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Speaker 2: Now here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. I am Paul Charchie and it's Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 3: Joining me again.
Speaker 1: Like last week, thorn Eister Mischieval really put a rap
Speaker 1: on most of our very draft specific coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: at this point, now we're a couple of weeks out,
Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like we've covered a lot
Speaker 1: of bases leading up to the draft, the draft itself.
Speaker 1: We did a first round show last week. We talked
Speaker 1: about the ideal landing spots, guys that fell into spots
Speaker 1: where we think they can have immediate impact. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna flip it overor we're gonna talk about some of
Speaker 1: the guys that we feel like good players, but guys
Speaker 1: that didn't really fall into spots or they have as
Speaker 1: nearly as easy an opportunity for immediate success.
Speaker 4: That's right. Yeah, you got to roll with the punches
Speaker 4: in life, and some of these guys their initial step
Speaker 4: acclimation into the NFL. They have some tougher situations to
Speaker 4: work through than some of the guys that we were
Speaker 4: talking about last week. So we're going to talk about
Speaker 4: those some of those situations today.
Speaker 1: So we're not suggesting these players are never gonna have
Speaker 1: fantasy value or that they're not good players. A lot
Speaker 1: of times we like these players, we don't like the situation.
Speaker 1: What we are saying is they've got complicated paths to
Speaker 1: achieve reliable fantasy success, particularly in the short term. Mostly
Speaker 1: I've done I've called this list together from players who
Speaker 1: have are that were taken between rounds two and four
Speaker 1: because I don't think there's a lot of value going well,
Speaker 1: this seventh rounder didn't really hit a great.
Speaker 4: Spot, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know, we're talking about good players that just
Speaker 1: fall fell into tough spots.
Speaker 3: And like last week, I want to start the running
Speaker 3: back position.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of running backs that really fell
Speaker 1: into tough spots. So this was a thin running back
Speaker 1: draft anyway, right didn't have the big high end talent,
Speaker 1: and then some of these guys fell into bad So
Speaker 1: let'speaking with Blake coorm False goes to the Rams in
Speaker 1: round three. He's currently going off the board at picks
Speaker 1: seventeen in non superflex rookie drafts. And obviously the problem
Speaker 1: is Kyron Williams was really good last year. You know,
Speaker 1: Sean McVay, you know, middle of the pack. You know
Speaker 1: he's he's not a run heavy cours play caller. So
Speaker 1: the competition with Kavi Williams Williams is real. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this spot for Blake.
Speaker 4: Korm Yeah, I think that they took him in order
Speaker 4: to try to protect themselves as an insurance policy against
Speaker 4: the Kyron Williams injury. Obviously, with the size with Kien Williams,
Speaker 4: using him as a bell cow every single season, with
Speaker 4: the usage they were giving them last season is not
Speaker 4: going to work out long term. You're gonna get him injured.
Speaker 4: And the way that they did this, it's interesting. With Korum,
Speaker 4: I think the quorum initially bites heavily into the early
Speaker 4: down work of Kien Williams. Kyen Williams will be on
Speaker 4: the field for all the all the passing downs and
Speaker 4: everything like that, and I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying Blake Koram is going to start. And
Speaker 1: if you think that's the case when well.
Speaker 4: I think right from the get it's the early down stuff. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: but the offense they're the constitution of it. It's so
Speaker 4: much of the passing and Kyen Williams. You're not taking
Speaker 4: him off the field for that, but in order to
Speaker 4: keep him on the field and guarantee that you have
Speaker 4: Karen Williams into the playoff theoretical playoff run. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think you know, again the buying the insurance policy here
Speaker 4: with Quorum, and Quorum's thing is it's that stuff, the
Speaker 4: efficiency on the ground, which obviously they leveraged so much
Speaker 4: on the last year's national title team at Michigan. They're
Speaker 4: going to like the patience with him, the vision and
Speaker 4: then the agility, the way that he sets guys up
Speaker 4: and then forces the off angle attempts, the early down efficiency,
Speaker 4: and I think that that's what they're bringing him in
Speaker 4: for and again in order to increase the odds that
Speaker 4: they have Kien Williams healthy the entire season. Karen Williams,
Speaker 4: his owners probably didn't like to see that, but you're
Speaker 4: still going to get all the passing down stuff with him.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the early down work, I think Quorum takes
Speaker 4: a bit bite out of it as a rookie. All right.
Speaker 1: Interesting, So if that's the case, he's currently going off
Speaker 1: the board to pick seventeen non super flex rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: Is that too late? Do you think you should go higher?
