Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - RB Rankings Countdown: 20-11 + ADP Risers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/11

Episode Date: August 11, 2026

Fantasy Football show for Aug 11, 2026. Which running backs will be big time values in fantasy football drafts?! RB rankings countdown from 20 to 11 on today’s podcast. Find out who is most likely to outperform their draft cost for the 2026 fantasy football season! Plus, a look at recent ADP risers and if we are buying the hype. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. 2026 ULTIMATE DRAFT KIT is available now at UltimateDraftKit.com Get MEGALASHOW tickets at BallersLive.com Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Hello, welcome in. I think you saved it a little bit. I think I was a little late to the party mentally there. Welcome into the show. Gone. Welcome in. Tuesday, August 11th, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, back.

with you. Supposed to be pumping the people up. Not bringing them down. This isn't an ASMR sleepy time podcast. Well, maybe if somebody said it was football time every once a while, we'd all be energized. Give us a little bump.

It's not football time, guys. But it was on the Hall of Fame game, man. Did you see? And it turned into some pretty darn good football. Yeah, but here's the thing. The Hall of Fame game had more viewers than the highest rated NHL game last year, I think.

Yeah. Get wrecked hockey. But here's the thing. Had I said, it's football time. And then Carson Beck goes out and lays an absolute stinker. I mean, it's football time.

You just don't know your football. We knew that was coming. Yeah, you don't know your football. You don't know your football, Mike. I apologize. I knew that Carson Beck could see all. We did talk about the field vision. But he's,

maybe. makes the no look. Oh, that was a look. Yeah, that was a, he was staring him down. What the D.Bs don't realize is he had fully tipped exactly where that ball was going to go. Yes. You just got a, you got to look, because he cuts his visor really wide. I know, I'm looking at this. Wear the black shirt crew. The triple black shirt. And we wear hats. Triple hats today. Ducers back there. There's one hat too. Oh, there's one hat too few. There's one hat too few back there. I tried on a hat yesterday and you guys picked on me. But that's because of the hat.

He's also the only one without a black shirt. Dude, I mean, genuinely you pick hats like that boy from the sandlot. Like what? Oh, man. What? You know, you don't know. No, I don't. It's the flat dad hat. Yeah, the sandlot where the kid is like, you know, Benny comes and he saves him. He's like, dude, don't wear that hat. You can't, you can't wear that hat. I did not

remember that one. He put a washcloth on his head. I mean, not much. go back. Not much different. I haven't visited the sand lot in probably two decades. Oh, man. Brother. It's bad.

Oh, that's a big bill. That's a huge bill. We have performance climbers on today's show, by the way. Barely any news. I'm just going to skip the segment and just give it to you real quick. And then we're going to jump into running back rankings. Yeah.

There's no news. Nothing to see here. I don't know. Wait, what is that a list of? That's the liar lying pants. No, no. There's no. The news.

You're right. Don't even worry about that news section. Oh, my gosh. Just hit the button and... Oh, you're saying the Christian McCavery part? No. What is there's no news? It's two of them.

We have to announce... There's no news, guys. First. Because it is that time of year. We are going to do a UDK for a life giveaway. This is your one chance a year to pick up... For life. The UDK for the rest of your natural life.

I know we've had debates on bequeathing. Like, once you pass, can you give your UDK life away to somebody else? I don't know. I think we kind of shut that down before. I'm willing to open that up. I'm opening it up, but it has to be, it has to be an in a will. Yeah, it has to be in a will and some kind of, you know, we're not going to court here.

Yeah, no probate. No, no, no, right. Never through probate. But if you pick up the UDK or an ultimate foot clan membership before we do our live stream, which will be August 24th, you will be entered to win the UDK for live. and a signed Jemar Chase jersey. It is pretty cool. I know obviously everyone wants a UDK forever.

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Always, you're in every tournament. You've got every product, in season, out season, upseason, down season. Down season, inside out. Yeah. DFS. Everything. Out season?

Out season? Yeah. I am trying to decide on something right now, Mike. We were sitting down to record the show. This sounds dangerous. We were sitting down to record the show. I'm not vibing. I don't know what we're doing.

We've got, we had producers, you know, ready to rumble. Me and you are here. And a man came bursting out of the shower. Okay. And. And I know that that guy went out to the range this morning. I did. To hit some golf balls.

There's about 60 of them. It's dangerous. So he hit six, what, two buckets? Well, that's one full bucket. Okay.

And I am afraid to ask him how it went. Because I know he's trying to get on track because he's got, let's just say this, there's a decent chance 100% that he's going to be the video on. Yeah, tomorrow. Like last week people played nine holes with me. Right.

And I learned a lot about myself and chemicals found in golf teas. Yeah. Yeah, Jay, my recommendation is just pesticides from bottle. I'm going to start licking the grass in order to end it into this golf curse. No, yeah, tomorrow I will be recorded. Your divvics normally shoot the pesticides 30, 40 yards away. For everyone's viewing pleasure, everyone other than myself. And how it went this morning was I shot 60 balls.

I would say 30 of them were. horrifically bad. There was one I was able to catch, so that was pretty cool. Like it hit off the ground and then you caught it? So it was teed up. I had my driver. Oh, this is going to be. Dude, I hit that tee. Gotta be 50 yards. Gotta be.

Okay. The ball, however, went straight up and I was able to yonk it right out of the air like a pro. Did anyone see it? I don't know. There was two old guys near me, but I don't know if they're watching. Any tips? Did you get any tips from the old guys? No, thankfully. They can't help. You can't help this. So I think on Wednesday, we are going to have Jason's play nine holes with Jason.

You can find that all. That will be the last day of my life. So enjoy. The FFBallers or Instagram.com slash. Oh, yeah. Jeremy wants to know about the other 30. I had 10 good shots. 20 that were like one out of six.

One out of six. One out of six. Yeah, it is fine. Fulton Reed's one in five. Isn't it? That's a Kyle question. Kyle, what do you got? Yep, one out of five.

Yeah, okay. But yeah, Ultimate Draft. FK.com, pick it up, get the UDK for Life, be in her to win. Let's move on. Performance Climers, presented by GMC. All right, we have three names, players that have been moving up in average draft position, and we want to talk about those moves,

starting with the newly acquired Stefan Diggs, wide receiver for the commanders. Obviously, really wasn't being drafted before the signing, moving up. We'll continue to move up. He's fascinating. to me because there's so much opportunity there. It is a late addition. Terry McLaurin can't be the entirety of the offense. So right now, you know, he's going

in double-digit round. So if you're if you're scooping up, like you're doing your drafts about now, he's a massive, massive value. So the question really becomes, I think so. So let's come off over a thousand yards. No, I get it. Let's have a philosophical question about what good is because he finished as the wide receiver. 16 last year. Obviously, you could just end in the whole debate and say, well, that was really good. And he was drafted way behind that. But he wasn't good. Like, he had a thousand yards. That's awesome. But also, he wasn't played in fantasy the vast majority of weeks. Did he have a handful of weeks that were great top 10 weeks? Absolutely on your bench. Or on waivers. He was not. I think he was

in more lineups than you're giving credit for. I mean, maybe if you're- I felt like that was happening early in the season. I think people faded out of that and moved on. Like people were starting Kishon Booty at random there. I mean... I'm not saying he was never started for a good game. PPR, it was good. I do think that he was nowhere near as valuable as what saying the wide receiver 16

with a thousand yards sounds like. And that was with, I mean, I would imagine we would assume that Drake May throws for more yards than Jaden Daniels last year. Sure. Versus Jaden Daniels this year. So you've got a small pie. He was the one last year versus... He was also

coming directly off of a torn ACL and puts up 85 for over in over a thousand yards. I mean, we have... To poo-poo 100 targets going in the double-diss of rounds sounds kind of strange to me. Let's put it this way, though. There's two sides to it. One, he's a year older. He's Saffon Diggs. He's not

in this prime. A year healthier. But, like, Keenan Allen had 122 targets last year. He had 80 catches. Savon Diggs had 85 catches. I think that's a pretty interesting comparison of those two guys. And one of them's on a team. By contrast, Keenan Allen finished at

