Fantasy Football Today - Jamey's Bold Predictions! Plus Fantasy Cops! (05/31 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: May 31, 2022Saquon Barkley and Russell Wilson bouncing back in a big way. CeeDee Lamb outperforming expectations. What else is Jamey predicting? Let's start with Wilson and the Broncos wide receivers (3:05) and ...how great of a season this could be for them. And then you'll hear from the Fantasy Cops (12:30) to settle the Tommy Pham vs. Joc Pederson dispute ... News and notes (21:10) on the Chiefs and Saints passing games and then it's back to bold predictions. Saquon Barkley Top 5 (26:40)!? Jamey tells you why he thinks it could happen ... Jamey makes a bold call on who will lead the Packers in receptions (33:55) and who will be the #1 WR in Fantasy this season (39:15) ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Get 20% off Fantasy Football Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-football-today%20?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-football-collection 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." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
Welcome to the show.
It's our first of four Bold Prediction episodes for this last day of May,
and we are almost into June, and man, fantasy football season and football season are really creeping up on us.
Adam, Dave, and Jamie here on Tuesday, May 31st,
with some bold predictions
from Jamie Eisenberg, including
a player that's going to be, according to Jamie, bold
prediction, the number one quarterback in fantasy
this year, guys. Hope you all
have a great weekend. Memorial Day weekend,
always fun, right?
Great. I feel like I talked to you already because we have.
So, yes, it was
wonderful. How many baseball
games in your household this weekend?
Three.
We had a tournament in Sarasota.
It was fun.
Fortunately, we went one and two in our three games.
So, lost to the eventual champion in the tournament.
Not in pool play.
I forget what that's called.
But we gave them the hardest game they had all season.
Or all tournament.
How were your burgers?
You guys had burgers?
I had steak.
It was delicious.
You like steak.
What's with you?
Who doesn't like steak?
Guys, I'll be right back.
I'll be right back.
Okay, bye Dave.
I'm going to mute you.
Okay, good.
Dave likes steak. I think that's what we learned about him. Did you have a burger? I did. I didn be right back. Okay. Bye Dave. I'm going to mute you. Okay, good. Dave likes steak.
I think that's what we learned about him.
Did you have a burger?
I did.
I didn't really have any plans, unfortunately, but I was like, there's no way we're having
a Memorial Day without burgers and hot dogs.
So I made some burgers and hot dogs.
Well, it was your daughter's birthday.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Yes.
My daughter turned two.
We had a lot of, we had a cookie monster cake.
We're still eating it.
We got, I think another couple couple days left with that cake.
It was a lot of fun.
All right, let's get to the show here.
I went to BurgerFi on Sunday, if that counts.
That does count.
I mean, I think you really have to have burgers on Monday,
but that's fine, or steak if you're Dave.
A couple of things here.
Just, you know, I just want to send my condolences.
Thank you, everybody, for your service.
Oh, yes, that as well.
Happy belated Memorial Day,
and thank you to everyone who serves and has served. But just want to send condolences to Jeff Gladney's family and friends.
Yes. Cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals, formerly of the Vikings. He died in a car
accident on Monday. So very tragic, very sad. And, you know, thoughts to I met him at the at
the combine. And he was, you know, wonderful young wonderful young man in the brief interaction I had with him.
But just a very, very sad story.
Absolutely.
We'll turn it to a more positive note, and we'll talk fantasy football.
And, of course, the fantasy cops are coming out today because Tommy Pham slapped Jock Peterson,
a couple of baseball players, fighting over a fantasy football league.
And we're definitely going to talk about it.
Now, Jamie, what's your Russell Wilson bold prediction?
My Russell Wilson bold prediction is that he will be the number one quarterback
in fantasy for the 2022 campaign.
And this is really just a fun fact.
I just went back and I looked at what is all the number one quarterbacks in fantasy have in common?
Other than other than other than Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson is the only one who's not in this club.
But in the last 11 seasons, every number one QB QB one has had has scored 40 or more total touchdowns in four point per passing touchdown leagues and 42 or more in six point per
passing touchdown leagues. The only one who didn't was
Russell Wilson who had the worst
QB one season in the last 11
years in 2017. He scored 37
touchdowns. There's a chance
the thing about QB one is that
it's hard to you know, it's somebody's
going to have to have that epic season, right? But
but just saying you
he's going to probably have to throw and rush for mine has Rogers been epic the uh just saying you he's gonna probably have to throw
and rush for i mean has rogers been epic the last two years or he's just been amazing
i don't he hasn't amazing they're both yeah i guess wait he hasn't been qb1
it's been josh allen he's been the most consistent producer rogers he wasn't number one two years ago
no his allen's been been two in a row.
Allen's been two in a row.
But he has thrown the 40 touchdowns.
Anyway, you've got to throw 40 touchdowns most likely.
But Russell Wilson is your bold prediction.
He'll be QB1.
It goes together with another bold prediction of yours,
Jerry Judy and Cortland Sutton will be top 15 wide receivers.
First of all, what is a bold prediction?
It doesn't mean he's going to show up that way in the rankings.
Jamie's got Wilson in his top five.
He's not number one.
But these are things that we could see happening.
And maybe draft, accordingly, favor Russell Wilson on draft day because he's got that upside.
But I'll let you explain.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I mean, the thing I love about Wilson is his ADP right now.
You know, he's not going as a top five quarterback.
He's just inside the top 10.
And I think as we're all well aware, you know, when you start to look at the top really six or seven,
you want to throw Deshaun Watson in there, you know, factoring in a non-suspension.
I think he warrants the being part of the conversation.
There's so many good quarterbacks this year.
You know, it's not just the top eight.
It's really beyond that.
You know, you have the Kirk Cousins, the Derek Carrs, you know, maybe Trey Lance if he's the starter for the 49ers, you know, still Rodgers, still Stafford, you know.
All these guys have so much potential.
And the later you can get them, the better off your fantasy roster will hopefully be.
The thing I like about Russell Wilson is I think he's going to a situation where he's going to have the most pass attempts he's ever had before.
I like the receiving core.
I don't think the talent at the top is the same, but I think it's deeper.
You know, when you factor in Tim Patrick and what they get out of their tight ends,
whoever it may be, I still think it's going to be Albert O.
