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FFT Express - Dave Richard's 2026 All-Bust Team! 8 Fantasy Football Players to AVOID! (08/26 Fantasy Football Advice)
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12 min
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Aug 28, 2026
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Fri, August 28, 2026
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Breece HallCarnell TateChristian McCaffreyDK MetcalfJosh JacobsKyle PittsRhamondre StevensonTreVeyon HendersonWan'Dale Robinson
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Breece Hall
NegativeBust3:23
JJ Zachariason is fading Breece Hall at his current ADP, preferring him as a late-round four pick rather than his current market price. Concerns include the return of a healthy Braalon Allen and Isaiah Davis potentially handling passing-down work, which could limit Hall's high-leverage opportunities.
Insight pageCarnell Tate
NegativeBust9:58
Dave Richard is avoiding Carnell Tate at his seventh-round ADP, citing concerns about the Titans' overall offensive operation, Cam Ward's development, and the offensive line. Richard ranks him closer to a ninth-round value.
Insight pageChristian McCaffrey
NegativeInjury2:29
JJ Zachariason expresses concern regarding Christian McCaffrey's ADP (top six overall) due to his heavy workload (450 touches in 2025), age (30), and recent missed time in camp with undisclosed tightness.
Insight pageDK Metcalf
NegativeBust11:31
Dave Richard is fading DK Metcalf, arguing that the Steelers' additions of Michael Pittman, Jeremy Bernard, and Roman Wilson will lead to more short, easy throws for Aaron Rodgers, thereby capping Metcalf's volume and upside. Richard views him as a late-round eight pick.
Insight pageJosh Jacobs
NegativeInjury0:07
Packers GM Brian Gutekunst indicated the team is preparing for the possibility of a suspension for Josh Jacobs, suggesting the organization views it as a legitimate concern.
Insight pageKyle Pitts
NegativeBust13:36
Dave Richard ranks Kyle Pitts as his TE9, disagreeing with his TE7 market price. He is concerned that Michael Penix, unlike Tua Tagovailoa, is a downfield thrower who won't prioritize the short targets that Pitts needs to return value, especially given his 9.6 PPR points per game average when playing with Penix last season.
Insight pageRhamondre Stevenson
PositiveUsage17:04
JJ Zachariason and Dave Richard expect Rhamondre Stevenson to be more impactful than last year, projecting him to be used more as a red-zone weapon in the passing game, which negatively impacts the outlook for Trevion Henderson.
Insight pageTreVeyon Henderson
NegativeValue16:35
Dave Richard and JJ Zachariason agree that Trevion Henderson is overvalued at his 59th overall ADP. They believe he is more appropriately priced in the seventh round (79th overall) because Rhamondre Stevenson is expected to be the primary back and a red-zone weapon, leaving Henderson with a limited path to impact unless Stevenson misses time.
Insight pageWan'Dale Robinson
PositiveUsage10:30
Dave Richard likes Wandale Robinson in full PPR formats, noting he has a locked-in role in the Giants' offense and should consistently see north of seven targets per game.
Insight pageFull transcript
Episode Transcript
0:00And we've got Dave's All-Bust Team right now on FFT Express.
0:03Welcome everybody to the show. Just a real quick news item here.
0:07The Packers, is their GM Brian Guttenkurs, right? Guttenkurs.
0:10Guttenkurs, right? Yeah. He was talking about, he was asked about the Josh Jacobs situation and he said they have prepared.
0:16They've been preparing in case, in case he's suspended.
0:19For the possibility of him being suspended, it really wasn't anything too earth shattering.
0:23But I guess it does mean that they do think there is a possibility of him getting suspended.
0:29Anyway, let's get to Dave's All-Bust Team. Who's the quarterback?
0:32The quarterback is Jackson Dart. I disagree with him being a top 100 pick.
0:36I think we can do better at the quarterback spot than the second year man who scored nine touchdowns on the ground.
0:43I don't think he does that if he plays the full season.
0:46This is a Giants team that certainly looks like they want to run the ball a lot.
0:51And that's even with Malik Nabors coming back, even with the addition of Isaiah Likely.
0:56Just every indication. Look at that running back depth chart.
0:59Look at the moves they made in the draft on the offensive line.
1:03They want to be able to be physical up front.
1:06It's just something that John Harbaugh has long been about.
1:09Greg Roman will certainly co-sign on that as their run game coordinator.
1:13And they have really been trying to teach Jackson Dart not to run.
1:17They don't want him to run anymore. So I get nervous about banking on him hitting his upside.
1:22If he's not going to run, if he's not going to score a bunch of rushing touchdowns, he's going to need to
1:29have an outstanding year throwing the football. His ADP is five picks before 100th overall.
1:33I look at him honestly, Adam, as like a round 11 pick.
1:37I'm not excited about Dart. Yeah, I think a lot of people share that sentiment.
