Lineup Fantasy Football Show - 5 Fantasy Rookies Who Will BREAKOUT at Training Camp

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

We're breaking down 5 rookies who are likely to shoot up draft boards in late July and early August including a few sleeper WRs plus some more well known RB and TE picks. Timestamps: 0:00 - 5 Fantasy Football Rookies to Watch for NFL Training Camp 0:40 - Jadarian Price, RB, Seahawks 6:33 - Elijah Sarratt, WR, Ravens 11:00 - Malachi Fields, WR, Giants 16:03 - Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Jets 21:50 - De'Zhaun Stribling, WR, 49ers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Everybody knows Jeremiah Love and Carnal Tate, but who are the sneaky rookies that your leaguemates aren't thinking about? It's time to break down five rookies who could see their prices skyrocket during training camp. Let's go. Welcome into the Lion Fantasy Football Show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. A Mello training camp is almost here. Let's talk about five rookies who are about to ride the hype train straight into August. You start first with, I think this is one of the most popular guys out there.

Yeah, I mean, you mentioned in the intro there the big names like Cardinal Tate and Jeremiah I love. I'm only going a notch below that to start. We're warming up here, getting you into it. And that is Jadarian Price of the Seattle Seahawks. I will be completely honest and blunt right out of the gate. I don't know that the price of price, that sounds like I'm stuttering, but I promise I'm not. But I don't know that the price of price should go up. but I'm confident that it will as we head into camp.

We as a fantasy community get rookie fever in August every single year. It's what we do, especially with high draft picks. Look at guys like Trivian Henderson and Emeka Abuka just last year and the way their ADPs got higher than Ricky Williams once camp started. We just inflate them so much as soon as there's any sort of camp hype. And Price is perfectly poised to be the next passenger on that same hype train. Assuming Charbonnet is not practicing in full in camp, which is the only... Yeah, it sounds like it. It's, there's no way he's going to be a full participant in camp,

despite some, or barring some like sort of divine intervention. So price is going to have a very easy path to serious work in camp. And we're going to open camp and you're going to be seeing a whole lot of George Alani and Emmanuel Wilson. They're going to be working with the starters. I would bet even more than Jadarian price at the start of camp, because that's what coaches do. They don't let the rookies work with the starters. And yeah, unless, I mean, rare cases like a Jeremiah I loved, but even that I wouldn't be surprised to see like a lot of Tyler Riles year out the gate. But I would bet the naming rights to my firstborn child niche that neither George

Shalani or Emmanuel Wilson is talented enough to prevent Rice from getting the bulk of the work with the ones by the end of camp. And we all see it coming, but once it happens, all of a sudden everyone will be like, oh my God, Jadarian Price is going to be the bell cow on the defending Super Bowl champions. We need to draft him even earlier, and his ADP is going to pump up, and he's going to go super high. And that's especially on true on platforms like Sleeper, where, I mean, he's going in such a vast range of places, depending on where you look. Sleeper right now has him 130 second overall, which is like criminally low, 12, 13th round. He's going to shoot way up there by the time we hit camp.

But Fantasy Proz-ZR, the 80p I'm seeing on Fantasy Pros is much, much higher. he's going right now is the running back 26th second overall so you're looking like what like sixth round like significantly higher yeah that already to me is probably a tad high and i would not be surprised to see it get higher once we get to the end of camp and you know the social uh the seahawks social team which by the way they have a great social team compared to a lot of it their their footage they put out is great and you know that first clip is going to hit your timeline of jadarian price just jukeying the cleats off of some practice squad linebacker, and all of a sudden people are going to be like,

oh my God, is Deerian Price going to have a top 10 finish? Oh my God, is he a safer picked than Jeremiah I love with the Cardinals? And I guess my point is this, depending on where you're drafting and who you're drafting with, get him now while you can. I mean, if you're doing a super early draft on sleeper for some strange reason, like he's the craziest value right now, so now is the time to get him.

But once we hit August and we hit that inevitable camp hype, proceed with caution because we see a lot of unwarranted inflation with camp hype, even if the hype itself is somewhat warranted. Yeah, I think there's two things you hit on there. One is that like, and I just recently talked about this, that I think Zach Charbonnet is a much better bet at cost than Judarian Price, but he's not going to be there at camp. And so there's no reason why your league mates are going to be getting excited about

Zach Charbonnet. They're going to be getting fired up about Jedari. price. I think both of us would agree that price is going to fire up and both of us are most likely going to stay away from it. The other thing that you hit on there that I think is so important and we've kind of touched on this a little bit is like people are so desperate every year to prop up the rookies at whatever position. And outside of Jeremiah I love, who is there really prop up at running back for rookies? Like, yeah, do you want to go prop up Nicholas Singleton or Emmett Johnson or Ketron Allen or DeMond Claiborne, like, you can.

