Free Agent QBs and RBs

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the moment. You're not. You're a war in close. I'm happy to say free agency is looming free the The new year starts March seventeen, so that's when free agency hits. We're gonna get in a couple of free agency related shows between now and then, Brian. Today we look at fantasy relevant quarterbacks and running backs who are going to hit the market, and next week we will turn our

attention to wide receivers and tight ends. Sounds good, yeah, And so the premise here is basically, here are the notable guys that you're you would ever even care about and a quick, very faster recap on last year, but really more looking forward to next year and where we had ideal landing spots where they could go with their value might be tos go up or down from what it has been um in a couple of cases, do

you wanna do you want to act now? In Dynasty and Empire leagues before the player actually moves, because the value, if the value is going to go up on the player after he after he's got a new home. You want to make that deal now. And a lot of times it's just excitement around the player and he moves change when he changes teams, that's the time to uh yeah, either buy alow or sell high, depending on the guy, Depending on the guy. So let's start at the quarterback position.

I think there are there are a bunch of teams with landing spots. But let me just let me just give you my list of teams that I think makes sense as landing spots for just for just these just teams looking for quarterback out right, potentially your former team, The Giants, the Saints, Denver, New England, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington. I think those are all teams that could make a make a big The Giants are a little bit tricky because it's so hard to evaluate Daniel Jones, but the

productivity hasn't been there. Gentleman is way too married to him, in my opinion, to h to make a move hopefully once they fire him, hopefully make a move a quarterback. But we're still hope. Dak Prescott. Let's start with him, probably without I think, without a doubt, the biggest name free agent quarterback. And there's you know, there's trade talks around Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson and others, but they're not for agents, and we're folcusing on free agents. Let's talk

Dak Prescott. Got Dak turns twenty eight in July, entering the prime of his career. Essentially uh as most should remember, just on a ridiculous pace. Last season, only really played four full games, got hurt in his in the fifth game. But if you extrapolate just those four full games over a sixteen game season, he would have finished finished with six thousand, seven hundred and sixty passing yards and just for reference to Shawn Watson led the NFL with right

passing right. Uh, so not say you have to hit that number, but Dak looked great. He's got all the tools in his bag. He can throw, he can run. We assume he can still run. Yeah, he's trending towards being ready for training camp for whatever team he ends up on. He wants to be the second highest quarterback. It's paid quarterback behind Patrick Mahomes. Should he be as the question? Uh, we'll find out. But uh, word out of word out of Dallas. Who can still franchise tag

him by the way. Uh, it's trending towards three signing him. Um. Dallas Morning News is Calvin Watkins reports, Uh, talks with Dak Uh last Tuesday, just a few days ago. We're more productive than they've ever been. Uh. Jane Slater says Dax met the facility nearly every day rehabbing, so it's leaning towards will be with the Cowboys one way or the other, whether it's a franchise tag or a long

term deal. But just for fun, if he if Dallas lets him walk, yeah, which it seems hard to believe they just let him go and get nothing in return. But I think the forty Niners is a very intriguing landing s guy, and they've got the cap space, it seems to sign him, and that would that would make them immediate and if favorites, if not, the whole NFL. So and uh, when it comes to Dax redraft value

right about now, he's going off the board quarterback seven. Uh, it's very early, obviously, but obvious guys Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen not so obvious, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers, of Shawn Watson. Depending on where Dak ends up and where de Shaun Watson ends up, I think he's a little undervalued to quarterback seven right now. I think I'd rather take my chances of Dak. If you say it's on the Cowboys, it goes somewhere else over Kyler Murray

or Lamar Jackson. So I think that if you're gonna get into early best Ball draft. I think that's a little undervalued. And the guy I'd be targeting right now, Yeah, I think I think there's something to that. The concern is around the ankle. And as you ready week one, I mean, if you're drafting now in the best ball, um, you know, fortunately it's best ball, whoever your second quarterback is will end up getting some you know, if he doesn't play the first month of the season or whatever,

