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Anthony Richardson, how high is too high? I

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acura.com. It's

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Tuesday, May 14th. I'm Matt Harmon. Welcome to

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the Yahoo fantasy football show. It is a

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hell of a day to talk ball and join

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me to do just that. Very excited about it

1:22

is the one and only Dalton

1:24

Del Don Dalton. It's been a minute. What's going on,

1:26

buddy? Not much. Harmon, it's been

1:28

far too long since we talked ball. So I have

1:30

a few takes and I need you to, you know,

1:32

tell me if I need to dial the heat back

1:34

on, on some of these rankings, but yeah, I'm excited

1:36

to talk some rookies and man, it it's been way

1:38

too long since we, we potted. Absolutely.

1:41

Way too long. Uh, as we both

1:43

said, look, here's the premise for this

1:45

show. Let's do a little bit of

1:47

table setting here. For one, if something

1:50

weird happens in the NFL, Dak

1:53

Prescott like got traded or signed a contract and send

1:55

you with the Dallas Cowboys. I'm not sure which would

1:57

be weirder at this point because that saga is so.

2:00

weird or you know, Brandon

2:02

Ayuk is playing for a different team. Brock

2:04

Purdy has decided to retire

2:07

from the NFL and go on a spiritual

2:09

quest across East

2:11

Asia or something. And we don't

2:14

mention it on the pod. There's a good reason

2:16

for that because I am on vacation right

2:18

now. I am not actually working.

2:20

We pre-taped this show a few days ahead.

2:22

So listen, give me a break. I

2:25

need a vacation. I

2:28

need a vacation very, very badly. So that is

2:30

one bit of table setting here. So with that

2:32

in mind, we did want to pre-tape something for

2:34

you guys. So you had a show in the

2:36

podcast feed, you had something on

2:39

YouTube. And honestly, Dalton,

2:41

we came up with the idea for this

2:43

show just within

2:45

like a two second conversation where

2:47

you just say, hey, I've got

2:49

takes, potentially some hot takes about

2:52

the NFL draft. Because I had told our boss,

2:54

our fearless leader, Jason Kobaka that I'm kind of

2:56

drafted out. I'm kind of done talking about the

2:58

draft. I didn't want to do like, sure

3:01

as hell didn't want another, write another draft piece.

3:03

That's for damn sure. And two, I was like,

3:05

another draft pod. I'm not sure. But then Dalton

3:07

says, Oh, no, I've got takes

3:10

on the draft. And it had been way

3:12

too long since we had podcasted. And all

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of a sudden, buddy, because I you know

3:16

that I love when you get going, my

3:18

juices are flowing again. So with that, we've

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got 12 draft hot takes

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from the man, the myth, the legend Dalton del Don.

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And that's what we're gonna do on the show, buddy,

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you're gonna just throw me takes, I have no idea

3:28

what you're gonna say. And this is basically gonna serve

3:31

as a heat check for you. Absolutely.

3:33

First of all, I'm not trying to make these

3:35

takes hot, per se, these are my

3:37

natural rankings. But if you if you think

3:39

they're a little hot, then that's okay, too.

3:42

But I need a heat check on some

3:44

of these. The first I'll start with is

3:46

Jaden Daniels, have him ranked as my QB

3:48

12. Right now

3:50

his ECRs expert consensus rank is the QB

3:53

18. I

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got two sides to this story here. Okay. There

3:58

are similar red flags as Zach Wilson to

4:00

Jaden Daniels. He won't turn, he'll

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turn 24 years old this season.

4:04

Didn't break out until his sixth college year

4:06

when he had two wide receivers who were drafted

4:08

in the top 25 of the draft. Really

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bad pressure at a sack rate. He's

4:13

six foot four, 200 pounds and

4:15

his best comp is Johnny Knoxville.

4:19

Honestly, there's a, there's a really good chance

4:21

that they regret passing on

4:23

Drake May here. However, this is a

4:25

fantasy show. Daniels is the best scrambler

4:27

ever to enter the league. Average more

4:29

than 60 rushing yards, 34 touchdowns in

4:32

college. You look at the NCAA

4:34

leaders by fantasy points per dropback in

4:37

power five schools. Jalen Hertz

4:39

had the best season ever in

4:41

2019. Daniels number two last year.

4:43

Compare Daniels is last year fantasy

4:45

points per dropback with Caleb Williams'

4:47

best year. Williams got 0.8,

4:52

0.81. Daniels 1.20. I mean, it's

4:54

a different class here. The history of nine

4:56

quarterbacks have ran for a hundred yards in

4:58

their first two years in the league. Eight

5:00

of them have averaged more than 18 fantasy

5:02

points per game. I mean, it's just the

5:04

cheat code. I don't know how Cliff Kingsbury

5:06

is going to do his OC. He'll

5:09

have Terry McCloren, the running man.

5:11

It both increases his floor and his ceiling. I

5:13

don't think it's wild to have him as the

5:15

QB 13. I have him over

5:17

Jordan Love. Now maybe that's the hot take, but

5:19

really are we drafting Matthew Stafford

5:21

at his age, Kirk Cousins 36

5:23

years old, come off Achilles new

5:26

team, Tua, Goff, Rogers, Herbert. I

5:28

mean, that's not a hot take. I'm

5:30

sorry. Daniels is the QB 12. Where

5:32

did you say he was in extra consensus ranks?

5:34

18 right now. I mean, that's

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just, that's, that's just, that's, this isn't even, I opened

5:39

up with not even a hot take here, but I

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mean, that's, this is going to move, move there. I

5:43

mean, Jayden Daniels is going to be drafted as a

5:45

top 12 guy. I feel like in August. Well,

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in, in early best ball drafts, ADP

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of QB 18, according to fantasy pros

5:52

consent data, which listen, I,

5:54

and I'm, I'm with you a hundred percent,

5:57

like anybody that knows Dalton is, and I

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kind of. almost like I should I should

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say this for maybe new listeners to the podcast

6:03

like Dalton is not you know damn Stephen

6:06

A. Smith or something like that he's not just

6:08

making hot takes for hot takes he's not skip

6:10

Bayless but he is an aggressive rancor and an

6:12

aggressive drafter as Andy Behrens likes

6:14

to make fun of you for like he did on

6:16

the previous episode but they

6:18

always come with well-reasoned thoughts and like

6:20

should push you to consider your priors

6:22

number one and number two like you

6:24

get good results you you are a

6:26

good rancor objectively on

6:28

a weekly basis on draft ranking basis it's just the

6:30

reality of the situation buddy so like I will pump

6:32

you up and say that that you come here with

6:34

some of these hot takes and they

6:36

actually they sound aggressive and then they end

6:39

up working out and this one with

6:41

Jayden Daniels is gonna work out for you like

6:43

this is this one I'm totally on board with

6:45

you just from the rushing perspective

6:47

and it is kind of funny that you

6:50

know some fantasy analysts are gonna come out here

6:52

over the summer like Jayden Daniels is a QB

6:54

one and like it's not an aggressive take it's

6:56

not a hot take really it's it's honestly kind

6:58

of like it should be obvious at this point

7:00

just because of that rushing boost

7:02

that you mentioned this tweet

7:04

from Ian Harditz that I included in

7:06

my rookie quarterback write-up in terms of

7:08

how they're gonna impact their offenses per

7:11

game fantasy football ranks of quarterbacks with 125 plus

7:14

carries in a season in NFL history minimum

7:16

of eight games one one

7:18

one two two three

7:20

three four four five five

7:22

six seven eight twelve seventeen

7:24

which was 2020 Cam Newton

7:27

you know Patriots COVID Cam Newton so yeah if

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you're gonna run the ball 125 plus

7:32

times you're gonna be a dynamic fantasy quarterback

7:34

Daniels ran the ball 135 times last year

7:36

8.4 yards per clip he's probably not gonna

7:38

do that in the NFL and I do

7:40

wonder about like the injury risk just

7:43

because it is playing style but yeah overall

7:45

I'm with you that Daniels is going

7:47

to be I'm interested

7:49

to see where he ends up being drafted just because

7:51

there are a lot of decent quarterback options this year

7:53

I don't know that he's gonna go full sophomore

7:56

season Lamar Jackson and be drafted

7:59

as a and become one of

8:01

the top scorers of the position. But the

8:03

floor from a rushing perspective is absolutely there.

8:06

Yeah, the key is can he stay healthy at

8:08

his size and the recklessness of the way he

8:10

plays. But also maybe I'm wrong about the passing

8:13

and the late breakout. I mean, he was really

8:15

good this last year and maybe he's even, there's

8:17

upside there too. So I think it's fair that

8:19

he's gonna settle in as at least the top

8:22

15 guy come August. You know, the more aggressive

8:24

drafters will treat him as the top 12. My

8:27

next take is- Well, let me just finish up

8:29

on this one here because my

8:31

question to you is gonna be how

8:33

do you regard that situation in Washington?

8:35

Because I think I can go back

8:37

and forth on it, right? Because again,

8:40

I could go back and forth on

8:42

I could talk myself in multiple different directions

8:44

which I can kind of do with Jayden

8:46

Daniels as a player. But I overall think

8:48

like he's gonna be a good quarterback in

8:50

the NFL. I think it's just the long-term

8:52

ceiling. The second contract question, stuff like that.

8:55

Did Washington make a mistake passing up on Drake May as

8:57

you mentioned, maybe that's what it ends up looking like. But

9:00

just in terms of the situation in Washington to drop a

9:02

rookie quarterback in, how do you kind of regard that? Well,

9:05

for fantasy terms, we love scary Terry.

9:07

He's an alpha, poor guy, just continuously

9:09

gets shaky quarterback play though. But

9:12

outside of that, I think we realized that Datsun, we

9:14

all overrated. I mean, McCaffrey, Sanat, I don't know how

9:16

to pronounce that rookie's tight end name, help me there.

9:19

Outplaying outdoors, Cliff Kingsbury offensive line. I mean,

9:22

it's not the greatest setup there for a

9:24

fantasy term for him to land in, but

9:26

at least Daniels will get a shot. For real life

9:29

football, I think, I don't know. I'm

9:31

not a college ball guy, but man, if I

9:33

just look at the resumes objectively, it seemed

9:35

to me they made a mistake here passing on

9:37

Drake May, but it's, May is gonna have a

9:40

tougher time proving them wrong in the New England

9:42

setup there. But you look at Washington, you look

9:44

at New England, these are how teams that are

9:46

supposed to look like when you get drafted high,

9:48

unlike Caleb Williams, who happened to be the top

9:50

pick and also gets these awesome receivers to throw

9:52

too. That's why I actually do have him ranked

9:54

once, Caleb ranked one spot ahead of Daniels in

9:56

fantasy, despite the rough rushing differences.