32 with the same numbers. He had fewer yards. A lot fewer yards. But the same touchdowns, the same receptions. He had about 300 fewer yards, though. Yeah. 250. I'm just saying that's the range, though, for a guy that's a low area target guy like Stefan Diggs now is, is it 16,

is it 32, is it 40? I understand it. I think there's opportunity in Washington. I think that's obvious. I think Jaden Daniels, we like him. It raises the ceiling for or the floor for Daniels to me. Possession guy that can catch the ball. I think this is one of the biggest full PPR situations where Diggs is somewhat valuable

there, kind of moderately valuable at half and not valuable at all in the standard league format. So I'm not trying to poo him. I'm just saying we are long, like Keenan Allen had a peak. Now Keenan Allen became a possession guy. And I look at digs the same way. I guess my question is like for the purpose of this segment, the ADP, he's been rising.

Where do you think he lands? Because obviously, let's say he, eighth round, ninth round. Where do you anticipate that he would go? I think eighth is probably a good landing spot. So do you spin the pick on a guy that doesn't have a ceiling in the eighth? That's my point. Or do you spend a pick on another guy we're talking about. Here's a perfect example.

Okay, stribbling. That's great. That's a good counter because I was going to bring up Alec Pearson, Mackay Lemon. They're going in the eighth round right now. Oh, gosh, yeah, I would take both of those. Of course. Like, there's a ceiling. And even though McCai Lemon is injured and maybe he doesn't get involved.

But Diggs in the 10th? Yeah, maybe Diggs doesn't make it to the 8th then. I mean, would you take, Mike, let me put you on the spot here. This will be a decision you'll easily be able to make. Pat Bryant, with all the glazing going on in the last two days. Oh, man. Or Stefan Diggs in the 10th round. I think the

the ceiling discussion is very, very fair because it's like Stefan Diggs probably I think he can get over a thousand yards again and I think he could be five to seven touchdowns around there. Stefan Diggs is definitely a

safer bet on a week to week basis for like your second flex play. That's what we're, and we're not talking about the wide receiver two on your team. We're talking about a bi-week fill in. We're talking about a second flex. Just a guy who could go right into your lineup. That will be better, in my opinion,

than like scraping the waiver wire, you know, heading into Sunday. You're like, oh, I got to find a play. Stefan Diggs is going to be much better than those. There is definitely a place for that where I love those players mid-season, where I've dealt with injury or I took my swing at the big guys and now I need someone to plug a second flex.

It's like, oh, he can go in there and, you know, he'll have eight or nine targets. That's fine. But When I'm in the draft, I'm just looking at guys that are way, way later. Well, talking Johnson in the 9th or Concepcion in the 10th or Jadenzell Higgins in the 11th or Denzel Boston in the 12th. I would rather take a shot on those type of players. Would you rather have Michael Wilson or Stefan Deges? Wilson.

Okay. That makes sense. DeJohn Stribling, wide receiver for the 49ers has been moving up. We're looking at ADP risers right now on performance climbers. Stribbling was in the 12th and 13th. Now he's in the 11th on Yahoo, 33rd pick in the NFL draft. We know what the situation is in San Francisco on a regular basis with injuries. But all the reports on scribbling, all the highlights on scribbling have been positive,

picking up things in a hurry according to Shanahan. Clay Kubiak said he's been able to handle multiple responsibilities early, fairly extensive role early on. We lost Ricky Pearsall, we lost Christian Kirk. Evans is the oldest drafted player in the top six rounds basically. Debo Samuel. Debo's

interesting because they're saying he's getting all of the work like he's splitting right receiver running back room again. It made me kind of forget like last year Debo was not a part of the taking snaps at running back situation, but where are you with

stribling and taking a shot on him? I think he absolutely has to have a shot taken on him. Brock Purdy is a very good quarterback. To me, I put him in the certainly top half quarterback, but probably a tier higher than most people put him. That's why I've been kind of into Mike Evans. He's obviously a great red zone weapon.

Brock throws touchdowns. But Evans is 33 going on 700 years into his soft tissue is just brittle. He's already dealing with the quad issue. I mentioned yesterday he was back to practice. He's working on the side. He's not full practice. I wanted to take shots on Ricky Pearsall. So like this offense, they need someone.

They lost, they lost Joanne Jennings. They lost Ricky Pearsall. Mike Evans, they will lose at some point. And so, yeah, straddling is, he was drafted to be an important part. He's already rolling with the ones. And the reports, like Grant Cohn, I don't know what you think of him. He's, you know, not everyone's favorite 49ers reporter. But he's saying he's the best wide receiver at camp full stop.

Well, and there's an opportunity there. I mean, the other past catchers that are trustworthy in San Francisco are all older. Yes. So, you know, that includes Kittal, right? Kittle looks really good. Like, he should be back out there. But that is not uncommon to start the year strong. That's where Stribbling, I think, could, I doubt he has a breakout week one through four.

But as the year goes on, I mean, we used to see us with vintage Larry Fitzgerald. The first half of the year for Fitz was higher than average, you know, better than expected. second half slowed down. I would expect similar things from potentially Kittle and. You're saying starts with Mike Evans. Inns was straight. Well, wow. Wow.

Should I cut you off. Breaking news. Brooks said safe and news. Get out of here. Brooks. We're not doing a news segment. Did you hear me? I have a bunch of news to talk about, but it will not be in a segment.

I mean, this guy's going to rise in ADP now. Kyler Murray has already been named the starting quarterback. There was too much good news coming out about J. Jay McCarthy. That's honestly what it seems like. It was like reporters are starting to say, look, the last couple of practices McCarthy's been winning. And then he's like, I got to get out of this. This is terrible for Minnesota.

Like the potential negative outcome. It could be great. Sorry, let me completely start over. It's great for Justin Jefferson. It's great for that discussion we had a couple days ago about Jefferson and being, maybe it was yesterday. I don't even know what days are anymore. But the potential

outcome in Minnesota is pretty rough because now if Murray fails and then JJ comes in and is just JJ you're down to zero quarterbacks again and I imagine Murray will be okay but you feel better about Jefferson

now? Moderately? Moderately, moderately. The like we've said the information about the quarterback battle has been very, very difficult to sift through

as the it my take on everything is I don't know that I've you're you're it's very rare to see an impartial view of what is going on in Minnesota I feel like a lot of baggage I feel like people have already decided they don't like J.J. McCarthy so whenever Kyler does something great they're going to report on it or there's the you know that J.J. McCarthy still has his supporters and they're not going to say anything when Kyla Murray does anything good it's it's been very difficult to navigate but this had to happen this is you

You have to pick one and say, okay, you're at this point, we think you're the best shot. You get all the snaps with the ones now. We can't keep splitting this crap up. The season is like three weeks away. Yeah, the whole thing where they were going to take this all the way down to the wire. I'm so happy they're not in either direction. In either direction, you've got to give your team a starting quarterback to practice through the next couple weeks before you start the season. And this is, this is what we thought was going to happen all along.

