Fantasy Football Today - Wacky Free Agency/Trade Scenarios! Davante Adams to the Commanders? Tee Higgins to the Patriots? (02/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

We throw out a bunch of free agency/trade scenarios involving the top free agents and other players who could be on the move. First, a quick round of Fill in the Blank (7:15). What's one free agency move we want to see happen and how about one that we do not want to see? ... How would the rankings change if Tyreek Hill were traded to the Chargers (16:25)? What about Tee Higgins to the Patriots (19:40)? Najee Harris to the Bengals (22:15)? Chris Godwin to the Rams and Cooper Kupp to the Texans (23:45)? And then we've got a few quarterback scenarios (25:30) to think about including Matthew Stafford to the Giants ... More free agency possibilities including JK Dobbins going to the Raiders and Rico Dowdle going to the Chargers (32:00). Where could Davante Adams end up (34:05)? What about Keenan Allen, Christian Kirk, Aaron Jones, Diontae Johnson, Deebo Samuel and Zach Ertz? And we finish by ranking free agent destinations (44:40) for Aaron Rodgers, Higgins and Adams ... Email us at [e-mail] Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Express on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-express/id1528634304 Follow FFT Express on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=6529cbee20634da8 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? No, I can't. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races and he stays at his feet. This is gonna go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath.

You know, I was thinking maybe we should just do the 2024 edition of Free Agents because that was really fun, right? We had Barkay and we had Henry and Aaron Jones and Joe Mixon, all these great players going everywhere. This year's going to be a little bit different, but you know what? We could get some big blockbuster trades. We're going to talk about that possibility. Maybe Tyre Kill. Obviously, Cooper Cup could be on the move. And there will be a lot of interesting stuff that goes down. Welcome everybody to our free agency preview. We'll talk about some of the best destinations

for the best free agents and give you a whole bunch of scenarios and how it would affect the rankings. Dave, you got a lot of responsibility today. It's just you, you're the only analyst and you're wearing an interesting shirt. Let's see that shirt. This idiot on it. What's up with that?

It's a Vegas mat shirt. A little bit of an homage to the greatest YouTube gambler on the planet. Props to Vegas Matt, EJ, WBG, W2Jesus, and all the rest of the crew. Okay. Okay. So, Dave, who's your favorite free agent other than T Higgins who the Bangles are going to try to resign? You took away my favorite free agent who's not going to end up being a free agent. And

I think my second favorite free agent is also going to be someone who won't get away from their team. And that's Chris Godwin. And once you get away from those two guys, the rest of the players who are free agents, it's not that exciting. It's really, it's Najee Harris, J.K. Dobbins, Rico Dowdell. I could keep going. Stephon Diggs is a free agent. Houston likes him. They say they want to bring him back. Kenan Allen, Amari Cooper, is he still good? The best tight end that's a free agent is Zach Ertz. The way you started the show is probably just, it's super, it's dead on accurate is what it is. It's not a great free agency crop. It's the players who are cap casualties, maybe the players who might hold out, players that are entering a contract here and the teams don't want to necessarily give them more money.

Those are the guys. They might be on the move. Players like Kyle Pitts, players like Chris Olave, if those types of guys end up getting moved, George Pickens is on that list. Those are the guys that are a lot more exciting for fantasy managers. Yeah. But also the quarterbacks, you know, you got good veteran quarterbacks, Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, you've got Aaron Rodgers, who's going to get released by the Jets, maybe Matthew Stafford on the move. Justin Fields- Good is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Well, I think they could be, I'm not saying that they themselves would be good for fantasy,

but they could be good for a passing game, you know, and they could be upgrades over current quarterback situations for a lot of teams. And Justin Fields was actually the number 10 quarterback per game and six point per passing touchdown league. I'm sure he was even better than that in four point per passing touchdown leagues. In his six starts with the Steelers.

His first two starts were really bad for fantasy and after that he was pretty good. Oh, Jamie's joining us. Oh, what a nice surprise. All right, so actually it was supposed to be me, Dave, Jamie, Heath today. Heath is traveling. Jamie's internet was supposed to be out.

He had an issue with his internet, but it's back. What's up, Jamie? What's up, guys? All right, good. That means the internet wasn't the issue. It must have been something else that was You know was there a good show on that you wanted to watch or the dog needed to go out or something else that was keeping you All right. Well, i'm glad you're here. Well That dog sounds amazing i've been been waiting to drop that sound bite.

All right, anyway, we'll get into some fridge scenarios in a second. Real quick news. People are gonna have questions about that. You just like let it totally go. Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff. So we were doing a mic check last week and Jamie's dog started barking.

