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QBs & RBs You MUST START In Week 2! (Fantasy Football Start/Sit)

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Sep 17, 2026

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Antonio WilliamsBijan RobinsonBo NixBrock PurdyBucky IrvingDak PrescottDalton KincaidDontayvion WicksDrake MayeJahmyr GibbsJalen HurtsJayden DanielsJoe BurrowJordan Mason

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Antonio Williams

PositiveUsage23:55

Antonio Williams was highly productive during his limited opportunities, specifically noted for his performance on 11 routes run.

Bijan Robinson

PositiveProjection43:38

Bijan Robinson is an elite must-start player who demonstrated massive usage in Week 1 with 21 carries, nine targets, 173 yards from scrimmage, and a touchdown; his 41% target share was the highest by any running back in fantasy points data history, positioning him to potentially outscore Jahmyr Gibbs.

Bo Nix

NegativeBust35:44

The source expresses skepticism regarding Bo Nix's top-10 ranking for Week 2, labeling him as 'busted' and noting he is not a good quarterback. He ranks in the bottom five in catchable throw rate and completion percentage over expectation, and the offense is characterized as incompetent by every measure, including EPA per play and points per drive.

Brock Purdy

PositiveProjection3:48

The source projects Brock Purdy as the QB2 for Week 2 against the Miami Dolphins. Purdy leads all quarterbacks in EPA per dropback since the start of 2024 and ranks top-three in nearly every efficiency metric, including second in fantasy points per dropback and third in fantasy points per opportunity. He averaged 32 fantasy points per game in the fantasy playoffs last year and recently scored 22.1 points against a tough defense. Only Josh Allen is considered to have a higher fantasy ceiling in simulations.

Bucky Irving

NegativeBust47:44

Skepticism is warranted regarding Bucky Irving despite high rankings; he did not look special in Week 1 and faces a difficult matchup against a strong Cleveland defense.

Dak Prescott

PositiveProjection11:22

Dak Prescott is projected as a top-five fantasy quarterback (QB5) for Week 2 against the Washington Commanders. The source cites a favorable schematic matchup against Dan Quinn's cover-three defense, noting Prescott is one of three QBs who routinely shreds that coverage. He is expected to bounce back after a Week 1 performance hampered by uncharacteristic drops from George Pickens.

Dalton Kincaid

PositiveUsage39:43

The source highlights Dalton Kincaid as a key beneficiary of Buffalo's 12 and 13 personnel usage, which forced Houston to play nickel coverage and resulted in Kincaid consistently beating defensive backs like Kamari Lassiter and Derek Stingley.

Dontayvion Wicks

PositiveProjection12:35

Dontayvion Wicks is expected to have a big game against the Tennessee Titans defense, as the source notes the Titans' inability to cover in-breaking routes.

Drake Maye

PositiveValue39:03

Drake Maye is a preferred start over borderline QB1s like Bo Nix and Patrick Mahomes for Week 2; his poor Week 1 performance is attributed to facing the league's toughest defense in Seattle, and he is ranked ahead of both Nix and Mahomes.

Jahmyr Gibbs

PositiveProjection45:36

Jahmyr Gibbs remains in the elite conversation with significant touchdown upside and recorded 40 touches in his own right during Week 1.

Jalen Hurts

PositiveProjection7:05

Jalen Hurts is projected as the QB3 for Week 2 with 20.3 fantasy points against the Tennessee Titans. The source is encouraged by his 48 rushing yards in Week 1—his highest total in nearly a year—and views his hyper-mobility as a 'cheat code' that makes him a top-three fantasy option. His previous struggles were attributed to a lack of designed QB runs, a trend that appears to be reversing.

Jayden Daniels

PositiveProjection13:50

Jayden Daniels is a strong start for Week 2, projected as the QB6. The source highlights his 'Konami code' rushing upside as a primary driver for fantasy production, noting he will actively use his legs to make plays in a game featuring the week's second-highest over/under.

Joe Burrow

PositiveValue29:18

Joe Burrow is a preferred start over borderline QB1s like Bo Nix and Patrick Mahomes. While he has a reputation as a slow starter, the source views him as a high-upside play and prefers him over Trevor Lawrence in direct comparisons.

Jordan Mason

NegativeInjury42:06

Jordan Mason has been placed on IR due to a broken thumb that required surgery, significantly impacting the 49ers' backfield usage.

Josh Allen

PositiveProjection5:08

Josh Allen is identified as one of the few quarterbacks with a higher fantasy ceiling than Brock Purdy for Week 2, with simulations suggesting only he is likely to outscore Purdy. Allen serves as a statistical benchmark for elite production; his 23.7 fantasy points per game average in healthy games is used to contextualize other players' performance, and he remains a standard-bearer for elite QB output alongside Lamar Jackson.

Justin Fields

PositiveUsage31:47

The source highlights Justin Fields' 2022 season as a benchmark for how increased design rushing volume (jumping from 2.8 to 7.6 runs per game) can elevate a quarterback's fantasy production from 13.2 to 25.6 points per game.

Justin Herbert

NegativeProjection19:48

Justin Herbert is a sit candidate for Week 2, ranked as QB15. His efficiency is heavily dependent on Ladd McConkey; Herbert averaged 10.3 adjusted net yards per attempt with McConkey on the field compared to 1.1 without him. Additional concerns include a struggling interior offensive line and a run-heavy, slow-paced offensive approach as favorites against the Raiders. The source also prefers Trevor Lawrence over Herbert in start/sit decisions.

Kyle Lewis

NegativeInjury9:59

Rookie linebacker Kyle Lewis has been placed on injured reserve, a move the source suggests may force the defense to shift away from base coverage schemes.

Ladd McConkey

PositiveUsage20:10

Ladd McConkey is vital to the Chargers' offense, with film review showing he was open on every drop back in his recent game. The source notes the offense appears nonfunctional without him, as evidenced by the significant drop in Justin Herbert's efficiency when McConkey is off the field.

Lamar Jackson

NegativeProjection7:05

Lamar Jackson is used as a statistical benchmark for elite quarterback efficiency and production. The source notes that Brock Purdy's current efficiency metrics are high enough to rank ahead of Jackson in certain categories, and Trevor Lawrence's recent performance has been compared to exceeding 2019 Lamar Jackson levels.

Malik Willis

NegativeUsage30:45

While officially a 'sit' in projections, Malik Willis's fantasy value is tied to design rushing volume. The source believes the team plans to lean into his dual-threat ability, citing the 2022 Justin Fields breakout as a precedent for how increased rushing volume can serve as a fantasy 'cheat code'.

Mike Gesicki

PositiveSleeper40:09

The source suggests Mike Gesicki could see increased opportunities if the Bengals continue to utilize heavy personnel (12, 13, 21) against nickel defenses, similar to how Dalton Kincaid succeeded against Houston. The source specifically recommends him as a target for player props.

Patrick Mahomes

NegativeBust29:21

The source argues Patrick Mahomes is living on his past reputation and has not been an accurate quarterback since Tyreek Hill left. He had zero completions over 10 air yards in Week 1 and relies on unsustainable plays, such as a 60-yard catch-and-run by Travis Kelce. While he may see a small bounceback against the Colts, he is viewed as a declining asset compared to other options.

Quentin Johnston

PositiveUsage22:03

Quentin Johnston was consistently open on every drop back in his recent game. Despite his ability to get open, he was missed by Justin Herbert on multiple occasions, including wide-open opportunities across the middle of the field.

Sean Tucker

NegativeDepth Chart47:09

Sean Tucker, who served as the goal-line back last year, may return to the backfield rotation in Week 2 after sitting out Week 1.

Trevor Lawrence

PositiveProjection23:47

Despite a negative matchup against Denver's elite pass defense, the source argues Trevor Lawrence is a QB1 start and that his QB19 projection is too low. Lawrence has been elite over his last five games, averaging 29.8 fantasy points per game and 0.75 points per drop back, showing efficiency comparable to 2019 Lamar Jackson. The source prefers him over Patrick Mahomes, though notes Joe Burrow and Drake Maye are preferred options.

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0:00Week two, start sit. Today we're talking quarterbacks and running backs here on a fantasy football daily over on the

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0:47Scott, week two, start sit. This is a fun show. We're doing quarterbacks and running backs. Um, I feel like you're kind of the running back whisperer, so

0:55I'm I can't wait to talk to you about running backs, but how are you today, man?

0:58>> I'm doing good. Happy to be here.

1:00Excited to talk ball with one of my best friends.

1:04>> Oh, I like that. Okay. Okay. Maybe not Oscar the Grouch today. We're not getting grumpy, Scott. We're >> I thought it was Grover.

1:11>> Well, you're both. I told you you're you're a liter.

1:15>> Sometimes when you act like a battered dog, I'll I'll call you Elmo. We haven't had to do that yet, but we will get

1:20there at some point. So, >> is Elmo a dog?

1:23>> No, but like, you know, he's very soft and quiet and tickly and laughy and whatever, you know.

1:30>> Yeah, >> Grover is more the look. You got the look of Grover and and your your voice, you know, it's a little Groverish. But

1:36anyways, we're uh we're way off track already. So, let's dive into quarterbacks. Um, when we're doing start sit, how much, like a question for you,

1:46how much are you weighing what you just saw in week one versus what we know from last year? Like week one's too small of

1:52a sample, right, to make big sweeping reactions, but you kind of have to work in some some 2025 data. Ultimately though, it feels almost a little viby.