9:58

I think, you know. Caleb A, the

10:00

talent and B, just the setup pushes him

10:03

slightly above Daniels for me on my fantasy

10:05

board. I think that makes

10:07

all the sense in the world. With Washington specifically, Cliff

10:10

Kingsbury, I think he designs a good run game.

10:12

I don't love the pass game design. I'm kind

10:14

of mixed on him as an offensive coordinator. The

10:17

offensive line is a huge problem and

10:20

I think that could end up being

10:22

a debilitating thing for this offense. That

10:24

certainly has me concerned. And

10:27

then the skill position talent, yeah, I love Terry McLauren.

10:29

I still have a lot of hope for Jehan Dutton

10:31

being a quality NFL starting receiver. I don't know if

10:33

he's going to be a fantasy superstar, but quality

10:36

NFL starting receiver. But

10:39

that's it though. Then after that, I think it's kind

10:41

of a mixed bag. And then the running back committee

10:43

could be good, but how good are they going to

10:45

be with Jaden Daniels sort of siphoning some work from

10:47

them as well? So I think it's going to be

10:49

a weird offense for fantasy, but I think for Jaden

10:51

Daniels, he's going to be fine. So all right, let's

10:53

get into your second take here. Okay,

10:55

I love the Michael Penix pick. Loved

10:58

it. Man, you loved it. Oh,

11:01

loved it. Yeah, don't get me wrong. I

11:03

was as surprised as you were when it

11:05

happened. But a couple of reasons here. A,

11:07

I like being contrarian and it's everyone's so

11:09

against it. And man, I'm sorry, but worst

11:12

decisions have been made and loading up on

11:14

the most important position in sports by far

11:17

behind, you know, a newcomer and Kirk Cousins who's 36

11:19

and coming off the torn Achilles.

11:21

And you look deeper into that deal. And Gretsch did

11:24

a good job of it. It's essentially 100% a

11:26

two year deal for Cousins. I

11:29

have no opinion about Penix the player.

11:31

You suffered four season ending injuries in

11:33

college four. He's older than Trey

11:35

Lance, but he has a great arm.

11:37

And I just respect getting your guy. He said, I'm

11:39

an aggressive drafter. Go for it, Falcons. I mean, you

11:41

like the quarterback there? Go for it. Yes,

11:44

he'd be 26 when he starts, but quarterback, you can play till 40.

11:47

So I get why the process could

11:49

be questioned and all that. But more

11:51

importantly, as a fantasy guy, Harmon Drake,

11:54

London and Kyle Pitts didn't get any competition

11:56

while the backup quarterback was upgraded. I mean,

11:58

this is awesome. for us.

12:01

I mean London scored six touchdowns

12:03

on 13 expected touchdowns over the

12:05

last two seasons, biggest gap among

12:07

all wide receivers. Cousins had 10

12:09

more catchable passes per game than

12:11

Desmond Ritter last season. Andy Barron's,

12:13

you hate to give the guy

12:16

credit, but he did a good

12:18

comparison last podcast with you with

12:20

the Drake London and Garrett Wilson. Like I know you're

12:22

gonna push back as I have

12:25

London ranked aggressively a little here even though you're

12:27

a London guy, but Wilson

12:29

were projecting drafting in the first round and that's

12:31

what I'm doing projecting drafting London in the second

12:33

round that he's gonna improve, but through two years

12:36

London yards per out run 2.0, Garrett Wilson 1.7,

12:38

targets per out run London

12:42

also higher 24.3 to 23.8. So love the Drake London,

12:44

he's my wide receiver 7,

12:50

but you're gonna give me a heat check on

12:52

that one for sure. I mean it's maybe

12:55

over AJ Brown's insane and that's crazy. You

12:57

have to wait in the first half, the

13:00

second half he really fell off and there's

13:02

more competition for targets and they increased, they

13:04

improved their offensive coordinator situation in Philly, but

13:06

Pukka Nakua, you know he had the same

13:09

target rated. I think him and Cup are

13:11

about even and you know

13:13

we got San Francisco guys, they're battling

13:15

each other. So yeah give me Drake

13:17

London indoors, cousins. Yeah I'm in there.

13:20

I'm not gonna come out and like talk

13:22

down Drake London. I'm just not, I'm not gonna

13:25

put myself in that corner. I'm starting to just

13:27

be like let's just be aware here

13:29

that there we could be drafting into

13:31

the ceiling, which you are definitely grafting

13:33

into the ceiling if you are taking him wide

13:35

receiver 7. Like I already think it's like pretty

13:37

aggressive that he's the 12th wide receiver off

13:40

the board in consensus 8 ADP in

13:42

terms of best ball drafts. Like that

13:44

is aggressive. You're even more aggressive bro,

13:46

but here's the thing that's interesting about

13:48

Drake London and specifically the Michael Penix

13:50

thing, which yeah from a selfish fantasy

13:53

football perspective, like I think

13:55

the offense would have been better if they had taken Roma

13:57

Dunes at 8. That would have been start

13:59

to... to be a real tight

14:03

target tree, a real big squeeze there for

14:05

a guy in Drake London who could, I

14:07

think is good enough to handle a 27% target share on

14:12

a good healthy passing offense, not like

14:14

an Arthur Smith low ball passing offense.

14:17

And the fact that he's now pretty much set

14:19

to do that is incredible. And

14:21

specifically with PENIX, if Kirk Cousins

14:24

suffers a setback, if Kirk Cousins

14:26

just has an injury where

14:28

he's gonna miss two or three games, four

14:31

games, I actually think that

14:33

Michael PENIX, I do question his

14:35

fit in like a, an

14:39

offense like this gonna work over

14:41

the middle of the field that's gonna do a lot of play

14:43

action, that's gonna go under center, cause that's pretty different from what

14:45

he did in college. But specifically you look

14:47

at like the routes that Drake London is very good

14:49

on. I mean, obviously it's some

14:51

of those over the middle routes, but like out routes, 88%

14:53

success rate in reception perception.

14:56

Corner routes, 63.2% success rate in reception perception.

15:00

Like he can win on

15:02

those out breaking vertical routes and Michael

15:04

PENIX is gonna throw those routes. So

15:06

if there is a, the reason you can talk

15:09

yourself into the PENIX pick if you're a Drake

15:11

London bag holder is actually pretty easy cause I

15:13

think stylistically they overlap pretty well. Yeah,

15:16

like to hear that. And man, I

15:18

know that you're being cautious and I

15:20

respect it and it's probably the right

15:22

route here, but you have to

15:25

help me out here and say reception perception

15:27

loves London, right? I mean, he's legit, you

15:29

see those highlights? I mean, he's head

15:31

topping guys last year and I just think he

15:33

can be a star and now

15:35

the actual opportunity will be there. But

15:38

maybe it is definitely projecting. I mean,

15:40

it is saying he's going to see

15:43

a lot more targets than he has, but I

15:45

think he's ready to live up to the hype.

15:48

Yeah, listen, I probably shouldn't even

15:50

be doing this cautious nonsense because

15:52

if he was one of

15:54

the, like I think he is truly

15:56

by the end of the season, I

15:58

think he will be talent wise, considered like a

16:00

top 12 receiver in the league. It's

16:02

just from a production standpoint, like will it get

16:05

there? That's a big ask. But I

16:07

mean, shoot, man, the ability is there. There's

16:09

no question about that. And I think the

16:11

fact that they've insulated the backup quarterback position

16:14

actually, again, it could be good news for

16:16

Drake London because the

16:18

way I think the Pennics pick happened is, I

16:20

think we forget how weird it is

16:23

when you hire a new coaching staff, what

16:26

like the Falcons did, when, I

16:28

think they got into the building and

16:30

you know, cause the GM's there, the owners there

16:33

previously, and they're already like set on we're signing

16:35

Kirk Cousins cause like, we're just not gonna be

16:37

embarrassing a quarterback again. Like that's happening. Coaching staff

16:39

gets on board with it. And

16:42

then this coaching staff starts watching the draft

16:44

prospects and they're like, oh my God, we

16:46

love this Michael Pennics guy. And

16:48

like, that's how the process goes. It's not

16:51

like Raheem Morris, who had a job with

16:53

another NFL team that was in the playoffs

16:55

in January, he's breaking down

16:57

fricking rookies at any

16:59

point until he absolutely has to be. And I

17:01

think at that point, that's when they fell in

17:03

love with Pennics. That's why he becomes an Atlanta

17:05

Falcon quarterback. And yeah, it's a weird pick. But

17:08

man, I mean, look, Pennics is good. It's

17:11

gonna be good for Drake London, which I think is great. So yeah,

17:13

I'm actually, I am gonna be like,

17:15

wow, wide receiver seven, that's so aggressive for Drake London.

17:17

But he is the guy that I want to draft

17:20

this year. I just hope I don't get it priced

17:22

out of doing it. What off season

17:24

and dynasty for him though, adding cousins and

17:26

Pennics and just no competition in the draft.

17:28

I mean, just perfect. Darnell, Mooney, Rondell, more

17:30

like these guys are not high quality target

17:32

earners. So all right, let's move on to

17:34

your third take here. All right,

17:36

wasn't sure how to couch this one,

17:38

but make Blake Corum a priority mid

17:40

round fantasy pick. I

17:43

have to preface something here. Far be it

17:45

from me to talk about a guy being

17:47

injury prone. Okay, Harmon, a month ago, I

17:50

threw my back out at a golf tournament on

17:52

the second swing of the day, very bad. So

17:55

I tell that story because two

17:57

weeks after that, I was already had a plan 40th. they

18:00

trip to do to golf in this beautiful course

18:02

in Half Moon Bay. So I still went on

18:04

the trip, but I only rode the course because

18:06

I was still dealing with this back problem. And

18:09

someone hit the ball in my toward my

18:11

cart and yelled for and like an idiot, instead

18:13

of ducking and covered, I jumped out of the cart,

18:16

nailed my ribs on the side of his

18:18

cart might have broken it or something. But

18:20

for the past month, I've been immobilized

18:23

with bad injuries, including

18:25

the second one, hurting myself while

18:27

riding along, not golfing, riding along

18:29

because I was injured with a

18:31

bad back. So again, far

18:33

be it for me to criticize

18:35

someone for being injury prone because

18:37

I'm not exactly a durable, durable myself.

