2026 Fantasy Football WR Rankings: The Biggest Values, Sleepers & Busts with Pat Daugherty (Ep. 2161)
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35 min
Duration
Estimated from transcript
Aug 30, 2026
Published
Sun, August 30, 2026
15
Player insights
14
Players mentioned
Topics
Jameson WilliamsAlec PierceChris GodwinChristian WatsonDavante AdamsEmeka EgbukaKayshon BoutteLuther BurdenMakai LemonMalik NabersRashee RiceStefon DiggsTetairoa McMillanWan'Dale Robinson
Player analysis
Player insights
Alec Pierce
NegativeValue28:06
Pat Daugherty and Fitzy advise waiting until the double-digit rounds to draft Alec Pierce, noting that he has yet to catch 50 passes in a season and is currently missing training camp time.
Insight pageChris Godwin
NegativeValue27:07
Pat Daugherty leans slightly toward Chris Godwin over Stefon Diggs, noting that the Buccaneers seem committed to keeping Godwin on the field for every play, despite concerns about his post-injury performance.
Insight pageChristian Watson
PositiveBreakout27:17
Pat Fitzmaurice identifies Christian Watson as a high-upside breakout candidate who could finish as a WR1. Despite injury history, Watson averaged 17.5 yards per catch and 2.28 yards per route run in 10 games last year. With Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks gone, Fitzmaurice expects more concentrated targets for Watson in a Packers offense that may be forced to pass more due to defensive personnel changes.
Insight pageDavante Adams
NegativeValue15:05
Pat Fitzmaurice and Pat Daugherty believe Davante Adams is ranked too high as a WR2. Adams is 33 years old and was heavily touchdown-reliant last season, leading the league with 14 TDs on a 23.3% catch rate. Fitzmaurice notes his yards per game (56.4) were at a career low, and expects the Rams' improved defense and a more mature Blake Corum to lead to fewer passing attempts and touchdowns for Adams.
Insight pageEmeka Egbuka
NegativeInjury30:30
Pat Daugherty and Fitzy believe Emeka Egbuka will be ready for Week 1 despite conflicting reports from the coaching staff, though Fitzy has dropped him slightly in his rankings due to the uncertainty.
Insight pageJameson Williams
PositiveValue21:16
Pat Daugherty and Fitzy both express confidence in Jameson Williams, with Fitzy ranking him ahead of Christian Watson and Daugherty targeting him as a WR3 with top-24 upside.
Insight pagePositiveValue32:05
Pat Daugherty highlights Jameson Williams as a solid value pick, noting that he has back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and is often criticized for what he hasn't done rather than his consistent floor. Daugherty believes Williams is still progressing and, as a WR3, offers significant upside to finish as a top-24 wide receiver if he secures a few more blow-up games.
Insight pageKayshon Boutte
PositiveSleeper29:42
Pat Daugherty suggests Kayshon Boutte is worth a late-round flyer (13th-14th round) now that he is the clear number two receiver on his team, despite the team's overall offensive concerns.
Insight pageLuther Burden
NegativeInjury21:46
Fitzy likes Luther Burden as a player but notes that his aggressive playing style leads to taking many hits, which creates an injury risk.
Insight pageMakai Lemon
PositiveSleeper22:04
Fitzy and Pat Daugherty are high on Makai Lemon as a sleeper outside the top 36, citing his college production, route running, and the Eagles' need for a receiver. Daugherty notes that while the Eagles' offense has question marks, Lemon could finish in the top 30 or 24.
Insight pageMalik Nabers
PositiveValue13:58
Pat Fitzmaurice and Pat Daugherty both view Malik Nabers as undervalued. Fitzmaurice notes that a healthy Nabers belongs in the elite tier with players like Justin Jefferson and CeeDee Lamb. Daugherty adds that the panic surrounding Nabers' injury, specifically a cleanup procedure following a torn ACL, was overblown and that his ADP drop in June and July was an overreaction to standard rehab sequencing.
