Fantasy Football Jeopardy + State Your Case + NFL News | Ryan Kramer

Football Players Championship. We've got a great show for you tonight, and joining me on the program is the one, the only, the Kramer centric on AX. Of course, Ryan Kramer the founder co founder of the Sports Gambling podcast the Sports Gambling Podcast Network. You hear his work on VSEN as well. Ryan, So glad that you are hopping aboard tonight. Now. Part of the reason I have you on too is and we'll talk about pros Versus Joe's at the end. What night are you drafting in Pros Versus Joe's?

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A sigh of relief. Ryan with in New York Jets training camp today. I was just going about my normal Thursday morning and then all of a sudden, my x feeds hit with all these potential season ending injury doomsday chicken little reports about Justin Fields, who is apparently going to be okay. The latest we have on this from the Jets about four hours ago. Fields is considered day to day after he dislocated a toe in his right foot this morning. The team stated today Justin Field avoided

serious injury and significant miss time. There is no fracture apparently as well connective tissue. We don't know. Maybe there's some damage there, but we have no idea what's going on there. But ultimately, given how bad this could have been, this is a positive result. Positive report on Justin Fields. A little over six weeks he has until the start of the season. The Jets take on the Steelers in Week one and the Aaron Rodgers Revenge Bowl. I bring

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like everything's okay. Are you adjusting the way you're drafting fields at this point based on this news or is this sort of a has it become a non story less than twelve hours later?

Justin Field's hitting ceialing outcomes with rushing touchdowns maybe leading the league in rushing touchdowns one hundred to one, leading the division rushing touchdowns twelve fifteen to one. So yeah, to see that. The toe injury tows are always tricky. They seem to linger. I'll wait and see. I'm not a doctor. It does seem like all of the scary stuff didn't happen. But let's see how he's doing, you know.

Side note, I love them Week one too. As far as which side of that revenge battle, I like I love taking the points with the Jets there, So, yeah, a lot of things for me to think on, but as of right now, seems like it's not serious enough for me to adjust. And yeah, I love Justin Fields as a second quarterback in these Best Ball drafts because I mean, I think they're leaning into the run game.

And I'm sure we'll talk about Braylen Allen later, but yeah, there is a lot to be optimistic about when it comes to like this team and their ability to at least be a power running team.

not gotten hurt. Are you still taking him at that same point or are you bumping him down a little bit just because of the nebulus situation where we don't exactly know everything and this is kind of kind of depend upon over the next few days or weeks or whatever to see how he bounces back from this.

It was right after me, as a Brewers fan, saw Pete Alonzo launch a two run homer off of All Star closer Devin Williams to send the Mets on in the MLB postseason, And if it couldn't get any worse, one of my most drafted players last year, Chris Godwin, Like fifteen minutes after that home run by the Polar Bear, I see Godwin dislocate his ankle in a meaningless game. It was just it was an awful, awful Thursday night. It's been more awful for Chris Godwin trying to recover

from this. He has not been participating in team activities this offseason. He has officially started camp on the pup list, and now we're kind of finding out reasons why maybe he's been slower to recover than what we thought. Jenna Lane says this was a minor procedure. It was more of a clean up procedure, but it also was not a surprise that he had this. Now, if he remains on pop for a for a significant amount of time, then yeah, exponentially, he's going to be falling down my

draft boards. Twenty nine years old and Ryan I brought this up on one of the Processes Joe's broadcasts earlier this week, and the timeline of this was Godwin dislocates his ankle in week seven, he signs a significant deal extension contract extension with Tampa in March, and then just over a month later, the Buccaneers use their first round pick on a Mecca at BUKA. I present that without context, these are the facts of the story or the facts of the case. As Kevin Bacon from a Few Good

Men would say, and they're indisputable. Now take that from what you will. How are you reading between the lines? How are you handling this Chris Godwin thing? You know, you're gonna be drafting and pro versus Joe's on Monday night, and there's gonna be a time where you and Sean are considering a mecca at Buka. There's gonna be a time where you, guys, I think at some point would

be considering Chris Godwin here. How should we be readjusting the way that we're drafting Buccaneers receivers, specifically Godwin and Agbuka based on this piece of knowledge.

Clearly they're uncertain about it. And yeah, I think we see lots of players start the season, start training camp on pupp and then it's part of the plan. You find out later it was that was part of the plan. They were always going to get ramped back up and show up week three. The problem here is, I think everything else the team has done makes me think they don't know when he's going to be available. So if you're asking me, like, the bet for me is is

he going to play seventeen games? Absolutely not. Is he going to start to see and on the pup I think probably, which means you got to cap him out at maybe twelve games. And so yeah, I mean I'm to answer your question, I'm not drafting. I'm hoping someone else is going to pull that trigger because I I to your point, I'd much rather end up with Evans, Ribuca or even McMillan. So unfortunately, because man, his efficiency was so good last year. I mean he even had

a thirty five point game in his shortened season. So uh, love the player, I just don't think it's going to be this year for him. And if it is, I think it's down the stretch. So yeah, maybe if you draft him and you're in a tournament, style, he might show up for you at Week seventeen.

just feels like a wasted pick. Give me, give me high upside and unknown or just Rocks Doddie, rock Star, sturdy and steady. So yeah, Godwin's probably off my board. Up. I'm being completely honest.

not too concerned about Khalil Shakir, Josh Downs. I mean, all these guys represent to me more upside than Godwin right now based on the injury and how significant it is not the injury, but the recovery from the injury. Another receiver who may or may not be off your board, based on the latest news that we've gotten from Adam Schefter from ESPN, is Commander's wide receiver Terry McLaurin. He did not report to training camp this past Tuesday, and he did not show up for a conditioning test that

was the kickoff to Commanders' training camp. McLaurin is looking for a new deal and the team could find him up to fifty thousand dollars for every misday of practice that he doesn't show up. McLaurin will turn thirty years old this year. He was the Commander's top target last year. He is expected to be the Commander's top target for Jaden Daniels this year. He has been in the league

long enough. I don't know how important training camp is for him to get ready, other than just to avoid those, you know, those pesky soft tissue injuries that you that you you know, certainly pick up when you show up to camp late. And we want to see him in camp right now. We don't have that. We have to react to this Ryan as fantasy players and how we handle the Terry McLaurin absence. He is wide receiver nineteen. He is going in the four h six right now

of the FFPC Big Gorilla. This is Harrison Evans, Rice DJ Moore neighborhood. That's where he's going right now. As far as the tumble, it really hasn't happened yet. Maybe it won't happen at all. Is this a nothing burger for you? I always hate talking about contracts in July because I feel like by August early September they're always resolved at that point. What are you doing with Terry McLaurin knowing that he is missing time right now? This is not a hold in, it's a holdout. I don't

know if that's significant to you at all. But with McLaurin out right now and not practicing with the commanders, how significant is he moving down your draft board?

also the last year of his deal. So the combination of those two things. Terry McLaurin also upstanding citizen. I have not heard a single peep from him in any sort of controversial way. So him saying, hey, let's get this worked out. I think he just wants to put a little urgency to say, Hey, you went out and paid another receiver that wasn't me. I didn't really like that, and so let's let's get this sorted. Make me the highest plin paid receiver on the team, and do it

because you're in that rookie window. So I'm not for now, I'm not adjusting term. I don't end up with a ton of him because I tend to like some of the other options in the in the range. But I'm not scared off of him yet because he will be either if he if he's missing, Like this is a big deal for Commander fans. He's a big, big part of why that offense works. And you know, if they mess around and let this go too long. It's not like Dayden Daniels is this season. Vet he's in the year.

