WEBVTT - Running backs: breaking tackles, breaking hearts. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.600 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.880 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.720 Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:25.320 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.360 Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi in as just mentioned, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.840 my coast today is Scott Fish. Hello, Scott, Hello, how's 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.560 it going great? Thank you. It's it's kind of weird 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.480 because we haven't really this feels like the first real 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.800 off season show, super Bowls over. You know. We up 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.600 to this point, we've really been doing just sort of 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.640 shortened versions of the regular season show breaking down all 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.599 the playoff games. This Fantasy Football Weekly is truly an 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:55.880 off season mode. I asked Twitter what should we talk about? 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.800 And I got I got a lot of good feedback. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.960 A lot of people want to talk a lot of 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.640 people in dynasty leagues and empire leagues, and they are 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.360 really interested in the off season values of players that 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.839 are moving around um and trying to find unearthed some 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.679 some nuggets of players that will have better value next 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.360 year that you can already identify this year. I want 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.119 to start at the running back position for the purpose 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.000 of this podcast. Sounds good, and let's begin by looking 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.240 at players we think are going to potentially change scenery, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.640 either because they're free agents or because think their team's 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:36.319 just gotta kind of like David Johnson. So let's uh, well, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.240 we can even start with David Johnson if you want to. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.920 David Johnson's got a fourteen million dollar contract and he 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:47.039 looked brutal last year, demoted most of the season at 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 really running back two levels, sometimes running back three level, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.840 and Arizona is going to move on from him. Media 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.280 reports say he'll be cut. I'm sure that's true. There's 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.960 no straighting. Can't trade David Johnson. Can't trade a running 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.960 right now and had a fifteen million dollar year contract, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.880 especially unless you're Miami and you decide you just don't 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.720 like Kenyan Drake in the middle of the season, then 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.200 you can trade him. Oh yeah, that's another free agent, right, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.480 he could be back in Miami. Maybe they just get 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.160 the pick. They bring back Kenyan Drake and they got 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.200 the pick for him, which would be brilliant. Let's talk 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.359 about let's talk about Arizona for just a little bit. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.360 Longer here for David Johnson. So we mentioned David Johnson, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.720 he's gonna be gone, Kenyan Drake free agent. I think 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.840 they're gonna try to resign Kevin Drakee, me too. And 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.360 as far as David Johnson, I threw a poll on Twitter, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.520 do you think he finds a starting job or is 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:39.760 he a third down back somewhere? Of the votes, UH 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.720 say he will find a starting job, which shot. I 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.120 don't believe that that's true. He's going to have to go, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.639 and he might do it. He'll have to go through 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.080 a major change in body shape. I mean, he clearly 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.320 let himself go too big. He's too big. That's not 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.600 his playing weight. What's what's his idea? Pounds? Is it 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.959 Kansas City? I think you use him? Is it back 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.080 with Bruce arians Well, you gotta tell me which version 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.239 of him I'm getting. If I am getting the lean, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.919 nimble version from his I don't think here. I don't 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.400 think you're getting that that that early career David Johnson 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.880 back he's in. This is gonna surprise people. He's twenty 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.160 eight years old. That's what was his last good year 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.519 was what that's going A long way back. I don't 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:34.000 think I do not believe that David Johnson, based on 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.680 what we know right now in February, I don't believe 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:43.120 he's gonna be a meaningful fantasy contributor on a regular basis. Ever, again, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.440 he will find himself in a position this year where 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.640 he's gonna battle to be a third down pass catching 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:52.400 style back. That might be it from nobody's gonna bring 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.040 him in and give him the starting job. You know, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.560 it might be a weirdly good fit for him with 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.120 the loss of McKinnon and Breda. Well, maybe San Francisco 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:07.160 could be big pass catching back. Yeah, maybe, maybe, you know, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.080 then he would also the fantasy value be super limited 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.400 because they rotate their backs to such a great degree, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.520 you never know what you're going to get. I'm more 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.920 interested in Kenyan Drake. Let's spend a minute. I think 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.480 if he stays in Arizona, where does Kenyan Drake, who finished, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.800 by the way, he finished his running back fifteen despite 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.960 playing a third of his season in Miami. You want 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.960 better than that? Yes, he's given me better than after 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.240 he got there. From that point to the end of 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:38.000 the season. RB four holy cow running back for Kenyan Drake. