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10 DARKHORSE League Winners for Fantasy Football 2026 🚨 w/ Scott Barrett

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10 DARKHORSE League Winners for Fantasy Football 2026 🚨 w/ Scott Barrett

The podcast, hosted by Scott Barrett and Theo Greminger, explores fantasy football draft strategy centered on identifying "power law" players—dark horse candidates who can lead their position in points and crush their average draft position (ADP) in 2026. The hosts argue that chasing upside is more critical than prioritizing safety, as league winners often come from players with a low probability of success but massive potential, rather than those with a high floor but limited ceiling. Key dark horse candidates discussed include Chase Brown, who benefits from elite volume and receiving work on a top Bengals offense, with no competition for touches. Omarion Hampton is another RB with high upside, thanks to Mike McDaniel's run-focused scheme and a potential bell-cow role. James Cook, despite a price correction to Round 1, is seen as a candidate for RB1 overall due to his consistent touchdowns and possible increased targets. Cam Skataboo is highlighted as a year-two breakout, with early-season opportunity from Malik Neighbors' injury and strong run-blocking additions. Travian Henderson is a polarizing but explosive back, with big-play ability that could outperform his ADP if he secures a larger role. The overarching theme is that fantasy success requires a willingness to swing for the fences, even if it risks finishing last.

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Identifying early fantasy football league winners which dark horse players could break through and crush their ADP in 2026 we're gonna find out right here on school of Scott Welcome to school of Scott fantasy football podcast Scott Barrett and Theo Greminger back at it and Scott were this is like a I guess a prequel a sneak preview we're gonna do this exact same exercise right at the beginning of August But it's May people are drafting the underdog drafts are starting to fill up all these like little contest underdog puts out in the streets Fill up really quickly best ball mania the puppy all filling our friends over at the FFPC have the 350s to continue to fill They're $125 best ball tournament. So fantasy football is starting earlier and earlier and ADP becomes locked in earlier and earlier and Today we're going to attempt to identify some players that could end up becoming league winners and Scott You've often talked about power law players and I think anybody playing fantasy football can remember certainly last year Jackson Smith and jigba 2025 third round pick Absolutely smoked it crushed it in fantasy football was a massive edge pick But then if you go back in time there's been so many Josh Jacobs in 2022 when he was in Oakland had that amazing season Where he fell all the way to the eighth round in NFFC was like a fifth sixth round pick in FFPC very much a dead zone back Ends up challenging for the RB one overall then you go back to 2021 maybe the ultimate year for finding this sort of edge pick Cooper cup outscored every single quarterback Had one of the best wide receiver seasons of all time and he did so as the second highest drafted wide receiver on his team Behind Robert Woods you saw him going like the third round NFFC fourth round FFPC and then at the quarterback position Scott Patrick Maholms 2018 Smash MVP year two broke fantasy and of course You're sort of synonymous with the Lamar Jackson 2019 season where you push the chips in and he broke fantasy But talk about the power law player and sort of how this is your draft Philosophy in a nutshell. Yeah, the theme of today's show is is dark horse candidates to lead their position in Fantasy points and what I think separates me from most other fantasy analysts you listen to is you know my self-proclaimed Mopus upside wins championships. It's really centered around that idea that notion the power law player like in any given season there's really only four or five players like who really matter but those players who really matter like the keys to Whether or not you want or lost your championship and like that's how I think about players I don't think the optimal approach for a drafter is To be all that concerned with the median projection or at least not as much as Their potential to lead the position in fantasy points or top five if their ADP is a little bit lower for the quarterback position Which you know might be my best position or at least you know the best track record over the years I don't draft a quarterback if I don't think they have the potential to lead the position in fantasy points That's the most important thing And certainly more so quarterback than the other positions and so yeah, that's what we're doing today That's what we're trying to be chasing in our drafts is that upside that potential and so if you have a player who You know, I'll talk about this all the time has a 10% chance of Leading their position in fantasy points, but the other 90% of the time it's a wasted pick I would rather gravitate towards that than a player with a 90% chance of slightly beating their ADP But zero percent chance of doing any better than that or or you know leading the position in fantasy points Because at the end of the day Hashtag upside wins championships Yeah, and I think a lot of podcasts right now or sort of talking about should you take B. John Robinson or Jameer Gibbs as the RB1 Should you take Jamar chase versus Pukinakua versus Jackson Smith and Jigba at as the wide receiver one and I think at the end of the day Scott we're gonna come away and say we like all of those guys But if we're able to hit on some of these guys we're talking about today and they break through and challenge the players We just mentioned or even get within 10% of them scoring wise then you end up with one of those power law players Scott, I think another thing You know when I first heard your work you talk about like this It's like the crutch of going for like the safe player and it's certainly the opposite of the approach we're doing today where Like the idea being that how I'm gonna pass on some of these guys because this guy's got such a safe floor That's sort of like contrarian to this entire exercise where Chasing safety is like one of the I won't say worst thing There's certainly bigger mistakes you can make but it takes your edge away when you're trying to win I think if you're drafting the big takeaway from Scott is Be willing to finish last to finish first You're gonna swing for the fences and chase that upside to talk about the the crutch of safety I believe the the original Player you reference was always like the the James White PPR running back experience. Yeah, I mean So what is like a low-end RB two worth what is the overall tight end eight and fantasy points per game worth? What is the you know rostering the QB 9 like that's that's like a net loser that like that's like basically worthless because you know People are so in their drafts concerned with safety. It's like oh well, you know every other team of my league has a quarterback I'm weak at quarterback. Let me double tab quarterback here And it's just not the right way to think about it because you have the floor of the safety net to fall back on You know you it's gonna catch you there is gonna be players who provide that floor through free agency through it waivers Also players who have some upside but generally not as much as the players you can draft now when we look at offensive ecosystems And we say who's on the best offense chase Brown would be towards the very top at the running back position Then we look at the the like levels he was able to step up to last year as a receiver Had 54 catches his first year and sort of like a high volume back seat back of the season Quote unquote league winner role in 2024, but last year took another step goes from 54 receptions to 69 Receptions and the volume has been consistently great 229 carries in 2024 232 and 2025 and of course the receiving work then you add in 11 touchdowns last year Is chase Brown talented enough to end up being like Maybe the RB won this year Well, yeah, I actually don't think he's talented like all that talented or all that special although I will say You know the ability to be a bell cow back is a skill and it's like the most important skill for fantasy But this really is something that we've learned over the years is that volume is the most important thing for a fantasy back Efficiency is really not that important important and of course weighted opportunity targets are worth 2.7 times As much as a carry and ppr league and yeah, it's just in an ideal situation. I had a Triple check this in the second half of the season last year from weeks eight