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We're going to go through position by position. We have seen players most notably Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice's while Miss Entire Seasons on the commissioner's exemplest. There is video involved. People say it's very bad. Packers say they have not seen it. I suspect they know a lot about it. The NFL has retired FBI, retired law enforcement. They're in contact with the people. We know the video exists and we know it confirms what the alleged victim said because the prosecutors have told us that. The police report tells us that. So this is probably as much a PR thing as anything for the NFL's perspective. I realize not trying to diminish what's going on with Josh Jacobs and his victim were
setting all that aside for the purpose of this conversation. I think this is not a great issue. This is not a great spot for Josh Jacobs. It is a huge opportunity for March on Lloyd who in his one game as a pro is a splash. He's flashed more of this preseason, I think, that he has. It is the entire of his career. But he went to the Myers Sports Institute and spent the entire, you know, spent time there studying what the issues were and working on. We saw that with Christian Watson. Right. He's a sports science institute working on his hamstring issues, which didn't save his ACL. But, but you know, it did help him recover quickly and have a career here though. Yeah, I agree. And March on Lloyd, you know, we got to acknowledge some of this is bad luck. You know, I know people say, I he's just, he's always heard you. He got a pen to side is at one point. You would have about back from the ankle injury is a rookie. I got a pen to side is so there's bad luck. And you know, my stance on all these things, Dave, everyone gets hurt. This is the NFL and this running back.
So having 20 car collisions every single week. It's, you know, you should be prepared for this. But Lloyd is in a great spot. And he, you know, it's an opportunity for fantasy investors as well. So I want to ask a little bit because I think this is the conversation that like we need to let breathe probably more than anything else today. Bill Johnson has also beginning reps with the ones and there has been some pretty solid buzz since they made that trade for him. So I know right now like people are going crazy for March on Lloyd. I've seen him go in as early as around five of fantasy drafts. Do you think that's about where he should be going or would you temper expectations a little bit and maybe expect Caleb Johnson because what I remember is Matt LaFlore, prior to having Josh Jacobs, always split the backfield. Like I am old enough to remember though, the free Aaron Jones, Aaron Jones needs more touches. Do you think that they lean on March on Lloyd, given him 2025 touches per game like they did Josh Jacobs or do we see a bit of a split here with some some Caleb Johnson and maybe some Chris Brooks talking people on the ground, including most recently this week Paul Brettle of the Wisconsin State Journal.
I mean, they think this is this is Lloyd's job to take to hold. But you know, we know how this isn't running back. I mean, it's your job until it's not right. And they did bring Caleb Johnson in. It was a little late in the proceeding. So there may be a bit of a process, but if there's a position where somebody can come in and contribute immediately, it is running back. And I'll say, you know, just based on what we've seen with our own eyes over the course of time, LaFlore likes that kind of running back. The Caleb Johnson fits them all. So we'll see if Fred Stark can do great things. Chris Brooks is going to be in the mix too. Great, you know, great past protector. So he'll probably have a role on third downs and maybe cut into a little bit. But basically, I've talked to at least three different people who covered team on a daily basis. And they think this is Lloyd's opportunity to shine and he's going to get that. But he has to shine. What we saw this summer, I mean, there were moments in the touchdown catch. We all saw the highlights of me. I mean, he does have a little, a little something to his game. So he'll need to cash in on that and stay on the field.
Well, we've got a lot more to discuss here. Before we get into all that, go ahead and give us a thumbs up on this video and subscribe. This is going to almost bring us to the end of our preseason content. But we have so much in season content. I'm joined today with Bob Harris. Bob, you're going to be joining me every single week in season. As we talk about risers and followers to get the gears turned in for some trade discussion. So of course, I'm going to be here with Joey Wright, Jeff Bell, Bob Harris. And then we've got a rotating seat as well for other football guy staffers. So hit that subscribe button. Hang out with us through the remainder of the preseason and then through the regular season as well. Let's win some fantasy football championships. But Bob, we would be remiss not to talk about Eston Genti. I mean, the way that this story has just changed since it happened. I mean, like we get the players dropping to a knee and praying. We think Eston Genti season is over in high stakes drafts happening that night. He's falling around nine, round 10, like way deeper than he should be. And now he's just rebounded back to a round two value. Sounds like he's going to be ready for week one. What is your expectation here in Las Vegas? Yeah, you were speaking of Lloyd going high.
And by the way, I think six rounds right price for him. I should have said that. I saw Mike Washington Jr. leap up in that. But there was a hole, right? We got the injury where we got to report that something happened. The players were kneeling, saying their prayers, etc, etc. And it sounded pretty bleak. I saw Mike Washington leap into like the fourth round in the immediate aftermath until we got the second food at drop as it were running in rap report. And he's got to report it. It's probably just a nickel sprain. And so like this seems like it seems like Genti is close. You know, try to reclaim Kubeyak, the the slide grin as you said he was optimistic. I don't know if he was saying he was optimistic about this week or not. You know how these coaches are. My guess is we'll see plenty of Mike Washington this week and we probably show it. And Kubeyak seems to have some some ball check in his blood like where he doesn't want to say anything that he doesn't have to. Like this is the first time had coach. We've seen him deal with the media here and there. But like now as a head coach, we have learned very quickly that he is going to be pretty
tight lip. Doesn't want to give away anything that he doesn't need to give away. But you talk about Mike Washington and you say that you expect to see some of him. We got Ian rap report this morning talking on NFL networks saying Mike Washington guys will be a thing this year. This guy has a 9.90 relative athletic score that puts him 99% high over 2300 qualifying running backs. He ranks 23rd overall. I mean, this guy off the charts athleticism has looked fantastic in the preseason. So do you think that this is going to be like Ash and Gentile bell cow? Like we kind of expected it to be a couple of months ago or do we look back at Kubeyak's history where he split the touches last year in Seattle and say that this might be more of a 70 30 60 40 dare I even say 50 50 split. I think I think we should not get too far in front of this as my friend Vincent Bond Singer of the California New York Post reminds us Mike Washington is not Ash and Gentile, right? He's good. There's no doubt that he's not that sharpening or can record either. Right. So, so yeah, we should probably kept our expectations.
