Could Jaylen Waddle be Miami's top fantasy receiver?
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Let's think of the wide receiver position.
Uh, give me one of your favorite wide receivers values in this draft.
Man, I really like Jaylen Waddle.
Uh, he went at 611, the end of the 6th round.
Um, it's about a round below his dynasty ADP.
Like, am I the only one that sees a path to him being a very valuable fantasy asset, uh, you know, he's only 26.
He turns 27 during the season.
Before last year though, and we have a bunch of last year, he missed some games.
Tua obviously missed time, and the offense wasn't anything like itself when Tua was out.
Before that, Waddle had 3 straight 1000-yard seasons.
I think we all looked at him quite differently.
So was it his fault last year that there were some injuries to the quarterback position?
I'm not going to blame him.
Before that, those seasons, he was wide receiver 21, wide receiver 13, and wide receiver 15.
It was the first 3 years of his career, a very, very productive fantasy player.
You know, I still think Tyreek Hill has something left in the tank.
I think you could look at last season for him too and say, you know, OK, there were some, you know, mitigating factors around him that brought down some of his production and some of his metrics, but there are some reasons to think that a decline might be coming for Tyreek Hill, and if it does, Waddle could emerge as the number one receiver on this team.
Uh, like none of these Miami Dolphins had good, um, you know, good route stuff last year.
It certainly wasn't as efficient because the offense just wasn't as efficient.
Tua missed time, as you mentioned, a lot of casts.
But nevertheless, like Tyreek Hill dropped off from a 75.8% success rate versus man in 2023 to 67.3%, a career low, a huge drop.
I personally think.
And again, that's like isolating all the other variables.
I was just focusing on Tyreek Hill.
I think the decline has already begun for him, and I just wonder for Mike McDaniel.
Who are you gonna lean into more?
The, like, 31-year-old disgruntled wide receiver who wanted to quit the team in week 8, in week 18 last year, or like this guy that you signed to a mega contract extension a couple years ago, who I think can do a lot of the same things.
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