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Speaker 1: Paul Charchi in my co host as usual Brian Johnson Today. Hello,
Speaker 1: what's up? Charch Um? Game stops not up? I don't
Speaker 1: think I think it's I think it's finally uh kind
Speaker 1: of run its course, it's not yet landed on the moon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as of now, it's uh, what a fascinating development. Unbelievable
Speaker 1: it's been. It's been a lot of fun watching this
Speaker 1: from the I've been on the sidelines. I didn't get
Speaker 1: in on it. I kind of wish I had now,
Speaker 1: but just for the ride. Well, if I zone out,
Speaker 1: I'm checking the doge coins. That is a deal. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is it's kind of a weird show in
Speaker 1: that the big Super Bowl breakdowns coming neck next week,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't want to take I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do like half a Super Bowl breakdown this week
Speaker 1: when we don't have all the answers we're gonna have
Speaker 1: next week, So we're not breaking down the Pro Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: They're not playing the Pro Bowl, and I'm playing the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl playing. They awarded guys into the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: but then they don't have to show up for anything.
Speaker 1: Probably for the best. It only took a global pandemic
Speaker 1: to to get it right and game. Who misses the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? Nobody, that's who. Um. So, what I decided
Speaker 1: to do differently this week from a content perspective is
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, all right, what what could what
Speaker 1: don't people necessarily know right now while it's still in season,
Speaker 1: And I think we'll, uh, we'll get to some of
Speaker 1: the coaching changes and some of that stuff a little
Speaker 1: bit later. And I had the idea to look for
Speaker 1: some of the developments that you may have missed in December.
Speaker 1: A lot of fantasy guys are tuned in elsewhere in December. Now.
Speaker 1: It could be that you're just for the holidays. It
Speaker 1: could be you're knocked out of the playoffs, could be
Speaker 1: there in the playoffs and you're only really paying attention
Speaker 1: to your very good team. So I challenged you and
Speaker 1: I each Brian to come up with three positive developments,
Speaker 1: and I think we'll have a negative development show later.
Speaker 1: Um three positive developments that went under appreciated, undernoticed in December.
Speaker 1: That's the premise, or maybe even you even now aware
Speaker 1: of it in December and you've already forgotten about it
Speaker 1: will be one going into draft season when that starts
Speaker 1: in a couple of months. Already part of the challenge
Speaker 1: was trying to find things that people actually missed, you know,
Speaker 1: like j K. Dobbins emerging in December was too obvious,
Speaker 1: I felt, because too many people knew about it. It's
Speaker 1: just too I thought it was two front and center.
Speaker 1: So I think some of the hopefully for at least
Speaker 1: some of these six, our listeners will be like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: that's I you know I didn't. I guess I did
Speaker 1: not realize that. It's my hope for at least some
Speaker 1: of these now purposely, I don't know your three that
Speaker 1: you're going to contribute, and you don't know my three,
Speaker 1: and so we'll both will be a little bit surprised
Speaker 1: as we go. I will yield the floor to you first,
Speaker 1: give me the first of three positive developments that listeners
Speaker 1: may have missed in December. People might have got a
Speaker 1: sense of his ability and he got on everyone's radar.
Speaker 1: But uh, Logan Thomas wasn't just a flash in the pan.
Speaker 1: In the month of December, he emerged as a, if
Speaker 1: not a top five tight end, a top three tight
Speaker 1: end for fantasy football proposes going into and um, if
Speaker 1: you're not award of the history of Logan Thomas real quick,
Speaker 1: I do know that he is a quarterback turn tight end.
Speaker 1: Quarterback turn tight end. Drafted by the Cardinals in the
Speaker 1: fourth round of NFL Draft, he was like the fifth
Speaker 1: quarterback taken. That was the infamous Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater not as an infamous, and Derrick Carwin after
Speaker 1: the three guys. So yeah, I think about how motivated
Speaker 1: he plays every week knowing Johnny Manziel and Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: were drafted over him. But yeah, Thomas, quarterback for the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: did not pan out as a quarterback. Actually spent some
Speaker 1: time with Miami and the Giants as a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: It was until he went to Buffalo in twenties seventeen
Speaker 1: did he started playing tight end. One season, two seasons
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, one in Detroit. He had thirty six catches
Speaker 1: in those three years as a tight end seventy two.