you'll end up getting somebody else. But I think that's the you know, that's the concern. But I do I share that concern, not really. And and his ranking, his dynasty appealed pretty much the same as in redraft. He certainly head of Aaron Rodgers, who I probably take Rogers over Deck in redraft, but definitely not dynasty. But yeah,

he's right after Mahomes. You could argue he's the QB two with the Josh Allen's and the even Justin Herbert's in that convo right now, and uh so, yeah, alright, let's go to and this is a short list of uarderbacks who matter. Ryan Fitzpatrick a big drop off from Dak Prescott. In looking back at last season, in the games he his full games, he came in at roughly quarterback eighteen in points per game, and I thought he was gonna be a little higher. He had two scoreless

games that hurt. He had five multiple touchdown games that helped ran in a couple of touchdowns. But as people know, eventually he just got benched for twa in Miami just decided even though two was not the best quarterback, and they benched to a couple of times, we're sticking it out. Went to a stubborn lead to the point that it cost him a playoff spot. That was really dumb. That was really dumb, and Fitzpatrick was I think, I mean, assuming you're playing, you know, every team's goal is to

get to the super Bowl. You can't get to the super Bowl. Here, here's Miami steaming into weeks seventeen. They need to have a win in week seventeen. Fitzpatrick just bailed him out in weeked sixteen when he took over for Tua, generates a win and then they went right back to two lost. So I still think there's game left in Ryan Fitzpatrick's arm. But the only place that he can go that that really creates much fantasy value here is if he goes to a ready to win team.

He goes to the Saints, he goes to Washington, if he goes to Chicago, those are some ready to win places for him. I don't necessarily love the receivers and all those teams, but you know, in some cases they're okay. I just don't think he goes it if he's a backup, if he goes anywhere else. I heard a little noise about Denver as a possibility to and you'd like to

think he could take over the job from Drew Lock. Yeah, potentially, and it got some enticing receivers in Denver, especially with Courtland Sutton making that would be a nice spot for him there. You know, like Drew Lock, those two with two those two have in common is they will throw bad passes and then the next series they don't care. They just seem unaffected by bad play and then they just come out and keep slaying. And I love that. I remember there's a quote I use on an in

season show. It was Drew Lock, and he's just like, once the ball leaves my hands, I'm just like, oh no, what have I done something? I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but he was like, you said that to the media, even your friend, best friend, Yes, you said it to the media. Um. Fitzpatrick at his advanced stage obviously has minimal dynasty value, and his redraft value honestly is pretty limited as well. I think he's he's unlikely to I just think he's unlikely to go to a team where

he's the uncontested starter unless something goes horribly wrong. Really, the best thing Stubird should do is don't sign with anybody until training camp and then wait for your Teddy Bridgewater moment where you know somebody in training camp goes down and is gonna you know, some team, some team needs a starter who can walk in the door and take over immediately, like the Vikings had to pivot to Sam Bradford that year. That's I think that's the scenario

for Ryan Fitzpat. The best scenario for Ryan Fitzpatrick at least wants to wait until after the draft so you don't have to go through another two situationally exactly a highly paid quarterback. Uh. The only other notable free agent to me is Cam Newton. I think I think he was benched four times in one season. I mean think about how far he's fallen from Super Bowl quarterback to a guy who got benched for Jared Stidham four times in one season. Cama turns thirty two in May, and

last season all of his value was rushing the ball. Uh, He's He's essentially Taysom Hill might be Taysom Hill White, He's not nearly He's going a runner at this stage. But the passing touchdown total mind boggling. Eight passing touchdowns six pass attempts, which is a fair amount, and just for reference, eight passing touchdowns three nine six. Lamar Jackson had three hundred and seventy six attempts twenty six passing touchdowns eight Gardner mins you had three attempts fifty few

