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Speaker 1: It's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian.
Speaker 1: My co host today Brian Johnson. Hey, buddy, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Charge? I am sweating my a off down here in
Speaker 3: Charlotte right now.
Speaker 1: You still got thick Minnesota blood recoursing through your veins.
Speaker 1: This can't be easy. Summer in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: It is still very thick. I'm like sweating gravy.
Speaker 1: Oh man, from where exactly?
Speaker 3: It is the dog days of summer. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: We'll find something to talk about football related, I'm sure though.
Speaker 1: So a couple weeks ago, we did an episode with
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison and I about doing the Opposite, and like,
Speaker 1: when's you're with all of these early runners, when would
Speaker 1: you break do the opposite? When would you when do
Speaker 1: you actually would you actually take these uh, these top runners?
Speaker 1: And we got a bunch of feedback from that from
Speaker 1: people who said Okay, that's fine. But if I do
Speaker 1: sluff the running back position, who should I be targeting
Speaker 1: in the mid rounds? As longtime listeners know, I don't
Speaker 1: generally take any running backs for at least four rounds,
Speaker 1: and so want to do is starting round five. Let's
Speaker 1: identify a running back in each of the rounds that
Speaker 1: we're ready to start. These are guys that are RB
Speaker 1: ones and RB two's. If you if you are sluffing
Speaker 1: that position like I do, and you know, for that matter, Brian,
Speaker 1: even if you do take running backs in the first
Speaker 1: four rounds, because you know, the likelihood is that they're
Speaker 1: going to get hurt at some point or they're going
Speaker 1: to disappoint for some reason. Because that position is so
Speaker 1: prone to variation, you're still might be taking a bunch
Speaker 1: of running backs in the middle of your draft, even
Speaker 1: if you took them early too, because you got to
Speaker 1: back up those positions more than you do any other position.
Speaker 3: You do, and there are a lot of intriguing backups
Speaker 3: out there. We might even go over to running backs
Speaker 3: on the same team. Running this riddle today, we'll find
Speaker 3: out we don't know, we don't know who were ah,
Speaker 3: we were draft in our respective rounds. But uh right,
Speaker 3: but yeah, and these are this is an important list
Speaker 3: because if you're if you're doing the opposite, odds are
Speaker 3: you're gonna be not single tapping, you're gonna be double tapping,
Speaker 3: triple tapping, maybe even quadruple tapping running backs in rounds five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 1: Nine to ten. Yeah, which is what I which, which
Speaker 1: is what I had always said was the do the
Speaker 1: opposite strategy is you hit those other positions for four
Speaker 1: rounds and then you just pound running backs. And to
Speaker 1: give you depth with these mid tier running backs, because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, as we as as
Speaker 1: we know from years of of looking at the top
Speaker 1: ten running backs that are going to finish the season,
Speaker 1: half of them are going to come out of the
Speaker 1: mid rounds. And we want to have a bunch of
Speaker 1: those guys on our rosters. So we're gonna give you
Speaker 1: our favorite running backs in the six rounds, spanning rounds
Speaker 1: five through ten. Now, Brian, obviously these runners are going
Speaker 1: to have some warts, otherwise they'd already be gone, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, so all of these guys are going to
Speaker 1: have some problems with them. But we're gonna make a
Speaker 1: case for why we would still take them in their
Speaker 1: respective rounds. I don't know about you, but the traits
Speaker 1: that I was looking for heading into this, Brian, I
Speaker 1: wanted to find guys who are in especially in the
Speaker 1: earlier these like rounds five, six, seven, you're going to
Speaker 1: be able to get lead runners on NFL teams, Guys
Speaker 1: who are and you know, ideal. They're not in great spots.
Speaker 1: Usually they're on less than ideal offenses, less than ideal situations,
Speaker 1: but lead runners are still going to be out there.
Speaker 1: Or I want part timers who are rul threats that
Speaker 1: they can give me a receiving line that's gonna balance
Speaker 1: out variable rushing production on a week to week basis
Speaker 1: because those guys are sharing, or guys who are just
Speaker 1: inexplicably slide for weird, unjustifiable public sentiment that are just
Speaker 1: I just think too low, so that my guy's sort
Speaker 1: of fall into those categories.