Speaker 1: Most people, I mean, the consensus thinking is that Karen
Speaker 1: Williams was so efficient in this Rams offense last year,
Speaker 1: that Williams is going to be is going to be
Speaker 1: the primary and that Koran maybe you know, worked in
Speaker 1: a little bit here and there, picked their spots, maybe
Speaker 1: some passing downs, things like that.
Speaker 3: You're flipping the narrative a little bit.
Speaker 4: It might it might be a little bit. Yeah, Koran
Speaker 4: could have found a better landing if.
Speaker 1: Dallas, Dallas would have been great, Chargers would have been great.
Speaker 4: The other side of La Absolutely there was ones that
Speaker 4: were better. But I think that he's going to get
Speaker 4: a bit more work as a rookie than people are
Speaker 4: giving it credit for. And if Karen Williams gets injured
Speaker 4: at Cours, then now then it's game.
Speaker 1: It potentially a top ten for fantasy running back at
Speaker 1: that point. Next let's go to Ray Davis, who drops
Speaker 1: into Buffalo. Now, I like Ray Davis, and I texted.
Speaker 3: You about a week before the draft.
Speaker 1: Yes, because I finally up on Ray Davis and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at his games. I'm like, man, this guy was productive.
Speaker 1: They used him a lot of different ways. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of things I liked about Ray Davis's game.
Speaker 1: But he falls into Buffalo where James Cook is the
Speaker 1: established starter and he's earned the right to get first carries,
Speaker 1: and most of Sean McDermott's tenure a Buffalo, he's employed
Speaker 1: a committee backfield, and then of course, on top of
Speaker 1: all that, Josh Allen steals a lot of close in touchdowns.
Speaker 3: So I don't like this landing spot for Ray Davis.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts as far as the evaluation itself?
Speaker 4: And I'm rooting for Ray Davis a kid. People look
Speaker 4: up his background. He's an inspirational story. And not only
Speaker 4: that when he gets to college, he fought through bad
Speaker 4: situations throughout. It was at Temple at the start, and
Speaker 4: then later on Vandy and then he finally gets to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he was getting ganged up on initially at
Speaker 4: those spots because he was the only offensive player that
Speaker 4: they had, and he would fight through all these loaded
Speaker 4: boxes and then when he got to Kentucky, especially the
Speaker 4: last season, you saw a little bit different. Where earlier
Speaker 4: on been more the short yardage grinder guy and had
Speaker 4: a bigger build. He clearly worked on his body to
Speaker 4: try to improve the athletic testing, got a little bit smaller,
Speaker 4: got down to two to eleven, bowling ball type guy,
Speaker 4: another one of those five eight and a half. My
Speaker 4: is my concern with his EVO is is he maxed out?
Speaker 4: Is he another key Sean Vaughn. That is what we'll
Speaker 4: have to see going to Buffalo. If it works out
Speaker 4: for him as far as early on, it's because he
Speaker 4: has taken the early down work and James Cook, you know,
Speaker 4: essentially becomes what I was just suggesting that Kyron Williams
Speaker 4: will be, and then Davis can steal some of that
Speaker 4: Blake Korum early downwork here because Buffalo doesn't have a
Speaker 4: lot of early down candidates for that. But like you
Speaker 4: mentioned when when we're talking about fantasy, you want some
Speaker 4: of those those high leverage opportunities to be a clear
Speaker 4: pathway to that the touchdowns if it's going if you know,
Speaker 4: he's not going to be getting any catches, which in
Speaker 4: Buffalo they're not going to be using Ray Davis as
Speaker 4: a result, you want to note that, Yeah, around the
Speaker 4: goal line, we're gonna have that opportunity. I think hit
Speaker 4: the nail on the head. I don't think that's going
Speaker 4: to be there for him. Maybe between the twenties you
Speaker 4: see a little bit of that stuff with him being
Speaker 4: used in that area. But yeah, not the best landing
Speaker 4: spot for him.
Speaker 1: Yeap, Ray Davis picked twenty seven in non superflex rookie drafts.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to another guy who another running
Speaker 1: back that we were pretty excited about, but we really
Speaker 1: don't like the spot. It's Marshawn Lloyd falls to Green
Speaker 1: Bay round three. He's picked nineteen in non superflex rookie drafts,
Speaker 1: and he's just plastered on the bench behind Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: I don't think AJ Dillon's a huge factor here, but man,
Speaker 1: the fact that they even resigned AJ Dillon is anyway.
Speaker 1: Jacobs signed through twenty twenty seven, but the nature of
Speaker 1: his contract means that he's cuttable after two years. But man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to wait two years to see Marshawn Lloyd.