But, you know, you had a good second tight end in Greg Dolchich.
I think the running backs will make some plays past pass catchers,
probably more so than Wilson's had before,
because I think he'll use that as part of his offense,
if that's what Nathaniel Hackett brings from green Bay with what we saw,
how they threw to their running backs.
So I just like the setup for him.
I think there's going to be a lot of shootouts in those NFC West games with
the chiefs,
the Raiders and the chargers.
So I think we're going to see a lot of volume there from Wilson,
just in those games alone.
Maybe he runs a little bit more than he has in the last couple of years in
Seattle.
He was off to a great start last year before the finger injury.
And I think he just, you know, hope that these two receivers and, and clearly I think if
Wilson does what he's capable of doing, the receiver is going to be a big part of it.
So I just like the entire setup for, uh, for the Broncos.
Uh, I asked you off air before Dave, uh, who was having some technical issues.
Um, this question, we'll see if you, you both can get it.
Uh, Nathaniel Hackett's been an offensive coordinator four times.
Can you name the first three quarterbacks
that he worked with as an offensive coordinator?
Yeah.
E.J. Manuel, Terod Taylor, Blake Bortles.
Two of those three are correct.
I don't have a clue.
Was I wrong on Manuel?
You're right on Manuel.
You're right on Bortles right on portals but not tarod
kyle orton kyle orton so he's really dealt with some hall of famers now that is true
when he gets that uh that guy in green bay what was the name again
jordan love jordan he was only the coordinator for the Kansas City game.
Yeah.
It's a really exciting opportunity for Russell Wilson,
who prior to last year,
basically was a guaranteed top five quarterback pretty much every year, at least per game.
Four top five finishes in his last six seasons
before last year?
Or did that include last year, actually?
I have to check on that
because I know he missed some time, obviously.
But yeah, all right.
Dave, any reaction?
So how about, Dave, how about you comment
on the Judy and Sutton part
that they'd both, in this scenario,
both be top 15?
Okay.
Top 15 in points per game or overall both let's say everyone's playing 17
games so overall well that's the first part of it i think sutton can do it i know that he had the
injury a couple years back but every other year he's played he's made the full season and judy
got banged up last year hopefully he can stay stay healthy this year. That's the first part of the equation. The second part of the equation is, are they good enough? Um, and will they get enough
opportunity to, to hit top 15, both of them, because Jamie ran down the list of everybody
else that's in Denver. They've got a diverse offense. They can, they can beat you with
multiple tight ends. They can beat you with their third and fourth receivers. They can beat you with multiple tight ends. They can beat you with their third and fourth receivers. They can beat you with their run game. They've got a lot of ways to make defenses struggle. And that's part of the reason why I can't necessarily buy into both of them. I think one of them might be able to, but I'm not even sure which one that can be. I think that'll take some research to make an educated guess, or maybe something will play out in training camp that'll show the story. The other point is that I don't know if per game, but there had never been two top 24 wide receivers on the Seahawks.
And then both Lockett and Metcalf finished top 10, I believe, in 2020.
I mean, that's also a talent.
They never really had two great wide receivers.
It was Doug Baldwin and guess the second guy.
Yeah, but I even included, I think, maybe Greg Olson or Jimmy Graham, rather.
No, no, no.
Graham was basically their best slash second best pass catcher.
Right.
He had a high touchdown season, so he and Baldwin may have had two good finishes.
But what do you make of it?
How do you translate Seattle to Denver when, boy, you couldn't even find a relevant third guy right so yeah i i wouldn't i wouldn't
translate i think again you're going to see the most volume for russell wilson ever i think that
was part of the reason why he chose to go to denver you know the list of teams that he gave
because he think he realized like if he gets to a situation where there's going to be an opportunity
to pass a lot he wants that he wants He wants to be in the MVP conversation.
You know, this is also a legacy move for him.
He's already got his Super Bowl.
He's already a Hall of Famer.
Now, how does he stack those numbers on top of it?
And, you know, I was just thinking about, you know,
what you're saying, Dave.
Can there be two top 15 guys?
The comparison that comes to mind is Brady last year goes to Tampa Bay
or two years ago goes to Tampa Bay.
Sure.
This feels a little similar to Judy being Godwin and Sutton being Evans.
Not the same players, but a guy that's going to be a high-volume catch guy,
I think that's going to end up being Judy.
I think the touchdown producer is going to end up being Sutton.
There were a lot of other weapons around those two guys,
as we've certainly seen with Gronk and Antonio Brown
and the other parts throughout the last couple of years that have made plays. I think that's kind of what Patrick is,
what Hamler is, whatever they get from the tight ends. They're not obviously Gronk, but they'll,
they'll get production. So I think those two guys, if it hits, you know, if, if, if the bold
prediction hits, it's because Judy racks up a lot of catches, hopefully gets in that seven to eight
touchdown range. Sutton gets the double digits and touchdowns goes over a thousand yards you know to whatever degree over that we'll see still
gets like 80 catches himself uh yeah so i i think those two guys are the alphas whoever's the 1a or
the 1b you know we'll figure that out but um i like the setup for those three guys in particular
for russell wilson and those two pass catchers all right i want to tell you all that you can
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We've got some news coming up.
I'm seeing some really crazy comments here in the YouTube comments.
I mean,
Adam from Tyler,
I have to be the one to tell you
that the Big Bang Theory is not good.
Tyler, I know you're a dedicated viewer.
That is the worst thing you've ever said.
The Big Bang Theory is a fantastic show,
but then it gets even worse.
Look at Roth here.
Roth is all about tight ends.
Don't forget about Albert O.
Tight end actually looks halfway decent this year.
Says everyone,
every,
every summer,
every year.
Yeah.
Herb Smith,
Gerald Everett could have big seasons.
Why don't you transition to the news that we were going to talk about?
Yeah.
Well,
discussion on that 15 five.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we'll talk about David and Joku,
but that is definitely second fiddle to the fantasy cops.
So we got to break out the fantasy cops for the greatest.
One of my favorite interviews, media sessions,
whatever you want to call it.
It wasn't a press conference that I've ever seen.
The first one or the second one?
Both of them.
Jock Peterson.
You forget sometimes.
Jock Peterson is 30 years old.
