There are currently 10 players who are absolutely skyrocketing up my fantasy draft board this month. These are players that I'm currently targeting more because their role might be changing. We're getting training camp reports about them seeing more touches or maybe there's an injury to one of their teammates. These are guys that you want to be drafting before your league mates catch on because they're massive values right now. And if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatri. I've been helping people win their fantasy leagues for nearly eight years, and we plan to do the same for you in this video. And let's start with a guy who might honestly go from being like an undrafted player to being like a top 10 round pick in fantasy. And this is Dylan Samson of the Cleveland Browns, because it all starts with a very obvious piece of news if you're following fantasy or the NFL in general right now. Quinnintan Junkins, his teammate, the guy who

was drafted in the second round by the Cleveland Browns, was arrested for battery and domestic violence earlier this summer, just a couple of weeks ago depending on when you're watching this video. That's not good. And what's also not good if we're trying to talk about this and take it into a fantasy perspective, which is my job here, even though this is obviously a very unfortunate situation. And the other bad news for Quintan Junkins is there is only two as of this

recording rookies who remain unsigned. Chamar Stewart, a first round pick for the Bengals and then Quinn Sean Junkin for the Browns. And now with this news coming out, there's really no urgency for the Browns to say, yeah, let's give this guy a contract with this news out there right now, right? There's no leverage for them to get a deal done at this point, which now opens up the opportunity for Dylan Samson, the other rookie that the Browns took this year in the fourth round of the draft, who's also very talented to see that Quinn Sean Junkins type role. And Samson is a very good running back. In terms of production last year, he goes for 250 carries, almost 1,500 rushing yards, 22 touchdowns. Over 60% of his yards came after contact, and he accounted for nearly 35% of his team's offensive production last year, not just as a rusher in general, including the passing production as well. Every single year, his efficiency increased on a yards per touch basis in college, so he got better every year. His overall production from a yardage standpoint also doubled every season as well. He only got better as he got more experience. And as of this recording, with Judkins going out there and not being a part of the team, he's not in training camp, it looks like the backfield is currently a reliable veteran in Jerome Ford, who's posted good numbers in the past, and I'm interested in him right now with this Judkins' news and then there's Dylan Samson. So as it looks right now, the passing down option, in my opinion and on third downs, probably the reliable veteran. But in terms of that early down usage, 50% of the snaps or so, if Judkins isn't playing week one, if we're just going to go with that theory right now, Dylan Samson looks a lot better right now, especially when you consider that as I mentioned at the top,

this guy was basically not being drafted in any fantasy league like a couple of weeks ago. And he's going to start rising up the rankings. Right now he goes as the 166th overall pick and fantasy drafts. That's only going to increase to probably like the 1 30s in a couple of weeks if Judkins still isn't signed to this team and the reports don't look good. So as of right now, you're getting him as like a 15th, 16th round pick.

I would assume that he settles in as like a 12th. weeks if Judkins still isn't signed to this team and the reports don't look good. So as of right now,

you're getting him as like a 15th, 16th round pick. I would assume that he settles in as like a 12th or 13th round pick. And even there, I like Samson a lot, even in this bad offense because you don't have to spend like a six round pick where Judkins was going. And that doesn't even take into account if he starts flashing in training camp or he starts flashing in the preseason.

Imagine he goes out there and he gets like seven carries 50 yards and he has like a 15

yard touchdown run.

Yeah, he's going to be. account if he starts flashing in training camp or he starts flashing in the preseason. Imagine he goes out there and he gets like seven carries 50 yards and he has like a 15-yard

touchdown run.

Yeah, he's going to be going in the top 10 rounds of the draft. So Dylan Samson, the rookie is somebody to watch. And now Xavier Worthy, the second year player, former first round pick for the Kansas City Chiefs is also somebody to watch. he's a riser for me this month and it's for very obvious reasons as well one of his teammates also

has some legal matters going on and that teammate is going to be Rashi Rice, who is going to be sentenced to five years probation, as you can see right here, and 30 days of jail time that he can serve at any point during that due to just a incident that happened back in 2024, I believe March of 2024 in terms of a car accident.

