WEBVTT - Rookie Runners 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.080 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.040 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.280 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.200 Now along with the guys from fanball dot com. Here's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:25.759 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome to Fantasy Football 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.800 Weekly in early March edition. I am Paul Charchy and 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.040 my co host today back after a a a vacation 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.199 holiday away from the show. Isn't that nice? A vacation 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.880 of sorts? Uh, Matt Harrison, good to have you back. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.199 Get explosive output on Twitter. Um, it's uh, it's you know, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:45.920 it's not It's nice to get away and not have 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.080 to prep for the show and you have to have 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.120 some free time and all that. You know. Let's dive 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.000 back in because the combine just got finished. You were 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.040 there there at the combine and um got a chance 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.160 to really get a lot of steam on a lot 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.360 of guys, which is great. While I was there, they weren't. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:03.800 I was there for the first half of it where 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.560 they weren't running as many drills yet. But the important 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.120 stuff isn't the drills. It's all the conversations and the 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.520 side action and you know, all the all the all 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.400 the people you talk to and which you glean that's 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.319 the best I heard. There was a coaching staff that 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.959 had t shirts made that said coaches spring Break. It 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.040 feels that way because I hear the combines mostly about drinking. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.080 It is a lot of drinking, man. You you will 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.319 see a lot of that. It's it's great. The combine 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.399 is We've we say it every year. The Combine is 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.360 the best place to go for sort of your unfiltered 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.960 access to everybody. It's just well because they're all drunk 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.800 and they don't care exactly exactly the focus of this 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.960 podcast is the rookie running backs, and Matt I asked 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.920 you to come up with the top six rookie running backs. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.960 Next week, myself and Brian Johnson will do the next 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.960 tier of running backs. You got, you got the you 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.840 got the the great guys. Well, yeah, I purposely took 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.200 the easy part. I I want to talk about the 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.040 guys I want to talk about. I don't blame it. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.680 It's a lot more exciting to talk about Jonathan Taylor. Example, 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.440 he's my number one how about you? He's my number 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.400 one guy with a by a fair margin. Now we're 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.239 gonna do these top sixs. I asked you to do 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.200 the top six, so this is will discuss them in 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.520 your order. Jonathan Taylor from Wisconsin to me is is 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.840 by far the number one. Tell Us Tell listeners a 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.200 little bit about Jonathan ts Well, the impressive part was 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.440 his four point three ninety I didn't I did not 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.600 expect that. No, it was number one among running backs 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.160 and seventh overall at the combine. So he's a pretty 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.160 quick guy. And if you saw the tape of his 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.120 forty where he was running head on, you'll notice that 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.320 his head did not move the entire way. Did not 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.720 like but his head is laser focused the whole time. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.799 UH did pretty well at a couple other drills as well. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.079 Seven point oh one cone, three cone, which was number 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.400 four amongst running backs. That's good for the cuts. UH. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.480 Four point to four twenty yards shuttle that was number 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.120 six for running backs. So that's the highlights there. Um. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:11.760 The dude average two thousand yards a season Wisconsin. He 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:16.560 averaged seventy seven broken tackles a year. He's the big, strong, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.880 fast back in this draft and he should be a 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.560 Day one bell cow. I mean, the knocks are that 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.560 he might not be a passing game stud. He dropped 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.720 sixteen per cent of his catchable passes at Wisconsin, so 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.240 that's not good. And the other Knaka guesses he had 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.680 nine D twenty six carries in three years. That's legitimate. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.240 You know, over nine hundred touches in three years is 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.600 a lot um. So he also fumbled eighteen times in 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.240 three years, so funny. I saw the stat I read 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.600 was was fifteen times. But either way, that's a lot 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:54.280 of fun I think he lost fifteen um. The Wisconsin 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.640 offensive line was elite. They opened huge holes for him, 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.440 and you saw it on tape, so he mostly was 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.760 running down on hill. His highlight reel is mostly line 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.880 opens up. He runs for sixty yards in a touchdown, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.760 almost untouched half the time. Uh, he's getting really good 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.640 comps though, Nick Chubb, DeMarco Murray, who you'll remember had 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.760 some great years. Darren McFadden I thought when I watched 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.840 it a little bit of shades of Adrian Peterson, as 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.320 he's big, he goes right up the middle and he's 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.640 deceptively quick. I always thought that about Adrian Peterson, that 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.520 that next level speed you didn't quite expect it out 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.560 of a and I think Jonathan Taylor is very similar 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.360 to that. So, uh, he's probably my number one running 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.680 back and and maybe my number one pick in a 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.159 rookie draft. Right. I think there's no doubt he's the 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.280 top pick in a a rookie draft. I mean, there 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.279 are people who can make h make an argument for 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.000 DeAndre Swift and we'll talk about him in just a second. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.960 I think he had and all the key things with 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.799 Jonathan Taylor, it's just for a guy as physical and 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.279 and well built as he is, he should not be 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.520 that fast, and he should not have the lateral movement 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.640 that he's got. Um, and that's that that part makes 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.760 him really special. He's um, he's not a pile mover 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.200 and I but I just think he's He's just he 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.600 never had to move a pile, not often. It's I 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.280 think I think there is I think you you raise 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.240 a good point about the offensive line, which is legit, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.719 but he also he also made a lot of his 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.320 own yards. Yeah, I'm I'm not ready to say he's 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.320 just a product of that line. So the worry I 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.719 have is what if he ends up in a place 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.000 with a terrible offensive line, Like what if he's an 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.880 early second round pick to one of those just terribly 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.600 bad teams up at the front of the draft. That's 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.760 where I'm nervous. I would love to see him go 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.040 at the tail end of the first round, where he's 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.800 going to an established playoff team that already has the 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.440 ability to block for people, and he can come in 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.560 and be a Day one starter there. Yeah, I think 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.159 you're not giving enough credit for for being UH, for 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.040 being a productive back on his own. I I ranked 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.000 him in my UH dynasty rankings. I have him as 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.440 the seventh raded back in the league right now, so 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.919 I it without landing spots, So I think he's he's 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.560 top ten for sure right now. UM potential bottom of 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.800 the first round spots for him. UH. If Tennessee doesn't 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.080 go with Derrick Henry, that they could go. They could 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.080 go right to Jonathan Taylor. You know what, they probably 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.080 should let Derrick Henry walk, have him spent that, save 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.120 that money, and and then go ahead and get Jonathan Taylor. 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.080 It would make it would make it would make some sense. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.520 How about Miami A twenty six, You know, we don't. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.280 It's not a great landing spot for him, but it's 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.800 a plausible one. It's a very plausible one because they 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.240 pick early in the second round two and my Miami's 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.440 got the three first round picks. Obviously they're probably going 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.560 to take a quarterback in the draft. Yeah, they want 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.840 a couple too many games. Um, I think two was 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.080 gonna go number two overall. Really well, so that was 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.160 that was some of the big buzz at the combine. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.640 They there's there's no competition for Taylor if he ends 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.920 up in Miami though. That's that's the fantastic absolutely no. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.800 Immediately he'll be a bell cower if he goes. I think, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.600 all right, let's go to your second ranked running back, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.560 DeAndre Swift. Tell tell listeners about him. Uh, Swift much smaller, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.480 five eight to twelve four four eight forty. That was 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 good six among running backs. That was pretty good. Uh 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.760 didn't do a lot of the other tests. He did 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.000 the vert he did the broad jump. He he finished 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.640 average in those. Um but Swift stole carries as a 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:28.080 true freshman from the Sony Chub backfield in Georgia, says 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.600 a lot. That says something uh seven point six yards 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.000 per carry, four point four yards after contact. And the 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.480 thing that you gotta like about DeAndre Swift, especially if 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.840 you're in a PPR league and increasingly more people are 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.640 seventy three catches in college and only three drops in 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.960 three years. That's none of them, so he should compete 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.200 for three down work a lot. Um. He's not as 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.120 big as some of the other backs in this class, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.240 but he's compact, he's muscular. He's probably the first running 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.120 back taken in the draft. I would say, you think 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.320 in the actual draft, I think he'll probably get the 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.880 Taylor head of Taylor. I wouldn't. That could be for 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.640 if if people feel like schematically he's a better fit 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.720 for what they want to do. I think, especially if 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.520 there's a team that say, has another running back that 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.040 they like and is gonna get touches. I think DeAndre 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.880 Swift is a guy who probably in his first year 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.200 will probably split carries a little bit more, maybe be 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.400 the sixty forty back. UM on tape, he looks so 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.680 much quicker than Jonathan Taylor, but that's mostly due to 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.520 his cuts. His shift nous is it's absolutely elite. Um. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.320 He looks like Dalvin Cook when he runs, like that's 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.560 my comp forum and I've seen a couple other people 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.679 say Dalvin Cook also Frank Dore and Piterre Thomas was 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.120 was bandied about for DeAndre Swift. But he looks like 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.679 Dalvin Cook right now, and I think that that's a 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.760 that's a pretty elite guy to get near your offense. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.240 Dalvin Cook is is elusive and he's got shifting nous. Uh. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.400 Swift is got some uh is that I think a 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.440 whole other level that way, And I don't think he's 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.360 the same kind of patient runner the Dalvin Cook is. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.720 But um, just the the shattered ankles and that that 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:13.680 he leaves behind these defenders, it's it's ridiculous, and I think, yeah, exactly, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.160 I think it's plenty of I think John DeAndre Swift 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.640 has got enough size to be in every down back 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.800 and a lot of times with these elusive guys, the 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.200 shifty guys, they're smaller backs that don't maybe don't have 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.199 don't have the ability to be twenty carry guys. Deandrey 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.240 Swift does. Yeah, I think he does. I do too. Um. Now, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.480 there are some knocks on him here. Past protection is 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.800 not great. He's not a pile mover. That's just not 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.680 his that's not his bit. If you know, if you 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.120 get your arms on him. If you can get your 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.160 arms on DeAndre Swift, He's probably gonna be tackled. It's 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.800 tough to get your arms on that. That is the catch. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.240 And then he doesn't have the breakaway speed that Jonathan 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.600 Taylor's got. I mean Jonathan Taylor with his four three 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.800 nine speed. If he gets into open if he gets 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.360 an over space, he's you know, now, now you've got 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.959 a real problem. Um I I think I think you're 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.640 I think you're right about where where he will end 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.480 up going as well. I think is going to be 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.320 the end of the end of the first round, beginning 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.360 of the second round, somewhere in there, somewhere in that 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.640 in that range would probably make some sense. Washington at 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.720 the top of round two is a possibility. With all 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.520 the running back woes they had. They got Darius guys 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.480 who they say they still love, and they just let 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.320 Adrian Peterson come back for another year. They guaranteed his 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.240 contract for one more year. Why not for Ron Rivera, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.959 who really, for what he's worth, he kind of doesn't 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.079 commit fully to one running back. He played a lot 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.840 of two running backs in Carolina in the past. Christian 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.640 McCaffrey obviously and that kind of forced his hand recently. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.400 But Man Washington would be a weird spot. Lions, what 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.000 about Detroit to Channel they haven't been able to get 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.920 a healthy production out of carry On Johnson. That might 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.800 be a spot as well. And then back to Miami again. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.240 Amy could end up being another another team that's in 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.800 play with I think the fifth pick of the second 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.040 round um another interesting landing spot. I think the Chargers 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.040 picked near the top of the second round as well. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.480 And let's top five, six, seven, Um, but Austin Ekeler 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.040 is so good. Austin Ekeler is good. But Austin Ekeler 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.280 has been a part of a shared backfield. And if 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.599 that philosophy doesn't change and Melvin Gordon is going to 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.400 be shipped out, we got surprised me. If DeAndre Swift 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.560 is the next guy, just the next man up there? Um, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.319 I think Justin Jackson's gonna be He's one of my 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.360 favorite sleepers. I think he's gonna be the other man. Okay, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.440 let's go to your number three running back, cam Acres 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.280 from Florida State. Tell people about cam so cam Acres 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.720 five ten to seven. Uh, notably Jonathan Taylor five ten 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.959 twenty six. So cam acres another big back. Uh. He 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.800 ran a four four seven, that's good number five amongst 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:58.439 running backs. UM. So his tests combine, we're just pretty 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.720 good overall. That really helped us stop. I think. And 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.400 by the way, that's how we see cam Akers pretty 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.199 good overall. To me, he's not on the plane of 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.240 Taylor and Swift. I see a guy when I when 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.160 I watched cam Akers who looks good at almost everything 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.880 and excellent at nothing. Um, that's kind of what I had. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.320 UM with him as well. Um, he has all the 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.360 tools to be a three down back, but he's just 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.360 kind of average with the hands, average with the elusiveness, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.920 a little bit above average with the speed. UM. But frankly, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.360 he played behind a pretty bad offensive line at Florida State. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 He's still topped a thousand yards and two of his 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.559 three seasons had five point zero yards per carry. Last year, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.280 most of that was just him. He broke Dalvin's freshman 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.240 record for running backyards at Florida State. Um. He was 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.040 a high school quarterback as well. He can throw. I 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.160 saw a couple of plays that he was involved in 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.800 that was pretty cool. When you see his physique, you 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:02.640 don't ever think that guy was a quarterback. It's powerfully built. Um, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:07.040 his comps are his comps aren't great. Duke Johnson, Terence West, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.120 Chris Johnson, Chris Johnson was generous. In my mind, I 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.400 don't see it at all. But uh, I mean I 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.280 feel the Duke Johnson. I don't see either of the 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.319 Johnson's And how would those two ever even be in them? 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.560 Let's let's say that cam Akers ends up in a 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.000 good situation. Let's say he's an end of the second 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.480 round or maybe the middle of the third round kind 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.520 of guy, which he ends up in a good spot. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.560 Maybe he ends up Atlanta, Atlanta where he could be 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.920 a bell cow right away, or or maybe maybe Kansas 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.760 City is in the market for a running back and 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.959 they're not fully enthusiastic about Damian Williams. If he ends 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.160 up in the right spot, I think that he can 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.640 be a really big fantasy contributor right away. That's why 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.440 I have him at number three. I think he's got 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.839 all the tools to be good. It's just is it's 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.440 gonna be very landing spot dependent with him for cam Akers. Uh, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.600 strong powerful back who welcomes contact. He might be the 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.200 toughest the straight up toughest back in this in in 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.360 this rookie class. And um, and for those kind of guys, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.839 goal line work will never be a question. That's one 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.680 of the things that I like about cam Akers is 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.679 whatever team that he finishes on, um, he should be 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.679 the goal line guy. Now, he did have some fumbling 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.880 issues at school and and you know, God forbid he 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.000 fumbles at the stripe or something. But UM, I still think, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.160 I still think he's gonna be a fantasy contributor because 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.640 of the power that he will bring. You know, he'll 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.200 probably end up on the Patriots, let's hope not for 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.200 you never want to be the first guy to fumble. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.880 Uh with the Patriots. That is a that that'll that'll 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.120 be a season ender if you're not careful. All right, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.880 your number four back is J. K. Dobbins from Ohio State. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.200 Let's talk about him. Um. Yeah, Dobbins only did one 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.640 test at the combine. That was the bench press, right 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.520 he had the ankle injury. Um, he did on the 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:56.840 bench which was at UM. So he gets the comparisons 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.920 to the strung backs like Eddie George and Ezekiel l 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.240 It's who both went to Ohio State and by the 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.880 way he outran them. He still season rushing records at 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.720 the Ohio State. You know, that's pretty impressive when you 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.480 outrun Eddie George and Ezekiel Elliott at school. He's a 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.960 He's a pretty compact bruiser, good acceleration. He's really a 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.640 one cut runner um, but a pretty reliable pass catcher, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.320 and it makes him a good third down option even 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.240 if he ends up on a roster with an established 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.600 running back. Doesn't have like an arsenal of really different 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.480 stop start moves. He just kind of has the one 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:39.840 cut and he goes um. But his cuts were always good, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.160 and his first cut, specifically behind the line on like counterplays, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.560 was absolutely awesome. He he had people moving one way, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.640 He's showing up on the other side of the field 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.560 all of a sudden. It looked like he's playing portal 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.600 or something along those lines. Uh. Comps of muscle Hamster, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.640 Josh Jacobs and a pul Charchy and favorite Ryan math Oh. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.000 I like that Ryan Matthews in the rare moments of health. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.800 That's that's pretty good. I think he's he's the cutting 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.200 is is amazing for him, and laterally, you know, if 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.480 we can get him on a team that likes to 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.080 run zone blocking with stretch plays. Oh man, I really 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.440 like Dobbins as a lateral runner. Waits, waits, and then 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.400 makes that cut accelerated. Yeah, it's gonna be one cut, though, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.400 It's not like the super deeks like DeAndre Swift has 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.120 where he'll he'll stop, start, make two or three cuts 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.200 and then and then be out of there. He'll be 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.320 I'm gonna set you up, I'm gonna cut you out 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.160 of your jockstrap, and then and then I'm going um. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.520 I I think he's got a little more Dalvin cooked 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.960 to him than others. So for me, that was my 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.320 comp and uh and mark Ingram as well. J K. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.840 Dobbins is uh is is somebody that I think in 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.200 the Again, it depends a lot in the landing spot, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.360 where like Jonathan Taylor, I think you go anywhere and 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.080 be productive. I want to see Dobbins running behind a 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.080 zone blocking offense, so we'll se where he lands. You 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.119 want to see him in Minnesota, Well, they got they 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.760 got a really good runner. Maybe Denver for a while, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:13.800 Dalvin Cook. We'll find Houston, Houston, Houston art like that. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.680 That would be great. Yeah, let's uh let's let's take 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.119 a break. When we come back, I want to talk 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.200 about the final couple of running backs that we want 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.760 to touch on for our rookies, including Zack Moss and 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:29.400 Clyde Edwards Hilaire coming up next. All right, welcome back, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.760 Paul Charge and Matt Harrison with you. We're talking rookie 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.280 running backs, landing spots. What we like about these guys. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.639 This is our top six we've already covered Jonathan Taylor, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.960 DeAndre Swift this is your number one, two or three 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.720 guys so far, and cam Acres oh and j K. Dobbins. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.359 We got on our top four. We did our top four. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.159 By the way, at some point throughout Fantasy Football Weekly, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.800 I'm going to call Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor Thomas from 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.000 Home Improvements. It's going to happen. I'm just gonna refer 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.160 to him as Thomas one time because I can't get 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.320 it out of my brain, and now you've got it 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.959 in my brain. So what has he been doing? Nothing? 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.720 It's absolutely nothing. If I'm gonna I'm gonna search him out. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.320 Taylor Dash, right, he was a dash, and I don't 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.399 think he was a dash. Taylor Thomas, Jonathan Taylor. You're 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.560 right there, don't know dash um. Let's see what he's 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.719 been up to. He was, he was, you know, big, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.720 big and popular on on the team, beat magazines. When 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.639 not nine The answer is not a lot. Now. He 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.199 kind of quit. He think he did quit acting. He 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.840 did not act for ten years. His last acting role 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.480 was two thousand six, and then nothing until fifteen when 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.320 he was on Last Man Standing, the Other Tim Allen Show, 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.560 the Other Tim Allen Show. So yeah, how about that. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.520 I wonder if you know a lot of kids, kids, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.720 they go through all the you know, the the kid, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.280 the child actor, and he did his get away. I wonder, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.479 I wonder what he's doing, where he's living. Where is 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.679 Jonathan Taylor Thomas today. Well he's not in the draft, 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.240 that's for sure, because it's just Jonathan Taylor's I'm gonna 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.120 call he's not. He's not the same guy, for sure. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.720 Did you know he was of Dutch and Portuguese ancestry. No, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.680 I bet you didn't. I mean, why would Taylor Thomas do? 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.359 Sounds sound like it sounds very Portuguese to me. Let's 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:22.280 talk about Clyde Edwards Hilaire Portuguese. It does. Actually it 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.160 sounds French to me. I assume that, you know, because 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.440 he was from New Orleans, played at l s U 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:32.400 that Laire is some Frenchy, you know, Cajun sort of name. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.560 But I I really I don't know. I'm just gonna 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:40.159 end up calling him Clyde. How about Frenchie? Uh? Maybe 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.879 maybe the raging Cajun. Maybe that maybe it's gonna be 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.640 the case. Here the bed on Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He's 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.399 five foot seven. He's a little. He's a little. He 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.000 is he's short. Two oh seven. Yeah, he is two 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.720 oh seven, so he's got some meat on the bone. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.399 He's not he's not fragile. I My comp is Maurice 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.880 Jones droop that what that one of them? I had 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.960 a Ray Rice and DeVante Freeman for the others. Um 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.680 He ran a four six forty that was seventeenth among 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.639 running backs. A little probably got him moving down a 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:19.400 lot of draft slots. But here's the deal. Thirty nine 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.600 and a half inch vert. The dude can jump. His 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:29.080 vert was number four among running backs. That dude can dunk. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.240 He's thick, compact, he's more quick than fast. His cuts 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:39.280 are elite, very very elusive. Has to be one of 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.720 the smaller backs in the draft. UH forced eighty four 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.240 miss tackles in his final year at l s U 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.639 gained seven d eighty two yards after contact according to 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.919 Pro Football Focus, UH true three down back with above 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.440 average pass catching ability, good ball security. Um on tape. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.600 He's not the elite burner that will break off long runs. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.600 He's gonna get caught in the open field by some 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.400 fast corners, but he's tough to catch and he'll turn 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.880 four yards into ten or eleven. I think that's kind 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.199 of his game. Uh. And and we said what the 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.040 comps were, and I think that those are the kind 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.439 of runners that that did that kind of thing in 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.920 their career. And by the way, fantasy productive guys, all 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.520