The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - NFL Free Agency Day 3: Fantasy Football Impact (Ep. 1978)

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Don't cut the power chord yet on tracking offseason moves! Join Seth Woolcock, Andrew Erickson and Ryam Wormeli for their NFL Free Agency Day 3 reaction! Does Las Vegas Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty get a boost from an upgraded offensive line and defense? Is Minnesota Vikings RB Aaron Jones just a placeholder for a high-profile rookie? Plus, what makes new Washington Commanders TE Chig Okonkwo a viable late-round target? The Pros diagnose how every deal from the day changes 2026 fantasy football rankings! Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)Introduction - 0:00:00FantasyPros Free Agent Tracker - 0:02:13Ravens Reserve Maxx Crosby Trade & Sign Trey Hendrickson - 0:02:30Ashton Jeanty (RB - LV) - 0:09:23Daniel Jones (QB - IND) - 0:12:48Aaron Jones (RB - MIN) - 0:18:56Chig Okonkwo (TE - WAS)  - 0:22:20Grant Calcaterra  (TE - PHI) & Johnny Mundt (TE - PHI) - 0:26:59Outro - 0:28:49 Helpful Links: Hard Rock Bet - All lines provided by 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, MI, 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, MI, NJ, OH, TN, VA).  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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you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. All right. And welcome into the fantasy pros, fantasy football podcast. Day three of NFL free agency has come and gone like the power in my house earlier today, swiftly and quietly. However, there's still a ton to talk about for fantasy football purposes. I'm your host, Seth Wilcock, joined by a man who's been in the thick of it all week long with reaction podcast, article, shorts, Mr. Big Pod energy himself, Andrew Erickson. And we also have the pleasure of having Ryan Warmly slide out of the hosting seat into the hot seat as his Baltimore Ravens are doing some take-me-backs. Worm, great to have you on the show today.

And before we dive in, how are things as you've been just getting grilled in the office chat over the past 24 hours or so being the resident Ravens fan on the program? Dude, I started laughing when you said, I didn't realize you were introing Erickson first because he said, this man's been in the thick of it. And I was like, yes, I have been in the thick of it. I've been here. I feel like John Snow in the meme, like in the battle of the bastards, pulling out a sword against an army, just like an onslaught of arguments and debates.

I can't tell you how many friends have reached out to me in the last 24 hours, like to get my opinion or just to text me out of the blue, be like, Ravens are a scumbag organization. What's your take? Like, how am I even supposed to respond? Some friends, some non-friends, a lot. Everybody's coming out of the woodwork. Well, I appreciate you taking time from your battle to be here.

with us and Andrew you've been on one this week. I feel like every time I hear from you is just sending LFGs back in the slack. So are you ready to break down the fans football impact of today's moves once again, my friend? Yes, it would have been loving it. This is my favorite time. One of my favorite times of the year breaking down the free agency madness, bolts are flying, shooting from the head, love the takes. Let's break it down. All right. So we have, we have Worm right now who is fighting medieval battle and you're more in this like new age modern warfare type of battle so I appreciate

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don't get left behind check out that live free agency tracker at fancypros.com slash tracker the boys and the girls from the site have been doing an amazing job keeping that up to date. So make sure you're staying up to date there with our minute-by-minute news breaks. And gentlemen, let's jump right in at the top here with the news of the day. The Baltimore Ravens have backed out of the Max Crosby deal. They then signed Edge Trey Hendrickson to a four-year, $112 million contract, keeping him in the AFC Northern. Everything we're hearing from a sports medical community perspective is that this is well within the Ravens' right to do.

they have been notoriously tougher than other organizations to pass physicals. And according to our guy, Dr. Deepak Chona, Crosby had meniscus surgery in January, but based on his two-week timeline on crutches, it appears that he just had that trim rather than fully repaired. And the meniscus is the shock absorber, and he played it on it for two months. That plus he has some previous damage from an infection he had in that knee back in 2023. So all that paired with the fact that he doesn't have much of meniscus left, this could cause concerns for long-term production. Therefore, that is why the Ravens, in a sense, wanted out.