Speaker 3: How about you, Yeah, I pretty much have one of
Speaker 3: each of those guys. And speaking to the last genre
Speaker 3: of running back per se guys that have slid too far,
Speaker 3: I've got one that almost checks all the boxes of
Speaker 3: a first or second round pick. He's going in the
Speaker 3: eighth round and It's not like he's a super secret,
Speaker 3: you know, sleeper or anything. But I just understand why
Speaker 3: he's just stuck in neutral in the eighth round, has
Speaker 3: been since March April, and even though tons of positive
Speaker 3: steam coming out about this guy. But we'll get to
Speaker 3: him when we get to him.
Speaker 1: All right, that's round eight preview of coming attractions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: round eight, but we start with round five again. We're
Speaker 1: gonna give you the one running back we would take
Speaker 1: in each of the rounds five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: and ten. Beginning with round five, I'm taking James Cook,
Speaker 1: the running back from Buffalo, currently going off the board
Speaker 1: as RB thirteen. With Buffalo's dearth of receiving talent. Now
Speaker 1: we may see Buffalo's most balanced offense since Josh Allen
Speaker 1: got there. You know, you'll remember Buffalo's wideouts are now
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel Khalil Shakir. Both slock guys, so they kind
Speaker 1: of cancel each other out mvs. Machollins. And then a
Speaker 1: second round rookie Keon Coleman. I mean, this is this
Speaker 1: is now one of the most unsettled and proven, unproductive
Speaker 1: wide receiver groups in the NFL. So we may see
Speaker 1: a lot more running.
Speaker 3: For Get sorry, don't forget Chase Claypole. I left him
Speaker 3: off the list.
Speaker 1: Personally or very particularly. You're not a believer, are you?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. There's one one underdog guy that he's
Speaker 3: become notorious kind of, you know, infamous because he's drafted
Speaker 3: Chase Cleets.
Speaker 1: Like every draft, he's like eighty.
Speaker 3: Percent Chase Claypool exposure. Granted he's the last round pick,
Speaker 3: but you still won't get he's got zero potential still
Speaker 3: to be a zero for the season.
Speaker 1: But I bet if we go remember what the Bears
Speaker 1: gave up for him, it was like a second round pick,
Speaker 1: I think, which is seems unbelievable now.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: For James Cook, last year's fifty four targets. You know,
Speaker 1: if if this is gonna be a more balanced offense,
Speaker 1: and given the guys they've got catching balls, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: throw more to James Cook? I could see him turn
Speaker 1: fifty four targets from last year into seventy seventy five
Speaker 1: eighty I could see I could see Cook finishing with
Speaker 1: sixty receptions, six hundred yards, five maybe six receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That'd be an uptick of about thirty percent. Over his
Speaker 1: receiving utilization. Last year, they added in rookie runner Rate
Speaker 1: Davis from Kentucky, who I like and we talked about.
Speaker 1: We talked about him with Thor quite a bit around
Speaker 1: the draft. He thinks Ray Davis is a jack of
Speaker 1: all trades, utility guy who's good at a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but he's not special at anything. So I don't think
Speaker 1: Ray Davis takes a lot away from James Cook. I
Speaker 1: think he's just sort of a change of pace guy.
Speaker 1: Now I don't love that. Of course, Josh Allen sweeps
Speaker 1: up all the touchdowns up close, but that's the only
Speaker 1: real reason for James Cook to drop into the fifth round.
Speaker 1: And he'd be somebody that I'd be perfectly happy starting
Speaker 1: if I had sleft the running back position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sadly Cook has the potential to be the Bills
Speaker 3: leading receiver. It's probably gonna be Dalton king Gate or
Speaker 3: James Cook. Am I gonna be one of those wide receivers.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be Chase Claypool.
Speaker 1: We know that maybe Kean Coleman's gonna be great, you know,
Speaker 1: but we don't. But we don't know the opportunity will
Speaker 1: be there, So let's move to the sixth round, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is the running back that you're ready to go
Speaker 1: to war with in the sixth round.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Seattle's Kenneth Walker, who is going earlier
Speaker 3: in drafts last summer. Seattle did draft draft Zach Charbona
Speaker 3: last year. We'll get into him in a minute, but
Speaker 3: h Kenneth Walker still the lead back in Seattle. Walker
Speaker 3: had over twice as many rush attempts as sharbon Ay
Speaker 3: did in Sharbonay's rookie year last year. And what's more,
Speaker 3: Charboney never garnered more than ten touches in a game
Speaker 3: that Walker was fully healthy. Now, Walker did miss some time.
