WR Rankings & Tiers: Breakouts & Sleepers w/ Matt Harmon (Ep. 920)
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Wide receivers have taken on more importance in fantasy this year than they ever have before. Joey P., The Oracle, and Matt Harmon (Yahoo! Sports) break down the WR consensus rankings and highlight which players provide the most value at fantasy's deepest position. Who should go first between Cooper Kupp, Justin Jefferson, and Ja'Marr Chase? Who are the safest borderline WR1s? How should we evaluate polarizing players like Allen Robinson and Chris Godwin? The Pros will tell you!
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Timestamps:
Tier 1 - 0:04:36
Cooper Kupp vs. Justin Jefferson - 0:04:52
Justin Jefferson vs. Ja'Marr Chase - 0:08:33
Tier 2 - 0:12:41
Mike Evans - 0:12:53
Who in this tier has the best chance to finish WR1 Overall? - 0:16:27
CeeDee Lamb - 0:17:00
Who in this group finished outside of the WR1 range? - 0:17:39
Deebo Samuel/Tyreek Hill - 0:17:58
Tier 3 - 0:23:18
Which WR in this group is a lock to finish as a WR1? - 0:23:41
Michael Pittman - 0:24:32
A.J. Brown - 0:26:10
DJ Moore - 0:27:33
Tier 4 - 0:32:06
Courtland Sutton - 0:32:30
Courtland Sutton vs. Jerry Jeudy - 0:34:53
Darnell Mooney vs. Rashod Bateman - 0:36:03
Allen Robinson - 0:39:43
Tier 5 - 0:45:11
Chris Godwin - 0:45:11
Biggest standout in this tier? - 0:46:08
Brandon Aiyuk - 0:47:34
Gabriel Davis - 0:48:39
Drake London - 0:49:17
Michael Thomas - 0:50:37
Deep Sleepers - 0:52:39
Nico Collins - 0:52:50
Julio Jones - 0:53:42
Listener Mailbag - 0:55:00
Who to keep out of Leonard Fournette, Michael Pittman, Jaylen Waddle, or Cam Akers? - 0:55:13
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do we perceive these receivers? Let's talk to the pros |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros this is the fantasy football podcast and it's me Joey B |
| 0:26.6 | Joe P's a pia and today it's our special edition of between two max that's right because I am between of course |
| 0:34.5 | Matthew Friedman one year and Matthew Harmon in the other |
| 0:38.0 | So we're gonna be using last names only in the show today, but today is a very important program |
| 0:43.6 | It's all about the wide receiver rankings and the tears. We did this last week with the running backs |
| 0:48.4 | This is a very important program because this is really how we do that deep dive into the position |
| 0:53.7 | Into the player pool the players to look for the players to avoid and of course at some point time |
| 0:59.3 | There will be I assume and Alan Robinson ramp from Matthew Friedman, but Matt Harmon joins us from Yahoo |
| 1:04.8 | He's the creator of reception perception and of course many other schoolhouse rock favorites Matthew Harmon is so nice to have you here in the show today |
| 1:12.8 | Matt |
| 1:13.4 | How are you doing this off season as we are approaching the season? |
| 1:17.1 | I'm doing good. Honestly guys. Thank you so much for having me |
| 1:19.7 | I really appreciate it and you know the closer we get to week one the more I'm like man |
| 1:25.4 | I'm I'm kind of ready to see the answers to the test at this point right like there's been so much player movement |
| 1:31.0 | Especially at this particular position that I'm ready to see you know Alan Robinson |
| 1:35.7 | How does he perform at the Rams? You know AJ Browne is he actually gonna get 11-D billion targets in the Eagles |
| 1:42.1 | Offense as some beat reporters have put it because of the way it's looking training camp again |
| 1:46.4 | I'm just I'm ready to see this play out, but we still got a little bit ways to go and people got a lot of dress to do between then and now |
| 1:52.3 | So I'm excited to talk about it today. That's the next one point. I kind of feel the same way |
| 1:55.9 | We're just kind of like all right like I also don't want to hyperventilate over everything |
| 2:00.1 | I was reading I was like to do this. I was like go back a year ago and look at some of the 2021 |
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