Is that how you're reading the situation as well, Worm? Yeah, I would say it seems to be that the consensus is they're not that concerned short term. They are concerned long-term and given the amount of compensation, both financially and more importantly, those draft picks that they were talking about. that's where they became uncomfortable. I do think like, like I find it funny. A lot of people online were saying like, well,

of course he couldn't pass his physical. He just had surgery two months. Like, what, he can't go run like, you know, a shuttle cone. I'm like,

they didn't ask him to run a 40. Like the point is that it was the medical evaluation didn't hold up when they say he didn't pass a physical. They don't mean like he ran too slow or something. They understand where he is in that time. Yeah, I don't know. I don't actually know what they do.

I would like to. That'd be fun. Make it a little better. To your point, Seth, like this is not the first time they have failed somebody in the medical evaluation process. This is also a team, like, even setting aside, people were pointing to, like, Ryan Grant back in 2018 when they didn't sign him. Even setting aside the examples that people were pointing to, this is also a team that has had some really serious health scares with big time players. Zach Orr was, like, their linebacker of the future and then retired medically, like, out of nowhere. Nomiti Madi Mada Buque, maybe he is coming back.

It's starting to feel a little more optimistic in that direction. But, like, there was serious talk. for the last, you know, eight months that he might be retiring due to his neck injury. So, like, this is an organization that not only has been very strict in the past with the medical side of things. They've also been burned by the medical side of things in a pretty significant way. So, of course, they're going to be careful. Yeah, Erickson, this is one of those situations where it is a doctor-by-doctor opinion

and the Ravens notoriously having one of the stricter staffs. It makes sense. It's still scumbaggy, though, right? Like, it absolutely feels like something that didn't need to happen. But here we are, and I'm a Steelers fan. So, of course, I was hoping the Ravens would actually unload these picks, but not to be the case, my friend. Well, I love the theory that the Raiders made this trade,

so the Ravens wouldn't be able to re-sign tire Linderbaum. Because they didn't think they would have the compensation to do so, because that's who they really wanted, no matter what, was to build this offensive line for their rookie quarterback. So there's a lot of ways you go, okay, I agree with you from the scumbaggy standpoint. Like, the optics of it are, well, Well, Trey Henderson's available.

Like, and no one signed him after two days. Like, let's just give him the bag. We feel a little bit better about his health. Now, again, I don't think that he's the same caliber of player than Max Crosby is. But in terms of, hey, the Ravens, what are their biggest needs? We talked about it in the team needs. I know that I messaged Worm about it directly. They need pass rush, right?

DeCosta has been really vocal about like, we need to generate some type of a pass rush. So they did get better by adding a premier pass rush or one of the highest in the free agency class. And the fact that they didn't have to give up. two round first picks to get it. Like, worm, is that still, like, a win for you? Like, again, Hendrickson's the worst player, but now you're not giving up two first round picks. Like, do you think that the Ravens just looking at their roster are better off this way,

you know, aside from how the other 31 teams feel about the Ravens, which obviously they're really upset because they, like, ruined a lot of free agent plans because, oh, well, we thought this guy was going to be able. Well, now he's not. We did this. We did that. And it's all because of the Ravens fault. Yeah, okay.

Well, first of all, like, the Ravens should not care what the other. the 31 teams think about their process for determining the medical health of their players. If the Ravens acted in an untoward way, then yes, that's like an issue. But like they shouldn't care that the timing of this mess with other teams. They're doing what's right for their team if you are believing that this was all above. Sure. I actually don't know how I feel. One of the key parts about Max Crosby in that edition that was so exciting for Ravens fans is,

we just saw this with Mike McDonald's defense in Seattle. They need to be able to stop the run without loading. the box. One of the things that Max Crosby brings is an ability to set the edge better than any pass rusher in football. He is the best run-defending pass-rusher in the sport and is still adding this pass-rushing juice that the team really needed. So he is not just a better player, of course, but a supremely, like, great fit for Jesse

Minter's defense, which will mirror what Mike McDonald was doing. So it is a, like, Trey Hendrickson is not a great run defender. That is, like, a big step back in that regard. Obviously, he's still a good pass-rush. he is coming off an injury of his own. We'll see how that impacts him. He's also older. Did he pass his physical?

