Welcome back. It's Beyond the Box score. I'm Dan Schneier. That's Jacob Gibbs. It's the middle of the end of May, baby. It's my birthday tomorrow, Jake. I'm excited about that. We're excited about the weekend. I got a great, great weekend plan coming up, doing a little Atlantic City golf trip with the boys from home. Got a lot of good courses, twisted tunes. I haven't played it yet. Excited to play that. So that's a little birthday present to me. But a little birthday present of you guys, for those of the day oners, the sick O BTB years here. It's going to be we're talking more fantasy in May, baby. We're talking about the rookie class from last year, the second-year players. Are we going to find our breakouts today? We may do that. But for those who aren't aware, we also have a lot up on the Beyond the Boxcourt channel. You might have missed that you might be interested in watching. Our dynasty rankings update at every position Last week, go check it out. I thought that was excellent. If you don't haven't done your rookie draft yet for Dynasty or you want to make some trades or you just want to kind of get your league going, get your roster going, take a look at that episode. We talk about a lot of different players. We prescribe a lot of different values to these players and we probably give you a decent outlook on how you want to shape your roster we also did player profiles jackson dart my boy

we did a profile on him tyler shuck cam ward those are all up on the website as well um we're going

to be getting into more in-depth discussions a quarterback those are pretty much deep dives into those players

and what to expect in year two i highly recommend you you check those profiles at, but out, I should say, but today we're talking through a ton of the 2022 rookie class. Those three players plus more. We're going to give a breakout grade in classic BTV fashion. We're going to discuss more than the five players we set out to discuss. We know what's

going to happen on this show, Jacob. How are you doing today, my friend? I'm good. I'm on vacation. I'm at my buddy's house. He's got three kids and they left to give me like an hour of space. They're got chick-fil-a right now. They're going to go to the library. So yeah, we've got like a short window here we can't go for three hours and talk about every single freaking rookie like we would

you know like to and the chat would probably like to. So I wanted to point out that we did do that earlier. Yeah. This offseason. We got a ranking the 50 best rookie seasons on the box score show that you can go look at. Here's like that whole list on my on my Twitter account. So like, yeah, we've got, you know, we've got the goods for you if you, if you need it. If you're if you're feeling extra sick today, you can go, listen, I think that show is three hours long. But yeah, we're going to go through some of the top names, do some rapid fire as well. Um, I'm going to get Dan's,

you know, Danometer. We've always got to get that on his here to breakout score for these

players. So yeah, let's just start it off. Uh, Tyler Shuck or Cam Ward, like Dan said, we got

profiles up on both of them. Um, I think Shuck is clearly like the favorite year in terms of expectations

for fantasy purposes. His value is much higher. If you look at people's rankings, we'll get

ADP for 2026. They come in a similar range for Dynasty, but there's significant age gap

between the two. So I think people are leaning towards Shuck. I really feel great about Cam Ward's potential to break out.

There's plenty of things that showed up in year one in terms of the accuracy,

drifting, taking some sacks that maybe he shouldn't have.

But that's to be expected, I think, for a rookie, especially a rookie who's asked to do

as much as he was in that Tennessee offense. They didn't really have much around him to support him. And I think things look a lot better this year. So I wanted to present the bowl case for him because I think it's pretty obvious. We've talked about Shuck and the Saints at length. Again, you can check out these profiles if you want a deeper dive. Today we're going to keep a little bit more surface level with some of these guys. We've talked about a ton already. Dedicated 30-minute videos doing everything, specifically just them. So Ward, I think the pairing with Carnal Tate is perfect. Having a ball winner who can get some of these maybe a little bit off- throws down the field and stuff can go win them. Truly one of the best catchers of the football, one of the best ball winners we've seen come out of the draft in a long time. You also have all reliable, Wondell Robinson paired up with the coach who knows how to use them. And I think could keep the offense on track a little bit better than what they had last year. It was really just not very reliable. I mean, I've said this a number of times, but it's just so crazy. I'm going to say to get the most reliable pass catcher on the team was a freaking rookie tight-in last year. That's what Cam Ward was dealing with. So, yeah, I'm curious where your heads out on these two? Is it clearly shuck for you? Do you have a, do you want to give us your first breakout score one to 10? I don't really know what the, how the grading scale is going to work, but maybe we can start forming it as we move along here. Yeah, I'll have to create the grade scale on my own. So the grade scale will not be dependent. Let me put out the, the criteria. It will not be dependent on ADP it's just a pure breakout

score so the fact that i like ward better than shuck at his ADP by a considerable margin

from a value standpoint does not factor and it's just will they break out so am i doing ward or

shuck first you do whichever when you want me that's my shell do what i want i'll start with ward

i'll put his breakout meter true breakout breakout breakout for me is top six top eight quarterback and

fantasy football that's a true breakout um top 10 top 12 that's nice it's a good value hit it's not a true

breakout so true breakout score will be

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