The NFL draft is over and there are five rookies who could absolutely break fantasy football this year. Some of these players landed on the perfect teams for their fantasy value and one player might even be the steal of the draft. Let's get into it. Now let's start off with Chris Bell. He's out of Louisville. He was a third round pick for the Miami Dolphins and this guy is a monster. He's 6'2, 222 pounds. He's known to play physical. So some people have compared him to AJ Brown.

I think that's a little'2, 222 pounds. He's known to play physical. Some people have compared him to

A.J. Brown. I think that's a little bit extreme, but I understand in terms of the size speed comparisons. Unfortunately, we never got to see that speed at the NFL Combine because he did tear his ACL in December. However, he was clocked at running 18 miles per hour in game, and a lot of people suspected that he was going to run a 4-3. So a 4-3 at 222 pounds, if he was able to go out there and actually show that and wasn't coming off a December ACL tear, which might impact his rookie season, this is probably a second-round pick, not a third-round pick, no doubt about it. So the dolphins took a little bit of a risk on him and you could see last year at Louisville, his production spiked, 110 targets a career high, 72 catches, 917 yards, a 27%

target share. All of these were career highs for Chris Bell. And you got to see the nice thing here.

His production, all four years in college, continuously improved. And the film last year,

I mean, it didn't lie. This is a legitimate wide receiver, in my opinion, a very good wide receiver. And the most important part, people will call out, oh, he played at Louisville. It's not the SEC. It's not the big 10. He's not facing the meanest, the toughest defenses that are getting to the college football championship. I get that. But when Chris Bell faced his toughest competition,

he delivered. This three game stretch is fantastic. He faced a pit team that was good last year.

They were ranked at times. Ten catches, 135 yards and a touchdown. Then he faces a ranked

Virginia team. 12 catches 170 yards, two touchdowns. Then he faces Miami, arguably the best

defense in the country, college football championship they went to. Number two ranked when he faced them, nine catches, 136 yards and two touchdowns.

To be specific, that one 136 yards was second, the second most yards that Miami allowed to any wide receiver not named Jeremiah Love.

If you're not familiar, Jeremiah Love next year will probably be a top five pick in the NFL draft.

He's the best wide receiver in college football. That's how good Chris Bell was. He dominated Miami's defense. Now check out this stat that I found. Let's see if we can make it bigger. Here we go on Twitter from Adam Carter. He basically says this. Out of wide receivers since 2019, so you're talking the past seven drafts or so, power four wide receivers that had a single season yards per route run above above 4.25. So we're talking as elite as it gets on a per route basis. And when they were targeted, their passer rating was above 130. This is the complete list over the last seven years. Look at some of the names on this list. Devante Smith, my opinion, stud wide receiver. Trey Harris was a second round pick. He was a big producer at Old Miss, still yet to be seen in the NFL.

Then there's Cardinal Tate, top five pick in this draft.

JASN, the best wide receiver in last year's draft. There's Jalemadl, Jamar Chase, arguably the best wide receiver in the NFL right now. T. Higgins, Chris Bell himself, Marquis Brown, who was a stud for the Ravens back in the day, Justin Roth, who had his own off-the-field

issues, and Kyle Williams entering year two at the Patriots, it's still yet to be seen. But for the most part, this list, we can all agree, is very good that Chris Bell has found himself on this list. Of course, there's a downside, the fact that he's coming off of this torn ACL. obviously that's going to be the biggest weakness, the biggest thing the naysayers talk about,

but he's a young player, he's recovering quick. He's already running slash sprinting. You can see that in the video that we showed earlier. Granted, this is just on a flat surface on a treadmill, but this is a player like, look, he's not running a five-minute mile or anything like that anywhere near this. But this is a guy who's probably running an eight, a seven minute mile. This is pretty quick speed. Like it seems like that knee is holding up. Again, that's straight line speed. That's going to come back to you a couple of months after a torn ACL, maybe three, four months at most. So we still have to see cutting and stuff in OTA. But he should be ready by week one. That's 10 months out. Takes nine months for young guys these days to recover from a torn ACL.

Now here's the draft picks for the dolphins, at least some of them. They had a ton of draft picks. But as you can see right here in the third round, they took Caleb Douglas, a field stretcher at a Texas Tech before they took Chris Bell, which was very surprising Caleb Douglas was outside the top 200 consensus wide receivers. But they still got Chris Bell. and this is very important because look at the depth chart for the Miami Dolphins.

Entering the NFL draft, their depth chart was Malik Washington, no longer Nick Westbrook, he's now on the Colts, so it was Malik Washington, Jalen Tolbert, and 2-2 Atwell. That was their starting three wide receiver sets. So now you throw in Caleb Douglas, you throw in Chris Bell himself, another rookie that they drafted.

They drafted three rookie wide receivers. They needed wide receivers in Kevin Coleman. And this starts to look like a wide open depth chart because let's not forget.

Their leading receiver last year, J. Lamato, 100 targets, they traded him to the Denver Broncos this offseason.

Tyree Kill, who had an injury last season, Tyree Kill has been released. So this is a totally new wide receiver room. You're talking about a wide receiver that in terms of returning players, the leading receiver, Malik Washington, 317 yards, is the leading receiver currently on the team, given that there's rookies and free agent signings like Jalen Tolbert and 2-2-at Atwell now on this team. I mean, that's insane.

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