2026 NFL Schedule Release + Best Ball Tips + Rookie Minicamp Takeaways | Stephanie Miller

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the middle for her this year. And then in the second segment, we'll be watching the schedule release, or at least I'll be watching the schedule release along with everybody else here, and we'll talk about some of the games that are standing out to us. There's one that I think we'll talk about the lead off the segment I think I got released yesterday, a pretty important Week seventeen game that I know best ballers are definitely excited about.

And then the final segment, we will go over Steph's Women of Fantasy Football Best Ball Tournament team that she drafted. Stacey Prez, our mutual friend, puts this together every year FFPC hosts it, and I want to get your thoughts and just a few of the picks that you made, and that'll be the show tonight, and that'll carry you

into hopefully an early start for your weekend. Unlike Steph and I, who are probably going to be working like dogs tomorrow, so it doesn't doesn't really matter for Uslet's get into it stuff. Devon ah Chan extended by the Miami Dolphins. It is four years, sixty eight million. I do believe in it was a Moniker that Bryce Hall had for just a couple of days, or maybe it was vice versa, but now I believe it's a Chan who is the third highest paid running back in the NFL.

And what I think is interesting about this, Steph, is there are a couple of schools of thought on this, given that he is going as far as ADP goes in the FFPC, Big Gorilla right now over the last seven day shout out Fantasy Mojo, Darren ARMANI. If you're playing in the FFPC, get a subscription in Fantasy Mojo. It's going to help you out quite a bit, both preseason and during the season. Devon e Chan's ADP two

toh one right now, Steph, that's running back seven. So if you are of the opinion that this guy is an elite pass catcher, that his talent is going to supersede the lack of offensive weaponry in Miami, then you're probably willing to pay that turn one two turn price for a Chan right now. However, if you are believing that Jesus Christ himself could not put up a top fifteen running back season on this Miami offense. You're probably taking James Cook or Genty or Lamb or Jefferson there

instead instead of a Chan. How do you fall in on this? Because we saw e Chan do it last year. But as hard as it is to believe, this Dolphins offense probably gonna be significantly worse than it was in twenty twenty five.

created his own yards and things. So yeah, I do agree that obviously there is some implosion risk with the Dolphins, but I still want to target him. I mean he's likely to be pretty much they're one of their top receivers. I mean, in his three years he had about one hundred and seventy two receptions, five hundred and forty four carries. I mean, he's a stut. I mean they did pay him for a reason. They gave him a lot of guaranteed money as well. This is a big contract, huge

contract for a running back. So I am definitely in on him this year. Also, I like sometimes when they have that mobile quarterback, it might open up some things. You know, they're not going to be able, They're going to have to account for that as well, and not just hopefully be able to stack the box. But we'll see, We'll see what happens.

couple of years. I almost think that the dump off thing is not really something we should concern the stars about at all. We should be looking at. They have to feature this guy both in the running and the passing game, because he's gonna make their offense go. If if ah Chan isn't crushing it on offense, Dolphins aren't

putting up points. And I think a defense can only key on one guy so much before it does open up stuff for you know, stuff like you know Caleb Joseph and and Malik Washington and and you know dulsicch and all these other guys they have on the team. And then quite frankly, they could add I've been saying this for the last couple of months. They could add Deebo Samuel, they could add Stefan Diggs, they could add you know, Keenan Allen or something, and all of a sudden,

this offense isn't looking all that bad. But yeah, I think that's the way to look at it. Is the pass catching for a Chan might even go up this year then from what it was last year, and that's maybe he's worth the price at the one two turn. I did pass on him recently in favor of Amar and Hampton, and you have me rethinking that decision of stuff. I might want to have that draft pick back. Moving

on to Molik Neighbors here. We talked about this on the heigh Stakes Fantasy Football Hour last night, But I want to get your thoughts on this. Dan Dugan, who covers the Giants for the Athletics, said that Neighbors had a cleanup procedure done on his knee a few weeks ago, and it was to remove some scar tissue that was causing stiffness in the knee. Now, according to Dugan, this does not affect his timeline back to the field at all.

They're still hopeful that he's ready for Week one, although I think the Giants, if you asked him to be completely honest with us, they would probably tell you that they don't feel great about a specific date that he's going to be back. Yet they're still kind of figuring it out as well. This was week four when he tore his ACL last year, did not have surgery on

it until about a month or so later. Now, he has been tumbling in drafts in the in the Big Gorilla Molik, Neighbors is now barely in the top ten for wide receivers. He's wide receiver nine right now, and he's becoming a pick at the two three turn after you know, being like sort of at that early second round pick. Maybe a month or so ago, so FFPC

players are gradually wearing down on neighbors. How concerned are you, Steph knowing about this procedure now and knowing that the giants, you know again, I feel like are kind of a little bit in the dark of when they think he's gonna be out there. Obviously, everybody's hopeful that they're ready for week one, but you never know your level of concern and how you're handling neighbors in drafts right now, what you would tell people to do well.

A lot of times they are a little bit more conservative with like what they're doing in some of their processes.

going to push the timeline back a little bit. I also think that if he plays what he is not going to be anywhere near one hundred percent, and you were not going to want to be drafting him where he goes Week one, I would think, honestly, I think it's could have been more likely than not that he is going to start on pup with the second procedure, would be my inkland. Uh, and he's probably not going to be close to one hundred percent until towards the

end of the season. Yeah, and that's spulate now that now, I mean, how much are you still going to get? How much is his you know, seventy five eighty percent something like that. I mean, there's a lot of aspects that go into some of these guys when they're returning like to place like there's a lot of metal things of them trusting their knee, you know, especially when we're talking about these receivers that are running these routes, that

are cutting, that are doing stuff. So I don't know, I feel a lot more comfortable probably in my dynasty

outlook than necessarily be draft this year. If you can get him, you know, now, if you can build around it and make a team that, like invest Ball, that you think is strong enough that in those money weeks, you know, if you can get through to that Week sixty seventeen, then sure, you know, I mean, I definitely think it's worth the risk somewhat, but you definitely have to be very intentional with your builds, and I would try to get as much discount as possible.

see capital letters Malik neighbors until twenty twenty seven. So understanding that, let's do a little would you rather right now? And this probably won't matter a whole lot stuff because you can easily get any of these guys instead of neighbors. Tell me, would you rather have Molik neighbor? This is redraft, not dynasty elike. Neighbors are George Pickens Pickenslik neighbor or Chris o'lave uh.

these guys. I drafted neighbors once so far this year, and I think I'm good until the price falls stuff. I don't think I need to be stretching and reaching for to get him on my rosters this year. Scott White, I always bring this up. I know it's fantasy baseball. Scott White, who covers fantasy baseball for CBS Sports, always says, and he's speaking in a baseball sense, but I think

it applies in football. You know your players are going to get hurt over the season, Maybe don't draft the guys that are already hurt coming into the year to make it more of a quagmire for you to start off your season, which I think is wise. Pittsburgh, Okay, a couple of things to talk about here, will focus on Aaron Rodgers first. Now, there were reports last week's stuff that Rogers is going to be in Pittsburgh. He

was going to meet with the brass. He's going to be talking about the future and sort of like the mutual expectations for each other. And Brooke Pryor, who covers these Steelers for ESPN dot Com, said that the meeting did not appear to come to fruition. She was at the facilities, she didn't see Rogers. She talked to other Steelers beat writers that were at the facilities. They said they didn't see Rogers either, and apparently the meeting maybe

even never took place. May eighteenth is the next day. Prior said that we should be watching for when the Steelers begin OTAs Rogers did not join the Steelers until June fifth last year, so maybe you know this is going to be delayed another few weeks. I don't know. But for those of us who cannot wait that long that are drafting right now, Steph, how do we handle players like DK Metcalf, Pat Fryarmouth, Michael Pittman Junior, Jeremy Bernard, Jalen Warren Rico doubtll, I mean, like any of these

