The first fantasy football draft was held in August 1963. On November 21 of that same year, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that mandated all fantasy football analysts to produce their list of “my guys” during the NFL offseason (don’t look it up… just trust me). The rest is history.
Sixty-two years later, there are approximately one billion fantasy football analysts and one billion “my guys” lists floating in the internet ether.
But no one has ever bothered to ask who the fantasy flagplants are for NFL head coaches. You know – the guys who actually decide a player’s usage?
Fortunately for you, I watch every single press conference from every NFL head coach, offensive coordinator, and general manager. I write down all the most important quotes from those pressers, and place them into the Coachspeak Index Discord, aka “the most valuable tool in all of fantasy football.”
The following is a list of players whom NFL coaches have been talking up the most this offseason:
Chase Brown
The Bengals’ starting running back was the sexiest unsexy pick you could make in early drafts. Then Brown’s head coach began using literal sex terms to describe him, and he officially crossed the sexy pick threshold.
HC Zac Taylor (June 12): “He’s done a great job edging in there with a ton of great playmakers on offense and making himself a priority, like, we gotta get this guy the ball in as many ways as possible. And you say that with all the other weapons we already have. And so that’s just a credit to him, to find his niche and force us to have to give him the ball as many times as possible.”