Speaker 1: This season doubled his career input output in one year. Unreal. Unreal,
Speaker 1: and by the way, looks like a tight end. Mean
Speaker 1: he built, he has built out his body. He looks
Speaker 1: very much like a tight end at this stage. Ye
Speaker 1: six six, like too thirty. He's a mountain of a
Speaker 1: man and he can move. And starting in week thirteen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Week thirteen through the wild Card game
Speaker 1: because those are all December games. Week thirteen was played
Speaker 1: in early December. So week thirteen to eighteen, Thomas tallied
Speaker 1: fifty eight targets and if you extrapolate that target share
Speaker 1: across a sixteen game season, he would equate to a
Speaker 1: hundred and fIF five targets. Dang, that would be third
Speaker 1: among receivers. So I was giving Chelsea and Waller would
Speaker 1: be the only two. Yeah, it was digs and uh,
Speaker 1: I believe Hopkins are going to wide receivers that would
Speaker 1: have outargeted Logan Thomas at that rate. So he finished
Speaker 1: incredibly strong, even going before December into November. He scored
Speaker 1: double digit PPR points in ten of his last twelve games.
Speaker 1: And it's the quarterback situation that's the big question mark, right,
Speaker 1: we can't we don't know what the quarterback will be
Speaker 1: next year, but it can't get much worse than it was.
Speaker 1: That is that's a fair statement. Uh, yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: Although Alex Smith. I think part of the reason he
Speaker 1: thrived in December is that Alex Smith just targeted him
Speaker 1: a don and that's the worst case scenario. He gets
Speaker 1: Alex Smith back. I mean, it's not gonna be doing
Speaker 1: Haskins around or anything anything like that. Who hopefully they
Speaker 1: maybe they make a move for DeShawn Watson's not out
Speaker 1: of the cards for thember Matt Stactually, actually I think Watson.
Speaker 1: I think if I think Washington should be one of
Speaker 1: the three spots that Deshaun Watson should consider meets along
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins and the Well I mean, the Colts
Speaker 1: would be good form, but they're not going to trade
Speaker 1: him in the division, uh, Dolphins and the Patriots. Dolphins, Patriots, Washington,
Speaker 1: great defense in Washington, Thomas, Lauren and Dickson anchoring that offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all they need is a quarterback and right now it's
Speaker 1: very early to look at a DP, but a DP
Speaker 1: is out there, and Logan Thomas is going around tight
Speaker 1: end nine already he's in like the Evan Ingraham Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry Tear. You know people are gonna take Kelsey of
Speaker 1: over Thomas of Cosy. Yes, but after those two I'm
Speaker 1: not saying you want to reach for Thomas where George Kittle,
Speaker 1: He'll be. After Kittle, you can make a stronger case
Speaker 1: for Thomas. Any Yeah, people probably still gonna take more Andrews.
Speaker 1: There probably t J. Hockenson to us the sexier names.
Speaker 1: But wherever logan, Thomas's ADP is that wherever you're drafting
Speaker 1: from February to August, reach around for him, because he could.
Speaker 1: He's basically Darren Waller two point oh a converted Waller
Speaker 1: was a wide receiver. Thomason. He's finally mastered his craft
Speaker 1: as Waller has, and we have very similar skill sets.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, the skies the limit for Thomas, and
Speaker 1: he's very undervalued right now, and that that ADP will
Speaker 1: climb as we get closer to We're giving the three
Speaker 1: positive developments you may have missed in December. I'm giving three.
