Rookie Snapshot 2020: Wide Receivers

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first edition of Rookie Snapshot, our new miniseries where Liz Loza is joined by Yahoo Sports NFL Draft analyst Eric Edholm to take a deep dive into top prospects (and future fantasy stars?) set to join the league.First up, our experts look at some of the stud wide receivers in this very deep rookie class. This week’s episode includes:• Henry Ruggs, Alabama Crimson Tide (02:29)• Jerry Jeudy, Alabama Crimson Tide (10:23)• CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma Sooners (19:20)• Denzel Mims, Baylor Bears (26:23)• Justin Jefferson, LSU Tigers (35:24)You’ll learn the one word you can use to describe each prospect, a key stat from their college days, which NFL player they compare to best and finally, Liz & Eric play GM matchmaker and pick the NFL team that fits with their skillset the best.Liz and Eric will be back with episode two next week to discuss another fantasy glamour position: the Running Backs!Please remember to rate, review and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Eric @Eric_EdholmCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast, but this is a special rookie
0:07.1	snapshot edition.
0:09.2	Joining me today is Eric Edholm, who is our Yahoo Sports Draft expert.
0:15.6	Eric, say hello to all the people.
0:17.2	Hello to all the people.
0:18.3	What's going on out there?
0:20.5	And since not everybody in the fantasy community or those who listen to the fantasy pod
0:26.1	are familiar with your ins and outs, do you want to tell everybody a little bit about
0:32.3	yourself, the unfortunate teams that you root for, all that.
0:38.1	You will know me from my great work from the Yitur Matos or Gross Matos scouting report that I just filed.
0:44.8	No, really.
0:46.1	I've been back at Yahoo since last year covering the draft full time.
0:50.5	And let's see, unfortunate teams I root for.
0:53.5	What's the University of Missouri?
0:54.6	We don't win a lot of games typically.
0:56.3	So that's going to be a...
0:57.5	Oh, but the Drew Locklove must be high.
1:00.5	Oh, it's high.
1:01.4	Yeah, Drew's a good guy.
1:02.4	I like him.
1:03.0	I like his family, too.
1:04.2	And it's been fun watching him get the opportunity.
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