Insight pageRashee Rice
NegativeValue3:39
Pat Fitzmaurice argues Rasheed Rice is ranked too high at WR12/13, citing the Chiefs' offensive decline over the last three years (yards per play dropped from top-5 to 25th) and the likelihood of a more run-heavy approach following the investment in Kenneth Walker. Fitzmaurice expects fewer screen passes to Rice and increased deep shots to other receivers, making it difficult for Rice to pay off his current cost despite a safe floor of 1,000 yards and 80 receptions.
Insight pageStefon Diggs
NegativeValue27:12
Fitzy prefers Stefon Diggs over Chris Godwin, but Pat Daugherty expresses caution, noting that Diggs' efficiency last year may have been inflated by managed snaps and it is unclear how he will be deployed this season.
Insight pageTetairoa McMillan
NegativeProjection25:31
Pat Daugherty and Fitzy view Tetairoa McMillan as a solid WR2 (ranked around 16-18) for the upcoming season, noting that while he is talented, the Panthers' offensive situation and Bryce Young's development may limit his immediate ceiling.
Insight pageWan'Dale Robinson
PositiveUsage23:22
Pat Daugherty highlights Wan'Dale Robinson as a high-floor PPR asset who could finish in the top 30 again due to his reunion with offensive coordinator Brian Daboll in Tennessee, which should lead to a high target volume.
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Episode Transcript
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0:20Thank you so much, brother. Yeah, but as I was like getting set and prepping, I saw you live on.
0:26And it's great to have you. And we're going to be talking about wide receiver rank.
0:31So we moved from the RB. So the same thing applies here for this episode.
0:36Wide receiver questions in the chat. We will save some time at the end so we can answer some of your wide receiver-based questions.
0:43Whatever those might look like. We are going to take a look at the big board.
0:48And Pat has picked out some specific names. Unfortunately, I can't say Pat here because we got too much.
0:54I know. We got too much Pat here. We got Roto Pat.
0:58We got Fit. There's too many so I'm going to have to be a little bit more specific.
1:04But Fitzy, you're going to have to just take on Fitzy.
1:07Fair. And then Patrick is going to take Pat or Patrick.
1:11I'll use both of those. But Patrick, you will be reacting to some of the ones that we've picked here.
1:17So let's look at the big board. We are using ECR Fantasy Pros Expert Consensus Ranks for the top 12 wide receivers.
1:24This is half PPR. You guys can go and check it out yourself.
1:28And the big board looks as such. Jamar Chase coming in at one.
1:32Puka Nakua at two. Jackson Smith and Jigba at three.
1:35Amonar St. Brown, CeeDee Lamb, that's your top five.
1:38Justin Jefferson at six. Drake London, AJ Brown, Nico Collins, George Pickens, Chris Olave, and Rasheed Rice.
1:43That is the top 12. So looking at the wide receiver ones, just like we did in the RB episode, Fitzy, which wide receiver is too high?
1:52Which wide receiver do you not like at cost right now, just like we did with our B's?
1:58Who are you going to single out? First of all, just want to say great to have my buddy Pat here with
2:05us, especially since, you know, Roto World's got him working 80 hour weeks this time of year.
2:10He's got a house full of little kids who are probably breaking things as I speak right now.
2:16So very nice of him to make time for us.
2:19For me, it's Rasheed Rice. And I keep thinking of that quote about how the definition of his insanity is doing the
2:26same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
2:29And I'm not talking about Rasheed Rice getting into serious legal trouble by causing a multi car crash and fleeing the sea
2:36and then getting thrown into jail for violating his probation by smoking pot right after having cleanup surgery on his knee.
2:42No, I'm actually talking about the Chiefs offense and the insanity of continuing with the same offensive MO when your offense has
2:49been no better than average for the last three years, which by the way, coincides with the arrival of Rasheed Rice in Kansas City.
2:57Curious. Yeah, Mahomes averaged 8.1 yards per pass attempt his first five seasons and was just shy of averaging 4800 passing yards a year over that stretch.
3:05Last three years, 7.0 yards per pass attempt and averaged about 1000 fewer passing yards per year.
3:11His first five seasons as a start of the Chiefs ranked first, second, third, fifth and first in yards per play.
