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0:45IONUS. Digital an Ihrer Seite. A very painful week two has come to an end in Dynasty fantasy football, but just because
0:53there are a ton of injuries does not mean there's not a ton of fun and interesting things that we get to talk about.
1:02If you like videos like this, hit like, hit subscribe, leave a comment, let us know what rookies you've been most impressed with early in the 2026 season.
1:12This is Dynasty Points. This is the Rookie Report, and it starts right now.
1:17Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Dynasty Points. A lot happened in week two with the 2026 rookie class.
1:23We got a good look at how things are going to change.
1:27It's very hard to look at rookies on a one-week sample, but as we get further and further into the season, we
1:35really start to see some progression in usage and personnel and everything that we need to get a clear picture.
1:42So, guys, we have each picked a couple of rookies here that we are excited to talk about.
1:49I'm excited to dive into it. Jacob, I want to send it to you first.
1:54Who do you want to kind of kick us off with?
1:58I want to talk about Jadarian Price, and I'll first note that there's an elephant in the room here, which is that he suffered a shoulder injury.
2:07It was originally reported as a chest injury, but apparently it's a shoulder injury in the third quarter of this game, which is of completely unknown severity.
2:17So I'm going to kind of proceed under the assumption he's fine because the injury happened when the game was well out
2:25of hand, and I haven't heard of reporting that it's anything major, but that's obviously a major caveat.
2:31I'm really curious to see how the market responds to week two, and especially to Price's first two weeks, because I thought
2:39that week two was a pretty significant step forward in certain ways.
2:43They really did change the rotation from week one.
2:46Week one, it was Helani and Price in basically an even snap split with Price playing more on early downs, but not
2:54that much more, and Helani playing all the pass downs, and Wilson barely played.
2:59He mixed in for a couple of short yardage opportunities.
3:03That was it. Week two, Price started every single drive until he left with injury, with the exception of their two-minute drill before half.
3:11Wilson did mix in on a lot of those drives, but he was, to me, just a pretty clear-cut lead back.
3:19The big fly in the ointment remained the short yardage stuff.
3:23So Wilson was mixing in for short yardage carries throughout.
3:26Price got a carry from the seven-yard line on a first and goal, got it down to the three or the four,
3:34and then Wilson got three consecutive carries. It was also three consecutive stuffs, which was always funny to see.
3:41Price even fumbled in this game. Didn't seem to affect his playing time.
3:45He immediately got the first touch of the next drive after the fumble, and actually after Wilson got stuffed three straight times
3:53at the goal line, Price got a carry from the first and goal from the five.
3:59So not like right on the goal line, but pretty close to the goal line.
4:04Unfortunately, toss play, completely blown up, loss of two, then they passed it in, goes to JSN.
4:10So overall, I thought that was a signal that maybe he would get a bit more of a chance in some of the short yardage stuff.
4:20And most of all, I just want to see progression.
4:23We saw that where it went from Helani and him almost splitting early down work evenly to Price being pretty clearly the
4:31lead back on early downs, even if some of the short-started stuff remains annoying.
4:36In terms of how he looked, I thought it was a bit more of a mixed bag from week one, where there
4:44was a couple of just incorrect reads where he was bouncing things inside or outside in ways that he shouldn't.
4:51But I also thought there were a lot of wow plays, and Tom had the tweet up earlier for me, which said,
4:59Price and, incredibly ironically, Ken Walker are the only two running backs in the NFL with 20 carries through two weeks who
5:06rank top five in both, missed tackles force per attempt, yards after contact per attempt.
5:12I think all in all, he's looked the part and been quite impressive, and we saw progression of workload from week one to week two.
5:21I think that the issue is, do you think that this guy is ever going to get short yardage work for this team?
5:29And if you're a believer that Mike McDonald will never let his lead back get short yardage work, then don't buy Jadarian Price.
5:37If you're a believer that it's at least possible, then I look at a really talented player who has had a progression
5:45in workload from week one to week two and could potentially continue to progress throughout the rest of the season.
5:52And I get pretty excited by that. So I think Price remains a buy.
5:57I've been more impressed with the talent through two weeks than I expect it to be.
6:02I'm seeing legitimate progression in role, and I'm pairing that with what I see as pretty negative sentiment about the short yardage stuff.
6:11And I guess what I would just continue to point out is that it's not like last year, which is that Zach
6:18Charbonnet, as much as I disliked the short yardage work, he was actually pretty effective at it.
6:24So far, every time they've given carries in tight to Helani or Wilson, it's gone terribly.
6:30They haven't converted any of these short yardage opportunities.
6:33So you have to be at least a little bit open-minded to the idea that they're going to give their lead running
6:41back a chance at some point to finish off some of these drives.
6:46I have a slightly different take coming out of week two.
6:50I don't think Price is a sell or anything.
6:53I largely agree with what Jacob says in terms of he has mostly looked good, and one would think that based on
7:01the results the Seahawks have gotten, they might think to try him in short yardage, which will be very critical.
7:08But to me, when I step back and look at this, and I remember the Ken Walker experience last year, so much
7:16of the Seahawks' rationale for what they were doing was not just Zach Charbonnet's better in short yardage and on passing downs,
7:23which was, I would say, arguable at all points.
