7 Players Who Could Lose Your Fantasy Football League in 2026 (Ep. 2142)
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25 min
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Aug 20, 2026
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Thu, August 20, 2026
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Player insights
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Topics
Christian McCaffreyD.J. MooreRashee RiceBijan RobinsonChristian WatsonDylan SampsonJames CookJeremiyah LoveLuther BurdenRome OdunzeTyler Allgeier
Player analysis
Player insights
Bijan Robinson
NegativeUsage20:04
Bijan Robinson had 11 carries inside the 10-yard line last year, converting three of them, which is compared to Tyler Allgeier's 10 carries and five conversions in the same role.
Insight pageChristian McCaffrey
NegativeBust1:43
Erickson advises fading McCaffrey due to the historical trend of running backs struggling after 400+ touch seasons; only one RB since 2013 has finished as a top-5 fantasy back the year after leading the league in touches. McCaffrey is nearing age 30, showed signs of decline with a career-low 3.8 yards per attempt and poor rushing yards over expectation, and is currently dealing with physical tightness. The 49ers' aging offensive line adds further risk to the offense.
Insight pageNegativeBust21:08
Erickson expresses a desire to fade Christian McCaffrey, citing the high risk associated with expensive players who have not yet had a true season-long breakout.
Insight pageChristian Watson
NegativeBust22:04
Christian Watson is mentioned as a popular breakout candidate who has yet to put it all together, contributing to the concern that he may not meet high market expectations.
Insight pageD.J. Moore
NegativeProjection22:16
Pat expresses concern about fading DJ Moore, acknowledging the potential for a massive season similar to Stefon Diggs' 100-catch, 1,400-yard campaign from several years ago.
Insight pageNegativeBust28:32
Fitzmaurice warns against drafting DJ Moore at his current ADP, noting that his yards per route run have declined over the last two seasons in Chicago. He also questions whether Josh Allen will support Moore as a high-end receiver, given Allen's history of throwing fewer than 30 touchdowns per season and the lack of a clear 'Stefon Diggs-like' role for Moore.
Insight pageDylan Sampson
PositiveSleeper15:13
Erickson highlights Dylan Sampson as a superior value compared to Quinchot Judkins, citing Sampson's electricity as a pass-catcher and the likelihood that he will eat into Judkins' playing time, similar to how Justice Hill operated alongside Derrick Henry.
Insight pageJames Cook
NegativeValue3:50
Erickson prefers drafting James Cook over Christian McCaffrey, citing that Cook is in his prime, plays in a high-powered offense, and carries significantly lower injury risk for the 2026 season.
Insight pageJeremiyah Love
NegativeBust32:08
The host is fading Jeremiah Love due to a high-ankle injury and the presence of Tyler Allgeier, who is an effective short-yardage back. Allgeier's ability to convert red-zone carries threatens Love's touchdown upside, making Love a risky pick at his current RB12 ADP.
Insight pageLuther Burden
PositiveBust20:50
Erickson is fading Luther Burden at his current ADP, citing a current groin injury, elite target competition from Rome Odunze, and a lack of proven fantasy production (WR48 finish last year). Burden's efficiency was high on a per-route basis, but he lacked red-zone usage and may be limited to 11-personnel sets in a Bears offense that prefers heavy tight-end formations.
Insight pageRashee Rice
PositiveBust6:35
Fitzmaurice is concerned about Rice's outlook due to injury/character risks, a decline in Chiefs' passing efficiency, and potential target competition from a healthy Xavier Worthy and Cyrus Allen. Additionally, the potential for Kenneth Walker to take over screen pass volume could reduce Rice's PPR floor.
Insight pageNegativeBust21:55
Rashee Rice is cited as an example of a player who has not yet had a true season-long breakout, placing him in the category of players who carry high bust risk when their draft price becomes too expensive.
Insight pageRome Odunze
PositiveBreakout22:26
Erickson notes that Rome Odunze is receiving positive buzz in Bears camp and profiles as a more likely red-zone presence than Luther Burden, potentially making him the primary target in the offense.
Insight pageTyler Allgeier
NegativeRole19:47
Tyler Allgeier is noted as a strong short-yardage back who could potentially eat into a highly-drafted rookie's touchdown production, similar to his role last year where he recorded 10 carries inside the 10-yard line and converted five of them.
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Episode Transcript
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0:21Welcome, everybody, to the Fantasy Pros Podcast. I am your host, Chris Welsh.