He was in the league for one year, and so they need all the reps they can get. I'm not worried yet, but if he's still not there in a week, I'm starting to get a little bit worried, and I'm probably starting to allow some bias push him further down. By board.

for touchdown regression. I don't bump him down for this yet, although this would this would go with it. I have only I Ryan, I think, drafted McLaurin once this year, and I always say these guys that I've drafted once, they're always my FOMO picks, like just in case there's something there, I'll at least have them in one spot. You had posted this on x as a response to this, and I want to bring this up regarding Jayden Blue.

I am drafting in a lot of rookie drafts, dynasty rookie drafts in the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship right now, which I know is weird who has rookie drafts in late July. I actually kind of like it because I have all these rookie drafts right after, immediately after the NFL Draft, and then you know, stuff happens and we get like two and a half months later, and then the rookie draft ADP is totally mixed up again because of what well you found out about training camp and

everything going out with these teams. And I just took Jayden Blue, who tumble. This is a player that was going basically in the mid maybe late second round of FF dynasty rookie drafts. I got him in the late third in Jaden Blue, and I feel really good about it. Despite this report from Lockdown Cowboys, former Cowboys coach Glenn Smith said that the Cowboys coaches quote have expressed that Jaden Blue is borderline lazy and that the team is

not thrilled with his work habits. Jaden Blue was a fifth round pick this past April in the NFL Draft held in glorious Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was going to be competing with not only Joontay Williams, but Miles Sanders to try to be the number one running back for the Cowboys. Marcus Moscher also points out in a piece that he published there have been no reports of Jaden Blue working with the first team offense during OTAs or mini camp at all, and maybe this is the reason

for that, maybe not, I don't know. Connecting the dots, I think you could make that case. Blue ran for seven hundred plus yards last year for Texas, eight touchdowns, and a guy who probably could be a three down guy, and maybe he's fairly significant in year one. But this is something we'll be monitoring. I did see about an hour or so before we went on tonight that there was a Cowboys beat writer talking about how good he looked on a big time breakaway play that he had

made in practice today. So I'm clearly still buying the dip on Jaden Blue. I wouldn't read draft leagues as well. I've grabbed him in a few spots there. This does not necessarily concern me all that much, and I think it concerns you even less than it concerns me, right.

training camp happen. We know running backs tend to look good in the preseason games in training camp, so I'm sure we'll hear about the opposite that being said, Like, from what do we do with this information? I have no idea. I'm not generally one to draft a ton of Cowboys, but this running back room situation is a complete mess, and you got to expect someone is going to do something in here. I just wonder if it's gonna be, you know, a resurgence Javonte Williams or this

like youngs. Because the interesting about Jayden Blew is he doesn't strike me as a guy that's going to be gifted like a huge role. It's gonna be situational, it's gonna be kind of big play hunting. And so if he's already kind of lazy, I wonder if they're going to make him earn it with special teams or I

have no idea, but I'm certainly not drafting him. Like I said early, I'm not one to take old guys, especially ones that I think might be Dusty and Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders both kind of fit that mold as well. So I've kind of been out on the Cowboys running back room, But I how do you not? How do you not at least like pay attention to the situation here? Maybe Jaden, maybe the Blue news causes him to drop and if you like him, you grab them.

But yeah, I also need to be waiting and seeing that moment he has the good practice or the good preseason game.

see upside here and I don't draft in fear. I draft with upside in mind, and so to me, Blue is still at a point where I want to take him. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But hopefully I already have three or four running backs in front of him at that point to count on if Blue does not come through, and it is the Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders. Shiit God, I mean just just saying that, I feel like I need a napkin to catch all that crap coming out of my mouth. It's disgusting, all right. Speaking

of disgusting, let's talk about Kyle Pitts. Kyle Pitts is that Now this is an interesting thing. I was talking about this on my local radio show today about how it's important to be paying attention to everything going on in camp, not just injuries, but other subtle stuff, and this was subtle. Will McFadden, who covers the Falcons for the team, reports that Kyle Pitts has mostly been working with the Falcons wide receivers so far in practice. Now,

he's been moving around the formation. That's nothing new, He's normally done that in practice, but it is notable that he has been practicing with the wide receivers here he entered the league as a tight end. Scott Barrett from Fantasy Point said that Pitts is one of these guys that is just positionless guy, right. He's not a good enough blocker to be a title like an every down

tight end. And clearly, whatever he's doing for the stuff we care about, the catches, the targets, the touchdowns, the yardage, he's not been good enough there as well. This is a player that has not been able to use his size and speed to his advantage in mismatches for whatever reason. And now it seems like, well, I'm gonna stop talking because Ryan, I gotta get your read on this. Is this a good thing for Kyle Pitts that he's working with the receivers as far as fantasy goes, because that's

quite frankly, all we care about. When you saw this, what was your reaction to it?

little bit more traffic. And maybe it's anecdotal. I watch all the games, but he trips over his own feet more than any other player I've ever seen. And you know, maybe he is just one of those too big, too fast, too uncoordinated to get it done. Him being a receiver great, that probably just removes the element of him not blocking, which he was never really too keen on. And honestly, when they the closer they lined him up to the line of scrimmage, it did seem like that impacted his

ability to get into his route. So maybe you're you're you're aiding his potential to like be useful as a real NFL player, But I don't see how this helps him as a fantasy guy. I don't see you know they're gonna run him as a big slot. Are they gonna be running enough eleven personnel to get him out there with Darnell Mooney and Drake London. I just I'm not getting fooled again by Kyle Pitts or I've never

really gotten fooled by him. But I'm not I'm certainly not buying in this year, even in a tight end premium league. I just we know, we just did our Falcons preview, and I think that Michael Pennix possesses a

ton of variants in his performance this year. And I think, you know, like in fantasy, like the correlation with the tight end and the quarterback performance there is going to be real, and I think it, like for me, I think there's a very real version of this team that just doesn't need Kyle Pitts and so maybe them putting him in the receiver room is them trying to salvage something.

But yeah, not interested in fantasy and that you know, I'm coming from a place where I think Bijon is a very good pick at the top of the draft.

this year. He's an unrestricted free agent after this season. And Ryan, to your point, maybe this is like, let's just this is this is like pail Mary time, Like we got to find something that Kyle Pitts can do. And maybe working with the receivers is something. You say, you've never been fooled on Pits And I am with you on this because year one I just was not willing. This is before like the rookie tight ends really exploded.