18:40

That said, Karen Williams sustained a serious

18:42

high ankle sprain and that NFL debut.

18:44

Do you remember the kickoff return as

18:47

a rookie played through a hip

18:49

contusion last season before then

18:51

finally being placed on the IR mid

18:53

season with an ankle sprain suffered a

18:55

broken hand during their playoff loss that

18:58

would have also sidelined him for weeks.

19:00

You know, he's a fifth

19:02

rounder, not have hugely built. He's bad

19:04

as a receiver last year too, last

19:06

year too, among 46 running backs with

19:09

30 plus targets. He ranked

19:11

42nd in yards per target, last in

19:13

yards per outrun and the last in

19:15

PFS receiving grades among running backs.

19:17

He saw three total targets over his final three

19:19

games. Corum, meanwhile, is not

19:21

an elite athlete. He's really

19:23

bad for tackle numbers after suffering

19:26

this torn meniscus, but 47 touchdowns

19:29

final two years at Michigan. I

19:32

believe like all but one are from inside

19:34

the five. It's wild at minimum.

19:36

He's going to be a goal line option. You

19:38

love the fact he's similar to Kyren. So

19:40

if he's not elite athlete, but he's doing,

19:42

you know, he could be great in this

19:44

Ram system. They averaged the most yards per

19:47

play last season when healthy when all the

19:49

guys were healthy in LA second highest EPA

19:51

per rush. So man, if Kyren

19:53

Williams goes down a risky top 15

19:55

pick in these drafts, Corum just going to

19:57

be one of those fantasy.

20:00

see difference makers in the second half. Okay.

20:03

So, um, I'm generally

20:05

with you, uh, on everything

20:07

you just said about Blake Horm like you

20:10

can, you can bulk it like resource allocation, you

20:12

know, a third round running back when you have

20:14

a guy who played really well for you last

20:16

year. But anybody that played fantasy last year knows

20:18

that. Karen Williams was

20:20

awesome trying to find somebody to

20:22

like the waiver wire speed dial

20:25

replacement for Karen Williams sucked.

20:27

Even the Rams went out and they signed

20:29

like Daryl Henderson as a reunion with him. They

20:31

went out and got Royce Freeman. They were

20:33

not going to give Zach Evans any carries. That's

20:35

for sure. At no point was that happening.

20:38

Um, and like Royce Freeman kind of looked all

20:40

right at times. I think he was, he was

20:42

pretty decent for the Rams, but now

20:45

he's when he's at, he's with Dallas, Daryl Henderson

20:47

thing didn't work out. The other guys like Ronnie

20:49

rivers. I mean, they did not have

20:51

a true, like just understudy to just

20:54

throw, like throw right into Karen Williams

20:56

role. Now they do. And considering how

20:58

much Dalton they wanted, they've clearly told

21:01

us by their off season moves, they

21:03

want to lean into this power run,

21:05

man gap scheme attack at you run

21:08

game, why would you like, you don't want

21:10

to be in that situation again when Karen Williams goes down and

21:12

you're like, shoot, what are we going to do? Like now they

21:14

have a guy, they can just plop

21:16

right in there. I do think, and there's

21:18

also outcomes Dalton where like, yeah,

21:20

what if like Corbin's just better than

21:22

Karen Williams? I think that's at least

21:24

possible. Maybe it's like 15% in

21:27

the range of outcomes, but it is at least in

21:29

the range of outcomes in my opinion. Um,

21:31

but I'm with you with what you said

21:33

there, but let's just actually put pen

21:35

to paper on this when you say make him

21:37

a mid round priority, what area of the draft

21:40

are you thinking when you say that? Yeah,

21:42

great question. I haven't done enough to, uh, to,

21:44

to, to point him out exactly where there, I

21:46

have him as my RB 37 and his ECR

21:48

is 43. But,

21:52

um, we're talking Taijai

21:55

Spears, uh, Zach Moss type. Maybe

21:57

people are going to be in on Zach Moss. I'm

21:59

not, but I'm taking. taking him over at Givanthe Williams.

22:01

You're not? Okay, Chase Brown, right around that area, that

22:03

kind of upside I'd say there. I'd

22:05

take him over like Givanthe Williams. And then conversely,

22:07

I've taken Derek Henry over Kyron Williams eight days

22:10

a week. Okay, that's what I

22:12

want to hammer home here is that I'm worried

22:14

about Kyron Williams early and

22:17

Derek Henry. I know that's so not

22:19

brand of me to draft an older back,

22:21

but man, I just love the setup there

22:24

and he's just, you know, he's the big

22:26

dog. So draft Henry over even in PPR,

22:28

I'm drafting Henry over Kyron Williams

22:30

who's going high. You don't even have to make that

22:32

decision. I mean, Kyron's going around ahead of him. Yeah,

22:35

okay. Great like names that

22:37

throw out there. Speaking on the Kyron Williams one,

22:40

just in terms of early basketball ADP, he,

22:43

this is how the running backs go. Christian

22:45

McCaffrey, Bree Saul, Bijon Robinson, Jameer Gibbs, Saquon

22:47

Barkley, Jonathan Taylor, then Kyron Williams. I think

22:49

I'm with you that I'm

22:52

okay with all those backs going ahead of him.

22:54

I take all those backs ahead of him. The

22:56

backs after him, Devon H. And

22:58

Josh Jacobs, Travis ETN, the aforementioned Derek

23:00

Henry and then Rashad white make up

23:02

the rest of the top 12. I

23:05

think the only one of those names that I said after

23:07

Kyron that I would take ahead of

23:10

Kyron is Derek Henry. The other guys, I

23:12

still think from an upside standpoint, Kyron

23:14

Williams gives you a higher ceiling

23:16

comment. Like I think maybe even a higher

23:18

ceiling floor combination if he stays healthy than

23:20

an H. Ann, a Jacobs or an ETN

23:23

and a white. Am I wrong about that?

23:25

You're not. I still have Williams above them all.

23:28

I've been really leaning toward Pacheco. I've been liking

23:30

more. You know, you look at his receiving numbers

23:32

down the stretch and if they haven't brought back

23:34

McKinnon, I like, I could even be talked into

23:36

mixing just because such that role and he stays

23:39

healthy in Houston. But no, as of

23:41

now, I have Henry and Barkley

23:43

ahead of Williams, but then every single

23:45

person you named, even H. Ann, I

23:47

have below Williams because yeah, Madam, they

23:49

love the lead workhorse and if

23:51

he does stay healthy or even if he does miss

23:53

another month of the year, he's going to be at

23:56

top five volume when he's on there. So, but I

23:58

want to hammer home Derek Henry, man. at

24:00

the shotgun splits, the win-loss

24:02

splits, everything. And like he

24:05

hasn't dropped off as a player much. It's just the

24:07

situation he was in. And he goes from a bottom

24:09

five to a top three. So yeah,

24:11

I mean, I'm just, I mean, Derek Henry could score

24:13

20 touchdowns this season. Yeah, I think

24:15

he's gonna smash. Andy's also

24:17

in on Derek Henry. I think this is gonna

24:19

be a very pro Derek Henry podcast this off

24:21

season. The guys around

24:24

Blake Corum in that same tier,

24:26

Devin Singletary, Chase Brown,

24:29

Gus Edwards, Blake Corum,

24:31

Jerome Ford, Zack Charbonnet,

24:33

Jaylen Wright, running by 42, what?

24:36

Chuba Hubbard, like what are we doing here? I

24:39

think that Blake Corum stands out there that

24:41

like, there are some guys built in that

24:43

group where Chase Brown maybe projects for more

24:45

usability depending on how you feel about that

24:47

backfield. I'm more pro Zack Moss maybe than

24:49

you are. Devin Singletary like,

24:51

yeah, he's the lead back for the Giants,

24:53

Tajay Spears, I don't know. Jerome

24:55

Ford, is he the lead back for Cleveland?

24:57

Like Blake Corum probably has a lower

24:59

week to week floor than any of those guys, but

25:02

I think he's a great pick in that range

25:04

because if he ends up getting, like I would

25:07

never take Kyron Williams, Blake Corum on the same

25:09

team. Don't do that to yourself because I think

25:11

you're just shredding one of the, like

25:13

you're shredding one pick there, but from an

25:15

overall like season long standpoint, I would take

25:17

Blake Corum there and just like ride out

25:19

that bench spot with him. Yeah,

25:22

maybe it depends on your build. If you need

25:24

safety, Devin Singletary and Gus Edwards, if

25:26

you really need a back there, definitely

25:28

gonna help you out week to week more.

25:30

But Corum the upside and the guy who

25:32

could be suddenly he's ranked as a top

25:34

five fantasy back if he's starting for the

25:36

Rams at any given week in a good

25:38

matchup, I mean, is that kind of upside.

25:40

So that's my thoughts on that one. You

25:42

ready for number four? Yeah, give me number

25:45

four. Okay, don't let Jackson

25:47

Smith and Jigba's rookie season scare

25:49

you off Roma doomsday. It

25:51

really is a similar situation here, man.

25:53

I mean, there's two wide receivers to

25:55

compete with down to the same exact

25:57

OC Shane Waldron, who I, a little.

26:00

concerned about that, but

26:02

totally curious your thoughts, your harm, and

26:04

I know you briefly mentioned JSN, you were

26:06

kind of encouraged by his route running, but

26:09

I just wanna say maybe I was guilty

26:11

of overhyping a not superstar player. You

26:13

look at JSN's rookie year, 95th in ADOT, hit

26:16

a lower EPA per route run and lower

26:18

EPA per target than Quentin Johnston. Maybe

26:21

in the benefit of hindsight, JSN was

26:24

overrated, seeing passes from

26:26

CJ Stroud, that record setting bowl

26:28

game featured no Garrett Wilson, no

26:30

Chris Salave, and they were facing

26:32

running backs, trying to play cornerback

26:34

in the opposition. Meanwhile,

26:37

Zunze is an elite separator,

26:40

best contested catch rate season ever in 2023,

26:42

I believe. Keenan

26:44

Allen, 32 years old, has missed an average of

26:46

five and a half games over the last two

26:49

seasons. Caleb Williams could be a star right away.

