WR Rankings Part 2 + Buy & Sell, Bum Bum Comfort

so great in getting open and certain games, quarterbacks just go, I'm not throwing to him this game. Well, he's just a big place. They just come in bunches with him. I will say he has played on a top offense before in 2016. The Raiders were seventh in points and six in yards. His rookie year, right? 2016 was his rookie season. Correct. His second season. Thank you, bro. He was 22 years old. Thank you. He was 22 years old. Thank you.

22 in 2015, yeah. And in that season, he was a wide receiver 3 or worse in 56% of his game. So he's been on a high-powered offense. And I don't, I have no answers. I have no answers for Amari Cooper because I don't argue at all how great of a wide receiver he can be is when he, when it happens to click, for me, it's just, I've, I've seen enough of, like,

He's off your board, basically. Yeah, he's off my board. Knowing that I can be completely wrong. If you're in on Amari Cooper, I'm not here trying to talk people I have, and I'm just giving my perspective of this player will likely finish at the back of a wide receiver one, but you will be unhappy.

with that ride. It's going to be a very turbulent ride. I think that is such a fair place to be because I can see the route where he becomes consistent, becomes dominant this season and everyone's happy. But he's basically off my board too. I'm just not, I'm not going to roll the dice. In fact, a little insight for the footclan, so you can be rooting for or against me. But I have made a bet with a great bet, an easy bet. This is like taking candy from a baby.

With our manager, it's a water bet except substitute water for milk. It is a milk bet between who has a better season, Juju Smith-Schuster or Mari Cooper. Sorry, Dave. You're going to lose. You know, to your point, Mike, he was the wide receiver 13 on that high-powered offense season. His pace with Dak Prescott was 94 receptions, 11 touchdowns, and 1,300 yards. So it's the fantasy finish versus the up and down that you're taught. And that's, look.

That's what fantasy is all about. Don't put a guy in your team just because he's going to finish with a great number. If it's going to bring you pain, if you're going to be sad about it, right, Brooks? I mean, you might do it because he's a cowboy. Maybe. Because you bring pain upon yourself as a cowboy fan. Oh, come on. How about last year? But, no, look, they're going to be a good offense. Your team led by the Cowboys, your fantasy team, Brooks did very well. You got to the championship.

Sure did. He did. All right, Stefan Diggs at 16. Average opposition of wide receiver 14 right now. Finished last year is the wide receiver 11. Well, here's a highlight from Stefan Diggs. And we've talked about the Minnesota offense at length and about these players. Last year, this is shocking to me. Third worst yards per reception in football for Stefan Diggs. That's going to limit your upside.

Well, he frequently became an outlet. It's not that he can't hit the big play. We have definitely seen that. Speaking of reception, he is kind of a poster boy for that. He is Matt Harmon loves Stefan Diggs. The utilization, though, he was often thrown short to. 102 catches for just 1,021 yards. And I feel the exact same way about Diggs as I do about Adam Thielen. I know I should believe in them.

I have them projected reasonably high, but it's not comfortable. If he doesn't score touchdowns, which I do think he'll score more than Thielen, but if he doesn't score them, it's bad news bears. It's Jarvis Landry season. That's the truth. I mean, that's the kind of year you're going to give from him. If he's still putting up 10 yards per reception, imagine him with four or five touchdowns.

He said a nine like he had last year, and that would be a problem with those totals. He did score in three times under the new OC. Yeah. Yeah, well, he's a great player. He just needs to get in the end zone. Yeah, I mean, I like Diggs. I'm fine with drafting him at where his ADP is. I would rather have Adam Thielen. I believe that the targets are more valuable, the way that Thelan's come as the one versus Diggs. They'll both have big games. I also think.

Thielen is more consistent. So if they're going next to each other, then I'm taking the one. Brandon Cooks at 17 Cooper Cup at 18 in our wide receiver rankings. You want real pain. Put Brandon Cooks and Amari Cooper on your same wide receiver core. I feel the same about, you know, I feel that way about cooks. Like I know how good of a receiver he is because at the end of the year, he always has 1,200 yards. But touchdowns, that's something that's, you know,

week to week with Brandon Cooks, and his involvement isn't as integral, you know, from a PPR standpoint as Robert Woods is. So I have him the highest at 13. Jason, Mike, you have him at 17. Talk to me about what you see for Brandon Cooks this year. Brandon Cooks had a, he had a very Adam Thielen-esque end to the year because through those first 11 games, not counting the one where he was knocked out, I mean, he was absolutely sensational going over 100 yards five times.

And he is the field stretcher for this team. And then it really fell apart there at the end. If you had him on your fantasy team, you are upset with Brandon Cooks. I know the fantasy burns aren't as public and prevalent with him. But I have, as one who had him on my championship level team, it was rough.

You thought you could count on Brandon Cooks to be at least a two, and he wasn't giving you that at the end of the season. So knowing that he can disappear like that, that's why I have him ranked where he is. Cooks and Woods right now are exactly tied in ADP. They're both the 406. That's impossible. I know. I know. On average. Cooper Cups at 502, which is only four picks behind. Yeah, I mean, the reality, four picks behind from the 406 of the 502?

Uh, yeah, because Golidake, Godwin, and green, sorry, four wide receivers. Sorry, four wide receivers. I was like math was not adding up because I know in my, in a lot of best balls that I've been doing, I've been grabbing Robert Woods and Cooper Cup in separate rounds from one another. I don't mind that at all. I mean, I.

