Ladd McConkey's fantasy numbers will benefit from Mike McDaniel's offense
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss how Los Angeles Chargers WR Ladd McConkey's fantasy numbers will see a nice bump under new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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So, yeah Ladd McConkie is next up for us.
Hayden, I hate to say this, 'cause inherently and internally I am extremely high on Ladd McConkie.
But he's wide receiver 17 in consensus rankings, and we have him as wide receiver 20, but do have him 41st overall, so I do wanna bring that up.
The reason why I love Ladd this year, he ran only 10% of his routes from sets with fewer than three wide receivers on the field last year.
For comparison, that was 46% with Jaylen Waddle last year in a Mike McDaniel offense.
Mike McDaniel brought in a bunch of tight ends in, in Joku and Kolar and a fullback in Alec Ingold.
So we know that Jason last year had 51% of his production on 38% of heavier personnel sets, and, Ladd McConkie might be the name that we see make that significant jump this year in this new offense.
Yeah, I think that his efficiency is definitely gonna go up.
Last year, his catchable ball rate dropped by, like, over 10%.
If you watch those snaps, Justin Herbert was running for his life on a lot of those.
Like, it was, like, very clear that it was gonna be impossible for him to connect on those.
Ladd McConkie also was a god at the catch point as a rookie, and then was very much just a normal Ladd McConkie, at the catch point last year.
I think all that stuff evens out.
His efficiency's gonna go way up.
His numbers are gonna go way up.
Do wanna note, though, that the Dolphins have been bottom, like, three, bottom five in pass attempts for, for the last couple seasons with Mike McDaniel.
Maybe that changes 'cause he's got Justin Herbert instead of Tua.
But, like, he's supposed to be, like, the run game coordinator.
And then the, the one last thing that's always kind of breaking ties against Ladd in my opinion is the two wide receiver set stuff's gonna be awesome when he's out there.
I'm not sure if he's gonna be in, in all of them.
Just, like, there's gonna be some looks where it's Hugh J and Trey Harris for, like, blocking purposes.
They're so much bigger than Ladd McConkie.