Speaker 1: Brian's giving three. You got a total of six. Uh
Speaker 1: that is number one mine, a player you've already mentioned
Speaker 1: a December performance by Derek Car between Car and the
Speaker 1: one game with Mariota. Get this, the Raiders were QB
Speaker 1: four in December QB four the Raiders now again. One
Speaker 1: game of that was Marcus Mariotta. We ran for eighty
Speaker 1: eight yards and he ran rushing touchdown. But that's all
Speaker 1: Mariota really did. Most of the rest of this is
Speaker 1: on Car. Multiple touchdowns in every game, including he had
Speaker 1: he had three rushing touchdowns in December. But even that,
Speaker 1: which is not normal for Car, but the passing was
Speaker 1: really notable. Get this. Aside from the game he missed
Speaker 1: um and he got knocked out early in the first
Speaker 1: quarter that game. He threw for over three hundred sixteen
Speaker 1: yards in all of his December games. All four of
Speaker 1: his December games, he scored four touchdowns, three touchdowns, two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two touchdowns. Darren Waller obviously made a big
Speaker 1: part of that, and Waller went Biserk. But Nelson Aglar
Speaker 1: had a very good December um and then he would
Speaker 1: find like one receiver each game would have a good game. Um,
Speaker 1: you know one other guy you know spot here. Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs had the big game against the Jets that they
Speaker 1: want on the last play and stuff like that. But um,
Speaker 1: you know he would the fact that car was able
Speaker 1: to get this level of production out of his tight
Speaker 1: end and some help from Nelson Agilar, and that's it
Speaker 1: was to be very impressive. And I think people may
Speaker 1: have missed how much better he got. So I looked
Speaker 1: at cars p F grade. First half of the season.
Speaker 1: His average PF grade was sixty four, not that great.
Speaker 1: Second half of the season, Derek Carrs p F grade
Speaker 1: jumped thirteen points to a seventy seven, which is awfully
Speaker 1: good and actually put him inside the top ten among
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the second half of the season by PF grade.
Speaker 1: So I roll this together and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta believe you can get Derek Carr for nothing next year. Now,
Speaker 1: there there are some question marks as we look ahead
Speaker 1: the next year for him. Agilar was on a one
Speaker 1: year proven deal and he's a free agent. I suspect
Speaker 1: they will want to bring him back much more. He
Speaker 1: could prove himself more than he did this year. It
Speaker 1: was he was beyond what anyone expect, way more than
Speaker 1: what anybody expected. Now did you hear about Aglars It
Speaker 1: was only reported on Thursday or Friday that Agilar cocked
Speaker 1: off after like the Week six team game about how
Speaker 1: this team doesn't want to win and they're not trying
Speaker 1: hard enough, And he's right, that's the thing. If you
Speaker 1: watch the Raiders in December, especially, their defense was just
Speaker 1: checked out. So I don't know if they'll respect Aglar
Speaker 1: more for standing up in front of the team and
Speaker 1: saying that, or if they're gonna be pissed at all,
Speaker 1: because in a way, you're also calling out the coaching
Speaker 1: staff when you do that effort is on the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know if this means Agilar is
Speaker 1: gone or not. Tyrolle Williams, by the way, I'm still
Speaker 1: on board. Get this. I forgot about I know. Why
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you have? He hasn't eleven million dollar salary
Speaker 1: next year, so he's gonna get Can they go after
Speaker 1: any of these big name free agents? I guess not
Speaker 1: like the Allen Robinson's or the world, but potentially they
Speaker 1: could from a salary cap standpoint. They're actually in decent shape,
Speaker 1: although they're offensive. Linds Uber expensive, like the third most
Speaker 1: expensive offensive line next year for the Raiders. So Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: you may have missed a very good December from Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Will see how his receiving options look next year. Bo.
Speaker 1: You know, Darren Waller is not going anywhere. I got
Speaker 1: a receiver that would look good, oh in the black
Speaker 1: and silver, tell me more, and he's my next topic discuss.
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones himself had a hell of a December last
Speaker 1: it was like receiver five in December. Uh, he's really
Speaker 1: had of almost a hell of the last five seasons.
