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**Matt Harmon** (0:00)
What's going on, guys? Matt Harmon here. Unbelievable.
James and I finished taping around 2 o'clock, and of course, not but 30-ish minutes later, we get news that there's a wide receiver trade that James and I did not discuss on the show. Classic stuff, so I'm here with a topper before we jump to the big show with James here on the Kaishan Booty trade, going to the Texans from the New England Patriots, exchanging Jalen Reed and a 20-28 seventh round draft pick.
Yeah, not a lot of compensation for Kaishan Booty here on this one, and I think that is a little instructive for our expectations here. Kaishan Booty made some big plays for a Patriots team that a lot of people watched, and they went to the Super Bowl.
I'm not going to say he's like an overrated player or anything like that, but this is a guy who's a number three receiver, I think, in the NFL. Solid player. And actually, by the way, I think someone who can be more useful for the Texans in what's likely to be his role there than what he was as this kind of vertical sacrificial ex-receiver for the New England Patriots last season. Keishon Booty took just 8.9% of his snaps from the slot last season. That is crazy low. And this is just in the regular season last year. For the New England Patriots, I mean, that is sixth lowest among any wide receiver last year. The guy's lower than him, Ty Felton, who had 43 snaps, Tay Martin, Washington commanders, 29 snaps, George Pickens, 908 snaps, 7.6 percent. Okay, we've talked about this. George Pickens, historically, historically low slot percentage for him. Kyle Williams, 8.8 percent. New England Patriots' teammate with Keishan Booty, Keandre Lambert-Smith, and then Keishan Booty. All right, there are only seven guys who had a slot rate lower than 10 percent last year. Booty is one of those seven guys. The seventh, by the way, is Rashad Bateman from the Baltimore Ravens. Those are pretty much just like your sacrificial ex-receivers except George Pickens who's unbelievable. So I think that there's a chance that Booty is almost, well, he's almost certainly going to play more Z receiver for the Texans than he would have for the New England Patriots, at least what he did last year. I think based on Booty's college charting, I did write him up as a prospect. I thought he fit more as like a Z slot type of player in the NFL.
Wasn't a prospect I was incredibly high on. I had him as a day three player. He went in day three.
Again, I think he can be useful in that Z slot role for this team. Of course, I am always super interested if we ever see Nikko Collins move more around the formation, used as more an off ball player in motion the whole deal rather than just stuck at just the X receiver spot. Of course, I am still interested in that. That being said, I've at least heard that they are not super interested in moving him away from that X receiver position. They want him just focused on that role, not overloading him the whole deal. You can think what you want about that, but that's where we're at with that one. Again, I think that we'll see if that means Booty is going to play Z. I do think he'll be better, like more useful in that role. And honestly, I mean, the reality of what we saw with Kaishan Booty last season, this is not a guy who's going to be a high volume player. If he continues to play as just a pure boundary option. I mean, Kaishan Booty was just, he was targeted on 12% of his routes last year. Again, a flanker position could help that bump up. Using him as a Z, we could see that bump up, but he's not a guy that is a high, high target player, at least by his own what we've seen so far. I obviously have not completed his Reception Perception profile just yet. He will be among the next group that I dropped, so I might change my opinion on some of this if he turns in like an outrageously good rest of the sample. But what we've got so far is like, I think he's good hands, strong at the catch point, just not a consistent separator necessarily. But again, I'm open to the fact that he can be more useful at Z. The reality is like the Texans basically give up nothing for him. This trade makes all the sense in the world for them.
And I still think that Jalen Noll is more likely to be like the second receiver in terms of like a threat on the team, is my guess. I still remain really high on Jalen Noll. Even if he's not going to be the Z and two receiver sets, I think he ultimately will be really involved in this offense. A good player. I'm still really confident in Jalen Noll having a nice second season, whether he's a big time fantasy pick. It's a whole nother discussion. On the Patriots side of things, I think this is interesting because last year, the Patriots, like I said, ran out Keishon Booty as their ex-receiver. This year, they added two guys who last season were primary exes, AJ Brown and Romeo Dobbs.