WEBVTT - Free Agent QBs and RBs 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:05.360 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.840 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.520 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.240 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:26.479 here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.520 am Paul Charchy and my co host as usual Brian Johnson. Hello, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.400 what's up charge, Happy spring? Yeah, it's it feels like 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.599 you're here in Minnesota forty degree temperatures. We're looking at 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.000 sixties next week, which is really abnormal and also delightful. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.839 Certainly the supermarket in my speedo. Yeah, well, you're not alone. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.960 I've seen people in shorts all the time. It's forty. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.320 Today's forty degrees. People are out in shorts and T 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.560 shirts jogging. That's God love them. One of the most 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.160 Minnesotan things ever. But I'm usually an active participating in 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.680 that as well, even though I'm not wearing shorts at 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.720 the moment. You're not. You're a war in close. I'm 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.480 happy to say free agency is looming free the The 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.160 new year starts March seventeen, so that's when free agency hits. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.039 We're gonna get in a couple of free agency related 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.760 shows between now and then, Brian. Today we look at 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.800 fantasy relevant quarterbacks and running backs who are going to 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.320 hit the market, and next week we will turn our 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.000 attention to wide receivers and tight ends. Sounds good, yeah, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.959 And so the premise here is basically, here are the 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.319 notable guys that you're you would ever even care about 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.360 and a quick, very faster recap on last year, but 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.000 really more looking forward to next year and where we 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.399 had ideal landing spots where they could go with their 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.280 value might be tos go up or down from what 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.600 it has been um in a couple of cases, do 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.319 you wanna do you want to act now? In Dynasty 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:52.040 and Empire leagues before the player actually moves, because the value, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.360 if the value is going to go up on the 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.720 player after he after he's got a new home. You 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.040 want to make that deal now. And a lot of 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.440 times it's just excitement around the player and he moves 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.240 change when he changes teams, that's the time to uh yeah, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.280 either buy alow or sell high, depending on the guy, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.520 Depending on the guy. So let's start at the quarterback position. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.720 I think there are there are a bunch of teams 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.680 with landing spots. But let me just let me just 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.320 give you my list of teams that I think makes 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.440 sense as landing spots for just for just these just 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.600 teams looking for quarterback out right, potentially your former team, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:28.600 The Giants, the Saints, Denver, New England, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.720 I think those are all teams that could make a 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.160 make a big The Giants are a little bit tricky 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.919 because it's so hard to evaluate Daniel Jones, but the 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.760 productivity hasn't been there. Gentleman is way too married to him, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.240 in my opinion, to h to make a move hopefully 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.120 once they fire him, hopefully make a move a quarterback. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.639 But we're still hope. Dak Prescott. Let's start with him, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.480 probably without I think, without a doubt, the biggest name 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.519 free agent quarterback. And there's you know, there's trade talks 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.840 around Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson and others, but they're not 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.520 for agents, and we're folcusing on free agents. Let's talk 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.000 Dak Prescott. Got Dak turns twenty eight in July, entering 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.920 the prime of his career. Essentially uh as most should remember, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.760 just on a ridiculous pace. Last season, only really played 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.440 four full games, got hurt in his in the fifth game. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.359 But if you extrapolate just those four full games over 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.640 a sixteen game season, he would have finished finished with 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.240 six thousand, seven hundred and sixty passing yards and just 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.920 for reference to Shawn Watson led the NFL with right 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.560 passing right. Uh, so not say you have to hit 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.080 that number, but Dak looked great. He's got all the 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.240 tools in his bag. He can throw, he can run. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.760 We assume he can still run. Yeah, he's trending towards 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.720 being ready for training camp for whatever team he ends 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.160 up on. He wants to be the second highest quarterback. 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.120 It's paid quarterback behind Patrick Mahomes. Should he be as 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.600 the question? Uh, we'll find out. But uh, word out 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.960 of word out of Dallas. Who can still franchise tag 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.880 him by the way. Uh, it's trending towards three signing him. Um. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.400 Dallas Morning News is Calvin Watkins reports, Uh, talks with 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.480 Dak Uh last Tuesday, just a few days ago. We're 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.000 more productive than they've ever been. Uh. Jane Slater says 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.040 Dax met the facility nearly every day rehabbing, so it's 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.200 leaning towards will be with the Cowboys one way or 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.040 the other, whether it's a franchise tag or a long 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.720 term deal. But just for fun, if he if Dallas 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.360 lets him walk, yeah, which it seems hard to believe 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.320 they just let him go and get nothing in return. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.279 But I think the forty Niners is a very intriguing 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.320 landing s guy, and they've got the cap space, it 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.040 seems to sign him, and that would that would make 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.760 them immediate and if favorites, if not, the whole NFL. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.599 So and uh, when it comes to Dax redraft value 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.799 right about now, he's going off the board quarterback seven. Uh, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.440 it's very early, obviously, but obvious guys Patrick Mahomes, Josh 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.560 Allen not so obvious, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers, 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.440 of Shawn Watson. Depending on where Dak ends up and 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.360 where de Shaun Watson ends up, I think he's a 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.640 little undervalued to quarterback seven right now. I think I'd 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.600 rather take my chances of Dak. If you say it's 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.080 on the Cowboys, it goes somewhere else over Kyler Murray 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.960 or Lamar Jackson. So I think that if you're gonna 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.560 get into early best Ball draft. I think that's a 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.800 little undervalued. And the guy I'd be targeting right now, Yeah, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.320 I think I think there's something to that. The concern 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.160 is around the ankle. And as you ready week one, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.640 I mean, if you're drafting now in the best ball, um, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.000 you know, fortunately it's best ball, whoever your second quarterback 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.800 is will end up getting some you know, if he 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.920 doesn't play the first month of the season or whatever, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.080 you'll end up getting somebody else. But I think that's 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.320 the you know, that's the concern. But I do I 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.760 share that concern, not really. And and his ranking, his 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.920 dynasty appealed pretty much the same as in redraft. He 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.599 certainly head of Aaron Rodgers, who I probably take Rogers 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.800 over Deck in redraft, but definitely not dynasty. But yeah, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.440 he's right after Mahomes. You could argue he's the QB 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.600 two with the Josh Allen's and the even Justin Herbert's 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.040 in that convo right now, and uh so, yeah, alright, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.919 let's go to and this is a short list of 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.960 uarderbacks who matter. Ryan Fitzpatrick a big drop off from 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:08.320 Dak Prescott. In looking back at last season, in the 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.560 games he his full games, he came in at roughly 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.120 quarterback eighteen in points per game, and I thought he 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.159 was gonna be a little higher. He had two scoreless 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.839 games that hurt. He had five multiple touchdown games that 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.960 helped ran in a couple of touchdowns. But as people know, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.440 eventually he just got benched for twa in Miami just 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.320 decided even though two was not the best quarterback, and 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.440 they benched to a couple of times, we're sticking it out. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.320 Went to a stubborn lead to the point that it 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.359 cost him a playoff spot. That was really dumb. That 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.840 was really dumb, and Fitzpatrick was I think, I mean, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.520 assuming you're playing, you know, every team's goal is to 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:43.680 get to the super Bowl. You can't get to the 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.920 super Bowl. Here, here's Miami steaming into weeks seventeen. They 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.920 need to have a win in week seventeen. Fitzpatrick just 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.560 bailed him out in weeked sixteen when he took over 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.720 for Tua, generates a win and then they went right 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.919 back to two lost. So I still think there's game 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.200 left in Ryan Fitzpatrick's arm. But the only place that 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.080 he can go that that really creates much fantasy value 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.600 here is if he goes to a ready to win team. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.000 He goes to the Saints, he goes to Washington, if 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.040 he goes to Chicago, those are some ready to win 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.600 places for him. I don't necessarily love the receivers and 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.720 all those teams, but you know, in some cases they're okay. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.160 I just don't think he goes it if he's a backup, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.280 if he goes anywhere else. I heard a little noise 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.200 about Denver as a possibility to and you'd like to 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.200 think he could take over the job from Drew Lock. Yeah, potentially, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.720 and it got some enticing receivers in Denver, especially with 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.040 Courtland Sutton making that would be a nice spot for 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.000 him there. You know, like Drew Lock, those two with 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.400 two those two have in common is they will throw 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.600 bad passes and then the next series they don't care. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.040 They just seem unaffected by bad play and then they 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.680 just come out and keep slaying. And I love that. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.840 I remember there's a quote I use on an in 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.040 season show. It was Drew Lock, and he's just like, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.080 once the ball leaves my hands, I'm just like, oh no, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.760 what have I done something? I'm paraphrasing a little bit, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.840 but he was like, you said that to the media, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.480 even your friend, best friend, Yes, you said it to 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.520 the media. Um. Fitzpatrick at his advanced stage obviously has 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.119 minimal dynasty value, and his redraft value honestly is pretty 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.520 limited as well. I think he's he's unlikely to I 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.280 just think he's unlikely to go to a team where 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.320 he's the uncontested starter unless something goes horribly wrong. Really, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.520 the best thing Stubird should do is don't sign with 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.120 anybody until training camp and then wait for your Teddy 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.040 Bridgewater moment where you know somebody in training camp goes 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.640 down and is gonna you know, some team, some team 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.080 needs a starter who can walk in the door and 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.360 take over immediately, like the Vikings had to pivot to 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.560 Sam Bradford that year. That's I think that's the scenario 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.440 for Ryan Fitzpat. The best scenario for Ryan Fitzpatrick at 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.199 least wants to wait until after the draft so you 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.559 don't have to go through another two situationally exactly a 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.080 highly paid quarterback. Uh. The only other notable free agent 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.800 to me is Cam Newton. I think I think he 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:07.440 was benched four times in one season. I mean think 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.319 about how far he's fallen from Super Bowl quarterback to 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.360 a guy who got benched for Jared Stidham four times 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.640 in one season. Cama turns thirty two in May, and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.280 last season all of his value was rushing the ball. Uh, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.760 He's He's essentially Taysom Hill might be Taysom Hill White, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.120 He's not nearly He's going a runner at this stage. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:37.000 But the passing touchdown total mind boggling. Eight passing touchdowns 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.760 six pass attempts, which is a fair amount, and just 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.840 for reference, eight passing touchdowns three nine six. Lamar Jackson 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.680 had three hundred and seventy six attempts twenty six passing 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:51.920 touchdowns eight Gardner mins you had three attempts fifty few 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.800 or roughly sixteen passing touchdowns. Drew Brees only twenty two 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.400 more twenty four touchdowns. The inefficiency throwing touchdowns, I can't 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.920 explain it. He missed one game, he had bad receivers 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.480 will give him that. Yeah, and people point to that 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.120 all the time. But I don't care if you place 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.959 fifteen games, you start fifteen games. In today's NFL, throwing 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:21.000 a touchdown passes is ludicrously bad. Mind bogglingly bad. Now 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:25.800 he's salvaged some fantasy value with his running, and the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.880 catch was when he didn't, you got nothing. And so 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.319 like in a guilloteam format, he was a disaster because 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.000 every other game he would not get your rushing touchdown. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.640 He would not get thirty or forty yards rushing and 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.600 you've got nothing from your quarterback and now you're getting 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.760 chopped at. He was a daily play for sure. You're 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.959 just trying to trying to hit the right ride the 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.760 wave in the right week. And when it comes to 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.880 the landing spot, you said with Fitzpatrick, something that injury 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.640 or something has to go horribly wrong with the starter 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.160 of It's even more so with Cam. It's kind of 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.400 a song wants to run a Saints like offense with 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.680 a Taysom Hill player deep in the red zonner inside 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.800 the twenty. That's really it. And I don't really know 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.120 Cancel backup this year. If he's in the league at all, 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.800 he's a backup and he'll probably be in the league. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.680 You said, like the Giants, that would be an intriguing 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.959 landing spot for Cam. I think he could beat out 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.800 Daniel Johns. I think probably he can't. He can't. I 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.640 don't think he can. And I'm not even going to 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.599 talk redraft dynasty value because there's nothing. Okay, let's go 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.480 to running backs, way more interesting. The teams that I 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.360 think are landing spots for pretty much any free agent 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.240 running back. I believe our Houston, they just resigned David Johnson, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:41.600 but David Johnson's a wobbly starter. Atlanta, Seattle, depending on 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.439 what they decided to do with Chris Carson. San Francisco 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.600 with their constant rotating backs, who all of them always 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.040 heard all of that, Miami Miles Gascon is a capable back. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.880 Green Bay because all they've got two of their three 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.520 starters or two of their three hydrid headed backs. Of 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.120 free agents, we'll talk about them in a minute. Green Bay. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.520 I mentioned Arizona, they've got Kenyan Drake headed to free agency. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.280 New York Jets they lost Levy on Bell basically replaced 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.800 him with nothing. And Tampa Bay is a possible landing spot. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.400 You know, Leonard for that's a free agent. We're gonna 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.320 talk about him little bit later. But let's start with 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.199 the Packers situation with Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. You know, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.000 we look back to last year it certainly feels like 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.840 Jamal Williams had been vulturing a lot of work from 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.240 Aaron Jones, and I thought, let's dig into the data 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.000 and just see how that really shook out. Jones only 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.559 had two carries last year, which means he was far 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.960 from a workhorse, but two one carries was still the 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.320 tenth most of any back last year, which is, you know, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.600 not bad. Top ten for carries and the sixth most 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.000 receptions of any back last year, so he really did 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.319 end up with the ball enough times in his hands 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.920 to have a successful season, and he did score well. Williams, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.640 for his part, had almost exactly half of Jones's workload, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.800 so it was really a two third one third for 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.439 those guys for most of the season. A J. Dillon 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.839 started getting a little work at the very end season. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.000 Right now, people view Williams as being nearly as good 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.040 as Jones, but that's my eyes. I think Jones is 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.760 like a nine out of ten back. I agree he's 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.640 really good, and Williams is good, and I think he's 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.960 tangibly better than average, but he's like a six out 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.520 of ten. He's he's a good back, that's it. And 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.080 Jones average five and a half yards per carry. Williams 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.880 average four point two yards per cary, which I think 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.880 says plenty about both of those guys. So where could 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.320 Aaron Jones especially go that would put him in a 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.600 great spot. Well, honestly, I'd like to keep him in 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.520 green Bay. I may have my first choice because I 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.560 like to keep him in offense or he's been very successful. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.480 He's been a top five running back for Fantasy points 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.800 the last two years, So I'd like to keep him there. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.640 If he can't go there, I want him to go 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.000 to a team where he can be the focus of 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.440 that offense, which he's never been in green Bay. Where 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.120 could he go to be a workhorse? How about Atlanta? 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.920 Nobody's standing in his way in Atlanta. Seattle if they 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:08.080 let Chris Carson go, Seattle likes to use a workhorse back, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.520 that would be Aaron Jones. Pittsburgh, that whole, that whole 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.880 running back situation is totally up in the air, and 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.320 he could walk in there and be by far the 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.760 best back. He'd get almost all the work. And the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.840 Steers almost always used a workhorse back when they can, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:23.720 and they haven't always been able to do that with 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.160 James Conner who's going to be gone, and then the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:30.040 New York Jets. So for the Jets, uh, it's obviously 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.160 a terrible team. Offensive line got a little bit better 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.480 last year, but it's still you know, it'd be he'd 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.600 be the workhorse back, but that's it. I think the 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.120 re draft value for Aaron Jones in one of those 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.480 workhorse landing spots puts him right back in the first 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.840 round of fantasy drafts. We just did our kind of 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.760 first two round way too early mock. We had Jones 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:57.800 early second, early second round. Pittsburg or most of those 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.280 places faults him into the first round. Now, if he's 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.680 a shared back, I think he's still like a second 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.280 or third rounder in a shared backfield because he'd still 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.560 be the better if whatever back he gets teamed up with, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.720 and he'd still get a lot of work, and his 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.560 dynasty value I think remains very high for Aaron Jones. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.040 He's been modestly used. He's only twenty six years old. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.440 He's got another three or four good years left in him, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.760 which is you know, for running back, it's pretty good. Now, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.720 say he goes to Pittsburgh or the Jets, who are 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.360 two teams that are sort of there's talk that they'll 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.880 go high at running back in the draft and grab 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.880 a Nazi Harris or a Travis E the end. If 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.760 they signed Aaron Jones before the draft, I think that 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.600 tips their hands that they were not not that early, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.320 not early enough to get those guys. I don't think. Yeah, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.320 all right, let's talk about Chris Carson. You know we've 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.200 alluded to him a couple of times now and where 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.720 what do you feel like is the prospects of him 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.760 staying in Seattle? And as I remember back in the season, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.080 you know, he battled injury a lot and play through 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.960 some injury, but he just it never felt like it 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.120 was all clicking for him. Last year. I only played 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.480 in twelve games, but finished fourteen in a PPR points 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.720 per game among among running backs. Pretty impressive considering he 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.600 had eight or less carries than four of those twelve games. Uh. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.400 And he's just whatever. He's been healthy and they give 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.720 him significant touches. He looks great, and yeah, Seattle's had 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.400 a pretty bad offensive line for the most of the career. Yeah, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.920 and Russell Wilson's which is why he's piste off. Carson 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.560 a career four point five yards per carry since the 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.520 start of eighteen and this is regular season games only. Uh. