The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - The Primer: Must-Start Players for Week 2 (Ep. 1702)
Episode Date: September 13, 2025Join Seth Woolcock and Derek Brown as they highlight six players that popped in “The Primer” this week who you should consider putting into your fantasy football lineups! Timestamps: (May ...be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00Signed Ja'Marr Chase Jersey Giveaway Promo - 0:02:21QB: Dak Prescott vs NYG - QB12 ECR - 0:02:55RB: JK Dobbins @ IND - RB27 ECR - 0:05:33RB: Isiah Pacheco @ PHI - RB32 ECR - 0:09:37FantasyPros Premium Deposit Offer Promo - 0:13:44WR: Keenan Allen @ LV - ECR WR38 - 0:14:08WR: Kayshon Boutte @ MIA - ECR WR53 - 0:17:17TE: Hunter Henry @ MIA - ECR TE12 - 0:21:44Outro - 0:25:44 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) My Playbook - Sync your league instantly to My Playbook to get custom advice on how to manage your team throughout the season. See your league’s top available players, power rankings, and more for free! Check the “Are They Playing” tool each week to get the latest game-day availability odds for all injured players. If you’re premium – you unlock all kinds of helpful waiver, trade, lineup and league analysis tools. You can even auto-start your team’s optimal lineup each week with Auto-Pilot. Sync your league and dominate every week of the season with My Playbook at fantasypros.com/myplaybook or on the FantasyPros App. 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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D'Brow, how are you after consuming an entire slate,
an entire weekend's worth of data?
I'm pretty good, man.
Feeling pretty good.
Week one betting was not great because it's a wild slate and stuff.
The one thing before we get this rolling,
you started throwing out Bill quotes, man.
I thought you were going to go with no baby.
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Or no Patriot Scouts, man, or the building.
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Hey, got to have a little respect for the glory days, right?
If we can't forget those times, man.
Starting a little bit, look a little bit further in the rearview these days, man.
Yeah, yeah, tough outing for him in North Carolina right off the roof there in week one.
But not here to talk college football.
We are here to talk NFL and Debra, I got to ask, man, is there one thing without spoiling the rest of the program that really stuck out to you when kind of looking through week one usage or production trends?
I think a lot of guys were really close or could have had big games, but they didn't because
whether certain plays didn't go their way, they didn't get the usage they probably should
have considering the matchups and stuff.
But I think, I think week two is going to be a reckoning.
I think we're going to see some things kind of go back to the center of guys that probably
should have had big games in week one.
But because of the lag time, we might get that in week two, Seth.
Yeah, it's always, Derek, one of those situations.
where you don't want to overreact to what you see in week one,
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So, D-Bro, let's go ahead.
Let's jump right into it with your must-start quarterback for week two of the season.
Dude, it's got to be Dak Prescott.
He is a QB-12 and ECR right now, and I know I'm kind of cheating because I was supposed to, you know,
the crooks of this video is to pick somebody outside the top 10, and he's right there
in the border line.
But this all comes back to one of discussing about players that should have had a big game
and things didn't go their way.
Dak Prescott has to be the poster guy for this.
Like he is the one leading the conversation.
When you're a quarterback that led the NFL in yards lost in week one due to drops with 61
passing yards lost.
And we can talk about multiple touchdowns lost because whether it was Dak not, you know,
hitting a scene ball perfectly or guys dropping it or bang, bang plays and then not holding
on, that was so close to a monster game.
And I'm going right back to the well, man.
Like looking at Dak Prescott again, sixth and catchable target rate, third and hero.
throw rate in week one. You marry this with the Giants defense and secondary that really didn't
they didn't show up, man. They weren't this defense that we thought we were going to get this year in
2025. And I know, again, it's one game. But I think Dak Prescott comes ready this week, man. Like the
secondary for the Giants just didn't hold up great last week. I know it was versus Jayden Daniels,
but Dak Prescott is still incredibly talented. Dallas is going to be chucking the ball. And the
giant secondary last week gave up the 11th highest yards per attempt. And for his,
good as this defensive line is supposedly going to be this year, Seth, had the eighth lowest pressure rate last week.
