Fantasy Football Today - Are Najee Harris, Javonte Williams and Anthony Richardson All Winners? Free Agency Day Two Recap! (03/11 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Najee Harris to the Chargers, Javonte Williams to the Cowboys and Anthony Richardson now competing with Daniel Jones! We react to all of it with some rankings questions (2:55) and then longer looks at Richardson (8:25), Harris (17:15) and Williams (28:40). We give best case and worst case scenarios for each player. Can Harris reach a level we haven't seen yet? Is Williams a third down back? Can Richardson be elite?  Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Express on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-express/id1528634304 Follow FFT Express on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=6529cbee20634da8 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No, I can't. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races! And he stays on his feet! This is gonna go the distance! Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. fantasy league. Here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to fantasy football today, Tuesday, March 11th, another free agency update here, guys, before we get started, I think we should pour one out. They say pour one out to remember free agency 2024.

Long live free agency 2024. What a fun time that was. Remember all that was happening? Remember how much fun we had last year? A lot of nonsense, a lot of bonkers. I believe Schefter just tweeted about 13 minutes ago that at 2.m. last year, a year ago today was when Saquon Barkley agreed

to a deal with Eagles. That would be great. Can we get something like that? I wonder how much it happened at that point. Like was it Mixon? I don't remember the sequence of events, but man, not a ton, but you know what? We're gonna make the most of it.

I don't think we got. We got Darrington Evans, dude. To where? I didn't even see that one. You have 32 guesses. I'm gonna guess Buffalo. You're a genius, oh my God. Really?

Nice, let's go. He knew, he knew already, didn't he? All right, so today we'll talk about Najee Harris to the Chargers, Javante Williams to the Cowboys, Anthony Richardson getting competition in Daniel Jones. And that's kind of it. We'll hopefully talk about Aaron Rogers soon. I'm not sure if we'll have a show tomorrow, but let's get started. We'll definitely have on Thursday. Let's get started with some rankums rank in a

super flex league. I'm not going to give you the out here. I'm not going to say, Oh, yes, you know, it's a one quarterback league. I'm not gonna give you the out here. I'm not gonna say, oh, yes, yes, I won quarterback league, I'm gonna go with the upside. In a Superflex League, would you rather have- What choice was that? That was excuse maker. Anthony Richardson or J.J. McCarthy? McCarthy.

In a Superflex League, I would go McCarthy. What do you make of the Daniel Jones signing? You think it's good or bad for Richardson? It's definitely bad. Why would they start? Competition anyway, so to me, it's just a moot point. It's a cow's opinion. Oh, nice.

So I think that I would argue that it's good because I'd rather if I have anything Richardson interest or stock or whatever, I'd rather them get Daniel Jones than Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson. No, I'd rather they get Russell Wilson. They know Jones is worse than Russell Wilson. I promise you with everything I know in my body, in my brain. I'm not saying that it's a huge drop off or whatever, but I, fine. You can say whatever you want. They're not great quarterbacks. If you can't beat out Daniel Jones, then it's a real problem. I think it's a smart signing by the Colts.

It's a smart signing by the Colts because this keeps their offense the same. So if this is the offense they want to run, then they found somebody who can do it as opposed to having to change things if they're going to bring in somebody else. Yeah, well, Richardson, I want to talk about like the last well, you know, let's let's let's continue with Rankin. We'll get back to Richardson Rankin, Aaron Jones or Naji Harris? Naji, Naji, but it's close. Jalen Warren or Najee Harris?

Today it's Jalen Warren. Once the Steelers draft somebody, it'll be Najee Harris. Well the Chargers are probably going to draft somebody too. I don't think the Chargers are drafting somebody before the Steelers draft somebody. I think the Steelers are going to bring in hopefully they're running back of the future Whereas the Chargers might just bring in another Kamani Vidal Come on it we love come on if I don't Tank Bigsby or Javante Williams had a very hard time coming up with a Javante Williams or so I'm gonna go with tank Bigsby or Javante Williams

Javante Williams today. it's Javante Williams. Once the Cowboys either bring back Rico Dowdell or drop somebody, it will be Tank Bigsby. And then I'm going to promote FFT Dynasty. Jamie and I were on FFT Dynasty today talking with Heath. He asked a good question. I'm going to ask it here. I'm going to steal this one from Heath.

