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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show fantasy football takes on Jaylen Waddle

Every source-backed podcast insight STACKED has extracted from The Ringer Fantasy Football Show about Jaylen Waddle.

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All The Ringer Fantasy Football Show insights about Jaylen Waddle

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Jalen Waddle is 'clearly the best highest upside player you could draft in this range' at wide receiver 24 (mid-fourth round, ~47th overall pick), going behind Mike Evans. Despite historical frustration with Waddle's projection-to-production gap (the 'Waddle model': projected 12, scores 7), the source believes 'it's more likely that he overperforms over expectation this year than not.' The key uncertainty is Sean Payton's snap allocation philosophy; last year Sutton had 85% of snaps while the next closest was 58%, but Waddle is 'obviously a different level talent wise.' The source argues 'You could argue that's because no one was good enough to earn 80% of the snaps. So maybe this is the year where it's Sutton and Waddle and everybody else kind of rotates.' Davis Webb is now the offensive coordinator (not Payton calling plays early in the season), which the source views as a potential mitigating factor against Payton's unpredictable rotation tendencies.
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