Draft Targets

He tore his ACL in Week 9 and is already back on the practice field ahead of schedule, targeting Week 1 with "no pitch count" — and he was playing like the best tight end in football when it happened.

Seattle used the 32nd pick in April on him after letting Kenneth Walker leave for Kansas City. Of the fifteen first-round running backs drafted since 2015 who played their rookie year, eleven led their team in carries as rookies. The market drafts Price RB30, like Charbonnet keeps the job all season. My board says RB24.

Two point one nine yards per route last year, fourteenth among receivers who ran 200 — and he did it on a three-yard jump in average target depth, so the role changed, not just the number. He was fourth per route in 2022 and seventh in 2023. He was also 55th in 2024, and I am not hiding that. Denver at a WR2 price is a bet on the two good versions.

Back-to-back QB11 and QB10 finishes and the market still prices him QB14. The quiet part is the legs: 498 rushing yards last year, fifth among all quarterbacks, with his carries per game up three straight seasons. My board says QB8 — the floor is already bought at this price, and the new offense is the free upside.

The leap already happened: QB16 as a rookie, QB5 last season, with the sack count falling from 68 to 24 — the single biggest fix a young quarterback can make. The market is still drafting him QB14, a round after my board would take him at QB7. You don't often get to buy last year's top-five quarterback in round 9, so I do it every time.

The Packers just paid him — that's the real signal here — and he's stepping into the full-time WR1 role after finishing fifth among every receiver who ran 150 routes in yards per route, on 243 of them in ten games.