LAST-MINUTE Fantasy Football Rankings Changes You NEED to Know Before You Draft! (Ep, 2170)

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human At Edward Jones, we believe Rich means opening yourself to new possibilities. That's why your dedicated financial advisor meets you where you are, helping you move forward with confidence. Let's find your Rich. Edward Jones, member SIPC. What's up friends and welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. And today we are talking about the last minute changes. Ranks are out there. You've been watching the episodes. You guys have been prepping. These are the last minute rank changes for your final drafts. What have experts been doing? What have they been doing differently? We've done a lot of focus on ECR versus ADP and where those trends are going. But this one, as we are inching closer to week one and we are getting the final weekend and we are taking a look at what experts are changing in their ranks going into the final weekend. Now that can simplistically be things like, you know, I don't know, a tier one running

1:03back getting maybe suspended and putting on an exemplis and another running back moving up. Yeah, duh. We can talk about those. But also what are some other hidden changes that rankers are starting to move up or down players? Well, we are going to be discussing that today and joining me is Andrew Erickson as we are looking at running back last minute rank changes. Erickson, we were talking about this off air that this is kind of like a nice other little hidden secret because ADP tells a story, but there is also something very intense about the final draft weekend as experts are getting those, you know, you might have some people that are finally locking back in or now finally making those changes. This actually might be the most important time to pay attention to what's going on on ECR. The expert consensus rank than there's ever been. Yeah, because we hopefully have our full set of data to work with all the preseason games are in the books. I think that all the suspensions are in the books. We'll see what happens with Josh Jacobs. Fingers crossed. We'll see what happens at the Packers Backfield, but we're getting as much information as

2:04we can to make the rankings as most accurate as possible as we head into final draft weekend with Labor Day coming up and or the NFL to kick off on Wednesday night when my patriots go on the road to take on the Seattle Seahawks, the rating Super Bowl champion. So cannot wait for that game, cannot wait for the season to kick off. And I can't wait to get the show start with you, Welsh. Yeah, and you know, it's weird because we got the Wednesday game, we got a Thursday game. We've got to get our week one ranks out, but in between all of this, we've still got a whole other weekend of your big draft changes. So we are going to help you identify. We are going to actually let you know and we're going to show you what the top 36 board for running backs looks like. And then we are going to give you the identifiers of who is changing. These might be some sneaky ones. You're going to want to pay attention to for your final draft prep. If you guys would like to follow along with us, you can easily do so by going to fantasy pros dot com slash rankings fantasy pros dot com slash rankings. That's where you're going to see the overall ECR rank page. Sometimes if guys make these really big moves over a recent period of time, you're going

3:04to see little arrows up and down. Hopefully we are going to be identifying some that are not on there, but you can check full PPR half PPR standard. There's dynasty, there's rookies, whatever you got rankings have got you covered. You're going to want to follow this is because this is what is generated off of the expert consensus ranks where we've got like, I think 100 plus people and that's going to just keep belly over and it's going to get bigger into this weekend. So fantasy pros dot com slash rankings if you would like to follow along. So what we're going to do, which is, which is a little bit different than what we do in some rank episodes is we're going to just get through the boards. We're going to take a look at the boards and then after we are going to identify where these changes are happening. So the top 12 on the RB board hasn't had or at least visibly had a lot of crazy changes. You've got Jameer Gibbs, B. John Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, that's your tier one tier two five through nine is James Cook, Chase Brown, Sequan Barkley, Devon H and Ken Walker, maybe a little bit movement there. Tier three is a Mary Hampton, Derek Henry, and Ashton, Gen T. And obviously the Gen T injury

4:07and some of the, you know, questionableness of like when he's going to be out there, his moved him down when he was up. So that is your top 12 at running back 13 through 24. There's some changes we're going to be hitting in here. You've got Kyron Williams at 13, Javante Williams and Breast Hall. That is part of tier three. Tier four is a bigger group. Jeremiah Love, Travis H and Deondre Swift, Buck Eervings, Cam Skataboo, David Montgomery, Quinchon, Juckins, Basel Tutten, and Jadarian Price. That is 24 running backs in. And then the final grouping I believe is like our tier five where you've got 25 through 36 of Travion, Ramondre, Jalen Warren, Tony Pollard, Jonathan Brooks at 29, 30 is Rico Dattel, Marseon Lloyd. He is like the one in this top 36, which gives that arrow up because it's been such a dramatic short term jump. JK Dobbins, Blake Korum, Shuba Hubbard, Jordan Mason, and Jacquay Krasky Merit. Okay, Welsh, thank you. Bye-bye. That's your top 36. So that's what the board looks like. What we're going to do now is we are going to help find identifiers of changes in what

5:10has been changed because we don't actually have something we're working on though. We don't have something that will show you like the historical changes of ECR straight to your face. If you click on a player's player card and go to rankings, you can actually find like a chart that shows you some of the movement. So here are where experts have been making some changes as we focus on players. There are two top in guys that have had some changes. Those two players are Ashton Gentie, who an overall rank was 18 overall. That is now moved to 27 on the overall. Positionally, that I think has been a couple spots, but that's a round drop we've seen in Ashton Gentie from August 1st to August 31st, so over a month. And that's the last two weeks of Pugley played more into it. The other one is Ken Walker, who Ken Walker has had some interesting changes where he ends up being nine on this list. I believe he was seven at one point. So we've seen like a two positional spot change.

6:12So Mr. Andrew Erickson, what I present to you is the two higher in top 12 running backs. Over the last month or last two weeks, we have seen both of these guys change and they've both gone in the negative. They've both moved backwards a full round for Gentie, two positional spots, which isn't a full round though for Ken Walker. What do you think is driving and do you buy the dips on both of these players? So Ashton Gentie is the one that makes the most sense what it comes to his dip dealing with this ankle injury that we still don't have a ton of information about. We still don't know whether or not he's going to be good to go by week one. It's well, I'll kind of find out together. I guess is when we start to see some of these injury reports come out next week. I think with Gentie for me, he didn't really move that much in terms of well, he did move down in the tier. So basically I had him at the front of a specific running back tier and now he's at the bottom of a specific running back tier. So it's not like he's a void for me. It's just a matter of, okay, well, now we've invited all this new risk with him with his

7:12injury and potentially maybe more of a platoon backfield with Mike Washington as he is continue to stand out during the preseason. Someone that they seem like they're very high on as the off season has progressed and going back to some things that Clint Koobeck said originally when he became the Reddlers head coach was I want to want to punch that running back like he vocally talked about that and we all kind of rubbed it off as well. You have Ashton Gentie. He's going to play 90% of the snaps and okay, then the draft Mike Washington still he was a day three pick. So okay, yeah, he'll be he'll compete for the back up. We don't even know what kind of role he'll be. But everything is kind of worked in Mike Washington's favor to okay, Jenny gets banged up. He looks really good. He's explosive. He's big. So I think that yeah, we could see more of a committee approach here with the Raiders backfield. So that ultimately bumps Ashton Gentie down. I still think that he is very much in play at the end of round two as opposed to being a pick at the end of round one before we had more concerns about there going to be in committee and before he had this like ankle injury.