Give me your top three destinations for a rookie running back. Broncos, the... No, no, no. I'll do the same ones, I guess, which were the Bears, the Raiders, and the Steelers. Why are we not saying Denver? I said, because that was mine.

I had Denver. He stole it from me. I had Denver. I went, cause that was mine. I had that. He stole it from me. I had Denver. I went Denver Raiders, Cowboys. Chicago should be in the top three. Should they though? Because they have Swift. I mean, they have a good part of their goodness.

Okay. So they have Swift. So they'll bring somebody in who will ultimately put Swift into a smaller role and behind an improved offensive line with a alleged genius play caller. They can be much more fit, but I think Denver is a great spot too, because of Sean Payne, I'd put Denver first. I put Chicago second Dallas scares me a little bit. Uh, so I guess by default, Las Vegas would be third just because of opportunities.

Okay. Yeah. So Denver's offensive line, I mentioned this on the dynasty show, ESPN had them first in run block win rate and pass block win rate. And that's the second straight year that ESPN had them as first and pass block win rate. They were top five in run block win rate two straight years. PFF had Denver's offensive line as the second best offensive line in the NFL, more so for pass blocking than run blocking, but that is a strong offensive line.

They've been top five in running back targets two years in a row. So that's why I had Denver top the list and I really just don't buy any of that competition there. And like you'd say what you want about Deandre Swift, but he's not, I think he's more of a threat than say, than Jaleel McLaughlin, Audra Guestame. I know you had Denver number one, but I think he's more of a threat than Javante Williams. If a guy got drafted by Dallas, I think it's easier to beat out Javante than it is to beat out Swift.

I think it all depends on how Ben Johnson really views DeAndre Swift. Remember, he's inheriting him. So we'll see. And by the way, the CBS offensive line rankings has Chicago ahead of Denver now. So we'll see how things go for the rest of this offseason. But yeah, I mean, look, DeAndre Swift is better than any of the backups that we talked about, aside from probably Jaylen Warren Okay, and if Chicago spends a day three pick on a running back, it's not like we're gonna anoint that guy We're not gonna anoint Devin Neal ahead of Deandre Swift if that's the route they go, right? Well, I mean the question is relevant. What's the destination sure sure sure But I'm thinking more from the standpoint of all right, where would I love to see Ashton Jantey play or Amarian Hampton play? Those would be some of the teams, so

I really like it. All right. We're going to do a segment called three minutes on each player. Let's spend three minutes on each player. Anthony Richardson, we have three minutes on the clock now. Dave, give me your thoughts on Richardson going into 2025. I would be very nervous to take him in a super flex league. I'd be less nervous to throw the dart on him with a late pick in a one QB league. But I feel like I can find either another quarterback or a player to another position. I'd rather roll the dice on no

guarantee that he's going to be the starter week one. The the GM of the Colts, Chris Ballard said that he's going to be the starter week one. Uh, the, the GM of the Colts, Chris Ballard said that he, um, told Anne A. Richardson, like the heat's on, you've got to bring it. And if you don't bring it, you're done. And Richardson understands what he has to do. Can he make progress as a passer? That's really the story here. If, if he can pull a Josh Allen or a Jalen Ertz or whichever quarterback

you want to compare him to, if he can become a more accurate thrower, he's going to end up being fantastic, but we need to hear about it. I'd like to really see it before we really buy into it. And that's, that's the story. And if he can't do it, then it's Daniel Jones. Uh, I'll let you, I'll let you guys guess who's got the better career winning percentage as a starter between Richardson and Jones? Richardson. Richardson.