This is why I hated the, this guy won this practice, this guy won that practice, because the- So did Kevin O'Connell. The coach knows where he's headed. Kyler had never played in the offense. JJ had. It's not about what you can do during practice. It's about what you can do during the game. As a, you know, much more established veteran quarterback,

Kyler gets the shot. It's good for Addison. It's good for Jefferson. It's good for the offense. Overall, I agree. But we need now the information really matters. because I think the I had shared it with you guys I can't remember there was a Minnesota beat reporter

where it finally felt like okay we're getting real news because he came out and basically said I don't care about who's winning who's not winning this practice he's like they both have not been great right that is the the true key story is both are struggling severely uh Kyler against the ones JJ McCarthy's look good but then he struggled sometimes against the twos

So you have to make this move as the team, but this will be a follow now what's going on. You feel like there won't be as much bias in the report. Yes, because now it's just directly towards Kyler Murray. How does he actually look? Because after our discussion, you know, yesterday talking Jefferson and Drake London, it's like, man, I'm nervous. I'm nervous and I need training camp to talk me back in. So circling back to Stribling, I think. he's going to start right away. I think he's very

interesting. He's a perfect late-round target because he doesn't have the same type of, like, I think Cardinal Tate's a great ADP value right now. Jordan Tyson probably is a great ADP value. There are, you know, Jacobi Lane's another late-round shot to go with DeJon Stribbling.

I think this is an interesting guy. I don't think the ADP moves up much more. He could be it could be like a preseason highlight real situation that does move them up the ranks, but... I also don't think it's out of, like, Like, I love Carnell Tate. He is my current, by far, rookie wide receiver leader.

I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility that at the end of the year, Stribbling is the best rookie wide receiver. He has the opportunity. He has a great head coach. And he's got physical tools. Like, the way that Debo was used by Shanahan to get the ball in his hands and let him do what he can do physically, that reminds me a lot of stribling, not in the big body tackle breaker, but he's 4-3-6. Like, scheme him some of these plays where he gets the ball.

in his hand and just open space. Do you have any concern that, you know, at least in recent memory, so like John Lynch has been the GM since 2017? Yes. They have not drafted very well. I have huge concern over that. So, I mean, like while we're getting all the, you know, the tire pumps are just blowing this stribling thing up, are we confident that San Francisco actually got a pick?

I mean, it's great that he's the 13. third pick or something like that, like a high second rounder, that doesn't mean that they did a good job. He was not someone that I think was super highly touted. Like my Felix model has him with a good score with the draft capital. But when you take that out and you just have the pure talent score, it isn't something where it's like, man, that guy should be the third to third pick. So yeah, there's question marks. But the opportunity, the offense and the draft costs cost you nothing. Like just go ahead and take a shot.

Last name to throw out there on performance climbers, Malik Neighbors. obviously we understand why that ADP is moving. You know, he's gone up above Alave and Tet McMillan on Sleeper. In the third round, he was in the fourth. He's moving up on Yahoo as well. He's on track to play week one barring setbacks. Man, it's tough because I think about like our show yesterday, the top 10 wide receivers.

And as soon as we got to like Jefferson, and it was like Drake London. He's awesome guys. After the CD-LAM tier break. To me after the CD-Lam, obviously the top four I think are better than I put CD-Lam right there. And then it's like these are awesome guys. Jefferson and London and AJ Brown. It's like, neighbors like, I don't know, man.

Neighbors is right, right there. He's got very little competition. Starting doesn't necessarily mean he's back to full form. And there have been questions about the offense. Do they concern you? I mean, yeah, Matt Nagy concerns everyone. It's not Nagy alone either. It's Nagy and Greg Roman combo.

Oh, man. The circus was assembled. Can they like cancel each other out though? No. No. You don't think two wrongs make it right? No, there's more of a square root situation. Yeah.

It's a day. We have an exponential gain or decline, I should say. Did you guys see that Adam Gase has a job? Yeah, he's way down on the- Offenses specialist somewhere down on the charges. Who is giving these people jobs? That seemed like a pity job. He was so far down on the coaching list where it's like, okay, dude, you need a check.

But I, when it is literally just an injury, I hate it. I hate the analysis because I don't have the insight that the team has. But based off of the risk and the profile, in the third round, I'm happy to draft Malik neighbors. I think everyone is, and I don't think he stays there. I think when drafts coming around, he's going to be a draft. I think second round is. Second round is Rushie Rice, Nico Collins, we have no dark neighbor's data, basically.

Right. Ever. Correct. Yeah. It's wild. All right. That was Performance Climers brought to you by GMC. We are professional grade.

Let's take a break and we'll jump into, uh, well, I guess some news and then we'll, what? No, no, just like passing news and then we'll get into rankings. J.K. Dobbins. What? Got hurt. No, and Peyton said he'll be fine. Now, I will say, he said he's not going to miss a game.

He guaranteed he's not missing a game. Which he is still not a liar. He's still not, I guess, a liar. He did get injured in practice and leave with a trainer, but he's fine. Christian McCaffrey giving the day off with tightness, just managing CMC according to Clay Kubiak. Yeah, that seems fine. Josh Jacobs is going to be out for at least another week with the groin injury.

He's groin's groin's, man. I was, people got to start doing that butterfly stretch more. I was really talking to, you think, you think they're not doing that one. I think there's, obviously they're skipping it.

Hammy, calf, anything else we should stretch? No, coach. I, I do find myself, like,

I want, I want to be fully confident in Josh Jacobs. Dude. But when you mix the, like, the legal stuff got me out on him to start the off season, and now he's banged up. And he missed,

he's been, he's had problems staying healthy. I mean, last year was no exception to that. He missed with a knee injury. He missed with a knee and ankle. And then he was inactive to end the year. He was a machine the first 10 weeks.

The world deserves Marshawn Lloyd. Does it? Oh, man. Yes. And let me update that. The world deserves to see what Marshawn Lloyd can actually do on a football field. Yeah, I mean, the world deserved to see that with Kendrae Miller as well. Yeah, well, pick one.

We don't always get what we deserve. So, and then Mike would like us to talk about the fact that Well, it was all this negative stuff. Pat Bryant had been, uh, I like how it's written in our doc. Pat Bryant rules per everyone. Obviously Mike put that in there. I'm just sourcing. Pat Bryant has been a training camp highlight guy.

