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FFT Express - WR CHAOS! Solving the 6 Most Confusing Wide Receiver Rooms! Cardinals, Bears, Raiders, Bucs, & More! (05/15 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Top 6 most confusing wide receiver rooms in the NFL right now on Fantasy Football Today Express. All right, we're going to go 654321 starting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the sixth, definitively the sixth most confusing wide receiver room in the NFL. How surprised would you be if Mecca Bucha were not the best wide receiver for the Bucks this year?
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Moderately. I mean, you have a proven guy in Chris Godwin who's had a great track record with Baker Mayfield and when he's been healthy, he's been awesome. So seemingly healthy last year coming off the ankle injury did not perform at the same level that we saw in 2024 or even at the start of 2025. But excuse me, 2024 before the injury. But we know what he's capable of and so Abuka, great start to his rookie campaign. Completely fell off a cliff after the first half of the season. And so you lose Mike Evans, which is hopefully great for both of those guys. But you add a promising rookie, at least based on the rookie minicamps and Ted Hurst, I don't expect him to do Mike Evans like things. I don't expect him to even be better than a book or Godwin. But you have Jalen McMillan, you have this young player. They could sort of wreck things for the top two guys.
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It's an interesting team because they play a lot. I know they have a new offensive coordinator again, but they have played a lot of three receiver sets. So that means McMillan's gonna play a lot unless they change things up. And what's that?
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It could be Hearst.
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Yeah. And so their offensive coordinator is from Atlanta, right? Am I?
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Yes. Zach Robinson was with the Falcons last
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year, and the Falcons played among the lowest amounts of three receiver sets last year.
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So they were good personnel and that matters. I mean, the Falcons receiving course, terrible.
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Absolutely. But offensive philosophy, Falcons 45 of the time had three or more receivers on the field. The Bucks 70% of the time. All right, that's. Number six is Tampa Bay. Number five is Arizona. Who do you think the best wide receiver on that team is?
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I still think It's Marvin Harrison Jr. And I know Michael Wilson did things last season that Harrison Jr. Has yet to accomplish at all in the first two years of his career. But I also think that Marvin Harrison may have done those things if he was healthy. So we got really three games of Marvin Harrison with Jacoby Brissette as the starter, and he averaged nearly 15 PPR points per game in those three games. So Wilson was just amazing when Harrison was not on the field. Wilson was very pedestrian when Harrison was there, especially when Harrison was healthy. So I always liked Michael Wilson as a player. I didn't think he was capable of being a fantasy performer like we saw last season, but he's done that now, so the expectations are raised. I also think the expectations have been a little out of control. You know, we. We talked about this a little bit on the full length episode Thursday. Like Keith said, he has Ashton Genti fatigue, I think it was, or ptsd, you know, drafting Genti too high. In regards to Jeremiah Love, we did the same thing with Marvin Harrison Jr. When he was coming into the NFL. Like, this is going to be a superstar wide receiver. They needed somebody desperately in this receiving core, and he just hasn't done that yet. But now he has the chance I think to sort of live up to the expectations that were out of whack and hopefully perform at the level that he was doing, if not better with the small sample size he had with Jacob set. So for me, it's Marvin Harrison. Yeah.
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And Harrison, look, Michael Wilson played better than Harrison has played in his entire career. In the second half of the season, Michael Wilson did. But in just what I, you know, think it's overlooked is that Marvin Harrison Jr. You look at weeks one through 10, that's when he was healthy. Except for the Colts game in week six, he played about 20 of the snaps. So weeks one through 10, removing the Colts game. In those games, Marvin Harrison, Jr. Get ready for this.
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He averaged over 420 of the snaps,
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played less than 20% of snaps.
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Sorry.
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Oh, in the Colts game, he left that game with an injury, but other than that, he averaged over 14 fantasy points per game. It might really shock people, but he was actually having a very good year. It was an inconsistently good year, though. And he had that huge game on Monday Night Football against the Cowboys, who were the best matchup. That, that inflated the numbers, but he was doing pretty well. And then, you know, not so much. And in those, in those games, those healthy games from Marvin Harrison, he had 60 targets and Michael Wilson had 33. He had a 23 target share. Michael Wilson, 12 and a half. All right, next up, we have the Chicago Bears. We're going to get to them after this break on Fantasy Football Today Express.
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Number six was Tampa Bay. Number five was Arizona. Number four. Most confusing wide receiver room is Chicago. Jamie.
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That's confusing. With DJ Moore and his 85 targets leaving the building going to Buffalo. So hopefully that's a big boost for Luther Burden and Romo Dunes. And, you know, it's, it, it's funny that the fantasy community, the fantasy industry, people that do what we do are rushing to draft Luther Burden and sort of settling for Romo Dunes. I want both, you know, or at least one of the two. You know, I, I think you look at Burden include lots of love about his advanced metrics and what he's, you know, showed in the small sample size when Odunze was still injured last year, really before Colston Loveland took off at the end of the season. He has the opportunity and the ability and this was a guy that, you know, this coaching staff targeted as opposed to the previous one, which took Odunze in the first round. But obviously Burden is the one I think that takes the biggest leap on Dunze. However, last year, if you, you, you know, most people hopefully recall started the season, was having a breakout season, was looking like a superstar, scoring a bunch of touchdowns and then suffered this foot injury and was never the same type of player. So your move, DJ Moore. And hopefully just concentrated targets for all three of their top pass catchers. With Colson Loveland working in the mix, I'm looking at Luther Burden in round four. I'm looking at Romo Dunes in round five. There shouldn't be much separation between the two. Again, I'll buy into the potential upside of Luther Burden, but if I have to, quote, unquote, settle for Romo Dunze, I'm perfectly fine with that.
