Fantasy Football: The Jets and Browns drafted some popular rookies — but will the teams sink their upside?
Matt Harmon details the fantasy football outlooks for Kenyon Sadiq, Omar Cooper Jr., KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
Dynasty fantasy football rookie drafts were thrown for a loop when a pair of Round 1 quality pass-catching talents ended up on both the Browns and Jets rosters in the top 40 picks. It’s unlikely anyone with hopes of drafting KC Concepcion, Denzel Boston, Kenyon Sadiq or Omar Cooper Jr. was hoping they’d land in those offensive ecosystems, which have struggled to produce high-end offensive output many times over the years.
Here, we’ll take a look at what’s sneakily good about both landing spots, what the potential roadblocks are and what needs to go right next year and beyond for these players to return value over the course of their careers. KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston to the Browns Why it’s sneaky fine It’s flown under the radar because the news out of the Browns' hiring cycle was messy — what a shock — but landing on Todd Monken as the head coach was a massive win for anyone invested in Browns offensive players. For multiple reasons, people don’t seem to understand how good an offensive coach Monken is.
The 60-year-old is not a young, well-groomed member of the Shanahan or McVay coaching tree but he’s had a long track record of success across different levels of the sport. Monken was a sought-after assistant in the college ranks as a passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach before jumping to the NFL in 2007 to take a receivers coach job with the Jaguars, which featured four wildly different rooms with different archetypes. He then dipped back into college, including a stint at Oklahoma State as the quarterbacks coach, which helped get Brandon Weeden drafted in Round 1, and as the Southern Miss head coach.
He then spent several seasons with the Buccaneers as the receivers coach and offensive coordinator, and led the unit to a No. 1 finish in passing yards and No. 3 in touchdowns in 2019, with Jameis Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick, who led the league in yards per attempt while majoring in Monken’s spread-and-shred philosophies.
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