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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Fantasy Football Just Changed Forever

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

If you play fantasy football, without a doubt, this video will help you because NFL free agency just changed everything. And we're going to break down the biggest fantasy winners and losers. And a lot of these names I'm not seeing talked about. Now, one of the names that has been talked about is Malik Willis, but not everybody is understanding just how impactful this is for fantasy football for not just his team, not just the Miami Dolphins. I'm talking about other teams where he didn't

0:21.0

land. Let's break it down. We can start with the Dolphins where Malik Willis goes from the Packers. He spent two years there as a backup. He was awesome in limited action with them. And that's exactly why the dolphins want to sign him to a three years, $67.5 million deal. I believe this could probably be like closer to a two-year deal the way that the contract is structured.

0:37.8

So Malik Willis, no doubt about it, is going to be the starter this year, potentially even for a year after that. It's somewhat like the Justin Fields contract. Hopefully for the Dolphins fan in their management, it doesn't pan out the same way as Justin Fields to the Jets did last year. But if you're not familiar, Malik Willis has been awesome the last two years, especially this past year on limited dropbacks. His fantasy points per dropback is set at 1.35 points for every time he drops back. That was number one amongst all players last year. The year before that in limited action, he got a couple of starts earlier in the season when Jordan Love heard himself in the Brazil game, I believe, against the Eagles. Malik Willis, top three in fantasy points per dropback. Now, a big reason for this is because he has the cheat code for fantasy football, the mobile rushing upside. This dates back to his time in college at Liberty. If you were to scroll down and look at his production in college, this guy was an absolute beast. That's why he was taken in the third round by the Titans, 944 rushing yards, 878. The problem for this guy who had a big arm coming out of college was accuracy, was competition at Liberty. So he came to the NFL, not a great organization, at least at that point with the Tennessee Titans, and he kind of just sputtered out. But his career got revived as the backup in a Matt LaFleur offense. And Malik Willis, I mean, the last time we saw him get extended run against the Ravens this past year, I believe in

1:47.6

week 17, he completes 18 of 21 passes for 288 yards in a touchdown, 13.7 yards per attempt. But then

1:55.5

he also comes out here and has nine carries 60 yards for multiple touchdowns on the ground.

2:01.2

Malik Willis has a starting quarterback in the NFL for any offense, especially the Dolphins who should lean run heavy. You have Devon H.N. You have a defensive-minded head coach. He's going to be a top 12 quarterback for me and my rankings most likely come the summer. But there are a couple of areas from this deal that I'm not seeing a lot of people talk about. First off, I think Devon A-chan is actually a slight loser in this deal.

2:20.0

I'm not going to stand here and say Devon Achan's undraftable. He's now a third round fantasy pick. That would obviously be ridiculous. But I will say that Devon Achan is not going to repeat this type of success as a past catcher like he's had the last two years with Tua for the most part. 67 catches. 78 catches. He led the NFL amongst running backs, I believe, that year, two years ago. You know, 500 plus receiving yards on average until the last two years, a dozen touchdowns. Odds are these things are coming down. Malik Willis is not going to be throwing 35 to 40 times a game. This is going to be offense that leans on the run, that leans on their quarterback's legs. And if you're going to have a mobile quarterback, that means less rushing touchdowns for your running backs because they'll steal those goal line and red zone carries and less checkdown targets because instead the quarterback will take off and run. Now, the thing I'm not seeing anybody talk about is how the Arizona Cardinal skill position players are the biggest winners maybe in all fantasy football from this deal besides Malik Willis himself now becoming a starter. Trey McBride, for sure a winner. You go up to the wide receivers, Michael Wilson, who seems like their wide receiver won now, Marvin Harrison, for sure winners. Why is this the case if they're not even on the Miami Dolphins or the Green Bay Packers? Because Malik Willis was linked to the Arizona Cardinals as being a potential landing spot for him. And if that was the case, this offense was going to completely change. With Jacoby Versette last year, they were throwing on average 40 and a half times per game. You could look at his game logs when he came in. 44 times, 44, 57, 49, 40, 44. I mean, a dude threw 40 plus times in six straight games at one point last year.

3:42.6

All of this, a lot of it in blowout run, a banged up in bad

3:46.7

defense, sure, and that might be the case again this year for the Cardinals team. That could

3:49.9

somewhat be tanking for Arch Manning. Either way, they didn't land Maliquelis. They only signed

3:53.6

Gardner Minchu. It looks like they're running it back with Jacoby Brissette as their quarterback. We saw that workout wonders last year. He was more than capable of providing great superstar seasons for Michael Wilson and Trey McBride. So I haven't seen a single person talk about how Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison, and Trey McBride are actually winners from free agency specifically for this Malik Willis deal, but they have to be. The audience, you guys aren't going to see this. The amount of times I've said Mouik Willis, I don't know even why I'm saying that.

4:16.8

Maybe that's just going to be his nickname on the channel for now on.

4:18.7

Let's move on to the next guy who was kind of a quiet winner. Chase Brown at this time last year in free agency, everybody was saying the same thing. Oh my God, he's a winner. They didn't add any competition in the backfield.

4:27.6

Maybe they'll do it in the NFL draft.

4:29.0

It's a solid running back class.

4:30.3

Then they didn't do it there with anything of note.

4:32.2

They added Taj Brooks last year.

4:33.7

They then signed some AGP. in the backfield. Maybe they'll do it in the NFL draft. It's a solid running back class. Then they didn't do it there with anything of note.

4:32.2

They added Taj Brooks last year. They then signed Samaji P. Ryan as the season began, but overall, Chase Brown had no competition last year. And it looks like as of right now, he's not going to have any serious competition in this backfield as of this recording at least, or a couple days into free agency. because all the top running backs in free agency,

4:48.2

and for the most part, that was really just in my opinion.

4:50.2

Travis E.T.N. Kenneth Walker, and maybe you can argue Rico Dottle and Tyler O's year, I think they would be tier two running backs. But all these guys, J.K. Dobbins, Kenneth Gamewell and explosive player, Isaiah Pacheco, all of these top and running backs in free agency have already been signed.

5:04.5

Like the guys who could potentially come to this backfield, Brian Robinson, I just don't really see it. Knock on wood. Najee Harris, I wouldn't be scared if Najee Harris joined this team, but I don't know why they would add him. Like, these are not names that would scare me for Chase Brown. So by all accounts, it looks like he's ready to be the Bengals workhorse again. and when he was the workhorse last year, despite Joe Burrow being hurt for the majority of the season,

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