It's like you cover these athletes and you put them on a pedestal,
but they're just regular people.
And Jock Peterson,
just talking about his fantasy league to the media,
the way that you just sit there
and talk about it with your friends.
It was so funny to me.
And for those of you who don't know,
Jock Peterson and Tommy Pham,
they're outfielders.
Pham is on the Giants, I think,
and Peterson's on the Reds.
Oh, okay, I switched that. Pham's on the Reds. Oh, okay, I switched that.
Fam's on the Reds.
Can you believe that?
Can you believe that?
My God.
You used to host a baseball podcast.
Now you don't even know what team they're on.
And I used to call them Jock Peterson as a Ferris Bueller dispute
or a Ferris Bueller reference.
So, yeah, their dispute was over fantasy football.
What's the most succinct way to sum
this up? They had a dispute about
IR spots with
Jock Peterson being... He slapped your taste out of his mouth.
Yeah, so Tommy Pham slapped him in the face,
but just a few days ago.
You got to win my money.
It was a high-stakes league with a lot of baseball players
apparently, and
the dispute was about
Jock Peterson putting a player on IR who was
just declared out for the week. And there was a group text or they said, you can't do that.
Apparently he said, these are the rules says you can do it. And then he also said that Tommy fam
did the same thing with Jeff Wilson. Problem is the story doesn't check out because Jeff Wilson
was on the pop list. And that's very much different than a guy just being
ruled out for the week and putting him in on IR. But some, some leagues allow you to put a player
on IR if they've been ruled out. We don't play that game, but some leagues do. So whatever. I
don't know who was right or wrong in that argument. The other thing was there were a few members of
the Padres in the league and Tommy fan, or sorry, Jock Peterson posted a gif
that was making fun of the Padres,
and then he even went so far as to explain
the gif and show it to the media
so far. He called it
a gif. We call it whatever you want. I don't care.
And Tommy Pham took exception
to it and said, like, you don't know me well enough
to be making these jokes because Pham was on the Padres
and Peterson's like, I'm really sorry,
whatever. Alright, my first impression, Tommy Pham was on the Padres and Peterson's like, I'm really sorry, whatever.
All right, my first impression,
Tommy Pham is a baby.
He's just a baby.
He quit the league.
He quit a high- I don't think you'd say that to his face.
Yeah, I wouldn't.
He is such a baby.
He quit a high-stakes league.
He got upset about the GIF.
He slapped him in the face.
Like, he's ridiculous.
But I don't know if anybody's talking
about the Jeff Wilson controversy here because that story does not check out on Jock Peterson's end. So I don't know if anybody's talking about the Jeff Wilson controversy here
because that story does not check out on Jock Peterson's end.
So fantasy cops, what do you think?
Dave, Officer Dave, what do you think?
Rules are rules, and they're meant to be taken advantage of.
Strategy is part of the game in fantasy football.
If you're allowed to put a guy who's out in your IR slot, you can do it.
Even if you get texts from the league saying that you shouldn't do it.
The only person who can change that is the commissioner.
I guess the commissioner didn't change that.
Both Tommy and Jock, I guess, were taking advantage of that.
I have taken advantage of that in some of the leagues that I've been in as well.
When the rules change, then you can't do it anymore.
But the rules never changed.
Officer Jamie?
I agree with dave um you know it's a uh it's first off don't ever hit anybody over a fan um there's better
ways to handle that obviously there's some emotions and these two teams were playing each
other so uh athletes are athletes but um without knowing exactly what the rules were, because, you know, like you said, it's one each side telling a different story.
There certainly should be a way to figure it out with hopefully not anybody quitting the league.
But based on the interviews, I'm going to side with Doc Peterson.
Yeah, I just the Jeff Wilson thing is not the same.
So I don't know because he accused Tommy Pham of doing the same thing that Pham was upset about with the IR spots.
But like I said, Jeff Wilson was on the pup list.
I actually have, when you're done, I have a funny baseball-related fantasy story.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm just looking at some of the comments here.
Weldon says, surprised Jock didn't get suspended as well for cheating in his league.
Victor says, someone needs to think of a good fantasy team name with Pham in it.
I've got one.
I think it's offensive.
So just know that it's
funny but i can't we aren't family yeah we aren't family um that's it's the fam as yeah i've got
like i'm gonna i'm gonna slack it to you dave and you tell me if i can say it okay i'm gonna tell
you to say it either way and then you're no you won't you won't get me in trouble. Touchdown there?
What do you think, Dave?
Hold on, hold on.
Bring it up.
Okay.
Fam is a big Will Smith fan.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I saw a lot of those.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
I think the best part of it was just Jock Peterson's explanation to the media.
Oh, this is raw on the fence.
Yeah, I can't do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do gonna do it it's it's good right give me an a for that let's put it this way uh fam rhymes with a
bunch of other words such as don't just the name of an 80s music group just stop just stop we're
gonna take a break we're gonna take a break well I got a story, though. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Go ahead.
We have a former employee,
friends of all of ours, who used to run a league.
I don't want to say his name just in case they still run the league and get him in trouble.
He used to run a
fantasy football league with a bunch
of major league players. I used to write about it
for one season. It was Greg
Maddox, Adam Dunn, Travis Hafner.
Burley.
Burley was in it. That was the only one Dave remembered. The only one I was trying to help as much as possible.
Uh, it was a, it was a high stakes league and, um, David Wright was in the league as well.
And so one, uh, one of the, their drafts, um, happened to be on a Mets Marlins homestand
and David Wright came into our building, uh, and I was doing the draft with him. One of their drafts happened to be on a Mets-Marlins homestand,
and David Wright came into our building,
and I was doing the draft with him in the room.
It was cool.
They had the draft board up.
David Wright's putting stickers on the board.
These guys get into it.
I'm telling you, they were intense.
Competitive.
And it was fun.
I hope the league still is in existence,
and our friend is still running it.
But it was fun to see, and there was a lot of trash talk going on at that point. I don't think
anybody slapped anybody in that league,
but it was
pretty intense. I know the Twins had a league. I think
Keith, if I'm not mistaken,
at one point he went to do a
draft for Max Scherzer's charity.
Yeah, I think he's done that a couple of times.