on Chase Brown was the overall RB three. Yeah, there's 21.2 fantasy points per game That was just 1.8 behind CMC it was 1.6 behind Jermir Gibbs and it was ahead of Beijon Robinson, so I love this call. I think this is a great pick. This is an elite offense Gonna be a lot of targets up for grabs a lot of red zone drives a lot of scoring potential And yeah, we've we've seen it two years in a row particularly in the second half This is one of the it's like a Christian McCaffrey light workload and that's really the most important thing for running backs at the end of the day Yeah, the receiving work is so important for Chase Brown and the touchdown equity and then Scott I think the other important thing with Chase Brown is There's no back on the roster worth worth noting like you got Taj Brooks You got some Ajay P Ryan would be in somewhat of a split if if we were to see an injury to Chase Brown like there's no one that's gonna challenge him So I think that his running back touch share is gonna be right up there with like maybe even better than Beijon Robinson and probably close to Jameer Gibbs So I'm into it I don't want to push him into the first round But I think if you want to start your draft out with a wide receiver You could end up with a massive edge pick in Chase Brown or if you do start out with a running back You can get a massive edge pick in inside around two. I will continue to monitor him all summer another running back who I mean, I've poured cold water on this one Scott and I know I've had some other people pour cold water on this one too But at the end of the day, O'Marion Hampton is the unknown upside player right now in fantasy football Especially at the running back position His ADP has steamed up. You're gonna pay for O'Marion Hampton He's essentially a one two turn pick on underdog and NFF PC I think the thesis for him is pretty simple He scores a ton of touchdowns from Mike McDaniel and he catches enough passes to sort of back it up What's your general vibes right now? with Omarion Hampton, Kamani Vidal and Keaton Mitchell also in that backfield. But Hampton had the first round pedigree and now a major boost in terms of offensive play calling in Mick Daniel. Yeah, we don't need to talk risk here. We don't need to talk downside. We don't need to talk that Brett kind of hated his film last year, even when he was healthy. Because point of this show is we're focused on upside and it's easy, really easy to make the upside argument here. I talked about this in a separate podcast when I landed in New Jersey for a wedding a month ago. Within five minutes of landing, I placed two bets and only two bets. One was Chargers to win the Super Bowl. The other was Justin Herbert to win MVP. And I think this Mike McDaniel addition is massive, particularly for the running backs. Mike McDaniel's offenses easily lead the NFL and EPA per run since he came into the league. Bear in mind the running back talent he had over that stretch outside of Devon H and it was almost exclusively round seven or UDFA tier running backs. I think where he most starts still leads all NFL running backs all time in yards per carry. We saw one of the most efficient seasons of all time two years ago with to a tag of a low who I don't think is on Justin Herbert's level. Harbaugh loves to pound the rock. And they're going to get their two all pro tackles back the barely played last year. I think this offense goes nuts. Like you said, I think there's a ton of scoring potential. And if he's a bell cow back and you remember you spent a round one pick on this guy, really the sky is the limit for him. Yeah, it's really interesting and I heard this was Dan Schneider who podcasts with our friend Jacob Gibbs. I don't know Dan, but Dan is a big deal guy. I do know when he used to live in the same town together. Well, he I think he's sharp and he had a really interesting take that he thinks that the offense in LA is going to look similar to the Miami Dolphins offense in like early early Mike McDaniel, like when it was like Jill and Waddle, Tyree Kill. And then you had the multiple running backs where where he most you referenced that season where people we could have talked about him is like that one of the biggest steals. He had 21 rushing touchdowns that season, which is simply insane. Or might have been 21 touchdowns, but he had 21 touchdowns that season. He was like a 10th round pick and he did it the same year that Devon H. Ann was averaging like 18 points per game in like a limited sample size. So yeah, I think Omarian Hampton as much as we want to like poor cold water on the enthusiasm and the hype or at least I do I want to kind of pump the brakes a little bit. He truly has that potential to fall in the end zone a lot and crush crush his ADP. It's volume based. I get it. But the price tag is running back 10. So you're taking him slightly ahead of a chase brown right now. He's going off the board at 16 overall. Sometimes you see him go the one to turn in some of those FFPC drafts. And I think the steam will be there all summer long for all L.A. Chargers because of that. Well, let's talk about a player a little bit more towards the top of the food chain. A player who's going inside of round one. And this has been a major price correction James Cook. People are finally like, OK, I give up James Cook is him. He's the one who scores every single year. He's the focal point of the Josh Allen let offense. Now you're paying a first round pick for him. But Scott, I've kind of had this take with you where James Cook is the one for me where if James Cook, they just decide to use him as a receiver a little bit. And he looks awesome with the ball in his hands as a receiver. But like there's this major disconnect between what we saw with the previous Buffalo Bills coaching staff and Cook's usage had 32 catches in 2024 had 33 catches in 2025. I mean, the guy could easily catch 60 passes as an opportunistic player if they sort of phased out the tie Johnson types in that backfield. So for me, I include him here, even though we're drafting him at the turn, like he legitimately for me could finish as the RB one overall and Mike to hype for him. No, I think that's fair. He reminds me of Nick Chubb and Derek Henry who are two guys you just like continually owned me where I was like, they're regression candidates. This isn't sustainable. And then like at a certain point, you know, you get you get older or wiser. You're like, oh no, they're just different. They're just built different, you know? And it seems like James Cook is like that another guy who I've taken some L's on over the years. But he looks incredible. Last two years with Joe Brady is averaging 16 touchdowns per season. He's averaging over five yards per carry. He looks like legitimately one of the best running backs in football on one of the best offenses in football because they have the best quarterback in football, but they don't have good wide receivers. And you know, I don't think Ty Johnson's anything special. So I like the argument you crafted. I think, you know, like it was last year, is it just a Josh Allen James Cook centric offense? And I don't know why you move away from that given, you know, you're going to be starting key on Coleman. And, you know, I think DJ Moore was always overrated and is now on the last legs of his career. I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. And when we look at like, could this be the wrinkle that Joe Brady puts in and Pete Carmichael also coming over, if we look at like Sean Payton offenses, they've been so synonymous with targeting running backs. I don't know. To me, it just makes a lot of sense. Again, it's an opportunity costing. Let us know in the comments, are you comfortable paying a late first round price tag for James Cook after being able to get him in like the third and fourth round in previous years? Huge, huge price correction in terms of the ADP market. We're going to talk about a couple of younger backs now. And I think when we're chasing it, your two guys are oftentimes where we're finding like that sort of league winning potential. Last year, JSN of course was a was a year three player go back in time a little bit to like those two quarterbacks who referenced in the pre show. Lamar Jackson was a year two guy during his massive breakout, Patrick Holmes, a year two guy and his massive breakout. There's been so many guys that just break out in year two. Let's talk about first, Cam Skataboo, who walked away from the NFL draft as a massive winner. We were very at least I was very nervous about Cam Skataboo bags getting annihilated by a Jeremiah love pick, but they go completely opposite. They take our Ville Reese with their first first round pick, but then it's the Francis Maui Noah, maybe the best run blocker in this entire draft class is going to play guard for