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Speaker 1: This week's show Brian Lottery ticket running backs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: These are the guys who can and single handedly propel
Speaker 1: your season. Late round draft picks, Guys that in some
Speaker 1: cases aren't even getting drafted, that have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: step into a starter's role and go be effective. That man,
Speaker 1: that's half the that's half the battle if you can
Speaker 1: go get some running back that's gonna pan out from
Speaker 1: the twelfth round or the fourteenth round or the sixteenth round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: These are all lottery ticket running.
Speaker 3: Backs, and a lot of them even if the starter
Speaker 3: doesn't go down or gets suspended drive his Lambeau one
Speaker 3: hundred and even that's a wide receiver conversation running. But
Speaker 3: they still have some value even with I think so
Speaker 3: manse guys do, because really that the bell cow is extinct,
Speaker 3: the bell cow running back. Sadly, I'm not living in
Speaker 3: the priest homes or going back further, Emmitt Smith, Barry
Speaker 3: Sanders days, and I just.
Speaker 1: I saw a great stat relative to that in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: and for the decade prior to that, they're averaged seven
Speaker 1: backs that would get three hundred carries a year. Now
Speaker 1: there's one and a half per year on average. Now,
Speaker 1: is it bel Coow's dead?
Speaker 3: Is there a draft strategy that you think these running
Speaker 3: backs are about to mention would fit.
Speaker 1: Into you call it the opposite around here?
Speaker 3: Definitely not zero running back around these parts.
Speaker 1: Definitely not. Okay, So we're going to give you some
Speaker 1: lottery ticket running backs, and the way we've set this
Speaker 1: up because you've got to put some parameters on it.
Speaker 1: They are. These are backs that have a lack of
Speaker 1: competition to at least be like the immediate backup behind
Speaker 1: the starter. None of these guys are starters, But I
Speaker 1: am throwing out deep complicated backfields like the Eagles with
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny and DeAndre Swift and Kenneth Gainwell and Boston Scott.
Speaker 1: They're out because that divides the pie up way too much.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if Whenshod Penny goes down, this thing's
Speaker 1: still messy, right, So in in in these cases, these
Speaker 1: are all guys that are like one step away from
Speaker 1: getting some real playing time.
Speaker 3: The Jets is another example. Well, something has already happened
Speaker 3: to Breeze Hall, right even with Breese Hall, who was
Speaker 3: put on the pup list for the preseason, by the way,
Speaker 3: but there's still I isy A, Bonnie Conda, Michael Carr,
Speaker 3: Damn Night. So oh yeah, it's too muddled so that
Speaker 3: they're not talking about these guys.
Speaker 1: They're out, And we're also going to give you all
Speaker 1: guys and you alluded to this that for them to
Speaker 1: get time, it's more than just like the starter needs
Speaker 1: a blow out a ACL. So I mean, you know
Speaker 1: these are all guys. You can make a case. I'm
Speaker 1: getting time for different reasons from that. Anyway, you've got
Speaker 1: some NFC lottery ticket runners. I've got AFC all the
Speaker 1: way around. For you have AFC, I have NFC.
Speaker 3: Gave me a little bit of a heart attack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry about that. Okay, prep correctly for this.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go first, give me a an
Speaker 1: AFC lottery ticket runner.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think this will. I got two you're gonna love,
Speaker 3: but I won't start with your favorite, but probably probably
Speaker 3: your one. B in terms of favorites in the AFC
Speaker 3: is Damien Harris. Harris of the Bills right now, yeah, baby,
Speaker 3: going off the board is RB thirty eight, pick one
Speaker 3: seventeen overall. James Cook is going more than twenty picks
Speaker 3: earlier than Harris, so he is the presumed starter by
Speaker 3: the fantasy community. But is he really like especially on
Speaker 3: first and second downs, right, I think it's Harris. I mean,
Speaker 3: even before we don't again, we don't want anything to
Speaker 3: happen to these starting running back but this is just
Speaker 3: in the event of but even without something happening to Cook,
Speaker 3: I think Harris is the guy I would rather have
Speaker 3: between the two, especially with adp baked in. So Harris
Speaker 3: a guy I've been targeting heavily all off season in
Speaker 3: my drafts. And again he's gonna be the guy at
Speaker 3: the goal line. Yeah, not James Cook. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: Josh Allen before James Cook. But when Harris has been healthy,
Speaker 3: he and he can catch passes. He has three down
Speaker 3: back potential. And there's Nahem Hines and Latavius Murray and
Speaker 3: Buffalo too, but they're now facts, they're not really factors here.