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:45.080 So let's just hypothesize Kenyan Drake stays in Arizona. Where 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.080 do you believe you will have him ranked next year? 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.080 Probably top twelve, top twelve, at so at roughly twelve. Yeah, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.520 probably at the back end of the top twelve. Yeah, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.800 it's hard not to unless they bring in more help. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.240 I mean, you know, Uh, I'm struggling on the back 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:11.800 of their Chase Chase Edmonds, Edmonds. Chase Edmonds get healthy, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.200 he will be back. But Chase Edmonds, he had that 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.560 one blow up game with the three touchdowns, but other 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.160 than that, he was relegated to the bench all year. Really, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.000 I don't think and I don't think he's a special player. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.240 I think you're about right. I think Kenny Drake to me, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.360 is going to be in that twelve range. I'm listening 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.720 to that. Okay, let's let's move along to some other players. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.839 Derrick Henry the most notable of the free agent running backs. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.280 You're a free agent could go anywhere. What, by the way, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.680 finished his running back three in PPR running back three? Uh, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.400 non PPR running back one. I assume talk to me 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.240 about where Derrick Henry where? How do you feel about 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.719 Derrick Henry with Tennessee we think we know what we 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.000 can get. But more specifically, if he goes somewhere else, Yeah, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.360 if he goes somewhere else, you've got two things working. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.560 Are they gonna put the entire offense around him like 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.200 Tennessee did be And you would think maybe they would, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:09.880 kind of like Levy on Bell from last year, if 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.000 you pay someone that much money, you think you're you're 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.520 going to get a ton of touches. But also he 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.159 had over four total touches counting the playoffs over three 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.360 seventies that we've known in fantasy forever. That's the magic number. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.520 You go over three seventy in the season in your 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.920 next year, yeah, yeah, it's either injury or bad. So 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.279 I I think I think Derrick Henry if it wasn't, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.080 if he stays in Tennessee, I like him better than 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.640 going somewhere else because I think they will. I think 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.520 they'll continue to keep like, keep everything running through him. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.599 I don't think that he has any competition there, and 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.120 that offensive line is pretty dang good. It is very good. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.560 I agree that the best scenario for Derrick Henry owners 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.200 is for him to stay in Tennessee. Let me throw 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.000 this name and there are a bunch of teams that 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.720 have running back need. I've identified one to three, four 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.480 or five, six, seven, eight, ten, ten teams that I 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:09.360 think are buyers backs. Here's an interesting one for you, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.680 Pittsburgh Steelers. See that's the one I didn't have right there. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.480 You go, Pittsburgh Steelers as a potential as a potential 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.960 landing spot for Derrick Henry gets pretty interesting to me. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.880 That's a team that traditionally likes to have a workhorse back. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.040 Ben Roethlisberger comes back, takes tons of heat off that 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.360 pass off the rushing game, and um, and it's still 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.400 a good offensive line. You know, when James Conner and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.440 those brief moments of health, James Conner was an effective back. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.080 How Benny still had a hundred yard game. Yeah, So 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.480 that's the spot where and if you know what running 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.760 backs are gonna be cheap, it's gonna be a buyer's market. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.480 It's maybe that maybe that could come through other landing 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.960 spots for Derrick Henry. I'm a lot less interested in 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.280 if he goes to Miami Jets or the Bears, or 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.080 the Bucks or the red Skins. I just don't know 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.600 if those teams can block for him. I had most 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.320 of those on my list as well, and I agree 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.200 with you. The Steelers are the Steelers and Bucks are 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.560 really the prime Land need spots for any running back, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.320 but Derrick Henry. He's in the past catcher that they 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.320 love all their running backs, though, do you think they 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.120 mold their offense towards a two running back system? Then 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.440 if if Henry is there, Orry is just not that 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.480 guy we all know is. You know where Henry is 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.200 devastating is in his seven carry of the game. I 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.360 will say the amount of screens he's taken to the 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.800 house Laton games they sho I agree, all right, let's 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.160 move on. Melvin Gordon is gonna be afraid. We knew 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.120 this was coming for months and months. I don't believe 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.960 he will be back, not the Chargers, Austin Ekeler will 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.520 get a bunch of work, and Justin Jackson Yep, that's 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.440 that's the sneaky angle for Dynasty and Empire players. On 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.120 my mind, I don't believe. I don't believe Eckler or 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:57.760 they want I don't think they want Heckler to be 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:03.360 a oh. I think that want to be exactly what 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.040 he has been. And Jackson's gonna get the rest. Yeah, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.160 he's hurt get back, and he's been good in his 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.760 in his limited times and and weirdly with with both 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.560 of them out, I believe Justin Jackson didn't really do much. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.840 So it feels like that they feel like he's a 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.960 not a workhorse as well. So I don't think he 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.760 has a threat to overtake El or either fresh legs 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.520 Justin Jackson. Yeah, I think that's to me, that's a 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.840 fascinating angle. Do you think Melvin does Melvin Gordon going 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.120 to any of these other kinds of teams interest too much. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.760 The Miami's are the Yeats, the Redskins. He interests me 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.040 in the amount that he's going to get starter money 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.400 from a place, which makes him a starter for one 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.640 of the ten to eleven apparently teams they need a 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.360 running back. Uh. The draft class is really good too. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.920 I don't think it is. I don't hurt. Yeah, that hurts. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.440 He's not going to get the money he wants, but 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.560 he's gonna get He's gonna be a top whatever depth 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.000 chart he goes to think. He he he ended the season 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.600 RB fifteen or so from the time he played, you know, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.840 because he missed the first four weeks with the time 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.400 he played on I believe he was RB fifteen. That's 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.760 probably where he's going to be next year. Wherever he lands, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.440 I'm gonna have him outside of my top twelve. All right, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.360 that sounds about right. Let's talk about Levy on Bell 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.520 as somebody that, um, by the way, you know, a 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.320 disappointing season for sure, somebody that went the end of 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.520 the first round in many drafts. Uh. At the end 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.400 of last season, right after weeks seventeen, Jets general manager 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.880 Joe Douglas said that the team would listen to offers 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.520 for Bell. There won't be any offers for Bell because 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.840 he's making fifteen million dollars a year. You know, he'd 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.280 had the hold out and he found one team dumb 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.880 enough to give him the big contract. Um, and that 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.800 was that was the Jets. They end up firing their 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.560 general manager, Adam Gates takes control for a while. Now 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.240 they've got Joe Douglas. There's I don't think beating offers 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.719 for Bell. The question is if are they going to 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.840 cut him out? Right? And by the way, this fits 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.640 in right with what Adam Gates said. What was it 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.480 yesterday of the day before within the last week anyway, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.520 maybe three or four days ago. Uh that they asked 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.400 about Levan Bell and he's like, I don't know, he's 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.160 under contract for three more years. Asked Joe about it. Wow, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.880 wiping his hands of that whole situation. If nobody else, 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.640 they have nobody else there, Montgomery and Bell, all Powell, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.120 those guys don't count. So you know, I think the 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.520 Jets are a huge candidate. I don't think they go 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.840 free agency on running back again. They just got bit 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.240 on that that team's gonna go running back in the 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.920 first two rounds. The Jets will, I believe, maybe top 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.040 three rounds and try to get help in the draft 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.040 at the running back position. And Levy on Bell's I 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.840 think he's I think I cut him. There're gonna there'll 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.760 be someplace else. I don't know that will be effective 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.760 someplace else. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't have much 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.240 faith in Levan Bell at this point. He he doesn't 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.640 look as good as he used to be. I think 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.880 he needed that Pittsburgh offense in that line, and clearly 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.600 the Jets couldn't get any going with him. All right, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.439 let's go to Todd Gurley seventeen million dollars he'll cost 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.760 the Rams this year. They're not paying that and they're 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.719 completely cash strapped because of what they do million or 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.520 something twenty five and a half a million of dead 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.720 money if they cut him, so they can't cut him, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.280 so he's actually got some leverage here. Um, A trade 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.360 would be all but impossible because nobody wants to pick 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.920 up that salary and by the way, do it. He's 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.240 due with seven and a half million dollar roster bonus 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.959 in March. Most teams wouldn't pay him seven and a 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.080 half million dollars for the year for Todd Gurley. One 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.240 way or another, you get the feeling something's got to 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:47.559 change with Todd Gurley, restructuring something. Yeah, I can also 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.439 see them just going with it for one year. Like I, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.320 I don't know that they want they I don't think 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.559 they'd want to restructure with him. Do you think he'd 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.160 want to restructure because A restructures NAT But the next 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.439 year if you hear these structures maybe, UM. Right now 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.319 it's um. I feel like they're stuck for a year, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.120 is the way I feel. And it might be I 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.520 think they want to trade him, but they won't be 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.400 able to could be when we come back, I want 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:18.920 to talk about Darryl Henderson Malcolm Brown. Are those potential 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.240 guys for a bigger season if Todd Gurley isn't a 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.560 Ram or perhaps there's a change of some kind, We'll 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.800 talk about that in a moment. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.679 Paul Charchi and Scott Fish with you. We were just 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.080 talking about Todd Gurley and the prospects of him potentially 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.960 leaving the Rams. Although tough to trade and tough to cut, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.040 so maybe not um. They might just have to live 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.520 with the crappy deal they gave him. Uh And if 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.400 for some reason he's gone one way or another. What 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.600 do you think about Darrel Henderson? What do you think 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.920 about Malcolm Brown? I think if they are if that's 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.360 the duo, I think that Malcolm Brown is the beat 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.920 between it's and he's guy uh and the goal line guy, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.080 and Darryl Henderson is the pass catching Kamara to Ingram 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.360 the like first season Camar. Darrell Henderson has been explosive 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.440 at times, but he's also seemed like he can't, you know, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.440 carry a load. So or did they just not ask 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.360 him too because they had so many options and they 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.560 wanted to keep the young kid fresh. Yeah, that's that's 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.720 what happens when you have a Todd Gurley and and 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.000 Darryl Henderson and Malcolm Brown who can pound at the 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.400 goal line, and so yeah, I want We've seen both 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.240 of them need Gurly to be gone. They both need 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.960 Gurly to be if they're going to be If you're 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.960 a Dinosat or Empire League owner right now, are you 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:44.560 training for Darryl Henderson banking on this being a low moment? 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.760 They need dear of his of his career right now. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.440 Henderson was a second round draft pick last year. Is 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.840 this the low point? It's just your your your by 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.720 low moment, right, It's gotta be. It's gotta be. Like 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.720 I don't I don't think. I think he's going to 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.360 be better in his next year. He's gonna he's gonna 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.520 flash more. And if he doesn't, it's probably never gonna 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.560 happen for Darrell Henderson. Yeah, second year, we see it. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.000 There are a lot of cases. We talked about this 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.960 from time to time on our on the show with 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.880 running back Scott, it's a two year window. If you 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.320 don't show it within two years, almost always, not every time, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.320 but almost always you ain't got it. It usually shows 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.680 up in year one or year two for running backs, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.360 and sometimes even guys will look dreadful in year one 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.480 will come back in year two and look like a 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.320 different guy. Uh. DeVonta Freeman is an example that who 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.720 was just brutal his first year and then in year 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:44.760 two look great, ended up powering fantasy Fantasy championships. Um. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.960 And so it's a two year window. You don't have 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:52.120 to risk a lot for Darrell Henderson. There's something here. Yeah, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.480 and Todd Gurley might not be good anymore. It's really 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.960 a guy that was like top ten round pick with 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.520 all the hype last year and all the Todd Gurley news, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.880 and yeah, this is your low point. This is that 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.880 I think this is the time to buy Darryl Henderson. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.520 I think that even if Gurley is there, even if 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.200 Brown is there second year, Darryl Henderson might just be 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.080 the most talented back they have. Everybody just assumes because 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.480 Todd Gurley is there, he's automatically the most talented back. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.160 But what if Todd Gurley at the age and the 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.520 where that he's at now just isn't as good as 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.880 Darryl Henderson's as as possible. It feels like at the 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.320 end of the season though, Todd Gurley did look a 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.520 little bit more like his old self, maybe just because 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.000 load management very possible. All right, let's let's touch on 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.040 a couple more unrestricted free agents or guys that we 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.680 think that we're going to move at the running back 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.640 position specifically, and we'll break down other positions in future 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.800 shows as well. I mentioned DeVonta Freeman. He's got a 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.920 nine and a half million dollar salary this year, and 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.160 there's no chance Falcons are paying that based on the 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.760 production he gave them last year at three point six 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.880 yards per carrying just the two rushing touchdowns often dinged up. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.720 They don't have a lot of good answers on on roster. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.760 Brian Hills, no good Edo Smith. So one trick pony 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.320 Cadrea Allison. Ah. They that's a team, that's they They 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.080 need help a running back and I just I don't 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.000 think DeVonta Freeman is the answer, and I think he's 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.639 gonna get cut yep, I can what's the dead do 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.560 you know the ted cap? When he don't know the 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.760 dead cap in front of me? Uh yeah, it's this 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.520 is I think you put this out there we're gonna 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.399 talk about something. It's just like gross, I don't even 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.600 want to talk about DeVonta Freeman, but he is going 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.760 to leave a giant gap that becomes the landing spot 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.000 for one of those other running backs. I don't think 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.640 there's another team that would want him as much as 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.320 the Falcons like, and I don't think the Falcons even 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.480 want him like I think we're near in the end. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.800 The best case scenario for DeVonta Freeman is a Carlos 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.960 Hide type situation where he starting running back goes down 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.520 shortly before the start of the season, like Lamar Miller did, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.440 and he can just go walk over to some other team, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.479 be a veteran guy who won't screw everything up, and 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.480 that's I think that's your Your best case scenario for 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:08.919 Devant Freeman is something like that, And that's not probable. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:14.080 He's signed through to that's just a bad contract and 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.320 you just it's just it's sad for running backs in 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.359 in inasmuch as they're multimillionaires, many of them who are starters. Um. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.120 But this is the reality of the position is it's 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.320 you've got no leverage, your your position wears down quickly. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.760 Teams move on, you don't get paid as much. And 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.000 there's the reality of it dead money six million. If 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.960 they cut him, I think they're gonna come. It's a lot, 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.879 but it's less than the nine point five they're payment salary. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.520 And and also the sellery cap goes up every year 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.159 that's kind of absorbed into that. If they do, do 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.280 you think Leonard four Nette has any chance of moving 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.240 He's got an almost nine million dollar sour No. I 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.520 I think I actually think they really like him there. Yeah, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.320 I do too. I think they want to get him 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.200 involved in everything there and once it didn't really turn 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.159 into wins for that team though, and they used him copiously. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:10.119 You know how many targets he had. He was crazy 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.679 and he never got hurt. You know, remember at this 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.320 time last year, the whole narrative on Leonard for Nett 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.040 was you can ever talk how many plays is he 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.600 gonna make it through? Handed up? And he ended up 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.040 being just fine. But it turned it into nothing, turned 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.639 into nothing. I've got one more team I want to 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.719 shoot any Houston Texans. So they've Lamar Miller is as 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.240 unrestricted free agent. He's dead, carlos Hi. It's an unrestricted 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.920 free agent Duke Johnson still under contract for a couple 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.280 more years, and he's right now, you're only meaningful returning 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.240 veteran to a good offense. What do you think about 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.720 Duke Johnson? Is it an automatic that they're going to 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.800 bring somebody in supplant him, just like they did with Carlos. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.800 Treated a third round pick for him and they barely 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.560 used him all year, even when down to Carlos. Yeah, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.400 I think running back one for the Houston Texans next 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.159 year is TBD and running back to is TBD. And 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.960 Duke Johnson gets ten snaps he's running. You don't think 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.439 he's running back to Duke Johnson. They did pay a 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.399 third rounder for him, but they didn't use him, so 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.520 I was like, well, I didn't use him at all. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.240 They just didn't use him as much as we would 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.240 have used him. I don't think he's going to be 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.560 fantasy relevant enough for us. I would. I would rank 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.480 him best case scenario in the forties probably right now. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.680 That's probably about right. Even even though they don't have 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.479 anybody else right now, you know they'll drum somebody up 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.800 one way or another. UM I would sell Duke Johnson 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.000 in your dynasty league, right now on the premise that 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:47.560 Lamar Miller are gone. Maybe maybe, uh, George Howard's leaving. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.200 I forgot about this. When Jordan Howard's leaving, Miles Sanders 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.400 is looking like he's gonna You watch Miles Sanders. He's 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.199 gonna be ranked because I don't think they're gonna bring 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.960 back Jordan Howard. Um, Miles Sanders is gonna be ranked 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:04.719 top six next year. It's ironic you said six, because 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:09.320 from week eight on he was RB six, mainly due 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.919 to a ton of receiving. But he's got it and 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:17.320 that's that's yes. Absolutely, Even when Boston Scott at the 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.919 end of the year was stealing all those receptions, Miles 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.800 Sanders was still good and and at Radio Row, Miles 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.840 Sanders is talking about how you should draft him in 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.040 fantasy because he's going to get the ball a ton 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:28.840 next year. He's going to be that workhorse that he 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.359 can catch the ball, talked about that stuff. I'm buying 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.840 it on him. I am too. It's Miles Sanders season. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.040 I think it is a Miles Sanders kind of season. Um, 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.840 there's been a lot of fun. Scott nice job breaking 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.120