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By now, you know all of the free agents and the names we've been talking about them

for months, but today with Joey right now you're going to do, before free agency opens,

it's talked about the best potential landing spots and who we think would be best in each

of those landing spots.

Joey, it is Monday, so here we are on the football guys fantasy football show.

First question I have for you.

Before we jump into all of these potential landing spots, and maybe I'm setting ourselves

up to just have all the viewers tune out immediately.

But do you think we put a little bit too much importance on landing spots?

Should we just blindly be betting on talent or does this actually matter, like where these

guys end up?

I mean, you can see a great player landing a bad spot and it definitely hurt their value.

I think landing spots matter a lot.

So I think it's good we're doing this and I don't think people should tune out, so we're

going to cover some good stuff.

Yeah, landing spots definitely do matter.

I mean, there are certain players that no matter where they go, they're going to succeed.

But for the most part, there needs to be opportunity there as well.

And I think different positions as well, like running backs are going to be much more

impacted by landing spot receivers.

We can see if you're a good receiver, even in a bad situation, I mean, don't look at

Justin Jefferson, what he did last year, but for the most part, like we do see wide receivers,

if they are very talented, can overcome bad situations, we often see good running backs

in a backfield with another good running back, not doing what we want to see.

We also saw the Seattle backfield and how that shook out last week, but or last year.

But anyway, Joey, what we did, we took some of our favorite landing spots.

We've ranked them one through 14.

We're going to start at the bottom and work our way up.

These are all relatively good landing spots, but we'll get to the best of the best at the

end of the show.

But first of all, we're going to talk about here the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver.

We know that they've got Marquis, or not Marquis Brown, Zayflowers there and Mark Andrews,

of course.

I think the major out here that we want to see if a wide receiver lands in Baltimore

is a guy who can catch a lot of touchdowns, because we saw just a couple of years ago,

where shot Bateman was able to make his year like that.

So was that what we're hoping for here, or do you think there is room for another volume

based wide receiver?

I mean, I think it has to be somebody efficient.

I don't think a volume based wide receiver is going to work well.

It would have to come at the expense of Mark Andrews if it did happen.

Baltimore passed the least amount last year, 25 times per game on average.

That was only 45.4% of the time.

If they had a big, bodied wide receiver and a red zone threat, I could see that working

someone like Mike Evans, who's linked to somewhere else it sounds like, which, listen,

my buck-a-nears-heart, I've had him for 11 seasons now, let him go elsewhere, let others

get to share in the joy of his thousand yard seasons and multiple touchdowns.

It's wonderful.

He's a beautiful man.

But we're talking about Baltimore right now, not Mike Evans, Joey.

You need to remember that.

I do think it would need to come with the expense of Mark Andrews.

I don't think we're going to see a volume based.

I think it's going to have to be somebody super, super efficient.

And that's exactly what we saw in 2024 from Rashad Bateman, like the volume target, the

target volume wasn't there, but he was able to catch a bunch of touchdowns.

We've seen that this is kind of like how they operate as well.

You remember they were in the running for Kenny Galliday when he was a free agent.

They brought in Sammy Watkins.

We saw it just last year with Deandre Hopkins.

I think Mike Evans would make a lot of sense for them.

I think the issue is this is just such a low volume passing attack, like Zay Flowers barely

got there in fantasy last year, full of 29% target share, 11th most of any wide receivers.

So even if you have a massive, massive target share, it's just such a low volume offense

that it's really hard to get too excited about the secondary or tertiary options here.

But still we will be watching as we know this could be a very efficient passing attack.

It's about we want to talk about here, another one that probably going to require some good

efficiency, but the Kansas City chiefs, they are going to be looking for a wide receiver

potentially.

And Joey, I'm just going to be honest, I think that they need to start looking ahead

at life without Rashid Rice, whether it's this recent thing that he's going through other

issues in the past.

I feel like they're kind of on a expiring shelf life, if you will, with Rashid Rice.

So is there an available free agent in this class that you think can do a lot of the

same things that Rashid Rice does in the chiefs offense?

Well, I mean, there's kind of some low hanging fruit there.

And I had the thought, I wonder if they would think about bringing Tyree Kill back.

I had the thought, but Chris Jones tweeted it already tweeting at him, you know, kind of

kicking the tires.

Like, would Tyree Kill make a lot of sense there?

I think he would.

I think he feels a lot of the needs that the chiefs would need to have.

He's been there before.

Maybe we can mend some fences, see them back.

As far as his injury, he is expected to be back week one.

There was no cartilage damage or no neuter of damage in the cartilage was still intact.

So I was a little worried about that injury, but it sounds like Tyree Kill could be back

on the field.

I'm sure he would lose maybe a step or two from that injury, but still he's still one

of the fastest players in the league.

I could see him doing everything Rashid Rice does to a small degree though.

And I'm not going to try to talk too much about the injury just because it's so far

out right now.

Like it is large.

I'm going to be looking like an August or September.

I will say I feel like this time of year is like peak time of year for agents to just

be like blindly optimistic and pushing out whatever they can.

I mean, I saw Tyree Kill's knee fold in half and he is 30 years old coming back from

an injury that we've seen like tanked out who is younger and seemingly more healthy

at this age in his career is struggling to come back from as well.

So I'm a little hesitant to see that he'll be ready week one.

But again, we'll talk about that as we get closer to training camp.

So the guys that I look at, you know, we've seen this chief's passing attack.

They really like those, those crossers where they can just quickly get them all in the

receiver's hands and allow them to create after the catch.

So some of the guys that get me excited, Mondale Robinson.

I don't know if the chiefs have the money to afford him, but seeing what he did over

the last couple of years in New York, I think that would be a great fit.

