You found Fantasy Football Weekly Micro a deep dive on one player in just five to ten minutes. Now, here's your host, Paul Chargian. It's Fantasy Football Weekly Micro Edition. I am Paul Chargian. Co host is Tyler Kinnable, Guyantine Leagues dot Com writer. Hi, Tyler. Oh, you've been my co host for all these micro editions, which has been great.
Yeah, it's been great. I've been having fun doing it.
Yeah, We've had a lot of fun. Just to let people know about how this week is going to go down, We're we're going to have a big draft show that I may release earlier than Friday because we're going to record it in a couple of days or record it midweeks, so I may release it a little bit early. I believe we're going to have a draft expert, thor Nystrom on which is going to be great. Thought is an amazing job, and we're going to break down all the rookies.
These micro shows is not it's not rookie stuff that we're doing veterans and now that the draft has happened, we can sort of crystallize on some guys that were winners in this year's draft.
Yeah, and one of the winners this year is was Isaiah Pacheco, who finished as the RB thirty five last year and is currently going off the board as RB twenty two. Now. To note, they did not draft anybody at running back, but as of we're recording this today, they just signed Jack McKinnon back to the backfield, so that kind of it gives you a good sample size. And we've seen what Pacheco has been with Jack McKinnon in the mix, So I do like that about the whole situation.
And McKinnon obviously proved himself to be very valuable pass receiving back at the end of last year December and beyond. And that's not Pacheco's game. We'll talk more about that as we look at his at his season. Obviously he was not the starter at the beginning of the year. As a seventh round Brookie had to earn his way and bait Well Clyde orders Jolier had to fail his way to the point that eventually they just went, Okay, we're gonna We're just gonna go with the Pacheco.
Yeah. Well, it's interesting because I mean, Clydie is still gonna be in the mix. Seemingly this upcoming season. Maybe he's still on the roster. So it is today he is today, you're right, But you're right when he did get that the job a week eleven and onwards, he would these are his art his finishes weekly.
Yeah, uh, Pachecko's yes, Pochecko's flyight edwards Hilaire.
Yeah, so he was the average running back twenty one, which is his weekly average, but it was twenty two, sixteen, fifteen, nineteen, thirty two, twenty eight, seventeen, nineteen.
And what's killed Pachecko? So, I mean, no number higher than fifteenth, never finished higher than fifteen in any given week. For Pachecko, what kills him is volume and the lack of receptions. He's never gonna have. He's never gonna be much of a helper in PPR unless something strange comes together here and the other thing and maybe there's rain.
Get better.
This year, the touchdowns didn't really come to him, even though he is a bigger backup and call him a power back, but he's he's somebody who could be a capable back at the goal line. Maybe in year two he gets a little more confidence from Andy Reid about getting the ball to stripe.
Yeah, I agree, So kind of looking I kind of broke down his just his rushing stats as a total. So he was eighth in rushing yards over expected per attempt, which is a really good number. I mean eighth in the league. Yeah, all those guys above him were top tier guys inside the ten yard line. He was fourteenth in rushing attempts. He had twenty attempts, and then all the guys above him in that range were like top twelve running backs that are currently going in ADP right now,
so they're like big name kind of guys. Yeah, and he only had he had five touchdowns from inside the ten. He had five touchdown on the season, so all of those touchdowns inside the tent came inside the ten. But he was also twenty seventh in attempts from the five, which I thought was interesting. And it kind of matches up when you watch the Sheeps play. They're doing all this wacky stuff, like these ring like Merry go Round type of out of the huddle, and then they're doing
these wacky red zone plays. So maybe I don't know if that.
Shovel pass from the one yard now, yeah, nobody does that except Andy Reid and Patrick maholl exactly.
So it's I wonder if it's maybe maybe it's not a checko. Maybe they just love to do this wacky kind of stuff and that maybe that doesn't involve the checko. It's not New England where Belichick he's gonna be like, all right, five yard line, just hand the ball off, we'll see what happens.
Yes, yes, I mentioned the receiving prowess is not there for Isaiah Pachecko. Thirteen catches in seventeen games. You don't want to be at you know, half a catch a game. That's no helper and that just caps his upside. So for me that you know, Pachecko to me is forever kind of RB two this year. I don't think he's in RB one on any any team that that has points per reception.