8:14So again, I think he's I'm fine with where he's going in draft still. I can find taking that type of swing, especially if you start with a wide receiver and you're looking for a hero or a bee. I think Jenny can still be that guy. But I do think that I mean, I agree with the ECR and the ADP falling to where he's now a round two and a round two pick. Okay, so so quick question on that. What did you call Ashton Gentie and Mike Washington? Oh, what? It's a bunch of punch. No, no, no, what was the word you use? The specific word you used. Platoon. Platoon. Oh, okay, because I heard you say platoon. I was a platoon. I was like, that's like the word. That's okay. No, you said it right. It's 100% a word. How you said it in the beginning, I was like, you just pulled to me. Oh, well, she's a you just made up a word. You're not. I'll pass. I look. Do you think? Okay. I know you just broke this down. But if you had to pick a side, what is driving the drop more? Is it the ankle injury? At least in your ex, I think the injury probably is the front facing version of it. But what do you think should? Is it the ankle injury and the the question of illness of when he's going to play or is

9:18it the potential platoon that Mike Washington actually does take away? What do you think is more deserved of driving the cost down? Because you said second round, by the way, in a 12 team, that 27 overall is moving him into the third round. Yeah. So I'd definitely would be in play of taking him at the beginning of the third round if he was there for me and a 12 team lead. I think that would be a really easy pick, especially if you go wide receiver or wide receiver to start your draft. I think it's the injury. It's probably moving him down the most because like I said, Clint Kubak was talking about this stuff in March where I want to want to punch and most of us kind of just brush your arm to the rug being like, ah, yeah, you're full of crap. Like we don't believe you. Even though we have a pretty big sample size of Clint Kubak using a two-man platoon in Seattle, despite the fact that one guy was significantly better than the other guy, and he refused to unleash Kenneth Walker until they had to and then, oh, what do you know, I won the Super Bowl because of Ken Walker being really, really good at football. So that dovetails right into our next player that you mentioned Ken Walker. He's going down the rankings here, also probably injury related, also maybe a bit of steam

10:20for Emmet Johnson, the other rookie running away that got drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs. I liked Emmet Johnson a lot coming out. However, I still know if this is Ken Walker's backfield. He's actually a player that I am considering moving ahead to my RB5 spot ahead of my, I mean, I love Chase Brown so much, but I was thinking more about trying to chase the highest percentile outcomes when it comes to some of these running backs. And Pac-A-Rain does a great job of highlighting and defining legendary running back seasons. And you know, he looked at Chase Brown as a player that maybe doesn't have that type of legendary season type of outcome where the P.R.I. is still going to play, you know, 30% of the snaps. And Chase Brown, well, correctly, if I'm wrong, is Chase Brown ever going to be the best offensive player on his team? Yes or no? Yeah, I mean, that's, it's no. But that's what I mean. So if he's never going to achieve that, could he possibly be like the, the complete,

11:20like, yeah, this doesn't mean that he can't be a good pick or he can't return value. That's not what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to say like, can Walker could define this season at running back? I don't think Chase Brown can do that. Does, do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, that's a really interesting point too, because if you look at the Chiefs offense and like, I think a gut reaction, if you ask that same question, someone would be like, well, no, then you're like, well, actually, yeah, like Rashee Rice is good, but it'll get higher money and plan out of Ken Walker. Whereas Chase Brown is a really good part of a already like oil, well oil machine that is go burrow and Jamar chase and all those guys already. But Ken Walker could be, they got it for reason because he's like the offense. Like he is the guy that's going to make this thing go and as my home gets healthier and healthier, my home is just making Ken Walker a better part of this offense. I think Walker has a better chance to play on all three downs. Whereas Chase Brown does lose out to some snaps to some other P Ryan. Again, I'm not trying to paint a negative picture. I've been, I've been in the highest on Chase Brown since I can remember like when I did

12:22my rankings from the get from the jump, he was RB five. So I don't want to feel like I'm telling people not to do it often because I still think you should. But when it comes to like pure ceiling outcomes, I think Ken Walker actually has the highest ceiling between him and Chase Brown and see him falling now to RB nine. I think that this is a screaming buying opportunity and well, I keep reiterating this on every show I do talking about Ken Walker. I feel like in hindsight, we're going to look back on the season thing. Dude, it was so obvious. Ken Walker was going to smash. You know what it kind of feels like? Do you remember? It's kind of like this. But remember like Jonathan Taylor was kind of being pushed back last year. Remember it was like a wheel ish if I remember incorrectly. Like it was kind of going on the like the 12s. Sometimes even the beginning of the first round and then all the sudden it's just like smash, smash, smash. I'm kind of with it. But it's interesting that from a from an expert ranking perspective, it's going in the opposite direction. I'm kind of with you. I'm put injury that he doesn't seem like it seems like it's minor, but it's people have PTSD with Walker and it's the number one fear if everybody

13:25has and it kind of it is floating. So that's a more recent thing. But over the last month, we have seen that positionally start to change and from an overall perspective perspective. But the positional has moved back like two spots from where it was because there was so much hype. So know that going into your final drafts that I think these are both two players though. I would pinpoint that I'm clicking on, but they're both attached to injuries. I'm not I'm just not afraid because I think the upside of both players is really, really high. But you know, you do start to think about like what can be taken away from genty like if you had to take one risk and you said I had to take an early second round pick. I know you can't technically do this, but early second round pick on Ken Walker or a wheel pick or I've got to take a late, late second round early third on genty. I think it's just a walker. I just want to click on like I want to be more invested in him. So those are two high end adjustments. When we looked at that top 36 board, that is happening. And that's kind of affecting ECR. There are two two middle running backs that are really interesting.

14:26And it's Bucky Irving and Bay shell Tutton. Bucky Irving specifically has had a pretty dramatic jump over. I think it's even specifically the last 15 days we're curating some of this information. He's gone from RB 23 to RB 19. So that's not quite showing because I actually we do have a little marker because I think even in the last week he's moved up as well. If you take a look at the ranks in the last week or so, I think he's moved up two more spots. But in the last 15 days, he is increasingly moved up regardless of the Kenny Gainwell stuff. And then on the opposite end here is, well, I mean, I guess it's still moving up. But Bay shell Tutton hasn't had the exact same big jump. But he was ranked around 65 on the overall. He's now ranked 60. So it's about a half round jump he's had over the last month. But I found this is this was really interesting. He's on the opposite end of his ADP. His ADP had him going in the mid 40s and that's now pushed down to the 50s.

15:29You know, so this is one of those things where like an overall ranker are ranking him lower. He was going higher in drafts. But now we're seeing him slip in ADP while moving up in ranks. So you really you could actually look at it as like a negative two on Bay shell Tutton if you look at the ADP. But just two really interesting guys kind of going around each other. Totally different vibes and perspectives. Let's talk about Bucky Irving and Bay shell Tutton. What do you buy and what do you think is dictating the movement for them to be going up? And do you want to do that in this final weekend? I do want to move Bucky up. I have moved him up my rankings and shout out to Fitz for being the Bucky stand among the Fanny Sproze analyst this off season. He would not be deterred by the Sean Tucker propaganda because clearly that's what that may have been. Well, it's propaganda that Sean Tucker was going to have a significant role. But we almost get cut from the team and you're in a running back competition with a guy named Josh Williams who I'd never heard of until I realized he was in the RB3 battle with

16:33Sean Tucker. Well, you don't get as concerned about what his role could be on Bucky. So I looked at last year just to kind of get in there. Actually the last two years with Bucky Irving and basically so his RB19 and the ECR right now, I think I have him right in this exact range. He was RB18 and points per game last year and we know that he played a lot of last year injured. So start out really good. God hurt came back was not effective. Obviously it was an incomplete season because he didn't only play I believe it was like 10 games. But still he would have paid off this ADP last year based on a pretty incomplete season. Even before that it was a rookie year. He didn't start playing until the second half of the season. But overall when he was in a committee to start the year when he wasn't really playing, Richard White was the RB1. He was RB19 and points per game and this isn't half PPR. So right now I think Bucky is very appropriately priced at where he's going. I think you're getting him at his floor at RB19 and I know that Kenneth Gainwell is going to have a role in soft fence and he's going to catch passes.

17:34So that's something that's obviously being baked into Bucky's price. Well, question for you. Where do you think Jaylen and Warren finished last year while splitting a backfield with Kenneth Gainwell? Just throw it in number in terms of points per game. What do you think Kenneth? I want to say it was like it's like RB23. RB19. The exact same number that we've been getting out of. I should have the number that we've been riffing off here. So I think that this is the right price. I think that he is in play if you need a running back in these middle rounds. Now structurally speaking I would rather have my top and running backs already drafted. I'd rather be going wide receiver here. But I think it makes Bucky less of a bust risk. I still question the high end ceiling outcome with him. Just because Kenneth Gainwell will be involved. But if the goal line opportunities and red zone opportunities are there for Bucky, then yeah, you could see him turning at least a back end fantasy RB1 type of season. And the talent is there too. Like that's the other thing with Bucky is he's a really talented guy. Every time he's been healthy on the field, even at the beginning of last year, before we got hurt, he was electric.