You're not going to get as much, like, upside that you can project out as you possibly could if you looked at Judarian Price taking over the Ken Walker role, which Seattle has been pretty insistent he's not going to do immediately in his rookie season. I think this is like, I saw it written down at first. I was wondering where you were going with it. And I couldn't agree more. I think this is a guy whose price is going to skyrocket, but it's a rocket I'm not boarding.

It's the challenger. historically accurate comparison. I'm with you. And full disclosure, I like Chedarian Price. And the Dynasty League, we're both in Mitch. I drafted Jadarian Price. Like, I really like his long-term potential. Even in year one, I think he has a chance to develop a really nice role in this offense.

So I'm by no means anti-Jadarian Price. But yeah, you just got to take, remember this conversation now so that when the hype really starts building in August, you have that grain of salt in your hand already. and you already know like, all right, maybe we need to pump the brakes a little bit. I need the Memento tattoos. Do not draft Judarian Price. I think that's my Halloween costume next year. You just very randomly inspired me to pick out what I'm wearing five months from that one one night.

When you're like two and four by the time Halloween comes around and you just want to die. Yeah, and I've like deleted my sleeper app like seven times and red downloaded it. Yes, exactly. Let's jump into our second player. Let's dig a little deeper on this guy before we do. If you're enjoying the content, please hit that subscribe button and also drop a like on the video and comment down below one of your favorite sneaky rookies. It helps us out so much. But Mello, let's talk about the rookie out of Baltimore, Elijah Surratt. He is the wide receiver 63 in redraft, also the wire receiver 63 in Dynasty.

Went in the fourth round to Baltimore. Potentially one of the hottest names you should know about right now in regards to guys, your home leaguemates might not know about that hopefully you can steal in your drafts. Obviously, Omar Cooper Jr. was the talk of the town for the Indiana wide receiver room for this year's draft, but people forget, Surat had 65 receptions for 830 yards and 15 touchdowns last year. Now, one of the issues in Baltimore right now is he will be competing for work with Jacoby Lane, fellow rookie receiver out of USC that Baltimore selected a full round ahead of him. But the buzz is already building for Surat and the depth

chart is, as you know, extremely fragile below Zay Flowers, who is obviously the Y-Receiver 1. Perma. Perma, perception, Surat posted an 83.3% success rate versus zone coverage last season, second best in the entire 2026 NFL draft class. Nate Tice, who does fantastic work with Yahoo sports, mentioned that Surat is a potential X factor to break out for this Ravens team. And when talking about the receiver room, he said that Surat is probably the most interesting guy there, a potential ball-winning option for Lamar Jackson on the outside. He also wants to see if Doyle will give Surat some power slot plays to take advantage of his size and ball-winning ability. I'm getting into flag-planning territory right now on Serat as being an absolutely

insane high upside value right now. He's giving to me like Puka Nakua light from the rookie season. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Those are some big words. Those are fight and words, but I'm getting extremely excited about this guy right now. He's got a pal. I've been of the mind that one of these rookie receivers probably is going to be a steal, not even in dynasty and redrafts, unless you're still somehow hanging on for dear life on the Rashad Bateman train, and you're still... I let go long ago. Yeah, I think if you've been holding on this long, you deserve a medal of some sorts.

I think one of the two rookies has a path to... being really productive in year one. I'm excited for camp because I think that will be very telling and you're right. Like, Surratt is the guy who's getting all the hype right now. If that continues into camp, I'll probably be, you know, full steam ahead with you. I'm a little hesitant now and it's kind of similar to what I talked about a couple episodes ago with like some of these Miami rookie receivers and people are so quick to just go with the rest of the fantasy community and the guys in the fantasy community that they're tailing are the guys that are making their own, uh,

their own analysis and their own assumptions about the ability of these guys. And they're not necessarily listening to the draft capital and what the teams told you and how they value you guys. And you're right. Jacoby Lane went higher. I'm not saying I think Jacoby Lane's a better player. But to me, it's interesting. He's going later in both redraft and dynasty with the higher draft capital. So he's somebody I'm also going to be keeping my eye on. I am not willing to plant the same flag as you, but I don't. will admit, there's absolutely upside. There's already plenty of buzz starting to heat up here.

