RB Risers, Bold Predictions, Drafting Old Guys (09/01 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Fantasy Football Today – "RB Risers, Bold Predictions, Drafting Old Guys"

Date: September 1, 2025
Host: Adam Aizer
Analysts: Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode gears up listeners for the final stretch of fantasy football drafts, focusing on:

• How to handle aging versus breakout players
• The latest running back (RB) Average Draft Position (ADP) risers
• News updates impacting player value (notably RBs and rookies)
• Heath Cummings' bold predictions for the season
• Last-minute draft strategies and tips

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Drafting Old vs. Young Players

• Debate: Should fantasy managers prioritize youth or proven veterans, especially after the 2nd round?
  • Adam: Questioned recent ADP trends, noting that even top performers like Tyreek Hill, Mike Evans, and Davante Adams are falling to Rounds 3-4 despite minimal risk beyond injury.
  • Heath:

    "I'd rather be drafting young players than old players... Evans might be a top 10 wide receiver for the first month, but it could get crowded later."

    • Considers “old” stars still above rookies but loves some rookie WRs (e.g., prefers Lad McConkey and JSN to old WRs—but not to the aforementioned trio).
    • Stresses it's team-build dependent: take youth for ceiling, but some older players have better Week 1 projections thanks to current health.
  • Jamey:

    "It's a case-by-case thing... I'm more concerned about the older receivers than I am Derrick Henry."

    • Not worried about Christian McCaffrey’s age/health—“trying to win the league this year.”

Timestamp: 05:00–08:40

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2. RB Risers: Browns' Situation & Other Late Climbers

• Quinshon Judkins News: On verge of (re)joining Browns— what to do with CLE backfield?
  • Dave:

    "If Judkins signs, then he should be the first Browns running back selected... As of today, I would take Sampson as the first Browns RB."

  • Heath:

    "Sampson, Judkins, Ford—in that order."

• Comparison Scenarios:
  • Ali Gordon vs. Browns RBs: preference shifts if Judkins is imminent.
  • Javonte Williams or Browns RBs? It depends on build—Javonte for safe early workload, Browns RBs for late-season upside.

Timestamp: 08:40–11:20

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3. RB ADP Risers: Who’s Heating Up?

• Jacory Croskey-Merritt (Washington):

  • Adam highlights his meteoric ADP rise: “RB28, ahead of Caleb Johnson and just behind Tyrone Tracy Jr.”
  • Heath:

    "There's a lot of uncertainty... He better completely obliterate Chris Rodriguez in that split… or he's not going to be very good."

  • Dave:

    "If he comes out and dominates carries for the Commanders…it’s upside, but there’s risk—it’s a little too soon for both [him and Johnson]."

  • Adam:

    "You’re hoping Croskey-Merritt can be better than Brian Robinson Jr.—but don’t expect catches."

• Other Noteworthy Risers:

  • Nick Chubb: Up 18 spots post-camp updates; schedule is middling pre-bye.
  • Woody Marks (Houston): Dave prefers him as HOU upside RB over older options.
  • Ali Gordon, Devon Achane, Braylon Allen, Basil Tootin: All climbing; the crew prefers Allen over Gordon, and Tootin for long-term impact.

Timestamp: 12:04–18:24

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4. Key News & Notes (Injury / Depth Chart Impact)

• Carolina Panthers WRs: Jalen Coker out 4–6 weeks. Xavier Legette, previously viewed behind Coker, gets more runway for early targets.
  • Heath:

    "We may, after a month, feel like we were too low on Chuba Hubbard again."

  • Good early schedule for CAR skill players.
• Cowboys’ Defensive Injuries: Trayvon Diggs may miss up to 4 weeks, impacting early matchups.
• Chiefs WRs: Jalen Royals out; possible DFS flyers, but no major redraft reactions.
• Miscellaneous: Chuba Hubbard’s efficiency (was RB8 per/game in full PPR from Weeks 3–16 last year post-benching) is highlighted as undervalued.

Timestamp: 24:46–28:08

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5. Heath’s Bold Predictions (with Explanations & Reasoning)

• Hymn of the Week (Henderson):
  • Prediction: “Trevion Henderson leads all RBs in targets and catches, finishes top 10 in full PPR.”

    "He could absolutely be your MVP if you get him in Round 4, especially in full PPR." (28:38)

• Dak Prescott Rises:
  • 5,000 passing yards, top 5 fantasy QB. “Career year incoming—best pass-catching weapons ever.”
• DeAndre Swift:
  • "Will set a career high in scrimmage yards, TDs, finishes top 12 at RB."
• Jerry Jeudy:
  • "Top 12 WR… for as many games as Joe Flacco starts" (humorously bold; Flacco on a bad team, so production could switch fast).
• Cooper Kupp & Deebo Samuel:
  • "Outscore Garrett Wilson/Marvin Harrison Jr. per game."
    • On Kupp’s low Week 1 projections:

      “If you’re a believer, his prop is absurdly low: 3.5 catches, 31.5 yards.” (34:01)

• Other Show Bold Takes:
  • Jamie: “Jordan Mason, Zach Charbonnet, and Braylon Allen will all be the best RBs on their teams this year—without injuries.”
  • "10 rookie RBs finish top 30 in PPR points per game."