Steelers guys. How do we handle them? Knowing that if it's not Rogers, it might be Will Howard, it might be Drew Allar. You know, like, I think this is as uninspiring as the Steelers offense historically has been these last couple of years. I feel like there is a sick, significant difference between Rogers, who's at the tail end of his career and then these younger guys who are very much unproven.

not slightly concerned would be a lie. So I mean, I think in these type of situations, the best thing is to take the cheaper options, you know, play it cheaper, and then when we know the information, then you can maybe mix in some of those other guys. But I definitely am not going to want to pay at this moment the premium price tag. So I mean, I do like the running backs both quite a bit. You know, I do think they can have a decent role figure.

If they're trailing, they might they might have to throw to them a little bit. You know, we saw what we go did with McCarthy you know, in Dallas here, and then you know Warren also, so again, you know, I don't take the cheaper option. Maybe it's Bernard. Do you want to play it through Pittman? I think, is you know, gonna be like the possession guy. Obviously they can rack up some numbers. Metcalf might be the one I'm a little more worried about. If you know, Rogers,

he may not have that upside. So yeah, well was that to see? It definitely puts a little damper on the Steelers for me though. If he doesn't play, I mean a lot more questions. I mean, I'm sure we're gonna talk about in a minute. You know, Alara is pretty raw. So if he you know, ended up, I don't know, uh, if he is NFL ready or not. You know, this wasn't the best quarterback class.

round right now as if Rogers is coming back. I guess the question here, Steph, is how much of them? How much movement will there be in Metcalf and Pittman's ADP when we do get some sort of resolution on Rogers.

it's a ton you know. I think that maybe like Pittman could move closer to where DK's going, and then DK kind of move to the top of his tier. But I don't think we're going to see like an astronomical jump or anything, because I just don't you know, DK's not going to be like he's not a possession guy. Really, He's still gonna be more that explosive. So I think Pittman might get closer to DK would be the thing.

If we get Rogers to me, that would happen and then But yeah, I just don't think that they're gonna like significantly right. So that's another reason I don't think like I'm dying to draft them right now. I'm okay for like waiting this one out a little bit on the information. I don't think they're the guys that are necessarily going to bury you. I think they're okay picks

where they go. But I'm not like sitting there like, oh, I think that they're gonna be the guy you Absolutely, I would be very surprised.

You know, Metcalf's sort of like you know, all over the place when he runs his routes, when he makes his plays, and quite frankly, his size and athleticism allows him to do that. But for somebody who is not blessed with the athleticism of that metcalf is, that's Michael Pittman. And Rogers loves what we've learned about him over the course of his career. He loves knowing what receiver is going to be where and when, Like he knows that.

That's why him and Devonte Adams were so good together because they knew exactly where the ball was going to be at any given time. They knew where, Rogers knew where Adams would be on the field at any given time. And I think Pittman is more of a tactician when

it comes to that. So for me, I'll say this right now, I think I would rather have Michael Pittman as wide receiver forty four at the end of the ninth round than pay up for DK Metcalf in the early eighth which, by the way, and you mentioned this, what if Rogers doesn't come back you know, now you've soaked an early eighth round pick into a guy who might be catching passes from a rookie quarterback who is already coming off arguably his worst season as a pro,

including his rookie year. And I think that's something that we need to understand and utilize caution when you are drafting DK Metcalf, Steph Miller, and I warned you May fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Never forget. Let's move on and talk about Drew Aller. This is interesting. So the aforementioned Brooke Pryor said, Mike McCarthy is uninstalling everything Drew Aller learned while he was playing quarterback at Penn State. Prior wrote this quote, they are re uploading their own methods and

fundamental and mechanics. And uh that that McCarthy and the quarterbacks coach for the Steelers were very intentional with Aller in rookie mini camp. They're focusing on his footwork. They're focusing on basic throwing mechanics too, which is not something you probably should have to teach an NFL player, But

here we are. Now I'm gonna say this too. McCarthy was hired as the head coach in Green Bay one because because he had good experience working with quarterbacks with the Saints and the Niners, and he was and he was hired to sort of like rain Brent farv In.

And then at the same time, you know, Aaron Rodgers grew up to be the quarterback that he was a good portion of that was Mike McCarthy's tutelage, right, So now McCarthy gets a chance to teach Drew Aller the fundamental like and footwork is so important with quarterbacks, right, So that's what they're working on right now. And Aler, if we remember back like thirteen months ago, people were talking about him being the first overall pick of the draft.

He decides to come back for Penn State. The Nittany Lions have an also awful season. Aler gets hurt, but you know, you look at the the the physical tools that he has and now he's gonna get proper coaching. I don't know how you feel about this in Dynasty Superflex League stuff, but if I and I know how bad the quarterback class is this year, but I think

there might be something there with Aler. Now, probably not given his draft capital, but if there's one other guy that's gonna hit at quarterback in this draft besides Fernando Mendoza. Why not Aler? I don't think I think you mentioned this earlier. I don't think he's NFL ready to start Week one. At the end of the season, he might be be able to make some pretty decent starts for Pittsburgh if that's the way that they choose. Your thoughts on Drew Aller the NFL quarterback.

His mechanics are atrocious. Uh it's pretty it sticks out like a sore thumb. So I am very glad to hear that they are addressing some of these fundamentals. I do think that a lot of his stuff might be coachable, so I think that they might be able to fix some of his issues. I do think he is a big body guy. I think he is athletic, and there could be some upside there. I mean, he's got the arm strength, so he's got a lot of those things you can't teach. You know, you can't just make someone

more athletic. You can't make someone you know, throw well or throw far. So if they can polish him, there is a world that maybe, like you say, he could, if given the opportunity, and shape him. Yeah, there's a chance in the role's there for the taking. I mean, even if it's not this year in Dynasty, like you say, like Rogers is probably playing one more year at most, so maybe then Rogers could even mentor and help shape

as well. And you know, Rogers is a pretty great quarterback, regardless of you know, what we think of him personally and other things. So you know, even at this stage, he could be somebody that could definitely shape a quarterback into the future. So who knows.

the Falcons. He tore his ACL in Week eleven last year. And you know, when when you talk with Stefanski or the GM or any of these guys, they don't really have that. They're not pinning a timetable on him. They're not saying like, well, we hope he's you know, we plan on him doing this at this point or whatever. He is participating officially in phase two of the Falcons off season program. That is Mark Rimondi quoting a Falcons spokesperson for ESPN dot com. So he can participate in

individual and group instruction and drills. But now No. Eleven on eleven's No. Seven on sevens twenty six years old, Steph. He has torn his ACL three times now over the course of his college and pro career. And they bring into a tongue of bai loa in Atlanta. The issue with the quarterback situation is if you want to get cheap bestball stacks, it's tough because you don't know exactly who the quarterback is gonna be for the money weeks. Is it gonna be Penix? Is it gonna be a

tongue of Ila? Is it gonna matter? Throw out best ball stuff for a second. Let's just talk manage leagues. What do we do with Drake London? What do you do with Kyle Kyle Pitts, Zach Ryan Branch, I'm trying to think who the other guys that they have all of me. The's a chaias is down there as well.

