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Speaker 1: Paul Charchian, my co host Tyler Kennably Guillotine Leagues dot Com.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Who are we talking about today? Little Travis
Speaker 1: et N Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, we're gonna break down
Speaker 1: Travis Etn. I feel like this season didn't pan out
Speaker 1: the way people thought it was going to based on
Speaker 1: all the hype in the preseason. For Travis Etn. It
Speaker 1: definitely didn't in the first half. So he was being
Speaker 1: drafted or he finishes the RB twenty four last season
Speaker 1: average points a game, he's going off the boards RB twelve,
Speaker 1: so fifty like half of his stock up there. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, there's the tale of two halves for him.
Speaker 1: The weeks one through six kind of James Robinson factor there, Yes,
Speaker 1: and only had which was baffling by the way. He
Speaker 1: had only one fifteen plus touch game, zero twenty plus
Speaker 1: touch games and was the RB twenty eight and average
Speaker 1: points per game. Yeah, and it here's James Robinson coming
Speaker 1: off in Achilles and they pounded James Robinson a bunch
Speaker 1: early in the season. Yeah, then they benched him and
Speaker 1: they traded him away. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: It was the usage was so weird for Etn and Robinson.
Speaker 1: But then after week six, Week seven through seventeen, Etn
Speaker 1: had seven fifteen plus touch games, four twenty plus touch
Speaker 1: games and was the RB fifteen and average points per game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I would contend if you're telling me that most of
Speaker 1: his games the rest of the season were fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: touch games should have been higher than RB fifteen. I agree,
Speaker 1: And I think the reason it wasn't was because he
Speaker 1: really wasn't catching a lot of passes. Yeah, And that
Speaker 1: was the big thing coming out of college for him,
Speaker 1: is he he has senior season, he had forty eight catches,
Speaker 1: five hundred eighty eight yards like averages, four catches, forty
Speaker 1: nine yards per game. That's great number. That's a great
Speaker 1: number for our college running back. And last season he
Speaker 1: only had thirty five receptions and which was twenty third
Speaker 1: among running backs. And the other problem is he's going
Speaker 1: a lot of touchdowns. He only had five total touchdowns
Speaker 1: last season, zero of which we're receiving touchdowns. So I
Speaker 1: just I don't know what to do with that. I
Speaker 1: think maybe it's because there's so many miles that feed
Speaker 1: in that offense, but but not in the backfield. Now,
Speaker 1: in the backfield, yes, Snoop Connor, who I was optimistic about,
Speaker 1: had zero impact on that on that team, and they
Speaker 1: traded away James Robinson. Now you can make a case
Speaker 1: that they're gonna score more rushing touchdowns. They're not gonna.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna, but they probably scored ten
Speaker 1: as a team. You know, if if they scored more
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, Etn's gotta get most of those. Based on
Speaker 1: who's on roster right now, right, I would say so
Speaker 1: in terms of the running back kind of perception is.
Speaker 1: I mean they added to Ernest Johnson in free agency. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's a guy, He's okay. They still have Snoop Connor.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still have Ja Michael Hessey.
Speaker 1: They might, but he's not changed in really anything in
Speaker 1: terms of the backfield, certainly not as a touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ETN had most of all I the red zone carries,
Speaker 1: Like I don't there was never like a time where
Speaker 1: like oh, Ja Michael Hasy got a one year touchdown
Speaker 1: that just didn't happen. So I think Lawrence actually a
Speaker 1: lot of quite a bit of QB sneaks, which meant
Speaker 1: it might have been in is He's got some sneaky wheels. Yeah, Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and he's like six six, so he's a great QB
Speaker 1: sneak guy. So but you gotta have the ball at
Speaker 1: the one yard line? Yeah for that, yep, right, but
Speaker 1: like like, but that's why I think James Connor is
Speaker 1: so good because Kyler's not running a QB sneak at
Speaker 1: the one yard line. That's why James Connor five elevens.
Speaker 1: Being general, that is generous. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: one thing back to the reception is real quick is
Speaker 1: Jacksonville was fifth in fifth worst in percentage of targets
Speaker 1: to running backs at fourteen percent in a Doug Peterson offense.
Speaker 1: That's weird exactly, and the only teams that were worse
Speaker 1: were the Eagles, Rams, Ravens, Vikings. Wow. So the Jaguars
Speaker 1: and Travis etn can get better two ways. One is
Speaker 1: he can catch more because he is he is a
Speaker 1: proven pass catching asset. And then the second is he
Speaker 1: can score more. And I just think if if you
Speaker 1: played out this coming season one hundred times, I think
Speaker 1: both of those numbers go up from last year. I
Speaker 1: don't know eighty times out of one hundred that Etn
Speaker 1: will catch more and he'll score more. And but that's
Speaker 1: being baked into his ADP right now. Is RB twelve
Speaker 1: coming off in RB twenty fourth season exactly? I think RB,
Speaker 1: like when you do the math, you're like, Okay, he
Speaker 1: finishes RB twenty four. But if you're gonna give him
Speaker 1: all those touches, you're gonna really like him. I think
Speaker 1: when you start to get it, like look into who's
Speaker 1: kind of around him, it gets a bit more interesting.
Speaker 1: But I think one thing I want to touch him
Speaker 1: before he play the ADP game is they added Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley in this offense. There are just so many pieces
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to feed, at least through the air.
Speaker 1: They have Ridley, they have Ingram's coming back. Berk Zay
Speaker 1: Jones isn't a bad option either. Like there are so
Speaker 1: many guys who are gonna want this ball in this
Speaker 1: Jackson offense. And I think Trevor Lawrence can kind of
Speaker 1: like fuel that offense, like he can be the anchor
Speaker 1: where he can make some of these guys fantasy relevant.