2:02Anyway, how do you weigh all that together? Um, yeah. For me, I'd say it's like 65% my priors, my, you know,

2:10pre-draft rankings and analysis. It's like 25% week one and I don't know, 10% 10% vibes.

2:20>> I don't know what the other 10% is, but something like that.

2:24>> We're we're a math company here at Fantasy Points Data. So, >> yeah.

2:28>> All right, let's dive into start quarterbacks. Quarterbacks. We are starting um right off the top. Brock Pury we're projecting as QB2.

2:37So that's one thing we can confidently say is if you you're ever in doubt, just head over to fantaspoints.com and check

2:43out the industryleading projections. Our guy Chris Wet is always killing it. Had a really good week one. Um room to grow,

2:50but really solid week one and we were the best in the industry last year.

2:54We're going to repeat that every single start sit episode we do. But Brock Party, we're projecting him as QB2. He has the dream matchup against the Miami

3:02Dolphins. I don't know how much analysis we need. Brock Pertie is good. Miami sucks. Play Brock Birdie.

3:08>> Yeah. I mean, it's one thing to say Brock Pertie is a start. What we're saying is he's going to go nuclear this

3:14week. He's >> he's only Josh Allen is going to to outscore him. Like, if you if you run this this out a thousand times this week

3:23two of the 2026 season, Brock Pury should outscore every quarterback. But Josh Allen and yeah, I I certainly see that being the case. Like for one thing,

3:34Brock Party's, you know, always been super underrated. He's like basically like the mascot of fantasy points data.

3:42Um he averaged 32 fantasy points per game in the fantasy playoffs last year. He just dropped 22.1 on what's supposed to be an elite

3:52defense. And you see it on the screen.

3:54The dude is just like, dude, every quarterback stat is a Brock Pery stat.

3:59He leads all quarterbacks in EPA per dropback since the start of 2024. He ranks top three in just about everything. The one stat where he maybe

4:10not the best is turnover worthy throw rate. Um, you know, he does throw some like boneheaded picks every now and then, but everything else, including the

4:17fantasy stuff, like people lose sight of just how efficient he is from a fantasy perspective. second in fantasy points per drop back, third in fantasy points

4:25per opportunity, which includes quarterback runs. Like kind of crazy that at least one of Josh Allen, Jaylen Herz, Lamar Jackson ranks behind him.

4:34And then, you know, of course, he's up against a JD JV defense in the Miami Dolphins. What we're saying is probably

4:42the worst defense in football, maybe one of the worst defenses of the past decade. Uh 49ers we see have a 30 point

4:49implied point total this week. And Brett, I dug into it. I I dug into the advanced stats courtesy of Fantasy Points data.

4:57They played base defense 66% of the time. No one else was above 50%. What does that mean? That's like lighter coverage for your quarterback to throw

5:07all over. Uh and then worse yet, they pressured their opposing quarterback on just 6.5% of dropbacks. No other defense was under 20% in week one. So awful pass

5:18rush. um you know, fewer DBs on the field and it's just the talent is just awful and we just saw Yeah. the 49ers

5:28explode up against what everyone thought was going to be maybe the best or second best defense in the league this year.

5:33>> Well, the Rams still might be. They were jet-lagged and they were down Miles Garrett. I think you know, calm down on

5:39that. But you you stole most of my talking points here. I was going to talk about the pressure rate party should

5:44reasonably have all day. They're starting a quarterback named Jason Marshall, who I didn't even know who he was until I researched him four shows

5:52this week. So, and I I'm pretty into the weeds. The base defense thing is a great call. The only thing I think that could

5:59change that is they just put Kyle Lewis on injured reserve today. Kyle Lewis is a rookie, you know, will linebacker

6:09who's like kind of a coverage demon. He was a converted safety. I do wonder if, you know, the absence of him will

6:16eventually lead them into a little bit more nickel because he like I thought, you know, you can get away with some

6:21more base if you got linebackers that can do really high-end coverage type of stuff. Um, either way, you know, who knows when that transition happens, but

6:30you know, they're they're rolling out Jordan Brooks and their their green dot this year is a rookie in Jacob Rodriguez. And I love Jacob Rodriguez as

6:37a prospect, but like I think they're going to keep the defense kind of vanilla. Um, we're this wasn't what we saw Jeff Hafley doing in Green Bay where

6:45it was so much exotic coverages, so much inverted stuff, disguise stuff. It's a little bit more vanilla and I think some

6:51of that is just they have a rookie green dot who's calling the plays in there.

6:54So, um, definitely, you know, he should shred this. I think Mike Evans, well, we're not doing receivers, but Mike Evans is also going to be a big

7:02beneficiary of this matchup.

7:06>> All right, next. You good?

7:08>> Yeah.

7:09>> So, I'm I'm giving room. We're having a conversation. I don't want to make this Scott point, Brett point, Scott. No one

7:15wants to hear that. They want to hear conversation. Scott.

7:17>> Yeah. I mean, this Listen, this one's easy. All right.

7:19>> Yeah. All right. Next one. Jaylen Herz versus the Tennessee Titans defense. Um, we're projecting QB3 20.3 fantasy points. This is another one where it's

7:28like we're just taking we're just picking on the bad defenses. The Tennessee Titans were bottom three in pressure rate. They looked awful. They

7:35couldn't cover anything. um all of these in breakers that we you know the Jets were running last last week. The the

7:42runaways they just literally couldn't cover it. The the time, you know, the time to pressure was too late. It's like 2.9 second time to pressure. Alante

7:49Taylor and Cordell Flaw just got pieced up. And I I think you're going to see a lot more of that. Dantavian Wixs, uh Mai

7:56Lemon, Dallas Goddard, Devonte Smith, they should all have, you know, pretty big games here. So, >> yeah. Listen, I we don't we're not

8:03generally typically going to be going with like the most obvious names, the superstars. It's like, yeah, I drafted Jaylen Herd's top five. Of course, he's

8:11top five this week. Uh we're going to try and, you know, stick with the more borderline ones to really help you uh

8:19with your teams, but um you know, sometimes I want to single out a player to have like a broader discussion I

8:25think is interesting. And I want to do that with Jaylen Herz here. Yeah, it's he's is our QB3 on the week based on our

8:31projections. You know, with some of these quarterbacks, you sometimes worry about how bad the opposing offense is and whether or not they can actually

8:40push the opposing quarterback to lean pass heavy. That's actually like almost never the case with Jaylen Herz. Like honestly, to me, this just seems like a

8:49prime Jaylen Herz four or five touchdown game with two of those coming on the ground. They're seven point favorites up against a dead Titans team. I think

8:58they're going to live inside the red zone, have amazing starting field position, and yeah, Jaylen Herds has those two rushing touchdowns weeks,

9:06which really, you know, put them over the top. Uh, but the broader discussion point I wanted to bring up that I

9:11thought was really interesting was he had 48 rushing yards uh last week. That was the second most by any quarterback, was his most in nearly a year. And I was

9:21really encouraged to see that because, you know, last year it was his worst year by far. Um, and that really had

9:30everything to do with like the lack of rushing fantasy points per game. Um, and Jimmy Key, one of their best beat

9:36writers, said that was intentional. That was Jaylen Herz asking the coaching staff to remove all the design QB runs from the game plan last year. And I I

9:47was kind of arguing. I feel like he has no choice this year um because he's on the hot seat and you know he's not a

9:53Curt Warner. Uh that's really his cheat code is his his hyper mobility. Um so I was encouraged to see that. Uh and yeah,

10:02Jaylen Herz top three this week.

10:05>> Jackson Dart, we're once again going to spend time talking about the New York Giants projecting him as QB4 um verse the Rams defense. Now, I think

10:15maybe preseason this matchup scares you a little bit, but then you see how the Giants performed in a really good spot

10:21against um the Dallas Cowboys and then and then the Rams conversely were were very bad and on national TV. So, what

10:29are you seeing here with Dart?

10:30>> Yeah, dude. Jackson Dart always and forever. I love the guy. I think he's a wicked talent who runs and is a fantasy

10:38cheat code. Was really encouraged by everything I saw in week one. Uh the Rams, you know, on paper an elite defense, but Miles Garrett's out. Aaron

10:48Donald, we don't know if he's going to play and even if he is, it's been years since he last played a game of football.

10:53And then Jackson Dart finished as Fantasy's QB4 last week, 26.6 fantasy points. He averages 24.7 fantasy points per game in career starts, minus that

11:04one game against the Vikings. That That's better than Josh Allen that leads all quarterbacks. Um but but maybe best of all, he had six designed runs

11:14excluding Neil Downs. That was at least twice as much as any other quarterback besides Josh Allen. Um he he finished the week first in EPA per play. This is

11:24one of my guys. I love him. He's fun, man. He's exciting. He's a great guy to have in your team. Uh so Jackson Dart, I

11:31would start him top five. uh even though you know the Rams were certainly a a fantasy defense that that got drafted

11:38pretty early in in your leagues this year.

11:42>> Going right down the list, Dak Prescott vers the Washington Commanders. We're projecting him as QB5, just under 20 points a game. I I like

11:52this one a lot. I think Dak's gonna have a massive bounceback week. We have Dan Quinn who has been, you know, really

11:58throughout his career, he's been like a cover three kind of merchant. That's that's his staple coverage. He ran that at like 18% in week one, but it was

12:06still a ton of cover two. Um I think, you know, I his identity is he wants to be in that cover three, you know, shell.

