Optimizing Fantasy Football Picks: Top Wide Receivers

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00:00and let's go to the Sunday Daily Fantasy Slate. We'll start off as we always do at wide receiver.

00:05Mike Evans, the highest priced wide receiver this week at 7,900. AJ Brown at 7,500.

00:12Corlin Sutton, 6,600. This is the price I don't get. I know I'm biased with Washington,

00:17but somebody explain to me why McLaurin is 1,100 less than AJ Brown. I don't know,

00:22or 1,000 less than AJ Brown. You'll explain that one to me, George. Devonta Smith, 5,700.

00:27You know, all of a sudden, maybe the Packers' wide receivers are in play now that we know that

00:31Watson is not going to play. He's 5,500, so maybe Reid is actually an option.

00:36Dobbs, I could... Dobbs could easily get three touchdowns on Sunday, but I'm not going to buy

00:40him at 5,400. We've talked about this all year, how it's a little bit of a crapshoot with Green

00:45Bay's wide receivers, George, but Reid would seem to be a pretty big beneficiary of the injury to

00:50Watson. I'm not playing that game. I'm just not, for multiple reasons, or a couple of reasons.

00:57One, as you already mentioned here, maybe it's Reid. Maybe it's Dobbs. Maybe it's Wicks. Maybe

01:02it's all through Josh Jacobs. I don't know. Maybe it's the tight ends. I'm not doing it. Green Bay

01:06hasn't looked all that good of late here. They haven't played a great offense, and Philadelphia's

01:09defense is good. All right, so no. I'm going to eliminate pretty much all my Packers here. I'm

01:14not going to do it here. I completely agree with you about McLaurin. He's an easy start for me.

01:20One, because he's cheaper. Two, because that Tampa Bay secondary is a mess, all right? I mean,

01:25it's truly a mess. They have injuries up the wazoo here of who's going to play, who's not

01:29here. Remember Jordan Whitehead, he got to the car accident last week before the game,

01:33so he's out here, but they have all sorts of injuries. I keep saying I think this is a fun

01:38game, all right? Jamel Dean is questionable. Winfield, questionable. Mike Edwards, questionable.

01:43These are all starters, by the way. Do I think they're going to play? Probably at least two

01:47out of three. Whitehead's definitely not going to play. They have other injuries. Hall, Hill, both

01:50out. Is he an out? So they have all sorts of problems with Tampa Bay secondary. I think

01:56Washington's going to score some points in this game. Like I said, it's a fun game here. McLaurin

01:59definitely goes for me. Sutton, Brown, you know, I could see Brown was probably too high for me.

02:06Mike Evans, by the way, we all love Mike Evans, but he's going up against Marshawn Lattimore.

02:11That generally has not gone all that well for Evans in the past, and these two do not like

02:16each other whatsoever. Sort of a matchup to watch this weekend here, so I don't think I'll be paying

02:20up for Evans here. I'm going to go with McLaurin and probably lesser guys. All right. I do like

02:25someone off our tier two list. I want to go over this too. Khalil Shakir is 5,300. Jalen McMillan,

02:315,200. The name I like here is actually Mims at 5,100. He's been way more a part of the offense

02:37than I anticipated. Cooper is 4,900. Of course, Watson is out. Keon Coleman, 4,600. And then,

02:42as you mentioned, another name, Wicks, is a possibility at 4,500. Yes, see, since we went

02:48a little cheaper here, if you go McLaurin route, you can afford to pay up for the guys on the top

02:52of this list here. I love Shakir and McMillan. Love them both here. Sounds like a good law firm,

02:56Shakir and McMillan. But I love both these guys on the top of this list. Shakir is sort of a

03:01catching machine here, right? Catches a lot of balls. Touchdowns, not so much. If you're looking

03:06for the touchdown here, he may not be your guy. McMillan is the guy for touchdowns, right? He's

03:10got, I think, 700 in the last five games. He's been fantastic here, and if all the attention is

03:14going Evans' way, well, that opens things up for McMillan. One thing I might be a little wary of,

03:21if, and this is a huge if, by the way, but if, Watson thinks that Latimore can lock up Evans

03:26one-on-one, well, then they can focus more bracket coverage towards McMillan. Once again,

03:30it's something to think about here. Latimore hasn't played, I said, like, once since they

03:33acquired him. So I don't know how healthy he's going to be. Can he play a full count with the

03:37snaps? I don't know. We'll find out during the game here. But I like McMillan and Shakir,

03:41a whole bunch of these lists. All right. And then we have the Tier 3 wide receivers.

03:46Zacchaeus has been a bigger part of Washington's offense, so maybe he is a potential option.

03:50There's actually some lower-end options here that may end up scoring. Vele, 4,100. Mack

03:56Hollins is an end-zone threat for Buffalo. 3,800. Malik Heath, 3,600. Dotson, 35. The Army Brown,

04:0434. And it's kind of crazy that Crowder's still in the NFL and does catch a few passes a game at

04:103,400, but unlikely to see the end zone. Once again, I'm just going game script for me. I

04:15think that Washington-Tampa Bay game tomorrow night is going to be fun. All right. Points are

04:21going to go up on the board. I think they're going to hit their over. So Zacchaeus is the

04:24first guy that comes to mind. But if you can't afford him, I don't mind a little dartboard on

04:28the Army Brown. All right. So it's definitely one of the commanders wide receivers here for me.

04:32Zacchaeus would be my first choice. The Army Brown is second. And he's like Crowder,

04:36he's sort of like a very poor man Shakir, though. I think he might catch some balls,

04:40but touchdowns, probably not. I think Brown and Zacchaeus would have a better shot at that.

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