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Wide Receiver Breakouts! Ricky Pearsall, George Pickens, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and More (08/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Chris Harris
What a play. Can you believe this? No, I can't.
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Dave
It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
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Chris Harris
Off to the races and he stays on his feet. This is going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave.
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Host 2
Jamie and he breakout wide receivers right now on Fantasy Football Today presented by BetMGM the sportsbook born in Vegas, breakouts Bonanza M ends with Chris Harris of Harris Football who is on this bonanza every year. Welcome back to the show Chris.
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Chris Harris
Thanks for I haven't worn out my welcome yet. I'm trying.
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Host 2
And you know what? You are also an FFT Open Division Manager. We we that is awesome. You were, I think the first non CBS person to sell out their division. So congratulations.
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Chris Harris
Yeah, close to. Close to. I'm not sure if that's true. Scott Fish was in there. He's got a lot of. A lot of clout, a lot of sway, that Scott Fish. But I. I owe it all. My audience, My audience is pretty good.
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Dave
Yeah.
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Host 2
Great.
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Jamie
Adam. We are, we are grace with the presence of two of our analyst league champions. Dave won the draftathon league last year, and Chris won the IDP league last year. So two very, very, very esteemed analyst leagues, and these are the champions.
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Chris Harris
Yeah. I gotta just mention how much I wanted to win that IDP league. It's been 10 years. I really, really wanted to win that league. And I put a lot of Saquon Barkley into that league last year, I'll put it that way.
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Host 2
And I think Joe Mixon.
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Jamie
Right.
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Host 2
Because I know you really liked mixing.
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Chris Harris
Yeah, I did.
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Host 2
Yeah. Good. Good for you. Trying to convince these guys to like him again this year. But that's a different show. Different show. Last year, some of the breakout wide receivers were Drake, London, Terry McLaurin, Jackson, Smith and Jigba. And maybe those guys, London and jsn, maybe they'll break out again. We'll see if they can do even better. So we could start with jsn. That's one of Chris's breakouts. He has Jackson, Smith and Jigba. Ricky Piercel, he gave me one kind of different stages of the draft. Jsn sort of early. Ricky Piersoll, mid rounds. Demario Douglas, late. So let's start with JSN. Last year he had a hundred catches, 1,130 yards, six touchdowns on 137 targets. When are you comfortable drafting JSN in a 12 team lead? Chris?
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Chris Harris
You know, I'd say like, even, even we're not getting points per reception. Probably late second. And if we are getting points per mid, maybe even early second. Like, I. I loved what I saw on tape. I think there's a reason why in the second half of last year, I don't care who the Seattle offensive coordinator was like, I think they were on a mission to say, all right, our best receiver is jsn.dk. you can run a bunch of CO routes and you have your arm up in the air at the top of his route at the stem. There's only a couple of guys I would take in the league over jsn. He's incredibly shifty. He reminds me Amon Ross St. Brown has a thing when he runs. If you watch just him, his head doesn't move. He doesn't bob his head up and down. He's just so incredibly smooth. And I think it's one of the keys that defensive backs try to look at you and get a sense of when you're going to break in which direction. And, and Amonra doesn't give you that. And, and JSN absolutely doesn't either. I think they actually have a lot in common in their game. It's going to be tough to top, extremely top that catch total, but not to catch, not to top the yardage total, certainly not to top the touchdown total. Yeah, I, I have questions like everybody does that aren't going to get answered until we see them playing week one about like, okay, is Cooper cup more on the slot? Is JSN more on the slot? Like there's, there's stuff to be worked out there. Jsn, through two years has been the most slot heavy receiver in the entire league. I, I just think he's capable of more the, the difference between 2024 and 2023. In 23, he was the checkdown guy, he was the short area guy. And 24, he ran out of the slot a lot. But it was some of that, it was some of that down the field slot work, which I love, the three field, three depth field of, of, of a wide receiver who slot or not, like can run a route everywhere and be open questions about the offensive coordinator, questions about Sam Darnold, not questions about jsn. I'm definitely in on the talent and.
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Host 2
He is being drafted near the 3, 4 turn. So it's just one of those guys where if you need a wide receiver and you're picking late in round three, he's someone that's going to be staring at you and you should not hesitate to take him. All right. Ricky Pearsall is another guy that you like. We love him. I don't know, it's. I almost feel like, I'm just curious. When is everyone going to catch up on Ricky Piersol?
