Could Malik Nabers Become a Top 3 Wide Receiver? | Biggest Fantasy Football Takeaways & 2025 Draft Outlook for EVERY NFL Team: NFC East (Ep. 1515)

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Join Ryan Wormeli, Pat Fitzmaurice and Derek Brown as they go through their biggest takeaways from each team in the NFC East! Is DeVonta Smith underappreciated? Will Zach Ertz ever slow down? Could Rico Dowdle be a valuable member of a backfield rotation next season? What could Malik Nabers look like with a decent QB? Tune in to hear our thoughts on these key points and many more!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody.
0:01.7	Welcome into the Fantasy Pro's football podcast.
0:03.8	I'm Ryan warmly joined by Derek Brown and Pat Fitzmorest.
0:06.8	We are talking fantasy takeaways from the NFC East today.
0:11.5	We are doing a series for every division.
0:14.1	Today's episode is the NFC East.
0:16.2	Led by this season, the Philadelphia Eagles 14 and 3. The two seed in the NFC playoffs.
0:23.3	Fitz, what was your fantasy takeaway from watching the Eagles this season?
0:26.6	The Devante Smith is one of the most underappreciated fantasy performers in the league.
0:33.2	Smith did have the lowest yardage total of his four-year career this year, 833 yards after going for more than a thousand yards in both 2022 and 2020.
0:42.7	But Smith did miss four games this year and still managed to score a career high eight touchdowns.
0:49.9	He was playing in the run-heavyest offense in the league.
0:52.8	The Eagles threw the pollen only 44.3% of their offensive snaps this year.
0:58.4	And he was sharing targets with AJ Brown.
1:01.2	And yet, like Smith always stands out.
1:04.6	He's averaging 1.93 yards per outrun and 9.1 yards per target for his career.
1:10.6	Both really good numbers. He was at 9.1 yards per target for his career, both really good numbers.
1:11.8	He was at 9.4 yards per target this season. I think he's one of the five or 10 best
1:16.7	route runners in the league. And I know the run heaviness of the Eagles offense seems like this
1:23.5	intractable problem for Devante Smith. Like, it's going to be that way forevermore.
1:28.3	But one of the big reasons the Eagles were able to be so run heavy, well, two big reasons.
1:34.6	One, Sequin Barclay was so awesome and stayed healthy all year. Number two, the Eagles defense
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