18:36And we know he can catch passes. We know that he can rip off big plays. And we know the Bucky near his offense is good. That's another thing too. The offense environment is strong for Bucky Irving. So again, shout out to Fitz for being the Bucky guy all year long. I'm not happy that it took me so long to kind of come around. Although I didn't feel like I was burying Bucky as much as his price got cheaper and cheaper. But I just want to say like don't scratch him off your draft board altogether. You still have drafts. I think that he is in play here at this new cost at RB19. Yeah, and a couple of things to add in here. Something you can do on the Fantasy Pros Rank site. If you look over on the left tab, if you're on the website on the app, you can click through it. But there's a Fantasy Pros experts thing, which I don't get to be a part of. But it's Erickson, Debron, and Fitz. And if you look, you can see the comparison tool. You guys, I don't know if you recently made the change, but you guys are now in line. You in Fitsy. But before, like Debron, Debron's not about Bucky apparently. He has got him at RB24. I think that was in.

19:36Yeah, but that was in line with the public or at least the expert public sentiment, if you will. You know, their agreement. But now things are moving in the opposite direction. You and Fitzy are at 19 and 18. Fitzy has at 18. So you guys have now become more the median than where he was before. But also looking at this, I can tell you half PPR in the ranks. Bucky is not crack the top 10. But there are quite a few people that have him at 11, 12, 13, and 14. So if I were just eyeballing this, I would say there's roughly 18 different rankers that have him as a top 15 back. But you want to know a fun little secret? You want to know who the highest fantasy pros person on Bucky is? At Edward Jones, we believe Rich isn't about having life all figured out. It's opening yourself to all the possibilities. That's why your dedicated financial advisor provides long-term planning built around you, meeting you where you are and helping you get closer to where you want to be.

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21:42fries and a medium Coke all for just $9. Limited time only, promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Tell me. Take a guess. Take a guess. Who's someone that works at Fantasy Friends? It's me. It's me, the person you're doing the show with. Yeah, just like your 19th thing, it's me. I've got him at 16, so I'm completely equipped with you. Yeah, so I've got him at the high spot. He has been moving up. So there's definitely a lot of expert word that is pushing free to be drafting, buck yearning this weekend. And then as well, Basel Tutin, what do you make of the Basel Tutin rank moving up half around overall, but the ADP moving down? Maybe it's just more trying to collide to sometimes ADP and ECR can really like flow in different directions. This is one of those where they're like really far off, but he has moved, you know, again, half around over this period of time. You three are all around the same general spot as Basel Tutin. So do you think there's anything specifically that's driving this kind of late slight surge for Tutin? I don't think so, because there's nothing that's really new when it comes to

22:46news for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the back. So they haven't played any of their starters really during the preseason. And Liam Cohen has been pretty positive about most of his offensive players across the board, ranging from Hunter, Brian Thomas Jr. to both his running backs between two and Chris Rodriguez. So I think that it's pretty status quo with Basel Tutin. I think that this is just fluctuation of how drafts go and two in his inner position. I think where if you don't need a running back, then you don't feel the need to take him. My main thing with Tutin is I think that he's going to be the RB1 in this back field. I just don't know when. Like that is like the only thing that's kind of holding me back for me, like 100% all in. They play the Browns in week one at home. I think that's me. I think the Jaguars are going to smoke the Cleveland Browns. They're their defense place terrible on the road. They have a new defense accordion. There's no miles Garrett. So I think the Jaguars are going to it's going to be a route. And I think that you could see either a big game from Tutin or potentially Chris Rodriguez. But then after that, the schedule gets much tougher for the Jaguars backfield. So ultimately, I think that Tutin is going to be the one that shines out. But it could be like a Zach Moss Chase Brown scenario where it's annoying.

23:50To start. And we also have a little quaint Alan potentially pitching in on third down. I know he's been dealing with an injury. But if he's also going to be playing a significant snap share in this offensive backfield, then it's going to probably be a committee to start the season. So Tutin may not pay off right away, which is the only reason why I'm not like over the moon trying to get him everywhere. Because I think there might be a by-law window for Tutin a little bit later on during the season. I think I think part of it might be that he is maybe the beginning of the top of this next tier or the end of a tier in that who are the place people that are behind him and ECR, Jadarian Price, Travyon Henderson, Ramondre, Jalen Warren, what's the representation of all those players committees? And that I think Tutin is crossing a line of like, is he a non-committee or committee back? You're kind of painting the story where he may be more committee. And I think there are quite a few people that are seeing him as the last bastion of a player that might not be and he gets the full run. And you can just look at what HN did with them last season. And just if you insert that into Tutin, he becomes super valuable.

24:54So I think that's an interesting one. The final three different versions of each other, the three's players between kind of like a flex RB and RB3 if you want to call it that are moving on boards. You've got Marshawn Lloyd. That one's pretty obvious. He was one fit. I'll tell you this. On Saturday, he was 152. Then moving through, he's moved six rounds. He's now around 91 overall. He continues to move. I think I told you he was like running back 27 or something on the board. He has been moving up. Another player moving up is Jekroy Kroski-Mirat, who was 103 at the beginning of the month, has now moved up to 88 overall. That is about a round and a half jump, whatever that is relative to the positional stuff. And the final one is a player that has moved down. And I actually, I'm not here for it, even though I do love the other back in their system, the younger cheaper back. But RJ Harvey was going around 97. He's actually moved down to 107. He's about a how to full round drop. And I think part of that is Jonah Coleman

25:57excitement. The other part might just be a lack of excitement for the running game in general. So if you want to get some quick hitters here, Marshawn Lloyd is kind of the biggest one going into this weekend. People are really trying to figure out what the value of him is because this happened so quickly and this happening over the weekend. I mean, those a lot of drafters did not get an opportunity to make the adjustment. So what is the new adjustment look like for you for Marshawn Lloyd and then thoughts on Kroski-Mirat moving over around and a half and Harvey moving down around? So I have Lloyd at RB26. So a little bit higher than ECR. But I do think that this is the right range, although I think that Lloyd should be closer to the top of the tier, just based on the fact that he's got the clear runway to becoming a starting running back on an offense that could be top 10. Remember that show we did on the Vegas implied odds drafting sleepers from the best offenses? My guy in that show was Marshawn Lloyd. And the reason I picked him was just because I needed an offense that was in the top 10 for a cheap running back and Marshawn Lloyd at the time was that exact player. So we know that his sample size in the NFL is very, very small. He has played

26:5910 offensive snaps at the NFL level. And this is something that has been an issue with him dating back to college. Like he has never really been a bell cow basically anywhere at the NFL or college level. Now that's not because he's undersized five foot nine 220 pounds. Like this die is a size speed specimen. So you know what the upside can be and he has juice. Like that's the one thing at Josh Jacobs, even if Josh Jacobs was playing and healthy. Like that wasn't really part of his game at this point as much. He's been slowing down a little bit. But Josh Jacobs, his super power was the guy could handle a ton of volume. Right. And LaFlora was more than happy to keep featuring Josh Jacobs as the engine to this Packers rushing attack. That won't be the case here in 2026. We'll see I think shake out in terms of how many games. But as of right now, he's not going to be available for week one. So we got to look at this back for like Marshawn Lloyd's going to be the guy. We'll see guys like Chris Brooks sprinkle in here and there. I think Caleb Johnson may have a role just to keep Marshawn Lloyd upright because I mean, it's pretty concerning when you just look at

27:59his body of work. I'm looking at it right now. So he never surpassed 150 touches in any college season. Like that's not that meant like 150. Well, that's not a ton. Like that's like half an hour of the season. So again, I think that it's probably aggressive to project. Okay, boy, it's going to see 300 touches this year over 17 game season. I think that's probably aggressive. But that being said, the Packers are in a situation where they may think they can get Jacob's back at some point during the season in the second half. So they can overload Marshawn Lloyd with touches and opportunities to start the year knowing that, okay, if we get Jacob's back, maybe we get Caleb Johnson a little bit more ready to go. We can feature those players a little bit later on during the season. But right for right now, Lloyd is our guy. And that's why I want to take advantage of who'd you rather Marshawn Lloyd or Jonathan Brooks? I still lean towards Brooks. Because I do think that the longevity point of him might be a little bit better. And now that I say that I'm not even so sure that I believe it. That's a very funny thing to say about Jonathan Brooks.