Johan Dotson, like, what do we do with these guys in drafts, especially London and Pits since they're the most expensive, not knowing who the quarterback is gonna be, and not knowing at what point of the season, you know, like they can flip flop back and forth, or injuries might happen.

Pennix is coming off with significant injury. So your thoughts on how we handle London and Pits as well as just drafting Falcon stacks in bestball tournaments to try to make sure that we're not screwing up and we're giving ourselves a chance to win some big money.

they have a lot of talent there. So I'm still drafting those guys. It's not so much like this big question of somebody coming in that we've never seen play and don't know if they can support any kind of

fantasy relevant players. Now, I will say I'd be a little bit more cautious drafting one of the quarterbacks at this time without that information because I don't know what I mean, I don't see again them rising to some astronomical level that's going to make them a draftable, So you know, even if you're taking them, you don't have I would prefer not to rely on that stat As the quarterback I mean, I think it's fine if you still take two of them on the same team and

team correlation, like especially in things like Bestball, there's still you know, I expect the Falcons are still going to put up some offensive points, so I don't have a problem doing that guessing right now. I think that if Penix is healthy, they might give him a shot, but I don't know, like you say, he's had so many injuries. But again, acl for a quarterback is a totally different situation than other positions, you know, like running back and stuff,

so wells have to see. I think they probably went Penix and two is going to be more like the in case of emergency type thing, but I'm not sure.

can get better players than that. Maybe you have to pay up a little bit more for him, but you don't want to take zeros, right, And there's a very real possibility that if you're drafting one of these guys at this point, from what we know, they could very well turn into a zero. The other thing to keep in mind here about this is the Falcons passing game is pretty concentrated. I mean, it's three guys. It's Robinson,

it's London, and it's Pitts. Yeah, you know, Branch and some of those other guys I mentioned they're there, but I can't imagine them commanding targets or earning targets. You know, Branch would probably have some because I think he's kind of a gadget guy and you got to scheme him

up a little bit. But I think when when you're talking about having this sort of nebulous situation with the Falcons quarterbacks, it does make it easier to draft London and Pitts knowing that even if it's not a great situation, the extra volume should help out and give you a little bit more of a comfort when when you're drafting those players. Another quarterback situation stuff, and we'll go to Arizona,

other side of the country from Atlanta. Josh Weinfuss, who covers the Colts Cardinals Beg Your Pardon for ESPN, has reported that Jacoby Brissette was told by the Cardinals that he is their starter there. He is looking for a new contract. He is not doing, you know, the team workouts that they have going on right now for Arizona. He is gonna earn less than five million this year. And I always say, I'm gonna look this up stuff, and I always forget. I believe that is less than

what Gardner Minshew is making for the Cardinals. Who is the backup there, so they probably should be paying him. I've been asking this ever since, you know, a all my guests, ever since the NFL Draft. It's fun to think about what Jacoby Brissett could do over the course of a full season with McBride and Harrison and Wilson, you know. But at the same time, it was special last year, it was historical. With it was historic, i should say, with how much they got down early and

how much they had in the past. Like there is a regression coming, and the regression could also be coming at the quarterback position itself. Because the Cardinals invested a third round pick in the Carson Beck. You could be looking at McBride, Harrison, Wilson or whatever in September and October and thinking, Wow, what great picks I made here.

These guys are doing great. But if the Cardinals fall out of the race and Beck starts making starts in November and December when it really matters, I don't know if we're gonna like those Cardinals picks as much as we did back in June, July, and August. Right, I want to get your thoughts on that. Would you be shying away from Cardinals because of this Carson Beck ppop this year?

know situation. So McBride where he goes like that can kill your team, like those are if you're wrong about that, or even if he's just okay and then other people are better. I mean that that's just like it's over. That lineup is just pretty much dead. It's like those aren't mistakes you can really recover from. I mean, do I still want to believe in Mark, but it's scary. We haven't seen it. This are still not flashing now,

you know, Michael Wilson. Maybe I do think Wilson might be better than what we thought originally, but I mean he's really expensive. If you look at the guys he's going around, like these are legitimate top receivers on their teams, and yeah, I just I mean, obviously I will say I'm still like going to be drafted like some like love and things. But yeah, some of the other especially the past catchers, I'm definitely lower on. I'm definitely a little concerned.

up last year. But it was at the very end of the season, and it correlated with this wild, you know, gun slinging approach that the Cardinals had to take because their defense was so bad. This is his fourth year in the league. We don't often see like fourth year breakouts, especially ones that come at the end of the season. And oh, by the way, he barely eclipsed a thousand yards, so I think there could be a regression coming there. And then you mentioned the elephant in the room. Trey

McBride is the guy that's most expensive. And to your point, if that, if he doesn't pay off first round draft capital, man, are you behind the eight ball already? So, man, I've been saying this. I'm out on McBride in the first round this year, probably out on him in the second round. I'll let somebody else take him. I'm getting the hev gbis from this Cardinals offense right now, and I'm with you. I'm not targeting them. Although I did just draft Jeremiah Love.

I'm fine with that just because you know, they took him with a third overall pick. He's a blue ship talent. They're gonna want to use him. He is a talented pass catcher, should fit into what the Cardinals are doing this year. And you know, quite frankly, even if Carson Beck is making starts at the end of the season, probably be pretty easy for him to dump off to Love and just let him, you know, do his work. Okay, we go to Tampa. Pro Football Talk had this story.

Zach Robinson, who's the new offensive coordinator staff for the Buccaneers this year, said that, and meccaguk is going to quote take huge, huge strides down the stretch. Last year, he did the opposite of whatever huge strides were. He shot out unbelievably out of the gates last year. There's a lot of people that thought they they had just had hit upon this great receiver in their rookie drafts.

And then you know, once Mike Evans came back, Baker Mayfield was dealing with some injuries as well, which certainly probably hampered at Buka's production a little bit. It's somewhere in the middle. Right, He's not the receiver he was to start off the season. He's certainly not the receiver that he was at the end of the season. Now he gets Zach Robinson in there. And what's interesting about Robinson's stuff. He was the OC for Atlanta. What did Atlanta do? They had a lot of targets going to

Drake London. And I think if we look at Tampa this year, McMillan, Hirst, Godwin, ag Buca. To me, if they have a number one receiver, it's at Buca. And he should be able to not only take strides from just the natural sophomore progression you get from NFL players, but he should be able to take strides because I think he's going to see the football a lot more this year.

He had an injury as well, uh a book a little bit, so he you know, there was a lot of things. He had a little bit of a hammy. And then now we got the other thing that kind of coupled with that is with them saying that they could use him in the zeviral where he could go maybe in and out a slot. They're going to move him around formation, They're going to use him where he really was great in college. And now they also on top of that, have drafted what they're calling a true

X in Ted Hurst. He immediately tweeted following that up and that is really would be his perfect role. So it seems like they have the right idea for how to utilize these guys at their talent levels. Now, I will say Buka's pretty expensive in drafts, and before this news I was a little wary on him. I wouldn't say I was necessarily fading him, but there was a lot of guys I was willing to take over him

because there was still a lot of mouths defeat. It felt like a little bit there in Tampa Bay and not knowing exactly how it's going to work out, but hearing this is making me want to be a little more bullish again. I want to believe I did like Abuka a lot coming out.

pay that off. I think you will, and I think you know, investing a mid fourth round pick, which is what it's going to cost you there, especially if you already loaded up and got a couple of running backs on your team at Buka as your number two there makes a lot of sense. Speaking of number two players, let's go to the number two tight end in Las Vegas.

