Fantasy Football Weekly 2019 Week 1

many of those twenty five years. Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. Hello, guys, good to be here. Church. What's up Church? Let's do this thing. Let's do it. If you're new to the show, we really hit our stride in the regular season when we break down all the NFL matchups fantasy style and now in August. It's all about helping you dominate your draft, your a shin, and really just adding fund the world's

best pastime, Fantasy football. Today, we will get you up to speed on all the notable offseason moves, will highlight the training camp battles you need to follow, will answer some of the toughest questions out there and roll through our Dynasty and Empire rookie rankings as well. Guys, I want to start with some some newer news, and that's reports out of Dallas, including coming directly from Jerry Jones, that the Ezekiel Elliott holdout could extend into the regular season.

At this stage, it's still early. But what is your level of panic and what are you recommending for people who are drafting now. The level of panic was high a week ago. It's even higher now, especially now that Jerry Jones has realized you don't need a league leading rusher to win the Super Bowl, or so he says, even though the last time the Cowboys won the Super Bowl they had a leading US but leading Roser and Emtt Smith. Yes, they have some able bodies there in Dallas.

There there no Zeke Elliott, but uh, Tony Pollard, rookie they drafted in the fourth round out of Memphis, has three three down potential. And you know, in this day and age, it's a passing league more so than a running league. And uh they say this holdout could last months, and I believe it. Yeah, if you're if you're drafting right now in a Best Ball league or something, I don't know how you take Zeke in the top five. You know, his his ADP is a top three, top

four overall kind of guy. And with with this news, I just it doesn't sound good. I don't I don't know when I would take him, Brian, I don't know if you have any thoughts on that. Would you take him like late first at this point? Would that be worth the risk? Yeah, at this point he might be falling behind the Joe Mixons and Dalvin pres of the world that are much more secure in their their job

at this point. So yeah, this is uh, there's a major cause for concern here for Zeke owners and uh clearly behind Kamara, McCaffrey, Barkley for me and yeah, I've got I'm I will take the contrary position that says it's too early to panic here. The season is still over a month away. That's a lot of time, a lot of pressure on both sides of this, And there's a temptation to say, well, look at Levan Bell. If Levian Bell did it, anybody can do it. Let's remember

this levy On Bell wasn't under contract Zeke is. That's a big difference. That's forty dollars a day and fines. Um, it's a year of old service lost. He's got a lot more to lose here. And I'm not ready to say yet that the Levy on Bell example, is going to be what happens most of the time. So I've moved Zeke down to number four in my teach sheet, but I'm not moving him down into that next year

running backs yet. It I just feel like there's too many things that can happen, and and that really Zeke doesn't have all the same kind of leverage the Levy on Bell does. What I find out, how this one goes down. What about Melvin Gordon? Are you worried about him yet? Um? In some ways, I'm more worried about Melvin Gordon to to be honest, Um, the situation there is a is a little bit different than that. I think they've got more capable and regular backups that have

proven themselves able to power at all that offense. Um. But Gordon's situation is what worries me is he said no to a ten million to flat, no to at ten to twelve million dollar offer per year. That's great running back money. And if that's not enough, I'm I'm nervous about what will be enough. Now. The hope is that ten to twelve means that they're already closer than we know, but there doesn't seem to be anything coming there. And um, and I've moved Gordon down pretty precipitously right now.

He's running back eleven on my on my cheat sheets. So I've I've got I've got a fair amount of of of consternation over over Melvin Gordon, but still thinking in the long run, both guys a week one, I do expect both guys will be suiting up for their teams. That's not stopping people who own both running backs from hitting the bottle heavily tonight, because this is some bad

news for those who correct. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm in an Empire League where I've got I've got two running backs on my roster and one of them is Zeke and I'm Sweaton right now, I'll tell you that much. Just hope that it turns out this way. Let's move. This is our first show of this season. Let's recap some of the key offseason moves from last off season. For anybody who's snoozing in the off season that you know you're not following every single move and a grandular level.

And now here it is regular season and you want to get up to speed on all the notable changes that have happened, the key guys that have got a new home. Let's attack this on a per position basis, starting at the quarterback position. Guys. All right, well, we're actually lucky that the Zeke news broke. Otherwise we'd be kicking the show off with news of well sort of news. But we'll be talking Nick Foles football season. He's he's the following act. So but Nick Foles has gone from

Philly to Jacksonville. Uh, really only viable in super flex or two quarterback leagues. You're not going to be drafting Nick Boles and standard one quarterback leagues. A f C South teams Houston, Indian Tennessee combined to allow less than one and a half passing touchdowns for the game. That's the bulk of the sched for the Jaguars. Biggest set folds um season total for touchdowns at nineteen and a half, that's just gross. If that's your under, that's brutal. So

that's that's about enough for Nick Foles. Whose else? We got CB you know he's going to be You watch, Nick Foles is going to be one of those waiver wire bye week quarterbacks that's never on a roster till the bye weeks roll around, and then somebody's got to replace their starter, and you know that'll be I think that'll be it for Nick Foles. Yeah, hopefully our next guy will just flat out never be on rosters. This

is Joe Flacco now of the Broncos. Man. We thought we were finally done with Joe Flacco last year in Week eleven when he gave up his starting job to Lamar Jackson. But now, somehow, some way still has a starting job. It looks like he's gonna be a starter in Week one in Denver. Feels like he's just keeping

a seat warm for rookie Drew Lock. But Lock did not look very good in the Hall of Fame game last night, and he's behind Kevin Hogan on the depth chart, So it could be more Joe Flacco this year for the Broncos than anybody really wants to see. But really nothing to see here from a fantasy perspective, Flacco has never finished higher than the QB twelve From a fantasy perspective in his career, and that was many, many years ago.

In the recent past, it's more like, you know, QB twenty six, just nothing to see here, even even in two quarterback or flex leagues. Well, let's keep up with these days of of Joe Flacco, like launching those long touchdown passes. Man, those were a long time ago, weren't they.

It's you know, he's you know, there's no I don't think there's a there's a lot to like their Unfortunately, go ahead, Brian, Well, I was just gonna say, we're gonna stick with the theme of fantasy or relevance unfortunately for a fantasy show and talk about Ryan Patrick and Josh Rosen, the dynamic duo of quarterbacks. Well, I know, okay, Well, I shouldn't have done that in the first show. I've

ad be smirched ste Beard. I apologize. Charges Yes, you have fantasy relevant Okay, Well, you know, look, I'm a I'm a Fitzpatrick apologist. Great, and especially from a fantasy standpoint, because I don't I don't care about the four interception games. I love the four touchdown games that he just slings the ball unconscious downfield, doesn't care what happens. I love that kind of aggression. And you look at remember how good he was to those first four games of last year.

He was Fantasy Football's highest scoring quarterback through three weeks. He can get it done from time to time and maybe even in Miami. Yeah, those games are really easy to pay, those four touchdown games. Or Fitzpatrick, well, there's no there's no Mike Evans and Chris Godwin to Sean Jackson who was on Tampa Bay last year. On Miami, the receiving core far inferior to that of Tampa Bay. But Fitzpatrick should get the start, uh come week one. But you'd like to think or they would like to

see Josh Rose and take over there. But again, this is really a super flex two quarterback conversation or cheap DFS play option. Come week one, we'll talk some more Stu Beard than last quarterback. Let's glaze over this one as quickly as we possibly can. Case Keenum moves the Broncos to the Redskins this year, where he to just like Joe Flacco who's now in Denver, is holding them, just holding the seat warm until a rookie quarterback can

take over. Dwayne Haskins actually maybe in the running to take over as soon as Week one, but right now Keenum is number one on the on that depth chart. But again, nothing to see here from a fantasy perspective. It's a bad offense. There's nobody to throw to Paul Richardson as their protected projected number one wide receiver. You've got Josh Josh Dockson, Trey Quinn. Just nothing to see here for the Redskins in general and certainly for Keenum.

I'm I'm more anticipating seeing what Dwayne Haskins can do if and when he takes over that starting job. And it doesn't help that Trent Williams, They're all star left tackle, is threatening to hold out into the season as well, and that's uh, that would be a massive loss if they're not able to come to terms with him, and he may he may be fed up with this organization in a way that Kirk Cousins was. It's very possible.

So let me ask you, guys that Washington, if I were to give you Washington or miam for the lowest scoring offense in the NFL, which would you take? Man? Can we take both and neither none of the above? I always said, if you're going to remove one team from fantasy football this season and no one would miss a player, it would be Washington. Washington Hair Ever Miami. Yeah, it's it. If it's not those two, I don't you know, it's somebody that's going to suffer like a quarterback injury.

