Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Training Camp Questions That Will Define 2025! (07/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 We have questions that we need answers to right now, or at least before we do our fantasy drafts. We'll talk about it on FFT Express. And welcome everybody. Adam Azenor and Jamie Isenberg. It is Friday, July 18th. We are doing good. We have a case of the Fridays.

Starting point is 00:00:11 So let's send people into their weekend with an exciting edition of today's show. All right, Jamie, questions we need answered. How about some contract questions? Do we need any answers there? Jamie, we have a question for you. How about some contract questions? Do we need any answers there? Jamie, we have a question for you.

Starting point is 00:00:19 How about some contract questions? Do we need any answers there? Jamie, we have a question for you. How about some contract questions? How about some contract questions? Jamie, we have a question for you. How about some contract questions? Do we need any answers there All right, Jamie, questions we need answered. How about some contract questions? Do we need any answers there? So I think the two for sure that we got to keep an eye on are Terry McLaurin and Joanne Jennings. I still think you got to

Starting point is 00:00:36 keep a slight pay attention to Cortland Sutton. But in terms of McLaurin and Jennings, these are scenarios that could be problematic. Hopefully they're going to get extensions if that's what they want and they get their situation settled. And then we get those two receivers playing at the level that they were at last year. For Jennings, there's a huge opportunity, obviously, McClellan to build off what he did a year ago. But if they're going to be hold-ins or problems for know, problems for their teams, then they're going to see their value potentially slide and be a benefit for a guy like Debo Samuel in Washington and Ricky Pearsall, maybe Brandon Iyuk in San Francisco. James Cook is another guy to keep an eye on with his situation in Buffalo, but

Starting point is 00:01:17 hoping he's going to show up as well. But I dropped a lot of Ray Davis just with the chance of, at least the early drafts, a lot of, you know, scenario of this playing out and Ray Davis just with the chance of at least the early drafts, a lot of scenario of this playing out and Ray Davis getting a bigger chance to carry the ball for Buffalo. Okay. So we'll start looking at position battles now. Things we want sorted out, figured out throughout training camp. What stands out to you there? I mean, the quarterback spots would be Indianapolis for one, and then I guess, I don't know the Giants, but New Orleans.

Starting point is 00:01:47 The one as you said earlier, right? Yeah. With the Colts, you know, the fact that Anthony Richardson is healthy is going to make this more complicated. I think, I know in my fishbowl league, Anthony Richardson fell and this is a guy based on his running ability could be an absolute league winner if you're taking him with a late round pick. So if you think that Richardson is going to be that guy, then you should take a flyer on him Not as a starter, you know, we overvalued him last year. I know I did and now you're getting maybe

Starting point is 00:02:11 the guy who could be 20 plus points per game and and Maybe even a better passer because he spent time this offseason working with Josh Allen's throwing coach So hopefully everything sort of falls in line for Richardson But Daniel Jones also in a super flex to Kibili can be a late round pick for the Saints. It's really more about who's going to benefit from a pass catching standpoint. You know, so Alma Camaro was played four games last year with Spencer Rattler and in three of those four games, he was over 17 PPR points. So it didn't really impact him in such a negative way. Really more about Chris Alave, Rashid Shahid, you know, so hopefully

Starting point is 00:02:43 whoever's the starter there, whether it's Tyler Shuck or Spencer Radler, uh, they get those guys. I would like to play devil's advocate on your Camara take because let me just see without Derek Carr. I have, I didn't know this was going to come up. So sorry for you. Four games without Derek Carr. He did score 17 to 18.2 PPR fantasy points in three or four games. However, this is what concerns me. He rushed for fewer than 40 yards in three of them.

Starting point is 00:03:11 Trey Lockerbie It doesn't matter. Robert Leonard No, it does. 12 or fewer rushing yards in two or four games. Now, here's why it matters. Chris Olave played in only one of those games and he played one snap at another. Rashid Shahid played one snap. So, or maybe one game. I might've had a typo there. So sure, he still was able to have enough receptions where it mattered. Five catches, six catches, six catches, four catches. But he basically did that without Chris Olave and Rashid Shahid. So he was the only option. The fact that he was getting 13, seven, 10,

Starting point is 00:03:41 and five carries for 40, 10, 67, and 12 yards because they were horrible. They lost 51, 27. They lost 33 to 10. They lost 26 to eight. They lost 20 to 19. I think that absolutely matters. Not enough carries, just entirely reliant on receptions. And he did that all pretty much all without a lot of and she'd if you're drafting in non and half PPR, I would totally agree with you. If you're drafting Camara in PPR, this is what you should be expecting. Well, that's not a reliable enough role for me