So I was still in my phase of like, rookie tight ends, they're they're not worth it in redraft league. So I stayed away from that. And then he had a great season. So then in year two I was still out on him because then his price was sky high and I wasn't gonna be drafting him. And then basically from there on out, I've always avoided, avoid it avoided.

But Ryan, what if I told you in the FFPC Big Gorilla tight End Premium Tournament where one million dollars is going to the team that finishes in first place. What if I told you that Kyle Pitts is no longer a ninth round pick, He's no longer a tenth round pick. He is hanging clinging on to the eleventh round eleven. Eleven is his ADP tight end seventeen. You could very well have two tight ends on your team prior to drafting Pits in the eleventh. Does Pits in

the eleventh do anything for you? Or you still say, like Bulky, no, it's not worth it. I'm out Let somebody else take him. I don't care what his price is, and that's still too rich.

longer a Raider. He's going to be a free agent. Christian Wilkins is no longer a part of Las Vegas. Brian, this is really shocking here.

I feel like seeing someone getting cut while rehabbing from a serious injury, freshly signed right tons of guaranteed money on that contract. Something bad happened here and it'll be interesting to track this story. But I mean, as someone who again already already broke down the Raiders on the Sports Gambling podcast, was kind kind of high on him and part of it was hopeful that he would return and kind of anchor that defensive line next to Max Crosby.

This is, yeah, this is tough if you're a Raiders fan.

some sort of setback in this injury. But I mean, still, what's wrong with putting him on IR you know, or just knocking him out for the ear and then you still have him for the remaining three years of his contract. I don't know. This is this is something that's evolving stuff up that I'm trying to wrap my head around. And now we've trying to find out, you know, where's

the next destination for Christian Wilkins. Where could he go, I will say, and I know my Packers won't sign him, but they could use some depth along the defensive line, just saying, but we'll see what happens with Christian Wilkins going forward. Let's keep it over on the left coast where you are, Ryan and go to Santa Clair, San Francisco, the Bay Area fisherman's wharf. Head coach of the San Francisco forty nine Ers, Kyle Shanahan, said that he would

be surprised if Ricky Pearsall was not practicing by Sunday. Now, this is the Pearsall thing. This is something that I think I've always fought against, you know, covering Fantasy foot

a year round, you don't want to overrate things. But I was looking at this situation of like, okay, so this dude was hurt like in Mini camp in May, right, and he missed the rest of Mini camp, And now here we are in what is it two months later, two and a half months later, and he's still Now he's on the pupp list, which preseason pop doesn't mean a whole lot because they can take him off and take it off, take him off that list at any time.

And Shanahan now thinking that he's gonna be practicing by Sunday. There was a little dip in fantasy, like it's weird the Niners wide receivers Ryan and I don't know if you've tried to wrap your head around this yet, but you look at the Niners wide receivers. Deebo Samuel is now in DC. Ricky Piersall is dealing with a hamstring injury for the last two and a half months. By the way, he had a hamstring injury coming into last

season too before he got shot. If you remember that Juwan Jennings has allegedly asked for a new contract he is practicing, he's reported, Shanahan said he's never formally asked for that, So I guess that's good, But that's still you know, noise that we have to pay attention to here, and then who am I forgetting Piersol Jennings Samuel oh naiyuk auk ayyuk my god. I mean, we don't know like if he's going to practice in camp at all.

We don't know, like like what the timetable is on this like this this could be a situation that lingers in October November and maybe even beyond so Niners wide receivers, and I guess I'll expand it to include all four of these, well all three of these guys. Basically, how are you handling this? Because I happen to be pretty bullish on the Niners this year. The schedule's really good. Uh,

Kittles at the peak of his powers. They're gonna get McCaffrey back, who sounds like he's he's healthy, he's firing on all cylinders. I think Perty's in for a big year, but they still need some receivers on the field here. When you look at this Piersoll news, the Jenning stuff, the Ayyuk stuff, what are you and Sean doing? What are you gonna do in process? Joe's what have you been doing in your draft so far this year? With these three wide receivers in San Francisco?

I would definitely be uptaking Kittle a ton. He's also someone that you know in my prep this season his he's been pretty consistent, and I know that he still needs some spike weeks to get there for the season sample, But yeah, the biggest upgrade to me would be Kittle. But I'm still in on Pearsaw. I still think that with the style of offense that they could run this this year with McCaffrey firing with Kittle firing like Pearsaw was getting open. Pearsaw's slippery, and that's kind of the

the anticipation get open. Guy kind of works with Purdy's style as well, and so if I was if I was picking one of them, it would be Pearsaw. So hopefully there's a dip. I don't think he's dropping too much based off this news, although because it's now being pretty widely reported like it's not a big deal, he'll be back. But yeah, no, I think for me it's Kittle. Kittle's the biggest upgrade of all of these these pass catchers in San Francisco.

felt like he was hurt Ryan. I look back and like he doesn't miss a whole lot of games. So I don't know why I was thinking that that kidd. Maybe it's a style of play. I just assume he gets hurt. He's out there a lot, and I think he's in for a big season. To your point about the receivers, I've got like no shares of Ayuk. I think I have one share of him on a dynasty team. And then as far as the other two guys, I've

been kind of splitting it between Pearsall and Jennings. I was in on Pearsall early and then I feel like I was like, I should really pepper some Jennings in here too. So I'm probably about even on those guys right now. Slight lean towards Pearsall. He's got the draft pedigree.

Jennings obviously showed out last year in a way that we've never seen before, and this was a position switch to where he was sort of like a slot receiver, and then obviously he had to go outside when Ayuk went down, and he showed out, so good for him. But I still lean towards Pearsall here on that. Okay, Los Angeles, let's go there for the Chargers. Daniel Popper, who covers the team for The Athletic, reported yesterday that

there was quote significant movement among the wide receivers. Yesterday, Quentin Johnston, he talked about his ball tracking looked vastly improved from twenty twenty four to what he's seeing in training camp. However, and remember the Chargers started training camp last week, so they're already this is day seven, I want to say for them, like day seven or day eight. A couple of days ago, he missed a he dropped a wide open pass over the middle, and then his

confidence seemed to have dissipated. I know this is one play that we're overrating it, but this is what we do. This is what we talk about. We're breaking it down here. And why is that interesting? Because this is what we've seen over the course of his career since he got drafted by the Chargers out of TCU. He was better this year through the first five practices of camp, in

the opinion of Popper, which is good. Jalen Rager to talk about some of the other receivers, was running with the first team offense for part of the time, and then he had a hamstring issue, so he set out part of the practice yesterday. Trey Harris and KeAndre Lambert Smith, who was also a fellow rookie, capitalized on that. Harris I would. I mean, dude, there's no earthly fantasy football

draft where I'm taking Jalenrager over Trey Harris. But I think you have to understand at this point, like Rager was still running in front of him. Is this a veterans thing that Jim Harbaugh is doing to give Rager the spot and Harris has to overtake him. I don't know, but here's my point in the Chargers and I'll let you weigh in on this. Quentin Johnston, fine later on in Best Ball. I'm still grabbing him there, manage leagues. I'm still drafting Trey Harris, I still think, and I

don't know. There are so many draft pundits out there because I was not big on Trey Harris, and there are so many people that I respect in the industry, whether it comes to collegiate analysis, whether it comes to NFL draft analysis, that were really high on Trey Harris's skills, ascending and being really good in the NFL. So I ended up taking him in a few spots based on that,

even though, like I'm not the biggest Harris guy. But then Mike Williams retires Ryan and you have Lad McConkie, you have Conklin, who's to meet a jag at tight end, and then Moron dee Gaston a rookie behind him. They're gonna have to throw the ball at some point. So I'll let you weigh in on this. I mean, McConkie's McConkie.