I mean it's I think it's those two teams in a runaway. Let's go to the running back position. Who's got a new face in a new place. All right, we got some big names here. Finally we'll start with Levan Bell. Uh, everyone knows is what the Jets. Now Bell last played football some five and fifty days ago. Uh, personally, that makes me very nervous. Um kind of puts uh now, Zeke's in this nervous territory with me and Levian Bell. Actually where I'm liking Joe Mixing and Dalvin Cook over

guys like this personally. Um, the Jets were top twelve in rush attempts last season, but Bob three in receptions. Um, you know Bell has made his hey catching the ball throughout his career. Those numbers should go up in that offense. Sam Donald's second year, it's just the extended absence makes me nervous, and really only time will tell if Levan Bell will recapture, you know, the glory days of old, which had become old nearly two years ago. So time

will tell, you shall see. Yeah, he says he's good for five hundred, five hundred touches this year, and you know, when that Jet's offense, they probably wouldn't mind doing that, and and the opportunity counts for a lot. But you know, he's not also not running behind a Steelers level offensive line, and he doesn't have Ben Roethlisberger to and Antonio Brown

and Juju Smith Schuster to distract defenses either. So it doesn't seem like we're going to get nearly as the level of productivity that we had when he was in Pittsburgh, although his adp is is trending to the first round, so you know, we'll have to we'll we'll see. There are people that that definitely are backing the old Levy on Bell now that he's in New Yea. He used

to have it at the running back position. Bell has gone to Twitter to publicly lobby for fantasy owners to take him apologize for last year, and by the way, Bell has nothing to apologize for he told everybody he was going to hold out. You know, he was like, you know this thing, you know, he never he was. He was the guy who was playing the hardball card from from the beginning, and fantasy units just didn't want to believe it could happen. I heard he ran the

conditioning test twice too. He's just trying too hard at this point, the proof that he's ready, he's a little nervous overcompensating. All right, Let's move to the next guy in the list. It's Mark Ingram, who moves from New Orleans to Baltimore, where he will be a bell cow for the first time in many years maybe in his career. Of course, in New Orleans he had to split time

with Alvin Kamara, specifically in the receiving game. But Ingram has shown in the past that he can catch the ball, and again, there is just almost no competition whatsoever in this Baltimore backfeard. There's there's Gus Edwards, who kind of flamed out last year when given an opportunity. There's Kenneth Dixon who hasn't done anything in the three or four years that he's been in the league. There is a rookie Justice Hill, who I think has some upside and

could potentially could be a pass catcher. But this is a good opportunity for mark Ingram, and he's a he's a pretty a pretty nice value play right now in terms of average draft position. Just the twenty one running back taken forty two overall, So you can get a guy in the fourth round who looks to be a bell cow. Uh. You know, he's being taken just ahead of guys like Philip Lindsay Sony Michelle, Kenyan, Drake uh and behind Josh Jacobs and and and carry on Johnson.

So uh, many of those guys have a lot more question marks than Ingram does in terms of his role in Baltimore. So I kind of like Ingram as a as a little bit of a value play if you if you skip running back in the first couple of rounds. Yeah, I agree with everything you just said. I think the's I think he's gonna be on all those guys that you begrudgingly taken the fifth round and then lo and behold, it's a guy that you're happy to have in your lineup every week. Let's go to our next, our next

running back with a new face new place. Well, old face. I mean, you don't really change your face when you change cities. Well still petifically, he's still pretty young, though. I think he's the only about there's room for facial change. Okay, and that's Tevin Coleman. We was speaking of another guy, A great target if you're gonna avoid running back in the first several rounds. Some might call that doing the opposite right Church, but Coleman a great Uh do the

opposite back? Reunites with Kyle Shanahan, who was his offensive coordinator in the Falcons in San Francisco. Now his where Coleman is playing sort of a crowded backfield there with Matt Brada and Jack McKinnon. But McKinnon already hurt, uh, in danger of getting cut. And we all remember Breeda was banged up every week last year. So McKinnon is the odds on favorite to be the lead back. And uh, you know, Shanahan went out and got him for that reason.

And remember when McKinnon before we got hurt last year, he was going in like the third fourth round of drafts because everyone was so excited using the Shanahan offense. Uh, Coleman is not getting that kind of love, and you should be. He's going in the fifth, sixth round. So Coleman getting undervalued on draft day in my opinion, and he has true bell cow potential. If McKinnon and to go down, you're looking at a easily a top seven

eight running back if this offense goes off. Here's why I can't agree with you, and it's because Matt Breed is good. Matt Breed is really good. Um when he you know, I think when healthy, he runs harder than anything I've ever seen from Tevin Coleman. And I think at the end of the day, the best running back

they've got is Breeda, not Coleman. And yeah, I'm I worried that he's constantly hurt, of course I am, um, and I don't count on him to to stay upright for the whole season, but I'm I'm nervous that when ultimately they need and they want to win in San Francisco, they're gonna play their best back, and I think that's gonna be Matt Breedall find out training camp battle to

watch what else we got it running back? Let's go to Jordan Howard, picked up by the Eagles from the Bears in exchange for a sixth round pick during the off season. Now, this is a this is a case study for the foolishness of Twitter during training camp. If you go to Twitter right now and search for Jordan Howard and Miles Sanders, you will find half of the

full on each side of this debate. Half of the people are saying, Jordan Howard's taking all the all the looks with the number one offense, He's gonna you know, he's gonna get eighteen to twenty touches. People are, people are really sleeping on Jordan Howard, and the other half are saying Miles Sanders is easily the best running back in Eagles camp, and blah blah blah. So it's it's hard to kind of it's hard to kind of cut through, uh some of that bs. But you know, I think

Howard is certainly going to be involved. Sanders is certainly going to be involved. My worry is that Sanders is capable of taking a lot of the handoffs, which back in Chicago, when Jordan Howard was sharing touches with Tarik Cohen, Cohen was much more of just taking the receptions. Uh So Howard got two seventy touches. Last year, he was the he was a top twenty running back. But I think there's more downside this year than there has been in the past, just because Sanders is a guy that

can do it all. He is capable of doing it all. So I just think Jordan Howard's UH floor is much lower this year than it has been in past years. They're both being selected in the same round. I believe they're in the seventh round right now, according to a DP. Yeah, Miles Sanders and Jordan Howard both in the seventh round. I would take Sanders personally, just because I'm all about playing for the upside, even if it takes five or

six weeks. Yeah, what we what we do know is Doug Peterson has tipped his hand repeatedly on on how he likes his running backs, and that's in a rotation. So I I think we know what Doug Peterson is all about in its rotational runners, and I think that's what we're gonna get again. Guys, any any other running backs left? Yeah? One more worth noting Latavius Murray now with the Saints. Mark Ingram just left for Baltimore. As CP mentioned earlier, vacated a hundred and sixty touches from

last year. But don't forget Ingram is four games because of suspension. Prior to last year, Ingram average well over two hundred touches for the Saints and Murray two hundred touches easily in sight for him. Saints running backs were third in rush attempts and fifth in receptions last year. Kamara is certainly the lead back right now, but Murray will see his fair care of fair share of carries, especially near the goal line. One would think um probably

the most important handcuff in fantasy football. Who could uh Philip le spot in some weeks as well too. Yeah, and the only other guy on my on my list that I think is is somewhat relevant here is u is Kareem Hunt, who of course went from the Chiefs

to the Browns. We know that he's sitting out the first eight games of the season with with that suspension, but it's gonna be really fascinating to see how the Browns use him once he once he returns in Week A. They of course have Nick Chubb, who everybody loves and and I agree after after what he did last year as a rookie, but I mean Hunt, Hunt is one of the best running backs in the NFL. So when he comes back in Week nine, the Browns are absolutely

going to use him. So it's gonna be fascinating to see what happens here. As a fantasy owner in a you know, just a typical redraft, uh season long league, I don't know that you can afford to sit on Kareem Hunt for eight weeks. You might be out of the running by then. But in dynasty leagues, he certainly is a little bit, uh actually a lot more intriguing in a dynasty format for me, you know, I'll uh.

The part I like about Kareem Hunt is this, even if you do, even if you get to a point where you can't afford to sit on him and your team's losing, you can trade him to a contender and basically tell this, tell this contending team, I am going to give you, arguably, you know, the one of the five best running backs in fantasy football, and I think

that's gonna be pretty compelling. He'll always be tradeable. I think Cremut will always be tradeable, So you know, if you absolutely have to drop him at some point and just you need that roster spot, or you have to make a trade and you just can't afford to have a nonstarter. I think you're gonna be able to get something for Cream Hunt, and that's why I'm drafting him in a lot of leagues, and I'm taking him around

earlier than many others. Guys will take a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about the wide receivers that have moved in the off season and who you actually need to care about in moments. All right, we have covered quarterbacks and running backs that have moved from team to team in the fantasy implications of those moves. Guys,

let's break down wide receivers and tight ends. Brian Johnson, let's begin with you give us give us your first wide receiver that is playing in a new home this year. It was somewhat big news when Odell Beckham was traded in the off season to the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, so new home in Cleveland, pairing with Baker Mayfield in what should be a very prolific offense. Really, the only concern with Beckham is he has only played sixteen games over

the last two years. That's an average of eight per season, So injuries are somewhat of a concern, but outside of that, it's not enough to sway you from aggressively targeting Beckham on draft day. The upside is just incredibly massive. I couldnot argue him being your top ranked wide receiver, your third wanked ranked wide receiver. All signs are pointing towards a monster season Rebeckham. That's all I have to say about that. Really, Yeah, my wide receiver number one overall,

