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hi charge, Welcome back from all your travels. Thank you, I appreciate you, guys, pinch hitting for a couple of weeks off visiting radio friends in various cities, Kansas City and Milwaukee, Chicago, driving around the heartland of America. That's awesome. It was fun recording from your house without you there. I've never seen so many marble pillars at the house before. After crossed the moat to get in. It's just it's not easy. You gotta you gotta defeat the black Knight.

I thought I thought the first butler was kind of rude, but the second butler, that guy was pretty. They get incrementally nicer as you go through the butlers. Sure, um, yeah, it's it was. It was great having you in my house. While I was gone, it was you know, everything got rummage. Have you found any of the pumpkin spice things we hit all over your house? I almost put a pumpkin spice like plug. I thought they're tough to find. That stuff is already out, you know, it's already hitting. The

flavors like the cheerios and stuff that's out. But the set stuff, Yeah, let's stockpile for next year. You know, it's bad enough that the pumpkin spice it's in November, but now it's all crept all the way into Midsummer. It's ridiculous and very wrong. Might over the course of this show, we are going to and but we're back to our long form at I should mention that you know we've off season. We have really no time constraints because because we're not on air in our podcast is

usually minutes something like that. Now we're into our two hours with commercials version and a little bit less without that if you're listening to the podcast, so welcome to the longer version of Fantasy Football Weekly. Lots to get you over the course of the show, well detail the one thing you need to know about every team's off season. If you weren't following every team's transactions, will tell you the most important thing that you need to know from

every team's off season. We will go through dynasty rookie drafts that are have been already happening. We're gonna go through the average draft position through the first two rounds of dynasty drafts and tell you if we if you guys are getting it right or you're getting it wrong by taking the players where you're taking them. Matt and I are in the middle of a dynasty draft right now.

We'll answer three tough questions as we always do, will unveil our sleepers, and we'll talk about the training camp battles that we will be watching for the next month. All that, so, let's begin with the one thing you need to know about every team's off season, beginning with the somewhat arbitrarily with the Carolina Panthers. That is that's not not even alphabetical. You're just throwing it out there.

It's funny. We've been using the same list for a couple of years and it's completely nonsense if you really care. It goes back to this. When I created the list the very first time, this was the order of the Week one preseason games when they were facing each other, and so I just went, yeah, we should do that it going by order of the week one preseason games.

Sadly that Carolina Panthers the one thing you should know, uh now much you are, except for they traded a conditional late round picks and not much value there, uh for Baker Mayfield in an attempt to upgrade their quarterback position, and based on camp reports, it's everything's bad there at the corterating position. Well it's still early, right, Yes, I'm optimistic that Baker is going to be a pretty sizeable upgrade.

I feel not that anybody needs to care about this, but while I was driving through states with legal betting, I put I put a lot of wagers on Carolina overs on winds the division, Yeah, wind totals. I think I think this is gonna be a sneaky good team. Matt, what's the one thing people should know about the Las Vegas Raiders. It appears that they may throw the ball more than ever this year, and it might be in catchup mode as the Raiders space the third toughest strength

of schedule based on Vegas projected wind totals. So good thing they brought in Josh McDaniels as their new head coach and Davante Adams as a new wide receiver to an already good receiving corps for the Packers. Well, you mentioned Davante Adams. Think everybody probably know that. Less well known is that three of last year's key injuries remained very uncertain for the start of the Packers season. Green

Bays best too. Offensive lineman David back Try and Elkin Jenkins are both rehabbing last year's a c L s and still aren't right. And it looks like tight end Robert Tounyan, who blew out his a c L in Week nine of last year, he looks even farther behind. He's on the publist right now and he's not getting any work. So, knowing that everybody knows about Davonte Adams, I want to highlight some of those key injuries, especially to the offensive line, that could affect the whole offense.

Let's go to Washington. Yeah, so I'm gonna go over to the running back position. They drafted Brian Robinson, and they brought back j. D. McKissick, who went to Buffalo for half an hour and then came back to Washington. Uh saw Buffalo and was like go home, and it might be just as well Washington, DC's any better. The running back situation might be as bad as expected. When

Brian Robinson was drafted. The Beat reporters that he's in line for the short yardage work, Mackistic for the pass catching role, and Gibson for the other stuff, with which is bad. I guess it's good for Mackissic and PPR and good for Brian Robinson. If you have a TV only league out there and lots of those still around, there aren't there they're all old. Back to that. Let's go to the Buffalo Bills. What's the one thing people need to know about the Bills off season? Let's see

if I can do this in exactly thirteen seconds. Thirteen seconds. What could happen in thirteen seconds? Well, you could lose the divisional playoff to the Chiefs. Ken Dorsey Goes gets promoted from quarterback coach to O C. They added Jamison Crowder to play the slot. James Cook should be a legit challenger to Devin Singletary in the backfield. But the the best thing I think is is they return four of their five offensive linemen, and this offense looks like

it's just ready to wheel and deal. All right, That was thing several more than I've got the Houston Texans. The main thing you need to know. They're no changes in the passing game, but the running back depth charts are now really a wide open competition. David Johnson's out of the league. Houston brought in Marlon Mack, who's trying to come back from a torn achilles and twenties. It doesn't matter as I as I frequently say, and it will probably come up again over the course of the show.

No running back has ever made a particularly successful recovery from achilles UH and achilles injury UH. And Marlon Mack was lousy last season, got cut by the Colts. Then there's Rex burkehead and Royce Freeman, a return from last year. Burke had had a couple of good games last year. That's it. Then the team drafted Damian Pierce at the top of the fourth round, and he's one of my

favorite deep sleepers. Last week, Houston's head coach Lovey Smith said about Pierce, you see him working special teams, a little bit of return game, running in between tackles. He can make you miss when he gets into the open field and he can catch, that'll be a fast Those are all the things that running backs need to do. Those are many of the things that need to do, not necessarily special teams, and we love the other stuff. Let's go to Tampa Bay, Scott. What's the one thing

people need to know about the off seas? First off, Austin Neckler started on special teams. Let's not downplay it. Adrian Peterson was on special he was a kick returner at one point over to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Leonard four Nett was had had weight issues. The coaches were unhappy in mini camp. Came to training camp down about fourteen more pounds, down to forty four, which is still a pretty big boy uh for Nett was forced into

the pass catching role last year with Geo's injury. They resigned Geo, but they added a pass catching back with Shot White into the mix afterwards. I think Geo could be a camp cut um. So if if if a Shot can gain the trust of Brady, he might take that pass catching role from Lenny and maybe more something to monitor. Let's go to Cleveland, Matt, what is the one thing people know about Cleveland's offseason. There's a new

quarterback in Cleveland. I'm not too fond of this guy, so I'm gonna call him QB Browns from Techmo Super Bowl. So QB Browns will serve some sort of suspension to start the year, but that won't necessarily change the fact that the Browns are one of the most successful rushing teams in the league. A league high seventeen percent of the Browns run plays last year went for twenty yards or more. One out of six plays went for twenty yards or more. It's Nick Chubb season, guys. It's always

Nick Chubb season, isn't it. It seems like, let's go to the Colts. Your new quarterback is Matt Ryan and behind him, by the way, Nick Foles. So they've got maybe a little better depth than most teams have got them, you know, if they needed to go there. Ryan's coming off his worst fantasy season by a mile. But I think it's important to note that in the first half of the season through Week nine, Matt Ryan was QB twelve in Fantasy football. Then old receivers got hurt and

he wasn't able to do anything. Just basically Calverley was going basically just trying to throw to his tight end. Ryan's starting receivers are kind of interesting. Michael Michael Pittman, rookie Alec Pierce, who's flashed in early training camp. And my guy Paris Campbell, who is going to try not to catch leprosy. He's a good in camp, so I know he looks good at the camp. Week one comes and it's the season off for Paris Campbell. Let's go

to Detroit. What is the one thing you need to know about every team's off, and not every team to Detroit, at least Detroit's. Uh. They went and upgraded the weapons around Jared Goff this year. They went out and got DJ Chark in free agency. They drafted Jameson Williams, who might not be might not be ready to October or so. But that's gonna be a far far better, better situation than the rotation of Raymond and Reynolds and c Fist and all those others behind alman Ra. There will be

a lot of mouths defeat over there in Uh. In Detroit, it won't be just you know, focused on a couple of pass catchers. Let's go to the Jets, Matt What is the one thing people need to know about New York's offseason? Um, they had a really good draft, maybe the best on paper draft in NFL history. Easy to do with three first rounders. They added Sauce Gardner and Jermaine Johnson to the defense. Both should be impact players.