Yeah, you know, he's not going to give you anything through the air, which you mentioned. It totally caps his upside, which is really tough. So and when you look at the depth chart here, I mean it's c h RB two, maybe McKinnon RB three, and then we gotle Michael p r on RB four. So we're not gonna it's not a fact, we're not gonna have a lot of running backs that are going to take work away Pachecko on the ground, which is I mean, if you trust the offense,
you trust obviously we trust exactly the offense. Yes, I mean, having the RB one in the Casey offense is still a good guy to have. It's just you're not going to get anything higher than RB probably fifteen this season unless he has an absurd amount of touchdowns, which I don't think is gonna happen given the red zone prowess that Kelsey can be, and then maybe some of these new receivers can kind of pick it up as well.
Let me ask you this, in a typical league that's got typical twelve team league, you've got three or four sharps, You've got you know, five or six guys who pay, you know, and not just guys, guys and gals pay some attention, and then you got three or four teams
that you know, really aren't paying attention very closely. I think there's always somebody that's going to pay more for Pacheco just because he's the RB one on the Chiefs, and they're like, you know, the Chief's gonna score over the most points of the league, So I want their running back. I don't think those people are going to be are going to be as aware of the limitations that Pacheco gives you with what he can do and
also the middling volume. You know, he this is just not a team that's got like power back that's gonna run the ball twenty one times in a game. That's just not Andy Reid's style.
And I think people are gonna remember him in the playoffs and him in the super Bowl just being this, oh, look at like he did good in the in the playoffs in super Bowl, so be able to remember that kind of like how they did with uh was it Lagerret Blunt? I think with the with the Eagles, how they're like, oh, look at him during the or it was that no Is Sony Michelle with the Patriots, Yeah, killed in that postseason, and they're just gonna think he's gonna do.
That promptly Michelle the rest of the year. Who's going around Pacheco in ADP right now?
So right now, what's played the ADP game? We got Damian Pierce. Damian Pierce. I love Damian Pierce.
He is one of my favorite players in the NFL, and he is a way way more talented back than Isaiah Pacheco. And I believe Houston is. If you ask me to pick one team that's gonna improve the most from last year to this year, Houston I wins. I'm I'm on Damian Pierce.
I'm with you too. I'm definitely on Damian Pierce just because he's going to He's going to be more of a focal point in the offense than Pacheco. Ever, will be absolutely all right. Rashad White another winner of the draft. We talked about him already on micro but we did. He was a big winner of the draft.
Yeah, a lot of people thought he would get some. He would get some somebody in the draft would would end up in Tampa. But Dampa's got so many needs. The Tampa offense could be one of the five lowest scoring offenses in the league.
They really could be. I mean with Baker at though, with the help.
With Baker there, right, you've got an aging Mike Evans. Chris Godwin's a good player, but not somebody who powers a whole offense. I don't know. I'm nervous about that offense. I'm sticking with Isaiah Pacheco.
I'm gonna take Risha. Why because I think he has some passing upside that is going to be totally point.
And just for the PPR that Rashad White gets, he might be better.
This could be like a bad team. We're just gonna run the ball and just feed, like, just feed one guy in our offense, and it might be a shot White. So that could be yeah, and that JK. Dobbins kind of a similar role with Pacheco and guy doesn't catch a lot.
Ye.
Greg Roman also won't be there, so it's not gonna be this heavy run attack that I think everyone expects with the Ravens.
Hm A JK. Dobbins apologist. I'm sticking with him cause I think he's a more talented, better back in a run heavy offense. I'm sticking with I'm rolling with Dobbins too. Yeah, yeah, Dynasty, what's your long term forecast in Isaiah Pacheco?
See, actually just trade him away in a Dynasty league. Okay, maybe a couple of months ago.
You remember what you got for him?
I do. It was a straight up trade. It was Isaiah Checko for Pat Friar youth because I was just totally out on I had. I also had no tight end. But I was just like, they're they're gonna draft someone. I was wrong, but be he just doesn't have that upside that I'm looking for and Pat pat Rymans is fine, so I'll take him.
Yeah, except they just drafted another tight end exactly. Darnell Washington is one of my favorites, and they they landed.
I think that he fell kind of says something about Darnel watching it like he's a freak. But Kenny play tight end. We know he's huge and he can run, but Kenny actually plays.
See him after the catch.
I've seen him after the catch with a cab. I love that guy. He might be like a freak, but I don't know if he's like a technician route runner that you're looking for.
That's true. That part we don't know about, So that is that is totally fair.
I'll roll with Yeah.
All right, thank you for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly Micro Edition. We'll be back tomorrow as we break down. Oh we got that tomorrow, Kirk Cousins.
I'm so excited.
Oh, stay in local here too for us, and we'll we'll talk about another winner in the draft. Kirk Cousins as a veteran winner why uh what changes for Kirk now that we know the outcome of the draft and the addition of Jordan Addison coming up tomorrow. Thanks for listening, everybody,