The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - 6 Fantasy Football Projections That SCARE Us For 2025 (Ep. 1587)

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

Join Joe Pisapia, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Derek Brown as they highlight six players that they are scared to draft in 2025 fantasy football leagues based on their projections! Timestamps: (May be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00 Chase Brown - 0:01:43 Drake Maye - 0:05:52 Tyreek Hill - 0:12:54 DraftKings Sportsbook - 0:17:32 Kyren Williams - 0:18:43 Xavier Worthy - 0:23:52 Bucky Irving - 0:27:15 Outro - 0:28:54 Helpful Links: DraftKings Pick6 – Download the DraftKings Pick6 app NOW on Google Play or the App Store and use code FANTASYPROS. This offer is for new customers to play $5, get $50 in Pick6 credits. Only on DraftKings Pick6. The crown is yours.  Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Help is available for problem gambling. Call 888-789-7777, or visit ccpg.org in Connecticut. Must be eighteen plus, age and eligibility restrictions vary by jurisdiction. Pick6 not available everywhere, including New York and Ontario. Void where prohibited. One per new customer. Bonus awarded as non-withdrawable Pick6 Credits that expire in thirty days. Limited time offer. See terms at https://pick6.draftkings.com/promos. Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator - Our Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator lets you complete a mock in minutes with no waiting between picks! Customize your league settings to match your league’s exact format. Premium subscribers can test trade scenarios by mocking with their traded draft picks. Prepare for rookie drafts AND dynasty startup drafts in one place! Use the Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator to dominate your rookie draft today at fantasypros.com/simulator! Discord - Join our FantasyPros Discord Community! Chat with other fans and get access to exclusive AMAs that wind up on our podcast feed. Come get your questions answered and BE ON THE SHOW at fantasypros.com/chat Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we’d love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let’s make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And today we're going to talk about the projections that scare us. That's right. It's time to hide under the covers because there's some guys with the projections this year might not be as good as they are perceived. And of course, there's nobody better to help us figure out who those players might be. Then, of course, D. Bro, Derek Brown, the King of Bros. the man who gets sunburned in the shade. And Pat Fitzmores just fresh off a golf outing,

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All right, gentlemen, let's get after it. Let's start with some of the names on our list that scare us in 2025 from a projection standpoint. D-Bro, let's start with a running back on your list. It's Chase Brown. Talk to me. Dude, I was kind of surprised and going through this, looking at just projections and talking about median outcomes, I was shocked that we and our projections have Chase Brown as RB 17 right now. So if that comes to fruition, yes, we all need to be scared because we are drafting him in early best balls and ranking him as an RB1. And I understand

what we're doing it. He was the RB4 and fantasy points per game last year averaging almost 117 total yards when he was the starter. So for me, like I've had a, little bit of worries about Chase Brown because during that stretch it was all volume. He was awesome. He was Cincinnati's CMC. The per touch efficiency is a little more concerning for me as a player who for all the big play potential we saw in college, the speed that wasn't there. I mean, this guy was outside the top 24 running backs and explosive run rate, mistackles force per attempt and yards of contact per attempt. So I've had my worries about Chase Brown, although I've been pretty much in line with consensus on ranking, this RB-17 projection scares the crap out of me, man. Like, if that's where

he goes, he's going to be a big bust this coming year because people are expecting RB1 production if they are drafting Chase Brown. Yeah, it is a little bit of a peculiar one, especially when you consider what's around that backfield. Zach Moss, Samashi P. Ryan, I don't think those guys are really terrifying. Pat, since DeBrow brings it up, he makes a good point. You're looking at the ADP of Chase Brown at 12 RB overall. You got ECR at 14. So there's a lot of fallout potentially if he falls backwards. Do you think the projections are based off of how bad that defense is and how many negative game scripts they're in where they're going to have to throw the ball because again, the defense of Cincinnati isn't very good. And it is a throw first kind of offense with Joe

Burrow and those receivers. Yeah, I mean, I think it's the lack of volume that are holding down his projections a little bit. So last year from November on Chase Brown average, 18.9 carries 4.8 catches a game. Now, I don't expect him to average 23.6 touches a game like he did over the second half of last season. But I do think Chase Brown is still pretty safely going to be the leadback in one of the best offenses in the league. And sure, someone is probably going to emerge as a tag team partner for Chase Brown. But, like, who on this Bengals roster could threaten Chase Brown's primacy in this backfield? Like Taj Brooks, I like him, but he's not better than Chase Brown.