Speaker 3: So Damien Harris my number one lottery ticket running back
Speaker 3: to TEA.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great angle. And Damian Harris has
Speaker 1: got ten touchdown upside in him.
Speaker 3: Yeaham offense in that offense yet I don't think No, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that offense Harris for sure, massive upside if you stay healthy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with a player not many people even
Speaker 1: know the name of, and that's Giants rookie running back
Speaker 1: Eric Gray as my lottery ticket guy, my first of
Speaker 1: several in the NFC. Saquon Barkley's threatening hold out, but
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Nobody ever holds out The last
Speaker 1: guy held out was Le'Veon Bell and he has spent
Speaker 1: the last two years at any at anybody will listen.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, biggest mistake in my life. I never
Speaker 1: should have held out. He said that he had a
Speaker 1: He was just on a podcast or tweeted about this
Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago. How he never should
Speaker 1: These guys aren't gonna hold out.
Speaker 3: He regrets it, he regrets it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about fifth round rookie Eric Gray. And I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in Matt Brita. I think we've seen everything
Speaker 1: Matt Brita brings to the table and it's just not enough.
Speaker 1: So there's an opportunity for Gray here. Uh. What I
Speaker 1: don't like is he's slow, below average speed on power,
Speaker 1: but he is extremely balanced, He's very agile, he's super shit.
Speaker 1: He's got darting quickness, steady pass catching skills. He's basically
Speaker 1: a poor man's Barkley, which is why the Giants drafted him. Schematically,
Speaker 1: he fits into just what Brian Dable wants to do
Speaker 1: with Saquon Barkley. So for when Saquon Barkley's off the
Speaker 1: field or in the event of injury, or if he
Speaker 1: does actually if he's dumped crazy enough to hold out,
Speaker 1: then Eric Gray's the guy want not Matt Brita.
Speaker 3: I agree, And you're doing our listener as a favor
Speaker 3: because right now the narrative is, go get Brita if
Speaker 3: you're worried about Barkley. And no, he's not the guy.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of Matt Brita. He ain't the guy,
Speaker 1: not the gay. We know that, so I think they'll
Speaker 1: they'll give a shot at Eric Gray. All right, who's
Speaker 1: your next AFC at lottery ticket running back?
Speaker 3: Well, this is really your guy, but I like him too.
Speaker 3: I don't adore him as much as you, but he's
Speaker 3: up there. It's Tank Bigsby of yeah, baby, he's running
Speaker 3: back forty five right now in terms of ADP won
Speaker 3: forty overall. Travis Etn currently RB fourteen. So we're talking
Speaker 3: talking about a thirty running you know, thirty spots running
Speaker 3: back right when it comes between Etn and Bigsby. Recently,
Speaker 3: this is what the Jaguars running back coach had to
Speaker 3: say on Tank and Bigsby. Who remember, Travis Etn was
Speaker 3: drafted by the old regime, the Urban Meyer regime. So yeah,
Speaker 3: this regime woves the Tank. Running backs coach for the
Speaker 3: Jaguars recently said Tank is the type of back we
Speaker 3: wanted to bring to the table, and he fit everything
Speaker 3: that we were looking for. He popped off the screen
Speaker 3: and again they love him. I wanted to leave some
Speaker 3: time for you to gush over Tank maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit more. But he's got three down potential. You know,
Speaker 3: he's a three down back. He can, he can. He
Speaker 3: might just outright take this job from Travis Etn.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think that these too. In fact, my
Speaker 1: probably my boldest take of the entire offseason so far.