So, Back Prescott should have time in the pocket.
As long as C.D. Lamb doesn't drop every target thrown his way, should have a big game.
Yeah, the big question I think, as you alluded to there, is will the New York Giants front get to this younger Dallas Cowboys offensive line?
Who I will say they played really well in that opening game against the Eagles.
obviously Jalen Carter, you know, throwing himself out of that game early in that one, I think help.
But, you know, the Tyler's, the Gaitons, the Smiths, the bookers on that offensive line really held in themselves up well.
And I'm not afraid of this giant secondary at all.
So if Dak Prescott has the time and C.D. Lamb can make some catches and George Pickens can get a couple calls going his way.
Nobody gets worse calls in the NFL than George Pickens, by the way.
I mean, this guy has lost so many yards and touchdowns over the years to some pass and interferences or, you know, bad calls.
Steelers homerism kind of seeping into the show quite early.
Man, geez.
Thought we would have gotten like take four or five before that possibly came up.
But hey, here we are.
Yeah, here we are, baby.
But Dak Prescott is in for Debrough at the must start quarterback position.
Let's move to running backs where you're in on a different Denver Broncos running back here in week number two.
Dude, I feel like Sean Payton is just designed to hurt me.
Last week I talked about RJ Harvey Harvey and nobody.
Nobody out there.
And I see you all in the comments.
comments and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like, nobody thought the Denver backfield was going to enter week one as a three-headed
committee.
Like, Tower Beatty being part of this was not in the cards at all.
And so, you know, the Harvey call, like, come on.
He was the best guy on the field last week for the Denver Broncos.
I would have put his name back in here, but like, I don't know what his snap share looks
like in week two, whereas I'm going to go with J.K. Dobbins here.
RB 27 and ECR, I think he honestly should be.
an RB2 in rankings this week.
And looking at what his role is,
while like we're still trying to figure out,
okay, Sean, use RJ Harvey.
Come on. Come on.
Do it.
Do it now.
We know what J.K. Dobbins is going to do in this backfield.
And that was very apparent in week one.
Play 53% of the snaps led the backfield and snaps saw all three of the team's
red zone carries.
Yep.
As got 18 touches.
So you're talking about a player that probably ends up somewhere in that 15 to 17 touch
count.
most of that being on early downs.
He's going to get the money touches near the goal line.
He looked good on a per carry basis.
He had a 19% mistackles forced rate, 2.63 yards after contact per attempt.
And with Bo Nix's struggles, this is another thing just looking at in my mind's eye of how this game could go.
I think Denver could lean on their ground game this week with Bo Nix struggling out the gate.
Indy, like, they just absolutely crushed the dolphins last week.
So we really didn't see the dolphins able to really just invest in the running.
game lean on the running game because they were down bad and down bad quickly that we just didn't
see it but this is also an indie run defense set that last we gave up the highest yards of
contact per attempt the sixth highest rushing success rate and they had the 11th lowest stuff rate
so if Denver wants to lean into the ground game with Harvey and Dobbins this week they should be
able to do it man with a lot of success yeah we need Tyler baddie out of there I'm so sick of
whether it's him or whether it's, you know, in the past,
been Juliel McLaughlin.
There's always this third guy just taking a couple of these snaps and taking a couple
targets away.
I think it's going to happen, but I don't know if it happens this week for Harvey.
I think you just come to a point where you've got to play your better players.
And Dobbins and Harvey are both a step ahead of him, in my opinion.
And Derek, I really have a lot of respect for this call because, you know,
we have to be willing as fantasy analysts and managers to adjust our priors.
And I think you and I and a lot of us here at FAA.
were very high on Harvey this offseason.
But right now it's one of those situations where it looks like Sean Payton is going to trust
the steadier hand, the older veteran here in J.K. Dobbins, the 53% of snaps, they bowed and
tell that story, as well as those red zone stats that you're talking about as well.
So, you know, I think a lot of respect coming your way to just correcting, you know,
maybe some of our earlier thinking here.
And I think there is still a day for RJ Harvey.