The last two days on social media were like unbelievable for everyone to make sure that they know. Pat Bryant was a rookie wide receiver last year for the Broncos. Yes. third rounder. But I'm saying like you have good beat reporters who give us good information really steaming up Pat Bryant. Some of them even saying like not only is the wide receiver three, but the transition to wide receiver two over the course of

like it might happen this year during that. That would be over Sutton and then Kay Adams said what are you, how are you going to keep Pat Bryant off the field and champagne said we're not. Yeah. So there you go. Pat Bryant, something to pay attention to. The big thing for me with that is, you know, if it's Waddle and then Pat Bryant is stepping up into like a meaningful role, which he was hurt last year, didn't get a lot of opportunities. That's two big weapons that Bonex is picking up this option potentially. Sure.

Let's get into the ranks. Running backs. All right. We are counting down the running backs. 20 through 11 are consensus rankings. What makes an RB2? Over the last decade, running backs finishing in this range, 20 through 11, 70% average 17 or more opportunities per game. 77% had 1100 or more yards, which, you know, that's a lot.

And then 77% had eight or more total touchdowns. We'll start with Mike's guy, DeAndre Swift. Not to be confused with a my guy. Number 20. No, this is a Mike guy. Yeah, that's fine. This offseason. That's fine.

I'm in on DeAndre Swift, man. Well, you're in on the offense. Yep. Check. You're in on the forever dismissing DeAndre Swift, yet him producing part of his career. Now, he has always been a running back to 18, 19, 22, 23, 19, 14. He got close this year or last year. I don't know how a player to me looks so good and so bad on different plays.

That's one of the things that is weird about DeAndre Swift. And it's also weird. when you have played on, you know, three different franchises in a six-year career and teams don't love you. Now, we thought maybe he would get dismissed or not used by Ben Johnson, and that's not been the case. Like, everything is set up for D'Andre Swift of offensive guru. Offensive guru came in and said, this offensive line is garbage. Here is money. Fix the problem.

And they did. It doesn't always fix. did. It worked out. Their rush success rate went from 21st to third. Yards before contact. That's a huge one. That went from 26th to 6th. Their run block rank on PFF

went from 14th to 3rd. And DeAndre Swift still goes in the middle rounds. And he's the pass catcher. I like Kyle on guy. I think he's a fun, interesting player towards the end of drafts. You can get him much later than

Swift if you're wanting to do the I want a piece of the Bears running back committee. I'll take the later one. That's fine. But I think that Swift is going to be the leader of it, and we're just going to see more of what we saw last year, potentially even better, not just because of Swift, because of Caleb and his command, you know,

the projection of what can Caleb do in the second year of this offense, assuming Luther Burden is healthy, this thing should be, it can easily be a top five offense in the league, and Swift is the leader. and he's going to score a ton of fancy points. Yeah, I mean, he is as undesired by the masses as possible because you just don't see a path for him to really finish as a league winning top five back. He's been in the league long enough.

We know what he is. He's running back too. He's solid. He's good. He's out there for most games, which is great. He's a good pick in fantasy football. He's not a league winner, but he's a good pick. However, we talk about some of these guys behind.

like when Menangai, when Swift missed week nine, Manungi was the running back three in fantasy football, had a ton of work. This is a great offense, a great offensive line and a system that wants to run the ball. But obviously the other thing can happen too. Like should Manungi get injured, that is how Swift becomes a league winner.

Yeah. I think the red zone is an interesting conversation there. They basically split the work last year. It is something where Swift, I think him coming off the field half the time in the red zone is a limit to the ceiling. Yeah, he had 13.2 points per game last year. Like that's 0.2 points behind Sequin Barkley.

And, I mean, that was more points per game than Ashton Genty. And it's, again, but where he's going is not in the first or the second round. He's such a, he's such a good pick to me. 77% of RB2s have eight or more touchdowns. He was over that mark last year. Number 19 is Bucky Irving. I think one of the most polarizing? Not even polarizing.

I mean, just like. Just wild card. Uncertain wild card players. He's only 23 years old, guys. I mean, Bucky is being drafted at RB19, so we're exactly at ADP there on him. The latest reports, because I think the, if we knew, Bucky was going to get the workload that he got at the end of the rookie season that he started to get for his sophomore season,

Bucky would be, you know, probably a low-end RB-1 as far as where he's being drafted. Now, the question is, while they lost Rashad White, they brought in Kenny Gainwell, and what is the utilization going to be? The early reports from camp are that the vast, vast majority of carries are going to Bucky Irving. He is like their running back. However, there's a lot of two running back sets now with Gainwell on the field. Gainwell is doing a ton of the passing work, and he, so far in the last report that I saw in camp,

he's getting more receiving work than Bucky. So that really does nerve. It makes sense. It does make sense. That's Gainwell so good at it. But it nerfs Irving's upside if he loses a ton of passing work to Kenny Gainwell. Yeah, I think we want to see the between the tackles runner that Bucky was, as a rookie, come back to light, because there's going to be opportunity.

If the offensive line, which is ranked fifth, and Baker's healthy, and you've got Zach Robinson, there's a lot of upside to, you know, I think Bucky's a great pick if they're a top 10 offense. I think he's a bad pick if they're a bottom third offense. A lot of it depends on the surrounding situation to me. Yes, the hard part for Bucky is the talent is there. How will he be used?

Like if we're saying a lot of the running back receptions are going to Kenny Gainwell, that's a negative for Bucky. And then last year, you know, obviously not a complete full season for Bucky, not a single carry inside the five. And if this coaching staff is deciding, we don't want Bucky doing the inside the five. He's not our goal line running back. And Kenneth Gainwell is more of the past catching back than Bucky.

You want the guy who's in on first and second down because that's where the true fantasy points are. But if that's just 20 to 20, you have a really big problem for his ceiling. Here's something interesting about all the players going in the range of Bucky Irving, which, by the way, it's Trayvon Henderson, but he's losing first and second down work.

It's Travis A. Yeah, Henderson's not. It's Travis A. Chan Jr., he's losing third down work, which is what Bucky's doing. It's Judkins, losing third down work, which Bucky's doing. It's, you know, Bayshall Tootin, who we think might lose goal line and third downwork, which is what Bucky might do.

And then there's Deontry Swift. And then there's Swift. That's why I like Swift. Because he, sure, you can have question marks about Swift, but he's like almost two rounds cheaper than all those guys we were just talking about. Yep. And so are you in? You know, Cam is basically in the same area as well. And I think I'd take Cam Scataboo over Bucky.

So that's the question is, you know, when you're on the clock and Bucky is there. negative, there was some negative news about Cam. Yeah. About Cam Scataboo that he's coming off in all two-minute drills to Tracy. That would be. I don't like that. Really bad. Oh, that would be Nagy. Yeah. No, that would, that math checks out. That math completely checks out. Of course he'll come off. He's their best weapon in a two-minute drill.

So you got to out-dink yourself, you know. They will never see it coming. No. I mean, they'll put Tracy on the field and be like, they are never going to give that Why is it still red? Because why is it still red? It's because the hype train, I have to hit the button again to stop it, but the red alert I don't. And I'm supposed to remember it all every time. Does workman's comp cover UV burns from panic alarms?

It's my fault, Mike. I would like you to know it's my fault. But Tyrone Tracy will be the two-minute back because he shouldn't. See, that is, that's why I get really scared with everything on that offense. It's why I get scared about neighbors being. as good as he should be. It's why I get scared about dark, getting to do what he wants to do.