And then I was like, Dave, give me a mic check. And he goes, Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff. And then I immediately said, you're gonna turn that into a sound bite, aren't you? It was so fun. It was really good. So we've got a new dog drop

for whenever the pupless comes out. Real quick, injury new and note, the Eagles promoted passing game coordinator Kevin Patulo to offensive coordinator and remember Sirianni he is an offensive head coach but last year he kind of gave gave the authority to Kellen Moore so it's not like one of those situations where oh Kevin Stefanski changed his offensive coordinator something like that so what do you guys think about Kevin Patulo as the new Eagles coordinator? Don't screw it up. Yeah. I mean, honestly, that's what it comes down to. I think that there's obviously potential for a step back from when

they gave the reins to Kellen Moore, that's an established play caller. That's somebody who's been, you know, involved in different types of offenses with different types of quarterbacks. And he made it work for Philadelphia. If, I'm always a little skeptical about coordinators that follow somebody else's playbook. I don't know if that's for sure happening, but I would guess that that's happening in Philadelphia. That makes me nervous. I'm not running away from Eagles yet, but it's another log on the fire to suggest that maybe Philadelphia, certainly elements of that run game in general, could take a step back next year.

We'll see what happens. We have an Eagles fan producing today. We have a Debo filling in. Schaeffer's been on vacation, having a nice little week off. Slacker. Some of our best shows, I'd have to say. Anyway, let's do some quick fill in the blank.

I wanna see blank go to the blank. Schaeffer, go to your house and punch in the face. I wanna see Jamie go to the bathroom. I've already done that. Oh, whoa. What else? My favorite story. There's your new soundbite.

You can have me barking all you want. I want to see Blake go to the play. He's somebody in the audience. They changed the stalls in the office because of you. Yeah, I know. You're welcome. Much better stalls now. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom.

I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to see Jamie go to the bathroom. I want to changed the stalls in the office because of you. Yeah, I know you're welcome. Much better stalls now. I want to see something that's realistic or something that's just like yeah I mean yeah relatively realistic.

I mean I can see I can see Najee Harris to the bros. You want to see that? Yeah. You're not filling in the blank. If I see that that makes it easier to just completely bypass Najee Harris until like round seven on draft day. All right. You guys aren't answering the question.

So I want to see Chris Godwin go to the Steelers. And let me tell you why. I don't really want to draft Chris Godwin go to the Steelers. And let me tell you why. I don't really want to draft Chris Godwin. I don't like any players coming off serious leg injuries. So I'd rather him go to a place where I don't have to find him that interesting. And I'd rather him just go somewhere other than Tampa Bay so I can buy into Jalen McMillan.

I basically wanna be out on Chris Godwin and have a good excuse for it. So, and I don't want him to screw up Jalen McMillan. I basically want to be out on Chris Godwin and have a good excuse for it. So I, and I don't want him to screw up Jalen McMillan. So I want to see Chris Godwin go basically anywhere where he won't matter with bad pass offense. Sure. That's fair. How about T Higgins getting away from Cincinnati after all? I would like to see him go to Buffalo and kind of be the number one receiver there. And Buffalo actually makes the change to have a number one top target getter and T Higgins is that guy for Josh Allen. That would be very fun. That could put him quite easily in the top 10 conversation at wide receiver.

Okay. And let's go to our next fill in the blank. I don't want to see blank go to the blank. Chris Godwin go to the Steelers. I don't want to see Najee go to the Cowboys. That's exactly what I was going to say. Well, now I feel like it was a terrible idea for me to say that, but any running back that

goes to Dallas, I kind of feel like the knee-jerk reaction is to go overboard for, because I still think the Cowboys offensive line is good. They need to do something to take pressure off of Dak Prescott in the passing game. And Najee Harris has been somebody who has handled a large workload each of his first four years. I don't think he's missed a game. He's had over a thousand yards each in his first four seasons? I don't think he's missed a game. He's had over 1,000 yards each in his first 4 seasons. And I wonder if the old-school thinking in Dallas would gravitate toward that. And if they do, and Naji's their main guy, is that going to make us more inclined? Is it going to make fantasy managers more inclined to take them sooner than they should? I would not like to see that happen.

I'd much rather they go get Jantty in the draft and we go crazy for him. I don't want to see any running back go to the Bengals. And I don't want to see, I don't think I want to see a wide receiver go to the commanders. So pick your favorite wide receiver. I think that would be almost like a Devonte Adams,

Garrett Wilson situation where we're going. Who's gonna be better? You don't wanna see a receiver go to the commanders? Not for Terry McLoran's sake, no. I think Godwin in Washington makes a lot of sense. I'd be fine with that, you know, for McLoran, but I think ideally, I feel like McLoran, if he's gonna, where does he get drafted?

Where's he been going? Like the third round, fourth round? Fourth round. Yeah, if he's gonna live up, like be a borderline top 12 receiver, I don't wanna see them bring in any serious competition there. Because it's already gonna be a low volume

pass offense, I think. And I don't think it's gonna be a great destination necessarily for a free agent wide receiver, although the free agent wide receivers aren't so great. So, you know, right. But you almost want to see Washington add one of the lesser tier, but still well known wide receivers that are that are going to be available. Hollywood Brown, maybe Deontay Johnson. If he, if he, if he's got his mind, right. Christian Kirk could get cut by the Jaguars.