Romeo Dubs.

You're going to hear me talking a lot about Romeo Dubs on today's show.

I think he is much better than the way he was utilized in Green Bay, very good blocker

can also create after the catch a good possession receiver.

Sure handed.

I think he makes sense there.

Juwan Jennings, kind of a cheaper option if they can't get Romeo Dubs, also a little

bit older.

And then John met you in Miami Brown.

Those are some maybe weird names to be pulling out, talking about free agency, but we have

seen if there's a type that this Kansas City team really likes to go out and get.

It's these guys who are highly drafted and didn't really figure it out with their first

teams, but have the pedigree, have the athleticism, have the draft capital, and they like to

try to retread those types of guys.

So John met you, Danny Brown, other guys that might be on the watch list for the Kansas City

Chiefs.

Let's go.

I really like the John.

Oh, I love the John met you call.

He's someone that I've always rooted for because he got taken off field and it was really

not his fault with what happened to him.

And last year he had some bright spots with the jets to see him move on to do that with

Chiefs will be awesome.

I would love to see that.

Yeah.

And for anybody, you know, it's not a secret.

He had leukemia.

I mean, like just unbelievable that he was able to come back whatsoever, missed all of

his rookie season.

He found out this diagnosis right before training camp open.

So missed quite a bit of time and was able to come back last year.

Look great in flashes with the jets and a guy who can catch the ball and create after

the catch was what we know they really prioritize in this offense.

But the next spot that we want to talk about and we are still in the the decent if we

want to label these the decent landing spots Indiana wide receiver.

I think that the for the Colts, this is an interesting one because we know Alec Pierce

is expected to leave.

But also if you look at Michael Pitman's contract, he is just prime candidate to be a potential

cap casualty here.

They own 29 million dollars this year.

They can release him and save 25 of that 29 million dollars.

So to me, I almost wonder like why haven't the Colts done this already?

Like why haven't they just moved on from Mike Pitman and use that money to resign Alec

Pierce? Joe, do you have any insight here?

My theory on that is that Alec Pierce knows he, it's a pretty weak wide receiver class.

When you look at some of the water severs available, not that it's weak, it's just there's

not a big name sitting out there.

Alec Pierce might be the best wide receiver on this free agent market.

He led the league last year in large perception with a minimum of 50 receptions.

So we're looking at 21.3 yards per reception.

The next closest person to him was Christian Watson with 17.5.

Also six total yards after their reception more than the second place guy.

He is going to, if in my opinion, probably get the biggest contract of all the wide receivers

on this free agent market, I think he's going to test it.

I do still think he could go back to Indianapolis though.

They could reach some type of resolution, you know, give him the bag and then he's there.

But I think that's what Indianapolis will probably like at this point too.

And I think Alec Pierce is kind of the skeleton key that unlocks his entire offense because

his ability to play deep just opens up the underneath targets for Mike Pitman and Josh

Downes and Tyler Warren.

It also helps the run game with Jonathan Taylor.

So I would really hate to see him in a new spot.

That being said, if we see an uptick in target volume in a new spot and he can maintain that

efficiency that we've seen, there's first few years in the league, Alec Pierce could take

a huge step forward in 2026.

Let me check Joey.

I think yeah, this is the last one that we're going to talk about in this tier of the decent

landing spots here, a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins.

Now, we don't know who the quarterbacks going to be in Miami.

And I think a lot of obvious signals right now are pointing to Malik Willis.

But when I'm looking at this offense, Joey, we know that Jalen model is going to get his

divine H and is going to get his.

How much is there left over in that passing pie?

If we're looking at a potentially low volume offense with Jalen model and H and getting

theirs off the top, is there enough for another wide receiver to still operate inside this

offense and be relevant in fantasy?

I do think there is.

I mean, last year we did see them, the Dolphins were bottom 10 team in passing, but the

previous two years, they were passing about 6% more games around 52 to 55% of the game.

They were passing the ball.

It just changed last year.

I think that injury with Tyree Kill kind of changed things around, but H and catching a

lot of balls at the backfield.

So yeah, they're going to get their work.

But Tyree Kill was getting around 100 targets, over 100 targets, some instances and seasons

with Miami there.

So I do think there's room.

Somebody that I like and I think might be an unusual, why did they go as an unusual fit?

So you kind of was it the confirmed my thought was Joanne Jennings.

I think you would do really well in this offense.

His height kind of addresses some of that red zone work they were having trouble with last

year.

They worked hard getting the tight end as well, and I know Joanne Jennings isn't necessarily

a tight end, but he's a big body wide receiver that can work in the middle a little bit.

I think he's a good fit for Miami.

Do you like Jennings there?

Yeah.

I think Jennings makes a ton of sense.

I also talk about Romeo Dubs who I'm going to talk about a lot on this show today, because

I think that he is another very well-rounded guy also with halfly there in Miami now as

the head coach.

He's got the connection with Romeo Dubs from their time together in Green Bay, Debo Samuel,

another one that I think could make a lot of sense.

But I think so much of this comes down to who the quarterback is going to be.

And like we think it's going to be Malik Willis.

And we've seen Malik Willis, like he can hit the check downs, he can run the ball, but

he also has a big arm as well.

I want to see if they're going to add some sort of field stretching element to this offense.

But again, we're speculating about speculating right now.

Like we're saying, what this offense could look like with Malik Willis and what they need

to add to it.

What if they do go the Kyler Murray route or what if they bring in Derek Car like there

are so many other options out there that it's hard to know exactly what moves they'll be

making.

But either way, Jalen Model, I think there is enough potentially left over after he gets

his share there to be a serviceable wide receiver to in this offense.