Speaker 1: He's incredibly underrated. So over the last five years, here
Speaker 1: are the games players with the most games with the
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown, starting with the most of Andante Adams, of
Speaker 1: course at the top of the lists. All right, and
Speaker 1: this list is very at least, so it's just I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go down. I'm not gonna read the totals
Speaker 1: for each, but are all over twenty five, which is
Speaker 1: a lot for the last five years. Davante Adams, Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: Tyree Killed, DeAndre Hopkins, Travis Kelsey, Adam Feeling, Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper, Michael Thomas, Stephen Diggs, Marvin Jones. One of
Speaker 1: these six things is not like the other. One of
Speaker 1: these things just doesn't belong and Uh, of course Kenny
Speaker 1: Golladay went down in week eight. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: lot and well for the second time went down in
Speaker 1: week eight. I mean, Jones played as wide receiver one
Speaker 1: and probably what twelve of their games? I mean, did
Speaker 1: Golladay played four? Have four games in the season, So
Speaker 1: I don't we were really focusing on December. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go from Week nine when Golliday was first out
Speaker 1: through Week seventeen, when Jones was operating as the wide
Speaker 1: receiver one. UH finished number seven among wide receivers and
Speaker 1: PPR formats UH eighteen PPR points per game during that span.
Speaker 1: It was a little volatile though. During that span, finishes
Speaker 1: a top five wide receiver four times, outside of the
Speaker 1: top thirty six five times. Yeah, that's not great. Well,
Speaker 1: it's Stafford miss him games in there too, And I'm guessing,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know in front of me, but
Speaker 1: I'm guessing Stafford. Stafford's missed games ultimately had to hurt
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones without a doubt, and UH, and Stafford was
Speaker 1: also banged up too, but they still they still made
Speaker 1: a lot happen. UH during that same span Week nine,
Speaker 1: two weeks seventeen, Jones caught twenty five passes of ten
Speaker 1: plus eight yards that was tied for the second uh most.
Speaker 1: During that span, he had five nineteen yards, third most
Speaker 1: yards five touchdowns, tied for the second most. He was
Speaker 1: absolutely on fire. And he's going into an unrestricted free agency.
Speaker 1: So maybe he he does turn thirty one in March,
Speaker 1: probably his last contract of his career. But uh, maybe
Speaker 1: he tags along go somewhere with Stafford. That would be ideal.
Speaker 1: Probably unlikely though, because a lot of the teams that
Speaker 1: need wide receiver don't need a quarterback, like Arizona, Baltimore, Miami,
Speaker 1: the Giants, but teams were he and Stafford potentially could
Speaker 1: go New England, Washington, maybe Chicago, probably not Chicago, but
Speaker 1: there are jobs at wide receiver one jobs out there.
Speaker 1: If you did go to Chicago the Giants, he could
Speaker 1: be wide receiver one. New England, he could be wide
Speaker 1: receiver one, and you could be wide receiver one in
Speaker 1: New England. Right, But uh, long story, short landing spot
Speaker 1: determines a lot of Jones value, but again very early
Speaker 1: a DP. But he's a guy that always wants him.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever wants him Wide receiver sixt right now in
Speaker 1: early Bestball, you know, the rookies are going before him
Speaker 1: with no landing spots. Jalen Waddle is a guy that's
Speaker 1: going ahead of him. Uh Dez Bryant even as a
Speaker 1: higher a dplus people just going off the bigger name.
Speaker 1: People just don't want anything to do with Marvin Jones,
Speaker 1: it seems like. But that's really funny. He's a guy
Speaker 1: you don't have to draft as a top three or
Speaker 1: four wide receiver on your team, but he could, you know,
Speaker 1: leave your depth chart, you know, vault your depth charts
Speaker 1: and operate as a wide receiver one wide receiver two
Speaker 1: proving it. You mentioned Best Ball and for a guy
Speaker 1: with his level of volatility, that might be a great
Speaker 1: format for Marvin Jones, definitely even more of a target
Speaker 1: Investball Leaks. When we come back, we'll give you the
Speaker 1: remaining three positive developments you may have missed in December.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you, covering the developments you may have
Speaker 1: missed in December. This is the positivity episode. I think
Speaker 1: we will do a negativity episode shortly after the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: maybe the week after something like that. We'll see, we
Speaker 1: got to balance out the universe a little bit. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: well probably not. The number four positive development you may
Speaker 1: have missed in December, David Johnson's successful return from a
Speaker 1: variety of injuries suffered over the course of the season.
