Toughest to Rank: Where do Davante Adams and Jonathan Taylor belong? (07/27 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Why is Dan Schneier struggling with where to rank Davante Adams and Jonathan Taylor? He talks about those two and more with Chris Towers.
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| 0:00.0 | Who are the toughest players to rank for 2023? We'll talk about it next on fantasy football today in 5. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to FFT and 5. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Dan Schneier. We're talking about the toughest players to rank for the 2023 fantasy football season. And one guy I'm really struggling with, I just wrote my Seahawks preview. |
| 0:24.6 | It's up on CBSSports.com. |
| 0:26.1 | Now, D.K. Metcalf. |
| 0:29.0 | This was a guy who we all viewed as a legitimate alpha, superstar wide receiver. |
| 0:35.2 | Last season, Target share, career high, high 141 targets also a career high |
| 0:40.9 | and everybody's kind of out on him you know i ended up having him ranked 14th or 15th |
| 0:47.4 | that wide receiver but my projections had him 10th and that was mostly taking last year's target |
| 0:53.5 | share maybe regressing it a little bit |
| 0:55.2 | because of the addition of Jackson Smith and Jigba, but also last year was a real low point for him |
| 1:00.4 | in terms of his efficiency. Yards per reception dropped below 12. Remember, he was a guy who's in the 15 range |
| 1:07.1 | early on in his career. And the biggest difference was he just wasn't making plays after the |
| 1:12.2 | catch. First three years of his career averaged at least four yards after the catch per |
| 1:16.6 | reception last year dropped to about 2.4. So that lack of big plays with the ball in his hands, |
| 1:22.4 | that could just be who D.K. McHaff is moving forward. But we know he's one of the most physically |
| 1:27.1 | gifted wide receivers in the NFL. We know he's incredibly difficult to tackle. Only one broken |
| 1:31.7 | tackle all season last year. I just think there's a chance. He bounces back, sustains the |
| 1:37.6 | volume from last season, gets back to being like a 13 or 14 yards per catch guy. And all |
| 1:43.3 | of a sudden, we're talking about a guy who's getting 1,300 yards and is back |
| 1:46.4 | in that wide receiver one discussion. |
| 1:47.8 | So I do think D.K. McHaff has more upside than perhaps his rankings show. |
| 1:53.7 | Dan, who are some players you're struggling to rank? |
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