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Chris Harris
Yeah.
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Host 2
Right.
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Chris Harris
I mean, it depends on, depends on where you're drafting. But I see him eighth round.
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Host 2
Yeah.
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Chris Harris
You know, and, and that is like, okay. I think we have to be, try to be like realistic in our hype. He didn't play a lot. His biggest game, it was at the end of the year with Josh Jobs throwing the quarter, throwing the ball like, you know, okay. It's just if Brandon IUK were playing, I would like Brandon the most. He's the most polished, the most experienced, etc, but he's not playing for the first whatever, six weeks of the season. And who knows how good he'll be after that. And loved Juwan Jennings being an absolute gamer. Now in your bio, in your Tim Patrick biopic, here's Juwan Jennings. You know, we love the slow guys who are, who are gamers. It's a, it's an awesome story. It just, it did start to go away toward the end of last year because Juwan Jennings is, what's the word, really slow for an NFL player. He's a slow, slow, slows, molasses kind of guy. And Ricky Parasol just is so obviously the little ball of lightning. He really, he wasn't ready when he came back from the gunshot wound at the beginning of last year, the, you know, beginning middle of last year. And we heard a lot from Brock Purdy that they didn't feel like they were on the same page. It's one of those cliches that normally you think throw away but in the case of the guy who lost his training camp and beginning of a season to a gunshot wound, you kind of believe it. And once they kind of started to figure it out, you just saw like he's a threat to House at any point and yet he's not like some Alec Pierce type speed threat who can only run the rail, who can only, you know, not can't really run a route. You're only ever going to throw it to him deep. Like Pearsall will make some deep plays but and I'm not going to tell you I saw like a incredibly polished route tree but I definitely saw him run run digs, I saw him run crosses, I saw him run outs and be open enough and then one missed tackle and like he is legitimately the, the combine numbers didn't lie with him like on film stood out as like a serious can house it from anywhere kind of threat.
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Host 2
Guys, we look at the ADP from CBS and we look at deep. So just this page that we're showing at YouTube, YouTube.com fantasy football today. Debo Samuel, Stefan Diggs, Cooper Cup, Chris Olave, Romo Dunz, Jordan, Addison, Ricky Pearsall, Dave, those six guys in front of Piersol, Debo Diggs Cup, Olave, Odunze, Addison. Do you agree with that or should pe closer to the front of that group?
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Dave
He is at the front of that group for me. And the only thing I will push back on that Chris said was that he didn't run a complete route tree. This dude was running double moves like a madman. I think he can run any route that the 49ers ask of him. I was a little nervous. I always had him ahead of Juwan Jennings because I mean Chris is right about Juwan Jennings too, but I, I had him a little bit ahead of, of Juwan, but I couldn't necessarily put the breakout sash on his shoulder because the 49ers are just one of those teams that doesn't throw a ton to their wide receivers. Most of the time those whiteouts, they're, they're lucky if they average seven targets per game. But you think about all the injuries that they have at wide receiver and I can't help myself at this point. I think Ricky Pearsall could get off to a great start. He is so elusive. He is. If you have the chance to watch his film or even just like his highlights from week 17 and week 18, I think you'll be floored by how good he is. And that's why I'm willing to now reach for him a little bit. Certainly ahead of this avp. I think he's got a great shot to be the top target guy in San Francisco and maybe even top, I don't know, 1100 yards, seven touchdowns, not bad for a guy you're getting at this adp. You're in the hundreds, but even in like round eight, round seven, I'd be good with that.
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Host 2
Okay, let's talk about your last guy here, Demario Douglas. I'm gonna throw it to Jamie. You can, you can kind of kick it off and then we'll go back to Chris. Because Jamie, you've been talking about Douglas for I don't know, a couple weeks now. So I think you're on board with the, with this breakout call as well.