What if he, like, he's the low rent version of Chris Godwin. He was not going to go for nearly as much money as Godwin. They could get him and okay. Now fantasy managers could see one of these receivers that's going to easily be around eight plus pick come in and maybe they give you a few weeks of wide receiver three production. All right. Well, thank you for some quick fill in the blank.

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We won the Enterprise category, Fantasy Football Today. So this is a real big honor to be the 2024 winner of the FSGA Best Audio Show category. That's the largest category. They do it by by size of publication. Right. Enterprise is the largest. They have enterprise mid sized and startup. And if you there might be a picture floating around of Dan Schneier accepting the award and he looks like he's on steroids. He's jacked. I told him like he looks he's on Royds. So that was the last thought I would have ever had when I saw that picture. He looks huge. He looks like he's, uh, he's, he's buffed up a little bit. Yeah. Really?

Too big for tennis. I didn't notice that whatsoever. It's not a good tennis physique. He's in trouble. It's cool that we want a trophy. Jamie, do you think that, uh, when we won the podcast awards, that there was a trophy that we got? I don't know. The answer is yes. Take a look if you're on YouTube, on my little screen, here it is, the podcast awards trophy. You guys helped us get this. We will cherish it forever. Dan Gamer Eric says, Dan was wearing a schmedium shirt.

Well, yes, we do know Dan likes to go short on the, go small on the shirt size. All right, we're gonna take a break. Dan was very nervous about this trip. You know, he's never gone to represent our company before. And he said, he asked me, he said, any any tips for when I go out there? I said, yes, walk up to people and say, Hello, my name is Dan. Did you say hello, my name is Dan or hello, my name is Dan. However, he wanted to say it. He wasn't. What do I say next?

He was having a great time. Just wing it. That's how I lost 500 bucks. That's how people would know him. Dan. All right, we're gonna take a break and come back and do some fun free agency scenarios after this on FFT. All right, so I'm going to throw out some scenarios involving free agents and or trades.

And I want you to tell me. Here we go. Yo, so what? So what? So what scenarios? Yeah, I'm going to say scenarios a lot today. So keep that and we'll do a we'll do a con on how many times can I say it. So scenarios where it's either free agent or a big time player on the trade market.

I'll tell you where they go. And you tell me how the rankings change, how your rankings change. Ready? Tyreq Hill to the Chargers. Tyreq Hill becomes a round four pick and Jaylen Waddle becomes a round four pick. Round four, he goes to the Chargers, that's it. Man, all right. You think he should go higher or lower? Yeah, I'd be pumped.

I think he goes higher, but maybe one round higher. And I, I would imagine that waddle would be right behind him. Like maybe like five picks behind him, because now we're talking about waddle as the number one target in Miami. I think they'd be both round three picks. I'd go a little higher than Jamie on both of them. You think that's a positive move for Tyree kill? I think it's, I don't think it's that much of a positive move for Tyree kill, but it's nice that he's going somewhere. I don't buy into the chargers being this crazy run heavy team anymore.

They kind of showed it in the middle and end of last year that they are willing to ride their quarterback. And it makes perfect sense that they would do it. And if they're investing in Tyreek Hill, I don't know how much they're going to invest in a running back. I don't think they're in the Janty Derby. Is there any other running back in this draft class that's going to completely turn around what the Chargers did for the last two thirds of the season? I don't think so. I think that they're adjusting their movement. There's successful stress of their season was when J.K. Dobbins was rolling for them. So they didn't need to go spend a lot of capital

on a running back to have a good run game. But Dave is right. I mean, they became a much more pass heavy team. But I just don't know if that's necessarily their true identity. I mean, it kind of coincided when the running game fell apart because Dobbins missed four games. I don't think he's gonna go in the fourth round though. I mean, I would not coincided when the running game fell apart because Dobbins missed four games. I don't think he's going to go in the fourth round though.

I mean, that like I wouldn't, I would not have taken, I would not have waited until the four. I guess you're lower on Tyree kill, but I just thought, I mean, taking a 31 year old receiver who started to show some flaws last year and putting them on another team that's still, I think going to be more balanced than pass heavy. I don't think this is all of a sudden like a win for him. No, they're not like the Bengals. That's fair.

But I still think that they'll be, I think they'll be minimum top half. Maybe this is more to your point, Jamie, but top half in the league in pass rate next year. Oh, I'd say bottom half. I'm going to tell you right now, any serious move they make a wide receiver will tell me that they want to lean on Justin Herbert at least as much as they did toward the end of last season. Okay.

Tyreek Hill, it goes to the Chargers. Who's the highest ranked receiver? Waddle, Hill or McConkie? Waddle. Could be Waddle. Interesting. Interesting. Okay. McConkey.

