15 Must-Draft SLEEPERS After NFL Free Agency Moves (03/30 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Fantasy Football Today: "15 Must-Draft SLEEPERS After NFL Free Agency Moves"

Episode Date: March 30, 2026
Hosts/Analysts: Adam Aizer, Heath Cummings, Jamie Eisenberg
Theme: Deep-dive into 15 post-free agency fantasy football sleepers for 2026 drafts — including late-round running backs, receivers poised to break out, and the impact of NFL offseason changes.

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Episode Overview

The FFT crew spotlights overlooked fantasy football assets whose situations have improved or remain undervalued after NFL free agency. The team highlights running backs who could ascend with opportunity, late-round wide receivers who may become reliable starters, and tight ends with league-winning upside if circumstances break right. Players are dissected not only for talent, but for anticipated draft position value — crucial for uncovering true sleepers.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Heath Cummings on Kyler Murray’s sleeper value in Minnesota:

  “If he’s the starting quarterback and for as long as he’s the starting quarterback, the expectation should be he’s going to be a top-12 quarterback.” (09:53)

• Jamie Eisenberg on J.K. Dobbins’ overlooked upside:

  “If you can find a guy who could be an RB2 in Round 10 for as long as Dobbins stays healthy, that’s a good target.” (17:07)

• Heath on Rashad White’s receiving appeal:

  “He’s locked in on passing downs. The guy is one of the greatest catch rates ever for a running back—he’s almost free.” (17:52)

• Jamie on Parker Washington’s late-season surge:

  “In the last four games for Jacksonville, including one postseason game, Parker Washington had nine or more targets, 87 or more yards, 19 or more PPR fantasy points in every game... and he led the team in targets by a mile.” (40:10)

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Quarterback Sleepers & Unsettled Battles

• Kyler Murray (Minnesota):
  • Improved situation with premier weapons: Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, T.J. Hockenson.
  • Top-12 fantasy QB upside, especially if named the starter.
  • “Probably the best situation that he’s ever played in, probably the best play caller.” (08:46)
  • Potential for camp competition with Carson Wentz as insurance (11:15).

2. Running Back Sleepers After Free Agency

• J.K. Dobbins (Washington):

  • Going as RB41 (Round 11 consensus!) despite proven efficiency (5.2 YPC career).
  • Situational upside if he retains lead role and stays healthy.

• Rashad White (Washington):

  • Locked in as the passing-down back; incredibly high catch rates.
  • Minimal competition unless the team adds a rookie (18:08).

• Jonathan Brooks (Carolina):

  • Could overtake Chuba Hubbard by midseason if healthy; risk lies in early injury or unexpected rotational usage.

• Tyler Allgeier (Arizona) & Jordan Mason (Minnesota):

  • Strong handcuffs who could become starters if injury strikes ahead of them.
  • Both are high-efficiency runners with limited passing-game roles. (31:03)

• Emmanuel Wilson (Seattle) & Chris Rodriguez Jr. (Jacksonville):

  • Opportunity-laden situations, but competition or draft additions could cloud the outlook.

Notable “Sleeper vs. Handcuff” Debate:

• Brooks vs. Allgeier/White: Who most likely leads his team in carries? Panel leans Rashad White for role security (20:00).

3. Wide Receiver Sleepers Rising in Opportunity

• Romeo Doubs (New England):

  • “If they don’t add anybody else significant … has a chance to be a borderline top-24 wide receiver.” (21:09)
  • Room for volume if the Patriots’ WR room stays thin.

• Josh Downs (Indianapolis):

  • Pittman departure vacates 100+ targets.
  • Highly efficient on a per-route basis—averaged 9 targets/game in high-snap games.
  • Key concern: sustainability of Daniel Jones’s QB play post-injury (24:44).

• Parker Washington (Jacksonville):

  • Monster end-of-2025 run: multiple games of 19+ PPR points (over 40 targets in 4 games!).
  • Legitimate shot at WR1 status for JAX; debate on preference versus Jacoby Myers (43:15).

• Jalen Coker (Carolina):

  • Established as possible WR2 on a team thin beyond the top option.

• Quentin Johnston (Los Angeles Chargers):

  • Flashes WR2 upside tied to offensive line health and offensive system consistency.
  • Extreme spike weeks—but also duds; ideal bench stash (45:26).

• Jalen McMillan (Tampa Bay):

  • Replaces Mike Evans; flashed big games in limited action.
  • Panel sees “wait and see” with WR3/flex appeal if he carves out a bigger role (45:50).

4. Tight End Sleepers & Opportunity

• Isaiah Likely (New York Giants):

  • “Another guy like Josh Downs, who we’re just hoping because of new circumstances gets to play a lot more.” (28:28)
  • Impressive when playing >70% of snaps; “immense upside, especially if he’s the number two in this offense behind Malik Nabers” (29:27).

• Chig Okonkwo (Tennessee):

  • Mentioned as a watch-list sleeper—flashes deep-play ability and may benefit from a thin WR corps (49:04).

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Rapid-Fire: Notable Mailbag + Closing Debates

• Draft Strategy: Ideal draft slot for 2026? Jamie likes pick 2 (“chance at top two RBs”) or pick 5 (“chance at any of top three WRs”). (57:47)
• Roster Culture: Banter on rotating running backs, backup plans for injury-prone RB rooms, and frustration watching high-upside skills like Trey Benson’s get buried.
• Wideout Depth in Rounds 7–8: Candid discussion about how wide receiver values can rapidly thin mid-draft, shifting strategy toward loading up early or targeting late upside. (25:51, 27:45)

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News & Coaches’ Notes (50:00–53:08)

• Owners meetings yielded coach-speak on:
  • Isaiah Likely: Harbaugh glowing: “I think Jackson is really going to like him. He’s a playmaking football player.”
  • Chigo Okonkwo: Dan Quinn: “I love the speed you see on deep over routes…”
  • AJ Brown (Eagles): Coaches emphatically say “AJ Brown is an Eagle,” but speculation about June 1st trade possibilities persists.
  • Charbonnet (SEA): “Should be ready for start of training camp.”

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Closing Remarks & Tone

Throughout the show, the banter is friendly, analytical, and irreverent. Heath and Jamie are candid about their bets—sometimes disagreeing, sometimes reinforcing each other—and Adam keeps the conversation pacy and welcoming to listeners, interjecting with pointed questions and managing transitions.

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Final Takeaways

• Deep RBs like Dobbins, White, Brooks, and Mason might win you your league for pennies on the draft dollar.
• WRs Downs, Parker Washington, and Quentin Johnston have “breakout trajectory” with modest floors thanks to the vacated-targets bonanza.
• Isaiah Likely (TE) and waiver-adjacent options at WR/RB should be circled late as high-impact lottery tickets.
• Coaches’ early comments are important, but fantasy players need to watch for further training camp clarity post-draft.