Who's got the better completion rate? Daniel Jones without question. Daniel Jones. Yes. I mean, they're both very, if you've been paying even like a scintilla of attention to football, you would know that those are the answers to the question. Jones more accurate, but Jones, I think it's like 20 games below 500 with New York, whereas Richardson's actually a game above 500. We'll see what happens, but if Richardson makes progress,

I'll probably use my words about saying he's a late round pick and I'll end up being a pick that people will chase in around eight or nine if it's like clear that he's going to be the starter in Indy. We're going to change the segment to five minutes for each players. I want to talk more about each player. So I knew three minutes was ambitious. Jamie, what are your thoughts on Richardson going into 2025? I'd be surprised if he's not the week one starter without falling on his face in training camp. So I think this is more of a mid season move if it's going to happen barring injury. This is where fantasy and reality are different. He's got to improve as a pastor. it's going to happen barring injury. This is where fantasy and reality are different. He's got to improve as a passer.

He's got to improve his decision making. He's got to improve all those things. But as long as he's the starter, he's going to give you the chance for 20-plus points per game on a weekly basis because of his legs. And so that's the thing where you're looking at it. Like we were talking about with Justin Fields yesterday. Like Fields has not been a successful NFL quarterback, but he's gotten three years in a row of 20 points plus

per game as a starter because of what he does with his legs. So Richardson can still be a very good fantasy quarterback. So for the times that he starts, you will probably be considering starting him in your fantasy leagues. But there's injury risk and now there's risk of him getting benched. And so I think the thing that you hope for as a Richardson fantasy manager is that Daniel Jones is still Daniel Jones because he's not been a successful quarterback either. And so it's not like he, I think, is going to wow everyone if he still plays the way

that he plays. The fear, if you're the Anthony Richardson in the Anthony Richardson camp, is that Daniel Jones just went through the Kevin O'Connell car wash and now he's improved as a quarterback and improves his decision making and comes in with the second chance or third chance, depending how you view it, and is just completely dominating Anthony Richardson as a passer. So either one of these guys offers upside as a fantasy quarterback. I mean, Daniel Jones' pre-knee injury was a 3,500-yard passer, or 700 yard rusher. And that's hard to find. And so, you know, if he can do that, forget about what he does for the receivers, forget about what

happens with the offense. If he could just do that as a fantasy quarterback, that's a borderline starter, which is why we were considering him going into the 2023 season, I'm not mistaken, as a potential late round pick. So Richardson, if he hits, can be a top 10, if not top five quarterback, that's a big if, but there's still that upside there. So I hope he wins the job. I hope he improves as a passer. I hope he can be a successful NFL quarterback,

but as a fantasy quarterback, he does things that a lot of other guys can't do. So the first season of Richardson's career, he played four games. He only played two full games. And actually really only played one full game. He got hurt the very, very end of week one, but we'll count it anyway.

And he was electric. It looked like there was a reason why he was a top six pick in ADP in terms of quarterback rankings, top six quarterback. This second season for Anthony Richardson, Thomas, if you could maybe just go to his game log, you know, just started out with 30 points against Houston and then nothing but bad stuff. Two straight games with multiple interceptions,

gets hurt in week four, comes back, two duds against Miami and Houston with a fumble in each game. Then he gets benched and he comes back and maybe Richardson at that point, you know, they had talked about him sort of growing up more film study, just kind of approaching the game a little bit differently. Not that he was a problem or anything, but just being a little bit more professional and his last five games I think are very encouraging in those last five games.

Let's see where he ranked. He was the number eight quarterback per game in four point, number 13 quarterback per game in six point per passing touchdown leagues. And that included a game against Detroit where he scored 13 points. I just went back and I watched that game and I think you guys will probably remember.