them. And then they draft Malachi fields, who's like a 64240 pound wide receiver, who is one of the best blocking wide receivers in this draft class a little later on on day two. There's a lot to like here if they lean into Cam Skataboo volume wise. And then Scott, he's got the early season explosion potential because Malik neighbors going to miss some time. Yeah. So, you know, this is a player I loved coming out of the draft. No one was higher on. And then, you know, he really shined as a rookie as the bell cow back and the seven games, he cleared just a 50% snap share. Yeah, average 17.6 fantasy points per game. 18 expected fantasy points per game. That's RB three numbers was top three and Miss Tackle's force per attempt. Current RB 22. Yeah, to me, you know, my comp coming out was just like he's Peyton Hillis that one year Peyton Hillis was on steroids. And so if Peyton Hillis can finish top three and fantasy points per game, I can see Cam Skataboo leading the position. My big worry here is just injuries. This injury, you know, I talked to a bunch of injury experts who are like, listen, he's not going to be 100% at any point this season. It's probably to be at 85% effectiveness. Maybe worse, we remember, you know, Tony Pollard had the same injury that one year, he just kind of looked awful. But I talked to injury experts again a couple of weeks ago and they're like, yeah, he shouldn't be, you know, all the reports being as favorable as they are, you know, maybe, you know, maybe he's just like a quick fast healer or I don't know. So there seems to be more optimism. It's something I need a monitor. I want to, you know, I'm fairly well connected to Giants beats. I want to talk to my Giants beats, see how he looks and camp and whatnot. But, yeah, I just had to keep up for my guy here. We're talking dark horse candidates. Cam Skataboo's RB 22 by 80 P certainly better odds to be a true difference maker than the 80 P suggests. And a little bit ahead of Cam Skataboo is one of the big polarizing guys, I think in the community right now. We're going to talk to Chris Wecht, our projections expert from fantasy points in our next few shows. Look forward here if you're watching on the YouTube channel. But Travian Henderson, fantasy points projections are not into Travian Henderson. There's some draft really sharp dynasty manager that managers I've seen that were super excited about drafting him last year that have kind of moved them away in some KG deals. I can't quit Travian Henderson though, Scott. I look at the rational coaching and I'm New England and I look back at the tape of Travian Henderson and some of those smash weeks without Ramon Ray Stevenson. I'm coming off for Super Bowl loss. I don't have AJ Brown yet, but how can I not unleash this sort of explosive back with the big playability? He had 10 touchdowns last year, 35 receptions and he's being a little bit left for dead. I actually think they 80 people. He's going to trend downwards down from like RB 20 potentially down to like the RB 2324 range as we move around in the summer. And I think Ramandre Stevenson's is going to trend tick up. Where are you out on Travian Henderson? Is this a if I'm drafting high volume, I want to I want to take shots on him, but I'm a little apprehensive for like the one draft guy or is this the ultimate upside wins championship bet? He's he's up there, man. You know, you remember bread and I were kind of haters on him coming out or at least relative to you and how high you were on him. And I certainly get why Chris is projections is median projection is low. It's, you know, we think Vrable likes a committee backfield. I he likes Ramandre Stevenson, you know, and even Henderson and in college wasn't a bell cow either or at least he split the work with Quinshaw and Judkins in his last year. But yeah, I think you laid it out is just like what if he's I mean, he's clearly more talented than Ramandre. And like what if he's just so talented that Vrable has no choice but to give him a bell cow workload and you know, I look at him and I get James Cook vibes and you know, Jameer Gibbs, you know, that was a common comp on Travian Henderson coming out. So it's, you know, it's a great offense to be in. If there's a Ramandre injury or just Henderson is so undeniable, it forces Vrable's hands. And he gets that bell cow workload. Yeah, absolutely. He could be a league winner. Yeah, there's it's it's a really, really interesting player right now. I think if you're a believer in Travian Henderson, it's a great time to trade for him in dynasty. And we're one we're going to pay attention to. I mean, there's been a circus in New England this off season so far. But Travian Henderson is a player could kind of come out of the wreckage and end up hitting it as ADP. And I would say like when we're looking at and people hate this, they hate when we use contingent upside as like a crutch. But if anything were to happen to Ramandre Stevenson, Travian Henderson could be like a top five score because we've already seen it. So you get that that in there too with henders with Stevenson being on like the closer to 30 than then 22 range of his career. Let's talk. He also just profiles is one of those like hyper efficient and average 5.1 yards per carry last year. Like even in a split backfield, like I think that I think he's going to beat this ADP. And so that's your floor. And then just yeah, like we said, league winning upside should something happen. Looking forward to seeing Scott Barrett battle that out with Chris Wecht when we talk about that with that Travian Henderson is Chris Wecht. They're Travian Henderson Hader. We're going to find out about it when we break it down with Chris. Scott, I got to say you're recording from a different place now than usual. Looks a little like you're getting interrogated right now. Walls nice and close to you. Were used to seeing like the couch a little bit before. What's going on? What's going on? Yeah, I just moved to Austin, Texas. I'm one of the cool kids now hanging out with Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. It's good times. If you live in the Austin area, let it let Scott know some recommendations for pretty much anything. Let him know. Obviously just moved. Let's let's keep it going. Let's go wide receiver. It's a shorter list, a little bit shorter. Wide receiver, we've been able to find these massive, massive winners, edge picks. We talked about some of those guys that finished close to the wide receiver one. If not the wide receiver one, JSN last year, Cooper Cup 2021. Go back even a little bit further. You go to like Stefan Diggs's first year getting traded to Buffalo. When he goes absolutely nuts his first year there for Minnesota, didn't hit wide receiver one, but he was like a top three scoring finisher. Wide receiver, we've actually been able to hit. But the ADP market feels like it's getting sharper and sharper year in year out. Let's talk about a couple players that I think immediately stand out as edge picks. We got Drake London, who's towards the top. He's wide receiver nine overall. I was pounding the table for him last year, so I'm going to sound a little bit like a broken record. But he had those multiple weeks in the season where he was like the wide receiver one on the week for like three straight weeks, then broke down injury wise. But now you've had two straight years of Drake London with like 15 point per game averages. Really good, but not quite league winner. But when you look at the target competition at wide receiver, I would argue Zachariah branch might be his biggest threat at wide receiver two and really a non sort of a gadget player. You got Kyle Pitt, who was really good last year, especially when Drake London was out. And then of course, Bijan Robinson is awesome. But I look at this offense. I think it's going to be one of the most highly consolidated for fantasy purposes. And Drake London is going to get this massive share. If a player could end up doing what Cooper Cup did in 2021, the cost is a little bit more, but the usage could just be sick for Drake London. Your thoughts on this one? Yeah, I think you nailed it. This was a player I was going to have on my list if you didn't. You know, we don't have to talk to downside argument because it's not that show. We don't have to bring up the Darnell Mooney splits. But just talking about upside. Yeah, he last year from when he was healthy because he dealt with an injury early on in the year, but from weeks four through 11, he averaged 109 yards per game, 24.2 fantasy points per game. He hit 100 yards and five of six games. And then he got hurt again and so did Michael Penex, minimal target volume. They were trying to trade Kyle Pitt's. Yeah, I think I think not only are the odds fantastic. He's, you know, potentially leading the position in fantasy points per game. And he's also just feels incredibly safe to me. A player at his current ADP, I want to be betting on. And yeah, after a lot of, you know, sort of bipolar takes on Drake London over the past few years, I can actually say with conviction, yeah, I'm way in on Drake London this year. Yeah, and I actually just pulled it up on fantasy points data, looking at Drake London. I've misspoke. 