Speaker 3: And Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Is I assume the clear number one based on what
Speaker 1: they paid him in the pedigree. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Marshawn Lloyd in Green Bay?
Speaker 4: This might be the most annoying landing spot of anyone.
Speaker 4: I was very excited about, like you were mentioned, very
Speaker 4: excited about Marshall Lloyd. Almost five nine, two hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty pounds, eighty six percentile athlete, and he has four
Speaker 4: or four wheels and he knows how to use him.
Speaker 4: He has the combination of make you miss and power
Speaker 4: that gets him out to the second level into open grass.
Speaker 4: The change of direction as well, and then he can
Speaker 4: get to the top gear real quick. Once once he
Speaker 4: is into it to open grass, he runs mean. We
Speaker 4: asked him about that down in mobile, like why do
Speaker 4: you run so mean, Marshawan, And he goes because I'm
Speaker 4: from Delaware, And that's what we had to do.
Speaker 3: We had to show but what it's like to Delaware.
Speaker 4: So we got to kick out of that very thick
Speaker 4: lower body and it's a loaded spring where he just
Speaker 4: snaps the arm tackles. He's a fighter. I love his
Speaker 4: contact balance. The thing with him though now you had
Speaker 4: here it's a guy in college that was never used
Speaker 4: on passing downs and that was the thing with his evaluation,
Speaker 4: It's like, was that just because the usage first at
Speaker 4: South Carolina and then at the other USC when he
Speaker 4: went and played with Caleb Williams last season? Was it
Speaker 4: just because of that usage? And then he got dig
Speaker 4: up throughout college, had an acl tear nagging injuries here
Speaker 4: and there. The upside with him as the pure runner
Speaker 4: on the early downs is just about as high as
Speaker 4: anybody in this class. I don't think that they're going
Speaker 4: to use him whatsoever on the passing downs. But the
Speaker 4: situation that he got into on the early downs, what
Speaker 4: are you going to be shoving aside Josh Jacobs or
Speaker 4: aj Dillon. That's his mission if he choose to accept it.
Speaker 4: But this is a tough, tough landing spot for Marshall Lloyd.
Speaker 1: It is all right, Let's next. Let's go to running
Speaker 1: back Jalen Wright, who drops into Miami. A brutal landing
Speaker 1: spot for him. Fourth round selection going off the board
Speaker 1: right now, pick twenty in non superflex rookie drafts. Obviously
Speaker 1: massive problems here with Raheem Moster, Devon h Chan, Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 1: And he's a Miami kind of run.
Speaker 3: He's a Dolphin style runner.
Speaker 1: Super fast, right, Yet he's got some of the solid
Speaker 1: build abilities and he can run inside. I mean, he
Speaker 1: fits what they like to do there.
Speaker 3: But this is a up. It's a brutal spot to fall.
Speaker 4: Into, and it's too bad because we were so close
Speaker 4: to getting the ideal one. Dallas had done a lot
Speaker 4: of work on Jalen Right during the pre draft process,
Speaker 4: and Jalen Right at five ten and a half, two
Speaker 4: ten with ninety eight percentile athleticism as a guy that
Speaker 4: I compared to Tony Pollard in the middle. How about
Speaker 4: that that would have been pert You would have had
Speaker 4: your Tony p Yes, Dallas, strangely in that pick elected
Speaker 4: to go with this long arm, Notre Dame linebacker who
Speaker 4: misses a bunch of tackles. And I wasn't terribly impressed
Speaker 4: with this tape, which then Jalen Wright you fall into
Speaker 4: Saturday when when Miami ends up taking Jalen Right, a
Speaker 4: lot of people were surprised. I wasn't I have been
Speaker 4: told in the pre draft process that Miami was all
Speaker 4: over it. Yeah, they were the number one team that
Speaker 4: wastes all such a good fit for what they like
Speaker 4: to do. Mike McDaniel fetishizes running backs like this, and
Speaker 4: I think people when they look at the fitt devonan
Speaker 4: Chane and then you re signed most of it, they're like,
Speaker 4: why would you invest draft equity into a guy like
Speaker 4: Jalen Wright. I'll tell you. I'll tell you why, because
Speaker 4: I asked around. It's because you have Devon Chane. You
Speaker 4: have to limit him to twelve around ten touches that's
Speaker 4: per game. Yeah, you have to because if you do
Speaker 4: more than that, now you are to break him down exactly.