Odell Beckham. Kind of the opposite situation here for Antonio Brown, who goes from the the NFL's most plific passing offense in Pittsburgh to Oakland, which was not quite as prolific last year. Steelers ranked first in passing attempts and fifth in total plays. The Raiders ranked sixteenth and pass attempts and twenty four in plays last year, and of course a pretty sizeable downgrade and quarterback play from Ben Roethlisberger

to Derek Carr. But Antonio Brown is Antonio Brown sixth straight hundred hundred catch seasons, scored double digit touchdowns and four of the last six years, so certainly is still a very fantasy relevant player, although the general public doesn't think he's gonna be able to repeat last year's numbers. He finished as the number three wide receiver in most scoring systems last year. Right now, according to the average draft position, he's the seventh wide receiver off the board,

which that feels about right for me. We know he's still an elite talent and an elite player, but the downgrade in situation makes sense to me. Did you see the pictures of his feet? No, thankfully, don't look at on Twitter. He'll drop you in his people drop him in your rankings considerably if you see his feet. It's hard. I'm I'm moving him down to wide receiver twelve. Alright, he was already out wide receiver. And by the way,

never look at a wide receiver's hands either. They've all been mutilated from catching balls for all, for all those years and stuff. It's always nasty. Don't look at don't look at any of the digits on any wide receiver. That's the lesson learned here. Let's go to our third wide receiver with a new home. Who we got the Shawan Jackson sort of a new home, more of a homecoming st in a sense, returns to Philadelphia to join another prolific offense. That really has no true standouts outside

of zach Ertz. But Jackson is a still a great deep threat um and which makes him a great best ball play because it's hard to peg when he's gonna have these monster games, and when he does, if he's in your best ball lineup on your best ball team, he'll be putting your lineup. His nineteen yard average depth of target last year led all receivers with at least

seventy targets and on catchable balls. According to you Sports Info Solutions, d Jacks led the league in PPR points per target and Jameis Winston was incredibly inaccurate last year. Carson Wentz is an upgrade over Winston, so Jackson will be a viable wide receiver three and even standard formats. But he's great and best ball this year al right, Next, particularly best ball you don't have to guess when those

long passes are going to connect in it. It's been a long time since he's had quality quarterbacking didn't have it for chunks of his time in Washington either, So it'll be fun to see what d Jacks can do their Christian Who do we got next? Yeah, let's go to Devon Funcius, who moves over to the Colts from the Panthers. At this time last year, everybody was looking at Funchius as a potential kind of breakout player after he had over eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns the

year before. That did not come to fruition under fifty catches, less than six hundred yards and just four touchdowns in eighteen, So kind of gets gets a chance to start all over again here in a prolific passing offense catching passes from Ander Luck. But there are a lot of mouths to feed in India. Of course, he'll be behind t Y Hilton and the wide receiver packing order. Indianapolis also has a couple of very good tight ends and an

intriguing rookie and wide receiver pair s Campbell. So honestly, no guarantee that Funcious is any more than the fourth or fifth option in this passing game. So not a lot to love here for Funcious couldn't be less interested that. I mean, you could give me twenty eight rounds before I'm going to consider having Funchs for my fantasy team.

All right, who do we have left? So? John Brown probably makes the most lateral move catching passes from Lamar Jackson and now we'll be catching passes from Josh Allen and Buffalo Um And for a guy who only runs vertically, by the way, but smokey Smoky Brown has shown flashes of brilliance in his career with Arizona and Baltimore at times, but injuries have always plagued him. But he's healthy now and reports at a campus he's the most impressive player

by far. But again, the equality of the targets he'll be fighting for with his A Jones and Robert Foster might not be all that great coming from Josh Allen, but this is a wide receiver battle. We might talk about it a little later in the show. So I will concede to Christian. Now, yeah, let's go to Dante Moncrief, who is the presumed replacement for Antonio Brown in Pittsburgh.

Came over on a two year, nine million dollar contract, has been running as the number two guy opposite Juju Smith Schuster early on in training camp, so it looks like he's going to be the guy. Moncrief a guy again who has burned fantasy owners basically throughout his career. Everybody has seemed to think he has all kinds of upside and we just haven't seen it, so I don't know. Do we think he can do it? Now? In Pittsburgh?

Antonio Brown leaves behind a hundred and sixty eight targets from last year, so somebody's going to have to pick those up in Pittsburgh and not a ton of not a ton of competition their second year guy James Washington and a rookie a rookie to deal with there too, So uh, this will be interesting to watch in in training camp, which we'll discuss a little bit later as well. Alright, any wide receivers left before he moved to tight end? Real quick? I'll mentioned Tyrolle will Williams on Oakland now

previously with the Chargers. He is a beast at six four, mostly underwhelmed with the Chargers, he was fighting for targets in a very crowded offense. The offense in Oakland and not his crowded. So Williams is the number two standing alongside Antonio Brown, so should seen improvement of numbers for him. Al Right, do we have any who are the tight ends that have moved that we actually care about? I got I got one guy in mind, alright, Good, maybe's

hear what you got. Maybe this is it. Jared Cook to the Saints from Oakland's coming off coming off a career year last year. In fact, career has and catches, yards and touchdowns, almost seventy catches, almost nine yards and six touchdowns, So very good season for Jared Cook signs on for two years with the Saints for fifteen million dollars. Now, the Saints, they really haven't had a relevant fantasy tight ends since Jimmy Graham left in which is kind of

interesting to me. The Saints just sort of they kind of just sort of change their offense depending on what kind of skill set they have with their past catchers. It'll be interesting to see here if they actually focus back on the tight end again now that they have a quality player like Jared Cook. I'll mention this one.

Jesse James leaves Pittsburgh, and I don't care that he went to Detroit, but I care a lot that Vance McDonald has an opportunity to get the lion's share of the tight end targets now without sharing them in Pittsburgh, and that makes him an intriguing possibility as well. Guys, Let's let's take a break and when we come back, let's talk through the f C and NFC training camp battles and talk about the positional battles that fantasy players

need to know about when we return. Thanks again for listening. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and my co host Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. We just broke down all the offseason moves by position. Let's look at the training camp battles that are out there and the ones that fantasy players need to pay attention to.

And by the way, I'll note this, four weeks from now, when we're doing our last preseason show of Fantasy Football Weekly, we're gonna come back to these exact same training camp battles and tell you who won each one of these. So we'll have resolution, or we believe we will come early September and we'll go to we'll talk through these same training camp battles. Then let's begin on the a f C side. And Christian Peterson, what's our first training

camp battle. Yeah, let's start with the Baltimore Ravens wide receivers. Really, all of them are kind of up for grabs here. They lost their last two wide or their top two wide outs from last year, and John Brown and Michael Crabtree didn't replace them with much other than rookies they did take. They did take a couple of rookies within the first three rounds. The first one was Marquise Brown, five seventy pound speedster, who unfortunately is just getting back

on the field now. He missed a lot of the offseason program recovering from a from a foot injury, so it'll be interesting to see what he does in training camp. The other guy, Myles Boykin, is generating a ton of hype right now. He's a six four twenty pound physical specimen ran a four four at the combine, and Baltimore Beat writers have labeled him one of the most impressive

players in Ravens camp in the early going. So right now, Boykin might have the inside track as kind of the number one wide receiver, but with only Willie Snead and a bunch of other cast off veterans to battle these guys out, I think both of these rookies are going to see significant playing time in Baltimore, but we'll see by the end of training camp. Yeah, we need Markey's Brown to get through that foot injury, get on the field and prove that he's ready to go for Week one.

Right now, he's It's hard to draft either guy. We could also it would also help if we saw Lamar Jackson throw a little bit better. Let's go to the NFC side, Brian, give us your next training camp battle. Well, we discussed this earlier, but we'll touch on it again real quick. The Eagles backfield situation, which primarily comes down to Miles Sanders versus Jordan Howard. Everyone expects Sanders to

eventually lead that team in touches. But the one thing all through out there that we didn't talk about earlier is I've heard reports at a camp that Sanders might be a little more behind than people wanted to be because he did miss O t a s so it could be a slower start for him than people are expecting. And even and the real question is, though our significant touches in Philadelphia significant fantasy football because of the platoons

Doug Peterson always runs out there. The last running backs it saw Bell cow usage in Philly with a Shawn McCoy and before that, Brian Westbrook. But those are Andy Reid's guys. He's long gone, so really, see how this placed through in camp. Sanders looks like a special player. But how soon he gets that opportunity? Only time will till All right, let's go to the a f S back to the FC side, Christian, Yeah, I'm gonna go to Buffalo here where we have a mess at the

running back position. We have the incumbent Lashawan McCoy, the undead corpse of Lashawn McCoy versus the undead corpse of Frank Gore, versus third down back t J Yeldon versus rookie Devon Singletary. This is an absolute mess right now. Of course, McCoy comes in seemingly as the incumbent, coming off the worst season of his career three point two yards per carry last year. Frank Gore is now thirty

six years old. Uh, seeming Lee won't go away. And then you've got Devin Singletary, who's got to be the most intriguing guy here. He's a rookie pick, just one pick after David Montgomery and the third round of the NFL draft. He right now is being picked in the thirteenth round of fantasy drafts, compared to David Montgomery of

the Bears, who's a fifth rounder. So if single Terry, who's he's He has been taking a few reps with the number one offense in the preseason here, So if he shows out well in preseason games, I think there's a there's a sneaky little sleeper here if he can somehow battle past all of these veterans. But we'll find out. The Christian I think Singletary the worry is um not built to be a goal line guy, not built to

be an every down guy. He's probably a situational player. Um, But man, he's he's slippery, he's elusive, he's fast, and you know, I think I think that there's a spot for him also be fascinating. There's a chance that l Shawn McCoy gets caught and it ends up there ends up being you know, they just don't carry all those running backs and he might be the odd man out of this, which is possible, and frankly, I think from a fantasy standpoint, the Clay, the clarity would would be welcome.

