Fantasy Football Today - Your Dynasty Questions ANSWERED! One Man Dynasty Fantasy Football Mailbag (06/03 Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: June 3, 2025Heath Cummings reaches deep into the mailbag to answer your dynasty questions like does Travis Hunter hurt Brian Thomas Jr.'s upside, when should I draft running backs in a start up and more! Intro (...0:00) Brian Thomas Jr. (:45) Dynasty Emails (3:05) Social Media Questions (8:28) Chat Questions (18:15) 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 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. 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 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
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Welcome to Fantasy Football Today Dynasty. I am your host, Heath Cummings, and today we've
got a one-man mailbag. I love answering your questions here on podcast, here on YouTube,
and I know we are live not just on YouTube, we're also live over on X. If you're watching
on X and you want to ask questions in the chat,
please come over to YouTube to do that because I will be going through later in
the show the final segment and answering as many of your questions from the
YouTube chat as I can. Right now though, we are starting with Brian Thomas Jr. I
had an email and a tweet about Brian Thomas Jr. and kind of a similar question.
First we had from Ryan asking if Hunter hurts Thomas's upside
and then Chris tweeted and asked if I would sell high
on Brian Thomas Jr.
What I'll say is there wasn't a huge impact yet
on my Brian Thomas projection for this year
or his dynasty ranking.
He didn't go down in either one of those rankings.
That doesn't mean that Hunter could not impact his upside.
As I talked about with Jacob Gibbs earlier this month, or maybe it was last month, I
think it's still a little bit uncertain who is going to function in what role.
And over the next three years, I wouldn't be
surprised if there's a stretch where Hunter is the wide receiver 1A and Thomas is the 1B. So yeah,
that probably does maybe hurt Thomas's floor a little bit more than I think it hurts his upside.
There's plenty of room for Thomas and Hunter to be very good fantasy options, just like we've seen
from Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. So am I
trying to sell him high? I have him ranked in dynasty as the wide receiver six. So there's
five wide receivers I'd rather have before him. It's possible if you're a true contender
and somebody's trying to get young, maybe you could turn them into CDLAM. I certainly
think that would be selling high. I also have Bijon Robinson, Ashton Gentry, and Brock Bowers
ranked ahead of Brian Thomas
in the trade chart.
So if you could go get one of those guys, the one thing I would say is if I'm selling
high, I'm probably not doing it for someone who I think is worse than Thomas because when
you look at my dynasty rankings, and I'm going to have tiers coming out next week, and you'll
see this, Thomas is at the end of a tier.
There's a bigger gap between him and wide receiver 7
than there is between him and three or four wide receivers before him.
So if I'm selling high on Thomas, I'm trying to upgrade.
I'm not trying to downgrade and maybe add another player
unless I'm getting a significant value in addition to that second wide receiver.
We've got a few emails here to read before we get to our first break.
The first one was a very long, very sweet email from Zach.
And Zach, thank you for being a part of the program.
Thank you for following along.
Thank you for participating in Scott Fishbowl.
But I'm not gonna read the whole email.
I'm gonna read your question.
If you're in a rebuild, should you trade Lamar Jackson?
And I think we look at quarterbacks
as like the one position that we can keep a good player
while we're rebuilding,
because they'll still be good when we're done rebuilding.
Jackson's 28 years old.
That should not be a concern for a quarterback.
I say should not,
because we know how much of his production
comes from rushing.
I think the emailer actually had an offer of Kyler Murray,
Kyron Williams, and a mid-first, which is enough for me
to move off of them.
The problem is, I'm not sure that Kyler fits better
in a rebuild window than Lamar does.
And I certainly don't think Kyron Williams fits better
in a rebuild than Lamar does. So I certainly don't think Kyron Williams fits better in a rebuild than Lamar does.
So that's not the type of player, but it is the type of value I would be looking for. I think you
have a little bit of concern once Lamar turns 30 or 31 years old. Is he going to be able to do the same
thing with his legs? Probably not. And if he's not, can he remain an elite fantasy quarterback
with half the rushing production or two thirds
the rushing production?
And the answer is probably not.
So I do think if you're going into a rebuild and I would apply this also to Josh Allen,
who will be a year older than Lamar at the start of the season.
I think both of those guys probably not quarterbacks that I'd want to hold on to three through
a rebuild.