or roughly sixteen passing touchdowns. Drew Brees only twenty two more twenty four touchdowns. The inefficiency throwing touchdowns, I can't explain it. He missed one game, he had bad receivers will give him that. Yeah, and people point to that all the time. But I don't care if you place fifteen games, you start fifteen games. In today's NFL, throwing a touchdown passes is ludicrously bad. Mind bogglingly bad. Now he's salvaged some fantasy value with his running, and the

catch was when he didn't, you got nothing. And so like in a guilloteam format, he was a disaster because every other game he would not get your rushing touchdown. He would not get thirty or forty yards rushing and you've got nothing from your quarterback and now you're getting chopped at. He was a daily play for sure. You're just trying to trying to hit the right ride the

wave in the right week. And when it comes to the landing spot, you said with Fitzpatrick, something that injury or something has to go horribly wrong with the starter of It's even more so with Cam. It's kind of a song wants to run a Saints like offense with a Taysom Hill player deep in the red zonner inside the twenty. That's really it. And I don't really know Cancel backup this year. If he's in the league at all, he's a backup and he'll probably be in the league.

You said, like the Giants, that would be an intriguing landing spot for Cam. I think he could beat out Daniel Johns. I think probably he can't. He can't. I don't think he can. And I'm not even going to talk redraft dynasty value because there's nothing. Okay, let's go to running backs, way more interesting. The teams that I think are landing spots for pretty much any free agent running back. I believe our Houston, they just resigned David Johnson,

but David Johnson's a wobbly starter. Atlanta, Seattle, depending on what they decided to do with Chris Carson. San Francisco with their constant rotating backs, who all of them always heard all of that, Miami Miles Gascon is a capable back. Green Bay because all they've got two of their three starters or two of their three hydrid headed backs. Of free agents, we'll talk about them in a minute. Green Bay. I mentioned Arizona, they've got Kenyan Drake headed to free agency.

New York Jets they lost Levy on Bell basically replaced him with nothing. And Tampa Bay is a possible landing spot. You know, Leonard for that's a free agent. We're gonna talk about him little bit later. But let's start with the Packers situation with Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. You know, we look back to last year it certainly feels like Jamal Williams had been vulturing a lot of work from Aaron Jones, and I thought, let's dig into the data

and just see how that really shook out. Jones only had two carries last year, which means he was far from a workhorse, but two one carries was still the tenth most of any back last year, which is, you know, not bad. Top ten for carries and the sixth most receptions of any back last year, so he really did end up with the ball enough times in his hands

to have a successful season, and he did score well. Williams, for his part, had almost exactly half of Jones's workload, so it was really a two third one third for those guys for most of the season. A J. Dillon started getting a little work at the very end season. Right now, people view Williams as being nearly as good as Jones, but that's my eyes. I think Jones is

like a nine out of ten back. I agree he's really good, and Williams is good, and I think he's tangibly better than average, but he's like a six out of ten. He's he's a good back, that's it. And Jones average five and a half yards per carry. Williams average four point two yards per cary, which I think says plenty about both of those guys. So where could Aaron Jones especially go that would put him in a great spot. Well, honestly, I'd like to keep him in

green Bay. I may have my first choice because I like to keep him in offense or he's been very successful. He's been a top five running back for Fantasy points the last two years, So I'd like to keep him there. If he can't go there, I want him to go to a team where he can be the focus of that offense, which he's never been in green Bay. Where could he go to be a workhorse? How about Atlanta?

Nobody's standing in his way in Atlanta. Seattle if they let Chris Carson go, Seattle likes to use a workhorse back, that would be Aaron Jones. Pittsburgh, that whole, that whole running back situation is totally up in the air, and he could walk in there and be by far the best back. He'd get almost all the work. And the Steers almost always used a workhorse back when they can, and they haven't always been able to do that with James Conner who's going to be gone, and then the