Timestamp: 28:38–36:13 (Heath), Jamie's at 41:56–42:50

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6. Last-Minute Draft Strategies & Tips

• Adam’s Primary Tips:
  1. Tight End Approach:

     “After George Kittle, don’t take a TE until Round 8 (unless LaPorta, Kelsey, Hawkinson, or Njoku fall). Stock up on WRs/RBs in Rounds 5–7.” (48:43)

  2. Invest in Rookie RBs:

     “Draft at least two rookie RBs. This class is deep and cheap; guys like Gentry, Hampton, Henderson, Tootin, Blue are all attainable and could post RB2 numbers.”

• General Philosophy: Don’t panic if early rookie RB returns are slow—historically, breakout comes mid-season for most (besides rare first-rounders).
• Team Build: “Build for upside in later rounds; lean into uncertainty with rookies, stash high-upside RBs on your bench.”

Timestamp: 48:43–55:14

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Notable Quotes

• Heath (on old vs. young debate):

  "I’d rather be drafting young players than old players... But I still have Evans, Adams, Tyreek ahead of all rookie WRs." (05:31)

• Dave (on the Browns’ backfield):

  "If Judkins signs, he should be the first Browns RB selected. Right now, I’d go Sampson." (09:20)

• Heath (Croskey-Merritt rise):

  "There’s a lot of uncertainty being expressed by the market there... you better completely obliterate Chris Rodriguez in that split or it’s not going to be very good." (12:51)

• Heath (on Trevion Henderson as “Hymn of the Week” MVP):

  "He could absolutely be your fantasy MVP... will lead all RBs in targets and catches and finish top 10 at the position in full PPR." (28:38)

• Jamie (on bold RB predictions):

  "Jordan Mason, Zach Charbonnet, and Braylon Allen will all be the best RBs on their respective teams—without an injury." (41:57)

• Adam (on drafting rookie RBs):

  “I really think you need to draft rookie running backs... I think 10 of them could finish top 30.” (51:18)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 05:00 — Old vs. Young Player Strategy in Drafts
• 08:40 — Browns RB Room Analysis (Judkins/Sampson/Ford)
• 12:04 — RB ADP Risers: Croskey-Merritt, Nick Chubb, Woody Marks, etc.
• 24:46 — Carolina WR Changes & Early-Season RB Sleepers
• 28:38 — Heath’s Bold Predictions Begin (Hymn of the Week: Henderson)
• 41:56 — Jamie’s Bold Predictions
• 48:43 — Last-Minute Draft Tips (Tight End Plan & Rookie RB Focus)

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Memorable Moments

• Heath predicts both Trevion Henderson’s breakout and Dak Prescott’s career season, providing strong, actionable analysis—backed by clear reasoning and data.
• Detailed, nitty-gritty debate on the Washington backfield, highlighting how uncertain committee roles can upend preseason assumptions.
• Amusing banter about league management and home-league quirks, reminding listeners to keep things fun but fair!

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Tone & Wrap-up

The conversation is lively, warm, and slightly self-deprecating, full of in-jokes and quick pivots between analysis and personality. The crew is most useful when dissecting positional battles and prescriptive about exploiting value in drafts — especially late-round rookie RBs and how to stay patient with slow starts out of the gate.

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Summary Takeaway:

• Invest in rookie RBs and high-upside players in the middle/late rounds.
• Don’t shy away from proven "old" stars, especially if you're aiming for a fast fantasy start, but be conscious of risk and team build nuance.
• Tight end advice: wait unless a top guy slides (post-Kittle approach).
• Monitor news right up to the season for backfield and WR depth chart shifts—especially for RB committees in flux!
• Boldly chase league-winning payoff, but keep your head: early season panic is a killer.

Perfect final draft-prep listen for managers seeking both sharp advice and good company!

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Transcript

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[Heath]

Corona extra beer imported by Crown Import, Chicago, Illinois. This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports.

[Adam]

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[Heath]

No, I can't.

[Jamie]

It's time to dominate your fantasy league.

[Adam]

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[Jamie]

Chris is gonna go the distance.

[Heath]

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

[Adam]

All right, let's go, everybody. Welcome to the show. It is week one time, but also still a lot of drafts going on. It's Monday, September 1st. We welcome you to Fantasy Football Today presented by BetMGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas. Good morning, Jamie. Good morning, Heath. Don't care about you. Good morning, Dave. Richard sleep in today?

[Dave]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

What?