Speaker 1: I think Tank Bigsby scores more Fantasy points than Travis
Speaker 1: Etn will It's possible. Here's we know. Etn doesn't catch
Speaker 1: as much as we want, as people want, as listeners knows.
Speaker 1: I throw out this stat maybe a month ago. Travis'
Speaker 1: Etn averages two catches for eighteen yards through the air.
Speaker 1: That's it. So he doesn't catch. He's not a goal
Speaker 1: line guy. They were forced into trying him at the
Speaker 1: goal line last year. Didn't work. Tank Biggsby's going to
Speaker 1: get the goal line carries. I think you're looking at
Speaker 1: a lot of games at Travis Etn of like twelve
Speaker 1: carries for forty yards, scoreless, and that's gonna really make
Speaker 1: things tough and Bigsby's gonna I think Biggsby's going to
Speaker 1: do more with his opportunities, so it might be a
Speaker 1: better pass catcher, totally important.
Speaker 3: One forty overall, again, I think we see that ADP
Speaker 3: creep up closer to the top one hundred towards the
Speaker 3: end of the summer for Bigsby.
Speaker 1: My next guy, my next lottery ticket from the NFC
Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking running back ty Chandler, Alexander Madison is just
Speaker 1: a guy. He's a jag, as they say in the business.
Speaker 3: I call him Alexander me then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something to that. We've seen a lot of him,
Speaker 1: you know here in Minnesota. I've seen every one of
Speaker 1: his carries. He's not a bad running back. It's also
Speaker 1: not a great running back. He also has limited pass
Speaker 1: catching skills. Ty Chandler brings to the table explosive upside.
Speaker 1: We saw it in college, we saw it last year
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and he's a better receiver. I think
Speaker 1: this preseason is still way more of an open battle
Speaker 1: for playing time and even the starter's role than people realize. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: I don't think Alexander Madison's gonna hold the number one
Speaker 1: spot all season long. I think sooner or later, just
Speaker 1: his his his lack of explosiveness and upside is gonna
Speaker 1: cost him a starting job for some period of time.
Speaker 1: Ty Chandler's gonna have an opportunity to step in and
Speaker 1: take those take those spots. So ty Chandler, and by
Speaker 1: the way, I think he's the guy you want, not
Speaker 1: Dwayne McBride, the seventh round pick. You want ty Chandler
Speaker 1: from last year, because really did pop in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Actually had a chance to ask Kevin o'can about ty
Speaker 1: Chandler in on roughly April loves him, loves him now
Speaker 1: that coaches always say they love their guys, but you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of tell when they're really going to
Speaker 1: bat for a guy.
Speaker 3: In his eye no one could see except you except me.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's how we're on the I was looking
Speaker 1: deeply into Kevin O'Connell's eyes.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's got dreamy eyes.
Speaker 1: Very much so well, we've all seen it on Netflix.
Speaker 3: Quarterback. That's right, it's not a but in person, I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's a whole nother story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well very Yeah, it's Oh, it's even better in person.
Speaker 3: Quarterback real quick? What'd you think?
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's pretty good, but I you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm a Kirk Cousins apologist, and I think it's
Speaker 1: so healthy for Viking fans to see the pounding he
Speaker 1: took last year. He no appreciation for that guy dragging
Speaker 1: himself off of the field after these monster hits and
Speaker 1: doing everything he has to do to get right for
Speaker 1: the next Sunday. They just take for granted, Viking fans
Speaker 1: to take for granted that Kirk Cousin's going to be there.
