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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Draft These 5 Players and Break Your Leaguemates Hearts

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5774 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Draft These 5 Players and Break Your Leaguemates Hearts

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0:00.0

If you want to break your leaguemates hearts this year in fantasy, you have to draft the five players in this video.

0:04.9

I'm talking about guys who aren't even going in round one of fantasy drafts, but they still have the upside to absolutely tilt leagues this year. So let's not waste any time. Let's dive into these five names. And if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatry. I've helped people for nearly eight years win their fantasy leagues. And I'm going to do the same for you in this video. And we'll start with Devon A-chan, who honestly should probably be a first-round pick in fantasy drafts this year, but he falls outside the first round almost every single time because it's such a loaded first round this year. There's a ton of great wide receivers. You have Brian Thomas entering year two. Neco, Neco, Neckle-Collins starting to break out. The stable guys like Pooka and Nakuwa and Justin Jefferson, and all of them are in the first round. So it's making players like Devon A-chan. They're actually starting to slide a little bit in drafts

0:21.7

into maybe the middle in the first round. So it's making players like Devon Achan. They're actually starting to slide a little bit in drafts into maybe

0:40.4

the middle of the second round, despite back-to-back seasons, the first two years of his career,

0:44.4

A-chan being able to find the end zone with 11 and 12 touchdowns, A-chan being able to go out there

0:48.8

and finish as the RB6 and the RB5. And the best part about this, he did it in totally different ways. His first year was in a split backfield his rookie season. He was hyper-efficient set the record for yards per touch in a season. And then he comes out here in his second year where he finishes sixth overall and he does it in a totally separate way. You could see right here, this is the column receptions. You could see just 27 as a rookie, 78 receptions last year. The dude was averaging like six receptions per game down the stretch, which some of the best wide receivers in the NFL aren't even averaging six receptions a game. Now, of course, if you follow fantasy, you know that there was a big difference between the games where Tua was healthy and when he was out with a concussion. There was 11 games this season when A-chan was in there with Tua, and in those games, he was averaging 22 fantasy points per game according to RotoViz's split stool which is on the screen for the video format right now over six receptions per game and between his receiving yards and his rushing yards he was averaging over 100 total yards per game and just for reference that 22 and a half fantasy points per game that stretch would have ranked number one amongst all running backs ahead of Seyquin Barclay, ahead of Bejan Robinson, Jemir Gibbs, all those names. Now, that would have been a 17 game pace with Tua last year of like 1,800 total yards, 17 touchdowns, over 100 receptions for A-chan who really didn't have any catches in his rookie year. Dude would have ranked sixth amongst all wide receivers and catches, but again, these six games were two was not out there were completely crap all the other quarterbacks who came in

1:44.1

were not that good you see you see that you per game, only eight fantasy points per game, very similar to some of his teammates like Jalem Waddle and even Tyree killed. The entire offense fell apart when Tua wasn't out there. Tua gets a lot of slack, but this offense is built around his skill set of getting the ball out quick. When a backup comes in, it all falls apart. And it wasn't just last year when they played 11 games together. You can now see through 22 full games with Tua. So this is dating back to his rookie season as well when he ended up playing another 11 games. Devon A. Chan has hit 20 or more fantasy points 60% of the time in 13 of 22 games he also has 23 career touchdowns in those 22

2:19.7

games that would easily rank during that stretch in terms of total touchdowns in that stretch in terms of 20-plus-yard games, top two at the position. That's how good he's been, easily a first round running back when Tua is healthy. And now heading into this year, we could probably see a very similar role to last year when he was getting a lot of receptions in that offense. It's the same coach, same offensive coordinator, just the personnel has changed. And we can look at it right here. Rahim Mostart, who was his biggest threat entering last year and the year before when Mostart had 20 plus touchdowns, he's now gone. John Hsu Smith was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers somewhat recently off season, and that's massive because Jonu was getting a lot of the targets around the line of scrimmage in the short to intermediate parts of the field and the middle part of the field, which is where you can now see Achan get even more volume or at least more secure volume. Specifically where Rahim Mostar gone, when he's leaving behind, Mostart was older last year. I mean, as you can see right here on player profiler, he's already over 33 years old. So as a 32-year-old running back last year, he did deal with injuries. He had still 85 carries, 23 targets, multiple touchdowns. So there's now 100 opportunities available in this backfield. So when people want to start to hype up guys, like if we pull up the running back page here, Jalen Wright and Ollie Gordon, which I do think jalen right is a nice later round pick and fantasy drafts when you get him in like the double digit rounds around 12 or later and the rookie olly gordon i'm not as interested in outside of maybe dynasty alexander madison is here they brought him in not as interested right so when we look at this like jalen right yeah there's a hundred opportunities butart now gone. Jalen Wright could see a lot of those.

