Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Jamey Eisenberg's All-In List! 12 Must-Draft Players for 2025! (08/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Jamie Eisenberg's favorite players all in on these guys for 2025. What's up and welcome to FFT Express. I think this is the last one. Heath, Dave, Jamie, me, and now Jamie, all-in teams. All-in teams. All-in teams. All-in. We actually just talked about one of them before the show even started. We'll get to him a little bit later. Who do you want to start with on your All-In?

Starting point is 00:00:26 I'll kind of go through it early, middle, late. I find myself in the first round lately. I mean, you know I do a lot of drafts. First round lately, a lot of C.D. Lamb and a lot of Christian McCaffrey. And part of that is because of where I have them ranked by comparison to mostly Sequin Barclay. But when I get to the third or fourth overall pick, I take Lamb. When I get to the sixth pick, if he's there, I take Lamb or I take McCaffrey. So those two guys are in my top five.

Starting point is 00:00:54 McCaffrey's definitely head of consensus. Lamb slightly had a consensus. So head of ADP. So I find myself taking a lot of those two players in particular. And hopefully they're better than they were a year ago. Obviously, we know how that played out. You know, Lamb struggled and McCaffrey played four games. But I think if they're healthy, you can get the 2023 production or close to that.

Starting point is 00:01:14 And, you know, you're talking about two league winners here. So I like that Lamb basically came out and said that at the start of training camp. Let me make sure I remind you how good I am when DAC is healthy. And while everything is falling apart around McCaffrey on the 49ers, he so far as been healthy. I just, you know, put them in bubble wrap, you know, and just take him out to, you know, wish you good luck in tennis and then keep them there until we're going. Yeah. Dak, uh, Dak has missed, uh, six games in 2022, zero games in 2020 and nine games in 2024. He also had a five game season in 2020. So he's had some injury issues, but,

Starting point is 00:01:46 you know, either you care about that stuff or you don't. Seems like Jamie doesn't really care about that stuff, at least with those two situations. You, you mentioned this, uh, a lot of the written content so I just wrote it's one of my favorite stories to write why every player in the first round could be a bust yeah and lamb and I don't know how many people realize this or recognize this every year of his career has been 17 and a half ppr points basically or less except the one outlier season and is that nerve-wracking to people and for mcalfrey he's played two games with more than six played two seasons of more than 16 games in the last five I'm sorry two games more than seven games two seasons of more than seven games is the last five but they were both with the 49ers

Starting point is 00:02:29 one and a half of them were with the 49ers yeah yeah he also has scored the most fantasy points per game for any running back in the last four years two years ago he averaged 23 and a half i think ppr fantasy points per game which was significantly better than what anyone did last year maybe been more than maybe it been over 24 but it was 24.3 okay i had it 23.4 is 24.3 okay i had a 23.4 is 24.3 right i mean just that's how good he can be now he scored a touchdown every game maybe won't do that but he's so good okay uh who's next one on that topic do you know what jemir gibbs three games four games were in the game that montgomery got hurt through week 18 i usually don't count the game he got hurt because i heard in the fourth quarter but i'm going

Starting point is 00:03:15 to say it was about 30 points 31 and a half ppr points per game is what he average yeah he'd be easy 101 if montgomery were not easy 101 Easy. Yeah, he'd be like LeDaney and Tomlinson back in the day. Yeah. Okay. Who's next? So let's go now. We'll skip ahead to the rounds four, five, six range. And this is a lot of wide receivers for me unless I get R.J. Harvey or Trevionn Henderson in this spot. But this is where I take a lot of Cortland Sutton.

Starting point is 00:03:48 Now it's becoming a lot of Cortland Sutton, George Pickens. I'm trying to think who else Did I take it a lot of recently Corlin Sutton George Pickens D.K. Metcalf And It's a great range there.

Starting point is 00:04:10 There's just so many great receivers. You're not taking DJ Moore. You are taking Tedroa McMillan. Yeah, Tedroa and Mill. We say him too. So these, those four receivers. I just, I'm sorry. I know the topic is my guy.

Starting point is 00:04:21 I don't like to put that out there like that. It just, I play too many leagues. I like to diversify too much. Sure, right. And you should, you know, I just did that in the RFFT Open League. I have not taken any T.J. Hawkinson. I was like, you know what, I can take T.J. Hawkinson. I've done that, too.

Starting point is 00:04:40 I took, I took Zayful hours for the first time because it was a fourth receiver, just best player in my rankings on the board. I wasn't going to deviate from that. And I just took somebody else. I forget who it was that I haven't taken. yeah yeah well i think it's important right because we're not always going to be right so you know so if people if if a lot of people are higher on someone than you and and he's still available you know two rounds later than you're going to take them take them right uh all right by the way

Starting point is 00:05:05 who do you think averaged more fantasy points per game marshal falk in 2001 priest holmes in 2002 trying to get the best like tomlinson 2006. I think it was Marshall Falk. It was. Falk at 30.3. No, it was Priest Holmes. 31.6 fantasy points per game in PPR. He scored 24 touchdowns in 14 games.