Yeah, I do want it on the record, too, that, like, the bus potential is there. That's why he's going as the wide receiver 63. But I think versus a lot of the guys you get around there, he's got some of the higher upside. And, like, I know it's not a team that has as high of a passing rate as a lot of teams in the NFL. We always talk about that Baltimore pie being so small, but he is attached to Lamar Jackson. And, like, when you got Lamar Jackson at quarterback, magical things can happen.

You're right. It's not a huge pie. but we're both people who don't project Mark Andrews to have a huge role in this offense anymore. And Isaiah likely is out of town in obviously different position. But if we're projecting somebody to step up and take in some of the vacated targets, both literally from likely leaving and metaphorically because Mark Andrews may as well not be there anymore in my mighty soul. Spiritually leaving. Spiritually leaving.

Spiritually left already. Like somebody's got to be getting those targets. And Lamar has supported two pass catchers before in fantasy. Yeah. All right. my next rookie here I'm also going to be talking about a receiver

that some of your league mates may not know about because he is in a super popular name outside of the core of the fantasy community Malachi Fields and I know I talked to I already talked about him recently and I tried so hard Mitch to not

I'm like I gotta cover somebody new but I just couldn't I had to it was like you know that meme of the guy with the vein in his forehead like he's like Yeah, no, literally. That was me trying to think of someone else besides Malachi Fields. I'm like, no, I have to. Because he's the perfect fit for this episode.

He is someone I see the hype train coming for big time in camp. He's a day to pick, great size, the upside to develop into a great perimeter receiver for this offense. And I'll be damned if we don't see his value climbs substantially in camp. Because you know who will not be participating in camp? is Malik neighbors who Yeah I mean it's kind of been like

That's no shot It's and it's been this weird Like up and down wave of Oh he could maybe be ready For week one And then now probably not Maybe and now the newest buzz is like He's gonna open on pop

Like he is not even gonna be playing week one So he won't be playing during August And you know who that leaves for receivers Darius Slaten Calvin Austin Darnel Mooney Juju shit dumpster and O'Dell Beckham Jr. Malachi Fields basically just has to look better than a nursing home collection of receivers.

And he's going to get major hype. Like, that's all he has to do. And I think the hype will be warranted. Like, unlike I talked about with Gigeria and Price, I think is going to get pumped up super, super high. Like, I don't think Malachi feels will get pumped up too high where it's, yeah, that's the difference. But I think he will get pumped up. And he's got this unique, valuable skill set and an even better opportunity to be the number two receiver on this. offense in short order. And if Malik neighbors isn't on the field the first few weeks, I don't think it's out of the question. He leads this team in Target share, which would be crazy and it would seem unprecedented or out of nowhere. But when you look at the other receivers in this room, like I don't think it's the craziest thing to happen. So I'm getting excited for this

opportunity. And even though my lips are loose right now, Mitch, this is, uh, we can make this our little secret between us and our league mates here. But I don't think it'll be a secret for long, because I think once we hit camp, there's going to be a lot of buzz, and hopefully you can still get them for a late round flyer and redraft. Let's not let this one leave the lineup Brain Trust. I'm so with you. I love what steaming hot takes today. I just called Serap Pukinakua Light,

and you just said that Malachi Fields could lead the team in targets, and I love that. I am getting, as someone who is very, very excited about Malik neighbors, and I talked about him if he opens week one. I think he has a genuine shot to being the Y-Receiver 1, just because of the system. And I'm getting really concerned. And I think this is a guy that I fully agree with you.

I don't see a universe where his price doesn't shoot up. Because I think we're going to get versus what you just said about like, yes, I fully agree. There's not going to be any Malik neighbors at camp. The highlights are all going to be of Malikai Fields. Of course, he's going to go up from that. But on top of that, we're also going to be getting the reports that are like, yeah, very official.

we're not getting Malik neighbors week one. It's sounding like we're not going to have them for the next few weeks. And when that comes, that's when you definitely see these guys launch up. So for me, this is a guy like for best ball right now. Like I've been scooping up a decent amount, especially in Jackson Dart stacks, because I'm like, yeah, this price is just going to be higher. And so as we get into August, I think the thing to monitor will be like, how high does it get?

