Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don break down whether Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill can maintain top-tier performances with the return of their quarterback. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Might be weird timing giving Tua’s impending return, but I’m panicked about Waddle and to a lesser extent Tyre’s prospects even after Tua gets back on the field.
I expected this team to go from a 12 and five quality team to 89 quality team without him.
But the team work more like four and 13 is two are really enough to help the wide receivers get anywhere close to their preseason expectations, even just from a rest of season perspective to talk about some of those expectations.
Jalen Waddle was wide receiver 19 off the board and drafts this summer.
He is currently wide receiver 68 Tyree Hill was wide receiver two overall in drafts this summer.
He is the wide receiver 42 so far this season.
So Tua gave a press conference today, talked a lot about his situation.
It sounds like he’s gonna be back.
Uh, so Dalton Tua back in the mix is that enough to get both these guys back to, I, I don’t know, shoot preseason expectations.
How about just usability and fantasy?
I hope so because it’s bad, the worst offense in the league without Tua, I mean mcdaniel’s Stock has had to have lowered.
I mean, they lost that game in, in Indy, coming off A P, he couldn’t dial it up.
Waddle and Tyree killed 19, scoreless yards against the Colts secondary though.
Deforest Buckner was playing, it’s not great Waddle and he’ll have 33 combined touchdowns with Tua and zero from all of the quarterbacks since joining Miami.
The Dolphins are averaging 11.7 points per game this year.
That’s fewer than Bryce Young led Panthers the last two winless teams in the league.
This is an offense that scored 70 points in one game last year.
They’re dead last in neutral pass rate.
Harmon.
Um Tua did actually have a big week one.
It did come against Jacksonville, but then you have struggle against Buffalo before going down.
Now is obviously not the time to trade away.
Waddle and Hill.
It’s time to trade for and hope Tua returns and things get better.
Can’t get worse.
Yeah, I, I wanna say no panic for these guys just because like, I wanna see a game with Tua, you know, week one wasn’t pretty his week two output before the injury wasn’t pretty either.
I do have real concerns about where we’re at with this Dolphins offense even once Tua’s back there.
And like, what’s up with the whole Mike mcdaniel thing?
It’s been on my radar remains on my radar, but from a fantasy perspective, I think Tua back there should just keep the ship afloat.
Uh, we’ll just see if it can be like a cure all, which I’m, I’m not 100% confident in.