I just don't think it's here in week two.
Yeah, I agree.
And I think this backfield is going to evolve as we move.
the season. I think Harvey is going to still be the leader of this backfield. And I never said
that Dobbins wasn't going to have a role in this backfield. I always thought he was going to
have an early down role because Harvey wasn't a guy that I thought Sean Payton was going to load up
with 25 carries or 25 touches on a weekly basis. So I always thought this is going to be a split
backfield. But yeah, man, like I think Harvey's eventually going to own the backfield in the sense
of like he's not like Tyler Bodez is going to go away. I think this is going to be a two-headed
at backfield.
But yes,
Dobbins right now,
the matchup is there,
the workload is there,
and people need to sit here
and wake up.
Like, again,
he's still being ranked
as an RB3.
I think that's wrong,
man.
I think that his workload is safe.
And I think you're looking
at a floor of 12 touches
and probably more
of like a median of 15 to 17.
And if he's getting the guy,
like the red zone carries,
then you're looking at 15 to 17
with touchdown equity.
That's an RB2, dude.
Let's move to your second must start
running back here,
Derek.
and it's a player that I think a lot of fantasy managers are going to have a hard time trusting after a very dud, not only in week one, but in the opener there on Friday night.
So I'm going to caveat this with there is some risk here, and I'm not going to shy away from that because the risk we saw, I mean, it's prevalent based off of what happened on week one, Seth.
And that's Isaiah Pacheco.
So he's RB 32 in ECR.
So like the ECR is, you know, I mean, the ranking itself shows you that there is risk.
here with people ranking him as an RB3.
There's RB2 top 15 upside if you're playing Pacheco this week.
Now, I'm not going to say the downside is not there because what we saw in week one could
easily happen in week two.
If the game script goes sideways, the Eagles put up a ton of points and the chiefs find themselves
trailing.
And the other part of this is Andy Reid wants to Andy Reed as hard as he can Andy
read and just go away from the running game when last week it was working.
but Casey it's like,
I just don't understand if you're the chiefs.
Okay, the game is not out of reach.
It's close.
You're having a lot of success
running the ball on the ground with Pacheco.
And yet you lose worthy
and you think the idea is that we need to sit here
and win this game by feeding 16 targets to Hollywood Brown.
I can't square that.
And I'm not saying that this doesn't go sideways for Pacheco.
But if Casey does what I think they should do
and leans on their ground game this week,
and Pacheco is spearheading that,
he's going to walk away with a really strong day.
Seth, for, look, 51% of the snaps last week,
he only got seven touches and 28 total yards.
I'm not telling anybody that's great.
If they would have given him more of the backfield
and more of the touches last week,
he would have had a much stronger game.
On a per touch basis, he looked good, dude.
20% missed tackle rate 3.2 yards at a contact per 10th,
and I know I'm talking about at five carries,
but still, he did look good in the work.
that he got.
And Philly,
you can attack them
on the ground,
man.
Six lowest stuff
rate in week one.
Seventh highest charge
of to contact per attempt
allowed.
So if you're KC,
the way that I think
they should attack this game,
and I'm not saying,
don't throw the freaking ball.
I understand that they're going to have to pass.
But they need to come out
and they need to lean on the run,
chew up some clock,
keep the Eagles offense off the field
and use Pacheco.
And I'm not one of these old boomers.
I'm like,
oh, establish the run.
But they should be running the ball.
and they should feature Pacheco this week.
If they do that, he's going to have a good game.
Yeah, I mean, we saw Javante Williams last week fall into the end zone twice against the Eagles.
Obviously, Jalen Carter, again, not in that mix.
And, you know, I've kind of been pretty vocal that I never thought Pacheco was going to have
this 70 to 80% snap share that he was seeing early last year.
But how did the Eagles win that Super Bowl?
Well, the Chiefs just didn't run the ball, man.
They had, you know, I think Pacheco and Kareem,
hunt both, you know, combined for under 10 carries in that Super Bowl game back in February.
So it's very dangerous if they want to continue to let the Eagles chew clock of their own.
I think you fight fire with fire here.
