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1:28Yeah! Ready, Dave? Always ready. Although I have to admit, this was a difficult topic for me.
1:33Because normally, I've got a lot of conviction on everybody.
1:36I've been working on this year's fantasy drafts for six months already.
1:40So finding players that I'm still having a tough time ranking, this is a tough assignment that you gave me, Adam.
1:46But I'll start off with a gargantuan wide receiver who should be ranked much higher.
1:51But I'm holding him back because of his situation, and that's Ted Arroyo McMillan.
1:55Carolina's stud from last year, entering his second season.
1:58Impressive athlete. There's no question about it. Bryce Young just concerns me as far as a quarterback goes.
2:03I think Jalen Coker is starting to actually gain momentum as a quality number two receiver there.
2:09And he could actually end up taking some work away.
2:12The run game could end up being pretty good if Jonathan Brooks pans out.
2:16But the offensive line isn't great. Bryce hasn't been great.
2:19And so I kind of have Ted Arroyo McMillan buried in late round four into early round five.
2:25I'm okay with him as a number two wide receiver in full PPR.
2:29But it makes me nervous because the talent's there.
2:31The opportunities, little questionable. I thought you were going to go with Malik Nabors.
2:36Now that he's back in camp, and we have video of him running and cutting and all that.
2:41Yeah. Should we talk about that? Because we didn't talk about that on Thursday's show.
2:46Right. I was trying to. I just couldn't get it.
2:49It was a tight end preview. But absolutely, we should talk about that.
2:53What did you think? I thought it's very encouraging.
2:55And while I'm not with some people that watch those clips and go, oh, yeah, he's back to normal.
3:01He's close to it. There were a couple of times where he had to take a couple extra steps in and out of his breaks.
3:09But the fact that he's out there running around and he looks like he's at full speed, I think it's highly encouraging.
3:16So I moved him back up. He was in round five at one point because I just wasn't sure when he was going to come back.
3:24Now he's in that round three range. And it depends on how ahead of it you want to be.
3:29If you want to call him a round two pick because he is one of those wide receivers that should be ticketed for eight plus targets per game.
3:38Massive upside could easily finish as the best wide receiver.
3:41Yes, that is within the realm of possibilities. You can take him in round two right now.
3:46I would wait just a little bit. But a top 16 wide receiver overall, 100% yes at this point.
3:52Wow. Okay. Big, big change there. Who else is tough to rank for you?
3:56I still have a tough time with the Patriots running backs because I want to love Travion Henderson.
4:02And even if I get glowing reports about Travion Henderson in practice, which frankly so far I haven't seen a lot of this year.
4:09We got those last year. It didn't make a bit of difference.
4:13He struggled unless Ramondre Stevenson was out. When Ramondre Stevenson was out, Travion had a good workload.
4:18He was awesome. Fantasy managers were glad to have him.
4:21But in all those other games, he and Ramondre Stevenson took too much work away from each other.
4:26It was hard to count on either one of them on a week-to-week basis.
4:31But the one that you probably did, if you had to pick between the two, it was Ramondre Stevenson.
4:37And so if that continues this year, are we overdrafting Travion if he's around six pick?
4:41And I don't even know what his ADP is.
4:44I would imagine it's somewhere in round five. You can look that up for me if you want to, Adam.
4:50But the dude is so talented, he's just not getting the opportunities.
4:54I've looked in the track record. Adam's holding up his hand for a five.
4:58That means he's in round five. I get it if you love your first four picks, if you want to splurge on Henderson in round five.
5:06I don't know if I feel great about that at this point.
5:10And I don't think Ramondre necessarily – he had a very good year, probably his best year ever.
5:15I think his fantasy numbers clearly weighted by the last three weeks of the season.
5:20Didn't even average 10 PPR points before that. But all that matters is opportunity.
5:24And Ramondre is still going to get a lot of it.
5:28We have not seen second-year running backs do great things under Josh McDaniels.
5:32It might take a little while longer. And that's why I don't love taking Travion Henderson in round five.
5:37I have a rank that way as of now.
5:40It's horrible. I think it's a little too soon.
5:43It's way too soon. I don't even know the difference between him and, let's say, a guy like Blake Corum, who's going 55 picks later.
5:51They both could be league winners if the other guy in the backfield gets hurt.
5:55They're both going to have a role. Blake Corum is going to mix in more at the goal line based on what we saw last year.