Zach Moss, Samajet Pirine, no. And our projections have Chase Brown at something like 15 or 16 touches a game. They have him at under 200 carries for the season. I think they're probably a little light there. So I've Chase Brown at RB 11 in my rankings. Like, I know we're probably not going to see huge weekly workloads for Chase Brown again this year. So I maybe agree with the projection. on that, but I do think we'll get significant workloads and still the attractive weekly

ceilings in a high-flying offense. And, you know, I'm not too worried about the, like I know in college, kind of a different story there because he was run into the ground by Brett Beleham in his last college season at Illinois, like averaged over 20 carries a game. So he was running up against stacked boxes all the time. He is never going to run against a stack box. in Cincinnati with Joe Boroid quarterback. It's just not going to happen. So I think we can kind of count on the efficiency staying high. Yeah, I would agree.

I mean, look, I think all three of us like Chase Brown, I think we should all be a little concerned that the projections are a little on the lower side. But in those PPR leagues, too, he was very consistent in the last about eight games of the season, really seeing steady target volume too. So that's a plus in his game as well. And he seemed to handle the workload as he got deep into the season too. You had games where he had 25 carries, 18 carries, 20 carries to kind of to finish out the year when they got hot, right?

And that offense really didn't start clicking until the second half of the season anyway. It was too little too late for the Bengals, unfortunately. Fitsy, let's see if we can switch gears here and talk about a player whose projections right now scare you just a tad. Yeah, let's talk about Drake May, who I am really into this year. And the reason I am is that we know rushing ability is a cheat code for quarterbacks. But most of the QBs who provide substantial rushing value are really expensive. fantasy drafts or will be once the 20-25 draft season kicks off. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Jalen Hertz, Jaden Daniels. But you can turn a big profit if you can find a quarterback who

provides prolific rushing value, but isn't very expensive. And I think Drake May can be that guy. May started 12 games as a rookie, but if we exclude Week 18 when he only played three snaps before he was pulled. May averaged 4.9 carries and 38.3 rushing yards. Over a full season, that would project to 651 rushing yards. And I think May could actually do better than that. As a sophomore in North Carolina, he had 698 rushing yards. And remember that college quarterbacks have sack yardage deducted from their rushing yardage.

Right. Yeah, May lost about 200 yards in sacks that year. So he was really closer to 850 rushing yards in only 14 games. Also, Drake May had two touchdown runs last season, and his two college seasons as a starter, 16 TD runs in 26 games. So the projections have Drake May, QB 20 and fantasy scoring. That's the scary part. I have May at QB9. So big alarming gap there, although I certainly won't feel compelled to actually draft May as the QB9 if I know I can get them somewhere in the teens.

But it is a little scary that May comes in as a mid-range to low-end QB2. in the projections. I don't even have a big beef with the passing projections for him, which are about 3,300 yards, 21 TD passes. But I do think the rushing projections for May are a little light, 538 yards, 2.6 TD runs. I'll pretty confidently bet the over on those numbers. Now, I'm also high on Drake May this year. And those projections for me, again, you know, doing all the quarterback write-ups in the Blackbook and going through where I like him in Superflex. he's a tremendous value and target of mine this year in Superflex drafts because of that rushing equity.

He's projected in our system right now for 536 rushing yards. That does feel light to me. D'Bro, are you or Fitsy and I are on this point in Drake May? Like you can speculate where the touchdown totals are going to lie and where this offense might be. It can only be better than last year. I think we all know that. How much better?