And it could be a good situation for him.
I just hope he's getting a little bit more of the share there.
But it does look like it is a little bit of a three-headed monster there.
Your guy, Richard Smith, even, you know, popping in and out a little bit here and there.
So I am excited.
And like, I think this is one of those situations without worthy, without Rishie Rice.
like Pacheco in my opinion is their second best offensive player outside of Patrick Mahomes
and you know kind of depending what you feel about Travis Kelsey right now.
Yeah.
I mean, plus five check, Travis Kelsey like in a game where worthy goes out, he's basically a ghost.
He's yelling at their offensive line.
None of it look good.
Like they come on man, Super Bowl rematch.
They got, they can't get boxed here.
They cannot get absolutely just crushed here.
and if they decide to try to go pass heavy and do all this stuff,
they probably are, but we'll see how it goes.
I think Pacheco could still walk away with a good game, though.
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All right, D, bro, we're on to your must start wide receivers for week number two of the
NFL season, and you're going back to the well with someone you were high on coming into
week one.
I mean, it didn't leave, let us down in week one, man.
It was one of the good calls of the week.
And I don't understand what people are looking at to rank Keenan Allen as the wide
receiver 38 and ECR.
Like, what did you see out of the Chargers offense people?
Right.
to rank Keenan Allen as a wide receiver four going into week two.
He was the wide receiver 10 in fantasy last week.
He led the chargers in targets.
Among 77 qualifying wide receivers, Seth, Keenan Allen, 23rd in separation, 10th in route
win rate.
He had a 26.5% target share, 2.1 yards per route run.
And this week he gets a Raider secondary that gave up.
the eighth most fantasy points and the ninth most receiving yards to wide receivers in week one,
and I'm not scared to any corner on that freaking depth chart.
Fire up Keenan Allen as a wide receiver too with confidence this week.
All in, dude.
Yeah, I mean, I loved the route participation last week.
I loved the Target share form as well.
And it was something that you hit on in the offseason.
I think we were doing a lot of our Q&As over there on Twitch.tv slash fantasy pros is that
Keenan Allen has this trust of Justin Herbert.
he has the trust of this organization.
And not dust.
He's not dust.
No, no.
And we saw it down the stretch last year.
We saw it in week one.
And this is the same Raiders secondary that while I like their up front pass rush presence,
I don't trust this secondary.
I mean, we saw a booty last week go for over 100 yards on six receptions.
Stefan Diggs, even though he didn't look at 100% wasn't playing a ton.
Still double-digit fantasy points for him.
DeMario Douglas had seven targets in that game as well.
Didn't really make anything do with them.
But I think there's big games waiting.
for really all the Chargers past catchers
and for Keenan Allen to be ranked this low
feels like a bit of a miss,
I don't want to say a mishap,
but definitely an overlook by some of the rankers.
Yeah, it definitely is, man.
But again, we talked about this in draft season
when I said as soon as they signed Keenan Allen,
ADP wasn't going to catch up
to where Keenan Allen should be getting drafted.
And it still hasn't caught up.
People are not putting enough respect on his name.
And it's like, bro, like just throw all the priors into the trash.
Like all the Greg Roman stuff, people in the offseason, they're like, oh, they won't be pass heavy.
Greg Roman never does that, although we did it for a 10 game stretch last season.
They won't do that again.
They come out firing Justin Herbert is in must start territory.
He's in the top six quarterbacks ranked for the week.
And people are like, oh, Ladd McConkey's a wide receiver one.
But Keenan Allen can't start him.
He's a wide receiver four.
Come on, dude.
People got to adjust.
He's going to crush again this week.
I'm so glad we had that conversation.
the preseason about, hey, maybe Ladd McConkey isn't the set in and forget it wide receiver one that we
are drafting him, you know, most that early best ball season because Keenan Allen is in the mix and it was
something we had to take account for. And I moved guys like JSN above him in my rankings. And I'm very
happy after week one I did just based on the usage. But Derek, I did allude to him earlier. You're going
after one of these Patriots wide receivers that a lot of talk on the internet about this guy because,
you know, one time ago, uh, he was projected first round pick in the NFL draft, suffered some injuries
late in his career at LSU that really pushed him downboards and, you know, made him fall to
the New England Patriots.
