Jake Ciely· Aug 8, 2026
Seely sees Egbuka as a fringe WR1/2, agrees on fading Rashee Rice, pegs Ashton Jeanty as only a back-end RB1, is bullish on Harold Fannin Jr. (81 catches, ranked behind LaPorta but ahead of Pitts), views Tyler Shough as a QB2 with roughly 3,700-3,800 passing yards, loves Quentin Johnston (approaching 900 yards and nine TDs), has Javonte Williams as RB13, and projects Carnell Tate for over 1,000 yards and six scores.
“I am in on Quinton Johnston. I have him higher. I have him over eight hundred yards ... approaching nine hundred yards, and I have him approaching nine touchdowns.”
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15 checkable claims — 7 player season numbers, 4 positional finishes, 2 sleeper calls, 1 fantasy bust call and 1 fantasy ranking — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing bet.
It names 16 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Of the 5 unsettled calls enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands above the room on 2 and below it on 3.
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15 checkable claims in this take
Each one is scored on its own against the published methodology. A pundit naming several outcomes is graded on each, not on all-or-nothing.
Quentin Johnston to outplay his draft cost (wide receiver forty two ADP overall one oh six)
“I don't buy it. I am in on Quinton Johnston. I have him higher.”
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“I go laporta fan and pits”
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Harold Fannin Jr. to outplay his draft cost (tight end, five in ADP overall sixty four)
“I'm happy so far waiting on Fanning because it seems like people are taking those shots ... and I wait two or three rounds and I just take Harold Fannin.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
Carnell Tate to record 6 receiving tds
“I do have them for over one thousand yards and six touchdowns.”
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Ashton Jeanty to finish top ? at his position, by fantasy points
“I see him more as a back end RB one than I do as top six seven ... that fills you in as most seasons as RB ten, eleven, twelve ... That's still not enough to get me to RB six.”
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Tyler Shough to record ? rushing yards
“Yeah, he will run. I think that you're looking at somebody will get three four hundred on the ground.”
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Carnell Tate to record 1,000 receiving yards
“I do have them for over one thousand yards and six touchdowns. It really hinges on cam Ward”
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Harold Fannin Jr. to record 81 receptions
“this is one of the highest reception leaders at seventy eight and those projections I have them just over eighty. I think at like eighty one”
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Tyler Shough to record 3,800 passing yards
“I think that there's a good chance that you might see mid three upper three thousand, like a thirty seven thirty eight hundred”
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Emeka Egbuka to finish top ? at his position, by fantasy points
“to be a back end wide receiver one, which is kind of where the projections have him versus the ADP ... I have him as a like fringe wide receiver one two”
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Rashee Rice to fall short of his draft cost (ADP Wide Receiver eleven ... overall ADP twenty nine)
“He's outside of the top ten ... I just agree a lot with what Fits is saying”
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Javonte Williams to finish top 13 at his position, by fantasy points
“Why is Javonte Williams getting so much hate down at eighteen eighteen and running back in projections I am at thirteen”
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Quentin Johnston to record 900 receiving yards
“I have him over eight hundred yards by I actually I have him approaching nine hundred yards”
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Quentin Johnston to record 9 receiving tds
“and I have him approaching nine touchdowns because I have fractions of touchdowns on my projections”
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Tyler Shough to finish top ? at his position, by fantasy points
“which would put him as a mid QB two ... but I just think he's going to be a QB two.”
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