The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - 12 High-Upside Wide Receivers to Target BEFORE Their ADPs Explode (Ep. 2109)

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

Matt Modi is joined by Andrew Erickson and Scott Bogman to break down their favorite fantasy football WR targets across every stage of your draft. From early-round stars like Zay Flowers and Jaylen Waddle to mid-round breakout candidates including Parker Washington and Marvin Harrison Jr., plus late-round sleepers like Trey Harris, Jayden Higgins and Antonio Williams, the crew identifies the receivers who could dramatically outperform their ADP this season. Whether you're searching for WR1 upside, undervalued draft values or deep sleepers that can win your fantasy league, this episode has you covered. Timestamps: (May be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00 Zay Flowers - 0:02:03 Mike Evans - 0:05:33 Jaylen Waddle - 0:08:14 Carnell Tate - 0:12:42 FantasyPros Premium Giveaways - 0:14:23 Marvin Harrison Jr. - 0:15:15 Parker Washington - 0:22:08 Chris Godwin - 0:27:41 Jordan Tyson - 0:31:30 FantasyPros Draft Wizard - 0:34:15 Wan’Dale Robinson - 0:35:05 Jayden Higgins - 0:40:03 Tre Harris - 0:44:32 Antonio Williams - 0:53:08 Hard Rock Bet - 0:58:25 Outro - 1:00:25 Helpful Links: Hard Rock Bet - Sign up for Hard Rock Bet and make a $5 bet and you'll get $150 in bonus bets if you win. Head over to Hard Rock Bet, sign up and make your first deposit today. Payable in bonus bet(s). Not a cash offer. Offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in FL. Offered by Seminole Hard Rock Digital, LLC, in all other states. Must be 21+ and physically present in AZ, CO, FL, IL, IN, NJ, OH, TN or VA to play. Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about gambling? In FL, call 1-888-ADMIT-IT. In IN, if you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-9-WITH-IT. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER (AZ, CO, IL, NJ, OH, TN, VA) Draft Wizard - Dominate your fantasy football draft with Draft Wizard. Run fast mock drafts, test different strategies, build custom cheat sheets, get pick-by-pick draft advice, and learn your leaguemates' tendencies before draft day. Just download the FantasyPros App or head to fantasypros.com/draftwizard Follow us on Twitch - The team here at FantasyPros is taking questions all week, every week on Twitch. Follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/fantasypros and never miss a stream! Discord – Join our FantasyPros Discord Community! Chat with other fans and get access to exclusive AMAs that wind up on our podcast feed. Come get your questions answered and BE ON THE SHOW at fantasypros.com/chat Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we’d love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let’s make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Today, we're talking about wide receivers with massive upside joined by two legends in the industry. Erickson, we'll start with you. How are we doing? Dude, cannot be doing better. So excited to talk about these upside, high ceiling wide receivers with the two of you. It's a Friday. Tomorrow is August 1st, which means it's the last month without. regular season, football, guys, there's no better time to be alive.

It doesn't get much better than this. That is true. That is true. And then the other guests that we have here, Scott Bogman, not guest analyst. Sorry about that. But Scott, how are we doing? Yeah, I'm doing great, man. Ready to talk about some whiteouts.

It's going to be a fun one. And Erickson, do you have any Patriots in here? I don't think I have any Steelers. No homerism at all today. Look at that. I mean, I mean, the bold case on AJ Brown is just so obvious. I wanted to give the audience a little bit more. Just another Patriots Homer take on why 2026 is AJB wide receiver one.

I was itchy to put Jeremy Bernard in here. But, you know, Roman Wilson's getting talked up. Can't put Bernard in there quite yet. Roman Wilson season. Well, this is an interesting trio. I'm an Eagles fan here. So we just got everything covered from the Eagles Patriots rivalry, the Pennsylvania rivalry. We got everything.

So for today's show, as we've talked about, we're talking wide receivers. First, we're going to talk about early to mid-round alphas, guys being taken in rounds three through six. This is half-PPR, by the way, just to note that. Yeah, guys being taken rounds three-through-six who can really come through for your team, despite not being in the top two rounds. Then we're going to talk about mid-round upside plays. So receivers being taken around seven through 10, really trying to focus on like a scheme or coordinator change, something like that.

Unlock these wider team. will unlock these players that can become wide receiver two, three for your team. And then wait-round sleepers. Everybody loves a good sleeper. That's what we'll talk about at the end. So yeah, we'll get started, mid-to-early to mid-round alpha engines. Erickson, let's start with you. I'm going to take a guy that I know that Scott Bogman is also high on as well,

but I beat into the show sheet. So I get to include Zay Flatton here as my wide receiver to target in the early rounds with an extremely high ceiling because I mentioned this. when I took Zay Flowers, I think I took Zay Flowers, in the Superflex mock draft that we did earlier this week. And just imagine if this guy finds the end zone. Imagine if the Ravens don't rank dead last and pass rate over expectation in 2006 under a new offensive coordinator Declan Doyle. Because that's really the key point to make about, okay, well, how does things change for Zay Flowers? It's okay, well, Todd Munkin is no longer calling shots here. Like, it's a new

officer coordinator coming in, young, hot shot, worked under Ben Johnson. And hopefully he, he, He embraces some more of Zayflower, specifically in these high leverage opportunities because the talent is so clear there was Zayflowers. Last year, over 1,200 receiving yards, 86 catches, just six total touchdowns. He was wide receiver 7 overall in 2025. But the consistency was there every single week from him. Over the last five games, he was wide receiver 3 overall. He had at least four catches and 13 of his 17 games played.

So the floor consistency is all there for him. Fifth in target share at 28%. 11th in air yard share at 35%. Fourth in yards per route run behind only Puka Nakua, Jack Smith and Jigba, and Luther Burden. So for me, it's just trying to find the avenues. Okay, the floor has been established. And we can access a potential ceiling with this officer coordinator change.

Look, every other receiver that hit 1,200 yards last year had eight touchdowns. The only outlier was Zayflowers. So for me, when I'm just looking at the talent profile, I'm so excited about him because I think he did he's really, really good. He's super, super explosive. He checks off every explosive metric when you're looking at. looking at wide receivers creating balls with the ball in their hands. They talked about it on the NFL top 100 list.

Every single guy that talked about Zayflowers was, dude, this guy is so explosive, right? And that matches up with all the numbers that you're looking at when it comes to what he's doing when they do throw him the rock. So he's attached to Lamar Jackson. No one will be surprised if Lamar Jackson has a bounce back season. Again, 6.5 career touchdown passing rate. So Lamar can throw for 40 touchdowns.

Like we've seen it before from him. I think Zayflares gets a little bit more here. Last year, when he was healthy between him and Lamar Jackson, over 15 points per game in full PPR, that was Zay Flowers. So for me, Jesse Minner, this is per the Coach Speak Index. He was talking about how, hey, what do you think about this NFL Top 100 list? And he said, you know, he was going to shoot himself way up this year, Zay Flowers. You love to see that.

