Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Big Names We're Worried About! Christian McCaffrey, Davante Adams, Derrick Henry & more (06/03 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

Adam and Heath dive into the fantasy football stars we're most concerned about at their current ADP, including Christian McCaffrey, Davante Adams, Derrick Henry, and other household names carrying more risk than managers may realize. We break down age, injury concerns, changing situations, and whether these players can still return value in 2026.Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcastsWatch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ooh, scary episode. Big names we're worried about in fantasy in 2026 right now on FFT Express. Adam and Heath here, making you worried about some of your favorite players. Sorry, Heath, who he's starting it with. It's got to be Christian McAfree. He's going to be drafted in round one of fantasy drafts. He has the potential to be the best player in fantasy football once again. But he had a ginormous workload last year over 400 touches, including the playoffs.

He was not effective as a rusher last year. year he is 30 years old and he's probably going to see a decrease in targets off of 129 in 2025. I don't really have anything to add. What's your level of concern with McCaffrey and when would you take him? I would say my level of concern is, well, it's enough to move him well below where I have him projected, which would be the second highest scoring player in fantasy. I would draft him as, I would draft him as, early as pick eight. I'd say my level of concern is a six. Okay.

The last time Christian McCaffrey had 400 plus touches, he played four games. The time before that, he played three games. So he's actually been on the 400 plus touches list twice, and he's followed it up with a combined seven games played in those two seasons. Who's next? Next, I think we have to,

let's just stick with the old. guys. I am extremely concerned about Mike Evans going to San Francisco. For one thing, he's battled hamstrings each of the last two years. For another, I think he's going to be 33 before the season starts. For another, Kyle Shanahan's offense has not been wide receiver-centric in the passing game, just right around a 50% of the team's targets go to the wide receiver position, probably because they have Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle. They're also not a super high pass volume team. And Evans hasn't been a super high target share guy the last couple of years.

He's just scored touchdowns. It feels like for Mike Evans to be a top 30 wide receiver, you're going to need to double-digit touchdowns. I'm not entirely sure we'll get double-digit games. For Mike Evans to be top 30. Well, maybe in a normal wide receiver year. If wide receivers like last year, then probably not going to need double-digit touchdowns. But it's interesting.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know what to make of age anymore, Heath. I feel like we have guys doing things at ages that we just didn't see even in the last five years or so. I think we should be much more likely or much more open to the idea that old guys will continue to be great. but Evans was not anything close to great last year. Even when he was healthy, he had one game all year with more than 60 receiving yards. His efficiency was down across the board. And he averaged 1.2 yards after the catch per reception,

which is one of the worst yaks per catch I've seen going back. I looked probably 15 years in the past. I don't remember if there was anything worse than that. for a wide receiver with 50 or more targets. I had the same concerns about Travis Kelsey going into 2025 because his yak wasn't that bad. Of course, he had a lower A-DOT. But his yak was really bad, Kelsey.

And then he lost weight and he had a much better season. Turned back the clock a little bit. It wasn't great. It was pretty good. Actually, it was the top five tight end with Mahomes. So, yeah, Evan's going to have to be a better player than he was last year, no doubt. Give me another. we'll just stick with the old guys, Devante Adams.

I just name all Hall of Famers. I think what I said about Evans, I see the path of Evans proving me wrong and being good, what Devante Adams did last year, which is score a bunch of touchdowns and kind of be that goal line-wide receiver. But as we've talked about quite a bit already this year, he was worse than Mike Evans when he wasn't scoring touchdowns. the efficiency was awful, the catch rate was awful, you've mentioned it that the catchable target rate was bad. I'm a little skeptical that some of that was not Matthew Stafford's fault and might have been Devante Adams' fault.

But it was just like an entire, we've seen very few wide receiver two seasons propped up by touchdowns as much as last year's was for Devante Adams when he scored 14 touchdowns and 14 games. He averaged just 56 receiving yards per game. That's not a startable wide receiver unless you're scoring a bunch of touchdowns. Adams is going in the 40s. Evans closer to, let me double check here.

I'm looking at multiple websites. Evans is 56 to 60. Adams is more like 44 to 48. So is that a round and a half difference between Adams going before Evans? I am okay with a round and a half difference. I wouldn't draft Devante Adams where Mike Evans is going. Wow. Okay, you wouldn't draft it.

So I'm just out on those guys. Out on Adams. Okay, and Evans. All right, we're going to take a break. We have maybe a couple more names for you here on FFT Express. So far, Christian McCaffrey, Mike Evans, Devante Adams. These are players Heath is worried about. And give me another.

Yeah, I don't think I have any Hall of Famers left to put on the list of guys that I'm worried about. I'm, people will hate to hear this. I'm a little bit worried about my guy, Harold Fanon. I just, it sounds more and more like Deshaun Watson is going to win the quarterback battle. He was the one quarterback that kind of ruined Kevin Stefansky's tight end focus in his offense because he just did. I think he ran more and he threw to wide receivers more, threw downfield more. I don't really have much hope that they're going to. to have a good passing game.

And they added Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston in the draft, probably more wide receiver targets. I just, I love Fanon, I think he's awesome. I think he'll still be a starting tight end. But I really don't see much hope for a step forward from last year. I don't know what to make of his ADP. On draft sharks, it's 64th. On Fantasy Pros, it's 85th.

and I mean, quite frankly, I would take Harold Fan on 85th, and I don't think I'd take him 64th. How do you feel? Yes. Yeah. I think I have an 85th, so I agree with that.

Yeah, I mean, so far, the mid-round tight ends, you know, if we want to start with Tyler Warren, maybe through Kyle Pitts or something like that, you're kind of gravitating toward Leporta and Kraft, I feel. Is that fair?

Leporta and Pitts. The Ports. Okay. And I'm gravitating toward none of them and just going Kelsey, Goddard, maybe likely if I can get good value on him. There's like five of them. And I think it was probably going to happen as one or two of them are in the top four at the position. And one or two of them are mid-round, tight-end bust that we have every year. Yeah.

I'll give you one more Hall of Famer to close it out. Patrick Mahomes. Derek Henry. No. I can't. I can't like I think I think that you'll get this way as a parent eventually. Like you spend so many years worrying about your kids that eventually they get old enough that you're just like, you know what? They've figured it out so far.

They'll probably be fine. I doubted, doubted and questioned worried about Derek Henry for five years now. And his, I think his ADP is probably going to be a little bit more reasonable. he could fall off a cliff at any moment, but he'd probably just get up and climb back up. He's amazing. There is an X factor

that's not just this age, and it's the absence of Tyler Linderbaum, and they don't have a starting center really right now, so they haven't replaced him in any way. They drafted Vega Ione, I think I'm pronouncing that right, in the first round as a guard, but they don't have the,

arguably the best center, one of the best centers in the league. we'll see if that has an impact. It's tough. I miss out on Henry every year. I pretty much never draft him. And probably not going to do again this year. But you all should.

All right. We will talk to you tomorrow on Fantasy Football Today or Fantasy Football Today Express. Actually, don't know when this episode is publishing, but we will talk to you sometime in the near future. See you later, everybody.