We don't have to talk about him. But when it comes to Harris, when it comes to Johnston, when it comes to some of these other guys, who's fantasy worthy for Kramer Centric in twenty twenty five for the Chargers.

and man, he's been getting open. I also think when you have Harbaugh strapped in with the cleats at the podium talking about how Quintin Johnson is going to be like a playmaker for this team this year, he's either pushing that belief narrative or there's something there. So yeah, I would probably you know, putting lad aside as the clear number one. I would probably be drafting Trey Harritt. I'm kind of align with what you're saying. Give me the unknown of the rookie in a managed league, fine

drafting him. Quinton Johnson's that's best ball or priority waiver if we see something early in the season. And to your point on the tight ends, yeah, like no, thank you. I think the other issue with this team is it is Greg Roman. If they have their way, they're gonna be leading games the run rate compared to what it would be if they're trailing games. Like Roman will throw the ball if he needs to, but he wants to run the ball. And I think they went out and

drafted Omar and Hampton for a reason. So it's gonna be hard for me to see more than one, maybe two pass catchers becoming useful for this team this year. And so yeah, I'm with you, dart throw on Harris.

I don't mind taking Lad. He's a fun guy to bet in some of the lead the league markets this year too, based on how he was closing the season there with some of that volume, because there's also that version like why can't he be one of those thirty percent plus target share hogs in an offense where he's the clear alpha. So yeah, yeah, I'm I'm weighing on Lad. I would take the dart throw on on Trey Harris, and then anything else is just And I'm very in

on Hampton too. I'm very very in on Hampton. So I see this offense being good. I just it's it's hard to want to invest in any of these receivers not named Lad. You know, I was going to ask you.

coming back. It was very I mean it was there was nothing good said by Jim Harbaugh about that eye injury on Monday, and then lo and behold, we watched pros Versus Joe's Monday night and John Dagel from Established the Run grabs a Mari and Hampton, who had an ADP by the way before this of the early fourth round, Dagel grabbed him at the two tent and this was and I can't remember who we were talking to. I think it was Mike shop from WGR five fifty. Maybe this is Tuesday.

Guerrilla Tournament. Are you still in on him at that price?

number of touchdowns at that point. So yeah, I guess when I look at the other running backs in that range, I still don't mind taking Hampton as compared to you know,

like a Bucky Irving or something like that. So now, as far as the Hampton versus Lad McConkie, that becomes a very interesting debate where you know that is the more likely thing to push me off Hampton, because I would much rather have a guy like Lad McConkie, who I think just due to positional just due to the position alone, he has a higher ceiling in my eyes.

the offensive side of the ball. I think because Cohen said, he's just a natural corner, so he needs to be exposed to the offense, to the wide receiver position more. And Cohen says the team is going to give him a couple of days on offense, They're going to give him a couple of days on defense, and then when he's ready, they're going to get him the opportunity to flip flop within the same practice. The Jaguars want this

guy practicing on both sides of the ball. We know how much they gave up for him in the draft to have this unique talent on the team. As well. When you look at the ADP right now in the FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament, we see Travis Hunter going off the board as wide receiver thirty two. This is at the middle of the sixth round.

but I'm taking him over a Hunter. Same with o'doons a. Same you know, this is that Godwin range we were talking about early even Jakobe Myers is someone that I would probably be more interested in taking versus Travis Hunter. Now, maybe in a Bestball league where I plan on having some sort of correlation, maybe it's Brian Thomas, Travis Hunter and Trevor Lawrence or something like that. But even in those worlds, I just wonder how much volume they actually

want to give them. If you want this cat to play both ways, I don't think you want to burn him out and hurt him. So having him just run a d routes just to run routes feels silly. I think red zone package feels like the obvious, and then you know, prescribed amount of routes. I don't. I'm I think I've drafted Travis Hunter one time, and it was what I was describing a team that I planned on having a Jacksonville stack.

FFPC and the KFFFC. He gets bumped up a little bit more, but not much because you got to start three receivers in that format. For me, I am not drafting scared, and maybe scared is not the right term. I'm drafting for upside there understanding that, yeah, this might be a really bad pick because I don't know what is used to just gonna be like, but I tend

to I'm looking at that more positively. I'm looking at that more optimistically and saying, like, God, if this guy hits as my number three receiver here, that this is going to be a dominant squad. And if he doesn't, well, then it's going to rely on on how I'm doing

with how I built my receivers after that. Right, But I think, like, you know, I don't say more often than not, but I mean I probably got Hunter on maybe four or five teams out of you know, I don't know how many I've drafted so far, but but I feel like I've been I haven't been shying away from it. Now, maybe that's wrong, and you give me some good reasons to think to rethink that next time I'm faced with that decision. But that's what I've been

doing up until this point. Now, we're very excited about the Jaguars offense this year. At least I have one offense I'm definitely not excited about. And I really don't know what to make heads or tails out of is Cleveland. We saw the report earlier today Kenny Pickett was the number one quarterback in eleven on a drills. I don't want to necessarily focus on the quarterback here with you, Ryan,

I want to talk about the running back. Three hours ago, Daniel Oyafusi, who covers the Browns, reported that Jerome Ford did not practice today. He's dealing with a minor injury, and Kevin Stefanski said this is something that's been going on the last couple of weeks, but that he's going to be okay. Could the dominoes be falling in any

better direction for Dylan Samson right now? Could anything be lining up better from for the rookie from Tennessee who now has this quin Shawn Judkins thing looking really good for Dylan Samson, shares now has the Jerome Ford thing of like okay now Samson gets to run with the Ones because Ford is dinged up right now? Your thoughts on this Cleveland backfield, because it's a mess with Judkins, with Samson and with Ford right now with this injury.

For anybody drafting tonight, what's the proper way to handle it?

Samson becomes very interesting. I heard someone make that, I think it was Ben Gretch make the comparison of when the Packers selected Jamal Williams and Aaron Jones and Dylan Samson becomes the Aaron Jones in that in that that that that metaphor, and why why not? Right like when you double tap a position in the draft just because he's the second one, he was still fourth round draft capital,

I believe, and so significant for a running back. So to answer your question directly, I would say that I want to make sure I have exposure to Ford and Samson. I don't know what's gonna happen with Jenkins now. It seems like there's definitely gonna be charges. There's nothing getting in the way, and there could be a suspension this year, and so I want nothing to do with that situation. So yeah, I already have a hand ford in bastball.

