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Fantasy Football Players to Completely Cross Off Your Draft Board: Nick Chubb, Mike Williams, Jerry Jeudy and More

These are players you shouldn't even consider drafting, even if they fall further than expected in your draft.

Mark Morales-Smith Aug 1st 7:19 AM EDT.

Sep 10, 2023; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb (24) runs the ball against the Cincinnati Bengals during the third quarter at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 10, 2023; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb (24) runs the ball against the Cincinnati Bengals during the third quarter at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports

Running Backs

Nick Chubb, Cleveland Browns

Chubb has been an unbelievable running back and is a freak athlete who bounced back from an awful knee injury in college. However, this injury he suffered last year was catastrophic and he's now 28 years old. There is no reason for you to be drafting him in your fantasy football drafts this season.

Odds are we have seen the last of him as a serviceable fantasy asset, and even if that's not the case, it won't be this year that he helps your team win any fantasy championships. Please don't buy into hype videos of him squatting in a weight room. That is not the same thing as performing at an elite level on an NFL field regardless of how impressive it may be.

Jerome Ford is the back-to-own in Cleveland this season and you should be letting another league member who falls in love with Chubb's star power and weight room videos hinder their team with him this year.  

J.K. Dobbins, Los Angeles Chargers

You can start to see the hype train beginning to leave the station for Dobbins. Reports out of camp have been glowing and he's in a situation where there is no clear-cut RB1 in the backfield.

His projections and rankings are rising all over the place and his name is popping up more and more as a sleeper and even a league winner - not to mention there are a lot of Dobbins truthers out there who have believed and invested in him since he's entered the league.

The sentiment around him is, "If he could only stay healthy." Well, he can't and we have far too much data showing us that running backs do not bounce back after blowing out their Achilles, especially a back with a long list of other leg injuries to go along with it.

It's not even the horrifying picture circulating of his drastically different-sized calves that worries me. Put that in the category with Chubb squatting. Far more alarming is his long injury history and the fact that no running back is ever close to the same after suffering that injury, especially the very next season. His ADP is going to climb over the next month and you need to ignore that and scoop up Gus Edwards if you want a piece of this backfield. 

Wide Receivers

Mike Williams, New York Jets

Everyone should have given up on Williams a long time ago. He's a mediocre receiver who can't stay healthy. Other than being large and athletic, there was never all that much he brought to the table. Even at his peak, he was a boom-or-bust option who busted more than he boomed.

In his best season of 2021 when he topped 1,100 yards and caught nine TDs, he only hit the 100-yard mark four times and caught five of his nine TDs in those four games. So even in his best year fantasy owners were unhappy the vast majority of weeks and nows he an aging wideout coming off a torn ACL.

Him being Aaron Rodgers WR2 should not get you to buy back in on a guy who is rarely healthy and isn't that good when he is. Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall are the only pieces you want on this overrated offense. 

Jerry Jeudy, Cleveland Browns

Jeudy was a prospect coming out of college that most people really loved when he entered the NFL Draft. Unfortunately, he hasn't become what we hoped and it's time to let it go.

He's never going to reach the potential we believed he once had and you need to stop holding out hope that he will. Not only does he lack the ability we expected him to have, but he's going to another quarterback who we have no idea is still any good or not.

Odds are, Jeudy will be the third option in the Browns' passing attack at best. We aren't even sure how well Deshaun Watson can sustain one option at this point in his career. Amari Cooper is already inconsistent in that offense, so there is no reason to be drafting Jeudy who may not even be a lock for the WR2 role. 

Adam Thielen, Carolina Panthers

What Thielen was able to do as a fantasy wideout for the first few months of last season was shocking. It wasn't impressive in real life, but he caught a ton of passes despite being wildly inefficient. Of course, he then predictably fell off a steep cliff into irrelevancy, but fantasy owners still got way more out of him than expected in 2023.

This year he will be 34 years old when the season kicks off and has looked like a corpse for a few years now. The Panthers added two young and very talented wideouts to their offense. It's sad to say but it's over.

You can remember the good times just don't draft him because of them. Last year, he somehow caught over 100 passes for over 1,000 yards and four TDs. Expect all of those numbers to be cut in half. Diontae Johnson is the man there now and rookie Xavier Legette could be a breakout candidate as well. 

Rashod Bateman, Baltimore Ravens

Every summer we hear the same thing out of Baltimore. Bateman looks great and this is the year he's putting it all together. They say that he's going to be a big part of the offense this season. Spoiler alert, he isn't and he won't be.

Stop trying to make Bateman a thing because it's not going to happen. Even if Bateman is better than we anticipate, this is an offense that can barely sustain one fantasy-relevant wideout. Mark Andrews is the top target in Baltimore and Zay Flowers will be the WR1 who has an outside shot at being a low-end WR2 in fantasy.

With Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry running the ball, there just isn't enough volume to go around even if Bateman is improved. In 2023, Jackson topped 3,000 yards for only the second time in his career and for the first time since 2019. Lamar is a great player, but is far from a prolific passer. Bateman shouldn't be drafted in the last round. 

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