29:00Maybe that's not an accurate statement because of the Jacob situation. So that's probably not the right answer for it. I have them right back to back. I think for me, I still look at Brooks as maybe someone that could probably take a little bit more of the entire workload away from Chuba Hubbard. And now that I say that to him, I'm sure I believe that. So well, I don't know. Clearly, I'm throwing my hands up because I just want both guys. I mean, I think that might be the answer for a lot of people. I'm struggling to actually make the rational reason behind taking Jonathan Brooks over Marshawn Lloyd. And maybe I'm just convincing myself that it should be ranked the opposite way. Hey, well, that's kind of what I'm alluding to. But also, maybe there's something to getting a workhorse running back going heavy wide receiver and then trying to make an attempt at double-tapping both of those guys. If you could double tap both of those Brooks and Lloyd, maybe I mean, there's a little bit of risk in there, but there's a ton of upside. Any last thoughts? Jekroy Krasky's the last guy on the top 36. RJ Harvey got kicked out of the top 36 here. That's been the latest movement. If you had to pick one of those, it's a really worrisome offensive

30:04line with Merit. There's Jonah Coleman is kind of a force that everybody's pushing in JK Dobbins is there. RJ Harvey, I think RJ Harvey might start becoming undervalued here. So I'm a little bit, even though I've had Jekroy Krasky married as a target. I'm kind of really interested in RJ Harvey in this final weekend because of the cost, but any final thoughts on those two? I like RJ Harvey because of his high value touches that he should see in the Broncos backfield. Right. He may not see the majority of touches on early downs in between the 20s, but those are the least valuable touches for Fandist football purposes. Every time I talk about RJ Harvey, the coaching staff, they talk about, well, this guy scored 12 touchdowns last year. This guy was great in the red zone. So that to me sounds like it's going to be sticky and that he's going to see a future goal in the red zone and he's going to catch passes. And the thing I keep pointing out, and someone that I've actually kind of soured on as the process has gone on more is JK Dobbins. And I know that you look at last year. Same you think. But Erickson, JK Dobbins was great at the beginning of last year. Yes, he was because it was before he got hurt and it was when the Broncos had a really easy schedule. The Broncos played a really easy schedule to start the year. Then the

31:07schedule got really hard, but Dobbins didn't have to face it because he got hurt. So that RJ Harvey had to run into all these brick walls and looked terrible doing it. And then he got ripped because he wasn't as efficient as JK Dobbins when I think you would have seen a dramatic fall off in JK Dobbins efficiency in the second half of last year anyway. And the conversation would be like, did JK Dobbins take a step back? Is the wear and tear starting to finally build up on him where now it's well just copying pace last year's backfield? I think that Jonah Coleman may just eat in more into JK Dobbins role. And RJ Harvey's face stable from year to year. I literally agree 100%. I actually don't think Harvey is affected by this. I think JK Dobbins is holding a locker for Jonah Coleman right now. And Dobbins might be just the bridge gap until they feel Coleman can take on the workload or they don't want to give him, you know, a ton of carries early on. And I would not be shocked if Dobbins not even due to injury is not on this team later into the year that it's Jonah Coleman and RJ Harvey is a one two punch. So I think RJ Harvey might be a decent value. And you know, Jacorys is starting running back that is getting

32:10is really cheap, but it's a worrisome offensive line, but he's moving up. So wide receiver changes kind of across the board. When we look at the top 12, you've got Jamar Chase at one, Pukin Akuhat to Jackson Smith and Jigba, Monter St. Brown. There's really just been no change on that throughout the season. CDLM is at five, Justin Jefferson at six. Their bottom half is AJ Brown Drake, Linda Nico Collins, Crystal Lave, George Pickens and Malik neighbors. There are three tears in there. The tier one stops at a Monter St. Brown at four, tier two stops at George Pickens and then tier three starts with Malik neighbors. So that's kind of the start. So interesting, there's two tiers of only 11 wide receivers. If you want to make that heavy push going into wide receivers 13 through 24. We've got Devon to Smith at 13, Zay flowers, Rishi Rice, T Higgins, Lad McConkey at 17, Jalen Warren at 18, Garrett Wilson, Teteromaic Millen, then tier four moves to Amecha Ekbuka, Luther Burden, Terry McClure and Devon Te Atom. So those are your top two wide receivers. Very relevant if you are drafting in just like a two wide receiver format.

33:14Finally, our wide receiver three is here from 25 to 36 on the expert consensus ranks on fantasy pros. We've got Jameson Williams at 25, DJ Moore, Christian Watson, Roman Dunesay, Mike Evans at 29, Parker Washington at 30 and then tier five consists of Marvin Harrison, Colonel Tate, Brian Thomas Jr., DK Metcalf, Chris Godwin, and Cortland Sutton. 36 wide receivers that you're going to be drafting and you're going to be looking at on boards and you are going to see heavily promoted because the experts have them there. But what has changed? So there are two wide receivers in the pseudo wide receiver one mid wide receiver two range that have had some significant changes. They are Malik neighbors who over time looking specifically August 1st to now has moved a full round. Almost a little bit more. He was around 39 overall. He has moved up to 26. So we're looking at an overall perspective. So that was like a fourth moving into the fifth round and almost touching

34:15going into the second round here. And then Teteromaic Millen has gone the opposite direction. He is from he was like 31 overall just like flat across most of August. And then right towards the end, his rank now has moved down to 38. I think positionally, I think I said 20 if I remember yeah 20. So he's moved down a couple spots. He's moved around a half a round down as a very recent. So Malik neighbors and Teteromaic Millen two significant wide receivers with changes in opposite directions. Do you buy the changes and what do you make of the change going into the final weekend? So Malik neighbors make sense because we've had mostly positive reports about his injury and I'm coming back. And although the coaching staff, I believe today either on Tuesday or Monday, talked about how still non-committal about him being ready for week one. I don't think that should really change your perspective. I don't think it's like the worst thing in the world either for neighbors. If he doesn't play in week one, because if it just guarantees that when you do get him

35:16on the field, he's closer to his elite production. I think that's better. That's the best case scenario for fantasy football managers. Now I've been more on the pessimistic side when it comes to neighbors just looking at things beyond the injury. Because I think that there's a scenario where Malik neighbors can be drafted as let's say he's not coming off an injuries coming off it. Elite season from last year where okay, he's got maybe not thanks much experience with Jackson and he only played one game together last year. So that's a projection. And then you have this new offense with Matt Nagy, Greg Romant. Like a lot of the boomer coaches that are coming over that did not enthrall us with a lot of confidence from where they were playing. Now they're all together coaching under Harbaugh. So I've heard some takes about Harbaugh potentially being this year's Pete Carroll. I don't know if I can go that far, but I kind of get it to an extent. And if it was Lamar, that was really keeping Harbaugh upright. And that's why they were having success. And then when Lamar went down, everything crumbled, which is what happened last season. Okay. So that concerns

36:17you have the giants infrastructure and the fact that even if he is out there and playing, when will he be a hundred percent? So I understand why you got to move him up. I've moved him up obviously since we've gotten more positive reports about his availability. I don't think that this isn't a greatest price at wide receiver 12. But I feel like this might be his ceiling this season coming off the injury in a new offense that I'm just not super super excited about. Interesting. The fantasy pros that we've got a section where you can check the analyst. And it's Debro Erickson and Fitsy. You guys even him out as your wide receiver 14. And nobody has him at what the current cost is. And you are the lowest on him. You've got him at 15. There's a 14. And then there's a 13. So you guys ended up having him wide receiver 14. So you're not really buying. Obviously, like positive reports have made this movement there, but maybe still not a player that you're specifically clicking. But people in the ECR are moving him up. But what do you make about the Teteramok Millen drop? You can even see ECR will give you like little indicators as

