Fantasy Football 2024: Arizona Cardinals Key Players

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00:00We're starting at the top of the list with the Arizona Cardinals, a team that has not

00:08been great, still doesn't have the best offensive line, nor the best defense.

00:12That's a good thing for fantasy.

00:13You know why?

00:14Bad offensive line means Kyler Murray is going to be running all over the place.

00:17Now, he might not be protected as much as we want either, although they did address

00:20some of those issues this off season and did make some slight improvements, it might not

00:25be enough.

00:26However, they did make a huge improvement with the wide receiver core, and that is very

00:29exciting to me, and this is a team that I think people are sleeping on in fantasy.

00:33What I love the most about the Arizona Cardinals is the fact that it's a very simple plan.

00:38You have Kyler Murray, you have Trey McBride, and you have Marvin Harrison Jr.

00:42That trio is very, very good, and in terms of fantasy value, all appropriately valued

00:50in the marketplace, which is also rare.

00:52Now, it might be a little aggressive on Marvin Harrison, but I don't see that.

00:56I know he's going as early as wide receiver 10 in some drafts, and that's okay with me,

01:01because this is a player that I think has possibly 160 targets in front of him this

01:06year, could catch 100-plus balls, could easily have 1,300 or even 1,400 yards receiving and

01:13double-digit touchdowns.

01:14That's the upside of Harrison.

01:15Now, the downside looks a little bit more like maybe 1,100 yards and maybe six touchdowns.

01:20Still a pretty good player at the end of the day, but regardless, you look at what

01:27else is around here, Michael Wilson, Zay Jones, those guys are just small contributors.

01:32I don't see them really being very fantasy relevant outside of the fantasy streamer on

01:36occasion.

01:37Kyler Murray, the question is, what does he look like in this new offense here?

01:41We got a little taste of it last year.

01:43Kingsbury's no longer around, so it's a little bit different in terms of how things work.

01:47You also got James Conner coming back for another year, who has been a very productive

01:50back in this time of the Arizona Cardinals, but the time is now another year older, which

01:54means Trey Benson, the rookie that they drafted, is going to at some point probably get some

01:59opportunities.

02:00That's probably going to be later in the season or unless, God forbid, an injury happens to

02:05James Conner.

02:06So when you're looking at the Cardinals right now, the guy that really is interesting to

02:10me besides the Harrison investment, which is expensive, Matt, when you're looking at

02:14Trey McBride, that's the guy, to me, that I think carries a lot of upside at that right-hand

02:19position.

02:20Yeah, absolutely, especially considering how this offense is going to gel, and you and

02:24I have talked about it, how the position, the tight end position, is really starting

02:28to grow and starting to change.

02:31Tight ends are being paid the way running backs want to be paid, and there's a reason.

02:34So yeah, I like that you're highlighting McBride here and what it can mean to this team overall.

02:38I'd like to throw those projections back up for a second, too, because I think these projections

02:43are low.

02:44And I know 83 catches, people say, well, I don't know, 83 catches seems like a lot for

02:48a tight end.

02:50But put it in an offense that's bereft of other people worthy for targets, 849 yards,

02:54I think is, I mean, that's an incredible number for a tight end, just generally speaking.

03:00I think you can go over this as well.

03:01I think he's somewhere in the 950 range, potentially.

03:04And Trey McBride had a phenomenal college career.

03:06I think people forget how good he was in college because the career started a little slow because

03:11he played for the Arizona Cardinals with backup quarterbacks playing.

03:14Now he's got that opportunity this year to really sort of blossom.

03:17We saw the beginning of the breakout.

03:18We saw he could handle the target share.

03:20He was getting double-digit targets in a lot of games.

03:22If that trend continues with Harrison now, too, in this offense, all of a sudden the

03:27Arizona Cardinals are going to be interesting.

03:28And remember, that defense isn't going to stop anybody, which means there's going to

03:31be a lot of shootouts and they're playing in a division that's got a lot of good offenses.

03:35So this could be a really intriguing team from a wagering perspective on overs, from

03:40a weekly perspective in terms of overs on the fantasy projection.

03:44So keep an eye on the Cardinals.

03:45Yeah, the win total might still underwhelm a little bit, but maybe the fantasy points

03:50are a little bit more prevalent than you might realize.

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