Speaker 3: When he did, sharbon A was getting bell cow usage.
Speaker 3: So that seems to be you know, their mo in
Speaker 3: Seattle with the running backs, even though there's a totally
Speaker 3: new regime now that Pete Carroll has retired and Mike
Speaker 3: McDonald has taken over as head coach, but we can
Speaker 3: expect Seattle to run the ball a lot under Mike
Speaker 3: McDonald and also a new offensive coordinator in Seattle in
Speaker 3: Ryan Grubb, who is a local guy. He was the
Speaker 3: University of Washington's offensive coordinator, ran a very high paced offense.
Speaker 3: I know you can't. It's not apples to apples when
Speaker 3: we're talking college to NFL, but a very high paced
Speaker 3: offense at Washington and Seattle over the last three years,
Speaker 3: one of the slowest paced offenses in football. They've averaged
Speaker 3: fifty eight, fifty five, and fifty six plays per game
Speaker 3: over the last three years. Washington University of Washington was
Speaker 3: averaging nearly seventy plays per game. So so Grubb and
Speaker 3: mcdonald're gonna want to pick up the place pace a
Speaker 3: little bit more than a little bit a lot for
Speaker 3: the Seahawks, who would be running a lot of pro
Speaker 3: style routes and pro style progressions is the word coming
Speaker 3: out of Seattle, which means a lot of motion, a
Speaker 3: lot of play action, and a lot of screens. So
Speaker 3: I like Walker more than Zach Sharbonay in the past game.
Speaker 3: And of course, like you said, there's words for all
Speaker 3: these guys. Sharboney is going to steal touches, probably near
Speaker 3: the goal line.
Speaker 1: But you know what, that's not even a guarantee, really.
Speaker 3: Not even a guarantee. But you know, Walker doesn't have
Speaker 3: any like eye popping metrics when you when you do
Speaker 3: the deep dive pro football focused stuff. But you've watched him.
Speaker 3: I've watched him. He he has just had eye popping
Speaker 3: plays at times, like this guy is legit, but injuries
Speaker 3: have popped up throughout his career. But hopefully he can
Speaker 3: he can play a full seventeen game season. I still
Speaker 3: think he's a good value in the sixth round. Kenneth Walker. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I look, and you know he's just I could still
Speaker 3: draft sharbon A in like the eleventh round, and I
Speaker 3: don't hate that. I don't like drafting, you know, two
Speaker 3: running backs on the same team, especially if you're gonna
Speaker 3: spend an early round like I don't like drafting them
Speaker 3: like Christian McCaffrey and Elijah Mitchell. You got to go
Speaker 3: all in on a guy in that case. But if
Speaker 3: you're waiting until round six and eleven to you know,
Speaker 3: get a monopoly on a backfield in Seattle, I don't
Speaker 3: hate it. But uh, anyway, that's enough.
Speaker 1: I just don't think charbon is a factor here, even
Speaker 1: though he is. He looks built for the goal line role.
Speaker 1: They gave him six cracks at carries inside the five
Speaker 1: last year. Zach Charbony scored one time on six carries. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker was given fifteen opportunities. He scored five times.
Speaker 1: I'd like that to be a little higher. I'd have
Speaker 1: been happier with six or seven that. But still, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a I think I'm I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to suggest that Sharbona is gonna get goal line work here.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I think, yeah, he's not like Walker's
Speaker 3: not gonna get phase out the goal line by any means.
Speaker 3: He's got the same same goal line. And what's working
Speaker 3: against both of these guys Walker and sharbonnay one more
Speaker 3: wart of course, there are gonna be wards for these guys.
Speaker 3: Not a great line. Offensive line for the Yawks are
Speaker 3: projected to be bottom third. They were probably ranked thirtieth
Speaker 3: overall I Pro football focused last year, so not ideal there.
Speaker 3: But again, you're not going to get a ten out
Speaker 3: of ten in every checkbox with these guys.
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, let's go to round seven.