Joey continue to work down.

Now we have from good, I'm sorry, from decent to good landing spots.

And the first thing we're going to talk about here, the New Orleans running backroom, we

still don't really know what's going on with Alton Kramer.

There are rumors that he could potentially be retiring that they could be releasing him.

We don't really know, but assuming he's gone, which I think is a safe assumption to make

it at this point, you'd think that maybe the Saints would lean on Devin Neal, or is this

almost assuredly a position of need that they want to go out and address in the free agency

or draft here?

I tend to think that they probably won't want to go in with just Devin Neal, but I want

to get your thoughts here, Joey.

Yeah, I was kind of the Devin Neal guy last year in the draft process.

It was somebody I really liked coming out of Kansas and I thought, okay, this is a really

good fit.

When you landed in New Orleans, I was like, all right, Albuquermer will probably gone

in a year or two.

This is great.

And then we saw Devin Neal playing in the NFL last year and it didn't look so great.

So I don't think he's going to be Albuquermer's successor.

Now, listen, Neal could go out and have a great sophomore year.

I don't think we're looking at that.

I want to shout out my good buddy, Jeff Bell, who likes to talk about narratives.

I like to talk about narratives, too.

There is one player that's just, we need to get on one highway to get to New Orleans.

Just one highway, Dave.

Do you know what is one highway away from New Orleans?

I don't.

Jacksonville, Florida, Travis, he's moving over to the Saints.

I think he's a really perfect fit there.

He's a great pass catcher, great changing directions, a lot like Albuquermera.

So if we're looking for a successor to Albuquermera, I think Travis ETN kind of fits that mold.

That's a big name player to go in there.

I do like that.

Yeah.

If they see a lot of promise in Devin Neal, though, maybe they don't bring in somebody

as big as him, but I think ETN makes a lot of sense there in New Orleans.

And I think the only major concern would be the cap space, you know, they'd have to

get a little bit creative.

But we've seen historically that Mickey Lumis is willing to just wheel and deal and push

money around and make things happen.

Rico Doudel is the one that jumps out to me just because Kellyn Moore, when he was at

Dallas, that was when they drafted Rico Doudel.

So he's got some familiarity there.

I think that he'd be a good fit.

But Joey, we got to a backtrack a little bit.

I'm going to put the overlay back.

We were just talking about my receiver Indianapolis Colts.

And I was talking about like why haven't they brought back Alec Pierce at this point?

Well, we just got news.

Alec Pierce is returning to be Indianapolis Colts four years, $114 million.

So came through right as we were recording here.

So for anybody watching live, you're getting our instant reactions right now on Twitter.

But we just talked about why this makes so much sense.

He is the skeleton key that unlocks his offense.

As I talked about, he got paid.

We're going to see whether they are going to keep Mike Pitman or not.

Like I said, they can save $25 million by releasing him.

But right now the Colts, you know, they're in a spot where they didn't really have,

they had about half a million dollars of cap to work with, given $114 million to Alec

Pierce, I assume that they are going to move on from Mike Pitman.

We'll get news on that later today.

I assume, but let's keep walking through some of these good landing spots.

Next up, we're going to talk about the running back position in Seattle,

the reigning Super Bowl champs here.

They need to add somebody and it sounds like Kenneth Walker is as good as gone.

Joey, my fear here is that this is just going to end up being a trap in fantasy

because what happens when Zack Sharvin returns mid season

and immediately regains control of the backfield, I think that's my fear here

is that somebody's going to sign there.

We're going to get excited about that player.

They're going to start off really, really hot early in the year

and then just be kind of worthless late this season.

Yeah, before the injury, we started seeing the shift there in Seattle.

And the fact that they had Kenneth Walker, who was, I mean, he's the Super Bowl MVP.

There was a very fantastic running back.

They were still putting Sharvin A on the field.

I think you and I both love Sharvin A coming out of UCLA.

I think this is his backfield once he returns.

It's just going to take him a little while to return.

So I don't think we're going to see a big name come in here.

Somebody that I think could, and somebody I'm going to talk probably a lot about

is the show goes on.

There's Rashad White being a buck in your span.

I watched Rashad White almost improve year by year.

In his first two years, he could not only do tackles.

He did. He did. Yeah, yeah.

In his first two seasons, he just could not break a tackle to save his self.

So they stuck him on the outside.

Baker made field check down to him and Rashad White found life.

Well, then in the last year, he learned how to break tackles.

I don't know what happened.

You know, a good training facility over there in Tampa.

I guess one buck in your way.

He just got learned how to break tackles over there.

And now he's truly could be a third down back.

You know, one buck you ever missed time last year.

They brought Rashad White in and he succeeded quite well.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was somebody of Rashad White's caliber

and not a Travis ETN or a returning Ken Walker.

Yeah, I don't think that they're going to spend that much

because we've seen like this coaching staff.

They played George Halani for over one third of the snaps

in the NFC championship game and the Super Bowl.

I think that they trust the system much more than the running back.

And that's why they're willing to let Kenneth Walker move out of here.

So when I look at the potential, first of all, I love Rashad White.

You know, I'm just going to corroborate everything you said.

I tweeted about him the other day saying like, why isn't this guy getting more buzz?

27 years old, increased efficiency every single year.

He's been in the league past blocker, past catcher, very well rounded back,

three down size.

I can go on and on.

I like Rashad White a lot.

I think he's going to command a bit of money though.

And I think what the Seahawks might try to do here

is just kind of money ball this situation.

Knowing whoever we're bringing in is going to be here for a good time.

Not a long time.

So I wonder if like maybe they can find Joe Mixin,

like if he is willing to play or show that he's healthy.