3:17The last three years, ninth, 21st and 25th. Not a favorable trend to the credit of Chiefs GM Brett Veach, the man
3:24who once bypassed Jonathan Taylor to draft Clyde Edwards-Alaire.
3:27He recognized the need for some sort of offensive shakeup and gave a lot of money to Kenneth Walker.
3:33So I just I think it's reasonable to believe that the Chiefs are going to run the ball at a higher rate this year.
3:41They were the sixth pass heaviest team in the league last year.
3:44I also think it's reasonable to believe Kenneth Walker is going to play a role in the Chiefs screen game.
3:51We've already gotten reports indicating as much. And if Walker and the Chiefs other running backs are more involved in the screen
3:57game, probably means fewer screens to Rice. And we know that Andy Reid has dialed up a ton of screens to Rasheed Rice.
4:05So maybe if Walker runs the ball effectively, the Chiefs opponents are going to force to come out of those two high
4:12safety looks they've been using against the Chiefs so much.
4:15Maybe that means more deep shots to Xavier Worthy, Cyrus Allen, Taequann Thornton.
4:19I just think there's a good chance Rice is used a little less this season, in which case it might be hard
4:26for him to pay off on his current cost.
4:29Pat, you seem to you were kind of shaking your head.
4:32It looks like there's an agreement here. So, I mean, this might be easy, but is Rasheed Rice ranked too high in expert consensus ranks?
4:40It's first time a big podcast nodder. I like to really nod and agree.
4:44We were bobbleheading it earlier on this show. We're listening to JJ and we're just like, yep.
4:50Oh yeah, that's very understandable. Yeah. First up, not to derail us.
4:53I've somehow been in Pat's van twice, but I've never been on his podcast.
4:58This was so long overdue. And that you made it out.
5:01Congratulations. I did. Thank you so much for having me, but I was nodding a lot because you really were just preaching
5:08to the choir, Pat, where Rishi Rice too. Even if you ignored all the negatives, so many of the positives with Rishi
5:15Rice have happened in such small sample sizes. He's a small sample size superstar, where I feel like going on what age
5:2226, I believe we still just don't even entirely know what kind of player he is.
5:27Then almost comical red flags. Like typically I would prefer for my wide receiver one to not have spent part of the offseason rehabbing and literal jail.
5:36Like this is not something that I would typically invest in.
5:39I think the most important thing you said though, was about the investment in Kenneth Walker, the investment in the running game
5:46where the chiefs knew something had to give on offense.
5:49They had to invest in something. It's unfortunately, as they have learned the hard way over and over again, it's really difficult
5:56to augment your receiver core when you have all these like really highly paid linchpin players like the chiefs have, especially obviously, including Patrick Mahomes.
6:04And they knew they had to shake up something.
6:07I think they decided it was too difficult to overhaul the receiver core yet again.
6:12They get in relative terms compared to wide receiver, a bargain with Kenneth Walker, the third, I think they further signaled their
6:18intentions when they go back and reunite with Eric B enemy.
6:22The respected offensive mind is a really respected the run game mind.
6:26I just feel like there's a lot of smoke there as Patrick Mahomes comes back from the torn ACL.
6:32That's just going to be a more run heavy system than we're used to seeing.
6:36This is an inexcusably bad chiefs running game really over the past two or three years.
6:41And I just think all of it's kind of conspiring to put a pretty hard lid on Rasheed Rice.
6:47I don't think Rasheed Rice would be like a ruinous pick as your wide receiver 12 or 13 because the floor is
6:54probably still a thousand yards, probably still at least 80 receptions.
6:58I don't think he's going to kill your team.
7:01I just don't really think the upside is there with Rasheed Rice.
7:04And I think a lot of people like kind of tantalize themselves to the question, like just if we ever get 17
7:11games out of Rasheed Rice, look out. I just think it's going to leave people wanting when that actually finally does happen.
7:18He's very polarizing. If you go and look at our real time ADP again, we've talked a lot about that, but probably
7:25one of the more valuable just like get it to know tools that's happening as of recent the recency tool.
7:31He is wide receiver 16. So he's going off as a 16th wide receiver and half PPR according to real time ADP.