That's a big question. But we're talking about the baseline of fantasy points. The rushing equity matters a ton. And Drake May's playmaking. ability was already on display and those two things make him really intriguing to both of us how about to you are you a little afraid of these projections being a little lower than maybe we are on drake may this season i'm actually in line with these projections like right now i've got drake may as my qb 20 i think and this isn't so much the hate on may i like may i really do it just comes down until there's a lot

of quarterbacks in that qb2 file them that i like more than drake may and it's not just the i mean because honestly his rushing, like his rushing projection is nice here. I mean, like 10th and attempts, eighth of rushing yards. Like, I don't see May as a guy that I think he's going to go out and rush for like seven, 800 yards. So sticking him in that mid five category, maybe the rushing touchdowns are light, but we don't know what New England's going to do with the goal line. It could be just remandre Stevenson season every single time they get inside the

five of the 10. So I guess my worry and it comes back to these projections. for Drake May this year and why I'm lower than than you guys are is because of the passing. Like if if the volume isn't there because I think we can all agree, New England Patriots, their defense is going to be much improved, if not really stinking good this year. Yes. And so are we going to see Josh McDaniels airing the ball out? Are they going to play more conservative?

Are they going to go run heavy? Is Mike Vrable also going to have a saying what this offense looks like versus passing volume and rushing volume and how that all plays out? game script because Joe, I mean, you've you've made the case on here before that the Patriots betting the over on their wind holes. Okay. Well, that's the case. It's probably not related to what's fueling them winning games, which could be a lot of ugly games. That's probably not going to be related to their high flying offense led by Ramandre Stevenson and Iron Williams and stuff on Dix. Patriot football was a piece. I mean, it was the defense running the football and Tom Brady,

you know, being Tom Brady in the big moments for some of those tougher games. But that goes back to it's probably not they're not outscoring teams by a time every single week. No. So those wins are going to be close? Are those games groups going to look bad? And is that going to depress some of Drake May's numbers, especially in the passing department? So I don't have a problem with the projection. I think I can kind of quibble about like, okay, if I bump him up, you know, two or three rushing touchdowns based off of where we have him.

Because I do think it's kind of light to give him only 2.6 rushing touchdowns. Yeah, that seems light to me too. I think it's more like four or five easily. So can like in and the other thing I'll point out with when we're doing these projections, if you give him those two or three rushing touchdowns, like right now in our projections, he's got two hundred and six or two sixty three fantasy points. If we were to give him even two more rushing touchdowns, you're talking about vaulting him up like five, six spots. So he's at QB 14 if we give him three or more rushing touchdown. So that's honestly, if we're going to quibble about the projection, I think it's the rushing touchdown total and that could vault him up into that. that, you know, fringe maybe just outside QB1 territory. I think what's so interesting for me, Fancy, just real quick, going back to you for a second, is when you look at the rejections of the total points, May is behind, we're basically tied with Stafford and J.J. McCarthy.

And I find that kind of odd because personally, as much as I really like McCarthy this year in the situation he's in, I just feel a little bit more confident that May is, I've seen enough of May where I am like, okay, he gets it. He's in there. I think he's ready to go. He's got a much better set of surroundings. you have him at nine, so clearly you would agree with that fact, too. Like him and McCarthy are not close for you.

Yeah, they played capably in the worst possible circumstances. Bad offensive line, terrible pass catchers. Yeah, and like I still don't think we saw quite all of his rushing potential last year. And I know DeBrow just said he was okay with the projection on rushing yardage. I think if he makes 16 starts or 17, he is going to go for 700 rushing yards. And I feel pretty confident about that. Like he is an aggressive runner. If you watched him in North Carolina, like he really like seeks it out if he doesn't have an open receiver.

So it's one of the things I liked about him and the consolation prize of not getting Jaden Daniels is like, hey, we're still getting a mobile quarterback who's got a good arm and, you know, he's got a little gunslinger mentality in him. All right. Let's talk about another guy here on the list. Dbro, you're a little afraid of Tyro, and I have to say I'm with you. I do not know what to do with this guy. Between the off the field issues, between the on the field. situation where at this stage you got to imagine at 31 years old, he starts to lose just a little of that speed. The injuries last year, an enormous drop-off year over year, too, just for him. Now,