Alec Ogletree drops a wide open touchdown, like nobody near him. The play I forgot about, Ashton Doolin, beautifully thrown deep ball, Doolin just doesn't keep two feet in bounds, wipes away like 40 yard gain. This could have been a good game, a plus a 20 plus point game for Richardson. And he had a bad game against Denver. But I think pretty encouraging when you look at those five games,

you got what, 30 points, 13 points. That was the Detroit game I just mentioned. Twenty five points, 15 points and 22 points and six points per pass in touchdown league. So I hope he discovered something. I wrote in my notes Anthony Richardson's forty seven point seven percent completion rate is the worst for a worst passer rating for a qualified quarterback. Sorry, Anthony Richardson's 47.7% completion rate is the worst passer rating for a qualified quarterback

since I don't even know when. I went back 13 years, that was the worst I found. I think it's also the highest A-dot though, so maybe some shorter passes. Anyway, we know what it is. What do you think his completion percentage needs to be for him to be considered safe as the starter? Forget about turnover, forget about wins, losses, just from a completion percentage

stamp. I think he could have the worst completion percentage in the league and be a safe starter at around what it was as a rookie, 58, 59% about that. Oh, they would dream for that. Well, it's horrible, but it would be good enough for him. But listen, but that's what it is. That's what it's going to be if he continues to attack deep downfield. Exactly.

That's part of it. And he throws shorter passes, that completion rate is going to go up. No question. Exactly. So they didn't do him a lot of favors. Yeah, but as a rookie, his A-dot was eight yards, which is not high, not high, but not super high. And he completed 59% of his passes. He makes a lot of terrible throws.

Just keep the job, like we all agree, keep the job, Richardson's gonna be worth starting in fantasy, right? 100%. Yeah. All right. I hope so. That was seven minutes on Anthony Richardson. We'll be right back after this with somewhere

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So Jamie, I'll let you start. Your outlook for Najee Harris with the Chargers, do you think he'll be better than RB 18 per game? I think he'll be in that range. As we talked about on the Dynasty show, the things that Najee Harris presents are stability and safety. And take that for what it's worth, fantasy versus reality. He does not miss games.

He's the only running back in the last four years to play all 68 games. He's played 17 games this season in his entire career. He doesn't fumble, three fumbles in his career. But you can kind of just know what you're getting aside from the rookie season that he had when it was Ben Roethlisberger and it was a lot of dump off passes. He's gonna be around 36 to 40 receptions per game. He's gonna be right around 1000 yards per game. Excuse me, for the season. 36 receptions for the season, 1000 yards rushing for the season, and 6 touchdowns. He's done that in every year of his career. 3 or 4 seasons with the 36 receptions. So if they change how they use him and maybe

throw him the ball a little bit more, again, he has a 70-catch season on his resume. Could he be a 50-catch guy? I don't know. I think you look at the combination of J.K. Dobbins and whatever, Gus Edwards, I think three catches. That's about a 40-catch season with Dobbins missing the three games, four games. So 40 receptions maybe is probably a best-case scenario 45 receptions He's gonna be a number two running back. I mean, that's that's just what it is You know, it's it's a it like Devante Adams going to the Rams like this is a great landing spot for Najee Harris because unless they Bring in significant competition day one day two running back It's his job for the year.

And I think this regime kind of told you how they feel about their backfield last season, which was go out and get guys that they feel comfortable with, certainly they went out and got guys that they were comfortable with for Greg Roman in Edwards and Dobbins, who played with him in Baltimore. Like Najee Harris is just kind of serviceable. So when I did the free agent preview of, on the site preview on the site, the two places that I looked to put

him were the Chargers and the Raiders, mostly because of the head coaches there. Just looking for a stable, safe running back that can, not very explosive, which is obviously something that you want, but he's also going to get you the tough yards. I think he still has that in his bag. So I think it's a great's a it's a great landing spot I just don't think you want to overvalue him. So the the question you asked to start, you know about comparing Aaron Jones That's a great range, you know, James Connors a great range you know some of these guys that are a little bit iffy either because of age or situation like

You know you get to that round five six seven range, which I think is where he should come into play Great opportunity to again zero RB hero RB type of second running back or first running back. Najee's Najee's fine for that. Okay, Dave, RB 18 per game was Dobbins. Your thoughts on Harris and can he beat that? Will he beat that? I'm not too far off of where Jamie's coming from.

