In this video, we are going to be breaking down my biggest hits, the things I got right in fantasy

football this year. Now, earlier this week, we put out a video about the things I got wrong. So if you want to say, how dare you talk about what you got right? You can check out that video as well to see all the things that I goofed on. But let's talk about the things we got right. And the first one has to be no doubt about it, the fantasy MVP, in my opinion this year, Christian McCaffrey, who was going on average as the seventh or eighth overall pick and draft.

So everybody for the most part viewed Christian McCaffrey, who was going on average as the seventh or eighth overall

pick and draft. So everybody for the most part viewed Christian McCaffrey as a first round pick, but they weren't as high on McCaffrey as we were. In our final rankings back in August, McCaffrey ended up being fourth overall in the rankings. We had him ahead of guys like Sequin, Barclay and Justin Jefferson, and people were absolutely clowning on us. who's clowning now. Look, the whole thought process around Christian McCaffrey is we know what this guy is when he's healthy. As you could see right here from Erzma Salma over on Twitter, you see 2023, 21 total touchdowns over 2,000 total yards. 2022, he had 1,900 total yards, 13 touchdowns. 2019, he had one of the best, if not the best fantasy season of all time. 19 touchdowns, 2,400 total yards, 1,000 rushing, 1,000 receiving. And as of this recording, we're heading into week 18, he already has over 2,000 yards. He has over 400 touches. He has remained healthy. And you might be saying, well, we couldn't have predicted he was going to remain healthy. You're right. We couldn't have, but we also couldn't have predicted that he was going to get hurt this year because based on all the reports heading into the season, and that's what actually matters, McAfrey was healthy with no restrictions. But people chose to ignore this because they were concerned about injuries, which you literally cannot predict injuries on healthy players. It's just impossible. Look, everybody said McCaffrey was the most injury prone. He's played all 17 games. McCaffrey had zero restrictions heading into the season. This was all the way back in April. April. We're talking about April. He still had May, June, July, August, September, five months until he had to play a game. He was already healthy in April. His own general manager was saying that he looks bouncy, explosive in practice. He likes the way that Christian works. You head into training camp and OTAs and you can see right here, Christian McCaffrey, great to see that he was a full participant in OTAs and didn't miss a single day. So OTAs, training camp, he played every single practice, full speed, wasn't limited. All the signs pointed to a healthy Christian McCaffrey. And the last time we saw that in 2023, he had 2,000 total yards and wasn't RB1. And by the way, Wed McCaffrey is healthy entering a season, which he wasn't in 2024. We had the reports for about a month that he was dealing with a calf stream. But when he's healthy with no injury reports entering a season, here's what he averages. 16 and a half touchdowns per season, 94 catches, and 2,065 yards. Those are absolutely insane numbers. And what do you know? Heading into week 18, where he's also going to play in a game for the number one overall seed. As of right now, he currently has nearly 1,200 rushing yards, nearly 900 receiving yards leads the NFL amongst running backs. 96 catches leads the NFL amongst running backs. His 17 touchdowns is second. He currently has over 2,000 scrimmage yards, number one in running back red zone touches. He's the RB1 overall with 25.3 fantasy points per game. I mean, this is just what this guy does when he's healthy. He puts up 20 plus points per game pretty easily. he puts up 15 plus touchdowns, if not 20, and he goes out there and he wins you fantasy leagues. This is why we named him the best value in all the videos we did, the best pick in every single round, the must draft players. We named him the best value in round one. We took him in three out of our four home leagues. We won all three of those leagues, including the flock league, where we infamously or famously took him over. We can insert the clip right here. I've been waiting for 10 years to have Sequan Barclay on my team since I saw him in college. But it's not happening this year. Give me Christian McCaffrey. Over Sequan Barclay and everybody said we were dumb. So by all accounts, having Christian McCaffrey as a top five overall when he was going as seventh or eighth overall having them ahead of guys like justin jefferson saquan barclay and being in a coin flip with jimir gibbs obviously paid off this year but we didn't stop there another big hit for us chris elave who was somebody if you were on the newsletter i mean if you watched the youtube videos you knew But if you were in the newsletter, we did some freebies, like the guys I can't stop drafting.