12:13Dak Prescott is one of three quarterbacks that just routinely shreds cover three. It's Jared Goff, it's Jordan Love, it's Dak Prescott. So I I

12:21think schematically it's a great matchup. Then you get into the fact that Washington's starting two 5 foot3 corners and Mike Santo still and um

12:30Amique Robertson. I think that's also advantage Dak Prescott. So I I'm pretty >> advantage George pickins certainly.

12:37>> Yeah, we're not doing wide receivers.

12:39I'm going to try to keep or stop talking about them, but um yeah, huge advantage for the Cowboys offense and the

12:46Washington defense. It's like I I just never really know what they're doing with their offseason acquisitions.

12:53doesn't seem like they have really prioritized a clean roster build here.

12:57It's It's been every year I'm just kind of puzzled by what they do. So, >> yeah. Well, listen, Prescott was our

13:04favorite to lead the league in passing yards this year. Uh wasn't a great week one. He he did kind of get a little

13:11unlucky, let down by George Pickkins uncharacteristically dropped two deep balls. He already has more air yards lost due to drops this year than he had

13:20all of last year. you know, if he caught those like he typically does, that might be an extra 90 passing yards and two

13:26touchdowns. And then the other thing is like I think Dan Quinn kind of sucks, you know. Yeah. Uh bottom five in

13:33fantasy points per drop back in week one. Bottom five in in fantasy points per drop back allowed last year as well.

13:40So this is kind of Dan Quinn has has been a great matchup for quarterbacks for a while. So, uh, certainly week two,

13:47Dak Prescott, top five quarterback.

13:50>> And we like the other side of this game, too, with Jaden Daniels coming back.

13:54He's, uh, projecting his QB6.

13:57What is the implied point total in this game, Scott? Do you know?

14:00>> Um, yeah, I could pull it up.

14:03>> I just think that's important. And, you know, we want both >> second highest overunder on the week.

14:09Only Buffalo and Detroit is higher. And then Dallas by implied point total is top five. Washington a little above

14:19average.

14:21>> Nice.

14:23Um yeah, I mean obviously Jaden's got the Konami code factor, right? He's going to run. He's going to make stuff happen with his legs. It didn't look

14:30pretty last week though. They kind of got blanked a little bit. Terry McLaren completely taken out of that game against the Eagles. Obviously Antonio

14:38Williams was very productive in 11 routes run or whatever. Steph Diggs had a decent game, but um you're not too worried about this offense.

14:46>> Well, he goes from an extremely difficult matchup to a great one. Um and it's a player we were high on coming

14:54into the season. A stat I had was he averaged 23.7 fantasy points per game in healthy games over his first two years.

15:03That would have ranked tied with Josh Allen.

15:06>> Um and then this is just like one of the best matchups there is. They've given up, the Cowboys have given up 24 fantasy

15:12points per game to quarterbacks since the start of last season. That's 3.3 more than any other defense. If you schedule adjusted, it's like twice as

15:20bad as any other defense. So, um yeah, this just looks like a great get right spot to me.

15:26>> Our last start for quarterbacks is Caleb Williams versus the Vikings. Uh you're playing with fire here.

15:34>> Our king, our one true king. I will never doubt him again. Brett Caleb Williams, the GOAT, Madden, Coverboy. He

15:43was the overall QB1 last week. He had a career-high 10 rushing attempts, 37 fantasy points. And that's a that's a thing people were sleeping on. There's a

15:53little Konami code juice to Caleb Williams. He's hit 20 miles an hour on seven different runs since the start of last season. No other quarterback comes

16:02close to that. Uh, the Vikings, are they a difficult matchup? Are they a brutal matchup? You hear me exclude them every

16:09time I talk about Jackson Darts fantasy points per game or does it not matter because Caleb Williams is him?

16:18I This obviously rage bait. Um, but Caleb in his two outings against the Vikings last year was was relatively unproductive. I think he averaged either

16:28just under 200 passing yards or just over 200 passing yards. I forget which it is. I'm not looking at the number

16:33right this second. Uh, you know, this Vikings defense is tough. It's insanely tough and it's it's really hard on um guys who are a little bit slow to

16:44process and that's Caleb Williams where he does want to put the hero cape on and extend every play. They're going to

16:50they're going to line up and give you just a litany of disguises and and sim pressure packages and in your face

16:56pressure packages with the mugged up a gap type stuff. So, I don't know. And I'm not saying he's a sit by any means.

17:03I I think he's probably fine, but I'm just a little little cautious. What is the overunder in this game actually?

17:09Because I'm looking at this Bears defense like, well, the Vikings might score points against them, which would in turn mean that the Bears have to

17:15score points back and Ben Johnson's a psycho.

17:18It does kind you know what, Scott, it does kind of feel like you have to start Caleb every week because Ben Johnson,

17:25like >> did you hear him did you hear him talking about how he's gonna go for two at the end of that game to get to 60?

17:32Oh yeah, dude. He This is what I was saying is like there's a real chance that the answer to 2026 drafts was just

17:39like, you know, who who wins all the championships. It's just whichever team drafted the most Bears because Ben Johnson is him. Like he had that quote

17:47where he was like he knew exactly how many points per game the 2013 Denver Broncos scored to set the record. He is

17:54dead set on breaking that. Like that's who he was in Detroit, too. like he never took his foot off the gas in the

18:00fourth quarter, even up three scores.

18:02And so, yeah, that's what I was saying about Caleb Williams is like I I had all the same skepticism you had, although I

18:08did note like there was a major improvement rookie to sophomore season in terms of his actual quantifiable play beyond play calling and supporting cast.

18:18Um, but yeah, this felt like something better than an impossible to fail setup.

18:23It felt like almost an impossible uh to not be great setup. And so Chicago 5.5 point favorites in this game against

18:32Yeah. the Carson Wentz led Vikings. The overunder is the third highest on the week. The Bears uh are sixth in implied

18:41point total. And I think I think yeah, the Vikings defense is scary, but I think offsetting that a little bit is

18:47the fact that Carson Wentz is the opposing quarterback. that gives you good odds of uh turnovers to capitalize on. Uh more better odds of making it to

18:58the red zone, better starting field position and uh and yeah, so so you know, for the folks at at home who like

19:07you know hate how often we uh Brett has criticized Caleb Williams, the the one good thing here is we own our L's. We

19:15take our L's and Brett made a bet and if Caleb Williams is top half of the league in catchable throw rate, he has to wear

19:22a Caleb jersey every day on this show for a full month and paint his nails pink.

19:30>> No, no paint his nails pink. That was not part of the bet. It's also not top half the league. It's league average.

19:35And if the bet, that's the funny thing.

19:38I'm getting roasted. People have brought up the bet. If the bet ended right now, I I would be off the hook. Caleb

19:44Williams is not above league average in catchable ball rates. So, um, thank you.

19:48Anyways, uh, let's get to the sits. Trey and Scott here. Uh, Justin Herbert versus the Raiders. I Scott, you must be

19:56scared. It's the Raiders. You got Justin Herbert on the sit list. What's going on?

20:02>> Yeah, I mean that that's a good question. I I pulled up Chris's projections and he has Justin Herbert QB15 on the week and I I wonder how much

20:10of that is the uncertainty regarding Lad Mani playing because uh this just looked like a totally nonviable nonfunctional

20:21offense without him. With Lad Maki on the field, Justin Herbert was averaging 10.3 adjusted net yards per attempt.

20:27Without him, that dropped all the way to 1.1. Herbert, >> are you Warren sharpening me right now?

20:33>> How so?

20:34>> Tiny sample size.

20:38>> Easy, bro. Easy. But uh yeah, that fair point. Um his his 14.3 fantasy points was his worst game with Joe Alt since

20:48like week 14 of 2024.

20:52Um and so yeah, and and like the Raiders defense kind of looked sneaky good last week or maybe the Miami Dolphins were

20:58just that bad. Um, but I I saw this with with Chris's projection. And I at first I wanted to argue against it and then I

21:05kind of like saw like sat there and thought about it. I looked at the 14 quarterbacks above him and I said, "You

21:11know what? I think that's fair."

21:12>> You know what's nuts? I went back and watched every drop back for them just to kind of get a feel for the offense

21:17again. This is like the sixth, seventh time I've watched every snap, but like just really honing in on the pass concepts.

21:23>> It's Lad and QJ both were open on every single drop back.

21:28>> Oh wow. I mean, it is cra like Herbert just really truly played bad in that game. So, I kind of came away with a

21:34smidge more confidence because like if Herbert can just play like 5% better, I think both guys would have had monster games. He missed QJ running wide open

21:42across the middle of the field two or three times.

21:45>> Like if he catches it, it's a >> see him or he threw it and it wasn't accurate.

21:48>> Didn't Didn't see him. Just was locked on somewhere else. Just he's part of the primary but just, you know, was kind of

21:54playing it a little slow and I don't know.

21:56>> Yeah. Well, the the other thing here is we know Mike McDaniel likes to go run heavy. Yes.

22:01>> Slower paced, especially with a lead.

22:04>> And so they're what, like seven point favorites against the Raiders here. So, uh, that's part of it. By the way, the

22:10Chargers running game, >> they had the worst yards before contact for attempt in week one. That that probably improves.

22:17>> Shocked.

22:18>> Just Yeah.

22:19>> No, it probably won't improve. Yeah, that that interior >> Well, no, it's it's that interior O line is ghastly bad.

22:27>> I mean, they're they're literally rotating left guard spot, Kyod Arisa and uh Trey Pipkins, who's a tackle.