Starting point is 00:05:37 He had 70 catches and he had 1,300 total yards. All right. We did like the best seasons ever for fantasy when it was the 100 year anniversary of the NFL. And it was fun to do like that recently. research on it. I think we also, I think during the pandemic, we did a decade, like an all-decade team or something like that. And just these, these seasons came up. And I just remember being like, holy cow. All right, we'll be right back, because there's a Stephen Jackson season in there, too, is amazing. Yeah. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football Today Express.

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Starting point is 00:06:44 Round five wide receivers are just terrific. And I would have to say, Cortland Sutton, we just had Jacob on, right? and like he's super high on Cortland Sutton. You guys have him as wide receiver 17 in your consensus rankings. He goes closer to 23, 24 in PPR. I feel like Cortland Sudden is the official mid-round wide receiver of fantasy football today. I just love his last 10 games last season when things just started click for Bo Nix.

Starting point is 00:07:08 He was at 18.2 PPR points per game from Week 10 on. And in two seasons with Sean Payton as the head coach, one with Russell Wilson, one with Bo Nix, he's got 18 touchdowns. Like there's just such a nice body. of work here of what he's put together. And it's almost like, you know, you get enamored with Teddirole McMillan and the potential of James and George Pickens and still Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison, Jr. and all these guys, look, they're great players potentially.

Starting point is 00:07:39 It feels like Sutton kind of gets overlooked based on what the ADP is, you know, that he kind of just gets pushed down a little bit. And he's just as good as those guys, maybe better and probably safer. 14 or more end zone targets in three straight seasons. And you look at that roster and just don't really see anyone that looks like a threat to that for Cortland Sudden. All right, so who are some late round guys? Well, then we get to the really thick of the draft with the middle rounds.

Starting point is 00:08:01 And this is where, I mean, it's hard not to get excited about these guys. And I'm not alone in this, but, you know, now Ricky Piersal and a mecca, Buka at wide receiver. And then looking at, there's three running backs. I want to make sure I get one. If I get two, I love it. If I get three, I'm thrilled. Jordan Mason, Zach Charbonnet, and Braylon Allen for me.

Starting point is 00:08:20 These are three guys that I'm hunting in drafts because Mason could be the best running back in Minnesota or have a big role that he's an injury away from being, you know, potential top 20, top 15 type of guy. Zach Charbonnet, we've seen that. It's fairly obvious. And Ken Walker's foot injury popping up on and off, whatever the case may be. I love Ken Walker, but, you know, Sharbonne's values clearly much better. And then Braylon Allen just with the narrative of what's going on with the Jets, like these are three guys. Allen's the one I draft way ahead of ADP. Like in just to, again, in reference, our IDP draft,

Starting point is 00:08:53 I know I did on our full-length episode, the story will be on the site soon. I drafted him as my second running back based on the roster built. I don't plan to start him as my second running back. I made sure I got a guy that I can use early in the season, so I took Jerome Ford, for example. That was strategically. Braille and Allen may be a monster middle of the year.

Starting point is 00:09:11 And he, you know, ADP has not caught up to this trend, I guess. And we don't know what the splits are going to look like. But Jordan Mason, just looking at NFC average draft position over the last 10 days, Mason's RB 30 going 89th. Charbonnet is RB 34 going 97th. And Braylon Allen's RB 43, going 130th. So where would you rank Chikori Kroski Merritt with these guys? Right now I have him after them.

Starting point is 00:09:40 I have a bill after these guys just because there's clearly a lot of uncertainty of what's going to happen here because of Echler and his role in the passing game and how they use Chris Rodriguez to start the game. I don't want to overvalue him. I was actually going to make the comment on the full-length episode. I don't think I've ever seen a situation where a running back has had 81 spots. If you looked at his arrow, his green arrow. He's risen 81 spots in our ADP when you showed the graphic. You know, there was, gosh man, I can't remember his name. Probably about eight years ago, not even that much. It was a

Starting point is 00:10:19 maybe Cream Hunt got hurt. Somebody got hurt on the chiefs. And they're like number two or three back rose so much. We started, do you remember that situation? Heck was it? It would have been, what was his name that should have won the Super Bowl MVP? Damien Williams. No, I don't think it was him.

Starting point is 00:10:39 All right, can you have one more guy? I'm going to look this up. Yeah, then there's, you know, a handful of receivers that I look for late, which is Darnall Moon. and Damarro Douglas are the two that stand out. Cedric Tillman still to an extent. But I just think Douglas as the slot receiver for the Patriots and Mooney, when he's healthy, is going to be a big part of the Falcons passing attack. I know what Dan Schneier said on our full-length episode on Thursday of fancy football today.

Starting point is 00:11:05 A little concerned about the offensive line and how that could impact Michael Pennix, but I think they're going to be in a lot of offensive shootouts, which is going to benefit everybody, including Mooney. I feel like it was a Spencer Ware thing. I'm having trouble remembering the details. But yeah, I know. A meteoric rise for Decori Crosky Merritt for Bill Crossley-Marrett. Thank you, everybody, so much for watching and listening to FFT Express.

Starting point is 00:11:28 We got a mailbag on Thursday night. We got a, I think, a live mock draft on Friday. And we'll talk to you soon on FFT. See ya. Thank you.

Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Jamey Eisenberg's All-In List! 12 Must-Draft Players for 2025! (08/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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