6:03I mean, Travion Henderson did almost none of that when Ramondre was healthy.
6:07I think you could argue – look, I get Travion Henderson is really talented.
6:11They should have a good offense, and he should be good.
6:15If he gets the opportunity, he could be amazing.
6:17I think you could argue that Travion Henderson is one of the worst values in fantasy right now as a top 50 pick.
6:24But you can also understand the bull case for it if somebody chose to make it, which is – Not really, though.
6:31What is it? Look how fast he is. Look at the explosive plays he made.
6:36All of his big runs last year, at least three of them, if not all four of them, came against eight in a box.
6:43He definitely – he can take that step. It's just a matter of will he.
6:48And betting on that in round five, I can't do it.
6:51Round six and late round six at that would be the earliest I would consider him now at this point.
6:57I just changed that in my rankings. See, now he's a little bit easier to rank.
7:02He's not so tough to rank anymore. But you know another running back that's getting tougher to rank.
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7:12Oh, Dave, tell me after the break, okay? Oh, yes.
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8:03I'm struggling with Jadarian Price. And it's because I know the opportunity has a chance to be there.
8:08I'm just not so sold on it being there.
8:11The highlights of him catching deep balls in training camp are fun.
8:14We know that he's probably a better talent than what the film showed last year.
8:19Mainly because there wasn't a ton of film on Jadarian Price to begin with.
8:23But it's just a matter of will that Seattle coaching staff give him the big workload?
8:28Are they going to give him 15 plus touches a game?
8:32You would think that common sense says yes because his competition is so weak.
8:36But the coaching staff there didn't give Kenneth Walker that type of workload.
8:40They didn't give Zach Charbonnet that type of workload either.
8:43They split between those two. Maybe the circumstances have changed.
8:46And if Price proves it in camp, then he'll get it.
8:49That's something that we've talked about on the main show.
8:52I just don't know if that's going to happen yet.
8:55So for me, Jadarian Price is still somebody that I'm taking kind of around like round six, early round seven.
9:02It's definitely a cautious approach with him. Obviously, if things look good in preseason games and all that, he's going to shoot up.
9:09But his ADP will shoot up right along with it if that's the case.
9:13We need to get more information about Seattle just has no choice.
9:17They've got to use Jadarian Price as their lead back.
9:20And then he's got to be able – this is another factor – he's got to be able to hang on to
9:26that role in a big role, 15-plus touches per game role, even when Zach Charbonnet comes back.
9:32And there was a report saying that Charbonnet could be back in week one.
9:36Yeah, that makes me just as nervous about the coaching staff not giving him work without Charbonnet there.
9:41So there are a lot of hurdles left for Jadarian Price to clear before we take him in early round six, late round five, that type of range.
9:50Give me one more guy you're having trouble ranking.
9:53Another rookie, Carnell Tate in Tennessee. And I think he's a talented wide receiver.
9:57He's not a perfect wide receiver. I've talked about it with some folks that he probably shouldn't have been taken in the
10:04top five, but because the draft was what it was last year, that's where Tennessee chose to take him.
10:09And they were desperate to add some help at wide receiver.
10:13Is he Malik Nabors? No. But why do I bring it up?
10:16Because Malik Nabors is a rookie, had some monster numbers in New York with Brian Dable as his play caller.
10:23And you've got to wonder if Dable's going to do something similar in Tennessee.
10:27It's a different situation. The quarterbacking is, I don't know, you might call it a wash.
10:32You might say it's a little bit worse with Cam Ward.
10:35We've got to see how Cam Ward does in his second year.
10:39And it just makes me worried about rushing to get Tate when he might not have even six and a half targets per game.
10:46Remember, they still have Wondell Robinson. They've got some other peripheral pass catchers.
10:50They drafted two of them last year. They could take away from any type of huge target volume that Carnell Tate gets.
10:57And so I've got him in round six in full PPR.
11:00And I'm not sure I really love that one either because I'm not sure the Titans are A, going to be a
11:07team that scores a lot of points, or B, is going to be a team that's going to funnel it all toward Tate.
11:14They might spread it around a little bit more or even worse, aim for the middle of the field more.
11:20And that's away from where Carnell Tate's probably going to run most of his routes.
11:25Thank you very much to Dave Richard. We'll talk to you tomorrow on Fantasy Football Today.
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