26:52

But the Bears admittedly didn't use many

26:54

three wide receiver sets last season, that

26:56

needs to change. So give me a

26:58

heat check here, am I buying the

27:00

young new toy again, the rookie guy,

27:02

the hype, I think this is quietly

27:04

an okay situation, given that Caleb Williams

27:06

could be awesome. And Keenan Allen is

27:08

his age and his injury history here, and

27:10

Adunze might be really, really good. Yeah,

27:13

couple things are different from the Jackson Smith

27:15

and Jigba thing, where even though it's the

27:18

same OC, and yeah, it does look very

27:20

similar. And look,

27:22

from a brass tacks

27:24

standpoint, it's

27:26

the same situation where it's an exciting rookie

27:29

coming in behind two guys who

27:31

are good, who are really, really good, right?

27:33

Like DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. I

27:36

actually think, here's where there's a little

27:38

bit of difference, I actually think those two guys, as

27:42

a unit, are a little bit better than

27:44

Keenan Allen and DJ Moore, so there is

27:46

that part of it, where that's why JSN

27:48

is limited, especially just where Tyler Lockett was

27:50

in his career coming into last year, versus

27:52

where Keenan Allen is coming into his career

27:54

this year. So

27:57

that's part of it, but like

27:59

there, It's just tough to make an impact

28:01

and those two guys are going to be there, right?

28:03

Because you're not going to, Roma

28:05

Dunsey, I don't know. Like he's not

28:07

going to push either one of those guys to

28:09

the curb, right? And, and JSN was never going

28:12

to push either of those two guys to the

28:14

curb in Seattle, but

28:16

there's the key difference here. There's

28:19

two of them. One, Roma

28:22

Dunsey is better than Jackson Smith and Jigba.

28:24

I like Jackson Smith and Jigba as a

28:26

prospect, but he was a tier two receiver

28:28

prospect, whereas Roma Dunsey is a tier one

28:31

receiver prospect, just in terms of overall

28:33

my stack board over the last four

28:35

classes. So JSN was the

28:37

number one receiver in his class. Roma Dunsey to

28:39

me was number two, to more people was number

28:42

three in this class, but that's just because last

28:44

year's class wasn't as good as this year's class.

28:46

That's just the reality of it. Roma Dunsey is

28:49

a better prospect than Jackson Smith and Jigba. And

28:51

like, yeah, JSN's rookie season was fine, but it

28:53

was fine. It wasn't like, yeah, that

28:55

looks special. Like it looked like a solid receiver you

28:57

take in round one. Didn't look like a

29:00

special player. Roma Dunsey, I think, is coming

29:02

to the NFL and look like a special player. And this

29:04

is the second difference, Dalton, and this is critical. Like

29:07

Jackson Smith and Jigba, good prospect, but

29:09

he was a slot prospect. I think

29:11

he can't, like he's not a slot

29:13

only guy. He's not hopeless outside. He

29:15

can beat man coverage, but he's

29:18

still a guy that's going to mostly run his

29:20

routes from the slot, the type of routes he's

29:22

good on you want coming from the interior, whereas

29:25

Roma Dunsey is like a pure prototypical

29:27

ex-receiver. I kind of think their

29:30

best receiver deployment is Roma Dunsey at X.

29:33

DJ more is like a move around sort of

29:35

speed Z receiver who can play inside, who can

29:37

play outside and then Keenan Allen, I think needs

29:39

to play in the slot at this point in

29:41

square. He was like a mostly slot player with

29:44

the charges last year. Career high in terms of

29:46

reception, perception snaps off the line and in the

29:48

slot, that has to be the usage for him

29:50

to be productive going forward. Like if

29:52

somebody's going to leave the field just from it, like

29:54

take the names off the back of the Jersey, the

29:56

guy that's going to leave the field in two receiver

29:58

sets is the third player I just. not

30:00

the first player. Wasn't, didn't

30:03

QML actually surprise you? He ranked first or second

30:05

in ESPN's open score last year? That was

30:07

surprising to me. DJ Morris is the

30:09

ECR wide receiver 15 right now. That

30:12

to me is too high. I loved him. He

30:14

was like a top five guy with fields last

30:16

year when he was healthy together. But doesn't he

30:18

deserve a bigger hit here even if I'm over

30:20

rating? I have a doing day with my wide

30:22

receiver 36. I mean, that's sad.

30:24

My wide receiver three, you know, I'm not too

30:27

crazy, but I think it's gonna be helpful. And

30:29

I think that DJ Moore is not getting enough punishment

30:33

there in the rankings. They're drafting him as a top

30:35

15 guy. And that situation to me is

30:38

you're gonna be disappointed. Yeah, I

30:40

agree with you. That's been my early lean

30:42

that like, cause

30:45

last year all the discussion about the Seahawks guys was, ah,

30:47

Tyler Lockett's got, we got to bring him down the rankings

30:50

because they drafted JSN. I'm like, everybody's gonna get hurt

30:52

if JSN even comes in here and earns like 90

30:54

target. What you did, I think

30:56

he had like 93 targets last year. And I

30:58

think everybody that drafted a Seahawks receiver last year

31:00

came away slightly disappointed. I think there's a good

31:03

chance that anybody who drafts a Bears receiver this

31:05

year comes away slightly disappointed. Yeah, that's fair. That's

31:07

okay. That's fair. Okay, ready for the next one?

31:10

Yes. Okay, is ranking Malik neighbors

31:12

as a top 20 fantasy wide out too

31:14

high? Actually happened by wide receivers 16 now,

31:17

but I mean, there's times to

31:20

change. He had a resume,

31:22

his argument to be the top wide receiver

31:24

drafted above Marvin Harrison. I mean, he recorded

31:26

one of the best ever yards per team

31:28

pass attempt marks during an age 20 season.

31:32

Total missed tackles forced in 2023, Malik

31:35

neighbors 30, a dunes a

31:38

15 Harrison five. Neighbors

31:40

is more than twice as many yards

31:42

as Harrison before their 21st birthday, super

31:45

explosive. And now here's where we

31:47

turn to, to Harmon, the

31:50

wide receiver expert. However,

31:52

neighbors saw 60% of his yardage

31:54

last season come from the slot. I

31:57

mean, nine of his 14 touchdowns were

31:59

on slot fades. alone, obviously the

32:01

giants of a shaky quarterback situation

32:03

playing outdoors. But

32:06

I ultimately settle on 150 targets from a beast here. And

32:10

I think there's a big tier after my

32:12

top 15 wide receivers. I know people are

32:14

putting Alave as a top 12 guy and

32:16

maybe with Kubiak involved, they're going to run

32:18

a lot more motion and all that. But

32:20

boy, people are projecting Alave not unlike my,

32:23

I mean, maybe I'm crazy with Drake when

32:25

you look at their stats from the year

32:27

before. But people are definitely

32:29

projecting Alave to continue to make

32:31

a leap there. So

32:34

yeah, thoughts on me drafting neighbors right

32:36

around him and in

32:38

the tier right after the top 15? Yeah,

32:41

this is too much for me. I

32:43

think way too much for me. Man,

32:46

like I'm looking just at your rankings right

32:48

now and like, yeah, I think I'm definitely

32:50

going Chris Alave. I think I'm definitely going

32:52

Mike Evans ahead of Malik neighbors.

32:57

Yeah, Jalen Waddle, I think I'm probably going to go

32:59

ahead of Malik neighbors too. It

33:02

does get dicey once you get to like the

33:04

Texans guys, just because of

33:06

overall target volume. But man, like, would

33:10

I rather take the shot on Stephon Diggs is

33:12

probably the number two pass

33:14

catcher with CJ Stroud or like,

33:17

Malik neighbors as the number one, like I definitely think

33:20

you even number one receiver, I'm not 100% convinced he's

33:22

just going to come in here and see like 150

33:25

type of targets or something like that. That's

33:27

just a lot. And they're, you

33:29

know, there's not another high quality player, but there's

33:31

some decent guys on that roster that are going

33:33

to earn some volume. Michael

33:35

Pittman, I think I'd probably go ahead of

33:38

Malik neighbors to Mari Cooper,

33:40

I'd even think about. So yeah, to me, I'll

33:42

probably end up having a guy. I have Malik

33:44

neighbors pretty low in my early rankings, but who

33:46

cares? I'll probably end up having him somewhere around

33:48

like, you know, maybe, maybe

33:50

mid 20s that receiver. I've

33:54

been throwing this comparison out there. I think I threw

33:56

it out on my, on my other show that

33:58

I think Malik. Reaver's rookie season could

34:01

look a lot like J.L. and Waddle's rookie

34:03

season, where he actually ends up being a

34:05

high reception total, but not a lot of

34:07

big plays, just because they're trying to manufacture

34:10

him so much stuff. Like

34:12

J.L. and Waddle, the thing about him, he comes to

34:14

the NFL and says, speed, speed, speed, big playmaking ability.

34:16

But then he averages like under 10 yards of catch

34:18

as a rookie and we're like, what the hell happened

34:20

here? Like, I thought this guy was supposed to be

34:22

a big play asset. And I think, by the way,

34:24

League Neighbors are a better player than J.L. and Waddle.

34:27

A tier one prospect for me, J.L. and Waddle

34:29

is a tier two prospect for me. So there is

34:31

a difference there from ability standpoint, but I'm just saying

34:33

from a utilization standpoint, I think

34:35

you could end up being fed a lot of like underneath

34:38

touches and not necessarily because they want to get

34:40

him the ball and space to make plays after

34:42

the catch. Which, by the way,

34:44

if he gets J.L. and Waddle's season as a

34:46

rookie, that's fine. It's just not quite to like

34:49

maybe top 15 expectations. I

34:51

moved to Lave ahead of him. That was

34:53

too much. But man, I can just make

34:55

an argument for Neighbors' upside over all these

34:57

other guys who are competing with other alphas.

34:59

Devonta Smith right behind him, Jalen Waddle, Tank

35:01

Dell. Sifant digs at his age with two

35:03

other guys in Houston you're going to take

35:05

over Neighbors. I can't see

35:07

it. Pitman's got some competition too.

35:11

Mike Evans, last year, you know, he was being drafted behind

35:13

Chris Godwin. I think this is the year to go after

35:15

Godwin, who's going to return to playing the slot. And he's

35:17

going to be the value if you want the Bucks receiver.

35:19

Just flip it from last year. I mean, yeah, he's

35:21

30 years old. I think the touchdowns are there. But

35:24

yeah, maybe this is crazy. Neighbors is a rookie

35:26

and getting the ball from Jones. But I think

35:28

we can project as many as 140

35:30

to 150 targets. But

35:33

this is a tough one. I'm not sold on this.