[Jamie]

Didn't get out of the parking lot at Hard rock until maybe 12:15.

[Dave]

Wow, that's three hours past your bedtime.

[Jamie]

Dude, I. I am. I am hurting this morning. Headache from. You can probably guess, my hips were hurting. That's a new one.

[Heath]

You're old.

[Jamie]

Talk about old guy problems. My ankle is like immobile and I sound like halfway like Cliff Kingsbury this morning. So I apologize for that. But what a night. Adam, I wish you were there. It would have been great to have celebrated with you. Let's go. Cadence.

[Adam]

For any Notre Dame fan out there, and there probably are a lot because you know, it's Notre Dame.

[Jamie]

There were a lot of the Hard Rock.

[Adam]

I'm gonna stop talking about it now because you don't want to hear about this. Let's get into fantasy football. Today we're gonna do Heath's bold predictions. Last Monday on CBS Sports Network we had Jamie, Dan and Dave get give their bold predictions. So we won't spend much time on that. You can listen to that one from last Monday. We'll run through them again. This will be mostly Heath's bold predictions. We have Quin, Sean Judkins news. We have the biggest ADP risers and we have some last minute draft tips because we still, I mean you guys would know better than me. But I think we still have based on CBS leagues, a lot of drafts in the next two or three days. Right?

[Dave]

I have three today. Yeah, four today. I just added one. Four today, three tomorrow. And what's tomorrow? Tomorrow, Tuesday. And the leftover leagues will be on Wednesday. So I'll send that out today.

[Adam]

And Jamie, I'm here to help you. I'm going to give you some some last minute draft advice. Okay?

[Dave]

Okay.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

Thank you.

[Adam]

All right, so I have an interesting.

[Dave]

Draft data flow draft going on right now.

[Adam]

Do we?

[Dave]

Well, we do. Me and Dave do you guys are too scared to do the guillotine league?

[Adam]

Guillotines are scared is one word. Get your head cut off. Anyway, I was helping my friend out with a draft over the weekend and he had the seventh pick. He took McCaffrey, A.J. brown in the second round. Then the round three was like, man, I think, I think you should take Mike Evans here. It was the three receiver league. So take Evans. Round four, Tyreek Hill is there and based on adp, Tyreek Hill, Mike Evans and Devonte Adams could all be late round three, early to mid round four picks. And especially if you start with Christian McCaffrey. I wonder how you guys approach that because I like being young in fantasy football. But I think we've talked about Evans and the how attractive that value is. Now if it's late mid to late round three and, and then Tyreek. I don't really understand why Tyreek Hill has fallen as much as he has since the Johnny Smith trade. I mean, we were talking about him as a second round pick after the John who Smith trade. Now I keep seeing him going late third or into the fourth round and there's no on field reason for it. It's just the oblique injury, I think, but he's going to be ready for week one. So anyway, talk about the balance and I use those two guys specifically, but then there's also Devonte Adams with the, with now the Stafford injury. The balance. Heath of age versus, Well, I was going to say age versus beauty, but it's nothing about that. But young versus old.

[Heath]

Yeah, I, I would certainly rather be drafting young players than old players. I don't think with Tyreek, it's just the oblique. I think that we made excuses for how bad he was last year relative to the Tyreek Hilbar.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Heath]

And that the excuse was, well, he was hurt all year. Well, he's at the age and he's hurt again. And so people are maybe thinking he's just going to be what he was last year. I, I still have Evans and Adams and Tyreek ahead of all of the rookie wide receivers. I would strongly prefer Lad McConkey and and JSN over those guys, but I'm not quite ready to go with the rookies over the old guys. And I think Evans is a little bit of a tricky one because, I mean, he might be a top 10 wide receiver for the first month of the season and it might be pretty crowded in the second half. But for if you want to get off to a great start, and that's something I noticed, I've already done my first run through of week one projections and you're going to see some of the old guys that I avoided in drafts that look a lot better in week one projections because they're currently healthy.

[Adam]

Okay, but how do you balance those three, that trio of old wide receivers versus say Travion Henderson or let's say a Garrett Young. Young guys in their prime.

[Heath]

Garrett Wilson is not in that conversation at all for me.

[Adam]

Okay, so Travion Henderson, Omarion Hampton. How about like a Ken Walker young running backs, let's say.

[Heath]

I think that has more to do with how you've started your team. As of right now, I have Henderson and Walker ahead of all those guys.

[Adam]

Dave, I do think that this is an important conversation specifically for the Christian McCaffrey manager because if you go, or dare. Or let's say Derrick Henry, if you go with one of the two old running backs early, should that change your thoughts on, you know, Being old in rounds three and four.

[Jamie]

Well, let's first look back at last year. How many of these old guys played like they were old guys? And don't tell me they weren't old last year.

[Heath]

Well, the, I think the question is, does one year of evidence make up for decades?

