ESPN’s Moody: Arizona RB Keaontay Ingram has ‘huge fantasy potential’

Among the many Arizona Cardinals’ offensive additions within the 2022 NFL Draft was USC working again Keaontay Ingram.

And with Chase Edmonds off to Miami, Ingram has an opportunity to earn significant snaps in an offense that ranked tenth in speeding yards (122.2 per recreation) and touchdowns (23).

On high of his potential worth on the depth chart, ESPN’s Eric Moody believes Ingram has main potential fantasy soccer upside in 12 months 1.

Keaontay Ingram, RB, Arizona Cardinals. Ingram replaces Chase Edmonds, who averaged 13.3 touches final yr and signed with the Dolphins throughout the offseason. Together with his speeding and receiving abilities, Ingram may help Arizona fill this void. James Conner was re-signed after a implausible 2021 season, however Ingram might have enormous fantasy potential in 2022 given Conner’s harm historical past.

Ingram completed with 911 speeding yards and 5 touchdowns on 5.8 yards per carry as a Senior at USC final season. He additionally added 156 receiving yards on 22 catches.

Though Moody was a fan of the Ingram choice, ESPN’s Subject Yates was not leaping for pleasure on the staff’s second-round collection of tight finish Trey McBride.

Arizona traded away its first-round decide for former Baltimore Ravens WR Marquise Brown and nonetheless had just a few positions of want heading into Spherical 2.

However as an alternative of including one other go rusher or cornerback, Arizona opted to provide quarterback Kyler Murray one other weapon in McBride.

McBride completed his four-year profession at Colorado State with 2,100 yards and 10 touchdowns on 164 catches.

TE Trey McBride to the Cardinals at No. 55. Candidly, my reply can be not one of the picks. These groups work across the clock for a full yr to get to draft weekend, and whereas it’s apparent that not all picks will work out, I can largely perceive the “why” behind them. McBride was clearly the highest tight finish on this yr’s class, however the motive I selected him right here is that Arizona ran extra units with not less than 4 receivers on the sphere than some other staff within the NFL final yr and made a steep funding in Zach Ertz. Except the Cardinals are planning to evolve right into a extra two-tight end-heavy staff, McBride may need to attend for taking part in time.

Except for Ertz, Maxx Williams might be one other title preventing for taking part in time, although, it’s unclear if he’ll be prepared. The tight finish is coming off a season-ending knee harm and is within the means of rehabbing. Head coach Kliff Kingsbury instructed reporters after the McBride choice {that a} timetable for Williams’ return was not identified.