7:27I don't know that that was ever super clear to me.
7:31What it really seemed to be was they believed that they keep their backs fresher by rotating them, and it has just
7:38so happened that Price is being rotated out on the highest value fantasy work.
7:43I don't think that has to happen forever, but just the fact that he did get banged up and sustained an injury
7:51in this game, and it was Emmanuel Wilson that obnoxiously got to run out the clock in the fourth quarter and rack
7:59up all of the touches then, that to me just gives me more pause.
8:04I don't know if the Seahawks are coming out of this saying, wow, we should try Price in short yardage.
8:11It might be, wow, we need to continue rotating our backs because Price got banged up immediately.
8:17So I don't know. That's like the, I don't know, the devil on my shoulder or the pessimist on my shoulder.
8:24It is like, is this going to feed further into their narrative of we need to maintain a committee, and he's just
8:32in a race against the clock until Charbonnet comes back as well because I think Charb is getting a lot of that
8:40high value stuff as soon as he is healthy and returns.
8:44So I get all that. My pushback would be, so one, like I'm a little bit uncertain how much the specter of Zach Charbonnet impacts things.
8:53So Charbonnet is going to attempt to come back from an ACL tear in eight months.
8:59I think he's going to look horrible if he actually tries to do that.
9:04Like I just don't know how that's possible, like to come back that early from an ACL tear and look good.
9:11I know modern medicine has surprised me before, so it's possible.
9:15But I would just bet against seeing 2023 through 2025 Zach Charbonnet eight months post ACL.
9:21Like I think it's more than 50% that he either looks severely diminished or gets instantly re-injured if he's trying to come back on that timeline.
9:30And obviously if he doesn't come back on that timeline, then Price has like six more weeks versus two to three more weeks to establish himself.
9:39Charbonnet is also in a contract year. So what is the Seahawks' plan?
9:44It's like, are they going to extend him or not?
9:48I'm not sure what the plan is there. Maybe the injury and him maybe looking diminished this year keeps the Price at
9:55a reasonable range, no pun intended, where they can extend him.
9:59That's possible. But it's also possible they don't. And like next year, it's a backfield that is Price and goofs like Helani
10:07and Emmanuel Wilson that are less established than at least a full health version of Zach Charbonnet would be.
10:14And then I guess I'm just curious like how sure we are about this philosophy.
10:19So this is Mike McDaniel's 30 years head coach.
10:22I know he's also not the offensive play caller, but we've now seen him with three different offensive play callers.
10:29And it's a little bit hard to tell like how much is him versus the play callers.
10:35Year one of Mike McDaniel, they did actually use Ken Walker as a full workhorse pretty much whenever he was active.
10:43Walker just got hurt a lot that season. And then when he was out, they used Charbonnet as a total workhorse.
10:50And like, was that a Ryan Grubb thing that Mike McDaniel never supported?
10:55Or did this experience of Walker getting hurt, like radicalize Mike McDonald to change his perspective?
11:01Like both of those are possible. I guess my read was that it was more of a Ken Walker specific thing, like
11:08in terms of Walker gets hurt a lot. And so we're going to limit his touches.
11:14And he was dealing with foot injury in the preseason last year.
11:18And then Walker also, like if you're going to take him off the field at certain points, it's annoyingly fair to take him off in short yardage situations.
11:28Cause that's where Walker's strengths are least impactful, which is these long runs that he's able to bust off in space.
11:36And his weaknesses show up the most, which is frankly questionable decision-making at times.
11:41Like is, are they going to feel the same way about Price's strengths and weaknesses as Walker's?
11:47Like on long down and distance stuff, yeah, Price has never been a receiving back.
11:52So I don't ever project him to play that really ever in the NFL.
11:57Like that would be surprising to me if he became a major passing downs guy out of nowhere.
12:04But I don't know that Price, like I don't think we just know enough about Jaderian Price to say, this is a
12:11guy who is bad in short yardage situations. Like I, I mean, we don't know that much about Jaderian Price at all.
12:19He barely played at Notre Dame. And like, it's interesting, I guess that with Love, for instance, I think we would all
12:27agree that the Tyler Algier usage is annoying and that it is temporary.
12:32Like, I don't think anyone thinks that Jeremiah Love is going to spend his whole career stuck at the 40% side of a committee.
12:40You know, how long does it last this season?
12:43Who knows? But it's not going to last, you know, the entire season.
12:48It's certainly not going to last his entire career.
12:51Whereas with Price, and I get he's nowhere near the prospect of Jeremiah Love, obviously, but I feel like we're putting a
12:59lot of weight on what we think we know about this coaching staff.
13:04And we're just, we're just like sure that there's a ceiling here.
13:08And I guess I just think that's a little bit ridiculous for a guy two weeks into his career, where I don't
13:16think we would ever treat another rookie this way, unless we were like scarred by one year of a very different player's usage.
13:24So let's talk about the Browns rookie wide receivers coming out of week two.
13:29Of course, Denzel Boston is the hot name on all of the redraft waiver wires this week.
