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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

You're Drafting The Wrong Rookies (Take These 5 Instead)

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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You're Drafting The Wrong Rookies (Take These 5 Instead)


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0:00.0

If you're in a fantasy football league and you want to win that league, you're in the right place because I'm going to help you do just that.

0:05.2

If you're not familiar, I'm Salvatry. I've helped over 10,000 people win their fantasy leagues the last few years alone, and I plan to do the same for you with this video. We're going to break down the rookies you should be taking in fantasy football because right now I see people taking the wrong guys. And I really want to start with Chris Bell, the Miami Dolphins wide receiver.

0:21.1

They took him in the third round out of Louisville.

0:22.9

We've talked about him before.

0:23.9

He's a 6'2, 222 pound wide receiver. And the reason I want to talk about him, if you don't already know, he's tore his ACL in December. He probably would have ran maybe in the four threes. He was going to be an athletic freak. Some people say he's AJ Brown, probably not that good, but a similar size speed player. Now, based on his average draft position, this is according to fantasy sharks or

0:42.6

draft sharks right now. You can see that he goes 228th overall. That is absurd. Now, in terms of some

0:48.7

other rookies, whether it's rookie drafts for fantasy or like I'm showing right here, redraft ADP,

0:53.7

specifically guys like, like oh I don't

0:55.0

know Eli Stowers of the Philadelphia Eagles is going like almost 100 picks before Chris Bell this is

1:01.2

completely wrong in my opinion now let's break this down if you're not familiar Chris Bell again

1:05.6

he ended up going to Louisville last year at Louisville was his best season he continued all four years

1:10.6

of college,

1:11.1

as you can see from 2022 to only having seven catches. He slowly ramped up both his receptions,

1:16.3

his target earning ability, and his receiving yards all the way until this past year where

1:20.4

he was dominating through the first 11 games of the season, almost 1,000 yards, career high,

1:24.9

26.6% target share. He awesome out there and then he ended up

1:29.2

unfortunately tearing his ACL now he's reportedly ahead of schedule on the ACL tear he's been sprinting

1:35.1

he'll be ideally it's like a nine to 10 month recovery if it was a clean ACL tear and if that's the

1:40.1

case he should be ready for week one we're too far out to know like exactly if he's going to be ready for that day.

1:45.0

Now let's look at some of the game logs. Like you might say, oh, we played at Louisville, didn't face the toughest competition. Well, when he faced his toughest competition last year, he balled out. A matchup against Pitt ended up being a ranked team at the end of the year. 10 catches 135 yards. Virginia, a ranked team, 12 catches 170 yards. and Miami, one of the best teams, arguably the best team in the country with Indiana.

2:03.4

That's why they were in the college football championship. Nine catches, 136 yards. Not many players, really no other player besides Jeremiah Smith, the best wide receiver in college football, was able to do that to Miami's defense, put up a massive performance of over 100 yards. So these are the positives as to why

2:17.9

Chris Bell went in the third round of the NFL draft. If he didn't tear his ACL, if he was healthy, he probably would have been a slam dunk second round pick. And who knows, maybe he would have gotten hyped up into the first round if he would have tested well. So Chris Bell now lands on Miami Dolphins depth chart that if we look at this depth chart, according to our lads right here, You can see this is the left wide receiver position, the right, and the slot wide receiver.

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