Lineup Fantasy Football Show - Is it PANIC TIME for these 5 players in Dynasty Fantasy Football?

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

We break out the panic meter for five players in Dynasty Fantasy Football in 2026 and beyond and discuss if the fantasy football community is over reacting or under reacting 0:34 - Xavier Worthy 4:58 - Bucky Irving 8:16 - Jalen Hurts 13:05 - Cam Skattebo 16:13 - Travis Hunter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we're identifying five players that the dynasty community is panicking about and determining whether or not that panic is warranted, then finishing it off with our 10 out of 10, smash the panic button player. But let's get into things. Welcome into the lineup fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello, because I'm such a gracious co-host, I want to allow you to talk about your first player on the panic meter.

You really are a gracious host, much appreciated. I'm going to be talking about a player who I think a lot of, people are starting to panegon. I haven't seen as much talk about him as some other guys, though. So I think it's worth talking about Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs. As a rookie in 2024, obviously a first round pick, he was getting drafted as the 37th wide receiver off the board in redraft leagues, finished as the wide receiver 33. So a little bit higher, gave us some hope for a brighter future ahead. However, in 2025, despite really being thrust into the wide receiver one role early in

this season with Rishi Rice serving that suspension and Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. He finished as the wide receiver 59 after getting drafted as the wide receiver 24. So most certainly a very big disappointment there. And yes, he did miss some time. But he was actually even worse in points per game. He was the wide receiver 61 in points per game. So even worse, really a big disappointment. he was pro football focuses 182 ranked wide receiver last season. He had just 0.18 yards per out run on the season, which ranked 77th among all wide receivers with at least 50 routes run. And now he goes into an offseason where the chiefs have two first round picks,

and it's most certainly possible that they could be using one of those picks on another receiver. So things are looking somewhat bleak. I think this guy's super interesting because a few of the guys we're going to talk about today are panic that's coming from more recent news and more recent buzz. And this is a guy that I think both of us since last season have kind of been iffy on what the talent is.

And I'm a huge, huge yards per route run guy. I think it's an extremely sticky stat and a great indicator of what a guy's actually doing when he gets opportunities. I am going to put my panic on Xavier Worthy. This might be a little dramatic, but I'm going to say it's an eight. I feel very much like this is a bad situation for Xavier Worthy and that some of the flashes and what we saw were semi real, but a lot of him is like a little gimmicky in that Kansas City offense. So I'm going to sit with an eight as my panic rating.

I don't think you're dramatic. I actually had the exact same rating. Let's go. I have it as an eight out of ten. We are very on the same page. For me, I feel like we've seen enough. We have a decent enough sample size two seasons into his career where he seems closer to John Ross than Tyree Kill to me. And I know that's a huge spectrum.

And I'm not saying he is John Ross, but I think he's closer to John Ross than he is Tyree Kill. The rule reality is straight line speed does not equal effective rut running. It does not equal productivity. And worthy just seems like the next best example of that. I don't think the situation is going to get any better. I think they've given him ample opportunities, like you mentioned, getting gimmicky, the screen game, using him as a field stretcher. It just hasn't consistently worked out enough to give me any hope. From a Dynasty League perspective, I think a lot of people are kind of shared this same bleak outlook.

So he might be more of a hold than a trade candidate, unfortunately, although I feel like he might just be holding a roster-clogging dud at this point. but then again, he's ranked wide receiver 34 in Diocese Leaks by Fantasy Pro's consensus ranking, so maybe there's someone bullish on him. But overall, just from a panic perspective, I'm definitely panicked. I think it's a little unfair to compare him to John Ross, who's now leading the Birmingham Stallion's

UFL wide receiver room. True. Good point. I'm completely with you. A lot of people are saying it's a better wide receiver room than Miami. Yeah, I think this is like, you almost want to put it at it. 10. You're almost like, oh my God, this is, this is done. Like this Xavier Worthy situation's cooked. If you want to give yourself a little hope, Eric the enemy coming back to Kansas City, you're

hoping like, this is it. This is the time. Can you unlock Xavier Worthy? But I think for both of us, we are putting it at a really, really low chance of that happens. Yeah, I'm just out. I'm just out at this point. Before I jump into my first player, if you're enjoying the video, guys, make sure to hit that like button. It helps us so, so much as we're trying to get out into the space. And also, if you're enjoying the content, hit the subscribe button and try to tune in every time we drop a brand new episode. But let me get into my first guy. A guy that actually, if you go back a few weeks ago, I was more bullish on than you. And that's Bucky Irving. And I think the big alarm bill, this off season that went off was the Kenneth Gainwell signing. I came into the offseason