0:24I am joined by Andrew Erickson and Pat Fitzmaurice.
0:27Today, we're talking about 7 players who could lose your fantasy football league.
0:31And whenever I think about winning and losing, I like to quote Trent Dilfer, you can't lose football games and still win in the NFL.
0:38I think that applies to fantasy as well. So today, we're talking about players to avoid.
0:43Erickson's got 3. Pat's got 3. I'll have 1 at the end.
0:46And then at the very end, we'll talk about the one you guys are most scared of being wrong about.
0:52Nice, quick 15 or so minute episodes. We'll get right into it.
0:56Erickson, we'll start with you. Who are you? I'm not necessarily scared to draft.
1:00What do you think could lose your fantasy football league?
1:03Your pick number 1. Christian McCaffrey. Coming off a 450-touch season that led all players in 2025.
1:08The last 13 years, only one running back was a top 5 fantasy football running back the next year after seeing at least 400 plus touches.
1:16Christian McCaffrey will already turn 30 years old. Running backs age 27 or older who led the NFL in touches.
1:21That's happened 6 times. 0 of them have finished as top 5 the following year.
1:26Only 2 running backs finished as fantasy football RB1s, just top 12, the following year after leading the NFL in touches since 2013.
1:33Ezekiel Elliott, it's the only one to do that to actually finish inside the top 5 the following season.
1:38The other 10 busts, injuries, regression, volume drop-offs, etc.
1:41They did not deliver the high ADP cost to acquire them.
1:44And we've done this same old song and dance with Christian McCaffrey before.
1:48He has led the NFL in touches twice already in his career.
1:51The following seasons, he finished 53rd and 72nd at running back.
1:55So I get that the upside case for CMC is, well, he could be the number 1 scoring player.
2:00Then why doesn't he go number 1 overall in drafts?
2:03Because there's a fear with him of a risk factor with Christian McCaffrey, who is already dealing with tightness.
2:09Right? It's already begun. So for me, he is a player that yes, the upside, I get it.
2:14I get why people want to draft him and I get why he goes so high.
2:19But for me, there's a process with fading the guy that has the most touches the year before.
2:24And it's worked time and time again. And specifically with CMC, it's worked successfully to fade this particular player.
2:30So based on where he goes, I would much rather have James Cook, a player that is in his prime, plays in
2:36a high power offense and is way less likely to miss games in 2026.
2:40So McCaffrey showed signs of decline in terms of rushing fourth lowest rushing yards over expectation per attempt last year, career low yards per attempt at 3.8.
2:48And the 49ers overall feel like a very fragile bet in 2026.
2:52They have one of the most oldest offensive lines in the NFL.
2:55Every single day, it seems like another guy is pulling up limp with a hamstring injury or tightness or whatever.
3:01And it's just an offense that I mean, I think it's going to be more disappointing than rewarding in 2026 for fantasy football.
3:08And that starts at the top with CMC. Yeah, starting hot.
3:11The RB3 going eighth or eighth overall. Pat, what do you think?
3:15I totally get it. The historical precedents are scary and McCaffrey could absolutely lose your league as like a mid first round pick.
3:21But, you know, you're quoting Trent Dilfer, Matt. I'm going to quote Ricky Bobby.
3:25We're going to quote all the greats of sports.
3:28If you ain't first, you're last. And we know that if Christian McCaffrey does stay healthy, he's going to score a lot of fantasy points.
3:35So I'm I'm still willing to make that bet, especially if I'm in a league against tough competition.
3:41Less so maybe in a home league where I feel a little bit better about my chances and I don't need to take that risk.
3:48But against sharks. Yeah, I'll still make that bet in the mid first round.
3:52Yeah, that makes sense. So who's your first one?
3:55It's for she rice whose ADP has been falling a little bit, but it's still in the third round.
4:00Everyone knows there's injury risk and character risk here.
4:03Rishi Rice had cleanup surgery on his knee in the spring and had to do his rehab in a Texas jail because
4:10he violated his probation for smoking pot and was on probation for fleeing the scene of a multi car accident that he caused, resulting in injuries to others.
4:18Here's the other thing. Chiefs offense has been pretty average over the last three years since Rishi Rice came into the league.
4:24I'm not saying that's the fault of Rishi Rice.
4:27It isn't. But why continue to run your offense the same way when it isn't working?
4:32Like Patrick Mahomes averaged 8.1 yards per pass attempt over his first five seasons.
4:36He averaged just shy of forty eight hundred passing yards per season over that stretch over the last three years.