16.5 points per game or more if or two consecutive years. And then if you pull up fantasy points data like he's up there big time with the target share number where we had north of of 30% last year, which was really good. Really strong across the board. I think that London for me, if you're trying to chase wide receiver upside in round two, especially when we consider the George Pickens situation and how his ADP seems to have steamed up considerably from where we paid for him last year. And then Malik, Malik neighbors, of course, being being banged up, Rashi Rice, I mean, we could have talked about him today. Rashi Rice is interesting, but I just think London for me wide receiver nine, I can start my draft at running back. And then I can go with Drake London and I know it's going to be something really good there. And I think like going from wide receiver nine to wide receiver one, doable, doable. Keep it going to the wide receiver position. Let's go a little bit deeper down. Let's go with Devonta Smith. We're anticipating this trade to go down with AJ Brown going to probably New England. So Devonta Smith would obviously be the biggest beneficiary. He's all the way up to wide receiver 13 overall on underdog. So the market is like banking in a smash season from Devonta Smith. But maybe it's not banking in just enough of how good his season could be. You and Brett were, I wouldn't say like fading, but apprehensive of how McCoy Lemons going to perform as the wide receiver to their. I think early on they're going to attempt to have both wide receivers involved with Smith being in like an AJ Brown like target share first read look and McCoy Lemons sort of trying to fill in the Devonta Smith role. But if Lemons a little bit slower out the gate than I think, then I think they could lean even more into Devonta Smith. We've heard some of the beat reporters comparing to Jackson Smith and Jigba and say, why can't he be used like JSN last year in Seattle? You might get your shot here. Your thoughts on Devonta Smith? Yeah, I like this call. I think, yeah, this is a player. I have a ton of belief in. I think he absolutely could be a number one. And you've seen it. You've seen it when AJ Brown goes down or has hurt or is out. You see Devonta Smith turn into an absolute target hog and have a ton of success, a ton of yards after they catch on those on those targets. So yeah, I think that's a good call. We need AJ Brown to leave in June. But I mean, what would you put the odds at? It seems like nearly a foregone conclusion that's going to happen. Yeah, 80%. Smith's been, I won't say a capped upside guy, but he's been, he's hit 15 points per game twice in his career. Which I think is like a measuring stick for, hey, you're really, really good for fantasy. What's interesting is if you go to fantasy points data, like just how dominant AJ Brown was from a usage standpoint, how this wide receiver one role for Philadelphia, it just hasn't had the target volume of some of these guys like Jermon or Chase. Is there a chance Scott that like based on what they did in the draft, plus they have a new offensive coordinator, plus they've lost now in the playoffs in sort of disappointing fashion. Could the offense just look different too? And also like a little bit of unknown upside for Smith, just usage wise in this upside. Like a 30% target share in 2026 might be worth a lot more in Philadelphia than it was in 2025 or 2024. Sorry. What did you say? I tuned out. I was trying to find a good Devon, I was trying to find the Devon to Smith AJ Brown splits. But I was saying. He was worse without AJ Brown, but I don't know. Worst without AJ Brown. I don't know. I don't fact check me on that. I think the tool is glitching. This is like a prototype tool that. Chris cooked up, I think it's, I think it's just not ready yet. But can you, what was the question? - Yeah, so I preface it that the, you know, the ungodly target share, first read rate, ARIAR share that like AJ Brown had as the wide receiver won. Like I said, could those sort of metrics be worth a lot more in 2026 than 2025, 2024 and Philly, because of the offensive coordinator change? Maybe the offense looks a little different sort of thing. - Yeah, absolutely, I think, you know, you lose that massive target share. I think really the bulk of that goes to Devonta Smith. That don't trust the ancillary options as much. And, you know, it's a double edge sword bringing this up, like how run heavy this offense is. But it's also like massively run heavy that it's, you know, just doesn't seem sustainable. You know, so if the defense regresses a little bit, you could see, you know, in addition to skyrocketing target share, just more targets, more pass attempts in general. - It's interesting because this, the beat reporters made the JSN comp in terms of usage and his ADP is about identical to what we're paying for JSN at this time last year. Devonta Smith's going 31 overall on underdog. And again, he's the wide receiver 13 in ADP. Seems expensive, but I think there's a little room to run. Now we're gonna get a little fun. We're gonna get a little spicy. We're gonna talk to Christian Watson. Christian Watson, when we spoke yesterday, he was like wide receiver 30. Now he's up to a wide receiver 29. Every show I go on, I feel like I'm hyping Christian Watson or I have a guest hyping him up. Christian Watson, it just feels like maybe he's gotten over all of the injury concerns we had early in his career. And maybe we're gonna have this like healthy Christian Watson smash season, where maybe his 2025 season looks kind of, a 2026 season could end up looking a lot like the smash seasons we've seen from guys like T Higgins, guys we've seen like George Pickens, like a big outside threat gets up to the 130 target range and just goes nuts. And I think Christian Watson, like to keep it really simple, the guy could end up catching a lot of touchdowns and having a lot of big plays. - Yeah, I, you know, I love Christian Watson. I would have been right there with you after his rookie season. That was one of my ride or die guys. And you know, couldn't stay healthy. Finally, it seemed like everything came together last year. Still, still though, I feel like Devonte Adams is the only guy who could be a wide receiver one in a Matt LaFlor offense. I think Watson's an insanely talented dude. I think he leads Green Bay's wide receivers and fantasy points this year. But I don't think he has that sort of upside. And if you just look at the game logs, you can see why. It's just tremendous volatility week to week beyond just, you know, how run heavy Green Bay can be in certain situations. It's also just the archetype of player, I think, where he's more splash plays than a true target hog. So I can't get on board with this, although I do like the player and I don't mind to met ADP. - Yeah, I think like you kind of nailed it. Maybe it's a, it's not quite, couldn't break fantasy. But I think he can absolutely make his wide receiver 29 price tag look way too cheap. Could end up being a high end wide receiver two from this range and that's still a big ADP win. So I'm into Watson. I'm sure this is a player that we're gonna talk about a lot throughout the summer 'cause I'm kind of into him right now. Let's talk about a couple of players that you wrote down on the sheet. I mean, this guy burned everybody last year. Scott, are you really gonna have us hear about a lad Maconkey hype take here? I mean, this just follows up with my Justin Herbert MVP, Chargers wins Super Bowl bet. Who's the most talented receiver on this team? It's clearly lad Maconkey. They were, last year, Harbaugh was talking up Quentin Johnson as like, you know, the next Randy Moss. And then this year during draft night, they asked him if they were gonna pick up his fifth year option. And they're like, yeah, I don't know. We'll figure it out. They did, but you know, certainly doesn't seem as high on QJ who is the opposite of an ass God. He's bottom five in ass over the last three years, over the last two years. And so, love lad Maconkey who had a historically great rookie season by Yars Per Rout Run, which is super predictive. It just a disappointing year last year, but you know, a Mike McDaniel offense. I don't think they bring Keenan Allen back, but maybe just a player I think is really talented. Ryan Heath could make a better argument that I can. And he did. It's in his next article, which you guys need to read. But he