Also added Garrett Wilson to the wide receiver group at the tenth pick, Bruce Hall, who's regarded as the top runner in the draft in the early second, Jeremy Ruckert's the guy to file away as a tight end prospect, maybe at the bottom of your dynasty roster in the third, and also Zack Wilson and Stiffler's mom. Yea, how about that? Al right, go Zack Wilson for the Chiefs. You already know that Tyreek Hill up, so I'm not gonna mention that.

Let's talk about the running back situation instead. Clyde Edwards Hilaire is the starter, but much of the rest of that backfield's changed. Ronald Jones migrated from Tampa where they did not want him anymore, and I am not on board with Ronald Jones. Sophomore Derek Gore could be in the mix, but my people tell me that he is a cut candidate. We're gonna talk about this backfield a little later, and I'm really in three by the seventh round rookie Isaiah Paschko, and we'll hear more about him

a little bit later in the show. Let's let's squeeze in one more team into this segment and the things the one thing we need to know about the Seahawks off seasons. Honestly, you could talk a lot about the quarterback or rain back position, but we're gonna talk about those later in training camp battles. I'm just gonna stay for the dynasty league out the leaguers out there. Uh. DK Metcalf signed a big three year contract. He's going

to be there for a while. So that that's what you need to know for your dynasty leagues, that he will be in Seattle for the foreseeable future. Yeah, for better worse. And then you know, if i were Dk Metcalf, I don't know if i'd made that call. I'm not sure that that's the that was necessarily the right long term move if you want to get a lot of winning in as that team does what I think was the correct thing. Maybe he just likes the weather and

Mount Rainier and stuff. Seattle in the summer, gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous Seattle in the Winner. It's it's not not so. I mean, we're not you know, we really cast aspersions up here. But man, if you like cold rain, Seattle in the Winner is the place to be when we come back. We'll continue working through every team's offseason. And the one thing you need to know, it's your number twenty eight Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Sank, the number

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to happen. Maybe you should be asking yourself why do you turn off your mic so often? Maybe that's it that that I feel like people don't want to listen to me. They're here for No. No, they're not the one thing you need to know about every team's offseason. We're covering every team. We've already done almost exactly half. Now we're going through the second half of the team's

beginning with the Denver Broncos. Matt thing people need to know. Well, I can't do one thing because there's lots of offseason news. The Broncos were sold to Walmart, they hired Nathaniel Hackett as their new coach, They traded for Russell Wilson, and part of their stadium caught on fire. That's four things. Yeah, so those are all really interesting things there. Their stadium,

by the way, might not be ready for Week one. Seriously. Yeah, there's parts of it that, like like the suites were all burned down and like that one remember remember seeing that If that was a long time ago, I'm shocked it's still not ready or may not be ready for the start of the season. Let's go to the Rams. Big offseason change at wide receiver Robert Wood signed a big money deal with Tennessee despite his A c L injury.

I was shocked at how much money he got with an A c L. Then Odell Beckham was not resigned, probably because his a c L was in February, so you know it's still on a long timetable there. And then they brought in Allen Robinson, languishing throughout his career with terrible quarterbacking terrible offenses. He gets signed and early reports of training camp very positive for Alan Robinson. Let's go to the Eagles. What is the one thing people

need to know about Philadelphia's offseason? Yeah, so the Eagles traded for this A J. Brown guy from Tennessee, so he will be there this year to upgrade that offense. Uh, Jalen Hurts. This is pretty this is actually fairly interesting. Jalen Hurts worst area of the field to throw too in his first two seasons is the spot where A. J. Brown has been one of the best receivers in the NFL in the last two years. And where's that? So hopefully it's uh intermediate and to the left and center.

But anyway, um, that may unlock both Hurts and that off It's a little bit if if that upgrades that one spot or the right J Brown never gets the ball, I could go and I have a I have a feeling in Jalen Hurts can actually throw the ball. He just didn't have receivers to Okay, let's go to Miami. What's the one thing people need to know about the Dolphins offseason? A few big time changes. Mike McDaniels comes over from San Francisco to be the new head coach.

Tyreek Hill comes in via trade from the Chiefs. Chase Edmonds looks to be a favorite to be the new running back. But the Dolphins. The biggest thing is they had like the worst offensive line in the league last year. They brought in tarn Armstead as big left tackle. That should help, but the rest of their offensive line is very suspects still to had like the shortest time in pocket before contact last year. I have a feeling that two is still gonna get rid of get rid of

the ball really quick. This if only had somebody that could do some damage after a quick pass. Yeah, I wore a couple of them. Vikings offensive personnel is largely and change. So I'm going to talk about the coaching overhaul that SE's Kevin O'Connell try to duplicate his success as the Rams offensive coordinator as he helped guide l A to a championship six months ago. One of the key things to watch will be near the goal line.

Last year, even with Dalvin Cook, the Vikings had the worst rushing conversion rate on any team on runs inside the five yard line, converting those into touchdowns. They only converted of all of their runs into touchdowns last year. That was a problem last year. So how can Kevin O'Connell change that. We'll get this. O'Connell's rams passed the ball the third most times from inside the five and

scored the second most touchdowns on passing plays. I think I'm telling you touchdown totals could be very big again as they were the last On a per game basis, he leads the NFL in touchdown passes converted into touchdowns over the last two years. I'm glad you didn't say they were going to bring in two fullbacks to go Where do you see j ham a lot and key situations. Let's go to the Dallas Cowboys. What's the one thing

people need to know about their off season? So the Cowboys have recently stated, and and they say it every year and they keep doing it, they want Zeke not just to be the main feature of the running game, but also the offense and they're not. They're not giving way to Tony Pollard just yet. They will. Also, Jan Tilbert is lighting up camp like Michael Gallup still on pup, uh Cedric Wilson and Amari Cooper are gone to free agency and trade uh Man Tilbert could be a real

let's go to New England? What if? What's the one thing people need to know about the Patriots off season? Matt Well? Last year, the Patriots offense was one of the more explosive ones in the league. Wait, what did I say that? Right? No, it does not sound right. It doesn't sound right, But the Pets were. They ranked fourth in the league with sixty eight runs of twenty plus yards runs. That now, that does not surprise me.

Hold On mac Jones had more twenty plus yard passes than Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Air, Bear, Kirk Cousins, and Russell Wilson. The Pats added Davante Parker to the mix, along with Jacobe Myers and Kendrick Bourne. It reminds me of the one year Jared Goff like was top five and they're like, they're not the sexiest names. It's not the sexiest offs, but these guys might be late round draft picks that you can grab and and get some good production out of. What's a sexy name. Uh, let's see,

I'll work on now, all right? Uh Rodrigo von hockey Pants, Scott Fish. That doesn't work. I think you can't have like the K sound or like like just like boom boom, like just quick? Is there a K and Scott? Just the case that Kott? For the Saints, Jameis Winston is your quarterback for better or work. Last year he was basically awesome in two games and unremarkable and all the others. And last year the Saints they really they had him

reel in his yolo passing stylings a bit. He was a yard shorter in average length of pass um when compared to his previous starting job in Tampa. Remember the year he went thirty and thirty three seasons ago. Unbelievable. Um, he's still it was technically yes, it was thirty three and like the old baseball that's why that's why we call it that. Yes, Um, he's still not one from his Week eight a c L last year. But Winston

is participating in camp. It'll be fascinating to see. His main weapon is it does Michael Thomas make the recovery on the ankle that he's you know, he's still trying to work through the idea of Jamis Winston's old school yolo Balls to Crystal is super exciting, super exciting if it happens. I hope, so, I hope. You know, Let's go to the Giants. It's the one thing that people need to know. Si Quon Barkley is a percent and making plays in camp after a really what what is

much more like a fluke ankle injury last year? You should not be sitting going looking at that ankle injury and thinking that's a tell tells. He played with it most of the year with all those sixty yard games. And Darius Tony has surprisingly been the darling of camp, like a player that we all kind of crapt on as a pick last year and this year he is

He's been the darling of camp. You know. We saw flashes of him looking at elusive on the field, you know, but most of it did not translate onto the field at all last year. Let's go to the Titans. What's the one thing people need to know about their off season? Matt Last season, the Titans ran the ball the second most by percentage in the league, and that includes Derrick Henry missing half of the season. Now A J. Brown is gone, Julio Jones has gone. Derrick Henry's back, Ryan

Tannehill's a sneaky runners back up. Malik willis also fleet of foot. I think this is going to be the most run heavy team in the league and maybe in like the last decade. I think you're gonna run so much this year. I'll go to the Steelers. You're starting quarterback is yeah, I don't know. Hello, and he's sad Trump bown Sky. Despite the fact they took Kenny Picken in the first round, he is getting virtually every first

team reping in training camp so far. You know, it's possible that Chicago coach Mattneggie was horrible and that Trubisky just needed better coaching. Did you hear about the two yard line drill that Trubisky did the other day? No, tell me about it? From the two yard line Mitch Trubisky went oh for sixteen on passes in practice. How do you do that? They've set all three quarterbacks. It's been really really As you said, tru Whiskey is getting

all the ones, but they all look bad. Um. The hope here is that new start, fresh place Trubisky, you know, and what from a pure, pure fantasy standpoint, maybe they run him a bunch. You know, he was never utilized that way in Chicagy. What Dud's got wheels? In our nine Times podcast chart that we did just a couple of weeks ago, we highlighted that true Bisky's start and the Steelers start, it's a horrific start to the schedule.