Speaker 1: And we've all been skeptics for years. You know who
Speaker 1: hasn't been burned on David Johnson over the past four years,
Speaker 1: and even this year was mostly a burning by David Johnson.
Speaker 1: But he actually looked pretty good in December. He played
Speaker 1: in four December games. He scored four times in the
Speaker 1: four games. He topped one hundred total yards in three
Speaker 1: of the four games. He posted a crazy eleven catch,
Speaker 1: one six receiving yard game in December, and David Johnson's
Speaker 1: yards per carry was six point four in December six
Speaker 1: point four. His elusiveness rating via PFF went from thirty
Speaker 1: four to which moved him from running back forty six
Speaker 1: in elusiveness prior to December to running back nine in
Speaker 1: elusiveness in December. Again Pro Football Focus. The only runner
Speaker 1: with a similar December jump and elusiveness was cam Acres.
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about good. Cam Acres got nobody talking about
Speaker 1: David Johnson. He was December's ninth best runner in yards
Speaker 1: after contact three point seven yards after contact for David Johnson.
Speaker 1: So a very good December. And so what I think
Speaker 1: this means for the year ahead for David Johnson Brian
Speaker 1: is the team's got so many needs in Houston and
Speaker 1: maybe quarterback. I just think they're not gonna They're not
Speaker 1: gonna put any draft capital, any equity for a team
Speaker 1: that doesn't have have you know, they're missing to draft picks. Um.
Speaker 1: I just don't think they're gonna change running backs. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be David Johnson rolling in next
Speaker 1: year with no real competition, meaningful competition for that job.
Speaker 1: You could probably put prime Barry Sanders in that backfield,
Speaker 1: and it's not really gonna help the bottom line of
Speaker 1: that team right now outside of all the other needs
Speaker 1: that they have. Like you said, so yeah, I'm with
Speaker 1: you that they better ride or die with DJ. I
Speaker 1: think they're going to I know, Bill O'Brien's long gone,
Speaker 1: but they gotta still nice, you know, to just fight
Speaker 1: the trade. You're right, even though Brian is gone. So
Speaker 1: David Johnson played well. Let's go to our number five
Speaker 1: positive development you may have missed in December. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stick with the running back position. And uh, it's not
Speaker 1: like he really went off in December, but he at
Speaker 1: least made an appearance and when he did, it looked good.
Speaker 1: And that's a J. Dillon And it's a J Dillon time,
Speaker 1: like right this very moment if you're doing drafts because uh,
Speaker 1: he's going in the seventh round right now, which is
Speaker 1: absolutely that's because we do it's because free agency hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet, and then people are still, I assume, holding
Speaker 1: out hope that somehow you won't Aaron Jones is going
Speaker 1: to remain on the Packers. I think there's a ten
Speaker 1: percent chance. I think there's a fifty percent chance that
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams stays on the Packers. But a J. Dillon,
Speaker 1: no matter what's got a bigger role coming definitely there.
Speaker 1: They sunk draft capital into a j last year, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams, like they said, both unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agents, assuming they both leave. That's sixty one total
Speaker 1: red zone carries between the two for Jones, three for Williams.