All right, let's let's go to our next NFC training camp battle. Brian, Alright, charge, calling this a battle might trigger you a little bit because you have very strong feelings for one of these guys. But I'm still gonna say there's a battle between Chris Carson and Rashad Penny in the Seahawks backfield. But it's really not a battle. The battle is how many touches will Penny steal from Chris Carson, who by all accounts was a top ten

fantasy back last year went healthy. Um. As for Penny, the only reason Seattle really will put him on the field, as they invested first round draft capital in him last year, really didn't didn't get a shot to prove himself. Um, he did look good when healthy. That was very sparingly last year for Penny. Uh. Carson should lead this team in touches to start the season, but Penny could close the gap. I know you probably feel differently about that. You care to weigh in on the charge because you

are probably higher? Yeah? I do, because yeah, I have. I have Chris Carson higher than almost everybody just because the eye test. He I thought Carson looked really good last year. And I've got to miss my sixteenth running back overall. Um. And frankly, if we were just on, if there wasn't a first round pick in Rishonde Penny even higher. Um, And we do see situations where rookie running backs look a lot better in your two Tampa Bay's you know, telling us that story about Ronald Jones.

In Denver, they're telling us that story about about uh Freeman, Royce Freeman, and so you know, maybe Penny is a much better back in year two, because that does happen sometimes with running backs. But I know that my eyes tell me that Chris Carson is a good runner, and he's got the confidence of that coaching staff, and I think he's going to get the majority of the work.

Let's go to the FC side. What's our next training camp battle, Christian, Yeah, I'm gonna stick in Buffalo this time for the wide receivers, where we've got John Brown, Za Jones, and Robert Foster all sort of scrabbling this see who who was sends to the top of the pecking order there. Of course, Brown we talked about a little bit. Came over on a twenty seven million dollar contract for three years, so I think he's he's going to be your guy. Shocking shocking money for a guy.

And then Zay Jones lead the bills and catches yards and touchdowns last year. Not that that was really saying much. I think the most intriguing guy here really is Foster, who came on late last year. He had three touchdowns and three games of at least ninety four yards in the final six games of last season, but now has seemingly probably because of the acquisition of Brown, he's been

running with the two's uh in camp. But uh, you know, we'll see what happens here, and again, there may not be a ton of upside here, but Foster is the guy that seemed to show some rapport with Josh Allen towards the end of last year, so maybe he'll be able to jump up in the preseason and get a starting job. I agree with all that. Let's go to the NFC Brian Uh. Staying with the running backs in Washington, we have Darius Gice versus Adrian Peters and uh, this

is really guys versus his quads. Those things look very overflated and looked like they could explode in any second. Um. I mean, he did tweak him in July, so he's he's already he's already got caused for concern with those things. Um, but easy to remove from a c L surgery. Guys that is Washington would love to see him stay healthy and win this job that Peterson refuses to go away. Last year approved he had plenty of gas left in the tank. Uh he finished top fifteen among running backs

in miss tackles and yards after contact. But really, this might not be a great job to win for either of these guys you mentioned earlier. Chart Trent Williams, all pro left tackle might sit out the season, is willing to sit out the season. That would just drop this line down significantly. If I'm picking a running back from Washington in a in a PPR league, it's actually Chris Thompson who is going to steal all the passing work from both of these guys and comes that you know,

last round discount and draft. So that's the winner of this battle in my mind is Chris Thompson between guys and Adrian Peterson used to take a may and if you go elsewhere altogether, I'm not taking a leap. So yeah, there you go. Makes sense. Let's let's go back to Christian. Who do you get what's an next training camp battle the a C. Well, this one's a little interesting, I guess technically right now you would say this is the

backup running back job for the Chargers. However, depending on what happens with Melvin Gordon, the winner of this job could be extremely fantasy relevant. It's Austin Ekeler against Justin Jackson. Ekeler, I think is clearly the guy here. He should be. At least, he's averaged five and over five point two yards per carrying his two year career. Last year he had nine how about that, Austin five yards per gary and last year had nine and fifty combined rushing and

receiving yards and six touchdowns playing behind Melvin Gordon. So imagine what he could do if Melvin Gordon was out of the picture. But there is talk that Ekeler isn't isn't well suited to be the every down back, so Justin Jackson will probably be involved in some way. But again we'll see how this shakes out during training camp. Yeah,

I I agree with that sentiment. I don't think Keler is built to be a workhorse style back, and I think he's his best his best usage is in that you know, ten to fifteen touches per game range where he can still be uber effective like he has been, and he was. He was a guy that you could you could start as a flex starter last year, and you're right. If the things go belly up on on the hold out with Melvin Gordon, that's that whole situation.

It's very interesting. Let's go back to the NFC, Brian, I was gonna bring up the San Francisco running backs again, but we went into those guys in pretty good detailed earlier in the show. So let's talk about the Bucks backs, Peyton Barber versus Ronald Jones, who was in his second year. Barber was the lead back last year, but he was probably one of the worst running backs in the league. If you look at the numbers, he averaged just three point nine yards per touch last season. That was good

enough for fifty first amongst sixty qualified running backs. Jones was drafted thirty eight overall by Tampa Bay last year, but barely saw the field whether he was injured or not. There was some healthy scratches thrown in for Jones, so he just clearly wasn't ready to play last year. Early reports at the camp he's looking more ready to play, has put on some um, some weight, has bolt up a little bit. But again, just like Washington, this is a job I don't know if you want to win.

Tampa Bay figures to be very past heavy this year with lots of negative game strip game scripture. It's running backs that returning four or five starters on their offensive line, which was bottom five last year. So this is another you know, it'll play itself out in camp. Well, probably see Barber as the lead back come Week one, but Jones will probably close that delta as the season goes on as well. I am going to die on the

baton Barber Hill. This is a guy that I think, when I know and I'll leave me, I'll be alone on that hill. Um. Just watching him play, I really think he ran hard behind an offensive line that gave him no help whatsoever, and I don't think he left many yards on the field. And I think this is why they didn't invest a single draft pick into the running back position in the off season. I think the coaching staff from back and they looked at the tape and they were happy with what Peyton Barber did in

the situations they put him in. And I think with a much more dynamic offense now, Peyton Barber is one of my favorite guys to significantly outperform last year. I don't think until Ronald Jones shows me he can play, I don't think he's a factor, and I like Peyton Barber. Let's move on, Christian. What's our next a f C training camp battle. Let's go to Miami. At the running

back position. We've got Kenyan Drake versus Kalen Blage. Blage is the fourth round pick from last year, really couldn't even get on the field for most of the year until late in the season, and then wasn't very good after he did, and then sort of inexplicably open training camp this year running with the number one's ahead of Kenyan Drake, who a lot of people saw as a guy that might ascend, you know, into the RB one

RB two potential area for fantasy this year. But now it seems pretty clear that nobody who none of none of the various regimes that go in and out of Miami are are letting themselves trust Kenyan Drake. He's never had more than seventy five touches in his three NFL seasons, so it kind of makes sense that Bellage is going to be heavily involved here. Of course, Drake can still get it done even with only a dred and seventy

five touches. He was a top fifteen fantasy running back in points per reception formats last year, so he's gonna get it done through the air regardless. But it will be interesting to see how they deploy Bollage here in the preseason games. Yeah, I just don't think Blage is a great runner. Will prove it's wrong again. A second year guy, maybe, you know, maybe he comes in and looks like a materially better runner than the version that

we saw as a rookie. All right, back to the NFC, Brian, Alright, I have one more and finally got some wide receivers to talk about here. Well, we'll call this the Packers number two wide receiver battle between marquees Valho Scantling and Jeronimo Allison, even though it's not really a battle. Uh Valdez Scandling technically is the number two receivers will be starting on the outside with Davante Adams, but Jnalm Allison will be on the field equal amounts essentially from the slot.

It's really who's gonna outperform the other um. In eight games with Rogers last year, Geroni will Allison average well over ten PPR points per game. He was a very consistent producer. H mvs wasn't as consistent, but he's a freak athlete six four sub four four speed will certainly strike on a plenty of deep balls from Rogers. Um Alison will be the more consistent producer about this Scandling is the guy I would rather have in best Ball

because of that big play potential. Um. They're really both gonna be winners though, as long as Rogers stays healthy, because Davonte Adams is gonna more in a lot of attention and these guys are gonna run free in single coverage all year. So both I am targeting heavily in all drafts, not just one or the other. I love and Jimmy Graham not really a factor to take Nike balls away from those wide receivers either. Let's go to the a f C. Christian. Yeah, my my final battle

to watch here is also a wide receiver. This is in New England. Really it's rookie to Kiel Harry versus his own expectations or everybody else's expectations of him. Uh, there is nobody else about outside. So Julian Edelman we know is the number one wide receiver. But at number two there's Tomarius Thomas, who will probably open on the pup list recovering from an Achilles injury, Philip Dorset who was just a boring veteran, Maurice Harris, who is an

even more boring, even more veteran than Philip Dorset. So really this comes down to, you know, what are we going to see from Nikil Harry, who everybody loves in terms of his production in college, his athletic profile. You know, this guy has all the traits to become a stud but in New England, and you never know what's going to happen if he if he comes up with a case of the drop seas if he can't pick up the offense right away, he could find himself in the doghouse.

So this one I'm gonna be watching really closely. You're saying, you're suggesting that Bill Belichick has a dog, holds grudges and has a doghouse, and no, not him. So that is that is certainly the danger. And by the way, I mean, there have been numerous drops in training camp so far. It's still early and we got a month ago. But if you think the check is gonna be cool with drop balls. Oh man, no chance have you seen

Belichick's dot dog yacht before? It's very impressive. Not only a house, he has a dog mansion, dog, mansion dog. Let's release the hounds in the the NFC side again, Brian, who else? What other training gamp battles do we have? I'm tapped out on battles. Charge, I'm all battled out. Okay, alright, good, you're battled out? And Christian, do you have any left? Now?