Speaker 4: The injuries are going to come. So you have to
Speaker 4: do that. Number One, Jalen Wright is being brought in
Speaker 4: I believe, and you know the conversations that I've had
Speaker 4: for the passing downs initially, that is how that they
Speaker 4: can mitigate the times where aucchains on the field. He's
Speaker 4: the early downs. You can have moster coming as well
Speaker 4: a little bit on the early downs, but Jalen Right's
Speaker 4: going to handle some the passing down stuff. Initially. Jalen
Speaker 4: Right very good receiver. He's also a super duper underrated
Speaker 4: pass blocker coming out there. Jalen Right freak athlete, was
Speaker 4: on the Feldman Freak Class multiple times. Thirty five carries
Speaker 4: of ten plus yards on only one hundred and thirty
Speaker 4: six attempts last season. That means that more than one
Speaker 4: quarter of his attempts went for more than ten yards.
Speaker 3: That's nuts.
Speaker 4: He had the fastest track GPS time on a run
Speaker 4: last season amongst running backs twenty two point two miles
Speaker 4: per hour. You're talking speed for days with that kid,
Speaker 4: and he proved it down in Indianapolis at the NFL
Speaker 4: combined with a high four to threes. And he also can.
Speaker 4: He's elusive as well. He breaks tackles. One hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty two point two elusive rating last season was near
Speaker 4: the top of this class. So you have all that stuff.
Speaker 4: What they have to work on him with it's the
Speaker 4: vision and working in a conventional, more constricted area as
Speaker 4: a runner on those early downs because Jalen Wright comes
Speaker 4: from this Mickey Mouse spread offense where it played right
Speaker 4: into his strengths. Because Jalen it's like a Tevin Coleman
Speaker 4: as a runner where he wants to see that crease
Speaker 4: down the field yea, and he wants to hit dingers,
Speaker 4: which was great, a great fit for that Tennessee offense.
Speaker 4: But initially in practices that is what Miami is going
Speaker 4: to be working on him with but he doesn't. They're
Speaker 4: not going to need him for that, I think right away,
Speaker 4: because Auchan's gonna be handling that you use him on
Speaker 4: the field as a rookie for the passing downs. And
Speaker 4: then of course he's injury insurance for aud Chane as well.
Speaker 1: That's Jalen Wright ends up in Miami.
Speaker 3: I think he hits.
Speaker 1: I think this just turns into now like a three
Speaker 1: headed monster. But at some point they're gonna be games
Speaker 1: or series of games where moster's hurt, a chans hurt,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be you know, he'll have some opportunity
Speaker 1: and he used to go together like the twenty carry game,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna go nuts.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: The Jets surprise many people by spending fourth and fifth
Speaker 1: round picks at running back. They took Brailen Allen, Isaiah Davis.
Speaker 1: They're currently going out the board is picks thirty three
Speaker 1: and forty seven in non superflex rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: Okay, the problems here are many.
Speaker 1: They're stylistically similar, so they'll bad each other stylistically, and
Speaker 1: then of course they're behind Breeze Hall and maybe is
Speaker 1: he about a Conda who with many people at this
Speaker 1: time last year we're super excited about So you get
Speaker 1: the feeling here. And by the way, and if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait a while for them to be
Speaker 1: a starter Alan or Davis.
Speaker 3: Well, who's the Jets quarterback?
Speaker 1: If you're waiting two years down the road for one
Speaker 1: of those guys to pop, I don't know what that
Speaker 1: offense is going to look like. Posts Aaron Rodgers, and
Speaker 1: we you know how big of a setback is that
Speaker 1: going to be? So thoughts on Brailan Allen and Isaiah
Speaker 1: Davis for the Jets.
Speaker 4: I was so confused by what the Jets did over
Speaker 4: the week, and I was under the assumption that this
Speaker 4: was a win now team and really none of the
Speaker 4: decisions they were making were way to win now this one.
Speaker 4: These two as well, we're confusing to me. I like
Speaker 4: Isja Davis, he was my rbaight. I was bullish on him.
Speaker 4: Braylan Allen was my RB nine. So they were there
Speaker 4: right there and like you were setting up there. They
Speaker 4: are similar ish in the utility that you would use
Speaker 4: him for in the NFL. With Isja Davis, I compared
Speaker 4: him to Tyler l Jeer you have the power and
Speaker 4: the contact bounds and he's super patient and then he's
Speaker 4: like he has this upright running style. He's sort of unique.