New York Jets. So for the Jets, uh, it's obviously a terrible team. Offensive line got a little bit better last year, but it's still you know, it'd be he'd be the workhorse back, but that's it. I think the re draft value for Aaron Jones in one of those workhorse landing spots puts him right back in the first round of fantasy drafts. We just did our kind of first two round way too early mock. We had Jones early second, early second round. Pittsburg or most of those

places faults him into the first round. Now, if he's a shared back, I think he's still like a second or third rounder in a shared backfield because he'd still be the better if whatever back he gets teamed up with, and he'd still get a lot of work, and his dynasty value I think remains very high for Aaron Jones. He's been modestly used. He's only twenty six years old. He's got another three or four good years left in him,

which is you know, for running back, it's pretty good. Now, say he goes to Pittsburgh or the Jets, who are two teams that are sort of there's talk that they'll go high at running back in the draft and grab a Nazi Harris or a Travis E the end. If they signed Aaron Jones before the draft, I think that tips their hands that they were not not that early, not early enough to get those guys. I don't think. Yeah,

all right, let's talk about Chris Carson. You know we've alluded to him a couple of times now and where what do you feel like is the prospects of him staying in Seattle? And as I remember back in the season, you know, he battled injury a lot and play through some injury, but he just it never felt like it was all clicking for him. Last year. I only played in twelve games, but finished fourteen in a PPR points per game among among running backs. Pretty impressive considering he

had eight or less carries than four of those twelve games. Uh. And he's just whatever. He's been healthy and they give him significant touches. He looks great, and yeah, Seattle's had a pretty bad offensive line for the most of the career. Yeah, and Russell Wilson's which is why he's piste off. Carson a career four point five yards per carry since the

start of eighteen and this is regular season games only. Uh. Here are the most rushing yards among uh, well not running backs football players since Lamar Jackson makes this list, but it's Derrick Henry with hundred. Roughly this is the last three years, Yeah, last three years since Derrick Henry with hundred. Zeke around thirty eight hundred, Dalvin Cook, and Chris Carson clocks in just over that, and he's he's missed.

He missed four games this year, and he's probably missed four games between every year he was like fourteen and fifteen games played two But still that's a crazy impressive. So I love him as a player, and I like him as a player more than most people do too. I think he's a I think Carson is quietly a very good back. And and really the landing spots, the potential ones are are all the same as uh the ones you mentioned for Aaron Jones at Miami maybe Atlanta.

I think San Francisco would love to have him, not only for his abilities but his intel and uh when it comes to re draft. Looking right now, he's going around RB twenty, which he seems pretty low after guys like uh Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who no one has sold on at the moment, Joe Mixon who, Josh Jacobs who seems to always be getting off the field, trouble now and hurt and hurts. So Chris Carson at RB twenty is an insane value and he's probably going even later

in dasty formats he turns twenty seven. Uh, let me see when I got it written down in September. So that's pretty good. I mean he's got a good you know, two or three good in the tank. So I think he's really undervalued in both formats, and the guy I'll be keeping my own, especially once we find out where

he ends up. We will continue our conversation about the free agent running backs, the best landing spots, what to expect, the value going up down when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly in just a moment, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Chartie and Brian Johnson with you. We are going through the free agent running backs that are headed to market here in about two weeks. There's some big,

big names. This is one of the biggest free agent running back crops we've ever seen, and the fact that these teams are all squeezed for money, means that the many of them are not going to resign with their original teams and they're gonna be out duking it out trying to find decent deals. And I don't think anybody's gonna get an Alvin Kamara Dalvin Cooks style contract like those guys were able to negotiate from their teams in the early part of the regular season. This past year,

Let's go to Mike Davis. We've got some other bigger names coming, but for Davis, he and probably finished last year is running back seventeen and he was a solid RB two in PPR leagues really all season long. And what was most impressive about his seasons the Panthers did not shy away from using Mike Davis, almost exactly like

they used Christian McCaffrey. Now, Davis did wear down at the end of the year and his productivity slipped, and we saw a lot more of guys like Rodney Smith, but still it was a it was a good showing for him, and I think he's gonna find himself someplace where Mike Davis can be in a time share and can be a number two when a one to split

getting the carries. Yeah, he was essentially kicked to the curb by Seattle and the Bears, I believe, and when he took over from McCaffrey or like, this is going to be a disaster, But yeah, he was a he was What do you think about this? Houston just cut Duke Johnson. He can walk right into that role. Duke Johnson was a pass catching number. You back, um, and Davis is every good, if not better, as a as a pass catcher. And he's just a better runner than