“It’s not just about who’s got talent—but who’s being overlooked at the price. That’s where you win your league.” — FFT, paraphrased

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Scrollable List of Sleepers Discussed

Quarterback:

• Kyler Murray (MIN)

Running Backs:

• J.K. Dobbins (WAS)
• Rashad White (WAS)
• Jonathan Brooks (CAR)
• Jordan Mason (MIN)
• Tyler Allgeier (ARI)
• Emmanuel Wilson (SEA)
• Chris Rodriguez Jr. (JAX)

Wide Receivers:

• Romeo Doubs (NE)
• Josh Downs (IND)
• Parker Washington (JAX)
• Jalen Coker (CAR)
• Quentin Johnston (LAC)
• Jalen McMillan (TB)

Tight End:

• Isaiah Likely (NYG)
• Chigo Okonkwo (TEN, mentioned as a sneaky watch guy)

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For full rankings, target ranges, and sleepers, catch the podcast’s Wednesday episode for more breakouts and busts!

Transcript

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[Heath Cummings]

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[Adam Azer]

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

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[Heath Cummings]

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[Heath Cummings]

Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath.

[Adam Azer]

Big week here on Fantasy Football Today. Welcome everybody. Adam Azer, Heath Cummings, Jamie Eisenberg. We got sleepers, breakouts and busts to talk to you about. Dave Will back on the Wednesday show today. We're going to do sleepers, of course. Got to do everything in order. What if we did busts first? Could you imagine? Yeah, me either. No, I can't imagine. All right, anyway, thank you, Heath,

[Jamie Eisenberg]

but

[Adam Azer]

we're gonna do sleepers today. We're talking about a lot of running backs you can get late that really could have big roles on their teams like J.K. dobbins and Tyler Algier and Jordan Mason, etc. We're going to talk about Parker Washington. Try to wrap our heads around what happened there. He scored 19 or more fantasy points in each of his last four games, including the playoffs. We'll talk about Rashad White, who once upon a time was the number four running back overall in PPR in 2023. Jamie, how was your weekend on the weekendometer?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Let's see, sports wise, we went 3 and 1 in baseball, so that was good. I believe basketball was not as successful for Heath, but for our household was one and one. So not a losing weekend. And then, let's see, had one emergency room visit for child. That was okay.

[Adam Azer]

What?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Everybody's all right. But that was fun. Yeah. Kid playing at someone's house, fell backwards, split his head open, little glue in the forehead, and we're good to go. My goodness.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, Heath, everybody okay with you?

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[Heath Cummings]

No emergency room visits for my household. I think one for my basketball team, but besides that. No, it was.

[Adam Azer]

It was.

[Heath Cummings]

It was a fine weekend. I'll give it a six and a half.

[Adam Azer]

All right, well, let's get into the show here before we get in.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Florida going

[Adam Azer]

great. No complaints. Good food, great weather. Other than all the rain, Sunday was a washout. But it's good. Good to be in a short in a T shirt. And I've been wearing sandals all week, so it's nice to enjoy that. Okay, how's everybody's bracket doing? Who's winning the bracket challenge? Oh, my gosh, not me. Austin Stillgar has a hundred points. That's very good. And he has Arizona. But it looks like Ben Daly, who is 99 points and a higher max score. One of you guys has a very good chance to be in the podcast league. And then Tyler. Oh, no, you're out. Michigan State. We got some Michigan's in there. Emil, you got a chance. Anyway, thank you all for participating. We had about a thousand entries. I am in. Oh, man. I am in. What place? Out of about a thousand? I am in 766 Place. Is anybody doing worse than me?

[Heath Cummings]

Oh, I think so.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Once Florida was eliminated, I stopped watching college basketball.

[Heath Cummings]

I'm still watching most of the games and, and it continues the trend of great finishes, which is, which has been nice except for that Michigan game. But I'm pretty sure I'm behind you in the bracket challenge. Yeah, I'm around 790 if I remember right.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, that's so good.

[Adam Azer]

All right, to the news and notes. The 49ers are hopeful that George Kittle could be ready for week one and they're also making good progress on contract talks with their left tackle, Trent Williams. Heath, if George Kittle were ready for week one, what round, in what round do you think he should be drafted?

[Heath Cummings]

Man, this tight end group would just get deeper and deeper. I, I think we're still going to have some skepticism at his age coming off this injury. And the Yak did disappear last year, but before the injury. So while we were taking him, I think in the round three, four range a year ago for me it would probably be more in the round five, six range now.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Okay.

[Adam Azer]

Andy Reid did not give an update on Patrick Mahomes. Cleveland GM Andrew Barry said Quinton Judkins should participate in off season workouts in some form or fashion. From weeks three through 15. He got hurt in week 16, he didn't play that much in week two, he missed week one. From weeks three to 15, Judkins was Jamie, the number 24 running back per game in PPR he had. He was on pace for 300 carries but only 26 catches. On pace for 10 touchdowns. Struggled on a per carry basis. Convince me that he can be better than RB24 per game.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Todd Mockin, you know, in just this history of running backs, look, I think whether you get desean Watson or another year of Shadow Sanders, I think the quarterback play should be slightly better. I don't know, expect it to be dramatically better, but hopefully that means a better offense. And so as long as the offensive line is not a complete disaster, I think Judkins can be in that 18 to 20 range. I don't have a ton of high expectations for him because I don't expect a huge role in the passing game and obviously expecting a lot of touchdowns from this Browns offense is the most thing you want to, you know, hang your hat on. But he certainly showed that he can run the ball well. He certainly showed when he was throwing the ball he can be involved in the passing game. So I think when you're looking at that back end RB2 group, he's in that discussion.

[Adam Azer]

All right. Cameron Wolf of the NFL Network says he thinks Michael Penix will be ready at some point in training camp. Will he be the starting quarterback? It'll be him or Tua. Don't forget to find the new YouTube channel for beyond the Box Score. They obviously have had their own audio feed, but now they have their own YouTube channel. So just look for beyond the box score on YouTube and check out FFT Dynasty as well. Great time to get ready for the NFL draft, but right now we're getting ready for sleepers and a lot of the sleepers are are also guys who change teams or free agency relevant like Josh Downs who lost Michael Pittman as a teammate. But he's going to start with your sleepers. We start with Kyler Murray who has now been, even if we, if we remove partial games, just look at the last three seasons, 20.5 or fewer fantasy points per game and three straight seasons. But he still was top 12, I believe per game right around 12th in 20, 23 and 4. So I'll throw that number out. 20.5 fantasy points per game. It's fine. It's not great. Six point per pass in touchdown leagues. What do you think the chances are he can do better than that in Minnesota?