7:38But you go to projections. He's wide receiver number eight in fantasy pros projections where he is projected 97.9 receptions, almost 1100 yards and just under 10 touchdowns.
7:47So the polarizing spot of this is you've got ECR, you've got ADP, you've got projections.
7:52What side do you sit on? Well, the Pats kind of agree that this is a little bit of a concern here.
7:59So maybe you guys should as well. Let's go to wide receiver twos.
8:03We're going to go with this next group here as we're going to look at 13 through 24.
8:09The list Malik neighbors comes in at 13 Devonta Smith at 14 Zay Flowers, Tedaro McMillan, T Higgins, Lad McConkie, Emeka Egbuka
8:16at 19 Jalen Waddle at 20 Garrett Wilson, Terry McLaurin, Devonta Adams and Luther Burden.
8:20This is going to be a positive and a negative.
8:24So, Mr. Pat Fitzmaurice, you're positive in that you think this guy should be ranked higher and you're negative that this guy
8:31is ranked too high at the wide receiver spot in this tier are who?
8:35I sort of filibustered on Rishi Rice. I'll keep these short.
8:38Um, so Malik neighbors positively, like it's easy to understand why neighbors is listed as a tier two guy.
8:44We have to bake in the injury risk, but a healthy Malik neighbors is probably right up there with Jackson Smith and Jigba.
8:52I'm in Ross St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, CD lamb.
8:54And I think he'd be ahead of Drake London and AJ Brown.
8:58So if neighbors is healthy and the reports have been pretty positive lately, um, maybe he's underpriced and then negative Devonta Adams,
9:05who look, I'm a, I'm a Packer fan. Devonta Adams is awesome.
9:09It wouldn't be shocking if he were awesome again this season.
9:12He's 33 though, turns 34 being before the end of the season and a big percentage of his 2025 production came on touchdowns.
9:20Like I realized that Adams is one of the best red zone receivers of this era.
9:25Like I used to joke that the Packers goal linebacker was Devonta Adams, but last year's touchdown rate was crazy.
9:31Even by his standards, uh, led the league with 14 TD catches scored a touchdown on 23.3% of his catches and 12.3% of his targets.
9:39Uh, 4.3 catches and 56.4 receiving yards a game though, his lowest totals in those two categories since his second year in
9:46the league, Matthew Stafford average 35 passes a game.
9:49Last season probably isn't going to need to throw as much this year.
9:53Now that the Rams have miles Garrett and all this additional defensive talents.
9:57I just see more upside, uh, more downside than upside for Devonta.
10:01So Pat, do you think that Devonta Adams is too high and Malik neighbors is too low?
10:06And then you're welcome. If there is another player that you think maybe qualifies in one of those that you really feel strong about, please do.
10:14But Adams too high neighbors to know too low by yourself.
10:17Yeah. Not to come on and just be a parent, but just agreeing with everything Pat says and Malik neighbors, the injury,
10:24the way his injury news was sequenced, I think really affected the ADP because the news of the second surgery got reported kind of late.
10:32And you never want to hear a guy undergoing a second operation after a torn ACL, but it's also not that uncommon.
10:39Like it was just a cleanup procedure. After a major procedure.
10:43Um, it's not like it's standard, but it's also not abnormal.
10:46This isn't as big of a red flag as I think people thought it was.
10:51And if it had been reported earlier in the off season or occurred earlier in the off season, I don't know if
10:58it would have created this kind of panic that we had in June and July with Malik neighbors as ADP.
11:04And I think that's a great idea. Because the reality is it went down last week for, um, even by like 10
11:11or 15 years ago, NFL standards going down a week for being back to following week one would not be unusual.
11:18It's really not unusual in 2026. Everything is kind of suggests they're trying to dot their eyes and cross their T's with this rehab.
11:25And ever since this cleanup procedure, things have been proceeding on schedule and he's just everything you could look for in a
11:32wide receiver fantasy profile where he's the target dominator.
11:35He's a compiler, but he also has the big play potential.
11:38He's very little target competition, which is sometimes a negative when the defense can focus all their attention on you.
11:45But I think he's good enough. He will rise above that.
11:48I love the Malik neighbors ADP. I was taking him even when it was still unclear, which was very risky.