1:41Looking at NFC average draft position over the last five days is going 129th overall.
1:46So how about a running back or two running backs?
1:49You're starting running backs here. Well, let's give an honorable mention to Christian McCaffrey, who coming off a 450 touch season, season
1:56age 30, missed a bunch of camp already with undisclosed tightness.
1:59I'm nervous about taking him at his ADP, which is top six overall.
2:03But Brees Hall, I'm equally nervous about. And he's going a full round ahead of where I would take him.
2:09I look at him as a round four and honestly more of a late round four pick.
2:14I know there's all this talk about him being the bell cow, but he was the bell cow last year.
2:2017.4 touches per game, 13 PPR points. And that was with Braylon Allen missing most of the year.
2:26Now Braylon Allen is healthy. Isaiah Davis is working his way back.
2:29I think Davis will work on most of the passing downs.
2:33Hall taking the majority of the rushing downs, but Allen could swipe a few of those high leverage touches near the goal line.
2:40That would make me nervous. I'm just nervous overall about the Jets, who, by the way, have been bottom five in points
2:46scored six of the last seven seasons. Frank Reich is a nice guy, but I don't think he's the one that can turn that around.
2:54I'm letting other people take Brees Hall and going back to the Giants.
2:58I'm going to let other people take Camp Scadaboo as well as ADP is top 40.
3:03I just watched a practice where he was splitting first team reps with Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary.
3:08And now here comes Najee Harris, who actually looked pretty good in limited second team reps.
3:13This is against the Dolphins. They were down in Miami for a joint practice.
3:17And now Najee is starting to work his way into the first team offense.
3:22And I wonder if we're going to see a world where Scadaboo and Najee are splitting rushing downs work.
3:27And I don't know if that guarantees that Scadaboo is going to come anywhere close to where he was last year.
3:34Let's not forget about him coming back from an injury.
3:37I don't know if he's quite as explosive as he was.
3:40In fact, John Harbaugh said that he's working his way back there.
3:44It is too rich for my blood to take him as a top 40 pick.
3:48I would take him in late round five and I can no longer subscribe to the idea of, oh, yeah, you'll feel
3:55safe if you take Scadaboo and then Tyrone Tracy.
3:58I don't know if Tracy is that running back anymore.
4:01No, I took him 52nd overall in our 14 team podcast league draft.
4:05Yeah, I'll give you the guys who went after him.
4:08Would you take Tootin Montgomery Price ahead of Scadaboo?
4:11Let me double check my rankings. I had my wide receivers pulled up.
4:15I'm going right to it now. I have got Scadaboo ahead of Montgomery, ahead of Tootin and just ahead of Price.
4:21So he is right there. In fact, my rankings as of right now, Scadaboo, Price, Montgomery, Tootin.
4:26Running backs 22 through 25. Yeah, it was my least favorite pick for what it's worth.
4:31We'll take a break and get Dave's wide receivers tight end and flex after this.
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5:30Terms apply. See site for details. Okay, two wide receivers, Dave.
5:34This is lame, Adam. I don't have a wide receiver that I'm looking at and saying, oh yeah, stay away from him.
5:40Not even some guys that I had earlier in the offseason like Zay Flowers, Jamison Williams.
5:45Devontae Adams was on my bus list once upon a time.
5:48I don't have those guys on my bus list anymore.
5:51I like their ADPs. I like where they're going in drafts.
5:55And so I'm okay with it. But I am not okay with Carnell Tate going in the beginning of round seven.
6:01And that's a fall because he was going in round six.
6:05It doesn't have much to do with Tate. It has everything to do with what we've seen both in preseason games and in joint practices for the Titans.
6:13I am nervous about how this team is going to operate.
6:16Cam Ward doesn't look like he's taking that step forward.
6:19Maybe in time he does, but it's not just Ward.
6:22It's also the offensive line. I've got questions about the run game.
6:26I don't know if I feel really good about anybody in the Tennessee offense.
6:30I think I'm okay with Wandale Robinson in full PPR because that's a role that I think he's just got locked down.
6:37He knows it well. It's in the Dable offense.
6:40Should be north of seven targets per game. Just won't do a ton on those targets.
6:45And I think Tate could just really struggle this year.
6:48I got him closer to round nine than I do round seven.
6:51DK Metcalf is the other wide receiver. I think the Steelers rather added a bunch of good options for a reason.
6:58Michael Pittman, Jeremy Bernard in the draft, and now Roman Wilson has stepped up in training camp.
7:03These are all guys that I think are going to make those short, easy throws for Aaron Rodgers more manageable rather than
7:10checking down to the running back like he did last year.
7:13And I think it's just going to continue to put a lid on DK Metcalf's volume and upside.
7:18He's being drafted right now in round seven. He's in that round eight, late round eight, frankly, for me too, at wide receiver.
7:25Not big names, but two guys that I'm avoiding from that wide receiver blob when you get to around six plus.