Maybe he makes sense.

Miles Sanders, Kareena Hunt, Alexander Madison.

Because I think what they're looking for is a guy that can split the load

with George Halani for the first half of the season before they give it back

to Zach Sharpenay.

So this would be an interesting one.

That being said, we talk about, you know, this is a fantasy football show, of course.

Joey, I think, you know, so much of what we do is trying to hit

on those rookie running backs and the guys in new situations

or the young guy coming back from injury.

I think if you're taking that zero running back approach,

if one of these boring veterans signs with Seattle,

that's the great type of guy that you want to target

in like the 12th round of your fantasy draft.

So when you're taking your swings on, you know, the, the, the, the,

the catering Allen's and the Mike Washington's that might not pop

until the second half of the season.

If you can balance them with an Alexander Madison or a Kareem Hunt

and the Seattle backfield that'll be getting work for the first couple of months,

I think that makes a lot of sense.

So a guy that will definitely be paying close attention to is whoever lands

in Seattle could end up being that key for zero running back builds.

Yeah, I love what you're saying there with it,

especially when a draft strategy take that Miles Sanders or that veteran guy

that I was in a Madison.

Because Sharpenay is going to fall in draft in drafts this year.

He's going to fall much further than where he should be going.

And if you can get the guy that's going to start the season in the 10th round,

the 11th round and still pick up Sharpenay, I don't know, the 8th or 9th,

if he falls there, Seattle's backfield is not a bad one to invest in,

to hit bricks on.

And we've seen historically like they produce.

So I, from a draft strategy perspective, I love that.

Grab both Seattle running backs in your drafts this year.

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Last one we're going to talk about in the good tier, Joey.

And then we're going to get into the great tier and the best case scenario

tier, but we're going to talk about the Minnesota Vikings who just moved on

from Aaron Jones.

So right now they've got Jordan Mason there, but Jordan Mason just did not

live up to the excitement that we had for him last off season,

even with Aaron Jones getting injured.

He just never really put it together on a consistent basis.

We'll assume that they're going to add some sort of complimentary running back

years when I look at what Jordan Mason could do.

I see you for shot white, who you just talked about.

And it's gain well.

Jeremy McNichols, a lot of these past catching specialists.

I think it makes sense to add a guy like that.

Or do you think that this could be one of those teams that is

sneakily involved in Travis ETN, Kenneth Walker and some of the bigger names?

I mean, it could be a bigger name going here.

I see I look at what the Vikings have going on.

And we're going to talk about them one more time today, I believe.

Down here in a little while, and if even better landing spot for

a different position they need.

So for me, I always mention Rashad White.

I think he's the kind of running back you want to see go here.

Because he needs to be a past catching running back.

Because Jordan Mason cannot do that at all.

Rashad White's the kind of guy that can come in

and he could win this job out.

If it were to be a three down back position.

So if you like to gamble and Rashad White ends up there,

he is something that I could end up seeing as a three down back.

But we've got Kenneth Gainwell, you mentioned him.

It could be a possible landing spot here as well for him.

Yeah, it's just they had to be a past catcher because Jordan Mason

cannot do that at all.

Well, Joey, you know, before we recorded a little peak behind the curtain

for the viewers that are watching, we decided to scrap one of these situations

that we were going to talk about, which was the Atlanta wide receivers.

Just because we said, I don't know if there's an exciting name there.

They don't have a lot of money in cap.

They just locked up Kyle Pits.

Well, we got breaking news as well.

Just coming to you nonstop on today's show.

The Atlanta Falcons did add a wide receiver.

Joey a lot of days of kiosk back with the Atlanta Falcons.

So good thing we kind of glossed over that when I think that he is a good fit.

When you've got Kyle Pits and Drake London can both play deep down field,

given the OZ, some of those short targets across the middle of the field.

But, you know, I to answer anybody's questions about his fantasy relevance.

I'd say that there's very little fantasy relevance for

a lot of these keys in Atlanta.

Oh, you were real high and I'm not sure, Chicago.

And he like, he kind of served if you need to fill in a spot, a couple of games.

Like he doesn't terrible, but yeah, that doesn't, that doesn't scratch the edge

relic and for it certainly does not.

But hopefully some of these next spots that we talk about will we are now moving on

from the good landing spots to the great landing spots.

Joey, the first one that we're going to talk about here, wide receiver for

the new England Patriots, Stefan digs.

I don't think they've officially released him yet, but they said they're going

to be releasing him.

So theoretically, release himself.

Yeah, really.

In theory, like if you just look at this,

like the New England Patriots, they've got Drake May, a superstar young receiver.

They don't have a wide receiver one.

This is a good offense.

Like it sounds like this should be the guy that we really want is like a good wide

receiver to land as the wide receiver one for the New England Patriots.

But the Patriots offense and Drake,

basically, they really like to spread the ball around.

So Stefan digs for all intents and purposes was the wide receiver one last year.

But struggle to find any consistency is there a wide receiver that you could

see landing in New England that you think could actually be a fantasy wide receiver

one, or maybe even a wide receiver, too.

I don't want to take your guy away from you, but Romeo Dobbs seems like the perfect fit.

He's used to being in a time share situation at the wide receiver.

I think he works really well in New England side, just side step real quick.

I imagine New England's party upset that Alok Pierce is not available because

the third profile, but no, I mean, Dobbs has averaged six touchdowns

the last three seasons.

He's he's a good all-round wide receiver.

So you can kind of use him anywhere you want any handles about 85 to 100 targets

per season.

And that's basically what digs is walking away from.

So that's what digs had before.

So he could slot right into that role.

And I think produce really well.

And I hate to take him away from me, but that was my perfect fit here for New England.