Whereas the other guys in that tier, Jaden Daniels, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes,
I'd feel more comfortable with.
Hertz is just a little bit younger,
so he's kind of in the middle.
But if I had Jackson or Allen
and I was moving into a rebuild,
those are great pieces to acquire a lot of young players
and picks that can really help you kick that rebuild off.
I would be trying to take advantage of that if I was you.
And another email from Rich, which of the 2024 rookie busts, and he listed Ricky Pearsall,
Xavier LeGette, Keeon Coleman, Jaylen Polk, and Adnan Mitchell, Ben Sennett, do you think
have the best potential to break out in 2025?
And I think this one, it's a pretty good gap for me between Ricky Piercell and
everybody else in that group. He's the guy that we hope with Brandon Iuke missing it
probably at least the first month. I expect the first half of the season with Devo Samuel
now gone to Washington. Piercell really competing with Juwan Jennings for the number one wide
receiver role early in the year. I currently expect Jennings to be that guy, but that doesn't
mean that Piercell can't be effective as a number three wide receiver
as the number two in San Francisco. So he would be my clear top choice of if you're trying to
buy low on some of these rookies who disappointed in 2024. The second one would be Keon Coleman.
The problem with Coleman is there's not really that much evidence to give you hope that he will, but he's attached to
Josh Allen and there's no clear number one wide receiver in Buffalo.
So that's the reason that you have hope here.
Sol's the clear number one.
Coleman would be number two.
I don't have much hope for the rest of the guys that you mentioned in this email, Rich.
Third email or maybe fourth from Conrad.
So when should I be drafting running
backs in a startup? This is another one that was a little bit longer email. I'm
kind of boiling it down. You hear a lot of people talk about in startups you
want to draft wide receivers. You want to draft quarterbacks. Running backs aren't
gonna last that long. Wait and get them until you're contending. It's funny I
actually had another email we're not gonna get to today from a guy who had
done that approach
and was loaded at quarterback and wide receiver,
but was now trying to figure out,
what do I do?
How do I get some running backs?
And they are the easiest position to trade for.
But I think I'm a little bit higher in startup,
specifically Superflex on running backs
than maybe most people are.
I would still take Bijan and Gentie in round one,
even in Superflex.
I would still take Jumeir Gibbs and H-Ann in round two.
Round three, maybe if you've decided you're gonna go win now,
the three, four turn is when you start,
I can start considering Barkley.
Round four, there's a few more in the Breeze Hall,
Kyron Williams, Chase Brown, Bucky Irving group.
And then round five is when you really see
a lot of the rookie running backs for me.
And that point and beyond, I think,
is where more people are gonna be comfortable.
Like a lot of the top wide receivers are gonna be gone.
A lot of the top quarterbacks are going to be gone.
So round five is probably where you see
more of a glut of running backs, but that kind of gives you a range of where I'm taking some of the
top running backs in my dynasty startup rankings. Let's take our first break. I see we're already
getting some questions in the chat. I will pin a couple of those and we'll be right back with some
of your questions from social media. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on
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Apparently it is trading season because a lot of the YouTube chat questions are about
trades.
We will get to those after our second break.
Right now we're going to get to some of our questions from social media.
Thank you to everybody for sending those in.
Matt sent Jaylen Waddle and Chris Olave.
We had two Olave traders.
We're going to get to those after our second break.
We're going to get to some of our questions from social media.
Thank you to everybody for sending those in.
Matt sent Jaylen Waddle and Chris Olave.
We had two Olave traders.
We're going to get to those after our second break.
We're going to get to those after our second break.
We're going to get to those after our second break.
Right now we're going to get to some of our questions from social media.
Thank you to everybody for sending those in.
Matt sent Jaylen Waddle and Chris Olave.
We had two Olave traders.
We had two Olave traders. We had two Olave traders. We had two everybody for sending those in. Matt sent Jalen Wattle and Chris Olave.
We had two Olave trade questions come in today.
If we do a strong contender for Pearson, Downs, a 2026 second and a 2026 third.
Matt's rebuilding this person's a contender.
So I think it's okay to give up a little bit of value, but I also think you gave up the two best players in the deal.
On my trade chart, you gave up about 24 points for 19 points.
That's a little more of a disparity I would like to see, especially if I'm giving up the
two best players in the deal.
