WEBVTT - Start Ricky Pearsall? | Week 11 Fantasy Football Rankings and Tiers: Studs, Sleepers, and Must-Starts (Ep. 1444) 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.400 What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros. This 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.680 is the Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm Chris Welsh. Today for 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.440 Week eleven Ranks, we have got Pat fitz Morris and 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:14.000 Scott Pianowski news breaking before we even start the show, 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.279 just blowing up the ranks here. We're going to talk 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.159 about all of it today. This is running backs. That 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.560 is what we are going to be tackling here, getting 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.439 through all the fun stuff. Pat, are you ready for? 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.560 I don't know, maybe more breaking news all of a sudden, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.920 it'll be like, hey, but Checko is active, just you know, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.960 right before the show. We just get those things to 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.800 kind of throw a wrench into it. But that's what 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.839 the teens of ranks are all about, right. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.080 Are you making me promises about Isaiah Pichecko because I 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.880 could certainly use him in a couple of leagues where 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.120 I'm really scratching the felt at running backs so his 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.279 return cannot come fast enough for a couple of my teams. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.839 Yeah, Scott, I don't know about you, but like we 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.160 all were, like, hey, wide receiver, wide receiver, and it 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.160 has been a depthy running back situation. Once we've gotten 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.080 to the teens with by weeks and injuries, people losing here. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.880 So I wouldn't be super mad if we could just 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.920 get a couple extra nice things more than Adric estime, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:07.560 you know what I mean. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.480 You're right, yeah, Audric estimate the poor man's Gus Edwards, right, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.160 you know, a two down grinder who still doesn't have 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.720 an NFL catch. I'd love ask for estimate to be 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.559 a thing. I have some estivate shares, but I'm just trying. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.480 You know, he's going to be activated for a lot 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:23.759 of people's flexes this week. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:24.000 You know. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.959 It's not like in normal seasons where the running back 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.399 that you shoved in two hands for was somebody you 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.520 know was top twelve, top fifteen running back. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.160 Right out of the gos. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.120 That's not the way the shape of the season has 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:35.920 played out so far. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:37.959 Yeah, well, we're going to talk about him here in 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.720 just a tiny bit. Let's get into the stuff. But 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.840 a couple of things. First, of course, we like to 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.120 give you things. That's right, we are giving. 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We'll be announcing 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.240 a winner right here on the podcast, and if you're 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.639 watching on YouTube, be sure to subscribe, turn on those 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.320 notifications so you can be alerted when new episodes are 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:21.400 up and you can claim your Josh Allen Bill's autograph helmet. Gentlemen, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.960 talking about the ranks contest, as we always do before 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.880 we kick off the show. This week, Christopher Jimino gimmeo 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.919 apologies and pronunciation of names was number one in the ranks. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.560 Scott Spratt and Jason William were the top three in 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.360 the ranks. But not to move past them, because they 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.000 deserve that praise. Our boy Mick was four. Pat Mick 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.360 is on a generational run right now of like he 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:48.920 was one. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.120 He was four. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.119 But let's also not move past you, Pat, you were eighteen. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.440 I feel like this is like your I don't know 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.400 fourth or fifth, top twenty or twenty five ranking this 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.920 so far this season, and so as far as the 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.680 weekly ranked contest goes, Mick is up there, and Pat 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.640 you kind of keep doing it. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.240 My friend mix on a heater, for sure. And I 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.799 didn't feel like I had a great week. I thought 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 I got a lot of things right a quarterback, and 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.520 then just felt sort of so so about the other position. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.200 So maybe the quarterback rankings carried me. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.560 I think I might have been maybe the world's worst 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.720 quarterback ranker this week. There might not have been a 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.680 human being worse at quarterback than me, but I think 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.400 I was, you know, amazing at wide receiver and tight 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.280 end or something like that. But we're not going to 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:34.920 we don't need to talk about me. We don't need 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.600 to talk about my rank on where I was, right, Scott, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.200 we don't need to talk about where we were at 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:40.280 I'd like to. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.360 Mention that I was fifth in the week ten rankings. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.000 I'm sorry if you're only grading me among the other 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.680 Yahoo people. I did beat one of my colleagues, but. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:48.760 For them beat me. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.680 I was ten at quarterback, and then it went gradually downhill. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.640 The expert accuracy has shifted from something I couldn't wait 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.560 to look at to something I almost dread looking at 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.240 now because I'm not having a great accuracy accuracy season. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.680 But I'll tell you what I've always done better the 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.960 weeks that we hashed this up with these programs. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.000 So I know that. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.880 Week eleven will be one of my strongest weeks because 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.640 basically I'm copying off the Welsh and the Fits pages. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:10.760 So let's get to that. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.800 Well, definitely the Fits. Let's let's go that with the Fits. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.240 You guys want to check out all the rankings, go 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.360 to fantasypros dot com slash rankings. You can check out 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.240 all the positional tiers. Whether what we're talking about this 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.599 second isn't covering what you want, They're going to change 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.080 all the way up until kickoff, So go and check 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:27.680 that out. You can do it on my playbook app, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.360 and you can, just like I said, go to fantasypros 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.479 dot com slash rankings to see what it looks like. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.839 Let's jump into it ourselves. It's running back time. Going 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.640 to the big board, the top twelve. I'm gonna little 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.200 give you a little spoiler alert. We're not going to 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.920 really talk about the top twelve we're just going to 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.040 give it to you and then we're going to move 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.120 into the next range, because what are we breaking down? 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.119 I will say it is very nice to see Christian 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.600 McCaffrey back at the tippy top again. Yes, number one 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.159 in the ranks against Seattle. Debro was pushing back on 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.600 me a little bit, fits that I was being a 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.360 little bit of a niner homer thinking that Christian McCaffrey 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.920 could get to when he touches nineteen in the week one, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.560 because as I've said, Kyle Shanahan cannot help himself and 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.000 he didn't, and you'll probably get even more so. Christian 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.000 McCaffrey's number one, Saquan at two, Joe Mixon, Bijon Derrick Henry. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.440 That rounds out your top five, Davon ah Chan, Kyrin Williams, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.760 Jamior gives Alba Kamara, Breeshaw, Jonathan Taylor, Ken Walker. That's 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.240 your top twelve. Just gonna throw it real quick, since 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.960 we aren't gonna like sit and break down. You know 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.440 any specific players or I don't have a debate, pat 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.520 is there anything in the top twelve that just kind 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.520 of jumps out to you A too high, a too low? 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.120 Someone that you're just maybe a little disenchanted about, or 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.880 someone that you think belongs you know, like way higher. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.719 No, you know, well, it's an interesting week at running 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.320 Back where I feel like they're about nineteen really really 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:53.000 strong plays and then maybe about eleven or twelve okay, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.760 flex type plays, and then the bottom just drops out 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.520 after that. So I think with the top ten or 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.520 twelve guys, they're going to be The ordering is open 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.599 to debate in some spots, like I've seen some people 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.880 have Alvin Kamara as high as two and as low 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:13.599 as like nine, but like, that's perfectly reasonable when there 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.159 are a bunch of good options. It's really kind of 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.720 down towards that, you know, from twenty to thirty or so, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.159 where it gets pretty interesting. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.920 Scott, let me ask you this real quick. Then I'm 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.320 a liar. I'm like, hey, we're not going to talk 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.680 about these Let's talk a bunch. The news that came 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.240 out right before the show, by the way, that I 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.200 just teased is that Jane Steiken was like, Hey, you 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.720 know all those things that I just said, reverse it, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.880 scratch it. We're going to do the exact opposite, and 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.440 we're going to start Anthony richards again at quarterbacks. So 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.600 Anthony richards in his back he will be a theme 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.960 throughout the rank episodes we do here. I'm just curious 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.600 Jonathan Taylor comes in at eleven. Do you think that 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.680 changes your process With Jonathan Taylor? Obviously, like maybe the 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.160 ball doesn't move as well, maybe it does with Richardson. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.000 He is going to take some of that running game, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.400 goal line stuff potential. I mean there's theoretical takeaways. Do 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.760 you think Anthony Richardson coming in could bump him out 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.320 of the top twelve or move him higher? 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:09.680 To you? 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.640 You know, if we had this conversation a month ago, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.720 I would have been like, oh, okay, I'm worried about 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.040 the buoyancy of the offense. They're gonna move the ball 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.440 better with Flacco. I don't know what they do with Richardson. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.520 Maybe I need to reappraise where I'm at with Taylor. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.640 But Flacco played so poorly the last two games. You know, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.520 part of that was what the Vikings did on that 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.560 Sunday night game. But I dare Richardson, and this is 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.560 a dere I might regret saying I dare Richardson to 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:32.760 be worse than Flacco has been the. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.440 Last couple of weeks where. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.680 I feel like Stiken had to make this movee. It 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.480 was kind of disappointing that he had to lie to 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.240 us and mislead us. But that's what coaches do, that's 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.640 what coach speak is. And keep in mind, the Colts 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.520 have played one of the most difficult schedules in the 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.800 league to this point. They have an easy schedule going 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.960 forward or an easier schedule, so it's the right time 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:55.800 to onboard Richardson. I had Taylor ranked tenth before the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.520 news came down, and I thought, you know again, it 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.560 happens right before we get on air, get to make adjustments, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.000 and I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna leave 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.880 Jonathan Taylor tenth. Maybe it's because I don't want to 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.400 argue that might be a Wisconsin Badger bias in the room, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.480 but I think Taylor's going to be just fine. And 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.120 this Jets team, man, did they lay down like lambs 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.760 last week against Carolina. So I think Jonathan Taylor is 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.480 going to hit one hundred yards again no matter what 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.600 Anthony Richardson does. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.680 Fits just a quick hitter. Are you going to adjust 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.120 Jonathan Taylor at all with Richardson in I had. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.720 The same thought Scott did. I've got him at ten. Also, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.840 I thought about moving him up a spot or two 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.960 and decided to just leave him at ten. Although I 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.480 do think generally the presence of Anthony Richardson is good 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.560 for Taylor, but yeah, I don't know right now. Running 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.560 back ten feels good for him. Really great game for Taylor, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.600 by the way, last week he looked terrific. Didn't really 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.280 do anything though as a pass Caatrin didn't score a touchdown, 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.960 so the reality of his performance was better than the 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:53.960 fantasy output. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.319 All right, let's go take a look at the RB 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.640 two's on the big board. Josh Jacobs comes in at thirteen, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.600 Kareem Hunt, Chase Brown, David Montgomery, James Cook. We've got 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.600 DeAndre Swift at eighteen, Aaron Jones, JK. Dobbins, Ramandre Stevenson, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.640 Nick Chubb, Tony Pollard, and Najie Harris. Let's go over 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.320 to DeAndre Swift. We've got a little bit of a difference. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.679 DeAndre Swift has an ECR of eighteen. Fits you are 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.560 lower than the consensus at twenty, and Scott you are 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.400 a tiny bit higher. So let's take both sides of that. Scott, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.960 let's start with you. This offense is and has been abysmal, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.240 but they've obviously made an offensive coordinator change, and sometimes 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.120 we could see, you know, and I guess it's like, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.240 what will be the change? I kind of would think 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.760 they would want Caleb Williams to make shorter decisions, shorter passes, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.240 maybe obviously established the run a tiny bit more. Do 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.440 you think that's the play here with DeAndre Swift? You 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.720 being a tiny bit higher than consensus that we see 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:50.400 him get going. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.360 I mean, the key for me with. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.520 DeAndre Swift has been the projectable volume that he gets right. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.240 He gets double digit touches every game, even in this 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.080 horrible run they've been in since the bye. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.199 Week sixteen sixteen and eighteen carries. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:04.959 He did have a streak where he had touchdowns in 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.440 four straight games, So Brocheon Johnson get sprinkled in now 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.080 and then the goal line. But usually when they score 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.360 a rushing touchdown, it's DeAndre Swift. Generally, when you step 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.760 into a situation where Caleb's underwater right now and he's 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.960 not processing well and he takes nine sacks last week, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.600 in sacks are usually more of a quarterback stat than 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.360 an offensive line stat. They need to scale things back, simplify, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.880 and that's just going to mean I think a lot 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.760 more DeAndre Swift you can run on the Packers. I'm 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.640 not thrilled to line up with this offense, I get it, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.920 but I think Swift is actually a pretty easy player 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.360 to start. The more difficult questions for this offense come 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.880 with what do you do if you have their receivers? 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.720 What if you do if you have Cole Comet? What 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.640 if you do if you've been starting Caleb Williams the 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.600 super flex? Those are the hard questions. I actually think 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.079 Swift is a pretty solid, reliable RB two. You may 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.360 not want to watch the game, but he's gonna have 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.440 twenty touches in his back pocket when the game's over. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.319 It's not saying that you don't maybe agree with that sentiment, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.079 but you do him at twenty. You've got him a 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.319 spots lower than the consensus. What's your read on DeAndre Swift? 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.400 And you know the little bit of the unknown of 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:07.760 what's going to happen with this offense? 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.520 This week I mentioned their nineteen running backs you feel 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.040 pretty good about and note that I have DeAndre Swift 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.320 at number twenty just my blanket fade of the Chicago 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.080 Bears continues. They have not scored a touchdown in their 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.800 last twenty three possessions going back to Week eight against 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.240 the Commanders. In the two games since coming out of 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.679 the by Swift has averaged three point four yards per 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.800 carry and has not hit sixty rushing yards in either 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.800 of those two games. The Bears starting offensive tackles Braxton 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.480 Jones and Darnell Wright were both out last week, and 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.800 then they lost guard Tevin Jenkins to an injury in 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.079 the game against the Patriots last week. And I know 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.400 the Packers have generally been considered a good matchup for 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.280 running backs. That might not be as much the case 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.120 this year under a new defensive coordinator, Jeff Hafley. They 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.080 rank fourteenth and dvoa again thrown and have given up 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.199 the thirteenth fewest fantasy points to running backs. So they're 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.040 at least a middle of the pack defense rather than 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.280 an easy matchup that we want to target. So you know, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.920 it might not be a good run defense, but not 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.120 a pushover anymore. So this is just I'm fading a 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.080 bad offense here. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.040 Another interesting one in here is Aaron Jones Aaron Jones 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.160 comes in at ECR nineteen. Scott you've got him at eighteen, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.320 but Fits you've got him at fifteen. I guess there's 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.720 like a little ambiguity about like his injury, and I 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.640 think they said he's going to relatively be okay. He 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.199 returned at the end of the game, so I think 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.280 that can get him going again. You kind of worry 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.520 sometimes that maybe that's something that's going to flare back up. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.960 It's a three star rating as far as the matchup goes. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.400 It's given a B overall grade on the Fantasy pros 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.520 ranking site here. Fits you are higher, though, so I'm 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.760 gonna jump back to you because you are towing the 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.440 line of like it's not quite an RB one, but 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.640 he's still in that general range. Talk about the matchup, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.320 and I'm guessing just no general worry about maybe even 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.800 the injury tapering down some of his touches because Ty 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.600 Chandler seems to be like out by the way. It's 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.960 like cam akers at this point. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.640 Yeah, Chandler's number three. I think the camera shot of 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.559 Aaron Jones getting carted off the field last week was 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.920 probably concerning to a lot of people, but it was interesting. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.480 They asked Aaron Jones about that. He said the reason 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.880 he got carted off was because the X ray machine 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.840 at the stadium in Jacksonville was like way at the 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.480 far end and they were just doing that for time sake, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.880 so he did return of the game. He's apparently okay 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.280 the matchup. Titans have a solid run defense, but they 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.200 have given up twelve touchdowns to running backs in nine 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.440 games this season, and Jones has been pretty consistent this 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.000 year in half point PPR scoring. He's posted double digit 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.320 point totals in six of his last seven games, so 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.839 I feel pretty good about him as a solid RB two. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.400 Scot, same thing. At eighteen, you are like one spot higher, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.839 So you guys are both kind of in the above consensus. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.000 See Jones as like the week continues to go on. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.200 He could taper up just a tiny bit, but it 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.280 is Tennessee. So Scott, what's your take on Aaron Jones? 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.800 Yeah, you know, very solid player. We've seen all these 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.080 veteran running backs change teams and most of them have 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.000 been good fantasy plays this year, but the Vikings are 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.720 struggling the punch in touchdowns. Only two rushing touchdowns for 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.560 Jones Tennessee is eighth and rushing DV Away. There's no 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.160 pushover on defense. We forget that a lot because their 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.760 offense tends to lose every game. It's not the defense's 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.720 fault more often than not. But I also wonder if 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.720 Jones is not one hundred plays, but the game gets 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.600 in control, maybe they back off him. And maybe it's 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.720 the cam Makers show in the second half where it's 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.040 it's closer to US sixty forty or fifty to fifty 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.400 this week where they don't have to lean on Jones. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.920 I wish I felt better. I love Kevin O'Connell, but 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:52.000 Sam Darnold, you know, he's ahead of every league average metric, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.640 all the downfield stuff, but he's just he's taking too 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.880 many sacks and he's throwing too many interceptions, and it's 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.440 keeping this offense. I mean, Jacksonville wanted to get blown 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.160 out last week in Minnesota, couldn't finish the job. The 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.000 end of the day, I think we're gonna see the 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.600 Aaron Jones special is gonna be like seventy to ninety 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.160 yards rushing. He's gonna have about twenty five yards receiving. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.320 And he's not gonna have a touchdown. That's why I 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.200 ranked him where I did. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.080 Let me throw one more at you guys, and almost 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.160 like Aaron Jones could maybe go against him here. But 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.280 I'm gonna say this is like, I know he's ranked 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.720 as a top two back, but I think sometimes there's 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.600 questions about these do you believe a guy like Nick 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.480 Chubb is a player that you've got to get in lineups? 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:27.880 This week? 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.320 He is only ranked twenty second on this list, but 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.720 of the top twenty five running backs on Fantasy pros 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.240 rb ranks, he has the best matchup rating against the Saints. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.920 We know he's been getting some volume fits. Do you 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.640 think Chubb is a guy that a you can trust 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.480 putting in the lineup and be that maybe should be 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.600 pushed up a little bit more, you know, as the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.600 team is able to kind of, you know, get the 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.880 ball deep with Winston. He's getting some volume and it's 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.920 just a really great running matchup. And specifically I looked 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.160 at like the disparity between like Chase Brown and Nick Chubb, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.720 like should it be that high? So I kind of 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.440 threw a lot of things that you it's really about, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.560 is Nick Chubb a guy that people should be Okay? 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.760 Trusting getting in lineups this week. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.920 Well, comparing him to Chase Brown, I think we feel 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.720 much better about the Bengals offense than the Browns offense. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.760 And Chase Brown is explosive, like he has the chance 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.080 of breaking off a long touchdown run or you know, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.200 like a sixty yard gain on a short little dump 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.000 off pass or something, whereas Nick Chubb does not really 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.800 offer that. He does have that nice floor with volume. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.160 We do feel a little bit better about the Cleveland 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.520 offense than we did when Deshaun Watson was playing quarterback 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.480 and the Saints rnded a really good matchup for running backs. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.280 Their run defense has been terrible all year. But I 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:48.360 do think that's sort of the production profile for Nick 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.440 Chubb is pretty accurate based on where he is ranked, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.760 like high floor, low ceiling probably, so back end RB 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:55.920 two feels about right to me. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.520 Scott. Do you think the matchup itself is something where 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.640 it's like there's a little bit more trust than usual, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.400 But I mean we also haven't seen him get like, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.760 you know, absolute bel cow thoughts on Chubb. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.840 Yeah, I'm just concerned. I don't see the explosion. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.520 This is an injury where you you would think he 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.959 wouldn't be close to one hundred percent until maybe next season. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.760 Two yards to carry against the Bengals to three point 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.199 three against the Ravens, two point six against the Chargers. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.280 Not an easy runout on the schedule. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.439 But and also, Jameis Winston doesn't like to throw to 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.600 his back. He's he's not gonna look to dump off. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.040 He's gonna look to throw a ball downfield or maybe 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.080 even throw an interception that may or may not be dropped. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.679 That's the Jameis Winston experience. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.040 So I don't want to It's when we see a 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.760 matchup the like the Saints, we get excited because they've 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.560 just been a turnstile for opposing running backs. But I 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.000 don't see Nick Chubb anywhere close to one hundred percent. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.320 I'm thinking he's going to have his best game of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.320 the season, but it's gonna be muted with like, oh, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.199 Nick Chubb average four yards to carry today, wasn't that nice? 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.359 So I think the ranking is in the right place. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.520 I don't think he's an automatic start by any means. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.640 Like there'll be a lot of questions out there about 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.240 Nick Chubb this week. The NFL season it's rolling along 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.000 and the contenders are separating from the pack. The one 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.439 thing that hasn't changed this season Draft King Sportsbook, the 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.600 official sports book partner of the NFL. They are the 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.160 number one place to bet touchdowns. 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