obviously, injuries had a big part to do with that, but when you go from being wide receiver three, wide receiver two, and then dropping off to wide receiver 23, that's a fantasy killer. So Tyree Kill is a player that I think a lot of us are unsure what to do with. Some of us want to draft them just at a certain ADP, just to price and force just in case. What are the projections screaming out to you. I mean, dude, they're right in line where his ADP and his ECR, like, now he's wide receiver 14 in projections. He's wide receiver 15 and ADP and wide receiver 14 and ECR. That scares the crap out of me because I'm below consensus about that because that's what he didn't produce is this mid to high end wide receiver two. Like with two at last year,

he was wide receiver 24. And he was outside of the top in that that stretch. So weeks eight through 16 with two a back wide receiver 24 and outside the top 30 wide receivers of both target chair and yards per route run like this projection scares me because I feel like the entire consensus is like Tyra Kiel's going to keep humming along and it's like we didn't see that last year what's to make you think that this happens this year even if everything like magically works out perfectly like I I fail to find the ceiling in where he beats this projection or even meets it based off of how the dolphins look this year. Their offensive line isn't any better. The questions around Tua and the injury concerned,

getting the ball out quick and that nuking Tyreek Hill, which we saw last year, what out of any of that that we think is going to change or improve in 2025? So this projection and where we are, where the consensus is on Tyra Kiel scares the bejesis out of me because I can't see him paying off on this. Well, Fitz, that's the thing, though. I mean, it is wide receiver 15 right now, right? In the ADP, the ECR is right around there, wide receiver 16. So you're getting a player who, at his best, is one, two, or three, right?

That's a league winner kind of thing. I think that's hard to shake people, especially when it's a name player like Tyreekill that they're so comfortable with drafting year over year and being elite and being great. He's coming off a year where he wasn't. there's enough of a discount here. Do the projections tell you that there's enough of a discount to get you excited about drafting him? Or are you scared because of what you saw last season and maybe what you didn't see this

off season out of the dolphins to make it better? Yeah, it's a discount for sure. We're certainly not paying the price we were paying for the guy who went for 1,700 yards two straight years. But, yeah, I'm kind of with Debrough here. Like, we'll probably get some sort of bounce back from Tyreek if he stays healthy for most of the season, but like I'm just not sure we're getting the 88 catch 1,100 yard season. The projections are forecasting.

I think maybe the brightest ray of hope for Tyreek Hill is that to a average, like he averaged a career low 5.7 intended air yards per attempt last year, Tua did. And in 2023 was at 7.7 intended air yards per attempt, a full two yards more per attempt than last season. In 2022, he was at 9.5. So if Tua stays healthy and Mike McDaniel doesn't need to install a Tua Tunga Vaila preservation plan, maybe Tiret goes back to being the Cheetah. But if we're seeing more of what we saw last year with everything being a dump off to A. Chan or a short little pass to Jonu Smith and the receivers are, you know, in dry dock like they were last year, then yeah, he's not going to hit these projections. But they'll just be.

think that was out of necessity because the offensive line was so bad last year. You had to get rid the football. And I just don't know if they've made enough improvements this year that that changes at stripes. That's it. Right. Like still one of the worst offensive lines in the league. See that and I think that's exactly where I'm at. And I think we come back to that fact when you're talking about Tyree Kill. It's like, okay, you can say, okay, he's healthy now. Everything's good. You could look at all the bright side of all these things. But the one just fact staring in the face is that offensive line did not improve enough, nearly enough. And we find ourselves in that same scenario as we did in 2024.

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What are you scared about when it comes to Kairn Williams? What more does this man have to do for you? Yeah, I know, Joe. The projections just make me uneasy. Kyrin has finished RB2 and RB8s in half-point PPR, fantasy points per game, the last two seasons. Last year he had 316 carries in 16 games. The only running backs with more carries than Kairn Williams in 2024 were Saquan Barkley and Derek Henry. Now Kyrin is being projected for 278 carries this season, fewer than last year, but still a pretty hefty total.

fifth most of any running back in the projections. Now, in terms of efficiency, Kyron was solid last year, not great, 4.1 yards per carry after being at 5.0 the year before. He was around 2.7 or 2.8 yards after contact per carry. Decent number. But, I don't know, it hasn't always been easy to peg Sean McBade's backfields.

