We have reached the point in the season where your home leagues have awakened from their slumber! It’s time to get your fantasy football leagues going. With fantasy football in full swing, we wanted to break down some of our “My Guys” for the 2023 NFL fantasy football season. What does that mean exactly? Well, these are players that I’m going out of my way to get on my fantasy teams this year. Needless to say, I’m all in on them.
Now, I will provide you with one quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end that you should target in every draft you enter. Let’s get this started and bring you down to the big easy for our quarterback.
Derek Carr – QB – New Orleans Saints
In a land where elite quarterbacks are drafted early and no longer tank your draft, let me provide someone who allows you to follow the late-round quarterback strategy. On the surface, Derek Carr seems like a JAG (just a guy), but with this move to New Orleans, we have a chance at the MVP-level play he provided in 2016. Carr is poised to rampage through the NFC South and the AFC South with the easiest strength of schedule in the NFL for quarterbacks. He leaves Las Vegas, a team void of depth regarding talent. Carr enters the big easy, where he has a handful of players who can win individual matchups.
Do you need a big play? Chris Olave is right there for Carr.
You may need a player to win an individual route to move the chains. Michael Thomas can do that.
Pass-catching runnings are a must for a potent offense. Do the New Orleans Saints have that? They have three: Alvin Kamara, Kendre Miller, and Jamaal Williams.
Speaking about three players in a pass-catching position, the Saints also provided Carr with three strong tight ends in Juwan Johnson, Taysom Hill, and Jimmy Graham.
You may look at Carr’s stats from last season and say, ” He is over the hill.” However, that would be incorrect. Carr entered a system where his style of play clashed with his new head coach and now returns to a system he thrived in under Dennis Allen. Expect Carr to take advantage of this easy schedule, a plethora of talent, and the chance to complete the resurgence on his path to being a dark-horse MVP candidate.
Nick Chubb – RB – Cleveland Browns
If you follow me on Twitter (Or X), you know I have yet to shut up about how Nick Chubb could reach overall RB1 status this season. Chubb just pulled the quietest 1,500-yard season in history last year. He averaged 5 YPC, something he pulls off with relative ease every season, and he scored 13 touchdowns, which was a career-high. More importantly, Chubb was top 10 in backfield opportunity share last season. That’s important because his biggest competition, Kareem Hunt, is no longer with the Cleveland Browns. We have finally reached a time in Chubb’s career where he gets to be the absolute workhorse for a team that should have a potent offense.
With Deshaun Watson keeping the defense from overloading the box, Chubb should be able to show off why he is the best pure running back in the game. He will also be able to show off his pass-catching abilities. Last year, he finished with 27 receptions and now his main competition is MIA; you should expect that number to increase to 40-50 receptions. With Chubb facing a potential out in 2024 for his contract and the Browns having to overpay Watson in the future, you will see them run Chubb until the wheels fall off in 2023.
Chris Olave – WR – New Orleans Saints
If we love Olave’s quarterback, we must love him, right? The answer is a resounding YES!
The New Orleans Saints face one of the easiest schedules, which goes double for this second-year stud wide receiver in Olave. He faces the second-easiest schedule for wide receivers in 2023. Olave ended his rookie season strong in 2022. He finished with the 8th best total air yard (1,531), requiring a 25% target share and top 10 ranking in air yards. He was a top 30 wide receiver in points per game for fantasy and sixth in yards per route run (28%). Let’s remember he did this with the ghost of Andy Dalton.
I am going to say that again so it sinks in…
CHRIS OLAVE DOMINATED AS A ROOKIE WITH ANDY DALTON!
He did all this while only scoring four touchdowns. Needless to say, Olave is in line for a positive touchdown regression with a better quarterback facing an easy schedule. So far, throughout camp, the reports are raving about the jump Olave has made from year one to two. Do not sleep on this breakout candidate in 2023.
Gerald Everett – TE – Los Angeles Chargers
The tight end position is always a mess reminiscent of a fantasy football graveyard outside of Travis Kelce. So how do we identify the correct play at tight end for “My Guy”? Well, it’s pretty simple. Find a strong offense that should move the ball efficiently and often. That first checkbox is marked with the Los Angeles Chargers.
Next, we find an offensive coordinator who uses the tight end within their passing scheme. Well, check that box because Kellen Moore utilized the tight end to perfection at his last stop in Dallas and will continue to do the same here in Los Angeles. Moore is also an aggressive play-caller who likes to throw downfield. Both of those facts will increase the statistics for Everett throughout the season.
Finally, we look for an athletic tight end because their coach will be inclined to use them more. Everett is 6’3 and weighs 239 pounds. His body fits a player’s frame who can become a top-five tight end in a season. Additionally, he possesses an 87th percentile 40-yard dash, 73rd Speed Score, 93rd burst score, 81st Agility Score, and an 87th percentile catch radius. Finally, Everett has the athletic ability needed to win on his routes. Our free fantasy football tools will show you even more reason to get excited about him.
Last season, Everett was eighth-best for targets in tight ends. He also received the eighth-highest snap share for tight ends and ran the ninth-highest total of routes for tight ends. With a healthy Justin Herbert plus a new aggressive play-caller in Kellen Moore, Everett can catapult up the tight-end rankings and win you a fantasy championship.
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