So as of right now, Rashi Rice, based on this recording, maybe the report comes out by the time that you're watching this. I'm recording this a couple of days early. Rashi Rice, he could be getting suspended two to four games or four to six games, which is why Xavier Worthy is rising. Because it now opens up the opportunity at least for a couple of weeks to potentially a month, a month and a half of a new wide receiver one coming into play like Worthy was down the stretch last year without Rashi Rice. And now this means that I'm a little bit interested in Xavier Worthy since he's going to see a higher target share and maybe even have a chance now to take on a larger workload the second half of the year if he builds chemistry in the offense with Mahomes like he started to last year. If you look at this right now, comparing the final eight games of Rashi Rice and Xavier were these rookie seasons, according to Jared Smola over on Twitter, look how similar they are. 70 targets for ice compared to 65 for Worthy, both seeing a 23% target share. In terms of yardage right around 600, worthy more touchdowns, fantasy points, more for worthy last year, yards per outrun basically the same, PFF grade, basically the same. So these guys were very similar in an Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes-led offense and now heading into this season, at least to start the year, Rice won't be out there, unfortunately, and Worthy will, so he has to be rising. It should also be called out that last year in some very important games, you also saw Xavier Worthy kind of pop off a little bit as well. If you look at this right here towards the end of the season, right? This January 5th game, he gets pulled with the starters. That's why it's zero catches, zero targets. But before that, in the fantasy playoffs, if we go to it right here, in the fantasy playoffs to end the season, you're talking about eight receptions, 79 yards, seven catches 65 yards, six catches 46, 46 yards. And if you scroll over, he's scoring touchdowns in two of these games. So he's going out there during that stretch, and he's having about 10 targets per game. He finished as a top 12 wide receiver during the fantasy postseason. So he paid off for you in the biggest moments. And now he's trying to trend that into not only what he did in the postseason last year, but now the beginning of this year for your fantasy rosters. So Xavier Worthy currently goes as the 57th overall player behind guys like Zayflowers and James and William's. I assume this is only going to change very quickly based on the Rossi Rice once the actual ruling comes out and he'll probably start to go in this range next to Cortland Sutton, if not ahead of Cortland Sutton in the fourth round of fantasy drafts. I'm interested in worthy as like a late fourth round pick. Once he starts to become like an early fourth round pick, I'm probably going to be out on him at that point, and I'll just start to take Rashi Rice, who at that point probably starts to fall to like a late fifth round round. Now, I'm also interested in another rookie, a second round rookie tight end, which normally rookie tight ends aren't all that great outside of you know recently sam leporta and brock bowers but elijah royo of the seattle seahawks

for another obvious reason. I'm based on news, and that's Noofant being released, the veteran tight end. They traded for him from the Broncos a couple years ago. He had a lot of hype coming out. He was released by the team right now. So here's the deal. Noah Fant, this was kind of expected based on his salary cap, based on the

fact that they drafted Elijah Arroyo, but then they didn't end up ever cutting him until right before the first day of training camp. So now it makes sense. You look at it. And based on the depth chart, I mean, there's like nobody else who's going to compete with Elijah Arroyo, who's six foot five, 250 pounds. He's an absolute freak in terms of speed. 4-6-4-40 time. I'm not even sure if I could run a

4-6-440 time.

I'm not even sure if I could run a 4-6-4-40 time, and I'm a runner.

I'm somebody who practices sprints and I'm somebody who goes out there and does speed work a couple days a week. Obviously I'm not an NFL player, but I'm only 170 pounds. I'm about 250 and this dude runs faster than me. That's frightening. look at the updated depth chart here i mean there's just nothing there's a j barner who's

mostly a blocker eric sarber who's nothing to worry about and then a bunch of no names tight ends

that you're going to see And if we now look at the updated depth chart here, I mean, there's just nothing. There's AJ Barner who's mostly a blocker, Eric Sharber, who's nothing to worry about,

and then a bunch of no-name tight ends that you're going to see here. It's going to be probably Elijah Oroyo out there as the obvious passing-down player, and this is a guy who in college was pretty interesting. Not only does he have that elite size and speed like we talked about, Only six ball carriers had a higher mile per hour top end speed than Elijah O'Royo last year.

That's including all different types of speed players, right? like we talked about. Only six ball carriers had a higher mile per hour top end speed than Elijah

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