put it on wax. He says, lad Maconkey is this, he was JSN. And he really sold me on it. - Make sure you go read all of Ryan's articles over at fantasypoints.com, some great, great stuff. Also, you're gonna get access to all my articles, Scott Barrett's articles, and Scott has some big appointment articles that come out throughout the summer that you're not gonna wanna miss. Check it out over at fantasypoints.com. Lad Maconkey, I mean, I get it. I get it. I sort of like really soured to him. I still have my Dynasty bags packed. For me, it's like so bad down the stretch, but I think that there's just a simplistic argument for him is Keenan Allen's gone. And we saw just how Justin Robert with Lean for now. For now. Do you think that could end up coming back to LA? - Apparently he only wants to play in Los Angeles. And last year he showed to me, he still got it. And that was the perfect role for him. It was like a 40 to 60% snap share a week to week. But when he was on the field and it was a passing play, he commanded a 20 to 25% target share just as he had every year he stayed healthy. And with a guy like Keenan Allen who is never all that athletic, really more of a route technician who works in the slot where you age more gracefully, I think he's still got it. That's a big concern for me. But hey, if Keenan Allen signs with the Rams or if Keenan Allen announces his retirement, yeah, I'm gonna push Lad way up. - He's an interesting one. Down to wide receiver 20 on underdog. He was like wide receiver 17. And I guess people are kind of thinking that was a little too expensive. As Lad is in like the low end wide receiver two range, I get it. I think it's worth taking shots on. Let's talk about another wide receiver that this could be, this is exactly like your post type sleeper. Last year Terry McCloreen was coming off the best season of his career. Set the record for Washington commanders, slash football club, slash Redskins, record for touchdown catches. He did it with Jaden Daniels rookie season. So like the ADP market was steaming Daniels and McCloreen up at the same time. It was like your most common, like round three, four type selections right at that turn was like going Jaden Daniels and then following up with Terry McCloreen. And then kind of disaster strikes. The season tailed into a tail spin. There was a five and 12 final record. And McCloreen had his lowest point per game finish ever, even lower than his rookie year. But now you've got all this hype from David Blau and he's one of the big winners from the draft in terms of Washington didn't have any skill position player that's going to challenge Terry McCloreen's hierarchy as the focal point of the offense. Did I just lay it out for you? Is there anything I'm missing? Yeah, just to you know, it's strength in those points. Yeah, a quote from the new offensive coordinator, David Blau, when asked about his vision for the offense, he said, this thing's going to be built around, how do we get Terry McCloreen 10 targets a game? That is a killer quote, that is a power statement. Don't forget when he was with Kingsbury, not only did he never get wide receiver one volume, but he had really shitty utilization. And that's been a cliff Kingsbury staple. His wide receiver one just stays stock to his quarterbacks left. He's never moved around the line of scrimmage. Never put in favorable slot spots, never getting mismatches in the slot. And so David Blau coming out saying, 10 targets a game for Terry McCloreen, you have to just entirely write off last year. He was hurt. He had that prolonged holdout. So he was rusting also heightens your re-injury risk. He gets hurt, Jaden Daniels gets hurt. So just like a totally dead last year, those are my favorite players to chase and drafts because of recency bias. You just have to just remove that season from the equation when looking at him. And so what was the last season to look at that? It was 2024. When he finished as the overall wide receiver seven, despite averaging just 6.7 targets per game, and now we're going to bring that up to 10 targets per game. So you could do the math there. To me, it's clearly this guy, wide receiver 25 at ADP, but has overall wide receiver one upside should David Blau be a man of his word? Yeah, I mean, we haven't seen Terry McCloreen ever have a season where he's getting like 150 total targets. David Blau's 30. Like this could end up being like, hey, he's the smartest man in the room type vibes. I feel like I'm always gravitating towards like the young offensive coordinators 'cause I feel like they bring new ideas. And I think they probably care a little bit more about fantasy football and analytics and all the things we care about over here at fantasy point. So I've been buying Terry McClurene as like a mercenary in dynasty where I think he could give you a really really really strong two-year window. And I think in and readraft in Bestball, he's such an easy click right now sort of at that low end wide receiver two range. So really into Terry McClure. And I think this is going to be like a guy we talk about on every single school of Scott episode, but Scott, you had a great call in 2024 that was ruined by the injury gods. You were all over Chris Godwin in 2024 season. He was being drafted as like the wide receiver two on his team starts out the year like crazy getting all this slot usage in a Liam Cohen offense average 19.7 points per game and looked like a real challenger to be like the wide receiver one overall season ending injury ruins everything is this your chance to like grab the next Chris Godwin for cheap in Parker Washington. Yeah, that's right. Liam Cohen slot. It wasn't just me nailing Chris Godwin that was that year is also what we saw Cooper cut do. It's what we saw Juan Del Rob is in doing Kentucky. And so last year with the last five over Trevor Lawrence his last five games. He averaged 25 fantasy points per game easily overall QB one easily the best five game stretch of his career and it wasn't even close. And who was the number one receiver over that span. It was Parker Washington head and shoulders over everyone else. He averaged a he averaged over 100 yards per game. No other receiver hit 45 yards per game. And of course, he was in the slot about 65% of the time. So really favorable code speed quarterback speak regarding Port Parker Washington. And so yeah, I you know, maybe it's BTJ maybe the go more 13 personnel like they're talking about which means you need to get the X on the field and the slot off the field and blah, blah, blah. But to me, just looking at upside and this wide receiver 36 price tag it's it's pretty egregious for a player who legitimately I think is overall wide receiver one upside. Don't forget that Chris Godwin year. He finished second. Say that again. He got say that again. Scott, you just said overall wide receiver one upside. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So don't forget that year. I call it Chris Godwin only Jamar chase average more fantasy points per game than Chris Godwin and a key key point there was he led the league and screen targets per game screen fantasy points per game. So he had that built in floor and then the upside be like he he totally out alpha Mike Evans in that offense. And so it's it's yeah, maybe yeah, BTJ have this killer rookie season. But maybe just the slot wide receiver matters so much more to Liam Cout because the track record he has the year Chris Godwin had relative to Mike Evans who's the As God who easily leads all wide receivers in asked over the last three years who is you know locked to hit a thousand yards 10 touchdowns every single season. And a player I think is really talented a player breath thinks is really talented. You know, all this hype all this buzz over Luther Burton. I was talking to Brett last week. He said I think Parker Washington is just as talented as Luther Burton. If not significantly more so and I think more so and so yeah overall wide receiver one upside. I was I was Trevor Lawrence as big as Hader, right? But he looked incredible at the tail end of last season. Maybe that was him finally coming into his own. Maybe that was Liam Cohen being an absolute genius. The next spend Johnson. But if that sticks if that sticks even 80% those last five games last year, then absolutely any Jacksonville receiver has overall wide receiver one upside. And I has to be Parker Washington to again average like 111 yards per game during that hot streak. Perhaps he was the catalyst for you know Trevor Lawrence going super saying. So yeah, this is one of my biggest strongest conviction takes is Parker Washington. I brought this up on our live stream is I'm trading the 107 in my rookie drafts for Parker what I am I he is my number one by low. He's my number one trade for for target. He's going to be in Exodia probably. And so