You have to see that. And then you get Declan Doyle coming over from Ben Johnson and see what he brings over. And Scott, what do you think about Zay Flowers this year? Yeah, man, I mean, really upset. that Erickson got the sheet before me. But third in team yards. Only J.S.N. and Puka had a higher percentage of their team's yards, right?

Seventh and yards per route run. Ninth in yards per target. 22nd yards per route run. Second and miss tackles force. Eighth in miss tackles force per reception. 10th in yak. 18th in yak per catch. This dude was seventh last season in PPR and 13th in points per games.

He's right there at a wide receiver one. This offense is going to get more vertical. What a great selection. by Erickson to start us off here. Excellent work, Erickson. I love that. And yeah, the last point is he did all that with Lamar missing a bunch of time and like having a down year for Lamar Jackson standards.

So yeah, it's kind of scary what he can be. So all right, Zay Flowers, in agreement there. Scott, who do you like? I'm going to reach down a little bit further. I'm going to say Mike Evans, who's ADP right now, is currently 61 overall. Things are not looking good for Ricky Pearsall. I'm not really buying that George Kittles can be ready early because Kyle Ushack said he looked great, right?

I know we've got a little bit of that, but that's not even coach speak. That's fullback speak. Not sure if I'm buying into any of that. Kirk is down with a calf strain right now. Stribbling was a high pick, but he's a rookie. Debo will help this offense, but I really think a healthy Mike Evans is going to be extremely productive here. He's currently wide receiver 25, an outstanding option as your wide receiver three. Mike Evans was wide receiver 40 points per game, but spent most of last season with Broken Baker in the second half.

2024 he was wide receiver 9 in total and in points per games. I don't think he can get there this season. But let's remember that Brock Purdy with a healthy, not crazy Brandon Ayuk was pretty good. He ranked second in deep passing according to PFF. He had the second highest completion rate as well on deep passes at 57.9% in 2020. Evans can add that element back to this Niners offense. And I think with a lot of volume being gone right now, with Kirk being down, with Kittle likely starting the season on the pup, the ghost of Debo, we don't know what he's going to do, right? And then it's a lot of inexperience next to Mike Evans.

I think, you know, this isn't Purdy's game. I don't think that they want him throwing deep a lot, but I do think that he can do it when asked. Brandon Ayuk did it, and he has done it successfully. And I expect a big year from Mike Evans. So you're not buying the fullback coach, coach speak index being the next big thing. No, maybe I should start it. Maybe a fullback truth index or however we're going on here. Nice confident idea.

Yeah, yeah. Use check. I don't know. I just all of this polyaneness about these guys with these major injuries to try to make it to week one. I don't know. Like Mahomes maybe. Mahomes seems like a freak. But Kittle playing week one after torn Achilles.

It's DJ. It's weird how all of their time I just magically aligned with week. one exactly, right? It's so weird, like how all these injuries at all different times, it's like, well, is it week one? Looks like we're ready to go. So I agree with you. There's definitely a smell of optimism here as we're entering, you know, first, we're getting close to August. Yeah. And with Kittle, he tours Achilles in the playoffs. And he's older now. He's like, he's above 30. Yeah, it's scary. But hey, I mean, July, August, it's a best shape of career season. It's ahead of schedule season. All that stuff is happening. So yeah, all right, Mike Evans as Scott's first one, Erickson. What do you got next? I have Jaylen Waddell for the Denver Broncos. And he's someone that I have actually been kind of moving up my rankings. I'm just kind of looking at this wide receiver tier.

I love this wide receiver tier, right? When you're drafting rounds three, rounds four, round it's five. It's why I think that double tapping running back makes a lot of sense, especially if you're picking at the end of round one in the traditional 12 team. Because we love these wide receivers here. And I'm just basically listing off Fitz and I's King Classics team, where we got Zay Flowers in the auction draft. We got Jamabal on the auction draft,

both for steals, in my opinion, pairing him with Pooka Nakuwa as the guy we spent up for. So basically just listing up my high ceiling russ or our high ceiling rush for the Kings classic. But for Waddle specifically, it's just the sealing outcomes he can get to attach to an offense that's actually going to embrace throwing the football. Because that was not in the case last year with Miami.

When Tua was a quarterback and then when he got hurt, or when he got bench, they put Quinn Ewers, and it was just run the football basically as much as humanly possible. So Waddle was still really efficient last year, so I'm not worried about, oh, he's falling off. He's not as good as he once was when he was younger in his career. He's still ninth and PFF receiving grade. 13th and yards per route run was also top 12 and target rate per route run at a pretty high 26%.

So we've seen him operate and perform in a very high level when Terry Kill has missed past games or not been at 100%. In those games, 15 game sample size, whether Hill has missed completely or has been. been limited in terms of snaps. Waddle has averaged seven or more targets, 68 receiving yards, and topped 82 yards in five of those 11 last games in 2025. So when I look at the Denver Broncos offense, last year, they were one of the highest rated teams in terms of pass rate over expectation. Bo Nix actually led the NFL in pass attempts.

It's a crazy number because you look at it and think, man, how did a team that went 14 and 3 lead the league in passing attempts? But it's because they played in so many second half comeback wins. They were down in the second half, so we got to throw, throw, throw, throw. And we look at the Denver Broncos schedule, so this is per sharp football. If you look at their schedule, they have an extremely tough runout to start the year. So I think you're going to see more of the pass heavy approach with Bow Nix healthy. And I think that's why they went out and got you in the wattle.

So they can strike fear into opposing defenses, also per sharp football. Denver last year, dead last in terms of receptions gained of 20 or more yards. They need to generate more explosive plays. and I think that's exactly why they traded what they did to get Jalen Waddle, who I do think is far, far, far from wash. I think that he can still put up a fantasy wide receiver one season. He's done it before in the past, done it with volume, done it with efficiency as the number two behind Tyree Kill.

But as the clear cut number one in this offense, because we saw last year Troy Franklin really eat into Cortland Sutton's target share and production, I think we're just going to see the Jayne La Wadle show. It just a matter if he can stay healthy and not being the blue medical tent, like constantly, which is really frustrating. Again, as someone's been big on Janele Waddle every single year seemingly, and it has not always worked out, I'm very excited about what he could do in Denver.

Yeah, a ton of opportunity for an explosive receiver there. Scott, you buying Waddle this year? Yeah, I mean, I think this is what makes the, kind of the wide receiver 2-3 borderline here really nice, is that there's a lot of really good players to pick from. And you can really take anybody out of this section and sing their praises. But Waddle is a guy that, you know, I think we're pushing Cortland Sutton down.

And I'm a Cortland Sutton guy, right? Loved him coming out at SMU. And he was kind of learning on the job. He played safety at SMU, his first two safeties, then converted to wide receiver, got drafted as a wide receiver, became number one rather quickly. But Waddle is, you know, one of those high recruits going to Alabama, coming out and just doing what he did in college. and I think with a good quarterback, you know, we saw the jump from Pickens last year going from Pittsburgh, where it was all subpar QB play to go to Dallas to play with the best QB that he's ever played with

across any level in Dak Prescott. And we saw him blow up. I think the same could be in store for Waddle. Not that Tua is an absolute scrub or anything, but Bo Nix looks like an elite level quarterback early in his career here. So I am excited to see the ceiling for Waddle truly. in Denver, specifically if they pass as much as they did last season. Yeah, for sure. Well, speaking of receivers that we love in this round, I believe you got one more for us.