Yeah, going to Kisham Butte here, Widerceiver 53 and ECR.
And this comes down to like, yeah, like we could talk about all the things that happen as a
prospect, off the field stuff, crappy testing when he should have listened to his agent and said like,
oh, don't run.
Don't run.
Yeah.
You're slow and you know you're slow, don't run.
Just don't do it.
You know, but looking at him this week, man, like I do nothing about the Dolphin's
secondary strikes fear into my heart.
And what Keshon Boutet did in week one, I think it's more real than it is fake in the sense
that, yeah, he only earned a 17.4% target share.
But he led the team in first reach here with 23.3%.
So I think easily this week, like considering the matchup and stuff, we could see his target
share creep into the 20s, the mid-20s, if everything goes right, man, put up 2.58 yards
per route run.
His separation score look good.
His route win rate, the deeper metrics that I'll look at to evaluate wide receiver play,
both were really, really good.
and honestly, Seth,
maybe we didn't give him enough credence
for what he did at the big end of last season two.
Myself included, man.
Like, I didn't even write him up in the primer
because I didn't know if he was going to be a starting
wide receiver in week one.
And then I went back and I was writing up this week.
And I was like, he really had some good games
down the back half of last year.
Like week 16 through 18 last year.
I really, like, we got to give this through his flowers
and talk about how this isn't just a one-off game.
This started last year.
Week 16 through 18.
He had a 20.
21.3% target share. He had 2.79 yards per route run and a 25.8% first read share. Those are all
incredibly strong metrics. So you marry that three game sample with what we saw in week one.
You got a four game sample, which is almost a quarter of a season and you're like, okay, maybe this isn't
smoking mirrors. Maybe this is real. And I'm more on the real side than the fake side with looking
at his production. If he does it two games in a row, yeah, dude, I'm, I'm, I'm in. And I mean,
what, what corner from Miami or is, did anybody be worried about? For a secondary, they gave up the
seven most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers in week one. And I know a one game
sample, but please tell me, are you worried about a Dolphins corner this week, Seth?
No, I'm not. And the interesting thing about a prospect like this is when he came into the NFL,
I think we all thought he was just going to be someone who probably, you know, floats around a bench and is just kind of a jagget, if you would.
And late last season, you said it, over 7.5 ppr points in the stretch down there in five last 10 games.
So he was at least giving you a floor.
And I think when you look at this New England Patriots pass catcher group, he's locked into that flanker roll, right?
Like, I think he's going to man that a ton because it's really Mack Hollins, who's kind of been in and out of the ex with Stefan Dig, splitting time as he's getting back.
And of course, he had Pop Douglas there in the song.
nothing burger right now.
Like he's not even running,
he didn't even run 10 routes last week.
See,
people don't need to worry about him either.
Yeah,
so I think like,
I trust booty at this point more than I think I do with someone like
Stefan Diggs.
I really do just because I think he's going to be out there more.
And he obviously has a connection with Drake May.
And I think that was an oversight on yourself,
on myself,
and really everyone in the fancy community this offseason,
not giving him enough credence.
Yeah, dude,
I think it's just one of these situations where it was kind of like easy for
him to kind of get lost in the sauce.
of it when it's like they added Stefan Diggs he's getting the headlines we think he's going to be
number one they added a Mac Hollins they added a talented rookie and Kyle Williams yep and then everybody
goes to pop Douglas and they say oh the new england slot role with josh McDaniels oh yesterday year slot
receivers and then it's like with all of those narratives and other guys we're talking about
none of us were talking about kha shan bute none of us myself included and so yeah i think he just got
lost in the mix lost in the equation and when you're looking at that you're looking at
at all these other guys and I'm like, okay, yeah, but they made all these additions.
So isn't that also kind of an indictment on Kayshan Boutet?
Yeah.
And Kisham Bouttee, like in week one was like, uh, uh, uh, and he came back and he, I mean,
showed the rapport that he had last year with Drake May.