So I don't love this Chris Olave trade.
Let's talk about the other Chris Olave trade from Jose.
It's a super flex PPR trade.
He traded DK Metcalf, Chris Olave, and a 2026 second for Amunra St. Brown.
I chose this one for a couple of reasons.
First, I love to give A's and this is an A plus, Jose.
Second, I want to explain this kind of helps show how the trade chart works because if
you compile those values in the trade chart, you get 29.9 for the,
for the Alavi side and 29.5 from Monroe St. Brown. So it seems like a dead even trade.
Maybe I even gave up a little bit too much, but if you're getting the best player in the
deal and if you're doing a three for one deal, I think you should expect to pay at least
a 20% surplus. I would expect you have to send out at least 36, 35, 36 points in value on the trade
chart to get St. Brown and you didn't do that. I think you had a 20% discount. So well done, Jose.
AJ had an easier question. What do we do with Deontay Johnson? Probably nothing. Does he have any future value? Is he done? It seems to me like he's the most likely outcome is that Deontay Johnson's done.
Now, most of you guys that play in dynasty leagues have deep benches, as do I. And if you're in a league with a deep bench and you wanted to send a fourth round pick for Deontay Johnson, or if you happen to see Deontay Johnson on the waiver wire, which who
could blame somebody after last year, and you have a roster spot available and you want to speculate on him, I
think that makes a lot of sense. He's always been good at earning targets. He's not ever been very good at turning
those targets into fantasy points. And I'm not sure his current situation is one that's going to improve that. But in the full PPR league, if you start two, three wide receivers and two flexes,
if everything goes right, he might cut, turn into somebody that you're starting
just based on the reception volume alone.
We've seen that from Johnson often in his career.
I just wouldn't want to wager anything more than a fourth round rookie pack pick
or a couple of fab dollars on that possibility.
Cause it's really rare that a player goes
through teams like Johnson did last year and they let him go. And then he gets to a situation
like the one Johnson's in now and he starts to have success. So I think he's probably
done but worth one of the last couple of bench spots on your roster. Coach says, is RJ Harvey
a good pick for a rebuilder?
There's been a lot of debates about how much it matters that RJ Harvey is 24 years old as a running back prospect.
I think a lot of people have rightly said, it doesn't matter at all.
You're only getting one contract out of most of these running backs anyways.
That might be true. It's a lot more true for a contender than it is for a rebuilder.
If you're not trying to win football games or fantasy
football games in the next two years, or even in the next year, then you might be looking
at a 25 or 26 year old Harvey before he ever starts helping your team accomplish the goals
you were trying to. And his values already been pumped up so much by the fact that Sean
Payton took him earlier than we expected. And the Broncos have talked about him as a
three down back. And the expectation is he'll lead the team this year, but Harvey's not a bargain.
And so it's hard to see his value going up significantly over the next two years as a
running back. Running back values don't normally do that. So I think he's not a good pick for a
rebuilder. If I was on the clock and he was my favorite player, I would be looking to move down.
And if I was a rebuilder, this will get me in some trouble with some people.
You'll probably clip it in the halfway through this season when Harvey's an
RV one, I'll have to hear about it.
I would take a, a Bucca.
I would take burden.
I would take golden.
I would take Loveland over Harvey.
If I was truly a rebuilder and couldn't move back and accumulate some more pick
value, because I just don't think he's a very good pick
for a rebuilder.
Colin, who sends in a lot of questions,
we always appreciate you,
Colin, you just updated rankings.
Do you see more volatility in one position over another?
And if so, does that mean for an age neutral player,
we should just consistently sell high on that position?
I will say, I highlighted this a little bit with a couple of positions as I was updating the rankings.
