Smith. I think Couss. I think Couss. If I'm Kirk Cousins. Exactly. If I'm Kirk, I'm going to.

I want him in Arizona. The pheromones are coming out, ladies and gentlemen. 100%. I mean, John Elway went and he got Peyton Manning, won his championship with it. He's got, you know, the wherewithal and the name to go and convince a guy to play there. And they have a good team around him. I mean, the quarterback is the real problem. You've got a running game. You've got Emmanuel Sanders and Demarius Thomas. I'm not sure Cousins is the match that they want there.

Maybe not. Alex Smith would be perfect. Yeah, and Alex Smith's not going to get traded to inner division. There's no way they're going to do that. Correct. As of today, as much as you have to question quarterback for Larry Fitzgerald or a question quarterback for Robbie Anderson, you've got a question for Demarius Thomas. Yes. But he's got more raw talent than at least maybe Robbie Anderson does. It was a weird year. He was somebody that you wanted as a two at best.

And nothing more. And the five touchdowns, you know, he's not in that category of being able to put up double digits anymore. And it is 1,000 yards streak, unfortunately. I want to move on because I want to make sure we touch on some other guys outside the top 24. So let's get to number 21. Oh, man. Oh, Devon S. Scrumptious. Delicious. You know, I started dancing before the button went down. Yeah. That felt weird. This is a premature dance.

Celebrations. Yes. 21. Devin Funches, consistency rank of 27. His year was strange, obviously, with Kelvin Benjamin being traded away early. 63 for 8, 40, and 8 on 113 targets. I think he's a good, not great player. I don't think he can carry an offense. I'm not looking to draft him in almost any format personally. I don't look at him as somebody that I can easily predict.

Not only did the Kelvin Benjamin trade affect what they could find. You saw in the playoff game, Clay come out of the woodwork. You know, you had Greg Olson coming off the injury, still dealing with the foot. You got Christian McCaffrey out of the backfield. I'm going to be as hands off to Devin Funches myself as anybody next year. And we will disagree with this in the offseason, I am sure. Devin Funches, to me, was, I mean, as we've talked about these players, hopefully you are getting a, you know,

the handle of all wide receivers bust. All wide receivers have bad performances. You know, AJ Green 31% of the time. Not to Andre Hopkins. Okay, fair enough. All but one wide receiver out there busted. Thankfully, you're not going to pay hardly anything by comparison for Devin Funches. But if you look at what he did after the Kelvin Benjamin trade and you see how he was actually really, really consistent. I mean, those first three weeks, he was not that involved in that offense.

You know, those are three of his, you know, bust weeks. And again, just like some other points, if you were to remove those three busts, he'd actually be the 12th most consistent wide receiver from week nine on. You're telling me, if you take his busts out, he's more consistent? Yes, I'm saying if you take his busts out. But my point is, I like that. He was playing with Kelvin. He wasn't the number one yet. He was also.

He was also playing without Greg Olson, the number one target on the offense. Right. And that's worth noting because during that stretch that he was gone, he was, you know, exceptionally reliable from weeks 9 through 14, never, not once finished outside of the top 14 or outside of the top 24. So, you know, I think next year with another year under his belt, as going into the off season as the number one, if he is. It's an eye test thing for me. Oh, see, I've always really liked it. I don't think he's that good.

I think he's large. He's exceptional at being large. But I mean, look, you saw this in the Saints game. He could have won that football game. All he had to do was cut back on that ball. He had beaten him and didn't make an athletic move. I don't know. For me, the eye test says Devin Funches is a good player. He's not a great player. I would agree with that. I would not want Devin Funches as my number one. Do you want him in your top? Do you want him as a...

Top 20 guy next year? Yeah, he'll probably be around 20. I mean, maybe we're not really disagreeing when it comes to rank. You know, I'm willing to concede he'll be in that 20 range. All right. So, Juju, Smith, Schuster. Number 22. Star is born. Number 22 consistency rank. Rookies are the most difficult to kind of, you know, lean on any consistency ranking personally. I don't like looking at it because a rookie develops over the course of the year their role.

their ability, their understanding, their route tree, all of those things. Juju came to life. And 58 receptions, 917 and 7, big playability, 80 targets. Yeah, he busted. Also had some big games. I would drive Juju over Devin Funchis next year. Interesting. Even though he's the two in that offense. So I think Juju has a very bright future. I mean, if you take in the sky.

As a star. If you take Juju from the breakout game, right, the Detroit line game where he had almost 200 yards and through the rest of- He's 20, guys. I know. He's 20 years old. Through the rest of the season. He was just born. When he says a star is born, that's what he meant. Right. Our just was born. Our favorite thing of pro-rating out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let me know. Give me the pro-ration. So from the Detroit game all the way out.

16 game season, he would be 94 for 1,568 and 9 touchdown. People should know that Detroit game, that wasn't late. No, that was before the buy. No, but I'm saying that proration, while crazy, illustrates his ability to have a sustained, dominant production. Yeah, he was without Antonio Brown. It was without Antonio Brown for three games where he put up. Great numbers. Which, that's a checkbox in his favor.

If he has to be the one for the Pittsburgh Steelers, not a problem. That's a 10-game span in which you said three games he was missing Antonio Brown. He has the ability to do it. And all I'm saying is when you have an offense that can produce at that level, this is Roddy White and Julio Jones. This is not, you know, the two is not worth considering. This is Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall, right? You can't have a thousand-plus yard season, obviously.

and be a value there. And he's going to get drafted obviously much lower than Antonio Brown. And I think I would take him over Funcha because he's 20 years old and has a better offensive system around him. I'm very intrigued to see where Juju goes in drafts because I think it's going to be very high. Nelson Aguilar was the 23rd ranked wide receiver this year, a consistency rank of 24. You have to give a shout out to Nelson Aguilar for turning the career around. 16 games, 768 yards, eight touchdowns. That was the big number.

You know, only one game that was kind of out there as a great dominant performance. 44% good games. What do we think of Nelson Aguilar heading into next year? Is he that complimentary elsewhere in Jeffrey piece at best? I mean, when you look at Aguilar and Jeffrey versus Tate and Marvin Jones, I mean, how do you see those pairings?

I would rather have the Tate and Marvin Jones pairing. Again, this is so early to speculate, but I do worry just because of how late he was injured that it's not fair to ask Carson wants to come back and be the mobile.

rushing, evading everything quarterback that he was, you know, prior to tearing his ACL right at the beginning of a short recovery. And that's where you saw Agilor excel. The broken plays, the scramble arounds, Nelson Aguilar. I like scramble. Scramble around town. And he'd find him. And that's where Aguilar would, you know, break a defender and in half.

And then, you know, jaunt his way to a touchdown. So I worry about Aguilar, but he certainly proved the haters wrong this season. And I think he's going to be a good quality wide receiver. I just think I'd much rather pick him up halfway through next year than draft him. Yeah. It's probably hard to expect Carson West to be the exact same player outside the pocket. I would hope that you could compare him to a guy like Donovan McNabb.

who tore his ACL back in 2006 and was still an evasive player afterwards, even though the play dipped a little bit. But, yeah, Aguilar, there's so many variables there to count on. And we're getting down into that range now. It's touchdowns. I mean, 13% of his receptions were touchdowns. Nelson Aguilar. Yeah. I think that he is, he's not that, but he's a decent wide receiver. Would you say he had two more than does, Brian?