13:35People are very excited. He has scored a couple of long touchdowns now this season, and frankly, he has looked great doing it.
13:43I will put my hand up and say, I think I maybe underestimated Denzel Boston in terms of his dynamism after the catch.
13:51I thought it was a really nice catch and run, broke a couple tackles on that touchdown catch.
13:57Really nice stuff. And I do think that he just is a talented player.
14:02And it is a guy that you should feel good about having drafted at the 111 or wherever you had him in dynasty rookie draft.
14:11So that's good stuff. Boston has led the team in route participation these first few weeks.
14:17There's not really much else to say on him.
14:20I think people understand, Hey, this seems to be an ascending talent, a rookie that has shown up immediately, even on this bad team.
14:29The usage has been there. That's great. But I think if there's any sort of discount or worry on Casey Concepcion, because
14:37Boston has outshined him in the box score, and I would, I guess I would also grant like in the highlights on
14:44the film over the first two weeks, I'm buying, I'm buying Casey Concepcion because I think under the hood, the Concepcion usage has also been extremely encouraging.
14:54So in week one, Concepcion played essentially a slot only role and was running fewer routes than Jerry Judy, not staying on
15:02the field at all outside of the three receiver sets.
15:05But it only took one week before we roll into week two.
15:10And Concepcion is running the second most routes on the team, more than Jerry Judy, fewer than only Boston is at least staying on the field.
15:19Some as the Browns rotate out of 11 personnel, right?
15:22That's kind of all I need because even despite the slightly less playing time that Concepcion is getting, because he's been in
15:30that slot role, he is still tied with Boston in terms of target share and first read target share through two weeks.
15:38And also importantly, I think that his role is going to be less sensitive to whatever quarterback the Browns bring in next after Deshaun Watson, right?
15:47Because Concepcion currently leads all wide receivers in design targets through two weeks.
15:52He is getting kind of the manufactured touch role that we dreamed about him and Compton to Zay Flowers all offseason about.
16:00He is not only being used in that low ADOT role.
16:03If you remove screens, he has an average depth of target of eight yards.
16:08And yeah, just because that's kind of his role in the offense, he's getting those manufactured looks.
16:15Even if you get a quarterback, that's not as much of a gunslinger or maybe isn't as willing to throw it up
16:22to a Denzel Boston like Deshaun Watson has been willing to do.
16:27Then you have that kind of floor with Concepcion.
16:30And I mean, I would also say based on his prospect profile, I think we'll continue to see him work downfield and
16:38be effective in that sense as well. So yeah, I think everyone is rightfully excited about Boston, but the, I just want
16:45to make it really clear that I'm not afraid in terms of him outshining Concepcion.
16:51I think both of these guys can be very, very good fantasy football players and very, very good NFL players.
16:58Concepcion, I would still say has the more fantasy friendly skillset.
17:02And Hey, we Boston has scored 70% of his fantasy points on two, on two plays.
17:07Right. So very easily, like the collective consciousness can flip back to Concepcion and him being seen as the alpha after like, a few more games.
17:17So this is really just to say I'm excited about the Browns.
17:21I'm not flipping them in any sort of rankings or anything.
17:25Um, but yeah, that I just thought that was a worthy update to kind of have.
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18:05And then, do we have to figure all this stuff out all over again?
18:10Well, the real answer is I don't think it matters.
18:13Because we're really looking for the Browns into 2027, in my opinion.
18:17Although Boston has been unreal in terms of uses, production, checks all boxes.
18:22I definitely think you nailed it. Yeah, last week, three snaps in 12 personnel.
18:27And it was seven, seven... Where is the 12?
18:30It's six. So 16% of his snaps in 12 this week.
18:34So we're getting there slowly. Slowly but surely, we are getting there.
18:38Yeah, I'm with you guys. So I don't have much to add here.
18:43Um, yeah, I don't like... I don't really ever want to focus on, um, like, limitations to rookies usage in the first couple of games of their season.
18:53That'd be the one thing I would really emphasize as it pertains to KC.
18:58Like, I saw a lot of takes after week one, and I'm even still seeing them now about what personnel groups he's
19:06not playing full snaps in or where he's getting his targets.
19:10And I just think, like, missed me with that stuff.
19:13Like, when you're talking about the first few games of a rookie's career, like, yeah, coaches are going to try and get
19:21them involved in the ways that feel most comfortable.
19:24And so I just, like, do not care. I understand, I guess, if you're...
19:29Like, I don't... I see you replying to Chris here.
19:33I have no idea what context Chris's tweet was.
19:36So if you're talking about, like, start-sit decisions for the forthcoming week, or you're talking about DFS, that's a different story.
19:43But from a dynasty perspective, um, or even from, like, a rest of season perspective, over-indexing on, like, early season role limitations
19:51is just not something you'll find me doing or that I think you should be doing.
19:57I think you want to focus on just how does this player look?
20:01What are the player's strengths? And then what's in the prospect profile, and is there potential for that to just continue to
20:09get built on over the course of a season and over the course of a career?
20:15Um, like, we should be... We should be raising our conception of a player's floor with everything we learn about them early
20:23in the season, rather than placing limits on their ceiling and then taking it away over time.