But if you look at my running back rankings right now, RB10, let's start with RB9. RB9, Chase Brown was RB31 a year ago. RB 18 Chuba Hubbard was RB 49 a year ago. That's three of the top 20
and two of the top 10 running backs in my dynasty rankings this month that were outside
of the top 32 of them were outside of the top 45 last year. You go look at the wide
receiver rankings for this month. Zero of the top 19 wide receivers were outside of
the top 30 last year. So there's much more volatility at the
running back position than there is at the wide receiver position. Does that mean that you should
just consistently sell running backs who pop? I don't think so unless you're in a rebuild period
then absolutely. But as a contender, those running backs have value because they score fantasy points
and help you win games. But there certainly is much more volatility in the running back position.
points and help you win games. But there certainly is much more volatility in the running back position. Wide receiver quarterback, more stable, tight end, it barely matters outside of the top four or five right now. Coach K says, Would you
either keep Devontae Smithy, somebody we've talked a lot about here recently, or have Jameson Williams and a 20-26
second rounder? I think both these guys are really interesting because they both might need some sort of injury to
truly meet their potential. They're also really interesting because in my most updated rankings, I have Smith as wide
receiver 23. I have Williams as wide receiver 24. We've gotten a lot of coach speak from Dan Campbell this summer about
how a big season is coming for Jamison Williams. They've got a new offensive coordinator. Maybe that target distribution changes just a little bit.
So I'm a little bit more hopeful
for some upside for Williams.
I do still prefer Smith and Dynasty,
but their values are very close.
And I would take the 2026 second and Williams
if someone offered me that for Smith.
I particularly would do that if I had an eye
towards a couple of years
from now because Williams is two years younger than Smith. It's hard to believe with all
the things that have happened in Jamison Williams career, he's still a 24 year old, but he is
and he does have an immense amount of upside shows has shown the ability throughout his
career to score. No matter where you're snapping the ball from. He might just go score on that play.
That's a nice attribute to have in a wide receiver three.
We've got one more social media question.
It was a very good one.
I thought how long enthusiasts ask, how do you analyze when a first or second
year player has outlier outlier touchdown production?
Uh, is it a feature of his game like Jordan Addison versus that season?
Just being the outlier and regression is coming.
I think like the way this is influenced by my projections background.
And the fact that I do projections on a yearly and weekly basis during the
season is I've got some parameters.
I don't generally go outside and what they are is for guys who have really
been bad at scoring touchdowns, I'm still going to expect them to score on 3% at least
of their targets. That's kind of the low end for a wide receiver. It's 4% for tight ends.
It's 2% for running backs. That's somewhat scientific. That's somewhat just an easy mark to have as the floor for a touchdown
rate going into a season for projections.
I generally don't project wide receivers over 6%.
Now you talk about somebody like Jordan Addison, he's been
close to 10% in his career.
No, I don't think it's a feature of his game.
I think he has some regression coming, but it does show that he's valuable.
The team they're targeting in that area of the field. And it shows that he has the talent to potentially be better in other areas than he has been so far.
Guys can get outside of that. Like I'll project Mike Evans for a tight end touchdown rate because Mike Evans scores 10 touchdowns
seemingly every single season. Gronk was the same way.
I just project him as an outlier in terms of touchdown rate. George Kk was the same way. I just project him as an outlier in terms of touchdown rate.
George Kittle's the same way.
I project him as an outlier,
but it takes more than one or even two years.
I think you see that in the way that I talked about
James Cook going into last year.
He had four rushing touchdowns
coming into his third season in the league.
I didn't think there was any reason to believe
that he couldn't score touchdowns.
I didn't think he'd score 16,
but I projected him for significantly more and he was able to do that. So there's ranges. And if a guy's
been really good at scoring touchdowns, I'm much more likely to project him at a 6% rate
than I am a guy who never scores touchdowns and gets projected to the 3% rate. But I don't
go all the way to what their career scoring rate is. I still like to keep a little bit of, I guess you would call it
regression factored into those projections. And that certainly does influence my wide receiver
rankings as well. And dynasty, I will say, you know, I thought we were going to take a second break,
but I think we're moving through this quick enough. We've got some questions in the chat.
Let's just jump right into those. If you guys send enough questions, we will take a second break. And if you don't, we'll
just hammer right through them.
Milt, first question in the chat. Would you take Garrett Wilson and a 2026 second for
Ladd in a rebuild? So it's kind of strange, just first impressions, to be trading a guy in his second year in Lad McConkey
for more of a veteran and Garrett Wilson, about a two-year difference between those two.
And I have McConkey ranked as a top 12 dynasty-wide receiver. He's at 12 for me right now.
Garrett Wilson's at 19. I've come around a little bit on him with Justin Fields
as kind of looking through Fields passing
the last couple of years.
There has been some improvement
and there's the college connection between those two.
That's still a significant difference in value
and they're not in the same tier either.
