WEBVTT - The Absurd Value in Mid-Draft Runners 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.800 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:11.200 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.240 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.639 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.440 here's your host, Paul Chargian. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.720 It's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:32.440 My co host today Brian Johnson. Hey, buddy, what's going on? 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.839 Charge? I am sweating my a off down here in 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:36.840 Charlotte right now. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.400 You still got thick Minnesota blood recoursing through your veins. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.480 This can't be easy. Summer in North Carolina. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.120 It is still very thick. I'm like sweating gravy. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.360 Oh man, from where exactly? 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.520 It is the dog days of summer. That's for sure. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.000 We'll find something to talk about football related, I'm sure though. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.480 So a couple weeks ago, we did an episode with 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.720 Matt Harrison and I about doing the Opposite, and like, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.800 when's you're with all of these early runners, when would 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.800 you break do the opposite? When would you when do 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.720 you actually would you actually take these uh, these top runners? 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.480 And we got a bunch of feedback from that from 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.240 people who said Okay, that's fine. But if I do 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.480 sluff the running back position, who should I be targeting 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.680 in the mid rounds? As longtime listeners know, I don't 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.199 generally take any running backs for at least four rounds, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.600 and so want to do is starting round five. Let's 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.200 identify a running back in each of the rounds that 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.960 we're ready to start. These are guys that are RB 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.280 ones and RB two's. If you if you are sluffing 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.919 that position like I do, and you know, for that matter, Brian, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.040 even if you do take running backs in the first 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:58.640 four rounds, because you know, the likelihood is that they're 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.320 going to get hurt at some point or they're going 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.680 to disappoint for some reason. Because that position is so 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.200 prone to variation, you're still might be taking a bunch 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.880 of running backs in the middle of your draft, even 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.639 if you took them early too, because you got to 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.640 back up those positions more than you do any other position. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.919 You do, and there are a lot of intriguing backups 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.839 out there. We might even go over to running backs 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.959 on the same team. Running this riddle today, we'll find 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.920 out we don't know, we don't know who were ah, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.440 we were draft in our respective rounds. But uh right, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.600 but yeah, and these are this is an important list 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.600 because if you're if you're doing the opposite, odds are 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.080 you're gonna be not single tapping, you're gonna be double tapping, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:42.120 triple tapping, maybe even quadruple tapping running backs in rounds five, six, seven, eight. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.480 Nine to ten. Yeah, which is what I which, which 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.519 is what I had always said was the do the 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.079 opposite strategy is you hit those other positions for four 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.520 rounds and then you just pound running backs. And to 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.280 give you depth with these mid tier running backs, because 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:57.920 at the end of the day, as we as as 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:03.240 we know from years of of looking at the top 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.560 ten running backs that are going to finish the season, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:07.760 half of them are going to come out of the 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.760 mid rounds. And we want to have a bunch of 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.640 those guys on our rosters. So we're gonna give you 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.120 our favorite running backs in the six rounds, spanning rounds 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.480 five through ten. Now, Brian, obviously these runners are going 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.720 to have some warts, otherwise they'd already be gone, right, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.640 I mean, so all of these guys are going to 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.600 have some problems with them. But we're gonna make a 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.880 case for why we would still take them in their 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.200 respective rounds. I don't know about you, but the traits 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.400 that I was looking for heading into this, Brian, I 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.520 wanted to find guys who are in especially in the 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.760 earlier these like rounds five, six, seven, you're going to 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.760 be able to get lead runners on NFL teams, Guys 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.520 who are and you know, ideal. They're not in great spots. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.840 Usually they're on less than ideal offenses, less than ideal situations, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.760 but lead runners are still going to be out there. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.280 Or I want part timers who are rul threats that 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.760 they can give me a receiving line that's gonna balance 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.880 out variable rushing production on a week to week basis 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.880 because those guys are sharing, or guys who are just 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:17.840 inexplicably slide for weird, unjustifiable public sentiment that are just 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.520 I just think too low, so that my guy's sort 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.839 of fall into those categories. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.680 How about you, Yeah, I pretty much have one of 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.640 each of those guys. And speaking to the last genre 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.080 of running back per se guys that have slid too far, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.560 I've got one that almost checks all the boxes of 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.560 a first or second round pick. He's going in the 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.760 eighth round and It's not like he's a super secret, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.440 you know, sleeper or anything. But I just understand why 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.240 he's just stuck in neutral in the eighth round, has 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.200 been since March April, and even though tons of positive 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.000 steam coming out about this guy. But we'll get to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.280 him when we get to him. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.440 All right, that's round eight preview of coming attractions. Yeah, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.320 round eight, but we start with round five again. We're 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.440 gonna give you the one running back we would take 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.360 in each of the rounds five, six, seven, eight, nine, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.599 and ten. Beginning with round five, I'm taking James Cook, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.800 the running back from Buffalo, currently going off the board 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:17.799 as RB thirteen. With Buffalo's dearth of receiving talent. Now 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.479 we may see Buffalo's most balanced offense since Josh Allen 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.400 got there. You know, you'll remember Buffalo's wideouts are now 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.920 Curtis Samuel Khalil Shakir. Both slock guys, so they kind 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:35.159 of cancel each other out mvs. Machollins. And then a 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.919 second round rookie Keon Coleman. I mean, this is this 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.800 is now one of the most unsettled and proven, unproductive 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.600 wide receiver groups in the NFL. So we may see 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.360 a lot more running. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.680 For Get sorry, don't forget Chase Claypole. I left him 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.960 off the list. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.279 Personally or very particularly. You're not a believer, are you? 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.080 No, I'm not. There's one one underdog guy that he's 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.080 become notorious kind of, you know, infamous because he's drafted 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.000 Chase Cleets. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.200 Like every draft, he's like eighty. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.840 Percent Chase Claypool exposure. Granted he's the last round pick, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.239 but you still won't get he's got zero potential still 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.800 to be a zero for the season. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.880 But I bet if we go remember what the Bears 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.839 gave up for him, it was like a second round pick, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.480 I think, which is seems unbelievable now. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.000 Uh. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.040 For James Cook, last year's fifty four targets. You know, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.839 if if this is gonna be a more balanced offense, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.000 and given the guys they've got catching balls, wouldn't you 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.719 throw more to James Cook? I could see him turn 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.479 fifty four targets from last year into seventy seventy five 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.360 eighty I could see I could see Cook finishing with 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.800 sixty receptions, six hundred yards, five maybe six receiving touchdowns. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.520 That'd be an uptick of about thirty percent. Over his 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.919 receiving utilization. Last year, they added in rookie runner Rate 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.520 Davis from Kentucky, who I like and we talked about. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.719 We talked about him with Thor quite a bit around 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.440 the draft. He thinks Ray Davis is a jack of 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.160 all trades, utility guy who's good at a lot of things, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.520 but he's not special at anything. So I don't think 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.400 Ray Davis takes a lot away from James Cook. I 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.760 think he's just sort of a change of pace guy. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.000 Now I don't love that. Of course, Josh Allen sweeps 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.240 up all the touchdowns up close, but that's the only 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.920 real reason for James Cook to drop into the fifth round. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.360 And he'd be somebody that I'd be perfectly happy starting 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.320 if I had sleft the running back position. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.720 Yeah, sadly Cook has the potential to be the Bills 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.160 leading receiver. It's probably gonna be Dalton king Gate or 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.360 James Cook. Am I gonna be one of those wide receivers. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.680 It's not gonna be Chase Claypool. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.360 We know that maybe Kean Coleman's gonna be great, you know, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.400 but we don't. But we don't know the opportunity will 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.800 be there, So let's move to the sixth round, Brian, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.040 who is the running back that you're ready to go 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.520 to war with in the sixth round. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.640 I'm going with Seattle's Kenneth Walker, who is going earlier 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:06.280 in drafts last summer. Seattle did draft draft Zach Charbona 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.480 last year. We'll get into him in a minute, but 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.160 h Kenneth Walker still the lead back in Seattle. Walker 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.960 had over twice as many rush attempts as sharbon Ay 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.520 did in Sharbonay's rookie year last year. And what's more, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.360 Charboney never garnered more than ten touches in a game 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.440 that Walker was fully healthy. Now, Walker did miss some time. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.320 When he did, sharbon A was getting bell cow usage. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.200 So that seems to be you know, their mo in 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.199 Seattle with the running backs, even though there's a totally 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.400 new regime now that Pete Carroll has retired and Mike 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.360 McDonald has taken over as head coach, but we can 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.040 expect Seattle to run the ball a lot under Mike 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.600 McDonald and also a new offensive coordinator in Seattle in 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.880 Ryan Grubb, who is a local guy. He was the 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:58.160 University of Washington's offensive coordinator, ran a very high paced offense. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.480 I know you can't. It's not apples to apples when 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.520 we're talking college to NFL, but a very high paced 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.360 offense at Washington and Seattle over the last three years, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.960 one of the slowest paced offenses in football. They've averaged 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.720 fifty eight, fifty five, and fifty six plays per game 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.120 over the last three years. Washington University of Washington was 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.959 averaging nearly seventy plays per game. So so Grubb and 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.360 mcdonald're gonna want to pick up the place pace a 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.920 little bit more than a little bit a lot for 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.800 the Seahawks, who would be running a lot of pro 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.199 style routes and pro style progressions is the word coming 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.320 out of Seattle, which means a lot of motion, a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.760 lot of play action, and a lot of screens. So 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.760 I like Walker more than Zach Sharbonay in the past game. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.559 And of course, like you said, there's words for all 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.000 these guys. Sharboney is going to steal touches, probably near 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:44.800 the goal line. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.079 But you know what, that's not even a guarantee, really. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.760 Not even a guarantee. But you know, Walker doesn't have 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.320 any like eye popping metrics when you when you do 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.920 the deep dive pro football focused stuff. But you've watched him. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.079 I've watched him. He he has just had eye popping 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.760 plays at times, like this guy is legit, but injuries 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.200 have popped up throughout his career. But hopefully he can 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.800 he can play a full seventeen game season. I still 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.439 think he's a good value in the sixth round. Kenneth Walker. Yeah, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.560 I look, and you know he's just I could still 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.240 draft sharbon A in like the eleventh round, and I 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.800 don't hate that. I don't like drafting, you know, two 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.720 running backs on the same team, especially if you're gonna 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.520 spend an early round like I don't like drafting them 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.840 like Christian McCaffrey and Elijah Mitchell. You got to go 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.640 all in on a guy in that case. But if 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.360 you're waiting until round six and eleven to you know, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.120 get a monopoly on a backfield in Seattle, I don't 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.079 hate it. But uh, anyway, that's enough. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.280 I just don't think charbon is a factor here, even 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.920 though he is. He looks built for the goal line role. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.360 They gave him six cracks at carries inside the five 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:52.520 last year. Zach Charbony scored one time on six carries. Meanwhile, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.080 Kenneth Walker was given fifteen opportunities. He scored five times. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.760 I'd like that to be a little higher. I'd have 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.840 been happier with six or seven that. But still, I 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.800 don't think there's a I think I'm I'm not ready 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.160 to suggest that Sharbona is gonna get goal line work here. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.160 I'm with you. I think, yeah, he's not like Walker's 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.360 not gonna get phase out the goal line by any means. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.760 He's got the same same goal line. And what's working 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.680 against both of these guys Walker and sharbonnay one more 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.440 wart of course, there are gonna be wards for these guys. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.080 Not a great line. Offensive line for the Yawks are 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.080 projected to be bottom third. They were probably ranked thirtieth 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.840 overall I Pro football focused last year, so not ideal there. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.959 But again, you're not going to get a ten out 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.520 of ten in every checkbox with these guys. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.679 I hear what you're saying, let's go to round seven. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.800 This is one of those I can't believe this guy's 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.839 here moments, and I would definitely go to war with 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.719 this guy as my RB one, not even my RB two. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.440 And round seven, Ramandre Stevenson, I'm ready to be heard again, Brian. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:03.800 Everything around Stevenson suggests a major bounce back coming. Last 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:09.080 year he suffered from non functional quarterback play. Remember Mac 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.120 Jones Bailey zappy. Stevenson labored his defenses new he was 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.160 the really, by far, the biggest threat on offense, and 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.640 they just played to stop him. Knowing that Jones are zappy, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.520 he was going to throw the game away at some point, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.120 so he that was a struggle. Remember the season before 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.800 last he was five yards per carry and then last 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.000 year that fell down to four yards per carry because 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.320 of this, and then you may recall high ankle sprain 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.600 ended his season in Week thirteen. But let's look ahead 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.640 to this year. Obviously, the Patriots, who know him better 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.559 than anybody else, believe in him because they just signed 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.640 him to a fat new four year extension. We're thirty 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.680 six million dollars for this position. That's a lot of money. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.960 So the team knows him, they know that they feel 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.360 comfortable relying on him, and they doubled down on Stevenson. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:02.600 Ezekiel Elliot gone replaced by Antonio Gibson. Zeke stole five 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.040 goal line carries from Stevenson last year. Those will go 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.400 back to Remandre this year because Gibson's not getting goal 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.000 line carries. But most importantly, Jacoby for said is a 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.280 proven functional starter. He's not. He's he would be the 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.080 he would be the starting quarterback for probably you know, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.520 three or four different teams. He's proven he can that 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.120 while he was with Cleveland. He's proved that he can 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.160 be he can be somebody that can help an offense. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.360 He's going to be way better. And then there's also 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.439 the very real possibility Drake May is the third overall 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.840 pick is going to be really good too. So one 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.800 way or another, the New England passing game is going 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.800 to be way more viable. It's going to take way 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:45.480 more pressure off of Romandre Stevenson and I love Romandre. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.679 He's a great just like, do everything back. He's every 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.760 part of the field. He can be on the field, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.400 goal line back by the way he was, he is 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.720 a good goal line back. He's already scored nine touchdowns 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.839 from inside the five throughout his career, and that was 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.640 when he was sharing time with Day and Harris for 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.680 a lot of that. He can catch, although he's been 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.319 under utilized as a receiver and Antonio Gibson will take 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.160 some of that work because he can catch too. But 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.280 over the past two years, in games in which Ramandrea 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.640 has started, he's averaged a pretty healthy three and a 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.880 half receptions per game. Now, it's not like it's bombs away, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.400 you know, deep stuff, but I like that he's getting 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.000 you three and a half catches for about twenty receiving 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.560 yards in his starts over the past two years. That's 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.200 five and a half fantasy points right there. It's a 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.000 nice head start into your fantasy week with Ramandre Stevenson 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:32.680 in round seven. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.920 Yeah, I love it. Don't quit on Remandre. I won't either. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.960 I'm gonna stick with Remandree Remandre to the wheels fall off. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.760 It's like Zach Moss. Never gave up on Zach Moss. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.520 Look at him now, now, look now, look exactly this happens. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.920 Happened too many times in my career where I toued 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.200 some guy doesn't work out, and then by the time 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.560 we've all decided he's not gonna do something explosion. But 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.040 we'll see Zach Moss is another guy that we may 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.840 maybe he that's going to make an appearance. After we 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.920 take this break, we find out who the running backs 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.600 are that we're ready to put into our starting lineups 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.280 that you can get in rounds eight, nine, and ten. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.720 Coming up next, Welcome back segment two Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.440 Paul Charging Brian Johnson with you. You can follow us on 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.240 Twitter at Paul Charging, Brian is at bt x J. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.880 If you're interested in Guillotine leagues and you should be 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.960 Guillotine leagues, it's your opening soon ish. I can't put 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.360 a date on it yet, but there's lots of stuff brewing. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.080 It's going to be super cool, hang tight. But you 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.440 can follow our Guillotine Leagues on Twitter at gl chop 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.960 as well and check the show notes if you want 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.040 to jump onto the official Fantasy Football Weekly Discord channel 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:52.520 for all kinds of discussion, episode feedback ideas that you 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.800 want to share how your drafts are going. If we 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.880 just did a mock rookie draft on the Discord channel 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.160 and we talk about music and whisky and games and 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.440 all kinds of stuff, so we encourage you to jump 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.760 on board the FFW Discord channel. Follow the link in 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:07.400 the show notes. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.800 I gotta make more of a my presence felt in 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.080 the Discord channel. I've been slack and I promised to 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.600 uh and when I say slack slack too, So I 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.200 got I gotta jump on discord. I promise, I vow 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.000 to do that. I love it. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.440 Let's go to round eight. Brian, you've sloughed the running 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.360 back position through the first at least four rounds. Maybe 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.520 you picked one up in five, six or seven, but 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.280 now it's here, it's round eight. Is there somebody you 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.280 touted this early? You said you loved your round A 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.400 guy make your case for who you're taking in round eight. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.800 Yeah, this guy checks all the boxes really for like 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:50.120 a much earlier round pick. And if his predecessor was 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.520 still in town, the person he was the understudy for, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.960 you'd be going in the first or second round. And 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.520 I'm talking about the predecessor being Josh Jacobs used to 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.280 be the former starting running back the Las Vegas Raiders. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.880 He is now with the Green Bay Packers. We're not 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.240 talking about Jacobs. We're talking about Zamir White, who last 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.200 year stepped in for Jacobs when he was injured and 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.720 pretty much was a bell coow. So let's get into 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.000 the reasons why he was a bell coow. He's a 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.200 bell coow because head coach Antonio Pierce is the man 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.760 you have to love Antonio Pierce. Yes, who wants his 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.920 RB one and he's on wax saying this to get 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.600 his quote unquote magic number of twenty plus carries. I 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.760 mean he has to love. Yeah, I mean Antonio Pierce. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.240 He is the head of the Bell Coow Conservation Society 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.920 at this point. I mean, the bell Coow is a 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.600 dying breed, but Antonio peers he wants to keep the 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.760 bell Cow intact, especially in his backfield. Now, Pierce, he 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.000 didn't start the season as head coach last year. He 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.960 came in about midway a little past midway through the 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:55.399 season when Josh Jacobs was the starter under Antonio Pierce. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.040 In three of his four games under Pierce when he 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.080 was healthy, he averaged twenty four opera tunities per game 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:06.200 that carries and targets. And when Jacobs went down, Zamir 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.680 White hit that same number in three of his four 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.080 starts under Pierce. So whoever starting at running back for 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.520 the Raiders is gonna get bell Cow usage. And that's 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.920 gonna be Zamir White. It's not gonna be Alexander Madison. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.600 He was referred to as as a depth piece quote 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.760 unquote from Pierce himself in March, so he is a backup. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.320 They drafted Dylan Laub. I believe it is how you 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.720 pronounced his last name, Lob, but he's just more of 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.919 a third down pass catching threat. So it's Zamir White 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.280 all the way. And now he is not the most 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.680 exciting name coming into his second year. That's why he's 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.359 not going in the third fourth round. The Raiders aren't 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.920 an exciting offense really, but they do have I mean, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.600 the real question mark is a quarterback for that offense. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.080 I mean DeVante Adams top five wide receivers still. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.440 How about how about the next tier? How about six 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:57.880 or ten? 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.680 Well, from a fantasy perspective, he's not the top five 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.800 because of his quarterback, but I think skill wise, if 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:07.280 you put him on the Bengals, he's you know, anyways, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.720 a lot of a lot of weapons in that offense 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.960 for the Raiders. And you know, if I can get 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.480 anybody who's gonna get guaranteed twenty plus carries a game 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.800 in the eighth round, I don't care if they're a 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.560 Pop Warner player, I'm gonna draft that that running back 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.119 in the eighth round. And the Raiders have worked to 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.040 improve their offensive line. Colton Miller has developed into one 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.240 of the better left tackles. They drafted Jackson Powers Johnson 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.160 in the second round of the NFL Draft this year 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.880 out of Oregon. So the Raiders they want to run 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.440 the ball and they're they're just gonna run Zamere White 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.639 into the ground. So if he's available, I'm reaching around 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.719 on Zamir White, even though like him so much, so 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:49.520 I do not understand. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.960 The preview of the preseason shows right there the reach around. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.240 Making an early appearance on Fantasy Football Weekly. Let me throw. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.920 Let me throw another Zamir White stat that I gave 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:02.960 out a couple of months ago. We were talking about 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.800 the Raiders. Please do explosive runs for Zamir White. In 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.880 his four starts, he had seven runs of more than 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.760 ten yards. We'll take that, baby, That's what we want 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.280 to see. That, by the way, to give you some context, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.720 compared to Alexander Madison as the presumed backup Madison, his 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:26.879 explosive run rate was half half of Zamir White. Samir 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.600 White is a good runner, and I'm with you on this. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.080 That is a fantastic opportunity in the eighth round for 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.680 Zamir White. Let's go to round number nine. This will 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.639 be my last selection. You'll go round ten after this, Brian. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.679 So let me get this straight. I'm in round nine 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:51.720 and I can get the second highest scoring running back 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.280 in the league last year, who led the entire NFL 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:04.680 in touchdown score in round nine, Raheem Mostert. What WTF? 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:09.280 What round nine? I get the lead back on the 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:14.840 most dynamic rushing attack in the league. Yes, I understand. 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.400 This is also a deep and complicated running back room 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:23.800 featuring devon Ah Chan, Jalen Wright, Jeff Wilson to some 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.119 minor degree. Okay, I get that, But you know what, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.240 Mostar got paid more than anybody else last year, and 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:37.119