So you know, my homework is to start picking up some Sampson because you know, he is an interesting back, especially you know, I like him more in the version of the offense where Flacco's bombited a bit more and there's some space for him to operate and use that speed. But yeah, I mean, certainly Stefanski seems to get fantasy points out of running backs consistently in.

like he looks like a Brown's running back. And so when he's out there, if he's out there, he has the biggest potential of all these guys. The problem is it sounds it sounds like he could miss four to six games based on the internet legal experts I follow.

fact that Fant is no longer there. How do you feel about Arroyo as a redraft player this season in his rookie year.

all going to work. I appreciate how McDonald has been given the freedom to make the roster changes when needed and get rid of pieces when they just aren't going to work. But you know, we were discussing the rookie tight ends earlier, right there are I'm still hesitant there's

still rookie tight ends. It's still so rare that you see someone absolutely go bonkers, like the brock Bauers and the Kyle I'll say, I'll whisper at Kyle Pitts of the world, But yeah, no. I also just I don't have a ton of belief this offense is going to need to show it to me before I'll believe it. Sam Donold the whole package like it looks fun. It looks fun on paper, the Cooper Cup JSN and a maybe big step forward year, but I got to see

it up there first. I think they're going to be a defense first team.

is the biggest thing keeping him from practice. Alimedi Zachaeus or I don't know how he pronounce the last name, and then Devin Dubernan they've been getting reps with the first team. God, I have been riding the Luther Burton rollercoaster ever since he was drafted by the Bears. I was down on him, then I was up, Then I'm down, then I was up. Now I think I'm down on

him again. How are you handling Luther Burden? What are your expectations for Burden specifically in this Bears offense, knowing that he is day to day right now with this hamstring.

ends with with Comet and Colston Lovelin. You have what we expect to be a two running back system maybe with Swift and Roshawn Johnson. But I wonder already what is Burden going to be in this offense outside of a little bit of a gadget player. And yeah, this is a horrible start because this also gives you the opportunity to think, maybe he's a little lazy, Maybe he's not preparing his body, he's not hydrating, whatever it might be.

So yeah, this is concerning. I would say slightly more concerning than the Ricky Piersoll thing because we just it's more unknown.

In twenty twenty five, I have not been drafting this guy, and maybe it's because he's the number two receiver on this team, and I just think that this is it's all about Ceedee lamp. If you go with the every other theory with Dak Prescott, we'll get into it a little bit. This is going to be a big year for Prescott. Pickens has moved up now Ryan to the Courtland Sutton Jamison Williams DeVonta Smith territory. He is wide receiver twenty seven at the five oho nine, number two

target on his team. Probably, certainly Drake Ferguson owners would tell me that he might be number three. Your thoughts on George Pickens and how you're handling this guy this year, knowing that Pittsburgh went out and got rid of this guy after drafting him and trying to develop him, and now Dallas takes over. Not exactly the greatest run organization, greatest coached organization, but maybe that changes this year and

maybe they get it right with Pickens. Your thoughts on how you're handling Pickens.

point on targets, I'm with the Ferguson owners. I think Pickens is a clear third option. We are already two days in the camp. We've read how much Dak and Ferguson look look solid. Dak and CD look solid throwing to each other, and I think you know what they needed. Yeah,

they do need that deep threat. So the idea that Pickens is kind of more of a you know, best ball target almost where he's gonna have some games where he get he pops off with some big plays, but I don't know if the consistency's gonna be there, and then you know, you sprinkle in the uncertainty that I had.

I mean, I think there's been a lot of interesting things said about the offense in general by the coaching staff, by ownership, and so I think there's a little bit more of a you know, volatility factor in the locker room of this Cowboys team this year. And so when you have volatility and you have bits of gasoline and firecracker like George Pickens, there's also that element that I

kind of have found myself steering away from. So yeah, I think I think maybe more of a best ball target, but even still in the range where he's going, I'd much rather have a DeVonta Smith. This is a Flowers Calvin Ridley, a Jamison Williams, and so yeah, not not finding myself taking too much Pickens. And also just I kind of observed that Tomlin is the man, and that if Tomlin says no, I'll listen.

I think that he is being unfairly penalized for how much they ran last year. I would much rather have DeVonta Smith there over Pickens. To your point, Flowers, I'm hit or miss on. I don't know. I mean I could go Pickens and Flowers there. Ridley I actually like better than Pickens as well, granted that that offense is not as dialed in, as not as potent as Dallas, but I think that cam Ward is going to lock on to Ridley this year and utilize them quite a bit.

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Kramer edition that's coming up next. I have one two three. I got eight categories that Ryan could pick from, and I'm gonna give him the answer he gives me the question. You all know how Jeopardy works. Kramer Centric on ex Ryan Kramer from the Sports Gambling Podcast and Vson. I'm Eric Balkman from the FFPC. Don't Go Anywhere. Insider Access rolls on right after this.

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one because nobody's gonna argue. This is the Ryan Kramer edition of Fantasy Jeopardy. So, without further ado we'll get into it right now. The categories that you have to pick from are as follows, league losers, league winners, Premium tight ends, starting off with a bank, no shares, JJ zecherieson for the win, can't get enough, and Rip Van Winkle. What category are we starting from tonight? Ryan on Fantasy Jeopardy.

some say she was the star of the situation. Isaiah likely was the guy getting all the glowing reports from the other tight ends in One of the things I love to do in FFPC is generally draft four tight ends, whether it's best ball or even managed. Love ending up with a lot of tight ends, not spending early capital on them. So Isaiah likely is probably on one hundred percent of my FFPC team so far. He's the guy I think smashes the ADP and you have that justin

case scenario Andrews doesn't stay healthy again. What could this be? I mean we could be looking at a surefire top two round pick.

is undervalued and underappreciated. And as I just mentioned, I often end up with four guys, especially in the best ball formats. I'll even go five. I just think a guy like Hunter Henry. Right, So if you played out the season, how many times does Hunter Henry we end up with the lead and targets on this offense? Probably not too often, but I think he's pretty often the number two or number three target. So with tight end premium,

what's his current where is he currently going off? In the big gorilla?

teams missed the playoffs. I think with running backs especially, and we just we just saw this with Christian McCaffrey. You have to observed the workload volume thing. And the story last year was basically that Kellen Moore's offense wasn't exactly working and the team had a meeting and said we're just gonna run the ball, and Saquon Barkley had one of the greatest seasons in the history of the NFL. I also would point out as a Giants fan, I

know this that Saquon does wear down. Saquon doesn't necessarily play well through nagging injuries, and it seems very unlikely he's able to stay clean once again this season. So if you're asking for an alternative there at the top of the board, happy to take Bijon can even be talked into a Jamior Gibbs situation if that's what you fancy. But and for me generally taking receiver there. But yeah, bust of the year certainly going to be Saquon.

