Zay Flowers vs Brian Thomas Jr.

[Peteey84]

Which side would you rather have?

Flowers or Brian Thomas Jr/251st

[BucBuc]

I’d rather have a 2025 1st over flowers so free BTJ sounds awesome

[blemly]

I’d rather have a 2025 1st over flowers so free BTJ sounds awesome

Depends on the 1st for me, but yea BTJ more than makes up for it.

[TheTroll]

OMG, this is a gift BTJ side easy

[Menace2010]

Smash!

I'm high on BTJ, but even if I'm totally wrong and he misses, you still get a 1st.

[Anteaters]

I'm not that high on BTJ, and I'd accept the deal. It's like two re-rolls of Zay when a player like him would only call for 1 re-roll.

[tstafford]

I'm not that high on BTJ, and I'd accept the deal.

x2

[kellysheroes]

thats crazy

[Mr. Reid]

I'm not that high on BTJ, and I'd accept the deal. It's like two re-rolls of Zay when a player like him would only call for 1 re-roll.

I think the value is good, but not sure it’s a strong as everyone on here is saying. Flowers had a strong rookie season, feels like he’s clearly the WR1 in Baltimore.

[CGW]

That's a strong return for Flowers. I'd much rather have Zay than BTJ, but the 2025 1st more than makes up for it.

[Anteaters]

I'm not that high on BTJ, and I'd accept the deal. It's like two re-rolls of Zay when a player like him would only call for 1 re-roll.

I think the value is good, but not sure it’s a strong as everyone on here is saying. Flowers had a strong rookie season, feels like he’s clearly the WR1 in Baltimore.

Being the WR1 on a team under a regime (coach+GM) that's had a 1000yd receiver one year out of the last seven seasons doesn't necessarily guarantee the production we might assume from another team's WR1. Both during and before Lamar, Harbaugh simply isn't the sort of coach who airs it out. Even going back to 2016 for another 1000yd season, Mike Wallace only barely made it with 1017 yards. It's been 11 years since a WR had 1100 yards in Baltimore under Harbaugh.

That doesn't bode well for Flowers becoming a fantasy stud WR. He can be a useful piece on a fantasy team, but it is unlikely he puts up the sort of numbers comparable to the Top 12 WRs. Flowers was a high-end WR3 in 2023. He might improve those stats a bit, but I don't think it's possible for Flowers to do much better than low end WR2, especially now that Andrews is healthy and Henry is the RB1.