0:00Yeah, this is super interesting. Um, I
0:03will say I'm not the biggest Josh Downs
0:05guy, right?
0:06But this is the best-case scenario. This
0:09is the best landing spot. It doesn't
0:11even come close. Obviously, you have a
0:14ton of injuries in Kansas City. Mahomes
0:16is still good to go. We probably have to
0:18update our rankings, and at this point,
0:19Josh Downs looks very very appealing. So
0:23the official trade that we had, let me
0:25pull up the details. It seemed like it
0:27was a decent amount here. The package is
0:32Okay, I just got this. The official
0:35package that the Indianapolis Colts got
0:38for Josh Downs was the traded Downs for
0:42a fourth and a fifth round pick, and
0:46they got back a seventh. So the Chiefs
0:50again got Josh Downs in a seventh. The
0:52Colts got a fourth and a fifth rounder.
0:56Now Josh Downs has been one of these
0:58players in fantasy football that like
1:01fantasy football YouTubers have loved
1:03this guy for years.
1:05They've said how good he is, blah blah
1:08blah, even though he has never, and I
1:11repeat, ever
1:13done anything from a fantasy football
1:15perspective.
1:18If we go over and look at where Downs
1:20was in my rankings before this deal, he
1:22had to be after 50, right? Yeah, I had
1:24Josh Downs at wide receiver 52.
1:27If you look at Josh Downs's NFL career,
1:30he is
1:31only had one season ever where he's
1:33actually drawn a considerable amount of
1:35targets. That was back in 2024 in his
1:38second NFL season. Back then he had um
1:4325% of the Indianapolis Colts targets,
1:47but
1:48last year he only had 17% and this year
1:51so far he's had about 20%.
1:54He's never finished higher than the wide
1:56receiver 31 in points per game, but he's
1:59also never with a quarterback as good as
2:01Patrick Mahomes.
2:03I would say that at the very minimum, if
2:05Josh Downs is on your waiver wire, you
2:08have to look at him and I do think he
2:10jumps up a couple tiers in rankings
2:13to
2:14a range in which
2:17the floor is rock bottom, but you have
2:20this ceiling to be a flex-worthy asset.
2:23Right? The majority of volume in this
2:26Kansas City Chiefs offense there's going
2:28to be going through two players.
2:30One of the names obviously will be
2:32Rashee Rice. Actually, he has three
2:34players. Rice, Kenneth Walker, and
2:36Travis Kelsey. I think that Josh Downs
2:39is probably fourth in the pecking order
2:41behind those four guys.
2:44So again, it's definitely a good move
2:46for him like undoubtedly. And also I
2:49will say
2:51this probably hurts Rashee Rice as well
2:54cuz it's not like Josh Downs is some
2:56field-stretching wide receiver where
2:58he's going to come into the Tyquan
3:00Thornton role where obviously you have
3:02the Tyquan Thornton injury and um Josh
3:05Downs is going to see a few targets, but
3:08a ton of snaps and he's going to make
3:09the efficiency great for Rice.
3:12Um I don't think that's going to be the
3:14case. Josh Downs is a wide receiver that
3:16if he's effective for this Chiefs
3:18offense, he will be drawing targets. He
3:20will be taking those from
3:23um Rashee. So I think that this moves
3:25Josh Downs up. Now I'm going to let this
3:28news digest. I don't want to overreact
3:30too too much here. I don't know if I'm
3:31going to move Josh Downs up to being
3:33like a top 30 wide receiver or anything,
3:35but I do think that he is inside this
3:37tier of the flex-worthy players. And
3:39then also with Rashee Rice, I personally
3:42had him down at wide receiver 20. I
3:45don't know if I can move him much
3:46further than this. I I think maybe if
3:48you wanted to move him down a tier, you
3:50can, but I mean I have Eggbuka on my own
3:54fantasy team. I would sell Eggbuka for
3:56Rashee Rice in a freaking heartbeat. I
3:58would add stuff to it. So I still think
3:59Rice is ahead of all these guys.
4:01Honestly, I don't even want to move him
4:02down a tier, but if previously you had
4:05Rashee Rice ranked ahead of guys like
4:07George Pickens, Jameson Williams,
4:08Garrett Wilson, you probably should move
4:11Rice below those players.
4:13Um I already had him at 20, so I don't
4:14want to adjust too much from there.
4:17I don't think this impacts Patrick
4:18Mahomes too too much. I don't think it
4:20impacts Travis Kelsey. It does give us a
4:23little bit of an insight though on an
4:25injury that we did see Xavier Worthy
4:29um have this past week. Xavier Worthy is
4:32now labeled as like day-to-day. I think
4:34at this point, if you have Xavier
4:36Worthy, it is safe to cut him. He's
4:39injured. He's probably the fifth option
4:41in this offense. He's never really done
4:43anything for a fantasy perspective. So
4:46big move here for the Chiefs. Rashee
4:48Rice moves down slightly. Travis Kelsey
4:50moves down slightly. Xavier Worthy you
4:53cut and Josh Downs goes from being
4:56irrelevant to now all of a sudden a
4:58flex-worthy play.
5:00Now looking at the Indianapolis Colts
5:02side of things,
5:04it truly is unbelievable. I mean we are
5:075 minutes away from the NFL trade
5:08deadline and all reports are saying and
5:11prediction markets have Jonathan Taylor
5:14staying with the Indianapolis Colts. I
5:15can't believe after all of this
5:19where the Colts trade away every single
5:22guy they got, their best offensive
5:24lineman, their best defensive lineman,
5:26both of their wide receivers,
5:29Jonathan Taylor is staying in
5:31Indianapolis.