Yeah, Carnell Tate, the fit of Tate with Ward is one of my favorite things to come out of the draft because if you've watched Cam Ward play at any level, the dude is holding onto the ball as long as possible before he can get rid of it to try to make the big play. And that is what Carnell Tate is. He is the big playmaker. your big downfield threat, the guy that is going to break this all the way open. Obviously, they're also looking for a number one target in Tennessee. But Tate with a quarterback like Ward and sticky coverage, more sticky coverage in the NFL,

well, it's great that he was 22 of 32 in his career, which is 68.8% in contested catch percentage. And his last year at Ohio State, 12 of 14, 85.7%. The new offensive additions of, you know, Wando Robinson, I think is going to be huge in a PPR league for getting those receptions, so short receptions. But I think if you're looking at your number one target, a high guy, a guy that's going to be very high in first three percentage, he's going to make a lot of big plays. And if there are touchdowns to be had in Tennessee, I think a lot of them are going to go to Carnal Tate. So this is a guy that you can take as your wide receiver three that could give you wide receiver two upside as the leader of his team in Tennessee.

and that is what makes him a value here. Sure, yeah, I like it. And you wonder with Cam Ward, the coaching last year was just such a mess in Tennessee with Brian Callahan that, like, you know, it's not quite going from Iber Flues to Ben Johnson like Caleb Williams, but it's not far from it. Yeah, so, all right, cool.

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So turn those notifications on so you know when videos are up, come in and claim your prize. And with that, we will talk about the mid-round upside place. As I mentioned, both are you going to choose to, again, this is looking at ADP between around 7 through 10, again, half PPR, really trying to focus on like a team scheme, coordinator change, something like that, unlock weekly, wide receiver two, three ceilings. Scott, we'll start with you this time. Who you got for us for this one? Yeah, it's Marvin Harrison.

And I have been critical and I've been clipped and quoted as not liking Marvin Harrison. But I think what people missed when I said, look, and I said this about 2026, this was a dynasty take. If Marvin Harrison isn't good in 2026, I think we need to be done for him. done with him for 2027 and beyond because we're just going to make another excuse. It's going to be, well, they're going to get a real quarterback this year, blah, blah, blah, blah, look, if Marvin Harrison can't make it work with anybody in three seasons, and I think might be done with him.

But I expect him, and this is a part that didn't get clip, I expect him to have the breakout this year, right? And it's because you're bringing in a whole new offense, right? And I understand a lot of people like Michael Wilson. and Michael Wilson was good with Jacoby Percette in particular. But how many of these games is Jacoby Preset going to start? I think they're going to at least give the last five or six games to Carson Beck at the end of the year. And Carson Beck has been looking really good.

All the reports are good about him. I'm not going to sit here and gush about Carson Beck. But everyone is playing for second behind Trey McBride in this offense, right? But Marvin Harrison has already been said. He's going to be the wide receiver in 13 personnel. He's playing ahead of Michael Wilson, even with his cramps the other day, and everyone was worried about that. He still played in more snaps in that, you know, camp scrimmage than Michael Wilson did. I think this is going to be the breakout.

I know he didn't work well with Brisset, but I think it's going to be a lot of Beck. I think this is the year to do it. And this offense really can open up if the offensive line can be fixed and if we can find a viable quarterback here. Is it Brissette behind a better offensive line with a better. run game with Jeremiah Love? Maybe. Could it be Carson Beck coming in here? Everyone disrespect him from Georgia. I understand that. But he goes to Miami. He turns the turnover machine off. So he had way less at Miami than he did at Georgia. And he brought his team all the way to the national championship. There's a little pertinish to Carson Beck here. Just don't ask him to do

too much. Let him throw to these amazing skill position players, hand the ball off to Jeremiah I Love a bunch, toss it to him short. And this offense can hum. And they're going to need to score points because the defense still sucks. They have a lot of work to do on the defense. It is not fixed by any measure quite yet. Maybe better than last year, but not good overall. So they're going to have to score points. I think Harrison takes a new step in a new offense,

and he might get a new quarterback sooner rather than later. So I think a lot of signs point to a potential breakout for Marvin Harrison. But this is it. This is the last string I am giving Marvin Harrison. If he is not good after this year, I think I got to be out. Last chance to you for Marv Erickson. What do you think? Year 3 breakout for Marvin Harrison, Jr.

I don't know if we're going to see any breakouts on the Arizona Cardinals. Like, that's my biggest concern. I know we had breakouts last year with Michael Wilson, obviously Traybukbred, melted faces, but Bride had already established himself the year before. So that wasn't as much as a breakout more of just like, hey, this guy just ran so hot, finally scored touchdowns. Most passes in the NFL by a lot.

Yeah, right? Handholding with Bow Nicks, right? just, you know, who was throwing the most passes last year. Now, the thing with Harrison for me is going back to the environmental factors. I know that we talked about this on, I think it was a show that we also did box together, whereas like Marvin Harrison Jr. versus Roma Dunzee and talking about who has a higher ceiling. And if you just kind of be player agnostic and just look at, do you want someone on the bears or do you want someone on the Cardinals? Like which off-fights is more likely to just produce a monster performance that, oh, who could forget that that player was that good this year?

I'm not, I'm leaving the door open for I'm Marvin Harrison here to be better because I mean, the first two years I've been really disappointing. And something that I've been looking more at as I've been looking at some past historical ADP trying to find certain trends of, well, what is the market telling us about these certain players is it's not a very good indication when a wide receiver has fallen in ADP for three straight seasons. Like that is not a claim of, oh, this is a bounce back opportunity. This is no, like this is going in the wrong direction. When you look at year three players, when you talk about year three players, you talk about players that are on the ascend. Does Marvin Harrison Jr. feel like an ascending player? He feels like a player that we're just trying to hold out for hope for. Like that's what gets me concerned.

And this is like, I thought about all this stuff before this drop crap was coming out. Again, everything always gets like, yeah. Yeah, like I'm not focused on that. Like I'm not trying to pile on or the quotes that he was like, he's losing his confidence. Like, I don't really care about that stuff. I'm looking specifically at historical data when it comes to players with this type of profile. it has not been beneficial to buying the dip on this player. And in fact,

it more likely continues to decline. So I do think Harrison Jr. can be better this year. But is it a point where he has a top five fantasy ceiling? I don't know if that's going to exist with it in the context of the Arizona card. So again, I'm not trying to rein on Boggs pick here. But again, Marvin Harrison Jr.,

he's a player. I've had a lot of trouble just feeling really confident about clicking in any kind of drafts I've been doing this offseason so far. Yeah, it's the offense. It's the change in the offense that I am looking forward to. And like I said, everyone's playing for a second fiddle behind Trem McBride, of course. But 31st among wide receivers in half point ECR here, a couple of the guys behind him. I know you would take Parker Washington over him, yes?