Speaker 4: It's like a slalomy thing. You know, he's waiting, waiting,
Speaker 4: and then that's how he changes the angle of the
Speaker 4: guy coming in on him to force it from a
Speaker 4: flush tackle attempt to the off angle thing. And he
Speaker 4: was playing in the FCS. He was the belkow for
Speaker 4: the colossus South Dakota State team that just just rolled
Speaker 4: over everybody, and when defenders would have an off angle
Speaker 4: on him sometimes it was like in the cartoon where
Speaker 4: they run into the side of the mountain and they
Speaker 4: just peel off down on it. Like Ija Davis's contact
Speaker 4: bounds with the power he runs with is so nice.
Speaker 4: The receiving utility, I'm not really sure with him. I
Speaker 4: know that Brailan Allen doesn't have any of that. Brailan
Speaker 4: Allen is your classic Wisconsin hammerback who was miscast in
Speaker 4: the system that they change into last year under Phil
Speaker 4: Longoor is this spread thing and throwing a little bit more.
Speaker 4: I compared Brailan Alan six one two hundred and thirty
Speaker 4: six pounds to Rashad Jennings. They're very similar, and like
Speaker 4: you said, it's a terrible landing spot for both of them,
Speaker 4: and then you wonder can both of them make the
Speaker 4: roster with what that room looks like right now?
Speaker 1: All right, I've got a few more guys that dropped
Speaker 1: into bad landing spots.
Speaker 3: Will highlight them when we come back in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, segment number two Fantasy Football Weekly, talking about
Speaker 1: some landing spots that have troubled us for a variety
Speaker 1: of different players. It's been all running back so far,
Speaker 1: and I got an all of it for you.
Speaker 3: Will Shipley ends up in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: He was a fourth round selection by the Eagles. He's
Speaker 1: going after the word right now, pick thirty seven in
Speaker 1: non superflex rookie drafts. So a lot of people have
Speaker 1: the same concerns I have because they signed Saquon Barkley,
Speaker 1: and then of course you got Kenneth Gamil in there.
Speaker 1: Philly always uses that rotation runners, and to top everything off,
Speaker 1: anytime the balls inside the five yard line, the easy
Speaker 1: touchdowns are getting swept up by Jalen Hurts. So a
Speaker 1: lot of things working against Will Shipley here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the situation he heads into, that's problem one.
Speaker 4: Here's problem two for me. The issue is Shipley's evaluation
Speaker 4: is he's never going to be his NFL team's best
Speaker 4: early down runner. He wasn't that at Clemson. That was
Speaker 4: film offa. So for Will Shipley to have NFL utility,
Speaker 4: it has to be on the passing downs, and then
Speaker 4: he has to offer it on special teams as well.
Speaker 4: He can return, He categorically cannot pass block, which means
Speaker 4: that the utility on those passing downs it has to
Speaker 4: come as a receiver. Well, here's the issue there. In college,
Speaker 4: he never brought one yard flat per route run and
Speaker 4: he dropped five balls the last two seasons on the
Speaker 4: dump offs around lineup scrimmage for it. Yeah, people went
Speaker 4: nuts about him because he was the five star recruit
Speaker 4: and he's five ten two oh six and he tested
Speaker 4: as a ninety seven percentile athlete. I did not see
Speaker 4: it with Will Shipley. I I don't know how long
Speaker 4: he hangs on that roster of Philly.
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's that's some damning stuff right there.
Speaker 1: Next we switch over to the wide receiver position. Donnie
Speaker 1: Mitchell ends up in Indianapolis second round pick, currently going
Speaker 1: off the board pick fourteen and non superflex rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: But the problem is the competition, right.
Speaker 1: So you know, Michael Pitman's great Josh Downs looks promising.
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce hasn't panned out as hoped, unfortunately, but he's
Speaker 1: still in the mix a little bit here. There are
Speaker 1: some things to like about Mitchell. Not a big bodied guy,
Speaker 1: but you like the acceleration, his fluidness, he plays with.
Speaker 1: He plays with some swagger and some nasty to him
Speaker 1: that I like. Uh, but this is a it's a
Speaker 1: tricky landing spot with a young quarterback who's effectively on
Speaker 1: a reboot of his rookie season. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on a Donnie Mitchell in this landing spot with Indianapolis?
Speaker 4: So I spent all the spring arguing with people about
Speaker 4: a Donna Mitchell because they were you know, he's a first,
Speaker 4: He's got the ceiling of a superstar in there. You
Speaker 4: just have to assume a little bit of risk if
Speaker 4: you take him. My take on him was the exact
Speaker 4: opposite that inverted. I think he is a lower ceiling
Speaker 4: guy who has a high floor. I thought he was
Speaker 4: sitting dead red on the evaluation as your prototypical pop
Speaker 4: the top NFL wide receiver two, where the opposing defense
Speaker 4: has to keep a safety high on that side of
Speaker 4: the field, which has the effect of helping the spacing
Speaker 4: of the other players on the field. The guys who
Speaker 4: could tell you about this are Xavier Worthy and Jatavian Sanders,
Speaker 4: who benefited from that extra spacing of having a Donna
Speaker 4: Mitchell on the field. But he doesn't. A Donna Mitchell
Speaker 4: does not win in the intermediate area. He doesn't win
Speaker 4: in the short area. The reason for that is he
Speaker 4: can't change directions without telegraphing. Yet he's not a good
Speaker 4: rout runner. But he also just doesn't have agility period.