37:20of recent changes of like over last week if someone is dramatically moved. And as rankers are either a newly submitting or updating their ranks for some reason. He's one of the few players that you're going to see a down arrow on that he has dropped a little bit. What do you make of it? Whether it be maybe people loving other receivers. Obviously, like Jaylen Waddle and a mecheg Bukab in players that people are tabbing a little bit more. Or do you think there's something more nefarious going on? I think it's just be respected to be totally honest. He won offensive rookie of the year last year. He was wide receiver 15 overall last year. And now he's entering his second season and where his is ECR. It's wide receiver 20. So he's going to be worse than it was last year. I understand that Jaylen Coaker is going to be a bigger part of this offense. That is if he can stay healthy because he's been injured throughout two years of his career. And who else is commanding targets in this room at all? Besides Jaylen Coaker. Who's the third receiver on this team? Xavier Liget. I keep savings on every show. He puts the X in sacrifice sacrificial X Xavier Liget. The guy cannot command

38:24targets. And when he does, he drops the ball constantly. There's no tight end of consequence in this offense. They use four different guys. And I mean, I was talking about maybe this would have been my better case for a pro argument for Jonathan Brooks over Marsha on Lloyd. One shock we have Jonathan Brooks is third on the team and catches for the Carolina Panthers in 2026. That would not shock me just based on the lack of death they have behind team act and Jaylen Coaker after the injury to Chris Brazl this off season. So I think team act is just being underrated to be honest. I have him at wide receiver 16 at points this season. I did have him even higher. I did move him down a little bit as Debra was in my ear about how impactful Jaylen Coaker was in this offense. But when we got the preseason usage for team act, the guy was still operating out of the slot. So getting even more layup targets for him where it's not just Jaylen Coaker operating in the slot 100% of the time. Team act is moving in there gets more favorable matchups because he's going to be the guy that moves this offense potentially. We know Chubah Roberts not going to generate explosive plays. Jonathan Brooks, we're hoping can be that guy to generate big plays out of the backfield. But

39:29if those things don't come to fruition, then I think it's going to be the team act show. I think that's who Dave can Alice is going to lean on here. So I just think he had 126 targets last season. In an offense that ranked bottom five in pass rate over expectation. So if we get any more attempts from this Bryce Young lead offense where they're playing a much tougher schedule, maybe that means more negative game scripts. And I have to throw the little ball a little bit more. And honestly, if I'm the Carolina Panthers, what's the point of just having Bryce Young hand ball off for 17 games straight when he's in a contract year? They got to figure out if he's the franchise quarterback. I kind of know how I feel about that. He's probably not their franchise quarterback. And they probably know that too. But they at least have to let him throw the ball a little bit more. I think this year to just, hey, let's just see what he can do. And if he doesn't ride the vacation, then they can move on. They could draft a quarterback next year. And the Bryce Young experiment will end in Carolina. But I think it's worth at least seeing what he has with some of these more these better weapons that he hasn't had in the past. So I think team act is a really strong pick where he goes in drafts. And I think you should be scooping up the

40:32value. Yeah. And if you look at the analyst here, pros, you and Debra are on opposite polar differences. Yeah. You are like 16 and he's a 28. So he's on that further dragging down. So, you know, there's a narrative of, you know, some negative stuff around him. I suppose while you and Fitz are kind of holding up the ranking comes in at 19 on ours. But that is where ECR is moving McMillan a little bit down neighbors a little bit up a middle tier of wide receivers. Three really interesting differences. Two guys have played with each other that don't know. We have got two increases and one pretty dramatic decrease. Mike Evans on an overall has gone from 51 down to around 62 about a round full drop. And I think positionally, he may have moved from 25 down to 29 right now. So he is moving in the opposite direction where a lot of us have been, you know, touting the touchdown upside. But people are looking at this current injury. I mean, the 49ers just not going to play their guys. I think it's being overblown a little bit. But the injury

41:35thing is scaring people off like crazy. Chris Godwin, his former teammate has moved up positionally where he was sitting around like that 40 range. It looks like he's moved up around possibly three spots, depending when you're looking at this on overall wide receiver ADP. There's been some more positive talk and Parker Washington. I think this is kind of known. But over the last month, I mean, the narrative around him has been positive for a long time. He has moved from where he was around the beginning of August 83 overall to around 68. And in instances, he's probably going to be going ahead of Mike Evans. He has moved from around and a half to two above. So big, big increases for Parker Washington. Chris Godwin, a pretty decent increase and then Mike Evans down. So you can have on all these guys if you want. But which one of these movement are you buying the most? And what do you think is driving some of these changes coming into this weekend? Mike Evans is definitely the injuries. And I would be lying if I didn't think also that maybe I was about two or two

42:35front out my skis when it comes to Mike Evans where oh, well, he'll just stay healthy and he'll catch much touchdowns. It'll be all good to go. I remember my favorite bets was Mike Evans, the lead the NFL and touchdowns at 40 to one and clicking that button again last night as I was submitting some NFL futures. It didn't feel it didn't feel nearly as good as it did when he wasn't missing practice all the time with this quad injury, hamstring injury, etc. But I think it's just one of those where you may not play all the games, but he doesn't have to play all the games. We know that when he does play for the 49ers offense, he's going to be productive and he's going to catch touchdowns. So definitely willing to buy the dip on Mike Evans. And when it comes to Chris Godwin, I think this is one that I was just probably asleep at the wheel at. I definitely was not high enough on Chris Godwin throughout the process, but I have woken up to it and I have moved him up significantly up my rankings. I think when it comes to just him being back in the slot. So I'm actually pulling up this stat now that I pulled last week. So Chris Godwin has never finished

43:37worse than wide receiver 20 overall orn points were game through five seasons with at least a 62% snap rate from the slot. So I know that we all kind of remember Chris Godwin the last couple of years of like, yeah, he's been really banged up. But you just go back to the last game he played. He was playing full time in the slot and he had over 100 yards just a monster performance. So he's healthy. He's good to go. So I think that Chris Godwin is one of these late round wide receiver values. I know that D. Bro, worm and I got him as our wide receiver for in the tailgate draft. And we bullied D. Bro into drafting RunaDunesay. And then he was the one that was like, okay, then we're going to bring Chris Godwin up the board. And at the time like, man, I don't want to reach on Chris Godwin. But then when you actually look at the optics of everything, you think, oh, wow, like this could actually work out as a really, really strong pick. So I think Chris Godwin is moving up the rankings the right way. I am lockstep with the ECR also moving him up the ranks. And this was from the coach speak index. Greg Brainos had something really interesting to say about Chris Godwin

44:42coming from the Tampa Bay Buckeneers GM Jason light. Basically, they had asked him the GM on who the bucks go to receiver is now with Mike Evans gone. He said, we have a lot of options at that. And I be remiss if I didn't mention Chris Godwin for all that he's done for this organization. Talk about being consistent, steady, Mr. Clutch player. That's him. He the GM called Chris Godwin him. He is him Chris Godwin given the injuries to McMillan who can never stay healthy. I am not relying on him whatsoever to be a staple point in his bucks passing attack. And then Rebecca Ebuca, who has the most unreported toe turf injury that I've ever seen Todd bulls doesn't even know. I mean, you could ask Todd bulls. Hey, is this foot like still on his body? He'd be like, I don't know man. I'm not sure I probably probably I don't really know. So yeah, I think Chris Godwin is a value here. And when you just look at some of the optics for week one, the black and ears again, we're doing these week one rankings. We're not surprised me off Chris Godwin out targets out produces Ebuca, especially if you

45:47see Godwin in the slot, the Bengals have really strong perimeter wide receivers. DJ Turner is one of their best guys. You'll probably see him matched up more with guys like Tedder's and Ebuca. And that means Chris Godwin could get peppered underneath with 10 to 12 targets. And every the week to take away will be well, we're redrafting the wrong bucks wide receiver one all along. And it was Chris Godwin. So yeah, it's interesting that I actually do agree like week one could be one of those spots where like you're going to handful of players where you were drafting and then all the sudden, it's the other guy that has these huge weeks. And Godwin is one of those that I could see that with, you know, things are slowed down. If he plays or if snap count is down for Ebuca that Chris Godwin is absolutely peppered with targets. You guys are going to have to get Fitsy on board. Fitsy's got him outside the top 40, but Chris Godwin is moving up. He hasn't made that change yet. And then lastly, Parker Washington is just ultimately fascinating. He has three rankers that have him inside as a top 20 wide receiver. Roughly, let's call it like 25 rankers that have him as a 25 or higher.

