Patriots Kyle Williams is the sleeper WR you want to target in your dynasty drafts
Patriots Kyle Williams is the sleeper WR you want to target in your dynasty drafts | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast
In our rookie dynasty mock draft episode on the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast podcast, Nate Tice and Matt Harmon discuss why New England Patriots WR Kyle Williams is the guy you want to take a chance on later in your dynasty rookie drafts.
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Trusting my board, maybe not what the consensus is, also trusting team fit and situation.
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Kyle Williams.
I knew this is what you were gonna do.
I have to.
I'm just looking at the next tier of guys and I'm like, well, also situation, this is like, I see a path and I just like the player a lot and I like where he ended up.
I think him, he couldn't have gone to a better quarterback than Drake May and Drake May couldn't have gotten a better quarterback for him.
Um, Drake is is a big game hunter and he pushes the ball.
Kyle Williams is gonna thrive under that and where it's a difference though, like where a guy like Trevor Lawrence and some other guys might thrive or Bryce Young, they might thrive with a ball winner cause they give him a chances, those guys go up and get it.
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May is kind of a guy that throws it out for his teammates where he wants guys to run to it as opposed to, you know, back shoulder it.
Kyle Williams, here we are, like, run baby, run, and I think he's a real football player.
It's not just speed and OK, whatever, it's speed that matches what he does on the field.
He's competitive.
I think realistically he'll end up being more like a good 2.
Um, which is how I've graded.
I'm not saying he might end up being just a de facto one in this offense, um, but down the road they'll have to get another guy, but I think no matter what, he's gonna have a nice usage, great synergy with the quarterback, a situation that's clean for him early, and I think he'll have a nice career.
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So Kyle Williams here, I'm, I'm keen on getting him cause I have a lot of picks in this kind of second round range that I, I think this is exactly where I would take him.
Yeah, this is the guy.
This is the guy to be ahead of consensus on, um, like my rankings, which I'm not gonna reveal here because they are behind the paywall, uh, like they, they signal this as well, like, hey, take, take, take Kyle Williams ahead of where you're gonna see him.
Elsewhere, so I'm, I'm with you there, um, like this is to me this is a big tier of receivers and it's just kind of take your flavor and take the guys that you believe in and you have conviction on, and I have conviction on Kyle Williams, you have conviction on Kyle, I might even be a little higher than you on on Williams, and just like, just on who he is, like, when you, God, when you're describing like The type of receiver Drake May wants, I can see like Kyle Williams doing it and like confidently catching the ball immediately turning into a yak threat and like boom, we're going here.
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So uh think think how many uh touch or or targets Booty got last year.
Booty who can barely run.
Those are all Kyle Williams touches, like those are all those exact targets are going to Kyle Williams.
That's that's why I'm excited about it.
And those like were mostly perimeter like outside stuff, and I do think Kyle Williams could play outside, but he's gonna run so many more like in Brick, see, I think about like the stuff he did with Josh Downs at UNC.
And like I love I love Josh Downs, but like Kyle Williams is a bit is a he's not I was higher on downs and I was Williams, but I was really, really high on downs.
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But Williams is a superior player with the ball in his hands than than Josh Downs is.
So again, I think there's a lot of fantasy value here.
And even looking at, and again this is just where the boards are at right now, I'm just drawn to.
I won't name their names because they're competitors, but 11 has the rookie Dynasty rankings.
Kyle Williams is 24th overall player.
The other one has them as the 34th overall player.
So just even saying like I have this guy more as an early mid teens kind of guy.
And and that's again, that's where I'm taking him that picked 15.
So yeah.
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