We all tend to like, you know, when these circumstances arrive fantasy investors were opportunistic by nature. We're trying to cash in on momentary moves that might give us a slight edge. Maybe that's all this is. I think probably it'll be slightly more than that. But for right now, you should consider it an immediate edge, a short term play. And then when Gentile's back to full speed, the expectation would be he gets the bulk of the workload. 70 30 makes sense to me 65 35. That's right. Last year with Kyron Williams and Blake Corham. And as we saw in for the Rams, that doesn't preclude Blake Corham from having big games, right? Right. The fact that he's only getting the 35% of the snaps overall. So, yeah, I think that's kind of thing. I would not get overly enthusiastic. I think the market cooled down pretty quickly on my Washington Jr. scene him go almost like the flop and to see him go like in the night, right? But I saw Gentile go get a series of best balls for Series XM had nine best balls going on it. There's one bar he went 101 sounded like someone seemed like someone trolling a little bit.
But in the rest of them, he went between one set. This was after the news. He went 17 to 28. That seems like where I've seen him go ever since I know in our staff together two nights ago, he went right right at the one two turn or the two three turn. I'm sorry. So, yeah, I think he's going, Gentile is going in a price that leads me to believe everyone expects him to eventually return to the primary goal. And then I think like Washington, you kind of lump him in with like the Chris Rodriguez is and the other guys that are going in like around 910, 11, you know, there might be a little bit of standalone value, but really you're drafting him for the contingent upside or if you get like really desperate during by weeks in the injuries. One more time I'm going to ask for that like we have seen these videos recently have been getting 15, 20, 25,000 views. And we're only getting a few hundred likes. So help us out if you're watching this right now. It takes half a second. Just give us that thumbs up means the world to us. Let's talk about another injury, another ankle injury and another running back ankle injury. Jeremiah love. I don't know if you saw Bob, you know, it seemed like he was going to miss some time, high ankle sprain, but then he carried some pizza up a flight of stairs onto a plane.
No, I'm from me. That's enough for me. So so this is an interesting one because I feel like it's been interesting to me that his ADP has not fallen at all. He's been running back 13. It's full for like a weekend. I got him in round five in one draft and then I went back in another draft two days later and he was right back in around three. I think our colleague Matt Walden would tell you that round five is probably the right place for him healthy, right? You know, like this is going to be somewhat of a split. I, you know, talking to the beat writers there last night just talked to Howard Ballser. And he thinks love is, you know, is a different enough guy that he's going to beat dominant, but it's probably not going to be early in the season. We're going to see plenty of Tyler Raugear. I know Tyler Drake at Arizona Sports suggested that we should expect a V-general opposite and Tyler Raugear type split all season long. I think that's within the range of outcomes. Is it the most likely end? Maybe so. I think obviously where Love separates this is a past that you're and a big playmaker,
but, you know, we're looking at Tyler Raugear who was well paid. Teams tell the truth with draft capital and cash. They spent a lot of both on these two backs. I think they'll probably, and granted, love came after and maybe that wasn't necessarily the initial plan. But I think, you know, Tyler Raugear is not going away. We saw him coming off a career high eight touchdown season last year, working in relief and, you know, spelling. It was mostly spelling. I think that was more of a, that was like between a 60s, 70s, 40, 30s kind of things. I felt like all of Tyler Raugear's touches came in the second half when they were up. And then they would just say, let's put B-gen on ice until next week and Tyler Raugear produced. That probably won't be an issue in Arizona. Right. But, you know, I do want to talk about this because like, people are so quick to just write off Tyler Raugear and say it's going to be the Jeremiah Love show. B-gen Robinson incredible prospect. Jeremiah Love incredible prospect. Do you remember Bob? I'm putting you on the spot here. Do you remember where B-gen Robinson finished his rookie season in Vegas? Oh, it was not great. It was not great.
He was the RB 17. Yeah, I like it. And this is a phenomenal way of. Yes. Yes. So there is a lot of hope that Jeremiah Love is just going to run away with this backfield that he's going to do things that you'd expect to see from a top draft pick. But Tyler Raugear is a very, very good running back. I expect him to be involved as well. And I think that that's kind of what you're hoping for with Jeremiah Love is like high end to RB 2 production. I don't think anybody's expecting him to give you a top three, top five season. This isn't Zeke joining the high power Dallas Cowboys offense. This is, you know, something that we hope two, three years from now can look a little bit better. So would you say that that's kind of like, I know where I'm at with Jeremiah Love. Like if he falls in around four, I'm kind of in case to pick him, but I'm not even thinking about taking love where he's going right now. And the offense is a whole two, the split backfield and three, this high ankle spraying that we know can linger for a long, long time. And four of the players going after him, Jermont De Williams, Breeze Hall, the Andre Swift, Cam Skatibou, who I'm all in on David Montgomery, Quinshaw and Junk and Zerv's. A lot of guys, I'm more comfortable with Ben. And also I'm like not all that bothered by taking Tyler Raugear as ladies these going,
it's still been like crazy. They've pushed it post 10th round. Oh, yeah. You know, so I think he like, if you're out there drafting Chris Rodriguez, you're and Dave, I know you are. I see him there. And and not without good reason, right? I think you can, you know, this seeing out, you're going as much later than Rodriguez is kind of interesting. Well, let's go ahead and talk about another backfield. And this one got completely flipped on its head over the last couple of days. It was wheels up for Jonathan Brooks. He was healthy. Chuba Hubbard was dealing with an injury and we could not have been more excited. Now all of a sudden Jonathan Brooks is dealing with soreness, which I don't know if you saw this Bob just today, his fiance said that it is not me soreness on Instagram. She responded to a commenter. So, you know, Bob and I were putting in the work like we're digging through comments on Instagram to see what his fiance is saying about this. He also stamped that could somebody on Twitter yesterday. I don't know if you saw this where somebody said, oh my gosh, what a wasted pick in Jonathan Brooks. And he a bunch of laughing emojis and said, God bless you, my boy.
So he seems to be optimistic. His fiance is optimistic. But how are we feel about this backfield now? We're feeling way more nervous maybe than we should. Which is what we do. I mean, we can say, oh, Christian McCaffrey missed time with tightness. Well, you know, according to him, there's the plan all along. I suspect that's true. I suspect a lot. Like, I feel like this year more than any year, everybody who is being excited is having soreness, tightness, etc. They're just going easy on him. Like, honestly, if we're being honest with ourselves as fantasy investors as much as it makes us nervous when our guys are on the field, it's great that they're not on the field. I don't even know if you've done getting hurt when it doesn't matter. So in the point about not being the knee is that's what I talked about last night on the serious program was they don't have to tell us anything about this, right? Until next week, there's no injury report. So if it's not as knee, I'm totally unworried by it. And I'll be watching for that because everyone gets sore day when we won't play the game. You practice, you come away sore, you get bumps and bruises, you take hits, things happen.