46:53You know, in a couple prominent people are in there. Justin Boone, Hayden Winks is in there. I mean, there's some people. Do you think so ultimately with how the ranks have adjusted and gone up? My only question with Parker Washington is, is do you think it has gotten too high and too much going into this weekend? Or do you think we are finally sitting around the proper values? A lot of people, it's taking a kind of a slow burn for people to kind of catch up with him. But that is why over the last 30 days, he's made almost a two round jump. I think it's very appropriate. I think that he should be drafted as the number one Jags wide receiver. I think maybe the ceiling case might be capped if they end up doing a lot of a rotation with these Jaguars wide receivers. They do have a lot of depth. Maybe Brian Thomas Jr. isn't as bad as some of us like to thank in terms of him being a bus this year. And I mean, Jacobi Myers is also going to be involved too. And they have a lot of tight ends. They want to run the football. So I do think Parker Washington's ultimate the guy you want. And I think that he can definitely still out produce this ADP. But if it's in the, he's a top 20 receiver instead of a top 10 guy, then maybe you're not as excited that you drafted him. But I still

47:56think he's a really strong pick. And he is one of these players on my short list of, again, I was getting a golf lesson this past weekend. The guy was like, are you a directs and fantasy brothers? And I said, yes, I am. He's like, no, yes, he did. Yes, he did. I said, and he's like, don't worry. I won't bombard you with questions. And I said, dude, you're going to help me with golf. I'm going to help you win your fantasy league. This is this is a symbiotic relationship here. So Parker Washington was one of the guys that I said for him. Yeah, you should just draft this guy. Round six. I think it's the perfect spot to take a he washington and don't draft Brian Thompson. You're I love it. You got you got recognized. Are you angry? Yeah. It's a matter of fact. I am. No big deal. You're really bad at all. But I'm like, yes, I am. That's funny. All right. The final ones here, these are guys that did not show up in the top 36. But they were like pretty dramatic jumps and changes. And I just wanted to highlight these two players. I think case it concepts. John has been a really popular one. His rank about a month ago is around 137. He's moved up into 127 overall range. Positionally, it's moving around

49:02like a top 50 wide receiver. He's had about a full round jump, but a really bit. And this is like end of your draft, though, but from remember, and when I say round, it's like, this is how people are ranking them and doing their overall. One of the biggest jumps is Don Tavian Wix. And Don Tavian Wix has moved over three rounds of value to ECR and experts in rank where he was outside the top 200. He's moved almost inside the top 175 and might be a really sneaky sharp play to pick at the very end of your draft, especially it doesn't work out. You just kind of move on. But conception has become a late round target for a lot of people. And Don Tavian Wix might be just a final pick to take any thoughts on either of these two guys and that movement that they've had going into this weekend. Wix makes sense as maybe he's ahead of McIleman on the depth chart as of right now. So he could he could offer some more early season value. He's familiar with Sean Manion coming over from the Green Bay Packers. So I think that that makes sense for Wix. It's also a really good matchup for him and week one against the Washington commanders. So I think maybe the Wix conversation

50:05is it is it real or is it fake? Don Tavian Wix. Should you add them off the wave wire in week two? That'll be a conversation that we likely have just given the matchup. So I understand why he's going up. KC concept shion is definitely one of my favorite wide receivers to draft late as a bench guy because he's a player that I think just could become a big staple of your team. Whether it's the Sean Watson, whether it shoulder Sanders, Simon Blune dropped a amazing comparison to concept shion that I could not get out of my mind after he dropped it. Talking about the Sean Watson and some of the receivers that he has gravitated towards during his college days and during his time spent at Houston with the Texans. So in Clemson Hunter Rennfrow was a guy that he targeted a lot as an underneath kind of slot option short to intermediate around the line of scrimmage. Well, should you remember the third receiver on the Houston Texans that had his moments with the Sean Watson. So behind the Andre Hopkins behind Will Fuller. Do you remember? That's Will Fuller. That was not Will Fuller. Will Fuller was the big splash play guy who again.

51:08Yeah. There's another player. I could when they named it when Simon Blume named drop this guy. I couldn't I was like, oh my god, I totally remember that guy, but it wasn't well, no, it wasn't Christian. I don't know. Jopper Feecky. Yeah. That's a name drop right. But he was good with the Sean Watson as that kind of around the line of scrimmage slot type of player using him in motion. Concept shion is just really fun. Great punt returner kick, kickoff returner. Great with the ball on his hands. Yacht monster. So I think that even if the quarterback play is bad in Cleveland, which should be the expectation, they should at least have negative game scripts and concepts showing us shown that, hey, just get me the ball and I can make plays. PSA for everyone out there. You need to take a few minutes ahead of your draft and make sure to check out the draft assistant draft assistant provides expert recommendations like we're talking about here for every pick. You can get real-time alerts and predictions for which players are going to make it back to you. All those big changes that can

52:09happen in ECR, they can be at your fingertip when you're using draft assistant. Get the ultimate cheat code for fantasy drafts this year at fantasy pros.com slash assistant. That's fantasy pros.com slash assistant. Erickson, we're going to start with quarterback here looking at the top 12 board. This is an interesting position because you would actually set it to me off air. The one position you're going to see the least amount of change in in ECR over time is going to be the quarterback position once it kind of locks in, which, you know, whether that's June or July when all the ranks come in, you're just not going to see a whole bunch of change and that kind of happens here. But we have two names we'll talk about. The top 12 is Josh Allen at one Lamar Jackson at two Drake may at three. No real big crazy changes there. That's tier one, tier two from four to 10 is Joe Burrell, Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hertz, Caleb Williams, Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence, Deck Prescott, and then tier three has Brock Purti and Bo Nix. Now, again, we don't have a whole lot of numbers to attach to this. I do have one quarterback that has moved down half around,

53:10but I want to talk about another guy that I'm actually surprised has not had a major change. I think there has been fluctuation in their high to low rank, but we haven't seen them make a big major dip. And that is Jaden Daniels. So even though this isn't going to necessarily, I'm going to pull up here in a second what the variance is between it. This isn't backed by like, yep, experts have made big major changes. I am surprised we have not seen a major change out of Jaden Daniels and you are going to relay something to people that I agree with that might be surprising. So let's talk about Jaden Daniels going into this final weekend. I'm just really scared to draft Jaden Daniels, especially if you have to pay a little bit more to get him. It's funny. I was helping my wife draft her fantasy football team for her work league last night. And we go through the first couple rounds. It's round four. She looks at me. Can I draft a quarterback now? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hit the brakes babe. Now we're not going quarterback in round four because of all the depth at the position this

54:12year. So because there are so many great quarterback options, I feel like the smart strategy is to try to mitigate the amount of risk that you take on with some of these quarterbacks, especially if you're going to have to pay a little bit more to get them. And when you just look at the ECR ranks, you have the upside case, which obviously a lot of these guys have a lot of upside, including Jaden Daniels because of the Russian they can you can offer. But when you look at the bus risk, the only other player that has read inside the top 12 alongside Jaden Daniels is Lamar Jackson. And Lamar I will at least give more credit to because he's done it for multiple seasons. And he's had bouncebacks before after down seasons. And he's shown that with a new offensive coordinator, he can win MVP. Whereas Jaden Daniels, we have one really good year and then one bad year where he was banged up. Teremacorm is injured. I don't need to rehash the pain that was last year for the 2025 Washington commanders. I had Jaden Daniels that a bunch of spots some keeper leagues at a dynasty league and it was horrible. It was absolutely atrocious for Jaden Daniels in 2025. Things should be better. And I was kind of all aboard Jaden Daniels in a bounceback season.

