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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down his post-free agency fantasy football rankings for wide receiver and tight end. Jeff tells you why he prefers to cluster players at this time of year and gives insight into the depth at wide receiver. He also breaks down why he thinks the optimal approach at tight end is to wait […]

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0:00.0

What is up, it's the rant. My name is Jeff Rackleton. It is Friday, April 2nd. Welcome to draft month, baby. Yes, MLB started yesterday. I know, I know. And that's cool.

0:29.7

Actually, I'm really happy that baseball is back. I'm not a baseball guy. It's way down on my list. I can watch a baseball game. I like going to baseball games or something relaxing about it. You know, there's something nostalgic about it to me for sure, but, you know, football basketball, a couple of other sports in baseball. I don't mind it. But what I like about it, I tell you, it's a return to normal scene. It feels good that there is baseball here in April. So if you're a baseball person,

0:59.7

you know, definitely shout out to you, but it's draft month. It is freaking draft month. So to tie a bow on the things that we're doing to prep for this buildup, we're going to talk about the remaining rankings, wide receiver and tight end on the show today. Then next week, it is officially on. I'm fired up. I already have quarterback rookie profiles and rankings up at FTN fantasy.com. But we're going to continue to roll out all this content through the month. And then boom, end of the month draft and then boom.

1:29.6

We're into OTAs and all that fun stuff. And then boom, we're in the preseason. Then boom. It's here. So game on, baby.

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2:36.3

already talked about quarterback rankings and running back rankings. It's a tie a bow on the post free agency rankings with wide receiver here and tight end tight end.

2:47.4

Honestly, I mean, I do think there's like 20 plus draftable guys, but you know, I think the bigger topic is just the state of the position as a whole. So we'll get to that in a few minutes.

2:58.2

Wide receiver is deep as you would expect, but I do think there is a clear top tier of guys. So you do have to want to say Adams Tyree kill and Stefan digs for me. Those guys really are are

3:11.9

a little bit separate from everybody else. And I'll tell you why in a minute, but you know, we know the production is there for Adams.

3:18.4

We know the enormous ceiling of hill. He has arguably the highest ceiling of any player in fantasy football.

3:25.1

And Stefan digs showed an enormous ceiling last year floor ceiling combo out the wazoo with those three.

3:31.6

They're all going to be first round picks this year in our homely redraft 12 teamers, right.

3:37.2

But after that, there's this interesting collection of players. So essentially, if I round out the top 10, I have this young bucks.

3:46.8

And then I have the veterans. So the young bucks, DK, AJ Brown and Calvin Ridley, I actually have a DK Calvin Ridley, AJ Brown, but really close. So DK at four, believe it or not, I have Calvin Ridley at five of AJ Brown, it's six, but

4:02.4

I will be clear about this. And I'm going to say this a hundred times, at least a hundred, right. A hundred times before we get to drafts in August, the rankings we shouldn't sweat as much as the groupings.

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