Yeah, I think so. What about Alec Pierce? Alec Pierce, I have ranked below because I'm worried about him coming up of his injury. So B. B.J. Marv. D.K. Matt Caff. I don't want no part of D.K.B.S.

So again, like, I think Harrison Jr., especially with him likely to fall, again, I'm not saying he can't be drafted. But in terms of, hey, top five, top 10 ceiling, I don't know. Yeah, top 10 ceiling might not be it. But I do think he could be a wide receiver two that's being drafted as a wide receiver three right now. And he hasn't broken out. Like there's a lot left in there. but is it really in there? I think that's fair, right?

And the declining ADP is bad. I agree with you there. But I do think that now that he's at a proper ADP. Now he's finally. Maybe he could be a value finally. Maybe he can be a wide receiver three. Like where he's proposed appropriately. Look, this is it for him.

I'm saying, but I am the dummy putting on the makeup, you know, like the Kyle Pitts group going, you know what? This is the year. This is the year. Well, basically with Kyle Pitts, it was once everyone was finally done 100%, then he hit. Yeah, everybody but Fitz. Fitz was the only guy in last year. Yeah, well, Week 15, Kyle Pitts.

I mean, everybody's going to remember. Whatever that week that was, 15, 16, whenever it was. Everybody remember that. One receiver that was mentioned, Parker Washington, I believe you have some thoughts on him, Erickson. Yeah. Parker Washington was kind of my big takeaway player when I went in. It's on Fandy Spros right now, identifying first-time wide receiver, And Parker Washington was the player that really stood out to me the most when it comes to the boxes and thresholds that I'm looking for for a player poised to make that leap to be a top 12 fantasy receiver for the very first time.

Something that I've looked at is players that are efficient after the catch while also seeing far targets down the field because you think intuitively it's harder for those players. If you're seeing a lot of downfield targets, it's just harder for you to generate yards out to the catch. Well, Parker Washington was top 30 in both those categories last year, and both yards out to the catch and average depth of target. He was also very good at converting his air yards into actual receiving yards, ranked fifth in racer, which is that metric. So for me, it's year four players. We saw three of these guys breakout last year for the very first time between Pickins,

Chris Olivae, and who's the last guy that did it? Chris Olavet, George Pickens. James and William. Michael Williams. It was his third year, Michael Wilson. But again, that year four breakout archetype, we've seen him obviously thrive in the slot. That is where we've seen a ton of production going back to Chris Godwin and Liam Cohen's offense with the Tempe Buccaneers. Chris Goblin before his injury was a top three scoring fantasy wide receiver,

just absolutely on fire before he went down with an injury. Trevor Lawrence and Parker Washington, they have a connection, right? Parker Washington has been on the Jaguars for a long time with Trevor Lawrence as the quarterback. And I remember reading things coming out of Jags camp where the team, even before Liam Cohen was there, was really excited about Parker Washington taking over after the team was going to be done with Christian Kirk. And I think it got delayed a little bit because the Jaguars obviously go out and draft Travis Hunter. They play him in the slot to start the year. He obviously goes down.

But then once Parker Washington was put into that starting role, I mean, it was wheels up. Weeks 9 through 18, 14.2 points per game. Led the team in air yards, 32% air yard share. average 73 receiving yards per game. 2.8 yards per rot run, 25% target rate. Just like pretty insane bonkers number, 24-year-old player. So I get the hesitation behind it because there's so many mouths to feed, and his Jaguar's offense.

Travis Hunter are going to, like, hurt his bottom line if he just plays even a handful of snaps on offense. Still, it's taking away targets from a player that also operates from the slot. Can BTJ return to his rookie year form? And I know that Boggs and I both agree that Jacoby Myers is just like underrated across the board. but when you look at the ceiling play, I think that it is Parker Washington

based on the fact that he has gelled so well with Trevor Lawrence. We saw it in the second half of last season. And if he wasn't a sixth round draft pick, I think we would be much higher on it. If he had been a day two pick, a round three, round two guy, I don't think he would be hesitation.

Oh, well, how good is he really? I think he showed us last year how good he can be. And last point I want to make is, again, a lot of his production came with guys were injured. This was a case that was used against Amman Ross St. Brown. and during his second season. Where he only did it because everyone got hurt. Well, there's plenty of guys.

Trust me, I've been there playing DFS. Oh, I'm going to play this guy, bottom salary because everybody's out, and then they just go out and just lay a goose egg, and they do absolutely nothing. It is not a guarantee that guys produce when another teammate missed his time. So again, it's not an apples to apples comparison, comparing them to the sun god, but something that I just wanted to keep in mind that, hey, give credit where credit is due.

He smashed. They're really excited about him. And again, to quote the coach to be, Greg Branos does a great job. Go make sure you go, subject to his discord. But for him, he talked about how Liam Cohen, Parker Washington is the first man in the building. He is a 5 a.m. grinder. That's where he's going. So I think this guy's going to get paid sooner rather than later. And I think he's going to be the Jaguars number one wide receiver this year. So for me, high on T-Law this year. I think you should be high on Parker

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Search delivering happiness with Nick Duturo. And listen now. Yeah, definitely some value in Jacksonville this year. Because I think the guys aren't really going that high, considering how well the offense did last year. Scott, you went on Parker, Washington, anybody else in Jacksonville that you think might take away some of those targets? So this is how I recently compared the Jacksonville Jaguars scenario to something in my life.

You ever go into a casino, right? And you see the games that you don't know how to play at all and you watch somebody else play. That's what I'm doing with the Jaguar's situation this year. I'm acting like it's Baccarat, right? Like I don't know what to do here. I'm just going to watch somebody else play and watch on the sideline. I can't figure out the, the,

an appropriate level to jump in on the Jaguars because I think Parker Washington has the most upside, right? But BTJ is going to play in 13 personnel. How much 13 personnel are we using since we drafted Borkature and Cozy All and extended Brenton Strange? Jacoby Myers came in and played more snaps than Parker Washington. They're keeping Parker Washington as the punt return, which is something you typically don't do with some of your best weapons on offense. So it all looks like a Ouija board to me, and I don't know how it works. So I have been basically just avoiding. I think I have every Jaguars wide receiver.

under ECR, except I'm right on ECR for Jacoby Myers at 44. So I'm probably just not going to be. I'm going to draft T-Law a bunch, but that's probably going to be it. Yeah, the answer could just be Trevor Lawrence. That could very well be the answer. But yeah, we did talk about Liam Cohen's slot receiver from 24. Still on the Buccaneers, Chris Godwin. Scott, I believe you have some thoughts on him.

Yeah, same deal as Mike Evans. But Godwin is wide receiver, the first wide receiver four at 37. right now. He's another year removed from that brutal broken fibula. The bucks moved on from Mike Evans in favor of the rookie Bucca Godwin and Jalen McMillan. But let us not forget that Chris Godwin had a stretch of three state seasons with at least 83 catches in 1,023 yards before the broken fibula in 2024. All reports indicate that he was sharp and smooth coming back in OTAs. I expect him to be much closer to the prime Godwin than, you know, the guy that was that we saw last year who really came back too soon.