Sam Warren, who covers the Las Vegas Raiders. For the Athletic wrote that he thinks Michael Michael Mayer is going to be more of a pass catching threat now that they have Clint Kubiak as their head coach. The Raiders don't have anybody on their roster who has ever hit seven hundred plus receiving yards in any NFL season. John spy Tech, who is the new GM who? Stephan I brag about this all the time. I played in a state high school football playoff game against John spy Tech.

His team beat US forty eight to three. But him and Clint Kubiak have both said that they want to play bigger people out there, you know, which would probably mean more dual tight end sets. Right, Brock Bauers is obviously going to behead of him. Black Bowers is going to eat this year. Bowers is going to have an amazing season. But I have to wonder, given the lack of receiving options on this team, are we sleeping on Michael mayor a little bit, especially in tight end premium

formats like the FFPC. Steph, right now, if you want to get Michael Mayer in your team, he's tight end forty two in the nineteenth round. I mean, I'd be hitting that like especially as my number three tight end at that point. I think he can function maybe even as a number two tight end, especially if you have you know, one of these elite guys like Loveland or Bauers or what have you. Especially maybe if you have Bowers,

where Mayor can just step in. He's not that far removed for being a second round pick in the NFL. I want to get your thoughts on Mayor. Is the nineteenth round just right or is that too low for him?

give him some weapons. So I would think that, yeah, seeing those two tight end sets makes a lot of sense. We know they're gonna be probably running the ball a lot too, so you know, out there for blocking all that all that good stuff. So I mean at that price, especially in these tight end premium formats that f FPC is. I definitely think that, like you say, it makes sense to mix in to some of these builds. I don't

think you have to take him more than that. So I mean, I'm not going to go ahead and reach on him, but I mean it drives up pretty good. So I mean he definitely is somebody. I mean, if we're taking you know, Pittsburgh's second tight end, and we're taking all these other guys, it's like why not.

bit higher than where he's going. I screwed up the rundown. I meant to do back to back Tampa stuff. So let's go back to Tampa and talk about the backfield here, Steph. The quote we got from Zach Robinson was that Kenneth Gainwell and Bucky Irvingham have similar skill sets, the quote, can they can kind of match each other in certain ways with what they can do in the past game. And then he talked about Gamewell's you know, professionalism and

veteran leadership, you know, et cetera, et cetera. Uh and and this is a guy who, by the way, last year, three running backs caught more passing than Kenneth Gainwell, McCaffrey Gibbs, and John Robinson. That's it. And then game Well was fourth on that list. Irving was actually a pretty good

pass catcher too for Tampa. And and you know, you hate to see a team add a player that excels in something you thought your existing guy already excelled in, and that's pass catching, because now he's probably gonna cannibalize Irving a little bit. We have talked about how Irving is not yet cleared from shoulder injury. We've talked about how there's maybe some other stuff going on with Bucky Irving too that that would make him not the wisest

fantasy investment right now. But I will say that when it comes down to it, here are the ADPs on both of those players right now, Kenneth Gainwell and Bucky Irving Irving, and it's getting closer stuff. Irving running back nineteen at the four h six, Kenneth Gainwell running back thirty five at the eight oh seven. So about four

rounds separate these two players in a vacuum. Would you rather have invested invested the mid fourth round pick into Irving or would you rather wait and take the mid eighth round pick and get gain Well on your squad.

into not dropping him right away. You know, Thank goodness they did hold on to him and see it through because you know, he exceeded a lot of expectations and like you say, he kind of does things a lot of coaches like like he's a hard worker. You know, he doesn't miss his assignment. See, you know, just kind of can do all the dirty, down and dirty stuff. And I mean, yeah, like you I was kind of like ooh when they drafted him, Like I was like, okay,

that is a little concerning for Bucky. Like that one made me, you know, most of the guys, I was like, oh, who cares, you know, it's not a big deal. Just be a complimentary type le I was like, well, I don't know game. Well, I had some skills and now we're hearing yeah, with all the complications and we saw what hadn't kind of at the end of the season and seems like there might be again. I was talking about some mental things going on, you know sometimes with

these guys get in their head. I don't know, you need a lot for a guy to pay off a fourth round price tech. I mean, you're asking for a lot and if it is like a one A, one B situation there and of course we still got Sean Tucker possibly you know, taking some rushing work as well back there, who knows. I'm rather again just go with the cheaper guy that we already know is talented and

is getting talked up. And that's a beautiful spot to be able to take some of these guys if you, you know, to build onto like a zero ish RB type squad things, you know, it gives you, I think, a really nice bloard with that pass catching Irving mentionedside.

retirement's going to eliminate the competition. I mean, I'm not saying that that we're going to see a Bucky Irving retirement, but at this point whatever, I mean, I don't know what's going through anybody's head, any of these players heads. Everybody deals with it with it differently. And you know, retire aside you mentioned it mid fourth round is a significant pick for your for your fantasy team, and you

don't want a whiff on it. And there there is some whiff possibility with Irving here with Gainwell, you know, regardless of what happens to Irving this year, he's gonna have a role on this team. Uh, He's gonna have a role that that is going to maybe not give you the biggest spike week potential, but certainly give you a high floor each and every week with Gainwell, with maybe some spike week potential on that. I think I said that last night too. I'm repeating myself, which means

we need to move on. David and Djoku no longer unemployed, Steph. He signs a deal with the Los Angeles Chargers. It's one year. I don't I think it's worth up to eight million, So there's some funny money on that. I don't think there's much guaranteed. Perhaps the biggest story in this Njoku signing is what it does for one of Rende Gadsden, a player that you know, quite frankly, it's been one one battle after another for him this offseason,

dealing with you know, the rise of Trey Harris. They draft Brennan Thompson and the offensive linemen are coming back, which is probably good, right because that means Gadsden staying in block. He can be out there running routes. But you still and Quentin Johnston, I know Mike McDaniel was talking him up as well. And Djoku I don't think as a player I want to be in business with for fantasy purposes. The biggest story here is his impact

on Gadsden. Does this effectively Newt Gadsden for you? Is this a player that you are are out on this year or do you still hold out hope that we're going to see something from Ronde Gadsden.

talented guy. But it seems like if he was able to have show something, wouldn't someone else have offered him a better deal, Like like, there's a lot there's a few places that need tight end, and if they're not willing to beat out this type of price for his services, that makes me think he might be closer to you know, to washed and it might be just a whole big kind of nothing burger, honestly. And I think if I get a discount on a rookie, you know, in an exciting,

you know, offensive environment, I'm excited for the Charger. Like you say, you know they're going to be getting a lot of players back. I think, you know, this is going to be an exciting offense. It's going to be a fast offense. I mean literally and figuratively, you know. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and buy the dip on that.

I think we've seen him fall a little bit. In fact, he's fallen all the way to the mid ninth in one FF see Big Gorilla draft, so we could see more of a discount coming. And I think that's what we need to look at, you know, is has it bottomed out yet? Are we getting are we getting rock bottom priced on Gadsta because and then at that point where you don't even have to draft him as a starting tight end, then I think that there's something there. Chargers are gonna be fun to watch, you know. That

offensive line is healed. They they they are loaded for bear. And we look at a player like in Djoku, where this signing doesn't necessarily affect in Djoku all that much. But this is another weapon for Herbert. This is another guy who can block, who can catch, who's a former pro bowler at the position he comes in, and maybe Herbert is the guy that we should be talking about here.