And I, again, I think that's more real and there's more substance to that than it is
fools gold.
Let's stick with the Newland pass catchers here while they head to South Beach.
Yeah.
Who do you have here for your must start tight end of week?
Number two.
Man, two pats, what could go wrong?
I know my Patriots takes did not age well,
like milk in the sun from week one.
But I back in on a man.
I honestly would have picked Drake May for this
and gone a few different directions
if he wasn't QB10 in ECR right now.
But this is partially a Miami Dolphins take
where I'm not scared about their defense at all.
And number two, it's gone under the radar too.
And I know Hunter Henry is ECR.
He's tied in 12 right now.
I think that's more of a reflection of all
of the injuries at the tight-end position
than it is Hunter Henry
people putting respect on his name
when looking at the tight-in position
because a lot of people are out there like
oh man am I going to play Brenton Strange
am I going to play Harold Fanon
all these other guys off of the waiver wire
before Hunter Henry and I'm like
oh no he should be a tight-in one this week
he should be a top 10 option honestly
because if you look at Hunter Henry
his usage in week one was fantastic dude
17.4% target here at 1.1.8
eight three yards per route run. He had 66 receiving yards. So like, if you would have added a
touchdown, he'd have been a top five tied in for the freaking week. But because he didn't score a
touchdown, it's kind of going under the radar just a little bit. He also got a 20% first
reach here that was tied for second on the team. And now we match this up against the defense for
the dolphins that, look, I talked about they cannot stop any wide receivers. They can't stop tight ends either.
And this is even going back to last year. They allowed the 12th most receiving yards and the 12th most
fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends last year.
Hunter Henry should be a top 10 tight end.
He has top five to six upside this week.
If he gets in the end zone.
Yeah, I mean, Miami, they allowed Tyler Warren to have the top five day last week at the position.
Tyler Warren looked like a freaking stud.
Shout out to you for your, what did you have in top five in the offseason?
Yeah, I had four.
Four overall.
Yeah.
Shout out to you, man.
Yeah.
Talk about some Cajones, but the call is looking pretty good for you, Seth.
I'm feeling good.
I'm feeling good with that Penn State bias aside.
And Derek, the thing about Hunter Henry that's funny here is I've always compared him a bit to like a toxic X you keep going back to and eventually they keep burning you.
But the interesting thing here is we're seeing the usage, right?
93%.
We weren't seeing that in terms of Snapshare last year.
I think there's a clear division that he is the best tight end on this team.
For years, they kept trying to give us different tight ends in the mix there.
Austin Hooper is just a guy, right?
Like he's going to be out there.
He's going to help block sometimes.
And Drake May, man, some of his best things.
throws on the day. I know some of his
passes were very errant, but some of the best
ones were to Hunter Henry. I don't know if you saw that
sliding one that he got.
I did. I was on the move. That was excellent.
I did. Go ahead. Go ahead.
No, I was just saying, I am excited
about Hunter Henry, but it just feels
it feels wrong still. Like, I'm going
back and I'm going to get cheated on again
or something. Shoot, man.
I don't think it's going to happen. And the last
point I'll make, and for everybody, it's like, dude,
you're bringing up two Patriots.
Can we also talk about the volume should be
there to support multiple pass catchers this week for a Patriots offense that came out and passed
at a top five rate.
None of us saw that coming.
No,
none of us saw that coming.
So that also needs to be discussed here too in the sense that, yes, I picked two New
England Patriots.
The passing volume will be there this week for an offense that, like, I thought they were
probably going to come out and be middle of the road on passing rate in week one.
And Josh McDaniel said, oh, no, baby, we're going to chuck it around the yard.
their top five again this week.
Both these guys have like seven to ten target upside this week.
Yeah, I'm excited to see if some of that stuff is sticky right there.
I mean, just all across the league between the high scoring game and the Steelers Jets one in week one.
It was really interesting to see some of those trends.
So we'll see what's sticky here.
But Debrough, appreciate all your analysis and insight that is going to do it for us on this episode of the Fancy Pro's Fancy Football Podcast.
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