It's a wise course of action, I think, for these coaches. Does that lead to more volatile September's? Yes, it does, right? But when the normalization hits about week four, week five, and you held on nicely through the wild ride that is September, which is essentially the new August, right? I mean, they've got to just shifted it, but it's the games that matter. And that's what the coaches are focused on. So a lot of these players, and I'll throw Mike Evans in that group, Malthrow, McCaffrey in that group, a lot of players in that group who are being rested when if this was the season, they'd be practicing or certainly be playing. And I will say, I kind of saw the opposite. I did what I deemed to be a very sharp draft, to $250 draft, 14 teams, a lot of really sharp analysts that are in here. I was in the draft the other day where we have seen Jonathan Brooks go in early round six in 12 team leagues. He fell to the very end of round seven in a 14 team league. So now, and this is Will Brinsey and Ben Solick. There are sharp drafters in here, and everybody was passing over.
So I don't know if this is reactive, but I had been saying when Brooks was going in round six, Chuba Hubbard was falling in round 10. I said that I had changed my sights, and I was not drafting Jonathan Brooks, and I preferred the value of Chuba Hubbard going later. Now if we're seeing that start to converge a little bit, which now I'm kind of seeing Jonathan Brooks going in round seven and eight, and Chuba Hubbard going in round eight and nine, I do prefer Brooks at that cost because the upside is still there. So I feel like this was like a needed new story that now just kind of like regulated these guys to where their ADPs should have been all along. Sure, but Brooks is the kind of player who has the talent and the price to be a league winner. If you land him at cost and he delivers at the levels, remember he was a high-smotrophy candidate. The best back in the 2023 class. So I think there's no reason to overplay this. We all know what the risk is associated here. Guys had two or eight CLs, right? He's missing the entire season. He's coming back. You know, you work that risk in, but that risk is also part of the price. That's why he's available so you know, it's where he is. So if you're keen on taking those chances, take that chance with Brooks and feel good
about it. Knowing that we don't know if it's going to work out or not, but I didn't overpay to find out. So your answer to this question might be Quinn-John Juddkins or Deandre Swift or Breeze Hall. But my question for you, Marishon Lloyd or Jonathan Brooks, you've got to select one of these two guys. They both fallen well beyond ADP and you want to take one of them. Who do you prefer in a vacuum? So I'm going to, in a vacuum, I prefer Jonathan Brooks. And we're dealing with optimism and the unknown for both of them. And I love that because we don't know how bad they might be or how great it, you know, we're flying by the sea of our pants. But I could see making an argument and a lot of times I split these things up on how your officer is constructed, right? If you maybe need someone who's more certain to have a workload, I think right now I feel like that's Lloyd. I don't know if it'll be high in production or not. But if you feel like you're taking a little bit more of a chance and you have some really established guys that you got a position early and you want a guy that, hey, if you have forms of expectations, I have a huge play here. I think Brooks is that guy. And Brooks is kind of the guy I'd be going for. This is my time, my daily reminder to everybody that nobody remembers second place.
I'm a little more interested in swinging for the fans as well. People do remember, but they don't talk about it much. But yeah, so I'm a little more likely to swing for the fact that maybe Lloyd is that. I mean, I know there are people out there who think he's a super explosive, you know, playmaking threat. I think Brooks is that as both a runner and receiver as well. And we've seen in Carolina what, you know, when somebody gets a hot hand, they get the free reign to run with it, right? So Dave Pinalis wants that. I'll say this though to Chubahubber. And this goes like over the course of time since Chubahubber moved into that line a couple of years ago, everyone I talked to who covers that team on a daily basis uses the same word Dave canals uses about Chubahubber. He's a violent runner. They love that about him, right? That's something that's really important in this offense. And so we'll see if Jonathan Brooks can bring that same energy level. And you also hear like anytime Chubahubber is mentioned by players, teammates, coaches, and beat reporters. You always hear about him being a team captain and a leader and doing things the right way
and consistent. So, you know, all of the things that we can't say about Jonathan Brooks at this point in his career, he is the explosive, the allure of the unknown, like I understand why we're chasing that. But Chubah isn't going to disappear. That's also true. And also don't forget, you know, like we want to say that Jonathan Brooks is the, you know, the faster more he is, but but Chubah is no slouch. He was a track guy. I mean, he was a sprinter. Right. He's a fast-speed, straight-line speed, maybe not as much wiggle and maybe not as elusive, but has plenty of power to run through those tactics. So the next one, I think we finally have clarity on the 101. You know, it's been Jemir Gibbs or B. John Robinson all off season. We got news that Isaiah Pacheco now goes on IR. He heard his knee early in training camp. Now he's dealing with a back injury. Brand Holmes was kind of like cheeky and saying like, yeah, you know, we hope he can come back this season. Like as it stands right now, the only running backs behind Jemir Gibbs on the death chart, depth chart are C. O'Vocky and Jacob sailors. So I don't know.
They're probably isn't too much to discuss here, but if you're on the clock with the 101 Bob, you're taking Jemir Gibbs over B. John Robinson. I've been on Gibbs all along, yes. Yeah. And like, you know, it's a super explosive offense. There are other playmakers there, maybe more mouths to feed and Detroit than there are in Atlanta. But, but nonetheless, I mean, Gibbs is like every single beat writer I've talked to and including Kim Twenty, men just recently from the team's website. Like when you say, is it going to be this, is this the workload we've been waiting for? It's almost like they think we're understating the case, right? Like, it's going to be monstrous. So that's the feeling around from the people who covered the team on a daily basis. Yes, I'd wait in McFarlane shared his week one projections the other day. And so that he came out to like 36 PPR points for Jemir Gibbs. And it's like, yeah, if that's what this backfield puts up on a weekly basis, this is an explosive high scoring offense and there's nobody else to take the touches. Yeah, Jemir Gibbs, the easy one on one. I think we've now had that clarity. Yes. Last running back note that I want to talk about here. And this isn't really a specific note. It's more just like, Giants Batfield.
Let's discuss it. It seemed like it was very clear that there was going to be this thunder lightning approach with Camp Scatiboon Tyrone Tracy. Tyrone Tracy misses a block in the preseason that Art Stapleton said made the team view him in a different light. And then almost immediately after the team goes out and they sign Najee Harris, we get word that Najee Harris is immediately getting reps with the ones. And I know like everybody loves Camp Scatiboon. Everybody loves Tyrone Tracy, but Najee Harris, man, he just feels like such a hardball running back. I feel like this is going to be such a frustrating three-headed monster all year. If we're looking at three running backs, splitting touches, plus Jackson Dart stealing some of the goal line touches away. And what we don't expect to be that good of an offense. Like is this one where you can just kind of say like, I don't know if I want to touch any of these running backs and drafts? If the price is cheap enough, I will. And I think Camp Scatiboon has the ability to perform expectations because I saw him do it last year, different offense. But also, because John Harbaw wanted to do, they want to run the football. They brought in pieces to help them run the football. They brought their pullback over from Patrick Ricard over from Baltimore.