I think it makes a lot of sense, too, because he does a lot of that dirty work

that is required in this Josh McDaniel's offense.

He could block.

He could catch balls across the middle of the field, a reliable chain mover.

I think for me, like as a guy who's been touting Dobbs a lot over the last couple of years,

I would like to see him in a situation that allows him to be a little bit more versatile

or he can just kind of win in more ways.

Because I do feel like this Patriot's offense is very similar to the Green Bay off.

Bay Green Bay offense where it's like, you have your role, you're going to do your job.

And that's kind of it.

I'd like to see Dobbs playing a little bit more of a versatile role, but it does make a lot of sense.

I do wonder just again, trying to look at the salary cap situation here.

New England, they've got a decent amount of money to play with about 40 million.

And they've probably put some of that aside for Alc Piers, which they won't be using on him now.

So Romeo Dubs would make a lot of sense.

But I do wonder if Nick Westbrook Akine is kind of the boring answer here.

Just the ties to Mike Ravel kind of fits the role that they need.

They have a lot of underneath weapons right now.

Matt Collins, you know, he's a good field stretcher, but Nick Westbrook Akine can do that as well.

So I wonder if that's where we're going to be looking at is just like a Nick Westbrook Akine reunion with Mike Ravel.

And nobody really gets excited about it.

But this is one that I think whoever signs here, I think people will get excited.

But I feel like we just fall into this trap all the time.

We just did with Stefan Diggs.

You know, I remember Johnny Smith getting his $50 million.

We've got to remember Hunter Henry's going to get his Kyle Williams, DeMario Douglas,

Keishan Booty, like they're going to spread this ball around a lot in Foxboro.

So I think it is a great landing spot with the right guy.

If it's just in any day guy who signs here, I'm not going to get overly excited.

But if they pay up for a player that I do like, I can talk myself into excitement between now and August.

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Next spot we want to talk about here, Joey, the quarterback for the Arizona cardinals.

And this was the one when we ranked these landing spots.

I think this was the one that we had the biggest ascension on.

I think I had this as my third overall spot.

You were a couple spots lower here.

But man, we just saw Jacobi percent just last year, QB one week after QB one week,

they've got trademark ride, Marvin Harris in junior, Michael Wilson, terrible defense.

Do you think that we might be sleeping on this as a potentially elites landing spot for a quarterback?

I, I don't think we're sleeping on it.

I mean, they've got a top three tight end.

I mean, we, I guess we are a little bit top three tight end young wide receiver.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I know you like Elijah Higgins, but top three tight end, I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself.

Elijah Higgins top three tight.

No, it's trademark ride.

Elijah Higgins, like might as well be, if just sky's a limit for that guy.

No, but they've got Marvin Harris in junior as well.

A young wide receiver with pedigree that we know Hall of Fame pedigree from his father that was fantastic in college.

We just haven't seen unlocked yet.

So we, we really want to see a great quarterback come in here and start to unlock him and really unlock this defense.

But my fear is just the names that are out there.

Are they that much better than Jacobi percent?

Yeah.

I mean, that's my big question.

I think Malik Willis, if you land here, that's the best case scenario at this point.

I know we're going to talk about this later, but, you know, which of these positions are going to be filled through the draft rather than free agency.

And Arizona was kind of the one that popped up from you.

I'm like, yeah, I could see them taking a quarterback.

And I think that would make a lot of sense with them picking early in the draft.

I mean, it would probably be a little too early for Ty Simpson, but

desperation, like, you know, if they need to get a quarterback, they might look that route.

And I hate myself for talking to talk of myself into this one.

But Derek Carr in this offense, like, could you potentially get excited about Derek Carr?

Is like a high end QB two in fantasy.

If he's throwing to Trey McBride and throwing to department hairs in junior Michael Wilson.

Like I talked about that terrible defense that just puts them in these game scripts where they have to throw.

Like, I think that's the one landing spot.

Of course, Minnesota, which we'll talk about it a little bit, but like, I can see myself getting kind of mildly,

maybe excited about Derek Carr in this offense.

He might speak into like by top 24 quarterbacks, just because of who's around them there.

I mean, Michael Wilson, we didn't talk about Michael Wilson at all.

I mean, he had a fantastic.

If you want to call it a breakout, I don't think that's bad to call it that what happened with them last year.

I mean, I would, you know, I like to draft two quarterbacks.

So I could see like, if I landed a Trevor Lawrence, like, yeah, let me grab Derek Carr's my backup.

But I don't know, but I don't know where the excitement is on the scale there.

So yeah, and yeah, I think a four out of 10, it's about as excited as I can get about Derek Carr.

But the next one we want to talk about here, the wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders.

Now, this is one that I can go so many different ways because on one hand,

we have seen the history of wide receiver ones with Clint Gubiak.

Brandon IU had his best season ever with Clint Gubiak.

Justin Jefferson, his year two breakout came with Clint Gubiak.

We saw Chris Alabe and Rashid Shaheed feasting in New Orleans.

We saw what Jackson Smith and the Jigba just did last year in Seattle.

Clint Gubiak, his entire offense is predicated around getting that wide receiver one open in space

where he can create on these crossing routes and make plays after the catch part of me wonders.

If that's just going to be Brock Bowers, that they're just going to say, hey, Brock Bowers, you are the new Jackson Smith,

the Jigba, you're getting 160 targets and you're going to be wildly efficient with them.

The other kind of layer to this discussion about the potential wide receiver one in Las Vegas

is that they are going to be drafting Fernando Mendoza.

And we know historically rookies do struggle to support multiple pass catchers.

JJ Zacharyson has done some great studies on this.