Speaker 1: They don't know what he was going through to get
Speaker 1: right after being the most hit quarterback last year, the
Speaker 1: third most hit quarterback the year before that, and the
Speaker 1: most hit quarterback the year before that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to be sore in his forties and
Speaker 3: the rest of his life. It could be. He's a
Speaker 3: good singer, though I didn't realize what a good singer
Speaker 3: Kirk was.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew a lot of gospel hymns, right, things like that, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to one more lottery ticket running back and
Speaker 1: then we'll sneak in a quickly.
Speaker 3: All right, It sounds good. Well, I'll make this one quick.
Speaker 3: Jalen Warren of the Steelers, who I like a lot
Speaker 3: as a lotto ticket back out of the AFC, running
Speaker 3: back forty four right now off the board in most drafts.
Speaker 3: Najee Harris currently RB thirteen the presumed starter. He will start.
Speaker 3: But if something were to happen to Harris, and something
Speaker 3: sort of did happen to Harris last year had the
Speaker 3: Liz Frank injury, Warren came in, wasn't starting, but he
Speaker 3: was essentially splitting time with Harris. But then Warren hurt
Speaker 3: his foot too, so they were both dinged up behind
Speaker 3: a really bad offensive line. But the Steelers were top
Speaker 3: twelve and rushing play percentage last year. They revamped that
Speaker 3: O line this offseason. So Jalen Warren, I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: bullish on this Steelers offense just at cost. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying it's gonna be the most explosive offense in the NFL,
Speaker 3: but they've brought I think Kenny Pickett takes a step
Speaker 3: forward in year two, and if something were to happen
Speaker 3: to Harris, I think Warren could step in and essentially
Speaker 3: fill his shoes. And you're getting them at a much
Speaker 3: cheaper price than you are for Najie Harris Warren another
Speaker 3: guy that I've been actively targeting and might do the
Speaker 3: opposite drafts when.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the lottery ticket running backs.
Speaker 3: You want me to go, I feel like I got
Speaker 3: I think you.
Speaker 1: Have a couple more than I do. Go go for that.
Speaker 3: AFC is loaded with lotto running backs. My next guy
Speaker 3: up is someone I've been kind of preaching or tweeting
Speaker 3: about praising since once the draft ended. Because the Cleveland
Speaker 3: Browns did not add any running backs in the draft.
Speaker 3: They let Kareem Hunt walk. So I've been loving Jerome Ford.
Speaker 3: I've watched his ADP go from free to now it's
Speaker 3: one sixty five where he's RB fifty.
Speaker 1: People are starting to warm up to jar Ford.
Speaker 3: Because he's basically the only guy behind Nick Chubb. We're
Speaker 3: not worried about Demitric Felton Junior or John Kelly Junior
Speaker 3: and Nick Chubb now with Saquon Barkley kind of you know,
Speaker 3: worried about him. He's moved into up to RB four.
Speaker 3: He's pushing late first round, you know, draft capital status,
Speaker 3: so something would happen to him. Jerome Ford is not
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb, but he really pow has not at Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: He was a rookie last year was an awful landing
Speaker 3: spot for him. Last year with the.
Speaker 1: Brown no playing time and maybe not even any carries
Speaker 1: because he was for you he had.
Speaker 3: Like very minimum. Yeah, he was behind Chubb. Of course
Speaker 3: Hunt and Caris Johnson who's in Jacksonville. But we're not
Speaker 3: worried about him, and we're going back to Tank Bigsby talk.
Speaker 3: But Jerome Ford, he will see the field too. Even
Speaker 3: with Nick Chubb healthy, Nick Chub's not gonna get a
Speaker 3: hundred percent of the carries. I think Ford will still
Speaker 3: see eight carries per game, twelve ish touches he can
Speaker 3: catch too. Brown's top eight and rushing play percentage last year.