They added players up front, so invested in the draft as well. So we saw Scatiboon last year when there was a Tyrone Tracy in a Devon Singletary, and he was getting about 60% of the touches, 69% of the snaps. So I don't want to overthink this. I think this may be people missing out on an opportunity. But again, it takes, that's kind of a risk tolerance issue. He's coming off a serious injury. Apparently, he's an infectious disease. There's a little bit of a knucklehead factor as I'll put it politely with Camp Scatiboon. And you have to probably mitigate that risk. And maybe the way to do that is Najee Harris super late in your draft. Maybe more so than it is Tyrone Tracy. And I have liked that quite a bit. Like you can get Najee Harris from 16 of your draft. There's just kind of this idea that Najee Harris is just this old dusty veteran. This guy who probably last year rushed for a thousand yards every single year of his career. And I saw somebody that I think they were kind of being tongue in cheek when they made this tweet. But I was like, it's actually kind of a sharp take. If you think about it, somebody said, you don't have to worry about Najee Harris regaining
his explosiveness coming off the Achilles in here because he didn't have it to begin with. And it's like, well, that is the type of player he is. Like he is not a guy who relies on his speed. He is a grinder. He is going to run through defenders. And even if he does lose a little bit of his explosiveness, I think he'd still be a very good NFL running back. Yeah, I think, yes, I think he can be super. He can be very good. We should remember though what John Harbott said the day they signed him that he's not 100% and he's still a work in progress. So he still may have some ways to go before he's a significant contributor. So watch that. Yeah, agreed there. Well, I think we did enough to cover all of the running backs. So let's talk about some wide receivers here. Let's start off the wide receiver segment with just kind of a wiki hype check here. You know, it's so easy to get over our skis with rookies. And I want to talk first about Dejan Sribling. This guy has had a defening drum beat since OTAs has looked fantastic in the preseason. Ricky Pierce all is out for the year. Christian Kirk is on IR. Mike Evans has already dealt with a laundry list of injuries throughout the straining
camp. It's tightness. Yes. And he did come back to practice at the start of this week. So we don't want to overreact to that. But as it stands, it looks like Dejan Sribling, like at worst, is going to be the wide receiver too to start week one. Like how excited are we feeling about Sribling? So I think back to what I wrote immediately after the draft as I was assessing class. I thought, you know, everyone thinks the 49ers reach for Dejan Sribling. I think they found a guy they think is a perfect fit for their offense. Big, fast, sub-four, four speed, well over six, but over 200 pounds. A willing and capable downfield blocker, the most important thing. It seems to me Kyle Shanahan will go after his guys and see if they work out. And I think Sribling's going to get a great chance. Look, we've seen what a receiver or not everyone thought of Hollywood. John Jennings has been like a widely overlooked commodity during his entire Tangerine San Francisco. He's been super productive, I think with the pier saw injury. And look, I mean, like I'm in on Mike Evans, I think it's six round. You can't go wrong. But Kay for the athletic told me that Kyle Shanahan views Mike Evans as the first true ex he's
had since Julio Jones in Atlanta. And they intend to feed him like crazy. But honestly, he's not an ideal fit for this offense. He's not a run after the catch guy. I'm sure Brock Verde can cobble something together and get the ball to Mike Evans and he'll make plays. But Sribling seems like the ideal fit. So yeah, I'm pretty I'm pretty keen on him. I think the pro I think he's priced reasonably well. I mean, I've seen I don't think I've seen him go higher than the night around. I think that's fair, but he's going later in that most of the drafts. I'm yeah. And I've seen him go in his high like in these high stakes drafts. I told you about this like sharp 14 teamer that I did the other day. He went in the middle around five and that is not normed. But that just shows like when sharp people are putting money online, like they are willing to take him as a release round five. Because there is serious, serious upside here with Sribling. One other thing I don't want to talk like too much about like Jersey number stuff, but did you see he was wearing number 15, which was very, you know, he looked like the second coming of Juwan Jennings. And then did you see he switched to number seven, which if you've been paying attention to this whole Desjard love thing, this Instagram scammer, that was his number.
So I don't know if he's just doing this as like a joke or what is going on. But pretty funny that he switched to Jersey number seven should a salsa extra jerseys with that one. Let's talk next about Cyrus Allen. Lots of good buzz since training training has opened up and we're also getting some not so great buzz on Rashi Rice talking about that the knee might not be 100% that he's not feeling his best. My struggle here Bob, nobody loves getting hyped about rookies more than I do, but it seems like the Kansas City beat just we get hit with this bait and switch every single year. We're like they are hyping up rookies and they just always seem to face plan and maybe he's just that I've been burned so many times by these these chiefs rookies. I struggled by into Cyrus Allen. What does your take here? I've been pretty much the same, but I will say this Jesse Newell who writes for the athletic I talked to him about a month ago and he was throwing cold water on the Cyrus Allen buzz. He's all on board now though. If you read right. He's on top of this one.