Schedule them. So it looks like six or seven games maybe for true Bisky if you're looking at the positive end. And then it's probably Kenny Picketts. The betting lines seem to think Kenny Pickett's going to get the starting role at some point. By the way, Uh, troub, what are the odds that we got a downgrade from last year's ben Like, it's it's possible and unfortunately it is possible. I you know, I hope that's not the case, but it might be. Let's go to Atlanta, Let's talk about

the Falcons. What's the one thing people need to know about that off season? So? Uh, a lot of question marks there. They brought in Marcus Mariota, and Desmond Ritter. They drafted Philippe Franks, so they got a lot of running out of the quarterback position. Felipe Franks. That's a sexy but it's got a case sound you've already establed, and an actual case. But but I think the thing to note is, uh, Kyle Pits. There's been a lot of Beat reporters saying that there are a lot of

questions with the Falcons, but Pits isn't one. He's been the best player in camp and it's not close. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me or anybody else. I don't think Matt. Let's go to the Bengals. I know what I consider to be the most important thing from the off season. I wonder if you're gonna hit on it too. I bet it's the same thing. After coming close to the Super Bowl, the Bengals identified and attacked their one weakness

in the off season, and that was offensive line. They added three new starters, all with Pro Football Focus grades over seventy two to the line, as Ted Carris, Alex Cappa, and l Collins. Yeah. I'm just I love their off season that way. From a fantasy standpoint, I'm I'm investing in Bengals where I can they went and fixed their problem. There when a when a when a front office goes, we see the problem and we're gonna just absolutely fix it in one off season. Maybe you're just saying that

because you're Vikings fan that never fixed their offensive. How do you know? The forty nine years have Trey Lances the team's undisputed starting quarterback barring the unforeseen. The unforeseen could include I guess him being so bad that they have no choice but to go back to Jimmy Garoppolo, but it does not learn that's going to be the case. The offense is expected to be run heavy, but that should extend it to Tray Lance as well as an

extension of that running game. In his two starts last year, he ran the ball twenty four times. And if they're gonna keep doing that, it gives Trey Lance top five fantasy upside if they continue to do that, and especially if it turns out he can pass at all, big arm. We hope that's going to be the case for him. Let's go to the Cardinals. Scott, what's the one thing people need to know about the Arizona opse. This is gonna seem like more than one. Kyler Murray for dinasty Leaguers.

Signed a nice big contract extension, so he'll be there for a while. DeAndre Hopkins suspended for six games. Brought in Marquis Brown via trade, who was recently arrested for criminal speeding. I'm gonna guess that won't play into any suspension or anything um at this. By the way, do you see how fast he was going? No, but criminal being arrested for criminal speedings, you've got to be going fast. One hundred twenty five mile for Marquis Brown. Now, what's

the fastest you have ever driven? I don't and we'll assume it's at least seven years ago statue of limitation. Oh no, it would. It would have been in the sixteen to twenty one range. I want to say I had tried to hit a hundred in my car, and I don't think I even did it. The car couldn't do it, or you couldn't do it. I'm gonna guess the car right back then? Yeah, absolutely, you know, unlike the Lamborghini you drive now, Yes, of course, Matt. What

about you? Oh I hit triple digits in my two Chevette that only had that went up to seventy, so you don't know your estimating. Yeah, surprise, it didn't explode. My first couple of cars were like an eighty nine Super DL and like a four Tourist, so I was not getting to those numbers. Yeah. I had a hand me down Buick Regal for my parents going and you couldn't up and down Valley View or Pioneer Trail. That

parts true. You'd you'd, you'd pressed when you had to go in the bureau reetle and you you pressed the pedal all the way down. It just gurgled and nothing. You're like in sixty Yeah, at some at some point, yes, then ford Escort baby manual five speed ford Escort. Uh, let's see where we've done. Well, Sorry, I thought you were done. I was just gonna say that the Cardinals coaching staff hopes rondel Moore will take over Christian Kirk's role and they're gonna plan to use them a decent

amount in this offense. With the suspension, he might get out there a decent amount in early going. Yeah, we've mentioned this round show throughout the off season. But Ron del Moore's hilarious average catch distance one yard one yard average catch that they got. They you know, they will improve that and maybe he'll be a little more elusive when he's catching the ball two yards downfield. Let's go to the Jaguars. Lots of offseason action there. Yeah, Travis

e t N returns from injury. So does James Robinson, also trying to come back from a late season torn achilles. Uh. He is practicing right now. By the way, they broke the wide receiver market though, with the signing of Christian Kirk, which really led to a whole bunch of weird dominoes falling across the league. And then Doug Peterson he brings

some stability to the offense. We're gonna just chalk up Trevor Lawrence is terrible year to urban Meyer and hope that Doug Peterson brings it back to what should be a successful career. Let's hope. So. But I'll make the same point that I made in the show last year when we were talking about Trevor Lawrence and the terrible Urban Meyer year. Dude was just missing open receivers. And I watched almost every game sadly untouched, and he you know, he was in a clean pocket and he was just missing.

So you know, I'm not ready to say it's an automatic do over, because can you say there might be a mental aspect to the QB game and like all the stuff going around, maybe that messed with him a little, you know, possibly made him that inaccurate. The Ravens that we mentioned Marcus Brown, he left and it replaced by nobody.

But let me just give you an update on running backs J K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards rehabbing from a c l S that occurred within one week of each other last August, including by the way, as I'm driving home from my auction in which I both for J. K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards, Dobbins happened and then like three four days later than Edwards happened and I had both guys. That's how it works. I'm talking about you, poor guy. But that's right. I mean, sure they got the knee injuries,

but what about me? Both are in the publist right now. Dobbins appears to be ahead of Edwards in his rehab though, even though it sounded like his was more serious than knee injury uh two weeks ago. Dot if he did so earlier, he might have had the surgery itself earlier. That's true. Uh, Dobbins took to social media a couple of weeks ago to try to refute eight Wheat by Ian Rappaport. Rappaport City wasn't that Dobbins would not be ready by week one? And then yeah, why didn't you

ask me? I'm gonna be there week one. We'll find out final two teams. Let's go with the Chicago Bears, Scott, what's the one thing people? So Ellen Robinson left town, which we all expected. They brought in Byron Pringle and Vylis Jones. They drafted Nick Hill, Harry Ecuonemius. They really didn't replace him with anything. So it's gonna be all

Darnell Mooney and Cole Comet for starter Justin Fields. Uh. Co Comet has been crazy good in camp, getting the majority of targets and catches, which is really good for a possible late round tight end throw. But the real news is they really love Khalil Herbert and there's a lot of talk about it being more of a split between him and David Montgomery. You mean Khalil ground Bear Ground Bear, sorry ground, Yeah, I forget that is that?

Also the air Bear seld No, listen now, I want you to listen for the subtle nuance carrying the air Bear and the ground bear brown Bear. Here's air Bear air I heard it, I heard it. I heard the difference. L A Chargers Matt is our final of thirty two team. But let's go from the Bears and ground Bear to air Bear. How about that? Uh? After justin air Bears two seasons ago, the Chargers spent first round picks on

Rashaan Slater in Zion Johnson on the offensive line. They went from having one of the worst offensive lines in the league two years ago to a top ten offensive line and Sky's the limit for air Bear in that offense. This year, sky is the limit for air Bear. Yeah, I'm wearing my air Bear T shirts. By the way, you are. Look, if I wanted to buy an air Bear T shirt, what should I do? I mean, you can go to Shock Fantasy dot com. Look in the shop. I got a link right there that brings you to

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year number twenty eight. Fantasy Football Weekly, our first episode, first full episode of the year. Of course, you can continue listening via podcast. We go all year round, fifty two shows a year Fantasy Football Weekly, because if we did fifty one then we technically could not be Fantasy Football Weekly. You'd have to be Fantasy Football mostly weekly, almost daily, almost daily, almost exactly. For the next two segments, guys, I want to go through the average draft position for

all of the rookies. So a lot of Dynasty and Empire League rookie drafts happening now or are happening soon. I want to go through the average draft position of the first two rounds. Talk about the players going there, and tell me if you think these players are going too high, too low, or if they're going in about the right spot. The Goldilocks situation. Yes, the Goldilocks situation.