55:17But then you had the Leonard me tonsil injury. And I understand that tonsil wasn't even there in 2024. But I think that's just a testament to the Superman performance that Jaden Daniels did as a rookie and how he was able to rise above the situation that was the Washington commanders. And I'm just a bit skeptical that he can do that again in 2026 when you're removing a Leonard me tonsil. One of the best left tackles in the NFL from the equation. It was a limited preseason stint for Jaden Daniels. He was pressured on basically both of his dropbacks and it did not look good or encouraging about oh yeah, the offensive lines are going to be great. And then to add insult to injury, they're playing at the Eagles in week one. One of the best defense in the NFL. And I don't want to put myself in a situation behind the eight ball where there's so many good quarter acts. And even if Daniels can bounce back after potentially a rough week one, why put yourself in that position where you're drafting him. And when we do the week one rankings again, spoiler, Daniels is not ranked super super high for week one because of the really tough matchup. Yes,

56:20maybe they're rushing. He can overcome it. But and I like the additions again. I don't want to knock Stefan Diggs's addition in that was really key for the commanders to add him. But the tonsil injury. And then the fact that their starting center has missed basically most of the summer with a calf injury. The athletic described the Washington commanders offensive line as tissue thin interior on the offensive line. Absolutely terrifies me again. So the schedule overall Scott Brown to Scott brand toilet paper like you can't have single playoffensive line. And fortunately, you got to triple that. It's not a recipe for success anywhere in life. Okay. Especially when it comes to fantasy football. So even beyond the Eagles, the schedule overall, they got to play at Dallas, then they got to play the Seahawks, Colts, Giants, 49ers, and then Eagles and Rams again. It's just it's really really tough. And I feel like if this team racks up a bunch of losses to start the year, you start to hear the rumors of his Dan Quenna on the hot seat. And when coaches get fired,

57:22it's just it's just not a good recipe for success for this team. So I'm gets I guess I'm concerned like my big takeaway with just thinking about Jay Danels is, you know, who had a really good rookie season and hasn't done it since CDS crowd. And the offensive line was the reason why. And is this going to happen with Jay Danels? That is my big concern about taking him as QB five. Yeah, I mean, the well, and there's an update on that as well that there's a side to be like the rushing upside is so huge. I think there's an argument to be made. And I would hear it out for people because you're going to I mean, I'm just a little spoiler. There is a lot of people that have them inside the top five in our ECR ranks like a lot of people. I don't think that's wrong because that upside exists. But yeah, you know, no, I know that's what I'm getting at. Like the rushing upside exists. There's also an argument to be said that if they can't set stuff up, it could create more running opportunities. Or he just might need to be successful passing on the run a little bit more. And to be fair, they added like a guy like Rashad White, you've got Chica Conq, well, they've got, they've got it like some good playmakers to like make this okay.

58:27But in the same token, I'm just worried the efficiency is going to go down. And that off that tissue paper offensive line is going to create a lot of bad situations where we might make mistakes. And we might have Boomer Bus Week weeks. I'm with you on this one. And this is a perfect example to remind people that ECR changes on a dime. So you could be watching this and see something different yourself because this is as people make adjustments or more ranks are submitted within 24 hours of doing this. Like I for behind the scenes for people, I like screenshot things. We can look at them on our show sheet. He's actually already now six. He was five last night. He's actually moved to six. I didn't even check to update this morning. So that has moved down one spot. And if you look at variants with J Daniels, I'm telling you, there are so many top fives in here. It's crazy. There's even like 10. There's like 15 people that got him as a top three quarterback this season. But when you look at variants, there's also around 20 plus that have already moved him down outside of a top 10 quarterback. So is there a is there a fun place in the middle? There probably is. But when he's

59:28like quarterback five or six, I'm kind of a little bit of a a fade like you are. And I think maybe not enough is being built into the concern for him with that offensive line when people are looking at how great the pieces. Yeah, new offense. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. The other quarterback to talk about here, the only one that we saw really significant change, there was a time I think he was like 11th in ranks. That is now moved him and kicked him out of I believe the top 12. Yeah, because I did not mention him. And as of over the last month, he's moved down about a half of a round. Almost a full round is Jackson Dart. That's been another one of those where it's surprising because Malink neighbors has healthier. He's going to be out there. I think a lot of people have seen him as like a top 10ish quarterback with the rushing upside. But ECR and ranks have started to tell us a different story where he does not show up as a top 12. He's moving down in ranks. So do you buy yourself that adjustment on him? And what do you think is driving a little bit of a downward push on Jackson Dart has a reason? I think people are concerned about or the experts are concerned about

1:00:33the sustainability of the rushing from last year. And the giants, I know I kind of poured some cold water on them when we talked about Malink neighbors on the wide receiver show. I think that also impacts a guy like Jackson Dart. But when push comes to shove, he's just going to run. I really don't think that they can say whatever they want about oh, we celebrate when he slides. Like we can't wait for him to be just getting the ball that quicker. I think that it's just part of his game and he's a young player and he's going to run and having Malink neighbors, even if it's not at 100%, 80% of Malink neighbors is still better than no Malink neighbors at all. And that's a boost for Jackson Dart. So we just outlined the upside case with Jane Daniels. I think that Dart does have some risk as well. But you don't have to pay the risk because of the price, right? It's QB 13 QB 14 now that you can get Jackson Dart in round 10 round 11 because there are concerns about it where you can just take a flyer on Jackson Dart start on week one. He's facing the Dallas Cowboys like that match up a lot more than the Philadelphia Eagles, especially with the giants playing

1:01:35at home. So Dart had some really high highs last year. Maybe it's a little bit more boomer bus from a week to week basis. But I think Debro outlined it on the Superflex draft that mean he was putting up like Josh Allen type numbers when he was rushing at his high when you remove the one game where he basically didn't run at all. I think it was against the Raiders last season. So yeah, he also has a really, really high ceiling. And I think that the risk is more than being captured and where his new ECR ADP is because it's continuing to fall. Because I think that maybe we're just overthinking it a little bit. I know I have him checking right now where I have in my QB quarterback ranks. I know I have him. I think I still have him inside my top 12 because I'm just kind of embracing the rushing at this point. I have him. You have met 10. I'm looking. So I'm taking him above ECR consensus. You ready for this differential? If you want to look and click if anyone's look, click on the fantasy pros expert differences. He ends up being your guys' quarter bad. I'm not really even sure how here, but he's quarterback 12. Okay. Debrose got him at eight. You have him at 10.

1:02:42Do you know where Fitsy has him? Buried. 19. 19. So yeah, Fitsy is down on him. So that is actually probably the biggest variance. There was a time and period where we were going to look at this episode two of having the biggest variance between the three of you, the fantasy pros analyst, and taking a look at those differences. And if that was, the two guys that would stand out would be Caleb Williams between the three of you and then Jackson Dart, like no doubt, like between eight and 19. That's like the biggest wide variance of a quarterback. So you know, maybe some concerns in general and also maybe looking at floor, you know, because the other thing is like, pretty moves up or Bonyx is kind of an interesting one as well that he's moved up to 12. So those are what the changes are. There's less quarterback differences or ECR changes in this period of time, but perception, you know, is kind of showing up a little bit. And that top 12, again, is Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Drake May, Joe Burwatt for Jayden Daniels. Well, technically, actually, Jaylin Hertz is now five my old sheet. Jayden Daniels is six Caleb Williams, Justin

1:03:44Herbert Trevor Lawrence, Jack Prescott, Brock Pretty and Boni. I do. I do. Before we shift, I do want to say one thing about Boni, and I don't pretend to be like the biggest bow lever in the world, but the fact that he was QB seven back to back seasons and they added Jaylin Waddle, and he's basically a fringe fantasy, QB one. He is my firewall of all I waited, so long at quarterback. I'll stay bonix. Like I think that his, you know, his security, his safety is really, really high. And I think that, okay, I mean, I think top five quarterback is very much in play, especially because he was QB seven last back back seasons. And another one, I got to, this is my bad for not. I literally, I actually might even screenshot of these again this morning. A change that has happened that I didn't notice as well. Brock, Bonix is actually jump Brock Pretty in 11. So there's another in ECR. You want changes. Bonix has moved up another positional spot. So dark down, Jayne Daniels down, Bonix up. Those are some quarterbacks to pay attention to

1:04:44for this coming weekend. Moving over, as you mentioned, now going to Titans, our big board, hopefully this has an out of bunch of changes. The top 12 is Brock Bowers at one, Tramik Bride at two, Colson Lovelin at three. This actually does seem like a new change. The Tyler Warrens at four, but I don't recall the tier being Tyler Warren a part of that top tier. That looks like a little different. The numbers are the same, but the tier is interesting. Tucker Kraft is the start of tier two at five. Laporte is at six, Fanon at seven, Pits, Kittle, and then tier three's got Kelsey Kincaid and Goddard. So that's been pretty chalk. Now that's making me want to go look at the live board. And I don't think we have there is actually there is another change here. I got, I'm getting smacked with these. I'm going to actually say this one, Dallas Goddard has moved out of the top 12 and the new change is Isaiah likely. And actually I was going to talk about him at one point, but likely moving up a little bit into the top 12. So that is actually something we're seeing kind of on the live board. If you're looking over on fantasy pros, and that'll probably change.