Does it ever get out of control? But we're starting him out right now at a wide receiver 95 price tag. It's almost impossible for this to launch a, up higher than what I think his upside is worth. He's going to go from someone who's going undrafted in just about every redraft league to somebody who some people are taking their last round pick on. You should be that somebody. You should be that person that takes that shot.

Real quick aggression here, Mitch, I don't want to spend too long on it. Don't want to harp on it. But I have to admit something. Oh. With the recent Malik Neighbors news and the pessimism around the Giants and Jackson Darts plummeting ADP. Are you back in? I'm back in. I'm back in the AP again. The whole argument for Jackson Dirt, now you're going to get me on a tangent.

The whole argument for Jackson DART is that the rushing ability is going to give him such an insane floor. And Malik Neighbors was just a cherry on top. This is weirdly a, his number one receiver not being ready for week one is weirdly the best thing that could have happened for Jackson Darts fantasy outlook from a value perspective. Because we're dumping him from the quarterback 6 to like the quarterback 13. And it's like, all right, well, now he's a value again. I think he is, yeah. I've been seeing his price. dropping on Underdog, and it's getting more and more enticing every single time.

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We have talked about two wide receivers. Let's move over to the tight end position and talk about Kenyon Sadiq, 21 years old, going as the tight end, 21 off the board and redraft right now. The price that you don't need to worry about going crazy from here on out is the tight end nine in Dynasty. I think he's pretty firmly where he's going to be.

going into the season. So let's really talk redraft here, but this is absolutely a guy to watch right now, mainly because he missed all of OTAs after undergoing a procedure for a pre-existing hernia issue, but he is confirmed to be back out there for training camp. He's a guy that the two of us were extremely excited about, obviously going in the draft. We'd hoped he had ended up in a place like Carolina, but obviously the New York Jets is not the most ideal situation. At Oregon, Sadiq was absolutely incredible, 51 receptions for five. 560 yards and eight touchdowns last season. A bit undersized.

He's 6 foot 3, but we've compared him kind of like to a wide receiver playing tight end. And so the thing I want to watch here is what kind of report can he build with Gino Smith throughout the duration of training camp and honestly a little bit into the preseason? What kind of coach speak are we going to see around Sadiq? And who's going to start getting the buzz out of Jets camp outside of him? Is it just going to be, you know, the rookies? Or are we going to see a guy like A.D. Mitchell start popping up more who's

already been the talk of the town. because I think we can both agree we weren't excited about the Jets landing spot, but we're obviously still incredibly excited about the talent. The talent is still there. It doesn't just disappear because you go into New York, which maybe it does, honestly. Maybe we just cracked what happens to all the Jets. But he's going to be competing for targets with obviously Garrett Wilson,

the aforementioned rookie first round receiver, Omar Cooper Jr. out of Indiana. All of that buzz were getting out of A.D. Mitchell. And the cherry on top that I haven't even discussed yet, is Mason Taylor, the other tight end, who they took in the second round back in, oh yeah, last year. And so I know I'm being like very negative about him for a guy that we're talking about potentially skyrocketing in the rankings after training camp.

But here's the catch. What if Sadiq proves like immediately that he's just going to be like a serious target earner in this Jets offense and that he has a rapport with Gino Smith? He's a guy that at tight end 21, like he'll get drafted in your leagues, but like, barely. He could end up being a waiver wire depending on the depth of your league. And so this Jets team is a team that needed help basically everywhere. They spend a 16th overall pick on this guy. And we always say with these rookies that the talent tends to win out. So for me, I don't expect the dynasty price to rise. I think everyone thinks long term Sadiq's

going to be an incredible talent. But at Tideon 21, I think he's going to jump guys like a few guys on the list right before I'm like, Joanne Johnson, Hunter Henry, Brenton Strange, three guys that yes can be productive, but we know exactly what we're getting out of them. If I'm spending my pick on a tight end 16, 17,

18, I want to be a guy who has the upside to be like a top eight tight end in my league, and I think Sadiq profiles as that, and I think people are going to learn that very quickly when the New York Jets, the media circus of the NFL starts dropping his clips everywhere. Oh yeah, I

Especially because he's just so talented. And even though we've been really pessimistic about him, I think compared to some people because of the situation, neither of us doubt his talent at all. I mean, he's a specimen. You want to talk about an athletic freak? One of the craziest freak athletes the league's ever seen at the time of position. Point one of the point one of the point one of athletic profile on planet Earth.

