If you play fantasy football, you're in the right place because today we were breaking down the five players I'd be betting my house on in fantasy this year.

Now, why the heck should you listen to me? Well, I've helped over 10,000 people win their fantasy leagues over the last few years alone, including 75% of my home leagues last year. And I plan to do the same for you, help you win your league with this video. All right, so we'll start with my first player here, and I really want to talk about Justin Jefferson, because man, is this guy interesting or what?

Almost every single year of his

career dating back to his rookie season, he's been automatic until last year, which was strange

because Jefferson for the second straight season played a full season of 17 games, but he saw a career

low 1,048 yards. It was the worst season of his career, including a year in 2023 when he missed seven games due to injury. What was the reason for this? Well, it was the fact that he had terrible quarterback play all year long. Everybody's going to know nine, J.J. McCarthy. There is Carson Wentz. There was a bunch of other names towards the end of the season. When Carson Wentz, 2025 Carson Wentz, is your best quarterback of the year? That's a problem. Now, Jefferson really struggled, and you know this if you had him on your team that second half of the year. You couldn't trade him after the trade deadline and for the fantasy playoffs over his final eight games. He only averaged 7.3 ppr points per game. No touchdowns from weeks 10 through 17. Absolutely

horrible. And I mean, like during that stretch, he was putting up similar production to guys like

Keon Coleman on the Bills, who some games were just getting benched and not even playing.

Jalen Naylor, a wide receiver 3 on his own team was out producing him. This was concerning stuff.

But like we said, the context has nothing

to do with Jefferson. It has everything to do with the quarterbacks he was playing with.

Last year, the Vikings ranked fourth worst in the entire NFL and passing yards per game.

They were only completing 61% of their passes. That was also bottom five in the league.

They only attempted 485 pass attempts compared to the year prior to that with Sam Darnold when they were attempting almost 100 more pass attempts on the season. So all of this. You're talking about the volume pie squeezing. You're talking about three to four different quarterbacks making starts throughout this season. All of them were pretty bad to average at best Carson went some weeks. But it's not like Justin Jefferson hasn't produced with bad quarterbacks or average quarterbacks in the past. I mean, we're talking about guys like Nick Mollens, Joshua Dobbs in that 2023 season. Because despite being injured, he came back from injury and over his final five games with a combination of Joshua Dobbs and Nick Mollens for a week or so. And Joshua Dobbs getting traded and not having any time to learn to playbook, Jefferson still average 18.8 fantasy points per game, over 100 receiving yards per game during that span. Sure, that was two years ago, but you still have the same coach out there. You still have the same competition in terms of drawing attention away like T.J. Hawkinson and Jordan Addison. So I'm not concerned about like the skill set or the prime of Justin Jefferson. Maybe in two years or so we could start to have that conversation. That's not what's going on here. The guy literally went over a thousand yards with like the worst combination of quarterbacks last year. But now that's going to change because Kyler Murray, yes, the all exciting Kyler Murray is on a one year prove it year deal there, the former number one overall pick. And look, at the end of the day, like, am I excited about Kyler Murray from real life for the Minnesota Vikings? Kind of. Like, I would like to come on here and say, like, no, right? As, like, a Green Bay Packers fan bias seeping in or something along those lines. But this is a big improvement for them in real life. But not only that, it's a big improvement in fantasy. Like, this offense is going to get a massive bump up.

Say what you want about Kyler Murray last year and, like, how the Cardinals' tenure kind of ended, just different coaching staffs coming in there, not wanting to play that style of ball, maybe not having the greatest off-the-field relationship with Kyle of Murray, that organization over the years. Okay, you take that away.

In 2024, when he actually played a fully healthy season, 3,800 passing yards completed 69%

of his passes. This was a guy who averaged 7.1 yards per attempt, right? The rushing yards were

obviously there at 572. This was a good quarterback, not only for fantasy purposes, but in real

life. Was he a top five quarterback in the NFL? No. Was he a top half of the league quarterback? I'd say so, like at bare minimum, yes, which is way better than the combination of quarterbacks the Vikings had last year. I mean, you know, Trey McBride, the best tight end in football last year and probably over the last two years or so in 2024, that last season that he played with Kyler Murray, Trey McBride as the number one option in that offense, was able to put up 111 catches, over 1100 yards, 147 targets as a number one option in that offense. Now, maybe Kyler Murray just goes back to the short to intermediate parts of the field with T.J. Hawkinson this year, an older tight end who's had any problems. He's not Trey McBride. He used to be that model of player. But I'm probably going to say that Kevin O'Connell is going to shape his offense still around Justin Jefferson, which means that Justin Jefferson might be in line if this offense was to throw 500 plus times, which I think they will, for this 147 target role, if not more, for 100 plus catch season. Maybe not the type of role Jefferson will have, but right around there, I think Jefferson can bounce back pretty easily to one of these 1,200 plus yard seasons, double-digit touchdowns nearing 100 receptions, and finish as like a top 10 pick in fantasy. I feel pretty confident about that. Right now, Justin Jefferson on Underdog, if we use their ADP, they have the best source at least at this time of the year.

He's going as the 10th overall pick. You know, I think that's fine. I don't think that's terrible by any means. But if I pull up my early best ball rankings, you can get these in the fantasy blueprint. It will be re-releasing for 2026 on June 1st. So be sure to check it out at Blueprintdrop.com. so you can get on a list for when it drops at the lowest price.

But I have Justin Jefferson right now as my ninth overall player for best ball purposes. So if we scroll down right here, if you want to see these rankings, you can just join the blueprint at join the blueprint.com as well for this version. These are already out for the couple thousand blueprint members that we have having access to this. But you can see right here, we highlight it Justin Jefferson's my ninth overall player. So, I mean, I'm slightly technically ahead of market. His ADP is like 10 on some sites. It's 11. I'm 9th. I would just prefer to have Justin Jefferson right now over guys like C.D. Lamb, who most likely are still going to be competing with George Pickens. I don't think he's sitting out this year. there's an argument as the season gets closer, assuming that everything is good here in Minnesota. We'll see what happens with the NFL draft. There's an argument that I started to take Justin Jefferson over guys like Jonathan Taylor as well. So Jefferson last year was like a consensus, top five or six overall pick. He's dropping in drafts a decent amount. A late first round pick now. Like if you have a late pick so far this year, obviously I would say early on, I would want the number one or number two pick to get Gibbs or Robinson as like slam dunk plays. But if you're a guy picking at the turn right now and you could land in like a combination of Justin Jefferson and Sequin Barkley, Justin Jefferson and I don't know, Ash and Gentie, Justin Jefferson and let's keep going. Kenneth Walker and the Chiefs, that feels really good. Justin Jefferson is somebody I'm betting my house on as of right now. The next player I want to talk about is Brock Bowers of the Las Vegas Raiders because he's currently sliding an ADP, believe it or not, like backwards. Like last year, this was a guy that was going in the early second round. Now a lot of the times he's falling into the third round of early fantasy drafts mostly bestball drafts let's not forget in his rookie

season he put up is going in the early second round. Now, a lot of the times, he's falling into the third round of

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