Could things fall apart for Saquon Barkley in fantasy?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Hayden Winks look at the coaching changes and the offensive line to see if that pushes Barkley outside of the first round in fantasy drafts. Check out the full conversation on the "Yahoo Fantasy Forecast" podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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It's just the Jalen Hurts offense, like, just turns out to be just the Jalen Hurts offense and that wasn't the coordinator- Mm-hmm coordinator last year.
Look, I think it was the coordinator last year, so I don't think that's, like, the, the greatest thing we can talk about.
The other thing would just be like, the offensive line has played a lot and they've very injured last year, and like, you don't know about Dickerson's back, you don't know about Lane Johnson and his health, and like those type of things.
Goddard was not a good blocker last year.
Uh- for whatever reason, he's been older.
I think they have a good offensive coordinator now.
You lose your Hall of Fame level, O-line coach in Jeff Stoutland.
I still-- I'm, I'm grading towards the positive angle here, but j- it's just a similar enough season from last year does make him not worth a first-round pick.
Yeah.
Similar-ish season for him last year, which I do think is kind of within the range of outcomes.
I really go back and forth on Barkley, who for, for me, I have right now as the 11th overall player, and I am also kind of flip-flopping back and forth between, like, him and Ashton Jeanty, who we're gonna talk about.
But there's just ways where, yeah, the offensive line-- we're not supposed to play the he gets hurt card, and I guess we can't also play the offensive line guys all get hurt card and the Jeff Stoutland moving on card.
But that's, those are, that's how it doesn't work out for Barkley.
And also, you know, he's another year older, has taken a ton of punishment.
And you know, maybe was like a slightly diminished player last year than he was in 2024 when he was, like, one of the best backs in the league.
So I think there's some, there's definitely some risk with Barkley, which is why if you wanna tell me he's an early second-round pick and not a first-round pick, I, I can, I can totally hear that argument
