Pat Fantasy Dog Pound warned drafters that rookie Jalen McMillan is 'basically dead' for Best-Ball Mania purposes because Tampa projects to keep rolling out heavy 11-personnel with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin locked into every-down roles. Pat expects Emeka Egbuka (the presumptive slot starter after being taken one round earlier) to soak up the remaining snaps, leaving McMillan as the WR4 who only gets on the field in four-wide looks or when a veteran rests. Tampa ran three-wide on 74% of snaps last year (6th-highest in the NFL), but their top three wideouts accounted for 78% of the team’s targets in those sets, leaving almost nothing for the fourth receiver. Pat’s bottom line: unless either Evans or Godwin misses significant time, McMillan’s rookie year ceiling is a handful of low-volume spike weeks—nowhere near what you need at his current late-11th-round ADP.

Davis Mattek advised downgrading Jalen McMillan to waiver-wire fodder in shallow redraft and an end-of-bench hold in best-ball after Tampa spent first-round capital on Emeka Egbuka. Mattek noted McMillan mustered only a 13.4 percent target share, 1.19 yards per route run, and never topped eight targets, five receptions, or 75 yards despite separate injury absences from both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Even tight end Cade Otton produced a higher single-game volume last season. Mattek said Tampa’s decision to invest yet another premium pick at wide receiver signals the coaching staff views McMillan as a replaceable WR4, not a succession plan. With Evans still under contract for 2025 and Egbuka ticketed for slot work that overlaps McMillan’s role, the path to meaningful snaps is vanishing. He is removing McMillan from his top-200 best-ball board and recommends dynasty managers shop him before training-camp blurbs evaporate the remaining hype.

Davis Mattek recommended slashing exposure to second-year wideout Jalen McMillan now that the Buccaneers have invested first-round capital in Emeka Egbuka. Mattek pointed to McMillan’s anemic rookie peripherals—1.19 yards per route run, a 13.4 % target share and only 58 total targets—despite multiple games where both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were banged up. Even in his best outing he mustered just 75 yards on five catches, and Kade Otten actually posted the team’s highest single-game target total. Mattek added that McMillan routinely ceded snaps to practice-squad types like Sterling Shepard, signaling the coaching staff views him as depth, not a future starter. With Egbuka now locked into the long-term slot role and Evans still the primary X, Mattek has dropped McMillan outside his top-70 fantasy receivers for both Season-Long and Best Ball formats and will remain underweight unless the market lets him fall into the final rounds.