Who's the second rank them? It would be Waddle Hill McConkey. I might say McConkey over Hill. McConkey did what he did last year on an average of seven targets per game. All right. Next up and then Justin Herbert would be a winner as well. Next up. Yeah. T Higgins to the Patriots.

Ugh. Nah, come on now. I don't know about that. That's the end of Kendrick Bourne. You got it, he's a clear cut number one with an emerging, hopefully emerging quarterback. I don't hate it. And they got the most cap space by the way.

So this one's actually somewhat realistic here. So T Higgins- Well, they're gonna make a big run in him. Yeah. Take us to the Patriots. Give me your rankings adjustments. He goes from around three pick to around five pick. Wow.

I won't be that bearish, but I do agree that he takes a slide on the positives are he's still going to see a lot of targets. He'll be the clear cut number one guy. He averaged nine targets per game last year and he was awesome. He'll have plenty of opportunities. Drake may could take a step forward. I don't know where the Patriots defense is going to be. So there could be a lot of games where Drake may is going

to have to throw it a lot and T E against could still end up being. 18 PPR points per game is too high. 15, 15. I think he can get to 15 and that's a dude that you can still rank as a top 15, 16, 17 wide receiver on draft day. Round four. I'll go around higher than Jamie again. Would this make Drake may the highest ranked second year quarterback other than Jaden Daniels?

No. It'd be close. It's already close now. Yeah. Do you guys- May's fantasy appeal is as much for his legs as it is for his arm. Sure. Do you guys think that T Higgins is a number one receiver?

Yes. When you look at some of these teams in the NFL, he is. guys think that T Higgins is a number one receiver? Yes, when you look at some of these teams in the NFL, he is yes. Yeah. I because I don't know if it's fair. He's coming off such a good year. But I just wonder if he's like, kind of Kenny Goladei, like does not really know. That's my fear is that he goes gets a big paycheck somewhere without a clearly established quarterback at this point and I'm afraid he's gonna get overdraft. But in terms of is he a number one receiver?

I mean you look at he's better than anybody in the Packers. He's better than I Don't know the Patriots he's better than any Patriots. I would say he's better I mean the Raiders, you know, I mean look you look at the number one guys around the league He's obviously more established than anybody on the Cardinals You can make a case. He's a better receiver than Garrett Wilson, who's number one now in the Jets. Like, yes, he's a number one receiver. Okay, that's right. I wonder if people would, is he a better receiver than Garrett Wilson?

I don't know. It's hard to know the answer to this. I feel like he's like Terry McClure. T Higgins goes to the Patriots. Who do you draft first? T Higgins on the Patriots or Garrett Wilson on the Jets? Who's the quarterback for the Jets? That's the biggest question.

It could be Turad. I have a Jets quarterback scenario coming up, but all right, we'll get to that. Next scenario, Najee Harris to the Cincinnati Bengals and the Steelers re-sign Jaylen Warren. Well, Warren's already on the team. So well, he's a restricted free agent. Yeah. So he's very's a restricted free agent. Yeah so he's very likely he stays like someone else is gonna have to sign him to a Big contract at the Steelers decide now you're saying who's the best running back on these two teams? Yeah How do your rankings change? Najihara said the Bengals Steelers keep and give a new deal to Jalen Warren Chase Brown Jalenlen Warren, Najee Harris. Right, but where, okay, so where are we dropping

in this scenario? They bring in a guy like Najee Harris. Oh, Chase Brown loses big in this scenario. Of course. He goes to probably round four-ish. Jaylen Warren, five, and Najee Harris, seven or eight. Sounds about right. Jaylen Warren five and Najee Harris seven or eight. Sounds about right. Najee Harris has the second most carries in the NFL

since he came into the league four seasons ago. Who has the most? The guy who's missed it. Over that four game, four years. The guy who's missed half a season by the way. Derrick Henry. Yeah, Derrick Henry. Najee Harris has zero carries of 40 yards in that stretch.

Um, all right. I don't want them to go to the bangles. That'd be bad. Next scenario, Chris Godwin to the Rams and Cooper cup to the Houston Texans. So we've got Chris Godwin going to the Rams and cup to the Texans. What's the big, any big moves in your rankings with those two things? I like that for Godwin assuming staffer still there. I love it for Godwin putting him in the puka roll. He's he basically are in the cup roll rather.

Excuse me. That's what he did last year. Average 19 PPR points per game, almost 20. And his injury isn't a soft tissue injury. It was a bone, right? This located ankle. That's still really bad. It sounds bad. But he should be able to come back from that faster than he came back from the torn ACL, even at 29 years. I know. I just, again, Tony Pollard, broken leg, Tank Del, broken leg. Tony Bregman I'd be excited. I'd be really excited about God. Justin Perdue This is a good one. And look, Cup to Houston,

they're going to probably go get some veteran. It wouldn't surprise me if it's Cup. If it's Samuel, you know, somebody that's tied to someone associated with the McVeigh or Shanahan Tree. Justin Perdue Yep. Justin Perdue And they showed that they were aggressive with it last year by going out against Stephane Diggs. So assuming that Dell's not ready to go and Diggs does not return, Cup could have some value there. But I'd be worried about Cup for the entire season. Oh, I'm not drafting him high, but I think it's a good landing spot.

