Diontae Johnson should get 'massive volume' with Panthers | Fantasy Football Happy Hour | NFL on NBC

the team that'll matter a lot in deep leagues because they're deep at pass catcher Jay is Jacksonville Brian Thomas Jr their rookie first-rounder wide receiver 81% route participation with Trevor Lawrence this preseason Gabe Davis 100% I mean these wde this is a deep wide receiver room that's without talking about Christian Kirk and a guy like Evan Ingram that had a 29% Target share from Lawrence this preseason yeah Brian Thomas has lit up training camp by all accounts plenty of viral highlights kind of reminds me a little bit of George Pickins from two years ago but what do you think con do you think that he has the is he polished enough where he could be you know the next breakout great rookie wide receiver from a fantasy perspective just this year cuz I love Brian Thomas Jr for the long term I think he could be a number one star it feels like it's going to be a little rased Shahed like this year where you get the the two catches for 82 yards and you're like man I got to go get him on the waivers or I'm glad I drafted him late and then the next week you might get one catch for nine yards there's just a lot of mouths to feed in this offense he is a rookie he is a guy that coming out of college was all about the vertical speed he's got all the talent the world but Matthew I don't know if there'll be a massive fantasy volume impact your one for him no I think that's the that's the challenge here I I feel like the hype on him is getting a little bit too much again because I just feel like they're going to spread it around uh in Jacksonville and let me put it this way I think there's going to be some big games for him but I think there'll be some big games for Gabe Davis and I think you know if I'm investing in the Jacksonville passing game give me Christian Kirk you know that that's who I want who's going to be able to play the slot fulltime which is where he's most effective he's got the history with Doug Peterson he's got the history with Trevor Lawrence when I spoke to Doug Peterson at the combine Kirk is who he specifically mentioned about how they feel like he's much more effective in the slot and that's where they want to play him and they're so that was part of the reasons why they went out and drafted Brian Thomas Jr it's why they they assigned Gabe Davis as a free agent you've got Ingram there as well and obviously etn is going to touch the ball a lot so I feel like this is one of those guys that really like him a lot but feels like you're going to have to wait till the second half of the year for him to pay off and I don't know that it's going to be consistently unless there's an injury the Panthers often a offense in fantasy that's left for dead but Matthew kind of interesting is Bryce young looks better this in his second training camp second preseason to Deontay Johnson in town 29% Target share from Bryce on that one drive Adam thel still out there 92% route participation with young 64% in the slot so the Panthers could have a notable pass catcher this year it's just matter of do you have to pick between th and Deontay Johnson you probably lean Johnson obviously yeah I don't think you have to pick between them you're just picking Deontay Johnson Adam th was wildly productive for what we thought he was going to be last year with Bryce young he he but my point is is that as bad as Bryce young was last year for the first nine weeks of the Season Adam thielen was like you know top 10 fantasy wide receiver he was ridiculous and so uh Dave Canalis has already come out and said we're going to run this offense through Deontay Johnson I think Deontay Johnson has always been somebody that like he's had this weird bad touchdown luck when he was in Pittsburgh but he's always been a very talented player very very talented great route Runner um and so the fact that Bryce young looks better the fact that there are other weapons besides Deontay Johnson that you still have to you know you're still gonna have to cover uh Adam Thelen you're still GNA have to deal with whatever Jonathan Mingo and um Xavier Legette and you know all the guys there in Carolina um especially by the way once they get Jonathan Brooks back I I I have a lot I'll just say this I have a lot of Deontay Johnson because he always goes cheap he always goes in the middle rounds and he's just going to get cheap volume like he is like he's like if you went zero wide receiver like again that's not really a thing but like he's a good Z like as we talked about zero RB like those cheap volume guys in the middle rounds I feel like Deontay Johnson is the wide receiver version of that that no one's goingon to be excited about him but he's going to get just massive volume and like Bryce young being even 15% better than he was last year is going to be a massive Improvement yep Deontay keeps on getting banged up at training camp but it seems all fine it seems like he's going to play the just same minor knocks um said this before I'll say it again Dave Canales on DraftKings is plus 1,800 to win coach of the year and the Panthers are plus 550 to make the playoffs that doesn't reconcile if if they make the playoffs he's going to get a ton of credit for fixing Bryce young and it seems like there's a chance that Bryce young is fixed I again like again this is somebody who fixed Gino Smith in Seattle fixed Baker Mayfield and now to your point they fixed Bryce young and what's crazy is it's like I I we've talked about this before but just if CJ strad wasn't CJ Stroud last year it doesn't make as big a spotlight on Bryce young Bryce young was the number one overall pick in the NFL draft a year ago and no one was going like what are the Panthers doing like there was there was some debate about him versus stoud but no one was like whoa what's with that guy like there was more controversy about Baker Mayfield at number one overall in going into that draft darnold then there was which is great you know but like but no no seriousness right you know versus um uh you know versus Bryce young like Bryce young was considered by everyone to be one of the top two quarterbacks in the draft last year and so a guy that was that productive at Alabama doesn't suddenly just can't play football yep and tying into that look look how good the Colts offense looked last year and particularly their offensive line looked after Frank re left and so maybe that is another element of this the Frank re leaving Carolina Canales comes in uh I think there's a lot of upside for the Panthers on offense okay you have a chance to win $1 million in the NBC sweep Stakes on Yahoo fantasy just download the redesign Yahoo fantasy app or go to nbcsports.com fantasy mililli for additional details what are you waiting for hey it's Matthew Barry from nbcsports.com and rotoworld.com and I want to thank you so much for watching whatever it is you just watched or if nothing else being too lazy to click out of the autoplay after this video started after whatever it is 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