Why these WRs are must-haves in every fantasy draft

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12 hours ago

Yahoo Fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and contributor Chris Allen dive into the "fantasy film room" to identify players they cannot live without this fantasy season.
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Welcome to the Fantasy Film Room presented by Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL.
For today's film room, we are offering our final draft blueprint for success.
This is the guy we do not want to leave drafts without.
Jaylen Waddle.
Give me Jaylen Waddle.
I don't care that last season was a complete disaster for him.
I want to see a full season of him healthy.
I want to see a full season.
I think everybody wants to see a full season of Tua Tagovailoa healthy.
It's also the same offense that was passing more often, almost 39 dropbacks per game for Tua once he came back.
That passing pie grew.
We saw Jay Waddle still have a fairly decent a rear share.
And of course, no Johnny Smith that's going to be involved.
And I mean, this is more subjective than anything else, but with all the chatter that Tyreek Hill's been putting out there, how much is he gonna really be involved in this passing game in 2025 anyway?
So, I'd say the beef is more qualitative than anything else, but still, we're not that far behind from seeing Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill be top 10 wide receivers.
That was 2022.
If we can see both of them be healthy this upcoming season, he's a guy that I do not want to leave my drafts with because I know that the Miami passing game is something that we've tried to target in years past.
Just got to get the health part in check, but I believe that's going to be the case for this upcoming season.
I'm all in on picking this year.
I think he is the most mispriced player in fantasy right now, still going outside the top 30 receivers, right around like wide receiver 31.
I've got him ranked almost 12 spots ahead of that.
Again, I'm uncomfortably high on the George Pickens situation.
And again, I'm telling you, man, it makes me uncomfortable.
But I, but listen, the biggest reason, again, this is like, get in the film room here.
George Pickens took a big step forward last year as an individual player with a career-best 72.8% success rate versus man, 77.6% success rate versus press, which is an 83rd percentile score.
And reception perception really took a big step forward as a man press beater.
He's a perfect fit in the vacated X receiver role for the Dallas Cowboys.
And like, again, this is a guy that's put it in the box score.
He ranks 17th among wide receivers in yards per route run over the last two years combined.
Now his routes, his targets, his catchable targets are all going to go up in a likely pass-heavy offense with Dak Prescott.
I think he could be one of, if not the most productive #2 receivers in the league as long as he's locked in.
He's got every incentive to, to, to be locked in.
So, Chris, at times I've been mixed in, mixed on picking, certainly in fantasy and even in real life.
Uh, but this year, after the improvement that I watched last year, and again, him being in a new situation, I, I'm, I'm uncomfortably high on George Pickens.
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