[Jamie]

Decades of what?

[Heath]

Older running backs underperforming.

[Jamie]

But I don't know. I, I, I think it's a case by case thing more than anything else at this point. And I'm more concerned about the older receivers than I am Derrick Henry, all the other older running backs I think we've discounted. And McCaffrey isn't 30 yet and he's healthy. People are way more concerned about McCaffrey who was a year younger last year but had the injury and then hurt himself again leading up to week one and then that cost him basically the year. I, I can't help myself. I still think Christian McCaffrey now has this huge upside and there are people that have cmc, ptsd and it's okay. And if you don't want to draft him, that's fine. But if, if, if a ton of drafts have happened already. I'm pretty sure McCaffrey was the first round pick in almost all of them. The ADP would suggest that pairing him with an older receiver later on doesn't bother me one bit. I'm trying to win the league this year.

[Adam]

Okay. All right, let's talk about the big news here. Quinton Judkins. According to Mary Kay Cabot, who covers the Browns, Quinton Judkins could be back with the, with the team as soon as this week. I don't know exactly what that means. Jamie, what's your interpretation of this? And we're going to talk about the biggest ADP riser risers. And one of them is, is Dylan Sampson, who is probably ahead of Jerome Ford. I mean, if you look at adp, he's just behind him. But since he's such a fast riser, it's probably not really showing where he's going. But 147th overall is the ADP for Dylan Sampson. But Judkins could be back with the team as soon as this week. That's the report. And what do you think about that, Jamie?

[Dave]

It's obviously encouraging for Quinch on Judkins to get his career started, you know, so we'll see how this all plays out. I would anticipate a probably two to four month ramp up period for him because he missed all of training camp week.

[Adam]

I, hopefully you meant week, not Month.

[Dave]

Two to four week ramp up period for him to get, get ready for the season. So you know, they don't want to rush him back would be my guess. And you know, make sure he learns everything he needs to learn. You know, he may have, you know, an accelerated process with that. So who knows. But I would think for week one you're looking at Sampson and Ford. For week two you're probably looking at Samson and Ford and then we see what happens moving forward from there. So if you are drafting and we find out that Judkins signs, then he should be the first Browns running back selected. As of today, I would take Sampson as the first Browns running back.

[Adam]

Right. Dave Heath. How are you guys drafting the Browns running backs?

[Heath]

Sampkin, Sampson, Judkins, Ford.

[Jamie]

Agreed.

[Adam]

Would you take Ali Gordon or Brown's running back?

[Jamie]

When I woke up this morning before I saw the Judkins news, Sampson was one spot ahead of Ollie Gordon. Not going to do that now. If, if Quinn Shine's coming back, I think you draft Quinn Sean with the idea that he'll be a potential starter for your team by mid October.

[Adam]

Okay. Would you take. I was just looking at ADP Javante Williams or a Browns running back.

[Jamie]

I think if, if we know for sure Quinn Sean's going to be back like today I might take Quinn Sean over Javante thinking the whole course of.

[Heath]

The season it really matters about your build too because if I already have two running backs in the first six or seven rounds, I don't really ever even consider Javante. Yeah, I'd rather get the high upside guys who could help my team later in the year. But if I need a starting running back, Javante is definitely better than those guys.

[Dave]

This is feel like you should get.

[Jamie]

A bowl of soup and an ugly hat if you draft Javante Williams.

[Adam]

Oh, it looks good on you though.

[Dave]

This is just keep in mind holdouts, hold ins. He's. He's not done anything.

[Adam]

Yeah, for sure.

[Jamie]

Right. That's why you can't count on them until October at the earliest.

[Adam]

All right, well let's get into the biggest average draft position risers. It's pretty much all running backs and right now Jacori Crosby merit is shooting up the draft boards on CBS. He is now going 81st overall ahead of Caleb Johnson. Jacori Crosby Merritt ahead of Caleb Johnson. Caleb Johnson right Behind Tyrone Tracy Jr. Jamie, is this an overreaction? RB28 right now for Bill Crosby Merritt.

[Dave]

Slightly, but we'll find out in a few days if it was worth it. You know if he comes out and dominates carries for the Commanders. So I mean I'll stick to what I've been saying since the Robinson trade. I think Eckler's role does not change dramatically at all. He's going to still be the change of pace guy and be the guy that plays on passing downs and we'll find out if Cross Gamer is going to significantly handle the majority of is going to handle the majority of carries comparatively to Chris Rodriguez or anybody else there. So I mean as I said I would take him over Caleb Johnson if that's the next running back we're talking about because I think there's more upside for him this season based on his opportunity and his role on his team. So it's a little bit too soon for me for both those guys personally. But I think this is sort of the right range of running backs.

