Can Xavier Worthy fill the void left by Rashee Rice? | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL analyst Nate Tice discuss fantasy expectations for Xavier Worthy with Rashee Rice out with a knee injury. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Xavier Worthy.
He's not gonna replace what Rashid Rice does in this offense.
Like you could not like they can maybe get him on more of those, um like the mesh concepts they do and stuff like that, more of those crossing routes than let him run, but he does not have the physicality to do that.
And so far, um Nate, what we've seen out of worthy the first four games is it's a lot of clear out stuff.
It's a lot of vertical routes and not a talk about, not a real deal big boy route tree.
So I don't know how I feel about worthy rest of season from a fantasy perspective because they're definitely gonna design things for him and shoot he can run a go route against like quarters coverage and, and rip the safeties like he did, which are, you know, talk about somebody that can do that worthy can do that.
Mahomes can do that.
Those are gonna happen.
But like in terms of base base routes and, and kind of that typical, let's move the offense.
I don't really know where Xavier Worthy uh fits there, you know, based on both his college profile and what I've seen so far in the NFL, what you said, it's not a 1 to 1 with rice.
Rice.
Rice is so much better with the ball in the sand.
It's just by size.
Uh, you know, it's explosive makes guys miss breaks tackles worthy.
Is it true?
Has to be off the ball.
Has to be in motion.
Has to be so much of his stuff has to be designed like the big plays are, he has interception where he got swallowed up against the Bangles where he ran a wheel route.
He has a touchdown on a broken coverage on a wheel route.
He has the deep post and that all of his other targets are to the right and under five yards because that were flats, crossing routes, those types of things.
It's gonna be crossing routes and bombs.
That, that's this guy, that's how he has to win in the NFL.
He's not gonna be attacking over the middle.
He's not gonna be, that's rasheed Rice's role worthy has done his role.
It's just that in a football sense, but the stats, I don't think we will ever be there for him because it's gonna be just so to catch hoping for one bomb kind of thing.
He's not a innings eater.
He's not a quantity guy, it's just bombs and underneath stuff that, that's, that's what he's gonna be.