7:32Yeah. Again, if you ever see DK Metcalf on one of my fantasy teams, please send help.
7:37Somebody else made that pick. I bet you would take him if he was at 100th overall.
7:42Yeah, I would. I would. That's good value. That's where I'd take him.
7:46Although, let's say, who went like 100th overall? That would be Dijon Stribling, 97.
7:50Stefan Diggs, 95. I'd take him over Debo Samuel.
7:53I would take him over Debo. In my rankings, he's really close to a lot of those guys, but I think I'm
8:00going to move him down even more because I like the upside of, I don't know if I love the upside of Diggs, but certainly Concepcion, Matthew Golden.
8:08Those guys should be ahead of Metcalf for me.
8:11I'm going to make that change. Okay. Let's get your tight end here on the All-Bus team.
8:16It's Kyle Pitts, and it's really not that far off of ADP.
8:20I just disagree with him being tight end seven.
8:22He's my tight end nine. If Tua was going to be the quarterback for a good chunk of the year, I'd feel
8:29a lot better about Kyle Pitts, but it's going to be Penix.
8:33I think Penix is more of a downfield thrower, not a check down guy, not somebody who's going to look for short
8:39targets, and it makes me a little more nervous about Kyle Pitts returning value.
8:44Let me remind everybody, there was a five-game stretch last year where Kyle Pitts was awesome.
8:49It was like 20 PPR points per game. If you want the actual number, I'll bring it up and tell you, but
8:55he was getting huge target volume because Drake London wasn't there, and that's what carried his overall 2025 PPR point per game average north of 12.
9:03Yeah, it was 19 PPR points per game in five games without Drake London.
9:07In 12 games with Drake London, most of them with Michael Penix at quarterback, he averaged 9.6 PPR points, 5.2 non-PPR points, 6.2 targets per game.
9:15I get it. It's a different offense, and Stefanski's there, and Stefanski's utilized the tight end and all that.
9:21That's great. Maybe he can be a little bit better than 9.6 PPR points per game.
9:26Frankly, he should be if I'm taking him as my tight end nine, but I hate the idea of reaching for Pitts
9:33and expecting this huge year for him. Not somebody that I'm trying to get on my fantasy team.
9:38Isaiah Likely, I'd rather have. Okay. So far, we have – you really don't like the Giants.
9:43Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo. I like Likely. That's right.
9:46You do like Likely. You have Dart and Scadaboo on the bus team.
9:50You have Brees Hall, Carnell Tate, DK Metcalf, and Kyle Pitts.
9:54We need our flex. Adam, is Trevion Henderson still the most mispriced player in fantasy at 59th in ADP?
9:59That's – yeah. I still think that's too early.
10:02I do too. But now with the injury, like I wonder – Okay.
10:06If he goes 69th, is he mispriced? Yeah. Yes.
10:09I mean, getting close, but yeah. If he goes 79th, is he mispriced?
10:13No. I think that's okay. I'm with you. I think once he gets to 79th, I think that's okay.
10:18But that's round seven, and he's going in round five, and everybody's doing it based on second-year running back.
10:24Patriots offense should be better. Ramondre Stevenson has had all the headlines, all the good vibes coming out of Foxborough this summer,
10:31and it makes me really nervous about the pathway for Trevion Henderson to be impactful for fantasy the year.
10:37I think he needs to have Ramondre miss games, and if that happens, then Trevion's going to get a chance.
10:43But otherwise, I don't know. I think we could see Ramondre Stevenson actually be better than he was last year, save for
10:49those last three games of 2025 when he was a monster.
10:53Because before those games, he really wasn't that awesome for fantasy.
10:56No. Now I think he will be, and I think he's going to get used more as a red zone weapon in the passing game.
11:04So Ramondre Stevenson ahead of Trevion Henderson two years ago, if you had told me that I'd have Ramondre over Trevion in
11:10my rankings, I would have told you that you went to some weird alternate universe, and there was like a skinny version
11:17of me that was eating salad every day going, yeah, sure, but no.
11:21I have to believe it now based on what we're seeing and hearing out of New England.
11:26I really needed some salad, man. I had some yesterday.
11:29I needed some in the worst way. I was on the road for like five straight days, and three of those days were in Las Vegas.
11:37Yeah. Things just went south for me. That's what happens when I go to Florida, you know, with my family.
11:43We go out to dinner. I see my friends.
11:46I need a salad in the worst way. Yeah, and then you make all these terrible decisions at the dinner table, and
11:53then you make a bad decision on draft day, and you take Trevion Henderson in round five, and Breece Hall in round
11:59three, and Kyle Pitts in round six, and just total catastrophe.
12:03So stay on your diet and stay smart on draft day.
12:06Yeah, we tied it all together. Thanks for watching and listening, everybody.
12:10We'll talk to you later on Fantasy Football Today.
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