20:29I think it's like an inversion of the proper process.
20:32Yeah, so I want to talk about Broncos rookie running back Jonah Coleman.
20:37Um, one of... One of the real my guys in the rookie class.
20:41So I'm... Pretty biased on this one, to be honest.
20:45But I just love the way that this dude plays, and I love the way that he is like kind of a
20:53do-everything type who can run the ball inside and outside.
20:56He can catch the ball. He can protect the quarterback.
21:00He just does a lot of the things that I really like.
21:04Um, in this game, RJ Harvey kind of surprisingly missed.
21:08J.K. Dobbins then goes out with a hamstring injury of his own.
21:12And so for most of the second half, it was a Jonah Coleman show in a tight game against a quality team,
21:20one of the best rush defenses in the league last year.
21:24And we got to see him do a little bit of everything.
21:28We got to see him get a target and catch a pass on both of his first two snaps of the game,
21:36I think, when Dobbins was still in. And then he was entrusted with running out the clock over that final couple of drives.
21:44He had a pass pro rep that I shared on Twitter where he met and stonewalled a blitzing linebacker, which I loved out of his college tape.
21:54It was good to see that translate to the NFL.
21:57And then he busted three chunk runs on that final drive to salt it away, including a final run on wide zone
22:05where he wraps around the edge of the defense, runs down the sideline, and just to cap it off, slides in bounds
22:13to make sure that they can run out the clock for the win.
22:17That is the kind of thing that I'm sure coaches will love.
22:22And then I just really appreciate, like we're talking about a rookie back in his first meaningful NFL action that has the wherewithal to know the game situation.
22:32You're probably jacked up. You just made this huge play in a game and go, okay, now I just got the yards
22:39immediately slide, protect the ball game over. He's going to run 45 seconds more off the clock.
22:45Love to see that. So I think Coleman just kind of established what he is like.
22:51He's he's not a burner, but he's a high quality professional ready running back.
22:56And I think that that's going to matter a lot in 2027 for his dynasty value.
23:02It would matter a lot next week if Harvey and Dobbins both miss, but it sounds like they're both on the right
23:10side of questionable right now, which means that probably everything Coleman did is just going to irritate everybody because like I think
23:17he is the best power back on the team.
23:21I wouldn't be that surprised if he started eating away at a few carries per game.
23:26Particularly, I wouldn't be surprised if he wound up in a short yardage role at some point.
23:32We saw Dobbins get stonewalled three straight times on the goal line in this game in a way that I don't think
23:40was his fault, but I don't think Dobbins is a particularly powerful runner between the tackles in a way that Coleman can be.
23:48And then I think Coleman is just like very obviously a better pass down back than RJ Harvey.
23:55They still didn't use Coleman in that role in this game.
23:59They used Tyler Bidet to fill in for that.
24:02And that's fine. But Harvey was a disaster in past row in week one.
24:07That's never Dobbins' role. It's never been Dobbins' role.
24:10I get the hesitancy to give it to a rookie.
24:13I just think it's got to happen at some point this year that he's playing those third downs in this two-minute role
24:21spots because I just think he's pretty clearly better at it than the other two guys.
24:27And if there's any form of three-way rotation, it just makes all the guys so frustrating for fantasy.
24:33And it's not like you can say, oh, well, the coaches wouldn't want to use a three-way rotation.
24:40It's Sean Payton. He would love to use a three-way rotation at running back.
24:45That's his favorite thing in the world to do.
24:48So I am buying into this performance from Coleman from a 2027 perspective where I think that he could be the lead
24:56runner on the team and the kind of pass-down, like, high-value touch consolidator while Harvey is in a fun change-of-pace role in a post-Dobbins world.
25:05That's kind of where I'm leaning at it from a dynasty perspective.
25:09And then the nice thing with Coleman is I think he's at least second best at everything among their three running backs,
25:17which means he has two-way contingent upside to be a flex-worthy player if either Harvey or Dobbins suffers future injuries, and both are already hurt.
25:25Yeah, I'm excited about Jonah Coleman. 82% of the snaps after Dobbins left the game, as Jacob said, they just used him
25:33in basically every situation aside from the obvious long down-and-distance stuff that Tyler Bidet got.
25:39And I think it makes sense to think that Coleman could win that over.
25:44So yeah, long-term dynasty lens, I agree with everything Jacob just laid out.
25:48I was a big fan of Coleman as a prospect as well.
25:52I famously wanted to rank him ahead of Jadarian Price and didn't because I knew the draft capital wouldn't be there, and I'm glad I didn't in hindsight.
26:02But yeah, that was like the level of analytics-based prospect that he was to me.
26:08So yeah, I don't know when it's going to happen.
26:11I do think especially in the short term, this backfield's going to be very hard to figure out.
26:18But hey, I'm kind of happy to, even in a redraft sense, to have a Coleman or a Harvey stash just because
26:25when you do try to fit the puzzle pieces together in terms of who's going to be in short yardage, who's going
26:33to be on passing downs, there are different ways to slide around the pieces that result in a fantasy-relevant role for one guy in the backfield.
