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Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Winners and Losers From the 2025 WR & TE Rookie Class! Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast - EP. 765

Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Rich Dotson

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Garret Price and Andrew Mott reviewed the 2025 rookie wide receivers and tight ends on the Dynasty Nerds podcast. Tetairoa McMillan and Emeka Egbuka posted nearly identical stats, while Luther Burden emerged as Chicago's future alongside Rome Odunze. The tight end class delivered four potential top-10 dynasty assets in Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, Harold Fannin, and Oronde Gadsden. Listen to This Episode: 🎧 Apple Podcasts 🎙️ Spotify ▶️ YouTube Travis Hunter showed improvement before injury, trending toward 80% snap counts on offense with 14 targets in his final game. Andrew called him underrated in current trade markets despite the two-way player concerns. T-Mac and Egbuka both finished with nearly identical production—59 and 58 receptions, 851 and 870 yards, six touchdowns each—with T-Mac proving more consistent week-to-week. Matthew Golden disappointed both analysts, with Garret ranking him WR8 pre-draft and Andrew viewing him as a second-round rookie pick value. His blocking deficiencies mirror the issues that limited Jaden Reed's snap counts in Green Bay. Burden sits at 479 yards with three games remaining, positioned to be Chicago's Amon-Ra St. Brown in Ben Johnson's offense once DJ Moore departs. The 2025 tight end class may be historic. Warren and Loveland lead the way as potential top-four dynasty tight ends, with Andrew preferring Warren due to less target competition in Indianapolis. Fannin has been the surprise, posting 667 yards and making David Njoku's free agency decision easy for Cleveland. Gadsden's 602 yards as a converted wide receiver gives the Chargers a legitimate receiving weapon. Even depth pieces like Mason Taylor (369 yards in Houston's struggling offense) and Gunner Helm (347 yards for Miami) show promise. Andrew emphasized the tight end development window: 90% of multi-year top-six tight ends hit that threshold within their first two seasons. FastDraft: Download and deposit $10 using code NERDS on the FastDraft app and join your first draft to be eligible for a free one-year full bundle membership at Dynasty Nerds (new members only). FastDraft will match your deposit up to $50. Draft best ball teams in under 5 minutes! 00:00 Start 05:10 Takeaways From Travis Hunter's Season 08:00 Tetairoa McMillan & Emeka Egbuka's Season 11:57 Matthew Golden's Season is Disappointing 15:37 Texans WRs 18:50 Luther Burden Has Impressed 22:58 The Rest of the WRs 27:57 Rookie TEs 28:16 Colston Loveland & Tyler Warren Look Great! 31:25 Harold Fannin Jr. & Oronde Gadsen 34:46 Mason Taylor & Gunnar Helm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back into the Dynasty Nerds podcast. I am your host, Garrett Price here with my main man, Andrew

0:06.8

my Andrew, how you doing, buddy? Not too bad, man. First round of the fantasy playoffs went well.

0:12.0

I advanced everywhere that I was in it. So I'm doing all right right now.

0:17.8

100% advance rate. That's pretty impressive. impressive i'm i'm feeling pretty good uh overall

0:24.5

i have i had 15 teams make the playoffs not counting like redraft in scott fish pole um 15

0:32.2

dynasty teams make the playoffs uh and we had uh we had 10 or 11 go so you know overall I'm feeling pretty good

0:43.4

but of course league I care about the most didn't advance uh that's always it's always a bummer

0:48.1

is that the uh is that the one that I saw you post about on X where it was like Devon A

0:53.0

Chan you needed 30 something

0:54.6

points yeah yeah did I I did so I did a and I even posted in my league so I've been in this league

1:02.4

for 13 years right my oldest league by far I have another league with like a couple of the same guys in

1:08.7

it that's only five years old I've won the ship twice already in that league and I'm probably you know I'm a front

1:14.9

runner to win it again the show I'm the number one seat but that league for whatever

1:18.5

reason and this is that's a 12 team league this is a 10 team league this is like OG

1:23.8

league and dude I have not won in 13 years and it's it's driving me nuts because like

1:31.1

something always happens I actually won one year and then lost on a stat correction it like

1:37.2

got corrected and I had to give the money back in everything uh I've like dude I've been eliminated by Jamal Charles 5 touchdown game I've been like this year

1:48.5

uh I thought I was like kind of slick and he has Josh Allen I have don't cancade I was going to

1:55.3

start Travis Kelsey but I was like you know I'm going to start don't cancade case Josh Allen

1:59.0

is a big game he does throw two touchdown passes

2:01.4

to tight ends but he throws them both to freaking dawson knox i'm like there's there's always something

2:07.8

man am and rae has his best game of his career uh this week and i lose on that like it there's just

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