[Heath]

I think like I've spent a lot of time in the last few hours comparing my week one projections that I did last night and player props for week one and so I may insert a little bit of that this today for the Commanders. Jacori Crosky merits over under for rushing yards in week ones 33 and a half. Chris Rodriguez is 28 and a half. Austin Eckler is 20 and a half. But I think the thing that that like there's a lot of uncertainty that's being expressed by the market there. We don't really know. The thing that is instructive is the two that are probably more stable, Jaden Daniels and Austin Eckler. If you combine their over unders for rush attempts it's 14. So if you think about the fact that 14, 13 to 15 rush attempts per game are going to somebody that's not Jagori Crosky, Merritt or Chris Rodriguez, he he better completely obliterate Chris Rodriguez in that split. There can't be any much of a split at all between those two or Chicory Crosky Mara is not going to be very good.

[Adam]

Well okay, so he's going as RB28 right now on CBS let's talk about what Brian Robinson Jr did last year. So he you know he basically was the guy or Eckler would mix in. But Eckler was very complimentary back but Also he had 20 catches in 14 games so not yet. Right. This is what probably what you should expect from Krosky. Merit is not a lot of catches. He barely did that in College. Brian Robinson Jr. Was the number 21 running back per game in non PPR but in full PPR he was number 30 per game. However, he did leave two games very early, one with an injury, one was week 18. He scored a combined seven PPR fantasy points in those two games. If you remove those two games, you look at the normal snapshare games or you know, some. There were some blowouts in there. So like non injury, non leaving early games. For Brian Robinson Jr. He was about 13 PPR fantasy points per game. And that is basically what Tony Pollard and DeAndre Swift were last year. It's borderline RB2. It's around RB24. You're hoping that Crosby Merrick could be even better than that, but you know, but Brian Robinson Jr. Averaged 4.3 yards per carry. He scored eight touchdowns in 14 games, but more like 12 games. You know, obviously he was on pace for 11 touchdowns in his healthy like normal games. So can Cross Gamer be better than that? I don't know. You might be setting yourself up for a guy who's not going to catch a lot of passes. I don't, I don't know. I guess it might be, it might be. People might be overreacting is what I guess.

[Heath]

I do think if you're going to azer stat Brian Robinson junior's stats from last year, you should consider that 40 of his catches last year came in four games that Austin Eckler didn't play.

[Adam]

Right? Yeah, great point.

[Heath]

Like he when, when those two played together, Robinson was just over 11 points per game and Eckler was just over 10 points per game.

[Adam]

Niche, that's not good.

[Jamie]

And that's like 10 whether it's full PPR, half PPR, non PPR because he barely caught the ball.

[Dave]

We're also Talking about a 30 year old Austin Eckler, right. Who missed time last year, missed games.

[Jamie]

With a concussion last year.

[Adam]

All right. Nick Chubb is up 18 spots to 112th overall. He's ahead of Javante Williams, just behind J.K. dobbins and Tank Bigsby. This is Nick Chubb in Fantasy Pros real time ADP. He's 115th overall. So it basically matches the CBS ADP and he gets the Rams in week one. They added Puna Ford in the off season hoping to bolster their run defense which was not good last year. The Bucks usually have a good run defense when Vita Ve is healthy. The Jaguars, that's a great matchup it looks like on paper. The Titans usually have a good run defense when Jeffrey Simmons is healthy and the Ravens usually have a tough, tough run defense. So I don't think it's a great schedule for Nick Chubb before their bye week. And that's bye week is week six. Maybe Joe Mixon's back at that point. But, Dave, I saw a tweet from you about Woody Marks. So what do you want to say about the Texans backfield?

[Jamie]

I think Woody Marks is the one to go after. It's almost like what Heath was saying with the draft build. If you need a running back to start week one, I think Nick Chubb is the one. And it's just based on what I saw on film. It's not based on anything else. But Woody Marks looks like he could end up being the best running back for Houston as far as, like, you know, agility, explosiveness compared to Pierce, compared to Chubb. So I don't mind, like, grabbing him with a later pick. I don't want two Texans running backs on my team, though.

[Heath]

Okay.

[Adam]

All right, I'm gonna run through the rest here real quick. Ali Gordon is now 124th overall. He's up 18 spots. Devon HN, last we heard, is expected to play Week 1, but obviously you can see the. The appeal there. Braylon Allen's up seven spots to 125th overall. Who you guys take in, Ollie Gordon or Braylon Allen?

[Dave]

Allen.

[Heath]

Allen.

[Adam]

Okay. Basil Tutin is up nine spots to 140th overall. He's ahead of Jerome Ford. He's kind of in the same spot as Dylan Sampson. Would you rather have Basil Tutin or a Browns running back?

[Dave]

When does Judkinsign.

[Adam]

I'm drafting today, so I don't know. Let's just go with that.

[Jamie]

It's Tootin. It's long term in mind, and he's still available in almost half of CBS sports leagues.