Mike McDaniel said he wants to refine the footwork of Justin Herbert, work on his timing, work on his anticipation, which I don't know how much you can coach that. I always thought anticipation. Throwing with an anticipation is sort of like an either you got it or you don't.

But maybe you can coach that. I don't know. So he was talking to Chris rim who covers the Chargers for ESPN, about the strengths and weaknesses of Justin Herbert, and it seems like he's making it his personal mission to get everything he can out of Herbert, and the Chargers are obliging by giving Herbert everything he needs. From an offensive standpoint, your all pro tackles are back. You're gonna have a mari and Hampton god willing for a

full season. You know you have Trey Harris. There's a lot of people projecting a big season from Trey Harris, people smarter than me, and then obviously Johnston McCaffrey. The list goes on. You know, we mentioned the tight ends too. Herbert maybe is the guy that we should be excited about here, Steph. We look at the FFPC big gorilla info on him. We can see he is going at quarterback nine at the ten oh one. Certainly the ceiling is higher than that. It seems like a fair price

for Herbert. But I don't know, man, I wouldn't be a verse about taking him over Jackson Dart. I would consider him over Caleb Williams. I think you can even make a case for him over Jalen Hurts, although I don't know if I go that far. I certainly understand the argument your thoughts on the step that Herbert is going to take forward this year under the tutelage of Mike McDaniel.

do that because he is so cheap. That's but I definitely think he somebody you should be prioritizing to take. I just think that offense is going to be explosive and put up a lot of points. Hopefully they're going to get him also with the footwork, you know, they're going to get him rushing a little bit, doing a lot of things. So like he's a big boy, he could take some hits, like and now he'll have those protection too. You know. He's tough. Yeah, he's very tough.

So I'm excited to see I think he you know, we were excited about him at one time and then you know, one down season, you know, people forget, and I think we might see him finish, Like he could easily finish as a top five quarterback.

having Herbert dining. Or maybe you already had mcconkee, maybe already had Gadsden, and by the way, Gadsden, but you know, he's another player that could dip below Herbert to an ADPs might be able to stack those guys as well. Exciting times to be drafting Los Angeles Chargers. Exciting times for the Tennessee Titans. They didn't get their man, Jeremiah Love at four, but they did get their wide receiver

in Carnell Tate. There he agrees to a four year, fifty one million dollar contract thirty three million in total, fully guaranteed. He's expected to be the number one receiver this year. Last year at Ohio State forty four catches, just under eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns three point five two yards per run, which you like to see. I have drafted him probably in more spots than I expected so far this season. Stuff. I do think Wandale

Robinson probably limits his ceiling a little bit. I hope that he is more of a true number one rather than a guy that you know, is sort of like, you know, just not being a sacrificial X or anything like that. But I hope that Carnel Tate ends the season as the de facto number one rather than Wandale Robinson, you know, getting one hundred catches for sixty yards again where it's it's really impacting of Tate's performance. Your thoughts

on Carnel Tate. I love to know what you think about him as a prospect and what you think about him now that we know he's going to be in Tennessee this year. Right now the adp on him. He is going as a fringe top thirty wide receiver and you can get him with a mid sixth round pick in the FFPC. Big Gorilla.

take a step ford. I'm hoping that getting him some of these offensive weapons, you know, we will see more. I do think they were hopefully was something there so, you know, scheming everything. I think they do have talent. I think we could see I think that, you know, the Titans could be a little bit sneaky again with you. I do hope that they don't just dump it off constantly, you know, and it's a PPR scamming you know, to

Wandale constantly. But I do think that Tate offers a lot of that same stuff and a lot more upside too, because I mean we've seen him be able to track the ball, get deep and do things as well. So I don't think Wandale has that as much in his skill set. So hopefully, you know, Tate's got that upside and can keep him at bay. And they have also a couple of good still running backs you know that didn't take love, So I think the offense could hum

together and it's pretty cheap for the possibility. Yeah, it's one that could be kind of sneaky fun.

Kokwo and you have gunner Helm there too. And I think a capable running back Tony Poler to help out cam Ward as well. Last thing I want to bring up here in this segment before we start talking about the schedule release, Breese Hall inked a three year, forty five million dollar contract extension through twenty twenty eight with

the New York Jets. I think this is more like a two year deal, or maybe I'm thinking an eight chance deal, but I think there's very little, if no guaranteed money in the last year of Breess Hall's contract. He's going to be a New York Jets Steph. The offense is much improved from where it was last year, where it was absolutely abysmal, and abysmo might even be an understatement for how bad it was, But you look at this this team this year, Gino Smith, I know

Frank Reich's very excited about him. I remained skeptical, but he's probably an improvement over what they had in twenty twenty five. You think about what this team could be like in twenty twenty seven with a quote unquote real quarterback, a real young quarterback at least behind the helm. What do you imagine for Breess Hall for fantasy going forward? He ended last season as the running back fifteen in FFPC scoring. He's going off the board right now as

running back fifteen at the three oh four. What are your shares like on haw? Is this a player that you're trying to get on your rosters this year?

They got Braylen Allen, who's coming off an injury and didn't do much his rookie year at all, and then they got Isaiah Davis, so it's like, obviously they want him again to be the focal point. We know that Brice has that explosion, We know that he is a good pass catcher. They have now improved some of their weapons. You know, they got Garrett Wilson, they drafted Omar Cooper, they got Kendricksdeck. Who knows what they're gonna do with Mason Taylor, but you know, they've got a lot of

stuff there. So I think that that should open up some lanes for him. You know, like they definitely won't be able to just focus on Breese and I don't know about Gino. We'll see. I was a you know, a little disappointed with most of my brock Bower shares last year and things like that, but I think that dumping it off to Brees should not be that difficult. So hopefully, you know, we can see a good season

and I am taking him. I've been a presolid believer for a long time, so I'm willing to go back to go back there because I think that he does have that type of upside that I mean, we've seen it, like he can take he can he can do it like it with the opportunity. I think, you know, he's somebody that can definitely uh hurt you if you're fading him in. He is the guy could be the guy you need.

on that. If we look at the other running backs going around him, he is right behind Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs, and then you have to wait until the end of the it's kind of a tier break, and then at the end of the third round you get your Kyron Williams, your Jamonte Williams or Travis hn those guys there. So Hall Yeah, I mean he's kind of the last guy on that tier going forward, and I think a player that you draft him, you'll probably be happy that you drafted him. Let's take a break, Steph,

we'll catch our breath. They are releasing the schedule in drips in in dribbles on the NFL Network and ESPN right now, so we will talk about that. The first thing I want to talk about for sure is this big week seventeen AFC North matchup that we know about that's going to be affecting bestball tournaments everywhere, including the FFPC Bestball Tournament. She is Steph Miller from legendary Upside and Ship Chasing. Connect with her on the X at