4:42Seven point oh yards per attempt more than a yard fewer.
4:45He's averaged about a thousand fewer passing yards per season.
4:48I think Kenneth Walker is going to play a role in the chief screen game this year, and that could reduce the
4:54hefty volume of screen passes Rice has been getting.
4:57I think a healthy Xavier Worthy could cut into Rice's target share and maybe Cyrus Allen becomes a thing.
5:02I just think it's risky to assume Rishi Rice is going to keep up this PPR scam that he's been running in Kansas City the last few years.
5:11Yeah, going as the wide receiver 12 27th overall and it feels like every day there's a clip of him in training camp looking not good.
5:18So Erickson, are you are you in on this?
5:21Are you in on not necessarily fading, but being scared of Rishi Rice?
5:25Definitely scared of Rishi Rice. I don't think anybody clicks Rishi Rice and thinks man feels so great about that pick right?
5:31He's just like like no qualms about it like you never feel good about the click.
5:36Now, I think the price is pretty palatable where it goes, where he's being drafted, especially as he kind of continues to
5:42fall because of him not looking great on post routes.
5:45Well, if he's running post routes, then you've already lost the bet because that's not what you want Rishi Rice doing.
5:51And I think that the risk concern with Rice comes down to he's a player that we like upside for because of his role in the chiefs offense.
6:00But like Fitz outlined, if that role changes similar to when we see running backs busts because we over project their roles
6:06and end up just not being that good. I don't think there's a debate about Rice being like a top 12 real life wide receiver.
6:14The reason he's in this conversation with his ADP is because he gets peppered with targets, especially in the red zone where
6:20he was top five in red zone targets per game last year.
6:24And that's one of the easiest ways to access a extremely high ceiling and fantasy football.
6:28So I still think that he is going to be the red zone guy when they throw if it's not a handoff to Kenneth Walker.
6:36So I think there is still upside with him.
6:38And I think that he's palatable where he goes around that three, four turn.
6:42However, you do get the stomach aches whenever you draft Rashi Rice.
6:46And he's not someone that I feel like I need to go out of my way to draft, but it's rather OK, Rossi Rice fell to me.
6:54I'll take my I'll scoop him up. Yeah, I like to call it like a Pepto pick where you should have it
7:00like a shot of Pepto when you're drafting some of these guys, which I do think applies to your next one, even
7:07though I do kind of like this running back.
7:09I was talking about him last week. But Erickson, who's your third one or sorry, third one for before we go to break.
7:16Quinchot Judkins running back for the Cleveland Browns. So I want to preface it with just the fact that he's coming off a fibula fracture.
7:23Ryan Heath has done a lot of great job over at fancy boys just identifying players that come off of this injury.
7:30Average negative six point fantasy points per game the following season.
7:33So blindly fading these guys off of these massive leg injuries, whether the reports say they look great, whether they look up to speed.
7:40Just you blindly fade these guys and you usually come out in the green.
7:44So that's kind of like the number one part when it comes to Judkins or my opening statement.
7:50But then you look at the optics of the situation.
7:53The Cleveland Browns could be the arguably the worst offense in the NFL in 2026.
7:57And that would surprise nobody based on the quarterback battle they have going on between Deshaun Watson and Shader Sanders.
8:03You have a brand new offensive line where there's optimism that, OK, this can be better than last year, but it still
8:09it still takes time for the unit to gel.
8:12And we look at the two opening matchups. They're both on the road against fierce run defenses last year.
8:18Jaguars were one of the best run defenses. That's who they're facing in week one at Jacksonville and a Vita Bay is suiting up for Tampa Bay.
8:25That's the next matchup in Tampa Bay in week two bad offensive lines don't travel on the road very well.
8:31And a brand new starting five that has never played an NFL game before being thrown to the wolves like that behind bad shoddy quarterback play.
8:39I mean, Judkins can get as many carries as he want.
8:42I mean, that's what he did last year and he could barely crack the top 24.
8:47So I think that there's a chance that yeah, he can meet his ADP, but he feels like a player that you're
8:53going to put in your lineup and he's not going to scream any points, but you're going to feel obligated to keep
9:00starting him every single week because well, he got 15 carries.
9:03Like I got to keep playing this guy, but he's not scoring touchdowns.
9:07He's not ripping off big runs. He's not playing as many passing downs because Dylan Sampson, I think is a great pass
9:13catching running back in his own right. Todd Munkin took Derek Henry off the field to play justice.