[Heath Cummings]

Oh, I think that they are pretty good. I think this is if he wins the job outright. This is probably the best situation that he's ever played in, probably the best play caller. The combination of Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and T.J. hawkinson is, is better than he's ever had in terms of a receiving core. And so I listen, you can spin the the per game, I think either direction. Last year was a disaster at 18 fantasy points per game. Before that he had three straight of basically right at 20 and before that two seasons over 24. It's funny because he has gotten older and he's 28 now, but the rushing production really has not suffered. He averaged six yards per carry last year. That's his career metric, has been over 30 rushing yards per game every year of his career and has a 17 game pace of six rush touchdowns. That's five fantasy points per game. On the ground. The Kyler Murray scores with Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison just average as a passer. And if you're having deja vu and you think man, this sounds a lot like Justin Fields, yes, it's the same argument. I think Kyler is actually cheaper right now except for one of our mock drafts than Justin Fields was last year. But if he's the starting quarterback and for as long as he's the starting quarterback the expectation should be he's going to be a top 12 quarterback.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I will probably get an answer within the next couple of hours because the owners meetings are going on right now and today is the NFC coaches are meeting with the media. I wonder if Kevin o' Connell and I totally agree with everything he said just potentially a, a little wrinkle to it. I wonder if Kevin o' Connell, because it's a one year commitment to Kyler Murray and clearly they're not comfortable with JJ McCarthy committing to him as their quarterback of the future. Do they have an open competition and like Carson Wentz maybe come in and see if he can win a job. And I, I don't think that's the case but clearly Wentz played well for spurts last year when healthy for, for Kevin o' Connell and just knowing like not that they need to win now or he needs to win now to justify his job, but this is a roster that can compete because Brian Flores is a great defensive coordinator, may not be there very long and there's going to be some frustrations if they don't make a run to some degree because they were knocking on the doorstep two years ago when they were competing for the 1 seed in the NFC and excuse me, 2024. So I wonder if Wentz has an opportunity here to maybe just totally destroy what this narrative could be of of Kyler Murray or even JJ McCarthy now again I would probably say it's Murray is the one, Wentz is probably the two and then McCarthy is hey let's see how the season goes and then we play him. But it's just kind of interesting thought to me of, of what Wentz went to signing means to this, this team in this organization. And I do think, you know, the second part of this would be whoever it is not McCarthy is great for the upside of what Jefferson and Addison can get back to being because they both were really good with with Wentz in that five games draw four game stretch last year that he played Heath.

[Adam Azer]

Last question, who's the best sleeper in the Vikings passing game? Addison Murray or even Hawkinson?

[Heath Cummings]

I would say it's probably right now Kyler Murray the way I and this is a tricky thing at the end of March doing a sleepers list because sleepers are influenced by where they're going to be taken in drafts and we don't fully know that. So I kind of use the fantasy pros consensus rankings and Addison was still ranked just. I think he was in the end of round eight, early round nine in those rankings. That's for me, still just a little bit early for a sleeper pick. So it's Kyler, but I, I was very much interested in putting Addison there. I think Addison can be a top 30 wide receiver

[Jamie Eisenberg]

PPR points per game in three of the four starts with. With Wen. Slasher.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. Yeah, he was really good. All right, Heath, we're going to talk about three running backs that you have. J.K. dobbins, Rashad White and Jonathan Brook. Who? Jonathan Brooks. But we're going to do that after we take a break. So we'll look at Heat's running back sleepers after this. On Fantasy Football today, what if sports

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[Heath Cummings]

Oh it's certainly Dobbins, White Brooks. It's in that order. Their their consensus rankings in that order. I was shocked to see Dobbins consensus ranking is RB41 in round with a round 11 value. And that seems ridiculous except in our most recent mock I think I took dobbins in round 10 and that was a half PPR draft. Like a format that he's actually better in. He was. You said it. RB27 last year in PPR. He was RB17 the year before. The funny thing is he was much better last year. His success rate was 11 points higher. His yards per carry was up a half a yard. He ran for more yards per game last year than he did when he was RB17. He just didn't score the touchdowns. I don't think it's a sure thing that he holds on to the same role that he had at the beginning of last year because RJ Harvey's not a rookie anymore. But it's a possibility and if you can find a guy who could be an RB2 in round 10 for as long as Dobbins stays healthy, that's, that's a, a good, good target.

[Adam Azer]

What about White and Brooks?

[Heath Cummings]

I think White probably has a little more upside than people are saying. He's RB46 in the consensus rankings round 12. He's locked in on passing downs. The guy is one of the greatest catch rates ever for a running back. He's 85, 89 almost every year. And, and the, the thing that prevents him, I mean if they take Jeremiah Love, just throw all this out. But the thing right now that prevents him from having more rush attempts is that Bill is going to take over a larger role. Well, if he doesn't clean up the stuff that he needs to clean up. White has been better the last two years as a rusher and at time by some metrics was more efficient than Bucky Irving was last year. I think there is a chance that he could end up in the role that Austin Eckler had where he doesn't. He's never going to have 20 rush attempts per game, but he might have 10 to 15 rush attempts per game and be the obvious guy on passing downs and that can turn into an RB2 and he's almost free.

[Adam Azer]

Jamie, do you what do you think Jonathan Brooks's outlook is another guy on Heath sleepers list here.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

If healthy, could be the best running back for the Panthers. Most likely he's in a shared situation with Chuba Hubbard if things go well for him and then maybe by the middle of the season he's the better of the two in, in whatever tandem they're. However they're using that, that tandem. I mean the, the concern would be is that. I guess the biggest concern would be is that he's not healthy. But the concern would be is that if he does open the season as the backup or at least competing for the backup role with Trevor Etienne, that Chuba Hubbard still continues to, you know, dominate touches. And we do, we just don't see a significant role for him. But it wouldn't shock me at all if as we discussed last week like this could be a team that, you know, adds another running back to the mix just because wanting to see Brooks prove himself, not necessarily wanting to lean on ETN as that backup guy and maybe realizing that they potentially overpaid Chuba Hubbard for what kind of a, a running back he is. But you know, there's, you always like situations where the, the player is talented, he's got a situation he's got to overcome. And for, for Brooks, it's a pretty serious one, you know, you know, suffering two ACL tears in back to back years. But the guy in front of him is not exactly the most proven talented. However you want to attach, you know, the, the sort of negatives to Chuba Hubbard, you know, I think he's, he's certainly done an Adam Adamant job for the Panthers and at times for fantasy managers, but we know he's not the most successful type of player. So I think Brooks is in a good spot. I think he's definitely great value, you know, depending on how this backfill is going to look like. But if they, if they add somebody, then I don't know how many people are going to be excited to take Jonathan Brooks.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, as of right now, who do you think has a better chance to lead his team in carries? Jonathan Brooks in Carolina or Rashad White in Washington?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Shot White in Washington.

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think, I think Rashad White, like if you want the, the most optimistic outcome is he's this year's Kenneth Gainwell.

[Adam Azer]

Shot White. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, maybe Kenneth Gainwell is this year's Kenneth Gainwell.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Jamie. Maybe so.

[Adam Azer]

All right, he's back to your sleepers list. Romeo Dobbs and Josh Downs are your two wide receivers. You also have Isaiah Likely, who we'll talk about, but Romeo Dobbs, who has been just very consistent throughout his career. 42 to 59 catches, no more than 724 yards in all four seasons, 67 and 96 targets, which is kind of a big range. But anyway, fifth year guy now with the Patriots, Romeo Dobbs and Josh Downs for the Colts. Who do you like better?