35:35

That's why I wanted to talk to him. Oh, the

35:38

slot. I know there used to be concerns. I

35:40

think it's just you take it case by case basis, right?

35:42

Sometimes you can look back and see, oh, he was overrated

35:45

because of the slot. And other times nowadays, the slot is

35:47

so important that you can tell who cares, right? So maybe

35:49

it's a good thing, right? So you don't really care that

35:51

all that production came out of the slot, I'm guessing. I

35:54

do think some of it is fraudulent production for sure.

35:56

Like, I shouldn't say fraudulent. It just doesn't map to

35:59

me. the league some of that stuff because of the

36:01

hashes and the way that you can throw like out

36:03

routes from the you know condensed

36:05

formations it just it's

36:07

different but I think from a

36:09

talent perspective Malik neighbors has an ability to

36:11

play outside but I don't think you're going

36:13

to use him as a true ex-receiver

36:16

like you would with Marvin Harrison or Roma Dunes day so

36:18

that's sort of where I come down on that one. Okay,

36:20

alright. Alright, we're going to take a quick break when we

36:23

come back we're going to get the rest of Dalton's draft

36:25

takes right after this. Alright

36:34

Dalton, we're at number six on your list.

36:37

What's the take? Hit it.

36:40

Alright, when I originally wrote my NFL

36:42

draft notebook I suggested Jonathan Brooks being

36:44

like a top 35 fantasy back and

36:48

after looking at it more I've moved him up to my RB 20 right

36:51

now mainly because there's 19 running backs

36:53

I really think are obvious and then

36:55

the tier afters just wide open. Zamir

36:57

White, Romando Stevenson, James Connor, I mean

37:00

Dondre Swift, Najah Harris, Elliot, I

37:02

mean just wide open here so give me

37:04

the younger guy who compared favorably to Bijon

37:07

Robinson during their final seasons at Texas. Brooks

37:10

would have been drafted higher if not for

37:12

the ACL tear which was clean no meniscus

37:14

he's on track to be cleared by training

37:16

camp so really I think maybe people are

37:18

over rating the injury here he can pass

37:20

protect. I understand Carolina's new

37:23

coaching staff will have reason to be patient

37:25

with him but they're also invested in Brooks

37:27

way more talented than Chuba Hubbard and

37:30

Miles Sanders. Panthers

37:32

do limit his upside but they want

37:34

to run the ball Harmon and Hubbard

37:36

was the number nine fantasy back over

37:38

the final seven weeks last season on

37:40

a Panthers team that finished last in

37:42

yards per play so I mean Brooks

37:44

has got more talent than him you

37:46

figure Bryce Young's gonna be a little

37:48

better at worst. Dave Canales

37:50

in there, Deontay Johnson, Xavier Legette

37:52

or Legette I'm not sure how

37:55

you pronounce that one but again I think it's

37:57

a big tear after the 19 running backs. And

38:00

I'll take Brooks the next one then give me an RB 20

38:02

right now Even if it takes a

38:04

little patience, it may not even take that much patience Give

38:07

me give me Brooks top 20 fantasy back heat

38:09

check Harmon. I think I'm with

38:11

you on this one I actually think that

38:13

from an early best ball ADP perspective the

38:15

last running back I feel very good about

38:17

and even saying this guy and like very

38:19

good makes me a little uncomfortable But Joe

38:22

Mixon at running back 16 is

38:24

kind of the last guy up. All right, cool. I

38:26

see it I start to get a little concerned by

38:28

like Alvin Kamara at 17 Aaron Jones at 18 Remondra

38:30

Stevenson at 19 Dave

38:32

Montgomery at 20. I still think is a screaming

38:34

value But that's

38:36

like another topic But we're sitting

38:39

we're in that tier of guys where Dave Montgomery split in

38:41

the backfield Najee Harris split in the

38:43

backfield James Connor price split in the back

38:45

to with Trey Benson DeAndre Swift

38:47

definitely split in the backfield Tony power split in

38:49

the backfield. So like Why

38:51

would I not just want to go ahead and take? Jonathan

38:54

Brooks there because like when

38:56

he's a hundred percent ready to go which

38:59

Like he might be out there. I think he's gonna be out there week one.

39:01

I think he's gonna be out there in training camp I think you

39:03

might even play a little bit in the preseason, but maybe

39:06

that would be kind of stupid to risk him Overall

39:08

though. I think he said he's gonna be ready by

39:10

training camp July 1st versus his like target date I

39:12

think he's probably gonna hit that target date Once

39:16

he's a hundred percent ready to rock from just

39:18

like a utilization standpoint I think he's

39:20

gonna be they like clear-cut lead back to be

39:22

Hubbard is like just the definition of a replacement

39:24

level player Not needle mover Had

39:28

some nice weeks on a terrible Panthers team that

39:31

Panthers team is gonna be better this year, right? I

39:33

think that I'm not sure what

39:35

the feeling is for them But I think canals

39:37

is gonna make them better and he's gonna make

39:40

Bryce young like a functional NFL quarterback And they

39:42

invested in the offensive line. So I think Johnson

39:45

Brooks We just got a great roadmap with this

39:47

with your guy Breece Hall last year Where

39:49

he you know started off a little shaky

39:52

had some kind of laws but finished the season super

39:54

strong So I'm with you that Johnson Brooks the top

39:56

20 back to me makes a lot of sense. All

39:59

right. I like it Herman Okay, it's not all

40:01

going to be positive. We'll get some negatives here soon,

40:03

but one more here. My next one for you to

40:05

stick in kind of on the Jonathan Brooks theme is

40:07

Trey Benson. He's going to be a fantasy league winner

40:10

during the second half. I know you're

40:12

with me on this one. I have him as my

40:14

RB24, a really hard guy to rank because, you know,

40:16

I mean, he might be worthless the first month. He

40:18

then will become a top five back when Connor's on

40:21

the IR. So it's, if Connor does suffer an injury

40:23

and he's, you know, a serious season ender here, we're

40:25

talking about a possible league winner though. Connor's

40:27

29 years old, coming off the second highest

40:30

workload of his career's average four miss

40:32

games of the last five seasons. Connor

40:34

has never played a full season or eclipse 215 carries

40:37

during any of his seven years in

40:40

the league. Meanwhile, Benson's, he forced

40:42

the most missed tackles per touch in

40:44

2022. It was

40:46

the best season ever since the stat was

40:48

recorded. He joins an Arizona offense. It

40:51

was top 10 unit and all the, you

40:53

know, the nerd stats, EPA per play over the

40:55

second half of last season. Before

40:57

adding Marvin Harrison Jr. Cardinals

40:59

run games, quietly good fourth best EPA per rush

41:02

last season. I mean, this is a good situation

41:04

for a running back. Benson

41:06

has nice power speed, receiving ability.

41:09

Yeah, he'll be, he'll be a top 10 fantasy back any

41:11

week if he's the guy there and Connor is

41:13

out and this is a, you know, an injury

41:16

prone aging back in Connor. So where

41:18

did you settle on, on ranking him since, you

41:20

know, it's tricky when it comes to that. I

41:23

have Benson as my RB24 right now, but I could see,

41:25

you know, wide, wide range of rankings when it comes to

41:27

him. It

41:30

is tricky. He is kind of a difficult

41:32

guy to rank. I'm with you there. I

41:35

think I settled with ranking him pretty aggressively though. I have

41:37

him at running back 20. Love

41:39

it. So even more than me, even

41:41

more than, even more than the take Meister

41:43

himself, Dalton Del Don. No, like,

41:45

and here's the thing with Trey Benson. Yeah, difficult

41:48

guy to rank projections wise. He's not going to

41:50

ever come out to running back 20, but it's

41:52

just such an easy story to tell yourself, which is

41:54

why it's probably not going to happen, but it's such

41:57

an easy story to tell yourself where like,

41:59

I don't think he... even be worthless the first month

42:01

of the season. I love these picks where

42:03

I mean any single week he's

42:05

gonna have like standalone value for you because

42:07

he's gonna play to some degree. I don't

42:10

think he's just gonna be a bench player.

42:12

He might be in the what the heck

42:14

flex territory, but maybe

42:17

not like a clear cut starting running back two or even

42:19

really a running back three, but like a guy that, ah

42:21

shoot, you know, it's week four and two of

42:23

my running backs are already hurt. Like I guess I can start

42:25

Trey Benson and just hope he rips off a couple of big

42:27

plays. I think he's gonna be in that tier. That's

42:29

how he starts the season. I mean, yeah,

42:31

James Connor gets injured or just like more and

42:34

more. Like we get after Trey Benson's bye week

42:36

and he's just ready to sort of take off

42:38

and take the job from James Connor. This is

42:40

an offense that I think is ascending. It's just

42:42

such an easy story to tell yourself. And like

42:46

they're truly league winning potential,

42:48

like you said, or at least like top

42:50

five, top 10 fantasy back in his range

42:52

of outcomes is there. And like the other

42:54

guys that he goes around and drafts, like

42:57

that's just not a bit, I love you

42:59

Austin Eckler, but like that's not available for

43:01

Austin Eckler. Like that's not available for Javante

43:03

Williams. Maybe he's

43:05

a mere white, I don't know, but like DeAndre

43:07

Zwift and Tony Pollard, like no way, that's not

43:09

available for those guys just because of a

43:12

lot of different circumstances. So to me,

43:14

yeah, I think Trey Benson, just the type of profile

43:16

that you wanna be aggressive on. Yeah,

43:19

put differently, Connor is gonna

43:21

be drafted earlier. I have them basically ranked back

43:23

to back. It feels like Connor will help you

43:25

the first half and Benson can help you the

43:27

second half. But yeah, I think the situation there

43:29

is a nice one to land in in Arizona

43:31

behind, an aging running back with

43:34

an injury history. All

43:36

right, Harmon, this one's not

43:38

exactly hot, but Brock Bowers landed in

43:40

the worst situation possible, man. It is

43:42

not great. He's

43:45

likely the best tight end prospect in college

43:47

football history. Dude commanded targets

43:49

and scored 13 touchdowns as an 18

43:51

year old freshman. Sam

43:54

LaPorta averaged 11.7 yards

43:56

per reception in college. Brock

43:59

Bowers averaged. nine yards after

44:01

the catch in his college career.

