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Speaker 1: week we're breaking down all non rookies, but sill, these
Speaker 1: are all veteran players who are came out winners for
Speaker 1: various reasons on draft day. Who do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about today?
Speaker 2: I can't even believe when we're talking about this guy,
Speaker 2: but Cam Akers running back thirty four last year, currently
Speaker 2: going off the board as RB twenty four. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was a winner because the only running back they drafted
Speaker 2: was Zach Evans in the fifth round, who doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like a threat right now. And Kyra Williams, the draft
Speaker 2: for last year, didn't do anything with the opportunity he
Speaker 2: was given last year. So cam Akers seems to be
Speaker 2: the RB, the RB one here in the with the
Speaker 2: Rams Rams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, which says plenty you know every I
Speaker 1: think most of our listeners know. It was a tale
Speaker 1: of two seasons for Zach. And while we get plenty
Speaker 1: of things wrong on this show, man, did we nail
Speaker 1: cam Akers. We spent all August begging you not to
Speaker 1: draft cam Acres and he was brutal through the first
Speaker 1: twelve weeks. He was arguably the biggest bust in Fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Do you know where he finished? Which RB number he
Speaker 1: finished at through twelve weeks? Without looking, No, I don't
Speaker 1: RB seventy fours.
Speaker 2: So tough, it's so bad. It's so tough.
Speaker 1: Thirty two teams in the league. That means if you
Speaker 1: took the top two running backs off of all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams, that gets you to sixty four players. Cam
Speaker 1: Akers wasn't better than those guys.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you were doing a huge victory lap after
Speaker 2: the opening that game where he had maybe two carries
Speaker 2: and everyone was like, what's going on here? What's going on?
Speaker 1: There was some of that. I won't lie there. You
Speaker 1: know what there was there was some peak docking. I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, yep, it's it's true. It absolutely happened.
Speaker 1: But let's give cam Akers credit. And you know, the
Speaker 1: Rams stuck with him, I think in part just because
Speaker 1: they have a choice. But week thirteen onward, where did
Speaker 1: he finish?
Speaker 2: He was the RB three three from weeks thirteen to seventeen.
Speaker 2: That is insane. I can't even believe that's a real stat.
Speaker 2: When when I looked it up, I said, that gave
Speaker 2: you right to make sure my settings were right and
Speaker 2: all the right filters. I was like, there's no way
Speaker 2: that's possible. But I think when you look at kind
Speaker 2: of what he was working with, this old line was terrible.
Speaker 1: It was awful, terrible. Here Pro Football Focus ranked the
Speaker 1: run blocking line at nineteenth. I don't think they were
Speaker 1: nearly that good. Guy had guys in and out all season,
Speaker 1: lots of injuries, and with the offensive line. They spent
Speaker 1: their thirty sixth pick on a guard center from TCU
Speaker 1: named Steve Avila. It was viewed as a reach pick,
Speaker 1: but still, hey, we'll take it. Yeah, offensive line help
Speaker 1: always good and returning from injury. They get their big
Speaker 1: their tackle back, Joe Noteboom, who's very important to that offense.
Speaker 1: And obviously they get Cooper Cup back. They get Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford back. So offense is going to get better for
Speaker 1: the Rams Tyler, So you know there's reason to believe
Speaker 1: just the whole offense gets better. You're cam Akers, nobody's
Speaker 1: stealing a nobody's stealing a goal line carry from Cam Akers.
Speaker 1: What's his touchdown? Upside his touchdown?
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like we're kind of just fast
Speaker 2: like rewinding to what we were talking about him last
Speaker 2: year because it seemingly is the same situation. I didn't
Speaker 2: go as planned for him, but it's the same. It's
Speaker 2: still got McVeigh. He still got Stafford, He's still got
Speaker 2: all these weapons that can be a highest scoring offense.
Speaker 2: His touch onf upside in this offense, assuming Staffords stays healthy,
Speaker 2: Cups stays healthy, you still have all these guys. He
Speaker 2: can be like a ten to twelve plus touchdown guy.
Speaker 1: He can be legit, you can't for sure, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: there's nobody else to steal a goal line carry from him,
Speaker 1: which is you know, that's that counts for a lot.
Speaker 1: And I made notes of this. We actually did a
Speaker 1: whole Fantasy Football Weekly podcast in February that was things
Speaker 1: to remember for next year. One of them was Cam
Speaker 1: Akers look good. He legitimately looked good. It was not
Speaker 1: a mirage. He looked spry, he is.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's another year removed from that achilles injury
Speaker 2: that he suffered a couple of years back. So he
Speaker 2: can only be more explosive than he was last season.
Speaker 2: And when he wasn't like out there, Darryl Henderson was
Speaker 2: a very smash hit in fantasy two seasons ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when when Akers was out in that offense is rolling Henderson.
Speaker 2: I can't remember off the top of my head, but
Speaker 2: it must be with like a top fifteen to twenty guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he was okay, And we like to think camp
Speaker 2: Akers is a lot better than Dale or Henderson, who
Speaker 2: they try to like get rid of a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Try.
Speaker 2: It felt like they tried to get rid of him
Speaker 2: and just like give like other guys like Malcolm Brown
Speaker 2: a ton of work. It's like Dale Henderson was the
Speaker 2: guy who kind of just took over that backfield.