Or a charity related to Max Scherzer
for something with the Nationals
when he was on the Nationals at the time.
Yeah, we interviewed him about that, actually.
These baseball players get into it.
Big time, big time.
White Sox have a league.
Shout out to Rob Warren
for running that thing for the Southsiders.
Yeah, I bet there's a fantasy football league,
at least one,
in every Major League Baseball clubhouse.
Yeah, I'd love to find out about it.
But I don't think they usually end with fisticuffs.
Anyway, thank you to the fantasy cops for returning.
If you have any league disputes that you want to send in, put fantasy cops in the subject line.
Email us at fantasyfootball at cbsi.
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When we come back, we've got some news and notes and more of Jamie's bold predictions,
plus a crazy fantasy football story from one of our listeners.
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All right, let's get to the notes here.
And Patrick Mahomes said that the whole receiving room
is going to be involved in the passing game.
Is this a story or just off-season filler?
I mean, when you don't have a Tyree kill,
and as part of the quote the, the, the quote,
uh, I believe it was in the athletic. Um, he said, Travis is going to get his essentially.
And the, it's the receivers, you know, really more so that the balls in his program, he's never
played with Juju. He's never played with Sky more. He's never played with Marcos Valdez gambling.
And we know what Mikko Hardman has been. So it just makes sense for them to go in with the idea
of let's develop maybe a number one guy. Let's find a number one guy. Let's see how it goes on and we know what Mikko Hardman has been. So it just makes sense for them to go in with the idea of,
let's develop maybe a number one guy.
Let's find a number one guy.
Let's see how it goes on a week-to-week basis.
If we knew Juju was getting 150 targets,
he's probably going in the third round.
There's a reason why we have to sort of take this
with a little bit of an optimistic approach,
but a patient one at that.
So I think you just look at it as, you know, Juju's the one that you should probably feel
is in the best spot because he's a veteran and has proven that he can be a top tier fantasy
option.
But Sky Moore could pass him early in the season.
You know, Marco's Valdez scaling could be, you know, three to five catches on a weekly
basis, but those three to five catches could end up being 80 plus yards
and a touchdown every couple of weeks.
And so it's a wide open receiving core.
We kind of expected that
once they moved on from Tyreek Hill,
but Juju's the one that feels like
the most likely candidate to be the best option.
The phantom menace from Victor.
The phantom menace.
That's pretty good.
I keep them coming, YouTube.
Is Victor Vegas his real name?
I think so, yeah.
We changed it to Victor Vegas.
There was a kid at the baseball tournament.
I heard the dad say his first name was King.
Oh, that's a cool name.
Yeah.
Heavy expectations, though.
Remember, I think it was in Seinfeld,
George Costanza wanted to name a baby Seven? Yeah. Soda, also. Remember, I think it was in Seinfeld, George Costanza wanted to name a baby Seven?
Yeah.
Soda, also.
Soda, I don't like so much,
but Seven, I think, is a pretty strong name.
Why didn't you name your son Seven?
You never know if there's a third one.
Wasn't the third brother in Ozark three?
He was three.
That's right.
Finished Ozark.
Nice.
I think tomorrow is...
Is tomorrow me, Jamie, and heath who's on tomorrow okay so tomorrow we'll do an ozark discussion in the very in the last five
minutes of the show or something like that no spoilers or anything he did adam did for the
discussion without spoilers no no no we won't spoil i'll let everybody know when we're going
to do it so if you haven't seen it you can can stop us. The show's been out long enough.
Like, we're not spoiling Stranger Things at this point.
No, but if you haven't finished it, I'm going to tell you.
We're going to talk about it now.
No, no.
You're doing the right thing.
Yeah, right.
We've reached our, I think, our limit on when we can.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So my fake endings to Adam, he texted me randomly when he finally finished it.
He goes, Charlotte did not get abducted by aliens.
That's right. I was shocked.
The Saints expect
Michael Thomas back for training camp.
Meanwhile, Jameis Winston is back practicing
after tearing his ACL.
The report part of that is
he's still limping around.
That's right. It's not 100% Jameis Winston, that is.
Michael Thomas, though, it's nice to
hear that they expect him back for training camp.
Give me a round for Michael Thomas.
4-5.
4-5 now, 3-4 if he's great in camp
and you're drafting toward the beginning of the season.
Would you rather have Jameis Winston or Mac Jones?
Jameis.
Okay.
Cleveland signed David Njoku.
Also part of that, though, Chris Olave looking really good,
but, you know, to be expected. Cleveland signed David Njoku. Also part of that, though, Chris Olave looking really good, but, you know, to be expected.
Cleveland signed David Njoku, their tight end, to a big deal.
Four years, $56.75 million.
Yeah.
He's got a huge opportunity,
and this is the time of year where you can talk yourself into liking
a bunch of tight ends.
You guys like David Njoku?
Does he crack your top 12?
He might as a early season streaming tight end who could become your
permanent starter.
If everything clicks.
Is that with,
is that with Jacoby Brissett or is that with the show?
It can be with Jacoby Brissett.
The matches against Carolina and the jets are favorable.
So I would draft him with the idea that
maybe the first two weeks of the season you squeeze one good game one okay game out of him
and then you ride it from there if he stinks in those games then he's an easy cut
but late late round pick i wouldn't do it with brissette but i can certainly do it with watson
okay yeah and what's the opportunity well each of the last two seasons austin hooper was second on the team in targets, second on the team in red zone and green zone targets. And he was behind Jarvis Landry. So obviously they're gaining more at Hooper, but they are losing a tight end target in the end zone Not much. I think Baltimore signed Kyle Fuller. That was the last note I had.
That's a cornerback.
They're going to have such a better pass defense
than they had last year.
Their entire secondary got hurt last year,
and they bring in Kyle Fuller on a one-year deal
for some depth.
Okay, back to Jamie's bold predictions.
The first two were that Russell Wilson will be QB1,
and Jerry Judy and Cortland Sutton
will be top 15 wide receivers.
Number three.
Oh man. Uh, this one I'm going to give the old just to spice
things up a little bit. Saquon
Barkley will be a top five
running back as Jamie's
spiteful giants fan hating that
one. I can't imagine. I'm not a
spiteful giants fan, but go
ahead on Saquon Barkley. Yeah.