11:54I will admit. But I think neighbors is too low and Devante Adams just it's the wrong position to be touchdown reliant
12:01at you don't want to be touchdown reliant at wide receiver.
12:05It's of course great if you're a receiver and you score a million touchdowns, but you got to do more.
12:11And to Pat's point, you know, under 60 yards per game last year, he's 33 years old.
12:16The hamstrings aren't getting any younger. The Rams defense is going to be so much better.
12:21Blake Corum's another year matured into the system. I think Stafford's attempts are going to come way down.
12:27I definitely think Stafford's passing touchdowns are going to come way down.
12:31And that this wide receiver two is probably just a little too rich for Devante Adams, even if it's a low end
12:38wide receiver to real time ADP neighbors is. And this again, we're talking ECR, how the experts have them ranked.
12:44But if you look at ADP, real time ADP has neighbors at 11.
12:48So that's moved up and Devante Adams at 25.
12:51So the ADP and especially in the real side is kind of speaking to a lot of this.
12:57We're going to be doing wide receiver threes and a deeper play here in a minute.
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16:10These are the wide receiver threes. These are 25 through 36.
16:14Starting at 25, we've got Jamison Williams, Mike Evans at 26, Christian Watson, DJ Moore, Roma Dunze, Parker Washington, Carnell Tate, Marvin
16:21Harrison Jr., Brian Thomas Jr., DK Metcalf, Chris Godwin, and Cortland Sutton.
16:25So for this tier, which wide receiver can jump in to be a wide receiver two or possibly a wide receiver one?
16:32So the most upside, Fitzy, of any of these wide receivers, and who is that player?
16:37I'm going to say Christian Watson. And there were several times during the offseason we would have a show and I would
16:43talk up Christian Watson and our social media team would clip it and post it and tag me.
16:49And all of a sudden I'd have 29 notifications of people telling me Christian Watson was going to be injured by week three.
16:56And maybe that might happen, but he's a credit to the hate.
17:00But yeah, Watson did come back from an ACL tear last year and managed to get in 10 regular season games without re-injury.
17:07Actually, he did get banged up in the Broncos game in mid-December, but like even went to the hospital because there was
17:14some shoulder thing that seemed like it was really serious.
17:17Wound up playing the next week, but in his 10 regular season games last year, Watson averaged 17.5 yards a catch, 11.1
17:24yards per target, 2.28 yards per route run, produced at 1,000-yard 10-touchdown pace.
17:28I think there are going to be increased target opportunities now with Romeo Dobbs and Dontavian Wicks gone and just a tighter wide receiver rotation for the Packers.
17:37Watson is 6'4 and has 4'3", 6' speed, and it shows up on the field.
17:42Like this guy can fly, wins contested catches. Packers have been run heavy the last two years.
17:47They've been 31st and 22nd in pass rate over expected.
17:50What if Green Bay has to throw more this season with no Micah Parsons for the first half of the year?
17:57And what if the targets are more concentrated among fewer pass catchers?
18:01So I just, I think he has the potential to be special.
18:05I think this cost even sort of bakes in the assumption that he's going to miss a few games.
18:11But with a season of good health, I absolutely think he could be a wide receiver one.
18:16So Pat, do you agree that this, in this tier, 25 through 36, that Christian Watson is the guy that can make the biggest jump?
18:24Or do you have another player that you would also want to hit?
18:28So you're welcome, regardless, to talk on Christian Watson.
18:31But if you have someone that you like a lot more, please feel free to hit on that player.
18:37I do have another player, unfortunately a division rival for Pat.
18:40But I agree with the Watson bullishness because the case is pretty straightforward.
18:44We've never seen him stay healthy. At some point, he's going to appear in every game in an NFL season.
18:51And if he does that, he's kind of like a souped up Alec Pierce almost.
18:55Where I can really see him at least crashing the top 24, maybe not the top 12.
19:01But the big playability, the condensed targetry, like Pat said, which was the total focus of the Packers offseason, was making their
19:08offense simpler, including just who's going to get the ball.
19:11Talking about finishing better, which I think is translated to not being so conservative.