I actually think it's a great fit. It should be a good opportunity. It'll look even better if the chargers don't dip into the running back pool on day one or day two of the draft. You know, Harbaugh could reunite with one of two, maybe even both of the running backs that he had at Michigan in this year's draft. And I don't think either of those running backs would come in and push Najee Harris too fast off the field.

Um, some stats that caught my eye about Najee, and this is just of the past three years, his yards before contact per rush, uh, 1.07 yards or worse. Each of the last three years in Pittsburgh. And is it because he stutters his feet sometimes? Yeah. Is it because he can't hit the edge three years in Pittsburgh. And is it because he stutters his feet sometimes? Yeah. Is it because he can't hit the edge very fast? Maybe, but it's really because the offensive line struggled for

much of those three years. And we know that the offensive line is, is improving with the charges. It wasn't as good as we thought it was going to be last year, but it should improve this year, second year in the system, Joe, also second year player where Sean Slater should be improved. The interior will get addressed and that will help any running back that goes to LA. Furthermore, Najee averaged no worse than 2.74 yards after contact

per rush each of the last three years. So he can take a hit, keep his feet under him and gain a couple of extra yards. That will help pack on some yardage to his totals. It can make his rushing average a little bit better. And then the other thing I saw like last year, his success rate inside the five was 25%. And when you see that initially, you go, Oh, that stinks. He's not that great from the goal line.

Well, that's another byproduct potentially of where he's playing and the team that he's on the year before that in Pittsburgh, he was at 42%. That's really good. You'll take a running back inside the five. So I'm, I'm kind of excited about Najee Harris, RB twos that you can get after all the popular RB twos go, I'm going to have a tough time with him versus James Connor versus Tony Pollard. Um, potentially versus Caleb Johnson, who's a rookie, Quinn Sean Judkins, who's a rookie. We'll see where they go, but I don't have that much of a problem with

them over Aaron Jones, Ramadre Stevenson, Tyrone Tracy, potentially Isaiah Pacheco. I would put Pacheco in that bucket of, well, RB2, maybe a settle for him. But you got to love the opportunity that's there for Najee in LA. The Pittsburgh offensive line thing is interesting because the last, you know, if you just look at PFF, they've had an average run blocking grade, three straight seasons. In fact, last year was actually pretty good. They've been 16th, 11th, and ninth. So it's two years in a row, they've been pretty good.

That's their run blocking grade from PFF, 16th, 11th, and ninth. Last two years, ESPN had them 18th in run block win rate both years. So I guess I would have to look at that and think that it's actually been more like an average offensive line. By the way, Steelers have lost two offensive linemen

in free agency. That's kind of stuff we're to talk about on our next show. Houston's lost two. San Francisco, I think, has lost two. Offensive linemen. Anyway, that's a topic for another show. The Chargers were 21st. What did I say? I said Houston. Yeah, I said Houston. Yeah, yeah. They traded both of them. The Chargers were 21st in run blocking on PFF. They would, you know, I would say like about the same just in terms of overall grades, but as Pittsburgh, Najee doesn't have a 40 yard run in his career. If you listen to FFT dynasty, I'm sorry, I'm repeating everything that blows my mind. He's never had a 40 yard

run. He's the second most carries in football since he entered the league and not one of them for 40 yards. But I mentioned this with Jamie and Heath. In his career, he's averaged 75 rushing yards per game and wins, 46 and a half rushing yards per game and losses. He gets game scripted out. You look at the last five games of the season, including the playoffs, they lost all of them. They lost four of them by 14 or more points. Najee was bad. So I think the Chargers could be pretty good next year. I think it's an upward trajectory. And if they can stay ahead in the game and run the ball effectively, yeah,

