WEBVTT - Christian McCaffrey Returns! | Week 10 Fantasy Football Rankings and Tiers: Studs, Sleepers, and Must-Starts (Ep. 1433) 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.880 Hello, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is the 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.400 Fantasy Football Podcast. It is the Week ten ranking show. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.039 That's right, double digies. We have officially hit post trade deadline. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.720 We've got it all here. I'm Chris Welch. That is 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.919 Pat fitz Morris and joining the rank show this week. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.040 Jacob Gibbs here from CBS. It should be a good one. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.880 Mister Pat fitz Morris, How are you post trade deadline? 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.000 And good? Bad? Indifferent? I guess at least there were trades. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.680 We didn't have any big, massive one. How are you 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.000 feeling post trade deadline? 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.000 Yeah? Nothing big. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.320 Mike Williams, maybe this can resuscitate his fantasy value a 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.440 little bit, although probably not startable, but at least rosterball, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.120 I would think, And you know, nothing else really of consequence. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.240 I don't think Khalil Herbert is gonna have much of 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.800 an impact on the Bengals. Just kind of solidifies Chase 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.440 Brown's grasp on the lead back roll there. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.400 So yeah, just kind of a nothing burger. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:57.160 Yeah. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.440 I mean, if we put it as a whole and 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.280 we look at all all the trades, we can see 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.120 the impact. Jacob. By the way, welcome to the show. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.480 Great to have you on here. Anything from the trade 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.080 deadline you think that's gonna have, like any effect whatsoever 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.920 from a rank perspective. I know Mike Williams might be 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.440 maybe the most obvious. Khalil Herbert being traded has a 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.720 couple people, you know, their excitement maybe up that there's something. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.560 But was there anything from the trade deadline that you 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.960 think impacts ranks at all? 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.800 I don't think so. I am a huge Khalil Herbert 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.960 fan as an injury player and a talent for its worth, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.440 but I think he kind of profiles similarly to Chase 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.640 Brown and being like an early downskuy, So I don't 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.920 know if it really changes anything. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.720 Yeah, I felt like one guy I was speculating out 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.600 there was like if Rahiem Mostert had been traded, I 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.479 felt like if you would have gone to the Cowboys 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.360 or the Bengals, that would have been a different look 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.840 type of back. But at the end of the day, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.120 Khalil Herbert, yeah, does kind of mirror Chase Brown a bit, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.760 and Mike Williams is a good jump up, get it ball. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.279 But you know what happens with a lot of these trades, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.000 trade deadlines, especially in other sports. All the fun happens 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.200 quite a few days before for the trade deadline, all 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.640 the big trades ended up happening. And from the Deontay 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.240 Johnson's to the DeAndre Hopkins, how will they affect the 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.040 ranks this week? Well, we are going to talk about 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.760 all of that. Thank you guys so much for hanging 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.799 out with us. And you know what we love to do. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.280 We love to give you guys stuff. That's right, It's 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.480 always about the stuff. 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Kyle Cunningham Roads ended 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.520 up with the number one spot in the week nine ranks. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.480 Nick Zilac, I believe it's how you say Fantasy Football 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:14.040 advice was number two, and uh Aliza Toursk I believe 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:15.760 Torsky was on here before, wasn't he? 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:16.040 Yes? 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.200 Yes, yeah from US Yeah, Eli, that's right, Eli. Torski 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.000 from USA today number three in the ranks, with a 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.039 special shout out to my buddy Tom Strachan, who I 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:32.240 do the Sunday Advice streams right before kickoff. He finished fourteenth, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.919 and Mike Mayor, Mike Mayer did it again, Pat with 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.960 a seventeen a top twenty. I gotta say, I think 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.400 Mike Mayor is like right there in the ranks contest. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.360 He might be one of the highest here. So maybe 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:45.680 next year we're gonna have to put him to work 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:46.480 and get him on the show. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.720 Pat, Yes, he is top ten and yeah, hats off 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:50.839 to our colleague Mike Mayor. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.039 We hate around these parts to give Mike like any 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.360 accolades or positive reinforcement. We're not really about. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.200 That with Mike grudging acknowledgment at past. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.640 Yeah from the top of the company. By the way, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.599 the president down, We're all like, oh, Mike did it 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.040 all right? Well no, but congratulations to Mike. And if 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.719 you guys want to follow along today with the ranks, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.800 go to fantasypros dot com slash rankings. You guys can 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.159 see all of the movement throughout the week for all 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.640 of the great rankers near two hundred, Jacob pat myself 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.760 and tons and tons more. It adjusts the week goes on. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.279 So gentlemen, let's kick off the ranks show. Let's talk 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.840 running back ranks. We are going to be going through 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.880 the three tiers of them. We've got good visuals on 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.000 the board, so let's kick it off. Looking at the 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.080 big board for running back ranks for week ten, Sakuon 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.719 Barkley is our top dog. We got Dereck Henry, Bejon Kyron, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:47.480 and Devon Hham. That's your top five. Alvin Kamara, Joe Mixon, Breeshall, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.599 Jamir Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor, Aaron Jones, and DeAndre Swift coming 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.560 in at twelve. So these are the again, the top dogs. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.440 Not a ton of questions, but there's a little bit 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.160 of dissent here as you guys, both are lower than 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:08.719 consensus on RB one DeAndre Swift. Jacob, you've got him 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.800 at thirteen. Pat, you've got him at sixteen. Let's start 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.920 with Jacob, though, let's get your take again. We are 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.040 talking about RB ones. But if you're looking at these 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.760 RB ones, there's a little like one of these is 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.440 not like the others. And I think a lot of 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.960 people feel like that with Swift, you're not crazy lower 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.360 than ECR. But Jacob, what's your gauge on DeAndre Swift 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.480 for week ten? 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.320 Yeah, the one running back I have above him the 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.040 consensus dozen is James Cook. Well, actually in Christian mcaffre 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.240 gonn get him too, just more upside. I think with 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.039 those guys with their offense higher imply totals from Vegas, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.480 the Bears, it's kind of rough out here, obviously everybody 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.799 knows that. On the good side, for Swift, the usage 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.120 has been in spectacular. He's running back six in expected 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.839 Fantasy points per game over his past four games. That's 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.160 per Fantasy Points Data dot Com. He's running back fourteen 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.000 in XFP on the year, and so I think that's 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.480 about the rangey sit most weeks, all things equal, And 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.600 that's about where I'm at here, and I think it 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.520 is even maybe a positive matchup. For the past five 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.800 offenses to face the Patriots have passed posted a pass 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.360 rate over expectation well below zero, meaning that these teams 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.240 are running the ball much more than expected. And that's 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.080 based off like the circumstances of each individual play going 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.080 into the play, which you know you'd expect teams are 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.000 runing against the Patriots because they're normally winning. Even still, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.480 these offense has been running way, way more than expected, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.720 and so I think that's that's good for Swift here. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.280 And you know, we just sought Tony poul go for 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.840 one hundred fifty yard against the Stephens. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.920 Yeah. And one of the things we see here too. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.880 On the Fantasy Pros rankings page, we do the matchup ratings, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.480 He's the understript is actually the only B rating of 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.960 all of those, which is kind of ironic. He's the 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.320 B plus rating. Everybody else has an A rating. But 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.720 it is a four star matchup. So I think that 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.280 is about the running back. But Khalil Herbert is out 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.160 of their pat Yet you went lower. You're sixteen on 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.480 DeAndre Swift right now, So tak us through what does 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.120 not have you excited about Swift? 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.200 This week the Bears in general. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.280 This is sort of a blanket fade of the Chicago 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.000 Bears for me. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:08.560 This week. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.160 DJ Moore was being interviewed on a Chicago sports radio 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.480 station this week and was asked if the Bears head 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.520 coach Matt Eberflus had lost the locker room, and his 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.800 answer was, I won't say no. That is what DJ 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.200 Moder told a Chicago sports radio station. And Moore walked 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.360 off the field in the middle of a play last week, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.320 and I know he had stepped out of bounds, and 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.160 there was the defense that maybe since he was ineligible 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.160 to be a receiver on that play anyway, that that 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:37.960 was the smart thing to do. But I mean, he 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.400 turned his back to the field and walked off, and 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:46.200 he also gave this kind of weird like shoulder bumped 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.960 to Caleb Williams. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.160 As I was going to ask if that radio station 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.120 asked him about that, because that's what publicly got all 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.880 of the you know, just the fervor. I kind of 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.040 thought legitimately that the team might have looked at trading 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.080 trading him the deadline. Obviously they did not, but like 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.120 he seems to be an issue right now, did they 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.320 ask about the shoulder bone. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:05.880 I don't know. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.480 I just I saw the clip of the question about 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.120 Eberflus and that was it. But yeah, I mean we 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.800 saw how the Bears have responded to the hail Mary 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.320 lost to Washington two weeks ago. They got thumped by 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.560 the Cardinals. That's how they responded. So Swift, Yeah, we're 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.679 happy with the usage. I mean didn't do much as 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.160 a runner last week, sixteen carries for fifty one yards, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.720 but he did salvage's fantasy day with six catches for 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.840 thirty one yards. I know the whole matchup against New 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.840 England does look tasty, but I am just treading lightly 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.920 around all members of the Bears, and I think you're 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.960 starting Swift and fantasy. But I know I'm not going 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.040 to put him in any DFS lineups this week, and 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.840 I'm not betting the over on any of his player props. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.600 Yeah, it's a messy situation with the Bears. The only 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.200 positive that you could have really thrown into this outside 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.600 of just like the what his individual performance would look like. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.760 Isle Herbert has gone that's one, you know, less person 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.960 to potentially take away. But what does that believe? 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.000 Yeah, he wasn't They had relegated under obscurity anyway. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.360 So yeah, let's jump over because, like I said, we 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.360 you know, it's pretty core here. I don't think there's 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.240 anything crazy, especially with Swift being I would look at 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.560 as like maybe the only outlier of the RB ones 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.920 when we go over to the RB twos going to 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.960 the big board, James Cook comes in at thirteen, Christian 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:28.319 McCaffrey at fourteen, Tyrone Tracy at fifteen, Kareem Hunt, James Connor, JK. Dobbins, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.120 Chase Brown, David Montgomery coming in at twenty one, as 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.079 Chewba Hubbard, naj Harris, Tony Pollard, and Ramandre Stevenson. Boy, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.040 we have not talked about Christian McCaffrey on any rank 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.840 in a long time, and we're doing it here, and 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.160 we're doing it outside of the top twelve. He comes 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.000 in at fourteen. Funny enough, he is actually given an 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.800 A rating. He's the only running back that is given 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.840 the A matchup or I guess it is the start 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.200 sit A rating that's in the RB two ows. So 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:02.880 the start here, Pat, let's go to you real quick 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.560 on Christian McCaffrey. When we look at your guys' rank, 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 fits you've got him at ten and Jacob's got him 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.480 at nine, So you guys are pushed above what ECR 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.800 is right now, A pat, do you think this rank 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.440 is relative to people's concerns that he has not been 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.760 said one hundred percent he's going to go and start 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.880 and people are holding back and b if it's if 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.200 it is not, what do you think is holding people 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.800 back from thinking Christian McCaffrey is just gonna go ham 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.000 on return Maybe you know, slight downtick in touches and 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.120 they want to baby him like what what do you 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.960 think pushes him outside of the top ten. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.840 The ambiguity of the touch out look for him in 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.679 his first game back, I think without question, and by 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.360 the way, congratulations to all the Christian McCaffrey one on 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.720 one drafters who if you're not sitting at two and seven, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.280 you know, if you're still in this thing, you finally 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.560 get your shiny new toy. I think if McCaffrey is 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.840 truly healthy and ready to go and really as essential 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.160 as he is to the forty nine ers aspirations to 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.480 get back to the Super Bowl, I have a hard 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.280 time believing they wouldn't put him, that they would put 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.640 him back out onto the field if he wasn't completely 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.760 healthy and ready to go. So granted, I'm not expecting 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.640 him to get twenty five touches this week, but I 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.120 think fifteen to twenty is a pretty reasonable expectation. That's 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.920 sort of what I'm basing my ranking on. Give one 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.480 of the three or four best running backs in the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.079 league fifteen to twenty touches and that's a top ten 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:29.840 running back for me. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.120 Yeah, Jacob, you're a little bit higher. And I look 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.480 at this and I just go, he's the best running essentially. Yeah, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.600 maybe there's more argument now, but it's like he's the 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.880 best one to two or three top three running back 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.199 in the league. He's back. The only thing that can 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.000 hold him back is if we think he is going 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.160 to be held back on touches here. But sky feels 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.160 like the limit here. But let's get your take on 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.040 Christian McCaffrey and, like Pat said, a player that the 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.760 forty nine ers need desperately because every win and every 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.280 game for the forty nine ers is must win moving. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.040 Forward exactly, it's go time. The Niners have said Week ten, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.319 all long authentications are good coming out of the by 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.120 this seems like the plan. So as long as there's 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.120 no setbacks, I would expect him to assume most of 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.360 his usual role. And the Niners have the second eyes 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.240 implied total this week twenty eight points, so they're expected 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.320 to put up a ton of points. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.600 Do you think there's going to be any holdback of 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.160 some of his touches like that we do see maybe 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.920 seventy five percent of production, because I still don't I'm 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.680 not even sure if seventy five percent of his production 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.319 could have me have him outside of the top five 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:34.160 if we're being. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.679 Honest, right, Yeah, if we knew he had his full role, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.599 he'd probably be a top five running back. Yeah, I 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.440 would have him at running back three or four, right 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.480 there with Kien mb John Robinson. So I'm expecting maybe 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.360 a little bit, but it's mostly just the ambiguity is 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.120 the reason he's not there. It wouldn't surprise me at 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:49.959 all he does have that role. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.319 Be on the lookout for it. That's a perfect example 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.320 of a player to keep on watch because he might 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.240 be moving up and up as we start to get 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.720 some information if they say yes he is this, or 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.240 yes he is going to have this type of a 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.320 snap count hold back like those are the things that 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.679 are going to move the rank. But it's Christian McCaffrey. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.800 I think the ECR is going to move up and 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.160 his window is probably somewhere between twelve and four this 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.360 week of ranks as it moves on. Next up on 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.440 the RB threes, Ramandre Stevenson, this is a very interesting one. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.840 ECR twenty four. You guys have a sandwich here because 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.560 I believe Jacob you've got him at twenty five, Fitch, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.080 you've got him at twenty three. He's kind of inconsistent. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.760 He is kind of the guy there, Jacob, let's get 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.760 your take. You do not have him as an RB two, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.200 but we're not picking too much because he's twenty five. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.680 For you, what's your take on Rimandre Stevenson this week. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.760 I don't have a whole lot to add on Remandra. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.240 I'm curious to hear what pat has. Just generally speaking, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.240 it's tough to bet on any Patriots. I do like 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.320 Drake may just because he brings some fantasy football cheek 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.440 code goodness with his running. But for me, even with 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.200 a great usage for Romandra, you're kind of having to 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.720 bet on touchdowns for him to get there. For fantasy 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.640 and his team's only implied for like fifteen sixteen points 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.880 every week. That's the case again this week, it's. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.200 Been a big problem. I've had pat with Remandre's first 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.720 off inconsistencies and second off. Like I think you mentioned 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.840 this before, but it's like a team that is most 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.280 likely playing from behind in a lot of elements is 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.960 not looking to establish, you know, big amounts of running. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.520 Though Drake may have made this team better, you've got 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.000 him at twenty three, so you do have him in 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.920 the RB two territory. What say you on Remandre? 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.080 Yeah, maybe I'm not being consistent here because if I 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.160 am predicting a Bear's collapse, then I should probably have 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.320 Remandre above consensus and not below. And certainly the Bears 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.920 run defense is not really what's scaring me off for Madre. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.920 It's thirtieth in DVA. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.640 What makes me nervous is that over his last three games, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.040 Vermondre is averaging two point two yards per carry, and 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.720 he hit a tough matchup against the Titans last week, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.400 no denying that ten carries for sixteen yards, but he 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.880 was also under three yards per carry against the Jets 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.920 and Jaguars, who are not exactly you know matchups for 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.600 running backs. Rimandre has scored four touchdowns over the last 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.600 two weeks, but he is struggling to consistently pick up 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.000 yardage behind a Patriots offensive line that ranks thirty second 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.640 in run blocking according to PFF. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.520 Wild numbers in general for him, and he has become 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.120 just a tiny bit dodgy. This is an interesting one 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.280 because I actually signaled this running back, Tony Pollard RB 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.880 twenty three as a Cell candidate on the Buy Cell 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.440 Hold Show this week. And obviously he has, you know, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.640 been phenomenal this year, but I let coach speak get 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.360 into me a little bit at Holds a tiny bit. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.840 They said they want to lower the usage. Also, not 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.840 a great team, and you know, maybe Rudolph is going 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.400 to move the offense a little bit more. But if 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.360 you're telling me this offense who's going to be playing 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.960 from behind, is going to take touches away from Tony Pollard, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.040 seems kind of like a Cell high territory. But this 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.880 is not the by Cell Trade show. This is the 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.440 Rank Them and Play him this week. Tony Pollard is 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.920 twenty three on this list. Jacob, you actually have him 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.800 at ECR Fitch. You've got him a little bit higher. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.960 So Fitz, let's just jump to you real quick. You've 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.000 got him at nineteen. Are you afraid we're gonna see 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.440 anything taken away? And frankly, from how you know how 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.040 he's performed, feels like he should be higher. He's just 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.560 not getting into that range. What's you take on Tony 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:24.280 Pollard this week? 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.320 Well, my fears about Tony Pollard were mostly last week 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.480 when there were doubts about whether he was going to 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.480 be able to play at all with his foot injury. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.160 Not only did he play, but a season high twenty 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.119 eight care he's for one hundred and twenty eight yards. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.119 Also three catches for twenty six yards. So over his 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.840 last five games, Tony Pollard is averaging one hundred and 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.679 six point four yards per game from scrimmage. He's at 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.160 at least two catches in every game this season. They 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.320 are just leaning into the Tony Pollard usage like that 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:57.199 is now the Titans offensive identity. And I know this 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.480 is a tough matchup against a Chargers defense that has 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.359 allowed the second fewest fantasy points to running backs, but 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.680 Pollard really has become a true workhorse, and I think 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.360 a mid range running back two ranking for him is 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:10.720 pretty reasonable. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.040 Jacob, what's your gauge and what's your take on Tony Pollard? 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.440 Of the top twenty four running backs we have here 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.160 listed on Fantasy Pros at least our top twenty four, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.280 Tony Pollard has given the worst matchup rating of all 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.080 top twenty four. Another reason against the Chargers why he's 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.399 got pushed down week ten Tony Pollard, what say you? 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:32.320 Yeah? 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.600 Only one running back is top to seventy yards against 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.919 the Chargers. It's been a brutal matchup. And then you 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.480 look at Vegas imply totals, the Titans sit at fifteen points. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.960 They're the only team below the Patriots in Week ten, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.199 So on paper, everything is brutal. And like you, I 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.560 do think he might be a cel long term and 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.520 that could start coming into effect in the weekly matchups. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.800 In the weekly usage, forty eight rushes over fifty touches 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.399 over the past two games is just a lot for anybody, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.320 especially Tony Pollard. And he had a week five by 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.119 so he's got to go twelve weeks straight or something 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.560 sustaining health. And it wouldn't surprise me if they do 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.840 try to like help him out and that and stop 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.480 just putting so much on his plate because it's a 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:13.480 lot for anybody to handle. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.800 It's kind of tough when they say, like, hey, we 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.800 want him to like touch the ball less after he 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.439