Just insane. It's just the landing spot. Like you mentioned, a lot of malice if you did an offense, we don't think will be that good. that's a really bad formula for success. But as somebody who's out on Sadiq overall because of that, you are correct that even if his floor is really low, his ceiling is higher than those guys going a couple spots ahead of him.

Yeah. Because, I mean, this isn't a perfect comparison, but look at a guy like Sam Leporta, his rickier, who is going later than Sadiq is this year. And I know the Lions were a good team. They weren't the freaking Jets. But you had similar situation in terms of the Mouths defeat. You already had Amman-Ross, St. Brown.

you already had James and you had Jimir Gibbs and David Montgomery. It was like, why do I want this rookie tight end in this crowd offense? And he finishes the tight end one. I am by no means projecting that for Sadiq. I would be stunned. But at least there is that path where you could convince yourself unlike a guy like Brent and Strange where it's like, yeah, his ceiling's going to be what? The tight end nine. And that's if he catches nine touchdowns.

He's like a roster clogger that you hold so that you could use him when your tight end has a buy week. And you're like, oh, that worked out because he got me like 9.7 points. Exactly. So, Sadiq's a great shot for upside, and I'm very curious to see what happens in camp. I think he rises because he's a talented rookie, and talented rookie's always rise in ADP in August.

But we'll see how he looks in camp. Yeah. So basically the takeaway on like actionable things for Sadiq right now is like, I would be drafting him in bestball if you have any faith or conviction in the talent because the price is going to be higher in August. And like, I'd just watch camp in your like, home redraft leagues. Like, I think that there's a chance he's there right at the end of your

draft or, you know, a few rounds before the end. And you could be scooping up a guy with like, yeah, he could miss, but you'd probably know that right away and you can drop him. Or maybe he's a guy with genuine top six to eight tight end potential. Those are the best guys to take late. The guys you can just cut and not worry about it after one week. Exactly. Love that approach. All right, Melo, let's get into our biggest player to watch a guy we've mentioned a few times, a guy you planted your flag on so hard just a couple of weeks ago. Before we do, if you haven't yet, please hit that like button and also just drop us a comment on what player you are watching right now for training camp. Let's talk about Dijon Stribling out of Ole Miss,

Wide Receiver 78 and Redraft, Wide Receiver 69 in Dynasty. Whether or not it is fair to him, nice. I think the biggest talk around Stribling has simply been how shocked everyone was to see the 49ers reach to get him with the first pick of the second round. But the real question is, how involved is he actually going to be in this offense and how involved will he be in his rookie season? Because this is a high-powered offense with a very bright head coach, with a great fantasy football quarterback that doesn't necessarily have the most difficult depth chart to climb now without Joanne Jennings in the building anymore. And a freebie on here for someone else to watch during training camp is George Kittle to see if he's actually getting up to speed as quickly as he's

claiming after tearing his Achilles in the wildcard round last season. And obviously, if he isn't a full go right away, that opens up a lot more targets in this offense. But in the wide receiver room, we've got Mike Evans, who is the wide receiver one, and no one is even getting close to sniffing him. But then after that, it's, I think what a lot of people think right now is that Stribbling is going to compete with Christian Kirk for the wide receiver three spot. I don't think that's the case. I think he's going to beat out Christian Kirk almost immediately, and he's going to be competing directly with Ricky Piersall for the wide receiver two spot. That's my personal take.

I know a lot of people think it's a little bit harder a path, but you're competing against the corpse of Christian Kirk right now, and I think he's going to win out that job very quickly. Something I find so interesting, too, is that Ricky Pearsall obviously day one draft capital, and so people really want to believe that he'll continue to get given priority and a greater chance to play, when in reality the draft capital gap here between these guys is three picks.

Thank you. Pierceall's only played... Is it two? I think it's two? I think it's two picks. Maybe it's two. It doesn't matter. two, three picks, whatever. Two or a number that you could define as a few. Piersall has only played in his entire career in 20 games.

He's averaged a little over three catches for about 46 yards, and he has found the end zone three times. If you're a pierceal truther, does it not make you a little squeamish seeing them use nearly identical draft capital just two years later on Dajon Stribling? And I know people want to say, yeah, but Stribling was a reach and it was a bad pick.