22:35It's I, bro, it's it's not a good situation. So, >> well, that's what Tom Brady always said is like interior pressure is his

22:42Achilles heel, but every quarterback's Achilles heel, >> except for Caleb Blames, apparently >> the goat. Shout out. Shout out >> for real. you isolate his passing stats

22:51with interior pressure versus with like uh out outside pressure. It's crazy. You don't want to pressure him from the middle.

22:57>> Why?

22:58>> Cuz he bails, he gets out of the pocket.

23:00That's where you like you want to keep Caleb in the pocket. That's why the the Lions have had so much success against

23:06him is because they don't rush him. They just like collapse the pocket around him and don't let him escape. And that's

23:12that's they're 4-0 against Caleb and it's largely because of that. They just box him in. Teams for some reason haven't caught on to that. But

23:18>> well, that's why they got to listen to our Fantasy Start Sit episode on >> the Fantasy Points YouTube channel.

23:25>> Heck yeah, brother.

23:27>> Actually, actually, there's there's a there's a DC in the league I should uh I should text uh that information to when

23:34they play the Bears. And maybe we'll we'll we'll bet on them, too, and make some good money.

23:39>> Sounds good.

23:40>> Yeah, >> insider trading for the win.

23:42>> Hell yeah.

23:43>> All right. Uh that said, Justin Herbert being a sit this week makes total sense.

23:47Um, even though I'm a little more optimistic than I was a day or two ago, I I get it. I get it for sure. Um,

23:53Trevor Lawrence vers Denver. Obvious sit. I feel like Denver.

23:57>> I don't know that it's obvious, right?

23:58>> Oh, come on.

24:00>> Why >> you think it's an obvious sit?

24:03>> Well, it's obvious in that you don't want to tempt fate with one of the best pass defenses in the last five years.

24:10>> I mean, a washed Patrick Mahomes had success against the No, he didn't. The def Well, the defense missed like 25

24:17tackles. That That was not an encouraging defense >> in the run game.

24:22>> Right. Right.

24:24>> That probably translates. You know, you hit Parker Washington with a few screens, you can't bring him down.

24:29>> I'm sorry. Is Trevor Lawrence Kenneth Walker?

24:34>> All right. Here here's here's why he So, he's QB19 in our projections, which seems very low.

24:40>> It's harsh. Super harsh. I think part of this is Vegas is still putting a ton of respect on Denver's defense, which Brett

24:46says rightfully so.

24:48>> On the pass game side, for sure.

24:50Absolutely.

24:51>> But they're also disrespecting the Jaguars. So, the Jaguars only have a 21 point implied point total. That's 33% less than their 2025 average, more than

25:01any other team. But this is a big argument I was making all offseason was like, IB, I know ball, Vegas doesn't.

25:08They're way too low on the Jaguars. They had Jaguars as a middle- of the pack team by projected points per game. Chris

25:15and I were both like, "No, they should be top six for sure." And so I think it's a little bit of that. And you look

25:21at what Trevor Lawrence did last week, >> top six in fantasy points, 26 fantasy points despite only throwing the ball five times in the second half, sitting

25:29the entire fourth quarter. He led all quarterbacks in fantasy points per drop back and EPA per drop back. Over his last five games, 29.8 fantasy points per

25:39game. 0.75 fantasy points per per drop back. This is like above and beyond 2019 Lamar Jackson levels. It's it's 11.5 fantasy

25:50points per game more than Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson over the same stretch.

25:54>> And I also think part of this too is like how greedy Liam Cohen quarterbacks are inside the red zone. And Bo Nicks

26:01looked awful. This offense looked incompetent by every measure. yards per per play, EPA per play, success rate, points per drive. This was the worst

26:13offense in football. It was worse than the Cooper Rush led Falcons. It was worse than the Carson Wentz led Vikings.

26:19And so, if they're anywhere near as bad again, I could see Trevor Lawrence capitalizing like he did up against the Browns where it's like, yeah, I'm I'm in

26:28the red zone a lot because their offense sucks. Um, but >> can >> Yeah, >> I was say can I just say like my biggest

26:36week one takeaway was just that Liam Cohen might be the guy.

26:42>> Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

26:43>> I that was the most cohesive looking offense in the league by a lot.

26:47>> Wow. What does that mean cohesive?

26:49>> Just the the way they're marrying concepts together. The way they're giving you window dressing, they're showing you this to then later show you

26:56that. Um the the pass concepts all work together with the run game, the under center run game. It just everything was

27:04beautiful. The motion, the shifting, the personnel usage, the you know the jab, jab, cross with a counter hook. Like he had an answer for freaking everything. I

27:15mean it was it was truly just beautiful.

27:16It was I mean it was a legit clinic and the Browns defense is good and he just absolutely murdered them.

27:23>> Yes, it is.

27:25>> The Browns defense is good. list Jim Schwarz.

27:28>> They have Jared Verse is like an ascending superstar at Edge. He's not like nobody. They've got >> one player, >> right? They've got great backers. They

27:37got great guys.

27:39>> And then >> Denzel Ward's a What are you talking, bro? They have They're loaded with talent across the whole defense. One of

27:45the best mic backers in the game and in Carson Swissinger.

27:49>> They have Mason Graham in the middle.

27:51They've got safety depth. They've got three or four safeties that can play.

27:55like they're they're a legit good defense.

27:58>> Yeah, listen, not my wheelhouse.

27:59Certainly Brett's wheelhouse.

28:00>> So, why are you challenging me?

28:03>> I'm I'm trying to educate myself and the listeners. Okay, >> anyways. Um yeah, so Liam Cohen is is a monster and I think um you know, I think

28:13I'm even more bullish on the Jags offense than I was just because this is it's just pretty. And you go back to the

28:18last year, it was it kind of was the same thing. Took him a minute to get going, but once it did, it was popping.

28:22So, I gotta put you on the spot. So you listed Trevor Lawrence as a sit here on the show sheet on the graphic on the

28:28very show we're talking he's listed as a sit yet you're saying I don't know let's pump the brakes so let me put you on the

28:33spot here I'm going through our projections Baker Mayfield or Trevor Lawrence >> Trevor >> CJ Shout or Trevor Lawrence >> Trevor

28:41>> Jordan Love or Trevor Lawrence?

28:42>> Trevor.

28:43>> Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence?

28:45>> Trevor.

28:46>> Jared Goff or Trevor Lawrence?

28:48>> Trevor.

28:50>> Really?

28:51Jared Goff.

28:52>> Uh you know what? You know what? No, no, you're right. Jared Goff, Jared, >> so the last time the Lions played the

28:56Bills, they scored 90 points to get >> I know there's And they have like a 90 point overunder this week. That's a road

29:02game for Jared Goff, too, right?

29:03>> Yeah, but it's nice weather.

29:05>> Yeah, he's he's a dome merchant.

29:09>> Okay. Lawrence or Stafford?

29:13>> Uh, Lawrence.

29:15>> Lawrence or Drake May?

29:17>> May.

29:18>> Lawrence or Joe Burrow?

29:20>> Burrow.

29:21Lawrence or Mahomes?

29:26>> I think Lawrence. Okay.

29:28>> So, you got you have him as a QB1 this week. Then you think he's a QB1 started.

29:32>> Okay. Okay. So, so for the folks at home uh who don't know, so these are basically our rough draft projections.

29:40We have this big projections meeting on Friday, Fridays where Ryan Heath argues his case for players. I argue my case for players. Brett talks about what he

29:49sees on film and so our projections Saturday morning are elite. They're excellent. Um they're just now they're like 80 90% of the way there. There's

29:59really not a ton I disagree with. But yeah, you know, I'm keeping up for Trevor Lawrence, Parker Washington, all my Jaguars players this week. So that's

30:08one of them.

30:09>> Even beyond that, I like to describe it like this. So like projections are medium outcomes, right? Chris is projecting medium outcomes. for me to go

30:16against the grain and go against Chris, it really just comes down to how convicted I am a player hits their ceiling outcome that week. So, you're

30:24you're basically what you're telling me right here live on air is Trevor Lawrence. You're pretty convicted his ceiling outcome is more likely than the

30:30median outcome. And I think that's perfectly fair. I'm just I'm not trying to I'm not trying to make you go against

30:35Chris's projections. I'm just simply trying to see where you're at. You have you for sure have Trevor Lawrence as a actual top 12 guy, which definitely

30:42makes him a start.

30:43So, >> yeah.

30:45>> Anyways, Malik Willis versus the 49ers is a sit QB 20 in projections. 16.9 fantasy points. I gotta say, I know

30:53we're we're upset about last week and the 49ers looked like a wagon. The rushing upside alone could get him to 16.9 points, Scott. So, I'm a little h

31:04I'm kind of like you with Lawrence. I don't know. I don't know if this is a true sit to me.

31:07>> Yeah. So I it is a sit for me but you know to play devil's advocate here.

31:13>> It almost couldn't have gone any worse in week one. 15 completion, five sacks, 39 rushing yards, only one design run.

31:21That is unforgivable. Uh the ranked the the Dolphins ranked second worst in situation neutral pace of play. Uh and

31:29still he finished as a fringe QB1 17.7 fantasy points, QB13 on the week. Um, and so I just want to say this, like the

31:38broader conversation topic, the Malik Willis fix is really easy. It's just more design rushing volume. And this is exactly what we saw in 2022 when Justin

31:48Fields was my Exodia.

31:50Uh, across the first, >> I think six weeks of the season, he averaged just 2.8 design runs per game and only 13.2

31:59fantasy points per game. But from that point on, it jumped to 7.6 designed runs per game. 25.6 fantasy points per game.