Talk to Matt Derek from Chiefs Digest. He was a little bit dismissive of him more recently thinking yes, he's looked great, but we've seen this movie before of these guys that flash and camp and don't get it done. I'll say a couple things working for him. Price is free. He's still essentially a free square play or more or less. Also it is interesting that Patrick Mahums has been looking his way a lot and seems to be targeting heavily. That's the guy that matters. And we'll see what Rishi Rice looks like. I've kind of been avoiding Rishi Rice. I don't know that I have a share of Rishi Rice at this point. Dinosaur aside and any redrafts are probably a best ball. I should not lie to people. There are probably some best ball shares, but there's a lot of shares. But in redrafts that I manage, I don't think I have a single share. And this is one like, these trading camp reports we do here at football guys. So so valuable. Justin Ho is the one who is covering the Chiefs and every single week he just kept saying the same thing like this top three is locked in and it's Rishi Rice, Xavier Woody and
Taekwondo and Thorton. And Taekwondo is the guy that I think people keep forgetting about. He's like a guy who he got go too. He has. Yeah, he got carded off early, but this is a guy who like they brought back after a very promising 2020. Very fast season. Forber second round pick. Yeah, with off the off the charts speed. So like that is kind of what they want. Like he is that deep element and then you've got Xavier Woody opposite him. Another deep element and that kind of opens the underneath stuff for Rishi Rice. I struggle to see how Cyrus Allen fits into this offense. So you and I I think we're both. I don't want to say like completely dismissive of it, but I think the hype has gone a little bit too far and another player that I think the hype may have gone a little bit too far on is a rookie that I really liked Kobe Lane. Like I love this guy. I was higher on him than anybody else when we put out our football guys rookie rankings in the rookie guy this year. And we got some really, really good buzz when training camp started. But since then it seems like it's quite a down a little bit. You know, he had some highlight plays in camp that made the rounds on social media. People got really excited. My whole thing is like if Rashad Bateman was going to get suspended, I could talk myself
into drafting to be Lane. But I think he's going to be from the outside looking in. Like he does a lot of the same things Rashad Bateman does. It seems like Rashad Bateman is going to avoid suspension. So Jacobi Lane just not a guy that I'm really that interested in redraft. I'm not either, but I think it died to see hell. Yeah. But part of the initial reaction was people like Declan Doyle who started his coaching career in 2019 in New Orleans. If anyone remembers what happened that year, Michael Thomas went off and that's his. And he's making those comparisons, right? He's comparing Jacobi Lane to Michael Thomas. So that probably got them all rolling. But the beat riders and people who cover the team, you know, it does sound like he's been phenomenal in practices. He made some splash plays in some of the exhibition games. But I'm with you. I don't know that there's enough passing bandwidth to make him a consistent weekly contributor at this point. And I got to say I hated that Michael Thomas comp so much. Like they're both tall. They have tall time. Yeah. And then Denver. Same, same, same. I mean, they're tall. And that's it.
Like Michael Thomas was one of the toughest NFL players I could remember ever watching. Like we just get blasted going across the middle of the field, pop up, line up and do it all over again. It's going to be Lane. I like it. Very big fan. But he is a finesse player. He is a speed. He's going to try to bend around defenders like just can't come in to Michael Thomas. But let's talk about Alec Pierce because this is another one. He's been a very, my guy, a very bumpy recovery. So you know a lot about Alec Pierce. I know you've been playing close attention to this. Like when Bestball Drafts first opened up coming out of the NFL draft, he was going around five. Like people were so excited. He got that monstrous contract. Michael Pittman was out of the picture. It was so easy to envision the upside for Alec Pierce. But since then, kind of made the joke a handful of times. But it seems like he's been a week away from returning for two months now. Like we keep here and like, oh yeah, you should be back out there next week. And he finally did return to practice on the 27th. He says that his goal is to play week one. But like, you see these videos where he just like is still a little ginger on his ankle. Like he doesn't see what he's up on the left. He's like, exactly.
Yeah, there's just so many red flags here. And where I was out on Alec Pierce when he was going around five, six, seven. Now I do find myself drafting him because like you could occasionally get him in round 12. Like he's going so deep in draft. So what are you doing with Alec Pierce? I am. I'm taking the discount right now. And to be, you know, perfectly clear here, I have plenty of shares not discounted as well. I've been drafting him early and often. And you know, we've heard about the issue. I feel like, I feel like behind the scenes the team has been way less worried about this than maybe we have been or, you know, the coverage has been. But that's because we don't know. We haven't seen anything. And you know, now that we're seeing little bits, it is worrisome. But I'm going to go again, you know, sometimes, especially when you're getting this much with discount, we know what the cult wants to happen here. The cult wants to happen. Him being a wide receiver one and earned $140 million over the next few years. You talk to our colleague Matt Walman.
He'll tell you he's way more well-rounded receiver than he's given credit for it when season was the one-street pony. This guy who led the league in yards per catch and he should last two years. And it was fairly productive on a somewhat limited bit of bandwidth last year. I think with more bandwidth, there's something like the other part of this equation that appeals to me. Now that he's discounted far enough, the huge upside there for him, but also the huge upside of this offense as we saw with the angel Jones running a last year. There was scoring over 30 points of game over the first 10 weeks when he was fully healthy. Then he tweaked the crack, the fibula, or whatever. They fell off to like 28 points of game. Right. And then when he went out, it totally not like 14 turnovers in those four games or something like that. They really started to fall apart before the Achilles. So you don't have to believe in Daniel Jones or this offense or Alex Pierce, but you should probably pay attention to what happened. Shane Stuykin's been known as a pretty good offensive mind. Give him the right quarterback. He's had a great deal of success.
Turns out Anthony Richardson wasn't the right guy or didn't make himself the right guy. Daniel Jones did. So I'm not dismissive of this offense of all at all. I'm not there. You know, I'm drafting games as you know, it's like crazy as quarter past 23. And so and and I've been drafting Pierce and I'll continue to draft him. I have one more draft today. If he's available to me, I will. I'll smack him at the right price. Yeah, I was checking our rankings and you and I are both egregiously high on Daniel Jones compared to the consensus. Like I've got him in that same bucket with like Bownex is like a high end QB two because he's called the first 10 games last year. He's granted up was what 14 after the full 10 year quarterback eight after the full 14 games. He was ever doing like 28 points per game when before that injury. And I mean, some of that did come from some some rushing production, but that's who he is. And I think that he's going to get a remember Shane Stuykin, the architect of what they built in Philadelphia. Yeah. Like this is a very, very good offensive mind. And now I think he had all of the pieces Tyler Warren, I think was kind of the missing piece and then also putting Daniel Jones in there a quarterback who thrives off of play