Sure. Like is he a bandaid for Houston? Let let's just say they also find a way to keep Stefan Diggs on the cheap. And so there's gonna come a time where both Diggs and Dell, I don't know when it'll be for Dell, it could be like December, but they come back and then Cooper Cup, you know, becomes their number four receiver or something. Okay, ready for the next one?

Couple of quarterbacks here, Matthew Stafford to the Giants and Aaron Rodgers to the Rams. I'd like Rodgers better. I would too, but I, I, it would make me just as excited for neighbors in Nakua. Like I don't think I would, I don't think I would drop either of those guys very much. I was gonna ask, would you swap them? Would you put neighbors ahead of Nakua? I don't think I'm ready to do that. But I do like them both quite a bit, obviously.

Man, that's a tough one. I think right. I think Stafford is definitely a better quarterback than Rogers at this point. But but I don't know. I mean, Rogers was playing hurt last year. Rogers, you know, will obviously have a big upgrade in this scenario. Going to the Rams, have a big upgrade in offensive coordinator. I think he still has, I mean, I said it a few weeks ago, I think he saw some good football left, but Stafford played, I think Stafford played pretty well last year when he had Puka healthy. He definitely, uh, I mean he's played well when healthy the last, you know, few seasons in Los Angeles. He's never played in an outdoor home stadium. So that'll be interesting if he goes that route. Um, can Rogers, you know, hold up

is the question. I'd be very surprised if Ram's let Stafford leave. Yeah, like I don't get all the, I'd be very surprised if Ram's let Stafford leave. Yeah, like I don't get all the squabble about that. Well, I mean, it's his agent posturing to try and get him more money. And look, any team that needs a quarterback is gonna kick the tires there if they aren't at the top of the draft. All right, we got one more quarterback scenario,

a couple more, and then we'll move to the other positions. Justin Fields to the Jets and the Steelers bring back Russell Wilson. Justin Fields to the Jets, Steelers bring back Wilson. Fields over Wilson. Again, Garrett Wilson versus George Pickens. Who do you like better? I'd still take Wilson over Pickens, but they'd be a lot closer than they are right now. If everything else stays the same, so no other receivers added to Pittsburgh, or the Jets of significance, assuming that Adams is gone, I would take Pickens over Adam or Wilson. Pickens in the first, for the first six games before he had the hamstring injury, scored

16 PPR points or more four times. Yeah. Is that for the first six with Russ or just overall? For the first six with Russ. Yeah, actually broke it down. So he had six games with Justin Fields. I'll just give you his 17 game. His numbers with Wilson when he was healthy were good.

Yeah, but it's funny actually. So six games with Justin Fields, George Pickens was on pace for 74 catches, 1,028 yards, zero touchdowns on 125 targets. 9.9 PPR points per game. He played eight games in the regular season with Russell Wilson. If you want to take all eight games, including the last two, which were terrible, he was also on pace for 125 targets. He was on pace for 70 catches compared to 74 with fields and about 120 more yards and six more touchdowns. But Jamie's right, before that hamstring injury, he was

crushing it. He was on pace for 82 catches, 1,380 yards, eight touchdowns on only 130 targets. So that's really impressive what he did before the injury. Then the last two games were terrible, but playoff game was really good. Five catches, 87 yards and a touchdown against the Ravens on only five targets. So it's interesting. I wanted to bring that up to see if you'd be moved

to move Pickens ahead of Garrett Wilson. Yeah, again, assuming that nothing else changes for their receiving cores respectively, I'd rather have Pickens with Wilson than Wilson with Fields. All right, last one, Jamis Winston to the Raiders. Assuming there's no other receivers added, then Jacoby Myers is awesome,

and Trey Turner might be awesome awesome and Brock Bowers is easily number one tenant. I'm not drafting Jamis in a 1QB league. Let me ask you this, if Jamis Winston goes to the Raiders, would you draft Jacoby Myers ahead of Jayden Reed? Yes, I'm already doing that. Would you draft him ahead of Roma Dunze? Yes. Uh, yeah. Here's my buyer beware on the Jamis thing. Cause obviously he's great for, for fantasy. He always gets benched because he throws so many interceptions. Like, sure.