I like it. I like it. I don't like porridge, So do not porridge me in any fashion, no matter what that I was gonna Porridgeyeah, I know, whatever, whatever your interpretation of that verb is, don't do it next summer, replace all of charges food with the porridge while he's gone pumpkins spice and I'm not there. Let's begin at pick number one, which is Breefe Hall for the Jets running back. Yeah, high, too low? About right? I It's it's about right. He's the consensus number one rookie off

the board. In my personal opinion, I like Ken Walker about the same. If I had a hundred rookie drafts, I'd probably go fifty fifty between Hall and Walker. Uh. The only reason is Michael Carter is there and people are just kind of dismissing Michael Carter. He was the best fantasy producer in elusiveness in Pro Football Focus is elusiveness grades last year. So he's gonna be He's gonna be a factor there. So I think Breeze Hall is

just right. But I could see you taking Ken Walker above. Uh. The difference between the two for me is one of them walks into a starting job and one of them it is not right. Maybe probably mean Kenneth Walker. They've they've said, and the early training camp carries right now we're going to Rashad Penny. So I think that's a key, different,

key difference between those two running backs. Anyway, until he has one of his eight knee injuries that take him out, that's good, very well, that could very well end up happening. All right, let's go to pick number two. Your selections at pick number two of a rookie dynasty draft is Drake London of the Atlanta Falcons. Ye, it's it's fair. I I have him met three in my rookie rankings, but it's absolutely fair. I have him and Burkes, as you know, one A and one B. Really two A

and two B is the wide receivers. I guess uh he just because he's he's gonna get a ton of volume right away. It's a great early landing spot. He's already making plays in camp. He just looks good. I had him as the top three wide receiver coming out. It's a good spot for him. I think it's appropriate, and I think he's he's got the most immediate the chance to be the most immediately impactful of the all

the receivers. Between his talent landing spot, which the quarterback is a little better, I like, I think Drake London's the right skuy here. Let's go to pick number three. In Dynasty rookie drafts, the consensus is Kenneth Walker running back for Seattle. I would consider take I'm gonna go just a hair low. I think he should go a

pick two. I haven't been picked number two because I think he's just potentially special running back behind a wobbly and often injured starter, and I think he could win. He could win the job as early as Week one. Potentially, Seattle's got the eighth most vacated carries one hundred sixty vacated carries from last year of the team's workload is gone. So even if he doesn't win the starting job outright, there should be enough other carries to go around to

make Kenneth Walker startable early in the season. So for me this, I have Kenneth Walker far lower than you guys. And and this goes to me in Dynasty, I'm always grabbing wide receivers early, unless I'm about ready to make a run, in which case I grab a running back who I think is going to get meaningful snaps. And I'm not sure that's Kenner walking Kenneth Walker that early in the season. So I have a few of the

wide receivers above him. But it's it's also fine. This This is a real good cluster at the top half. The consensus pick number four in Dynasty rookie drafts is Tennessee wide receiver Traylan Burks. Is this too high? Too lower? About right? Uh? Personally I have Traylon Burkes slightly above Drake London. He's looked really good in uh in Titans camp so far. Very physical. Uh, he's a big guy to six to a J. Brown by the way, was

six one two, So similar style players. I mean, I understand Drake London is going ahead of Burke's in almost every instance, but Burks is probably going to have the better years simply based on the quality of the quarterback. Ryan Tannehill is a better quarterback than Marcus Mariota asked the Titans. Yeah, remember the Titans. As I mentioned before, Burks is my two, London's my three, So I'm in the same spots. Matt h consensus pick number five is

Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson. Is this too high? Too lower? About right? I have Garrett Wilson down a couple. I have him below Jamison Williams, who I think has the highest upside of the wide receivers in this class, and Christal Lave who I really I like right along with those other three guys, and I think he has decent Year one potential with Jamis Winston if if they start to throw a deep Garrett Wilson the part that worries me is Elijah Moore seems to be their clear cut one.

And Corey Davis came into camp like ten plus pounds lighter and in insane shape, and he was a former first round pick that has produced it at various times. One year, he's had a lot of even even in the non full year good he had good games. He's had lots of flashes. And right now in the shape and now they added pass catching back Breece Hall. I mean, he does it all, but it's good pass catcher. I have Wilson a little lower than those two other guys

who I think have better upside. The consensus Number six is Chris Lave, who we've referred to already a couple of times, including just a moment ago. He is he falls into the Saints landing spot, and we already referenced the deep ball prowess of Jamis Winston, who they reeled back the throwing last year in the seven games that he played in. However, we know that that arm has got the deep ball in it, and they just didn't have anybody that they felt comfortable throwing deep to last year.

The hope here's three receivers. Yeah, there's Jarvis Landry there now and Michael Thomas right it's you know, Jarvis deal is catching the ball near the line of scrimmage. And we don't know if Michael Thomas is gonna be healthy, but even in his prime, Michael Thomas is not a downfield option, like he's the guy, So it feels like the opportunity to own the deep routes and there. I think this is an appropriate spot that the big worry is they don't have a long term solution at quarterback.

Pick number seven overall consensus in dynasty rookie drafts, Jamis Williams, the Detroit wide receiver. Too high, too lower about right? Yeah, Jamison probably won't play until October at the absolute earliest, if all goes well in his recovery from January a c L surgery. So I guess I'll say, if your roster is ready in a dynasty league to be a contender right now, and you're looking for production this year,

this is too high. And we're picking seventh in a rookie draft right now, so seemingly your roster's middle of the pack maybe ready to contend. If you're in roster rebuild mode, though, and you're on a two year plan, this is a great spot to draft him. I still think it's I'll take him at four. I think he's got the highest upside and I love seen like he is. It makes more sense store on a worse roster than it does to take him at seventh rom six together.

I really love the same question. Attitude is his quarterback next year? That's true, but he's he's like in camp with the players throwing the football like he's involved. No, great, he's he's arm Yeah, come on he he could be sitting on the sidelines doing nothing, and he wants to be in there. The consensus pick number eight in Dynasty, Rookie drafts his Buffalo running back James Cook, brother of Dalvin Cook. Too high, too low, or about right? This?

This is absolutely about right. I have him right in this range after those wide receivers. I want James Cook. Uh the But this is a Buffalo team that went out and tried to get m Kissick and couldn't. They went out and tried to get Chase Edmonds and couldn't. They want to get a pass catching back in there. I know that in camp like Mosson Singletary, gain Wick Singletary ended the years, it's like a top three running back.

Over the final few weeks he was, shockingly But they have consistently tried to figure out that position, and they seem to have wanted to bring in a pass catching back like like James Cook. I know he didn't. He only averaged like seven touches a game in college, but he could easily take over a really good role in high, high octane offense. I worried James Cook will never be ever. I don't like the first round a model attack who is never going to get fifteen touches a game. It's

it's the touch count, that's the word. So I've got too high. I think this is too high for James Cook. The consensus pick number nine and Dynasty rookie drafts is sky More. I was just in Kansas City at training camp and watching that number twenty four. My peeps were telling me that sky More, when healthy, and he's been on and off dinged up with various things. When healthy, he has splashed big top, looked very very good. I've

I've said this since the moment he got drafted. There's a very real chance that right now, right this minute, the best wide receiver and the Patrick's Mahomess led offense is sky More and that he is going to be the focal point of that passing offense at some point and maybe soon. So you're saying way too low. I'm saying this is too low. Just just for people listening, James Cook is my nine, sky More is my seven.