I mean, look, he's, first off, got to stay
healthy. Missing time
the last three years has clearly been a problem for him.
But there aren't
going to be a lot of guys that we can point to
and say, the workload
is clearly theirs.
Feature back, workhorse type of guy.
I don't think Matt Breida is the type of running back
that is taking him off the field for significant stretches.
Certainly significant key stretches.
And you already have the one report, and it makes sense when you look at this receiving core,
about his involvement in the passing game.
So if he gets back to that level, I don't think he's catching 90 passes again like we saw as a rookie.
But if he's anything north of 50, given what the pass-catching running backs have been the last couple of seasons,
that certainly puts him in a great situation.
Are the Giants going to score a lot of points? Probably not.
But I do think that Brian Dable's offense will certainly be better for what this team
is going to look like.
I think the offensive line will be better as they continue to build and certainly the
additions that they made this offseason.
And so I think Barkley's at a crossroads kind of in his career because if he wants to get
that second contract to whatever degree that second contract is, this is the year he's
got to show out.
And so do you have to draft him in the first round?
No, but I would take a chance on him
at the back end of the second, early third.
As long as he's healthy going into camp,
I think there's a ton of upside
for Saquon Barkley this season.
Well, that's exactly where he's going.
45 NFC drafts since May 1st.
Saquon Barkley's 25th overall.
He's RB14.
So that is ahead of Cam Akers, James Conner, Brees Hall.
The James Conner
draft ADP doesn't factor
in Darrell Williams. I don't know how much of a factor that will be
for people. Brees Hall, Antonio Gibson,
David Montgomery, still don't understand why he's going
42nd overall, and Ezekiel Elliott.
Dave, remember we were talking with
Heath about who'd rather have Barkley or
Zeke, and we kind of talked it out and felt like
Zeke was the better pick. That's the way I
remember the conversation going. Jamie said
not even close. He's taking Barkley.
Who are you taking, Zeke or Barkley? Because they're not close
in ADP. They're almost
20 picks apart. Right. I
recall both Heath and I saying that we had
Barkley ranked higher, and I
think it makes sense to rank Barkley higher
just because he's a little younger than Zeke, doesn't
have the threat to touches like Zeke has. We've heard one story this offseason about Zeke running
at 22 miles an hour. We'll see if he gets back to being the full lead guy for the Dallas Cowboys,
and you might hear about that from training camp reports. I would take Saquon first. I don't know
if I can buy into him being a top-five fantasy running back.
It's in his upside profile, though.
You know that he's got that type of potential.
Last year, the number-five running back in PPR points per game was a little more than 17.
That's six catches and 110 total yards.
I think between that and finding the end zone,
which Saquon would do a decent amount of times,
provided that he stays healthy, I think that's possible.
I also think the offensive line is better in New York. I think that the improvements that they made
there, both in the draft and free agency, I think that'll help Saquon out quite a bit. I like the
track record of Brian Dable's running backs. When he hasn't had Josh Allen playing in God mode,
the running back has had at least 20% of the receptions in those offenses when Dable's been
calling the plays.
You look at this offense in New York.
Do they have enough players to take the ball out of Barkley's hands
or to not scheme him up in the passing game?
I don't know if they do.
I think it makes sense for them to actually lean on Saquon
and just manage him during the week and make sure,
maybe manage him a little bit in the game
so he's not playing 80% of the snaps,
but still getting a lot of the work because I think he's their best weapon on
offense.
And he's also Adam,
you know,
this he's,
he's not under contract after this.
No,
as Amy was saying,
he's in a contract here very easily could wear him out this year and then
just not sign him again.
So if he's,
if he's able to be worn out,
he's so, so injury prone, he's, he's been injury prone over the last few again. If he's able to be worn out, he's so injury prone.
He's been injury prone over the last few years,
and that's the knock against him.
There's going to be at least two people in every fantasy league
that will not take Saquon Barkley because they had Saquon
each of the past two seasons.
They know how injury prone he is, and even if he makes it to them
in that round four range, they're going to say,
I don't think so.
I don't want to deal with that headache.
The one other thing that I think is in Saquon's favor,
I think he's off to a hot start this year.
I like their schedule to begin the year.
They've got the Titans,
the Panthers,
Cowboys,
and Bears to open the season.
One of those matchups could be tough.
That Cowboys matchup.
I think the Titans could be very tight.
And it's had a great run defense last year.
They did.
They had one of the best ones last year.
I don't know if it'll still be the same this year.
Why not?
I think that the offensive line can be a little bit boosted this year.
I think it could be a little bit better.
Yeah, they did improve.
I'm not making the case for him to be top five.
Like I said, it's in his upside profile.
But I do think if he can stay healthy, he should fall into top 12.
So that's the game that you're playing when you draft Saquon Barkley.
How healthy will he be?
Okay.
Well, I remember us kind of being like,
well, maybe Zeke should be ahead of Barkley.
But okay, okay.
Barkley, by the way, so 25 games since his ankle sprain in 2019,
he's averaging 3.9 yards per carry.
And that's the thing, Jamie, just where has it been?
He hasn't been the same dynamic player. Now, if anybody wants to go watch the highlights from the Saints game and see the plays he made in the passing game, then you can see. And go watch
this touchdown catch against the Chargers. He completely jukes the defensive back. You can see
when he's in the passing game, he's out in space, he's still capable of making plays. Why has he been such an inefficient rusher? 25 games since
that ankle sprain, 3.9 yards per carry. And the excuse I always read, I always hear is he's just
playing hurt. He's playing hurt. Maybe it's true, but I don't know. We just haven't really seen it
in so long. We haven't seen that burst, those big plays, and the efficiency in the run game.
I would imagine
most of those 25 games
factoring in the
recovery from his ACL tear, too.
That's a
year removed from last year.
Everything was just bad about the Giants.
Look, there's only one way
to go for him, in my opinion,
if he stays healthy. And so
it's why I'm going to buy back into McCaffrey. I'm going to buy back into Barkley. They're still
young enough. They're still talented enough. The teams around them are terrible. Those are two bad
franchises. The Giants right now are rebuilding. The Panthers have been in rebuild mode now for
three seasons. Hopefully they go in the right direction. But I still think for these two
running backs in particular, what they should be able to do from a total touch standpoint based
on their talent level based on their opportunities i'll buy back into that at what the cost is i know
it's going to be expensive for mcafree to get that but for barkley you know if as dave said if he
falls to round four please buy all day long but i think round three is the right time to go get
wouldn't you prefer the barkley rebuy than the McCaffrey one,
just because of the draft cost?