someone excited the impending departure of Rashad White, the potential departure of Sean Tucker and it felt like the Bucky Irving party was kind of starting to ramp up and now it feels like the party's over and I'm hung over. Sean Tucker's still on the couch. Bucky Irving's asleep on the roof and Rashad White's at a better party. Ketteth Gainwell is more worrisome to me than I think a lot of people are giving him credit for and the thing that is just absolutely blowing my mind, Bucky Irving is still the R.B. 13 in Dynasty, despite all of this. He's only 23, but you preach and you preach about these day three running backs that flashing their rookie years and they slowly fade into oblivion. And I think I didn't want to believe it back in when did we make our top 12 running backs, probably early February. And the more you dig in, the more I wonder at an RB13 price tag, does Bucky Irving actually profile as a guy for years to come that could be a low end? RB1, high-end RB2. So I'm going to ask you before I reveal mine what your panic rating is on Buckie Irving. Yeah, I'm glad you're starting to feel the same skepticism as me. I think in addition

to Kenny Gainwell, the Sean Tucker signing to him staying. The Sean Tucker of it all. Yeah, the Sean Tucker of it all definitely elevates. I'm still not fully panicked, but I'm probably at a solid five right now. I'm shocked to hear I'm actually a little bit more panicked than you. I'm a six because I think there's a way out of all of this. I think there is a world

where Bucky Irving comes out and all of a sudden camp starts and they're like yeah, Kenneth Gainwell isn't as involved as he was in Pittsburgh and Buck Eirving looks great. He's at time to recover from the injuries and that pedestrian yards per carry we saw last season was just because Bucky Irving was hobbled. I absolutely think that's

in the range of outcomes. The reason I'm at a six is just because of the price you have to pay for Bucky Irving. Like at the RB 13, you really are banking on the hope that this guy is going to be the dude for a while here. Yeah, and that I 100% am aligned with you on. I currently do not like the way he is being priced in Dynasty or redraft because of everything you just laid out. And I mean, in the grand scheme of things, like we're not saying he's Xavier worthy, like we think his career is over. But even a five or six out of ten on the panic meter for a young running back that

costs you that much, the red flags are waiting. And you should proceed with caution before investing big and Bucky Irving. So I think it's totally warranted to have a little bit of apprehension. The other reason I like a mass six is because to me, a one or zero on the panic meter is a, you should go out and buy this guy because everyone's overreacting. At 10 is you got to get rid of this guy because it's hopeless. And a five is, you're going to get rid of this guy because it's hopeless. And a five is probably a hold. So I'm on the side of like a hold leaning towards a cell on Bucky Irving. I think I think that's a fair way to put it. I like that. I'm going to talk about someone. We've talked about a little bit. We've talked about his offense last year more.

And that's Jaylen Hertz and this this putrid dumpster fire, Philly offense from last year. I won't trash on Kevin Vitula anymore, although I certainly could and we have already. I'll avoid going down that path too deep today. But last. year, obviously things did not go well for him or the Eagles. He's now being ranked as a quarterback nine in dynasty formats on both fantasy pros and keep trade cut when just a couple years ago, he was pretty consistently being ranked in the top three or four in terms of quarterback assets. He was fourth in the NFL and lost fumbles last year among all quarterbacks.

They are rumblings and online conversations about the Eagles, potentially moving on that they should or even could if he struggles again in 2026. And just to add a little bit of insult to injury, not that this matters that much. I know exactly what you're going to talk about. The pick six in the flag football tournament. Not a good look, which by the way, I feel like I have to address it.

What a weird fever dream tournament. I don't even know what the hell it is. You got like current players, retired players, freaking NFL or like online YouTubers, like social media personalities and then just like the USA flag football team. I don't know any of it, like what any of it

means or like how it came to fruition. But it's definitely not a good look that Jalen Hertz is throwing pick sixes against non-NFO players and getting sacked by one of the Paul brothers. Definitely not a good look. It's not great. Not great at all.

I saw someone talking about the fact that Logan Paul still got that haircut at 30 years old and that is fucking crazy. I've never really thought about it. Yeah, I don't, I don't know if I've ever seen anyone over the age of like 20 with that haircut. Never mind 30 years old. That's, that is kind of crazy. But with that said, how are we feeling about Jalen Hurts match? Where's your panic meter at? You know what? I'm just going to keep being dramatic. My panic meter on Jalen Hertz is a two. What do you got for it? We're a line to guy. I'm out of three. Just one notch higher. I almost said one just to be an asshole and be

like so over the top, but like there's obviously last year was not good. There is reason for a little panic. So I think a two or a three is appropriate, but I think we're aligned at general consensus, general narrative going around right now is it's kind of an overreaction. Yeah. I hear the concern. I hear how things could continue to go wrong, but we've taken it too far. Even last year, when it was horrible, or at least it felt horrible. He had his fifth top 10 fantasy finish in as many years. Yeah. Throw the petula tape out. Throw last year out. I think he'll be okay. And shockingly enough, and this one surprised even me as somebody who feels like I've evolved into a Jalen Hertz