In between, I have George and so I do have these guys a little higher than James Cook, but I'm fine with James Cook. At that point that I mentioned the consensus pick number ten in Dynasty, Rickie drafts Christian Watson, the Green Bay Packers early second round draft choice. Yeah, we'll talk a little bit more about this whole position in training camp battles later in the show. But being six elite speed and having Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback

could just yield some absolute elite upside. But he is injured, he hasn't practiced yet in camp. But now we're late in the first round, and this is the type of player that you grab late in the first round that could just put your roster right over the top. I think it's a great spot. He could be their wide receiver one, or he could completely bust like he is

such a physical beast. But he should have done more in college, honestly, at the level he played at for his size and speed, you would think, uh, Justin Jefferson was going in about this time. Let's try to get in the last couple of picks. John Dotson from Washington. Too high, too low a pick number eleven, It's almost

exactly where I have him. I think he's gonna be a decent receiver for and has decent opportunity to start for Washington, and the final pick of the first round will do second round in a moment, George pickings Pittsburgh. The athletic freak, the jumping, the problems we've already seen highlight head weren't for off the field and maturity. His talent level should have been up with that top group. Yeah, no doubt about it. Questions a quarterback, Well, you know,

we don't know that they've got to solve in Pittsburgh. Yet. I like the fact that he's got lots of opportunity to start. Week once is too low that Deonte Johnson could be on the trade block to you just resign? You just resigned, Like I don't, can't resign somebody you're gonna trade. Uh, we'll come back in a moment. Our Number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Please stay tuned our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. It is episode one of season

twenty eight. Thank you for joining us. I am Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison joined me as well. Quick note, if you've never tried to guillotine leade, here's how it works. Eighteen teams start the season. Because there's eighteen weeks in the season, it's no head to head. Instead, the low scoring team each week gets cut from the league in their entire roster goes to the waiver wire, where the rest of us it's pandemonium bidding an entire

roster worth of players. We feast on the bones of the dead. Yes, we do. It sounds like zombie mode. Really it is very zombie mode, like we have that too. And all you have to do is not finish last any week. It's a different style of thinking. You're not playing to win, you're playing to not finish last. It's a different style of thinking in a lot of different strategy than what you're used to guillotine leagues dot com we're going through a two rounds of a rookie Empire

Dynasty League draft, and we already did round one. Last segment, let's go to round number two. You we're gonna tell you where the consensus has players going, and then whether or not the consensus is getting it right or wrong? Is it player too early too late or just about right. Let's go to uh, the first selection of round number two, pick thirteen overall, Rashad White, Tampa Bay, too early, too late,

or just right? Did you know that Leonard four net has his own flavor of wings at Wingstop, which is a hot honey wing looks delightful, But that does not bode well for a guy who probably why he came into camp at three pounds not three hundred um. Four nets still going to have the job. He's not gonna steal four nets job right away. But everybody at bucks camp talks about Rashad White as he's really almost a veteran.

He's mature, he's confident, he's he's been a sponge just like uh, learning from four net and four nets really taking him under his wings. So that's a good thing too. Uh. They're drawing a lot of comparisons to Chris Godwin, his approach that always bodes well for rookies. So I think Rashad White might be a touch too low. I think he's got an opportunity if anything goes wrong with four net.

He's a lead back in an elite offense. And let's remember four NET had all those soft tissue injuries in Jacksonville. They haven't popped up in Tampa to his credit, and maybe Tampa's just got you know, better trainers whatever. Um, but man soft tissue injuries are they usually compound on each other. Guess how many has played in his five year career full seasons? Yeah? Any, yeah, exactly. He has

had a fifteen gamer in there. But yeah, the last couple of years he's been mostly healthy to his credit. All Right, the second pick on average, the consensus second pick in dynasty rookie drafts in the second round, it's my guy, Damian Pierce. What do you think too high, too low? Or about right? So? Uh, I had Rashad White exactly at thirteen and Damian Pierce I have one spot lower because I have Christen Watson just above him, like I have Christian Watson really well, I have him

at four. So it's about the right spot. Me. Honestly, I think he could easily take that backfield and any running back that can take that pack field take up backfield in his first year? Is it? Is it really

decent second round pick for a dynasty league. Let me just talk about Damian Pierce for a while because and by the way he fell to me in the in the um dynast of Pizza, the Dynasty Draft that that Matt and I are in, I had picked sixteen in a sixteen team or just you can get a math on that, and Damian Pierce Scott to meet sixteen, and

I couldn't have been happier about that. Um And maybe I'll be proven wrong, but a he reminds me, and I'm not I hesitate to compare any rookie to a Hall of Famer, but if everything just the traits okay, and the outside here hesitated, but you're going right forward. But it's Jerome bettis a big player with remarkable footwork, and you know, bettest for the big for a big guy. People just didn't get clean hits on him. We got

a lot of that in Pierce. And the other thing about Pierce that's wild is they threw to him all the time in college. This big guy rumbling down seams and they're throwing twenty yards down fielding the scene to Damian Pierce. Yeah, I would say they through efficient passes. I think he caught like nineteen balls last healing. But they were good, they were Yeah, they were dumping down.

These were designed downfield passes to Pierce. Now, he was never a workhorse player in college, but that doesn't mean that he can't get a lot more use here. And he's the only true goal line back on roster for Houston right now. If you gotta say who's gonna get a carry at the three yard line to score a touchdown,

it's Pierce. He's the guy. If there's one player that's that could be way off radar as a double digit touchdown scorer, Damian Pierce was gonna be a Rex burkehead though, just to piss you off, that's the only reason that's what happened. It would be I think James Conner's last year is his. It would be a nice ceiling from amazing a bunch of touchdowns, not not a ton of pass catching, but him the third pick of the second

round in rookie Dynasty drafts Isaiah Spiller. I believe that this is about right on Spiller, but you have to wait and be patient because obviously Austin Ekeler is going to get the majority of work. But what you're banking on with Spiller is that Eckler had almost one hundred more targets and touches opportunities last year they had any other year of his career, and the team may have sunk valuable draft capital into Spillers, specifically to take away

some of the workload that Eckler got. Its been asking for them to to have a compliment, and when asked about that, if Spiller could be that guy, Eckler said something like he talks a lot in the film room, which I thought was funny. That's fantastic. With the fourth selection of the second round in Dynasty, rookie drafts Atlanta running back Tyler Algier. Is he going too high, too low, or about right? We're talking about a lot of runners that have a chance to take over a backfield, and

I think Algier's got a great opportunity there too. Uh. He's the exact opposite kind of runner as current starter Cordarrel Patterson in Atlanta. He's young, he's big, he's bruising. I think Algier will continue to creep up a d P as August wears on. So right here at pick sixteen, I think he's actually going a little bit too late. I have him at seventeen. By the way, that a J. Dillon league I'm in Tyler. Algier is going to be

in that league this year. So if I get any inside info lege so we can safely assume you're gonna manage to work in the league. You're a J. Dillon once every show the league. I've bed with a J. Dillon Tyler every week of the season. Large running backs in Scott Fish's league. All right, let's go to the next selection, the fifth overall pick in Dynasty Rookie Drafts. In the second round. Uh So, seventeenth overall, I should say Brian Robinson Washington. It's too high, too lower about right?

I have him much lower. I think I have him in the early twenty's. I think he's more of a touchdown only league earlier, I think that backfield is gonna be too split up. He will get those touchdowns, but they're there are a lot fluke here and a lot harder to predict. That's he's definitely not a guy I'm grabbing in Dynasty drafts with the I think we're on six pick. The eighteenth overall selection in Dynasty Rookie Drafts, Alec Pierce from Indianapolis. Now we've already alluded to this

earlier in the show. He's getting entirely run with the first team offense. He's got running very basically unopposed to be a starter opposite Michael Pittman. They'll have Paris Campbell running out of the slot. Alex Pierce is fast and it's speed for him. Also some good contestant catches. He was a second round pick who's gonna be an immediate starter. And Matt Ryan's got enough left out. Yeah, that's to eleven. That's a taco takes the whole thing. We had years

ago in an early fan ball lore. This is about nine nine. I would guess um, we had a weight loss contest and most of us were relatively naive on how to win a weight lost contest. But one of our guys had broken the code. So before the way in he did nothing but drink water and not use the bathroom front or back for the like twenty four hours before that. And he comes in the morning of the way in, completely water logged, in total pain and discomfort.

He can barely walk up to the scale, weighs himself and runs to the bathroom. He killed us. He lost like four pounds just there. That's a lot of water. There's a lot of water. A gallon of waters eight pounds. He had at least half a gallon in him. I know, anyway, picked number nineteen overall consensus? Where were we pick number nineteen in Rookie Dynasty draft? Jalen Toilbert from Dallas? Too high?

Too lower? About right? He's a rookie that doesn't have to carry the water in in Dallas because he's the number too wide receiver. Thank you injuries all over the place. Tilbert looks like he's going to the wold. He's kept caring that water right there. I didn't know where in a pool though. Tilbert's going to have the chance to start opposite Ceedee Lamb right away in a pretty good offense, and so far he's impressed in camp. It's getting first

team reps the whole time. There's a lot of wide receivers we've talked about that won't slide into nearly an every down roll like Tilbert will. So I think he's going a little bit too low here, Not a little bit for me. What did you say, nineteen? I haven't met twelve in my rankings, so I have a lot too low. Yeah, yeah, I think we all agree that the opportunity is so good for Jennie. It's not just it's yeah, it's not just opportunity. He's just he's good too.