Oh,
of course.
But,
well,
wait,
wait,
well,
you'd rather have what McCaffrey in round one or Barkley in round three.
If it's round three,
I'd rather have McCaffrey.
I think I'd say the same thing in round one.
Yeah.
Round four.
I think I'd rather have Barkley.
Okay. All right. Let's go to the next thing. In round one? Yeah, round four, I think I'd rather have Berkeley. Okay.
All right, let's go to our next one here.
Aaron Jones will...
This one, I'm not drafted Aaron Rodgers if this comes true.
Aaron Jones will lead the Packers in receptions.
He has been second on the team in receptions three straight years.
No, he's been second on the team in targets three straight years.
He's been second or third in receptions
three straight years on the Packers.
Of course, with Devontae Adams there.
Aaron Jones will lead the Packers in receptions.
His ADP just before Saquon Barkley at the 2-3 turn.
Okay, Jamie.
So this would be great for him.
How many receptions do you think gets it done?
70.
Okay, I'll take that.
That's going to be a first- caliber ppr guy no uh yeah i mean if he if he can do it um i was just looking at it i was like i didn't want to do another he
could finish this number he could finish that number you know type of of guy and and you threw
me off because i thought i was gonna have to give you 10 of these so i was looking at you know some
10 i wanted to do more of the the bigger names as opposed to the the lower end guys uh but um i mean look alan lazard and christian watson sammy watkins randall cobb i mean you know
you know what this receiving core is it's not it's not pretty um and so you know does
let's say let's say 65 catches the 65 catches if it's spread out over you know if four guys are in the
60s can we see that from from this offense probably um you know it's certainly you know
fair to say that that lazard can do that uh watson has the potential to do that you know if
walk-in stays healthy he can do that um you know maybe it's robert tunyon having you know a big
leap in in reception total but they're gonna be very creative in how they put the ball in their best
playmakers hands.
And right now,
Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon are the two best playmakers on this team.
And so I think as we've seen,
whenever Devante Adams has been out,
Aaron Jones passed his target spike,
his reception spike.
And so with Adams gone now completely,
you know,
maybe there's just a bigger opportunity for Aaron Jones and what he does in
the passing game.
Maybe he has that Alvin Kamara,
Christian McCaffrey type of season.
I don't think he's getting to 100,
but it wouldn't surprise me if he's between 50 and 70 catches. And so just to look at it from a little different perspective,
he could be a special talent this season.
That's something I really need to look into.
I know the numbers are great.
I don't know exactly what they are, but when Devontae Adams doesn't play,
and he missed one game,
he missed one game this year,
week eight, seven catches,
so Devontae Adams is one game, seven catches,
51 yards on 11 targets
for Aaron Jones.
It's happened before.
The catch rate is just insane
when Devontae Adams hasn't been on the field.
Dave, can you
think of any running back
who led his team in catches recently?
Can either of you think of that?
How close was McCaffrey?
He did it two years ago.
Did he? Oh, yeah.
That probably makes sense, yeah.
Did he do it two years ago?
He used Aaron Jones like Christian McCaffrey.
They could have the mindset to do that because they've got A.J. Dillon to help anchor
their traditional run game. If they wanted to go that route, they absolutely could. We don't know
if that's what they're going to do. But I think if they did choose to do something like that,
that's them telling everybody that they really hate their receivers and i don't know if
they're they're definitely not going to send out that smoke signal now and they probably wouldn't
do that till like the middle part of the year they're going to try and get it done with what
they have at wide receiver and what they possibly add to wide receiver between now and the start of
the season but what are they adding though like think about the guys throughout no there's not
going to be any but like what are the best guys there was the report about the browns not interested in ty
hilton uh he's available will fuller's available i mean you know like julio jones is available he
obviously would be the best of the bunch if he's got anything great for like four games so you know
they're they're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point which is why they brought in sammy
watkins you know they're trying to see if he has anything left as well so they brought scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point, which is why they brought in Sammy Watkins. You know, they're trying to see if he has anything left as well.
So, I mean, again.
They brought in the pallet under the barrel.
Again, I don't think this is going to happen,
but there's certainly a path to it happening.
It's well there.
It's well documented that it could happen.
You can absolutely say that he's going to finish top three,
and it's probably likely that he'll finish top two.
And so it'll come down to either
christian watson has a rookie year for the ages or lazard or watkins gets enough work that they
finish first yeah or it could be close i know you like it could be within like 10 receptions
right it could be within like 10 receptions of each other yep that's what i'm saying like you
know this this this could be four guys in the 60s five guys in the 60s you know and it's just you know no standout guy which is you know uh not
something we like but certainly can help still rogers be a good fantasy quarterback but also
put aaron jones in the conversation to be among the league leaders and running back reception
yeah one thing we have to watch though is he caught six touchdowns last year
and he entered 2021 with six career touchdown catches in i think 54 games
so you know he didn't have a ton of rushing touchdowns last year i don't know how i don't
know if you can really count on the on the receiving touchdowns that's for running backs
that's a stat that can make you buy in too much to a guy like james white for example
but um yeah i mean the role in the passing i is solidified. I would say Aaron Jones has a floor, if he's healthy,
of eight total touchdowns.
Yeah, I hope so.
All right, here we go to your last bowl prediction,
and it is CeeDee Lamb will be the number one wide receiver.
You know, there's plenty of opportunity here.
This receiving core is definitely changing.
They lose two guys that they've relied on at various points.
Obviously, one big one under Mark Cooper, the other one being Sed Wilson.
Michael Gallup's coming back from the torn ACL.
We don't know when he'll be ready.
And so where is Dak going to go with the ball?
Well, you assume he's going to go to CeeDee Lamb a lot, Dalton Schultz.
They have two other guys that they
bring in, in James Washington and Jalen Tolbert.
They'll throw the ball to Zeke, to
Tony Pollard as well.
But I do think that this is the breakout
season we've been waiting for for C.D. Lamb.