Speaker 4: What he is is a size speed super free. He
Speaker 4: has the four wheel four to three four I'm sorry
Speaker 4: wheels ninety eight percentile broad jump. But I mentioned before
Speaker 4: or a little bit slower of that ten yard split,
Speaker 4: which was equivalent to Jalen Kulkers, Yeah, who ran a
Speaker 4: four or five to seven. It was also a co
Speaker 4: equivalent to Jalen polk Rana four or five two. He
Speaker 4: needs some grass in front of him to get to
Speaker 4: top speed. But what he offers for Indianapolis it is
Speaker 4: that popped the top boundary guy on the one side,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mister Alec Pierce. This is the end of
Speaker 4: the stuff for your Donna Mitchell has been brought in
Speaker 4: to take your job, but with a DONNAE. Mitchell. As
Speaker 4: far as the NFL fantasy utility, which is what we're
Speaker 4: here to talk about, it's this, he either hits dingers
Speaker 4: or he strikes out right. It was that case the
Speaker 4: entire time in Texas at Donna Mitchell last season on
Speaker 4: awesome passing offense, he finished with thirty five or fewer
Speaker 4: receiving yards in half of Texas's game seven to fourteen
Speaker 4: couch thirty five or less. Thirty five or less.
Speaker 1: By the way, this guy's got guillotine disaster written all
Speaker 1: over him.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, you have to choose right, right, And
Speaker 4: then he went so, then how did he get all
Speaker 4: the stats that he got, Well, he went over one
Speaker 4: hundred and forty yards twice and he cracked one hundred
Speaker 4: yards in a third. In those three games, he averaged
Speaker 4: sixteen point six yards per catch. When he is not
Speaker 4: hitting balls out of the yard, he's striking out and
Speaker 4: he's a non factor outside of force in the defense.
Speaker 4: To keep that safety high on his side of the field.
Speaker 1: All right, another receiver in a tricky landing spot. Jacob
Speaker 1: Cowing ends up going in the fourth round to San
Speaker 1: Francisco picked forty three is where he's going in non
Speaker 1: super flex rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: So there's not a lot of people that like him here.
Speaker 1: He's small, He's five eight, one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 1: He's a track star guy. He plays in the slot primarily,
Speaker 1: and unless Deebo Samuel leaves, I don't see a pathway
Speaker 1: for Cowing getting a lot of playing time here.
Speaker 3: In an ideal.
Speaker 1: Scenario, he can be tanked del in a really good offense.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of things have to drop
Speaker 1: into place here for him to get onto the field.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Jacob Cowing San Francisco.
Speaker 4: You said it, there's been all the trade rumors with
Speaker 4: the top two San Francisco forty nine er receivers. I
Speaker 4: think Jacob Cowing is going to need chaos there with
Speaker 4: both of them probably getting pushed out to have at
Speaker 4: least early on utility when that probably is not going
Speaker 4: to happen. He's an interesting evel in that you were
Speaker 4: mentioning the size five to eight one sixty eight, which
Speaker 4: is the thing that reminds you of Tank Dell and
Speaker 4: he has four three eight wheels. Early on in his
Speaker 4: career at Utup, Jacob Cowing destroyed the Conference USA. He
Speaker 4: was like a killer down there and he won down
Speaker 4: the field. But then it was interesting the last couple
Speaker 4: years he goes to Arizona and he's playing next to
Speaker 4: a guy that charge one year from right now, we're
Speaker 4: gonna be sitting here talking about a whole heck of
Speaker 4: a lot TETAROA McMillan, who is going to be a
Speaker 4: top tenser.
Speaker 3: McMillan is a.
Speaker 4: Absolute monster a right people watch Arizona this coming season.
Speaker 4: This kid is amazing, but he's going to be a
Speaker 4: top ten, top fifteen at worst pick on next season.
Speaker 4: But Cowing was playing next to him. McMillan got everything
Speaker 4: down the field. They turned Cowing into a close to
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage type guy. It was that that
Speaker 4: was all the stuff. It was the quicker timing concepts.