In a for a year, it will use the third rounder. I believe in a different year he probably would have been a second rounder. And you know it was a deep draft. There was. It's but it's so much a fantasy football and especially rookie receiver. It's about opportunity. He will hit the field as a starter, very probably one

gallop still and pick overall in Rookie Dynasty drafts. David Bell from Cleveland, speaking of opportunity, it's talking about it's gonna be him trying to fight off Devin Duverni, Duverni and stuff like that. Um that this is, that's it. It's it's opportunity. He's a good receiver. It's opportunity. There I have him exactly. It looks like exactly in this spot or one a way. So I think it's about right. The first pick of the Rookie Dynasty Drafts by consensus

is Zamir White from Las Vegas. This is a pick you're making for next year. I think it might be too low just because of the possible that Jacobs might leave. I don't running backs rarely get traded because they're they're not much of a commodity. You don't get no, I mean after the year, this last it's his last year. Corre Okay, now with you, I thought you meant in season. If you're I was going along with your next year, I think got it. If you're taking him is for

next season because it is a painfully crowded backfield. Not only is there Josh Jacobs, but you've got Kenyan Drake. They brought in Brandon Bolden, they drafted Zamir White, and White doesn't to me, does not look at a mere duel. I'll throw him in there too, as as a passing down guy. And he you know, he's scored on the Thursday NET Hall of Fame game, not that that means a lot, but then again, just Jacob's got a bunch of got a bunch of shocking amount of work. I

think five carries in that game. White doesn't look to me to have the build of a workhorse back ever, and that part worries me. But at least you're not paying a first round price like James Cook, who also to me, does not look like a workhorse back. So I've I think this is about the right spot for Zamir White, but you have to be willing to sit on him for a good year. I believe the twenty second selection, this would be pick number ten in the second round. Is Trey McBride our first tight end? He's

an Arizona? Is that too high? Too lower about? Right? Man? I think it's too high. It's it was a bad tight end draft, and McBride was the best of them, but he joins a Cardinals team with just a log jam in front of him, both at tight end and overall in the receiving position. Zach Ertz and Max Williams sit in front of him on the depth chart for the tight end, and the Cardinals have four maybe five wide receivers that are going to be drafted in your

fantasy league. McBride won't see the field very much. So if you've got a spot that you can hold onto him for a year, maybe two years, it's a really deep dynasty draft, then go ahead and draft him. But I just don't think he's going to get the opportunity. Yeah, that and that may be. That may be a significant issue him. It's to the timeline is too far out. From Yeah, it's always a slow timeline with tight ends are almost always this is going to be a very

slow one, unfortunately. The second to last pick of the second round in our Dynasty Rookie Draft, by consensus, you guys are all selecting Wrandale Robinson from the Giants. Yeah, I'm I. I was a guy who was in on one day Robinson early. I like, I liked him. He's he's really small. That's a concern, like players at his height and weight generally don't hit in the NFL. I've kind of soured a little bit just because he's a slot receiver on the Giants offense with like fourteen slot

receivers and and a whole mess there. That's not exactly the most high octane thing that like the Bills or the Cardinals or the Chiefs or whatever. So I I actually have pushed him down in the second round. I'd rather have guys like you know, uh, I guess like Gilanni Woods maybe or Romeo Dubs or even an interesting one is Kyle Phillips moving up, who is basically taking over the starting slot receiver job in Tennessee. I have one day on the second round now, but not too

far down. Yeah, I just I worry there's just too many miles to feat in with the Giants. I haven't even mentioned a quarterback yet, no two rounds of a and rightfully so, in my opinion, I don't have any problem with that. Uh. Final guy will talk about the last player in the taken in the second round of Dynasty Empire drafts San Francisco rookie running back Tyrian Davis Price. He's tall, he's fast, he was productive at L s U, and Elijah Mitchell has is the clear starter there, but

we saw Mitchell breakdown. They're gonna run the ball a ton and then Shanny is always weird about usage. Who goes in, who goes out? You get the feeling at some point Davis Price is going to hit the field as early as this year. He'll hit the field with Shanahan is kind of unlike his dad in the way that he does use a bell cow and he doesn't stick with a guy. It's it's gonna it's gonna take an injury to Elijah Mitchell for for Davis Price to really see the field. I think that's safe to say.

And I think Tray Sermon is not going to be a factor in this but you're too maybe you know, maybe you also never knew. No, maybe it's maybe he uses a bell coll like Mitchell and stuff because of what he's had, like that Lanta he had DeVonta Freeman and uh losing the second running back he had not when Gurley was there. Done that, it's going back aways. I'm not sure you're thinking about, but that's okay. Where you go? Where? Where would you take in a super

flex draft chart? Where would you take either of the quarterbacks and either you think like Molik Willis, can you pick it? Maybe Desmond Ritter? Where would you take those guys in a super flex draft? I think at that point you're talking early second round before I'm taking any of these guys because I think, honestly, I think they're all less than fifty chance there's at anyone, even though your favorite quarterback, less than chance of being a fantasy

impact starter. What do you think? Yeah, I think Willis is the guy I kind of like the most, but I think he's got the toughest, you know, road to overcome with Danehill there, I think that's safe to say. Uhan, you know about thousands, it's Steven Colemann. Coleman to San France. Fantastic. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. When we come back, we will talk through three tough questions. It's the game that you get to play along. See if you can go three

and oh with our panel of experts. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and co hosts are Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. My cheat sheet is available for free Quillotine leagues dot com. This is a game we call three tough Questions. I will pepper my co host, with three tough questions. So it's not just a clever name, No, it's a it's a very literal name as a matter of fact, and they will try to answer the questions correctly.

Beginning with tough question number one, which backup running back has the most upside if the starter goes down? So there's an upside question if the starter goes down. We begin with Scott Fit. So I need clarification on what you consider a backup running back? Is Melvin Gordon a backup running back? Romandre Stevenson a backup running back? Then it's Romandre Stevenson because in almost every week that Damien Harris was out, he was a top twelve running back. Uh,

he gets a full compliment of the workload. He gets, you know, fifteen to twenty touches, and in camp he's getting a ton of the passing game work. Uh, pass catching work in camp so far. And James White might not be ready to start the season. That might be that he might have just taken over that role. So for me, it's Romandre Stephenson, uh Matt Which backup running back has the most upside if the starter goes down.

When I read this question, my knee jerk reaction was Kareem But then I thought about it a little bit more. It's not Kareem Hunt. It's a J. Dillon. If Aaron Jones went down, a J. Dillon is like getting a huge boost and touches on a team with a good quarterback, a great offensive line, some suspect receivers. Dylan could be a top five back if Aaron Jones were to go down, it's gotta be a J. Dillon. I was between A J. Dill your two answers, between A J. Dillon and Remander

Stevenson Dylan. The reason I went with Remondre Stevenson and the reason that's the right answer Dylan had the two games that Aaron Jones missed last year, and he had eleven touches and fourteen touches in those two games. He did not explode into twenty touch territory, which was what I would have expected and hoped. Meanwhile, for Remondre Stevenson, he started two games with Damien Harris out last year

and he averaged eighteen touches. Uh. And Stevenson and Harris shared a whopping twenty two carries from inside the five yard line. That team ran the ball inside the five a lot, and the thought of Stevenson built like he is getting all those inside the five carries, not Dylan's built for touchdowns too. Don't get me wrong. I'm still taking a half here. You can You're We're mostly wrong,

but you're not necessarily not entirely wrong. UM. As a team, New England was fifth and attempts from inside the five. And we know Ramondre Stevenson is really good too. Uh. He finished ninth in yards over expectation last year and third in rushing percentage over expectation for Ramandre Stevenson. Correct answer,

Remandre Stevenson, tough question number two. Now these are tandem questions, as you'll be able to tell while the starter is healthy, which backup running back is most fantasy startable week to week. So now we're looking for backups. It's a different question. I'm talking about upside of the starter's gone. Now the starters playing. Who's the guy you feel best about starting with? Back up? Do you feel best about starting? We begin to this one with Matt Harrison. I think we named

a lot of the candidates here. I think the correct answer might be a J Dillon again, but I didn't want to just explain a J Dillon twice in the three tough questions, so I thought another answer might be Melvin Gordon. I know the Broncos camp had some soundbites this last week about how they think Javonte Williams could take like a seventy thirty split, But in that same article they were like, but Javonte hasn't looked like awesome in camp yet. The reports are the camp split. Yeah,

despite the thought, that's not how it turned out. That's not how it turned out. Last year it was nearly fifty fifty. The Broncos had a chance to let Gordon go and let Javonte Williams take over this offense. His contract was up and they could have brought in a rookie at a cheaper price, but they went out and they signed Gordon back again. So I think it's a fifty fifty split. Gordon finished as a high end RB two last year statistically, and he's gonna be keep in

a D two. I like Melvin Gordon a lot this year. All right, same same question, Scott. While the starter is healthy, which backup running back is the most fantasy startable week to week? So I kind of telegraphed this with my first question to you, Melvin Gordon backup is Romandre Stephenson.