Speaker 1: But to say that Travis Etn is gonna catch like
Speaker 1: eighty passes, I don't think it's really well, no, but
Speaker 1: he can catch a lot more the thirty five thirty
Speaker 1: five turn into fifty. I just don't think there's that
Speaker 1: that Alvin Kamara, Christian McCaffrey, Austin Eckler upside with Etn
Speaker 1: even though he is a great receiving back. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Dynasty and Empire leagues for Travis Etan. It feels
Speaker 1: like to me, I'm more intrigued with Etn in Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire because you're investing in a young, talented offense
Speaker 1: and I like doing that, and there's so little competition
Speaker 1: for Travis Etan. Do you like him? Do you like
Speaker 1: Etan more or lesser? About the same based on his
Speaker 1: ADP right now as RB twelve, I love him way
Speaker 1: more in terms of Dynasty specifically, just because he's so
Speaker 1: young and he only has one NFL seed under his
Speaker 1: belt and we already know that he's good. He kind
Speaker 1: of got to treat him like a like a rookie
Speaker 1: because last year, what's kind of his rookie year, Because
Speaker 1: he missed the one prior with that foot injury, but
Speaker 1: I really like him in Dynasty. I think he's a
Speaker 1: great asset to go out and trade force, but especially
Speaker 1: if you're rebuilding, he can be kind of like a
Speaker 1: core anchor of your dynasty or league. I'm I'm, I don't,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know if I'm ready to say core
Speaker 1: anchor for Travis Etn. But he's a guy I want
Speaker 1: on my Dynasty team. I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: build a team around him exactly, but I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. All right, let's play the ADP game. Who
Speaker 1: else is going around running back twelve? Let's do it,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs RB ten. Would you take Etn over Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs just for the season. I think I gotta go
Speaker 1: with Jacob's based on the season he's coming off of.
Speaker 1: And while I don't love that totality of that offense
Speaker 1: very much, Jimmy Garoppolo leading the way here, but I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna just run him into the ground just
Speaker 1: like they did last year. To the usage it's going
Speaker 1: to be so high on Jacobs, I'd go Jacobs, all right.
Speaker 1: Your guy, Tony Pollard RB eleven on a previous one
Speaker 1: of these, we talked about Tony Pollard as having the
Speaker 1: upside of being RB one the highest scoring running back.
Speaker 1: So until they draft somebody else, which I think they will,
Speaker 1: I'm going Tony Pollard, all right, your guy also over
Speaker 1: Mondre Stevenson. I love Dre Stevenson. You're hitting all my
Speaker 1: favorite players. Stevenson's got that backfield to himself, and I
Speaker 1: think he's a special player. So I'm taking Romandre Stevenson
Speaker 1: over Travis Etn all right, Naji Harris RB fourteen. I
Speaker 1: don't like what I saw last year from Harris. Nobody does.
Speaker 1: Granted he got better in December. We broke him down
Speaker 1: on a previous Fantasy Football Weekly micro edition. I think
Speaker 1: I'd still take I'm gonna take Etn here because I
Speaker 1: don't think the situation has materially changed in Pittsburgh from
Speaker 1: last year. It's kind of insane that drop off from
Speaker 1: it goes from Jacob's Pollard Romandre, then the next one
Speaker 1: is Naji Harris. Yeah, that feel like tear drop, and
Speaker 1: then all right, under Naji Harris is gonna be Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: Let's say he's on the Vikings RB fifteen. I see obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, Dalvin cookes rby five at this time last year.
Speaker 1: Everybody assumes he's going to be off the Vikings and
Speaker 1: in some other situation, which is probably too that. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine the Vikings Vikings right now, seventeen million dollars
Speaker 1: locked into the running backs. That's not gonna hold up.
Speaker 1: Something's gonna change. He's better than Alexander Madison. If he
Speaker 1: stays in Minnesota, he probably has a season not dissimilar
Speaker 1: to last year. He didn't catch much in this offense,
Speaker 1: which was frustrating. I'm gonna go Travis Ctn over Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, And let's let's say Dalvin Cook in.
Speaker 1: I made the Miami thing in a recent episode, and
Speaker 1: I actually said the Miami try to trade for him,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know. I just threw out a team.
Speaker 1: But I think, if do you think it's more like
Speaker 1: that Dalvin Cook gets cut or that he gets traded.
Speaker 1: I think it's more likely he gets traded for something.
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings, I think, will find a way
Speaker 1: to get something for him. It'll have to rework his deal.
Speaker 1: Wherever he goes. Nobody, nobody included the Vikings, will pay
Speaker 1: him what his contracts worth right now. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: so overall, I feel like we're pretty high on ETN.
Speaker 1: We are higher than I thought I guess going into it.
Speaker 1: But based on where you've got him, I've got Jacob's Pollard,
Speaker 1: Romandre Stevenson, I'll hire that brings us to thirteen. That
Speaker 1: means I'm slotting in Travis CTN right around running back fourteen.
Speaker 1: He's the only guy far off as adp exactly. The
Speaker 1: only guy you would take over him that was below
Speaker 1: RB twelve is Ormandre ad RB thirteen. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think the people have got it about right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just watch out for Bijan to the Patriots. I guess
Speaker 1: hearing some buds there. Romandre might not be the guy.
Speaker 1: I don't see it happening. Well, I've got a great
Speaker 1: running back Stevens. It's gonna be so interesting where he goes,
Speaker 1: because it's just gonna ruin somebody's fantasy team. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna ruin. It's it's gonna be Joe Mixon's gonna
Speaker 1: be the ruin. I'm continuing to contend that there would
Speaker 1: be the man. Maybe I just I just want it
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm gonna just try to will it to
Speaker 1: happen from from my kitchen. Yeah, all right, thank you
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