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Jamie
Yeah, Chris and I talked about this on, on his show earlier this week as well as the post hype breakout candidate. Like there's just so much opportunity. First off, he's free on draft day. Like we did another draft today. Double digit round took him again. I'm gonna take him wherever I have the opportunity to as a fourth receiver, fifth receiver, wherever. You know your roster build may take you but like slot receiver for Josh McDaniels, like that's all you need to know right there. If you know anything about Josh McDaniels history. But this is a kid that's going to run a lot of option routes in the middle of the field and be an easy target for Drake May and something that I think Stefan Diggs has the most upside of this receiving core. But you're asking a 32 year old receiver coming off an ACL tear to just all of a sudden magically forget anything that, that happened. You know, just to piggyback off the 49ers conversation. Brandon, I. You've made me out till week six. It's amazing that Stefan Diggs is as healthy as he is right now and performing the way he's performing camp. But Douglas may still lead the team in targets that, that wouldn't shock me. Might shock a lot of people thinking what the spawn dig's career has been, but just knowing what this opportunity is for him. So he's had some opportunities in his first two years to make some plays. It's been with poor coordinator, poor quarterback play, you know, young Drake may, you know, struggling Mac Jones, you know, Jacoby Brissette here and there. You know, it's just been, you know, kind of bad situation for him, but now there's just an opportunity for him to hopefully step forward and claim this role. I hope it's not Diggs being forced into the role. The. The undrafted, you know, free agent. I forget his name. Who's. Who's had an opportunity to play in the slot as well. Getting some opportunities on the outside as well. It just feels as if Douglas is locked into this spot right now, and I hope it stays that way. So I'm really shocked that his ADP hasn't moved, even just incrementally, if not more than that, because of people like us saying that he should be drafted. So I'm sure Chris is gonna, you know, piggyback on that because I know he likes him a lot.
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Chris Harris
I do. I. I also recognize why he goes, why people hold off taking him because the ceiling isn't very high. It's probably not a touchdown role unless he just has a really lucky touchdown season. And, and to be honest, unless I'm wrong, I mean, I know McDaniels wasn't the coordinator last year, but I'm pretty sure Pop Douglas played with Drake May last year and they could not get on the same page. So I get where skepticism comes from. And nobody, probably on this panel, we're talking about like a 13th or a 14th round draft pick. We're, we're not saying, congratulations, you just drafted a starter, but you're looking to catch a little lightning in a bottle. Like a lot of the times with late round picks, you just, they're going to be on guys who are on teams where you assume the offense isn't great. Patriots, if not the worst offense in the league last year, pretty close. And it's. He's a very potential laden quarterback, but he's won one game and turns the ball over like crazy. Like what you're hoping is for the big turnaround and they're gonna be three, four NFL offenses that, that are suddenly the commanders from last year that suddenly like we rule out everybody because they're going to be awful and suddenly they're really good. And if the Patriots wind up being that offense, okay then now in week five, you start talking about, man, can Pop Douglas really be my flex with this high volume role in an offense that's now scoring 25 points a game when I thought they were going to score 18. That's why you take guys late and you, you know, like again I compare like a guy who goes near him in a lot of drafts. Cedric Tillman, another Cleveland awful, terrible offense. Cedric Tillman has more just sort of baked in upside in that he's a giant person who could win in the red zone and just has an easier path to touchdowns and probably going to have a much higher depth of target and therefore can make some big plays that maybe Douglas might not. So I probably would take Pop Douglas in that case. But I understand like when you're taking your fifth sixth receiver, sometimes you're just like, let's, let's see if we can get a total home run. Like Pop Douglas is probably more like a, a nice solid double. But his ADP deserves to be higher than it is for sure.
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Dave
I don't want him to be my eighth wide receiver. I want him to be like if I, if I loaded up on wide receivers early in my draft and I don't really need a bunch of bench wide receivers that this guy's fine and it's got to be a full PPR thing because he could roll out of bed and catch five for 50 pretty much every week. I'd like to easel a few concerns here with Douglas. I was at the joint practice against the Commanders. He was first team all the way in the slot, all the way. A really great play with May where May was pressured, flushed out of the pocket, threw off balance and hit him right in the hands. It was perfect. Douglas had a nice practice. I think this is a good call. I think he's a good sleeper call. The one little thing you might want to worry about with him is that he's not a big dude. So a couple of big hits and he could be on the shelf for a couple weeks. But I don't think that's something you're thinking about when you're taking him in the double digit rounds, 12, 13. Somewhere in that range where he can give you double digit PPR points pretty easily. All right.
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Host 2
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Dave
I was wearing in that commercial.
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Host 2
Chris, what do you think? Isn't it pretty weak that Dave even needed a spotter? You wouldn't need a spotter.