Entering his third year in the NFL,
I saw him in
March, I think it was at this point,
in great shape. He's got that
mentality of, I want to be the number one guy.
I want to show the world that I can be that alpha.
It's not a huge leap for me where I haven't ranked.
He's a top five wide receiver.
We've talked a lot about who are the top three guys,
Cup, Jefferson, and Chase in whatever order.
I don't know if Dave has Adams in the top three.
I know Heath does.
For me, it's Stephon Diggs four and then CeeDee Lamb five.
And so I think there's just most targets he's ever seen.
We know this Cowboys offense at times can certainly get up there in terms of volume.
We saw it two years ago.
I can certainly see that happening again.
I think the defense regresses a little bit.
I don't think they're going to turn the ball over as much.
Pass rush is certainly not the same.
And so I think Dak's going to be in some games where he's throwing the ball a little bit. I don't think they're going to turn the ball over as much. Pass rush is certainly not the same. And so I think that's going to be in some,
you know,
games where he's throwing the ball a little bit more,
makes him an underrated fantasy quarterback as well.
But I think CD lamb is going to have that big season that we've been,
you know,
kind of hoping for since he came to the NFL two years ago or three seasons
ago at this point.
Dave,
I,
I,
I tend to agree.
You've got them ranked way too high.
You haven't fifth.
You said way too high. I haven't sixth. I, I, I agree with everything've got them ranked way too high. You have them fifth, you said? Way too high. I have them sixth.
I agree with everything you're saying. I love the schedule for them, too.
Cowboys, all things considered, have a really good schedule.
The matchups against Philadelphia could be really, really tough.
But outside of that, and I think they play the Rams, I've got them at a top six schedule among wide receivers for the year.
The one thing that stands out to me that makes me a little nervous about Lamb
is that he averaged seven and a half targets per game.
That wasn't even top 24 among wide receivers last year.
We do think that goes up.
And I can't help but be reminded of all the highlights we saw
out of training camp last year where Lamb's making acrobatic catches
while he's being tightly covered,
and Dak is throwing to him
a foot over his head. I mentioned it last year. It was one of the reasons why I was crazy about
Lamb last year. And he started off really, really strong. And then he faded a little bit.
I don't know if he's going to do the same thing this year. I think he manages to stay strong
all year long to finish as the number one receiver in fantasy. What does that mean?
You're probably looking at having to get around 20 PPR points per game.
That feels like a lot for CeeDee Lamb,
because now you're talking about seven catches, 130 yards,
or five catches, a touchdown, 90 yards.
You guys can do the math and figure it out for yourselves.
Can he do that every week?
I feel like that that might be just a little bit out of his reach.
He'll have some smash weeks.
He's going to be worth that early pick, though,
to be a wide receiver one for a fantasy team.
So are you guys taking Lamb or Devontae
Adams? I'm taking
Adams. I'm buying into
him still being a great receiver
in Las Vegas.
Derek Carr is a drop-off from Aaron Rodgers,
but it's not a plummet.
Yeah, I'm thinking, man.
Well, I'll tell you who averaged
20 fantasy points per game last year,
and let's see if CeeDee Lamb can do this.
The Patriots, Christian Wilkerson,
four catches, 42 yards, and two touchdowns in one game.
Do you think Lamb could pull that off?
How about 21 points per game?
Devontae Adams, 123 catches, 1,553 yards, and 11 touchdowns.
The catches and yardage would not surprise me one bit from CeeDee Lamb.
Could he get that many touchdowns?
I think he can get close to it.
That's 10 targets a game, by the way, for Devontae Adams last year.
Okay.
Was there anything else I was going to say about CeeDee Lamb?
I don't think so.
I think we're good.
I was looking at the schedule.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I was reading an article about him on ESPN.com, the Cowboys writer.
And, you know, one of the things I've kind of fixated on with Lamb
is how much better he was without Gallup and with Gallup.
And I think a lot of that was playing inside versus playing outside.
And Mike McCarthy said that he's playing in the slot a lot last year and now
playing the flanker position,
which was Amari Cooper's position.
So I was encouraged by that.
I'm sure they'll move him around,
but I'd like to see him line up on the outside a lot more than the inside
than the slot this year.
Okay.
Thank you for the bold predictions,
Jamie.
You're welcome.
Cool.
Let's read some emails.
Fantasyfootball at cbsi.com.
Okay, so I asked people in light of the
Jock Peterson,
Jock Peterson, Tommy Pham incident.
Twice in one podcast.
Yeah.
What are some crazy fantasy stories?
So Jordan had one.
That's fairly crazy.
I don't know if it's crazy, but it's entertaining.
This story, unfortunately, isn't fantasy football,
but it's fantasy hockey and still hilarious.
In a league where I've won three straight years,
the first place team, who had by far the best team,
traded with the last place team manager
who never set his lineup.
He got the eighth ranked player
for the 60th and the 109th.
I made a stink saying that's a dumb trade and there were some heated debates going on.
Long story short, that trade was going through. So I traded six of my best players
to the fifth place team for some scrubs and said, if one trade goes through,
then they both go through. Well, my plan sort of backfired as both trades went through.
I deleted the app and didn't set my lineup for the rest of the regular season.
But I still ended up making the playoffs, so I decided to re-download the app,
and I ended up winning the league and beating the first place team in the finals.
Everyone had a good laugh and couldn't believe it.
So I've now won the league four years in a row.
Great year in fantasy, both a football and a hockey title.
Alright, that is pretty funny, I guess.
It's awesome. Do you remember the story about my
family league?
No. PHAM. It lasted one year.
What? PHAM?
No, not that type of family league.
Okay.
Like that game
where they slap each other in the face yeah we started a
family league my dad got very competitive into it uh he missed the playoffs he was the seven he
would have been the seven seed but there are no seven seeds in the playoffs uh out of frustration
he cut everybody from his team and then he told me what's the problem i just want everyone to have a
chance to use my players like trying to like paint it like it's okay to drop Jamal Charles in the middle of one of his best years ever.
And so I had to kick my dad out of the league.
He's never played fantasy since.
He's probably the only person that watches fantasy football today and doesn't play fantasy football anymore.