I have McConkie at least one tier above
where Garrett Wilson is.
For that reason, I don't think a 2026 second
would be enough for me to make that deal.
I would just hold on to Lad McConkie. Second question. I'm a strong contender. Good job.
Congratulations. In a 12-team dynasty league, I lost in the finals last year. That's terrible.
I just traded a late 2026 first and a 2027 first and Ramondre for Christian McCaffrey.
I've got Brock Purdy thoughts.
My first thought is that's an overpay.
My second thought is if you win the championship last year, this year, you're
not going to care that was an overpay.
I I'm really nervous about trading those first, not this year, but 2026 and 2027 for a player
who might not be helping me win football games or fantasy football games at that point.
And so the team has a better chance of falling off and those picks not being quite as late
as you think they are.
I like it a lot more before the 2025 draft trade that 2025 pick away because
you already know it's late. Maybe even trade that 26 pick away because you know that you've
got a stacked roster for next year and everything can't go that wrong for it to be a good pick.
But the 2027 pick, that's going to be what we expect a really, really strong class. And
it's a situation where you don't have complete control at this point
over how good your team is going to be then.
Trading for a player like Bijan, who's probably still good in 2026 and still helping you be
good, that would make more sense.
Trading it for McCaffrey, that's an enormous risk, but again, you won't mind taking that
risk if you go win a championship. Mark asks, would you trade Justin Jefferson for Nico Collins and Rashi rice?
And so if you look, does not say if it's super flex, we will assume that it's
super flex and I have a value of 36 points on Justin Jefferson and the trade
chart Malik neighbors is not far behind.
And so you're kind of just throwing in rice for free.
And I don't think they're getting rice for free.
I have a hard time even with the risk concerns about rice and the knee
injury, which Patrick Mahomes says he looks like himself and the concerns
about the court case, though we don't hear anything about any legal
problems for rice right now. He's just, he's been getting sued, but nothing from the actual legal system.
Those two concerns are hampering Rice's value a little bit in my dynasty rankings and in his trade
value, but you're almost getting him for free here. I absolutely love this deal. I would smash except Evan asked is Caleb Johnson the starter in Pittsburgh?
Probably not if you're being pedantic about it.
I expect Jalen Warren is going to get the week one start.
I think Jalen Warren is going to probably play at least 40% of the snaps.
I do think Caleb Johnson will be the leading rusher in Pittsburgh.
The question about his fantasy value versus what we've seen from Najee Harris the last
couple of seasons is how many touchdowns did he score?
What's his rushing efficiency like?
And then Harris still had an acceptable role from time to time in the passing game, even
with Warren, does Johnson.
If Johnson can function as a pass catcher and he can take the
majority of those carries inside the five yard line, then I think you probably see Johnson as someone
who could still be a fantasy starter, even if he's not technically the starter for the Steelers to
begin the year. But if not, or if they don't get a quarterback and Mason Rudolph leading this offense,
and they just don't score that many touchdowns, then Johnson's probably just a flex and maybe a low-end flex in full PPR
if Warren dominates the work in the passing game. We've got a trade question from Raff.
Grade the trade. 10 teams, full PPR, 1QB. This looks like James Cook and the 106 for a 2026 first and CDLAM. So you're
definitely getting the best player in the deal. CDLAM, you said it was 1QB. So we'll
get over the 1QB trade chart and CDLAM is my seventh highest valued player at 40 points
in the trade chart. James Cook, I've talked about this a little bit
over the last couple of weeks. I think he's a spectacular player, but there's significant touchdown regression. So he's only worth 18 points on that trade chart. The 106 is probably going
in one QB is probably going to be somewhere around 20 points in value. So it's not that far off
going to be somewhere around 20 points in value. So it's not that far off to just trade Cook
and the 106 for Lamb.
If you're getting a 2026 first as well,
that's an A plus, great job, Raph.
I think you won that trade
and you're gonna feel really good about it
for a long time to come.
We're gonna go ahead and take our second break,
give me a chance to star some more of your questions and I'll ask some more of your chat questions right after this break.
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This is not a question, but this is fine. Says the people love Heath.
You know, thank you for that sentiment.
I love talking to you guys here on YouTube and answering your questions.
Ooh, there's another question that was about Travis Hunter.
So let's just answer this one.