Another thing that we're talking about with these Pollyanna injuries, right? A lot of times you rush these guys back too soon and they do not work out. I feel like that is exactly what happened with Chris Godwin last season. But he's not ancient. He just turned 30 in February in that stretch of, you know, the 83 and 1203 minimum. He's finished as wide receiver 17, 20, and 31. So never below a wide receiver 3 at any point in a wide receiver 2 in 21 and 22. and that was because he was low in touchdowns,

because that was when Mike Evans had 33 touchdowns in that stretch, and I believe Chris Godwin had 10, and he's gone. So, you know, I think, and I have Igbuka ranks higher. I do, you know, there's some camps that are way in love with Chris Godwin and think he's going to be the number one wide receiver on the bucks. I'm not quite there. I think it's going to be Igbuka, but I do think that another year removed from this injury with no Mike Evans, I think his reception is,

touchdowns are going to improve exponentially this season from what they were last year because he's not dealing with that. He doesn't have Mike Evans to deal with. So I just think there's a lot of volume that is going to be moved towards Chris Godwin this season and we've seen him handle it before and handle it well. Liam Cohen loves Chris Godwin. And I think him being healthy is a part of the reason they were, they walked on Mike Evans. And I know Mike Evans was frustrated specifically last year.

You could see it. I think it was week 15 where he was throwing his hands up. And it looked like he was about done with his Bucks adventure. But I think Chris Godwin will have a great year. And we know that Scorch-Starth Baker-Mayfield is a fun thing to watch. And we are going to get it this season. Yeah, coming off of the disappointing last year, where he was, I feel like he had like seven injuries last year, starting early than the contract situation. So, Erickson, no, you're not in on the Baker in the Bucs this year?

No, I mean, I was like a sign because he was so banged up last year. And you would know more about it. If you guys have been watching the quarterback documentary on Netflix, I think it was like week four, week five, his bicep is just like totally black and blue after a hit he played in the Jets game. So that was like really early in the season. And then we get way more injuries he's playing with. And that coincided with Egbuka's dramatic fall off in the second half of the season. So agreed, you want to be high on these Buccaneers players, I think, relative to their ADP because Baker Mayfield, when he's an underdog, when he's being counted out, when he's, he's playing for a contract.

Man, the Buccaneers are definitely rolling the dice because they're taking a big risk, but they're also guaranteeing we're going to get production from quarterback this year. And then it's just a matter of can Baker stay healthy, right? I think that's the reason why they haven't signed him to a long-term deal yet is because, hey, man, you play like your hair's on fire and we love it. But from a contractual, like, standpoint as an organization, if we're going to sign you for a multi-year deal, you've got to show you can stay healthy and take care of your body, which, again, the way he plays recklessly a little bit at times, it's part of his game.

It's part of what makes him Baker Mayfield. And it's going to be fun to watch him suit up on Sundays for sure. Yeah, for sure. All right, we got one more wide receiver. Erickson, take us home. I'm also going with another rookie wide receiver. I am really glad that Boggs did bring up Cardinal Tate earlier in the show because he was someone I was also really considering.

But I went one step down to a player going a little bit cheaper with Jordan Tyson. But both players were drafted inside the top 10 as rookies. I think that this is just a glaring mistake in the market right now where you're looking at just average production of receivers that are drafted top 10, last five drafts, average 78 catches over 1,000 yards, and 6.4 touchdowns as rookies. That means that just based on averages, Cardinal Tate and Jordan Tyson are screening values where they're going right now just to meet expectation. And then you have the potential of, oh, well, if this guy is just the next Jefferson or Chase or one of those types of players. and I'm not saying that's exactly how these things shake out, but these rookies have unknown potential. Like, we don't know how they're going to do.

But I feel really confident about Jordan Tyson when he is healthy. Again, eighth overall pick this last year to the New Orleans Saints. Nine healthy games in 2025, second in the nation and targets. Absolute dominant target chair at 35%. We know the injuries have obviously held him back. But so far, at least at the start training camp, he's out there. The hamstring doesn't seem to be bothering. So I was retweeting setting up the pray.

emojis because of like, yes, we have someone, we don't have a Ricky Pearsall kind of incident here going on. Jordan Tyson is out there and he's healthy so far. And when I look at offenses that could take that next step, well, the Saints are one of those teams. Tyler Shuck helped Chris Olave break into the fantasy wide receiver one territory for the very first time in his career. And he only played half of last season.

And last year before Rashid, she was traded to the Seahawks, he and Chris Alavi Alavi were both seeing a ton of volume. They were combining for 17 targets per game. Shaheed alongside Alavi last year before we got traded was 15th in the NFL and wide receiver targets. So although Jordan Tyson is the number two on this offense, I think the number two in this office is still going to see a ton of volume. So combining that as an elite wide receiver prospect, someone I think is going to gel stylistically

very well with what Tyler Shuck does. I'm really excited. And we just look at the schedule right for the Saints, two really tough matchups to open the year, but on the road at Detroit against a very leaky secondary that still has injuries from last year, you better draft Jordan Tizing because he might, it may not take him very long for everyone to know him after week one. Or trade for him after those first two tough weeks. You don't even draft him.

Yes. Well, I mean, well, week one is, week one should be really good. Again, playing out of the lions and in a game, it should be pretty high scoring. Yeah. Excited. Yeah, cool. All right. So last, the last segment we have here, late round league breakers, but before we get into

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Start drafting for free right now at fantasyprose.com slash draft wizard or on the fantasy pros app. So I think everybody loves talking about sleepers. That's the last segment that we have here. Two receivers each taken outside of the top 10 according to get half PPR, ECR. Erickson, we'll start with you on this one. So the reason I didn't include Colonel Tate on my list was because I included his teammate, Wondell Robinson here.

And this just seems like such a bad, like, high ceiling player. It's Wondo Robinson. All he does is a PBR slot merchant. Like, there's no upside attached to him. And that's kind of how I felt earlier this offseason. But when we just look at how productive Wanda Robinson has been in Brian Dable offenses, there are not that many guys had at least 130 targets in back-to-back seasons. Two consecutive seasons.

That list is Jamar Chase. I'm on Ross St. Brown, Jackson Smith, and Jigba, Justin Jefferson, and Wondell Robinson. Right? I mean, like, come on. Like, I get that not all targets are created equally. And a lot of it was just like spamming, especially in 2024. It was just a lot of spamming underneath targets for Wanda Robinson. But last year, we saw him actually use a little bit more downfield.

