Fantasy Football 2017 - WR Rankings Pt. 2 + BIG Zeke News

We'll avoid that this year. And if you're in a PPR league, Golden Tate definitely gets a bump because he's pretty much locked and loaded for 90 receptions. If he gets 100 receptions, you know, that's very realistic. So those points are going to, you know, those points are going to push you over the edge when you can get a guy in the fifth round, sixth round in some leagues I've seen him dropping there. If you're in a PPR half point, I do like Golden Tate this year.

All right, I'm going to give you a couple big names to round out our top 24. And then I want us to share one or two sleepers, maybe one that's like a middle tier sleeper, maybe one that's a deep sleeper in your mind at the wide receiver position for the listeners. But a couple big names at 23, 24, Keenan Allen and Devante Adams, all right? Keenan Allen and Devante Adams, I'll speak for a second on Devante because I made a tweet last night. It was really tongue-in-cheek. I was just...

I saw Devante... Or as your tweet said, tongue and cheek. Yeah, I actually said tongue and cheek. It's both. It's a little tongue. It's a little cheek. Whoa. But Devante Adams, I have him the lowest of us. I thought last year was a perfect storm for Adams in terms of Cobb's lack of health. In terms of Cook's lack of health. You have Martel's bin it back. Cobb looks pretty good. And he averaged a touchdown every 6.3 receptions.

He only had, I believe, 75 receptions on the season. So I don't, I'm not trying to destroy Devante Adams. I just think there's a world where Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Ty Montgomery, you know, Martellus Bennett, they all have a heavy target share that just makes Adams reliant on those kind of touchdown tolls. Yeah. Could he do it again? Yeah, because he's got Aaron Rogers and they're in the red zone every 30 seconds. Yeah, when you look back on the.

The historical data of Aaron Rogers' career, he easily supports two fantasy wide receivers, and we know one will be Jordy. It's the projection of that, too. It's, which I believe it'll be, it'll be Adams. And could it be Cobb? Certainly, it could, because we've seen it from Randall Cobb, but we basically haven't seen that since 2014 when Randall Cobb was the wide receiver 7. So I'm good.

taking Adams in the back of the fourth round, and I'm fine knowing who he is for my roster. He's a touchdown guy, but last year, wide receiver one or two, 43, almost 44% of the time. I'll take that because when he, when he explodes, you know, it's going to be great. Yeah, I would just say for Adams, much better value in a standard league because.

He is going to be a touchdown-centric player. So if you're in a PPR league, I would move him down a little, if standard doesn't move him up a little. All right, you guys want to give me a couple of sleepers? You know, the middle-tier sleeper that I was already thinking of, I'll hop right in. It is Randall Cobb. Right now, Randall Cobb is, you know, the 40th wide receiver off the board in the back of the eighth round. And if the touchdowns shifted from Devante Adams to Randall Cobb,

Devante Adams was a wide receiver one. I mean, Randall Cobb has been a wide receiver one before. I mean, there's, I believe he has that middle tier, you know, draft price where he also has the ability to actually finish as a one. This is very rare that you can get middle or late, a guy that could finish at, you know, the wide receiver 12 overall. But that's just Aaron Rogers. That's 100% I want to be a part of that.

you know, quarterback. The name I want to throw out to that people don't forget. Do not forget about Cameron Meredith. He was excellent last year. And he did, he did whatever the team needed him to do outside, play the slot. He excelled in both. First two Glennon targets last night straight to Meredith. And both terrible passes. But they went straight to Meredith. Mike Glennon may not be, may not be long for this starting position. Trubisky against lower level defenses, but still looked.

Still looked like he can play in the NFL. And Cam Meredith is just so good. And fantasy players are going to completely bail on the Bears' wide receivers. Do not forget about Cam Meredith in around the 10th, ninth round. Yeah, I'll throw Richard Matthews out there as a middle tier guy. Not really a sleeper, but still somebody that's a value. And I'll throw a deep sleeper out there. Paul Richardson of the Seattle Seahawks. If he earns the starting wide receiver 2 position,

We've talked about when Russell Wilson's healthy, getting out of the pocket. I'd love to just see what Richardson can do with more targets because he made huge plays last year, but the target share has not been there. So deep sleeper again, that was the question. So I'll throw Paul Richardson's name out there too. Now next week, now we're going to talk best ball here for a second, but next week.

I wanted to let everyone know. We've got a mock draft coming on Monday. We also have our preseason thoughts. We'll have more Zeke thoughts. So keep it right here. Subscribe. Make sure you're listening to the show next week. Let's talk best ball. Bestball bonanza. Brought to you by Playdraft. If you don't know about it, play draft is the best place to play best ball DFS. We're in the middle of a draft right now. I am on the clock. I have not made my pick. And if you don't know what best ball is, essentially,

You draft a gigantic, a ginormous roster on play draft. It's 18 rounds. And then each week, the computer fills in your optimal lineup. And then at the end of the season, someone wins some cash. I mean, you do the draft and you're done. Yep. And Jason has some tips for you today. We do basically a best ball tip every Friday during this segment. And Jason, what do you got for the Peebles? Well, today's an important one. It probably should have been the first one we went through is just roster construction. Like how many...

players at each position you draft. We always say, you know, you want to stay water and have different strategies. Any strategy works. With best ball, I would say it's a little bit different because, you know, you have to have a certain player pool to maximize how many positions, you know, you're starting. So.

You've got a total of 18 players on your roster. There's no defense, no kickers if you're doing best ball on play draft. You'll have to deal with defense and kickers on some of the other best ball formats out there. But I see a lot of teams where when they tweet me and they say, hey, how's my team look? They stuck to essentially what we usually do in our normal drafts, which is they've got as many running backs or more than they have wide receivers.

That's a mistake in this format in half point PPR, which is their scoring format, where you have to have three wide receivers cracking that roster every week. You need to have your larger pool there. So what I like to do is make sure I've got like one stud running back at least because I'm going to be in that four, five, six range of running backs at the end of the draft. But I want at least six wide receivers, at least six. And when it comes to the quarterback and the tight end, if you are waiting,

late on those positions, you can grab three of them. You know, if you grab Aaron Rogers at a good value early, then just go two. But three at that position, you know, those make a big difference. There was, I saw this from our good friend Scott Barrett. For reference, last year, if you had Tyron Taylor, Marcus Marietta, and Blake Bortles, you would have outscored the combo of Matt Ryan and Drew Brees.

last year. So that gives you an idea. Wait on the quarterback position and grab three late quarterbacks because, you know, you just need one of them to hit every week. Chances are pretty good that that's going to happen. All right. If you want to play basketball, you can go to Playdraft.com slash ballers and you get a free entry into a basketball league where you can win some cash. Also, before we close out the show, it's going to be a big day for Ultimate Draft Kit updates today. We're going to do our Zeke.

updates, a bunch of other players. We might be touching some of the sleepers and the breakouts. And stay tuned for Monday with the mock draft in the preseason week one. Highlights. The parting Zeke thought I want to give everyone. Uh-oh. Better hurry. Their by week is week six. So that means you would not get Ezekiel Elliott until week eight. Wait. Right. That's crazy. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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