Neither NFL fans nor fantasy football ejoyers care much about Day Three NFL Draft picks … until they do.

Most of the players taken on Saturday afternoon won’t be relevant for real or fantasy purposes. Many of them won’t crack the 53-player roster come September. But a handful could become key pieces for their NFL teams and household names for the fantasy nerds out there who know more about peripheral players than most general managers.

Here’s a rundown of Day Three picks and how they might fit in their new offenses.

Thompson looks for all the world like a Mike McDaniel Special. The new Bolts offensive coordinator likes fast guys who make the spreadsheets hum, and that’s what he’s getting in Thompson, who had 1,054 receiving yards and six touchdowns in his final season at Mississippi State.

Thompson has blazing fast straight-line speed, which, unfortunately, doesn’t matter at all for wideout prospects. His speed score at the Combine was middling (54th percentile) and his college target share (23 percent) was in the 66th percentile. He was targeted on a halfway decent 23 percent of his pass routes in 2025. It’s not a hateful profile, but not an impressive one either. That’s what you usually get with a fourth rounder.

If McDaniel is intent on getting creative with Thompson and the rookie can push his way into something beyond a rotational role in the LA offense, he could be interesting in PPR formats. Here’s to hoping the 165-pound Thompson puts on a few pounds in the coming months.

Sean Payton has seen enough: RJ Harvey is going to be involved in the Denver offense this season, but not nearly as much as his backers may have wanted. That much was certain when the Broncos brought back plodding veteran JK Dobbins.

Now they have Coleman, a fourth round addition that could make the Denver backfield utterly useless for fantasy nerds. No amount of coping will change this. The dream of a workhorse Harvey is dead. It never really lived, I suppose.

Coleman, a favorite of NBC Sports college football analyst Eric Froton, has a largely overlooked profile. He comes into the league having posted a 75th percent dominator rating (percentage of total team yards and touchdowns) along with 55 receptions over his final two seasons.

Coleman did that thing where a running back is productive and no one really cares. He logged 25 rushing touchdowns over his final two seasons at Washington. Before his underwhelming 2025 season — during which he struggled with injury — Coleman was top-five in the nation in yards after contact per rush in 2024. That season he forced a missed tackle on 34 percent of his rushing attempts, one of the highest rates in the country.

He was, in a word, good. If Coleman can get back to his 2024 form in Denver he should have a real chance of being a major problem for Harvey and the oft-injured Dobbins. Coleman could be the apple of the Zero RB zealot’s eye come August.

The first rule of naming your 35-year-old quarterback the Week 1 starter in April is drafting a rookie quarterback who stinks. For Aaron Glenn, this is mission accomplished.

Klubnik will pose no threat to Geno Smith, who Glenn believes will deliver Gang Green to the promised land, or a 7-10 record after winning four of their final five games. I could spend six hours posting horrifying Klubnik stats but I'll just go with this one: He was outside the top-100 QBs in EPA per drop back last season, behind quarterbacks who were not drafted. He’s not bad. He’s terrible. Maybe one of Woody Johnson’s children thought Klubnik was “based” or something.

A Curt Cignetti merchant who lucked into 15 touchdowns on 65 catches last year at Indiana, a career season, the 23-year-old Sarratt will probably be a rotational boundary receiver in the run-heavy Baltmore offense, if he even dresses on game days.

There are not enough targets or air yards in this offense for any receiver to matter outside Zay Flowers. Sarratt has next-to-no chance of being relevant for real or fantasy football.

Now we’re talking. Bell was a spreadsheet marvel at UConn. I know he’s old for a rookie (23) but every rookie is ancient now. It’s just the way it is. His efficiency metrics should have put Bell in the first-round conversation, in one blogger’s humble, metrics-poisoned opinion.

Bell had a 92nd percentile college dominator rating. He had a 99th percentile college target share. Bell in 2025 was second in receiving yards, seventh in yards per route run, and top-20 in yards after the catch per reception. No one seemed to care, except for the Bills, who may have wanted a slot guy who can do something more than catch bubble screens.

Bell is a target commanding, missed tackle forcing, highly efficient pass catcher. I think he has a real chance of catching the attention of new Bills head coach Joe Brady and Josh Allen, who’s in desperate need of a wideout who can get open and do something with the dang ball. Bell is going to catch steam in August. Best ball bros should look powerfully into drafting him before then.

The loss of Isaiah Likely in free agency opens up some tight end snaps and maybe even some routes if the new-look Baltimore offense continues using multiple tight ends at a high rate.

That Mark Andrews and Durham Smythe will start the season well ahead of Hibner on the depth chart doesn’t mean the rookie can’t eventually carve out some sort of role. After spending time at Michigan, Hibner transferred to SMU prior to the 2024 season and became a starter, tallying 55 receptions for 804 yards and eight touchdowns across two seasons with the Mustangs.