Yahoo Fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens discuss which young wide receiver is a better option to build your team around in the long term. Hear the full conversation on “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show”, and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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MATT HARMON: It’s fantasy draft season, and we all want to build the perfect team to dominate our friends, family, and co-workers. So for this week’s Build Your Team, courtesy of Toyota Racing, we’re tackling this major fantasy debate. Andy Behrens, who is the most underrated dynasty wide receiver?
ANDY BEHRENS: For me, this is actually Marvin Mims. And there’s a fair amount of buzz about a whole bunch of young players. I feel like I haven’t heard enough about Mims.
First of all, he’s the– he’s the first player drafted by the Broncos in the Sean Payton era. Like, and I think Payton is pretty in on him. They traded up for him. Stellar– coming off an absolutely stellar collegiate season in Oklahoma. Highlight catches, averaged for, like, a three-year college career, almost 20 yards per catch.
A wonderful player who’s headed to an offense where, like, I feel like there’s a lot of people who are buying the idea of a Russell Wilson bounce back. That’s a somewhat sketchy and underwhelming and unproven receiving corps, right? Like, Courtland Sutton didn’t distinguish himself last year. We’ve never seen Jerry Jeudy do it over the course of a full season.
After the really unfortunate injury to Tim Patrick, I just feel like there’s a clear opportunity for Mims to be super relevant in year one, perhaps entering 2024 as the number one receiver for the Broncos.
MATT HARMON: But I think Jahan Dotson is the most underrated wide receiver dynasty asset right now because when you think about the guys that were drafted last year, we all agree that, like, the top three are Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, put ’em in what order you want, and then Drake London there. I think he’s right there.
Then there’s the guys like Christian Watson. There’s George Pickens. There’s Treylon Burks. And Jahan Dotson, in my opinion, even better than Christian Watson, is somewhere in-between those players, those groups of players.
And I think he’s closer, Andy, to the Olave, Wilson, London group than he is to the Christian Watson group. He was just a straight up better football player than those three receivers last year. And he was a straight up better college prospect than those guys.
And I thought he was a great college prospect, great Reception Perception profiles as a collegiate player at Penn State. But he even outkicked my expectations as a rookie with his ability to play outside– 87th percentile success rate versus press coverage in his rookie season in Reception Perception, playing as almost an exclusively outside player. He did some slot stuff, but he wasn’t their slot receiver. That’s Curtis Samuel.
In dynasty specifically, you want to bet on talent. And I think that people are still underrating Jahan Dotson’s talent. People tweet out the RP charts, and they’re like, oh, look at this. And nah, he’s just– he’s just a route runner. He’s just a small route runner. Well, what these goofball sizeists don’t realize is that Jahan Dotson also is just as good as making explosive downfield contested plays–
ANDY BEHRENS: Yeah.
MATT HARMON: –and getting wide open on vertical routes as Christian Watson, as George Pickens, and certainly more than Treylon Burks. So I think that– look, I shot a little bit higher than you here. You went Marvin Mims, I went Jahan Dotson. But I think he’s the most undervalued, underrated dynasty asset right now.
All right, so there you have it. Whether you’re on the field, on the track, or building your fantasy roster, you’ve got to have a great team around you. That was Build Your Team. Thanks again to our friends at Toyota Racing.
