4 Players on New Teams to Get Excited About (2023 Fantasy Football)

NFL training camps are open, and fantasy football draft season is upon us. FantasyPros analysts Derek Brown, Andrew Erickson, Pat Fitzmaurice and Mike Maher kick off a series of preseason roundtables by discussing the most interesting training camp battles, players coming back from major injuries, players who changed teams and more. And below we’ll list a few players on new teams that we’re excited about.

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Which of the players who changed teams has you most excited?

Darren Waller

Andrew Erickson: Darren Waller + Brian Daboll and 10,000 slot receivers. I like the TE’s chances of being the team’s alpha in 2023.

Rashaad Penny

Pat Fitzmaurice: It’s not a giddy type of excitement, but I loved seeing Rashaad Penny land with the Eagles. Yes, yes. Injuries, injuries. Blah, blah, blah. Penny’s medical history is concerning, but the dude is a baller. Yards per carry is a noisy and flawed stat, but it’s telling that Penny has averaged 5.7 YPC for his career and 6.2 YPC over the last two years. Now he gets to run behind an Eagles offensive line that eats broken glass for a snack. I’m enthusiastic.

Brandin Cooks

Mike Maher: I don’t trust Mike McCarthy, and I don’t feel great about Dak Prescott with former OC Kellen Moore out of the picture. But I’m somehow in on Brandin Cooks. Cooks has topped 1,000 yards receiving in every season in which he’s played 15 games or more since 2014, and he’s done so despite bouncing around the league the last several years. He’ll be in yet another new home in Dallas this season and turn 30 years old in September. But I think Cooks will be a focal point of this Dallas offense as long as he can stay healthy, despite McCarthy implying that he, um, doesn’t want to score points when asked about the differences between his style and Moore’s at the NFL Combine. Cooks is being drafted just inside the top 100 overall and just outside the top 40 WRs, but he’s been a consistent WR2 when healthy and should, despite McCarthy, be in one of the better offenses he’s played in since his time with the Rams.

David Montgomery

Derek Brown: David Montgomery will be the goal-line hammer on an offense that was second in red-zone scoring attempts per game last season. We all saw what that did for Jamaal Williams in 2022. I’m not saying Montgomery will spike touchdowns with that type of regularity, but he can definitely get to double digits, even if we’re baking in regression for this passing attack. Montgomery will also factor into the passing game, which Williams never did. The ceiling and floor are both quite high for Montgomery in 2023.