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x at Steph Miller fifty seven. We're getting some interesting stuff rolling out with the NFL schedule as we watch it with you. The first game I think we should talk about here, Steph gonna be his best best Ballers want to know who do I got to play, or who are the players or who are the teams. They're going to be crushing it in Week seventeen. And one of the things that I think stands out this was leaked out earlier yesterday that the Ravens will be going

to Cincinnati on Thursday Night Football in Week seventeen. I know Cincinnati improved their defense this year, but this still should be a high scoring game, especially if we have a healthy Joe Burrow versus a healthy Lamar Jackson. You think about this step with Jay Flowers, with Derrick Henry, Chase Brown, Jamar, Chase T. Higgins. There's so many guys that you'll want in this week seventeen matchup, and stackable options too, Jackson and Flowers, Jackson and Mark Andrews, Joe

Burrow and I you know, probably not well. I mean you probably could do Burrow and Chase or Higgins and Burrow as well. But this Week seventeen matchup Ravens Bengals good a factor in the FFPC and really any Bestball Tournament Championship, the big money will be doled out to probably somebody who has him skinned the game in this particular game.

always tack on to your stacks. We saw what Derrick Henry did, you know with the four touchdown game last year, So you know, even if you know he gets hurt, who knows, there's some you know, cheap options of whatever you want to do. At backup, they did draft running back plate as well. Then Justice Hill's still sitting around. I mean, I don't know. Then we got Mark Andrews, who they finally paid and gave money to. I mean,

these are just so much fun. And then obviously we got on the Bengals side, and I mean, even if Burrow goes down, what so we get Joe Flacco? I mean, come on, I'm I'm okay with that. You know, give the bar? Can you get the ball to Dumar Chase? Yes, okay? And then we got to Higgins. They didn't really do much upgrade. Maybe they're wide receiver three, but you know, Chase Brown should be a smash Again, they didn't upgrade

their running back too tight end would be interesting. I wish that they had gotten a little bit more stuff there. But yeah, these offenses are just so much fun and I would be excited to be investing in this game for sure.

be for Broncos Patriots week seventeen. It probably probably kills some of my interests in best ball in you know, guys like Jalen Waddle, guys like Trevion Henderson there, Yeah, that.

round pretty easily. Could you get him and Rice him and Worthy him and Kelsey, I mean, any of the So I think that's interesting that Chiefs Chargers game, and that one will be in Los Angeles as well. Some Best Ball bro is gonna be paying attention to that one.

probably a pretty high scoring game. The Rams visit Tampa Bay in Week seventeen as well, so you have Stafford, Adams, Nakoula, Williams and Quorum and you know the tight ends obviously taking on those pass catchers we talked about with Tampa, and then obviously we'll see what they have in the backfield then. But that Rams Tampa won might be interesting. Maybe definitely not as interesting as Baltimore and Cincinnati because the quarterback cachet is a little bit lower, But Rams

and Bucks should be fun too. In Week seventeen.

and Jacksonville is kind of whatever. New Orleans and Atlanta in week seventeen, so you have this Tyler Shook supposedly high powered team with Etchian there now and Jordan Tyson who you mentioned earlier, were talking about Carnell Tate, I like Juwan Johnson against those Atlanta Falcons who were breaking down, and this is one of those games where you'd love, you know, tell me who the starting quarterback is for Atlanta in week seventeen and I'll know who I want

to target on that team. You're not gonna know. But that Saints Falcons game, that could be another fun, high scoring one. We've been talking mostly AFC teams. That could be a fun NFC one in week seventeen stuff.

to take on the Cowboys in week seventeen. We could be looking at you know, thirty something to thirty something in that game.

really have revamped it. And then if they're not pushing the other teams, if they don't have neighbors and don't have the big scores, I hope they're as fun as we expect. That's one that I still need to kind of think through, I think, but I definitely think that the Cowboys usually put up and don't slow down on when they're playing the Giants. They usually play them pretty well.

So I'm excited. I'm excited about that one is the matchup right now, and hopefully Neighbors is back to full strength there and we can see a sent back and forth action.

get Lions at Bears in Week seventeen. Two offenses definitely, I mean, I don't think you can call the Lions on the upswing anymore. They've they've been one of the best offenses in the NFL the last several years, versus the Bears, who have who have really come on this past season, the first under under Johnson. A lot of points there. These are stackable teams. Caleb Williams and Luther Byrd and Caleb Williams, Colston Lovelin, Jared Goff, James and Williams,

Jared Goff, Sam Laporta, Jared Goff, Monross, Saint Brown. So that's another one. We talked about, that Baltimore Cincinnati game. And then you know, obviously the Rams and Buccaneers are probably in the same vein. But this Lions Bears game that's late for a four to twenty five start, that should be a good one as well, and one that is probably going to help the sides you know, thousands, maybe even millions of dollars in fantasy championships this year.

so many skilled players. I'm excited. Those are teams that I've already been, you know, investing in, So hopefully when I look through my portfolio, I can I fell into some of these matchups, so I'll have the fun later to see. I count Week seventeen correlation you managed to get when you're drafting early.

The Niners will host the Philadelphia Eagles. Certainly some high powered offenses going on. We'll be waiting all day, Steph for Sunday Night when Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley take on McCaffrey, take on brock Purty. Mike Evans will obviously be in that game as well as long as he's healthy. Eagles Niners. That's gonna be a nice little prelude on Sunday night for the final game, which we'll get to in a second.

But yeah, I mean, you know, Brock Purty one of the best quarterbacks in the league fantasy wise to end last season. And then you have brand new offensive coordinator and Sean mannon coming into its inject some life into this Eagles offense stackable. Yes for those some correlation there Eagles in San Francisco on Sunday night. I think the NFL is starting to understand how big fantasy is to help grow their game.

at that point too. And then you get the Packers with Love and with Watson and Jacobs and Tucker Craft and all those guys. The problem is it's January and it's Green Bay. It's gonna be cold. I don't know how much scoring we'll see on that final Monday night game.

bye the bipocalypse week stuff. It looks like we have just one of them this year, thank god. Week eight Raiders year well, yeah it was, yeah, it was. Yeah, you're right last year, Yeah, Raiders, Seahawks, Cardinals, Lions, Rams, Jaguars. So we'll have six down by in week eight. But you know before that, Week six, two teams, Week seven just two teams. Week eleven just two teams as well. So I don't know, I feel like buys there are. It'd be nice if if if we could get them

all out of the way prior to week thirteen. But we're gonna get these four teams on buy and week fourteen anyway. So there you have it. More on the schedule release in upcoming up episodes not only have f FPC insider access, but the high stakes Fantasy Football out of the road of his high stakes, lowdown and extra reps as well. If we can go back to Steph some of the stuff we didn't touch on in that first segment, I would like to get your thoughts on

Jalen Naylor moving on to the Raiders. He's replaced by Juwan Jennings on Minnesota. So you have you're justin Jefferson, you have your Jordan Aison, and now you have your Juwan Jennings. A lot of jays on this team catching passes from Kyler Murray. Is Juwan Jennings going to be

a fantasy factor as the number three receiver? Or do you think he actually hurts the production of Jordan Addison this year to the point where maybe you don't want to be on either one of those players in your fantasy leagues.