Like, ask someone who invested in Cam Acres, like I did a few years ago and got badly burned by it. And now the Rams like keep adding to their backfield. They drafted Blake Corman in the third round last year. They drafted Jarrez Hunter in the fourth round this year. I just worry that Kyron might not be a locked-in workhorse, but the projections are very confident that he's going to be exactly that. Well, when it was Todd Gurley, it was pretty easy to remember where the ball was going.

Yes. For at least two years, it was pretty easy. I think we have a blind spot, Debrough, is the fantasy football community sometimes. when a player emerges out of thin air almost where people just never believe and then he does it and then they don't want to buy in the second time and he does it again,

that they sometimes have a hard time coming around and finding their soul of saying, well, maybe I was just off, maybe I missed this. And I feel like a fantasy community at large kind of miss Kyron Williams coming. And that's fair. There were a lot of reasons to fade him. But after these two years,

I keep struggling with why we're fading him. I know why Fitz is he makes good arguments. Are you making those same arguments when it comes to Kyron Williams at his ADP or at his projection? I am. Yeah. And I will be very clear about this. I was not fading Kiron last year. I was not worried about Blake Corum.

I was much lower than consensus on Blake Corum as a prospect as a player. There was a ton of red flags on Blake Corum's prospect profile. You want to talk about his all 22 and what he showed on tape, his ability is explosiveness and how much of that was Rob because of all the injuries. if you watch 2022 versus 2024, also discussing a player that every single year in college, his tackle breaking metrics and efficiency dropped, those are not all signals of a talented player that we need to really be worried about.

So I was in on Kyron last year, but I am out this year. And a lot of this comes down to, I think we're staring at the same thing that I was discussing last year with Rashad White as an inefficient volume runner. and when if there's not a talented enough running back in that room to take away the volume, then the inefficient volume hog continues on volume hogging.

And then we're good to go. But when a talented runner and an explosive runner enters the room in Jarkwez Hunter this year, I think there should and there are concerns for Kyron Williams. Now, again, we talk about, I think that people are putting a lot of respect on Kyron's name in ranking him as an RB1 where they're at. There's not a lot of people that have him below that. The projections are doing the same. And all this scares the ever-loving crap out of me because I'm just like, dude, like I don't want people drafting him because all of this is volume stranglehold based. It's not because of the efficiency. And if that volume stranglehold goes away or gets diminished,

then Kyran is not going to be an RB1. He's going to be an RB2 because even the narrative is wrong on Kyron, and we've had the narrative wrong, like, whether we could talk about, okay, he's handled a lot more volume for his size than anybody ever expected coming into the NFL. All of the narratives about him being this illustrious pass catcher and the past catching upside. None of that has come to fruition. He's been one of the most inefficient guys in the passing game. He doesn't get a lot of receptions like even we're projecting it for 35 receptions. I have no problems with that. But if he loses time, that can also go down. Stafford's not checking it down. Kairn's not checking passes. So if he doesn't continue this absolute stranglehold on the volume and this backfield.

People are drafting him as an RB1. He easily could be an RB2 in this offense if either Corum or I think Jarkwest Hunter is going to make a dent in that volume. I feel personally attacked by the Rashad White comment because I had so many years in last year. And I just did not see. I was fighting you and Erickson the entire time. And I didn't see Bucky Irving coming. Like I just did not, I didn't, or at least not that quickly.

So there you go. can do. All right, one more name on both the lists here. Debrough, let's go back to you for a moment here. Xavier Worthy next on your list. This is another one too where I think a lot of us are kind of looking at that and saying, all right, what we saw at the end of last year is fine. It was encouraging, but we don't know what it looks like when Rushie Rice is back. I think that's where I struggle. So that being said, how do you look at these projections and tell us why Xavier Worthy might scare you and some others off in 2025? I mean, we are projecting not only, do we have Xavier Worthy right now in PPR projections as the wide receiver 20 we have or she

rice above him he is the 19 18 17 he's the white receiver 16 I'm just I'm just grateful that he was not more than 20 because after that I don't know he's close I can get it alive Derek's already got the gloves off he's got the shoes off God only help us thank good he was under 20 counting it I'm just happy it was inside of 20 outside of that once you get past 20 I don't even know what to do but with Xavier Worthy yeah man like we're we're projecting that Patrick Mahomes is going to support two top 20 wide receivers and Travis Kelsey obviously is a tight in one this year and I'm not saying that Patrick Mahomes can't do that theoretically but the version of Patrick Mahomes that we've seen over the last two years has been absolutely god awful throwing deep down the field and that's what I think