I mean, I think that could be really good for Najee Harris. I just don't think he's that good. So when you talk about these rookies that are coming in that are gonna be more dynamic, more explosive than him, I think they're gonna have an edge on him. And then the question is, like, does he play on third down? Because JK Dobbins had what he had 32 catches in 13 games, seven of them came on third down, that's kind of a big

chunk. So if we're just talking about a first and second down player for Najee Harris, we could be talking about 30 catches, 35 catches or something like that. And that's not gonna really, that's not gonna really do it for me. Those are my thoughts. Dobbins had what nine touchdowns though, in those 13 games? Yeah, he had nine. Yes, he had nine touchdowns. So I mean, this could be a career high rushing touchdown

season for him potentially too. It could. I'd like to know how many of those touchdowns were like 20 plus yards. Remember the first few games, Dobbins went crazy. He had like huge gains. I'm not saying I'm not saying that he can't do that, Najee, because I didn't really think Montgomery was capable of doing that. And then we saw a different player when he went to Detroit. But I just don't know how big of an upgrade

we're talking in terms of offensive line. I'm not sure it is an upgrade actually from Pittsburgh to the Chargers. But yeah, like 10 carries for 135 yards and a touchdown in week one for Dobbins, 17 for 131 and a touchdown in week two. What is Najee Harris ever had 10 carries for 135 yards? No, the Harris, those stat lines are like 10 carries, 85 yards.

Right. By the way, I think the biggest thing is going to be who the competition is. So if it's somebody significant, then this is just a, he'll be the first second down guy and then they'll work somebody else and eventually replace him. Then it's, you know, again, is it another vital or bring in a Hassan Haskins type of player? It's great for Naji. I'm looking at the percentage of targets that go to running backs in 2024 by team. Steelers and chargers, one of them threw to their running backs at the second highest rate and one of them threw to their running backs at the second to

lowest rate, which team is which. I'm going to say the Steelers second highest charger, second lowest. That is correct. That's wild. Chargers 12.2% of the targets went to running backs last year. That's not so great for anybody on that team, much less just Najee and his prospects of catching the football. But again, we're not, we're not rushing them up the rankings and calling them a top 15 or top

12 type of running back those days are long gone. Like I think he's gonna be around 20th. And you're not going to be excited to draft them. But he might get you off to a really good start and keep it going for the majority of the year might get you might get you like 13 plus PPR points in nine of 17 games. You know, obviously it's not a great free agent class, but some players that really, you know, that maybe were not excited about them as players ended up in good spots. Like Devonte Adams couldn't have been much better.

I think Najee Harris couldn't have been much better. And you could argue that Javante Williams has a chance. That's a one point, one year, $3 million deal, right? That's nothing. But going to Dallas could be worse. We'll see what Dallas ends up doing. Still Rico Daddle a free agent, but let's spend now three to 15 minutes on Javante Williams.

Jamie, you wanna kick it off your thoughts on Javante? If you were drafting tomorrow, where would you draft? What round do you think you'd draft Javante Williams. Jamie, you wanna kick it off your thoughts on Javante? If you were drafting tomorrow, where would you draft? What round do you think you'd draft Javante? If we're drafting tomorrow and he's the starter for the Cowboys, round seven. Dave, you? If not, a round after that. Okay.

Jamie, give me your best case and worst case for Shavante. Best case scenario, he can somehow find his pre ACL form and get back to being a little bit more explosive as a runner, and still keep what he showed us as a pass catcher this past season when he had 52 catches for the Broncos. So if he can, you know, be 1000 yard rusher, andher and hopefully be a 50 catch guy and add another 300 yards receiving on top of it, plus be the goal line guy, everything

would fall into place for him. But I just don't think that's going to happen. I think you mentioned it. Rico Dadal could still return and come back as the starter. And then this is just the Ezekiel Elliott replacement. They could draft a guy and that's the starter and the featured guy and then Givante as you said You know on the earlier show can just be somebody that plays on passing downs because he is a successful pass blocker So I think Sean Payton did some good things with him in using him as a passer pass catcher And you know showed off that he can you know have those those showed that he has those skills But again since his ACL tear he just has not been the same type of runner, you know, losses, explosiveness, and don't know if we'll ever regain that again.