3:56.9

H.N. could basically just have his same roles last year. N1-1-1-over-all. So we don't really need an increased workload for Devon H.N. But with 100 opportunities up for grabs with no more, Rahim, we'll start there. Maybe he does see a couple more touches again. And even if it's not a couple more. Maybe it's just more stable volume, especially not only on the ground, but especially as a receiver with John Hussmith now gone. We know John Housmith's last year in this offense. Believe it or not, yes, he ended up finishing up as a top five tight end. He had a couple of awesome games, a game where he scored a touchdown in overtime after having like no stats at all, and that was later in the season and the fantasy playoffs help people out. You can see here, the biggest though, had 111 targets, 88 receptions and this big one right here, 10 yards per reception, so his targets weren't coming like 13, 14 yards downfield. His average depth of target was even lower than 10 yards. He's getting targeted in the short to middle parts of the field, which is where A. Chan was also getting targeted. 111 targets now up for grabs.

4:48.0

Sherr's high reek, definitely Jalen Waddo's going to see some of that, but so will the running backs. Now, the dolphins did also make another move this offseason. They tried to improve their backup quarterback situation because, man, it was bad last year, and they added Zach Wilson. Outside of that, they have Quinn Ewers that they drafted out of Texas. And here's the thing. I don't think Zach Wilson is great.

4:44.3

If you watch football, you know that he's not all that great.

4:46.3

Maybe he can give some stability.

4:47.9

They can build the offense around him. newers that they drafted out of Texas. And here's the thing. I don't think Zach Wilson is great. If you watch football, you know that he's not all that great. Maybe he can give some stability.

5:06.9

They build the offense around him like they do with Tua if Tua was to go down. But at the end of the day, if you're spending a second round pick on Devon A-chan, a borderline first round pick, like 14th, 15th overall, you need to be healthy.

5:02.7

If he goes down and he's missing six to eight plus games,

5:04.6

yeah, it's probably going to tank your season,

5:05.9

but you could say that with really any guy in the first round, right?

5:08.7

If a first round quarterback,

5:10.4

like, to be healthy. If he goes down and he's missing six to eight plus games, yeah, it's probably going to tank your season, but you could say that with really any guy in the first round, right?

5:23.3

If a first round quarterback, like if a Dak Prescott goes down, C.D. Lambs, probably not worth the top five overall pick, right? Justin Jefferson's quarterback goes down, probably not worth the top five overall pick. Same thing can be set. So right now, A Chan, he actually continues to drop. At one point this year, he was going as the 12th overall pick. Now he goes as the 15th overall

5:20.8

pick, the RB7 in fantasy drafts. He's going next to drop. At one point this year, he was going as the 12th overall pick. Now he goes as the 15th overall pick, the RB7 in fantasy drafts. He's going next to Brock Bowers. He's going next to Jonathan Taylor at the same position. I actually think Devon Echan is like a really solid option. I like taking Nico Collins. I'd probably take Achan in terms of an upside perspective ahead of Derek Henry, ahead of Brian Thomas. So there's a little bit of value here,

6:10.8

especially if you're in like the first round of your draft. Let's say if you want to go double running back and you get Christian McCaffrey and Achan, that feels really good in terms of an upside scenario for both of those guys. I could see them both finishing as top three running backs this year. This is the type of guy who if things go right for him, he'll absolutely break fantasy in my opinion. And really similar things can be said AJ Brown. And I started off my Devon A. Chan, if you want to say analysis, some people

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