Early 2024 Wide Receiver Rankings: Tyreek Hill, CeeDee Lamb

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Early 2024 wide receiver rankings.

00:06 We talked quarterbacks and I think we're realizing now

00:09 more than ever to tie in the wide receiver

00:12 to the quarterback play outside of the obvious

00:15 because it really shows what a quarterback can do,

00:19 where a quarterback can go.

00:20 So let's tie the conversation and open it up

00:22 to the wide receivers.

00:23 We'll start at number one, Joe,

00:27 the consensus has Tyreek Hill.

00:29 Is that right?

00:30 - It's not wrong.

00:33 I mean, I don't know how after this year

00:35 you can't have him rank there.

00:36 He did finishes.

00:37 Well, I mean, he finishes wide receiver two and half PPR

00:40 in full point PPR also a wide receiver two.

00:43 But the first 10 games of the season were just absurd.

00:47 I mean, he was just so good.

00:49 He was up in that top.

00:50 He had two bad games over that stretch.

00:52 Other than that, he was wide receiver four or better

00:55 in almost all of them.

00:57 And then down the stretch, he did struggle.

00:59 Week 16, 17, 18 in the fantasy playoffs.

01:01 He finishes wide receiver 16, wide receiver 28

01:03 and then wide receiver 10 against the Buffalo Bills.

01:06 So that is the only thing.

01:08 Now I know they were facing Dallas defense,

01:10 the Baltimore Ravens defense.

01:11 When you're trying to draft wide receivers,

01:14 I think it's not just the wide receiver

01:16 you're talking about, but you're also the quarterback.

01:18 And I think it's tying in all those pieces and details

01:23 to try to get the best consensus pick you can.

01:26 So McCaffrey at number one, I get,

01:28 that's probably gonna be the consensus number one.

01:30 I can't fight against it.

01:31 I just, you know, it is what it is,

01:34 as the kids like to say.

01:35 But after this, you know, I think C.D. Lamb personally

01:38 is the guy that I would put at one.

01:40 This was a guy that we've been waiting for for so long

01:43 to come into his own.

01:43 He kind of had the opposite season of tiring kill

01:45 where it was a really slow start.

01:47 He was at one point, the most traded asset

01:50 in fantasy football, C.D. Lamb.

01:51 Somewhere after the first six weeks of the season,

01:53 people were out, they were done,

01:54 they were frustrated, they didn't want it.

01:56 After that stretch, I mean,

01:57 he ended up with 1,749 receiving yards,

02:01 of 135 receptions.

02:04 He had 14 touchdowns, he had some monstrous games,

02:08 and he had them when it mattered most.

02:09 So unlike Tyreek Hill, who faded in the last three weeks

02:11 in the fantasy playoffs,

02:13 you're talking about a guy who finishes wide receiver nine,

02:15 wide receiver one, and wide receiver two

02:17 over the last three games.

02:18 So I would put C.D. Lamb ahead of Tyreek Hill

02:21 and ahead of Justin Jefferson going into this year

02:23 because we still have that unknown.

02:25 Now we'll see if Kirk Cousins comes back.

02:27 Jefferson being back at number one, I got no problem with.

02:30 Tyreek Hill also a little older than these guys.

02:32 So for me, you know, looking at kind of the overall picture,

02:37 Lamb and Jefferson, we can flip-flop them back and forth,

02:40 but I think Hill is really the third guy for me, not the one.

02:43 I understand why he's the consensus one.

02:44 I get it, it's just an easy thing to plug in there.

02:47 But at the same time, you also can put in Jamar Chase,

02:50 who I thought was going to win

02:51 offensive player of the year this year.

02:53 And I was wrong about that.

02:54 I'll take the L.

02:55 We'll never know because we didn't get Joe Burrow playing

02:57 and got Joe Burrow playing healthy.

02:59 If we could just get Burrow and Chase healthy

03:03 for an entire season together, I would be so happy.

03:07 That's all I want.

03:08 That's all I want for Christmas this year,

03:09 is those two guys healthy for 17 games playing together,

03:13 because I think it would be magical.

03:14 You just haven't gotten it yet quite at the NFL level.

03:18 But Chase is another guy I think you put at this list.

03:20 Now, as you look here,

03:22 all these guys are first round talents in my opinion,

03:24 including Amon Ross St. Brown at number five.

03:26 If you're in full point PPRs

03:28 and you are in that middle of a draft,

03:30 I can't think of a better investment

03:32 than Amon Ross St. Brown.

03:34 He is so steady, Matt, every single week.

03:37 You know what you're getting in terms of the target volume.

03:39 You know how many hundred yard games he's going to have,

03:41 which is a crap ton.

03:43 You know that he has touchdown equity.

03:45 He had 10 last year.

03:47 He saw 164 targets last season.

03:50 1,515 yards, an incredible amount of volume.

03:55 164 targets is enormous, not to mention the 119 receptions.

04:00 So to me, Amon Ross St. Brown might be the best

04:03 number four, five, six overall pick

04:06 that you could possibly make.

04:07 And I think he is going to go behind these guys.

04:10 So the guys that you see ahead of him,

04:12 Hill, Lamb, Jefferson, Chase, throw in McCaffrey,

04:16 all of a sudden, guess what?

04:17 We're in the middle of the draft.

04:18 In the middle of draft,

04:19 email Amon Ross St. Brown, I'm going to take him.

04:21 And I think he is that quintessential value on the board.

04:24 So let's talk about that,

04:25 because I think that he is still undervalued

04:28 and underappreciated.

04:29 Do you think he is?

04:30 Because it seems like,

04:31 although he's now moved up to this elite territory,

04:34 I feel like people still have a hard time calling him elite.

04:36 And I don't think they should have a problem

04:38 with that anymore.

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04:42 (bells chiming)

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