We touched on the Dante moncrief in Pittsburgh as well, theoretically battling it out with with James Washington and then third round rookie Deante Johnson, but I think mon Creffe probably has that one wrapped up. Thankfully I didn't have to go and be Giants number one wide receiver battle between probably like Kelvin Benjamin and whoever is some other bum they would have signed because Sterling Shepherd supposedly will be ready for the season, so he is their number

one wide receive absolutely. Uh. At moments from now, we will break down the Dynasty Empire rookie drafts. What does the order we think you should take these guys in? Will answer three tough questions. You can play along as well, and it's some of the gameplay variations that can make your league's more fun. What it's a guillotine league, what's an Empire league? What's super flex? We'll answer those kinds of questions and more. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. Thanks

for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment we like to call three Tough Questions. We dive into some of the toughest questions from around the NFL. I asked my panel of experts this week, Christian Peterson, Brian Johnson three tough questions. You play along see if you can get all three correct you. Sometimes Christian and Brian go three, you know, but more often than not they don't. So we find out we always get the answers right,

but sometimes we don't go three. And oh yeah, I like how you call this experts, but then you make us feel quite the opposite answer the question. All right, let's begin with tough question number one. With Antonio Brown departed to Oakland, Juju Smith Schuster becomes the go to receiver in Pittsburgh, will Juju post more less or about the same fantasy numbers as Antonio Brown did last year?

We'll begin with Christian Well. Last year, Juju basically was better than Antonio Brown in all but a couple of categories. In all but one category, really, he had seven more catches on a hundred and thirty more yards. Touchdowns is where he trailed. Antonio Brown s accord sort of a flukey high touchdown total of fifteen and just seven for Juju.

So you know, we're looking at a guy who is basically already guaranteed not maybe not guaranteed, but he's got a very good chance of matching or exceeding Antonio Brown's totals in catches and yards. And so for me, it really just comes down to the touchdowns, and fifteen is an incredible amount of touchdowns, the most since Dez Bryant had sixteen and Brown, again he was he was heavily

targeted in the red zone. He was second in the NFL with twenty nine targets and Juju had twenty four and Flucally just didn't get just didn't get as many touchdowns. So I don't know, this is a long way of saying that I think Juju will will perform just as well as he did last year, but because of the inability to match the fifteen touchdown, so'll fall just short of Antonio Brown's numbers last year. So you're saying less

more or less are about the same. You're saying less, Yes, I'm gonna go less to Jujuu finish finished with less points than Brown did last year. I'll just add so Brown had roughly thirty forty points more than Juju last season, and standard PPR leagues, uh whopping two targets vacated by Brown's trade or on yet trade to Oakland. But you know, so you would think Jujus will absorb a ton of those targets and you can make up those thirty points.

But there's just not much more production, much more room for more production from Juju is already very heavily involved in the offense, and now he's gonna warrant more attention with Antonio Brown gone. So I just see the majority of these targets vacated by Brown going too. Donte Moncrief, James Washington, Vance McDonald, maybe even Jalen Samuel is getting used in the passing game more so for that reason, um Juju will finish just slightly under Brown's total from

last year. But I see a better year for Juju personally, alright, But so Brown leaves behind one hundred four targets and the Steelers just don't have a lot of the talent to souk up all those one D four targets. You mentioned Moncrief and you mentioned uh, I think James Washington, and you mentioned Jalen Samuel's. Those are all guys that I think are going to chip in some there um and you guys hit I think on the most sailing

part of this. Juju was targeted one D sixty six times last year, so I don't think he can possibly get targeted anymore than that when the league leaders were only at four more targets in the entire NFL than what Juju had last year. So I don't think he can get above where Antonio Brown was, but he can roughly equal it because we've already seen him turn all of these targets into a lot of yards and a lot of receptions, and all he has to do is ratchet up that you actually had more yards and more

receptions than Antonio Brown was. Ratch up the touchhowns you either get all the way to fifteen to get to the same level of fantasy points that Antonio Brown had the correct answer. Juju Smith Schuster will have about the same Fantasy points as Antonio Brown did last year. Let's go question number two. Two sophomore receivers Caroline Is DJ Moore in San Francisco's Dante Pettis head into this season

as the top receivers for their respective teams. Who is more likely to take a bigger jump in year two? Is it d J Moore or is it Dante Pettis. We begin with Brian Johnson. I love both of these guys going into their second year. Um neither had a full season sample size last year. Um More roughly half years were at the work and Pettis is half of

that half. UM So I like more sample size more and uh talking to more Among wide receivers with at least fifty targets, I'm sorry, fifty catches um more led them all in yards after the catch on a per reception basis. And if you've been watching All or Nothing, UM, you know the Amazon show, it's chronicling the panthers. They highlight More a lot, and he is tough to bring down. He bounces off people, he breats, tackles left and right. Uh.

He looks great. He's also just one of seventeen wide receivers all time to post six d plus receiving yards in a single season. At twenty one years old. He joins a list that includes names like Randy Moss and Marie Cooper, Mike Evans, Keenan Allen, Juju Smith Schuster, DeAndre Hopkins, and Josh Gordon. He has an elite talent and at the end of the day, he is likely to beat the top receiving option for his team, where Pettis will you know, play second fiddle to George Kittle in the

receiving game. For that reason, I'm going d J. Moore has the bigger jump this season. All right, Christian, what do you got? Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with Brian on this one. I think it's d J. Moore for a couple of reasons. One is, you know, we know what d J. Moore has got at quarterback. It's Cam Newton who doesn't put up elite level passing yards he's thrown for. He's thrown for more than yards and tossed more than twenty four touchdowns just once in the

last six years. But by comparison, Jimmy Garoppolo in San Francisco has thrown for two thousand and sixty eight yards and just seventeen touchdowns in his entire five year career, So we just don't know yet. We think Garoppolo is going to be pretty good, and we've seen him be pretty good in small spurts, but we just don't know yet. And then secondly this it worries me that the forty Niners spent the early portion of their draft loading up

on rookie wide receivers. They drafted a guy in the second round, Deebo Samuel, they drafted another wide receiver in the third round j heard. It feels like that feels like not the actions of a team that believes they've found their number one wide receiver in Dante Pettis. So there's just enough nagging doubt in my mind here on Pettis, though I like what he did in the second half of last year that I'm gonna go with more on

this question. The correct answer is, Dante Pettis I had a terrific six games stretch at the end of last year where he averaged sixty one yards and almost a touchdown per game. During that six game stretch. At the end of last year, he was Tyler Lockett in productivity and that type of lack. It was wide receiver fifteen last season, and he did that. Pettis did that with Nick Mullins throwing him the ball. Nick Mullins, undrafted quarterback,

third string quarterback. More meanwhile, started ten games. Funny, you guys didn't mention his touchdown total. Remember his touchdown total from last year. One he had He had one as a starter in a fluke, a fluke one At the beginning of the year when he wasn't a start, he was getting almost no time. In the ten games he started, he scored one time. Now, if you can divide one by ten, that tells you he was he scored. He was good for zero point one touchdowns per game. Zero

point one. That's it. I want a guy who can find the end zone. That is Dante Pettis. And if it comes down to Cam Newton and Jimmy Garoppolo, if this is a rushing competition at quarterback, it's no question I would take Cam Newton as a passer. Give me Garoppolo, who's got a higher completion percentage for his career, more passing yards per game over his career and more passing touchdowns per game over his career. Dante pettis the correct answer.

Let's move to our next question, tough question number three. Last year, there were only about five bona fide start worthy tight ends in all of fantasy football. How many this year are you projecting to have? How many starter worthy, bona fide starter worthy tight ends do you project this season? We begin with Christian Peterson. It doesn't look a whole lot better for me. Uh. For this year, I've got the obvious top three our Travis Kelsey, Zach Ertz, and

George Kittle in in some order. Kelsey is certainly number one, the other two in some order. Uh. And then I've got next on my list, Evan Ingram and O. J. Howard at four and five. Both of those guys, had they managed to stay healthy last year, would have been in the mix as as every week fantasy starters. I think they had both established themselves as that before their injuries. And now we know Ingram is is uh, you know, one of the best pass catchers in New York. O J.

Howard showed last year. Again, I think before the injury that he is going to be relevant every week, and then you get down to a bunch of question marks. Eric Ebron last year had a ton of touchdowns and he was one of those weekly starters. He referred to charge. But now Jack Doyle is back in the fold, and Doyle is a good player, So who knows what's going to happen with EBRN and out. There's just all sorts

of question marks. Next up, in no particular order. You've got Hunter, Henry, You've got Trey Burton, Vance McDonald who referred to earlier in the show, Jared Cook, who we talked about earlier in the show, David Njoku. There there's seven or eight or nine or ten names now to me that come into the mix at tight end, number six and beyond. And because I can't identify, even necessarily with much confidence, who number six is for me, I don't think there are I don't think any of those

guys are relevant. So I'm gonna go with five. Alright, So five, you're five, okay, all right, Brian, I'll go six outside of the big three, Kelsey Kittle, Ingram, Henry, O J. Howard, those are the six I trust, Vance, Jared Cook, They're right there. Um, I'll include those guys at eight. But I'm drawing the line right for Eric Ebron, who certainly would regress on his fourteen touchdowns last year fourteen fifteen touchdowns with Jack Doyle back in the mix.

And basically the point I'm trying to make here is if you miss out on Cook, don't don't go for the Hooper is the in joke. Wus the Routolphs, the Jimmy Grahams, the Jordan Reeds. I would just wait on tight end till the very end of the there's not the quiet. Well, we have to stop pontificating. That's not the question I'm trying to many star worthy tight ends are think Okay, well, I think this is a trick question.