So for me, it is Melvin Gordon. A J. Dillon's really close because he had over seventy total of the yards like one, two, three, four or five seven, eight ten times last nine times last year, um, which is pretty damn good for a backup if you're throwing a few touchdowns in a few receptions. But Melvin Gordon was eminently startable in the flex fish position almost every week, and you felt fairly confident about it. And I think

the split is still gonna remain. It's gonna have shift a little bit more to Javonte this year than last year, I think, But it's probably Melvin Gordon. Still. I almost went Kareem Hunt here, but I didn't quite wasn't able to quite thought about it. Um Hunt averages twelve and it's you know, depending you're scoring been twelve points overall is a non starter ESPN scoring. But and he gets

he does catch somebody. He Hunt doesn't catch as much as I want him to, right, And I don't know why Kevin Stefanski doesn't use him more that way, and I wish he would. Um does. Stefanski does run the ball a lot. And the weird thing about Cream Hunt, of course, as we've seen, is when Chubb goes out with injury, Hunt's role doesn't really change, it doesn't really expand. But within the boundaries of the question, the correct answer

is Melvin Gordon. I got both right. You're dead to your two for two and that's about one and a half out of two. Really, Gordon's output hasn't really changed in three years, including three years ago when he was a starter. He still gets a dependable amount of use every game. And by the way, the fact that you can get Melvin Gordon seventh round a DP okay I'll take that, you know it as opposed to a second round.

For a guy getting about the same amount of work to do the opposite running, he is exactly to do the opposite running. He's the definition of it. Melvin Gordon tough. Question number three? Is it cool to milk the clock instead of making your picks? You're on the clock. Can I milk that thing out waiting in case like breaking player news happens, or maybe somebody makes me a dumb trade offer whatever. Specifically, drafts, you know, the clocks sixty seconds,

we're not talking about that. I'm talking about the kind of drafts that are happening right now that are one hour picks, two hour picks, six hour picks, eight hour picks. Is it cool to milk the clock? Scott? This is not the question I prepared. I was wondering if Brian is here something on the fly. My personal feelings are most of the time, when commissioners set up a slow draft, they set it at six hours or eight hours or whatever to account for people who have lives, not in

people who have work and can't get to it. But you're supposed to pick in a reasonable amount of time when you can get to it. Um. It's in my personal opinion, it's not for milking the clock and working making sure you know, some training camp news comes out or an injury doesn't happen while you're on the clock. I know a lot of people disagree with that. For me, no, it's it's it's not cool, but I let it happen. You know, like you have eight hours, that's rule, but

not clue you're on. No, not it's it's not cool, but it's completely acceptable within the rules. Okay, Uh, Matt it are you cool with players fantasy players who milk clock instead of making their pick. If you've got eight hours, you get eight hours. I mean it's fine to do. Uh. If there's a clock, you get all of it. Do I do it? No, because personally I'm way too impatient as a person for that kind of stuff, And I really like the dopamine boost for making a draft pick.

All that's good stuff right there, So go ahead and do it if you want, but generally I don't do it. It is deeply disrespectful to milk the clock purposely just to try to get to get an advantage on the rest of the league, and to sit on the clock for six or eight hours. When you know what that pick is gonna be, you're available, have some respect for the other eleven people in your league, and make your damn pick. Are you breaking a rule? No, but that's

not the only that doesn't matter. You know, I can farmer hanking on the sidewalk. It's not illegal, but it's wrong and disrespect crop. I could crop. You can do it. They won't lock you up. It's within the boundaries of the law, but you shouldn't do it because it's disrespectful to it. That's how I feel. It's get your pick in that that timer is for people who have busy lives and work and stuff. When we come back, we're

gonna go through the training camp battles. We will be watching, and we will unveil our first sleepers of the year. We've already hinted at some of these players. Will talk a little more deeply about them when we come back. Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly brought to you by Guillotine leagues dot com. We encourage you to check out the hottest new format sweeping the country, Guillotine Leagues dot Com. No head to head

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You just want to work in that you made it to the champions If you're gonna if you're gonna bring j on the show and talk about beating me that, I'm gonna bring it. Second, it's weird that you're putting your thumbs behind your suspenders when you're doing that. In this segment, we're going to talk through the training camp battles that we're watching, and we're going to right now

give out our first Sleepers of the year. First, let's define sleeper because there's always there's always an area of contention. For me, this is always about guys who are gonna dramatically out or have the potential to dramatically outperform their draft position, which I guess you know. This doesn't mean like a second rounder who's gonna be like a first rounder.

To me, this means somebody at least like mid mid round that's going to perform like a top third or trying to stay in the double digit round because I think it's more fun. Yeah, I actually do too, But yeah, all right, so let's let's start with you, Matt, who is your first sleeper of the year. I alluded to him a little bit earlier in the show, and that's Isaiah Pacheco, running back Kansas City. Clyde Edwards Hilaire, he's just a guy, Ronald Jones, He's just a guy. Darryl

Williams was Kansas City's best running back last year. And he's in Arizona. And by the way, they gave Pacheco number ten in Kansas City. That's Tyreek Hills number. They think that they just have the replacement number ten right there. Um. They're having him run with the first team offense, like Scott just said, and he's killing it. Um. Just the other day, I saw a wheel route out of the backfield. Mahomes dropped it in perfectly. Potchecko made a great catch.

Right now, he's a last round of your draft kind of pick. If he gets no snaps, that's apparent right away, you can cut him, no big deal. But if he does flash just a little bit in that first week against Arizona, you might be looking at the absolute steal of your draft. He's got crazy upside of everything breaks just right for him. Seventh rounder Rutgers not known for producing any good football period, man, the fact that he

was as productive as he was there was remarkable. And he has some by the way, I'm being told like a lot to make the team because he's also a special teams guy. He's gonna do returns and he's gonna be There's not there really isn't a scenario that anybody sees right now where seventh rown running back gets cut. Is Clyde Edwards Hilaire a lock to make the team?

Yes he is, and he's getting the Let's be clear, alais getting virtually all of the first So this is a long shot, all right, Scott, who is your first

sleeper player of the year. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna be in no man's land here because normally I'm I'm like the super deep guy on the on the show for for sleepers, and both of your guys are deeper than mine, is all right, And I'm normally the wide receiver guy like I'm on raw and like Deonta Johnson, and I've had svenders again spenders Chris Godwin one year UM I'm actually going with a running back here, and not as deep as you guys. I'm going back to a guy

we've mentioned several times, Rashad White. If things break were right for him and Leonard four Nett is out of shape or gets the role taken, or he gets injured, which he does get injured almost every year. He's a pass catching back out of Arizona State. Uh Matt talked about the maturity. He's super excited to, you know, show that off on the field, making lots of great catches in camp um with Jeoe, you know, coming coming off of injury, resigned on a one year deal. Possible cut

candidates Ronald Jones not there. He's got an a DP well into the double digits, and he could be a league winner if things hit Rashad White, Yes, enough speed and and three down potential to be if you know, if anything happens with four net, including bad play, they're gonna plug him in. He's got I agree he has league winning upside. I love him that way. My player is my rookie. We're all doing rookie running backs. My rookie running back is so deep that he wasn't even

in our discussion of the rookies before. How deep is he by? Thank you for asking match game host Gene Rayburn. Yes, that's me, Yes that is I know that's where you were going with this. I am going with Jacksonville's rookie running back Snooper Connor. Hold on, I gotta do this, Snoop. We should really get some Can we get that cut for the bottom bar? No, it's not every never do that again. We can absolutely, we also cannot. We can't play any Snoop dogg. Let's just no, let's just bring

that every time we want to talk about him. I can see if Colin mccockney is available. I think you should. Let's talk about Snoop Connor because nobody knows anything about him. It's part of it's the landing spot Jacksonville. Now we know James Robinson's got the achilles. As we've already mentioned earlier in the show, no running back has ever successfully recovered from the achilles injury to be a meaningful player again and have a meaningful part of the career. We

hope cam Akers is the first. We hope James Robinson is the first. But until proven otherwise, you can make an assumption that James Robinson with his late season achilles is not going to be a factor, and maybe not ever again, maybe not till the end of this year, not going to be a factor. Travis Etienne is going to get a plenty of work, but he was never really a workhorse in college and never a goal line back. And he's coming out with Liz Frank of his own and he they're gonna use him a lot as a

pass catcher. So who's gonna get inside running, Who's gonna get goal line use? And that's not etiens gig, that's not what he's largely built for. Snoop Connor can be that way. He is a banger, He's an inside runner. He's the probable Week one goal line back for Jacksonville. Doug Peterson's always used a committee no way. I don't think there's any scenario where Etien is gonna be eight touches a game, even factoring in the receptions that I think Ettien is gonna get, I don't think he's gonna