action. Like he just has everything he needs now to build his offense. So I'm just a believer in this Colts team 100% last wide receiver. Let me sneak in one more. We just got a little breaking news Bob. Not going to be breaking by the time this air is tomorrow morning, but Michael Wilson just got a three years, 75 million dollar contract. So sorry to all of you Marvin Harrison Dynasty managers out there, but Michael Wilson is not going to be leaving in free agency after this season. But let's talk about the thing we really want to talk about here. Jordan Tyson's hamstrings. He has dealt with this injury for almost a full year now. Final year at ASU. He was dealing with it. Play say it's a different. It's a different. It's a different leg right now than it has been. Still hamstrings. And that's why I went with the plural with the hamstrings because it does worry me. Yes, he is still hamstrung. And this is just like, you know, through the pre draft process through a OTA's through training camp. And then we saw him come back and training camp and look electric like Nick Underhill shared that video of him just like putting a defender on the ground with one of the nastiest routes
I've ever seen. So I think like I can talk myself into the upside case here, which is that he does like what Odell Beckham did and just like return after a few weeks and just like the NFL on fire. Sure. But we also have to look at the downside here that he could just potentially be a zero that he just can't hop on that moving train mid season. He comes back. He's kind of in a limited role. So how are you handling Jordan Tyson drafts? I'm going to let someone else be the hero. If you win with him, congratulations to you. I shall shake your hand and admire your courage. Meanwhile, I'll be rolling out tons of Crystal LaVay who in the third round seems like a crazy stealing. Why do you see for six last year? Do you want John? No. And do you want Johnson is the other one I'll have a ton. I going as right around with Titan 16 at a hundred targets last year yet nine Titan one weeks as tied for second most in the NFL and his position. I don't know what do you got to do. Oh, by the way, he was Tyler Schucks or college roommate imagine that an organic one point never really good friends off the hill. So I think Tyson, like I can see why we were dialed back on Johnson and maybe a little
bit on a lavi thinking Tyson was going to play a full season. I don't see the reason for it now. And I'm so again, I'm going to let somebody else be the hero on Tyson. I'm going to focus my attention on a lavi and you on Johnson. And I think that if you have an IR spot, there's a little bit of gamesmanship here. If you want to take Jordan, I said at the very end of your draft because he's available moving to your IR spot and then go pick up a kicker or a defense or backup running back whatever it may be. If you've got those IR spots, but I think like in your shallower leagues, like a 10 team league, five six player bench, Jordan Tyson is probably just going to end up being a roster clogger for the majority of the season. I think even if somebody does draft him by the time by weeks roll around and he's still inactive, they're going to end up dropping him. So don't waste a roster spot on Jordan Tyson in your shallow leagues, but in your deeper leagues, I think that he wants IR consideration. If you can get here in like round 13, 14, 15 and beyond. But we got quarterbacks and tight ends to discuss as well. So let's move on to the quarterbacks. It's fall in Jeep country and during the drive into fall sales event, get a great deal
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year. I know there's a new offense and that always brings a little optimism again, optimism would be unknown. We don't know how bad it might be. We're getting an idea. We're getting at least hearing how bad it might be. They have a horrible early schedule. They start with Philadelphia. They're not going to get off to a stunning start. I'm concerned here. I was a little enthusiastic. By the way, just last year Daniel was quarterback 34 on the season. He's 16.6 points a game. If you want to count for the injury, I'm ranked 18. He didn't go great, God. So I'm a little dial back. The offensive line talk always worries me. We should pay more attention to it. And in this case, it seems like a real issue. I think they'll probably get it at least dialed in so they are serviceable and maybe something more than inoperable. But I don't know that they'll be ideal at all this season. Yeah, and I feel bad talking about Jaden Daniels because we just did our episode of a couple of days ago, or my guys episode. And we agreed before recording. This isn't the episode for debate. Let's just put it out there.
Why we like these players. And Jeff Bell talked about Jaden Daniels. It's a player that I just haven't been drafting. And I saw a lot of the commenters. That was the one that they pushed back on. My fear is this guy is just real thin. I know that's a really kind of meathead analysis. But a guy that is that small. If he's going to be getting hit by defensive lineman multiple times every single week, a guy who struggled to say healthy last year, that's a major concern for me. Well, part of this is he does not shy away from contact, right? I mean, you know, he's got that little bit of that Jackson dark kind of a year where he thinks he can handle something. Are there say Robert Griffin the third type of? Yes, worked at the college level. So so I think yeah, I think there's some I think that's a concern as well. I'm like, I hope he's fantastic. I think he'll be fantastic on someone else's roster, especially this year, a year when the quarterback one tier goes down through as we said with Daniel Jones, maybe. He's like 23. So, you know, well, you got guys like Bo Nick's going his quarterback 16 Jared Goff is quarterback 14, a Brock party, Matthew Stafford, all those guys going in quarterback through territory.
It's hard for me to make a, you know, to spend the draft capital to land Jane Daniels at cost right now where he's going in the middle of the middle of the pack of the quarterback once. So I said quarterback and tight end news. This is kind of a little bit of both. The news technically is that Kirk Cousins was named the starter, but you know, to be in a real sickle lead, the even think about putting Kirk Cousins in your week one lineup. I think what we care more about when it comes to the quarterback in Las Vegas is what that means for Brock Bowers. We don't even have to talk about Jalen Ailer and Trey Tucker and Jack Bash and everybody else there. Let's just focus on Brock Bowers here. Kirk Cousins the starter. I think that is going to be good for Brock Bowers, but I kind of have two questions here. When will Mendoza take over if it all and two, how much would a switch to Mendoza impact Brock Bowers in his production? What are your thoughts here, Bob? So I'm going to take you about this fair amount. So number one, you know, Kirk Cousins is great for tight ends and let's first acknowledge that Brock Bowers, not your normal tight end, but he is a tight end nonetheless. We can go back to the days in Washington and Jordan Reed.
