FantasyPros - We Plant Our Flags on These 9 Must-Draft Fantasy Football Players! (Ep. 2121)
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Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. Today, we're planting some flags on some players. Nine must-draft players in your fantasy football drafts. I'm Alfredo Brown, joined by Pat Fitzmaurice and Derek Brown. And gentlemen, today, we're going to look at some players that we are consistently targeting today. And it's not just the players that we like. These are the players when we say they are must draft. It's the guys that we say, hmm, they might fall to me later, but I got to take them a little bit earlier. I'm going to take them ahead of ADP players. We are consistently doing that with and it'll be a quick one today. So we're going to rapid fire through these looking at the early rounds, rounds one through four.
Pat Fitzmaurice, who is a player in these early rounds that you are targeting at pretty much all costs?
Zay Flowers. Flowers had 86 catches for 1,211 yards and five touchdowns last season. Also had one rushing touchdown, so six TDs total. The Ravens are coming off a season, Alfredo, in which they threw 422 passes, fewest of any NFL team in the last three years. And Zay Flowers still managed to go over 1,200 yards at a 29% target share, a 36.9% share of the Ravens' receiving yardage. Look, the Ravens are going to be run heavy again. They have Lamar Jackson at quarterback. They have Derrick Henry at running back. But... There's likely to be at least a small uptick in passing volume from, you know, ranking 96th out of 96 teams over the last three years in pass attempts. The Ravens did draft a couple of receivers, Jacoby Lane in the third round, Elijah Surratt in the fourth round.
Interesting prospects. Neither is likely to be a high-volume pass catcher as a rookie. And there were rumors that the Ravens might be in on either Stephon Diggs or Debo Samuel. They did not sign either guy. Isaiah likely left in free agency.
What early‑round wide receiver should I target before its ADP rises?
Zay Flowers should once again have a big target share in this offense. And yes, touchdown production has been kind of lacking for Flowers. He's never scored more than six in a single season. He's had six, four, and six in his three NFL seasons. So it's mainly about Flowers not getting many red zone targets. Just 10 last year, just 30 for his career. But what if the Ravens' new offensive coordinator, Declan Doyle, increases... Zay Flowers' usage in the red zone just a bit. He's 5'9", 183 pounds. Zay Flowers is not going to be used on a bunch of end zone fades, but maybe he gets a little bit of a dead cat bounce here in red zone targets, gets him a few more TDs. I have Zay Flowers ranked wide receiver 13, four spots above consensus, and
I have been doing some redraft drafts already, some analyst drafts. I keep getting drawn to the turn, like 111, 112. I've been getting Zay at the 3-4 turn every time. And that's a really comfortable place for me to take him. He usually does go wide receiver 17. I feel like I'm getting value there.
Every time. Every time I see him in that spot, I am trying to get Zay Flowers. Deeper, really quick, I know you also like Zay Flowers. Anything you want to add there?
I mean, I'm ahead of consensus on him. I got him a wide receiver 13 as well. I've got Zay Flowers right now at 28th overall. But I mean, I think like you could take him to the back end of round two and I honestly wouldn't bat an eye even there. I mean, I think like all we're talking about is touchdowns go his way this year.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:23
2
What early‑round wide receiver should I target before its ADP rises?
2:23–15:05
3
Why is Javonte Williams a high‑upside RB despite his recent ADP slide?
15:05–31:11
4
How could DeVonta Smith become a red‑zone threat for the Eagles in 2026?
31:11–35:56
Speakers
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