High-Upside Fantasy Football Draft Picks (Ep. 1666)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | What's up, friends, and welcome into fantasy pros. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we are talking high upside fantasy football draft picks. |
| 0:10.8 | And the only person that can do this properly for you is Jake Seeley from the Athletic, |
| 0:15.3 | who is joining me here where we are talking high upside, maybe some high risk, post-hyped sleepers, and a few more. Jake, we're not wasting any more time. Draft season, it's literally here. It's going to be gone before we know it. And you have got to put people in the right spot. So this is all on you, Obi-Wan, Jake, Noby. We are going to swing for the fences. We are talking a couple high upside players that might have |
| 0:40.1 | some high risk. But you know what? I got the baseballs behind me. So what a proper analogy here |
| 0:45.4 | to swing for the fences? Who are two players that you were doing so for? I think there are two |
| 0:50.1 | wide receivers swinging for the fences for differing reasons. One's a rookie, and that's being Travis Hunter. Look, there's the argument that Travis Hunter versus McMillan, who is a better prospect, then we can play that game all day long, but I think the pack this, there were both tier one wide receivers, which is okay. But the question with Hunter, obviously, is going to the Jaguars? It's not just, is Liam Kong going to fix this offense? It's not just, is Trevor Lawrence not going to be a bust at this point of his career? It's not just all the things that go alongside with it. And how, by the way, also this offense is predicated with an offensive coordinator who doesn't necessarily love to use rookies a ton. But it's the usage is that what if he is used on defense? What if it's 10%, 20%, 30%, and then does |
| 1:30.0 | that affect his offensive side of it? So I think that's really the biggest question with Hunter. |
| 1:34.3 | Is he going to be 70% of the offensive snaps? Is it going to be 80, 90? And when I say that, |
| 1:39.1 | I mean drop back snaps specifically. But even if he's in the 80% range, I think Hunter has the upside to be top 30, |
| 1:45.9 | top 35. Like if you put McMillan alongside Brian Thomas, I'm not concerned about Brian Thomas, but I'm also not concerned about McMillan or Hunter. It's funny. And you know, as well, she's like, everybody's out there, draft Higgins, draft Devontas Smith, draft Jalen Waddle, draft Jameson Williams. |
| 1:41.0 | What are those guys? |
| 1:41.8 | Number two, number two, number two, number two, number two. |
| 1:43.9 | But Travis Hunter, if he is what we think he can be, why are we worried about the clear number two for the Jaguars outside of? Maybe it's a Trevor Lawrence issue. But if he plays 90% of the snaps and he's as good as advertised and Trevor Lawrence does take a step forward, Travis Lawrence has anything of what Baker |
| 2:18.3 | Mayfield did last year, then Travis Hunter is going to be a top 25 wide receiver. So I'm going for him. |
| 2:23.5 | And then somebody who was not only top 25, he was top 20, top 15, top 10, top five in fantasy |
| 2:30.1 | points per game before he got hurt. And that chris godwin i know we got report today actually |
| 2:34.8 | good timing for this as we're doing this show i already had godwin on the list that he might not play until october the good news is here is that most leagues unless you have i are specifically like they have to be put on iR in the NFL to be on your ir most leagues are not like that is you can stash godwin on your IR until he's ready to go. |
| 2:32.3 | And it's just the fact that I can play the waiting game and basically get... your eye. Most leagues are not like that is you can stash Godwin on your IR until he's ready to go. |
| 2:51.5 | And it's just the fact that I can play the waiting game and basically get a free draft pick out of it too is that once he is healthy, once he is 100%. Chris Godwin, as we just saw, has top five upside. I don't think he's necessarily top five when he comes back because Mike Evans is still thing and of course, I'm Micah Ibuka, but still wide receiver one potential when he comes back because Mike Evans is still a thing and of course a Micah Ibuka. |
| 3:11.0 | But still wide receiver one potential when he's back to healthy. |
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