19:15Passing more, just upping their pass attempts a little bit.
19:18Maybe more down the field stuff for a guy like Christian Watson.
19:22So I definitely see the vision with Christian Watson.
19:25I would say for my choice, I'm going to go Jameson Williams, who I think a lot of times now in fantasy
19:32as a player is talked about more for the things he hasn't done than the things he has done.
19:38Like we haven't seen him take the final step.
19:41He's supposed to be so explosive, but he's just kind of been a thousand-yard guy.
19:45We haven't gotten like the true massive breakout that we think is possible.
19:49But I think he doesn't get enough credit for his floor.
19:53He's officially a thousand-yard guy. He's done it back-to-back seasons.
19:56He scores touchdowns at a fairly high rate for being someone who's not like a massive target commander, not a PPR-style player.
20:03Dan Campbell loves him. It seemed like Dan Campbell took over play-calling duties last year solely because he thought they weren't getting J-Mo the ball enough.
20:11Drew Petsing's there now. I know he supposedly runs the offense through the X receiver position.
20:16They're not going to not run their offense through Monros, St.
20:20Brown. But this is a guy who's still young, a guy who has made progress every year.
20:25I love the floor. I still believe in the ceiling potential for Jamison Williams.
20:29And if he does everything he did last year and has just one or two more blow-up games, you've got a pretty solid wide receiver two then.
20:38And I've loved getting him as my wide receiver three because I just really think he can finish as the top 24 guy at wide out.
20:46All right. So the final in this group that we're going to talk about is we're going to look outside the top 36.
20:53Fitzy, I want you to give me a wide receiver outside the top 36 that you think can not just beat their ECR.
21:00I mean, I want to say destroy it, but I don't know what level you're at.
21:05But someone that is going to beat their ECR outside the top 36.
21:10Who do you have for us? Yeah. Just real quick, I want to say I agree with Pat on J-Mo.
21:16I've actually got J-Mo ranked ahead of Christian Watson.
21:19But when he said division rival, I thought he was coming off the top rope with your University of Missouri guy, Pat.
21:26I thought you were bringing in Luther Burden. I thought it was going to the Bears too.
21:31That's what I thought. I love LB3, but his game lends itself to injury.
21:35I'm not saying he's injury prone. I'm saying the way he plays, he takes a lot of hits.
21:41I hear you. I hear you. So yeah, outside the top 36, Makai Lemon.
21:45And the Eagles traded up to draft him in the first round.
21:49The Eagles no longer have A.J. Brown. The Eagles no longer have Kevin Petillo.
21:54More importantly, as their offensive coordinator. I'm not sure why there is a more excitement about the potential upside for Lemon when,
22:01you know, he was the best college receiver last year.
22:04He won the Bolitnikoff Award. Averaged better than three yards per run against both man and zone.
22:09Runs good routes. Has crazy good hands. Very dangerous after the catch.
22:13I think this hamstring injury he's been dealing with has created a nice buying opportunity.
22:18And he's good to go now. He's back at practice.
22:21He's ready for week one. So it's going to be a slow roll up.
22:25But you don't need to start Makai Lemon the first couple of weeks of the season because he is being drafted outside the top 36 of the position.
22:34Pat, are you a Makai Lemon guy? Do you agree that this is someone that's going to break their ECR?
22:40I loved Makai Lemon as a prospect. He was probably my favorite receiver prospect.
22:45I really liked him and Casey Concepcion. I think the reason for the skepticism is just, is this Eagles offense just kind of at an end?
22:53Is the Jalen Hurts era kind of petering out?
22:56It's quite possible that it's not. And everyone's going to be a bargain in this offense, especially with the new OC.
23:02As Pat points out, I just think people are waiting to buy back in on the Eagles because they're wondering if this thing still has further to fall.
23:11It's kind of where I think the Eagles skepticism comes from.
23:14But I love Makai Lemon and would not be surprised at all if he finishes in the top 30, maybe even the top 24.
23:22My guy outside the top 36, I must say, and I do not take any pleasure in it really because I don't
23:29know how good of a player he really is.
23:32I just know that in fantasy, his game tends to translate to spam PPR points.