It's it's how many teams are in your league. Because as bad as tight ends are, none one, we're scoring the negative points. I'd rather take a sight. I'll go six. I'm gonna throw Henry in the mix on top of list in hopes that he stays healthy. Yeah, the correct answer is ten. You guys are misreading the tea leaves on this entirely. Uh, this is there are ten guys I'm ready to go to war with. Let's let's go here. My number four tight end is Hunter Henry, who had

the phenomenally impressive rookie season. First he was a first round draft pick miss last year, already rolling to rave reviews. This year, he will perform as a bona fide starter. Vance McDonald, who we have a referenced a couple of times. If you combined Jesse James's numbers from last year and Jesse James is in Detroit with Vance McDonald's last year, you end up at tight end four. This is he put together. That's an eighty catch, one thousand yards, six

touchdown season. That's absolutely starter worthy. And Vince McDonald has no competition on that that depth chart. So Vance McDonald clearly a top ten guy. Jared Cook was last year's tight end four, and he goes from Derek Carr to Drew Breese throwing him the ball. He's certainly in the mix. You already mentioned Evan Ingram, you mentioned O. J. Howard, we mentioned Eric Ebron's last year's tight end three or maybe tight end four depending on the scoring system. He's

in this mix. And then there's Mark Andrews, who you guys didn't mention and I think is sitting on a massive second season, put up five hundred fifty two yards last year. That's one of the five highest marks for any rookie tight end in the last twin years. Mark Andrews at five fifty two yards, and with all of the questions they've got with the receivers there, I think Mark Andrews is going to be a safe play as well.

This it is not Panic time on tight ends. Last year, at this time, this show was telling you panic a tight end, draft him early, go get one of the good guys. I'm telling you ten deep this season. Thank you, guys want to combined to one three on everything. Congratulations. Hopefully the listeners did a better job than you guys did I got, in fact, by default, I think they had to have. There's almost no way around it. Question question two was a clear setup from the world's foremost

Jimmy Garoppolo apologists. We should have seen through that. That's a good point. That is a that is a good point. I have several tasteful nudes of Jimmy Garofolo uh in poster form in my room. What can we say? It's the prett season, It's the Hall of Fame Game Weekend Matt Matt shab is still in the NFL. That's the believable thing. That guy's drawn up paycheck, he match up, is gonna finish his career as one of the like fifteen highest paid quarterbacks of all time, which is unfathomable.

Because he keeps milk in his career. You would think at some point he would just be like, you know, and I'm done. I don't even, I don't even. I'm just bored holding the clipboard. You think he'd be done, but it hasn't worked that way to this point. When we come back, we're gonna talk about some of the game play variations that you will want to run in your league. What's a guillotine league, what's the best ball, what's an Empire league, what's super flex? We will go

through all of that moments from now. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charching, my co host Christian Peterson and Brian Johnson. You know, mants have been playing fantasy football for a long time. We've most have been playing the same way with the same rules, and some people are still playing in touchdown only leagues. I love god, it's I don't even understand that. However, there are so many new and cool ways to play

fantasy football. You take all these millions of passionate players and they've dreamed up fascinating new ways to play. I think the most exciting new way to play is the guillotine league. Guys, um, let me, let me give you the opportunity to talk about a Christian tell people what

a guillotine league is. So, a guillotine league is a league in which every week of the season, the lowest scoring team for that week gets chopped unceremoniously dumped from the league and they're all of the players from that roster get released into the free agent pool, so they're they're available for all of the other teams in the league, uh to bid on in the in the free agency Uh, in the free agency process, which starts at seventeen teams

waiver wire, Yeah teams. Yeah. The idea as you start with seventeen teams and each week of the season, UH, somebody somebody has chopped, so you end up at the end of the year with with a champion, and it's not head to head, it's total points, so you're just playing against everyone essentially. Yeah, that's right. So you're a week yeah, and so you're playing every single week. You're

not necessarily playing to win. You're just playing not to lose, like if you're last, Like if you're running from a bear, you don't have to be the fastest person. You just can't be the slowest. Great analogy like that. That's exactly right. Um At seventeen teams, low scoring team gets shopped eats week. You get down to week sixteen, there's two teams left, and the winner takes all. I like, winner takes all whatever whatever your pot is. And by the way, these

pots get big with seventeen teams. You know, you know I don't. I think if I do the math correctly, if you each paid a hundred dollars, that'd be one thousand, seven hundred dollars and you could give it all to the winner. If you want to go with the extreme head chopping scenario and there's only one survivor, you could have a seventeen hundred dollar pay day that way, what do you think? I'm just gonna say, you're down to picking your two running backs in week sixteen seventeen. He's like,

I gotta pick two between se Kwon Barkley Christian McCaffrey, Alvin. Yes, yeah, we all played guilloteam leagues last year, and the waiver wires are crazy because every week a whole team's drafted just hit the waiver wire, and by mid season that team is always beyond beyond where they were when they drafted. They've made a bunch of key pickups and then they got cut. So all of these amazing players end up

hitting the waiver wire. So in the span of one week, you might have se Kwon Barkley hit the waiver wire along with Antonio Brown and Patrick Mahomes and Jared Cook and you know, just a whole roster of great players and then everybody bids on them. And it's fascinating how the Guillotine League works. Um, what are what do you guys feel are a couple of winning strategies for Guillotine

League players. Well, that's just the thing. This is only the second season of existence, so it's very much everygreen when it comes to strategy. People who need to invent what strategies work for KI team leagues this year. Personally, I'm gonna treat um the draft or startup auction. However

you you construct your guillotine teams in your league. Gonna take a very hard look at the first one or two weeks at the season and doc players for bad matchups uh in those weeks who you would normally draft higher in standard season leagues, because yes, the odds are you're one of seventeen teams. Uh, you'll be one of you but one in seventeen chance to be the first team knocked out. But those chances go up incredulously when your your first round pick. What's the bed in week one?

Because there are so many teams, uh, And if you your studs don't perform, you're very likely to be one cut. So I'm gonna take a very hard look at the early season schedule and adjust my rankings accordingly. Yeah, I I agree with that. I think you want to be be wary of extremely difficult matchups in the early going. I think one of the other things you should do is try to target more reliable players, you know, a boomer bust player like with like like a Tyreek Hill.

You know, over the course of the season in a in a season long league, you can afford, you know, to to ride out those waves where he has huge games and then he and then he might do not much of anything in other games, but in a guillotine

format in that down week, you know you might be done. Uh. And so you know, Tyreek Hill or sort of deep threat wide receivers are an example of that, and maybe maybe even sort of like pass catching running backs running backs that depend more on that, which it's just it's just more difficult to sort of predict how game flow

is going to go for past receiving running backs. So again, yeah, just just sort of trying to target more more reliable players, because again, it doesn't matter if you're the highest scoring team in the league. You just can't be the lowest scoring. The only quible I have with the advice you're giving is, I don't know that I'm going to contort my draft around the guys with the tough early schedules, because just odds are with seventeen teams, you're not going to be

the one who gets cut. You got a chance of surviving week one no matter what, right unless you're really really bad in your draft, and week two, with sixteen teams, you got chance or making the cut. More likely than not, you're gonna make the cut anyway. And I'm really not sweating it in my Guillotine leagues unless you know there are guys like A. J. Green, who I don't think it's gonna play for a couple of weeks in the beginning of the season. That's a guy. That's a guy

that does change things. Kareem Hunt hard to even draft Kareem Hunt in this format, and so Zeke. Those guys are more dangerous because they might not come in, they might they might miss a few weeks into the season. Those guys are more dangerous too in the guillotine format. If you want more information on Guillotine leagues or maybe even on joining one, you don't know six and other people, or even if you do, I'll go to Guillotine leagues dot com. Guys talk about the best Ball format and

how that works. Brian Um, I know you spent a lot of time talking best Ball. Tell people how best Ball drafts work. Uh. They're longer, bigger drafts than you're used to because you need to draft a lot of depth. So Um, like standard Fantasy. Every week, you'll have a roster, that starting roster that prizes of a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a tight end, flex spot in a defense. But unlike standard fantasy, you don't pick who you're starting

every week. The results pick who starts. So once all the games conclude each week, your highest scoring player or players that can slot into the applicable spots, uh, comprise you're starting lineup. So your best ball team, your best balls are put forward. So it's a really fun fun way to play. You know, people start drafting best Ball teams literally the day after the Super Bowl, even before the actual NFL draft. Uh. There's some risk there, but there's a lot of reward as well. It's a lot

of fun. And we talked about guys that are better for best Ball, like the Shawn Jackson's of the world, where it's hard to peg when you should start them when you're the one that has to insert them in the lineup yourself. But when they're automatically put in when they have those spike games, Uh, it's much more rewarding experience owning players like that and far less frustrating. So best Ball a lot of fun. I love playing it very much. Are very much almost the almost the opposite

of the guilloteam leagues where you want reliable players. In best Ball, you can have these home run hitters like the DeShawn Jackson's and the Eric Ebrons who scores touchdowns that is great and then doesn't score touched on he's terrible. Those those guys end up working out those high risk, high reward game in game out guys are better best ball options and more viable for sure, and charge you don't have to guess when they're when they're gonna go off. Sorry,