[Heath Cummings]

I like Dobbs just a little better. They're both right around what between that wide receiver 36 to 40 range. For me, I think I was maybe arguing against Dobbs a week or two ago, but I didn't realize how low like the industry seems to be on him. He's around our wide receiver 50 in the rent in the projections. Maybe everybody is still, still just expecting like I've talked about how people are lower on Jalen Hurts and I think they should be. Might be some people are just still expecting AJ Brown to end up on the Patriots. But as of right now, I only have him projected for 101 targets. Romeo Dobbs. And he's my wide receiver 38. If you give him the same efficiency and he gets to 110 targets, he's wide receiver 30, 120. He's wide receiver 24. As their team's currently constructed, that's possible. I don't know that 120 is what's going to happen, but I think he has a chance. If they don't add anybody else significant at the wide receiver position to be a borderline top 24 wide receiver. Downs, the thing that I like about him is like Pittman's gone. You look at the Colts adot last year, Alec Pierce was at an absolutely insane 18.9 yards downfield on his average target. Tyler Warren was five yards away from the line of scrimmage. Just most everything was really close where they had some screens working there. Pittman and Downs were separated by a half a yard, 8.1, 7.5. Downs was working in the part of the field where Pittman was as well. Pittman is now gone. The hope is. And they haven't. I don't think Nick Westbrook's going to keep this from happening. The hope is they play Josh Downs in more two wide receiver sets because that's not what we've seen very often. I've got nine games in his career where he had a 75% snap share. He averaged nine targets per game in those nine games. He is very good at earning targets when he's on the field. We just need him on the field more. I'll. I'll downgrade him if they make an addition that I think could keep him off the field in two wide receiver sets. But as of right now, I think he gets a boost in playing time. He gets a boost in targets because Pittman's gone and could be a good number three wide receiver.

[Adam Azer]

So this Josh Downs we're talking about here. I had a similar stat. I looked at games where he had an 80 route participation rate or higher. I don't know if this is good or not. He scored double digit PPR fantasy points in 10 of 16 games with an 80 route participation rate or higher. I mean, it's very good from a sleeper standpoint. Right, Right. You know, it's not, not great from a breakout standpoint. Some, some of the games were like right around 10. You know, it wasn't like.

[Heath Cummings]

Of course there's been like. Hopefully Daniel Jones is the guy we saw in the first half of last year and that's the best quarterback play that Josh Downs has had in his career. There's a Lot of. I assume there's a few Anthony Richardson games mixed in there.

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[Adam Azer]

There's some games mixed in there.

[Heath Cummings]

Right.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Mitchell is good for.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. You know, what I, this, what I'm struggling with is like, how do I feel about the Colts past catchers? Because losing Pittman is obviously a big deal. But Daniel Jones averaged 8.1 yards per attempt. He never averaged more than 6.8 in his, in his. Forget about, like when it just. I'll just use his whole season. Right. Other than the Jacksonville game, he's on pace for four, 300 yards, 27 touchdowns. It's. I have this balance of. Well, they've got such a better situation now because, you know, Pittman's not there versus I just don't see how they can do it again, you know, be the highest scoring team in the NFL when Daniel Jones was playing and have him have this career year. He's coming off a torn Achilles. I don't. I think it was hard for him to repeat that success anyway. So I'm trying to strike this balance of the increased opportunities versus I would expect. Personally, I would expect worse. A worse passing game, worse Daniel Jones this year.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think that's fair. But you're getting a better opportunity for Josh Downs. And look, even a worse Daniel Jones is still going to be a positive for the receiving core when you're removing 100 plus targets from the equation, you know, so I think you're expecting a big leap for Alec Pierce to whatever degree. Elite for Alex Pierce is that great elite for Alec Pierce you're expecting? I. I think at least I am, you know, something close to the first half of the season for Tyler Warren. So that's why he's got top five upside down. And then this is the guy in terms of downs that could take the biggest jump because again, you know, we've seen flashes. We've seen now opportunity arise without Pittman there. And so late round value, he's among the best guys I think you could find just based on, you know, what his expected role should be. So Heath is right, you know, if he's playing more on two receiver sets, you know, that that should certainly be a boost for him. And then, you know, we'll see sort of how this all shakes out. We're also, you know, asking a lot. The Colts are asking a lot based on what they paid Alec Pierce for him to be this guy and be this alpha, which we've never seen from him. And so it could be More of a 1A and A, 1B and downs is getting, you know, the, the biggest benefit of all of Pittman. Bingo.

[Adam Azer]

You want to do a, an experiment? Because I don't know if you guys feel this way, but do you feel like when you start drafting wide receivers in round seven, round eight, it's just you're kind of shocked at the, at the players you're taking. Like, really this guy.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, I don't, I don't think I've said. I, I, I didn't say any names that I was super, super excited about taking in. Like, I think Downs and Dobbs both fit in round eight.

[Adam Azer]

So. Yeah, I mean, talking about that, like, every time we talk about wide receivers,

[Jamie Eisenberg]

it's just, it's thin.

[Adam Azer]

It's thin. But then let's take a look at, let's take a. What about the wide receivers we took a year ago? I'm looking at our fantasy football Today league from last August. It was actually the last draft we did. It may have been September. Early September.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The wide receivers was two days before the season, sir.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. Okay. So early September. Wide receivers. We. Cooper Cup, Romo Dunes, Keon Coleman, not Dave, by the way. Chris Olave, Stefan Diggs, a lot of old guys there. Debo Cooper Cup, Odunze Coleman. Oh, Jacoby Myers was in there. Chris Olave, Stefan Diggs, Jordan Addison was in round eight. Juwan Jennings was in round eight. Chris Godwin, Round eight. So that was, I don't know. I mean, it ended up being not so bad. I go Dunes A was good. Jacoby Myers, Chris Olave, Stefan Diggs, pretty good.

[Heath Cummings]

There's a lot of guys who were really good for short periods of time. Like, Odunze was incredible for the first four or five weeks, then kind of mid, Then hurt. Debo was really good for about half the season and then.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah,

[Adam Azer]

yeah. All right. But, you know, I, it's not like we were drafting studs last year. I guess maybe I'm overreacting to the talent in round seven at wide receiver.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think this is the group, you know, I'm, I'm hopeful that Dobbs can meet. To me, could be a breakout candidate. If we get to, you know, the end of the draft and A.J. brown's still on the Eagles and he's that number one guy. I think Downs is, is in this, in, in this range of receivers that should be draft or should be drafted in this range. We're going to see what the, the draft tells us, but also the NFL draft. But I think when we get to fantasy drafts, especially if you're in a three receiver league like it's almost like you want to get to by the time you get to round seven, you'd rather have your four receivers if you, if that's your. Your plan or certainly three locked up by this point.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. All right. And finally, Isaiah Likely Heath is your tight end sleeper. We talked about him, I think. Was it last show?