So like part of the equation is if they get Jamis, are they also drafting Jackson Dart or, you know, one of the other quarterbacks that's not named cam ward or should or Sanders? Yeah. Cause if they're doing that, Jamis will be there for four games. They'll get sick of him. Just like every other coach gets sick of their quarter of Jamis. The irony is, is that the bucks replaced Jamis with Brady and now Brady would

be in control of Jamis's future. Yeah. I wonder how much, yeah. I don't know how much influence Brady has there. I'd be a little surprised if Pete Carroll went that route. All right. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Pete Carroll said, you know what, let's take a break. We'll come back and talk about wide receivers and running backs and where they might go. We've got some fun scenarios to play out for you.

We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today. Okay. Free agent running backs and where they might go. We got some fun scenarios to play out for you. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today. Okay, free agent running backs. We've got Najee Harris, Jaylen Warren, a restricted free agent. We could see J.K. Dobbins, Rico Dowdell, Aaron Jones in different spots next year. So how about J.K. Dobbins goes to the Raiders and Rico Dowdell goes to the Chargers to replace Dobbins. Dobbins to the Raiders, Dowd goes to the Chargers to replace Dobbins. Dobbins to the Raiders, Dowdle to the Chargers. I like both those moves. Given the scenarios for both, I don't think you want to overdraft either one. Dowdle would definitely be exciting with the Chargers.

I think anybody that goes to the Chargers is going to have some upside. So whether it's a rookie, at least a prominent one, we saw one that they drafted last year that couldn't get on the field. But if they address they, uh, they addressed that backfield, it's going to be one of the better offensive lines. I think that's another thing that the charges continue to do is work on the interior of the line because they fix some tackles. But, um, yeah. And any running back that ends up in that offense is going to be fun. Um, I'm curious to see like what Minnesota does, you know, if they move on from Aaron Jones because that's another offensive, you know, system that can be really good for whatever

running back ends up there. All right. Did anything you want to add there? Doutal to the Chargers, Dobbins to the Raiders? We're good. Yeah, I wouldn't be super excited about either one of them because I would assume that there would be another running back working with each of them in both of those situations. I don't think Dobbins would be handed the keys.

We've seen Pete Carroll do that many times, but I don't think he would do that there. Did you catch that Aaron Jones moved back his void date with the Vikings just like Godwin did? Yep. Makes me think he might stay. He should stay. Aaron Jones had a good year. I'd be thrilled if he did. Aaron Jones was the number,

I wanna say 19 running back per game. He was, yeah, number 19 per game in both non and full PPR. He was RB 12 per game overall in full PPR, 16th overall in non PPR. He is 30 years old, but he had a good year. A career low, 4.5 yards per carry for Aaron Jones is so good. They need somebody else there. Well, they

only gave him 255 carries in 17 games, so they will have a platoon there. They obviously felt like they couldn't run them into the ground. All right. Speaking of Aaron, I have more Evan Aaron Jones one later. Let's do this. Devonte Adams to Washington. So when I hear you say that, it makes me feel like you don't really believe Devonte Adams has much left in the tank. I don't. Okay. I think he's got something left in the tank.

I don't think he can ever go back to being what he was three years ago. So you would keep McLaurin ahead of him for sure? No, I mean, I don't know if I would do that. Look, DeMonte has, I'm obviously, you know, going to an extreme. DeMonte has a very good player. He showed that he could still produce with Rogers. The second half of that Jacksonville game was one of the most amazing things you'll ever see. You know, how he performed in that outing, for example. But like Dave said, how much does he have left? And he's now turning the dreaded 32 years old. Would now be going with another quarterback, another offense coordinator, trying to mesh

with another wide receiver that has some upside and an established resume at this point. So it's not a bad move by Washington because you're getting a, you know, a significant upgrade over what they had of, you know, Noah Brown and the Amy Brown and all those guys there as a key, yes, and all those players. But I'd rather see like a compliment to McClure. And like, like I said, Godwin's, he makes a lot of sense there. Right. Okay.

How about this one? Devante Adams to Green Bay. I'd feel better about that than Devontae Adams in Washington. Would you take let's say Devontae Adams goes to Green Bay, he'd obviously be the first receiver drafted for the Packers, right? You'd be ahead of Jayden Reed. Yeah, I just I'd worry about volume. He's a volume receiver at this point. Would you take Devonte Adams? If he's targeting A plus targets a game, I would worry about him getting overdrafted and

not being worth the price tag. Devonte Adams on the Packers or Cortland Sutton? Everything stays the same in Denver? Sutton. I think I'd go Sutton as well, but it's very close. Devante Adams or DK Metcalfe. Devante Adams on the Packers or Metcalfe. Again stays the same?

Yeah, I think everything stays the same. Well, Lockett might not be there. He's another guy that could be a cap casual. Which is basically staying the same. No, but what if he gets replaced by somebody who's We're not doing that. We're not doing that. We're doing like, like we're drafting. Like, okay, this scenario is the trade just happened. Devontae Adams is going to the Packers tomorrow. I would take Adams over Mecha.

