Why Marvin Harrison Jr. & Malik Nabers' rookie seasons could be very different in fantasy | Yahoo Fantasy Football Show
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy analyst Andy Behrens explore the factors that might lead to different rookie campaigns for both receivers. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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If the argument that you're going to make for Marvin Harrison, and this is not the argument that we made.But if, if you're making a strictly like volume based argument for Marvin Harrison, then I guess you should feel the same way about Malik Neighbors.I, I think they're both great players.I don't see glaring weaknesses to Neighbors game and they are both stepping into situations where they should be heavily targeted receivers.It's just one of them is a heavily targeted receiver with Kyler Murray at quarterback and the other one is headed to a pretty messy QB situation in New York and I, I feel like there should be more than a round of difference between them.I'm gonna take Neighbors as at the back end of the, of the wide receiver, twos as a wide receiver, three.You're looking at them in round four, round five, I get it.This felt pretty aggressive to me, especially like, I don't know.Again, you start looking at the receivers who were on the board.It's Metcalf, it's DJ Moore Devante Adams is on the board.Iu both niners are on the board, right?It's a good group of receivers who were still there.I get it with the volume game with Malik Neighbors but am I gonna get, I, I don't know, I my, my own projecting for Malik Neighbors does not make him a third round pick.I will, I will say that I'm with you.I like Malik Neighbors a lot and I think he's gonna get fed volume but the way he's gonna have to be fed volume in this offense with Daniel Jones and or Drew Lock is very different than the type of targets that Marvin Harrison is gonna get.Harrison's gonna get like vertical targets on the outside.I think Malik Neighbors is gonna get a lot of like some Mickey mouse targets here just to get him going in the open field, which is, which is good and bad, right?We could come away from Malik Neighbors rookie season thinking like, oh, that was really quote inefficient with the volume that he got like, which would could be no fault of his own.Certainly.Um, like, and I don't care what you think about Kyler Murray, he's a much better quarterback than either of these two guys here in New York.So I think the floor ceiling combination that is a wide range for Malik Neighbors and I, I just don't think the ceiling necessarily is higher than AD K Metcalf or higher than a DJ Moore this year.These guys or, or, or some of the players you mentioned that go off in round four.So I agree with you.That one stuck out to, that stood out to me.If that's gonna be the Malik Neighbors Price this year, I'm just not gonna have a lot of Malik Neighbors um in, in drafts this season which there's so many good receivers.I don't necessarily know that that's gonna kill me.