9:19Hill people and you don't think that he'll take off Quinchot Judkins after we saw Dylan Sampson, the electricity of catching passes in that preseason game.
9:26Oh, baby, I would rather have Dylan Sampson 100 picks later than Quinchot Judkins.
9:30I think that he's facing a massive uphill battle out of the gates and he wasn't even efficient last year.
9:36Again, RB 26 of fantasy points per game. He ranked 38th in juke rate, 55th in yards per touch, 52nd in yards
9:43created per touch, 27th in breakaway runs, 40th in explosive run rate.
9:46So yeah, they can give him as many carries as he wants.
9:50I just don't think it's going to result in that many fantasy points.
9:54I think it's going to end up hurting fantasy managers more than helping them.
9:58Yeah, and I get it. Even though I like I said, I talked about liking him last week.
10:03It makes total sense. And Pat, you were the low man on him.
10:07So I'm guessing you're in agreement here. Fading him for all the same reasons Erickson is.
10:12I've not drafted him any league. Don't anticipate drafting him in any of my remaining drafts.
10:16And every time I see him go in a draft, I'm in, I just think, oh, good.
10:21I like it. Well, before we get to the next, the next pick here, I'm talking about players that can lose your league.
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10:52And Pat, let's get your this is your second one.
10:55What do you got? It's Cam Scadaboo. And I have to admit, I feel like kind of a sap for being worried
11:01about what the signing of Najee Harris might mean for Cam Scadaboo.
11:05But I'm worried about what the signing of Najee Harris might mean for Cam Scadaboo.
11:09Maybe the Najee signing is more about Tyrone Tracy, who blew a blocking assignment in the Giants preseason opener and almost got Jackson Dart hospitalized as a result.
11:17Or it might be the Giants way of expressing concern about Scadaboo's ability to stay healthy.
11:22The injury that he sustained last season was no joke.
11:25An open dislocation, a tibia fracture, significant ligament damage that required emergency surgery.
11:29Maybe he's not quite as quick this year post-surgery.
11:32And Scadaboo's game was more about toughness than quickness to begin with.
11:35This isn't really a guy who can afford to lose a step.
11:39I just worry that anyone who buys Scadaboo based on the hope that he's going to be a true workhorse who's going
11:45to play all three downs and be the goal linebacker and get passing down work.
11:49Maybe that's just a little too aspirational coming off the injury he had.
11:53Yeah, it makes sense. And I thought it was a similar injury to Judkins.
11:57Erickson, correct me if I'm wrong, so I'm sure that same stat would apply to him.
12:02Yep. Yeah, it applies to both guys. So you blindly fade those players that come off these major leg injuries and usually
12:09you end up being more right than wrong. I think it does open the conversation to about there may be a chance
12:15to buy these talented second year running backs at a point.
12:18But I think that we're looking at weeks one, two, three, four, where you're going to get underwhelming performances and frustrated fantasy managers.
12:25And that's where starting out of the gates is so important.
12:28You want to start winning your fantasy matchups. And when you identify players that it's a uphill battle, like those are players
12:35that cause you to lose very, very often. Yeah, it makes sense.
12:38And the game, the hot start point, 100 percent with your next one.
12:42I think you're going to make a lot of people mad because he's actually a popular sleeper.
12:47But who do you have for your for your last one?
12:50Well, that's why, because he's a player that I don't hate, but I just hate his price.
12:55I hate the ADP of Luther Burden. And this is something that I've gone back and looked at all my players to
13:02avoid articles because I don't need to sell the positive spin on Luther Burden.
13:06His head coach literally said, I want to buy stock in this player.
13:10Well, if you guys know anything about stock market, as I push my glasses up, anything about the stock market, it doesn't always hit right away.
13:17Like sometimes this takes time for you to actually see the return on your investment.
13:22And I think that's the case with Luther Burden.
13:24I think that out of the gates, it's not going to be wheels up.
13:28Oh, my God, I'm on Ross St. Brown 2.0, especially with now that he's dealing with a soft tissue injury like he did last offseason.
13:36He has a groin injury. He's missing the rest of the preseason.
13:39He's not practicing in full. He's expected to be back for week one.
13:43But in his absence, what's been happening in Bears camp?
13:46A lot of Colson Loveland, a lot of positive about Roman Duns.
13:50I end the foot. It's good to go. So I think that his ADP also hasn't moved enough when I know I've
13:56talked about him as a player to avoid or bus player.