Speaker 1: This is one of those I can't believe this guy's
Speaker 1: here moments, and I would definitely go to war with
Speaker 1: this guy as my RB one, not even my RB two.
Speaker 1: And round seven, Ramandre Stevenson, I'm ready to be heard again, Brian.
Speaker 1: Everything around Stevenson suggests a major bounce back coming. Last
Speaker 1: year he suffered from non functional quarterback play. Remember Mac
Speaker 1: Jones Bailey zappy. Stevenson labored his defenses new he was
Speaker 1: the really, by far, the biggest threat on offense, and
Speaker 1: they just played to stop him. Knowing that Jones are zappy,
Speaker 1: he was going to throw the game away at some point,
Speaker 1: so he that was a struggle. Remember the season before
Speaker 1: last he was five yards per carry and then last
Speaker 1: year that fell down to four yards per carry because
Speaker 1: of this, and then you may recall high ankle sprain
Speaker 1: ended his season in Week thirteen. But let's look ahead
Speaker 1: to this year. Obviously, the Patriots, who know him better
Speaker 1: than anybody else, believe in him because they just signed
Speaker 1: him to a fat new four year extension. We're thirty
Speaker 1: six million dollars for this position. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: So the team knows him, they know that they feel
Speaker 1: comfortable relying on him, and they doubled down on Stevenson.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliot gone replaced by Antonio Gibson. Zeke stole five
Speaker 1: goal line carries from Stevenson last year. Those will go
Speaker 1: back to Remandre this year because Gibson's not getting goal
Speaker 1: line carries. But most importantly, Jacoby for said is a
Speaker 1: proven functional starter. He's not. He's he would be the
Speaker 1: he would be the starting quarterback for probably you know,
Speaker 1: three or four different teams. He's proven he can that
Speaker 1: while he was with Cleveland. He's proved that he can
Speaker 1: be he can be somebody that can help an offense.
Speaker 1: He's going to be way better. And then there's also
Speaker 1: the very real possibility Drake May is the third overall
Speaker 1: pick is going to be really good too. So one
Speaker 1: way or another, the New England passing game is going
Speaker 1: to be way more viable. It's going to take way
Speaker 1: more pressure off of Romandre Stevenson and I love Romandre.
Speaker 1: He's a great just like, do everything back. He's every
Speaker 1: part of the field. He can be on the field,
Speaker 1: goal line back by the way he was, he is
Speaker 1: a good goal line back. He's already scored nine touchdowns
Speaker 1: from inside the five throughout his career, and that was
Speaker 1: when he was sharing time with Day and Harris for
Speaker 1: a lot of that. He can catch, although he's been
Speaker 1: under utilized as a receiver and Antonio Gibson will take
Speaker 1: some of that work because he can catch too. But
Speaker 1: over the past two years, in games in which Ramandrea
Speaker 1: has started, he's averaged a pretty healthy three and a
Speaker 1: half receptions per game. Now, it's not like it's bombs away,
Speaker 1: you know, deep stuff, but I like that he's getting
Speaker 1: you three and a half catches for about twenty receiving
Speaker 1: yards in his starts over the past two years. That's
Speaker 1: five and a half fantasy points right there. It's a
Speaker 1: nice head start into your fantasy week with Ramandre Stevenson
Speaker 1: in round seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. Don't quit on Remandre. I won't either.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick with Remandree Remandre to the wheels fall off.
Speaker 3: It's like Zach Moss. Never gave up on Zach Moss.
Speaker 1: Look at him now, now, look now, look exactly this happens.
Speaker 1: Happened too many times in my career where I toued
Speaker 1: some guy doesn't work out, and then by the time
Speaker 1: we've all decided he's not gonna do something explosion. But
Speaker 1: we'll see Zach Moss is another guy that we may
Speaker 1: maybe he that's going to make an appearance. After we
Speaker 1: take this break, we find out who the running backs
Speaker 1: are that we're ready to put into our starting lineups
Speaker 1: that you can get in rounds eight, nine, and ten.