Speaker 1: For reference, that's all of the red zone carries. Who
Speaker 1: else would ever happen, but just but the opportunity. Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs led the NFL with sixty four, so basically plug
Speaker 1: in A J. Dillon who had a handful of himself,
Speaker 1: and he's your league leader in NFL red zone carries
Speaker 1: theoretically if they both leave, if they both leave, but again,
Speaker 1: if Jones is gone, Jones has and Williams stays, you
Speaker 1: would think he kind of operates as the change of
Speaker 1: pace back like he has for Aaron Jones, even though
Speaker 1: he's kind of we don't know, but a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: Williams can catch for sure, and that's why I think
Speaker 1: he would walk more into the Aaron Jones lead role
Speaker 1: because they throw at Aaron Jones. A Ton Dylan's past
Speaker 1: catching ability is I think much more unknown. He has
Speaker 1: three targets, all right. One was in the playoffs in
Speaker 1: a divisional or the conference championship and it was a
Speaker 1: nice catch. I mean, so he has the ability, he
Speaker 1: just hasn't had the opportunity. So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: But again, he hasn't had a ton of opportunities really,
Speaker 1: just one good game that was that Week sixteen game
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. One carries four yards two touchdowns. That was
Speaker 1: that snowy game when um, it was just built for
Speaker 1: a mutter, a straight ahead runner like a J. Dillon,
Speaker 1: and they let him. The fact that they built a
Speaker 1: game plan around him and let him go execute that
Speaker 1: was probably a good sign that he had earned the
Speaker 1: trust and faith of that coaching See. And that's not
Speaker 1: the last snowy game will be playing in Green Bay, right,
Speaker 1: So he's the guy they can they can trust. And
Speaker 1: uh again, just thirty four carry. He had twenty one
Speaker 1: carries that game. Just thirty four carries across his other
Speaker 1: ten games, including the playoffs. So not a lot of
Speaker 1: tape on him. But it's just all about the eye test. Really.
Speaker 1: He looked good when he got the ball, and odds
Speaker 1: are the opportunities gonna be there for him to at
Speaker 1: least compete for that starting job in Green Bay. Average
Speaker 1: five point three yards per carry? Uh pretty him, Give
Speaker 1: him a full Just give him fifty carries and he's
Speaker 1: gonna exceed that seventh round a DP right now. But uh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's gonna. I wonder if it will
Speaker 1: be a lot more Jamal Williams early in the season
Speaker 1: and as the season wears on, it'll start skewing towards
Speaker 1: Dylan cold Weather games. He'll be further along in his development.
Speaker 1: He might be a guy next year that takes a
Speaker 1: little more patience. But I think he's a fantasy factor,
Speaker 1: I really do, and he he could climb into the
Speaker 1: first round of drafts by the end of the summer
Speaker 1: if both guys leave they don't put anybody meaningful into
Speaker 1: that backfield. I don't think he'd be a first rounder,
Speaker 1: but I think that it would certainly be a lot
Speaker 1: wait for early second self. He would need to maybe
Speaker 1: if they play preseason games next year, he need one
Speaker 1: of those. But uh, but in that scenario, so let's
Speaker 1: let's just say that it does play out that way,
Speaker 1: where both Jamal Williams and Aaron Jones leave and they
Speaker 1: don't add another meaningful runner. They'll have some other warm bodies,
Speaker 1: but let's sume it's nobody good. It's a uh, they're
Speaker 1: like an Abdullah type um, and we think he's gonna
Speaker 1: get We think he's gonna get a workhorse role for
Speaker 1: a j. Dillon. I still think he's probably going to
Speaker 1: going like the third round because he's never proven anything,
Speaker 1: and the first two rounds are almost are usually filled
Speaker 1: with players who have proven their worth. Yeah, not saying
Speaker 1: I would take him in the first two rounds, but
Speaker 1: the hype could get up there. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the third fourth round will be a very uh safe
Speaker 1: estimation for where all lands right now RB thirty six. Again,
Speaker 1: it's very early, but guys like Devin Singletarry what or
Speaker 1: going before him? When that Ronald Jones that people just
Speaker 1: look at the carry totals basically, and Dylan doesn't have any,
Speaker 1: but he will. Our sixth and final positive development you
Speaker 1: may have missed in December is Austin Ekeler's return. He
Speaker 1: he played three full games at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: then he missed nine weeks and returned in week twelve.