Apologist somehow. He still had a 98.5 passer rating last year, which ranked higher than Justin Herbert, Jackson Dart, Trevor Lawrence, Baker Mayfield, Caleb Williams, Patrick Mahomes, like all. all these quarterbacks that people feel way better about. And that's not even accounting for the rushing, the rushing yards and the rushing touchdown for Hertz, just strictly pass a reading. So I think we need to give him another year before we start fully panicking.

With Jalen Hertz, I think it's one of those great examples of like, you don't want to get so set in your ways about how you feel about a player. Like, I think last year it was fair to be like, I don't feel this way about Jalen Hertz as a talent to be taking him as the quarterback. What was he's, I think, third we were taking him and redraft.

Yeah. Yeah, like I don't feel good enough about Jalen Hertz to be taking him as the QB3. So you're kind of just telling yourself the story of I don't like Jalen Hertz. Now we're looking at him and Jalen Hertz is like what? The QB like 7, 8 off the board? And you can't keep telling yourself the story if I don't like Jailen Hertz. You need to remind yourself you didn't like him as the QB3. I think he's being priced very fairly right now for best ball, redraft, dynasty.

I think he's a buy. I think we're all reacting way too much to the absolute dumpster fire. Kevin Petula caused, and I think he's going to be completely fine this year. Agreed. I think it's kind of interesting, the irony of any time you hear anyone and everyone saying a player is a cell, a player is a cell, a player is a cell, it turns that player into a buy. And I think that's where we are with Jalen Hertz right now. And vice versa. And vice versa. Absolutely. I'm going to talk about a guy that that's a fantastic segue, that we actually talked about in our dynasty sells episode, and people were not happy because they considered

him a buy. And now a few weeks later is starting to get worse and worse with the drumbeat of the New York Giants drafting another running back. That's Cam Scadabo. Outside of saying that CTE wasn't real, the elephant in the room is the fact that there's a lot of drumbeat right now that Jeremiah Love could be going New York. I know Adam Schaefter came out and said that he doesn't think it's going to happen. We are a month away from the draft. I think most speculative. I think most like that. I don't take that seriously. Even if they don't draft Jeremiah Love, I think there's a huge, huge chance that they do end up bringing someone in. They said they play into this offseason. We didn't see any big moves

in free agency. So that leads me to believe they're going to bring in somebody. I just don't think that they're going to keep rolling with Camp Scataboo. And not to be a broken record, but we talk about the day three running backs and guys who have flashes their rookie year and that it just doesn't pan out as they keep going. And I'm going to take a little bit of some. stat here that you talked about from the sales episode of so much of Camp Scaddebo's rookie year production coming from their week six Thursday night football game against the Eagles, re totaled 110 scrimmage yards and three touchdowns. This is a guy that is getting propped up because of the aura and because he's funny and because we saw this big explosive

game on prime time against the defending Super Bowl champs. I think that the hype got out of control and now there's a lot of narratives around him potentially not being the lead guy. And so let me ask you, what is your panic meter on Camp Scataboo? This one's interesting because I loved him as a cell before the conversations really heat up, before people were really talking about the risk of him losing the job. And now that's what everyone's talking about. So I'm like, maybe he's not a cell, but I am still panic.

He dodged the first wave of free agency. Can he dodge one more major bullet in Jeremiah, I love? I don't know. I'm not fully, fully panicked, but I still am very worried about him. I'd probably put my panic at about a seven. Oh, I had a seven as well. And I think I'm exactly where you are. I probably would have been a nine a few weeks ago.

And then like you said, he dodged the bullet in free agency, and the buzz is somehow even higher now than it was because of all the Jeremiah Love Talk. So it probably moves me down from a nine to a seven. If I'm a Camp Scadaaboo Dynasty manager, I'm likely testing the waters and seeing if I can get rid of him. I think his value is just in such a weird place. right now that you don't want to sell him for like way too cheap. But I feel like there probably is a manager in your league that would be willing to pay a

fair price for him. And Jeremiah, I love is like a kill shot, like a straight up kill shot to his value. And so if you are feeling like that's a possibility, then I would at least put feelers out. Yeah. He's one of the most difficult guys,