13:59Player in recent episodes or episodes recorded earlier this offseason before his injury.
14:03I think the injury does make it that much more scary to draft a player like Luther Burden, expecting him to immediately
14:10return as a top 24 wide receiver. It's basically where he's going at the back end of fantasy wide receiver two, because he's got elite target competition.
14:18Roman Duns is a former top 10 pick and Burden was nowhere to be found last year when Odunzay was healthy.
14:24It wasn't until Odunzay went down, was playing with an injured foot when we started Luther Burden to see more offensive playing time in the offense.
14:31He only played over 60% of the snaps in three games last season.
14:35So what if he's in a role where he's only playing in 11 personnel?
14:39He's not on the field in two wide receiver sets.
14:42Now, that's not what I would necessarily project. But I do know that the Bears want to use a lot of these heavy tight end sets.
14:50We saw that a little bit in the preseason game where, yeah, we want to be able to run the football effectively.
14:56We want to be able to establish dominance at the line of scrimmage with these big formations.
15:01And what if it's Odunzay? That's that isolated wide receiver and not Luther Burden.
15:05So for me, going back to ADP data that I've looked at, wide receivers that are really expensive, the highest projected players without an actual true breakout.
15:13Because last year, I mean, the way you talk about Luther Burden, you'd think that he would have finished like top 30.
15:20He was wide receiver 48 last year as a rookie, not a top 30 receiver.
15:24And it's all based on his per route efficiency, not actually fantasy points.
15:28Like that's what we're citing. Not anything that's about the game we're playing here with fantasy points.
15:33He was wide receiver 48 and he finished the season with four red zone targets.
15:38So ultimately, even if he continues to be super efficient on a per route basis, if he doesn't score those touchdowns and
15:44it's actually Odunzay and Loveland, who I think profile as more of a red zone presence, then I think I'm going to
15:50be okay fading Luther Burden here as the wide receiver 24.
15:54Maybe he'll be a player I look to buy low on later in the season.
15:58But for me, I can't get another price, especially when he's going around other players.
16:02I really like Parker Washington, Christian Watson, Odunzay, Jameson Williams.
16:05Aren't we just hoping that he could be Jameson Williams?
16:08Like, or you could just draft Jameson Williams, another player that I think is also a very rating ADP, someone that I
16:15wasn't as high on earlier in the offseason. But his price has kind of come down and I've kind of been more
16:21open to taking him as a high end wide receiver three.
16:25Yeah, it makes sense. It's kind of like the he could be a boat joke from from family guy.
16:30It's like, well, we already have these boats that you can draft at this position anyways.
16:35So, Pat, what do you think about Burden? I can't go with Erickson here.
16:39I'm only about at ADP with Burden and I do have Jameson Williams ranked higher.
16:43I'm in the minority there. But they kind of slow rolled Burden last year.
16:47But now I think the genie's out of the bottle.
16:50I believe in the player. Like, I think he's just so quick that he's such a hard cover for NFL cornerbacks.
16:57And I think it's a skinny target tree in Chicago.
17:00I trust the play caller Ben Johnson. And I think with the Bears defense, they're going to be involved in a lot of shootouts.
17:07So I'm OK with drafting Burden where he's going.
17:09Well, for your last one, we got a former Bear.
17:12So what do you have to say for your last one?
17:15DJ Moore. And I know we look good in the Bills' first preseason game.
17:19I get that it's appealing to have the guy who's probably going to be Josh Allen's number one receiver.
17:25But I think it's a mistake to think DJ Moore is going to be what Stefan Diggs was for Buffalo a few years ago.
17:32DJ Moore hasn't been good the last two years.
17:35He's averaged 1.44 and 1.24 yards per route run in Chicago the last two seasons.
17:39And by the way, DJ Moore hasn't really ever been a prolific touchdown scorer.
17:43He's had 41 touchdowns in 131 career games, 5.1 per season.
17:47And Josh Allen might not really help with DJ Moore's touchdown count.
17:50Josh Allen had two fewer TD passes than Caleb Williams last year and has thrown fewer than 30 TD passes each of the last three seasons.
17:58I just worry we're paying for what DJ Moore used to be when he was regularly pumping out 1,000-yard seasons.
18:04He hasn't had one since 2023, but I am a little scared to fade DJ Moore because I used to love him.
18:10And we've seen him click in a Joe Brady offense.
18:13So, yeah, it's a bit of a scary fade.
18:16I'm just not ready to pay up for him at what the ADP is right now.
