Yahoo Fantasy’s Matt Harmon and Justin Boone discuss why fantasy managers should get excited about WR Antonio Williams being drafted by the Washington Commanders.
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And I love this landing spot for Antonio Williams.
We know that they are gonna acquire Brandon Aiyuk at some point.
I don’t think a trade will happen.
But otherwise, we’ve been showing Washington’s depth chart for so long now, and Traylon Burks as the other starting outside receiver across from Terry McLaurin, Luke McCaffrey as the starting slot receiver.
This is one of the teams that just desperately needed receiver help, and it’s an offense that I think is gonna play, you know, a lot of heavy personnel packages.
But I think they’ll spread it a little bit too, which should allow Antonio Williams to be the slot Z receiver.
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Obviously, again, if Aiyuk gets into camp and he’s locked in and in shape, which are two, two ma- And healthy, those are three massive ifs, Williams would probably play behind him.
But there’s also the chance that one, two, three, or none of those things happen for Brandon Aiyuk, and Antonio Williams is just the second receiver for Washington this year.
So I really liked Williams.
I think he’s a high floor player for a team that needs immediate wide receiver help.
So big win, Antonio Williams going to the Commanders at a, on a wide open wide receiver depth chart with a good quarterback and an evolving offense here.
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Yeah, just a, a great opportunity ahead of him, and you don’t have to convince me because I said earlier, I wrote that article about some of the sneaky players that went on day two who I think could have fantasy value.
This was the very first player I wrote about.
I was equally excited about O’Hara and-