[Heath Cummings]

We've talked about him almost every show. It's just whether Jamie or I sends the notes in first. Who gets to talk about Isaiah Likely? He's still outside of the top 12 consensus tight ends. I think he probably gets into that 11 or 12 range, depending on what the George Kettle information is by the time we get to draft season. But another guy like Josh Downs, who we're just hoping because of new circumstances gets to play a lot more. I think he has 13 games in his career where he's played over 70% of the snaps. I would expect him, as long as he's healthy, to play over 70% of the snaps in all the Giants games this year. And that's. He's been about a ten and a half fantasy point per game guy in that stretch, but that's kind of undervaluing it because there's several games early in his career where he played a lot of snaps but didn't see many targets. In more than a third of those games, he scored more than 16 PPR fantasy points. Immense upside, especially if he's the number two in this offense behind Malik Neighbors.

[Adam Azer]

So what. Where did you say Likely was in the consensus rankings?

[Heath Cummings]

I think he was 15.

[Adam Azer]

I don't know. What is it about? Is it just not enough data yet or is it. Are we looking at rankings from before free agency mixed in with rankings after free agency? Well, I didn't know.

[Heath Cummings]

I just think there's just that many tight ends that like some people are really excited about Rhonda Gadston. Some people gonna keep ranking Travis Kelsey in the top 12?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Well, we have.

[Heath Cummings]

We have like eight or nine that we're almost everybody prefers over Isaiah Likely. They could still have Kittle ahead of him for sure if they're optimistic about the injury. People are hoping for a Mark Andrews bounce back. Like there's. There's just a tight ends deep.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. All right, Jamie, let's take a look at your sleepers here. And you've got a number of running backs who are in mostly new situations. But you have Jordan Mason and you have Tyler Alger, Minnesota's Jordan Mason, Arizona running back Tyler Algiers, Seattle running back Emmanuel Wilson and Jacksonville running back Chris Rodriguez, Oddly enough, I don't think this is any reason why Jamie put them on their sleep maybe. But Jordan Mason, Emmanuel Wilson and Chris Rodriguez, in their careers, they've all averaged 4.5 yards per carry or better. They've been good. And then Algiers been, I don't know, he's probably around 4.2, 4.9, 3.7, 4.7, 3.6 yards per carry in his four seasons. None of these guys have been very involved in the passing game though. But Jordan Mason, Tyler Algier, Emmanuel Wilson and Chris Rodriguez Jr. Discuss those four running backs and what you like about them.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Well, first off, I may have the wrong Seattle running back Mike McDonald. You know, again, the owners meetings are going on, so some of the teams and the coaches, front office members, etc, meet with their local media before they have the formal sit down that's happening today, this morning and tomorrow morning. And Mike McDonald was asked about his running back room and the first name out of his mouth was George Holani. So, you know, we may, we may get to a point by the time, you know, August starts if Charbonnet is not ready to go and it's not a prominent rookie, because I'm expecting them to draft somebody for sure, but it's not a prominent rookie. Holani may be the guy that they lean on first, so that's just something to keep an eye on there. But again, it's opportunity. You know, I think with the, the Seattle situation, it's obvious, you know, you know, if there is no Charbonnet, whoever is going to be that potential starter, you're going to want to gravitate to with, you know, probably something as early as round eight, but, you know, a little bit, a little bit later than that potentially as well. Whoever comes out of that mix of guys and ends up starting for Seattle, it's still going to be a very good offense. It's still going to be a very good situation at some point, you know, Charbonnet may be ready and that, you know, changes things. But I think you want pieces of this backfield as long as there's this, you know, ambiguity, ambiguity of, you know, who it may or may not be as the, as the potential starter. Wilson, you know, showed some flashes last year when, when Josh Jacobs was hurt. So to me, he's the one that I think would probably be the, the most likely player to, you know, start the season again, depending on what they do at the draft. But I think of this group, you know, there's, there's just Uncertainty and, and when you're looking at it, you know, you're looking at the, the situation of Algier is probably an injury related situation for him to be a fantasy starter because I do think as we discussed last week, like James Connor, I think he said it best. James Connor, when he's healthy should be the best running back for the Cardinals because of what he'll do as a pass catcher and has proven that he can be a three down running back and be very successful in it. Algier to what you just said is not going to be involved in the passing game to, to a high degree at least unless things change. But even in his rookie season he wasn't doing that when he ran for a thousand yards for the Falcons and they were very quick to replace him with the high draft pick of Bijan Robinson. So he's probably just touchdown related, touchdown dependent. In the case of Rodriguez and Mason, like they could emerge as the best rushers on their teams. I, I think more so in Jacksonville because we don't know what Basil Tootin's capable of. Again the connection with Liam Cohen to Rodriguez at Kentucky when they were together as an assistant coach and you know, young running back, that may matter more so than you know, anything else and just giving an opportunity to get on the field. And in the case of Jordan Mason, I saw at least one person attached to, you know, a media member covering the Vikings suggested let's just end this drive swapping situation that they sort of went through last year. Let's make Mason the first and second down guy. Let Aaron Jones play on passing downs. But Jones is going to be 32 or 31, excuse me. And Jordan Mason in the four games that Aaron Jones missed last year, one amazing game against Cincinnati, I believe it was one very good game where he was over 12 PPR points, one over 11, one over 10. So his average is going to look good because he didn't really have a stinker in there. But I think he could be if he was a full time guy like a 12 ppr point per game type of running back, which would be a back end RB2. So these are the type of guys you put on your bench and you see what develops again, the Seattle situation, Jacksonville situation, you know, kind of have to, you know, see what happens in camp. But the other two are probably more related to injuries or a slight change in maybe what happens in terms of what their expected philosophy or depth chart looks like.

[Adam Azer]

Why do you think so far we at least and the drafts we've done, why do you think in Arizona? Seems like we're just kind of giving up on Trey Benson. What's your read on Trey? Benson was a third round pick. He's battled injury, but it's obviously a talented guy and I don't know, we haven't really given him too much of a. Of a chance it seems. That's my interpretation. What do you think, Jamie? What are your thoughts on Benson?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I. I think signing Algier and restructuring Connor kind of tells you what they think of Benson at this point. And again, you know, new regime so, you know, we'll see how this all shakes out. But he missed his opportunity in my mind. You know, Conor gets hurt and so does he at the same time, and then never gets back on the field to prove himself. And so I'm hopeful, to be honest, like maybe give him an opportunity to go someplace else and sort of go through 2026 with this combination of Connor and Algier and then, you know, maybe find somebody in the draft or hit the reset button in 2027. But I don't think Benson, barring injury, is going to get that chance now. Again, you know, just got finished talking about the Minnesota situation. I think they bring back Carson Wentz because they had such a disastrous. They want to have as much depth as possible. If you're the Cardinals, last year's running back situation was as bad as any team had. You know, when you lose Connor, you lose Benson. D. Mercado was banged up, Michael Carter was banged up. You know, like their whole, you know, everybody that was supposed to be an impactful player for them, whether it was running back or special teams, got hurt. And so, you know, you're just bringing in quality players. In Algier's case, was. Was reasonable cost. You get Connor back at a reasonable cost. Benson's still on his rookie deal. You know, it doesn't seem like you have to really, you know, go out and spend too much on that position, but having players that you probably trust in a depth standpoint is, is a good thing as well. I just don't think Benson matters if everybody's healthy.