Chris Olavet was one of the players I could not stop drafting.

I named him a league winner for the month of August towards the end of the year. It was obvious where he was going in drafts. He was a must draft. At least in my opinion.

Now, similar to Christian McCaffrey, people didn't want Chris Lave because the year before,

he only had 32 catches, 400 yards, because his season was riddled with concussions.

Multiple concussions kept him out. And everybody was basically saying, why would I draft Chris Lave? The guy's always in the blue medical tent, which he was for a good amount of the year this year as well. And he's always having concussions. He's never going to play. Again, stop trying to predict injuries. They will find you. Stop trying to predict them, it's almost impossible to do so. Now the craziest part is last year when Chris Olavet was actually healthy and out there on the field, which was really only like six games or so, he was averaging good numbers. He was averaging seven targets and 14 points per game in games that he completed last year. So the bet that we were making is based on the fact that he was going in like the seventh, seventh, sometime eighth rounds of fantasy drafts, all the risk for injury was built in on a player who the two prior years before that was very good. As you could see right here, I mean, in his rookie season, he had a thousand receiving yards. The year after that, he went out for 1100 yards, had a breakout season before getting injured in 2024. Now, the other knock on him was the Saints offense is probably going to stink. Their quarterbacks are Spencer Rattler and Tyler suck. I get all that, but at the

end of the day, it's not like he ever had a good guy. Now, the other knock on him was the Saints offense is probably going to stink. Their quarterbacks are Spencer Routler and Tyler suck.

I get all that. But at the end of the day, it's not like he ever had a good quarterback or a great quarterback with the Saints and he was still able to put up over 1,000 yards in his first two seasons. To mention, the thing we really liked was that Kellan Moore was coming in. Kellynne Moore, who came over from previous teams like the Philadelphia Eagles, installed a great offense there. The Dallas Cowboys. CD Land became a breakout superstar.

Keenan Allen during came over from previous teams like the Philadelphia Eagles installed a great offense there.

The Dallas Cowboys. C.D. Lamb became a breakout superstar. Keenan Allen during Kellamore's time with the charges. These are the types of roles that we could see Chris Alave going into. And he did go into this year, a mix of the slot as well as downfield usage. And Alave took off and ran with it. He ended up leading as of right now heading into Week 18. the NFL and deep targets, not something you would like picture Chris Olive being, not only a slot guy who picks up a ton of overall targets this season. He ended up having heading into week 18, 9.7 targets per game, 156 overall. That's third in the NFL, while also ranking pretty highly in downfield usage. So the bet on Kellamore feeding a number one

alpha receiver in Chris Olave, who had very little target competition and had only dwindle even more

when Rashid Jihad was traded away. That bet paid off. So Alave is going to finish the season as a top

10 wide receiver and he was really only avoided for bad quarterback play, although an improving

offensive environment with the coach already baked into his price and because of injury concerns, the biggest takeaway, stop trying to predict injuries. Alave was taken on average his ADP as the 76th overall player in draft. So in your 7-team formats, that's 7th round, or in your 10-team formats, that's 8th round, your 12th team, that's the 7th round. Obviously, the names he's around, he absolutely blew these guys out of the water,

Mark Andrews, Caleb Johnson, Jerry, Judy, Roma, Dunezay, Ricky Pierce, all these guys he blew out of the water. Now, we're not going to stop there because I think that Alave might have been our biggest wide receiver hit, especially based on how he produced in the fantasy playoffs and in championship week with some big numbers. But right up there with him is George Pickens, who was a must-have wide receiver,

the best pick for us in round five, where sometimes we're able to get him in round six of drafts all off season, especially in August when it was pretty clear and cut that the Cowboys offense was going to come into the year healthy, and he was going to be the clear number two wide receiver, which we've been saying this for a while now. We put it in our biggest takeaways from the 2024 draft season.

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