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Speaker 3: I gotta make more of a my presence felt in
Speaker 3: the Discord channel. I've been slack and I promised to
Speaker 3: uh and when I say slack slack too, So I
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Speaker 1: Let's go to round eight. Brian, you've sloughed the running
Speaker 1: back position through the first at least four rounds. Maybe
Speaker 1: you picked one up in five, six or seven, but
Speaker 1: now it's here, it's round eight. Is there somebody you
Speaker 1: touted this early? You said you loved your round A
Speaker 1: guy make your case for who you're taking in round eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy checks all the boxes really for like
Speaker 3: a much earlier round pick. And if his predecessor was
Speaker 3: still in town, the person he was the understudy for,
Speaker 3: you'd be going in the first or second round. And
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the predecessor being Josh Jacobs used to
Speaker 3: be the former starting running back the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 3: He is now with the Green Bay Packers. We're not
Speaker 3: talking about Jacobs. We're talking about Zamir White, who last
Speaker 3: year stepped in for Jacobs when he was injured and
Speaker 3: pretty much was a bell coow. So let's get into
Speaker 3: the reasons why he was a bell coow. He's a
Speaker 3: bell coow because head coach Antonio Pierce is the man
Speaker 3: you have to love Antonio Pierce. Yes, who wants his
Speaker 3: RB one and he's on wax saying this to get
Speaker 3: his quote unquote magic number of twenty plus carries. I
Speaker 3: mean he has to love. Yeah, I mean Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 3: He is the head of the Bell Coow Conservation Society
Speaker 3: at this point. I mean, the bell Coow is a
Speaker 3: dying breed, but Antonio peers he wants to keep the
Speaker 3: bell Cow intact, especially in his backfield. Now, Pierce, he
Speaker 3: didn't start the season as head coach last year. He
Speaker 3: came in about midway a little past midway through the
Speaker 3: season when Josh Jacobs was the starter under Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 3: In three of his four games under Pierce when he
Speaker 3: was healthy, he averaged twenty four opera tunities per game
Speaker 3: that carries and targets. And when Jacobs went down, Zamir
Speaker 3: White hit that same number in three of his four
Speaker 3: starts under Pierce. So whoever starting at running back for
Speaker 3: the Raiders is gonna get bell Cow usage. And that's
Speaker 3: gonna be Zamir White. It's not gonna be Alexander Madison.
Speaker 3: He was referred to as as a depth piece quote
Speaker 3: unquote from Pierce himself in March, so he is a backup.
Speaker 3: They drafted Dylan Laub. I believe it is how you
Speaker 3: pronounced his last name, Lob, but he's just more of
Speaker 3: a third down pass catching threat. So it's Zamir White
Speaker 3: all the way. And now he is not the most
Speaker 3: exciting name coming into his second year. That's why he's
Speaker 3: not going in the third fourth round. The Raiders aren't
Speaker 3: an exciting offense really, but they do have I mean,
Speaker 3: the real question mark is a quarterback for that offense.
Speaker 3: I mean DeVante Adams top five wide receivers still.
Speaker 1: How about how about the next tier? How about six
Speaker 1: or ten?
Speaker 3: Well, from a fantasy perspective, he's not the top five
Speaker 3: because of his quarterback, but I think skill wise, if
Speaker 3: you put him on the Bengals, he's you know, anyways,
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of weapons in that offense
Speaker 3: for the Raiders. And you know, if I can get
Speaker 3: anybody who's gonna get guaranteed twenty plus carries a game
Speaker 3: in the eighth round, I don't care if they're a
Speaker 3: Pop Warner player, I'm gonna draft that that running back
Speaker 3: in the eighth round. And the Raiders have worked to
Speaker 3: improve their offensive line. Colton Miller has developed into one
Speaker 3: of the better left tackles. They drafted Jackson Powers Johnson
Speaker 3: in the second round of the NFL Draft this year
Speaker 3: out of Oregon. So the Raiders they want to run
Speaker 3: the ball and they're they're just gonna run Zamere White
Speaker 3: into the ground. So if he's available, I'm reaching around
Speaker 3: on Zamir White, even though like him so much, so
Speaker 3: I do not understand.
Speaker 1: The preview of the preseason shows right there the reach around.
Speaker 1: Making an early appearance on Fantasy Football Weekly. Let me throw.
Speaker 1: Let me throw another Zamir White stat that I gave
Speaker 1: out a couple of months ago. We were talking about
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Please do explosive runs for Zamir White. In
Speaker 1: his four starts, he had seven runs of more than
Speaker 1: ten yards. We'll take that, baby, That's what we want
Speaker 1: to see. That, by the way, to give you some context,
Speaker 1: compared to Alexander Madison as the presumed backup Madison, his
Speaker 1: explosive run rate was half half of Zamir White. Samir
Speaker 1: White is a good runner, and I'm with you on this.