44:03

I mean, he's just a beast, but

44:05

the Raiders have one of the league's

44:08

worst quarterback situations, a true alpha wide

44:10

receiver, and just drafted a tight end

44:12

with a top 40 pick last year.

44:14

Only two FBS tight ends have multiple 800

44:17

yard seasons over the last 15 years. They're

44:20

Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer, uh,

44:22

Adam, Devontae Adams finished second in the league

44:25

in targets and target share last year. I

44:27

think the biggest concern with Vegas though, is

44:29

this quarterback. I mean, it gets to play

44:31

indoors, but Gardner Minshew, it's

44:34

questionable if he's even an upgraded all over AOC.

44:37

Uh, Shane Steichen deserves credit for any success

44:39

Minshew had last year. Bowers is a beast.

44:41

I'm still ranking him as the top 12

44:43

fantasy tight end, but man, that's major restraint

44:45

by me given his age and profile. I

44:47

mean, that's tight end is deeper than ever.

44:50

And, uh, I don't think he could, it

44:52

should be treated necessarily as a top 10

44:54

guy, even with his profile and

44:56

his upset upside. Um, given the

44:58

alternative, you probably would have gone like tight end five.

45:01

If he landed anywhere else. Yeah, no, I easily. Yeah.

45:03

I would have been talking about something to it, but

45:05

I don't love it. Uh, but am I wrong? And

45:07

maybe I'll just play mayor more in

45:09

line and let Bowers be a beast in the,

45:11

you know, on the slot, but I just don't

45:14

trust Vegas getting it right. I mean, they just

45:16

look like a combustible situation. And it just seems

45:18

like he doesn't look super pumped when he was

45:20

drafted by them. And there was rumors are it

45:22

was literally down to a coin flip. Um,

45:25

I basically agree with what you just said there.

45:28

Like, I think he'll still be a top 15

45:30

top 12 tight end, uh, in rankings, but he's

45:32

not really a guy I'm excited about anymore. And

45:34

a lot of it comes down to the situation

45:36

and yeah, the, the quarter, the quarterback, the guard,

45:38

I'm into situation of it all the, the, no,

45:40

Connell situation of it all where, um,

45:43

cause I think you, you could look at last year and be

45:45

like, is his, like, you just

45:48

think about the outlook and how he's going to be

45:50

deployed, is it that much different than Dalton Kincaid, who

45:52

was the 11th tight end last year? Um,

45:54

91 targets and a lot of it was slot

45:57

stuff. It actually, and, and, and it.

45:59

wasn't that efficient, right? You

46:02

know, 7.4 yards per target, 9.2

46:05

yards per catch for Dalton Kincaid, because I think they

46:07

tried to, like he should just be a

46:09

tight end, but they tried to do this big slot stuff.

46:11

I think some of that's gonna happen with Brock Bowers, right?

46:14

Like the Bills had an established

46:16

tight end, and Michael Mayer's not even

46:18

established. Like Dawson Knox was a guy

46:20

they paid, right? But still, there's sort

46:22

of some similarities there. Guys

46:25

that, you know, Michael Mayer and Dawson Knox, either

46:27

one of those like true in-line tight ends either.

46:29

So that actually kind of makes it samey. There's

46:31

an alpha receiver, even if Steph Diggs was declining,

46:33

but like still was a guy that was commanding

46:35

a high target share. There

46:37

are some useful players else around the

46:40

roster, but you know, like a

46:42

Gabe Davis or a Khalil Shakir, Jacobi Myers is

46:44

better than both of those guys. You know, that's

46:46

part of this too. The thing is though, so

46:49

you could say that and be like, well, it's not that

46:51

bad, right? Like Brock Bowers could be tight at 11. One

46:53

of those is playing in Josh Allen's offense, the other one's

46:55

playing in Gardner-Minchu's offense. So we're on the same page here

46:57

with your eighth take. So let's move to take number nine.

47:00

Transition perfectly to the Bills, who I

47:02

think James Cook still has a goal

47:04

line problem. We're talking Ray Davis, the

47:06

rookie here, not the

47:08

ideal draft pick. If you're a James Cook

47:11

guy, who's going to the top 15 fantasy

47:13

back. Cook ranked top five in yards per

47:15

touch last season, but his fantasy value was

47:17

limited thanks to just two carries inside the

47:20

five after week four. Cook

47:22

did not rank top 20 in red

47:24

zone touches. Latavius Murray, I think he

47:26

was the oldest back in the league,

47:28

had the 12th most carries inside the

47:30

five last year. And that's with Josh Allen

47:32

taking 14 of them. Ray

47:35

Davis is built for this role. I

47:38

get it though, Cook, I mean, the

47:40

Bills ran the ball a lot more after Joe

47:43

Brady became OC. Steph Diggs is gone now. Davis

47:45

is an unknown fourth round rookie. So

47:48

Cook could feasibly be a fantasy monster if

47:50

he gets this role. But I

47:52

just want to kind of, you know, frame

47:54

it this way. Cook was the RB 11 last year,

47:57

but realized volume really helped with that. He was the

47:59

RB... 19 per game

48:02

when you realize that the lack of touchdowns hurt

48:04

him there So it's a it's a backfield to

48:06

pay attention to here in Buffalo because cook has

48:08

a ton of upside But at the same time

48:10

he's risks of being overdrafted if Davis continues to

48:12

take those short touchdowns No,

48:14

this is a really good call-out I mentioned I took James

48:16

Cook in round three of our staff mock drafts and I

48:19

was like I actually don't know if I love this pick

48:21

that much after I made it and Andy didn't really take

48:23

the bait when I Tried to get him to criticize me,

48:25

but He's too busy

48:27

criticizing you and producer Colin which Fair

48:30

enough, but I'm with you that

48:35

I'm with you man that like I don't

48:38

know if James Cook

48:41

Has that type of ceiling that you want right

48:44

like because of the Josh Allen goal line factor

48:46

And I think we're not talking enough about Ray

48:48

Davis. They basically just were like alright. Yeah, we

48:50

had letate We wanted Damien Harris to play this

48:53

role. He obviously suffered an injury and ended up

48:55

retiring You know we got

48:57

Latavius Murray we signed Leonard for net They're constantly

48:59

Cycling in like a bigger back along James Cook

49:01

and it just seems like a signal that we

49:04

don't want to trust this guy in Goal line

49:06

rolls in a goal line role, which is fine.

49:08

I think that's totally plausible So I definitely think

49:10

that it's when I first clicked James Cook.

49:13

I'm like what am I missing here? You know? Good

49:16

good back had a nice season last year. He plays on

49:18

a good offense The thing the more you

49:20

look at it, especially that Ray Davis pick it does make

49:22

you a little like Hmm, I'm not sure what

49:24

James Cook so we it seems like we're both skeptical on cook Is

49:27

there a right range to draft Ray Davis, or

49:29

do you think that's just like chasing touchdowns every

49:32

week? Yeah, I'm not as excited

49:34

saying per quorum and it's chasing touchdowns and even

49:36

Allen's there too So no he's not

49:38

a guy. I'm like super excited to draft as far

49:40

as a overall upside

49:43

But at the same time James Cook could stay

49:45

healthy and Davis could score double-digit touchdowns as a

49:47

rookie So I'm fine. I'm fine with drafting him

49:49

as well But um, he doesn't quite has me

49:51

as excited some other some other rookie backs even

49:54

um, you know, even a Kamani

49:57

in LA and maybe

49:59

even bucky Irving Tampa Bay guys are a little bit

50:01

more excited about You

50:03

know, Audrey guesstimate in Denver. I'm not excited

50:05

about Denver, but that's gonna be a messy

50:07

committee But could he not bump some a

50:09

JP ran off the roster? Possible.

50:12

All right. What was that number nine? Let's move to number ten And

50:15

we haven't gotten into Isaac Grian do or

50:17

Cody Schrader in the Bay But we'll probably

50:19

run out of time to get there now

50:21

It's similar similar to your buff, you know,

50:23

you kind of regretting your James Cook pick

50:25

and the aforementioned Mock

50:27

I regretting Josh Jacobs there. I took

50:29

him there I said, I think Green

50:31

Bay is an important backfield question to

50:33

answer here in the you know It

50:36

fantasy drafts this year because on one

50:38

hand Josh Jacobs was Ezekiel Elliott last

50:40

year, you know He's almost lasting yards

50:42

to carry missed tackles yards after contact

50:45

the comparisons right there But

50:47

but then on the other hand, you know,

50:49

he what he was holding out there So like

50:52

you got to give him some some some

50:54

slack for that He is dealing with a

50:56

quad injury. He led the NFL with average number

50:58

of defenders in the box against seven point

51:00

two And now he's

51:02

joining this amazing system in Green Bay

51:04

presumably signed to be a workhorse And

51:08

then Marshawn Lloyd is drafted and you look at

51:10

the last four years in Green Bay to snap

51:12

share in backfields like 50 5050

51:18

5849 5843 AJ Dylan is still seeing snap shares

51:20

and he's not any good. So And

51:22

then and then on the other flip side Marshawn

51:24

Lloyd has committed 11 fumbles over 291

51:27

career touches in college questions and

51:30

pass protection flawed prospect But

51:32

he also has intriguing potential with this tackle

51:34

breaking ability So I don't know what are

51:36

we doing here with Josh Jacobs? Cuz if

51:38

he's the feature back in Green Bay with

51:40

that youngest offense in football would love you

51:42

know He has top five upside But I'm

51:44

looking at these these backfield splits

51:46

in Green Bay with the drafting of

51:48

Lloyd and I moved Jacobs behind Pacheco Behind

51:51

Joe mixin that that's kind of where

51:53

I'm at Yeah, I'm

51:55

with you that I thought I was gonna have conviction

51:58

on Josh Jacobs as a guy I

52:00

wanted to target just based on

52:02

what you said. Potential feature back

52:04

in Green Bay, an offense that I think is

52:07

ascending. I love Matt Flores, the

52:09

coordinator, or play caller, he's the head coach.

52:12

I love just the way this offense sets up

52:14

with Jordan Love. Like I said, on the rocket

52:16

ship, man, I think that they signed Josh Jacobs

52:18

because they want to be, he

52:20

was gonna give them more ability to

52:22

run multiple run schemes, a lot more gap

52:25

stuff, which is what this tree

52:27

of coaches are kind of moving towards now.

