Week 1 Player Props
Minty Bets and Matt Harmon offer up their favorite player props for Week 1.
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- Excited for the Player Props here. Minty, this is going to be pretty electric. I'm excited to do this segment with you all year. Give us your first one here, highlighting a receiver from an offense that I talked down much earlier in the show.
- You very much talked down this entire team. But I'm going with Tee Higgins over 58 and 1/2 receiving yards as the Vikings allowed the eighth most passing yards in the league last season.
Tee Higgins is set to have the second most receiving yards in this match up right behind Justin Jefferson. I mean, JoeyB is back. I think he'll be better than ever. Higgins had a breakout season last season. And he's exceeded this number in seven games last year, so give me the over.
- Yeah, as much as I'm a little skeptical on the Bengals. I don't mind this pick here because with Ja'Marr Chase, maybe starting a little slow, more targets to Tee Higgins. I like the pick there.
I also teased this one earlier. But I am going over on Jakobi Meyer's, 49 and 1/2 receiving yards in this game. I know the Dolphins play a lot of man coverage, and they've got some decent corners. But Myers is one of the most underrated separators, one of the most underrated route runners against man coverage.
We saw him in the preseason, basically play every single snap with the starting patriots' offense. He was kind of doing that last year in a really broken situation. And I just don't think that people are on to this guy just yet in terms of how good he is. This is the new like slot flanker hybrid that always produces in New England's offense. I think Jakobi Meyers is going to have a big year. And he's definitely going over like 50 yards in this game. I mean, give me a break.
Now that we've got a high tempo passing game back in New England, Minty, hit me with your next Player Prop.
- OK. I don't hate that he's under the radar, underrated. My next player prop is going to be Daniel Jones, over half an interception thrown. It's a little juice, but I'm basically betting, yes he'll throw an interception.
He had 10 interceptions last year, all of them coming in-- or most of them coming in the first seven weeks of the season. Now, this Broncos defense only recorded 10 interceptions last season. But I mean, come on, Danny Dimes has got to throw one pick. The Broncos have to intercept one of his passes, so give me the over in this one.
I mean, Minty, the only way that you're losing this bet is if instead of throwing multiple picks, he throws, you know, one-- he doesn't throw a pick, but then he fumbles three times, which is always in the range of outcomes for Daniel Jones by the way. But I think this is a really solid bet, even if there's a little juice on it.
My last one here is Terry McLaurin. I mean, Curtis Samuel, probably inactive for week one. We might not-- Oh he's on air so he's definitely inactive for week one it's going to be a while till we see him but that's OK. Because Terry McLaurin is one of the best receivers in the. NFL still a little bit under the National radar.
I mean, if Fantasy managers are smart. They know about him. But I think we're about to see him absolutely take off and launch himself into the elite category this year. And why get started with going over 69 and 1/2 receiving yards.
The Chargers defense could be pretty good, with Brandon Stale they're locked in. But nevertheless, I still think he is going to see a dominant target share, Terry McLaurin. Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to lock in on this guy and why not because he is a great player so give me the over and his receiving yardage total here in week one.