[Adam Azer]

Heath, what's your take on that?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

On.

[Adam Azer]

On Benson?

[Heath Cummings]

No, I think J. I think Jamie said it best. I, I've been a big proponent of Benson. I am a believer of his and his talent. I was very hopeful that last year was the last year of James Connor and if it had just been bringing Tyler Algier in, I would have bet on him being the number two to Trey Benson. But they also brought back James Connor. And so I'm not saying I think Trey Benson is. It's dumb to draft him in the same range as like a Jonathan Brooks, but I wouldn't draft him any higher.

[Adam Azer]

I really want to see him get a chance. I mean, he had 13 catches in four games last year and Tyler Algier has never had more than 18 catches in a season. He's just a different running back than, than Algeria. I think he'd be more exciting for fantasy. I think he could do more. I think he'd be worse because he's so boomer bust, but he's got a lot more, more potential. I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed that that Trey Benson at least gets a, gets an opportunity because I think he'd be the most excited. I mean, maybe Connor would still be the most exciting. I don't know what he has left in the tank at this point, but I, I'd like to see Benson get an opportunity before Algeria. I don't think. I think you're right in the way you guys have framed it. I don't think it's going to happen. Alager's got to be. It would. You would think ahead of him on the depth chart, but personally, I'd be rooting for Benson to get a chance. All right, well, I don't know how many of you are rooting for a commercial break, but if you are, now is your moment. All right, standing ovation. We'll be right back for after this commercial break on fantasy football. Today,

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cash back per month and we've got four wide receivers on Jamie's sleeper list. Let's do the first two because it was. And we'll separate the last two. The first two are interesting here. Parker Washington and Jalen Coker. In the last four games of the season for Jacksonville, including one postseason game, Parker Washington had nine or more targets, 87 or more yards, 19 or more PPR fantasy points in every game and he led the team in targets by a mile. He had 41 targets. Kobe Myers at 27. Jalen Coker. In the last six games for Carolina, including the postseason, he led his demon targets. He had more targets than 10 roll, but only three more 22. Coker had a 22.6 target share. McMillan had a 20.8 target share. That's going to need to be better by the way, if we're going to take the mill in round three. But Washington and Coker, how, how close are they? Jamie, in your, in your rankings,

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Washington's probably around ahead of Coker. I have the Jacksonville receivers not named Travis Hunter kind of bunched together and I would really prefer just to take, if I want a piece of that passing game, the last of the top three guys of Thomas Myers and Washington, which I would have it ranked. Actually I might have Washington ahead of Myers, but they're, they're all very much bunched together. And in the case of Coker, to me he's in a similar scenario fantasy wise to Josh Downs. Like I, I think at best Coker is the number two target getter. He probably right now should be the number two target getter for the Panthers, whereas Downs is probably third but you know, secondary piece of this offense that has, I think still some upside. But in the case of, of these two receivers, like you want them to be bench guys to open the season, at least I do. And then hopefully they impress like they did at times last year where they can be potential starters for you as the season moves on.

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[Adam Azer]

What do you make of that four game stretcher? Parker Washington? I mean it was just so good. Again, 19 or more PPR fantasy points in every game includes that one playoff game. And I would have to guess, in fact, I'm gonna, you know what, I don't even have to look it up. I'm just gonna say it with confidence. Wandale Robinson has never done that. Romeo Dobbs has never done that. Those guys got big contracts to go elsewhere and we're hoping that they take another jump in their fifth season. I mean it was, it was like, it just blew me away how good he was down the Stretch, what'd you think?

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, I, I think it's probably fair to say that averaging over 10 yards per game and like 20 fantasy points per game is probably something those guys have not done. It's. I think it's hard to place that within the story of Parker Washington's career and the fact that even at the beginning of the year it didn't seem like that this was the plan for him. And so was it just a thing they found at the end of the year that worked really well or was this him having his third year breakout over the course of a month? I'm generally a little bit more skeptical of those things, but I agree with like Washington was one of the guys I went to look and he was just a little bit like he was in that Jordan Addison range in terms of the consensus ranking. So I didn't put him on the list. But I think he's a great sleeper call. I prefer Jacoby Myers to Parker Washington and I think it'll be interesting to see when we get to August, like where the their ADP is in relation to each other. But the number one wide receiver in Jacksonville is a mystery and I wouldn't be that surprised if it's not the same guy all year long.

[Adam Azer]

Sure. And the he Parker Washington went one pick ahead of Josh Downs. Another guy we talked about in our first post free agency mock draft. Who would you guys. Jamie then Heath. Who would you prefer, Parker Washington or Josh Downs?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right now, Parker Washington.

[Heath Cummings]

As of right now I do have Washington higher.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, Jamie, Quinton Johnston is on your sleepers list. Let's see where he went in this draft. He went oh, after. After them. Way after them. He went with the 11th pick of round 10. Quinton Johnston, first four games on pace for 94 catches, 1432 yards, 17 touchdowns on 153 targets. That, that's insane. That was four games. The last 10 games he was on pace for 82 targets and less than 700 yards. Who is Quinton Johnson? Jamie?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think a guy in a great spot. If Keenan Allen doesn't come back, you know, and we're looking at this offense presumably getting better for two reasons. One, the offensive line being healthy to the addition of Mike McDaniel. And so unless there's a big leap for Trey Harris and Lambert Smith, mostly Harris, I would hope, then I think when Johnson is the number two receiver and then we'll see if he's number two in terms of targets behind McConkey competing with Aronde Gas before. So Johnston, I think we Were all quick to say, okay, he sucks and he's not going to be a part of. And last year he was a part of it and, you know, had a lot of big moments. And so we talked about this last week a little bit with the players that we were discussing. I think was our favorite guys. You know, Dave brought up Christian Watson. That conversation went. I think Alec Pierce is, is somebody that's, you know, in a similar situation. Like you're talking about big plays and spike weeks and disappointing weeks as well. I would certainly not put Quentin Johnson in the same category or range or want to draft him as where I would be drafting Christian Watson, Alex Pierce, but the production by the end of the season may be somewhat similar. So, you know, I think just Quentin Johnson is one of these guys, like when you get to that wide receiver four range and you're looking for upside, you're attaching him to a very good quarterback, you're attaching him to a very good offense potential potentially, and you're attaching them to big plays and, and those are the type of guys that, you know can win you some big weeks.