You know, I was talking to someone recently. There are issues with the offensive line for the Rams, right? They're replacing two guys with very inexperienced, right? I think it's the center and the left guard have very little experience. That's an issue. There's reasons to believe what you saw at the end of the year, you know, the Super Bowl coverage. There are reasons to say the Rams could take a step back this year. Gurley's health, all of that.

There are coaches where you just go, no, I just trust them. And I know it's a small sample with McVeigh, but that's where I am completely with McVeigh. With Belichick, okay, he's 42 years old with Brady. None of this stuff matters. They're going to be good. The Patriots are going to be good. I learned my lesson. With the Rams, I think they're going to be one of the top five offenses for sure, and I want the pieces. You maybe go beginning of the end. Beginning of the end for Sean McVeigh. Calling it now, 20 years from now, he's up.

done um so you know i i like all three pieces the piece i like the least is brandon cooks simply because he's a little bit more boom and bust and he's going around ahead where woods is i prefer the more consistent option but i like all three wide receivers you they're all going to be you're going to have weeks that you wish you had one or the other hundred percent i mean cooks is great he's had a thousand yards in three straight seasons for three different teams

He's picking the right quarterbacks, though. The right offensive. Three Hall of Famers, right? Oh, Jared Garf already. Cooper. Cooper Cup is at 18. I love Cooper Cup. Wide receiver two through the first five weeks, but has the ACL tear. And he was 7.8 yards after the catch, best of the qualified wide receivers in that metric. In five full games, he had six touchdowns. He is, he's the touchdown man.

for Sean McVeigh's offense. In 2017, Cooper Cup's rookie year, he had 23 red zone targets. Cup is the man. And it's, okay, so let me give you a number. Cooper Cup. We're not calling Jenny. Okay. 10.5 touchdowns. Can Cooper Cup, or if I'm giving you a buyer's sell? Oh, buyer's sell. 10.5? 10.5. I'll sell it. Yeah. That's too much. I would sell as well.

Yeah. If you put that number at eight, I would have been, I'd buy that. And look, we talked about the impact of Zeke and Gordon. Why not talk about the impact of a potentially limited goal line? The best player in football over the last handful of years, it's scoring touchdowns has been Todd Gurley. If Gurley's limited, what happens in the red zone for the Rams and Cooper Cup and Gerald Everett and company? I don't think it. I don't want to say this.

too outlandishly. But, I mean, I don't think it matters. I know that sounds crazy. But, I mean, we saw it already. We saw Gurley miss games. No, we saw him completely out of the lineup. No, I know, but not a lot of them. I mean, not a season's worth. Sure, not a season's worth. I just don't want to presume that that is the be all end all that Todd Gurley is now replaceable because CJ Anderson had a couple of good games. I mean, but okay, so you miss the last two games of the season. Then you have the entire run of the playoffs where he was.

back but you know not being utilized so i feel like you know you're talking about uh enough games where you could see does did this derail the offense but if you look at how many points they were putting up through those games i mean well i'm not worried about 40 36 we're not talking on the same plane here i have nothing this has nothing to do with whether their offense is slowed down or not i'm asking how they score cooper touchdowns cooper cup okay sure

Field goals. You're right. Touchouts of field goals and extra points. Okay. Now all my problems are soft. Yeah. But no, Cooper Cup was active in any of those games that C.J. Anderson was in or the playoff run. All I'm saying is if Gurley isn't there to punch it in, does this add to the possibility that Cooper Cup is a 12 touchdown, a 10 to 12 guy because they simply don't have it to hand off to Gurley? It could. And I've brought up my Jared Goff. Yeah, your love infatuation? Well, just the red zone.

numbers where last year only three quarterbacks had 100 targets in the red zone pass attempts yes thank you pass attempts in the red zone mahomes was over 100 luck was over 100 and so was goff mahomes and luck both threw over 30 touchdowns in the red zone and jared goff was down at 23 i mean that's the cooper cup area if you believe their offense doesn't change regardless of girly then goff will probably lead the league in red zone pass attempts

Very possible. It's, yeah, it's very possible. All right, two more guys. Tyler Lockett. Hot Lockett. And Kenny Gallaudet. Let's start with Tyler Lockett. Right now being drafted, look, his draft price is not really inflated despite a really solid year. Ten touchdowns. Finished as the wide receiver 15 being drafted as the wide receiver 22. Mike, you have them ranked right there. Wide receiver 22.

Are you going to have Tyler Lockett on any of your fantasy rosters? Some. I will not go all in. All my best ball teams. Okay. That's a fair stance. But in season long, no, I will hedge with Tyler Lockett. The things he did last year do not compute with statistical evidence. Everything was the same in terms of his targets.

However, he jumped up over 350 yards. His touchdown rate went absolutely bananas. The guy had more yards after catch than air yards, which for a deep threat, let me tell you. It is, it is literally impossible. When I looked it up, I quadruple checked this thing. And when you quadruple checked it and then you slacked it to us, I was like, that's not right. You're wrong. That's just impossible. It doesn't make sense. But what does make sense is Tyler Lockett seeing a.

sizable increase in his volume in the targets because Doug Baldwin is gone. Tyler Lockett is the de facto number one on this team. So we'll see if that utilization actually becomes the reality.

But that's what you have to project. Yeah, I mean, I totally understand that the way Tyler Lockett did it last year is not repeatable. He's not going to catch a touchdown on the same rate of pass. 57 total receptions. But what I do know is Mike and I, when we were in Los Angeles for the live show, we had a night we're in a hotel lobby. Yes. Pretty much just by herself just having an hour-long argument.