Speaker 3: They love to run the ball, usually have a great
Speaker 3: old line. So Jerome Ford, even even though I was
Speaker 3: getting him for free a few months ago, I'm still
Speaker 3: paying the forty rounds that he's gone up or for
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, forty picks that he's improved upon. I still
Speaker 3: think he's worth taking a shot on there for if
Speaker 3: something were unfortunately to happen to Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: Here's a player who's ADP is often so low it's
Speaker 1: not even listed on ADP reports, Yet he is sitting
Speaker 1: in a primo spot to get playing time. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Buccaneers rookie running back Sean Tucker now is going
Speaker 1: into the draft. He was widely graded as roughly a
Speaker 1: round five kind of guy, which is fine. He went undrafted,
Speaker 1: and had he played in the SEC or the big
Speaker 1: Tennis out of the ACC, I'm guessing that he probably
Speaker 1: would have been like a round three or four projection.
Speaker 3: And he went undrafted because he didn't test at the
Speaker 3: combine or have a pro day. He had some he
Speaker 3: had injury.
Speaker 1: He had, he had an injury.
Speaker 3: He should be good to go. And he was the
Speaker 3: first undrafted free agent running back signed. Like it was
Speaker 3: right off the like that. Yeah, yep, Now he has got.
Speaker 1: You're not watching a lot of breaking down a lot
Speaker 1: of Syracuse tape, I know, but dang does he pop
Speaker 1: off the tape. Wow, he's got remarkable vision burst, He's
Speaker 1: got explosiveness, one cut runner, he's really shifty, he can
Speaker 1: move laterally. And Sean Tucker is a good receiver. At
Speaker 1: thirty six catches last year, there's a real opportunity for
Speaker 1: Sean Tucker with the Buccaneers. He's just he's got a
Speaker 1: handful of special traits that you're looking for that goes okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's you know, Shawn Tucker's not like you know,
Speaker 1: he's not the second coming of Adrian Peterson. He's got
Speaker 1: a couple of things that he does really well that
Speaker 1: should work at the NFL level. Chase Edmonds is in
Speaker 1: that backfield. He's not a factor.
Speaker 3: I hate Chase Edmonds.
Speaker 1: Rashad White is the starter. He topped out as he's
Speaker 1: top the most carries he's ever had in a season,
Speaker 1: including college at Arizona State, one hundred and forty eight carries.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not the guy people are presuming he's just
Speaker 3: gonna be a bell cow because he's the only one
Speaker 3: anyone's ever really heard of in the Bucks back.
Speaker 1: I think White's going to be in a rotation. I do,
Speaker 1: and I think Sean Tucker is the best candidate to
Speaker 1: be the other part of that rotation, Sean Tucker effectively
Speaker 1: free ADP. So low, it's off the it's at the
Speaker 1: you know, it's off the it's off the list. So yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go try a little Sean Tucker.
Speaker 3: Buccaneers right and took him in either the twenty first
Speaker 3: or twenty second round of the scott Fish Bowl and
Speaker 3: most drafts don't go twenty one to twenty two rounds. Right,
Speaker 3: he was still there, Yes, in a point per carry
Speaker 3: league too, So yeah, he's free, but he shouldn't be.
Speaker 3: So if you don't know Sean Tucker, you do.
Speaker 1: Now let's go to the next AFC lottery ticket running back.
Speaker 3: Well, this is we'll still call him a lottery ticket.
Speaker 3: It's Samir White of the Raiders. Now, Josh Jacobs could
Speaker 3: he could seriously hold out? We said Barkley probably won't.
Speaker 1: But then the Giants, anybody's gonna hold up.
Speaker 3: The Giants actually offered Barkley a contract extension. Supposedly the
Speaker 3: Raiders didn't even we're the Raiders, like, you don't want
Speaker 3: to lose with us, will lose a value. We're in
Speaker 3: the AFC West, we're in the if we're not going
Speaker 3: on the playoffs, or not winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We can lose with or without you.
Speaker 3: And we got Samir White, who everyone if if you recall,
Speaker 3: he Josh Jacobs didn't start the Hall of Fame game
Speaker 3: the first preseason game last year, and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs is dust, like they're not even playing him
Speaker 3: in the and we all know how that turned out.