He's actually got a very promising profile. Again, I love talking about his stats because I think he's one of the best in the biz. Per Matt Harmon in 2025, Stribling had, honestly, strong results at the catch point and as a tackle breaker, 68.4% success rate against man, 67.9% success rate against press, and he was one of the best blocking receivers in the class. That, of course, sparked a bunch of panic

because of a report from the athletics, Matt Barrow, saying that 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan values Deshawn's Striblings ability to block downfield, and therefore a lot of people concluded that meant he wouldn't be used in the passing game. However, that got taken wildly out of context, and Kyle Shanahan literally said right after the draft, I really fell in love with him as a route runner, how fast he is, how big he is, how good his hands are, how physical he is with the ball. And when asked about the rumors that he would only be used as a downfield blocker, Shanahan answered affirmatively that Sribling can fill the hole at the F position left by Joanne Jennings.

So I'm watching closely in training camp to see if there's any truth to this idea that he's not really going to be used that heavily in the passing game, or if it's how I believe it is, which we're talked about the men in black flash. I need to get rid of my biases here. But let's watch how many opportunities this guy's really getting and if he starts beating out Christian Kirk to get meaningful work during camp. I love you talking up, stribling. You know I'm a stribling guy.

I'm talking dirty. And we're, oh yeah, I'm getting hot under the color here. We're getting really reckless with some of our takes and our comparisons today. And I hate to compare two rookies to Pooka Nakuwa, but like, Pooka Naku was a guy coming out of college that it was like, oh, he's a good downfield blocker. He's physical, but he doesn't have the best athletic profile. He's not the fastest guy.

He has weaknesses to his game. And then he slipped to day three and he became Pukukkah. I'm not projecting that for John's tribling. I want that on record in writing. I have it on record that you said he is the next Puka Nukuoka. Okay, thank you. I'm glad you took away the right message there. Right point of that.

But really what my point is is like, we as a fantasy community get so hellbent on our own evaluations when it's like day three picks developing into one of the best receivers in the league. That stuff, it's rare, but it happens. And guess what? Deshaun Sribling is a pick away from being a first round receiver. Like we talked about a couple picks away from Ricky Pearsall. I think some of our audience is getting very frustrated with us with how anti-Ricky Pearsall we've been.

People have been very mad about that. And I just want to say to our audience, I'm sorry that I haven't doubled down even harder because Ricky Pearsall can't stay on the freaking field. And I have not been overly impressed when he's been on the field. And I think like you said, Shanahan in this regime felt the need to address receiver after already going out and paying Mike Evans and already going out and paying Christian Kirk, they felt they need to drop yet another one.

That should tell you maybe they don't feel great about Ricky Pearsall either. With that said, I want to be very transparent. As a huge stribling guy, I do like him more long-term in Dynasty than in redraft and not super convinced he'll be super involved. Year 1 as a rookie, especially with Mike Evans and some of these other older pieces that aren't very good, but could have a role in this offense.

So we'll see. I think going back to Ricky Pearsall, though, in his injury history, something to watch in camp with Stribling is, is Ricky Pearsall even going to be freaking healthy? Because, I mean, its injuries left and right. If he's not, especially if he's on the field and it gives Stribling a chance to play more with Brock Purdy, then you're really going to see that hype increase. And who knows, maybe we'll even be able to this way some of those fantasy bros who have stubbornly refused to acknowledge Sribling's Raff Capital because they personally didn't

like his profile pre-draft. Yeah, this is such an example of us getting caught up in priors on a player and like where we thought he should go. And then meanwhile, Kyle Shanahan's telling us that he values him nearly as a first round wide receiver. I'm very interested and I think we're easily going to have to go back and revisit some of these guys in a few weeks once the dust is settled and we have some prices that are really actionable for redraft.

But wide receiver 78, man, even if he flies up the board. 15 spots, which would be extremely significant. I like the shot on him in the low wide receiver 60s right now. I've been taking those purdy Evans stribling stacks in best ball match. Oh, yeah. I think I moaned a little bit every time I do it. Every time I successfully get stribling, like the final piece of the puzzle, I'm like, involuntary.

I can't help it. Great. We just got dropped from clean to explicit on Spotify. But those are our five sneaky rookies to watch in training. for the 2026 fantasy football season. If there's anyone we miss someone deeper in the bag that you want us to talk about in a future episode, leave them down below.

If there's anyone you agree with or disagree with, also has no down below. But Mello, before we get out of here, do we miss anything? I think we got it all. All right, we'll catch you guys next episode.