Wide receiver

Number four, and this one's going to be one we will discuss all night long, I'm sure, is Oregon's running back Kadarius McMiller.

Number five, Miami wide receiver Nick Lanier.

Number six, Oregon wide receiver Dakota Garrett.

At seven, we have Easton Royal, wide receiver committed to Texas.

Eight, we have Jameer Brown, wide receiver committed to Ohio State.

At nine, we get our next quarterback in the class, Nebraska's Trey Taylor.

At 10, Indiana's wide receiver, Monson Sales.

At 11, Miami quarterback, Israel Abrams.

They see Jalen Coker have a ridiculous game.

Give me Josh Allen's wide receiver one over Bryce Young's wide receiver two rest of season.

So I'm looking to sell high on Jalen Coker.

I'm not looking to take him and get two pieces to fill my roster.

Uh, So I have question marks there.

Again, they didn't have to throw the football that much.

He hit 21 attempts to his wide receivers, and he went for 245.

It was an ultra-pure week one with four touchdowns.

On to number three though, we're looking at our guy Amon-Ra St.

Brown, and what a perfect spot to put him at the wide receiver three as he's finished as the wide receiver three in fantasy football three straight years.

He's taking on Buffalo at Buffalo on Thursday Night Football.

Last week he had 14 targets, 10 catches, only 67 yards, which is crazy, but two touchdowns, of course the game winner in overtime.

I know it's scary that he just had such a poor performance, and now you get not a great matchup here with Houston on paper.

But we did just see Josh Allen and the Bills kinda carve them up, so who knows? Either way, Ja'Marr Chase is not leaving my top five anytime soon for any week moving forward as long as Joe Burrow's healthy.

Feel very confident slotting him in as your wide receiver one.

On to number five though, let's talk about Justin Jefferson.

This for per Trevor Sikma, 8.9 yards per pass with Ladd on the field, 3.9 yards per pass with Ladd McConkie off the field.

So this is as good as news as we could have gotten at this point, David, because man, I mean, we'll talk about the rest of that wide receiver room, but like Ladd they absolutely need for this offense.

Yeah.

I think, you know, his rookie year i- is looking a whole lot closer to where we're at right now as far as-

But to know that you're probably going to have him for this stretch of games starting with this week and then what you have after that i- is great news.

I, I mean, 'cause if it was a long-term injury, like we'd be having a much different discussion.

I think that's what Jackson's talking about here when he says, "Buy or sell? Ladd exiting the game showed how thin the Chargers are at wide receiver." David, are you buying or selling that?

that?I mean, I'm, I'm buying a part of it just because I think, you know, as you talked about, um, with this football game in particular, it- it's very clear when you're watching it back that Lad McConkie was a massive part of the game plan.

But Kendre Miller is a good handcuff with potential, not standalone upside, but he could maybe carve out like ten to twelve carries a week and really kind of grow his role in this offense.

Then we'll talk about my wide receivers, and I have them split up into two different tiers.

One is production.

If you need a player to go in your flex spot right now, you're down bad, you lost A.J. Brown, you lost Ladd McConkie, you're looking at your flex options, and your flex options are Romeo Dobbs and Jalen Naylor, and all of a sudden you need somebody to start right away, then look no further than the production tier.

That's why we have this in general because rookie receivers are oftentimes league winners down the stretch.

We've seen with Elijah Moore, and I bring this graphic up every time.

But if you're confused why we are obsessed with stashing rookie wide receivers, it's because we are hunting for these guys down the stretch.

This year is Jayden Reed, Rashi Rice, Amon-Ra St.

They didn't really do that.

Malik Willis had a pretty terrible game, but it shows that even with a bad quarterback, a wide receiver one can be sustained.

The Raiders defense, I don't know what they're doing, man.

It's a new era, and they were playing the Dolphins, but the defense looked good, and Caleb Douglas still managed to look good against a defense that was looking good.

He was finding holes in the seams and a really reliable target for Malik Willis.

So if he's out there and he's only on 15% of rosters on ESPN, Go grab him.

Looking at the snap shares in week one for the rookie wide receivers, Denzel Boston had a 92% snap share, and Caleb Douglas had a 91% snap share.

That was more than Carnell Tate, who was drafted ahead of them.

And so I do really think that this year is the real boom year.

We're going to see for Zay Flowers where he's going to be a true number one wide receiver.

So I do think this is an actual trend and I think he's absolutely legit.

I feel very similar with Zay.

He had six catches, 147 yards, two touchdowns and eight targets.

So I think they're using them a little bit differently.

So I do buy into his, his upside being a little bit better than like Wide receiver 42 last year.

Wide receiver 71, 65, 34.

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Um, your take on the wide receiver room so far, Noah?

It's interesting.

That's probably the best I got right now.

Yeah.

I got so many questions about that, about what happened, why is he not playing more? Same thing, I got questions about Dreylon.

Why is Dreylon Miller not playing more? And is he potentially even wide receiver five?

I mean, right now, yes.