We can follow him through Minnesota and see what he did for Kyle Rudolph. Tyler Concelling became a name because he played with Kirk Cousins briefly. So we've seen what happened there. We saw what happened with our own eyes last year where Kyle Pits was about tight end 15 or 16 through the first nine games with Michael Panics, finished his tight end two going on a tight end two tear with Kirk Cousins. So I'm pretty optimistic about Brock Bowers this year. Again, listening to the people covered the team on daily basis, they can't throw out enough superlittance. You know, when you're talking to me, right? Rocky, I've been a guy unicorn from heaven or something. Well, that was like who we act. That was straight from the coaches, Mal. Listening to the beatwriters who are truly in awe of what he does and don't understand how he gets it done, how he gains separation every play, all the things that make him that set him apart. So I think he's going to be phenomenal. I also think Fernando Mendoza, I'm told he won the highest betrothing and he was very very good calls. We'll probably figure this out. You know, that's like, and also your
job is drop back and throw it to the six foot six guy who's open on every single play. It's not that hard. It doesn't have to be ideal. This is a conversation we have every year. I try to remind all of you every year, less than ideal quarterbacks does not mean to what receiving assets can't have great seasons. They do it every single year playing with a lot of quarterbacks, not just to Jefferson, but many, many receivers who actually Justin Jefferson has. Jefferson, I mean, with Nick Mullins, all right? I think JG McCarthy is just a bar or nobody could clear. Right. So why are you receiving three, but, but he's got to have a connection. It turns out, but anyhow, I think they'll I think they'll figure it out. Like, what is the Raiders by week is week 13 or something like that? It's laid yeah for 13 30. I think that probably is the natural pivot point, you know, which would just could be disastrous if you make it into the playoffs on the back of rock, and then you get Fernando Mendoza's first start the first week before your fantasy playoffs. Exactly. Yes. That might not be great. So watch that. So let me ask you last question on Brock Bowers and the Raiders here. Brock Bowers has been
my guy. I've talked about a lot. We just did the my guys episode. Talk about Brock Bowers as my guy. I've been talking about drafting him as early as the one two turn in your 12 team leagues, kind of saying that I've got this like very firm tier of 11. And if those 11 aren't on the board, chase Brown and Brock Bowers are the guys that I'm looking at at the one two turn. Do you think that's a little bit too aggressive to go out and get a player like Brock Bowers? I think you could make an argument if you didn't want to miss out on Brock Bowers and you took them in the second half of the first round. I probably wouldn't I probably wouldn't roast you. I mean, I wouldn't do it, but I wouldn't roast you for doing it and then tied it premium. Of course, I would applaud you around like for that playing in those leagues. But yeah, I think like, you know, if you want leverage over the field at a position, he is the one most likely to give you that this year in my estimation. I mean, we can make arguments from a bride. We can make arguments for loved one down the stretch last year. Josh Allen at cost for sure. So, so yeah, but I think I think going after Brock Bowers is especially in the middle of the second round is that's not a bad move at
all. Patrick Mahomes is on track to play weak one. And, you know, like we haven't gotten word from Andy Reader, Patrick Mahomes himself, but like everybody, like you asked the players in Kansas City and they just laugh and they're like, hey, 15's going to be out there. We've kind of been hearing that since OTAs, he started training camp with his big bulky knee brace on, shed it because he said it was uncomfortable playing with that. I think, you know, the rushing isn't going to be there. Like we saw last year, a career year as a rush year. Right. Probably not going to replicate that in 2026, but I just kind of like and I know like Sigmund Bloom, very smart, respect everything he says. He says like do not draft Patrick Mahomes. I'm just kind of at a point where I put Patrick Mahomes in that like group with like Derek Henry and, you know, some other guy like you just can't bet against it. Like there's every reason to bet against Mahomes, but I just can't do it. You could bet against him. You don't have to make a big bet though this year to bet with him, right? You don't have to have 14 as your QB2. Right. You want to take a chance to that within a earlier quarterback. You know, maybe you feel like we're totally wrong about Jaden Daniels and you want to take a wild chance with that. Go ahead and get yourself a
Patrick Mahomes later in the draft. I do think like this is something I started saying it the day after he had surgery when he began his rehab the day after his surgery. This guy, if there is anyone who is going to make a point of getting back on the field as his guy and over the course of the entire off season and especially over the last two months, you know, talking to beat writers regularly, they say there's very little doubt in their mind as well. So I think he'll be fine. I think he'll have a pack of homes. But the biggest last year was the biggest percentage of his fantasy production came from running plays than it ever has. And that's not going to happen this year. So be mindful of that. Well, this might change. We are recording Thursday afternoon. This episode comes out Friday morning. So as of now, 31 of 32 teams have announced their week one starter. The Atlanta Falcons, they don't have a starter. They have no idea what they're doing. They've got three quarterbacks. They've got four quarterbacks. They've got zero quarterbacks. We don't really know what's going on here. Uh, Tua has been awful. I mean, like I, I, I've talked to Falcons reporters. I know you've talked Falcons reporters at all as well. Like has been terrible in the preseason. Has been terrible in camp.
And it sounds like they're just terrified to name him the starter because of how bad he's been. We're getting some good buzz from Jack Strand. But let's call like it is. He's an undrafted rookie. They probably don't want him to be the week one starter either. It could be Cooper Rush. He was another one. Yes, who has had a decent camp, but kind of like traded for signed out of necessity early in camp when everybody else was heard. To me, my read on this situation is that they desperately want Michael Pentax to be the starter. But Michael Pentax physically isn't ready yet. Like this guy just last week was able to return to 11 on 11 after that ACL injuries. So what is your kind of read here? Are they just going to take this like all the way up to like Saturday before kickoff to name a starter? Hey, Mike, just go ahead and assume it's two until you hear it's not at least to open the season. Cameron Wolfe and if you'll never reported I think it was last night that you know the plan is eventually for pennies to take over. I talked to Deorlando led better a venerable Falcons beaker writer last night. And and he agrees with with all the fantasy managers assessment.
It has not been good to a looks horrible. He did say though that you know like I asked it specifically like so who is to a favorite who does he look for like I we know we know what Drake London gets when Michael's right Michael Pentax is on the field. It's pits. It's the it's a focus on pits with two of so so that might be something that you know you can hang your hat on none of us are starting Atlanta quarterbacks in our fantasy team. But we are starting to drink one of them in Kyle Pits and and so that's at least a little bit promising because we saw last year in the games that pits and they both got heard the same time I think. There was a six week stretch where they averaged a hundred and ten yards and I touched down per game and I can't help but keep going back to that stretch. The target share was monstrous so I would expect more of the same once Pentax is in there and it will happen. It's just a matter of the question is when not it. Yeah one of my favorites I've gone back to it time and time again but it was a Pentax is rookie season when he got some starts late in the year there was a play where he threw a 34 35 yard bomb to Drake London who was just blanking it by Gavin Bartholomew breaks breaks up the play
in the end zone they line up they run the same exact play another play with great coverage and Pentax just threw it up to London again and on the second attempt he came down with 35 yard touchdown I mean Pentax trust London to make those plays and that's what I like about him. But I will say you said you know not starting any Falcons quarterbacks I will say like in your two quarterbacks super flex leagues people are still drafting to a head of Pentax because he's going to be the week one starter. You can get Pentax right now in like the very end of your draft for free and he can be the starter by week two week three week four I think it'll happen sooner rather than later. I think if you're doing like a super flex kind of drafting you feel like you need one of those one of those guys you almost have to draft both of them to carry you through and that would be my you know I I think you know like you have to get into dire straits you have to kind of like misfire on your quarterback strategy and you get to the very end of the draft go okay I'm gonna you can do you can do the same with cousins and windows as well. Well let's go ahead and finish up with tight ends and we've just got a few ones here I don't know if you can see my dog in the background she's got a she's got one of my gloves and she's going crazy back there so we'll try our best to ignore her