18:20Yeah, it makes sense. And he's going wide receiver 22, 58 overall.
18:24He looks pretty close to Luther Burden. So, Erickson, what do you think about DJ Moore?
18:29Any time you have a wide receiver with a new quarterback, it always invites a big bust potential.
18:34Even when you think about, oh, it's an upgrade.
18:36You thought Trevor Lawrence was an upgrade for Brian Thomas Jr.
18:40How'd that work out, right? So, I understand that the bust risk with DJ Moore, I think he's more of a floor play to me just in general.
18:48I mean, that's kind of what his body work of his career, you just look at everything.
18:53And if that fall off with Chicago the last couple of years is real and not about him being disinterested or them
18:59phasing him out of the offense, then you do invite a lot of risk.
19:04So, DJ Moore is not a player that I've actually been like fading, but not a player that I've been going out
19:10of my way to draft in any capacity. So, I think I'm kind of lockstep here with Fitzy.
19:15Yeah, that makes sense. I feel like the last two years we've gotten bamboozled thinking that, like, of course, Josh Allen's going
19:22to support a high-end wide receiver when he just hasn't.
19:25And so, yeah, I'll be quick with mine. And Jeremiah Love is the guy that I'm kind of scared to draft going
19:31as the running back 12, 38th overall. I was kind of already out on him even before the injury, and that was
19:38just kind of icing on the cake. Now, he has gone down a little bit since the injury, so ADP's taken that into account.
19:45But a high ankle is scary for a rookie.
19:47That's scary. But the biggest thing for me was just, like, Tyler Algier.
19:51We've seen him do this with a highly-drafted rookie before, just take away all the touchdowns and stuff.
19:56Not that Tyler Algier obviously is as good as Bijan Robinson.
20:00Obviously, he's not as good as Jeremiah Love, but he's a good short yardage back.
20:04Last year, he had 10 carries inside the 10.
20:07Bijan Robinson had 11, and he converted more of those.
20:10He converted five. Bijan converted three. Obviously, different player, but he's good in that role.
20:14We're not expecting the Cardinals to have a good offense.
20:17They're going to throw the ball a ton. And while Love is a fantastic pass-catching back, they have a lot of mouths
20:23to feed with Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison Jr., and then, obviously, Trey McBride.
20:27And then you talked about getting to a hot start.
20:30The thing with me, he's got a brutal schedule.
20:33He starts with the Chargers week one, then the Seahawks, 49ers, Giants, Lions, Rams, and Broncos.
20:38That's his first seven weeks. That's like five brutal matchups.
20:41You can keep reading the entire Cardinals schedule. It doesn't get better, dude.
20:44Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and you're right. But that first seven weeks, I mean, that's like, when are you starting this guy?
20:51So, yeah, I'm scared about Love. I feel like he's going to win you with leagues in the future.
20:56He's awesome. I just don't think it's going to be this year.
21:00So that's who I thought for mine. In terms of your guys' three picks, Erickson, we'll start with you.
21:05Who are you the most concerned about being wrong on?
21:08I'm trusting the process. But fading CMC. So he is initially the player I thought I was going to bring up here.
21:15But it's actually Luther Burton. Because I agree that the talent is so there.
21:19The upside with him in a Ben Johnson offense is so there.
21:23But going back to trusting the process of something that has worked.
21:26When you fade the most expensive wide receiver without a true season-long breakout, it works out for you.
21:31Because those are the players that bust at the highest rate.
21:35And players like Rashi Rice. Technically, he has not had a true breakout.
21:38So he would qualify as one of those players.
21:41Obviously, on a per-game basis, it's a little bit different.
21:44Christian Watts is another player. That popular breakout. But hasn't really put it together.
21:48When these guys get really expensive, they have a very high bust rate.
21:52And for me, Luther Burton kind of checks off most of those boxes of, hey, this is a player that just doesn't
21:58really meet their expectations because it's so high. So I'm going to say Luther Burton.
22:03And hopefully that he doesn't destroy me in the first half of the season.
22:07Acknowledging that he could have a really strong second half of the season when he's fully healthy.
22:12Yeah, I get it. Pat, what about you? DJ Moore, because he could have the season.
22:17Stefan Diggs was having for the Bills three, four, five years ago where he has 100 catches, 1,400 yards.
22:22And I faded that. Yeah, it always feels better to talk about people you're high on than people that you're low on
22:29because it just feels a lot worse when you get those wrong.
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