26:43I think most likely that it's just going to be gross and frustrating and not fantasy viable if everybody's healthy, but it
26:50is a fun, just kind of ambiguous thing to track going forward.
26:55So that's where I'm at as well. I guess for Harvey in the short term, I am open to him coming out
27:02as the most valuable fantasy back just because I do think the most likely thing if Dobbins were to miss and Harvey
27:10were to play would be that Harvey leads the team in snaps, in touches, in expected fantasy points again narrowly.
27:17He did get used in some short yardage stuff in week one, which would be good if that were to continue for his fantasy stock.
27:26But yeah, we just really don't know is kind of where we're at.
27:31I guess this does make me more afraid of Harvey long-term in Dynasty just because of the additional ambiguity and Coleman only
27:39taking two weeks to kind of prove himself as a potential option here.
27:43But hey, it is Sean Payton. Coleman could be a healthy scratch next week for all we know.
27:50Nothing would surprise me that much. It is important to note that they can save roughly $8 million next year cutting J.K.
27:57Dobbins. That is definitely an out for him. So that's kind of what I'm expecting after seeing this.
28:04And if you look at the player profile on the fantasy points front office, Jonah Coleman spiking here already in September after
28:12a little bit of a lull towards the end of August.
28:16So it does look like things are pointing all the way up when you think about that J.K.
28:22Dobbins potential out. But you can kind of see how it's going to go into 2027.
28:28My legs bring me up. These shoes are much too tight.
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29:14Digital on your website. Next, I want to talk about a player who hasn't played a single snap yet in the NFL.
29:22And this one might be a little off the wall to people.
29:26A guy that maybe people aren't thinking about right now, but I couldn't stop myself from thinking about Jordan Tyson as I
29:34was writing up the everything report and looking over this Saints offense through two weeks.
29:39So effectively, what we've seen from the Saints is going back over their last 10 games, they rank bottom three in every
29:47offensive category through the first three quarters by yards per play, by points per drive.
29:52However, you want to split it out. Then you look at the fourth quarter and they are first in the NFL in
30:00yards per play first in the NFL in points per drive in the fourth quarter.
30:06And I do think this is somewhat by design.
30:09In the college game for years, part of the philosophy has been we're going to run a ton of plays and then
30:17defenses are going to be tired out in the second half of games.
30:21And that's going to help us win. That's going to help us succeed as an offense.
30:27Right. Going back to the original Chip Kelly philosophy.
30:30Right. Kellen Moore, I think, has just brought that to the NFL.
30:34So pace is nothing new for more. He has always been top four in plays per game.
30:40But something about this pairing with Kellen Moore and Tyler shock has led to all of this play volume and all of
30:48these fourth quarter comebacks these past two weeks. They have forced overtime and they have won the game coming back in the fourth quarter.
30:57It's not only garbage time. It does seem to be a legitimate strategy in terms of winning football games and creating production
31:05for all of the pass catchers in the Saints offense.
31:08We've got Chuck ranking top three in dropbacks per game over his last 10 starts.
31:13I compared the Saints to the 2015 Blake Bortles led Jacksonville Jaguars when Bortles was a top five fantasy quarterback.
31:20Allen Robinson was a top five fantasy wide receiver and they led the NFL in game winning drives in the fourth quarter.
31:28I think there's something to that, except in this case, you have a forward thinking play caller that is doing it somewhat
31:36in town intentionally to somewhat more success. And you have a completely ineffective running game to the point where Tyler shock just
31:44is the goal line back as we might talk about on the veteran show.
31:49But it has created a situation where all the Saints can do or will do is give us a ton of drop
31:57back volume and a ton of volume for all of their pass catchers.
32:01Chris Olave is currently a top six player in XFP per team play among all positions, which is absurd for a wide receiver.
32:09Usually running backs top that stat. Same thing with Devon Vele.
32:13He has run more routes than any player through the first two weeks of the season.
32:19I do want Johnson third at the tight end position in terms of routes.
32:24These guys who I would say are fairly marginal talents are fantasy relevant because they are just in this offense.
32:31So now imagine flip the page over to I won't even say week five when he's eligible to come off of IR or to start practicing.
32:40Let's flip the page to week 10 to after the Saints by this week or this year.
32:46What's going to happen when we airdrop Jordan Tyson on to this offense that is arguably the best offense at creating fantasy
32:54production for wide receivers out of thin air? Olave to me is nowhere close to a top five wide receiver talent, but
33:02he is pretty damn close to a top five fantasy wide receiver because of how the Saints are choosing to operate their offense.
33:10What happens if Tyson is anywhere near as good as Olave or even better than Olave as a talent?
33:17And he shows that through the final few weeks of this season.
33:21Then we're going to go into the 2027 offseason with Tyson stock absolutely through the roof.
33:27And oh, yeah, right now people you can just kind of buy him people people especially after especially a month ago.
33:34I would say the sentiment was very down on Jordan Tyson, and I don't know that anyone's just really thinking about him right now.
33:43But I do think we've learned a lot just from the first two weeks that this is in fact how the Saints want to run their offense.
33:52And it's working at least to some extent that it could be somewhat sustainable.
