Fantasy Football Podcast: How does Chase Claypool fit in with Pittsburgh?
Yahoo Fantasy's Liz Loza and Matt Harmon discuss the fantasy fit for the Notre Dame wide receiver with the Steelers. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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LIZ LOZA: Everything from what I can understand, Claypool is likely to line up outside. He offers a ton of upside, but again, there is from a fantasy perspective a lot of target issues to deal with. Because you got Juju. You got James Washington. You got Diontae Johnson.
Claypool is fast, and he's got hops. And he had an excellent combine, which certainly bolstered his stop. But I don't know. He had a late start. He was a basketball player. That shows up. I just don't know where and when you fold him into this offense.
MATT HARMON: I don't-- I'm not excited about Claypool at all really in fantasy. At least just from what we know right now. Like if he goes and-- in a theoretical world, where there's a training camp, and he has a good training camp and crushes it. And he's winning an outside receiver job. That's great, but Washington played well last year.
I liked Diontae Johnson. I like some of the flashes of really good route running we saw from him, and JuJu, I think this is great news for JuJu. Because he can like-- all that BS about like, he can be an outside receiver. No, no, no, no, no, like they've got three guys that they can play on the perimeter right now. Let's keep my man JuJu in the slot, all right? Let's do that, and that'll be good for him. I think it's good for Big Ben to have another weapon.
Remember all those years ago when every offseason, it was like Big Ben was bitching for a big receiver for no reason, and then Martavis Bryant was there for a hot second. And maybe this is like sort of trying to get back to that. I don't know, but it's definitely-- like Pittsburgh has some things to work with. And I think, if Big Ben and James Connor are back to 2018 form, this offense could be pretty intriguing. But I think those are two big question marks.