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs was a top five running back. But Samir
Speaker 3: White looked good in that game. He didn't play a
Speaker 3: ton last year because they just you know, they Jacob's
Speaker 3: into the ground, assuming they let him walk, but they
Speaker 3: tagged him again. But he's holding out or could hold out.
Speaker 3: But anyway, right now, Zamir White, he was free just
Speaker 3: like Sean Tucker. He's at RB sixty two. But people
Speaker 3: are starting to realize that he could be the guy
Speaker 3: if Jacobs holds out, or he will be the guy
Speaker 3: if Jacobs holds out. The other backs on roster right
Speaker 3: now are a mere Abdullah and Brandon Bolden are not
Speaker 3: worried about factors. But even if, hopefully they figure something
Speaker 3: out with Josh Jacobs, but if something were to happen
Speaker 3: to Josh Jacobs, I don't think they're gonna be signing
Speaker 3: him a long term I'm not gonna speculate there, but
Speaker 3: they're gonna give Zamir White more touches this season and
Speaker 3: again if he gets the starting gig, whether it's through
Speaker 3: holdout or injury, it's it's jackpot. T'm right now, but uh,
Speaker 3: that ADP's gonna go up day by day.
Speaker 1: The next rookie. Well, it's not all rookies all. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of rookies a lottery pick running backs. For me,
Speaker 1: it's Rams rookie Zach Evans. ADP right now is two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty. So also effectively free lots of questions
Speaker 1: around cam Akers right now. Cherry looked good in December,
Speaker 1: but he was awful in September, October, November when he
Speaker 1: was doing nothing with the Rams. He got excommunicated from
Speaker 1: his own team for a couple of weeks last year,
Speaker 1: Remember that where they were like, no, we don't need
Speaker 1: you in camp, we don't need you, we don't need
Speaker 1: you at practice. You just stay home. No running back
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL has put together a
Speaker 1: particularly good career after the Achilles injury. The all time
Speaker 1: high water mark for running backs coming back from Achilles
Speaker 1: is Donta Foreman, and that ain't saying much. So let's
Speaker 1: go back to Zach Evans. He was expected to be
Speaker 1: drafted in the third round, but he slid to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles in the sixth round, and man, did they get
Speaker 1: a gem. He averaged almost seven yards per carry and
Speaker 1: eleven yards per catch over his three year career at
Speaker 1: TCU and then last year at Ole Miss. Zach Kevin
Speaker 1: is a good breakaway back. He's explosive, He's got fantastic
Speaker 1: foot work. He can give defenders the slip. He's got acceleration,
Speaker 1: he can win at the corner. He's got great he's
Speaker 1: got great angles, he can weave through defense. Zach em
Speaker 1: is a good player and he could flat out just
Speaker 1: beat out cam Akers. It's not impossible. He's the weak
Speaker 1: one starter now again, cam Akers will good in December,
Speaker 1: and I'm not taking that away from him, but I
Speaker 1: think this thing's way way shakier, and cam Akers is
Speaker 1: way way shakier than people realize. Zach Evans potential lottery ticket.
Speaker 3: Love it. Let's go to your next guy, another rookie,
Speaker 3: ty J Spears of the Titan.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna go here.
Speaker 3: I feel like We've talked about a lot on this show,
Speaker 3: but deservedly so. Right now, going off the board is
Speaker 3: running back fifty three, Derrick Henry the obvious starter, running
Speaker 3: back eight, so another massive delta there. Titans were top
Speaker 3: six and rushing plapersage last year, and Derrick Henry he's
Speaker 3: getting up there in age and usage. Twenty nine, twenty
Speaker 3: nine years old. And Spears has had some knee issues
Speaker 3: in the past, but as of right now, we're only
Speaker 3: talking about twenty twenty three. That's what it is, right
Speaker 3: We're not talking dynasty long term outlook. His knees are intact,
Speaker 3: so he's healthy. So I'm excited to see what he
Speaker 3: can do this year. He's gonna he's gonna spell Henry
Speaker 3: at times for sure, especially on third down. But if
Speaker 3: something were to happen to Henry or Henry falls off
Speaker 3: the cliff, Spears is an enticing option. Last year at
Speaker 3: tu Lane, where he went to college, of course, he
Speaker 3: finished fifth in rushing yards and yards per carry in
Speaker 3: the country among all FBS schools. Per Dane Brugler of
Speaker 3: the Athletic, a well renowned Scout College Scout, Yeah, Spears.