I don't even know
if Heath would tell you to kick your dad
out of the league. Heath tells everyone to kick everyone out of the league.
I'll ask him.
I kicked him out.
Next email is from Matthew.
Do you feel that the Pittsburgh quarterback job
is Mitch Trubisky's to lose or do you think
Pickett is in line to start week one?
I would
guess Trubisky opens the season as the starter,
but I mean, he's going to have such a short leash.
You know, their schedule, I believe if I have it correctly,
it's either Cincinnati or Cleveland week one,
the other one in week three, and then the Patriots in week two.
Then they get the Jets in week four.
And so that week four spot feels like if Trubisky is the starter and they get off
to an 0-3 or a 1-2 start, that week four game feels like it could be
Kenny Pickett's debut. After that game against the Jets, they play
the Bills, the Bucks, the Dolphins, the Eagles, and then a bye. Then after the bye, they play
the Saints. This is one of the toughest past defense schedules in the league.
It's a reason to
fade Deontay Johnson this year. What did we say about Kenny Pickett coming into the draft, though?
He was the most NFL-ready quarterback that was available.
Ever.
If he goes to training...
No, he'll be to the class.
Yeah, of course, to the class. If he goes to camp and he plays all right and he knows what
he's doing, it wouldn't shock me
if he was the starter week one.
And for me, I could never
make this team part of
my 2QB or super flex strategy.
There's just no way because I feel
like you'd have to draft both. You're
now going to have four quarterbacks on your roster
because you can't have one of them as your
starter. There's
got to be a backup.
What was the situation I used last year?
It's not a bad idea to gamble on somebody in a 2QB league
that you think could win the job,
but if you don't think they're going to be good, that's another story.
I think it was the Saints last year.
I drafted Jameis Winston,
and at that point we didn't know who the quarterback was going to be.
And it ended up working out really well.
He was my fourth quarterback.
He got the starting job, and I flipped him for Robert Woods,
which at the time was a good trade.
But, yeah, I'm not going to do that with Kenny Pickett
because I just don't think they're going to have success.
Yeah, but, I mean, Pickett's the one to gamble on, though.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But I just, what are you going to get? Could you be 25 or something like that? Yeah, but Pickett's the one to gamble on, though. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
But what are you going to get?
QB 25 or something like that? You're not going to win your 2QB league because of Kenny Pickett.
Look, you could get Mac Jones.
It's not great.
Yeah, but he was QB 25.
I don't know exactly what it was.
But I'm saying in a pinch.
And as we saw last year, you could flip Mac Jones into 2QB league
or Superflex league for something that might be able to help you. He was QB as we saw last year, you know, you could flip Mac Jones in a 2QB league or a Superflex league
for something
that might be able to help you.
He was QB 29
per game last year.
But,
yeah.
Well,
he's just had to take out
the Buffalo game.
Yeah,
then he's probably
more like 25.
But you're right.
Okay.
And,
when you need 24.
Yeah,
I know,
I get it.
I just, I just think in two quarterback leagues,
you're not really playing with the full allotment of teams.
You're not talking about 32 situations.
There's just going to be some that you're crossing off
that you want to avoid.
Again, I critique taking two quarterbacks
in a one quarterback league. I don't have a problem
taking four in a super flex or two QB league. No, actually it worked out great for me last year.
I was a little weak at quarterback. It didn't work out the way I wanted. So I took four
and my, my intent was to, Oh, you know, I don't think I was weak at quarterback. I think I was
weak at other positions. So I think that's what happened. I was fine at quarterback. I took a fourth quarterback
because I knew
that where I got Jameis Winston,
I was going to be able
to turn him into
a much better player
that wasn't available.
And I did with Robert Woods.
So those quarterbacks,
they become so, so valuable
if they're starters
once the injuries start happening
and whatnot.
So loading up,
it's a good trade.
Didn't I beat you in that league
with a backup quarterback starting?
Like I got a zero?
Yeah, I think so. That was such a frustrating, i had such a great team and i had such bad luck
okay anyway this is from ralph last one here from ralph good morning derrick bernie jorge and andy
yankees yeah it's not exactly the core four you know because that's rivera instead of bernie but
it's it's close two back, three wide receiver,
full PPR league.
I'm having trouble deciding on my keepers.
I'm leaning toward Elijah Mitchell and Joe Mixon.
My other option is Elijah Mitchell and Tyreek Hill.
It's PPR, it's three receivers.
What would you guys do?
Would you keep Tyreek Hill or Joe Mixon, basically,
when he's already keeping Mitchell?
Keeping Mitchell?
Yeah.
Is there a penalty?
It's got to be. So it seems like he has already keeping Mitchell. Keeping Mitchell? Yeah. Is there a penalty? It's got to be.
So it seems like he has to keep Mitchell,
or he loves the draft value.
Maybe he got him as a free agent.
Well, if there's no penalty,
then you're keeping Mixon and Hill.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if he can, but sure.
There's got to be a penalty.
When I say penalty, draft compensation. Right. There's no way he's keeping Elijah's gotta be a penalty. When I say penalty draft,
draft compensation,
right?
There's no way he's keeping Elijah Mitchell over Joe Mixon.
Right.
So that's gotta be,
yeah.
So it's gotta be based on draft value or,
you know,
right.
So if,
if there's a,
a pick attached to it and you lose that pick,
then I would guess Mitchell's the,
the,
the best value.
And so then it comes down to where did you draft Mixon or Tyreek?
Probably Tyreek first.
So I think the question also is,
in a three-wide receiver full PPR league,
if you know you're already keeping one running back in Mitchell,
does this format matter and make you lean Tyreek Hill over Joe Mixon?
He also says, I have the seventh pick and all the top running backs are going back to
the pool, which means wide receivers should fall to me, which is why I'm leaning to keep
Mixon instead of Tyreek.
So he thinks he can get a better wide receiver than running back with his first pick.
So when he says all the running backs are going back in the pool, he means Taylor?
Yeah, he just doesn't think he can get one of them at seven.
But he can get an elite wide receiver.
So obviously, let's say he likes Mixon better than Hill.
He's just wondering if it makes sense for him.
He's just a running back since he can get Hill at seven.
Yes.
Yeah, he might be able to do better than Hill at seven.
But yes, okay, that makes sense.
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