Speaker 4: So Cowing's a doots plummet to eight point four and
Speaker 4: six point seven the last two years. Now he still
Speaker 4: got pounded with a ton of targets. But again McMillan's
Speaker 4: getting all the downfiel, so Cowen getting all the short stuff.
Speaker 4: I was hoping when when Cowing went to the Senior
Speaker 4: Ball that he was going to harken back to his
Speaker 4: usage at start winning down the field more. I didn't
Speaker 4: see it as much with him. He was getting pushed
Speaker 4: around a little bit. It wasn't the same thing that
Speaker 4: I had seen with Tank Dell the year before, when
Speaker 4: Tank Dell was destroying everyone and no one. Everyone started
Speaker 4: wanting to tie their shoes in the one on one.
Speaker 4: The defensive backs when they get the up front of
Speaker 4: the line, they're like, oh, no, coach, I gotta go
Speaker 4: and get some water. Now let him go. It wasn't
Speaker 4: the same thing with Colling. I saw one rep where
Speaker 4: cam Hart, the kid from a Notre Dame who's like
Speaker 4: six foot two and a half and two hundred ten pounds,
Speaker 4: he was staying with Jacob Cowing in the intermediate range,
Speaker 4: just staying in his hip pocket. So and then Jacob
Speaker 4: Cowen got injured on the last day at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 4: He has ability and he can separate. His separation rates
Speaker 4: have been very good throughout his career. But you're you're
Speaker 4: wondering about the body type and then going to the
Speaker 4: next level. But it is a good in terms of
Speaker 4: San Francisco. If if stuff clears out ahead of him,
Speaker 4: that's what he's going to need to have that utility
Speaker 4: early on.
Speaker 1: We've got just another minute here. I want to I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about this, and we limited our
Speaker 1: focus here to just from rounds two through four, basically because.
Speaker 3: These are good players, promising players.
Speaker 1: But I want to hit you with the one first rounder,
Speaker 1: Rock Bowers, the oddball landing spot. I don't think an
Speaker 1: anybody saw the Raiders coming as your as the landing
Speaker 1: spot for brock Bowers. I would have assumed the Raiders
Speaker 1: are traded out of the spot or they'd have done
Speaker 1: something else because they put that high second round pick
Speaker 1: and the first tight end taken in last year's draft
Speaker 1: in Michael Mayer. So you know it's an oddball spot.
Speaker 1: What do you think about brock Bauers And do you
Speaker 1: feel like this.
Speaker 3: Bowers is awesome?
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but do you think this slows
Speaker 1: the progression a little bit or changes your outlook fantasy
Speaker 1: outlook on brock Bowers having fallen to Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Not at all maybe a little bit for Mayor, although
Speaker 4: they can play on the.
Speaker 3: Field like Daggers may right, but they can play.
Speaker 4: On the field at the same time to see the
Speaker 4: way that that shakes out. But no, not for Bowers.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. Brock Bauers walked into Georgia when
Speaker 4: he did their receiving court, they had George Pickens, they
Speaker 4: had Donnie Mitchell, they had lad Conky, Kiris Jackson, and
Speaker 4: Marcus Rossomi Jack Saint. They had all these NFL guys.
Speaker 4: Then in the tight end room, they had Darna Washington,
Speaker 4: NFL tight end. Yeah, their starting running back was James Cook,
Speaker 4: an awesome man, pass right guy on So he was
Speaker 4: there for three seasons as a true freshman. He leads
Speaker 4: the team in receiving. Was there clear wide receiver, which
Speaker 4: is pretty crazy wide receiver one. I'm putting that in
Speaker 4: bunny quotes. And then it was a first team All American.
Speaker 4: He did it again the next two seasons. What's so
Speaker 4: crazy about that. It's not just that he shoved aside
Speaker 4: all these different NFL guys to assent immediately to become
Speaker 4: the number one guy for that. It's it's coming right
Speaker 4: out for these teams that were dominant. Georgia won the
Speaker 4: national title when he was a true freshman, but he
Speaker 4: was clearly their best offensive weapon. They did it again
Speaker 4: when he was a sophomore, and they may have done
Speaker 4: it again last year if brock Bauers hadn't gotten nicked up.
Speaker 4: People don't talk enough about that. The middle of the season,
Speaker 4: he gets injured, anyone else in his position shuts it down.
Speaker 4: He wanted to come back as fast as he could
Speaker 4: to try to give Georgia a shot for the three beat.