I I didn't mention that. And there's no inseason management. You're you're not adding dropping players, you're not trading your your draft, and you're done. So it's a fun way to get stay stay on top of the ADPs of players as the summer progress. Is a good way to stay on top of things is participating investment, and that is that's the beauty of best ball. If you love

the draft, there's a real thing on best balls. If you love to draft, but you don't want to manage a dozen teams, you can draft a dozen best ball teams. You don't have to manage any of them. And that's the beauty of it. For draft junkies like me, I love the draft. I can't manage twelve teams. I can have twelve best ball teams. Let's go to Empire leagues. Christian, tell people what the Empire league is. Yeah, So an Empire league is a sort of a spin off for

a derivation of a of a dynasty league. And if people don't know what a dynasty league is, that is a league in which in year one you have a regular draft or auction like you would in any other fantasy league, but at the end of that season, going into the next year, you keep all of the players that are on your roster, and then the subsequent year you're drafting really just for rookies, you know, and a

new NFL rookies that are coming into the league. So it's a format that allows you to draft players in year one and really hold them for the rest of their careers if you really want to. And it creates a whole different dynamic because there's a lot of offseason activity. The only way to really improve your teams is by is by making traits um So it's it's sort of a way of of actively playing fantasy football year round,

which which is appealing to a lot of people. So that's what a dynasty format is, and the Empire spinoff of that is really just has to do with um essentially the prize pool. So it's it's a way of increasing the prize pools year after year. So what happens is everybody might pay a hundred dollar entry fee every single year in a typical dynasty league, all of that

money goes back out after that year. In an empire league, half of it stays in a pot, a rolling pot that rolls over from year to year until one of the teams wins the league back to back and that team then at that point takes down the entire empire pots. So it's kind of a way of of almost increasing the stakes in your fantasy football league by creating this long rolling pot that that potentially turns into a bigger

payout down the road. And then also it's a way of keeping the league fresh because after that, after the person wins back to back the league, the league folds, the league is over, and you can certainly start up a new one the next year. But yeah, it's it's a way it puts it puts an endpoint on a dynasty league because one of the things that can tend to happen in a dynasty league is they get a little stale, potentially they just end because people lose interest.

And people don't lose interest when there's an Empire Pot in play, right, If you're you're rolling up, when you're rolling forward five thousand dollar Empire Pot, nobody's leaving, that's for sure. And I love the fact that there's a defined end to an Empire League. When somebody wins back to back years, they cash out that year's money, they cash out the Empire Pot, and they are the champion,

not just last year's champion or the current champion. They are the champion of the Empire League and it disbands. And I love that about the Empire League format. Alright, last gameplay variation. I want to throw to you guys, super flex. I think this is all but mandatory in any reasonably sized league. Brian, tell people what's super flex is. Uh. Everyone's familiar, familiar with the flex spot, which is usually

comprised of a running back, wide receiver, a tight end. Uh. Super flex, Uh, you can still play all those same positions, but the kickers, you can play a quarterback. And like you said, uh, it is basically mandatory at this point because in this day and age it's a passing league. There are at least fifteen sixteen seventeen guys that have top ten quarterback potential this year. And when you're only when you only have to start one, they lose all value.

They almost become worthless unless they're Patrick Mahomes like Cam Newton is virtually worthless in a one quarterback league. So super flex it just makes quarterbacks way more value. It just opens the floodgates for trading, uh, way way more, which is a way better thing, way better experience for everyone in the league. And uh again, and then there's also two quarterback mandatory. But super flex is uh the nice step up from one quarterback and uh, we can't

recommend it enough. I will not play in a one quarterback league unless it's best ball. That's the only place you really find a one quarterback league or something super high stakes. But any home league should be super flex at this point, way more fun. Yep, it really should, because the quarterbacks are worthless, uh and they're in the almost indistinguishable from one another unless you can get to that super flex level where people can start to and

now you're going. Now, now those second tier quarterbacks and third tier quarterbacks have got so much more value. We love super flex for sure, How does, um, how does it change drafting quarterbacks? In your mind? If if Patrick Mahomes has got a let's not use Mahomes, let's use a let's use a mortal quarterback. As as as as our option here, Let's say, um, Drew Brees is going in the ninth round. What does how does it change in a in a one quarterback leave? If he's going

the ninth round? When would you take Drew Brees in a super flex league? Yeah? I mean it depends a little bit on your on your scoring system, Um, and I will know that you should be in a super flex league unless you really just want it to be

a full two quarterback league. You need to be careful with your scoring system to make it so that every week it's it is a It is a difficult decision on whether you should just start two quarterbacks automatically or whether you might be able to play a wide receiver at that spot. But generally speaking, the quarterbacks I think they just consistently score more points. You know, they may

if you've done your scoring system right. They may not necessarily have any more upside than a wide receiver, but their floor is is a little bit higher and so I think that brings that brings quarterbacks up for sure. If if you're normally drafting Drew Brees, if he's if he's a ninth round a DP in a regular one quarterback league, I think absolutely you gotta you gotta jump on him earlier. It might you might have to pick

him three or four rounds earlier. Yeah, and you'll still notice, you know what, a couple of quarterbacks go in a super flex league, then all of a sudden, a quarterback run occurs, and it's fun to start those runs, sit them out. I don't know. It just adds a ton of complexity, good complexity to any fantasy league, and you'll see I mean, I don't think. I don't think Patrick Mahomes was necessarily a bad example charts because I think in a super flex league you might see Patrick mah

go in the top five picks. You again, depending on the on the scoring system. But yeah, for those listeners that are in our local market in the Greater Minnesota Minneapolis area, a reminder, the Fantasy Football Training camp is coming August sevent to Canterbury Park. It is totally free. You'll want to arrive local time ten o'clock for Fantasy

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look like. We'll tell you our top twenty uh Dynasty Empire rookies who were drafting in what order and why. When we come back, we close out every one of our preseason podcast on Fantasy Football Weekly by releasing one sleeper from each of the host You're gonna get three sleepers for your draft or your auction at the end of this At the end of this show, first our Dynasty and Empire rookie drafts. If you're in a Dynasty league or an Empire league, it's primarily populated by rookies.

Here's the order we recommend that you take them in. There's some debate, not generally a ton of debate, but some debate on some of these guys will talk through sort of the highs and lows for each one of these guys. I think the first guy that we're gonna take is David Montgomery, the rookie from Chicago. Josh Jacobs was drafted first, but Montgomery comes here because quality of offense, to me is a big differentiator. Christian, what are your

thoughts and David Montgomery number one overall? Yeah, I mean I agree with you. I think you could. You could probably quibble between the top two of Montgomery and Jacobs. Those seem like kind of the consensus top two backs UH this year. And I don't disagree that Montgomery has landed in a better spot with a better offense. He has a little bit more competition in the backfield with Tarik Owen there as well. And I think Jacobs maybe is set up to be more of a three down

guy earlier on than what Montgomery will be. But again, I can't I can't quibble too much with your supposition that Montgomery is just in a more explosive offense. Mitchell Drabinsky looks like he's about to take another step forward UH this year. They have very good wide receivers, they have to Cohen open things up. They've got an elite level defense, that should put the game script in the in their favor. In most games, they might be running out the clock in the in the second half, and

that's when David Montgomery comes in. So I don't mind Montgomery at number one overall. Yeah, he'll get the touchdowns and that still counts for a lot in fantasy football. Let's go to number two, Josh Jacobs. Is we just mentioned he falls in. He falls in with Oakland, that was obviously a pretty dysfunctional offense last year. What are your feelings on Josh Jacobs at number two, Brian, that's

just it. That's the rub, right, it's Oakland. But no, if if this was a redraft league in that you're just playing for this one season, I would take Jacob's over Montgomery because Jacobs will probably see more touches walking into the starter's role. But this, as you said, this is Dynasty Empire. I like David Montgomery's long term outlooks, and you know, I can't really back up a gut feeling, but something about Josh Jacob's just screams Trent richardson two

point oh to me as well. So if I had the first big I would lean Montgomery long term Jacobs probably the better back this year in terms of opportunity, but again with Oakland, you never know what's going to happen with those Raiders. They seem to overdraft offensive players. Jacobs might be the next one out. We'll see, all right.

And because we are looking long term our number three guys, Darryl Henderson for the Rams, because can anybody who's listening tell me that Todd Gurley is going to be on the team or in the NFL two or three years from now? No chronically arthritic need? Yeah right, I mean you know they might amputate. He might have a peg leg by this time in two years. Who knows. Darryl Henderson at some point becomes to go to back for

the Rams. And that's why in my mind for Dynasty and Empire, he goes all the way up to number three. Christian Yeah, I mean, you're right. This this is sort of the the extraordinarily high upside play to take Henderson at at third here, and it is because of Girly. I mean, Girle might not even make it through this season for all we know. They also resigned Malcolm Brown for a decent chunk of money, and then they drafted Henderson early in the draft, So clearly the Rams aren't

comfortable with Todd, Gurley and Henderson. Everybody loves right he's got He's got an explosive, you know, sort of athletic profile. I've seen comparisons to Alvin Kamara in the way that he plays. So if he is is indeed getting a lot of touches early on this year, he'll be valuable as soon as this year. But even if not, you know, Girly may not last more than another year or two, and long term, there's no better offense to be in in terms of being a bell cow in that Rams

off fence. So I agree here it's it's kind of a swing for the fences kind of pick, and it's it's probably more of a year two or three and beyond kind of upside play than it is this year. But I like it. I like the high risk, high reward here. All right, guys are gonna have to zip through some of the remaining players on our list. Kyler Murray comes in at number four, high upside quarterback with