23:36Wondale Robinson, who wide receiver 13 by total PPR points last year.
23:40I know total is kind of misleading. We do per game, but he was 16 or 17 by per game.
23:47Just stunning, staggering stuff. Making way more money than I feel like people are giving him credit for or realize with how
23:53broken that Titans offense was and they're trying to build it back up.
23:58He has his old offensive coordinator, his old play caller, Brian Dable, now in Tennessee.
24:02And I just would not be surprised to see Wondale just get absolutely spammed with targets, finish in the top 30 again,
24:09and everyone's kind of like, yeah, probably should have seen that coming.
24:13That was pretty obvious in hindsight. And that's just what he does.
24:17We don't know how valuable it really is in real life, but we know it's valuable in fantasy.
24:22And I have a dangerous amount of Wondale Robinson, which isn't great.
24:26Typically, you want to be really invested in a player because you think they're awesome.
24:31I don't necessarily think Wondale is awesome, but I think what he does for fantasy is awesome.
24:36It does feel dirty, but those seven for 53 weeks add on.
24:40Yes, they do. They really, really, really do. They do warm my heart.
24:44I'm a big Wondale guy, 100%. We're going to answer some of your guys' questions, but let's talk about some giveaways.
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25:26Let's talk to some of the cool people here and let's talk about some wide receiver questions.
25:31Where does Tedaroa McMillan finish this year? Pat? Myself.
25:34Well, Tedaroa, love him as a player. A guy after that rookie season would normally be steamed so high.
25:40I just wouldn't be surprised with the overall state of the Panthers offense.
25:44Bryce Young, I know he's made incremental improvement the past two years.
25:48I kind of feel like he's maxed out and we're just going to get a disappointing repeat of Tedaroa McMillan's rookie season,
25:55which was, of course, anything but disappointing. I just think the leap for Tedaroa is probably going to come next year.
26:02Maybe it's not like a Drake-London path a little bit more.
26:05We know he's great. We know he's potentially special, but that his offensive circumstances just kind of conspire against him for the first few years of his career.
26:14And I'd say the 16 to 18 range feels right for Tedaroa.
26:18Maybe a spot or two lower. Probably not a spot or two higher.
26:22I think solid wide receiver two. I think in a more perfect world, it would be higher than that.
26:28A better quarterback situation. I just think kind of smack dab in the middle of the wide receiver two ranks.
26:34Fitzy, any quick Tedaroa? That's where I have him, wide receiver 17.
26:38But I wouldn't be totally shocked if he gave us a wide receiver one season because he came out as an early
26:45declare prospect, has a thousand yard season with a quarterback who averaged 6.4 yards per attempt.
26:50If there's any even incremental improvement by Bryce Young, we've probably hit the end of the road as far as that goes.
26:57Yeah, it wouldn't shock me if he had 1,300 yards.
27:00Let's go to Shane here. Godwin or Diggs? Which one do you like and which one is worth reaching in the seventh?
27:07Gave us some parameters. Two flex, two wide receiver.
27:09This is full PPR. Fitzy. I gotta go Diggs.
27:12I just, you know, two seasons ago we saw Chris Godwin's foot turn backwards, basically.
27:17I just, I don't know if he's ever going to be the same guy he was pre-injury.
27:22Mayfield did say he's the best Godwin he's seen as of recent, but you know, a lot of lip service out there,
27:29but JJ obviously talked about Diggs being a top 24 guy early in the show.
27:34So Pat, what do you think? Godwin or Diggs?
27:37I'm not really drafting either. Diggs was so efficient last year, but I think it was due in part because they rationed his snaps.
27:44The Bucs just seem to love Godwin so much.
27:47I think he's going to be out there probably every play.
27:51I don't know the same for Diggs. He should be.
27:54I just don't know that for sure if they might try to copy the way the Pats deployed him.
28:00I think I'll lean ever so slightly to Godwin.
28:03This is from Gil, let's say. Uh, earliest round you would take Alec Pierce, Pat.
28:07Wow. By the way, I wish I never clarified the Pat Fitzy thing.
28:11So I could have just kept saying Pat and you guys could have just like battled for it.