Duke Johnson ever was. I think that's a perfect fit for him now as a There are other spots to where he could go into a rotation of backs, like Tampa Bay's could be a rotation of backs, Arizona could be a rotation of backs, Miami with Gascon could be a rotation. In San Francisco always uses a rotation. I think he's going to fit in there. And from a redraft standpoint, Davis is a late round dart throw handcuff kind of guy. Um. I don't think you're gonna have

to put any reliquity into him. And from a dynasty value standpoint, it's very low. He's sneaky old actually, twenty years old, he got he was on rosters, We got very little work in the early days. The only good thing is he's low mileage because last year was the only year he really got much work. Unless it's an insanely deep league. Though he's a guy you're you're cutting in your rookie draft to draft to draft somebody. It depends a little bit of where he goes, you know,

in the right in the right system. Um. For example, if Tampa Bay lets Leonard for a net walk and they might I don't think so, but they might. Um, and he walks into that spot, well, we know he's gonna get a certain number. Mike Davis is at that point still rosterable in a one two punch in Tampa Bay. Let's go to Kenyan Drake. I think there's one of the more fascinating angles. Chase Edmonds looks like he could be sitting on what will ultimately be a starter's workload here.

But talked to us a little bit about Kenyan Drake. Cliff Kingsbury recently said he thinks Chase Edmunds could be their starter. So that kind of seems like Drake is on his way out. Yeah, arguably among players who played the majority of the season. Drake played fifteen games, which I thought he was only like twelve or thirteen games.

He played fifteen games because all those games are very forgettable, easily one of the biggest bus when it comes to the running back position, because he was, if not a late first round pick in some weeks, a second round pick. Uh. Just turned twenty seven a couple of months ago, so he's got a few years left to kind of. He's got a lot of tread on his tires. I don't know how his tires are like in the discount section of costco though. Uh he finished twenty four in PPR

points per game last year. Not great. Uh he only topped fifteen receiving yards once all season. Wow gross zero zero receiving touchdowns. Edmonds really took a lot of that work. And uh more, there's more badness in the underlying stats. Drake was roughly thirty enforced miss tackles per attempt, end yards after contact per attempt. So not a very sexy

name in the free agent market potential landing spots. It's gonna be one of one of these teams that doesn't have a ton of cap room and one that kind of makes sense to me if Chris Carson leaves the Seattle because again, they I think they've got like four millions something like that in cap space and and they

kind of wanted. They usually run a platoon unless they have a superstar running back, which which they haven't really had since I mean Dave Lynch, and they ran extensive obviously and that, but Carson was When Carson was healthy, they usually went with workhorse dress cards. But of course and leaves. I don't think they have that back in Rashad Penny, so he could find his way into put in a platoon situation. And again, uh, Seattle would like

some inside intel from from the Cardinals perspective. I'm it's not a major factor, but another like the Jets maybe seem like a place Drake could go, but he'd probably end up competing with somebody. I think the Jets draft a rookie running back pretty high in the draft. So yeah, but no one really cares all that much where Kenyan Drake end up. He could turn out to be uh an insane value. He's definitely not going back to going back to Miami. I doubt that, right, I don't think so.

But redraft value and dynasty value really none right now. He kind of the same as Mike Davis almost maybe a little flasher than Mike Davis, but not a lot. Right now, you're not drafting Drake and maybe the last round or two in the best ball. But yeah, if I've got if I, if I've got Drake on my dynasty roster, I consider that to be. You know, I certainly don't have a starter for next year. I got it, I got it. He's just I got a hope that there's some magic that happens and something breaks his way.