His average up the target nearly doubled. He was 19th in the NFL in deep targets. So I think he can do a little bit more. And he was rewarded handsomely by the Tennessee Titans that we need to get weapons for our number one wide receiver or for our number one quarterback in Cam, war. Now, they took him in free agency. They obviously drafted Carnal Tate. But the thing that I didn't realize until just kind of diving more into it was Wandae Robinson had over 130 targets in an offense when Malik Neighbors was a rookie. So, and he was still a fantasy wide receiver, he's like wide

receiver 41, but he's still caught over 92 passes. He's done that for two consecutive seasons. And now he's going later than he did that year in 2024 when Carnell Tate, another rookie, is also his main competition for targets. And maybe you guys would disagree with me. I don't think Tate is anywhere near the prospect that Malik Neighbors is. I understand that they're both top picks, but I think that Wanda's just kind of being undervalued a lot. And I get it's because they brought in Tate, but if Tate is not an alpha number one Malik Neighborsesque player, then there's a scenario where Wanda Robinson just becomes the number one target leader in this offense because that's exactly what has been the case when Brian Dable has been calling the shots, who's the new officer

coordinator in Tennessee. So this was something that kind of came to light when I was doing my wide receiver one breakout articles where one that was pretty close last year. Now he was on the cusp, he was a top 15 guys, especially in full PPR. That didn't quite crack the top 12, but he checks off a lot of boxes of that player on a new team, becoming a wide receiver one for the very first time, very reminiscent of when Christian Kirk went to the Jacksonville Jaguars and everyone was like, why did they sign Christian Kirk? Like, what are they doing? And then he just had a monster season. So if Cardal Tate doesn't hit right away or takes him a little bit of time, I think Wanda Robinson going as wide receiver at 50, I think that, again, if I had to make a lock for who's going to beat their ADP no matter what, it would be Waddle Robinson. Yeah, Scott, I know you're on, I know you're on tape, but what do you think about Robinson as well?

I have Wondale at 39. So I am, I got crushed last year for two takes, right? Two Giants takes. It was Wondale and Cam Scataboo. So look, I had bad takes last year. I'm not going to sit here and say that everything I said was correct, right? But I got crushed in the comments for those. And they both worked out well.

And the thing about Wondale was our boy, Seeley, specifically gave me crap. He said, how much more can he do? And I was like, why do I need him to do anymore? I don't need him to do anymore. I need him to do what he did in 2024, in 2025. And in the Brian Dayball offense, the tight end. is the safety blanket. And I think that Ward and Tate complement each other perfectly.

Here we have the deep threat in Tate and the dominant threat in Tate. You have that underneath safety blanket, grab it and go Wondale Robinson Target. So this is exactly what Davey wants. This is why I brought him. So I think Wondale fits perfectly. He already knows all the system. And I think as long as Ward is as good as I thought he was going to be coming in, I think this is going to be a success again.

Boggs, would you be opposed to taking both Tate and Wondale in the same team, knowing that, okay, maybe if Tate starts slow in any capacity, but you have Wondale to kind of be the guy that kind of guides you along the way, and then Cardinal Tate is your second half smash when he starts to get a little bit more accustomed to the NFL? Because I'm really open to doing that because they're both underpriced based on what I'm expecting from this Titans passing game, especially with Cam Warr in year two. It's not, I don't like doing that in general, but it's not the worst status.

I've ever heard of and it's not, you know, sometimes you run into bi-week issues if you have two guys at the same position on the same team. But I, no, I don't have like, I'm not fighting against it. I can tell you that much. I love Wondale. I think Tate is going to, is going to pop out here. So I am absolutely on board with that. All I'm hearing is Cam Ward sleeper quarterback this year.

And if you're like Deotene League, something like that, maybe Cam Ward. Very much so. But all right. Yeah, Scott, what do you got for us? How about Jaden Higgins? Jaden Higgins, his ADP is 150. I have been 121 overall. He was wide receiver 29 after week 8,

and that was with only three games of over 70% snap share. In that stretch, he had 10 games. He finished as a wide receiver three twice, a wide receiver two, four times, and a wide receiver won once ninth in championship week. The Texans have three new starting offensive linemen and lots of depth on that line now. That was obviously the problem last season.

An improved run game with David Montgomery should make Stroud look way better. Della is back, but Kirk is gone, and we know Nico Collins has this sort of injury history. Higgins has been highlighted as the Texans standout early through camp. D'emico Ryan said he is a guy that can make place at every level. He can move around the formation, and he is already seeing a second year jump for Jaden Higgins. I think coming in, we were kind of, okay, which Iowa State guy is it going to be? Because you took Nico Collins Jr., Jaden Higgins, on the same team as Nico Collins. It looked like that slot role was going to be in way more need.

So Jalen Knoll, I feel like last season going in got a little more love than Jaden Higgins did. But obviously got beat by Christian Kirk for that role, didn't play a lot. And Higgins was in there after, you know, Nico went down and Xavier Hutchinson was banged up after that as well. So we saw a lot of Jaden Higgins. I think he's going to take a big step this year. I think this offense is going to be better. What you really want from Higgins is scores. He's a big frame guy.

He can score a lot of touchdowns. And I think they are going to approve on offense specifically because the O'Line is better. And, you know, I know they're going to be running a lot in the second half. But, you know, I think Higgins can score touchdowns, which is exactly what you're going to want from him. Sure. Yeah, Erickson, I want to get your thoughts. But, Scott, I'm just wondering, did you adjust your ranking slightly when you saw C.J. Straub walking.

in the camp looking like he was like a 13-year-old showing up to middle school for the first time. You know what? I didn't adjust for that and I also didn't adjust for Bishon Robinson's haircut. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. Erickson, you went on Jane Higgins or you think it's going to be other second year receiver, Jalen Knoll? Well, Noel's on the NFI list right now. He's dealing with a finger injury. And it does concern me that from a Noel perspective, if you want to be bullish on Noel, that does he have some overlap in terms of tanked out skill set. Because it seems like the team is ready to at least put tanked out there.

I don't know in what capacity if he's going to be a full-time player, just because he's coming off some of these brutal injuries and he's an undersized player as well. So I think that does kind of hurt the ceiling a little bit for Noel, who I do agree. I think still a really talented guy, but just so annoying last year they were playing him behind Christian Kirk for so long. And even last year, too, with Xavier Hutchinson, get this guy off the field. Like, this guy is a net negative for this entire offense. I get that.

he's a grinder. They like he's blocking, but if CJ Strauss drop him back to throw, you've got to get him his best receivers out there. And that does not include Xavier Hutchinson. So Jaden Higgins, I think right now is probably being drafted where his floor is. I can't necessarily guarantee that he'll hit the ceiling because we just haven't seen the elite version of C.J. Stroud. But if that guy returns at any point, then Jaden Higgins has a ton of upside, especially if there's an injury to Nico Collins, where to Boggs's point, he's Nico Collins Jr. So if he is in that Nico Collins role, okay, now you're looking at a player that we would be ranking as a top 20, maybe even top 15 guy on a week-to-week basis.