52:29

We've seen the 49ers move that way. The

52:31

Rams obviously pivoted hard in that direction. I

52:34

think the Packers want to have a tougher, more physical

52:36

run game than necessarily, I mean, Aaron Jones, great player,

52:38

but maybe that was kind of the logic of

52:41

choosing Josh Jacobs over Aaron Jones. And then they

52:43

draft Marshawn Lloyd, and now I have like the

52:45

devil on my other shoulder scene, like Green

52:48

Bay always splits the backfield, Matt LeFoure always wants

52:50

two guys, that whole thing. So now I'm totally out

52:52

of whack here with Josh Jacobs, where, and

52:54

also, you know, what your first point there is

52:57

important to bring up. Josh Jacobs was not good

52:59

last year. And like he's not

53:01

been an efficient back for most of

53:03

his season, or most of his season. I know Andy always

53:05

was quick to kind of write that off and be like,

53:08

you look at tackle breaking metrics, Josh Jacobs is a

53:10

good player, but just from an overall

53:12

efficiency standpoint, that's concerning. But

53:15

at the same time, it's the Raiders. And again,

53:17

you can see, I'm talking to myself in multiple

53:19

different directions here. Exactly, yeah.

53:21

I could see by week five, anybody

53:24

that hardcore fades Josh Jacobs just looks

53:26

like an idiot. But I could

53:28

see by week 17, we look back at

53:30

this back then, like, yeah, it's kind of split. And like, I

53:33

guess they're gonna move on from Josh Jacobs. But I will

53:35

say last kind of just point on this. And I know

53:37

I just talked in a thousand different directions and probably offered

53:39

nothing to the podcast, which is great since I host the

53:41

show. Marshawn Lloyd is a

53:43

little bit of like a mercurial player, where I

53:45

like Marshawn Lloyd's rushing style, but he's

53:48

a little bit wild. He fumbles a lot. Like

53:50

he could end up just not earning a role

53:52

on this team. So maybe Dalton, where I'm saying

53:54

I don't have clarity now, maybe

53:56

by like reading reports in the summer of

53:58

like Marshawn Lloyd's progress. We're able to sort

54:01

of kind of pinpoint how we're supposed to feel about Josh Jacobs

54:03

Yeah It's just a situation in Green Bay to really

54:06

pay attention to because on one hand a ton of

54:08

upside for for Jacobs I mean Lloyd again 11 fumbles

54:10

in 291 career Touches

54:13

and this offense could be top five in football

54:15

on the other. It's just basically a one-year deal

54:17

and Jacobs is like

54:19

feel like it is weighted opportunities versus

54:21

expected expected fantasy points like he historically

54:23

Underperformed it last year and people don't

54:25

typically bounce back from that So I

54:28

there's there's totally I could see you

54:30

could see two sides here. So pay attention to Green

54:32

Bay's backfield All right Harmon.

54:34

I'm using JJ McCarthy as an excuse to

54:36

talk about Justin Jefferson Not only is he

54:38

back in the wide receiver one conversation? I'm

54:40

probably gonna rank Tyree Killin and CD lamb

54:42

over him But what I can't get behind

54:44

is even though it's literally the opposite what

54:46

I was saying last year is I'm

54:49

taking Jefferson over chase this

54:51

year and it looks like ECR chases

54:53

three Jefferson's for Vikings

54:56

play indoors Kevin O'Connell this offense

54:58

had Nick Mullins getting nine point

55:00

eight YPA last year Sam Darnold

55:02

has problems if it's Darnold starting but those

55:05

are like turnovers not an arm strength or

55:07

the ability to get you know a targeted

55:09

guys So I think McCarthy is good enough

55:11

and then playing indoors on a team of

55:13

that really high pass rate assuming they Maintains,

55:15

maybe it will be lesser than with cousins.

55:18

But Jefferson's the best

55:20

receiver in the league. I believe you

55:22

would argue Hawkinson returning from ACL surgery

55:24

and meanwhile love Jamar chase and he

55:26

obviously has the upside to finishes the

55:28

wide receiver one But dude your

55:30

Joe burrow talking about there are still good

55:32

days and bad with this wrist injury Which

55:35

apparently has he's the first quarterback to

55:37

ever suffer this injury What

55:40

if T Higgins stays healthy all night? He's

55:42

back and what if he's like he's the

55:44

competition for targets They've drafted a third round

55:46

wide receiver there. So outdoors with Burroughs injury

55:48

history I don't see why he's why chase

55:50

is getting drafted over Jefferson that may not seem like

55:52

a minor take but that's you know, a huge decision

55:54

you're making in the first round Yeah,

55:56

you're pushing me on this because coming out of

55:58

the draft. I just had with Jamar Chase locked

56:00

in ahead of

56:03

Justin Jefferson. And I think I'm actually kind of

56:05

coming more towards your side here where like

56:08

there is a season and

56:10

it could be this season. It could be any season

56:12

of Jamar Chase's career where he's gonna have that like

56:14

true face melter of a season where he could be

56:17

the wide receiver one overall. I think that is, I

56:19

think this could be that season. But

56:21

it's also probably more likely that it's the first season without

56:23

T Higgins, which I think is gonna be 2025. I

56:27

will say that the thing that's really

56:29

got me stuck on Jamar Chase is the, and

56:32

actually now that I'm starting to make

56:34

these points again, maybe I'm still gonna

56:37

rank Chase over Justin Jefferson, where like

56:39

I think he's gonna play so much from the

56:41

slot, Jamar Chase this year. And he's gonna get

56:43

all those like easy match ups that CD Lamb

56:45

gets playing inside. And like Justin Jefferson,

56:50

it's so funny to think about the discourse a couple of years

56:52

ago when Kevin O'Connell got hired, we're like, he's gonna play the

56:54

Cooper Cupp role. He's not playing the Cooper

56:56

Cupp role because he's an ex-receiver. And like they don't

56:58

have another ex-receiver on that team. So you know who

57:00

plays that role? Frickin' Justin Jefferson because he's the only

57:03

one who can do it. And that's still the case

57:05

even with Jordan Addison on the team. Jordan

57:07

Addison, you can't play in that role because

57:09

he can't deal with press coverage in that

57:11

way. So they've never been able to give

57:13

him those like slot layup type targets. Maybe

57:15

they will just to simplify things for JJ

57:17

McCarthy this year. But like I think Chase's

57:20

work in terms of those layup routes is gonna

57:22

spike up. So overall I'm

57:24

with you. I still

57:26

have from an overall rankings perspective,

57:29

you have it, McCaffrey, Breece Hall, love you

57:31

for that. C.D. Lamb, Tyree

57:34

Kill, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase. I

57:37

have it, McCaffrey, Lamb,

57:39

Chase, Hill, Jefferson. So

57:43

we're both wide receivers. He's both fifth

57:45

overall player off our board. So we're really not

57:47

too dissimilar here. And I'm with you on a

57:49

lot of what you said about Justin Jefferson. I

57:51

think, again, simplify the picture for JJ McCarthy. He's

57:54

gonna throw the ball to Justin Jefferson 30% of

57:56

the time this year. And I think it's a

57:58

problem for Addison. I think it's

58:00

a problem for Hockison when he comes back that

58:02

they have a rookie quarterback sort of limiting the

58:04

ceiling of the offense. But for Jefferson specifically, I

58:07

actually don't think it's that big of a deal,

58:09

but I am very sold that Jamar Chase kind

58:11

of could have that special season this year or

58:13

at any time the borough thing, you're right that

58:15

does give me a little concern. I

58:18

hope it's nothing in borough states healthy and Chase gets fed

58:20

in the slot, that'd be sick. Yeah, he could just put

58:22

up monster numbers. And I picked the Bengals when they have

58:24

C last year. I hope they do stay healthy and they

58:26

are bringing them all back for one more, except for Mixon.

58:30

Breece Hall, I'm tempted to move to my

58:32

number one. I might by the end of

58:34

August. And here's my other hot take to

58:36

end it on here, Harmon. I

58:38

decided to pass and I took Lamar Jackson

58:40

in our mock draft and I did

58:42

another one for, or maybe that was helping

58:45

out P&L in the magazine league.

58:47

But either way, when it comes to

58:50

it, honestly, Harmon, I'm gonna use

58:52

A.D. Mitchell as an excuse to talk about Anthony

58:54

Richardson. I mean, why? I

58:56

just, I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have Eric Richardson as

58:59

my number one fantasy quarterback. I know I am

59:01

from August. I'm just gonna have him ranked that

59:03

because, dude, listen, the

59:05

situation he's in with Steichen,

59:07

they have the Downs, Pittman,

59:09

now Mitchell, indoors. Richardson's

59:12

fantasy points per dropback was the best

59:14

by any quarterback over the past three

59:16

seasons as a rookie last year. Better

59:18

than the career years of

59:21

Hertz and Allen, who by the way,

59:23

have major questions. We're excited to draft

59:25

Allen three rounds

59:27

before Richardson and without digs.

59:29

Hertz was the QB 16 without

59:31

the Tush push and there's no Jason

59:33

Kelsey now. I mean, there's only fear

59:36

Harmon is stopping us from drafting

59:38

or ranking Richardson as the top fantasy quarterback.