Did we know? It was a lighter injury, I guess. The thing I will say, too, about Hendrickson is he is older, but he probably doesn't have the same level of wear and tear that Crosby does because Crosby pays literally every snap. So that's a little different. The thing I would say about Hendrickson, and I'm curious to your guys's opinion too, because this is one of the things I've been arguing about a lot is, like, I don't

feel like they got a discount on him. Like the idea that they were like, oh, the market's. not there. So we'll just get a, if they signed up for like a $10 million a year deal, that's a different story. Then it's like, okay, yeah, they saw a real savings here. Hendrickson went into this process hoping to get a contract worth $30 million with incentives. This contract could be worth $30 million a year.

Like that, they did not get a financial discount here. And rumor is that they were trying to sign both at the same time. So it's not like they, if you like, just for the sake of argument, let's pretend that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Ravens genuinely want to Crosby. they did not get cold feet, there is something on the medical, and it scared them off. Like, it's all very above board. If we assume that for a second, what would be the logical next step? It would be to go sign the next best pass rush you're available.

Like, I don't take that as a sign that they were being, you know, shady or scumbags. Like, this is what they would have done in, whether they were scumbags or not scumbags. They would have done this either way. To me, this doesn't tell us anything about what you think about the actual backing out of the deal, in my opinion. No, and that's very fair. And again, these doctors, like, you can. basically like pass them without passing a physical. It's like called projected to pass, which means if it was this, you know, one area that we are not concerned about, you can move forward

with the deal. They did not. Erickson, before we get off this deal and get to some other moves around the NFL today, I did want to talk about the Raiders, though, and the implications of just substantially upgrading this team over the past 48 hours or so. In addition to getting Max Crosby back for the time being, Tyler Lindenbaum secures a three-year $81 million contract with the Raiders. And to me, I think it's just a perfect. fit in this Kubiak offense that you really need an athletic center who's able to pull and then also you need a high IQ player who's able to help make those checks at the line. They also beef up this defense as well, Quay Walker, Nkobi Dean, Quidipay, who didn't really work out with the Colts,

but still a very high caliber interior defensive linemen. And then, like, I just think like overall for me, Erickson, like, I'm back in on Ash and Gentie. I tried not to be that guy. You guys know I was like top five Ashen Genti season last year, did not come fruition. He's going right now around that like one to turn on Underdog. And also we're seeing ADP or ECR right now from Fantasy Pros RB7. Does that feel about right to you or where would you be comfortable taking Genti after these moves? It feels right because the Raiders are really revamping this offensive line. I think getting Linderbaugh, combining him with Mendoza, who we assume will be the number one overall pick.

I think that helps a rookie quarterback so much. having an experience one of the best centers in the NFL, helping him with the checks at the line of scrimmage. The fact that they're going to get Colton Miller back. Remember, he was one of the best tackles last year when he was healthy. So, like, they're getting a Pro Bowl player back into the lineup that's on the roster. He just has to stay healthy. And then Jackson Powers Johnson, again, a guy who played some center,

played some guard. Now he can kick into one of the guard spots. Okay, now you're already looking at, you have already upgraded three offensive line spots. You have all that you still have, again, you don't have two first round picks, but we'll see what happens to the pros game. I still think that you would like that, but you still have the NFL draft. You still have a high pick in the second round where, okay, we can continue to invest in the offensive line.

We can maybe draft another tackle. One of these guys that's going to be going early in round two. So I think they're doing all the right things. Genty can't run behind a worse offensive line last year. I mean, didn't he have more yards after contact than he had rushing yards in general? Because he was doing it all in his own. And I think that he was as advertised coming out of Boise State where the tackle breaking was so apparent.

but he could only do so much behind a broken offensive line. So I do like Gentie a lot. I think that RB 7 is appropriate. However, would you take him over Ken Walker? That is kind of a question I'm really thinking long, because I love this landing spot. I would.