32:08Like, that's better than Josh Allen. So, you know, run running is just such a cheat code. Doesn't matter if your wide

32:13receivers suck. It doesn't matter if your play caller. All that matters is just like, are you running enough? And are you a freak athlete like Malik

32:20Willis is? And so, uh, to me, I'm sitting him, but like the whole time I'm hoping that he goes off and he has like

32:30seven design runs and then I can start on week three. The more I looked at the the design run thing too, I I I kind of

32:36realized I was critical of it, but like >> did your source ever text you back by the way?

32:41>> Yeah, I he did. I'll get back to that in a second. But um you know the game script wise, so they come out, they're

32:46on script, right? You have your first 15 plays, some some teams it's 10, sometimes it's 20, but you got your first 15 plays already in the hopper.

32:53It's your whole weekly install. Miami comes out, they actually score relatively quickly in the game on script. Everything looks like it's going

33:01well. They hit a big play to Caleb Douglas. They hit the crosser to Chris Bell. Everything's looking really nice and then you blink twice and all of a

33:08sudden they're down by like 15 points.

33:09And I just I do think Games Script got away. The the design QB runs aren't effective if you're playing from behind.

33:15Obviously, you can't you need to preserve clock a little bit. It's it's just a different ballgame. So, I do think the plan is to lean into that

33:22more. Um, you know, my source I did text a coach on staff that's involved in the offense. He didn't want to say

33:30specifics, but it does sound like that's definitely part of the plan. And one of the reasons they loved acquiring Malik Willis was the the dual threat component

33:38here. So, I I think you'll see more of that this week for sure.

33:43Um, all right. What do we got? Another Let's go one more sit here. We have Tyler Shuck coming off a careerhigh 410

33:51passing yards against the Detroit Lions verse Baltimore projecting out as QB2 just 16.8 08 fantasy points.

34:01Uh what do you think here?

34:03>> Yeah, I don't know. Chris is killing Tyler Shuck this week after loving him last week. Um so I guess this kind of

34:12goes back to like Baltimore's defense looks pretty improved. A lot of too high coverage, right? And then it's also sure Tyler Shuck had 400 passing yards last

34:21week, but you also said he kind of sucked and looked awful and was really all just just garbage time when you know

34:28the opposing defense didn't care or whatever, right?

34:30>> Yeah. Yeah. He was terrible in the first half, settled in the second half. Um they had the added advantage of being

34:37down 21, which allows you to be hyper aggressive. So they're taking deep shot every other play. They're they're also they play with a ton of pace and then

34:45you get to go for it on every fourth down too because you got to make up the points. So I think some of the comeback

34:51was just a little bit of like hey if you give a batter 10 at bats he's going to get a hit, right? Um I don't want to

34:57take anything away from he made some ridiculous throws in the second half of that game. So that said Baltimore's defense is nasty. I I think Jesse Mter's

35:05got these boys playing just outrageously good. Um, I think other than Mike McDonald, he probably is my second favorite defensive play caller in the

35:13league. And so I, yeah, I I would expect this Ravens defense to be pretty nasty the whole season.

35:21Just nothing. Just just nothing really.

35:26>> Yeah, that sounds good to me. I don't know.

35:29>> Do you need me to use transitional words after every point I make or >> what do you want me there? Some things,

35:33you know, I just I don't have anything to add.

35:36>> All right, cool. That's the set. You have you do have a section here called let's talk about it or let's talk it

35:40out. I'll throw all four of them out. We can go through them uh one one by one.

35:44Bo Nick Knicks, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Drake May.

35:48Uh what are you confused about with these guys? Like let's talk Bo Knicks vers Jacksonville.

35:53>> Well, let's talk about the the top two, you know. Okay, >> Bo Knicks is and Pat Mahomes are both top 10 quarterbacks of the week. And

36:01like that kind of surprised me just because Bo Knicks looked awful week one.

36:06Patrick Mahomes, you said, looked washed week one. I I I know he's had the rushing touchdown, but I really don't think that's something we could bank on.

36:14It looked like the offense wants to run through uh Kenneth Walker in the running game. Um, >> can you say washed for me again?

36:23>> Washed.

36:24>> Washed like washed. You don't know how to say washed.

36:28>> You say washed and talent.

36:30>> I say wa I say washed.

36:32>> Washed.

36:33>> And talent. You say washed like water.

36:36What?

36:37>> You're washed and I I I am talented.

36:42>> Yeah. Mahomes looked washed. I don't know what C can we just talk about Mahomes really quick. Quick sidebar. Is there any player in the league living on

36:48more of the past than Patrick Mahomes?

36:51>> Bro, I've been saying this for like three years and >> gets insane benefit of the doubt because of his past.

36:56>> I've gotten so much [ __ ] for it, but I've been saying this for three years, bro. He had zero completions over 10

37:01airs.

37:03uh last week the only quarterback to I think Kyler Murray and Sam Darnold even had that um or maybe not maybe not Kyler

37:12but um yeah and it's like he he hasn't been a good accurate quarterback since Tyreek left or or the year after Tyreek

37:20left he hasn't been accurate um and so yeah I just completely agree with that.

37:28Yeah, I I think people overreact. He had the one scramble for the touchdown or whatever. People like completely lost their minds are like, "Oh, he's back.

37:34He's fine." You know, the haters will be silent. And then you just watch the rest of the game. They're like, "Oh, well,

37:39shoot." How many passing yards did he have against the Broncos?

37:44This was a fun one.

37:46>> How many?

37:47>> Uh, it was under 200, right?

37:50>> I'm I'm like authentically asking you.

37:52Sorry.

37:53>> Oh, >> if that wasn't clear. Um 184 60 of them came on a catch and run from Travis Kelce.

38:01>> Yeah, which isn't something I think we can bank on, >> right? It was just ridiculous. Just broken play kind of thing. Um and then

38:09Bo Knicks. Bo Nicks for sure looks busted.

38:13Now, >> he's never been good, but he he always puts up fantasy points. I had this graphic where it's like all quarterbacks

38:20from 2024 to 2025. He was like bottom five in every, you know, catchable throw rate, completion percentage over expectation. He was he was best in the

38:30league in pressure to sack and like drop backs per game. So, it's all volume, >> but uh yeah, I don't think he's very

38:36good.

38:38>> Yeah, I agree. Uh both these, you know, quarterbacks have slightly better matchups. Jacksonville's defense is pretty good, but they're not, you know,

38:46Kansas City. And then conversely, Patrick Mahomes gets to play the Colts.

38:49They're not even close to what Denver is. So, you know, they they could have small bouncebacks while still maintaining a let's talk it out kind of,

38:58you know.

38:58>> Yeah, these were both guys I I felt Chris was a little too high on. I I would much prefer the two quarterbacks

39:04he had ranked below in Joe Burrow and Drake May.

39:09>> Let's talk Joe Burrow. Yeah, I mean, this is a guy you drafted top six. He's a notorious slow starter. Um, is this

39:17like an an elite Houston defense you can't beat? Because I don't know, Josh Allen just had a ton of success against

39:25them. So, this is something you could speak to better than me. That's why I kind of put this this all in its own

39:30tier.

39:32>> Well, Buffalo found an exploitable matchup opportunity that I would hope Cincinnati picked up on tape. Um, and that's that, you know, hey, when we line

39:43up in 12 and 13 and 21 personnel, Houston was coming back with nickel.

39:49They're coming back with nickel coverage. So, what that means is you're going to likely get an undized player on Daltton Concincaid. And they just

39:57spammed the crap out of that. Concaid was beating, you know, Kamari Lacier and Derrick Stingley. He wasn't beating linebackers and safeties. They caught

40:05them in 12 personnel. They used motion and shift to get the look they wanted.

40:09and then concade just wins. And you know, conversely, the Bengals do have Mike Gasiki at their disposal. He's not Daltton Concade, but he's a very similar

40:17type of player. And we did see a massive uptick in heavy personnel for the Bengals. They were in heavy personnel like 38, 39% of the time last week. They

40:25had traditionally been a pretty heavy 11 team before that. So maybe that we see the same response where they come out in

40:32a lot of 12, 13, 21 and Houston continues to match with Nickel and we get some runaway opportunities for Mike Jasiki. I don't know, but

40:40>> maybe Mike Jasiki leads the Bengals and receiving yards for the second week in a row. Uh >> yeah, I mean it's it's actually

40:46plausible as crazy as it sounds and I think if you're a if you're this isn't a betting show, but if you play props, I'd

40:52be very interested in Mike Jiki props this week.

40:55>> Maybe some in a ladder. Yeah, for sure.

40:58Um, so where you at? You starting him or sitting him?

41:01>> Well, I I'm I just like him more than Bo Knicks than Patrick Mahomes. These are all borderline guys, like low-end QB1s.

41:08Um, and like I said, I like Burrow and May a little bit more than Nicks and Mahomes.

41:13>> Gotcha.

41:15Um, all right, let's move to running back, shall we?

41:16>> Well, Drake May, uh, just my commentary on him is, yeah, he he sucked last week, but it was against like the toughest

41:23defense in the league in the Seattle Seahawks. I know it's another tough matchup u perhaps especially if Joey Porter Jr. comes back and AJ Brown's not

41:32there but still this is a guy who like last regular season only had one bad game and it was week one.

41:38>> Did you say Joey Porter Jr. is Isn't he on the lines?

41:44>> Who am I thinking?

41:46>> Scott Scott Scott's actually googling this. I'm Dude, I'm messing with you.

41:49>> Oh my god.