Speaker 1: His work in the Beast is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's staggers. It's like a bible. It's basically like
Speaker 3: the thickness of a bible. All about just every last
Speaker 3: He says, Spears a slippery runner with dynamic start stops,
Speaker 3: cutting skills, patient vision, and darting acceleration, which are highlighted
Speaker 3: on encounter and outside z own plays. There's more very
Speaker 3: nice things he says about him. I'll stop now, but
Speaker 3: at Ty J. Spears another guy I'm targeting heavily.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a lot of people that got very
Speaker 1: wow by Spears at Senior Bowl. I think it was
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, you know, throughout the offseason, at the Combine,
Speaker 1: at the Pro Day, Spears looked remarkable.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think he only slid in the draft because
Speaker 3: of the knee issues. But there's no there's no problem
Speaker 3: right now. That was just all long, long term outlook
Speaker 3: was the reason for his slide.
Speaker 1: All right, My final lottery pick running back Brian. And
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Speaker 3: And this is my.
Speaker 1: Least favorite out of all of my of all of
Speaker 1: my lottery ticket guys, because I don't think he's that good.
Speaker 1: Dallas is back up, Malik Davis. His ADP right now
Speaker 1: is two hundred and ten. Your new offensive coordinator in
Speaker 1: Dallas is Brian Schottenheimern And we don't know how for
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna shake things up compared to what Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore was doing well he was offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he doesn't score too fast or too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wasn't that part of the reason that, yeah, we
Speaker 1: gotta let him go with you? Too many points? All
Speaker 1: points are out here in Dallas. Shawnheimer's gonna change things up.
Speaker 1: But if we do go back to when he was
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator last he was three years he was offense
Speaker 1: coordinated for Seattle. In two those three years, Chris Carson
Speaker 1: posted two hundred and fifty touch seasons, which would still
Speaker 1: leave like one hundred and fifty touches on the table
Speaker 1: for somebody else. Lak Davis's next man up. I didn't
Speaker 1: think you look special last year at all, really, But
Speaker 1: fantasy football is about opportunity. Tony Pollock's never proven himself
Speaker 1: to be a work horse. We don't know that they're
Speaker 1: gonna make him a work horse. He might just be
Speaker 1: sitting at like two hundred touches. Maybe that's it, so
Speaker 1: there could be some extra work to go along. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think Malik Davis is a special guy, and
Speaker 1: do's fawn to be by the way, not even a
Speaker 1: factor here.
Speaker 3: He's five five, he's darren Sproles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not going to factor in.
Speaker 3: He'll catch passes, but that's about it. Correct.
Speaker 1: He could we could only hope to be darren Sproles.
Speaker 1: Darren Sproles is a borderline Hall of Fame guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't want to make you the Apples to
Speaker 3: apples comparison in terms of talent, but size, size and roll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. There you go. Uh to Malik Davis,
Speaker 1: somebody you could throw a dart at at the end
Speaker 1: of your draft. Again, I think I'd go with all
Speaker 1: the other po all the other players both Brian and
Speaker 1: I have mentioned before Malik Davis. But the opportunity could
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 3: I got a couple more I'll run through them real quick.
