Will Trey McBride take a step back in fantasy?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Nate Tice look at last year's TE1 who may regress behind a spread offense. 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, it's nothing against McBride, I just think the offensive flow is gonna be a little bit more spread out than how hyper-fixated it was on him, because he was the only reliable cog that this offense really had.
The running backs fell apart.
Marvin Harrison Jr. Had just got the yips.
I mean, and then Michael Wilson kinda came on, but he was kinda just been the steady Eddie of this offense for a few years now.
And he also had amazing chemistry with Kyler Murray.
Turns out he still has- Yeah great chemistry with Jakobi, but him and Kyler had, like, a special connection that, like, you know, just one of those weird synergies that sometimes forms.
And so that might, there just might be a little devaluing there as well.
Yeah.
A- a- and with Trey McBride, too, what he, what he told me back in February was that he r- really wasn't the first read on a lot of those plays.
As we know- That's so funny like, a lot of the first read on those concepts were, was it's the X receiver.
That's where the offe- Mm-hmm the offense wants to flow.
As, as Michael Wilson himself said in an interview this off-season, "The reason I wasn't getting a lot of targets early is because I was the Z receiver.
And in that offense, in Drew Petzing's offense, it flows through the Y and the X."
And that's Trey McBride- Yes and that was Marvin Harrison Jr. And then as soon as Marv goes down, Wilson's playing X, and he's get- what do you know?
He's getting a lot of targets.
A lot of targets.
But targets are earned, don't worry.
A lot of touches there.
So, th- Trey McBride, though, his point was like, "Yeah, I wasn't the first read on a lot of those plays," especially with Kyler, but the ball kept finding him because of that connection.
Now it, it did continue to find him with Jakobi Brissett, but it is just a change in system.
I think he's gonna be an awesome fit in this offense.
I think he will do so much for them.
Same.
I just think there could be a small step back fantasy-wise.
The good news is that that is kinda baked in here.
26th overall ADP is far from offensive.
The thing is just, I, I just have a few spots behind here, and I haven't been pulling the button on, on Trey McBride because of all the other players around him.
And if you are Cardinals curious, w- which I am, and I don't advise anyone else to be, but I am, you can get the receivers just so, so much later.
26th overall ADP for Trey McBride.
Jer- Jeremiah Love goes 28th overall, but then it's 81st overall for Harrison, 111th for Michael Wilson.
It's just like to me- That's crazy if I, if I wanna have weird optimism for these guys, which I do, I just know I can get exposure to this Cardinals offense later on rather than paying the iron price for Trey McBride.
And I, I hate to say that 'cause McBride's an awesome player.
Mm-hmm.
He just hasn't been somebody I've dra- I'm, just I haven't dra- I just haven't drafted him very much at all, but it has no reason to do with him as a player.