33:57This could be their strategy for most of the season.
34:01So I want the highly drafted rookie highly touted prospect that's going to be airdropped into this situation.
34:07And you can see since September 13th, the market is starting Ryan.
34:12They're going to do it. They got to do it now.
34:16The market is starting to become woke to the idea that this offense is just good for fantasy altogether.
34:22You can see Jordan Tyson's market value in the front office updating over the last couple of days.
34:29And you're not going to have this opportunity for long.
34:32You can see if you look up his trade that people are already kind of starting to get on board, but it's
34:40not like the price is overly expensive. Marvin Harrison and Tori Horton for stripling and Tyson is a very odd trade combination.
34:48Josh Jacob, Drake London and a first for Tyson.
34:51And Jeremiah Love is a little bit more of one that you could kind of get behind, but you can definitely see
34:59people are trying to get him before he comes back to score points.
35:03Derek Henry for Jordan Tyson. Just some interesting trade combinations.
35:07Go put a few out there. Get a couple of feelers out.
35:11Last week, we were trying to put the show together.
35:15I was asking you guys in a group chat what we felt about DK Metcalf's production because he seemed to get targeted a lot.
35:23And I was DK Metcalf curious. And then I got through this Steelers game and I ended up focusing way more on Jeremy Bernard.
35:32First off, Metcalf terrible. He has 16 expected PPR points per game this year, but he's averaging just a hair over seven points.
35:40A 26% target share in this Pittsburgh offense, which we thought would open it up a little bit more with Mike McCarthy.
35:48And they have. Here's the bad for Bernard in week two.
35:52He did drop a screen pass, which led to a pick, which if we know anything about Aaron Rodgers, that probably means
36:00Bernard is destined to play on another team going in the next year.
36:04However, he was quoted on giving Bernard credit for getting himself open, creating space, getting an opportunity to get the ball.
36:12So it does not sound like he's really getting the Caleb Johnson treatment here as a rookie, which I was surprised by.
36:19You're not going to convince me that Aaron Rodgers has changed his ways.
36:24This just gives me hope that maybe this pick is not as detrimental as I initially thought.
36:30Also on the bad in week one, there was just 4.7% of the snaps, three routes, no targets.
36:36Well, let's talk about the good from week two, because this is really what we're talking about is usage over production.
36:44And there's a little bit of both here. The good there was no Michael Pittman Jr.
36:50in this lineup this week. If really, if you look at the two trades plus contracts they've given out for DK Metcalf, Michael Pittman Jr.
36:58It just gets worse and worse the more you look at it.
37:03But no Michael Pittman Jr. in the lineup for here.
37:06And all of a sudden Bernard had 77.6% of the snaps, 76.1% of the routes.
37:12He had eight targets, which was second on the team.
37:15He caught four. It was only 35 yards, so it wasn't exactly an explosive breakout type game.
37:21But there was a clear usage upswing. He also had a higher yards per target than DK Metcalf, which I thought was interesting.
37:29He won both contested catches. He lined up in the slot only 14.3% of the time.
37:35But I think that actually kind of helps him a little bit knowing where Michael Pittman Jr.
37:41lines up. He ended up with a 20% target share, which ended up being second on the team.
37:47So if I really had to look at it, week one complete letdown overall for him in terms of his usage.
37:55He wanted an opportunity for Bernard to see an increase after week one.
38:00And he did. And he made the best out of it, except for the drop.
38:05That was no good. You don't want to put that on tape.
38:09Everything else seemed fine for me. And you want these rookies to really show that they're earning trust, that their team is willing to give them an opportunity.
38:19And they did that with Jeremy Bernard. He's now firmly on my list of players to watch for.
38:25Yeah, there was one drive there for Bernard where it felt like Rogers discovered him in real time.
38:32Like, I don't know if Jeremy had zero or one target to that point, but he was not very involved.
38:39And then I remember Bernard got one target. And then it felt like five minutes later he had six where Rogers was just peppering him.
38:48And I thought he showed a lot of good stuff on that drive.
38:52It's just, yeah, the screen pass that you mentioned was such a massive bummer because it really felt like Bernard had a
39:00chance to lock down a starting role throughout that game.
39:04And then, oh man, Rogers is never going to like it when his mistakes, when someone else's mistakes wind up on his
39:12stat sheet, that's going to be a problem. This is completely unrelated to Bernard.
39:17But I mean, how funny was that play of Rogers just getting absolutely leveled?
39:22I mean that. Oh yeah. I was watching the tape on this game.
39:26Look, I'll admit it. Like, it wouldn't have been funny if he got seriously hurt to be clear, but since he was
39:34fine, I rewound that like 15 times. Like that was just, I mean, come on.
39:39That's just good stuff right there. That's what I thought the, the contract stuff with both Michael Pittman Jr.
39:46and DK Metcalf is just so interesting when you look at what Jacob Gibbs posted about rope participation at wide receiver in
39:54week two, like Roman Wilson, 91% playing like a vertical slot role.
39:58And you got Jeremy Bernard at 85%. I mean, no, I, I, I have hope that they see the light and they want to use these guys.
40:08I want to believe that Rogers isn't putting Jeremy Bernard in the doghouse.