And again to count on, it's really early, and I'm using Fantasy Football calculator and they have Drake running back right now. But the board really getting drafted that high. But there's no way that's for David Johnson, even Melvin Gordon, Leonard, for Nett, even who I would. I turned this up in Melvin Gordon this week and I tweeted it. You

can please follow me at Paul Charchi. Melvin Gordon was top twelve among all running backs in attempts, rushing yards, uh, fantasy points and uh it might have been yards per carry. I don't I'm trying to remember I mean it was she was. He was shockingly he was shockingly effective. Philip Lindsay has always been my guy, and I love Philip Lindsay. But Lindsay did nothing and he was playing hurt half of the season, and it it ended up being Melvin.

A good season for Melvin Gordon. Let's go to James Conner. Free agent. James Conner, it's said we recap last year. I think the best thing we can say is that he never yielded the starting role to Benny Snell or Anthony McFarland. And there's much better to say about it than that. It seemed mostly just Snell McFarland didn't want the job more than James Conner protected the jobs. I thought he looked hopelessly mundane throughout the year. He started the year with a couple of good games early on,

he never topped eighty nine yards after Week six. His average game after Week six for James Conner twelve carries, forty three rushing yards and zero point three touchdowns per game. Blick, awful, awful. He Pittsburgh will not keep him. He can't be a work course. He is too frail, he is not good enough, and he's I think the only place where he has any fantasy values if he finds his way into a time share someplace which puts him back into the conversation

of other teams. We've already talked about his time share destinations like Houston, like San Francisco, Miami, Arizona, Tampa. I think those are your your timeshare destinations for James Conner where you'd have any value. I think the redraft value and James Conner is extremely low. I don't trust him to be fantasy rosterable even next year, and his dynasty values is even lower because I I don't see him. I don't see any reason why James Conner gets better

in the future. To quickly circle back to Pittsburgh and specifically Aaron Jones, Ben Roethlisberger recently restructured his his contract free up some money, so that feels like Aaron Jones landings. Maybe they gotta figure out their offensive line all over the place. But yes, yes, that's part of it. Juju Smith Schuster is gonna walk uh there as well, as predicted on this show at this time last year and

all offseason. Let's talk about Todd Gurley. Free agent Todd Gurley, you know he signed that one year prove it deal with the Falcons and promptly proved that you can't trust Todd Gurley. Yeah, he did not prove much, even though he had nine rushing touchdowns, but eight of those came from inside the ten yard line. That's where he got all of his production. And it was a very good offense, so they were they were inside the ten twenty of times.

But Gurley finished twenty three among running backs in total PPR points, but thirty second in points per game, which is just awful. Uh average just three point five yards per carry. He only average three point eight yards per carrying twenty nine, so he's trending way down. Uh turns twenty seven in August, but that's like the oldest twenty seven. It feels that it doesn't know history. And uh and like Drake, Gurley was roughly thirty in yards after contact

per attempts, just got like no wiggle left. No, the Jets are gone. Uh that that knee injury is a lifetime knee injury thing for him and will probably never get better. So potential landing spots. I'm thinking if the XFL gets what about the fan control right here? Yea watch that by the no and I love it. I love conceptually, I love it, but I haven't watched it yet.

I watched the first week and it was entertaining, but they set the bar too high with putting Marshawn Lynch in the booth because the entertainment value of that was just I would go back in YouTube just Marshawn Lynch because it's on Twitch, so it's like totally right. Anything goes. That was like, but it was pretty good, but I reterally didn't go back. I don't. I'm sure they've the notion that fans call the place that's pretty awesome. I

didn't partake in that. I wish I faigured that. I know I didn't like sign up for an account or whatever, but I know people are still buying into the teams like Famous. I think Dalvin Cook is a no winner in a team now, and they're They've got a bunch of Silicon Valley investors behind them, and there's there's some there is some legitimate momentum with the FCS. The biggest the mistake they've made, which is replicating the exact mistake

the XFL made and the a a F made. They're starting their season right at the end of the NFL season. We've just got done of six months of football. People need a break from football started in the summer when we're hungry for football again. Why these leagues keep replicating the exact same mistake. Timing is everything fools and no no value in fantasy for a girl. And he's gonna get paid the minimum for whatever his tenure is. You know, I think he's a veteran minimum guy on some roster

next year. He is one of the all time Cliff Faller offers running back. He led all fantasy backs in scoring in and two seasons later totally irrelevant, one of the biggest whiffs. If you didn't sell high at that point, you could have gained your price on him, um after season. Now you're holding the bag. If you're even still holding him. This is you know, it's all about to do the opposite.