41:51There's there's all kinds of rumors the Lions are going to trade for Joey Porter Jr. You haven't seen this?

41:57>> Yeah, >> they freed up like 35 million cap space, blah blah blah. I don't know. I don't Brad Holmes doesn't do anything like

42:02this in season, so I wouldn't expect it, but it's just funny. I thought I didn't realize I'd catch you with your pants on

42:07that one. Sorry.

42:08>> Well, you did. Yeah.

42:09>> Uh, all right. Hey, running backs. Let's let's dive into running backs now. I um I I know we have the show sheet and you

42:16got guys you want to talk about and the first guy I want to talk about though is not on anything we were planning to talk

42:20about today except for sits. I want to jump right to Aaron Jones as we're recording this. It comes out that Jordan

42:26Mason is on the IR now.

42:28>> Whoa.

42:30>> Which uh he's he's got a broken thumb.

42:32He had surgery on it to fix today and we're listing Aaron Jones as a sit coming up. We're going to hit it. But I

42:37just wanted to start right away with this. U it's top of mind. How does that change the way you feel with with Jordan

42:44Mason on IR?

42:45>> Yeah. Well, I'm definitely going to like Aaron Jones more than I I I I did 10 minutes ago. U but also like you got to

42:54add Deont Clayborn ASAP. I know this was like a very late day three draft pick, but uh a lot of buzz on him in training

43:01camp. I think Aaron Jones comped him to Jir Gibbs, which is crazy. So >> 40 scouting. Yeah, could be a good

43:09opportunity for Deont Claybourne uh because Aaron Jones kind of looks washed. But yeah, this was just a really gross 5050 split backfield on a Carson

43:20Wentzled offense. Um but yeah, it's now the pie, the slice of the pie gets a lot bigger for Aaron Jones. So, I don't

43:29know. He might be a fringe RB2 now instead of a >> mid-range RB3. All right, now back to our regular scheduled programming. Let's

43:38talk Bejian Robinson. And when I first saw the show, she I legit laughed because I was like, "Wait a second." I

43:43don't don't think we need to tell people to start Bian Robinson. But as you stated at the top of the show, sometimes

43:49we bring up players, have a broader conversation on let's talk beh.

43:55>> Um, yeah. Well, the broader conversation you wanted to have is you like a Lion super fan and Jir Gibbs, you know,

44:03supporter. Um, things be outscores him this year. And if you look at the numbers, he had 21 carries. He had nine

44:09targets, 173 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown. Nearly a 100 day for a player. We were talking about having a 1,00 1,000 season. Um, he had a 41%

44:21target share. That was the most by any running back in fantasy points data history. Uh he gets a Panthers defense that just gave up 28 carries, 224

44:32rushing yards, and four touchdowns uh to the Bears. This is the worst run defense over the last two years or over the last

44:39three years. Um and so yeah. Um >> do you think Bejan should be the 101 if you can go back?

44:47>> Well, I think if there's a week one overreaction to have and how it pertains to start. Yeah. I'm I'm now wondering

44:53like he had seven designed targets.

44:56>> Yeah, >> bro. If he's going to get seven, eight, nine, 10 targets a week, he's going to out like Jir Gibbs could still have the

45:04best rushing season ever. Bean's going to outscore him in fantasy still.

45:09>> The only only thing that might stop that is Jir could score 24 touchdowns, right?

45:13But the receiving workload is ridiculous.

45:16Cooper Rush had an a average depth of target of 4.75, which is pathetic. The whole offense looked pathetic. And I got

45:24news for you guys. If Tua plays, it's not going to change. This is what Tua does. He's a short short area king for

45:30the short king. Uh think of Devin Achain. You know, his work in the pass game. It's it's going to be more the

45:36same. If Michael Pendix plays, it's going to be more of the same. So, it's like I don't know if Bejian's role is

45:40like this robust as the lead pass catcher.

45:44I don't know how he doesn't outscore Jir Gibbs. Is that crazy?

45:49>> Uh, I mean, I don't know that this usage sticks every single week and there's just way more touchdown upside >> for Jir Gibbs and it's Yeah, dude. Jir

45:59Gibbs just had like >> 40 touches in his own right. So, um I'm not ready to say that just yet, but like

46:05certainly after this week, I think that's going to be a major conversation point just because of how bad this Panthers run defense is. Another thing

46:12that's really interesting here is Cooper Rush uh is dealing with a back injury and he's not 100%. So, there's a real

46:20chance we get Jack Shran this week, which I think is hilarious because I gave you so much grief for mentioning his name on a previous show where I was

46:27like, "Please, the listeners don't need to know that this person exists. What are you doing talking about a fourth string quarterback?" And now the guy

46:35might start week two. So, uh and yeah, this is a guy Brett was a big fan of.

46:39probably likes him more than Cooper Rush, honestly.

46:42>> Oh, way more. I don't know. Other than the fact that he's an undrafted rookie that that's why they didn't start him

46:47week one, cuz that never happens. But like, yeah, I I told you on that show this dude would play this year for the

46:53Falcons. It might be week two. Might be week two. By the way, I'm not fully saying Bejan is the new 101. I'm just

46:59I'm presenting the argument that it it could be trending that direction. Okay.

47:02>> Yeah.

47:03>> Um, you have Bucky Irving as a start versus Cleveland. I have him as a big sit. So this we're going to have to go

47:08to war on this one.

47:09>> I don't think we will actually. This is I you know just looking at the projections seeing Bucky Irving RB10 that really surprised me. Um and so you

47:19look at his usage last week it was >> it was okay. 62% snap share eight carries team high seven targets. He

47:28looked a lot like the rookie season Bucky Irving which is like elite hyperefficiency. He scored 20.3 fantasy points. Um, I kind of don't buy into it

47:38just because I wasn't that high on him coming into the season. Sean Tucker, who was the goal lineback last year, might,

47:44you know, he he sat week one, maybe he comes back week two, and you're saying the Browns defense is actually really

47:50good. So, uh, you're actually not going to get too much of a fight for me, but certainly seems like Chris is extremely

47:56confident here, ranking Bucky Irving RB10.

48:00>> Yeah, I didn't I didn't think Bucky looked great this week. I didn't think he looked like anything special. I'm definitely not projecting this rookie

48:06Bucky Irving thing, but also the the Browns defense is just really good. They gave up like a 12- yard run to Bashel

48:13Tuton, and if you take that run out, and I know I know we can't do that necessarily, but they they had like

48:19seven or eight tackles for a loss in that game. Like they were living in the Jacksonville Jaguars backfield. Um, there's just a couple explosives in

48:28there that kind of make the yards per carry look decent, but I I was really kind of shocked by the level in which

48:35the Browns were able to penetrate and get in the back field and and blow some runs up. So, you know, I think that's uh

48:42that's definitely something we got to think about. Um, and I just don't love Bucky Irving and I I don't think he

48:47looks amazing. Looks fine, but not amazing. So, uh, Raandre Stevenson is a start verse Pittsburgh, projecting as RB15, 15.2 famous points per game. You

48:59and I both love Raandre. We think he's the dude. He looked great in week one.

49:03Um, feels like this, we're just standing on our priors here.

49:07>> Yeah, he had great usage last week up against the league's toughest run defense. 85% snap share, 18 carries, six targets. uh you know Steelers defense

49:17that's no slouch but it's a much softer matchup than last week and yeah we have him RB15 and that's with us projecting

49:25Tayvon Henderson back maybe not at his typical 100% role but uh we have him projected playing in this game and still

49:33remandre comes out to be a high-end RB2 >> Kairen Williams vers the Giants as a start projecting RB18 14.2 two

49:44fantasy points.

49:47Uh what how are you feeling about the backfield split? Let's start there and then tell me about this week's outlook.

49:52>> Well, I listed him as a sell high because I I'm still worried about Blake Horm in the second half of the season.

49:58Uh but I do think we're going to get another good week out of him. Vegas isn't buying into week one carrying over

50:04for either team. The Rams have the third highest implied point total of the week, seven point favorites against the Giants. And then you look at the the

50:12split, you know, the the split carries basically dead even. Um but Cororm only played 13 snaps. He ran just two routes.

50:22Um Williams was on the field for all the six snaps inside the 10 yard line. And so like because he got all of the high

50:30value touches, carries in between the 20s are basically worthless. What matters are red zone carries and targets and routes run. And so he had 72% of the

50:40backfield XFP. It's about perfectly even with what he did last year. And if you think Vegas is even close to right, um

50:48then he's a a mustart as a high-end RB2, mid-range RB2. Uh or if you think the the Vegas is just irrationally hating on my Giants,

50:59unwilling to accept they're a Super Bowl team, then by all means sit Kairen Williams. But but that that seems unlikely.

51:07>> Yeah. How'd you feel about the Giants run to you the other night?

51:12>> Yeah, not not great.

51:13>> Yeah.

51:15>> Yeah. And it it wasn't great at times last year. They they traded away Dexter Lawrence. I do I do worry about that a

51:20little bit. And the Rams should be more competitive than Dallas was in that game. So, Omarian Hampton verse the Raiders projecting as RB19 13.5 fantasy

51:30points.

51:32I gotta say, Scott, I am out on this one.

51:36>> Yeah. Why is that?

51:38>> Uh, I mean, we've we've done it. Should we do it for the for the new listeners? All right.

51:44>> Mike McDaniel's scheme. It's not great for a Hampton. And we've talked about this all off seasonason. If you listen to our I believe it was our recap show.