40:12He's never been afraid to kind of do it openly.
40:16So I want to trust the, the words at the end of the game and the words of encouragement and see this role.
40:24I don't see a lot left in the tank for guys like Michael Pittman Jr.
40:29And DK Metcalf has been outright awful. When you look at the, and I also don't want to, I don't want to
40:37come on here in week two and be like, you have to buy.
40:42There's a must buy type player. But if you look at the fantasy points front office, not a whole lot of people
40:50are out here looking for Jeremy Bernard. So I think that he's going on my watch list, which you can do on
40:57the front office and every trade, every update and the rankings that you'll be able to keep track on Jeremy of Jeremy Bernard's value increased or decreased.
41:07From the day you put him on your list.
41:10He's on mine because I just feel like the opportunity is well, it's well above what his value is right now, according to our database.
41:19Really encouraging also for him, both short and long term, that Mike McCarthy's desire to play 11 personnel as much as possible,
41:27which has always been what he's historically wanted to do, is clearly overtaking what a lot of people thought would be personnel
41:35advantages on their roster to going into heavy personnel.
41:38This week, they had just a very set 11 personnel grouping.
41:42They ran 70 total plays. Each of DK, Jeremy and Roman Wilson played at least 55 of those.
41:48DK played 68. And then Ben Skoranek got 15 snaps also as the fourth receiver, mostly on rundowns.
41:55Pat Fryermuth and Darnell Washington combined for, you know, just over the 70 total snaps.
42:00And basically it's Fryermuth is playing the vast majority of the passing downs and Darnell Washington is playing the vast majority of the running downs.
42:09They're occasionally sharing the field in 12 personnel, but not that frequently and especially not that frequently on passing downs.
42:16So it's the three receivers, whoever that is going to be.
42:20And if Metcalf or sorry, if Pittman misses more time or if Bernard eventually passes Roman Wilson, then he's going to have
42:28a chance to run a ton of routes. And I mean, looking forward, like, I don't know what this team is going to look like.
42:36Like, Rodgers is obviously not part of the long term plans.
42:40I don't know if either or both of DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman are part of the long term plans.
42:47I assume Mike McCarthy is at least part of the next year plans.
42:52And if that's the case, Bernard should be in an every down 85% routes as role, at least as soon as next year, if not this year.
43:02Yeah, look at his routes by personnel, 100% in 11 personnel.
43:06You could see a combination of Pittman Jr. DK and Bernard on the field at the same time a lot, even in the second half of the season.
43:15And that's just going to be a giant plus for his value increase.
43:20And even if you're just one of the dynasty players that like to buy soup by for a third and a little
43:28bit of a snack and an older player and then trade again for a second later down the road.
43:35Even if that is your game, I feel like you have an opportunity to do that here.
43:41My legs are not too small. My legs bring me up.
43:45These shoes are too heavy. Do you always have these spits?
43:48I mean, are not all the shoes so long?
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44:57Ich bin kurz auf Emmett Johnson. Ich bin wirklich auf zwei Dinge.
45:02Ich bin wirklich auf zwei Dinge. One, ich denke er sieht absoluter amazing.
45:06Like, amazing. Just purely auf eine per-snap basis. Die erste erste erste erste erste, die er so far durch zwei Jahre, period, wäre es ihm oder Denzel Boston.
45:16So, das ist great. Und wenn Ken Walker ever suffers an injury, ich denke, er ist ein Top 10 running back.
45:24Ich würde so far as sagen, dass wenn Walker suffers an injury und Kyron Williams suffers an injury, dass Sie preferen Emmett
45:31Johnson, die jetzt auf 70% von Yahoo! Redraft Leagues, als Blake Korum, die hat einen Rund 7.80p.