I'm very, I'm very scared of the giants. Well, I've had this deck of playing cards that has not left the table. So, looking forward to busting those out for the budget magician. But I do like scat more than Irvin. I think this is, I think this is worth bringing up for the Foot Clan

because we were talking about how in those early rounds, when we were going through, when we get to the Justin Jefferson and we get to the Drake London and it's like obviously everyone at that point in the draft they're great but there's a lot of questions and that there's ways that it can go poorly whereas there were really really good running backs instead there but now when we get to this point where we're like I don't know about bucky or cam or a lot of these questions Henderson the wide receivers that are there are you know Devante Smith and Ladd McConkey and Emeka Igbuka and Zay Flowers it's like to me I'm looking strategically at just the 2026 draft. I like the wide receivers here more than the running backs here. Almost like there's the running back dead zone, Jay? Yeah, basically. And it's moved up.

I wouldn't say that I feel like any of the guys you talked about so far, including this next name, I wouldn't feel comfortable as my RB2 though. Like I, they're not in that. I'm not that level of afraid. I agree that I wouldn't be uncomfortable, but I just think that the odds are higher for some of these guys that it goes wrong.

This guy, I think he's pretty darn good. Giovante Williams. I am the highest on Giovante at 15. That's fine. I'm so proud. He was a running back 11 last year. Solid. Solid is the way to describe Giovanni.

I'm very happy for Javante. There's nothing spectacular about Javante's game anymore. It's just he's a great running back. He can handle a large volume. He had his best year points for game wise last year, 14.1. He missed one game. His workload, his efficiency. Everything went, went to a place where we were like, week in and week out. Oh, look at Javante again. Oh, look at, I mean, there's an offense we love. He's not good in the receiving game, but he is used in the receiving game, which is enough.

It was like Chuba. Chuba would get past the ball all the time and do nothing with it, fall over. He is the goal line back. He is the passing downs back, and he's the between the 20s back. So he is a true workhorse back for one of the offenses we're targeting. he's not necessarily the most explosive player where you're going to have some breakaway amazing season but he's not aged out either he's not an old man so to me it's like get a piece of the Cowboys offense

get a piece of the Bengals offense especially when those two running backs have no competition on the depth track he had eight total touchdowns inside the five for the previous four years last year he had 10 do you guys have big news jk. Dobbins is back out on the field

and pads that's right baby i told you no news pretty remarkable nothing to see here nothing to see don't worry about it at all i won't but you should uh breese hall which is i i think jane blue is we're talking about because he was an absolute uh he was nothing last year there was uh what the the Gucci Gucci cleat gate where the rookie showed up and thought he was hot stuff and seemed like from that moment on, the team had to humble him. But the news on Blue is much, much better this year. So I'm just curious if you guys have any concern for coming in.

None. I just, I want to yawn so much through what you're saying. I just want to like, I don't. I don't care at all. I couldn't care less. Yeah. And it's not, it's just those guys are just ancillary. I need a blow.

is it Mova or Blue? When you hear all the reports and Malik Davis is still there too. When you hear the reports of like, I had to learn a big lesson rookie year and I've learned it. Like that's okay, great. Good for you, buddy.

Here's what Giovante did. Had a great season. They paid him more money. Yeah. I mean, he's the guy. I mean, if you want to talk like, okay, an injury happens to Javante, is it Jaden Blue?

But we're not even sure it's Jaden Blue. I have zero worries that someone's going to like take a chunk of work while Javante is healthy away from Javant. Here is a player that. that I am the highest of the three of us by a lot, and I'm just really close to planting my flag on. Breece Hall at 17. I got him at 13, Jason in 17, Mike at 20,

Mike a little bit behind ADP, Jason, right there. I'm ahead. Look, he got the bag this off season, three-year extension, guaranteed money, 1,400 yards from scrimmage in an offense last year that was an utter embarrassment. But one of my favorite things I've read this off-season is just the fact that the drumbeat has been,

one, I like the way the offensive line is trending. Two, they paid him the money. We don't have this cloud over the head of Brice where it's like they want him out of town. And then they've talked about featuring him more. They've literally like, oh, there's a Braylon Allen. Imagine. You know, but they've literally talked about featuring Breast Hall,

which they've kind of done against their will, it feels like at times. I think he is. I love the pick of yours. of liking Brees this year. I think he's going to be very involved. He's great as a pass catcher. We saw Gentie last year propped up by Gino just from the dink and dunks,

the little drop-offs. And that's Brees, one of his best parts of his game, is taking those little dump-offs. And he's going to play Friday. He's still explosive. I mean, he has big plays. All the jet starters playing Friday. Fourth and explosive rush rate.

Brice Hall. 10th and forced miss tackle rate. 36% of his carries, five plus yards. They knew what they were doing. They knew what the Jets were doing. They didn't have a passing game. And he still had success.

He has always had success. They should have one of the more changed offensive lines. So there's, and I think there's a lot of, we're tired with Breece Hall. After he was running back four as a sophomore, we got too hyped and he didn't. disappointed a couple years in a row, but right now where he's being drafted, there is

upside where he can finish as an RB1. Obviously he's not on a great team, not a great offense. The scoring opportunity is not going to be there, but he's explosive. He's using the passing game. He's their goal line back. He's basically everything that some of these other guys are just not on a good offense. All right, we'll take a quick break and come back with the rest of the rankings. All right, Cam's Gadaboo comes in at 16 on the rankings. We did just talk about him quite a bit. It was awesome as a rookie. He was number one in the entire NFL in terms of the percentage of his rushing yards

after contact. He got it done. He could fight through tackles. Everything you saw on the college tape, he just translated right into doing it to, you know, linebackers and, you know, corners and everything else at that. Only Ken Bone Walker had a higher force mistackle rate. Yeah, he was awesome. I mean, he brought it up, too, of like, that's his way of avoiding

punishment. You know, when we were chatting with him, it was like, if he hits you first, then his legs don't take punishment. He doesn't take that damage. He is totally fine to damage his head so long as he's saving his legs. Yeah, and he was just great.

17.4 fancy points per game in his starts, but I just am at this place where I don't know how prescriptive anything they did last year was. You know, Tracy, how often do you involve him? You know, what does Dart and this offense look like? I don't know the answer. Matt Nagy, Greg Roman, Brian Callahan, that trio scares the living

daylights out of me. They're also going to be... What a trio. Yeah, I mean, but Cam is... Triforce of Sauer. We were so close to Cliff here, but Cam, Cam is just kind of, he's the kind of guy that more momentum in the game, more opportunities in the game, he wears people down. So I hope that this offensive brain trust can recognize that and not take them off the field? I could easily just to say that you have a third down back. Yeah, I could see it happening down the stretch where the choice is kind of taken away from them. You know, I would not be surprised if you come out and week one and for the month of the season, it is a three-way committee.

You know, they get Devin Singletary, his, and then Tyrone Tracy. Tyrone Tracy is the two-minute back and some passing downs back. and first and second down is can. But I do think as the season goes on, kind of what happened in his rookie season, you just see like we can't really take this guy off the field. He can do it all. He's really, really good. So I expect him to have a better second half than the first half.