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.120 Here are the most rushing yards among uh, well not 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.600 running backs football players since Lamar Jackson makes this list, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.760 but it's Derrick Henry with hundred. Roughly this is the 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.240 last three years, Yeah, last three years since Derrick Henry 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.040 with hundred. Zeke around thirty eight hundred, Dalvin Cook, and 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.360 Chris Carson clocks in just over that, and he's he's missed. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.440 He missed four games this year, and he's probably missed 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.880 four games between every year he was like fourteen and 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.520 fifteen games played two But still that's a crazy impressive. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.840 So I love him as a player, and I like 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.760 him as a player more than most people do too. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.320 I think he's a I think Carson is quietly a 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.320 very good back. And and really the landing spots, the 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.919 potential ones are are all the same as uh the 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.520 ones you mentioned for Aaron Jones at Miami maybe Atlanta. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.600 I think San Francisco would love to have him, not 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:27.240 only for his abilities but his intel and uh when 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.320 it comes to re draft. Looking right now, he's going 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.080 around RB twenty, which he seems pretty low after guys 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.240 like uh Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who no one has sold 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.080 on at the moment, Joe Mixon who, Josh Jacobs who 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.720 seems to always be getting off the field, trouble now 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.879 and hurt and hurts. So Chris Carson at RB twenty 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.480 is an insane value and he's probably going even later 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.840 in dasty formats he turns twenty seven. Uh, let me 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 see when I got it written down in September. So 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.080 that's pretty good. I mean he's got a good you know, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.119 two or three good in the tank. So I think 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.720 he's really undervalued in both formats, and the guy I'll 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.240 be keeping my own, especially once we find out where 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.840 he ends up. We will continue our conversation about the 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.680 free agent running backs, the best landing spots, what to expect, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.280 the value going up down when we come back to 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:22.119 Fantasy Football Weekly in just a moment, Welcome back Fantasy 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.919 Football Weekly. Paul Chartie and Brian Johnson with you. We 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.919 are going through the free agent running backs that are 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.960 headed to market here in about two weeks. There's some big, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.760 big names. This is one of the biggest free agent 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.440 running back crops we've ever seen, and the fact that 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:43.320 these teams are all squeezed for money, means that the 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.119 many of them are not going to resign with their 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.520 original teams and they're gonna be out duking it out 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.240 trying to find decent deals. And I don't think anybody's 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.919 gonna get an Alvin Kamara Dalvin Cooks style contract like 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.640 those guys were able to negotiate from their teams in 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.359 the early part of the regular season. This past year, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.160 Let's go to Mike Davis. We've got some other bigger 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.400 names coming, but for Davis, he and probably finished last 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.480 year is running back seventeen and he was a solid 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.320 RB two in PPR leagues really all season long. And 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.920 what was most impressive about his seasons the Panthers did 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.919 not shy away from using Mike Davis, almost exactly like 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.760 they used Christian McCaffrey. Now, Davis did wear down at 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.520 the end of the year and his productivity slipped, and 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.600 we saw a lot more of guys like Rodney Smith, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.199 but still it was a it was a good showing 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.920 for him, and I think he's gonna find himself someplace 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.520 where Mike Davis can be in a time share and 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.119 can be a number two when a one to split 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.520 getting the carries. Yeah, he was essentially kicked to the 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.280 curb by Seattle and the Bears, I believe, and when 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.639 he took over from McCaffrey or like, this is going 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.840 to be a disaster, But yeah, he was a he 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.160 was What do you think about this? Houston just cut 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.760 Duke Johnson. He can walk right into that role. Duke 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.800 Johnson was a pass catching number. You back, um, and 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.439 Davis is every good, if not better, as a as 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.040 a pass catcher. And he's just a better runner than 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.320 Duke Johnson ever was. I think that's a perfect fit 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.040 for him now as a There are other spots to 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.159 where he could go into a rotation of backs, like 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.720 Tampa Bay's could be a rotation of backs, Arizona could 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.520 be a rotation of backs, Miami with Gascon could be 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.879 a rotation. In San Francisco always uses a rotation. I 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.439 think he's going to fit in there. And from a 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:31.120 redraft standpoint, Davis is a late round dart throw handcuff 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.280 kind of guy. Um. I don't think you're gonna have 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.000 to put any reliquity into him. And from a dynasty 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.040 value standpoint, it's very low. He's sneaky old actually, twenty 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.040 years old, he got he was on rosters, We got 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.840 very little work in the early days. The only good 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.520 thing is he's low mileage because last year was the 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.159 only year he really got much work. Unless it's an 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.880