Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don discuss whether Bears WR Rome Odunze is primed for a big debut fantasy season or if expectations need to be tempered. Listen to the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Show” podcast — and subscribe at , or wherever you listen.
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Don’t let Jackson Smith and Jig’s debut seasons scare you away from Roma Dunes Day.
It really is a similar situation here, man.
I mean, there’s two wide receivers to compete with even the same OC Shane Waldron who I’m, you know, a little worried about this, but totally curious, your thoughts, your har and I know you’ve talked to, you briefly mentioned JSN, you was, you know, kind of encouraged by his route running, but I just wanted to say that maybe I was guilty of overreacting to a player who wasn’t a superstar.
Uh Meanwhile, Du is an elite passer, uh, the best contested catch rate, uh, season of all time in 2023. I believe 32-year-old Keenan Allen has missed an average of 5.5 games over the last two seasons.
Caleb Williams could be a star right away.
So give me a heat check here.
Am I buying the new toy again?
For the newbie?
Things in height are different from Jackson Smith and Jig.
But even though it’s the same OC and like, yeah, it looks very similar.
Roman Du is better than Jackson Smith and Jig, but I like Jackson Smith and Jig was a potential receiver, but he was a tier two receiver.
Whereas Roma Dunz is a potential tier one receiver just in terms of my overall stack over the last four classes.
Therefore, JSN was the number one receiver in his class.
Roman Nunes for me was number two, for most people he was number three in this class.
But that’s only because last year’s class wasn’t as good as this year’s class.
That’s just the reality.
Roman Duun is a better prospect than Jackson Smith and Jake.
But like, yeah, the debut season of JSNS was good, but it was good.
It wasn’t like, yeah, this feels special.
Like he looks like a solid receiver.
You look at the first round, he didn’t look like a special player, Romo Gin, I think he could go into the NFL and look like a special player and that’s the second difference Dalton and that’s critical like Jackson Smith J, a good prospect but he was a slot machine prospectus.
Whereas Romain is like a pure prototypical ex-receiver.
I kind of think their best receiver deployment is Romain at X DJ Moore is kind of like a speed Z receiver who can play inside, who can play outside and then Keenan Allen, I think needs to play in the slot at this point in his career .
He was like a mostly slot player with the Chargers last year.
DJ Morris is the 15th wide receiver at the moment.
That to me is too high.
I loved him.
He was a top-five champion last year when they were held when he was healthy together.
But doesn’t he deserve a bigger blow here?
Even if I’m overestimating, I have to do it like my 36 wide receiver.
I mean, as a three wide receiver, you know, I’m not, no, I’m not too crazy, but I think it’s going to be helpful and I think DJ Moore isn’t getting enough punishment up there in the rankings.
They picked him as a top 15 in that situation to me is, uh, he’s going to, you’re going to be disappointed.