Speaker 1: All right, So you know, let's let's talk about where
Speaker 1: camp Makers just go. We think he's got double digit
Speaker 1: touchdown upside for sure. I'm gonna assume he's gonna play
Speaker 1: all the games because I almost always do that unless
Speaker 1: they have some reason I think you won't play all
Speaker 1: the games. I think camp Makers sits it. Like you said,
Speaker 1: ten to twelve touchdown sounds about right, maybe more if
Speaker 1: you know, if you told me he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: typical team will run the ball from inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line thirty times in a season, cam Akers is
Speaker 1: gonna get almost all thirty. If he converts that into
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns just from inside the five, that's all very reasonable.
Speaker 1: And now he's looking at fifteen touchdown upside, which would
Speaker 1: be crazy. So let's see if other people have sniffed
Speaker 1: this thing out, and where where's he going nationally? What's
Speaker 1: his where's cam Aker's ADP? Right now?
Speaker 2: I save this one because I knew we were going
Speaker 2: to talk about it. Isaiah Pacheco, who we just talked
Speaker 2: about on a fancy that.
Speaker 1: On micro Yeah, he's going at the same spot. Is
Speaker 1: that fail? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, okay, yeah, as Pacheco,
Speaker 1: But he gives cam Akers gives you, in theory, a
Speaker 1: little more upside, right, Oh.
Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, definitely more. I think a little bit
Speaker 2: more passing work. I mean there's not they don't really
Speaker 2: necessarily have a receiving back who you look at and
Speaker 2: be like, that's their receiving back, that's their third down back.
Speaker 2: I think cam Akers could play a role there as well.
Speaker 2: So I think that's the ADP.
Speaker 1: What's cam Akers ADP?
Speaker 2: His ADP is RB twenty four, all right.
Speaker 1: So people are so people are kind of onto this.
Speaker 1: The finish is RB three in December, so forward, So
Speaker 1: you know, twenty four means there's still some hesitancy out there.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of name website here. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: so we got is able to check over the first
Speaker 2: one who'd rather have.
Speaker 1: I think given that cam Akers doesn't really have anybody
Speaker 1: to compete with him, well, neither's a Pacheco. But as
Speaker 1: we discussed in the Pacheco thing, this offense just doesn't
Speaker 1: go through him and he doesn't catch. I think I'm
Speaker 1: taking cam Akers, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, newly acquired Philadelphia Eagles running back DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm out as he'll just be a committee backfield.
Speaker 2: So you're not swifted out at all.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 2: I think he's the most explosive running back they have
Speaker 2: on that team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why the Lions took Jamier Gibbs with
Speaker 1: pick twelve. Yeah. I'm just they know, they know everything
Speaker 1: there is to know about Swift and they don't want
Speaker 1: him on the team.
Speaker 2: But you don't think DeAndre Swift has some similar upside
Speaker 2: that Sanders had last season?
Speaker 1: No, stylistically totally different guy. Yep, Nope, not interested all right? No.
Speaker 1: Rashad White, Rashad White it all? Why does it always
Speaker 1: come back to Rashad White Man. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: guy a lot. Rashad White gives me the PPR upside
Speaker 1: that Acres does not have. But I don't think he's
Speaker 1: got the touchdown upside that Acres has got, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I want touchdowns. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Camp Acres.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go Camp Akers as well. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, Javonte Williams. Let's say he plays yeah too
Speaker 2: much unknowns with the play twelve games. Let's say he
Speaker 2: misses the first four when he plays twelve.
Speaker 1: See, here's just philosophically, Tyler. I don't like drafting guys
Speaker 1: that have an unknown timetable. And I'm gonna like miss
Speaker 1: September and early October with because now I'm there's too
Speaker 1: much risk that I'm one in four and my season
Speaker 1: is circling the drain, and I'm making desperate moves. I'm
Speaker 1: making bad moves, desperate moves. I gotta win now. I
Speaker 1: hate that stuff. I want to win early. Give me
Speaker 1: guys with the early schedule. That's great, Guys that don't
Speaker 1: have the encumbents of injury and all the other things
Speaker 1: early on, and and then I'll move those guys and
Speaker 1: I'll sell high when my team's four and one. I
Speaker 1: hate being I hate starting one and four.
Speaker 2: See. The thing is, as I'm totally with you, I
Speaker 2: don't like to draft injured players. Don't draft for injury
Speaker 2: because then injuries are going to come back and find you.
Speaker 2: So I'm with you on that, right. But something about
Speaker 2: these Sean Payton running backs that I just I'm just
Speaker 2: getting mark Ingram Kamara, Latavious Murray, all these guys in
Speaker 2: my head and it introduced me, It intrigues me, Javonte Williams.
Speaker 2: But I'll go camp Makers. Okay, last one, Damian Pierce.
Speaker 1: You know I feel about Damian Peers is not yeah close.
Speaker 1: I love Damian Pierce. They're gonna throw to them more
Speaker 1: this year. I just I just I love what they're
Speaker 1: building in Houston.
Speaker 2: I'll go Damian Pierce as well. So kind of we're
Speaker 2: kind of wishy washy on Akers's ADP right now, a
Speaker 2: little bit yep, but.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, but I'm seeing upside that I would
Speaker 1: not have expected in cam Akers had we not talked
Speaker 1: this through. And that's the whole purpose.
Speaker 2: So you're not gonna tell you're to all the listeners
Speaker 2: to not draft them no matter what. This easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was last year's advice. But you know, hey,
Speaker 1: game changes, you gotta do different things, and we're We're
Speaker 1: gonna move on because we yeah, we get to do
Speaker 1: that here this year.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be trailing burks.
Speaker 1: I might, I might, that might, that might be happening.
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