He's a scary pick to me because there are ways it could easily go wrong, even though love the talent, love the player. And if you had the right coordinator, like, and maybe they do. Maybe they just say you are our. This is a team that wants to run the ball for sure. They want to run the ball. I said that they have a good defense early in the offseason. They didn't last year.

I think they're going to have a good defense. That's bold. Time will tell. They're not. The problem with that is best laid plans for teams that are underdogs a lot. It can take away your running game. Yeah. I mean, are they going to be above 500?

But that's the thing with Scataboo is that he should be involved in all three. You know, he should be a pass catching back. He's, that's like, I know he's seen as this. Is your RB one? No way. Okay, I want to know when we get to a name today on the 20 through 11 or you might be comfortable with them. Yeah, no way.

If you went heavy, wide a receiver, played one Z in the draft. If I was his offensive coordinator, I would take him running back four because I would just give him the ball 30 times a game. And the injury is still, like, he is still recovering from major injury. The earlier on, if we can pull any of the trends from, so 2017, he was the OC talking Matt Nagy. he was the OC of the Kansas City Chiefs. That was one of the Kareem Hunt years,

where it was, Kareem Hunt led the league in rushing. You don't dismiss that for Andy Reed, though? Well, I just, hold on. Okay. So he led the, so tons of 272 carries, 63 targets. Matt Nagy parlayes that into becoming

the head coach of the Chicago Bears, which, to his credit, had incredible success in year one. Running back-wise, it was Jordan Howard was at 250 carries, only 26 targets. because it's Jordan Howard. The next year we had Montgomery at 242 carries, 35 targets,

and then that followed up with Montgomery 247-68 targets. So he's, I'm saying, it's not out of the, like, it's not like when we're looking at Monkin, where it's like there's just the stretch, you know, like he's got a guy who for sure carries the ball, and then he has a guy who for sure catches the ball. he utilizes or at least has used his guys sort of correctly. We'll see if he can

continue that in New York. The ceiling case for Scataboo is an RB1. He can easily finish as an RB1. It's just a scary process of where you're putting your trust. Well, 15 is Jeremiah Love of the Arizona Cardinals, 21 years old. I mean, everything you could ever want in a feature back skill-wise, elite in every way. I mean, he is a dominant receiver, but you're on the Cardinals. And you're on Cardinals offense that has Tyler Algier.

I mean, I haven't heard a whisper about a play from James Connor this offseason. Maybe you guys... I think he's still hurt. Okay. Well, maybe that explains it. Because all I've seen is Alger and Jeremiah love sharing work. Which is an issue, at least the way that they have public. talked about James Connor.

They're still talking about him as he is very much in the plans for the running back room, and he's not even there. I've seen him out on the practice field. That's why I'm not playing, but like talking to coaches and stuff. And in pads. So I'm a little bit confused about like there's a lot of rumors about Connor filling in gaps in different teams. Like maybe the lions with the MCL

spraying to Pacheco go after James Connor to be a backup to Gibbs. situations like that where the running back rooms are thinned out a little bit. I think that when Marshaun Lloyd inevitably gets hurt. That you've had Connor recovering from his injury and then Trey Benson continues to be hurt. I think that that probably weighs in right now of the Cardinals. Do we have a third running back that we know we can at least get on the field? Gentie was the RB6 in ADP last year, first round pick. Bejohn was the third.

running back as a rookie prospect. Zeke was the third running back off the board as a rookie prospect. Love is now 13. Like we, you aren't paying. I don't hate it. A ton of money. I mean, if you trust LaFleur at all in making decisions that are advantageous to his team, scheme-wise, like the improvement from Gannon to LaFleur on offense,

like if you go, what is that, rational coach? Yes. The fallacy of rational coaching. Your path to victory is Jeremiah Love getting as much work as possible at 21 years old with the third pick in the draft. I guess I'm just curious if that discount is enough for you to take a shot at it. I'm okay with it. I've spent most of the offseason being kind of prepped and concerned to be completely out on Jeremiah Love. Running back 13, even the, you know, the rankings and projections is slightly behind that. Trying to factor in some dumbness from from what the coaches are doing but prospect wise is like i i think love was a better prospect than gentie was i think he is a better prospect than bjean was like this is a true elite player to me and i just that so bison went at the running back three in for adp wise when he was a rookie and it's not all that dissimilar to me of you know like there's not going to be a good team. It's a highly drafted running back. They should fully

feature him. Now, you know, he got Algered a bit. Ironically in the world we are in, Jeremy Love will get Algiered a little bit. That's the question. It's like, when they get inside the five, who's going to be in there? Is it going to rotate?

Is it going to be Alger? Or will it for sure be loved? Because if it's for sure love, running back 13 is, that's no problem, I guess. It's not for sure love. I mean, it's going to be at the very best. I think it'll be a rotation. They will bring Tyler Alger in on the goal line in certain situations because he's good. They did it with Bejohn even into Bejohn's career,

not just when he was a rookie because Tyler Algear is good. It's not Michael Carter with Brise Hall. Right. And going back to Breese Hall, if you look at, you know, LaFleur was the OC during Bruce Hall's rookie season, where he wasn't even as highly drafted a guy. and they had Michael Carter. He recently took over. Brice was averaging 16.4 fantasy points a game before he got injured in his rookie season on pace for 200 carries, 62 targets.

I believe that Love will get enough work. He will get vultured on the goal line too much. He will also not be someone that in his rookie season is getting 275 carries on the ground. He will be more around 200 carries, and you're hoping he gets. gets like 60 or 70 targets. If 70 would be insane. It would be awesome. That might be the argument for love entirely.

You're not just underdogs in every single one of your games. You're double-digit underdogs in four of your first six and seven and eight and a half point in the other two. Algiers's not going to be out there on these comeback attempts, right? Isn't it going to be Jeremiah? I love catching, like check down Charlie situation? It should be love. And so if he gets 200 rushing attempts and we'll call it 64. targets. He should beat an ADP of being the running back 13. He just finishes an RB1.

Historically, since 2015, here's running back drafted in the top 10 of the NFL draft. Barkley finished at 2, Zeke at 2, Bejohn was 9, Gentie, it felt really bad, and it was 12. McCaffrey was 11, Trent Richardson was 8, Leonard Fournett was 8, and Todd Gurley, even coming off of the ACL injury, finished at 7. So, I mean, historically, this is a, you know, the top 10 running back in the NFL draft is a great bet for fantasy. RB 13, I think I'm in. Gentie is why Love is going to be a fine pick this year. Like, Genti made everyone get too hot and bothered.

He was the running back six drafted last year, and he was a bust, even though he finishes an RB1 because he didn't return on that value. You're not drafting. Jeremiah Love in the first round. He's absolutely fine where he's going right now. Number 14 is Kiron Williams, the hotly debated Kiron Williams. I got him at 19, Jason at 12, Mike at 16. Yeah, just right. I mean, Kyrin's a very good player.