So you have his standalone role, which I think is going to at least provide return on where you draft him in the wide receiver 50 range. And then you have that contingent upside, you know, if Collins does come up a little bit after a route hurts his hamstring or something like that happens, then I think that you're cooking with gas here. And we're getting C.J. Stroud entering his second season, we were drafting three Texans receivers inside the top 30. Three, between Tank Dell,

Stefan Nags, and Nico Collins. And obviously it was a disaster because they all, I appreciate so they all got injured and it was just a total mess, but at least shines a light on, there is that ceiling case with Stroud coming back

and returning to that rookie year form and Higgins would be a great benefactor. Maybe Higgins is the reason why you get to see CJ Straher return to that form. And this team has to draft Rocco back next year. He's works with everybody. It's the whole Iowa State offense.

Yeah. He knows where the bathrooms are. He'll know the facility. That'll be great. Yeah, just would have fallen from Grace, Bobby Sloick, C.J.

Stroud after that rookie year, everybody thought they were going to take over the league and, yeah, since then. But, all right, Erickson,

what else you got for us? I'm going with my favorite sleeper going really, really deep in drafts. Trey Harris for the Los Angeles Chargers. So he is wide receiver 74 and ADP. And this was a cool stat I found from my, again,

another humble plug, the wide receiver identifying breakout receiver article. Go for checking out on fantasy pros. We've averaged at least one new wide receiver one from outside the top 50 receivers in ADP in each of the last three seasons. So as crazy as it seems that a wide receiver won, top 12 finisher would come this slate outside the top 50, it's actually happening like once per year.

So you actually have to kind of look and see, well, could I paint the case for a player like this doing that? And for me, Trey Harris, the reason he looks like that potential player is this Michael Daniel offense coming into the Los Angeles Chargers, we're all excited, right? That's why these charges players are going up and up and up in ADP. And look, I don't disagree with the order of the receivers being drafted. Goes Lad, goes QJ, and then goes Trey Harris. But if you asked Harbaugh, right, hey, do you think that these ADPs make sense with these

charge receivers? I've been even saying, like, they should all be the same. Like these guys, I love all these guys. I love all my kids. So he would probably look at it a little bit differently. And I think that that just leads creates the idea of some value on Trey Harris as, okay, didn't do a ton as a rookie. but the offense last year for the Chargers at times was broken.

Again, Justin Herbert was broken. The offensive line was broken. So I don't think Trey Harris really had a chance to showcase a lot of what he did at Ole Miss, but he was great coming out of Ole Miss, super elite in yards per round run, second round pick. And I do think that he did enough during his rookie year, 25th and yards after the catch per reception. That's pretty good. We know that he can be a deep threat. He can take the top off the ball.

I think that the way that they talk about him, they really love his run. blocking. I think that at least gives him an avenue of snaps and playing time. And once he gets on the field, I mean, all bets are off because we just know this office is going to be in scoring position more often than not. So for me, Trey Harris, I think he's a free bet, a cheap access point to this high power charges offense. I think it'd have more of an expanded role than many of us are thinking. And maybe just one injury away from, hey, no, he's our guy in our heavy tight end personnel. Like, he's our, he's our isolate ex-receiver. And that can give him a lot of opportunities. So for me, Trey Harris, where he's going. Yeah, I love him as one of my favorite.

sleepers this year with a high upside. Yeah, the Chargers offense general is interesting. Going from Groman to McDaniel, getting Slater and Joel back, really can't, like, it's hard to really put numbers on that looking at last year to this year. So, Scott, what do you think about charges this year and Trey Harris specifically? Here's a number I like, 122 targets gone from Keenan Allen, right? So there's a lot of, a lot more upside here for these past catchers this season with all of those targets from Keenan Allen gone to the wayside.

So, I, Tray Harris, you know, a lot like I talked about the fit with Carnell Tate and Cam Ward when Justin Herbert got a dude like Trey Harris, who is a amazing deep threat at Ole Miss. Like him and Jackson Dart really connected very well at Ole Miss. If anybody knows the way that Justin Herbert works with the football with these rainbow passes, this is something that is going to create some amazing highlights. Even if Drey Harris doesn't pan out as we think he does, there's going to be some highlights in there of some gorgeous deep balls to Drey Harris this season. So a lot there, you know, the the polyannanus of every single player in this offense, you know, Brendan Thompson thinks QJ is going to light the world on fire. Brennan Thompson is, you know, the fastest ever and he's going to be the next Tyree kill and all that stuff. I calm down on that a little bit. But I think the guy who is going to take the biggest step is definitely going to be Trey Harris.

Any way you cut it, right? Could he pass QJ? I have no doubt that he could pass QJ in this offense. I mean, that's what I thought was going to happen last year. I was like, I was ready to like right off QJ entirely for last year. You have QJ like these guys have been in this system for a while. The system is new to everybody now, right? So who fits better for Mike McDaniel and who has the better skill set in Trey Harrison QJ?

I think we know QJ has done this before and has looked better. And we know the one flaw in him is catching the football. But I always go back to one of my favorite lines in Apollo 13 when they're trying to figure out what they can turn on and off when they're using the power. And he goes, well, cut the parachute something. He goes, John, if the parachutes don't go off. What is the point of all of this? And that is QJ, you know, drops don't matter until they do, right? I don't care about the occasional drop.

Drops in camp don't matter. when you get yanked off the field because of your drops, that's when it matters. And I think QJ is one of the guys that we all look at and go, two or three in a game, and they're yanking him right out for a guy like Trey Harris. You know, as Tony Romo taught us, it is a meritocracy.

You have to merit staying on the field. So, and in the driver's seat. Sure. Well, a couple notes. I have Thompson in the Dynasty League that I just drafted in. So if he ends up turning in Tyree Kill, I'm okay with that. But I'm just curious, what do you guys think about, what do you guys think about Lad?

I know he didn't come up in this show at all, but the new offense and how good he was his rookie year to how disappointing he was last year. Obviously, Keenan and I don't know a lot to do with that. Just from my own curiosity, what do you guys think about Ladd? I really like Ladd a lot. I still think that he has an extremely high ceiling. He was someone that I was also considering putting in this show sheet

as a player, a catch to this charter's offense. But just looking at, okay, can I get the cheapest access point would be Trey Harris and even Quinn Johnson is obviously cheaper than Ladd-McConkey. That rookie year, I think just if you just move Keenan Allen. What was the biggest difference between rookie year Ladd-McConkey and second-year Ladd-McConkey was Keenan Allen and him having a relationship with Justin Herbert? So I think that really just that really hurt the bullish case last year. And I'm guilty of this as a lot of us were.

Like we just didn't buy into it enough where it was like, oh, they signed Keenan. Oh, he's dust. Like he's old. But he had a relationship with Justin Herbert. Like these guys that caught pass and target our target. And Keen-on led the team in targets last year. So that's really, I think, hurt Lad, especially when you're operating over the short to intermediate of the field, especially on third downs. I think Ladd's going to be the third down guy this year and really move the chains, be that inside and outside guy for Justin Herbert. And Mike McDaniel has just put guys in position where Tyree Kill, Jamie Waddle, look at all their

yards per route run. They may not have been 100% route participation players, but when they were on the field, they were very, very efficient. And that's all Ladd-McConkie has been at the college level and at the NFL level, especially during his rookie year. So I'm also really high on Ladd. I actually was struggling, though, about Ladd versus Jalen Waddle and kind of moving them in my rankings.