[Heath]

I'd still go Sampson over Tootin, but I guess it's possible that one of ETN or Bigsby gets traded in the next couple days.

[Jamie]

Well, no, I. What if you need a running back in week one? You need a running back to begin the season. Makes perfect sense to go with Samson over Tootin in that situation.

[Adam]

Who do the Browns have? I'm sorry?

[Jamie]

Cincinnati.

[Adam]

Oh, the Bengals.

[Dave]

And by the way, normally we'll. We'll have our waiver wire column up on Tuesday. Usually today, every year, I do sort of like a last look at adp, first look at the waiver wire. So those stories lobby. I'm actually doing four stories at each position. So I'll be up by the end.

[Jamie]

Right? Trade chart will be up soon, too.

[Heath]

Projections will be up by the end of the day. Quarterback already is.

[Jamie]

Damn man, we're already in mid season form.

[Adam]

What am I going to do today? Sleeper day?

[Jamie]

Probably go to the Hamptons and have a virgin strawberry daiquiri.

[Adam]

That virgin strawberry daiquiri was actually not for me. It was for the kids. I didn't have any virgin strawberry daiquiri. So yeah, I think I'm gonna buy some. I think, I think the burgers today. Okay. Anyway, we will have some bold predictions in just a bit, some news and notes for week one and that's coming up. But let me tell you that right now it is time for football at BetMGM. Register with BetMGM to get instant access to the best variety of parlay selection features. No sweat and boost tokens, live betting options, and much more. New players can receive up to 1500 dollars back in bonus bets with the bonus code Fantasy if they don't win their first bet. You don't want to miss out on any of the hard hitting action at BET mgm. Place your money line parlay bets and more today. BET mgm. Make it legendary. I was pretty close to placing a Notre Dame moneyline bet when Miami was up 14 in the fourth quarter. I was like, might as well profit off of this inevitable collapse. But I didn't. All right, let's take a break. Come back with some news and notes and bold predictions and last minute draft tips for you on fft.

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[Adam]

Welcome back, folks. Okay.

[Jamie]

You know, Adam.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

The Hurricanes aren't the only Florida team to have won a. A great game this week.

[Adam]

This guy over here.

[Jamie]

Because I, I can't help but notice Jamie's hat and she's representing his gators. Nice. 55 Nothing beat down over an opponent just as good as Miami's Long Island.

[Dave]

Florida State had the biggest win.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

Yeah. Florida State had the biggest win.

[Dave]

You guys had a great win. It was awesome.

[Jamie]

Oh, if that game was 90 seconds longer, I don't know if it would.

[Dave]

Have been a win.

[Jamie]

But it was what it was. But congratulations to the Gators on their dominant win over Long Island.

[Adam]

Listen, man, we got September 20th, is. Is right around the corner.

[Heath]

We got.

[Dave]

We can't play with you guys.

[Adam]

Oh, I don't know about that.

[Jamie]

You might. Lagway is good. I'm a big lagway.

[Dave]

You have a defense now?

[Jamie]

We do, but I don't know if we got a offense.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

By the way, we got a run.

[Dave]

You got the. You got the 20, 26 number one overall pick.

[Adam]

Who?

[Jamie]

I don't know about that.

[Adam]

Malachi. Tony?

[Dave]

No, your quarterback.

[Adam]

No, I was wrong about him.

[Dave]

You walk that back. Come on.

[Adam]

I was wrong about him. He doesn't have the arm or the.

[Heath]

He's gonna flip flop on this four more times throughout the season.

[Adam]

He's gonna have a really good year.

[Dave]

He's gonna go for 354 against Florida and then it's going to be I told you, he's the greatest quarterback of all time.

[Adam]

No, he might win the Heisman, but he's not. I don't think he's really an NFL.

[Dave]

Prospect, but maybe you said number one overall pick standby.

[Adam]

If Tyler Shuck can get drafted in the second round, I think, I think Carson drafted in the first round, but not number one. I did say it was a horrible take. What happened? Arch Manning, what was that? What happened? All right. Anyway, news and notes Eagles Cowboys Thursday night Landon Dickerson, star offensive guard for the Eagles, trending toward playing, which I think would be good news for Barkley. AJ Brown is also going to play this week. Hopefully people picked up on the sarcasm there. Minnesota wide receiver Jalen Naylor is trending toward playing this week. Looked at tweek1 I know we're not going to tell you to start Jalen Naylor, but in deep leagues, I don't know what the deal is with him and Thielen, but he scored a touchdown in both of the games that Addison missed last year. He only had four targets in those games. But it's, you know, it's a deep league thing. Monday night at the Bears.

[Heath]

Let's get to that news.

[Adam]

Jalen Coker. Jalen Coker. Jalen Coker's out four to six weeks with a quad injury. Can they get Adam Thielen back? They have Hunter Renfro back and I really like the schedule for Carolina at Jacksonville, at Arizona, which might be tough. Atlanta at New England, Miami, Dallas. That's the first six weeks for for Carolina. So Heath, what you want to talk about this one here? What do you think about this for the Panthers receiving core?