5:35Like it is going to be so ugly here.
5:39This offense is going to have no way to
5:42move the ball down the field.
5:45To the point,
5:46I think I'm going to move Jonathan
5:48Taylor down to being a running back too.
5:52I hate to say this. Let me know in the
5:53chat right now,
5:55do y'all think that I am overreacting
5:59here?
6:03Um we have Cap and Crunch says I believe
6:05JT um plays get traded. I don't think
6:08it's happening. Deadlines in 5 minutes.
6:10Right now a prediction market with over
6:12$5 million in volume has Jonathan Taylor
6:14staying with the Colts at 97%.
6:18Let me see realistically you could put
6:23$100 down and win 2,800 if JT gets
6:26dealt. Like Jonathan Taylor is not
6:28getting traded.
6:30So
6:31I think we know all the trades at this
6:33point.
6:35Let me know right now what y'all think.
6:39Is this too low or too high for Jonathan
6:43Taylor in my rankings? I have him at
6:45running back 14
6:48in the same tier with Be'Shell Tooton,
6:51DeAndre Swift, Jaylen Warren, Derrick
6:54Henry, Jonah Coleman.
6:56Do I have Jonathan rank Jonathan Taylor
6:58ranked too high or too low?
7:03We got one vote too high, reasonable,
7:06good, reasonable.
7:10As a JT owner that's perfect. Broken
7:12heart emoji. Way too high. Rather have
7:15Coleman RB2 at best. Too low. Correct.
7:17Put him at 21. There's no way I can do
7:19that.
7:20Um
7:22yeah. I think that this is a fair
7:25ranking at least in my mind.
7:27Obviously today was bad for JT.
7:31And
7:32it sucks for Seth McGallan as well. I'm
7:34going to have to move Seth McGallan down
7:36my rankings.
7:37I most likely am going to end up having
7:40to cut him from my bench. Like there's
7:42no reason to roster him at this point.
7:47And
7:49so what else is there to say here? Like
7:51JT gets nuked. I guess maybe you can
7:54make an argument that Tyler Warren is
7:56just going to get so much volume.
7:59Like at this point I think Tyler Warren
8:00is a riser. Realistically I think Tyler
8:03Warren probably moves up a tier.
8:05Um I need to have George Kittle in his
8:07own uh, George Kittle and Isaiah likely
8:09in a separate tier here. But I think
8:10Tyler Warren goes to being like a mid
8:12tight end one. You start them every
8:13single week. He's young. Obviously,
8:15makes a ton of sense for the Colts to
8:16keep him. He's a good player and they
8:19have nobody else to throw the ball to.
8:21So,
8:22I think Tyler Warren moves up.
8:26Josh Downs moves up. Rashee Rice takes a
8:29slight hit.
8:31Travis Kelce takes a slight hit.
8:34Xavier Worthy is cuttable.
8:37And it's neutral for Mahomes. I don't
8:39think it matters for Mahomes.
8:41And then with the Indianapolis Colts
8:42wide receivers,
8:44uh,
8:45I would be shocked if they bring back
8:47Alec Pierce this season. There'd be
8:49almost no reason for them to rush Alec
8:51Pierce back.
8:52So, I think that you probably don't look
8:55at starting anybody in Indianapolis rest
8:57of season other than Jonathan Taylor.
9:00And you will have lowered expectations
9:02for as well as
9:06Tyler Warren.
9:08But
9:09I think that's all I have for this
9:13stream.
9:14And
9:16yeah, I'm going to actually probably be
9:18live again in about 5 minutes. I need to
9:20put together everything for our waiver
9:22wire video.
9:23And let me do that right this second.
9:27I'll be live in like 5 minutes talking
9:29waivers. I apologize we didn't upload a
9:30waiver wire video this morning, but I
9:33just wanted to make sure I wasn't going
9:34to give any bad advice. Like I don't
9:36want to say like, oh, go out there and
9:38pick up um, Seth McGowan and Jonathan
9:41Taylor is about to get traded.
9:43And then JT doesn't get traded and
9:44you're setting your waivers tonight and
9:45you're like, hey Mason, you just gave us
9:47a useless video. So, I wanted to wait a
9:49little bit of time. I will get that
9:50waiver wire video out. I'm sorry, that
9:52live stream going in about 5 minutes.
9:54So, please just make sure you subscribe
9:55to the channel. I hope I get to see you
9:57in that stream in 5 minutes, but
10:00yeah, I see somebody saying isn't there
10:02still time? And oh, I guess we can talk
10:03about Malik Willis. I think the report
10:05that came out is Malik Willis is going
10:08to the reserve.
10:10So, um
10:13the Dolphins go from being bad, you
10:15don't start anybody, to being worse, you
10:17don't start anybody. I mean, again, it's
10:19Ali Gordon first and second down running
10:20back in a bad offense. That's all that
10:22matters. But Malik Willis is getting
10:24placed on the IR. He was going to miss
10:26four games. So,
10:29I guess it only matters for Superflex
10:31leagues where if you were starting
10:32Willis for his rushing upside.
10:34But yeah, deadline is over in two
10:36minutes. So, I think we are pretty much
10:38done. I talked about the Kirk Cousins
10:40trade in the live stream earlier today.
10:42Just go to the channel. You'll see it
10:43there. But much love. I will see you