1:05:45But the two Titans are wanted to talk about these are outside of the top 12. Well, actually, just real quick on Isaiah likely. Anything you want to speak on likely jumping Goddard in the ranks is that do anything for you? I mean, Goddard's numbers without AJ Brown is pretty sexy. But likely clearly looks like he's going to be the number two pass catching option in New York. And funny enough kind of tying this into the Jackson Dart thing. Do you have any comments on Goddard versus likely making that move? I think likely has the higher ceiling potential just because there's an opportunity for hand if neighbors is not 100% for likely to be the number one target in this offense for maybe the first month of the season. Not to say that Dallas guard doesn't also have pristine opportunity with no AJ Brown, McCyee lemon coming back from his injury. And it's just being the Vante Smith as the established number one. Also very favorable schedule to start the year again. This Eagles passing game is probably going to start off on a high note considering they play the Washington commanders in week one. So that's a good spot for Jalen Hertz and this offense to at least start on a high note. So I think Goddard is a really good light round and tight and option. I think

1:06:48likely is also a really good light round tighter option. I just look and see the splits that we saw last or last two years basically whenever Mark Andrews missed time likely was posting fringe top five fantasy numbers. And there's always a question about well, why couldn't he overtake Mark Andrews? There's like a weird legendary franchise player thing going on with Mark Andrews in Baltimore where they're continuing to play him and start him even though it's very visible that you can see that the product the asset the production is starting to climb with the player, but they don't care because he's Mark Andrews. He's a Ravens long timer. He's a legendary player for our franchise. He's a franchise proud of my high school. Remember proud of my high school of Welsh's high school. So they were hesitant to everything really kind of not bench him, but to put him behind likely even though it was very clear that likely had way more juice and way more upside. And like we said, screw this. I'm going to I'm going with Harbott of the Giants. Get a new contract for a path for opportunities and likely would hardly be the first tight end to finally hit on their second team,

1:07:52right? This is a very common thing that we see a trend where first team a tight and it's kind of buried doesn't really do that much. Maybe flashes here and there. I think the most popular guy that comes to mind a guy that you probably remember on the 49ers, the Laney Walker didn't really do that much. I think he was behind Vernon Davis at the time. Some of the other tight ends. Goes to Tennessee has a great stretch of production with Ryan Tanahill as his quarterback for a lot of those seasons. So I think that likely could follow a similar path. And I think that getting him as a late round tight end option. I think he's got a little bit more boomer bust to him because Giants offense. Maybe we don't love them this year, but when it comes to tight ends, the bar to relevance and to success is just volume. Are you going to get targets? And I think likely we'll get a lot of targets in his offense. Yeah, I think it's and you guys your variance is super interesting because between you, Debron and Fitsy, it's either 10 or 12. Like it's a two spot difference. You all have him as a tight Isaiah likely as a tight end one. Nobody lower than 12 and he comes in as the 11th, but

1:08:55you guys are not in the same boat as Goddard bigger variance. Debron has him at eight. Fitsy has him at 14. You break the middle. So there's a much bigger gap of variance between Goddard likely is trending up just as a, you know, a point if you guys don't already know likely is a guy you should be paying attention to if you don't do high end tight end or even miss on a guy like Pits getting him a little bit later. But ranks are moving him up 80 P's probably moving him up a little bit and he's just jumped Goddard. The two tight ends though that I wanted to focus on. They're actually later tight ends. And I think there's some interesting different buzz and different capacity. But Dalton Schultz was 193. He has moved up over two rounds to 170. I know that's at the back end, but that's like people waiting on Titan taking it the very end of drafts if you don't want to do it. He and his tight end positional thing is really interesting. He is tight end 19, but the 80 P of him is 25. So 80 P is not caught up to where he is. So I don't know in every league 19 Titans are going to be taken. But you know with the injuries they've had I know they with a broad and booty and stuff, but like

1:09:58you know Dalton Schultz looks like he can get a decent target share. And then one of the busier guys, Terrence Ferguson was ranked lower than Schultz is now ranked higher than him and has had it over a three round jump and is very, very busy. So two tight ends you would take at the back half of drafts. If you could pick one of these guys you don't take Titan. You really wait on it. You also don't get the likelies of the Goddards or you know maybe you do get one of those guys are a kiddle and you want to pair with which one would you side on going into this week and both guys moving up Dalton Schultz or Terrence Ferguson? It would be Terrence Ferguson for me. And I think that this is the perfect epitome of what Jeff Rackliffe was talking about in one of his draft day tips to remember where when you're looking at your bench players what you're drafting for is not players to be usable but for players to become indispensable. And I think that this is perfectly captured by these two players here were Schultz. Oh yeah, this guy you can use at plug and play. Gonna give you backhand fantasy Titan 1 numbers. He's probably being undervalued probably a definite

1:11:03lock to beat Titan 25 easily probably gonna beat Titan 19. He caught 77 passes last year. So again a player that's going to be a steady asset for your team at fantasy but is he a true difference maker? Probably not. But Terrence Ferguson, I think there could be an opportunity where he does become a part where he's an actual difference making Titan on your team because he plays on the Rams offense. One that we're really really excited about and all the buzz around training camp with Terrence Ferguson beside Sean McVeigh calling him a stud at every single opportunity is he's playing all over the formation. He's playing the X he's playing the Y he's playing the F he's playing ABC D E F G. He's doing everything you want in the alphabet for the Rams offense and how fragile is the pieces in his offense. The Mont Adams 34 years old now, Pukin and Kua. We know the way that he plays. We know he has some off field stuff not expecting suspension but could he miss time potentially. And what does that mean? A number one featured role in a Rams let offense

1:12:04for Terrence Ferguson. So I think that he's being undervalued because he plays tight end. But if he was listed as Rams wide receiver. I mean, the fact that they had to trade back for Tutu Atwell tells you all about their depth. They don't have any because they had to get Tutu Atwell back on the roster. So I think Ferguson has a sky high ceiling and he's someone that would much rather have on my bench as a stash than Dalton Schultz who I think is really more of a waiver wire or a buy-week type of film type of player because I think that he's a floor play at best. And those tight end updates again the top 12. I'm actually going to look at the live board instead of what I screen shot it. You got Bowers McBride, Loveland, War and Tier 1, Kraft, Fanon, Pitz, LaPorta as 5678 and then you've got Kittle, Kelsey, King Cade and likely and kind of hidden in there also was a little bit of a LaPorta drop as well. Positionally, I think there was a lot of updates in the last 24 hours on ECR. So knowing that LaPorta had a little bit of a drop in overall

1:13:05rank value which I would take LaPorta over Fanon that's personally me likely moving up and then guys like Terrence Ferguson are flying up boards and of all the tight ends in the top 25 ranked tight ends on our ranks page. The only one to get the little green arrow which means they are making significant movement over the last like seven days is Ferguson. He's the one that has moved up three positional spots just in the last seven days and that might continue. So good for you to know and knowing is half the battle for you guys going into this final draft weekend quarterbacks in tight ends. Those are what the boards look like and also remember we've got the running back and wide receiver but a little PSA for you guys out there you've got to take just a few minutes ahead of your draft this coming weekend or Labor Day and make sure to check out our draft assistant draft is going to provide expert recommendations for every pick. So all of the latest updates on ECR is powering draft assistant. We are giving you the tool here on this episode to let you know what has changed but the draft assistant tool is going to power you with all of those changes. It's also

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