59:40

Yes, the guy might've suffered an injury every

59:42

time he stepped on the field last year,

59:44

but they were fluky, dude's built like a

59:46

tank. He's a beast, gonna score so many

59:48

touchdowns, so many fantasy points for your fantasy

59:50

team, you're gonna be tired of it. So

59:52

yeah, I think I honestly am going to,

59:56

I just won't be able to sleep at night if

59:58

I don't rank Anthony Richardson as my, QB1

1:00:00

which I'm I'm I'm wanting to heat

1:00:02

check Harmon how crazy is it yeah

1:00:04

and QB1 is so

1:00:06

crazy like this is I'm

1:00:09

not staying healthy he stays on he's a

1:00:12

favorite to be the QB1 it's not that

1:00:14

crazy you're just I'm

1:00:16

scared yes you said fear is the

1:00:18

only thing that's stopping you and yes

1:00:20

I am I am afraid I am

1:00:23

afraid to do it fair

1:00:27

enough you can say that about the

1:00:29

garden you go ahead and say go ahead and say

1:00:31

go ahead and look me through the look through the

1:00:33

camera and call me a coward that's fine because

1:00:36

the crazy thing about this Dalton is

1:00:39

that like I you're

1:00:41

you are the third person who's come

1:00:43

on the podcast Scott Andy and then you

1:00:45

and we're somehow talking about Anthony Richardson hype

1:00:47

and in classic Dalton fashion he's like oh

1:00:50

yeah you guys you have him at

1:00:52

QB6 great QB1

1:00:56

by the end of draft season you're already hired just in

1:00:59

terms of rankings right now you got him at four

1:01:01

so yeah you're not gonna be able to freakin

1:01:03

sleep at night until you get him to one

1:01:05

you're you're a lunatic I love you for being

1:01:07

a lunatic but you are a lunatic about this

1:01:09

one in particular but

1:01:11

it is this is the thing that kills

1:01:13

me Dalton about about having to push back

1:01:15

on you about this because I recognize that

1:01:17

it is possible I recognize that that is

1:01:20

within the range of outcomes for Anthony Richardson

1:01:22

I get it guy I

1:01:24

think he could play I think he showed super

1:01:27

promising signs like F

1:01:29

fantasy football for a second okay

1:01:31

like he just showed promising signs

1:01:33

as an NFL quarterback as an

1:01:36

NFL processor and like trigger

1:01:38

guy behind center okay like field general whatever

1:01:40

you want to say like processing plays getting

1:01:42

the ball out accurately way more

1:01:44

than people thought like people thought he was gonna be

1:01:46

a project coming in the NFL guy started day one

1:01:48

and like again very

1:01:50

brief glimpses I get it but

1:01:53

looked like he wasn't thinking out there he was swimming

1:01:55

he was doing more than treading water out

1:01:57

there the supporting cast is awesome

1:02:00

the line outkicked expectations last year. Michael Pittman's a

1:02:02

dude. Josh Downs is a dude. A.D. Mitchell, I

1:02:04

think is going to be a dude. The tight

1:02:06

end room is pretty solid and Jonathan Taylor can

1:02:08

run the ball. Like it's a

1:02:10

great situation. I understand all

1:02:12

that, but I am just, yeah,

1:02:15

I'm terrified. Dalton, I said on the last

1:02:17

show that Anthony Richardson is either going to

1:02:19

be like the story of fantasy football in

1:02:21

2024 because he's going to be the QB

1:02:23

one that just like you took a QB

1:02:25

six in sharp drafts and in like

1:02:27

your home league drafts. You're going to take him

1:02:30

in the 12th round of P.R. Anthony Richardson and

1:02:32

he's going to, he's going to be the QB

1:02:34

one, the highest one playing in the damn sport.

1:02:36

I get it, but I'm afraid of the other

1:02:38

end of the range of outcomes here where he is

1:02:41

like the guy that trolls on

1:02:43

the internet and I get it, like screw the

1:02:45

trolls, whatever, but like trolls on the internet. Like,

1:02:48

yeah, remember Anthony Richardson, LOL. Can't, he can't even

1:02:50

pass. He should be a running back. How about

1:02:52

he moves the tight end? Like that type of

1:02:54

bullsh**t, all that is within the range of outcomes.

1:02:56

So yes, I am a coward for,

1:02:58

for, for the other range about like

1:03:00

being afraid of that second one, but

1:03:02

you, I mean, Dalton, Dalton, QB one,

1:03:04

Anthony Richardson, unbelievable stuff. I

1:03:06

mean, you really like these guys, Pittman and Downs

1:03:09

here. Richardson, avoid

1:03:11

sacks. It can't be underrated. How

1:03:13

good Steichen is for these QBs. The last

1:03:15

two games AR 8.0 YPA, 8.2 YPA. Again,

1:03:19

dating back to college of, you know, avoid sacks

1:03:21

for pressure rate. He, I don't know. We'll see

1:03:23

the upside through the roof. In the first round

1:03:26

of a super flex league, I'll be drafting them

1:03:28

if we're in leagues together in the first round.

1:03:30

And man, if you're in your, your standard leagues

1:03:32

fifth, sixth round, this is your cheat code for

1:03:34

the year if he's fallen there, man, you

1:03:36

can, if Alan and Hertz are going round two

1:03:39

and three and you're getting a, you know,

1:03:41

a superior version two or three rounds later, let's

1:03:43

go. Yeah. I mean, the fantasy

1:03:45

points per dropback is like an inarguable thing.

1:03:47

That was there. Yeah. It's the best predictor

1:03:49

by the way, a future success too. So

1:03:51

it's, it's yeah, I mean, we'll, we'll, we'll

1:03:54

see. Stay healthy. Probably dude's going to get hurt

1:03:56

before the, before we, we, you know, this podcast

1:03:58

is released, but now He's

1:04:01

strong, he's built, those were some fluky injuries.

1:04:03

He's not gonna stop running. He's looking all

1:04:05

encouraging with his recovery now. So yeah, maybe

1:04:07

it's a little bit risky given the health,

1:04:10

but I'm here to take it, man. I think

1:04:12

they will be smarter, and he will be smarter

1:04:15

about how he runs in the future than what

1:04:17

we saw last year. So just so he doesn't

1:04:19

end up taking some of those hits. And

1:04:22

yeah, again, to full

1:04:24

circle, close the loop here, back to

1:04:26

the Jayden Daniels point at number one,

1:04:28

it is not revelatory for fantasy analysts

1:04:30

to say anymore, like Russian quarterback is

1:04:32

the cheat code. Okay, like that

1:04:35

is just obvious. That is obvious

1:04:37

with Jayden Daniels. It was obvious with Anthony

1:04:39

Richardson last year, and we saw it on

1:04:41

the field. The difference is for

1:04:43

all those questions of the circumstances that

1:04:46

I talked about with Washington, I don't

1:04:48

have those questions with

1:04:50

the Colts. I love the

1:04:52

play caller. I love the supporting cast. Like,

1:04:55

yeah, dude, Michael Pittman is awesome. Michael

1:04:57

Pittman is just a rock

1:04:59

solid starting receiver. Josh Downs

1:05:02

was always open last year. He's gonna just

1:05:04

crush people in the slot. And the fact

1:05:06

that they're gonna take Aidy Mitchell, who I

1:05:08

saw today as we're recording

1:05:10

this, his jersey number is

1:05:12

10 for the 10 receivers that

1:05:14

were drafted ahead of him. So he's fully leaning

1:05:17

into that whole thing. It just

1:05:19

reminds me so much of DK Metcalf in 2019.

1:05:22

I will never forget talking to DK Metcalf

1:05:24

for the 2019 draft, sitting

1:05:26

down with him in Nashville and having a great

1:05:28

conversation. And just then thinking a couple

1:05:30

days later where he fell to the end of the

1:05:33

second round, Aidy didn't quite fall that far, but that

1:05:35

was not a guy in DK Metcalf that thought he

1:05:38

was falling to the second round. And I think he

1:05:40

fell to the second round for some stupid reasons. And

1:05:42

I think Aidy Mitchell probably fell in

1:05:44

the second round for probably some stupid reasons,

1:05:47

because the film is really good. The

1:05:49

film is awesome. And the fact that he's just gonna

1:05:51

get dropped into that vertical X receiver role, whatever

1:05:55

any sort of caution I wanted to have

1:05:57

with Anthony Richardson in this Colts offense. I'm

1:06:00

completely like it's I'm grasping at straws now

1:06:02

for that confidence because we're taking out Alec

1:06:04

Pearson putting in ad Mitchell. It's such a

1:06:06

big upgrade. So yes Dalton. I am all

1:06:08

the way in on Anthony Richardson. You are

1:06:11

just like you

1:06:13

have gone beyond even all in at this point if you're

1:06:15

going to end up having a QB one. I'm

1:06:17

Jonathan Taylor that offensive line this offense

1:06:19

is going to be sick. Final thought

1:06:22

on Richardson he totaled 20 carries and

1:06:24

13 designed carries in his two

1:06:26

full games last year. I mean that's a pace for 170

1:06:28

carries 111 designed carries which would have tied

1:06:32

Jalen Hurts for the most of

1:06:35

the position. Yeah give me AR

1:06:38

all day. It's the

1:06:40

summer of Anthony Richardson. If this the

1:06:42

last three pods here leading into my vacation

1:06:44

have been any indication the fact that he

1:06:46

has come up on three straight shows and

1:06:49

it's only gotten the

1:06:52

excitement has only gotten ticked up. It's going to

1:06:54

be the summer of Anthony Richardson and like I

1:06:57

said there's just no way that could possibly end

1:06:59

poorly for us. But Dalton this was

1:07:01

awful. At least I waited till the end to

1:07:03

go to go about him and we made it

1:07:05

through the pod without Xavier Worthy was interesting but

1:07:07

Ricky Pearsall Slick Rick how did I I

1:07:10

failed him how we didn't get to talk about him

1:07:12

but love the fact that you love that his route

1:07:14

running and ability to beat man coverage as a Niner

1:07:17

fan we're all in on Slick Rick but that's more

1:07:19

dynasty and we got to wait for 2025 once

1:07:21

D-Bose probably moved. I have

1:07:24

a feeling that at some point

1:07:26

down the line whether it's this year or next year

1:07:28

Dalton and I are going to be doing like a

1:07:30

30 minute Ricky Pearsall segment. So yeah

1:07:32

we will be on that. Yeah

1:07:34

you have been warned with

1:07:36

that. That is going to

1:07:38

do it Dalton this episode I was excited

1:07:40

for it. You delivered especially

1:07:43

there at the end man. I mean I

1:07:46

am now so gassed up about the

1:07:48

Anthony Richardson thing. This has made my day so I

1:07:50

appreciate you for doing it. Appreciate you

1:07:52

Harmon as always man. Good talking ball with you. All

1:07:55

right everybody like I said that's going to

1:07:57

do it for this show. No promises but I think

1:07:59

one of some combination of the

1:08:01

other knuckleheads here at Yahoo Fantasy is gonna

1:08:03

do a little guest hosting episode later in

1:08:06

the week while I'm on vacation. A little

1:08:08

schedule release breakdown potentially. So be nice. Have

1:08:10

fun in your honeymoon. Have fun in your

1:08:12

honeymoon. Sorry. Yeah man, have a great time.

1:08:16

I'm looking forward to it. I am looking forward to

1:08:18

like literally how can I turn off all the notifications

1:08:21

on this phone here and spending

1:08:23

some some good quality time with my wife away

1:08:25

from the NFL. That's for

1:08:27

sure. So again, in my absence, listen

1:08:30

to the next show. Be nice.

1:08:32

I'll catch you all

1:08:35

when I'm back. Until then, we're out.

1:08:49

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