Every year, there are a few wide receivers in fantasy football who look great on the surface until you actually dig in more. And that's exactly what this video is going to do. Dig in more because I don't want you wasting a third, fourth, or fifth round fantasy pick on one of these wide receivers who could bust. Just let your friends and leaguemates take those players instead. Now, I've been making videos like this for seven years to help fantasy players dominate their drafts, and we're going to do it again today for for you and we're starting with the seahawks number one receiver jackson smith and jigba and i know what you're saying right now there was an audible gas by a couple people watching us i heard it from all the way you're tuning in from another country a different state i heard that because i get it on paper jsn he was a breakout star last year it looks like he's going to have even more volume this year after that impressive 2024, so things are looking up. If you look at the actual stats, JSN ranked 7th in the NFL in receptions with 100. He was one of only eight wide receivers because a couple had 100 exactly to hit 100 receptions. He was top 10 in receiving yards, top 10 in yards after the catch. This guy averaged 15 fantasy points per game in an offense last year that did have Tyler Lockett, that did had DK McCaff, and now those guys are gone. Isn't this a good thing? Yes, in theory, all of those things are good, but there's a lot of other elements here at play. More context that needs to be added, especially what people and nobody is talking about. Jackson Smith & Jigba last year was a dominant slot wide receiver.

74% of his snaps were in the slot.

701 slot snaps was number one in the NFL last year.

He was a great wide receiver.

We know this.

He dominated from the slot, and actually 88% of his receiving yards last year came from the slot okay that's cool

but now here's the issue coming into 2025 he led the NFL and receiving yards from the slot

this is what the 33rd team says we just kind of mentioned that he was number one as you can see

right here 993 from the slot over 150 more nearly or over 200 more than any other wide receiver

lad mcconkey being there a bunch of more yards than drake london out of the slot an elite wide receiver last year as well so all of this is good he is great out of the slot but that role is going to be changing this year because dk mackoff is now gone from this team an outside receiver tyler locket is now gone from this team, played outside last year when JSN was in the

slot. And who they added was Cooper Cup and Marquez Valdez Scantling. Based on the current setup of the Seahawks team, you're going to get Marquez Val de Scantling or the rookie Tori Horton in the later rounds on the outside. And you're probably getting JSN bumping a lot more out to the outside because you have a 32-year-old Cooper Cup in the slot.

Now, don't get it twisted.

Cooper Cup can definitely play outside wide receiver

and he definitely will this year but I think predominantly you're going to see JSN who only played

last year about 25% of his snaps, only 12% of his yards came from the outside. He's probably

getting bumped outside more than the aging Cooper Cup who's already

struggling to separate not only on the outside, but also in the slot. And the problem for JSN is that when he was put to the outside last year, again, it wasn't his role, so we have to give him some slack. He wasn't meant to be there, some D.K. McCaff injuries and things like that, but it wasn't all that successful. This was a really helpful tweet on Twitter from Dataromer. You can check them out. JSN in the slot versus Outwide in 2024.

In the slot, we talked about how great it was.

He was earning 23% targets per route run. He had over a 2 yards per route run. That's great. Then he goes to the outside, earns 20% targets per route run. Makes sense. he's still earning a lot because there just wasn't guys on this team

when D.K. Metcalf got hurt, only 1.44 yards per route run.

So overall, his efficiency is dropping by... lot because there just wasn't guys on this team when DK Metcalf got hurt, only 1.44 yards per

route run. So overall, his efficiency is dropping by, oh, I don't know, like 35 to 40%. Again, it's a somewhat small sample, but he's just not as good of an outside receiver. We know that dating back to college. He was basically only a slot-wide receiver at Ohio State. That's what he got drafted to the NFL to do, and that's what he's done so far.

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