I don't believe. I mean, you look at I mean a lot of his fantasy points were because of these massive thirty yard breakaway touchdowns. Like that just doesn't replicate. That's not a sticky stat. He's twenty nine years old too. I mean, I think if we look at this halfway through the season, most of us are going to be like, God, why would I have ever taken bar Barkley at high that high? When I had this staring me in the

face this whole time? So while I was on the fence, three weeks agoing I am firmly on the whole I'm too afraid to draft him, and I will happily take Gibbs over him. I will take Lamb over him. I'll obviously take Bijon Robinson over him at the one oh three too, so like and Justin Jefferson two is another guy that it'ds trongly considered over. In fact, I probably

take him over Barkley this year as well. Okay, the other thing that we get from the YouTube chat tonight, I think it was an Adam yeah, for his first early round bust. He said, who is Pooka Nakua? How do you feel about that?

fifty split than the ADP is suggest right now. I understand why you're excited about Puka, but he's being drafted at his ceiling obviously there in the first round and more so for me, I'm always the comparison shopper when I see the other receiver, Like I can get Neighbors generally when Puka is going off and you know, Neighbors is catching FI getting fifty percent of the targets in training camp, the neighbors could flirt with the target record this year and he had a think about he had

one hundred and seventy targets last year and only one hundred and nine catches. That's incredibly inefficient because of the quarterback play. I like to me that that's where the comparisons start. And again, I'm not taking Puka over Neighbors. I'm not really taking Puka over any of those guys there in that range of Manra whoever else you want

to to leak in there. So yeah, no, I like that as an option for I don't see it as a complete bust, but yeah, someone who's going to disappoint you definitely.

think about neighbors. Last year. He did not have a fast paced offense, He did not have a great running game, He did not have good quarterback play. You could argue Carolina has all of those things that the Giants had last year. He just had a tremendous amount of volume. And when you read about what this offense is fixing to look like, when you hear Canalis talk about what McMillan's going to bring to this offense and how he runs the routes that Bryce Young sees so well, those intermediate,

those short incuts, outcuts. I think Ted McMillan could end up with a very Neighbors like season where he sees one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty one hundred and seventy targets. Remember, Neighbors missed two games last year and put up those numbers. So the idea that McMillan puts up the sheer volume to be a second round pick, no problem, and you can get them what fifth, sixth round right now, I assume they're in the FFPC.

That's someone who I'm clicking an awful lot as I'm building my hopefully four receivers there in the first six seven rounds.

Now you add McMillan to that mix, and you think about the division that Carolina plays in going up against Tampa, who you know, has their holes on defense, New Orleans who is a complete mess as well, and Atlanta will see on that. I know somebody said earlier in the chat that Atlanta's gonna have a top ten defense this year. As Steve Harvey would say, slow your role player. I'm not saying that with that at all. So when we talk about TETROA McMillan, Yeah, now he is climbing. His

ADP is getting it. It's as high as it's been I think since he's been drafted. And I'm looking this up on Mojo, he's actually climbed into that four or five turn right now. So you're starting at to pay a little bit of a premium on it. But it still could work out, and he's still you know, could fall a little bit, especially if We're hearing good stuff about Cocher and feeling, and maybe that drives down Tetro and McMillan's price.

already getting the touchdown role. But now you're starting to hear I mean, besides all the random draft stuff we heard about maybe a trade of Breese Hall, now you're hearing how much the coaching staff loves Braylan Allen. Could Braylan Allen be the number one running back regardless here in this situation, in an offense that's going to be

built to run the ball. I mean, I think if they have success, it's going to be a lot of rushing touchdowns, which immediately makes me think ten touchdown potential. We're drafting Braylan Allen where I would imagine somewhere down in the twelfth through fifteenth rounds. This is a guy who very easy but right now I know my ownership on him on all sites is probably somewhere around seventy five to eighty percent.

are disrespecting him. And this is a new coaching staff and they're gonna use him a lot more. What we saw at the end of last season with previous regime was that Hall was being used, but Allan was significantly involved. Isaiah Davis was significantly involved. You are of the opinion that Brailn Allen price wise, sticker price wise, that is the guy you want. He's going, Like I said thirteen oh six, right now, that's a better value too than

Breese Hall. That's a better value to you in the Jets backfield than Isaiah Davis.

will bring to it. And yeah, I think I'm getting the goal line back, and so it feels like a much safer bet to take the goal line back. Plus, you know, maybe fifty percent of the carries in the thirteenth round versus the guy who might catch a couple more passes in the third round.

hurt Isaiah Davis. It definitely will hurt Freestall And if this engine is to go, if the Jets are going to be a successful team this year, pounding the ball with Braylen Allen, you need to think about Tanner Engstrand. As the new oco comes from Detroit, what did we see in Detroit last year, we saw a lot of

David Montgomery in the first and fourth quarters. And if that's the Braylan Allen that we see this year, where they're softening up that defense in the first quarter with Allen and then just you know, pounding it into submission in the fourth quarter with Allen. Thirteenth round pick. I can get on board with that for sure. And the other thing with Breesce Hall too, like, has he had a Gibbs esque year in the league yet? No he hasn't.

Now still third round, so you're paying you know, two full rounds less of a price than the Jamior Gibbs. But to that point, there's a lot of other people that you can be drafting in the third round who we have seen big years from and you can stay away from Breese Hall at that price tag. Not saying I'm gonna do that in every single one of my leagues, but most of them. Yeah. Maybe.

Kramer Edition. Your categories that are still out there, starting off with A bang, no shares, JJ zecher reason for the win, and rip Van Winkle. Ryan, you tell us where we're going next.

of having some pretty disastrous early season passing efforts. And you want to talk about a team that had some positive things happen and maybe some regression is due. They literally won on one of the crazier Hail Mary's you'll ever see. And so I appreciate the rushing floor, and I understand why he's being drafted where he's being drafted, but you can't, I cannot get to a place where he's going ahead of really any of the other rushing quarterbacks.