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Chris Harris
I mean, I usually don't. I don't have friends. So, you know, I gotta. I gotta just. I gotta sweat by myself also, you.
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Host 2
Know, I'm just gonna throw this out there and you don't have to respond. In fact, I'm just gonna throw it out there. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go right to the next topic. I don't even want you to respond. I'd love to come on your podcast someday. All right, Dave, let's talk about some of your. Everybody else gets to go on. All right.
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Chris Harris
Malik hosts on hosts. I mean, hosts on host. It's awkward.
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Host 2
I know. We're so. But we're the funny one. Like, we're the charismatic ones. We'd have a great pocket. No, but nobody would learn anything. But we'd laugh. Oh, would we laugh. All right, Dave, you have Malik neighbors and Nico Collins on your break.
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Dave
These are lame. Like, I don't know if we really need to spend time explaining why you do.
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Host 2
People need to know how good Nico Collins is. He's good enough. If he were to get 150 targets, he could be the number one wide receiver.
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Chris Harris
Also, can I. Also, can I just mention in your defense, Dave, like, just did an AMA on the. The. The fantasy football subreddit today. I got five questions. Like, am I completely fading Malik Neighbors because of his toe? Like, should I take him off my draft board? I'm not kidding. Five different people.
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Host 2
What'd you say?
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Chris Harris
No, you dummies.
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Host 2
I don't think it's an unreasonable question, because obviously there are great options there. He's got this lingering issue that might need surgery. He also has a shoulder issue right now.
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Chris Harris
Yeah, not doing that. Are we. Are we fading Justin Jefferson? Is he. Is he in the sixth round now? I. I don't believe in preseason injuries.
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Host 2
He went 11th in a draft that JB and I did yesterday.
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Dave
But it's that kind of thinking that made you take Christian McCaffrey last year.
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Host 2
That's true.
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Chris Harris
I. Sure. And. And I'll do it again this year. In fact, I did. In the. In that stacked league. I. I took McCaffrey.
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Dave
Yeah, but last year, McCaffrey was. Was hurt, and he wasn't practicing that much, and then they started.
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Chris Harris
So your advice is if. If I could extrapolate here. Your advice is take every injury report seriously in camp and never, never draft anybody who has an injury problem.
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Dave
Kickers in round one. Chris. We're just gonna go straight kickers all the way through because.
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Chris Harris
Can I. Can I say Andy Barron's my new. My. We're doing a collab together. Andy Barron's got. At the fancy football Expo this past weekend, he got a draft board from a league that's been drafting since the early 80s, and they had, like, a paper draft board, and they're no joke. They were taking kickers in the second round.
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Host 2
Well, take a look at this wide receiver ADP and you know, you got Chase, Jefferson, Lamb and then neighbors. Do you have neighbors as wide receiver for Chris?
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Chris Harris
I don't think I do know, but I still, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to argue too strongly with it. I, I, it's, it's close. I have Puka Neighbors is like five or six.
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Host 2
You like him better than Nico seven.
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Chris Harris
No, I have Puka four. Nico five. A.J. brown, six Malik neighbors. A.J. brown also dead.
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Host 2
Dead.
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Chris Harris
I understand he's a hamstring dead.
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Dave
If that little red box is next to his name.
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Host 2
That's what, that's what I'm saying about mixing. Just, I'm sorry.
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Dave
Okay. We can get serious about this. Context is obviously necessary when it comes to injuries. It's one thing if a guy was practicing and then he, you know, hamstring strain and the team's going to take it easy with him. It's another thing when a guy was in a walking boot during the off season with multiple injuries below the knee and he still has no timetable to really come back. That's mixing right now.
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Chris Harris
You don't know what timetable he has. They're just not telling you the timetable because they don't particularly care about our fantasy teams. But I believe they absolutely have a.
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Host 2
Timetable they should care about.
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Dave
It ain't. I don't know if it's good news if they're not telling us the timetable.
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Chris Harris
Well, they don't know you much, buddy.
