Fantasy Football Today - FFT in 5 - 5 Players Impacted by Free Agency (03/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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Starting point is 00:01:14 me three winners let's start with winner number one yeah i'm gonna go drake london uh finally getting a quarterback that hopefully will uh unleash his potential uh we know that he's dealt with some pretty crappy quarterback play in the first two years of his career. Marcus Mariota, Taylor Heineke, Desmond Ritter. It just hasn't been pretty for what the outlook has been for Drake London, certainly the production for Drake London. But entering year three with Kirk Cousins, he's been fantastic with his number one receiver.

Starting point is 00:01:38 During his tenure in Minnesota, you go from Adam Thielen and Stephon Diggs and having co-number one guys. But the worst season for those receivers was 14 and a half PPR points. And I think London will be better than that. Obviously, what he's done the last four seasons with Justin Jefferson, I don't think he'll get to those heights. But as we talked about on our full-length episode on Thursday, the upside for Drake London is definitely there. And I would not be surprised if he's a third-round pick for sure, but may creep into the back end of round two. He is almost there for me right now in my rankings. The other winner I think is an obvious one is Saquon Barkley going to a situation where hopefully the offensive line

Starting point is 00:02:15 and the system and everything around him will be the best of his career potentially. Certainly the best quarterback he's played with, no offense to Daniel Jones, but Jalen Hurts is an upgrade there. The offensive line will definitely be the best that he's played with even no offense to Daniel Jones, but Jalen Hurts is an upgrade there. The offensive line will definitely be the best that he's played with, even with the loss of Jason Kelsey, retired as a center for the Eagles. I'm hoping that he'll be involved in the passing game to the same level, but we saw DeAndre Swift basically have a 40-catch season, so Barkley will hopefully get to 50 catches, which I think is fantastic, and maybe score as many touchdowns as he has combined since his rookie campaign. So we could see a double-digit touchdown season for Saquon Barkley. As you've brought up many a time, Miles Sanders two years ago had 11 rushing touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:02:51 So it's not like it's just the tush-push will steal every rushing touchdown as it happened for DeAndre Swift. Barkley could still have a double-digit touchdown campaign. The third guy, just to be a little different, there's a lot of winners as a fallout of free agency, not just guys who've changed teams, but also players who have left to open up opportunities. The third winner will be Chase Brown for me. I'm very excited about the opportunity for him. Even if he opens the season as the second guy in Cincinnati behind Zach Moss with Joe Mixon gone, we saw Brown have some good moments last year, very explosive running back. I think we'll definitely be using the passing game as they have, as we saw last year with him in spurts at the end of the season but we know samaj p ryan once upon a time was a pass catching back even tandem with

Starting point is 00:03:28 joe mixon so while moss may be the lead running back we know he's had a hard time staying healthy i think chase brown's a huge winner uh with joe mixon leaving the banks now before you go to the losers why do you think drake london is being viewed as such a big winner and kyle pitts is being viewed as a look at miles a little tiny little winner i think pitts is a big winner and Kyle Pitts is being viewed as a little tiny little winner. I think Pitts is a big winner. Um, again, you know, you look at what he was able to accomplish with a veteran capable quarterback, his rookie campaign, a thousand yard season with Matt Ryan. And then he dealt with the terrible quarterbacks that Drake London dealt with as well. So if Pitts is healthy, uh, which I hope he will be, you know, he played through what we all are kind of

Starting point is 00:04:04 expecting or, uh, kind of labeling a knee injury. You know, he played through what we all are kind of expecting or kind of labeling a knee injury. You know, he didn't necessarily come out and say he was playing hurt, wasn't on the injury report, but it just didn't look the same from the injury he suffered the year before. But in any event, I think the potential is there for him as well. So he is a top seven tight end for me. And I know that probably sounds tiresome because we've been putting him in this range for the last couple of seasons. But again, the addition of Kirk Cousins, I think opens the opportunity for Kyle Pitts to fulfill the prophecy and be the next great tight end in fantasy. So

Starting point is 00:04:30 somebody that you should absolutely be targeting with mid-round pick. How about a loser or two losers actually from free agency? Yeah. Um, you know, a couple of guys that I'm a little bit concerned about, I forgot the names that I gave you already. So you're gonna have to refresh my memory, but, um, uh, Amari Cooper. Yes. Omari Cooper. Yes, Omari Cooper, and there was another receiver that I told you. Oh, DJ Moore. Both guys getting company. For Cooper, it's the addition of

Starting point is 00:04:53 Jerry Judy. Not that Cooper is going to lose the opportunity to be the number one guy, but if they roll out the four pass catchers that I think they will use with Jerry Judy, Elijah Moore, and David Njoku, while the run game may take a step back because of Nick Chubb's potential absence to start the season, I don't know if Watson at this point in his career is going to

Starting point is 00:05:13 help elevate Amari Cooper back to the heights that he was at even last year. And Cooper was great with Watson. So I'm a little bit concerned. So I give him a little bit of a downgrade, still a high-end number three receiver, but just not somebody that I was previously drafting as a number two guy. And DJ Moore was a, a round two pick for me locked in for sure. No matter who the quarterback was going to be, but now the addition of Keenan Allen, I think is a little bit of a downgrade. And then you're trusting a rookie quarterback to support all these guys. I think Caleb one is going to be fantastic. And I think DJ Moore is still gonna be very good, but I dropped them around. And so, you know, you have to call him a loser just

Starting point is 00:05:41 because the addition of a very established guy in Keenan Allen, who could potentially still lead the team and targets. We know he's been a target hog his entire career with the chargers. And so, you know, you have to call him a loser just because the addition of a very established guy in Keenan Allen who could potentially still lead the team in targets. We know he's been a target hog his entire career with the Chargers. And so that can still be the case with the Bears this year. That's a lot of good stuff there from Jamie. Very descriptive. A lot of talking there. I didn't really do much. It was a I had a great show.

Starting point is 00:05:59 Thanks for watching and listening, everybody. More from Jamie and the rest of the crew next week on Fantasy Football Today in five. Enjoy your weekend. Enjoy March Madness. See you soon.

Fantasy Football Today - FFT in 5 - 5 Players Impacted by Free Agency (03/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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