[Heath]

I think it gives Xavier Leguette a little bit more of a Runway to get off to a good start. A lot of people are expecting Coker to be much better than him and he was much better than him as a rookie. But Leguette still has the better forgot the word that we use, pedigree profile. And now there's some target opportunities available for him. It may also I I think the guy after you said that schedule that I've just been thinking and really came out this way in week one projections is that we may after a month feel like we were really low, too low on Cuba Hubbard again.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's a good point.

[Jamie]

Tavion Sanders, too, says you on Chub Chuba. I had him as a 3, 4 turn guy all summer and I love that schedule for him to begin the year.

[Heath]

I think I have my 34 turn guy too.

[Jamie]

Oh, all right then you're not too low.

[Adam]

Well, we might be Dallas.

[Jamie]

I think he could be better like to begin the year than some of the studs that were taken ahead of him like Kyron Hampton Cook.

[Dave]

It will be interesting to see if if this Rico Dowdle playing on third downs matters, right?

[Adam]

Yeah, I don't know that it will. He. He. I think I have a third down note on him. I don't know that he played a lot of. He must have played third down anyway. Chip harbor by the way has been one of the worst receiving running backs just in terms of efficiency in the NFL. So I do think that could go down. He had 43 catches in 15 games. But after the first two games last year were horrible for the Panthers. Bryce Young was playing then he got benched from weeks three through 16. You were talking about the number eight running back per game in full PPR in Chuba Hubbard. All right, next up, the Cowboys signed a Ron Bland 4 year 92 million dollar extension with $50 million guaranteed. There was also a podcast was Albert Breer talking about how some people on the Cowboys didn't love the ego of Micah Parsons. Trayvon Diggs, by the way, they're other cornerback. He may not be ready for week one. He's recovering from a knee injury and that's that game is just a few days away at Philadelphia.

[Dave]

What'd you say he avoided the public?

[Adam]

Yeah, he might miss a few. I think he even said he'll be back no later than week four. I think Dig said. Trayvon Diggs. Buffalo defensive tackle Dwayne Carter is out for the season with a torn Achilles. He's a rotation piece for them. And Kansas City wide receiver Jalen Royals is likely out this week. They're playing at the Chargers. But that game's in Brazil on Friday. Is there a with no Rasheed Rice, no Jalen Royals. I don't know how big of a deal that is. Is anyone thinking about Marquis Brown for maybe 10 PPR fantasy points or anything? Or anyone else?

[Heath]

Get ready for six juju catches.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

But these are like DFS plays. I'm not starting these guys. I haven't been hit by injury. It's week one. Who am I starting, juju or Hollywood?

[Adam]

It'd be like the sixteen team leaguers, something like that.

[Jamie]

Triple flex.

[Adam]

Okay, so let's get into bold predictions. But first, it is now time for the hymn of the week sponsored by producer Jordan Peele's. Upcoming sports horror film him, only in theaters on September 19th. Now today we're going to do the Hymn of the Year and we're going to make an early MVP prediction. Let's call it a fantasy MVP prediction. And I don't want to put that on it he that, but it's a possibility. Okay, okay. Okay. Go for it. Heath, who's our hymn of the of the week slash him of the week year.

[Heath]

A lot of leagues out there. You can still get Trevon Henderson in round four and he could absolutely be your fantasy MVP if you get him in round four. Especially in a full PPR league. Everybody knows what Trevon Henderson can do in the passing game. I expect him to lead. I predict boldly that he will lead all running backs in targets and catches and finish top 10 at the position in full PPR. And you know what? I'm not so sure he's going to be so hamstrung in the running game either. One of the week one lines that I love to see is he and Ramondre Stevenson have the same number of rushing yards for their over under 42 and a half. There's a saying about wide receivers or really fast guys. If he's even, he's leaving. That's true about Travion Henderson with his speed. It's also true about him with Ramondre Stevenson in this running back competition. If they're even week one, it's not going to be close by week four.

[Adam]

Fired up for that one. All right, that was our Hymn of the Week sponsored by the upcoming film Him. Producer Jordan Peele invites you to the football, sports and horror event of the season, which asks the question what are you willing to sacrifice? See him only in theaters on September 19th and this transitions into Heath's bold predictions. Travion Henderson leads all running backs and targets and catches and finishes top 10 at the position. Meanwhile, last week Dan on the bold prediction said George Pickens is going to be a top 12 wide receiver. You have one that might make that true or might accompany that. Let's get your Dak Prescott Bold prediction.

[Heath]

Das Dak Prescott will throw for 5, 000 yards and finish as a top five quarterback. We've seen this before, a high volume pass offense. Dak threw for 4, 900 yards in 16 games once in his career through for 44 and 45 already. It's going to be a career year for Dak with maybe his best set of pass catching weapons ever. Dak Prescott top five for the season, not for week one.

