5 Favorite Rookie Wide Receiver Fits: Zay Flowers, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Quentin Johnston, & More! (05/09 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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NFL Draft analyst Emory Hunt joins Dave Richard to discuss rookie WR fits and early expectations for the 2023 season.
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| 0:00.0 | The best landing spots for rookie wide receivers next on FFT and 5. |
| 0:11.1 | What's going on everybody? |
| 0:12.6 | Dave Richard joined by the man himself, |
| 0:14.9 | Emery Hunt, going over the rookie wide receivers that have good landing spots. |
| 0:19.5 | That matters for fantasy football. |
| 0:21.3 | You don't want to get a wide receiver that's got a crummy landing spot. |
| 0:24.6 | He's not going to help you win your fantasy league. |
| 0:27.0 | Emery, the first rookie, maybe the best rookie that has the best landing spot in your opinion. |
| 0:32.7 | It's probably Zay Flowers. |
| 0:34.2 | When you think about what's on side of him with OBJ and also Rashad Bateman coming back healthy, |
| 0:40.0 | a paid Lamar Jackson, you're going to have your tight-in, you know, taking pressure off to the outside as well and Mark Andrews. |
| 0:46.9 | So yes, he lands in a great spot because he's a point shoot type guy. He can catch and run and should do a great job in that offense. |
| 0:53.7 | Whatever that offense, whatever that |
| 0:54.2 | offense looks like because it's a new offensive coordinator, but he should win those one-on-one |
| 0:58.2 | matches with these. Odell Beckham's on a one-year deal. We don't know what his future is. Rashad |
| 1:03.8 | Bayman could be off the team in two years. And Lamar Jackson, people forget about this, Emery, |
| 1:08.4 | at least a 62% completion rate each of the last four seasons. |
| 1:12.1 | It's been closer to 65% in three of the last four. |
| 1:15.8 | That's name number one. |
| 1:17.4 | Name number two, rookie wide receiver with a great landing spot. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm going to go with Jackson Smith and Jigba because he's the third guy amongst two |
| 1:24.7 | excellent receiving options in Tyler Lockett and D.K. McHaff. We saw what happens |
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