Fantasy Football Draft Strategy: Wide Receivers in Focus
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00:00Let's start with this. We've got three big time wide receivers who've done nothing the
00:08entire training camp. They're not going to do anything the entire training camp. And
00:13as far as I'm concerned, all three of them one way or the other are going to roll out
00:17their week one and they're going to play in their games. Now, is it going to be for San
00:21Francisco or somebody else? I don't know. But I'm pretty confident, Joe, that all three
00:25of these guys are going to play once the money is actually on the table for week one. So
00:28how concerned are you with C.D. Lamb, Jamar Chase, Brandon Ayuk? Is it affecting you when
00:33you're drafting right now? Is it affecting anybody when they're drafting right now?
00:37One of them is. It's not C.D. Lamb and it's not Jamar Chase for the reason is simply those
00:42guys are just way too necessary to their team's success and their first round pick. So either
00:46you're taking them or you're not, you're either jumping in the pool. You're not wrong is,
00:50you know, the longer sometimes it takes for these guys to be there. You know, the good
00:53thing is about the holding in like Chase is holding in. So at least he's around, he gets
00:57some workouts in, some stuff like that. But on the field, different story. I don't worry
01:02as much about the wide receivers as I do. Let's say the running backs and the running
01:05backs tend to hold out. They tend to have a lot more of those soft tissue injuries where
01:08they're not getting their reps in because it's a different position. It demands a little
01:11bit more of them in terms of some of those reps in the way they take them. Ayuk is the
01:15guy that I am concerned with because his ADP is kind of wedged into a bunch of wide receivers
01:21that I think I have. You can make an argument for those guys over Ayuk in the first place.
01:26Jalen Waddle, Michael Pittman Jr., Nico Collins, maybe even Cooper Cup, right? If you're really
01:31feeling lucky about rolling the dice with Cup. But if you're looking at those kind of
01:35wide receivers in that same range, why would you take Ayuk who hasn't been around there?
01:38Why, if you are worried about that? So it's kind of like you got to either jump in the
01:42pool with two feet there and realize, hey, there's some risk here with Lamb, but he is
01:47the offense. Same thing with Jamar Chase. He is the go-to guy. Whereas Ayuk isn't. It's
01:52Christian McCaffrey. It's Zeebo Samuel. It's George Kittle. Oh yeah. And it's also Ayuk
01:55too. So for the ADP, I think Ayuk is the one that I would fade easier by far. And you
02:01can certainly make the argument the guys around him are as good, if not better potential investments.