45:37So, all das ist das ist amazing. Ich denke, sie sollten finden eine Art von ihm ein paar andere Ereignisse, vielleicht zwei
45:45oder drei mehr an der expenseen Walker. Maybe we stop throwing screens to Xavier Worthy, whose next broken tackle will be his
45:53first, und wir einfach das zu den Rundern-Bachs, aber ich einfach, ich möchte vor ein Moratorium on the Ken Walker timeshare wish
46:01casting and concern trolling from anyone who doesn't have a big bag of Ken Walker because this guy looks like the best
46:09player in the National Football League and I have people from all different sides of the spectrum talking up the possibility of
46:17a timeshare and I just want you to admit that this is purely you coping or or dooming depending on like maybe
46:24you actually did draft a lot of Walker but you just don't want to be happy so you're just doom posting I
46:32don't know what this is but stop it get some help he has 23.5 carries per game and eight targets per game
46:40and he looks like god like he can stand to lose five touches per game to Emmitt Johnson he'll still be a
46:48top five running back it's fun he is not going into a 50-50 timeshare teams do not reduce their star players workload
46:56just because the round five rookie looks good maybe like a little bit maybe by a drive it's not going to a
47:0350-50 it's never going to a 50-50 Walker is a top five running back until he gets hurt and then Emmitt Johnson
47:11is a top five running back and they're both amazing that's the exact note that I had this week yeah with the
47:19I just love that that's what went viral is Andy Reid saying he'd love to get more snaps for Emmitt Johnson like
47:27Walker has played a hundred percent of the snaps inside the 10-yard line this season his workload by XFP could fall by
47:3520 percent from where it's at through two weeks and it would still be clearly top five of the position Walker as
47:42Jacob has laid out looks like the best running back in the league right now even with a top five workload he
47:50would probably be a top two running back five fantasy points per game scoring like he's going to outperform the workload even
47:58if it is only a top five and not a top one so yeah do not be afraid of the Kenneth Walker
48:06timeshare I agree Emmitt Johnson looks amazing agree with all those points that was even out of week one that was my
48:14biggest takeaway was that Emmitt Johnson is probably just the most valuable handcuff in all fantasy formats right now yeah not much
48:21else to add there well let me let me just spin this to Emmitt Johnson a little bit because Jacob you and
48:29I last week were a little on the fence on buying or selling and what we would when the episode came out
48:37a lot of comments in the fantasy points discord about Kenneth Walker managers and should they spend that 27 second to go
48:45and buy their what we are now calling an elite handcuff so for dynasty managers that are kind of monitoring and managing
48:53the situation at what point do we go out and start buying I'm looking at the trade database and from September 20th
49:01people are already sending 27 twos the Xavier worthy stuff netted somebody Emmitt Johnson here on that same day we've got a
49:0827 third from the 20th then you scroll up a little bit now you're getting into Kalen Black AD Mitchell at what
49:16point does the 27 to get fired off to secure an elite handcuff does it does somebody that doesn't have Ken Walker
49:24are they like should they try to sell on this opportunity like it sucks that he's a handcuff because he has been
49:32this good but that conversation does start coming up more and more as we move on this is the rare case where
49:40I actually think it's worth overspending for a handcuff because okay it's it's so clear that he is the handcuff and it's
49:47so clear that he would probably maybe not be quite as valuable as Walker but honestly be kind of close if he
49:55got the job that I think it's actually worthwhile because you're just paying that price to ensure that you have a top
50:03five running back this season kind of no matter what I mean unless they somehow both get hurt but I feel like
50:11most mostly the reason I'm opposed to this is that a lot of times you're you're thinking you're adding a handcuff but
50:19you don't know for sure if they are the handcuff or maybe they are the handcuff but it's a lot less valuable
50:26like look at for instance the Eagles you know Saquon Barkley missed a lot of that game and Tank Bigsby would be
50:34startable if Saquon Barkley misses this week but he was in like a 60-40 split with Will Shipley you know and that's
50:42like what you're getting out of Bigsby is a lot less valuable than your what you're getting out of Barkley although that
50:50might not even be that valuable given the state of their offensive line right now and that's a guy who a lot
50:58of people myself included identified as a likely top five handcuff in draft season and that already looks like it's significantly reduced
51:06to the point where I would probably be ranking Bigsby like RB 20 RB 22 this week if Barkley misses the game
51:13so that's kind of the downside case and I mean who knows like anything's possible maybe we're all projecting Emmitt Johnson to
51:21see all the touches in the world and all of a sudden like they sign Kareemont or Brashard Smith is out there
51:29for way more snaps than we envisioned but I think Emmitt's looked so good you combine that with just the fact that
51:37he is already getting pass down work on the snaps that he gets the college profile of being a total three down
51:45workhorse like it it hits all the boxes of okay RB 1 goes out it's a bit like Zach Charbonnet ironically you
51:52know who used to be the running the backup to Ken Walker who like you couldn't really ever start Zach Charbonnet very
52:00confidently but you knew when Walker's out he is just getting it all and he's gonna be a locked in top 12
52:08running back he's gonna do everything and Johnson is basically I thought as a prospect profile Johnson like would be Zach Charbonnet
52:16he is in all of the good thing attributes of Zach Charbonnet he's also just way better than Zach Charbonnet so far
52:24I think so I think it's a spot where yeah if you can get him for two to protect your Walker bags
52:31I would just do it honestly and I would I would if he's like somehow still on waivers and you're the Walker
52:39manager like I would spend up to make sure he's like in redraft I mean obviously he's on Dynasty waivers but I
52:47would make sure to do that too because I I do think you can just ensure yourself in this situation alright everybody
52:55that's gonna be the rookie report for week two be locked in here for rookie report week three you're not gonna wanna
53:03miss that of course if you haven't seen it already Dynasty Points goes live every Tuesday so that will be up as
53:10you are finishing up this episode go and check that one out we always do a little bit of a review on
53:18veterans injuries Q&A lots of fun stuff to talk about there go and check that out remember to leave a like and
53:26a comment let us know what rookies you're really impressed with so far and what you're looking forward to seeing the most
53:34also remember that clear eyes and full hearts can never lose and that your best days always been tilting we'll see you
53:42guys next time my teeth bring me up these shoes are too long you're still Do you know these spits things?
53:49I mean, are not all the shoes so long?
53:52No, you need Altras. Altras? Altras are like your feet.
53:56With a foot-to-foot-to-foot. Just a bit more comfortable. You're going to walk with a high-to-foot.
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