Speaker 1: He was running back twelve in December. Not bad, uh,
Speaker 1: I think, and a probably a success story considering the
Speaker 1: magnitude uh the hamstring injury he had, which was severe
Speaker 1: and there was some frustrating you probably get into some
Speaker 1: there was some frustrating us usage right right, and and
Speaker 1: he averaged only ten and a half carries per game
Speaker 1: is what you're getting at. And for a guy that
Speaker 1: we know is a lot better than ten and a
Speaker 1: half carries per game. I was a little bit surprised
Speaker 1: that it was. It stayed that light. It started that light,
Speaker 1: and it stayed that light, and it never really got
Speaker 1: a lot better. He averaged a healthy for and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry. Um highly involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: which is usual for him. He averaged six targets, catching
Speaker 1: five of those six Um, although only thirty five yards
Speaker 1: per game, which isn't special. Um. He also of a
Speaker 1: note in December, was playing behind this injury racked Charges
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is always injury racked. Man that team,
Speaker 1: How they don't along with the vikings, you know, how
Speaker 1: how these teams don't ever fix their bad and injury
Speaker 1: played defensive lines is beyond me. Anyway, Um, let it
Speaker 1: all out. It was a good, not great performance and
Speaker 1: return from Austin Ekeler. Um. We really don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of role he'll have next year. It's a new
Speaker 1: offense with Brandon Staley, who was the former Rams defensive
Speaker 1: coordinate who's now head coach, and his new offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: is Joe Lombardi, who has been who was the Saints
Speaker 1: quarterback coach. Among It's got a long long history unclear
Speaker 1: what although the Saints used a time share of backs
Speaker 1: to some degree, right, Alvin Alvin Camar is a It's
Speaker 1: like a sixty is split between camara um and la
Speaker 1: Tabius Murray. So the presumption is here that Eckler doesn't
Speaker 1: immediately like go to touches a game guy. But I
Speaker 1: think he I think he was. I think the uptick
Speaker 1: will be closer to what we see how the Saints
Speaker 1: had used Alvin Camaro, which was probably in the eighteen
Speaker 1: touch of game range. Yeah, I'm with you, and you
Speaker 1: know we saw going late first, early second, late summer
Speaker 1: last year. I think he'll he'll probably fall late second,
Speaker 1: early third, mid third. I think guys like cam Akers,
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson, maybe even James Robinson all vault above when
Speaker 1: it comes to a DP. But uh, I think I
Speaker 1: like ceiling a little higher than guys like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. Okay, I'm sick. I think Eckler people
Speaker 1: aren't gonna everybody replays last year. That's the top. The
Speaker 1: primary wave that people do their drafting in August is
Speaker 1: what do I remember from last year? People are just
Speaker 1: gonna remember the last season for Eckler because he didn't
Speaker 1: splash upon his return, you know, had he scored four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in December, scored once. Had he scored four touchdowns
Speaker 1: in December, had he powered teams and into the playoffs
Speaker 1: and into fantasy victories, they would have been they'd remember
Speaker 1: him a lot more charitably. I think people are gonna
Speaker 1: be down on Eckler and I think he's gonna slide.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be like a third round guy,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a mistake. It's I he's got
Speaker 1: so much talent and some opportunity, and obviously he's got
Speaker 1: a quarterback who looks like he's going to be fantastic,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. I will remember Austin Ekela on Draft Day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about him a lot, probably in the preseason,
Speaker 1: as we talked, as we spent so much time in
Speaker 1: our preseason talking about undervalued guys, sleepers, I think Austin
Speaker 1: Ekela will be a common name in that area. Next
Speaker 1: week we will be breaking down the Super Bowl Fantasy
Speaker 1: style DFS style. I might work in a couple of
Speaker 1: props already, like the Travis Kelsey under seven and a
Speaker 1: half UH catches, because like you're going to have to block.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Gronk props are about them,
Speaker 1: all about him, all about Dawson Knox. Some guy on
Speaker 1: Twitter tweeted us, I'm like, I don't know what they are,
Speaker 1: but just put everything over on Dawson Knox, including touchdown,
Speaker 1: first touchdown. He said he did it all, but not
Speaker 1: the first touchdown. I was like, Oh, that's because that's
Speaker 1: the one that would have paid a handsomely that would
Speaker 1: have been if he hit that Dawson Knox. I bet
Speaker 1: it was in the twenty five to one range first touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's a money matchup for tight ends against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, So Gronk, but why not break? That's
Speaker 1: the problem. He'll be in play, is well? All right?
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out more about it. He'll both
Speaker 1: be in play, all right. Thanks for listening Fantasy Football Weekly.
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