Of course, we've seen like the one outlier is CJ Strout when he had Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz,

and Tank Dell, all giving us fantasy relevant weeks.

So what do you think?

What are your expectations here?

Should we temper expectations for whatever and I will say almost assuredly

we are going to see a wide receiver sign with Las Vegas.

This team has more money to play with than anybody else.

They've got $110 million to spend and wide receiver is a massive need for them.

So I'd expect them to bring in a wide receiver, but how excited can we actually get about this wide receiver, Joey?

Well, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head with Bowers, like, and I love that situation for Mendoza

because I love seeing a rookie quarterback that comes in that's going to be thrown to the wolves right away.

Then having a solid tight end to lean on Brock Bowers is definitely that.

I think if you're looking at a wide receiver, what are they going to bring in?

I kind of want a different route with this.

I see a lot of potential in Jack Batch and Dante Thornton.

I could see them bringing in a veteran like Debo Samuel, who is also a really good short area target for Mendoza

to kind of work with them, mentor them a little bit.

I would be shocked to see Debo end up there.

I think that'd be a good fit.

But this Vegas offense is going to be very invested in making Mendoza a superstar in their franchise quarterback.

So they're going to put pieces around him that's going to best support him.

I do wonder how much with Tom Brady, you know, being a part of the front office there, kind of having a say in some of the personnel usage.

I wonder if, you know, you said Fernando Mendoza thrown to the wolves.

I can't help but wonder if they're going to bring in a veteran.

And, you know, just Tom Brady, hey, this is how it worked for me.

This is how I've seen it work for other quarterbacks.

Take that old school approach.

Let him sit, you know, kind of get that year of development underneath his belt.

Again, you know, we just talked about Derek Carr.

You know, maybe Derek Carr, a reunion in Las Vegas is what he needs.

Maybe they bring in another veteran, but I'm not fully sure that we see Fernando Mendoza in a week one role.

But again, we're talking about the wide receiver one here in Vegas.

I think we're kind of beating around the bush, but I think it's Brock Fowlers.

Like, I don't care who they bring in when I look at the available wide receivers out there.

I like to call out with Debo Samuel. I think he would make a lot of sense.

Rashid Shaheed probably makes more sense than anybody else giving the ties that he has to Clint Kubiak.

But I don't know if there's anybody that can land in this office that's available,

aside from a trade for like an AJ Brown or something like that.

I don't think there's a veteran wide receiver available

that can come into Las Vegas and immediately get more targets than Brock Fowlers.

I think he's just going to get that treatment from Clint Kubiak before any wide receiver does.

Absolutely.

Last one we're going to talk about in this tier, Joey.

Nope, I lied.

We are into the final tier now.

This is the elite tier, the best possible landing spots, the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins.

We've already kind of talked about this a little bit.

We talked about a wide receiver in Miami, so let's kind of change the topic a little bit now.

Let's just assume that Malik Willis was there because it does sound like it's all but a done deal at this point.

How high can we rank Malik Willis in our offense?

Throwing the ball on those slants Jalen Waddle, hidden divine H&N in the flat, the rushing upside.

It's really easy to see the ceiling case for Malik Willis in his offense.

How high would you be willing to rank him in 2026?

So where I have him now and he's not even officially with the dolphins and this might sound low,

but I've got him at QB 20.

Now let me finish.

He's in my fourth tier of quarterbacks because I think this fourth tier of quarterbacks is fantastic this year.

I'm talking alongside Baker Mayfield, Jared Goff and Jordan Love.

So QB 20 is not bad for me.

That's in my fourth tier.

There's a big glob of guys there.

You know, this Dolphins quarterback position could be very profitable for fantasy.

I think Malik Willis is the best case scenario to end up there.

And QB 20 is the floor for him.

Like I mentioned, those other guys that goes as high as QB 14.

So he could be as high as that.

You know, we're not getting into like the draft theory part of the offseason yet.

We'll do that a lot more in August as the season gets closer.

But last year we talked so much about how deep quarterback was and that like don't pay up for any of these back end QB ones.

Anyone who paid up for Bonaix and Baker Mayfield and those guys felt burned last year.

And there's just been such an influx of young talent coming into the league.

And now we see a lot of these veterans in good situations as well.

So many guys with rushing upside that I think, yeah, you say like QB 20 that might sound a little bit low.

But you can make an argument that he could be as high as like QB 8 as well.

And I don't think that you're wrong because that whole kind of glob from like QB 8 to like QB 24 is just so tight in rankings here.

So again, you know, there's still the free agency and the draft and much to discuss.

But I think this is going to be another another one of those years where fantasy managers who choose to wait on quarterback are just going to have it better than those who pay up for them.

So a couple more of the best landing spots to talk about Joey.

And this was one of your highest that was a little bit lower.

This is again one of the few that we had some dissension on.

But the running back for the Kansas City chiefs.

Now we've been wish casting this for a long time.

Like we just want a good running back in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes and it just happened.

So unless they sign ETN or Walker, do you think that we're going to see a back who could potentially emerge as a workhorse here?

Or do you think that anybody else think it's in this situation is just going to end up in a committee like we've seen for the last ten or so years.

Yeah, you bring up a good point of just like we need to forget what we did in early in his career with these big bulking, you know, running backs that ran, you know, all three downs.

And we need to look at a more of a committee.

So if it's not Ken Walker, I think it's going to be one or two guys, maybe the draft.

I listen, this draft class for the running backs is not getting touted.

There's one guy is getting touted very heavily, but through that combine and through, you know, some or shout out to our football guys rookie guide.

I've started getting excited about, you know, some of these other guys share price and whatnot.

So, you know, was Adam Randall out of Clemson like Adam Randall was the one.