I would rather have Gentie than Kenneth Walker. As of right now, I'm expecting the Chiefs to add more to that back. The other thing on Linderbomb, too, and obviously I watched a lot of him in Baltimore, he's a good center all around, but he's a better run blocker than he is a past protector. Like the run blocking is where he truly excels

and is an elite, like, just mobile center option. I know the PFF guys, he's called him a playmaking center. Like, he is really good in the run game. So, yeah, I love Gentry this year, too. Also, and I will let us move on. The one last thing I pointed out I did want to make that I didn't say, just on the Crosby stuff too, is the Cowboys doctor, who does a lot of the knee repairs in the NFL looked at this as part of the review.

And the Cowboys backed out of, like, they're not pursuing the trade either anymore. So it's not just the Ravens. I want to point that out, too. Like, a Cowboys doctor also looked at his knee and said, we don't want to pay up for this. As long as it wasn't Joe Mixon's doctor that looked at, Max Crosby. But the Cowboys aren't scumbags. Let's just make that clear.

The Raven still scumbags. Let's turn the page, though, here. We also had news in the quarterback market where Daniel Jones signs a two-year $88 million deal that could be worth up to $100 million deal to stay with the Indianapolis Colts through week 13. He was the quarterback 8 at 19.4 fancy points per game. Do you think we see that type of production again from Danny Dimes, Erickson, coming off that broken leg, the torn Achilles plus he also lost Michael Pittman Jr. Or do you think that ceiling comes down just a bit?

I think the ceiling's got to come down. You look at how efficient the Colts offense was. They were on a historic pace. So this was courtesy of true media. 3.17 points per drive through the first 10 games, the fourth most by a team in its first 10 games this century. Right? Like we're talking about this team was going to keep. compared to the 2007 Patriots of like how efficient this offense was with Daniel Jones.

So naturally you're going to see some regression. And when you factor in the quarterback coming off in Achilles injury, we saw Aaron Rogers and Kirk Cousins, both come off Killers injuries. And they looked really bad, particularly moving around outside of the pocket. Like the mobility was sapped out of those guys. So Daniel Jones is obviously younger than those two players. I think he had more mobility than those guys anyway. But we've also seen. Daniel Jones come off a season-ending injury before a couple of years ago.

And it took him some time to kind of get back up to speed. I pulled this when I was writing to recap for Daniel Jones kind of making this deal. He was a top 10 quarterback in fantasy points for dropback in 2022. And then he dealt with some injuries, 2020, 2004. And he was outside the top 35 quarterbacks and fantasy points for dropback. And then in 2025, under Shane Steichen in this great system with great playmakers surrounding him, he was back inside the top 10 in terms of fancy points per dropback. He also scored five rushing touchdowns last year.

So I think that's something you just got to have to eliminate when you're kind of doing your projection. Like he's not going to get as many rushing touchdowns as they did last year. So I think we're just kind of hoping that he can write the ship and keep the Colts offense afloat and not have it implode like it did at the end of last year so we can feel good about Jonathan Taylor as a top-eye fantasy running back because Jonathan Taylor was the run. I mean, he was outscoring everyone last year when Daniel Jones. was operating at a really high rate,

Alec Pierce now stepping into the wide receiver one. Okay, he's confident Daniel Jones is going to be the guy. Chris Ballard is confident that Dan Jones is going to be the guy, but the Colts are pushing a lot of their chips on a guy coming off at torn Achilles. And I think that you have to create a price in your mind where, okay, I understand that maybe we could get back to this offense from 2025 again, but is it going to happen in week one, week four? Probably not.

So, yeah, I'm trying to be more up and probably a little bit more pessimistic about them returning the same type of offensive output from last year to this year. Right now, QB 26 and the Fantasy Pro's ECR and someone definitely, I would say, off redraft boards, but Worm, like, would you mind taking a shot on Danny Dimes in best ball where you just kind of have to load up on quarterbacks? He's behind, you know, players like Cam Ward, Sam Darnold, C.J. Stroud, who it feels like a ceiling, just because even if there is any rushing, it will put him above those players. I am going to skew very heavily on the side of assuming that he's not good enough to be a fantasy quarterback this year. I know he's younger than Kurt Cousins, Aaron Rogers, like other quarterbacks have gone through Achilles injuries.

