Dynasty Rookie Spotlight: Bralon Addison, WR Denver Broncos
Rookie Spotlight: Bralon Addison, WR Denver Broncos
Height: 5’ 9 1/4”
Weight: 197 lbs
Hands: 9 1/8’’
Arm: 29 1/2’’
40 yard dash: 4.66 (Combine)
NFL Comparison: Jeremy Kerley, Ace Sanders, Jordan Shipley
Scouting Notes: Addison was a first team All-State QB who transitioned seamlessly to the WR position at Oregon where he would have been a superstar had he not torn his ACL in 2014. Even so, Addison was impressive when active — before and after the injury– generating heaps of offense as a receiver, runner and returner. Don’t be fooled by his unintimidating 40 time — Addison is as quick as they come with uncanny body control, and the ability to deflect contact and re-accelerate to space. He’s fairly ineffective as a blocker, but nobody is going to rely on Addison for that. He doesn’t cut as well as he did before the ACL injury either, but that likely has more to do with Addison’s trust in the knee than the actual stability of the joint. A full two years off the injury, he should have full confidence back to start the 2016 season. The hope is that he’ll be just as explosive and shifty as he ever was. Addison had a horrible combine explosive test-wise — 21st percentile in the broad jump, 35 percentile in the vertical, 31st percentile in bench press and a pathetic 8th percentile in the 40. While he reminds us a little bit of Brandin Cooks as a player on-field, we can’t use Cooks as a comparison because of the immense difference in the tested speed of the two players. Addison finished in the top half of our 2016 On-Field Performance scores from the NFL combine.
Fantasy Outlook: The Broncos already have a short to intermediate technician in Emmanuel Sanders, so it is likely that slot receiver Addison is used more as a situational gadget player. Those kind of guys rarely pay dividends in fantasy on any consistent basis. Add in the fact that all of the QBs are new, and there are several developmental WRs in the pipeline and it’s hard to imagine Addison seeing much time as a rookie other than maybe on special teams. The preseason should bring some clarity to the WR corps in Denver, but Addison’s prospects are murky at best right now. He’s certainly not anyone we are keeping an eye on for 2016 redraft purposes. Addison comes into play for deep, 16-20 team dynasty leagues as a late-round, developmental flier for taxi squads.
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when are you going to update the rookie rankings?
you mean the cheat sheet or the rankings?
cheat sheet
it’s getting updated this week. Will likely be up in the next two days.
It’s up.
To Byron :
I felt great after hearing your latest mock on Sundays show. We wound up with several of the same guys, which had me stoked to be on the same wave length as a FF pro.
I have been getting the same draft spots on all 4 of my mfl 10 leagues ( right in the middle either 5-6×2 or 7) in each of them no one took a SINGLE RB NOT ONE !
This is maddening, so in this last league I decided to punish these cockamamie dipsh*ts by taking BPA (and peeking at the value grid).
The last one I was 7 spot–
In previous drafts I took gurley – Johnson and leveon (supreme rapper)
This one, I thought I would avoid bells injury problems, gurleys weak team, and David Johnsons question marks with CJ0K back.
Played it safe by picking AP
then PRAYING this motley crew of trend following drafters, didn’t take Davonte Freeman, and they didn’t!
followed it up with
-Kelvin
-saw too much value in ppr not to take another rb for my flex ( and also to hog tie the field of drafters )
Chose Dion Lewis from the cheatriots.
the rest of my team
-K White
-D Parker
-Ertz
-VJAx
-Palmer
-Gates
-Snead
-Buck Allen
-Jameis
-Perkins
Rock on
solid looking team BVIC .