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic opportunity in the eighth round for
Speaker 1: Zamir White. Let's go to round number nine. This will
Speaker 1: be my last selection. You'll go round ten after this, Brian.
Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. I'm in round nine
Speaker 1: and I can get the second highest scoring running back
Speaker 1: in the league last year, who led the entire NFL
Speaker 1: in touchdown score in round nine, Raheem Mostert. What WTF?
Speaker 1: What round nine? I get the lead back on the
Speaker 1: most dynamic rushing attack in the league. Yes, I understand.
Speaker 1: This is also a deep and complicated running back room
Speaker 1: featuring devon Ah Chan, Jalen Wright, Jeff Wilson to some
Speaker 1: minor degree. Okay, I get that, But you know what,
Speaker 1: Mostar got paid more than anybody else last year, and
Speaker 1: sure a Chan highlight plays. Raheem most are finding himself
Speaker 1: in the end zone twenty one times. That's a highlight, baby,
Speaker 1: that I wanted my fantasy team. In the ninth round.
Speaker 1: Miami ran the ball thirty times from inside the five
Speaker 1: last year. That was the seventh most times from inside
Speaker 1: the five. That is a strong coaching pre election for
Speaker 1: scoring up close. And they scored fifteen times on those
Speaker 1: thirty carries, which is excellent. You want a fifty percent
Speaker 1: conversion rate on carries inside the five. Miami hit it
Speaker 1: that was the fifth most at fifteen touchdowns rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: scored from inside the five, and Mostard had the third
Speaker 1: most rushing attempts he had twenty. He scored twelve of
Speaker 1: the fifteen times from inside the five. That tells you plenty. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's old, thirty two years old, but he's so lightly used.
Speaker 1: Guy barely got to carry for the first four years
Speaker 1: he was in the league. There's a lot to like
Speaker 1: about Raheem Moster that I shouldn't have to explain to people.
Speaker 1: And how in the world he's going in the ninth
Speaker 1: round is kind of crazy to me. Absolutely want Raheem
Speaker 1: Morris in the ninth round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get why Mostard is going so late.
Speaker 3: I mean you saw in the second round two, which
Speaker 3: is absurd. Yeah, yeah, I was goot to say on
Speaker 3: the flip side eight Chan in the late second in
Speaker 3: early third, he's one of the easiest passes for me
Speaker 3: in that range. Just because of most I'm like, if
Speaker 3: I can get most of in the ninth I know
Speaker 3: Han has like a ridiculous per touch, you know metrics
Speaker 3: from Kerry, Yeah, not sustainable. So yeah, I love most
Speaker 3: of in the ninth totally with you there.
Speaker 1: All right' So go to our final round round ten, Brian,
Speaker 1: who you taking?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Again? Uh?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: In this range, it's more about opportunity than environment. Really,
Speaker 3: if you can get a guy that's gonna get a
Speaker 3: starting workload at running back, I'm gonna pounce on him.
Speaker 3: I don't care what team he plays for, even if
Speaker 3: it's the New York Football Giants, who quite frankly, have
Speaker 3: you watched the New Hard Knocks, it's like more of
Speaker 3: the off season edition.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't seen it. I've not seen it yet,
Speaker 1: but my understanding is there's some pretty juicy stuff in there,
Speaker 1: including you get to see through their evaluation of why
Speaker 1: they weren't going to re sign say Kwon Barkley, why
Speaker 1: they still say they believe in Daniel Jones, and the
Speaker 1: fact that they pass on quarterback tells me they do
Speaker 1: believe in Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they really believe in Daniel Jones. They believe him
Speaker 3: so much that uh shines or shown that the GM
Speaker 3: They said, Uh even Patrick Mahomes wasn't winning games for
Speaker 3: us last year?
Speaker 1: Ah, well, little bit, he's probably right about that. Actually, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I like they could self evaluate their own team
Speaker 1: and know that there's that they're potentially not great.