yeah, I like Parker Washington a lot. It's interesting because when we go back in time in like fantasy football, finding some of those like slot wide receivers that hit in massive massive ways and became like fantasy football edge type guys a lot of them do it as like a year three or year four guy. It's not like the out the gate. It's almost like a nuanced skill in the NFL where you lean a little bit more into like a guy with a little bit of experience in that sort of shortening or meteorite route killer slot receiver role. And what's what's funny is a lot of times you get these guys who smash down the stretch and their 80 P just shoots up because of recency bias. It's the complete opposite with Parker Washington. But this is like when Scott's talking about like the smash down the stretch week 16 verse Denver 26.5 PPR points double digit targets week 17 versus Indianapolis double digit targets 19 pot fantasy point scored 19.7 and week 18 people are like whatever week 18 might league wasn't playing bro. But then they when push comes to shove in when it matters the most in a tight playoff lost a Buffalo 12 targets for Parker Washington 107 receiving yards seven catches and a touchdown 23.9 PPR points. So like all he's got to do is he carries over this and two carries in that game. Yeah, Parker Washington's really, really interesting and wide receiver 36 and like Scott nailed Chris Godwin Scott. You were also like a big central focus of your draft plan the year before was I believe that was the keen and Allen year with with Kellyn Moore Allen had like a 21 point per game season. So you've been really good at identifying like these guys are going to dominate with a slot usage. Scott's Oliver Parker Washington. That might be the biggest takeaway from this show so far. Let's go a little quicker through tight end because we have fewer guys to talk about because the tight end market I think is good in terms of like drafters and the wisdom of crowds source like shaping ADP. But you've got Tyler Warren as the tight end for which is super interesting to me because last year we saw him have a very high total number of targets a very high target share. This is a player that set the big 10 record for the most receptions by a tight end in the history of the league had over 100 receptions of Penn State. The most receiving yards by a tight end in the big 10 and then just sort of like stepped into the NFL and got off to a red hot fast start. Talk about Tyler Warren. Could he be like a guy who does it on volume where you know we know what Brock Bauer's is. We know what Trey McBride is but Tyler Warren. Could he have 140 targets this year if it all goes his way? Yeah I think absolutely can you know when Daniel Jones went down last year he was the overall tight end too. He was looking like you know rookie season Brock Bauer's by every metric by targets per route run yards per route run fantasy points per route fantasy points per game. He was looking dominant. The offense was looking dominant. Let's not forget I'm a big time Shane Steichen truth or that was the first time he had competent quarterback play he turned Daniel Jones into Daniel Jones was having a Sam Darnold type resurgence before you know that injury which which started three or four weeks before his final game of the year and he is playing severely hobbled but that Indianapolis was a top three offense. Indianapolis was looking incredible and so was Tyler Warren as you know basically the focal point of that offense and so you have Michael Pittman I think one of the most underrated wide receivers in the game. I almost put him in in that section at a wide receiver 48 ADP like that's clearly one of my guys this year but you remove him from the equation everyone's hyping up Alec Pierce. No I think I think Tyler Warren certainly has as good overall tight end one upside as any tight end not named Bowers McBride and remember that's really the most important thing especially at this position. What do I always say I say the tight end position is one every year it's ruled by one or two oligarchs ruling over a vast swarth of peasants does that mean it's just like tight end three tight end four through tight end 14 it's all like the same guy none of them are difference makers none of them really matter it's like a 1.6 fantasy point per game gap between tight end nine and tight end four like whatever who cares but then you have a train that bride putting up Amman Rossing Brown numbers and it's like okay that really matters and so talking about players with upside yeah I think Tyler Warren again tight end two when Daniel Jones went down you got to put him on that list it what happens with tight ends don't they get better in their sophomore season isn't that typically what happens Theo yeah 100% and I think like Tyler Warren sort of the forgotten man right now we're going to talk about Colston Lovelin in a minute but Colston Lovelin is like everybody's tight end that could break fantasy this year but Tyler Warren's just sitting there and Harold Fanon Jr. took a Harold Fanon Jr. now has increased target competition in Cleveland he's still really really good but the Brown selected KC conception on they select Denzel Boston so the wide receiver talent is improved around him and you You have a little more question marks about the offense overall with quarterback concerns. Indianapolis, we know what Tyler Warren can do next to Daniel Jones. And it's very simple. We talk about this all the time. We have Andrew Cooper on. We have Max Tuscany on. We're trying to find edges of the tight end position, but it's really simple. If you want an edge at tight end and fantasy football, look at the target competition. And if you identify a player who can finish as the number one target on their team at the tight end position, that player is going to do really, really well in fantasy. Tyler Warren versus Alec Pierce for number of targets. I'm an Alec Pierce backer, but there's no chance if they're both healthy by the end of the year. Pierce out targets him like zero chance. And even with a Josh Downs bounce back year, which could happen. I still think Tyler Warren is the best bet to lead Indianapolis in total targets, which means he's in the 130 plus range. So I'm into him. Here's the other ones. His final year at Penn State, 26 carries for 218 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns. The year before he had two rushing touchdowns, we heard like going into him a lot of the like the Brett White fields and real film grinders are like Tyler Warren could end up having some taste some hill usage. Maybe we see that in year two to keep Daniel Jones a little bit fresher. And maybe they don't like make Jonathan Taylor break in half by the end of the year as well. So like give Tyler Warren a little bit of use to around the goal line. If he can have 130 targets and three rushing touchdowns this year, I mean, he's challenging for for tight end one overall, no matter what powers in McBride do. So I'm into the train Tyler Warren. Colston leveling though got to talk about him. He's more expensive, but yeah. So I think what's important about these two guys is they have power law talent. They have their significantly more way more talented than a Kenyan Sedic than a David and Joku than a Chego Conquo like Tyler Warren, his final season at college. It was the best arguably the best certainly the most productive power conference tight end season of all time. Then you have another sophomore tight end Harold Fanon was the best FPS tight end season of all time. And you have a Colston leveling. It was the best market share season of all time. And then Oranda Gatson to another sophomore tight end, you know, his sophomore season more so than his junior season. So one of the best age adjusted seasons ever by a tight end. And so like that's what I was saying about these tight ends coming out. There's like this is a historically great class. They weren't really drafted like that. But I think looking back at it now, looking back on what they did as rookies. Again, Tyler Warren, you know, right there with Brock Bowers before his quarterback got hurt. And like that's a key thing here is, and again, they really impressed as rookies not to not to steal your coast and level and take away. But you know, obviously I agree with it. Last year, you know, he was just a part time player until the final five games of the season, which drove me crazy because he was one of my most, he was probably my most drafted tight end last year. But over those final five games when he was finally given a full time workload. The average 17.2 fantasy points per game in 2024, the the tight end one averaged, I don't know, 16.1 fantasy points per game. It a 34% first read target share. So, you know, everyone's losing their minds over Luther Burton. Yeah, contrast what he did over the