I'm like, do I like Waddle more? I like Laddmore. So I think I moved Waddle one spot ahead of Llamconkey, and I don't know if I want to do that. Boggs, are you firmly on one side of the other between Latt and not firmly. I have Latt at 20 and I have Waddle at 21, so I have them next to each other. I have Zay Flowers head of both of them. Yes.

I also have Zay head, yeah. I think the nice thing about Mike McDaniel and his offense is that he is going to tailor it to the players, unlike other offensive coordinators who say, I need a guy that fits. You know, Brian Dayball, you more need to fit into his system. That's why it goes and gets familiarity in Wondell Robinson and drafts a guy like Carnal Tateu has a similar skill set to Malik neighbors, right? Like these are dominant players as well. You have to be dominant in the NFL to make it. But you have to fit his system.

I think McDaniel really tailors. That's why A. Chan has worked. Tyree Kill is work, Waddle's work. This guy has made these guys work very well. I'm excited about Hampton. I'm excited about neighbors. The only guy I'm really not excited about in this offense is Arronday Gadsden because he did like a quarter of his production in two games.

So that is the only guy that I don't see the absolute ceiling for. Finding the right players for the Chargers is going to be really key because when you look at, they play the Arizona Cardinals, week one. Right? This is like a scenario where they come out and put a, 40 burger on an opposed trade everybody after week one look we saw mike mcdaniel how long ago was it put up 70 points on a pose oh yeah too on the broncos it was a 23 years years ago if he smells blood in the water man look this guy wants to be a head coach and how do you get noticed you put up a ton of

points against bad teams like i'm just saying man so that's why chargers you got to be in on them to start the year to some extent don't leave your draft without a charger make it happen Keaton Mitchell season, got it. All right. Last receiver that we have for the day, Scott, what do you got for us? I'm going to say Antonio Williams here. And look, this might be short-lived. You know, I know that all the rumors are Stefan Diggs is going to sign with Washington,

but he hasn't yet. They're not signing Brandon Ayyuk. I know that. All autograph things in Northern Virginia aside, they have not signed him. He's already insulted their quarterback. I don't think that's going to happen. It wouldn't be a good locker room move for the commanders. But Stefan Diggs is still in here.

But right now it's Antonio Williams as far as I'm concerned, right? He was a massive prospect for Clemson, and they had the big collapse in 2025. He missed three games and still led the Tigers in receptions last year. He increased his yards per route run to a career high 227 last season. He had the highest yak perception since his freshman season and cut his drop rate from 9.6% to 1.8% as a senior. So he's a true dart throw because the commanders can, you know, it's not just digs. They can sign any veteran, I feel like, to come in here and play this second role, Keenan Allen, still a free agent as well, right?

So there are options for them to sign somebody. But I don't know, he's looked good in camp. He's been the buzz of camp so far. As Axelby said, who writes for the commander's website, said that it won't be long until he's a focus of the offense if he continues to play this way like he has early in camp. A lot of the commander's blogs are praising him as the number two right now. And his competition is Luke McCaffrey, Traylon Berks, Jalen Lane, and Van Jefferson. There's just not a lot blocking him from being the number two target.

It could be Chigaconquo. It could be Rashad White if they don't sign a veteran. But I think Antonio Williams, as a gamble, as your last pick, throw that dart and see if it works out, especially if they haven't signed Diggs when your draft goes out or sign Keenan Allen or another. veteran. I think right now he's probably sitting in the leader of the clubhouse as that number two in the pecking order in the past game. And, you know, with Jane Daniels, that could be a very nice role. Yeah, outside of scary Terry, it's just a bunch of question marks. And one of those guys are probably pop. Erickson, do you think it'll be Tony Williams? You like Chig? Who you got?

What do you think about the commanders? I do have general interest in both of those guys, especially where Chig goes in drafts. He's starting to fall a little because of the allure of Stefan Dake signing there. But Antonio Williams, I really liked. coming out as a prospect out of Clemson. I think he did he profiles and projects really well to operate from the slot. And kind of curious, you know, ask this question of both of you guys. If you think that they signed Stefan Diggs, does that mean Antonio Williams is buried as like the team slot receiver?

I get that Diggs can play inside and outside, but you look at the roster, it's like McCaffrey, isn't he a slot guy, Jalen Lane, slot guy. So it's like, would it make more sense for Diggs to be playing on the outside while they have these younger players that, okay, all we're asking you do is play the slot, make it more simple for you. you're going to be opposite of Terry, who also is an older receiver. He's not, he's over the age of 30. And he's also coming off an injury plague season where is he going to play all 17 games?

That's another concern. So I get that there's a more pessimism around Williams right now because they're looking to bring in somebody. But the fact that they're still like waiting, it's like, hey, we want to see what we got with this kid. And I think the longer that it takes for them to actually sign Stefan Diggs is actually more of a bullish case. for Antonio Williams.

So Boggs, slot usage, any thoughts on that? Yeah. So I think to me, when everybody's healthy, right? If they sign digs, the problem isn't necessarily being on the field. It's where you are in the pecking order. Because I think that Chig is probably three regardless, right? I think if it's no digs and it's Antonio Williams, I think Chig is three. If it's Stefan Diggs, I still think Chig is three, which makes Antonio Williams four or five.

Because you don't sign Rashon White, Rashad White to not throw the ball to him, right? That is his skill set. He's one of the best past catching backs in the NFL. So I think he's probably four regardless as well. So it's kind of like it's boom or bust on Antonio Williams. Are you going to be number two in the pecking order, number five in the pecking order? But as you mentioned, the longer it takes the signed digs, the more offseason stuff that he's dealing with. And injuries can happen in camp making other teams, you know, go into this pile of their money and all this.

I don't know. Why did the Niners not sign Stefan Diggs? Why don't the Raiders sign Stefan Diggs? Why don't the Raiders sign Stefan Diggs right now? Stefan Diggs played two years with her cousins. And apparently he's going to start all year. Yeah. They've been telling me.

What are we doing? Yeah. Why is he still out there? Washington is not the only answer here. So whether it's Allen or Diggs or somebody, if they sign someone, I think it does hurt Antonio from going two to five. But like you said, if anything happens to one of those guys in front of him, I think you jump the front of the line past Chig and Roshab.

white again and now you're number two. So I think a grab and stash specifically with, you know, leagues with deeper benches is a great scenario to roster Antonio Williams and he's almost free. Yeah, July 31st, none of those guys are on the commanders. If you're drafting, you know, August 31st, might be a different answer. Yeah, yeah. Well, cool. All right.

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Any parting thoughts? Anything like that before we get out of here? Boggs, you want to start us off? Yeah. Even though I like Say Flowers for fantasy, I'm still a Steelers fan and hate them. So there you go. That just guarantees you're going to have at least two nuclear games

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They were all good to go. It was going to be a great time. But to quote Max Crosby, what he said on the NFL Top 100, 2026 is when Zay gets his flowers. Very puny. I love it. All right, guys. Thank you.

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