So this is, I think, just a signing for depth more so than is signing to be the starter. This was the quote I was looking for from the ESPN article that I couldn't find during the dynasty show. Givante Williams maximum speed with the ball as he crossed the line of scrimmage last season. 15.34 miles per hour was the slowest among all backs with at least 113 carries. It's a little selective with the 113 carries, but you get the point. The guy, I mean, I knock Najee Harris for not having any 40 yard runs. Last three seasons, Givante's longest run is 21 yards. You don't have what his miles per hour was, rather,

when he didn't have the ACL, right? No, but that year, that first year, he had like three or four runs of 30 or more yards, and he was a complimentary back. I'm scared that he's just not ever gonna be the guy who we saw at North Carolina, who we saw as a rookie in Denver. As much as Sean Payton tried to coax it out of him and motivate him and camp and all this

stuff, I don't know if it's ever really going to work. I think he's got the talent to play on passing downs. He's an okay pass blocker. I wouldn't say that it's like his greatest strength. I'd say his greatest strength is what he can do in the passing game you prove that. And so does can i least pencil men for that type of roll. And if it just ends up that the cowboys don't spend significant draft capital on a rookie then yeah he could he could be useful i don't think you'll be like twenty pollard or anything like that. When was there.

like Tony Pollard or anything like that, when Pollard was there. Again, somebody that you're probably drafting to be a number three fantasy running back, almost no matter what happens, except like if it's Janity, if it's Hampton, one of the stud rookie running backs goes to Dallas, Javontae will fall a couple rounds after what we're talking. Jawan Johnson back to the Saints for three years,

more than $30 million about that and you know There's actually maybe the biggest name out there is Evan Ingram right now in terms of who could make a fantasy impact Who could be I don't know if there's a player out there. That's a free agent that could be someone that we're starting You know starting yeah, like Rogers could be a streamer Wilson could be a streamer Hasn't signed yet. Yeah. I don't think anybody's starting Nick Chubb anymore. If Evan Engrum the prize now,

Evan Engrum the prize of the free agency now? For fantasy. Yeah, right? Depending on where he goes, of course. Last question on this, do you guys fear Javante Williams for the rookie running back that the Cowboys hypothetically draft? So sorry, I'll phrase that better. They draft a running back in rounds one, two or three. Do you, do you go, well, he's got Javante Williams there. That's a problem.

No, no. Like we say that without sarcasm. I think it could be a problem on third down. I do think he could be, I think Givante could be the pass blocker. Well that goes without, that's how it usually works for rookies. It's very hard for a rookie running back to come in and be a great pass blocker right away. So there should be some sort of adjustment period for any rookie that comes in. And that's what I think Gavatte can hang his hat on.

All right, guys, thank you. Thank you for your time. Jamie and I are going to record FFT Express. And that's it for today. So I maybe we'll do a breaking news show tomorrow on Wednesday. You don't want to do a breaking news show on Joanne Johnson. No. It's a lot of tight ends, man. They get paid. They don't get paid the huge contracts, but they get paid. There was another tight end signing that was, what was it? Just remember 10 million in the NFL isn't what it used to be.

Zachary signed, Luke Farrell signed. Yeah, Luke Farrell. 49ers signed Luke Farrell to a three year deal worth $20 million with 11 million guaranteed. Mike Kosicki three years 25 and a half million Titans you're gonna get you're gonna get your seven plus million dollars basically. All right. So Adam, if you start you know, taking some, you start taking some muscle booster, create a late rally in a career as a Titan. Yeah, I've considered it. I don't really have the time right now. Your tennis career.

Tennis career, I gotta pay my taxes in the next month. I just don't have time for it, but I'm going to try. You're in the oil industry. Yes, the oil truck just came for an oil tycoon. Adam Azer. Yeah, you know, me. All right, everybody, go watch Landman. We'll talk to you on probably Thursday, maybe Wednesday.