But like we have seen like pretty much that whole next year is a write off. And I just don't want to be playing that game. I can see the case a little more in best ball to your point. But like I think he should be behind those other names that you're mentioning. Like I'm way more confident that they're going to finish higher than him this year. I'll put it like this. I'm not taking Jonathan Taylor in round one because I am that worried about the quarterback position.

Wow. Okay. He was a different guy when Jones was not on there. He went from being really like the league winner of all league winners early last season to, you know, he wasn't like he was awful, but it wasn't on that same level. I'm looking like right now just like the running back rankings like I'd rather have James Cook with he still got the same play caller quarterback there in Buffalo. I might rather have Gentie to the point we were just talking.

about. I am going to be really heavily fading this offense. The only player in this offense that will be somewhat interested in this year, I think is Tyler Warren, because he's still like a mid-sixthrowout sick. Let's go. But besides Warren, I'm like, I'm going to be pretty much taking these guys off the board unless they start to drop in where their ADP is. Okay. Okay. I mean, I'll say it right now. Like, Alec Pierce was going somewhere yesterday when I was looking around wide receiver 37 on underdog. Like, I'll still take a shot on him, Andrew, because I think he does have wide receiver two upside, especially now that we get Michael Pittman Jr. But do you agree with like worm that like fading maybe the Colts in general to start

this season and maybe buying them at a discount midseason might be the play? Yeah, because I think that we'll all get the reports of Daniel Jones. Looks like 2025 all over again, Indiana Jones. He's ready to go. And then when you see him actually playing on the field, that's where we get concerned. So I know we got a report from Schefter that said that he should be ready for week one and that he even could be ready for training camp, I think that there's a time where we can wait

and kind of just get more information, but I would rather, I kind of agree with Wormware, I think if I need to be overweight or underweight on Colts players, I think you're probably better off being a little bit underweight on this team. Yeah, and even setting aside,

like how you feel about Daniel Jones himself as a runner, if he's not running, I think that will impact the whole offense. Like, he's a quarterback that relies in his mobility, when he is successful, the times he has been successful. in his career. So like even setting aside like, hey, you're not getting the fantasy value of his running,

I think that will impact the offense as a whole to the point where I need to see some discounts. I need Jonathan Taylor going in the mid to late second round if I want to take him. Not he's the ninth overall player in ECR right now. That could change. We're sitting here in early March. But right now I want nothing to do with that. Yeah, except Tyler Warren. Keep on.

Tyler Ward. Titan three. Titan three still. I'm telling you folks. Titan three. Shout out Penn State. Shout up Penn State. Thank you for that.

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Maybe they're not done. Maybe they go out and add someone in April in the draft. But I'm definitely not excited about Aaron Jones coming back, if that's fair. Yeah, it's hard to get excited about a guy coming off career lows in yards per carry, yards after contact per attempt, and another injury plagued season, right? He's dealing with this AC joint injury that continues to kind of play him where he comes back. He looks explosive. He's good in the passing game.

But then he hurts his shoulder and then he misses eight more weeks of the season. So I think that this just kind of hurts George Mason in terms of, okay, like maybe he would have been the guy. They would have leaned on him more as a workhorse type of running back. But that's not going to be the case because Aaron Jones, we know at this point, his career is probably just going to operate on passing downs. He had 2.3 catches per game. So that's been pretty decent for his type of role. And we saw when one of those guys went down or missed time, the offense would just turn to one player and kind of feature that exact guy. So I think they're kind of stuck in that RB3, RB4 type of purgatory.

and to point out about them adding more players to this backfield, that's definitely going to happen. I would be very, very surprised if they don't draft one. Neither these guys are under contract next year. So the Vikings don't have any running back on the roster for 2007. So although Aaron Jones will back for this year, it seems more likely enough they're going to draft a rookie. And maybe that's the player that you really want to gravitate towards. So I don't see a lot of appeal with either of these. Again, Mason was pretty good at times when Aaron Jones missed earlier in the year, average

75 rushing yards per game and the five games that Jones missed. But when Jones is hanging around, again, these guys are putting up low-end RB3 production. Yeah. And Worm, this is really a place in drafts where the running back position gets pretty stinky pretty quickly without knowing the rookie landing spots. Like, once you get past, you know, Ramondre at RB 29, I think you're really in quite a dead zone. You can take a shot on someone like Bayshalt-Tut.