a big arm and crazy mobility. And we don't know a lot about the coachy staff in Arizona, but there's a lot of reason for optimism, Brian, Yeah, this was a super flex league. You're taking Kyler Murray first overall, even if you don't need a quarterback. But this is a one quarterback scenario, so I can, I can, we can justify this ranking. But you just said it all there. It sounds like the upside is limitless despite the fact

that he doesn't stand very tall. So there's a lot of upside that regard that people say, don't worry about the height of Murray. Uh, don't worry about it. That's so, let's not worry about it. But this is a again, like, I cannot wait to watch this kid play to see if you can live up to the hype. And I noticed it's just yesterday. I've already marked my calendar Week two, Arizona at Baltimore, Marie versus Lamar Jackson. I got marked

on my calendar. I can't wait. Two hundred rushing yards among the quarterbacks, Miles Sanders clocks in at number five in Philadelphia under the supposition that he crowded backfield gets at least somewhat left crowded with time, But maybe that isn't even accurate. What do you think, Christian Yeah, I don't mind Sanders here, and in fact I like him quite a bit, even in redraft leagues this year. I think it's it's it's a matter of of when and not if he takes over the Lion's share of that

backfield from from Jordan Howard. So I really like Sanders upside the problem. The problem, of course is this idea that the Eagles will forever be in some sort of committee approach to their backfield. So that's the risk with Sanders. But I would also argue that in their committees of the recent past they haven't had a player of sanders ability either, So once he gets in there and starts doing his thing, I think he' and even that committee

approach might might be a thing of the past. The first wide receiver off the board is at number six. It's Paris Campbell for the Indianapolis Colts. First, in no small part because Andrew luck Is can be really good for three and four and five and six years from now, and so Paris Campbell should should be in a situation where he's got great quarterbacking throughout much of his career. Brian, your thoughts, Yeah, that's the reason he comes in higher than Harry. Uh, he just not. No one knows how

long Tom Brady's gonna play. Andrew Luck should be the Colts quarterback for the very foreseeable future. And uh, you know, t Y Hilton is an elite talent, but Devin Funcious, the other receiver competing for targets, is the complete opposite of that. Uh, basically not talented at all. So yeah, Campbell, the hype seems to be growing every day. He did tweak his hamstring the other day, but that's no cause for long term concerns. So Campbell looks like he's gonna

have a long, rutful career. And uh, I can't. I can get on board with taking him over and kill Harry. Alright, guys, we're gonna have to zip through the final guys. T J. Hockenson is the tight end for Detroit. Typically Titans don't do very much in there, uh in their rookie years, but ultimately long term, and that's our goal here. He's

in a nice position with Detroit Christian. Yeah, this is another one where you're gonna have to just kind of swallow hard and know that you're not going to get much out of Hockinson in year one but if you're talking about Gronk two point oh here, you know, that's the kind of upside that we've that that we've heard about, at least from Hockinson. So, uh, seven overall is a little aggressive and you're gonna have to wait for it,

but but the upside could pay off. All right, Let's go to the previously mentioned nikkil Harry, who, while Tom Brady is there, is probably the best receiver out of this class after Brady Leaves. Who knows he comes in at number eight, Brian, Yeah, he'll likely be the top rookie wide receiver producer this season. But let's just throw this out there. There is still a glimmer of hope for Josh Gordon to come back this season, and if Gordon comes back, that will really kill Harry's value um

this season and next season, you know. And Tom Tom Brady he supposed last two years and then the outlook gets grim post breedy. So I'm getting a little worried about Harry, but I think he clocks in right right around eight. Alright. Devin Singletary is the running back for Buffalo that comes in at number nine. Christian, Yeah, we talked about him a little bit earlier in the show. And you know, he was picked one pick again in the NFL draft, behind David Montgomery, who's up at the

top of this list. So there's certainly is some talent there. There's nothing but a bunch of old, downtrodden veterans in in Buffalo. So he could make an impact as soon as this year. Yeah, and next year. No way, Frank Gore is playing next year. No way, he can't say. I know we've been saying that for a decade, but no way is Frank Gore in the mix next year. Another tight end comes here at number eleven. Noah fanse for Denver comes in at number eleven. Again, don't expect

a lot this year. They got quarterbacking issues. As long as Joe Flacco is there after that, I think he's got a role coming in at number twelve. Damien Harris Brian joins it very what is crew you a very crowded backfield with the Patriots. But there's some thought here that maybe he distinguishes himself in some fashion. Well, if he does that, he's gonna have to outshine a guy who you know, we were talking about like this last year.

That was Sony Michelle who they They invested first round draft capital, and so New England backfield has been very modeled for many, many years. This is the long the long play. Though Rex Burkhead is not gonna last forever. James White is clearly a past catching specialist. UM. I don't know. I can't tell you if Harris is gonna out go out at any time. Who knows. But usually the long term prospects with these running backs for New England don't work out like the Lawrence Moroneys of the world.

But we'll find out. Alright. Three rookie running backs come into thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, Benny Snell, rych Weell Armstead, and then Justice Hill for Baltimore. Christian, you touched on him a little bit earlier. You want to loop back on Justice Hill and what he could do in Baltimore. Yeah, I I honestly like hell better the best out of this out of this tree. He's just an explosive guy. He can he can play the pass catching role um, so I think he carves out a role um pretty quickly.

In Baltimore. We talked about mark Ingram potentially being able to catch passes. We've seen that he can do that. But at the same time, Ingram seems to function better when he's the when he's the guy moving the chains on first and second Town, and he has a guy like Alvin Kamara to come in and catch the passes and be the explosive guy. And I'm not saying Justice Hill is Alvin Kamara, but they could they have a chance to sort of reprise that kind of thing here

in Baltimore. Andy Isabella comes in at sixteen, seventeen, Miles Boykin and eighteen is A J. Brown for Tennessee, and because of injury, we haven't been able to see anything from him yet. Brian, your thoughts on A J. Brown's potential impact for Tennessee. Yeah, he was hurt on like one of the first first first place of training camps. We're waiting to see what he can actually do. It's it's really not a matter of A J. Brown's talent,

it's a matter of his quarterbacks talent. We're not so sure that Marcus Mariotta is going to be on Tennessee's

raw for next year. Uh. Hean winstoner in the last years of the contract rookie contracts, So if they let Mariota walk, I mean There's a lot of a lot of quarterbacks coming in this upcoming draft class, but um, I think on paper and on tape A J. Brown looks like he has all the makings to be a at least a wide receiver to UH in the future from a fantasy football perspective, But um, we gotta see how these quarterback situation shapes out in Tennessee over the

next year or two until we can really get a tree. Nineteen is Irv Smith the tight end for Minnesota. Is expected to be learning on the job this year but could pay off at some point with Kyle Rudolph coming near the end of his career and Number twenty Deebo Samuel the slot the new Percy Harvin in the NFL, perhaps for the Niners hope. So anyway, um, and we'll probably play out of the slot for the Niners this coming season. Guys would like to wrap the show with sleepers,

and I want to uh. I want to start off with my preferred sleeper for this show, and that is Jalen Samuel, who I think a chance to be the highest scoring Steelers running back this year. Yes, what's a bold statement when James Conner is there, But Jalen Samuel's got a number of things going for him. Number one, all of the running backs for the Steelers have already said it's going to be a time share this year. There's not going to be one guy who's going to

get the ball all the time. Samuel's the most gifted past catcher that they've got. They've got all of the missing targets from Antonio Brown leaving and Jesse James leaving. That's going to open up some opportunities for Samuel to catch more passes and as a tight end. In college, his position coach was the Steelers current running back coach, and so there's a coaching opportunity that you know, they obviously know how to use him. They've got a history there.

So I think Jaylen Samuel has has a real opportunity to actually and by the way, I'll mention this outperformed statistically James Conner in UH in yards per carry and uh touchdowns per carry last year, and so I they're things about James Jalen Samuel that made me think he could be very very good. Let's go to Brian Johnson,

who's your sleeper for this week of no relation. I've got Curtis Samuel, Carolina's wide receiver, currently their number two wide receiver, but he could prove to be their number one come at the end of the year. UM. Last year was Samuel's second pro season. UH didn't become a regular starter until Week eight and then he missed the last three games due to injury. But he looked really good when given the opportunity UM, including running the ball.

He had two rushing touchdowns last year. UM, but he's no gimmick player. Samuels has all the makings of a potential number one and to see that look no further than his red zone usage last year, which was limited due to his sample size. Keep that in mind, but Samuel had more touchdowns in the red zone than George Kittle,

Jarvis Landry, Corey Davis, Allen Robinson, and Jimmy Graham. Three of Samuel's four red zone receptions went for touchdowns, so he was very UH proficient and an effective And while four red zone receptions doesn't seem like a lot, only fifteen wide receivers had ten plus red zone receptions last year, and a full campaign from Samuel would easily vault him

into that territory. So UM I love dj More. We talked about him earlier, but Samuel could be the same player, if not better than More, and you're getting him several rounds later in drafts. Right now, All right, Christian, You've got thirty seconds for your final sleeper. I can do that because I've already talked about him several times. It's Dante Moncrief of the Steelers. It's really all just about opportunity here. Antonio Brown leaves behind hundred and sixty eight targets.

Moncrief is running as the number two opposite Juju Smith Schuster. They clearly don't trust James Washington, last year's second rounder. Uh So, I don't love Moncrief because he's failed to live up to expectations. But it's all about opportunity, and the opportunity will certainly be there no matter how you heard the show. Our podcast, so Fantasy Football Weekly is on the I Heart app, which is number one four podcasts and where you can always get it first, typically

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