Matthew Berry isn't sold on George Pickens, Brock Bowers | Fantasy Football Happy Hour | NFL on NBC

let's go to the ha lless for pass catchers it kicks off with George Pickins coming in at wide receiver 32 for you Matthew his Yahoo adps being taken as wide receiver 28 right now as it stands this quarterback situation is very very ugly and I think the offensive line I like the young players they've drafted but it's been a little bit of a struggle in his second camp for brri Jones as well it doesn't make you feel better it's the inconsistency that bothers you right 30% of his total fantasy points last year came in only two games so there's that and you think about Drake London we just talked about how much we love him as a talent under Arthur Smith Drake London never finished as a top 40 wide receiver in points per game do we think George Pickins is better than Drake London from a pure NFL skill standpoint I don't I think George Pickins is really talented but do I think he's significantly better than Drake London that he can overcome the play calling of Arthur Smith and poor quarterback play like Russell Wilson and Justin Fields will be better than Desmond Ritter but like will they be that much better and that's before you even get to the fact that like there's a chance Brandon auk is on this team so I I just where George Pickins is going he's going as wide receiver 28 on Yahoo like there's guys going after him that I would much rather have our next guy Jordan Addison Jay there's a big disparity with this one Matthew has him as wide receiver 48 he's being taken as wide receiver 41 We Believe Sam darnold can support Justin Jefferson but that cost for Addison is a big price where we're not sure he can support him maybe some touchdown regression too yeah absolutely and a lot of his production obviously came with Justin Jefferson out last season also just some kind of fluky plays think back to the touchdown against the ners in prime time where that really should have been picked at the end of the half uh also the fact that he scored 10 touchdowns on 15 Red Zone targets like that's not sustainable between that the suspension again the one snap away from Nick mullen's thing uh there's just a lot of uncertainty surrounding Addison Clair has the talent he has upside I'm not sure you want to really Buy in given all this uncertainty there's also some chance that he could be suspended for off the field issues as well and oh by the way we just talked about how Justin Jefferson is you know quarter TR proof and when Kurt Cousins went down like Justin Jefferson still averaged over 22 fantasy points per game well when cousins went down Jordan Addison was wide receiver 43 in points per game he averages 10.5 fantasy points per game in the nine games following cousins injury and your point that was without Justin Jefferson for a good chunk of that so just yeah I think just a massive regression candidate he's my wide receiver 48 Courtland Sutton up next wide receiver 50 for you Matthew he's being taken as the 45th wide receiver on Yahoo bone Knicks will be under Center for this team a team that could be a little bit run-heavy under Shawn pton even after drafting Knicks I like bone Knicks actually and I I think the Broncos are going to be better than people think I don't think they're going to be great but I think they're not going to be a train wreck having said that as much as I like courland Sutton from a talent standpoint he's made some ridiculous catches over the years last year Courtland Sutton scored 10 touchdowns 10 touchdowns for Courtland Sutton last year and still only finished his wide receiver 38 so now if you get him down to like six or seven touchdowns like it just doesn't feel like he's going to get the volume there because we expect a little bit more from Marvin Mims Tim Patrick is back like they've got Greg doues uh um healthy now like I think he's kind of an interesting tight end so uh yeah courland Sutton um I'm at wide receiver 50 he's going much higher than that on Yahoo Brock Bowers is our first tight end here on the hate lless Jay tight end 12 uh for Matthew also dealing with the foot injury right now he hasn't practiced I believe in a week so maybe I mean Boward looked good when he played but now the injury Michael Mayer is there just a lot of question marks around his rookie season yep injured towards the end of last season as well for Georgia and I think the few issues with BS one Michael Mayer is still there and on the team and is presumably going to be out there yeah and he's good and also the fact that they're likely going to be run heavy when Antonio Piers came in they were 22nd uh sorry they yeah they ranked 22nd in pass rate uh and then just between that and between the fact like it's G Muno a quarterback Devon Adams was second in the NFL in targets last year just doesn't seem like there's a lot of food on the table to eight I'm not sure bows is going to be the guy to get it and Jobe Myers by the way I mean you know like Jobe Myers is there too like he had a nice year last year so it just yeah just uh love the talent hate hate the landing spot he's my tight end 13 I think if you're drafting Bowers you have to be basically betting on Damonte Adams to be traded at the deadline and Bowers being a second half of the Season player how early do you draft a tight end with that many different Avenues the next one Cole KT here Matthew he comes in he's going around the same range as Pat fouth who was on my others receiving votes by the way Arthur Smith has has in his Five Seasons as a head coach or offense coordinator for those five seasons his teams have finished top five and tight in Target share like Fri mouth is not nearly a sex as Brock Bowers G be fmuth over uh Brock Bowers all day every day how about Cole KT in this Bears offense that is loaded up on pass catchers and that's the point right three straight Seasons with at least a 17% Target share for KT but now they had Gan Allen DJ Moore Roman dun DeAndre Swift right they didn't add DJ more but he's there too Gerald Everett who you know I tell my daughters find somebody who looks at you the way Shane Waldren looks at Gerald Everett like you know it just there's too many mouths to feed for for a tight end that was fairly volume dependent all day today we are hosting our annual roto world draft Marathon we're right in the middle of 10 hours of nonstop draft prep all the way until 8:00 p.m. tonight check out nbcsports.com draft Marathon for the full schedule and all of our draft content we're taking a quick break when we're back more love hate and the big reveal Matthews 2024 rid or die coming up after this 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 after this video started after whatever it is you actually wanted to watch finished but now that you're here I'd like to take a moment here to ask you respectfully respectfully now okay I'm 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