And I think Blake Corm will have a little bit of upside, you know, once again. It's like the Alvin Cameras, the James Connors, the Trey Benson's, like really people in this gross backfield, time shared type of situation. So are you taking a lot of those players over someone like this in Aaron Jones? Like, can he gain well? Woody Marks? Like Charbonnet, I'll take all those guys over him that are actually behind him in ECR right now. I think probably Sharbonnet, maybe the one I would, I mean, just depends on what kind of

reports you get on the recovery. Sure. I mean, Eric's really to the words out of my mouth. I was going to say the same thing that whoever they draft, they are going to draft somebody whoever they draft will be the guy that I want to target in this backfield. Okay. Even though it's a bit of a down year, right, we've seen the way teams are operating, like trading for David Montgomery, things like that.

They don't believe this is a strong running back class. I will still want to opt for the youth and kind of buy into that rather than say, like, is there still upside with Aaron Jones at this stage in his career? I just don't buy it. Setting side the rookie, though, yeah, I think some of these other names, like Tyler Al's years, a few spots ahead of him in ECR right now, they just sign a new contract, you know, going to new, even though I think it's going to be a back. team. I'd rather take a swing on that than Jones at this point.

I think most of these guys I'll take ahead of him. Well, let's get chiggy with it here. The Washington commanders, they signed Titan Chig Aquanco to a three-year deal. No numbers and salary attached to that as of now. But Titan 28 at 7.3 points per game, but also had 12 games of three-plus catches. So very consistent. I was betting Chig Aquankwo reception props like a fiend late last season, and it cash in almost every single time.

did lead the Titans, though, with 56 receptions, 560 yards. So he was an impact player, not really from a fancy standpoint. But could this be the start of something good, Erickson, in the nation's capital? Because I really like Chick. I think a lot of people liked him when he kind of bursted on the scene his rookie season. And at the same time, does this mean like all hopes lost now for 2024 rookie Ben Sennett? And he's kind of a drop from taxi squads in Dynasty leagues? Yeah, I think Ben Sennett is entering the Caleb Johnson territory.

of guys that, hey, I don't know if it's ever going to happen for this player. So that being said, super pumped up about Chigacanquo here. And I'm so excited that we have Maryland Terp here on the show as well talking about fan about Chigacanquo. So one thing I always look at when it comes to tight end, trying to find this late round tight end breakout is what can this guy do after the catch? And that has been Chigacuco is calling cards since he entered the NFL as a fifth round draft pick. Looking last year, minimum 45 targets, the guys that check off the boxes in terms of yards

out to the catch per reception, darn out Washington, Dalton Kincaid, Colby Parkinson, Tyler, Warren, Pat Frymuth, and Chig Oconquo. Again, like kind of rounding out some of these players that finished highly in yards out to the catch per reception, that is Akonkwo. So I think that he did enough in a pretty bad situation. Look, last three seasons, 50 receptions in each the last three seasons for Chig Akonkwo. Like, he's been like steadily productive. again, coming off a career high in terms of yardage, again, but he only has scored two touchdowns. So that's kind of where you're looking at, like, that's why it never really turned into fantasy production. I mean, dude, what is he supposed to do? He said, Will Levis has his quarterback. He's

at his quarterback. Like, of course he's not going to put up eye-popping type of stats. Oh, now he has Jaden Daniels, who made Zach Ertz, the corpse of Zach Ertz, who hasn't broken a tackle since Chicago entered the NFL? I, I think that this is an awesome landing spot, and he's going to be top of my list in terms of late round tight ends to target. This year's Tucker Kraft, it might be Chig Ongko. Okay. Worm, any thoughts on Big Chig, your former alma mater? Yeah, I don't think Tucker Craft is a viable outcome here.