Would you be more surprised if Hunter finished as a wide receiver three
or a wide receiver 1.
Curious about the floor versus the ceiling and the likelihood of each.
I actually have Hunter projected as a wide receiver 3 for his rookie year, so that is
not would not be very surprising to me at all.
I would be mildly surprised if he's a top 12 wide receiver, maybe even a little more
than that.
So I would definitely be more surprised if he's a wide receiver one as a rookie.
Then it'd be the wide receiver three this year.
That being said, I think I'd be more surprised if he's never for dynasty purposes,
if he's never better than a wide receiver three, then if he eventually becomes a
wide receiver one, if that makes sense.
I think that there's, there's significant reason to believe that Hunter's going to have
wide receiver one seasons.
I'm just not sure that happens as a rookie with Brian Thomas Jr.
We've got a question here.
Would you trade away Nico Collins for Garrett Wilson and Justin Fields in a super flex rebuild?
I think that's probably really close to what the trade
chart shows in terms of fair value. I've got Nikko valued in that format at right
around 28 points and Fields and Wilson are definitely worth more than that.
The one thing I would caution here is I don't know that I love trading for and Wilson are definitely worth more than that.
The one thing I would caution here is I don't know
that I love trading for Justin Fields in a rebuild.
I've really come around on the idea,
looking at the depth chart,
looking at what he's done as a starter,
that he's gonna be a top 12 quarterback this year.
I think he's a better ad though for a contender
because he's not valued as a top 12 quarterback, so you can get value just in acquiring him.
And because if they're really bad, I think they draft a quarterback next year.
So I'm not sure that fields actually has great value to a rebuilder, unless
he's just awesome this year and gets a long-term extension.
I do think he is a good person to target if you're a contender and looking for a cheaper QB2
with almost QB1 certainty for one year.
Let's take a look here.
We got a question from Christian.
How should I value Tyrone Tracy and Khalil Shakir?
Trying to use them to snag some draft picks this season, but I don't know what I should
be feeling like
they're worth. And you're not probably talking to someone who's going to be super excited about
them. I have Shakir in Superflex worth about nine points, which if you're talking about rookie picks,
that's right where Jackson Dart is. Now I've seen Jackson Dart go in the first round. So when I say
that, I'm not saying I think Shakir's worth a first rounder.
I just have Jackson Dart as a round two pick in Super Flex.
So a round two pick for Shakir makes sense to me.
I would expect Tracy's going to be quite a ways behind that.
But I'm pretty optimistic about Kam Skataboo and pretty skeptical about Tracy.
If I could get an early round two for Shakir and a late round two for Tracy, I
would feel really good about that.
Take a look and see if we've got any other, uh, trades to grain.
We'll get out of here in just a couple of minutes again.
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Jude says dynasty super flex grade, the trade Lamar and Kincaid for Jaden
Daniels and Brock powers.
And you just broke the trade chart
because you won that trade for so much. I actually value Daniels over Lamar in a dynasty
and Bowers is the number one tight end while Kinkade's barely still a number one tight
end. Fantastic job there. If there's a singular team that looks head and shoulders above the rest, do you look
to rebuild to get onto his level or contend and hope he falters?
I think there's usually one of these in each league.
And my question when I'm looking at their roster is if two or three things go wrong
in a deep league, that's not really that surprising.
You might have two or three guys get hurt.
You might have two guys get hurt and one guy disappoint.
If two or three guys get hurt, is this team still ahead of everybody else?
I was looking at our baked burger league and hopefully he's listening right now, but one
guy has won the league the first two years of the league and just traded for Justin Jefferson,
an absolute behemoth of a roster. But he doesn't have any picks. And I look at his bench and he doesn't really have any depth.
And so I can see that he might be vulnerable. If I was the fourth best team in the league,
I'm probably thinking I'm going to contend and hope he falters. But if it's one of those
situations where they've got just completely overpowered starting lineup and they have three or
four starters on their bench, then I think realistically,
you're probably not going to catch that guy this year and it makes sense to try
to get more picks. Let's see if we've got one more question.
Great question here at Chris Lave. Spud's asked if the trade chart is available
online. Yes, it is at sports sports line. Go check that out.
He was offered a Lave and a 2027
first for 202 and 203. I would do that deal quickly. That's going to wrap it up for Fantasy
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