Speaker 3: Another one of your guys Gus Edwards the Ravens absolutely
Speaker 3: running back fifty eight right now, going a little too late,
Speaker 3: h JK. Dobbins will be the starter this year, but
Speaker 3: if something would happen to Dobbins, Edwards would be thrust
Speaker 3: into the starting role and expected electric offense. Now Baltimore
Speaker 3: has been historically run heavy. Last year they had the
Speaker 3: second highest rushing play percentage. That is likely to change
Speaker 3: with Todd don't call me art Monkin as a new
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator. But Edwards, like Dobbins, two years removed now
Speaker 3: from major knee injury, so he will see the field
Speaker 3: as well. Dobbins is going to get all the work,
Speaker 3: so they're a standalone value as of right now. But
Speaker 3: if something were to happen to Dobbins, Edwards presumably would
Speaker 3: see the lion's share of touches out of the Baltimore backfield.
Speaker 3: And lastly, this is I guess low hanging fruit, but
Speaker 3: not low hanging fruit that I really want to eat.
Speaker 3: It's Devin Singletary of the Texans now former bill RB
Speaker 3: forty nine. That delta is just not big enough between
Speaker 3: he and Damian Peers. And by the way, some people
Speaker 3: think Singletary is going to push Damian Pierce to be
Speaker 3: the start. We are not those people. No, we are
Speaker 3: not those people.
Speaker 1: No, there's a word for those people. Wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm not thrilled about Singletary just because he's
Speaker 3: really one of the more expensive guys we're talking about,
Speaker 3: and he's not. He's arguably the least exciting talent that
Speaker 3: we've talked about on this episode. So again, if something
Speaker 3: were to happen to Piers, Singletary would be the guy.
Speaker 3: But the Texans offense really not that enticing right now.
Speaker 3: We'll see, but I'm not expected to put up a
Speaker 3: ton of points both Piers.
Speaker 1: But I love Pierce.
Speaker 3: Singletary not not so much even if something wereld happen
Speaker 3: to Pierce.
Speaker 1: I've seen some tweets by the fantasy community other experts
Speaker 1: that have said, you know, why am I buying Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce finish his RB twenty four last year? How is
Speaker 1: he gonna get any better? The way Damian Pierce is
Speaker 1: going to get better this year, planted in my flag
Speaker 1: right now is as a pass catcher. He was a
Speaker 1: good pass receiver in college. The last coaching staff was
Speaker 1: totally inept. This coaching staff is going to unlock his
Speaker 1: receiving abilities. Another year in the pros, he's going to
Speaker 1: be better pass protection. He'll be on the field more
Speaker 1: third downs. Damian Pierce is going to ppr his way
Speaker 1: into a top ten, top twelve season. And right now
Speaker 1: he's going off the board like our be seventeen eighteen
Speaker 1: something like that. I think he's got I think he's
Speaker 1: got top ten upside in him. I love Damian Pierce,
Speaker 1: as you know. Thanks for listening, everybody.
Speaker 3: Uh, hopefully we don't have to redo this show because
Speaker 3: still Dalvin Cook Korea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I meant to say that. I had that as
Speaker 1: a note for the very beginning, but put it at
Speaker 1: the end. Who knows, you know, we're recording Cook, Elliott, Hunt, Fournette,
Speaker 1: all free agents. They could suck up the works.
Speaker 3: Of course, hopefully they won't. I feel like they're gonna.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna go to the more muddled teams
Speaker 3: though that we sort of talked about earlier on The
Speaker 3: Jets are a candidate, the Patriots are one. I kind
Speaker 3: of I was gonna mention Pierre Strong, but there's steam
Speaker 3: that good. Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Vermandri Stevenson, Oh, I love him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again and we don't want. Yeah, we don't want
Speaker 3: to put any bad juju.
Speaker 1: Don't put, do not put. Dalvin Leo Fournett can go
Speaker 1: there all he wants for Neett's cooked cook. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see Dalvin.
Speaker 3: Cook go there. Yeah, Miami, you can go to Miami
Speaker 3: and go to Miami. Absolutely another muddled muddled that we
Speaker 3: didn't discuss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds good. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back
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