28:17I'm glad because I wanted to hear Doherty answer this one before I went.
28:21Yeah, Doherty's got it. What's his ADP? Eighth or ninth round?
28:25Yeah, ninth, I think. I'm waiting for a huge discount on Alec Pierce.
28:29So I guess if he gets the double digits, I mean, I get hung up on dumb things sometimes.
28:35Four years in the NFL and he still never caught 50 passes.
28:39I just don't know if his game's ever going to really change.
28:43And this kind of volatile game that he has, it's super valuable in real life.
28:47I wish there were more true field stretchers in the NFL like we saw when Pat and I were growing up.
28:54But I just kind of feel like he's due to run cold and missing training camp.
28:59He's behind, you know, Dana Jones supposedly healthy and fine.
29:02I would wait for a discount on Alec Pierce.
29:05So I guess I'm waiting till the double digit rounds.
29:08Fitzy? Same thing? Like, is he top 30 wide receiver?
29:11I'm with Pat. I want double digit rounds. But like, I thought the same thing when they gave him the bag.
29:18I figured he'd run a more complete route tree.
29:21But then you realize like what he does is actually really valuable as far as just like taking the top off the
29:28defense and that's kind of what they paid him to do.
29:31So I think it's just going to be more of the same with maybe less efficiency.
29:36All right, let's do two more quick ones. Pat, how far up the rankings are you moving Kayshawn Booty?
29:42Not particularly. Or you, Pat. Yeah, no, no. No, no, you guys did it.
29:46I didn't even try to do it. You guys did the thing.
29:50Yeah, Fitzy, you go, you go. There's finally a problem.
29:53I was going to give the same answers, Pat.
29:56Like, I thought it was kind of just a net neutral.
30:00Probably bigger role for a team that's going to throw less and has a worse quarterback.
30:05What I'll say on Booty is I think when he was on New England, he was probably going to go undrafted in most 12-team leagues, maybe 16-round leagues.
30:13Now where he's the clear number two, a team at a really acute need for him, I think he's at least in the mix for a late-round flyer.
30:22Like, before you get into the kicker defense territory, 13th, 14th round or whatever, I think you can justify taking a flyer on Kayshawn Booty.
30:30Okay, final one here. Are we getting nervous about Emeka at this point for the start of the season?
30:36A lot of that. Doherty. We didn't have that relationship together.
30:40So why don't I end it since we spent a good 30 minutes together.
30:44Doherty, you get to pick. Are you nervous about Emeka?
30:47I think the Abuka thing was poor sequencing of kind of a thinly-veiled coach smoke screen where he basically said, I'm good to go week one.
30:55And then Todd Bowles was like, we don't know if he's...
30:59I feel like Emeka Abuka kind of let the cat out of the bag.
31:03And then Todd Bowles maybe kind of wished he didn't let the cat out of the bag and wanted to restore this air of mystery to it.
31:12Famous last words, injury optimism can be a very dangerous thing.
31:15Scott Pianowski talks about that all the time. I think Abuka will be out there for week one, though.
31:21Fitzy? I lean that way, too. I have dropped him a couple of spots.
31:26There are a lot of receivers I like in that range.
31:29Devontae Smith, Jalen Waddle. I think I've dropped him below a couple of guys in that range.
31:34But I think I'll play, too. Wide receiver ranks in the books.
31:38Pat Fitzmaurice, thank you so much for joining us.
31:41Fitzy, it's been great. Guys, that is it for me.
31:44But here's a couple things. I don't want you to go anywhere because absolute banger is about to come up.
31:50No name issues here. All different names. And they're all amazing.
31:54But I do have to publicly say, I'm not going to be available here.
31:58And I feel bad earlier in the show. Not only did I kick off Seth Wilcock, I also called him Timu J.J.
32:05Zacharyson. I feel bad about all that. He is a Swiss Army knife.
32:09So if anything happens in the show, we officially can now break in case of emergency.
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32:17Break in case of emergency. Anything happens later in the show, Seth is going to be here for you.
32:23And he will be around for the after party.
32:26So make sure you do it. But I am out of here.
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32:42I wish I was here for it, but I got to go.
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