And I would include Jalen Hurts in that mix. I think even just the idea that he is consistently going ahead of Joe Burrow, I mean, Patrick Mahomes is not sniffing where Jayden Daniels is going, and so perhaps also just a general ideology of I'm not taking one of these top quarterbacks probably unless it's Lamar or Josh and so to see how early and in some cases Jaden

Daniels going ahead of the ffpc's draft. I was just in Bestball Draft Jade Daniels went first quarterback overall, and to me that feels a little crazy, knowing that he's not going to be a goal on the main goal line option. We know quarterbacks that aren't named Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts tend to not score anything more than five or six touchdowns, and I expect his passing efficiency to go down. You mentioned that the Terry McLaurin stuff, but I just there was a lot a lucky stuff

that went on with him last year. And if we end up seeing a CJ. Stroud like second year that involves some slump, some turnover and just not quite the same efficiency, that would make sense to me. And so, yeah, maybe he's carried by a ten you know, a thousand yard ten rushing touchdown performance, but I'm willing to bet against that, and I currently do not have him on a single roster.

or maybe the rushings not all the way. You know, there's I am not a smart man, and a lot of times I will tell you in fantasy football, when stuff looks to be so good one year and the people asked me to explain why it's not that good the following year, I just simply say, regression to the meat. And that could be simply all it is. Is Daniels, like you said, got a lot of stuff going his way last year. Maybe he doesn't this year. He's got a fresh number two receiver in Deebo Samuel. On paper,

that looks like a good thing. In real life, we'll see. I don't know, maybe that doesn't work out. Laramie Tunsell has joined the Commanders as well. That sounds great for blocking for Daniels, but what if it improves the running game and takes away some of the stats that we would like to have Jaden Daniels get As he is being drafted currently as quarterback three at the four h four could be an unintended fantasy consequence of getting Laramie

Tunzel on that it's actually worse for Daniel's fantasy stock. Again, I'm not saying anything is a lot to happen here, And to your point, I have not been avoiding Daniels, Ryan, but I haven't really gotten him anywhere as well. And this is coming from a guy who's already got Josh Allen, already got Lamar Jackson in a couple of spots. I don't think I've got Jadan Daniels anywhere yet. Let's move on.

Three categories left on Fantasy Jeopardy. The Kramer centric addition starting off with a bang, JJ Zecher, reason for the win, and Rip Van Winkle are the final three.

to Achan. So yeah, one one, I'm either on Gibbs or Robinson pretty much like a running a receiver in every other position outside of that for the next like seven eight picks after but Gibson Robinson, I think the ceiling is pretty pretty remarkable.

some of that. But Bijon was good. And you know, whether it's the big play potential which you need, or the fact that he's just fed enough volume every game to get there and never really disappoint you. That's what I'm looking for in my first round pick. And so yeah, I'm gonna have some Chase too. But like filtering in some Bjeon and some Gibbs.

The listen, you want to talk about the skill set and what these guys can do on the field, Robinson gives it's very, very close The difference for me is something you alluded to, b Jon Robinson as Tyler Algier, who, by the way, and just to illustrate my point on this, Tyler Algier is running back fifty one at the twelve ten. That's who Bjon Robinson has as his running mate. Jamiir Gibbs as his running mate, has David Montgomery running back

twenty six at the six eleven. If I'm going for ceiling, if I'm going for getting greedy with as many Fantasy points as I can, it's Robinson there. Now. I've drafted Gibbs in the top half of the first round several times, and I've feel really bullish about it. But if it comes down, if I can't take Chase, who am I taking? It's probably gonna be one of those running backs, and I lean towards Robinson over Gibbs in that scenario. Two categories left on Fantasy Jeopardy Tonight JJ zachar reason for

the win is the first one. The second one is Rip van Winkle. Ryan, you take us where you want to.

in bestball, but even in managed leagues. I mean, he's going off. I'd imagine in that same range as Tyler Al's year as the Dylan Samson's the Jayden Blues of the world, where he's not quite free. But you're getting a very nice price on a guy who's gonna be a goal line back. And again, if Ben Johnson runs a similar situation, they don't have Jamiir Gibbs. So it's likely that Rochean Johnson gets more carries than David Montgomery did, or maybe equal to. And if that's the case and

you're scoring the touchdowns, potentially a nice piece. And like I said, in best Ball, it's very easy to click that button because you're getting the touchdowns.

bit more. He was kind of a I watched him play at Rutgers last year and he never struck me as the type of guy that could translate that level of talent to the NFL. But now I'm not so sure. You know, he's been showing out in practice. There's the opportunity you mentioned Johnson, but I think Manunguy is worth bringing up in this conversation.

say his work. Look, I you know, maybe everyone's getting worked in here, but I find it hard to believe that he loses out on that short yardage goal line role.

are going to be deflated a little bit. So I think there's something to be to be said about that as well. The Bears backfield. Of all the questions we have about Chicago, that might be the most important one, and it might be the least talked about one too. With the receivers and the tight ends, the quarterbacks, so on and so forth, something that will be monitoring here on the Insider Access show on the Better Sports Network for the remainder of the drafting season. Last category here,

we'll call it Final Jeopardy. The category JJ Zecherisen for the win. Here's the clue. If you wait on drafting a quarterback, this is the signal caller Ryan Kramer will tell you to draft.

I believe he's going somewhere in the twelve twelfth round range, and you know, you want to talk about the clear upside of him. If we're drafting Caleb Williams in the same range that we're taking you know, Burrow Mahomes next year. Because he's able to run for six seven hundred yards scrambling around there and getting in the end zone a little bit. Yeah, and then plus a little efficiency on the touchdown side, and just the offense in general. I

like that. I like that version of the narrative. And I'm not even the biggest Caleb fan.

how awesome that offense tends to make guys look. That's another one where I would prefer to draft pretty much all of the other He's going so early for me that I like, the guys in his range are more interesting to me, and you're not necessarily needing to pick up the unknown. And you know, with quarterbacks, give me the guys who are actually playing in their second year versus like a you know, I'm treating him like a rookie, and I'm not necessarily loving rookie quarterbacks most years.

I think there's just a natural, big, higher ceiling there. So that is going to wrap up Fantasy Jeopardy tonight. I think it was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun.

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twenty twenty four. Maybe the victim of some bad Caleb Williams play, maybe not maybe something that was on him. Maybe maybe there's there's something else going on here. I don't even know how you feel about this player, but Ryan Kramer state your case four or against Roma Dunsay and fantasy leagues in twenty twenty.

You see the potential of what could be That game against the Colts early in the year comes to mind, where six catches, one hundred and twelve yards and a touchdown, And you know, I, personally, I don't understand the huge gap between where DJ Moore is being drafted in Roma Doonsay. I'm kind of generally a sucker for the second guy in these types of situations. But if we end the season in Romadonsay is the number one in this offense. I know there's also Colston lovelin there, but I mean

I like what he brings. I like the type of receiver he is for the type of weather you know, NFC North cold, but you need a big, physical guy. And I like the idea that this offense takes a step forward and you know you can feature DJ Moore and more of the A Monra role maybe, although even that doesn't really comp out, but a Donsay being the big, physical outside guy I'm even thinking of like Josh Reynolds and the way that he was deployed, especially around the

red zone. I love a Dunsay this year and if we, like I said, if we finished the year and he's the alpha in this offense, that would not surprise me at all.

I have been fairly bullish on both these players. Especially Harrison in my draft so far this year. Ryan, But maybe I'm wrong or maybe you disagree with that. State your case again for or against Marvin Harrison and Kyler Murray.

little bit improved. Now, as far as what this means, how does this translate into the fantasy streets, I'm finding myself drafting a lot more Trey McBride with Kyler Murray than I am Marvin Harrison. And I don't know if that's because you know, I wasn't all that into Marvin Harrison when he was coming out. I thought, you know, you always have these red flags, these legacy guys who aren't gonna work out. Yeah, he was good in college, but we've seen that before where it doesn't always translate.