Speaker 3: We don't care about reality football when it comes to
Speaker 3: the Giants, especially here, but we do care about fantasy
Speaker 3: and uh, we're talking running back. So I like Devin's
Speaker 3: Singletary in the tenth round. Uh, taking the place of
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley, who they the Giants let walk uh down
Speaker 3: south to Philly, just down south on the Turnpike. And hey,
Speaker 3: is Singletary an upgrade Overquon Barkley. He quite possibly could be,
Speaker 3: according to Ian Harditz of Fantasy Life. According he did
Speaker 3: the research, so I'm just gonna credit him for all this,
Speaker 3: all these stats. Uh, Singletary has a better PFF rushing
Speaker 3: grade over his career than Saquon Barkley. His averaged more
Speaker 3: yards per carry, has averaged more yards after a contact
Speaker 3: per carry. Singletary has forced more mistackles per carry than
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley, and has a higher explosive run rate than
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley. Yes, throughout his career.
Speaker 1: I hammered Barkley. Sorry for the interruption. I had hammered
Speaker 1: Barkley two shows ago when we were undoing the opposite
Speaker 1: and like no other his ADP has picked fifteen middle
Speaker 1: of the second round for Barkley, and we were talking
Speaker 1: about where would you actually take it, and I dropped
Speaker 1: him all the way down to like round six is
Speaker 1: where I'm interested in Barkley. I'll just re I'll hit
Speaker 1: on some of the talking points I had then. He
Speaker 1: finished last year as Pro Football Focus running back forty three,
Speaker 1: he was fifty fourth and elusiveness, he was thirtieth in
Speaker 1: rushing yards over expectation percentage and in Philadelphia's quarterbacks gonna
Speaker 1: eat all his short touchdowns. This is a disaster. Actually, no,
Speaker 1: I'm going back looking back at my notes. I hadn't
Speaker 1: pay round eight where I would take Barkley, and I
Speaker 1: had Remandre before him, Jonathan Brooks, a mere White. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of runners going where I would that
Speaker 1: I would rather have than Saquon Barkley. So just to
Speaker 1: I realized this is more about Devin Singletary than Barkley.
Speaker 1: But just want to take another opportunity to hammer the
Speaker 1: remains life remains.
Speaker 3: Okay, bart rays Barkley catching several strays on this podcast. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so you know you're definitely not drafting Saquon Barkley. So
Speaker 3: this is a perfect podcast for those not drafting Barkleys.
Speaker 3: You wait for the later rounds. But yeah, Singletary a
Speaker 3: great dude. The opposite candidate in the tenth round. The
Speaker 3: Giants guaranteed him almost ten million dollars of this season,
Speaker 3: so he's going to be getting the ball they're not
Speaker 3: going to be given Tyrone Tracey. He was a rookie.
Speaker 3: A ton of carries Eric Gray in his second year.
Speaker 3: Singletary has averaged more than four and a half yards
Speaker 3: for carrying each of his last two seasons. Now, granted,
Speaker 3: he's been running behind better offensive lines in Buffalo and
Speaker 3: Houston last year. The Giants offensive line was among the
Speaker 3: NFL's worst last season, but that was partially due to
Speaker 3: injuries or healthy right now, but again that there are
Speaker 3: gonna be some words for these guys, but words for
Speaker 3: these guys going in these rounds with Devin Singletary, he's
Speaker 3: gonna be getting that guaranteed fifteen to twenty touches when healthy,
Speaker 3: and he's healthy right now, So an easy smash pick
Speaker 3: in the tenth round when doing the opposite.
Speaker 1: So let's assume I went with a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the first round. I went tight end in the second
Speaker 1: round and came back to wide receiver in the third round.
Speaker 1: Fourth round is maybe my quarterback. And I'm rolling into
Speaker 1: round five and I'm able to get three or four
Speaker 1: of these guys in the next six rounds. I'm so
Speaker 1: ready to go to war with this group. James Cook,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, Ramandre Stevenson, Zamir White, Raheem Moster, Devin Singletary,
Speaker 1: game on Baby. Ready to roll into my season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I almost liked that the the ladder more than
Speaker 3: the former, meaning that the last three the white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you up by ADP
Speaker 1: for sure. I would rather do that so we might
Speaker 1: slough past four rounds. It's very possible that it works
Speaker 1: out that way. Uh, Brian, great job, Thank you for
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time and your expertise on this.
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