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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Could Dak Prescott get back to being a top-8 fantasy QB?
Yahoo Fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens break down the impact of the George Pickens trade on the Dallas Cowboys quarterback's fantasy value. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Again, I, the one of the bummers of this to me is that I think it's gonna wake people up a little bit to uh how how under ranked Dak Prescott had been. Advertisement We'll get to Dak Prescott a little bit later in the show when we start talking about the mock draft like that guy was the MVP runner up. Two years ago, uh, he led the NFL in touchdown passes, you know, we're like a year removed from that. Um, he's had a 4900 year passing season, he's really good. He's been a really, really good fantasy asset over the years and have there been some ugly moments too? Sure. Um, but, you know, his best fantasy seasons have been like upper tier stuff. And he's really getting slept on. Um, and I don't know if that's the, the return from injury. I don't know exactly what that is. Advertisement Maybe it's just the fact that we're, we're more interested in a bunch of second year quarterbacks. I have no idea, but Dak Prescott is very likely in a healthy season to be a top eight-ish fantasy quarterback, and most people seem to have him like QB 18, QB 20, but he's, I mean, he's a better player than that. Well, I think now that he has CD Lamb, one of the best receivers in the league, and George Pickens, who I think fits really well as as a really good number 2 receiver, that just looks so much better on paper than, yeah, CD Lamb and and like a rotating cast of car, you know, we were starting to get like the post draft cope of like, well yeah, they didn't, yeah, of course they didn't get Ted McMillan, they wanted Tet McMillan. 12, but they didn't get they didn't get McMillan there, but they have to take another receiver, they share a 4th for Jonathan Mingo, like in the middle of the season, you know, he's just learning the offense. Advertisement OK, like now, now that we've got that out of the way and it's CD Lamb and George Pickens, these guys work so, so well together again because CD Lamb, he leads the NFL in the last few years with yards from the slot. Now he could play all three positions, but he's maximized. is an interior player, whereas Pickens is a is a boundary guy. Uh, we've thrown the stat up a couple times, uh, on the screen, but Pickens is one of the league leaders in terms of 15 + yard plays on go routes. Dak Prest over the last few years is, is, uh, is super productive on those. Like this heat map that we're throwing on the screen at YouTube right now, like you see just again where they've caught the ball, it makes so much sense. Advertisement So Pickens, I think actually fits really well here. I, and by the way, I also like that he, you know, who knows if like this part of it is the the reporting, whatever. But reportedly he doesn't want to sign a contract right now. He wants to show like, I'm a top guy. He's playing with the best quarterback he's ever played with by a mile.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Why Ashton Jeanty is a 'safer' fantasy option than Saquon Barkley
Yahoo Fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don debate the Raiders rookie's fantasy pre-draft ranking with comparisons to other top 5 running backs. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Let's start with all the way at the top of rankings, wide receiver CD Lamb of the Dallas Cowboys. Advertisement Yeah, not a huge discrepancy, but when we're talking about a first round pick, these obviously matter the most. His ECR is a wide receiver 3. I have him as my wide receiver 2, and I'm closer to moving him to my wide receiver 1 than I am number 3. the Cowboys made 9 draft picks, none of them were at wide receiver. Their depth chart after CD Lamb is Jaylen Tolbert, Jonathan Mingo, Jaylen Brooks, Cavante Turpin, Ryan Flournoy. Um, CD Lamb has the most PPR points per game among all wide receivers since 2003, and he's obviously dealt with QB injuries over that time. I think he could approach 200 targets this season. Advertisement He's one year removed from 135 catches, 1750 yards, and 12 TDs. He's, you know, what? Half a year older than Chase, indoors with no other players on offense at all. I mean, the only thing is, uh, Jake Ferguson is either #2, uh, you know, pass catcher option. CD Lamb absolutely has an argument to be the number one overall fantasy pick in especially in PPR leagues. Yeah, I, I love this. I, it's, it's at least like a a variable we've got to consider, like, who is JJ McCarthy? I'm generally confident in McCarthy, um, and, and obviously the experiment of what he will be for Minnesota, I think they can, I, I trust, I just trust Kevin O'Connell, like kind of period, end of story there, but nevertheless, like, the new starting quarterback, obviously Justin Jefferson's been productive with quarterbacks who are much Who should be much worse than JJ McCarthy is, but we've just never seen him play yet. Advertisement Uh, it's a new variable there, and if you're just kind of If you're, if you're just kind of like against that, I don't know, but I mean they could still add Amari Cooper. I've, I've made jokes about that, and then I think I made jokes about that, and then I think that might actually happen, but, um, regardless, even if, even if Amari Cooper is on the team, like, I still think that CD Lamb should comfortably clear like 160 targets. Um, he's, this is the type of situation do where it's like, who else are they gonna throw to? It's, it's less about that, it's more, why would they throw to other guys when they have CD Lamb there and considering who some of those other names are. He is good enough to handle like a 170, 180 target season.