Oh my gosh, Adam Randall in an Andy Reed offense.

Chills, chills right now. Yeah.

So there are players that I think would fill it in well here.

Rashad White, you know, I could, you've got room of dubs. I got Rashad White today.

Would have fit in pretty well here, but I have a question for you, Dave.

Do you think that C.E.H. Pick scared Andy to read off from ever investing in a running back again?

Well, if you remember, that wasn't a C.E.H. or that wasn't an Andy Reed pick.

That was in my home's pick.

If you remember, he told my homes, he could make that choice.

And it was, it was a terrible choice at the time.

I was ripping that one apart the second they made it.

I think that was kind of foolish to let my homes make that pick.

But I think you could be onto something there because that was terrible.

And since then, you know, they've tried kind of putting this Frankenstein running back room together.

We're like, we've got our goal line guy. We've got our past catching guy.

We've got our early down guy.

We've got to change a pace guy.

And I think we still have this mindset that like Andy Reed is just like

Midas with running backs that he touches, but that was Brian Westbrook with Sean McCoy,

Jamal Charles, early career, Kareem Hunt.

Kareem Hunt left Kansas City eight years ago.

And it has just been running backs by committee ever since.

So I think maybe he can buck that trend if they end up, well, not maybe.

If they end up with Jeremiah Love, Travis ETN, Ken Walker, they buck that trend and they go back to Andy Reed

leaning on a workhorse running back, but I don't know if anybody else really does that.

I think Adam Randall, like we talked about it would be a really fun player, but he can't handle 300 touches.

Like they'd be using him on some of creative Jericho McKinney type looks.

Rashad White, I think potentially could be a three down back.

I think he's kind of the floor for me.

Like I think Walker and ETN would assuredly be three down backs in this offense.

I think if you look at Tyler Algier and Rashad White and kind of those tier two guys,

they probably get lumped more into a committee.

But that's my fear here is I think that we're going to see one of these.

I don't want to say a lesser name, but like, you know, one of those more middle of a pack free agents is going to sign here.

Everyone's going to say wheels up for that running back.

When the reality is he's just going to fall into a committee like every other running back has done in the last eight years in Kansas City.

So that leads to the next one that I want to talk about and Joey, maybe I'm crazy here.

I think this is a better landing spot for running back than Kansas City Washington commanders.

I think they have a big need for running back right now.

And this is my top landing spot. I'd prefer this over Kansas City.

I prefer this over the quarterback spots.

This is a Dan Quinn offense, Jaden Daniels in the back field.

This feels like a spot that you can plug a lot of different free agent running backs into and made immediately be considered top 15 backs in running back.

So, you know, we talk about Rashad White, the guy you've been talking about so much on this show.

I think this makes more sense for any other running back out there.

He's college teammates with Jalen Daniels.

They played together in New Mexico States, so they've already got that familiarity in the back field.

To me, I think this makes so much sense to put Rashad White here.

But who are some of the other potential guys that you think could end up working out in this backfield?

Yeah, real quick. I think last year if you look at this Washington

running back room, I think they kind of got forced into having to experiment the way they did with Eckler going down and Dan.

So go ahead.

I don't mind.

But you all will come back to this Kenneth Walker is officially Kansas City Chief.

So we just talked about it.

Intense to sign with the chiefs shout out to who is this yet I yeti sorry yeti in the chat.

Let us know here and I looked it up.

So Kenneth Walker officially with the chiefs scrap everything I said about them potentially putting a guy in a committee.

This was the guy that we said if Kenneth Walker Travis ET and I end up here.

This is a three down back.

I don't see how you can look at Kenneth Walker's anything besides a top eight running back right now in fantasy.

Not at all. I mean, he coming off the super off the Super Bowl MVP.

I mean, he's going to have a ton of hype, but no, he's going to live up to the hype.

I like it a lot.

And I Dave, I do think we're I feel like we're two for two on the breaking news because it out here.

So we said like, really, I think the coach want to have him back and makes the most sense that he'll be there.

And then he was the first name we mentioned with Kansas City.

We're doing great. We're doing great today, Dave.

The fun thing with this show we're live streaming it too.

So a lot of people will be listening to this on the podcast over the next couple of hours.

Typically, what we do if we were pre recording the show is we would just cut this out and then like, you know,

go back, rerecord those sections, patch it all together.

We're live streaming this one right now.

So everybody listening, they're getting the unadultered audio as we are, you know, reacting to this live as it's coming through.

But let's go back to the running back for the Kansas, for the Washington commanders.

I talk about wanting a shot white here, but Joey, what were your thoughts on this backfield?

Yeah. So there's a name we haven't really mentioned yet.

And I think he doesn't have a whole lot of mileage on him.

Are we ready to have the talent out years to conversation because he's a name you brought up.

And I think it makes a ton of sense there.

He had over 135 carries and backed about seasons.

When the Falcons had beach on Robinson still on the field.

He is supremely talented.

The only knock I have on Algier with this offense is he's not much of a pass catching back.

Could he develop that? I'm not sure.

But I think it makes some sense for him to be here as well.

And I also, I wanted to check there was no overlap there.

But I think like Dan Quinn being with the Falcons and Tyler Algier being with the Falcons.

Like it feels like there's some connection there.

And also Tyler Algier just feels like a Dan Quinn running back.

I don't know what but there's no connection that I can make here.

It's just to me like Tyler Algier.

He's just that hard-nosed three down grinder that I think Dan Quinn wants.

So I would love to see Rashad White here just because I think that would be one of the best case scenarios for his fantasy value.

Parent him up with his college quarterback.

That's what I would like to see.

But this is one that you know, Kenneth Walker off the map now.