final five games to leveling. It was leveling who was the wide receiver one and looked absolutely incredible. We've also got Tucker Kraft to talk about because you mentioned like your most drafted tight end. We had a bunch of teams that we shared that we were drafting an FFPC where we drafted Tucker Kraft and Colston Loveland. It could have been like the nuts combination, especially considering what Loveland was able to do down the stretch and Kraft was like heating up. You had you had Tucker Kraft starting to really, really shine. He had that 24 point scoring game in week two. And then before he got hurt, he had like another 17 point PPR explosion. And then the one that got everybody excited, he had the 33 point game against Pittsburgh and week eight goes down with injury the following week was sort of a really, really disappointing one for us to lose in those tight end premium high stakes teams. But Tucker Kraft is back. He's a stud. A lot of you have concerns about him coming off an injury. What sort of the thesis here with Tucker Kraft? He's cheaper than the last two guys we talked about. He's going off the board as the tight end five, but he's going 80th overall. So like Colston Loveland, you're spending the 47th overall pick on underdog is the tight end three. Tyler Warren, a little bit higher up, be 68th overall. Warren, Tucker Kraft down at 80. So you're starting to creep down a little bit. Is he an edge pick in this range? Yeah, I mean, I thought he was going to be, you know, the tight end, the best pick you could have made at the tight end position last year. And then he got hurt. But now we're getting an injury discount. This is a guy who's just a free talent, you know, like George Kiddles, maybe my favorite player and all of football and I, you know, it should be illegal to comp anyone to George Kiddles, but he looks like George Kiddles reincarnated with the injury issues as well. He's led the league in yards after the catch per reception minus screens in three straight years, which is insanely difficult to do. And you know, a great staff from Ryan Heath last year is he was on the injury report in, I don't know, 50% of his games last year, but he got hurt or started off the week on the injury report. But in games where he had a full bill of health, he had a 24% target share, 85 yards per game that would have led the position. 21 fantasy points per game would have led the position. And so, yeah, main concern here is injuries, but it's a player. I have a ton of conviction in and, you know, the other question was always target volume. But at least when he was healthy last year, he did get, you know, really impressive target volume. Yeah. And it's sort of like, you know, we talked about Christian Watson. And I know like Ryan Heath and Jacob Sanderson are into Jaden Reed right now. There's Matthew Golden enthusiasm in the streets. And then of course, Josh Jacobs is Josh Jacobs. He's going to get about as much as he can handle. But if LaFloor kind of goes back to doing what he was doing before Tucker Kraft got injured, Kraft was like shaping up to be the focal point of the game. And like you said, that George Kittle like yak ability, maybe not quite as explosive as Kittle, but still like showed he could just shine in this offense. So I think Tucker Kraft is worth this price tag considering you're getting him an 80th overall. The final player on the list that the haters in the comments are going to say to Scott Barrett even no ball. He's recommending some old guy to me at this point in the show. I've been watching for almost an hour. You're going to talk about Mark Andrews as a value in 2026. Mark Andrews though, Titan 13 Scott, he didn't get Kenyan Sadeek during the draft. The Baltimore Ravens have sort of deemphasized the Titan 2 position. They actually double tapped it was sort of later round rookies. Isaiah likely is now a New York giant starting Titan. He's also could be an I say DP value, but you might be into using old man Mark Andrews this year. Well, he's not just a value. I think he is overall Titan one upside. I mean, I think in today's day and age, but as good as the Titan position is, it's hard to beat out of bowers or McBride or a Loveland or a Warren. But I mean, he's led the position in fantasy points before counting backwards. He's finished 25th last year, awful. A fifth, third, first, fourth, sixth in fantasy points per game. Again, it's a Titan 13 ADP, but he was Titan six or better in six straight seasons. And then what happened the last two years, Routshare came down as 60% fell from 80%. Because he was splitting work with Isaiah likely, but over the last two years, only George Kiddell averages more fantasy points per Routrun. Sorry, that's over the last three years. So you can do the math though. It's, hey, okay, if he just gets back to an 80% Routshare, no more Isaiah likely. Multiply that by his fantasy points for Routrun. He's right back to being a top six Titan. He's still an Asgard. He leads all Titans and asks over the last two years. And again, no Isaiah likely, also no Charlie Kohler, not really anyone else on the team. So maybe he just goes back to being who he was. Maybe he has, you know, a Zach Erks like career trajectory. I think they're very similar players. And in fact, Andrews probably still has a little bit more juice. So yeah, he just needs the opportunity. And you know, this seems like a great opportunity for him. Yeah, we know the familiarity that Lamar Jackson has with him. I think another sort of underrated aspect of Mark Andrews, if he can stay healthy is Declan Doyle as the OC coming from the Ben Johnson tree where we saw like what Colston level was able to do down the stretch, but it was really the Sam LaPorta usage as a rookie and Detroit. So I think Mark Andrews, it's sort of like a, he's like that veteran that nobody wants to click on, but he can end up being a really strong one. And this is the cheapest we've ever seen Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews stacks. Like this used to be one of the premium stacks to get. Now you're able to get it for pretty cheap considering Lamar Jackson is a little bit more affordable. He's still QB two, but he's down in like the 55 overall range on underdog. And then you've got Mark Andrews sort of in like the tight end to wasteland leading the all the tight end to this is the tight end 13. So interesting one there. Quarterbacks almost its own show. here, Scott, so why don't we, and quarterbacks one where we're going to dissect, we'll do a full on quarterback show in these next few weeks and sort of break down some players to position, maybe do some early rankings at the quarterback position, because it's so important to nail this one. So Scott, why don't you have that at here? Talk about anybody you're really, really like mega hyped on, reflective to their early cost right now. Well, I think that this is the unique thing about the quarterback position. There's like 15 guys with overall QB one upside. So and that's you again, very unique to the position. But I'll talk about my guy, Jackson Dart. If you just throw out that that one Minnesota game where he threw only 13 passes, they ran the ball 25 times. He ever 22.5 fantasy points per start. That would have led all quarterbacks last year. He did that, spending time in the blue medical 10 and like 40% of his games. He did that without Malik neighbors. And so yeah, if he just, and he looked awesome, like I'm not a strong guy, but he looked, he looked really incredible to me. So yeah, I'll just throw Jackson Dart out, but I really had a list that was like eight names long. Yeah, I, and again, we'll get to these ones. You bring up Jackson Dart. I think he's the easy one because it's year two quarterback where we've seen a lot of these like 80 p.s. Smash seasons. And it's the rushing upside where talk about guys like Lamar Jackson, you talk about guys like Jalen Hertz, you talk about guys like dare I say it Josh Allen and Jackson Dart. I mean, why can't he lead all quarterbacks in rushing yardage and rushing touchdowns? And if he does those things, anything he does as a passer is going to get boosted. He's also got sort of that it factor seems like a guy who's going to really thrive in New York. And when we look and we say, why did John Harbott take this job? It's because of Jackson Dart. It's like the gravitating force to getting John Harbott to take over the New York Giant's head coaching job was a chance to coach Jackson Dart. And we've seen what he's able to do with a mobile quarterback with Lamar Jackson. So it seems very simplistic. I get it. Matt Nagy is, I think if anything, Matt Nagy has made Jackson Dart's early 80 p more affordable. He's the quarterback 11 overall. I'm going to talk about one for me that don't forget by the way Greg Roman is part of that staff. Like I have a tweet