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Number three is Jacksonville. And this one is really confusing because you have to buy into Parker Washington basically doing very little for most of his career and then finishing 2025 on an absolute tear. Jacoby Myers is always steady. Brian Thomas Jr. Has had a very puzzling start to his career. Incredible as a rookie, invisible as a sophomore. So Jacksonville's number three, Jamie.
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Yeah, it is confusing. We talked about this a little bit in the toughest players to rank in the case. For me, it comes down to what does my roster look like because all four of their receivers, let's not forget Travis Hunter, all four of their receivers are basically 40 or below in my rankings, starting with Thomas. And the reason I have Thomas first is because I think he still offers the most upside. So if I love my first three or four receivers, and I'm talking about a bench option that just hopefully will hit and maybe crack my starting lineup or turn into trade bait, Thomas is that guy. If I sort of like my receivers, but I know I need Somebody that may have to work in because I'm taking somebody that's coming off an injury or somebody like a Luther Burden who is unproven. I'm looking at Washington and Myers in that order because I do think that Washington is a guy that Trevor Lawrence seemingly trusts and I feel like still offers a little bit more upside in this offense than Jacoby Myers does. Like you said, Myers is safe. His best years have come when he's been the solo act or at least, you know, the featured guy in, in the offense that he played in those years in New England, the, the year plus in Las Vegas after they moved on from Devonte Adams. So I think those two are relatively safe. Again, Eileen Washington slightly over. Myers are back to back my rankings. But if I'm looking for the highest upside, to me that's Brian Thomas. Travis Hunter, just a late round flyer.
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All right, Jamie, we got two more. Tampa Bay six, Arizona five, Chicago four, Jacksonville three. Las Vegas is number two. Why are they so confusing?
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Because we don't know who it's going to be. You know, the, the last two are just complete mysteries at this point. In the case of Las Vegas, you have their most proven guy is Trey Tucker and that's not a very lengthy track record. So they signed Jalen Naylor, they have Jack Besh, who they drafted last year. I believe in the third round you're looking at three guys that have not done really much of anything on this offense, which is why I think you should really fall in love with Brock Bowers. But it's a rookie quarterback at least, hopefully the majority of the season. I hope it's not a washed up Kirk Cousins for more than maybe a couple of games. And so there's a little bit of, you know, trepidation obviously with the, with the quarterback play, but for me, I'm going to lean Tucker slightly over Naylor. Those are the two that I would look to target with late round picks. Besh is slightly after that. We recently had a mock draft live on the air. Jake Seeley was on with us from the Athletic. He made the case for Bash because again, you're looking at, you know, dart throws and again, this is a guy that was drafted to be part of this roster as opposed to inheriting Tucker and signing Naylor and not signing Naylor to a big deal. So I get that theory as well. I think it just, you know, you get to the end of your draft, one of these guys is probably going to be in the 100 target range. If you guess right, you may get A borderline number four receiver. I just don't think there's much upside.
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So who's number one? Folks out there going got, maybe it's a team with good wide receivers. We don't know who's going to be the best one now. It's nothing like that at all. It's Miami. Maybe they have good wide receivers, but right now it looks pretty barren. So what's your take on the Miami Dolphins receiving corps?
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Yeah, we probably could have done this with Cleveland, too. Not. Not number one. You know, just who's the best guy there we probably could have done it with. There's one of the team I was thinking of.
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We talked about Dallas possibly being on this list because week seven, when CD Lamb came back, we went through 17. Lamb had only six more targets. They had. Pickens had two more catches. Pickens had 44 more yards. They had the same amount of touchdowns. Pickens was better than lamb from week seven through 17. We've talked about that, but now give you all you need to know there. But the Dolphins, someone's gonna have to catch passes there. Jamie, other than Devon Hn.
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I don't know, man. I really don't know. You know, they drafted three wide receivers, not anyone in the first or second round. Caleb Douglas was the first guy that they drafted. Kevin Coleman Jr. And Chris Bell also. Bell would be an easy one to gravitate toward just based on what he did at Louisville, but he's coming off a torn acl, so we just don't know how healthy he's going to be. And then the three veterans that they. They add or two veterans that they added and one that's a holdover, Malik Washington. But they add Jalen Tolbert and they add Tutu Atwell again. You know, if you follow the NFL, you know the history of those two guys. Not exactly the best of playmakers. So as of now, I would probably look at Tolbert as the one that has the chance to be sort of the boring but maybe most productive because he's the one that's been spending time throwing with Malik Will so far. My hope would be is that Jeff Bell is healthy early in the season and then he takes over midpoint of the year and could be a borderline number three fantasy receiver. He would be the one that I would draft first. Atwell will make some plays. Malik Washington will make some plays. I think Caleb Douglas is a little undervalued because he got such a terrible draft grade. I know our. I think it was Mike Renner who was doing the draft grades for us at that point. You know, really did not like the pick I think called the biggest reach of the draft at that point. And that's probably fair just based on what the pedigree is. But clearly the Dolphins like them. From what I heard, a lot of people around the league liked him. And then Coleman's one of those guys that could be a high reception guy. But look this, this offense has got a lot of question marks and the receiving cord is the biggest one. So we'll have to keep a close eye on this in training camp and see who steps forward and who are the guys lining up in the top three spots.
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And hopefully Chris Bell just keeps making progress. He's pretty exciting, at least in terms of his profile as a rookie. Jamie, thank you. I'm Adam. We'll talk to you next time on Fantasy Football Today. And don't forget CBS Sports Network 1pm Eastern on Friday. See you.
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