But maybe the answer is just Kyler's gonna be pretty good, Like, I mean, he might score points, like it may be hard to figure out the right guy to stack him with outside of Jefferson, But I do think that Kyler in itself and if maybe he gets back to having a little more rushing production, he might be another one that's kind of sneaky enterprise. Like I mean, I definitely do believe in this offense, and you know they have a good coach and stuff, So I mean, I think

it could be fun. I wouldn't go. I definitely would maybe see if you can get that little bit of discount on Addison. And honestly, how much has Jenning's risen because it doesn't seem like he's moved. So I think if you look at the guys he's going around out, a lot of them might be zeros. So I don't hate taking a shot still because you know, especially in basketball, he could have that week you know, anybody can have that week where they get you those multi touchdowns in the right time.

conversation Kyler Murray wi beggar, pardon quarterback sixteen right now? Steph? Is that too low for him?

a Branch can line up on the field. Well, thank god, because they're going to have the line over the field in order for him to be creating. You know, I said throughout the whole pre draft process stuff, I was not a Zachariah Branch guy. Really, a lot of red flags in his profile. I do think he landed really really well in Atlanta, and and certainly there is a fairly clear path for him being the number two wide

receiver in Atlanta this year. I wonder how valuable that is though, being the number two wide receiver on a team that already features but Jean Robinson, Drake London and Kyle Pitts. How much have you been drafting Zachariah Branch at all this year or even staying away?

didn't see. I mean, they didn't do him any fade for the way they played and featured him, but he was drafted. They spent you know, some capital on him. I do think that he could be a pretty fun player there, and there is some room. I mean, I yeah,

Pitts is the title. I mean, we're still are going to have at least two wide receiver sets, so you know, somebody else is gonna be out there, and I do think that he probably has some more versatile than what we've seen, and I do like that, you know, if he's good with the ball in his hands and they just want to get him the ball, hopefully they'll figure it out.

This is kind of interesting, and I don't quite Frankly, I don't know how you felt about Xavier Worthy when he was coming into the NFL and then obviously kind of a mini loss season last year. We got some light shed on that by Andy Reid last week that he said the Chiefs were afraid to do certain things. End quote with Xavier Worthy after he had that shoulder injury when he got blasted by his own teammate Travis

Kelce in Week one. It was a fully torn laborm and he didn't come back until Week four, never got higher than eighty five yards in any single game last season. The Chiefs were limiting his routes run last year, but now Andy Reid says he can run the full routree again because the shoulders heeled, the Laboram shield, whatever, He's good to go. Wide receiver thirty three for Xavier Worthy his rookie year in twenty twenty four, Wide receiver fifty nine this past year. You think he's going to be

better than wide receiver thirty three this year? And a couple of things to consider Travis Kelcey obviously on the back nine of his career, the presence of Rashie Rice on the squad, and the addition of Kenneth Walker to the backfield stuff.

and what we thought last year. There's a lot of good reasons why it didn't work out, and I think it's a good chance that we see what we thought we would last year this year, and now we're getting a discount, so especially with those extra you know, because I do know he did have the shoulder, and that makes sense of why they wouldn't want to do that Bee Jim, and I think if they were concerned, they would have made another move in the draft, and they didn't.

So because they had they were right in line. I mean, they had the picks to do it. They could have invested in a receiver if they felt the need and were worried about it. So obviously I think they have some faith there because you know, yeah they have Rashie, but like you say, they still have a lot of aging, you know, with Kelsey and things.

what I say, you finished it? And wide receiver fifty nine last year, wide receiver thirty three the year before, he's wide receiver fifty two. Right now at the eleven oh six. I think that might be a buying opportunity for people to take advantage of that. To the Big Gorilla, I said, we get to more Cowboys stuff, Steph, and we're gonna do that right now. George Pickens, let's go to Big D and talk about him. He has officially signed his franchise tag. He's going to get paid twenty

seven point three million dollars this year, fully guaranteed. What's the scuttle butt on what's going on with a long term deal there. I've heard differing things from from the Joneses there that they were going to work on it. No, they're not going to work on it. Pickens this year, you know, he's kind of a mercurial guy. And then you also consider that there's there's still a trade on

the table or a trade possibility. You tell me what's going on with Pickens, and then most importantly, stuff tell the viewers what we should be doing with George Pickens f FPC big Grilla drafts. Knowing that he's wide receiver ten at the three or four.

some again on drafted free agents. So there's nothing there. I mean, you got Florinois at number three, but like oh now, I oh oh oh. Jalen Tolbert is gone, he went to Miami. I mean, so it's like there's not much back there. Uh, they're investing. I mean, there's pick it seems like he wants to be here. I don't know long term what they'll manage to do. You know, the cap is o beast. Hopefully I'd like to see them give him a long term deal. I think they

make a great duo. I'm taking him, I'm drafting him. I think that him and Ceed could easily pay off and the Cowboys could just put up a lot of points this season. So I'm pretty excited. We'll see, We'll see. I think they would have done stuff during the draft and had that follow through to tuition fuition, and it feels like also like he's not going to hold out and stuff from what I've heard, so it seems.

this year, especially on offense. They look like they are loaded up once again for a putting up a lot of points, chewing up a lot of yartage. Let's take our final break here on FFPC Insider Access. When we come back, let's break down Steph's draft that she did. Steph one, was this the Women's Best Ball Tournament presented by Fantasy and Frames? How was that three weeks ago? Four weeks ago?

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single week. Don't be the lowest score in your league in any given week and you will win your league, win your way into the Big Gorilla or the main event, or just take some cash prizes. It's all at my FFPC dot com, my FFPC dot com. We go back to the co host with the most miss Steph Miller, joining us tonight on behalf of legendary Upside and Hip Chasing at Steph Miller fifty seven. So you had participated and I believe you've done this before the Fantasy and

Frames Women's Best Ball tournament that the FFPC hosted. Stacey Perez puts this together every single year. I jumped on the stream when you were drafting on March thirtieth. We chopped it up with Stacy. Had a lot of fun. You were drafting out of the ten spot in this Best Ball Slim draft. So you're looking at twenty rounds, no kickers, no defenses, And I do want to focus in on a few of your picks here. The first one we'll kick it off with was James Cook at

the one ten. You go with Cook in the first round, And I know there was a lot of people for the last two years saying that regression was coming for James Cook, and it really hasn't. Should we just expect that this is who James Cook is, Like, he's going to put up numbers even though Josh Allen Vulture's touchdowns from him, even though he's not the most prolific pass catcher,

led the league in rushing last year. I don't know if he leads the league in rushing again, but certainly a player that you thought was well worth the one ten here stuff.

And Josh needs to throw the ball to somebody.

have still taken Etchien? There you're looking at Trevian Henderson went after him, Skataboo, Bucky Irving, bres Hall, Javonte Williams. Would you have taken any of those players instead of Etchian or or do you still feel really confident in that pick right now?

excited for that offense in general. I think they can put up some points.

Just curious looking it up right now. If we look at the big Gorilla, which is not best ball by the way, this is managed leagues, is running back eighteen at the three ten, So like same spot that you grabbed him back in March, that's where he's going again. Here we go to another running back stuff on this roster, and I feel like I'm giving short tript to the

Jacksonville running game on this show. And my other show is over the course of the last month or so, because I think this is one that's important to figure out. The Jaguars look like an off an up and coming offense. We know Travis Hunter now is probably gonna be playing at least some offense this year. Receiver room looks stacked with Thomas, with Washington, with Myers. You have Kate Otton on that team. Are not Brenton Strange on that team?

I believe they drafted Tanner Coozio, who I really like as a pass catching tight end as well. And then obviously Sunshine himself. Ronnie James Bass, uh Ronnie Bass, not Ronnie James Bass, Ronnie Bass. Trevor Lawrence is the quarterback there. So you look at this offense here, well, what's missing, the nebulous situation in the backfield is probably what needs to be attacked. Achel Tuton is there, Leaquin Allen is probably need to catch enough passes just to come up

the works a little bit more. And then Chris Rodriguez. I can't remember at what point Rodriguez signed. I don't know if he was on Jacksonville at that time, but I want to get your thoughts on the Teuton pick.

