How Puka Nacua could have a ‘historic’ fantasy season
Yahoo Fantasy's Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss why they think Puka Nacua could have a historic fantasy season. 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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I'll go with Puka Nacua after doing a bunch of drafts.
You can, you can get him at the fourth, sometimes fifth overall spot.
In half PPR, full PPR, I love him.
We're talking about the all-time leader in receiving yards per game at 95, the clear target dominator for the offense projected for the most points by the betting markets is what the team was this last season.
All it takes for Nacua to have, like, a truly all-time fantasy season is more red zone touchdowns.
Davante Adams- Yeah had a 27% target share.
Nacua, 17% target share.
That was last year.
Davante Adams, they were trying to trade him.
He's another year older.
He's been dealing with some injuries.
So Puka Nacua, I love him.
I think that he can have, like, a 400 fantasy point season, which has only ha- happened a couple times.
Ooh.
We're talking about the absolute prime of his career.
Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay are gonna dial up the offense completely around him, and I think my favorite part about him versus Jahmyr Gibbs is in that second round, if you draft Puka Nacua- Yeah a running back that we love is gonna fall to you there.
And I think that was the difference between drafting the Jahmyr Gibbs teams.
Like, all of a sudden, at 24th and 25th overall, I feel less confident about that tier.
So fourth overall, Puka Nacua, and we'll talk about the next falling running back.
Yeah, you know this.
A, a year ago at this time, the one question I wanted to ask Sean McVay was, "Why didn't you use Puka Nacua more often in the red zone?"
And he did last year, albeit a lot of happened when, you know, Davante Adams was out and, and missed time.
But he scored 11 touchdowns last season compared to his first two years were 10 total touchdowns.
And we know that vaults you from, like, the wide receiver seven in points per game up to the wide receiver two in, in points per game.
So that's something that I have my eye on.
It's also something that in the 13 personnel looks, that even means more things funneled in the direction of Puka Nacua.
And I, I am a little surprised and would love to hear you talk about this, and, and you kind of just did, but there's that glut of running backs that we absolutely love.
So honing in on Puka Nacua is a statement for you- Mm-hmm just how big of a season you believe he's gonna have, and basically a contract year on top of that.
Yeah, so this could be Jahmyr Chase at fourth overall.
I've just, like, kind of done the math that by the time you get to, like, the 20th, 21st overall pick, somebody that we- Interesting really like is still gonna be there, whether that could be a Brock Bowers.
I hope with drafting a wide receiver that it is actually one of these running backs could fall.
So we have to get a little bit lucky here, but the math does play out in a lot of c- situations.
