You're Drafting The Wrong Players (Take These 5 Instead)
The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri
Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The fantasy football season is just days away and people are still drafting the wrong players. Your leaguenates are taking the players with the big flashy names, the guys who produced one to two years ago and ignoring the players who actually have breakout upside. So in this video, I'm going to be showing you the five players you need to be drafting instead if you actually want to win your league. Now, I'm Sal Vetri. I've been helping people win their leagues for nearly eight years, and I plan to do the same for you with this video. And I want to start it off by looking |
| 0:23.6 | at the Bucks wide receiver room because this one is very interesting. Everybody right now, for the most |
| 0:28.2 | part, a lot of people are still looking at this and saying Chris Gawain, there's a good majority of |
| 0:32.3 | people that view Chris Gowman is still the Bucks wide receiver too. and i understand this is a guy who last year deserved this title until he got injured he was arguably the best wide receiver in fantasy working with baker mayfield mostly out of the slot in three wide receiver sets but i want to take some time to look at the first round rookie here ameka abuka right now because he's basically going drafted right next to chris goblin in drafts even though by all accounts as of this recording and probably by the time that this comes out and you're watching this, by the day, Ameca, Buka is looking like a better and better fantasy pick. If you're not familiar, Bucca went to Ohio State where he had multiple big seasons. Back in his sophomore year, he had over 1,100 yards despite tough competition, had a 26% target share playing with other current NFL players. Last year in 2024 goes over 1,000 yards. |
| 1:12.8 | Has a strong 24% target share despite dealing with maybe the best receiver already in college football at Ohio State in Jeremiah Smith. |
| 1:19.5 | This is a player in a Mecca, Buka, as you can see from Matt Harmon on reception perception in terms of how he wins. |
| 1:24.3 | This is a guy who absolutely dominates zone coverage. |
| 1:26.9 | 82nd percentile is very good. Then you can see his success rate in very limited snaps, 81st percentile, also very good. And Matt Harmon would also note this is a guy who watched all the film or a lot of the reps in certain games for Abuka, Matt Harmon. He says strong set of hands as well. This is a player who worked out of the slot predominantly in college. He was dominant there |
| 1:44.4 | in the zone type schemes, finding that spot in the zone. He was like a veteran wide receiver, just finding the soft spots of his own and then producing after the catch. He's also known as being just an extremely efficient player. In terms of yards per out run, when he's actually out there, he earns targets from the matter who his quarterback is, and I expect that to translate into the NFL with Baker Mayfield, who's already gushing about this guy in training camp. |
| 2:02.9 | And just to show you how good a Me who his quarterback is, and I expect that to translate into the NFL with Baker Mayfield, who's already gushing about this guy in training camp. |
| 2:02.9 | And just to show you how good a mecca abuka is, wide receivers with two 1,000 plus |
| 2:07.3 | yards seasons at Ohio State, Marvin Harrison Jr., and a mecca abuka. |
| 2:11.5 | In terms of career OSU record holders, you can see receiving yards there, receptions with |
| 2:15.7 | 205, this is a guy who can definitely step into the NFL as a first round pick, mind you, and produce right away despite his competition. And as of right now, the competition is getting easier by the day. Which might seem crazy, but reports are that Chris Gowan might not be playing week one. There's a chance he goes on the Pup list and he's going to miss the first month of the season. And as of now in this recording, Jaila McMillan in the second week of preseason left the game |
| 2:36.3 | with what is being called a serious neck strain. |
| 2:38.6 | And there's not even a, we're not even sure if he's going to be ready week one. If he gets put on the Pupus, maybe by the time that you're watching this, there's more news. maybe it's more serious than we're already expecting of him potentially to miss a few games. |
| 2:48.1 | Like, it's shaping up right now for Mike Evans on the outside and a mecca book on the outside |
| 2:52.0 | and two wide receiver sets week one. |
| 2:53.3 | You're not familiar. you probably already know last year week seven chris goblin dislocated his ankle a very serious injury but it's not only that he had the dislocation in week seven like this alone he probably should have been coming back by week one but back in april they kind of kept it on the wraps he had to go back in and have a second surgery on this. Now, it was a minor procedure. For the most part, these minor procedures can just be cleanups and they really are minor. By all accounts, it seems like this one wasn't just a little cleanup because he has a chance of missing the first week to maybe four weeks of the season. The team went out there with this information of him having a second surgery and said, oh, we should probably draft the first round wide receiver, right? They had that information when the draft came at the end |
| 3:26.9 | of April, early May. And that's when they decided to take Ameca Abuka, so all the signs are pointing to the fact that they think Chris Gobbin's injury is a little bit more serious. As you can see from sports MD analysis here on Twitter, be sure to follow him. He says Chris Gobind, I lean towards missing week one drafting amechabuka suggests that tampa bay already knew the recovery would be |
| 3:42.1 | delayed that's exactly what we were just talking about here i'm glad that God when I lean towards him missing week one, drafting a Mecca-A-Bucca suggests that Tampa Bay already |
| 3:41.0 | knew the recovery would be delayed. That's exactly what we were just talking about here. I'm glad that I'm on the same page with Deepak, which makes me feel a little bit better, a little bit smarter as a sports MD Harvard surgeon, right? We love that. But regardless, we also like the fact that, look, Baker-Mayfield loves this guy based on all the reports right now coming out of camp. Every time he talks about a player who's standing out at Temeca Buka, he says this guy's a polished veteran. |
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