scheduled for for 125 week one that says, could we fire Greg Roman? He's awful. I'm sorry. Could we fire Matt Nagy? He's awful. Let's put Greg Roman in there. If this often struggles, you know, I think I think Greg Roman is going to have his imprint over his offense. And you know, maybe that makes Dart a little bit more Matt Nagy proof or maybe he gets fired mid season. And I don't worry about the Matt Nagy thing as much as I know Ryan Heath does. I'll say that. I'll throw up my dark horse and it's one where I didn't think I'd be just in Herbert. We're both in line with like Justin Herbert. We've talked about you can throw them up on the screen there. Shout out to Trade Camberling in the studio. Justin Herbert. We're both into quarterback 10 overall for Herbert leading the McDaniel offense. But if you don't want to like pull your hair out and say, should I draft a rendez-gadson? Should I draft Lad McConkey? Should I draft Omarian Hampton? You can just say, I'm going to take the quarterback. I'll go Justin Herbert. This offense could print. And if the L.A. Chargers lead the NFL and scoring or come close to it, they're going to be really fantasy friendly. It doesn't matter which of the other guys hits because Herbert will also hit in a major way. But I got to talk about Trevor Lawrence where I didn't think I'd be doing this. But I think I'm really into Trevor Lawrence and you look at Liam Cohen, what he was able to accomplish last year, getting Trevor Lawrence to this really exciting range where Lawrence ends up with 560 pass attempts as 4,000 passing yards. But it was really the efficiency where the passing touchdowns, he sets a record for his own career with 29 passing touchdowns finishes as the quarterback six overall in points per game. But nobody's really talking about how effective he was as a runner last year, not only in the touchdown department, but 359 rushing yards sets career, career highs in all these categories. And it's just the vibes with Trevor Lawrence. Like we saw what he was able to do in Liam Cohen year one. But nobody's really talking about him taking his game to the next level in year two. I mean, when we go back to Trevor Lawrence, the prospect, he was like Andrew Luck level to some of these people talking about like a can't miss type player slow starter in his NFL career. But last year was his fifth year in the league. He's still only 26 years old. We could end up seeing Trevor Lawrence have this like change narrative arc where I could see a scenario where Trevor Lawrence is being drafted as like the QB three heading into 2027 based on just how good he was in year two with Liam Cohen. You bring up Parker Washington. I think this is going to be a really good offense. I'm into Trevor Lawrence. Where are you out on him? Yeah, you know, I was a long time Trevor Lawrence Hader, but we I that's what I kept saying is like, I'm not a hater. I'm just waiting for him to have two good games in a row, right? And he had it at the tail end of last season, final five games of the year. He averaged 25 fantasy points per game. I think even from like final eight games of the year, I think he was the overall QB one. So yeah, it finally all came together. I'm a Liam Cohen truth or and you know, I like Parker Washington. So yeah, I'm into that. We have six quarterbacks collectively between the two of us that we're going to discuss on an upcoming school of Scott. We're going to break down the quarterback position. So make sure you're subscribed to the school of Scott podcast feed. Scott and I and possibly a guest are going to break down a few other quarterback edge picks that have the potential to break fantasy this year. And when are we going to talk Dynasty trade etiquette? Everyone wants to do that. I'm going to drag. I'm going to drag Scott. I'm going to drag Scott onto Dynasty life. You know, not really not really drag him, but I'm going to invite him onto Dynasty life. And if you want to check out all of my Dynasty content and Scott Barrett's Dynasty content, make sure you're subscribed to our Dynasty YouTube channel. That's fantasy points, Dynasty YouTube. We've grown exponentially because we're dropping so much great content and Dynasty life is my Dynasty podcast. You can find all of my Dynasty coverage over at Dynasty life and fantasy points, Dynasty YouTube. Scott is notorious for having poor trade etiquette in this Dynasty, Dynasty trade offers. So we're going to do that. Scott and I are also going to draft a high stakes start up at some point early this off season, maybe in early June and to May. We're going to get into the start up streets with our friends over at the FFPC. So stick with us here at School of Scott. We're going to help you crush your fantasy leagues this season. [Music]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast focuses on identifying "power law" players or dark horse candidates who can lead their position in fantasy points, rather than safe, low-upside picks.
  2. Key examples of past league winners include Josh Jacobs (2022), Cooper Kupp (2021), Patrick Mahomes (2018), and Lamar Jackson (2019), who all exceeded their ADP significantly.
  3. Chase Brown is highlighted as a top dark horse RB due to his elite volume, receiving work, and role as the clear bell cow on a high-scoring Bengals offense.
  4. Omarion Hampton is discussed as a high-upside RB, boosted by Mike McDaniel's run-heavy offensive scheme and potential for a bell-cow role on the Chargers.
  5. James Cook is noted for his price correction to Round 1, but his consistent touchdown production and potential for increased receiving work make him a candidate for RB1 overall.
  6. Cam Skataboo is identified as a year-two breakout candidate, with early-season opportunity due to Malik Neighbors' injury and a strong supporting cast for volume.
  7. Travian Henderson is presented as a polarizing but explosive back, with big-play ability and a chance to outperform his ADP if he secures a larger role in a new coaching system.

Summary:

The podcast, hosted by Scott Barrett and Theo Greminger, explores fantasy football draft strategy centered on identifying "power law" players—dark horse candidates who can lead their position in points and crush their average draft position (ADP) in 2026. The hosts argue that chasing upside is more critical than prioritizing safety, as league winners often come from players with a low probability of success but massive potential, rather than those with a high floor but limited ceiling.

Key dark horse candidates discussed include Chase Brown, who benefits from elite volume and receiving work on a top Bengals offense, with no competition for touches. Omarion Hampton is another RB with high upside, thanks to Mike McDaniel's run-focused scheme and a potential bell-cow role. James Cook, despite a price correction to Round 1, is seen as a candidate for RB1 overall due to his consistent touchdowns and possible increased targets. Cam Skataboo is highlighted as a year-two breakout, with early-season opportunity from Malik Neighbors' injury and strong run-blocking additions. Travian Henderson is a polarizing but explosive back, with big-play ability that could outperform his ADP if he secures a larger role. The overarching theme is that fantasy success requires a willingness to swing for the fences, even if it risks finishing last.

FAQs

A power law player is one with a high ceiling, like a 10% chance to lead their position in fantasy points, even if they bust 90% of the time. This approach prioritizes upside over safety, as those few elite performers often decide championships.

Chase Brown benefits from elite volume on a great offense, with 229 carries and 69 receptions in 2025, plus 11 touchdowns. He was the RB3 from Week 8 onward last season, and his bell-cow role is secure with no major competition on the roster.

Hampton has a first-round pedigree and now plays under Mike McDaniel, whose offenses lead the NFL in EPA per run. With scoring potential and a bell-cow role on the Chargers, he could crush his ADP despite some risk, currently going as RB10.

Cook has averaged 16 touchdowns per season over the last two years with over five yards per carry, and he's the focal point of a Josh Allen-led offense. If his receiving usage increases from 33 catches, he could finish as the RB1 overall.

Skataboo shined as a rookie with 17.6 fantasy points per game in seven games with a 50%+ snap share, and the Giants added run-blocking talent in the draft. Despite injury concerns, his RB22 ADP offers strong odds to be a difference-maker.

The question focuses on Rhamondre Stevenson's teammate, Rhamondre Stevenson, who is a committee back with a low median projection. However, his explosive playability and 10 touchdowns in 2025 make him a high-upside bet, especially if his ADP drops further.

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