Xavier Worthy's role is going to be in this offense so can Mahomes improve as a deep passer sure we've seen him be awesome in that. But over the last two years, is that more of who he is going forward being bottom 10 in every single accuracy metric 20 yards or further down the field? If that's who he is, then Xavier Worthy is going to fall on his face. He's not going to produce at this level that projections have him at because he didn't even do that last year in that same role. And I know we highlighted this our conversation with Matt Harmon, but I'm going to mention this here again. Xavier Worthy at the back half of last year was producing in the Rishi Rice role. Like his A-Dod dropped from 12.1 to 6.3, his design target rate doubled.

His fantasy points because I hate to tell people, but in weeks one through 12, when you were all so frustrated with Xavier Worthy, he was the wide receiver 51 and fantasy points per game as the field stretching element in this offense. If he goes back into that role and Mahomes is still one of the worst deep ball pass. in the NFL, he's not going to come close to paying off this projection, not even close, nowhere. We had a really good breakdown with Matt Harbin. If you missed it, the reception, perception fell himself was on earlier this week. Debrough and I sat down with him.

We went over some great wide receiver stuff. Go watch on the YouTube channel. That's an important show you need to watch for playing fantasy this year. Fitsy, real quick, your take on Xavier Worthing and his projections. I mean, it's possible he could hit these receiving projections, 69 catches, 876 yards, eight touchdowns. You know, I do have some of the same reservations D'Brow has. But then you consider, like, the rushing projections for Worthy are pretty aggressive,

118 yards and 2.7 touchdowns. Like, I'm not counting on two or three touchdown runs for Xavier Worthy. So if we're building in some of his value based on that, it's kind of a rickety platform to build value on. All right. I was going to bring up the same thing, Fitsy. Like that rushing projection is, Just a tad bit spicy.

It is. It is. All right. Fitsy, I mentioned earlier my, I don't know, getting run over by Rashad White last year via Bucky Irving. And he's on your list this year. So is karma coming back around? Yeah, maybe.

I mean, I don't think he is going to, you know, Bucky Irving's not going to lose his job back to Rashad White. Like, Rashad White lost that job. Bucky took over us the lead back in Tampa down the stretch. And yeah, Rashad was in a. pure backup roll. I don't think there's any chance the pendulum swings back toward Rashad White's barring injury. But I don't know. I've Bucky ranked RB7 in half point PPR. The projections have him in RB 11. What scares me is that I don't really have much of a beef with the projections.

Like they have Bucky with 234 carries, a little over 1,100 rushing yards, 8 TD runs, 43 and a half receptions for 349 yards and 1.8 touchdown catches. That's all pretty reasonable. for Bucky's workload. And those rushing numbers actually give Bucky credit for being an efficient runner. They have him projected for 4.86 yards per carry. Yeah, he was at 5.4 last year, but like that's going to be really hard to sustain. I was blown away by how good Bucky was last year. And I guess the reason, yeah, I just, I'm scared by projections that I find reasonable

that have him less valuable than I think he is. and, you know, like I thought he was a pretty solid option in the latter part of the second round of 20, 25 drafts. I know a lot of people think he's more of a third or fourth rounder, and the projections seem to agree with the people in the third round, fourth round camp. Well, you've heard all the scary stories now about Chase Brown, Tyrake Hill, Xavier Worthy, Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake, May, Karen Williams, and Bucky Irving, but we like to hear from you. All those guys, somebody else, who scares you in 2025? Drop your comments below on the YouTube channel. You might win yourself a George Pickens autographed jersey

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