Okay. I think I would too. All right. Next up. Oh, by the way, in that scenario, Jordan Love or Jared Goff? Goff. Goff. Jordan Love or Justin Herbert? Herbert. Same. Is he just weird? Oh, you take Herbert over him even without Tyreak Hill?

Well, I mean, you just gave Herbert Tyreak Hill. No, he doesn't have Tyreak Hill. That was 10 minutes ago. It doesn't exist anymore. All right. Next up. This is why we're award winning folks. Keenan Allen to the Bengals.

To replace T Higgins. Let's say to replace T Higgins. 33. Is that his age or his ranking? Both. 33 would be good for his ranking. I'd rank them a little lower than that, but he'd be right back in that spot to get seven, eight targets a game. Does Gosecki stay in this scenario?

Yeah, everything. Like you said, he's free. Oh, uh, maybe they do keep them cause all's her. Uh, sure. It gets sick. He stays. Then I like, I like a second a lot.

I would like a second a lot. He was awesome when T Higgins wasn't there. Yeah. But Kenan Allen would still be a good bench receiver. He would do what he did last year. He had three or four good games. Right. Right. Christian, he'd be fine.

Is it like, I'd say around 10, maybe he'd get pushed into round nine and PPR. All right. So Christian Kirk, there's a solid chance. I think there was a report and saw yesterday or today that Jaguars might cut him. So Christian Kirk goes back to Arizona. They could save up to 16 million if they cut him as a June 1st designation. So yes, there's definitely a chance that he's gone. He goes back to Arizona. I don't think I'd be real interested in drafting him. I don't think I'd be real interested in drafting him. I mean, look, he's a decent number four receiver.

Would he affect Trey McBride or Marvin Harrison Jr. in your rankings at all if the Cardinals added Christian Kirk? No, but it's certainly an upgrade over what Michael Wilson and those other guys have done because he's more established and proven. He would take over for Dortch in the slot. I wonder if Christian Kirk were just a free agent, right? And he was on these, you know, you can look up free agency lists anywhere, right? We have one on cbsports.com. Where would he rank? You know, he would obviously be behind T Higgins,

Chris Godwin, but I think he might be more desirable than, am I forgetting anyone, than any other free agent wide receiver like Kenan Allen or Stefan Diggs coming off of Torn ACL. Are you including Devonta Adams, Cooper Cup? I wasn't, but sure, why not? Like all of these guys are super old. I think Kirk is more desirable than those guys to NFL teams. Yeah, I don't know about for one year, but if we can assign a guy to a multi-year deal, not that Kirk is all that young, he's 28, but that's a good age.

But he's competing with a bunch, like the wide receiver market is T Higgins, Chris Goblin coming off a dislocated ankle and bunch of old guys basically, right? Kirk's coming off an injury too. It's just, well, his shoulder, am I tripping? I don't remember. He had collarbone.

He had a bang on me two last two years. He was very productive in his first year in Jacksonville when he was the number one receiver. Broken collarbone. Yeah. Okay. Moving on to Aaron Jones to the Cincinnati Bengals. But not Keenan Allen. Not Keenan Allen.

Why are we trashing Chase Brown? I think Chase Brown's kind of small. And I think I wouldn't be surprised if they. But you're, you're, you're putting guys going like Najee Harris and Aaron Jones going in there that these guys are going to command some level of salary that I don't think the Bengals are going to be able to spend once they resign on the other guy.

Is a 30 year old running back going to command more than $5 million? But that's not something the Bengals need. Like they'll just go draft a guy on day three or just keep Zach Moss. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I can run down a list of like seven running backs. All right, fine.

Aaron Jones to the... Oh, the... There's some sounds, boy, the, jar. There's some sounds, boy. Oh boy. Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff. Aaron Jones to the Patriots. That's realistic. It is?

I mean, wouldn't shock me if they wanted to upgrade over Romandre. Who they benched at the end of the year for fumbling. Yeah. I would just assume they'd go in a younger direction if they were gonna do that. I mean, look, every, okay, so you could make that case that Aaron Jones is not going anywhere

because every single team could just draft a younger running back. Okay, what about the Steelers let Najee go and they replace him with Aaron Jones? Getting realistic. Yeah. Fine. And what do they do with Jalen Warren? They use him with Aaron Jones. Oh, I don't like that at all. I don't like that. I love it for Jalen Warren. Yeah, I kind of do too. Deontay Johnson to the Cowboys. Oh, that'll, that'll work out. That that'll be harmonious.

Why is that Johnson wore out his welcome with three teams in like five days. So he's just not going to go anywhere. I don't, I, he's going to take some cheap deal somewhere and he's just got to make sure that he's, you know, I, we don't know the real story, but we're just assuming that he just was kind of bratty and that the coaches had enough of it and they all let him go. All right. Well, he just got signed by the Cowboys.