And honestly, the worst possible scenario happened last year where he kind of looked like the player that was maybe a little slow. Maybe the reason he didn't run and work out was he was worried about what those test scores might be. So I'm not The case against Harrison too is that I think there's plenty of other guys that could eat in this offense. They might be a run first or at least run heavy. You have the

tight end. I even have a guy like Michael Wilson, who we you know, I've been liking for some years. So Marvin Harrison hasn't found too many of my teams. But I like Kyler too much to not end up with him, because you know, I like stacking Kyler with one of those guys.

me on this. But I'm assume rational coaching that that that Harrison was misused by last year's coaching staff, that they cannot just have him run all these fade routes where he's got this little tiny window for Kyler Murray to throw into between the corner and the sideline. You got to get some stuff going over the middle for him, and I think that they do that this year. I am still bullish on a bounce back. I'm a big regression guy, like positive or negative. I just feel like

Marvin Harrison is. He does not strike me as a bust and I feel like, because I believe that, and because of his down season last year, this year should be huge and that's why I'm buying into him. And Murray wants to run more this year too, which makes him a little bit more valuable. Let's get into Dak Prescott here. I know you're a Giants fan, so you probably don't have a whole lot positive to say about Dak Prescott. Well we'll find out. Can you make a

case for or against Dak Prescott this year? And let me couch this right now and tell you Ryan that Dak Prescott is quarterback ten at the eleven h three and big gerrilla drafts right now.

But I think that combined with all the other swirl down there, the maybe lack of a running game, the fact that you know, there's we haven't even really touched on the DA contract future, with the team situation there, there's just a lot of non football stuff that to me, would could potentially enable Dak having in this team having a bad year. Now, if I was forced with a gun to my head to say, why why does he succeed fantasy wise? Well, maybe Michael Parsons decides to sit

out for the regular season. The defense turns out to be atrocious, and there's just a lot of garbage out there, certainly with George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb and Ferguson who he loves to dump it off to there. There's gonna be points, there's gonna be yards in this offense, and at the end of the day, they're one of these teams where you almost don't care what kind of team they are, uh, looking at that offense. But yeah, no,

I'm not really drafting Dak. I do allow my fandom to get in the way of like objectively judging some of these guys. But you know, I looked at through the years where I'm right about Dak, and I say, see, I told you so, that's true.

We know that that Dolphins offense radically changed when he was out last year, and then when he came back, it was still different than what it was at the start of the season. I'll let you state your.

In fact, we've created some controversy on our show, the Sports Gampling Podcast. We all like Jalen Waddle offensive Player of the Year. Sean made it to Vegas first bet. It moved the number from six hundred to one to two hundred and fifty to one. Made the rest of us very angry. But I love Achan. I love you know, Tyreek Hill is one of those I like him at ADP and I certainly like Waddles, so that means I have to like Tua. And this is one of those

where Tua is always a funny one. The pocket passers who have ridiculous weapons but somehow are getting drafted way down the board. It's like, well, how do we like Hill? How do we like Achan in the second? Hill in the third, and Waddle in the fifth. But we're drafting Tua outside the top, you know, twelve quarterbacks. That doesn't make any sense to me. So and especially in a managed league, Well, guess what when Tua bangs his head

and isn't playing, you get another quarterback. So I like, I mean, if you're not drafting in that same scenario we talked about earlier, if you're not drafting one of the early ones, I ending up with Tua with a reasonable you know, pairing with his team even maybe that's fine with me. I mean we're only a couple of season removed from Tua leading the league in passing yards, that.

So how do you win? You get your best players the football Jalen Wattle one of the best players there as well. Let's stick in the state of Florida and ask you about Jacksonville, specifically Michelle Tooton, who is one of the favorite running backs to draft early on in FFPC Bestball Leagues as well as FFPC Dynasty rookie drafts

as well. It's an interesting quartet there. You have Tuton, you have Lequin Allen joining the Jacksonville backfield through the draft this year, with Tank Bigsby and Travis Etn already the holdovers there, make your case for or again specifically Bischelle Tuton. But Ryan, I think you're going to talk about these other three running backs when you explain your case as well.

He has the vision. That's what makes him so good. He's able to you know, he looks no different than a guy you know, two three four inches bigger than him, and his contact balance was amazing. Like I said, his cutback ability vision. I think that Jaggs drafted him to be their dude. And I'm fully bought into the eye that idea that you know is etn gonna gonna be

on this team. Tank Bigsby, I think is interesting in terms of you want to ask me what my my shit, my my shares of running backs out of the Jags room looks like zero percent Etnu probably seventy five percent. Tooton twenty five percent Bigsby, And I think, just what you like about a dart throw running back or two things? Could this guy end up with a workload, but more importantly, does he have something significant about him, whether it be touchdowns,

pass catching or big playability. Well, in Tutan's case, I'll throw out a Keaton Mitchell comp here. I think we're gonna see too and have some plays that will remind us when Keaton Mitchell dropped onto the scene and You're like, WHOA, what is this again? I watched him play every game in college at Virginia Tech and he was something special. And Virginia techs had some special running backs. But I'm very excited to see what he can become on the

Jacksonville Jaguars. And again in that range of what ten through four, round fourteen fifteen, where I'm drafting a lot of my running backs this year.

so I'm sure I will have him. If I wait on tight End, I will probably go bang bang with tight End and get somebody and Kincaid or Kincaid and then somebody this year. That's the way I plan on attacking Dolton Kinkaid. Okay, a couple of minutes to go on the show, and I want you to tell everybody about the Sports Gambling Podcast, something that has we talked about this last year.

gray area for sports gambling. Me. Sean Green, we just started talking about football and that slowly turned into a you know, a twice or once a week show all year round, and then it was a twice a week show and all the way up to where it's a daily show, and then we launch a network and we have a you know, a couple dozen other shows covering every other sport from MMA to golf. And yeah, no, it's grassroots. Started in a garage. Still kind of in a garage that it, except for we're in an office

over a coffee shop, so not quite. But yeah, no, it's it's been fun, fun, fun fact about us, we've never taken a penny of investments, so we're wholly owned, artisanal small business here, much like the the FFPC, and so yeah, always always a good time, and if you're interested, we are right in the middle of breaking down every team, doing thirty two team previews as we build up to the NFL season. So yeah, definitely encourage you to check it out.

the Gambling Podcast guys have the eleven pick. You'll be drafting against other pros, including Derek Brown from Fantasy Pros Pat Karine from Legendary Upside, Scott Connor will be drafting in that as well, Jared Smoller from Draft Sharks, and of course the Fantasy grew Room himself, John Hanson. Have you and Sean talked any strategy on this yet?

Thanks to I'm blanking on the odds makers name Ibmy.

night specific time coming up when football season gets cranked up. Ryan, always a pleasure, Thanks so much for hanging out with me tonight.

out next Thursday at seven o'clock. Thanks so much for watching. For Matt Deutsch. For Ryan Kramer, I'm Eric Balkman. This has been FFPC Insider Access live on the Better Sports Network