But Travis ETN, like if he potentially signs there, there are a lot of running backs that I could talk myself into because

like we saw in your Corey Croskey Merit not a very good running back still producing last year.

We saw Chris Rodriguez Jr. when you got the opportunity producing last year Austin Eccler at the end of the 2025 season and to start last year.

Still productive when you have a rushing threat like Jaden Daniels.

It just opens so many opportunities for the running backs.

So this is one that I'm getting excited about and can't wait to see who lands there.

But Joey, the last one we're going to talk about the crem de la crem, the best landing spot for any potential free agent here.

And I wonder how many people would have guessed this one, but Minnesota Vikings quarterback.

This one.

You know, our map, patentee isn't crazy about the offensive line, but they've got some good pieces there.

So, you know, an average to above average offensive line.

But really it's Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hockinson.

And of course, Kevin O'Connell hosting the school of learning how to play quarterback good.

It's open for enrollment right now.

So Joey, what quarterback do you think would benefit most from a year with Kevin O'Connell?

I mean, we've seen the name most linked to it.

And that's Kyler Murray, you know, Arizona's moved on from him.

I'm working right now because Frank in the chat.

Two seconds before that came out of your lip said, give me Kyler to the Vikings or give me death.

And I think that's what it is.

We all seen the potential in Kyler and there were some knocks on him for either on a field or off the field.

Whatever you want to get into a Kyler, it would just be good to see him actually come to fruition.

I think any team that's got Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison as your two top pass catchers.

That's a dream landing spot for any quarterback.

We saw Sam Darnold, you know, excel in this offense to great degrees.

Two years ago, you know, last year, it was just a mix of bag of what we got.

Now, I have a question for you.

Are the Vikings in a position to use that?

What is it the 18th overall pick to take a quarterback?

Or are they going to give JJ McCarthy one more year to see if they can develop them?

Yeah, you know, some cost fallacy is a very real thing.

And I think that investing I always forget I always get flip left.

I believe he was the 10th overall pick, right?

Either 10 to 12, but they invested a premium draft pick in JJ McCarthy.

They already missed out on the entire rookie season with the knee injury.

My guess is that they'd want to at least like sit him on the bench for a year and see if they could

reclaim what they have with him after the season.

But I think just the way the stars are aligning right now with like Kyler Marie needing a good landing spot.

Kevin Connell being able to fix some of these highly drafted quarterbacks with pedigree.

And then of course, like the Minnesota Vikings, they don't have a ton in salary cap.

So with the Cardinals paying Kyler Marie salary this year,

them getting to be able to bring him in on a vet minimum contract.

It's like they kind of double down on like the two things that you want with a quarterback.

Either the quarterback on a rookie deal or the quarterback on a vet minimum contract and they have one of each.

So I think, you know, McCarthy also being a young scrambling type of quarterback.

I think learning from Kyler Marie could help him.

So to me, it just makes sense for Kevin O'Connell, makes sense for the Vikings, makes sense for Kyler, makes sense for JJ.

I don't think they'll use a first round pick on a quarterback this year because I think they still would like to see what they have after this year.

If they can fix JJ McCarthy.

So, you know, crazy or things have happened.

We didn't think they were going to take JJ McCarthy.

We didn't think the Broncos were going to take Bonaix.

You know, crazy things happen in the draft every single year.

But I would be shocked if they use that pick 18 on a quarterback this year.

I would be too.

I just, I had to ask it because I mean, the question was there last year and then we saw, I mean, JJ had flashes though.

That was the thing is we can see it, but I just can't string enough good performances together to make it.

Okay, let's put this team on his back and I don't know like that it gets to a point where your opportunities right out there where you just can't be trusted anymore.

Well, Joey, we we talked about the 14 landing spots that were excited about two of the 14 were filled by

the expectations we had during the show.

So that's fun to see.

It is a crazy, crazy week.

We see this every year where I feel like, you know, free agency used to last for like weeks.

Like we would just slowly kind of see these trickling in.

Now, as soon as legal tampering opens, we get all of these big names.

We're going to see even more coming through on Wednesday.

So right now, remember, you know, nothing is officially official at this point.

The Colts are because they are allowed to make moves on guys that are currently under contract.

Kenneth Walker will officially sign in a couple of days, just all the tampering right now is legal.

And, you know, as it should be, but Joey, anything else that you'll be paying attention to this week.

Some spots that you think maybe, you know, these landing spots that we were looking at today saying like, I don't think anybody's going to sign there.

They might just address that in the draft or anything else that you're going to be paying attention to as we as we head into this week.

Yeah, the two teams that I think will probably hit the draft to fill their holes would be New Orleans.

If it's not ETN.

Eighth overall Jeremiah love doesn't sound bad to me.

That sounds like a good fit. He looks fantastic, you know, in college in the combine.

So yeah, love's got a lot of buzz going in.

I can see him going inside the first 10 picks.

And then Arizona quarter back.

Ty Simpson, I think this draft class for this quarterbacks is not extremely highly talented.

I can see Ty Simpson going there to Arizona as their next quarterback.

Yeah, and looking at the draft, I mean, Jeremiah love it really is going to be interesting to see where he goes because like

Arizona three.

I don't know if it's that crazy like tray Benson has not answered any questions.

I know they brought James Connor back on a one year deal.

They restructured his deal, but Arizona, I mean, even Tennessee at four.

Tony Pollard is as good as gone.

They don't trust Taj A Spears for full workload.

Washington at seven.

Would I think be the ideal landing spot and then New Orleans at eight.

Those could all end up working out, but going to be fun just about a month and a half away until the NFL draft is officially here.

We've got some really fun things planned for the draft.

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