So how are, how was it affecting your ranking? He might be a late round pick. I just want to remind everybody, Deontay Johnson, weeks one and two was horrible. And then they benched Bryce Young. Next four games, he was unstoppable. He scored I think 19 or more PBR fantasy points at three of the next four games with Dalton. Then week seven came,

Carolina quarterbacks threw for 87 yards in a blowout loss, 40 to seven loss at Washington. And then he got traded, but he actually showed that he could still be a productive player. So, you know, I don't want to completely discount Deontay Johnson.

He's kind of like a little free agent sleeper. Right. Everything about him from the neck down is fine. It's the neck up that teams are going to be worried about him. Well, you just wonder if not playing in Baltimore, then he tried to force his way out and then just everything that happened after that. I had no idea what happened there.

Obviously it wasn't great. All right, next up, Debo Samuel to Pittsburgh. Good luck. And we'll say Russell Wilson's their quarterback. He'll have a few good games. He'd probably still average what he averaged last year, five targets per game, maybe a couple of carries. You drop in T Higgins. I mean, I'm sorry, George Pickens dropping George Pickens.

Not at all. No, but I don't have Pickens as high as the other guys do. So Jamie, you think Debo's just done being a fantasy relevant? Or fantasy must start. Yep. Okay. Zach Ertz to the Saints. Love Benz in it.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, all right. No real reason to be excited about Ertz even after the year that he had. Okay. Dave has, Dave gave me this list of three rankings. Rank these scenarios. There's that word again. Rank these scenarios. Aaron Rodgers to Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers to the Rams, Aaron Rodgers to the Raiders. I'm glad you're doing this. Yeah, they're good. Rams, Raiders, Steelers.

Ooh. I'd be tempted to flip-flop Steelers and Raiders. Man, the Steelers. Really gotta see what the running backs look like on the Raiders and the Steelers. Steelers are so boring. They've just been so boring. I don't think him going to Pittsburgh helps

his fantasy value. I don't think it changes the fantasy value for anybody there. All right, T Higgins back to the Bengals, T Higgins to New England, T Higgins to Washington. Bengals, Washington, Patriots.les, Washington Patriots. I put Patriots over the commanders, but they both be not as good as T staying in Cincy. Jamie, why would you put the commanders over the Patriots for Higgins?

Because I think Jane Daniels is a better passer than Drake May right now. It's interesting. I really think Drake May could just put up better passing numbers, even if Daniels is a better passer than Drake May right now. It's interesting. I really think Drake May could just put up better passing numbers even if Daniels is a better passer, you know, obviously with just being a mobile quarterback that's gonna run up more. May runs, I know, but I feel like Drake May could out throw him next year and he is just so clearly the number one guy. That's it, you know, let's- That's a fair point. You know who would have been third in rushing yards based on their per game average? Drake May.

Yep. Yeah, Drake May who averaged almost a record yards per carry, absolutely insane, yards per carry for a quarterback. It wasn't almost a record, but that was the only way, thing I can think of to illustrate how crazy it was. All right, Devonte Adams in Green Bay, Devonte Adams in New Orleans, Devonte Adams in Buffalo. Sorry, what was it again? Adams to the Packers,

Adams to the Saints, Adams to the Bills. Bills, Packers, Saints. Yeah. If Adams goes to the Bills, what round does he get drafted in? Uh, Bill's Packer Saints. Yeah. If Adams goes to the bills, what round does he get drafted in? Five. His ADP will be higher than that. He'll be a fourth rounder. Yeah. I wonder if he'll be a third rounder if he goes to the bills, but not for us. I just, uh, that would be very, that would be fun. That was, let's see, uh, how it could be real. It could be crazy good. Like there,

you have to admit there's upside for Adams to still see a lot of targets in that offense. And for him to get open on scramble plays with Josh Allen. Like that's something Devante Adams can still do. He can still win in the red zone. He could actually be fantastic there, but it would take the commitment from Buffalo to up the pass attempts for Josh Allen from week to week. Well, that's all I got for this free agent frenzy. Thanks for, glad you hopped on Jamie.

Thanks man. All right. All right. Bye. Wanted to hear you talk about Dan's shirt. Dude, he's ripped. I'm telling you too much upper body. It's just, I'm going to kill him this summer. I'm going to crush him. I'm wow. Yeah. No, I'm not. But I'm, I think I was, I think I can beat him. I think, Oh, we got a picture of him accepting the award. Let's see this. All right, it's loading.

See his buff is me. Like my internet is what I wanna know. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. I'm gonna just kill, there he is. Oh yeah, no, the picture of him. Can I send you the picture of him accepting the award? How do you think that that's buff?

No, it's not like he's chubby. The picture of him accepting the award is definitely. That is not a buff human being. Looking swollen. In shape, sure. All right, well. That's not buff, That's not the stuff. And the girls have definitely had enough.

All right, fine. Well, I'm gonna beat him anyway. We'll talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody. And stay tuned for FFT Express if you're on YouTube right now. For Jamie and Dave, I'm Adam. Adios.