be that high. Peterson's always been a committee guy. Part of that committee is going to be fifth rounder Snoop Connor. I think there's a coin flips chance Snoop Connor leads the Jaguars in rushing touchdowns this year. Sure coin flip coin flips chance and he, by the way, so different than a dart throw. I feel like it's good we're

all three giving running backs. I feel like there's a little bit of a changing in the guard happening where there's a lot of wide receivers out there, but the ones that when your league are are actually having those deep, those deeper running backs on your roster with the new seventeen game schedule and with all the injuries, having them on your roster and not having to fight for waivers for them, I think I think it's big in the later rounds of your draft. Now agreed, Alright, So I

don't know. I don't have his ADP in front of me. I wish I did. I bet Snoop Connors ADP is in the two hundreds, like three thousand four. It could be. It could be, And I just I'm not hearing any talk about him, not your you know. I just I think there's a I think there's a great opportunity to there. You go, what round is is that? Like round? That's round. Let's go through the training camp battles a a f C NFC style training camp battles. Who would like to

go first? We can go back and forth. I'll start with the NFC. How about that. Let's go with the Atlanta running back situation. Uh, Cordarrel Patterson, Tyler L. Gear and Damian Williams kind of mentioned this a little bit before, but I just wanted to remind everybody that Arthur Smith is the coach in Atlanta. He came from Tennessee where he had Marcus Mariota on his roster for a while, and when Marcus Mariotta was the quarterback, they deployed this

really big, bruising back in their backfield. If they're going to do that again, that's al Gere. He's not as big as Derrick Henry, but he's certainly a downfield runner. And I think al Jeer's got a leading edge on maybe getting more of that share of the backfield than

many mate think. We saw Cordaryl Patterson just get ground up, he got broken down, and they just they can't use him like and I just the opportunity so much fantasy football, it's opportunity is more important than talent, and the opportunity is certainly there for Tyler l gere Uh and that training camp battle will continue to watch. All right, Scott, what's next? Yeah, so mine, it's starting to feel less like a battle and more like it's just going to be a split. But I had the Denver Broncos with

Gordon and Williams that we just talked about. Cecil Lammy and Benjamin Albright, who both covered the team, have very different views on it. Lammy thinks it's going to be that seventy thirty split. Benjamin Albright says it's more like I think that's where most of us in this room lean on it. We'll see through camp if if Javonte can really take hold of the reins. But if he can't, I would expect to split again. All right, Matt, what's the next training camp battle? Scott talked about it about

it a little bit before. It's the Carolina quarterback situation, and I think you have a dark horse there, Chart Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald and at correct maybe maybe he's you know, if you believe the reporters there, none of the none of the quarterbacks look great, but Correl has at least had a couple of a couple of eye popping moments. Yeah, I would be absolutely shocked if Sam Donald got a real shot at this job again, especially since the Panthers lead off the season with a revenge

game against the Browns. So it'll be Baker's job in week one, no doubt. I think that's probably gonna be there. I think that's almost certainly going to be the case there. All right, Scott, what is the next training camp out? Let's go over to New England with Romandre Stephenson and Damien Harris. I'm only pointed this as a battle because Romandre Stephenson has been getting work with the runs, but not like that fake reports said where he was getting

almost all the ones work. That was just a short video and and used to try to, you know, inflame the Stevenson lovers out there. It was later debunked. But he is getting worked with the ones, and he's getting work in the passing game. It's gonna be interesting to see that if that role continues to develop. Matt. The next training camp battle the Green Bay Packers wide receiver situation. I mean Allen Lazard looks fav Do you mean Canton

bound Allen Lazard of Hall of Fame bound Ellen Lazard. Oh, do we think that the Packers are playing in the Hall of Fame game next year or something? And Roger said, he's going from one Hall of Famer to another? Is a receiver? Is he going to the big fantasy football expo out in Canton? That's it, That's why he's going there. Uh. Lazard looks favored to be the number one simply because he's been around. Uh. You probably give the nod at

number two to Randall Cobb for the same reason. But he's pretty old and hasn't been very exciting for a few years. No surprise that Sammy Watkins is already dinged up but practicing in camp. We mentioned Christian Watson earlier. He hasn't practiced yet, but the hype has been all over Romeo Dubs in camp. Everyone says he's absolutely killing. Yeah, and when Aaron Rodgers is glowing, it probably means he's on some ayahuasca. But Romeo Dubs he's a dark horse to be on the field a ton this year for

the Packers. Alright, Scott, your next training camp battle, let's go over the Steelers. And I'm actually gonna talk about two different things. The obvious one is the QB battle where Trabinsky has been given every chance to be the starter, and like they will be the starter. Pickett has been bad enough in cap that's something he might even be There are the QB three to start the season. They're talking Rudolf but but we will see that through the

training camp. But the interesting one is George Pickens taking on the wide receiver two roll and them talking and using Claypool more as a big slot receiver, which is a very interesting fantasy implication for both those players. And when Claypool came out, he was a tight end, wasn't he that they converted thought he was. It was not. But where Claypool has been valuable has been when yeah right, Yeah, I don't like the idea of him moving into the slot.

It's very it's very interesting taking high quality reps of him and I do all I need to know is if Travisky is starting, who's on the left side of the fields, because I don't want them on my facy team that too. He was terrible that way, because that's weird. That's there aren't that many quarterbacks that have that kind of efficiency. Uh, Matt, what's your next training camp battle?

The Giants wide receiver position. Kenny Golladay is reportedly showing quote unquote signs of life at camp, and that's all we can say about Kenny Golladay at this point. Uh. We talked about Cadarius Tony a little bit. He's made some huge highlight catches and camp so far, which is encouraging after all the cloudiness surrounding him in the off season they had. He was rumored to be on the trade block around the draft. Uh Sterling Shepherd and Darius

Slayton are trusty Vets. Shepherd probably has more of a chance to carve out a major role, but wan Dale Robinson is a guy to keep an eye on. Talked about him a little bit. But he's tiny. He's only five eight one either, but all reports it's impossible to cover him because you can't find him because he's so yeah at the sub atomic particle size. Like ant man, like ant like aunt very similar to aunt Man. All right, let's go to our next training camp battle, Scott. Let's

go to the Buffalo Bills running back position. Devin Singletary ended the season as a top five fantasy back the last few weeks and even stretched into the playoffs. While Moss was Zack Moss was routinely a healthy scat scratch there. As I mentioned before, they went after mckissic and Edmonds. They brought in James Cook to be that pass catching role. This is gonna be interesting to see how this shakes out, especially with Moss realizing what happened last year, gotten the

best shape of it, just cut down. He's been, he's been. Yeah, it's camp. He's been working out like crazy, and they've even give him, giving him touches with the ones in camp because he's worked so hard at it. It's gonna be interesting if if Paul Charchi and can get back

on the Zach Moss train. Yeah maybe I burned myself and my listeners on Zack Moss so hard that it would be tough to do it, and nobody believe me anymore now, you know, even if I did go to bat for him, even you know, if they drafted James Cook, just say, I told you that's gonna be Paris Campbell.

You watch, That's gonna be Paris Campbell. Alright, alright, next training camp battle Matt Philadelphia's running back position, Miles Sanders, Kenny Gainwell, Boston Scott Truthfully, I don't think anyone wins this job. Actually, I think it's one of the messier backfields in the league. Last year, Sanders led the team and carries, didn't score a touchdown, and seated a lot of infrared zone looks to Boston Scott, Jordan Howard and Gainwell.

But Howard's gone and the philosophy in this backfield is to get a lot of people involved. In the final nine times that the Eagles played last season, two different running backs carried the ball at least nine times in every one of those games. So it's a double nine timer there. Uh. I think that this backfield is really split, and people are drafting Miles Sanders pretty early, pretty early. I don't think that he carves out like this bell cow roll that everybody wants. Let me see if I

can quick pull up the Sanders. A DP is pick seventy five running back. That's the seventh round, early seventh, late six, early seven. Scott. What's the next training camp battle for? Yeah, we do know to start Buston Scott against the Giants, who has like five or six tonsdowns against. The next train cap battle is the Chiefs wide receiver at one and two roles. It seems like Jiuju will be the wide receiver one. Seems like he's doing a lot more deep routes as well. But the wide receiver

two is gonna be interesting. M vs. Marquez, Valdes Scantling got a thirty million do Art contract. They brought in sky Moore. Uh. I want to see who shakes out there because any of those roles could be viable if they split up Hills and the third receiver's targets. Yeah, the Chiefs I believe have the most lost vacated targets in the NFL. In fact, impositive most vacated targets from last year, So there are a lot of Patrick Mahomes high quality passes to go around. Great job today, guys,

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