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Host 2
That's cause they've never met him. All right, so let's. Dave, let's get to a breakout that I'm glad you brought up before the show. George Pickens, breakout call for you. He was having a, really having a nice stretch last year with Russell Wilson. Then Pickens suffered an injury, came back and kind of struggled. We've seen flashes from him, but last year he was only wide receiver. 39 per game in PPR, 46 per game in, in non PPR. I felt like he had a better year than that. He only scored three touchdowns. But I haven't gotten myself to draft Pickens. But that's not intentional. So like, what do you think? Should I, should we start reaching, maybe get into the fifth round for Pickens?
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Dave
I don't hate it. I would obviously prefer to get anybody around later than ADP or anything like that, but I think that Dallas is really setting up to be a big time passing offense. We don't know anything about their run game. I don't think it's going to be particularly good Their defense is banged up in the secondary, their best defensive player is holding out. I, I don't know how good they're going to be on defense. Even if Parsons did play, I think Dax gonna end up throwing a lot and CD Lamb's gonna get his. And Pickens just apparently like moved from Pittsburgh to Dallas and became like an amazing receiver. And if he's never going to get double teamed down the field, Dax gonna throw at him. And he seems. Pickens seems to have won over his coaches and I think those two guys could end up having a lot of targets. Could it end up being something like Jamar Chase and T. Higgins last year or in prior years, AJ Brown and devonte Smith? Hell, it could be like AJ Brown and devonte Smith last year and we'd be really happy having George Pickens on our team. In that case, his best numbers of his career, 1140 yards, five touchdowns. I think he can get close to that yardage. I think he can score more than five touchdowns.
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Host 2
Okay, but you know that just to push back on the devonte Smith thing, you know, the deal with him, we wouldn't be happy with that. He's only worth starting basically when either Goddard or A.J. brown is out. And that was most of the year. One of those two guys was out.
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Jamie
That was just really last year though.
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Host 2
No, not really. It's been, it's been starting.
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Jamie
No, you're. I mean, he's been like wide receiver, 30ish receiver.
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Host 2
I, I mean, I have the numbers when. Especially if you take out the Gardner Minshew games when they threw. I won't even do that. But he's been closer to a wide receiver three than starting in a. As a flex. Yes. I just mean top 24. He's been closer to a wide receiver three throughout his career or since A.J. brown's trade when everybody's been healthy.
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Dave
He's been at least 14.2 PPR points per game each of the last three years, but no higher than 15.3. And yes, you're right, it's. He's much easier to start when somebody's hurt in Philadelphia.
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Chris Harris
Also, can I just mention he's so much better than George Pickens at playing football.
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Dave
Oh, that's true too. Yes.
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Host 2
It doesn't necessarily matter though, because the Cowboys, I think they've been top five in past attempts, like five years in a row or something like that. They're always throwing.
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Chris Harris
Well, that's now. Now you explain to me why I've been starting all those Dallas Cowboy receivers other than CD Lamb. Oh, wait a minute.
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Host 2
But okay, so you're not in on Pickett's as a breakout.
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Chris Harris
I don't think it's a horrible. I can see it working out. I think his ADP is probably about right, and so I'm not mad at it at all. I understand he's an absolute knucklehead. And I don't believe. Because they haven't said anything mean about him in practice yet means anything. As soon as he wears something filthy on his eye black again, they'll have to talk about him like, this is a knuckleheads. Knucklehead. I'll believe it when I see it. This is one where, if, if I needed to get aggressive on a receiver in that range, I could definitely pick somebody who's less of a.
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Host 2
A.J. brown's dead. George Pickens is a sub show.
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Chris Harris
Well, we all, we all can agree on that. The last point is true, right? I mean, he has a lot to prove as far as becoming a good teammate and being, being there for his quarterback and not swearing at fans and not yelling.
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Dave
Yeah, but as long as she's not getting, like, suspended for games because of it, I don't, I'm not drafting these guys because of their intelligence.
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Chris Harris
No, you're drafting. Yeah, you are drafting because you have to be very smart to be a good receiver in the league. And, and, and you are. The reason George Pickens has been a disappointment in Pittsburgh is because he's moron, not because he's not physically talented. It's because he couldn't get on the same page. He wouldn't do the work. The only thing that he's ever done well is sideline work. And people you knew knew this. You guys pay attention, more attention to college football than I do. People who paid attention to college football were like, this guy's poison. You don't want this guy. And the Steelers decided, yeah, we don't even want him to play out his rookie year. He's cheap. Get out of here. So, like, I, I, I'm not telling you it can't work. But if it's not going to work, it's not going to be a lack of physical talent. It's going to be because he's been a bad teammate and not a very smart football player.