He's not an explosive breakaway type of guy. He's a high opportunity. He's a grinder. The big argument for me is just look at the data. There's the team that was pressing for the Super Bowl. Pre-by-week, Kiron is getting 72% of the running-back opportunities. Post-by-week, it was 57%. Yes, he performed.

form statistically for fantasy, but it's a law of averages thing for me where if the team has made a decision to share the running back workload, you're going to have a reduced effectiveness for Kyran at some point in time. I think KORM is awesome. All the offseason reports have been great. So I think there will be a slightly reduced running back workload for Kyron. So I have them slightly below ADP. I mean, four spots below ADP. I don't think that's weird because you have to decide what you think the team is going to do. It would seem like you won't have any Kyron on your team though. I will have no Kyron on my team. No, I will have lots of Blake

Corum on my team. Yeah, Corum was he won't be a my guy because he's still too, like I don't think he takes over the job from Kyron. I don't think that that's in the realm of possibilities is Corum becomes the RB1. I think Kyron stays the RB1, but I think you've seen a progression of running back opportunities reduced

for Kyron Williams, and that's something I don't like at his ADP. Jay, is it my turn? Yeah. I cede my time to the fine analyst on my left Kyron Williams is a very good running back who is part of the heart and soul of this team that is their lead back that is paid that gave him the contract to be the man

Blake Coram is very good and don't hear what I'm not saying Corum is a good fantasy pick he is I put out a tweet of like the insurance backs he's a league winner should Should Kyron go down, Quorum is awesome. Corum can be more involved and Kyron still be a fantastic pick and fantasy. And that's what's going to happen.

Corum is going to be more involved and be fine. And Kyron is going to be a good pick in fantasy. He's been a running back one the last three years. He's on one of, if not the best offense in the league, right? You guys, you know, he's in that total upper echelon, especially when the only reason I wouldn't put the Rams necessarily with the bangles and the Cowboys and the Lions is because their defense is good. But that's good for the running back.

That means at the end of the game, they're running the ball more and more and more, more opportunities for Kyran. When Coram was super involved at the end of the year, and they both had 11 carries inside the five. Like they were both used as goal line backs. Kyrim was averaging 14 and a half fantasy points a game. Kairn turned his 11 into six touchdowns,

while Corum turned his 11 into three touchdowns. Kairn is not going away. Kyron is the leader, and he will score a ton of fantasy points. Will he be the, you know, 85% Belkow, the Christian McCaffrey? No, but that doesn't mean he's a bad pick where he's going right now in fantasy drafts. He's just like, I'll tell you what, would I be comfortable with Kiron Williams as my running back one? Absolutely. I see him as a guaranteed running back one for fantasy.

Yeah, and that's where, I mean, I'm not alone, and I addressed all of the things you said. and when I spoke. So I don't need to go back and do it again. He's being drafted at RB15 outside the RB1 category. It's not the consensus opinion that he's an RB1. He has to be a favorite among running backs for double-digit touchdowns. He is. The draft kings...

They're going to be on the goal line. They score 65 times. Yeah. And like there's plenty to go around for a 1A and a 1B. Yep. But I mean, I think it will be the turning of the page towards a new paradigm. and in... Yeah, Kyle says his projection.

His line is nine and a half. Yep. Touchdowns. Rushing touchdowns. So that's not even receiving. Yeah, I've got him four spots lower than ADP. So that's what I think of Corum. Jason's got him three spots higher than ADP.

At 13 comes Josh Jacobs, 28 years old, dealing with the groin. We've all got him about the same spot. Yeah, we'll see if he stays here. Most touchdowns inside the 10 in the NFL over the last two years, huge part of the offense. It's really, you know, we can say all the jokes or whatever about, you know, Marshawn Lloyd finally getting an opportunity. If Jacobs is healthy, they don't care about Marshall and Lloyd.

This team cares about giving Jacobs the Rock because he thrives on more and more opportunities, on being out there for his team. You know, it's just, it's not a very messy situation outside of injury to me. There's... Is he healthy? He's dominant. Is he not healthy? He's not. on the field. I mean, to me, it's very simple. He's a goal line machine. They figured that out

and they score every time they give him the ball near the goal line. He was so consistent. He was, I got to think he was. First nine weeks last year before injury, on pace for 21 touchdowns on the ground and 64 targets with 52 receptions. That's just auto RB1. I had him last year. I mean, it was our league of record team. I had the Jonathan Taylor and Josh Jacobs. it seems hard to remember how good they were now in the first half of the year. Yeah, that's fair. But they were genuinely unbelievably dominant. And then he got injured, dealt with that, kind of played through it when he shouldn't have,

then got punished the game. It was a weird, wacky end of the season. Because of it. But yeah, I mean, those first nine weeks, he was the running back five. Favored in the first six weeks of the year, Green Bay is. I will not argue anything about the touchdowns. but I'm curious of the just, you know, lack of explosive plays. And, you know, he's grinding it out.

Maybe he's doing what the team wants them to do. But this is a situation that I think is primed for someone else to get more work than you're hoping. Sequin Barclay comes in at 12. Oh, boy. It's a nerve-wracking player to drop, but he's at 12. So again, everybody here is our consensus rankings. Jason's taking the shot at four spots lower. I don't feel good about it.

So my, the. Which according to our Chiron Corum analysis means he hates him beyond all measure. How do you respond to hating Saquan Berkeley, Jason? I would say that it's rare for a running back at 30 to get better than the year prior when they start to statistically like lose a step. Now, there are rational thoughts.

on how it can happen. Last year, the injuries to Lane Johnson and the offensive line for the Eagles might be the reason why it wasn't the age to Berkeley. It was the offensive line situation that caused Barkley to be less efficient. The offense as a whole was pretty dry paper. Petulow was a terrible offensive coordinator and now they've got Mannion and the offensive line should be better. Also another humongous change for this offense is Jalen Hertz, who never was really under center. When he was under center, the offense was very good. under center play action those things they're really really good for the running back position so he is focusing on being under center much more the offensive line is better that's all great

but when you look at last year and you say well sequin was inefficient because of petulow because of the offensive line tank bigsby was awesome when he got the ball he didn't have any problems whatsoever behind that that line and what we've seen in camp maybe it's you know look it's smart Sequin's going to be 30. Don't just run him into the ground. But Tank has been more and more involved in camp. And so I wouldn't be surprised if this year it's going to be the Sequan show, but I think that Tank will get more than he has in the past. And Seekwon has been getting the entirety of it. He's been getting like the full Christian McCaffrey type of workload. So being 30 years old, having lost efficiency last year, and the potential for work to be seated, that's,

Just that's why I'm scared. But I'm also terrified that Seguan could be if you say like, could Sequan be the running back one this year? I'd say, yeah, he could. He could end up with, you know, 1,600 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns and still be involved in the passing game.

But I am, I bypass him in most drafts where he's going. He's being drafted as the running back seven. And I like other backs there. You like Amari and Hampton more? Yes. Ryan Hampton comes in at 11 to round out today's episode. 23 years old. It was great when he was on the field, but wasn't on the field a bunch last year.

Mike, you're the lowest. The comments in the last, you know, 24 hours are, you know, the Twitter spheres a buzz about Mike McDaniel saying that the, you know, doing his trolling thing of bad news, fantasy owners, good. I see all three of these guys speaking of Vidal Hampton and Mitchell performing at a high level. But that's not possible. No, nor is it like customary for Mike McDaniel and what he does on the offensive play calling side. Like he, you remember the comments he had about,

I think it was Ollie Gordon, and when he's just like he'll have either all of his snaps or some of the snaps or zero snaps in the upcoming game. Yeah, he's a troll. He does like trolling the fantasy football community. I think it's very important, I'll say this, I think it's very important that Amarine Hampton establishes himself early in the season.

