Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy analyst Andy Behrens explore the factors that could lead to different rookie campaigns for both receivers. Listen to the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” podcast — and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
Video transcript
If the argument you’re going to make for Marvin Harrison, and this is not the argument we make. But if, if you’re making a strictly volume-based argument for Marvin Harrison, then I think you should feel the same way about Malik Neighbors. I, I think they’re both great players. are getting into situations where they should be heavily targeted receivers. It’s just one of them is a heavily targeted receiver with Kyler Murray as the quarterback and the other is going into a pretty complicated QB situation in New York and I, I feel like there should be more than a round difference between them. of the, of the wide receiver, two as a wide receiver, three. You’re looking at them in the fourth round, in the fifth round, I get it. That felt really aggressive to me, especially like, I don’t know. , you start looking at the receivers that were in the frame. It’s Metcalf, it’s DJ Moore Devante Adams in the frame. with the volume play with Malik Neighbors, but I’ll get, I, I don’t know, I, my own projection for Malik Neighbors doesn’t make him a third round pick. you. I really like Malik Neighbors and I think he will get volume, but the way he will have to be fed volume in this offense with Daniel Jones and or Drew Lock is very different from the type of targets Marvin Harrison will get.Harrison will have vertical targets on the outside. I think Malik Neighbors will have a lot of Mickey Mouse targets here just to get him moving in the open field, which is both good and bad, right? came away from Malik Neighbors’ debut season thinking, oh, that was really inefficient with the volume he got, which couldn’t be his fault. about Kyler Murray, he’s a much better quarterback than either of those two guys here in New York. So I think the floor and ceiling combination is wide for Malik Neighbors and I, I just don’t think the ceiling is necessarily higher than AD K Metcalf or higher than DJ Moore this year. These guys or, or, or some of the players you mentioned are going to go in the fourth round. If that’s the price of Malik’s neighbors this year, I’m just not going to have a lot of Malik’s neighbors, um, in this season’s drafts, that there are so many good receivers.