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Host 2
Needs to grow up. He needs to grow up. Tomlins said that. No question about it. We hope he does. Dallas has been top five in past attempts per game in four of the last five seasons. Just to correct myself there, and that's.
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Chris Harris
Why Brand Brandon Cooks was such A great fantasy weapon.
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Host 2
Yeah, but come on. I mean, Pickens is better than that version of Of Cooks. Jamie's got Tele McMillan as a breakout. Who do you like better, Pickens or Tedro? And McMillan. McMillan.
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Dave
McMillan.
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Host 2
Yeah. Jamie, you like him? You think he's gonna potentially outperform his ADP by two rounds?
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Jamie
Yeah, I think it's an opportunity for him to, you know, step in and be the go to guy for Bryce Young. I don't think it's a big stretch to say that, you know, it's just a matter of like, how good can he be? And, you know, I like to read our chat and from this morning through now because as he alluded to in the tight ends breakout story, we've done 75 shows today. There's been a lot of pro con, McMillan, Carolina talk, you know, can he stand out above the rest of that receiving core where you see Bryce Young's got a strong connection with Jalen Coker and he definitely had a strong connection with Adam Thielen last year, and those guys are still there. And Hunter Renfro has made some plays, you know, and Jatavion Sanders may be a factor and could still be a run first offense. But I just think they, they drafted this kid for a reason. And you're seeing it every time you see a highlight from the Panthers and reading something about what they're expecting for him. And then you see the preseason game and the things that he could do and what he should be able to do physically. Like, it wouldn't shock me if I have him too low at 21. Like he could be a top 15 caliber receiver, you know, so, yeah, I, I'm, I'm drafting him in round four at this point.
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Dave
And the best part is that he stands out no matter where he goes, because he's 6 foot 5 and I don't know what his weight is, but he's obviously a big dude with a humongous catch radius. He's going to win a ton of 50, 50 balls. We saw him win on a, on a deep ball in the preseason game. He should have had a touchdown in the preseason game. Now, I don't know if he was in Mensa, but I, I think that he's got the athletic ability to, to be a very quality contributor to the Panthers. I think he could lead that team in targets this year.
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Host 2
Okay, so there. I'm just gonna, we're gonna end the show. We've got a little long here, so end the show with this. I'm gonna ask you we're looking for breakouts.
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Jamie
I want to hear Chris's list of morons. I think that would be great.
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Dave
Yeah.
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Host 2
Well, probably the. Probably the guy on this show.
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Dave
Start with me.
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Host 2
Probably the guy on this show that's never been on his. Never been on his podcast, I was gonna say. Anyway, who's got the most upside? I'm gonna be a trio. Who's got the most upside? Garrett Wilson. Marvin Harrison, Jr. Xavier Worthy.
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Chris Harris
God. Name three players I will not own this year. Wow. Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson.
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Host 2
Okay.
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Jamie
Wilson for me because he's.
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Chris Harris
He's the only one who I can. Who I can verify say is good at football. The other two, I don't know yet.
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Dave
Yeah.
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Host 2
Okay. Who's got the most upside? Zay Flowers. Jameson Williams. Travis Hunter.
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Chris Harris
Jameson Williams.
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Dave
Jameson.
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Jamie
I'll say Hunter.
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Host 2
And that's all I got. Chris, we learned a lot today. There's an anger inside of you that we learned about today. I think an intensity.
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Chris Harris
Okay, man. You can tell you haven't. That's the first piece of evidence that you haven't been on my show because these guys are used to it.
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Host 2
Well, it was really fun having you on, man. This is actually a blast. Good way to end the breakout bonanza. Although I'm going to publish this one in. In all the audio places before the tight ends one. But for video purposes. Good way to end the night. Thank you so much, Chris at Harris Football. Harris Football.com Great stuff, Dave. Jamie, thank you. Thomas. Thank you. Long day for Thomas Schaefer. He did an awesome job producing today. And we'll talk to you on tennis match, baby. That's the next time we're talking to you. Can't wait. YouTube.com fantasy football today also go to tinyurl.com 2025fft and donate to the draftathon. See you later, everybody. Have a great night.
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Jamie
Great day.
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Host 2
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