That's what I think is important. Now, if you want to start the year against Arizona, Las Vegas and be double-digit favorites in the first two games, that's an awesome opportunity to do that. Establish it. But, you know, I think Keaton Mitchell is kind of a player that Mike McDaniel wants to use in the passing game and really in inventive ways in this offense. I don't look at Vidal as a threat to Hampton if he's healthy. No, Vidal is. But I think I don't know what the real range of outcomes for Hampton is. So just tell me so I know whether to trade him or not.

I don't see Hampton, well, I want you to train them to me, so I would make the- Yeah, we were talking some trades yesterday. I would make the bare case, but in truth, I think that there is a extreme likelihood that you get 18 touches a game for Hampton. And if Hampton's getting 18 touches a game behind a good offensive line, you think it'll be great. I think he will be great. This is a team where the defense is good, the offense is good, the offensive line is extremely improved, the offensive coordinator is improved.

This is also an offensive coordinator in the past who had two-teenths, top five running backs at the same time for fantasy on the same team. So I'm not worried about the other guys when, you know, it was Rahim Morris and Devon A-chan. If you've got talent. Moster? Or Moster, yes. What did I say? More. Yeah, the coach. That's not the running back. No, no, no. Moster and A. Chan. So I pretty much love all the situation. I really liked the player coming out of college, which obviously the team did too. They spent a first round pick on him. And he was very good. You could talk about like, there are different ways to spin all the deeper analytic numbers. I see people talk about how

inefficient he was here. And then I see, look, the numbers that show he was the most efficient, just the best. It's like, just watch the tape. He was very good. He did things on his own, and he had very little to work with with the Office of Line. I think that the offensive line with the improvement at Center and both tackles will be awesome. Can he be a top five back? Absolutely. I believe he can be top five back. I do. I'm, like my projection and ranking has me out on Hampton and it this is a it's a real weird one of like everything is there everything is there for for Hampton to be what exactly what you want for fantasy football and yet there's just you know the the cup the the the the tiny little variables we're like

yeah you have to kind of trust that like makes me unsure like like Omarine Hampton's a first round running back. Me and Jason fell in love with his collegiate tape and you have to do the chargers. You have to fundamentally believe that that guy is much, much, much better than Kamani Vidal on a per down basis for this team and that that will win out. If you look at opportunities per game on year two running backs who were first round picks, all of them, the opportunities per game were Rashad Penny was down at seven and Clyde Edwards Aller who turned out sucked and we found out pretty quick. He was the first time running back to. Yes. I know. That's what I'm saying. These are all 14. He had 14 opportunities a game. Still a pretty good amount. Everyone else was 16, 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 28. He's going to get the work. Yeah. And he's good.

So just maybe don't worry about the trolling by Mike McDaniel. Let's do a couple mailbag questions. Mailbag. Yeah. Pete in Jersey. Should I keep Ted McMillan in the fourth or Tyler Warren in the seventh? would you do? Oh, I would take Warren in the 7th. I would take Tyler Warren. I lean Tet there. Man. But I don't think you make him wrong choice. Alec Pierce did he or did he? Is Ted going right around? Right in the fourth? So maybe Warren. He's got to be going on fifth, six though, right? Yeah. What in the world's going on with Alex Pierce? So did he get a shot? Did he the second shot? Did he not get it? He did not get a second

shot. But if he did get a second shot, it's normal, according to the doctors. Either way, nothing to see here. So I look, there is something to see there. I'm not going to stick my head in the sand. I don't want, like, there are no good vibes around Alec Pierce right now. The end. I mean, until he's on the field and looks like himself, which, by the way, two years in a row of leading the league in yards per reception, you kind of need your wheels. So, and from what I understand, ankle is part of the running process. It is connected to the football. You know, it's the Tyler Warren thing, like,

the only thing I'll say about Tyler Warren that needs to be said is that when he didn't have MVP level Daniel Jones, he never hit double digits in fantasy production. That's, you know, is a regular Daniel Jones versus MVP? I mean, they were an eight and one team. They were dominating. Yeah. Ken, are we going to see that again?

and I hope so. Tyler Warren, I saw some clips at him at camp this morning, and it was like, it was funny because everybody's commentary on him. And I kind of agree, even though I don't care, is that he makes running look exhausting. Like that dude does not, he's not fluid. That is really, really fair. Yeah, and other comments are like what you don't see here

is how long it took Tyler Warren to catch his breath. Like, he is a rumbling, like, yeah, like a round mound of touchdown. It's not fluent and smooth. No, it's like, but when you get up to speed, it's great. It's just carrying around 260 pounds. Yeah, it's not, it's not Loveland, right? It's not Ingram or somebody that's, or even Kyle Pitts.

It's a big boy. He reminds me of T.J. Hawkinson, which, yeah, that's fair. It feels bad now, but T.J. Hawkinson was, you know, awesome, was a top five tight end three times. He was the tight end two once. But like, Brock never looked like he really knew what he was doing running the football. No, he looked out of control. at every moment. Out of control and blown up. You get a locomotive going. You can't stop it.

Can Warren go, what's Warren's outlook for target percentage? Oh, I... With Michael Pittman gone. I think he can easily have 25% target share. I think he could too. Like, I'm... You know, it would... The Loveland Warren argument

is, like, it's fun to have that debate. Both are going to be awesome. I think I'm finding myself really putting Tucker craft. up into the Tyler Warren area mentally now. You're speaking as Tucker. Mike's love language. I mean,

I moved him early this morning. Tucker Kraft went up right at about the same production levels as Tyler Warren. One more question here from Nate in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oh, bonchor. Are we undervaling Chris Godwin? Heaven's gone.

I expect a boot could get more targets, but the same couldn't it be said of Chris Godwin? I think we really might be. He's in the eighth round, and this is a player, here's why we're undervaluing him. He's 30 years old and he didn't look very good last year. No, he didn't. So it's like you don't expect players.

Those are good reasons to doubt somebody. Those are good reasons to doubt him. But the doubt's already baked in. He's in the eighth round. So you're not, you're already paying for, oh, he's not it. But in camp, the camp reports have been that Chris Godwin looks explosive, that he's been oftentimes the number one wide receiver, that there's been days where it's like he was easily the best receiver today.

And so, yeah, in the eighth round, I think early in the offseason, I wouldn't have ever thought about drafting a share of Chris Godwin. Baker likes Chris Godwin. Yeah. And in the seven games before the major injury, he was 16 points a game in 2024. Last year's kind of a lost season. You look at it and you say, I mean, he's a 30-year-old wide receiver. That's a factor.

His yards per catch, not where they were during his peak seasons. But is he, could he still be, you know, digs plus? You know what I mean? Level production? It would usually be a top 36, top 30 wide receiver. You should check out. We have our miniseries on our YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers.

It's called Just the Tips. It's a shorter form content. The one from this past Saturday was all about identifying situations for sleepers. And a one Chris Godwin was mentioned in that show. Yeah, you make a good point about it being baked in. So that'll do it for today. Top 10 running backs tomorrow. Mockdraft Mayhem on 13.

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