Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Tera Roberts look ahead to the opening weekend of the season and pick a pair of players who can lift fantasy managers to victory. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on , , or
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And for week one, our key to winning is picking some guys that are gonna make the difference in your flex spot.
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So Tara give me one player that managers could potentially be debating, putting in that final starting spot that are worth the shot and gonna help you pick, uh gonna help you come out on top to start the season.
I know for a fact that people are debating on Calvin Ridley and you would think like it’s Calvin Ridley, how are we, how are we debating?
But there’s a lot of skepticism sometimes about what this Tennessee offense is going to be.
There’s skepticism around Will Levis and then there’s also the impact of the Chicago defense that people have grown to respect now and understand that they strong crew, their secondary has talent and they can shut wide receiver ones down that said it is Calvin Ridley and I fully expect him to be the wide receiver one target in this offense when we’re looking at this offense and the person that I think that will Levis is going to lean into the, the player that is going to help will Levis make that leap that we’re looking for.
It’s Calvin Ridley.
So I get that, it’s a tough defensive matchup.
It’s not ideal, but I still think that if you’re debating on whether or not to include him, he’s still somebody that I want to lean into.
I think Calvin Ridley is going to pull through for us this week.
I’m with you.
Uh I like Ridley as a wide receiver three in week one and my player is actually of a similar vein, kind of a, he’s not quite old, but he’s certainly not one of these hot young second year wide receivers and he was drafted in kind of the wide receiver 30 plus range.
It’s Chris Godwin, uh Chris Godwin last year played 37% of his routes in the slot according to pro football focus.
We know he’s gonna be back up closer to that 65 70% range from, uh his previous seasons.
I love that for Godwin’s game.
I think that’s a good position, good deployment for him.
Chris Godwin.
To me, he’s gonna fall into that wide receiver three range, but I know I drafted some Chris Godwin and I think he is a player just like Calvin Ridley to throw out in week one and try to grab that week one win.