for these last few minutes but George Kittle traveling to Australia looks like he's out trekked play week one I know there was a lot of talk that he wasn't even a travel with the team that he was gonna sit back and rest up Bob how brave do you have to be to put George Kittle in a week one lineup? Probably relatively brave I mean most everyone who drafted him I think drafted him with the belief that he would probably not be ready for week one or like if he was that it wouldn't be full speed but I mean look man since his breakout in 2018 he's been at top five fantasy tight as six seasons he played at least 14 games it's gonna be solid production as long as he's on the field I probably dial back this this week the issue for me is if you draft a Jake Tondes is your backup this will create some confusion you would probably have to go with Kittle almost but man we're gonna listen to the can we're gonna listen to reports out of Australia in the coming days I know they're the 49ers leave a week early like a week early yeah yeah and the Rams are leaving like the night before or something ridiculous that'll be interesting but but yeah I think you need
to listen to reports carefully if you drafted somebody like like I did I would have drafted a juwan Johnson is kind of like my backup out of tons of teams who may end up starting a lot of games I would go ahead and like avoid the avoid the risk but if you drafted like a huge upside swing that unknown like a Tiga Conquo or or somebody logged those lines that you're not sure what you're gonna get out of them then I'd probably still lean into Kittle but I'm gonna have to take close attention to the practice reports out of Melbourne in Australia and I want to say the traveling in the night before a lot of people scoff at that and they say like shouldn't you give your team time to acclimate you remember what the Rams did last year right they traveled to London the night before and they beat the Jaguar is 35 to 7 and they say that like if you travel immediately before your body doesn't have a time for the jet lag to set in so I don't know man the Rams to Baltimore to Baltimore to England is eight hours fair fair all right fair the beltboard is 16 hours it's different but but we'll see that's the I heard the Montet Adams talking about it like you know I don't like I don't I don't have to haul my my masseuse and all my people my body people down to Australia I want to use
them here and then get to Australia and play the game so I see the point I'll we'll see how it plays out true two more guys that are being drafted as pop 10 tight ends that we got to finish out we got some injury news here Tucker craft appears on track to play week one which is fantastic news and it seems like his uh value has just been like yo-yoing back and forth all season we hear these good to go and then he might be on a snap count and then he's feeling 100% and then they're not sure how he's going to look for a week one so it's kind of been this roller coaster for Tucker craft this preseason but my expectations are that he is going to be out there a week one and I don't know if there's going to be a major ramp up here that being said two people that I respect very much when it comes to injury analysis Stefania Bell and Adam Hutchison have both expressed some concern about Tucker craft and how he'll be able to return to play I don't know maybe I'm just an idiot here but I have been drafting a lot of Tucker craft this year I see this guy I was the per game tight end one last year like you know he's not a finesse player like he is just a 270 pound freight train out
there so I'm drafting Tucker craft but certainly get a little bit nervous when I hear people that are smarter than me about these things fading him you know I do too but then also I listen to people who are on the ground again talk to Paul Rettel this week and he says I think he's going to hit the ground at full speed I don't know that he will but here's the I've done the math people Christian Watson from the time he tore his ACL to the time he was back on the field 294 days 294 days for Tucker craft was last week of August all right I mean all the pieces are in place I think the packers are counting on him obviously they added Johnny Smith more of a reaction to Luke Musgrave I believe not being available so they needed some more depth there I don't think that was a Tucker craft related move and that's what I've been told by the people who covered the game so so I'm going with that again you can get a really solid tight end maybe you got a Jake Ferguson you know as you're tied into maybe a juan johnson maybe even adult assaults if you waited like until the late in the season draft the guy on your draft you you probably have so much service will if you want to take a look
I'm probably going to be running craft out week one and you know I think if you do have some concerns about craft or the next guy that we're going to talk about my two favorite tight end twos to pair them up with are Isaiah likely and juan johnson because league neighbors could get out the gate slow we already talked about Jordan Tyson situation so Isaiah likely and juan johnson they might fall by the wayside a little bit as the season progresses and these young players and guys returning from injuries get more up to speed but at least for the early part of the season I have a lot of faith in both juan johnson and Isaiah likely so if you do want to draft Tucker craft and then take a weight and see approach likely juan johnson I might have those guys higher than craft in my week one rankings until I could see it and also a guy that we are expecting that appears to be on track for week one is sam laporta this one I have a completely different stance that I do on Tucker craft and again like so much of this is just vibes Bob you know we can talk to the Royale like we can be honest here we don't have all the answers now the vibes about sam laporta a back injury and then the preseason unrelated hip injury I'm nervous about sam laporta
yeah so here's the thing David we should have the humility to acknowledge their uh predicting the future is tricky business if we do it every single day I don't know that I'm right all the time this is a surprising development uh no like there's a range of outcomes for all these players for sam laporta the range of outcomes is he tight end one we've seen him do that as a rookie we know he'll have a robust role I think a lot of people are reading into maybe drew petzing or survival the former Arizona play collar and and connecting the tremic bride roll to and I think that's maybe taking it a step too far but I'll say this laporta the games he played last year was tight and seven on a points per game basis I mean he's he's a solid play all those positives aside I big fan of uh in drafts serving when I don't feel great about somebody I swore a lot of times when there when I'm faced with sam laporta I'll either draft somebody just before just after and I feel pretty comfortable with uh you know it's like so many times in drafts I'm sitting there and I see Tucker craft and then I see the next guy in ADP is sam laporta going around later
and I say just give me craft I don't want it to do with that it's kind of how it's been for me in drafts this year I'm the same but there is but sam laporta is not without upside and we've seen what the ceiling looks like uh and we know he's a big part of the plan well Bob I think that'll do it today any final news notes that I may have missed like any final little uh bits of information that you might want to tell the fantasy managers about before they draft this weekend you got the Michael Wilson I think that's a big deal I mentioned I talked to Howard Balter last night he's still more in the Marvin Harrison Jr camp okay and I'm not one of those people I love Howard Balls but that's not my lane I'm my lane is a Michael Wilson lane uh he just seems to be the more well rounded he's playing the zero that you would associate with hook and accua with the Rams and the volume there and the kind of rouse that he's going to be running to suit him well I think he's going to have a really solid year drafting him at cost maybe gives you why to say we'll post you last year why receiver six why receiver eight over a stretch with uh he used to why receiver two over the games without Marvin Harrison yeah yeah just look at those games yeah so yeah
so I think that's a great play and I'm glad we got that news in well that'll do it for today but Bob and I are going to be back every single week in season talking about risers and fallers um like I said we're not going to do a whole ton next week like we've got all the information we know a lot of people aren't going to be drafted next week there is going to be a ton of pertinent information coming in over the next couple of days but this should help tie up all of those loose ends to get you prepared for your drafts this weekend so I want to thank y'all so much for tuning in and we will see you soon if you're a custodial supervisor at a local high school you know that cleanliness is key and that the best place to get cleaning supplies is from Granger Granger helps you stay fully stalked on the products you trust from paper towels and disinfectants to floor scrubbers plus you can rely on Granger for easy reordering so you never run out of what you need
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