I'm getting ahead of myself, of course. That's the ceiling. That's a ceiling. But I strongly agree that he is a great late round target. Right now in ECR, he's tied in 29. That's going to go up a bit. I wonder how far it will go. Like, AJ Barner's tied in 22.

Right. You know, Sadiq, you know, exciting rookies, tied in 21. Isaiah likely is getting a new opportunity. He's tied in 20. I don't know if he pushes too far past those guys, but like I think he should at least be in the conversation with them. I think the upside's really apparent. Erickson hit the nail on the head.

He's also, like I said, he's tied in 29. He's been a top 24 tight end every year of his career. He never misses games. He's played all 17 games, all four seasons. Like, he's already lower than he has been. And now he's got this upside. We saw, like, not just Zach Ertz, but what Jane Daniels, like, what do we always talk about with Terry McLaurin, like really talented player who always said terrible quarterbacks?

He finally gets to play Jane Daniels, and he has the late career breakout. Chica Concoe is not Terry McLaurum, but he's very athletic. Tidens break out in their careers all the time. It's very common for them to break out as they get into their mid to late 20s. He's only 26 years old. Still very athletic, gets the best quarterback he's played with. They also have a new offensive coordinator who is a former backup quarterback. Who do backup quarterbacks love throwing to?

Tight ends. That could help too a little bit. I'll be all over a Conquo at this price for sure. I strongly, I don't agree with Erickson on the ultimate ceiling maybe, but he could easily be a tight end one this year and he's going as a tight end three. Well, keep an eye out in Tennessee for Gunnar Helm. He was another player who consistently was actually pushing Chig off the field in certain circumstances and was having a really nice run down the stretch.

Former Texas Longhorn shout to our boy Scott Bogman on that one. But I know we say it every year, but tight end, it feels kind of deep right now. It feels kind of deep. We won't be saying that in week three, but we're saying that here in March. The other thing I'll say about a Conquo, too, is like what do we always like to look for? And Andrew Cooper talks about this a lot with the great work he does with tight ends, a guy that can be a top two target in the offense. Yeah.

Commanders are going to add more, we would assume. Right now he's a top two target in that offense behind only McLaren. Very fair. Very, very fair. Last note, staying at the tight end position here, the Eagles re-signed Titan grant Calcutera, and also sign Titan Johnny Munt as well. Erickson, are these guys just placeholders, or does this mean that maybe my hope that Eli Stowers maybe finds his way to Philadelphia in round one is alive?

Or do you think like, hey, these guys actually could maybe be the legit tight end ones for the Eagles offense this year? I think they might be just rolling a committee of tight end, taking from the Shane Stuyken before they got Tyler Warren where they just play four different guys and we can't use any of them for fantasy. But what does it mean? Oh, we get a concentrated target share. between Devante Smith and maybe if AJ Brown sticks around,

I mean, Devante Smith, they have been pumping him up left and right. Every time Nick Siriani gets a microphone again, he says, I don't know if AJ Brown's going to be on the team, but they talk about we need to get Devante Smith more involved. And I think that if they don't make a move at tight end,

it is, okay, Devante Smith, we're going to get this guy 120, 130 targets and you're going to feel pretty good about, because we already know he's a really good player. It's just a matter of the offense that they've been playing in has really kind of been holding him back, again,

as we know with the AJ Brown attitude and what's been going on with him of the Eagles. But yeah, I wouldn't surprise me if the Eagles don't really add much to tight end. Wow. Worm, Eli Stowers, Eagles, are you here for it? I've a lot more here for that that I am to talk about these guys right now on day three of free agency. Like, oh, I'm getting excited about Johnny Munt. Yeah, I would love the opportunity if they were to take a swing on a guy like Stowers. I think that would be really exciting.

Yeah. I'm putting it out in the existence. Whenever he opens the lines to be a first round pick, it's probably going to be like 50, 60 to 1. I'm taking the shot. I'm still taking the shot, boys. Love it. I don't care.

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