You just you know these running backs just that when the end comes, it comes violently for these running backs, all right. Leonard four Nets, the last of the free agent running backs, will of scuts and again next week wide receivers and tight ends. If we recap his season, it basically goes like this. He was almost impossible to start. In the regular season, he was only averaging eight fantasy points per game in ESPN scoring, and in many cases on a week tweek basis, you had no idea what

was coming. Even if he got to ten touches last week, the next week three touches, then you couldn't know, because Bruce Arians does this with his running backs all the time. Then Ronald Jones gets hurt in Week seventeen, and then four Nets got free run for those first couple of games where he's going to get all the workload and

he looked good doing it. And then in the final two games, the final two playoff games, he was just a better guy than Jones and he got most of the work playoff Lenny he would He went from eight fantasy points per game to seventeen Fantasy points per game, and I, to my eyes, I thought for Net looked just okay. For if I take the whole balance of the season and the playoffs, and he just looked okay.

The worst part about that whole situation in the regular season was Week X. The TeVeS said Ronald Jones week it was the complete opposite, just like that was Bruce Arians just messing with people, fantasy owners, the opposing teams, whatever. Now to me, I don't have really an ideal landing spot for Leonard for NET except I don't think he's a workhorse back, and I think he would fail as a workhorse back. So I want him to to flop into one of our time share roles like the kind

he just had. But I want him away from Bruce Arians because this is too frustrating. If I'm a Leonard Fournett Dynasty or Empire League owner, I just want him out of Tampa because I can't trust him there, because I can't trust Bruce Arians week to week. I just wanted to go somewhere else, go to Houston, like I got him on a team, And that is how I feel. Yeah, that's I would like him to be somewhere else. I think he has middling redraft value, middling dynasty value. Um,

but is it I got you keep on roster? Yeah, I don't think you're I don't think you're just straight out cutting, at least not right now, not that we know where we're just gonna He's gonna ends up somewhere right now exactly exactly. I don't. I don't think he's gonna be highly paid, and I think he's gonna fall

into this. Everybody's expecting a blood bath of veteran cuts coming because of the salary cap, and not just that the salary cap is going down, but because teams had planned their spending under the assumption that it was going

to keep incrementing up. And so it's not even like teams were spending thinking it was gonna be like the same, but they thought it was gonna increment up, so they you know, it's just teams are really most teams are really in a pitch, and so I think there's gonna be a lot of guys that fall into the category of Leonard four net that are serviceable backs. They're gonna be They're gonna take the veteran minimum because that's all they're going to get. He was fourth overall when he

was drafted, forest player overall. Running backs just don't go that high. You have to be that special special. Barkley was bonkers. He was so good he still should not have been drafted that high, but well, only because of the injuries. Right, His rookie year was sensational, and that was the guy they drafted, and then two serious injuries later, we don't know what we got in see Kwon Barkley,

I just got a bashed ghettoman. Whatever I can you know, I know you can't help yourself because he tore your heart out. I understand. Next week, as I mentioned, fantasy relevant wide receivers and tight ends headed for free agency, and there's a bunch of those as well, one very close to my heart. You can't wait till I'm gonna start dripping. I know i'd see it. I'm coming in hot.

Yeah a long time, especially offseason. Listeners can already guess who Brian Johnson is going to be advocating for when we when we have next week's podcast, looking forward to that already. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back next week for more fans Set Football Weekly. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the i Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.