Speaker 4: He did tight rope surgery, this emergency tight rope surgery
Speaker 4: back for the end of the season. He was not
Speaker 4: one hundred percent when he came back. They end up
Speaker 4: Georgia ends up losing a close decision to Alabama in
Speaker 4: the SEC title game. They didn't get that shot. Despite that,
Speaker 4: Guess what, brock Bauers led the team in receiving again,
Speaker 4: even though he would played ten games and he was
Speaker 4: compromised most of the time. Not only that he was
Speaker 4: amazing on the running concepts, They would do different stuff
Speaker 4: with him, bring him into the backfield. During his career,
Speaker 4: nineteen carries over three seasons. Those went for one hundred
Speaker 4: and ninety three yards. Five touchdowns. That's over ten yards
Speaker 4: per carry. Kirby Smart, who is not a man known
Speaker 4: for hyperbole, one of the best coaches we haven't college football,
Speaker 4: probably the best right now, said that if Georgia had
Speaker 4: shifted brock Bauers two running back when he was on campus,
Speaker 4: he would have been the best running back that they
Speaker 4: had to.
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers his size as a running back exactly.
Speaker 4: It's just incredible, his vision, the agility, of course, the
Speaker 4: speed he can take it to the house there and
Speaker 4: he's the tackle break and berserker guy, you know, even
Speaker 4: better than Senate of course, and even better than Laportovs.
Speaker 4: So with him, people think about because you have to
Speaker 4: call him and just with the position designation, so in
Speaker 4: their head they start to evolte Kyle Pitts. It's different
Speaker 4: with Kyle Pitts. He was the big guy that you
Speaker 4: send down and the team and that was the utility.
Speaker 4: So that's dependent on other players on the field. Brock
Speaker 4: Bauers is dependent on nobody else. He is idiot proof.
Speaker 4: I heard people tossing on Oh, their offensive coordinators are dope.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. He's going to make that guy and
Speaker 4: he's gonna make Gardner Minshew look like a better quarterback
Speaker 4: than he has by far, because all you have to
Speaker 4: do is just shuttle the ball off to Tobauer short.
Speaker 4: He will take care of the rest, just like he
Speaker 4: did throughout his career, from the day he stepped foot
Speaker 4: onto those Colossus Georgia teams for in the middle of
Speaker 4: their dynasty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 1: It's all right, So you made me feel better about that.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's going off the board in dynasty drafts
Speaker 1: at pick eight. I'm thinking to myself, Okay, wait, I
Speaker 1: mean is I don't think it's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: unfair to say if I had to put one player
Speaker 1: in this draft to go to the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: I would I would pin my hopes on brock Bowers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Right, So okay, I have to start a tie down.
Speaker 1: We always know every year there's about six good ones,
Speaker 1: and sometimes there's even less than six good ones.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why brock Bowers is going pick eight
Speaker 1: right now in fantasy drafts. And it's still early, but
Speaker 1: I think it'll change. But what are we missing here?
Speaker 4: You get an immediate four or five step head start
Speaker 4: on your opponent every single game. Now you have Brock
Speaker 4: Bowers in your tight end slot against whoever that guy has.
Speaker 4: I mean that that's what it's going to become. It
Speaker 4: might be a little bit into the season when when
Speaker 4: the usage starts to get I mean when they find
Speaker 4: out really like okay, when Minshoo's like every single you know,
Speaker 4: between him and Adams. But that's where all the usage
Speaker 4: is going with that and with Bowers, it's going to
Speaker 4: be the short intermedia and then again you can shift
Speaker 4: them into the backfield, do cool things with him around
Speaker 4: the goal line, speaking to the fantasy thing. He can
Speaker 4: run the ball in, he can He's absolutely comfortable doing that.
Speaker 4: We saw that at Georgia in very high leverage spots.
Speaker 4: The Raiders are going to see this immediately. The Raiders
Speaker 4: juice their passing game way more with one slot later
Speaker 4: than their division rival did. Take in a cornerback one
Speaker 4: spot higher than they did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, well, all right, you maybe feel a lot
Speaker 1: better about Brock Powers.
Speaker 3: I love the kid.
Speaker 1: Didn't love the landing spot as much, but you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have a great quarterback. We got Gardner Minshew's okay,
Speaker 1: and then the Michael mayerth thing. But you've you've You've
Speaker 1: got me totally energized.
Speaker 4: Now now I'm in Gardner Minshew's gonna look better than
Speaker 4: competent with rock powers.
Speaker 1: It could be, it could be he might turn into
Speaker 1: a sneaky fantasy starter. I think he could. He could,
Speaker 1: I think he could. All right, thank you, my man,
Speaker 1: great job, Thank you. I can follow Thor at thor
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