Gardner Minshew could be a fantasy steal this year | Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast
Yahoo Sports fantasy expert Dalton Del Don and 4for4 Football Lead Fantasy Analyst Chris Allen discuss potential options for fantasy QBs in the middle rounds of your fantasy drafts.
Video Transcript
DALTON DEL DON: What other targets, guys in the middle rounds. Sam Darnold, I'm kind of buying hype that he looks so good in practice. Adam Gase is so frustrating.
But are any of the guys that you've been just recently-- Cam Newton, I mean, I've been skeptical. I thought that Stidham-- all the hype before. I'm like, I'm not sure that's a no-brainer, but it has been a no-brainer. Newton looks like the guy. Any other guys that have been moving up your draft boards?
CHRIS ALLEN: At least for me, it's been the mustache himself. I mean, the guy wearing jorts--
DALTON DEL DON: Yeah.
CHRIS ALLEN: --Gardner Minshew. I mean, especially after the tweet from yesterday or whatever where he's just kind of poking fun at his ADP.
GARDNER MINSHEW: Fantasy draft's right around the corner, and I'm still being slept on. Quarterback 22? Average draft position 162? I know I'm a first-round talent. I know it. Just got to make them see it.
CHRIS ALLEN: If not for what he did in 2019, I mean, let's now look at his situation here in 2020. The Jacksonville Jaguars and their defense, I mean, definitely being suspect now with Jalen Ramsey. I mean, he left this past season. Yannick Ngakoue is definitely looking for a way out as quickly as possible.
So I'm projecting at least a number of negative game scripts for the Jaguars. We saw last season him able to make a quick connection with DJ Chark. I mean, he came out of nowhere after pretty much doing nothing his rookie season. So I think that DJ Chark now is a huge value as of right now in the about fifth-ish round. Definitely a wide receiver folks should target.
But not just what Gardner can do as a passer, but he had just a number of scrambles. I mean, I want to say, if I'm remembering correctly, just over 300 yards rushing this past season, but zero rushing touchdowns. So if we think there's any sort of positive regression that would come with him continuing to scramble-- I mean, he tacks on some additional rushing touchdowns to that, he could easily out-kick his ADP as of right now.
DALTON DEL DON: Podcasts are typically better with some disagreement, but again I couldn't agree with you more. I've moved Gardner Minshew. To me, he's like Josh Allen. I have them nearly ranked back to back. I have Allen much lower than market and Minshew higher.
Far better fantasy players than real life players. And Jacksonville is totally tanking. They don't care if they go 0 and 16, and they're just gonna let him play. They're gonna be playing from behind.
You're gonna look down and say, how is Minshew a top-15 fantasy player? Because I believe he was the second highest scramble rate last year. And you talk about positive regression for him. I think there's some negative touchdown regression for Josh Allen as far as rushing.
So totally with you. Gardner Minshew is so cheap. And now they're doing something about-- the Bud Light latest thing is pretty funny too. Everyone loves the mustache.
- Yahoo Fantasy Cram Session. Thursday, August 27th at 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 Pacific.
