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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

5 Fantasy Winners Everyone Missed From Free Agency

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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5 Fantasy Winners Everyone Missed From Free Agency


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0:00.0

NFL Free Agency is over and there was a lot of big winners and losers, however.

0:04.7

There are some players who, to me, were obvious winners that I'm not seeing anybody else talk about. And we're going to discuss those five players in this video who just became much better fantasy assets. And for the first one, we kind of have to look at the Arizona Cardinals passing core. I'm talking about like pretty much everybody who's involved here. We can say Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison, obviously Trey McBride, the number one tight end in fantasy football this past season. These guys were massive winners because point blank, they did not get a bad quarterback on their team. Or maybe we have to reframe that. The biggest free agent signing that could have been there was Malik Willis, and he did not go to this

0:37.5

team. Now, he's not bad necessarily. It's a limited sample, but he's mobile and that's going to lead to less pass attempts per game, most likely. We also got the news that Kyla Murray was released from the team, as was heavily expected, and he also signed a one-year deal with the Minnesota Vikings, sort of a prove a deal. So now what you're going to get right now is the Arizona Cardinals are basically

0:54.8

running it back at quarterback. They have Jacoby Brissette. They signed Gardner Minshu, but they've already named Berset the starter. And that's important because last year with Berset starting the majority of the games, Trey McBride averaged 18.6 points per game. He was the number one tight end in fantasy football, scoring 11 touchdowns more than his previous NFL combined

1:11.8

seasons the last three years was his 11 last year. Michael Wilson was a top 20 fantasy wide receiver

1:17.3

out of nowhere. In previous seasons, he was the wide receiver two or three on this team,

1:21.5

depending on the week, depending on the quarterback. He scored a career high seven touchdowns

1:25.0

with Jacoby Brissette. And this is just like looking at the overall season stats. That still factors in weeks where you saw Kyla Murray playing, banged up, whatever it might be, not a full start-to-finish start for Jacoby Berset. But if we just look at the games where Jacoby Burset started last year, there was 12 games for Michael Wilson. In those contests, he averaged nearly 17 fantasy points per game. 80 receiving yards per game was top 12 in the NFL during that spam. Nine targets per game. You do the same thing for Trey McBride. In five games to start the year with Kyler Murray, he's averaging 12 and a half fantasy points per game. That's solid, but if you took him in the beginning of the third round like I did in some drafts, including the flock league, or maybe in the end of the second round, 12 and a half points per game

2:03.7

isn't going to cut it.

2:04.2

Speaking of the flock league, you see that big belt on the floor right there? That's a championship. Most of you, if you're watching this from the flock league, don't have one of those. Here's my smack talk for the day. Okay, anyways, Trey McBride last year in those 12 games with Jacoby Brissette, 21 fantasy points per game.

2:17.5

That production would arguably be number one or first round pick type production heading into 2026, 10 and a half targets per game. You kind of get the point right now. Jacoby Beret was a stimulus package to this entire offense. Sure, their defense being banged up and not being great and them falling behind in games as a part of that. They had a lot of garbage time.

2:35.1

Maybe that will change.

2:50.4

But overall, I think the fact that you're getting Jacoby Brissette back in this offense, he already has his favorites in Michael Wilson, somewhat Marvin Harrison, and definitely Trey McBride. The fact that we already have news that he's going to be the starting quarterback, at least to open the year next year. It seems like the Cardinals are fully in that tank mode.

3:07.7

Maybe they can get Arch Manning, who will throw to Marvin Harrison Jr. and reunite the Peyton versus Marvin Harrison senior relationship. It's kind of a cool story if it happens. But by all accounts, Malik Willis not going to the Arizona Cardinals was massive news for this team. Also, to a lesser extent, they did sign Tyler Algear, who is not a past catching running back. They're trying to restructure James Connor, who's not the greatest past catching running back, I would say at this point in his career is an older back. So that's also good news for these past catchers. Like, it's not like they brought in a Rashad White, a Kenneth Gamowell, a pass catching specialist who could just soak up a little bit of the target share away from

3:24.2

them that's not going to be the case now the next winner that i'm not seeing really a lot of people talk about if anything they're saying he's not a winner which is completely wrong in my humble opinion is garret wilson because garret wilson got a new quarterback now before we get into the new quarterback and all that let's just take a look at garret wilson from last year if you look at his season and you drafted him in, I don't know, the third round of your fantasy drafts, you're not

3:42.3

going to be happy because he only played Garrett Wilson from last year. If you look at his season and you drafted him in, I don't know, the third round of your fantasy drafts, you're not going to be happy because he

3:43.2

only played in seven games last year, in one of the worst offenses in football, one of the worst quarterback rooms as well, but he only played seven games because he was injured. But if you look at his first five weeks of the season before he left the game earlier with an injury and then got hurt Again, you can see he averaged 19 fantasy points per game.

3:57.4

He was the top 12 wide receiver.

3:58.8

9.6 targets per game, 76 and then got hurt again. You can see he averaged 19 fantasy points per game. He was a top 12 wide receiver.

3:58.8

9.6 targets per game, 76 and a half receiving yards per game.

4:02.2

He was the guy in this offense.

4:04.3

Number two in the NFL and targets here, 34%.

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