When you look at this backfield going forward, how confident do you feel on Teuton getting you know, at least the majority of the workload, majority could be fifty one percent, but just kind of I want to know what you think about the volume that Tuton is going to get in twenty twenty six with Jacksonville.

I think twice and then re signed. Like I mean, yeah, he had a role for them at some point, but that was just because I think they were just trying to find something. I mean, he was okay, but he's not a great talent. I mean, Tuton was an explosive athlete. They spent the draft capital on him. I mean they obviously they got rid of Etienne or however you say his new name. I mean they want to make him the center. I mean, they obviously cared to. They showed

it again. He survived the draft. This was before the draft. That was the scariest thing is they were saying that they liked their backfield and they liked these guys, and then they showed that they did. So, I mean, it seems like they are wanting to take that step forward

with him as you know, their main running back. And I think that even as time goes on, if they start with you know, see Rod with a little bit of a role that you know, he's gonna be the more talented, explosive guy, and he's gonna, you know, end up being definitely the lead back. Maybe it's very rare that we have, like anybody that's one hundred percent of the work or anything. So it's like you're always gonna have someone of a split. But I'm pretty confident that

the Jags are gonna be a pretty fun offense. So I felt good about this pick. The only thing I'll say is I kind of wish looking back structurally, that maybe I had done like a tight end here or something. Uh there was I was, I was I remember this spot going between him and like Kyle Pitts, and I kind of think that maybe I should have switched it in my running backs. I might have been able to who knows, it would have changed the whole rest of

the draft. But that was something afterwards that I kind of like mulled over with the tight end premium aspect, thinking of maybe maybe I could have been a little more patient.

would have been a good pick. But we didn't know, you know, about where he was going to land in Seattle, So I don't know hindsight's twenty twenty. But this Kittle pick we have to talk about here because you were I believe, uh no, maybe you weren't, but it's close. The last team to take a tight end certainly this was your first tight end that you had drafted, and what its Scott Bared for Fantasy Points always says upside

wins championships. Right, there is upside here with Kittle at the twelf tight end drafted here the latest he's gone probably you know, since he became George Kittle, you get him in the eighth round here as your number one tight end. How many I don't think he's gonna be ready week one. I know that there's there's some positivity saying that that that's gonna happen. When do you think

he comes back? And and and I'll say, let me preface this by by saying, when we talked about neighbors, I think I think neighbors coming off in a cl with the type of explosive prerequisite that it takes to play his position, well, I think I'm more concerned about him coming off in a cl rather than George Kittle coming off a torn achilles or whatever it is, right, because I think Kittle, I don't want to say he can fake it more like you know, coming off this injury,

but I do think he's crafty enough to still be fantasy relevant even if he's not at one hundred percent. I'm less concerned about his injury, especially with the draft capital too, when you talk about him versus neighbors. But how many games do you think Kittle plays this year and how close to one hundred percent do you think he will be in twenty twenty six.

running back. I do think that Kittle is a guy that does have his head on straight and does know how to handle it and is not scared of anything, and I get to see him figuring it out. I don't know. He's an older guy though, so that's always a little bit of a concern. But again, this is just one of those things of how they use him in the offense. At that point in the draft, it's like you have to take those shots. It's like I obviously pushed the position, and it was like, you know what,

this is one of those things. It's like, if it works out, it could definitely win it. And if not, then yeah, you know what, this was fun, but it might not be not might not be the thing. I don't know, like what percentage, because like he may never get back to one hundred percent because of his agent and stuff. So I mean we may never see him. It may only be like he might only maximumally be seventy five eighty percent of what he was, you know if that and that might be a high end.

Jonah Coleman from a redraft standpoint. This year, I think Dobbin's biggest enemy this year is not our Harvey. I think it's JK. Dobbins, And as long as he's out there, he should have a really good season for Denver. I just questioned how many games he plays, But certainly it's Steph in the ninth round. Who cares. You know, whatever you get from him, you're loving it as your number four running back on the squad.

a huge opportunity for Conco. Here's somebody who was saying in the YouTube chat on this show, or maybe he's one other show like a month or so ago. You know, a conco still hasn't shown up in Tennessee. Why should we believe he shows out in Washington? Why should we believe he breaks out? And maybe he doesn't break up but stuff, Maybe he doesn't have to given the volume that he might see in Washington this year, he could be the number two option on this offense.

think also Washington should still be an upgrade. I mean, Jayden Daniels is going to be an upgrade for him. So like the whole scheme could just be better. And I think that he's somebody again where there's enough of a mystery box aspect to take that there could be a hitted upside there for where we're taking him in the draft, and those are the type of players take a swing on here. You can't win these tournaments by playing it safe.

the offseason, or perhaps what they didn't do. They lost Romeo Dops, they traded don Tavian Wicks, They didn't draft any receivers in the draft. They didn't draft any skill position players in the draft. They didn't sign anybody significant. I know sky Moore is on the team, but I don't think he's striking fear into the hearts of any Jade Reid owners out there. This is a more concentrated Packers offense this year, passing game. So yeah, Craft and

Watson are going to get theirs. But if Golden doesn't step up, and maybe even if he does, maybe Jayden Reed has a really nice bounce back. He doesn't play in two wide receiver sets, which I know hurts him, but it seems like he does. He still does a lot of damage despite the limited snaps and you get him in round fourteen stuff.

Denzel Boston. And quite frankly, if we look at so now they add those players, right, adds those players, and now you look at Jerry Judy's ADP in the big gorilla wide receiver seventy one at the seventeen oh six hasn't moved anywhere, which that's crazy, which is wild to me because I think and I who was it, was it Monkin or somebody from Cleveland was saying like they want to get him back to where he can be

the number one wide receiver on this team. It wasn't all that long ago that he had a big time twenty twenty four season where we're all falling all over ourselves the draft and the following year. Now we know the investment Cleveland made in the rookies here, but they are rookies. So there is something to be said for Jerry Judy as being the number one wide receiver that perhaps you got in the seventeenth round.

in a lot of drafts. I don't know if he still is, but he definitely has his back his late round bags pack. At least for Calvin Ridley. This is another player too. We've seen him do it before, Steph. And you know, certainly there's a world of possibilities on this Tennessee team to see how they go and you know, changing roles and what have you. I don't know, I think you can do a lot worse than Calvin Ridley in the eighteenth round.

do you But I don't know about the volume.

you never know. We still could see him get picked up, or an injury happened and a team picks him up once the season starts. You never know. There's not a lot of other running backs out there.

You have the the you had Cook, etch In, Touton, and Dobbins, which I think are strong as you're going to get for top four running backs in this format. And then you add Brian Robinson who has the contingent upside behind the Jon Robinson and then Harris too. If he lands somewhere, he might be the type of guy that somebody signs him after week one and then or or he falls into being an injury away type guy. You never know, baby Seattle, I don't know. This was

a lot of fun. The two hours flew by Stephanie. This is this was great. Remind us again when we want to consume more Steph Miller content. I know you're grinding it out for legendary upside during the season. Tell us what it's going to be like for you until the season starts, and then once the NFL season begins, what you're going to be doing not only for legendary upside, but ship chasing as well.

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