[Adam Azer]

And your last sleeper is Jalen McMillan. Played four games last year, had nine targets in week 17, had a huge game, seven catches for 114 yards at Miami. The other three games, McMillan had three or fewer targets. So last year really shouldn't even be counted. Mike Evans is gone. McMillan showed he can fill in pretty well two years ago. When do you think we should start considering Jalen McMillan?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So I, I mentioned this and the stories on the site. I didn't really dive too much into my team, but we, you know, sort of mentioned this a little bit in terms of like late round wide receivers. I had the choice of, I wanted to take two wide receivers. I took Darnell Mooney and Christian Kirk and then right after that, Jacob took Jalen McMillan. And you can make, you know, pros and cons for all three of those guys. But like you said, McMillan two years ago as a rookie, his last five games of the season, he was amazing with Baker Mayfield and that was with Evans actually back. But Godwin out. That was when Godwin had the ankle injury. And so now you're looking at just an opportunity here and we're all excited about a Mecca Buka as we should. But Godwin has, you know, had a hard time staying healthy for, you know, two of the last four seasons. And McMillan is a player that, you know, when given an opportunity and certainly when given targets and didn't take a lot of them, he can have a chance to be a good playmaker. So I don't think he's anybody you want to invest heavily in right now, but top three wide receiver on the Bucks. I think we'll see a situation where they do spread the ball around probably more than we hope for because we want to see a Mecca Buka and then probably Chris Godwin second get, you know, fed targets as much as possible. But I think Millenn's a pretty good player and you know somebody that can have, you know, some, some good moments similar to a Parker Washington, a Josh Downs, a Jalen Coker. You know those type of guys that when they get chances they produce so good late round pick to see what happens in the first part of the season.

[Adam Azer]

Heath, any thoughts?

[Heath Cummings]

I am, I'm very excited about a couple a few of Jamie's sleepers. I'm. I think I've been besides you the Quentin Johnston guy and I think that there's a, there's a sneaky chance that he could be better than lad McConkey. He has been for stretches in the past. So it's a new offensive system. We'll see how Mike McDaniel draws everything up. But as cheap as Quentin Johnson is, I think he's a great pick. And like I said, Parker Washington also could be the number one wide receiver for Jacksonville.

[Adam Azer]

One of the things we saw with Quentin Johnston was, you know, his, his success early in the year came with Joal and his route depth was higher and his adot was higher and Justin Herbert's time to throw was higher. So you had an ability for Herbert to drop back, have a clean pocket and throw the ball downfield. They had to adjust after their left, their right tackle, their left tackle got hurt and they were without both their starting tackles for the year. But they had to adjust to a shorter passing game. It just didn't really suit Quentin Johnston. I don't know if that, that really held true for the full season, but at least in the beginning of the non Joe Alt experiment, it was a much shorter passing game, quicker release and again it was bad for everyone. Yeah, but amazing how he just basically completely disappeared back there. One game against the Vikings where he did not. I don't think he had a target the entire game. Quentin Johnson. But nobody did anything against the Vikings. Right. All right, Jamie, you said we got some news coming in. The owners meetings are going on right now and you are so mad that you're not there. First of all, Jamie did just I said, hey, you want to do a podcast? He's like whatever. I should be at the owner's meetings. But you're gonna, whatever Adam, you're gonna bother me about it. So that's where we are. But anyway, what's going what are we seeing on the Twitter sphere?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So, you know, a lot of this is obviously coach speak and so anytime there's a new player added to a roster, you're going to get positive reports. And so I'm, I'm literally looking at this live as it's happening. The meetings are going on right now. The coaches are meeting with the media right now. So these are two that just came in. John Harbaugh talking about Isaiah Likely. This is what he said. Quote, I think Jackson is really going to like him. He's a playmaking football player. So you know somebody that they're I'm sure very excited about. And Harbaugh good history with his tight end. And you know, he also was, you know, somewhat glowing about his his quarterback as well as you expect. Dan Quinn on Chigo Conquo I love the speed you seen on deep over routes and ones that build up speed on play action. This is a player that should be in the sleeper conversation because you know he's shown at times flashes. He's had it a little bit of time last year as well, getting a huge opportunity assuming they don't bring back Zach Ertz. This is a receiving core that's completely decimated as we are are well aware. Both Howie Roseman, I believe for sure. I'm sorry, both Howie Roseman, but, but Nick Sirianni today. AJ Brown is an Eagle. They've been repeating this mantra now for 48 hours. AJ Brown is an eagle. AJ Brown is an Eagle. I'm sure probably driving up the price as much as they possibly can. But A.J. brown is at least as we expect, going to open the season with the Philadelphia Eagles. This one is the surprise.

[Adam Azer]

I didn't interpret. I didn't interpret it that way. AJ Brown is an Eagle. Me was their way of saying please stop asking about AJ Brown. Right now he's an Eagle. What has been reported is that if they trade him after June 1, the cap charge is like, like $20 million less. So I think he's probably this is what I was reading on ESPN yesterday. AJ Brown is probably going to be an Eagle at least through the end of May. Once we get to June 1, it becomes much less prohibitive for them to trade him. That was my interpretation.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Sure. I would imagine though, if you're the Eagles and you want to compete for another super bowl ring. You want to trade him before the NFL draft. So you get the draft picks for him now.

[Adam Azer]

So they love to. Yeah. I just don't know if it's, I don't know. With, with the, with the 20 million, it is about $20 million extra. So sometimes that doesn't matter. Right. Like, oh, Dolphins can't release Tua the cap, it's too high. Right. Sometimes they don't care. But it'd be easier for the Eagles to trade him after June 1st.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

From a money standpoint, I, I, I'm sure that makes sense. My guess would be is that if they get offered the two first round picks that they're hoping for one this year, one next year or some huge packers that they can't over look or turn down. Yeah, I'll deal with the cap. It, you know, to take the draft picks. This is the interesting one. Kellen Moore on Alvin Camara and if he expects him to be on the roster this year, he's certainly on the roster and part of the running back room. We feel fortunate that we were able to acquire Travis, but there's a lot of work to be had. It's a great situation for us. This is one that I would like to see. You know, talking about James Connor and Trey Benson and maybe Benson moving on. I would like to see Alvin Camara move on. You know, Heath was talking about J.K. dobbins. I keep expecting Camara to end up in Denver and follow Sean Payton there and then he doesn't have to worry about whatever problems RJ Harvey was creating or not. You know, things he wasn't doing last year in his rookie campaign. I'm not gonna like Travis Etienne as much if Alvin Camara is still with this.