I think, to navigate right now in dynasty leagues because you're right. Like there is a very real possibility that his value just plummetes to close to nothing with one draft pick, but he also could be their starter next year. And it's just really hard to navigate that situation with the information we have now. 100%. Let's move on. The moment we've all been waiting for, our guy who is a 10 out of 10, smash the panic button. If you're still here, smash the subscribe button, smash the like button. We are talking about 10 out of 10 panic on Travis Hunter, cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

currently the wide receiver 36 on Keep Trade Cuts rankings. I think, like, let's just start, Elephant in the room again. The news that really turned on the panic meter was Cameron Wolfe from the NFL network reporting that Jacksonville planned to have Travis Hunter playing full-time corner and part-time wide receiver moving forward. And what I've seen, especially as a reaction to our Dynasty Sales episode, is kind of two sides to this. And one side is ignoring this news a little bit and saying it doesn't matter because it's not

official news coming directly from the team or the coaching staff. And so the reaction with that is, why would I sell them at a low point before I actually hear it from the official report? Because once you hear it from the official report, it's going to get a whole lot lower than this. If Liam Cullen comes out in a few weeks, a few months, whenever we're getting closer to the season and says, yeah, no, that's correct. We're barely going to be having Travis Hunter playing wide receiver moving forward. You're not getting the wide receiver 36 value from him. I think, and just I'll let you go on here a little bit, but like, this is a loaded wide receiver room. We have the best wide receiver in the NFL, the real wide receiver one in Jacksonville, Parker, Washington.

Brian Thomas Jr., despite their best efforts, looks like he's still going to be there. And then you've also got Jacoby Myers. Is Travis Hunter more necessary out there at receiver, or is he more necessary out there at quarterback? I'll let you go. Yeah, I mean, I'll, the short answer is he's. more valuable at cornerback. And that's why I'm right there with you, even if the team or Liam Cohen hasn't said anything yet. We're getting very credible, reliable reports from NFL insiders that it could trend in that direction. And I think like the pushback to that from some people, too,

is, well, he's so talented, he could play NFL receiver. Sure, I won't argue with that. He is that talented. But just because he can doesn't mean he should or will. And you're right. When you look at it from the Jaguar's perspective, why would they when? You just mentioned all those guys they have at receiver, your celebrity crush in Parker Washington and Jacoby Myers, and Brian Thomas, who still has the draft capital, has shown it. He actually has the most receiving yards in his career so far of anyone in that draft class. So, like, they're still, I know the draft class has been a little bit disappointing, but like the potential is still there. The draft capital is still there. Meanwhile, you look at what they have at cornerback. Their top two guys outside of, I guess, Travis Hunter,

are Mantaerick Brown and Jordan Lewis, who probably, I would say, are the weakest point in that defense, especially when you look at what they did last year. They were the number one rushing defense versus the number 19 passing defense in terms of total yardage. Why would the Jaguars throw him out there at receiver consistently when they don't need him as much there and risk injuring him or wearing him down when they can put him at corner where they need him more. And by the way, corner is probably his more natural position, his more natural fit. That's what most people thought he would be in all likelihood coming out of college from Colorado. So I think I just don't know why people are so enamored with this, like, you put it like this

Shohei Otani potential when it doesn't seem like that is the direction this is trending. And he still is priced as if it could trend in a direction where he is in every down kind of player offensively. I don't think that is very likely at all at this point. I think you're buying the high. around a unique situation, basically. You're buying the hype around something that the rest of the NFL isn't doing, and that's what makes Travis Hunter so enticing.

And I talked about this in the cells, but people would always talk about last offseason, like, oh, what if I can get points for the defense? It's like, how many points are you actually going to get? What if Travis Hunter gets four interceptions? You get eight points throughout the season. It's like that appealing to you. The team spent like an astronomical price acquiring Travis Hunter last year, and there was an injury risk involved with him playing both sides of the ball,

and he got hurt seven games into his career. I think they're going to focus on preserving him, and like you said, having him play his more natural position. And to put like some color to what you're saying about how enamored people are, that wide receiver 36 price tag is being valued higher than last year's wide receiver 11, Wondale Robinson, that we've talked about being a massive, massive buy. And I have to say his name, Parker Washington, in the real wide receiver one in Jacksonville.

I would rather have both of those guys a million times over above Travis Hunter. I completely agree with that. I think two things are going to be true at once, and I think that's something sometimes we struggle with, is that a player can be at his lowest value to this point in his career and the highest value from this point on. And I think that's where we are with Travis Hunter.

1,000%. That is it for this episode, but don't panic. We've got another brand new episode coming out on Monday. Mello, we miss anything? I think that's everything. All right, we'll catch you guys next episode.