51:52I hit it there. But the scheme is very outside zone, win the corner style. uh even when it's not outside zone. It's a

52:00lot of power and counter where it requires some lateral quickness to be able to change gaps quickly and and and make reads and that's just not really

52:07Hampton's game. He needs to be downhill, needs to be in either duo or inside zone. And McDaniel just stubbornly doesn't really use those concepts a ton.

52:16And so I'm just really concerned. And and you saw out of the 12 carries he had, six of them were outside zone and

52:21then he had three or four more that were power counter type stuff. Go win the corner. and uh it just didn't work. Like

52:28it was terrible. I think he averaged less than a yard per carry on the outside zone touches against what I would consider not a good run defense at

52:34all in Arizona Cardinals. Uh so yeah, I'm I'm just I was concerned coming into the season about Hampton Scott and I'm

52:41even more concerned now. I know Chris Wet is going to say, "Well, the role was really good." And Keaton Mitchell >> I don't think it was good either. I I

52:49feel like I was taking crazy pills listening to my guy Chris talk about this today. Uh Katon Mitchell ran more routes than Omar and Hampton. These

52:57split carries perfectly evenly inside the 10 and the 20 yardd lines. Um >> I think Chris is going to contend that

53:04that was game script stuff where it's like they got >> hand.

53:08>> Yeah.

53:08>> But like that just feeds into your argument that he's not a good fit for this offense. What I will say about Omar

53:14and Hampton was like listen you you drafted this guy in round two uh most likely and if he doesn't get it done

53:21this week then we're in trouble. but he probably gets it done this week. Uh 25 plus point implied total. They're favored by seven. Um should be

53:32should be like even if you're pessimistic should be a low-end RB2 at worst.

53:37>> Yeah. And for the people a couple people have asked, do I not like Omar Hampton as a player? No. I think Omar Hampton's

53:42sick. I just don't think he works in the scheme. You if you gave him to Shawn Peyton or Ben Johnson, this guy would

53:49have 150 rushing yards a game. like I'm pretty convicted in that. So, uh, all right, let's move on. Chuba Hubard vers

53:55the Atlanta Falcons projecting as RB20.

53:58Uh, 13.2 fantasy points. I I've bought into Chuba after one week.

54:04>> Um, he looks better. He had two explosive plays in that game, Scott. As you notoriously like to note, he didn't

54:09have one all of last season. So, >> that's right.

54:12>> Uh, two explosive plays in one game is good for Chuba. And he just looks good.

54:15The eye test. Um, he was passing the eye test to me. I thought he looked shifty.

54:19the burst looked back, which it wasn't there last year.

54:22>> He's always been a professional running back. Good vision, good in pass pro, but um anyways, uh Atlanta's run defense is

54:29garbage. They were really bad last year.

54:31I think they led the NFL in rushing yards over expectation allowed. A little bit better in week one, obviously, but it's it's one week. I'm still standing

54:38on last year's prior. I think Chuba smashes.

54:41>> Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you. I It's a rare game. They're favored. Uh it's a good matchup. He looked really good. Jonathan

54:48Brooks did not, you know, dealing with a little bit of, you know, injury kind of stuff and also it was basically like his

54:55first ever NFL game basically.

54:57Basically, but the usage was really good before the fourth quarter of garbage time. It was a 77% snap share, 10 of 14

55:04carries, two of four targets, >> 16 fantasy points, 20 XFP. So yeah, I mean this is where it gets scary, Brett,

55:12is you have Chuba Hubard one spot behind Omar and Hampton for a player who is going 10 rounds later.

55:19>> Jadarian Price verse the Cardinals. I I can't believe you're doing this. You allowed this team to torment you all last season with Kenneth Walker the

55:26third and here you are again.

55:28>> We're projecting him RB21, 12.9 fantasy points this week.

55:33>> It's a great matchup. There's no doubt.

55:35I know we just talked about the Cardinals shutting down the Chargers run offense. Seattle's a different animal.

55:40And I think if Price gets the opportunity, he could just go nuts. Is he gonna get the opportunity, Scott?

55:47What does he need to pay off his his uh position right here?

55:51>> Man, I hope so. They they can't keep getting away with it, Brett. You know, logic and reason has to prevail at some

55:57point. And honestly, the usage was pretty good for a player making his NFL debut. He ran more routes, had more targets than George Hani, was vastly the

56:07more efficient runner, 5.2 yards per carry to Hani's 3.6.

56:12Arizona was a bottom three matchup against running backs last year. So, um, yeah, I kind of I kind of I low-end RB2,

56:20so, you know, not a a must start, but probably, you know, there there are some, as you'll see in a minute here,

56:26there's some some names uh you might be surprised we'd start over in.

56:31All right, let's get to the sit list.

56:33Cam Scataboo versus the Rams. This is shocking. Is this purely just the pass game stuff for you?

56:38>> Yeah, I you know, and this is what I was saying when you were drafting Cam Scataboo is the second half's going to

56:43be a little bit better uh than the first half of the season. And so you have him seven 7.5 point underdogs up against the

56:51Rams and he had a 0% target share. So it's very easy for him to get scripted out. And so he we have him as a low-end

56:59RB too, but we do have him behind Chadarian Price. So, uh it is possible he's a sit in your league, even if you

57:05did draft him ahead of some of these other names.

57:08>> Is there a chance the Giants beat the Rams?

57:11>> I think there is. Brett, >> that that line seems a little crazy to me.

57:16>> You said seven and a half.

57:18>> Oh, listen. Jackson Dart won a bunch of games last year he shouldn't have with like a disgustingly bad roster. The

57:26roster got a lot better. Coaching got a lot better.

57:30The dude is good at at football. I This is a scrappy, underrated team. Uh I think there's a >> seven and a half. That's a crazy spread.

57:38That's a crazy line. I'm going to pick the Giants to cover that. And I know that's not what we do on the show, but

57:42I'm doing it anyways.

57:43>> Let's do it, baby.

57:44>> Giants to cover. Um all right. Jaylen Warren vers the Patriots. Rico Dottle vers the Patriots. We're listing them both as sits. We're projecting 26 and 28

57:54respectively roughly between 11 and 12 points. Um I don't know. I the the the rush offense looked actually the whole the whole

58:05Steelers offense looked gross in week one, but Patriots defense is kind of gross. So yeah, this was a bottom three matchup

58:12for running backs last year and we had Warren and Rico Dattle basically in a dead even 5050 split on an offense that

58:20ranked top three in pro. I I these I'm not starting these guys. They're high-end RB3 threes. It's >> It's Yeah, not dependable guys you feel

58:32good about.

58:32>> I really want someone to emerge as the the the lead back here. I really want Rico to do it. I think

58:38>> Rico's really Yeah, but uh Warren needs to just It happens every year. We think Warren's going to have a big step and

58:46then whoever else is on the roster kind of passes him on the pecking order. So, it'll happen again this year. It just

58:52might take some time. Tony Pard versus the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, I'm I'm not starting any running back against the Eagles ever, unless they're like a

58:59bonafide superstar. But what uh what's going on here with you?

59:03>> Um yeah, I mean like his week one couldn't have gone any worse. The Titans look just as awful as they did in the

59:10preseason. Worse yet, it was a perfect 50/50 committee by snapshare. Taj Spears had more XFP. So, it's a vastly worse role than the one he had last year where

59:22he finished just 30th in fantasy points per game. It's a 16-point implied total up against a tough defense. They're seven-point underdogs which actually

59:30plays into Taj a bit better than Spears or yeah, than than Pard because Spears is is more the pass catching back. It's

59:39just Yeah. Gross. This was a bad pick.

59:41Like even if he went zero RB, this this this stinks.

59:45Uh yeah. Who's picking first in the draft? The Titans or the Dolphins?

59:49>> Oh.

59:51Oh boy.

59:54>> Titans.

59:55>> Yeah. Yeah. Titans. If >> I don't know.

59:57>> I'm going to go Dolphins. But >> no, you know what? I'll go I'll go Titans. I think Dolphins have a little

60:01higher floor with the quarterback situation. So, >> uh Aaron Jones, who we already talked about, so we can kind of move on. But,

60:08um you know, you I'm sure you're taking him off the sit list now that he's presumably going to be the the lead

60:13back. Yeah, that this is why you subscribe to Fantasy Points. You get access to the best projections in the industry. Use our front office tool.

60:21It's never been easier to make uh your start sit decisions and you know come up with good trade ideas and whatnot. So uh

60:29yeah, we'll we'll see where he shakes out um you know based on this news and then also based on our projection summit

60:37meeting on Friday.

60:39>> JK Dobbins verse the Jacksonville Jaguars. Um I think we're a little gunshy about Denver in general right now. Although Jonah Coleman didn't play at all. Played

60:48like one snap.

60:49>> Yeah.

60:50>> So that that's positive for JK.

60:52>> Yeah. It's So this is a sneaky, brutal matchup. The Jaguars have given up the fewest fantasy points per game to

60:58running backs since week one of last year. I I think Jacksonville wins this game. I think Vegas is too low on

61:05Jacksonville. And the role isn't great.

61:07He's not a passcatching back. He had eight of 11 carries. And yeah, he's probably going to get 8 to 12 carries

61:15and no targets just about every week when the the spread is this close. So yeah, he's a low-end RB3 to me.

61:23>> Brutal, brutal matchup. Jeremiah Love versus the Seattle Seahawks.