[Adam Azer]

No. Yeah, for sure.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Or Travis.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. I don't even know who that other guy you said is.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, no, I apologize. Anything else if Camaro was. No, there's lots. I mean but it's, you know, I can't, I can't without spending time looking through each team's.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Beat writers they're trying to make progress with. With George Pickens. Here's, here's Howie Roseman, you know, on A.J. brown. He's a member of the Eagles. Seems like according to rumors, the only team really keeps asking is is New England. So if there's going to be a likely trade, then that's where it comes from. Mike McDonald's to Tori Horton. Probably won't be 100, but should be ready for the start by the spring. But should be ready for the Start of training camp. Expectation is that Charbonnet is back at some point during the season. So that's positive at some point for him. There's just. There's. There's a lot. We'll have a lot on Wednesday.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. And then there's something that. The chat's been wild today. The chat has not really been talking much about the topics. They've been really off topic. But our guy, Johnny Airport Adam eats pineapple on pizza. I do, and. Well, I don't anymore, but I would. You just don't see it very often. But I want to ask you guys something, right? Pineapple on pizza is great, but, you know, look, I'm a New Yorker now. We obviously have the best pizza, and South Florida is very good because it's a bunch of New Yorkers who move down here and they. They do their best. My wife went to Pasquale's yesterday. She. Which is. Which is like a staple in Coral Springs, Florida, right? Like, you know, Heath, you know, Pasquales

[Jamie Eisenberg]

or Pasquales,

[Adam Azer]

I don't know. But that place that she went to,

[Heath Cummings]

I do not know that. And I think they're the only times I have chosen to eat in Coral Springs or when I was at a basketball tournament or when you wanted to go to lunch there.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, fair enough. But she went to a place that's been around forever, and she went in, she asked for a chicken roll, and they had no idea what she was talking about. Do you guys not have chicken rolls down here? Have you ever heard of a chicken roll?

[Heath Cummings]

I don't know What a chick. Is that? Like, is that. No, I don't know.

[Adam Azer]

It's similar to a calzone, but it

[Jamie Eisenberg]

doesn't have a chicken bake that you would get it.

[Adam Azer]

Costco, maybe. It's a, you know, it's a town. It's got chicken.

[Heath Cummings]

So is it like. It has chicken and red sauce inside of bread? So it's kind of like.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, basically. Yeah. Yeah. It is kind of like a. Like a hot pocket. Don't really have them here. Yeah. Maybe she should have just ordered a hot pocket. That would have been. That would have cheaper.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, it would have been much cheaper, but probably not.

[Adam Azer]

Speaking of which, I do have some emails about lunch. Email us at fantasy football cbsi.com fantasy football@cbsi. That's the letter I.com good. Time to send some emails. This is from Terry. Says Heath said that they get up early, don't eat breakfast, but have lunch at 10am Is that lunch? McDonald's is still serving breakfast, as most places are, if 11:45 is afternoon, when is morning? If you got up at 6am and have a burger, is that lunch or breakfast? Is it the time or the food?

[Heath Cummings]

No, I think that's a great question because a lot of times I'm eating lunch at the same time that my son is eating breakfast. And so I don't know if we are eating different meals or the same meal. It's just, that's the timing. And part of it is because we are. I mean, we moved to South Florida and just totally acclimated to the fact that you eat dinner at 5:30, because that's like, that's a very Boca Raton thing. And so I, I'm. I'm not gonna eat lunch at noon and then eat dinner at 5:30. So I just eat lunch earlier.

[Adam Azer]

So you go. You don't eat much between your 10am lunch and your 5:30 dinner.

[Heath Cummings]

There's usually a little snack, but like maybe some chips or something.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Okay.

[Adam Azer]

Sean says, sorry if I'm mistaken, but isn't Heath, who vehemently disagrees with you, that after 11 is not afternoon and yet he eats lunch at 10am I think people are having trouble, Heath, putting these two things together. They seem a little contradictory.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah, it seems like a lot of these people must not have like breakfast for dinner. Maybe I'm having lunch for breakfast.

[Adam Azer]

I don't think so.

[Heath Cummings]

Like, I'm as soon. I. I'm actually behind schedule today because we're doing a podcast at 10am so I'm gonna have lunch in just a little bit. But if I had eaten a steak and a baked potato at 10am Is that breakfast or lunch?

[Adam Azer]

That's your lunch. You're just weird. I mean, he is just weird. I think, forget about all the semantics. He's just ruins. You can't have this conversation because he throws it off so much. But it's 1106am right now. If you wait 24 minutes, you'll have lunch. If you eat before that, you'll have brunch. Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

Okay, so I'm gonna. I'm. Steak and steak and baked potato for brunch.

[Adam Azer]

That's. That is. You could really eat anything for brunch. All right, now we have a football question from Lewis. He says, first of all, how do you feel about baseball season starting this week? And I can choose my draft spot this year. Should I not overthink it and just go with first overall? What is your ideal draft spot, Jamie? Are you fired up for the 30 Florida Marlins?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I have not paid attention to their record. I'm more concerned about our fantasy team. But I think right now, if I had to choose a draft spot right now, it would. First out, the first question I would ask myself, do I want the chance at one of the top three receivers, more importantly or one of the chance of the top two running backs? If I want a chance on the top two running backs, I'm taking two. I want to chance at one of the top three wide receivers. I'm taking five because if I get five, I get a chance at either one of those spots. Most likely a receiver. But two or five would probably be my most ideal draft spots.

[Adam Azer]

Heath, I looked at the Marlins roster today because I saw they were 3, 0. Sandy Alcantara was the only player that I recognized. The only one.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Stop it.

[Heath Cummings]

I do remember that name.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That's the only player.

[Heath Cummings]

I thought it was all kinds.

[Adam Azer]

I. I think we used to say Alcantara, but I. I believe it's Alcantara. But I could be wrong. But him I knew Griffin. Griffin Conine. Like I know Jeff. Jeff Conine's kid.

[Heath Cummings]

It's gotta be Mr. Marlin. Of course, Mr. Marlin's kids in Marlin.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. Who's their best player?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

JB their best player is probably injured in Jake Stowers stores.

[Heath Cummings]

But is he related to the tight end?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean Xavier Edwards is. Is fun. He's a good second baseman. Okay. My kids. Yeah.

[Heath Cummings]

I've just really enjoyed the videos of this new challenge system and the specifically Salvi. But the catchers proving the umpire wrong.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I saw that they're one of three teams that are perfect so far on. On calls and his were close.

[Heath Cummings]

Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It was funny because like when the. The video came out of him with the challenges and all the complaints where he's so bad at framing. I guess I don't know that he's that bad at framing, but.

[Adam Azer]

Interesting. Oh interesting.

[Heath Cummings]

No, that's really hurt his legacy.

[Adam Azer]

All right, last question. All right, this is from. From Ted. I he. I have a feeling Heath read this on the podcast on his Dynasty show, but. Or he will. I currently have Javante, Breeze hall and Chuba Hubbard. I was just offered Travis HN or ETN as he used to be called for my 2027 first round pick which will probably be a mid pick in the round. Should I give up ETN? Should I give up a mid-2020? Well, a 2027 first. We don't know where it'll be for E10 for ETNH.

[Heath Cummings]

So if guys please send in emails today to FFT, dynasty paramount.com because I am doing a one man mailbag tomorrow and Adam just read one of the questions I was going to ask. So I need some more questions. I would. No, I would not do that. If you think you're four through seven then that means there's a chance you're one through three. And I wouldn't want to give up anything close to a top five 2027 pick for Travis Etn HN.

[Adam Azer]

All right, that is gonna do it for our show today. Breakouts and busts later in the week. We will talk to you then. Thank you so much for watching. Listening everybody. For Heath, Jamie and Thomas, I am Adam. I've got a great day. See ya.

[Heath Cummings]

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