Starting point is 00:04:17 to expect 17 PPR fantasy points per game. Okay. But I'll just counter your counter. If those guys are healthy, they have a better offense around them, correct? Probably this is so bad. There's a more competitive game and there's probably more carries for Camaro. But I, if I'm drafting him, this is why I'm drafting him. I'm drafting him to be basically a wide receiver. Yeah. And another counter is, well, based on where he's going in drafts, which is round five, he doesn't need to average 17 points per game. And it'll be, it'll be good there. All right.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Cleveland, Jamie, you know, every battle in Cleveland is worth watching quarterback. Obviously the Judkins situation, who's going to be the number two wide receiver? Probably it's going to be Tillman, but how involved is going to be so we got to keep our eyes on Cleveland. Your thoughts on the Browns after this commercial break on FFT Express. All right. Your thoughts on the Browns, Jamie. I'd love to see Joe Flacco be the starter and hold on to the job the majority of the

Starting point is 00:05:16 season because I think that would benefit all the past catchers. They're probably the entire offense in general. So the more games Flacco starts, the more you'll like Jerry Judy, David DeJoke, Cedric Tillman, maybe even Deontay Johnson the running back situation we just don't know right now Quitchon Judkins was arrested for charges of domestic violence and that could clearly play itself out from a suspension from the league depending on how the legal process plays out so at this point you should be taking late-round flyers on Jerome Ford Dylan Sampson Dylan Sampson

Starting point is 00:05:42 Jerome Ford whichever way you know think this is gonna play itself out. I think if Judkins misses time, Ford is probably the first and second down guy and Sampson is more of the change of pace, pass catching option. And I think that would be the case whether Judkins is there or not. I still think Judkins for now should be drafted first,

Starting point is 00:05:59 but we just don't know how this is gonna work. I drafted Judkins over Brian Robinson Jr. and it was a tough call for me because I really could just, it's not even close if there's no, you know, before the arrest. I think there's a chance that he's just not going to play that much. You know, there's a chance for this to be a pretty serious situation, which obviously is, but just even from football's perspective. Okay. I could have said that more delicately. I apologize for that. I just meant that this is a very serious situation. It's always tough when we have to do our job

Starting point is 00:06:31 and we talk about these situations, Rashi Rice, Jordan Addison, you know, Quintchott Judkins, there's victims involved in these situations and you know, we just never can say it the right way. So you didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, and we're not even touching on Rice and Addison. We talked a lot about them on

Starting point is 00:06:45 the mailbag episode that we just recorded, but obviously we're going to need answers on that. All right. Anything else that stands out to you? Any position battles you're looking at? Yeah. A lot of running back situations. You know, the scenario in Dallas is going to be fascinating. Jacksonville is going to be fascinating. You know, who's going to be the lead running backs on those teams? You know, I think when you look at the Giants, for example, Kam Skadabu and Tyrone Tracy. So I think of these, I'm sure I'm missing one or two, but of these starting scenarios, because there

Starting point is 00:07:13 are a lot of backups, we could see who's the backup for the Rams. And that could be a relevant situation as well. But New England, Trevion Henderson and Ramon Stevenson, I think there's a lot of scenarios, Denver with RJ Harvey and JK Dobbins, like you could see a number two slash high end flex, you know, coming out of all these scenarios of who the starter is. So, but Dallas is one of those that stands out to me because Javante Williams once upon a time was one of our favorite guys and, you know, had

Starting point is 00:07:43 the ACL tear in year two and never really recovered to the level that we hoped. Does he get a new opportunity here with the Cowboys to sort of have that JK Dobbins type season of being the featured guy on an offense that can, you know, certainly prop them up to where he hasn't been maybe the last couple of years. Absolutely. Looking at those situations, I think it's not going to take much for rookie running backs to get pushed up draft boards. If you're driving it with one, I'm Ari Hampton, you know, not

Starting point is 00:08:10 here. I injury and he's starting to get back into that round four range. Yeah, but it's going to be a JV on Henderson is out playing Ramon, Dre Stevenson. He's going to have a bigger role on first and second down as in that. And then he could be, I don't know if I'll sneak into the fourth round, but certainly an early. All right, Jamie, thanks so much. Enjoy your weekend. Everybody have a, have a wonderful weekend. We'll talk to you on Monday on fantasy football today. Express.

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Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Training Camp Questions That Will Define 2025! (07/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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