61:29We're projecting RB33, 10.3 fantasy points. The really only path for Love to have a good day is in the pass game. Um, but that's no

61:39guarantee. Where you at on Oh, and Tyler Algier, by the way, played more than Love last year or last week. So, where

61:45you at on Jeremiah Love, >> right? I love this ranking. Uh, Ryan Heath probably doesn't. He was trying to gaslight you in the everything report

61:53that Jeremiah Love's week one usage was actually good. Uh, it was not to me. 44% of the snaps, 39% of the backfield

62:00carries. Uh, he's up against the toughest run defense in football.

62:05uh just 3.5 yards per carry since the start of last season. Um you know, Ryan would say he was limited in practice all

62:14last week and he's going to get better usage this week. I I'm not so sure of it and even if he did, I don't know that it

62:18would matter against this Seahawks run defense.

62:23>> Bacial tune versus the Denver Broncos.

62:25Denver's defense is nasty as we've disclosed. But Scott, they were just one of the worst run defense performances we've seen in a while. They missed a

62:34billion tackles on national TV. This has been a problem for the Denver Broncos actually for a long time. If you listen

62:41to my podcast, First Read with Joe Marino, we've been talking about like every offseason like what does Denver need to do? They need to add a nos

62:46stopping defensive tackle and a mic linebacker that can go get some. They never do it. They just they don't care.

62:52It's super weird to me.

62:55I you know I'm I'm not really a basel to guy but I'm I'm like are we really calling him a sit when he could just go

63:00off because Denver sucks on you defending the run.

63:03>> Right. So that's that's the question for you uh Brett is you know is he a sit?

63:09Maybe maybe I should have had him in the let's talk it out tier. But yeah Denver not being able to tackle running backs

63:16you had 16 missed tackles for us from Kenneth Walker's one of the most in fantasy points data history. There was also that that game where Devon Achan

63:26and Raheem Moert and Chris Brooks combined for 300 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns. So like as you said, this has been an issue for a while. I

63:36think part of the issue here is this is just a really gross committee backfield.

63:41Only a 47% snap share, 11 of 21 carries, one target. He only ran one more route than Chris Rodriguez, a guy who like has

63:50never caught passes in his entire career. So, yeah, I was surprised to see Chris all the way down at RB34, but you

63:57know, I'm not really all that mad at it either.

63:59>> Is it too early for me to victory lap this or No, >> it's a little early.

64:03>> It's a little early. Okay, I will just say Chris Rodriguez running Wildcat was like chef's kiss.

64:08>> Victory lap that one.

64:10>> Love that. That was awesome. All right, let's hit these Let's talk it out guys real quickly. We got Quinnshan Judkins,

64:16Marshon Lloyd, and Travis Henchan.

64:21Sorry. Geez, I can't I still can't get it right. Uh Quishon Judkins, or as you would like to call him, Junkkins.

64:28Quinchan Junkkins.

64:30>> That's what you call him. What do you >> Yeah, you always mispronounce his name.

64:34>> Wow. That's disrespectful. That's like the the lowest form of >> the highest form of dignity is is pronouncing someone's name correctly.

64:44was the line.

64:45>> Yeah.

64:46>> The simp the simplest form of human dignity is getting someone's name correct.

64:50>> Right. Well, there's two guys in the let's talk it out tier where I struggle with their names apparently. Yeah. I I'm

64:55a big hater on Quinn Sean Judkins. He, you know, it's a a dog [ __ ] offense that is always going to be trailing. Can't

65:03get first downs. Um he had 12 of 13 carries last week, two of five backfield targets. That was with Dylan Samson not

65:12playing a snap. He's on IR now. Um, and so like, yeah, maybe he gets a big slice of the pie. It just like is like a

65:20really shitty pie, you know? So, it's a tiny disgusting awful pie. Uh, so Chris has him low-end Derby, too. I think I'd be even lower on

65:32him. I'd like to hear what you think.

65:34The Buccaneers defense without Vet. Is this a Is this actually a good run defense to target? What's going on here?

65:42>> Is Vea out?

65:44>> Isn't he? Oh, maybe not.

65:47>> He might be. I mean, I I can't keep up on every >> injury. He's fine. I lose him.

65:52>> Okay, so my hot take is I thought Quinn Sean Judkins had one of the most overrated rookie seasons ever in the

65:59history of fantasy football. People talked about this guy like he was incredible and I never understood it.

66:05You look like outside of what was it the Baltimore game, the Green Bay game, the dude averaged like 2.9 yards a carry

66:11over like the next eight games or something. Legitimately all the only thing he had going in his favor was was volume.

66:17>> Yeah.

66:17>> Right. Um and he scored some touchdowns, but I I just think that's not really dependable. I think Tampa Bay's defense

66:23is is pretty darn good. Uh their run defense historically has been really really good. So, um yeah, I'm I'm definitely out on him. I I would say

66:32he's a sit for me, not even a let's talk it out guy.

66:35>> Hell yeah. All right, we're in agreement.

66:37>> Marshon Lloyd versus the Jets.

66:40This feels like a better situation than the Judkins thing, but what's going on here?

66:44>> Well, the Jets were a top three matchup last year. Um, his usage was okay in week one. 45% of the snaps, 13 of 20

66:52carries, one of two targets. He sucked.

66:56>> Uh, he 2.8 8 yards per carry, the worst rushing yards over expectation per attempt of any running back in week one.

67:04Um it was just his second NFL game though and he couldn't make it past the seventh snap of that first game. So

67:11maybe he gets more work this week, maybe he's a little bit more efficient. Um but I don't really know. We we have him as

67:17RB24, so fringe RB2, but I wanted to hear your thoughts on this. Well, my main take is, and I was talking to my

67:24buddy Josh Liskowitz, who works over at PFF Enterprise Teamworks. He's an O line guru, and I was talking to him on the

67:31phone the other day. We kind of came to the same conclusion that this is probably the worst Green Bay offensive line we've seen in our lifetime. Um, you

67:40know, we're we're both NFC North fans and we we grew up around the same era.

67:46I've was born in ' 87. I legitimately think this is the worst Green Bay offensive line that we've seen in our in

67:51in my lifetime. And so, for whatever reason, they just let this slip a little bit. It seems like they've done such a

67:58great job through the years of of getting ready to have guys move on and then have their replacements and tow.

68:03They've just let too many guys walk over the years and they they probably need to spend some time retaining their talent.

68:10But, this is a rough situation. I thought like it's easy to say Marshon Lloyd sucked. I think the offensive line sucked and that's that's the concerning

68:17thing long term. The the Packers in general just look so disjointed on offense other than that first drive.

68:24Just really really messy. So I I don't know what to think here. Um I'm totally fine calling him a sit just because uh

68:30it was it was a little alarming in week one.

68:32>> Do you think this this offensive line's going to suck all year or you think?

68:38>> Yeah.

68:39>> Get healthier? Are they dealing with injuries? No, not I mean Aaron Banks isn't playing right now, but like you know, no I Yeah, I think this is

68:49probably going to be a year-long thing to be honest.

68:53The right side of their line's bad. They have a first year starter and Jordan Morgan at left tackle. So, and then and

68:59they're dealing with an injury.

69:00>> This is this is why we're such a good team, Brett, is because I know the name names of maybe five offensive linemen.

69:07So, uh, or or defensive players. So, yeah, I appreciate your strengths being my weaknesses. That's very convenient for me.

69:16>> It's very convenient for me, too.

69:19>> All right. Travis Hnan, sorry, verse Baltimore. You know, I even called Dro to ask him about this because he, you know, he's from the New Orleans

69:29area. So, Achan or Etien is a it's a Casian name. So I called him to get the pronunciation guide and I still can't

69:37nail it. It's because it's not Achain like Devon Achain. It's different. It's pronounced different.

69:43>> Well, a Achain's name is pronounced uh >> Achan. Aan.

69:47>> Yeah. It's not that. That's not how we're saying this. It's like etchen. I don't know. I'll have to talk to Droy.

69:52>> Yeah. Exactly.

69:54>> Yeah. Well, Trevor Etienne says it's pronounced Trevor Etienne.

69:58>> Exactly.

69:58>> Like like Travis Han is trying to pretend he's Devon Han's brother, >> right? and not Trevor Etienne's brother.

70:05>> Yeah, that's that's offensive.

70:07>> Yeah. Um, so let me just say this. It sucks to be an Etienne owner. This is a player we kind of dumped all over all

70:14off season. Um, not to victory lap too early, but it it really doesn't look good. Kamar didn't even play in this

70:21game. He tied Kre Miller in carries with nine. Um, the Ravens did struggle against Jonathan Taylor in week one, but that's Jonathan Taylor. I know you said

70:30you thought this was going to be a really good run defense this year. So, Travis Aten just a high-end RB3 this

70:37week.

70:38>> Yeah. And Taylor really I mean he was bottled up pretty good minus a couple explosives, you know what I mean? So,

70:43>> yeah.

70:44>> Um and I don't think I don't think Travis has that in him at this point.

70:47>> I mean, he's one of the worst explosive runs over the last three years.

70:51>> Right. Exactly. Exactly. So, what happens when Kamar comes back like >> Right. then he loses maybe four targets per game to him. Like it's it's just

71:02bad.

71:03>> You know what's sad and it's unrelated to start sit or reddraft, but like in Dynasty, he was like the cheapest

71:09starting running back to acquire last year at the deadline. So I I traded for like every competitive team I have I

71:14have a I have Travis on it.

71:15>> Wow.

71:16>> And it's just it's really sad. It's like I don't know what to do. But anyways, all right. We're going to get out of

71:21here. That's going to do it for us today. We'll be back uh tomorrow with wide receivers and tight ends. We'll get

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