[Dave]

I think I'M the only one left in our office league. Right. The 20 team office league. Right. Dave, you're out and I'm not in anymore. Now a couple years.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Larry Hartstein, who does a great job for us on Sports Sports Line just. He picks right after me. So I had the first overall pick. He had second overall pick. He just stacked Dak Prescott, George Pickens and Jake Ferguson. It's tight end premium league. And so I was actually waiting to see what he was going to do because I wanted Pickens. If I took Pickens, I was not going to take Ferguson. I was hoping for actually Pickens and Tyler Warren. He ends up taking Pickens. I take Warren, he takes Ferguson right after me. So I'm curious to see how that's going to work out for him.

[Adam]

Dak Prescott has been a top four quarterback per game in three of the last six seasons. One of those seasons was only four and a half games. He's been a top eight quarterback per game in four of the last seasons.

[Heath]

And yeah, it's. It's pretty much every other season. It was 2019. It was 2021. It was 2023. He's. He's due.

[Adam]

Okay. All right, next bowl prediction. Oh, you have a DeAndre Swift one. Wow. All right, what do we got?

[Heath]

DeAndre Swift will set a career high in yards from scrimmage, which his career high right now is about 1350. He'll set a career high in touchdowns, total touchdowns, which is career high right now is 10. And he will finish as a top 12 running back.

[Adam]

I'm not gonna even get into it here because that's. This has been your call for a long time. That's this specifically, but you've been the big DeAndre Swift guy and you've been the big Jerry Judy guy. So what's your next bold prediction?

[Heath]

I think I said this bold prediction back in February, but Jerry Judy will be a top 12 wide receiver for as many games as Joe Flacco starts.

[Adam]

And how many games. Yeah, how many games we thinking that's going to be?

[Heath]

I think week one could have a big impact on that because we know how the Bengals usually start and we know how bad their defense is. If they, if the Browns pull off the upset, they're five and a half point underdogs, then it might be through halfway through the season. It might be a little bit longer, I think. Listen, it's going to also depend on if Dylan Gabriel or Shador Sanders look any better in practice than they did in the preseason.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jamie]

But they're going to be practicing on scout team. I don't know how many opportunities those guys are going to get to like practice with the ones. Cleveland's buy is week nine before that by Cincinnati, Week one. After that it's Baltimore, Green Bay, Detroit, Minnesota, Pittsburgh. I wonder that that is a gauntlet for the Browns offense.

[Adam]

I wonder if people are going to try to trade Judy if he gets off to. Has a huge.

[Heath]

I expect so.

[Adam]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. Last one. This one is great. This is. Cracks me up. I. Wow. Go ahead.

[Heath]

Cooper cup and Devo Samuel will outscore Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr. On a per game basis.

[Jamie]

There a prop that you had on cup that you mentioned, his week one prop.

[Heath]

If, if you're a believer in Cooper cup like I am, his week one prop is absurdly low. Three and a half catches, 31 and a half yards against San Francisco.

[Jamie]

Are you hammering it?

[Heath]

You know, I, I do. I don't.

[Adam]

I don't talk about that. Can't do that, actually. No. All right, so.

[Jamie]

But if you could, if you had to recommend it, Mr. Popinsky, for example, I, I have in the chat Cooper.

[Heath]

Cup projected in Week one. This is a better way to answer the question, right?

[Jamie]

Sure.

[Heath]

Or five catches and 51 yards.

[Jamie]

There you go.

[Adam]

Okay. Cooper cup and Debo Samuel outscore Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr. And this is expressing both.

[Heath]

I've been the high guy on both those guys all summer, so that's not surprising. Surprising. And I'm pretty terrified of Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr.

[Adam]

I feel like I know what to expect from Garrett Wilson. Obviously we don't know what's going to happen, but I can at least come up with a thought in my mind of, oh, okay. I know Justin Fields history. I know Garrett Wilson's done in three years. I know the jets want to run the ball, whatever. I have no idea what to expect with Marvin Harrison, Nick. None. I know as of right now, I'm.

[Heath]

Just mostly expecting what we got last year.

[Adam]

I'm not. Because they're so. They'd be so stupid to use him to know everything that we all know and to not change the way they use Marvin Harrison would be. Would be, I think, pretty ridiculous. But that doesn't mean I'm super high on him or anything like that. But I. I have some optimism that they will do things to get him going. All you've heard all off season is Kyler Murray talking about how he knew he needed to have a better rapport with Marvin Harrison. And they did this and they did that. And they have a better rapport. And you know, they seem intent on making this work, so. They are. I, I feel like they have to design some easy catches for him. Get him the ball at the line of scrimmage, wide receiver screens, those types of things. Horizontal movement, not just vertical. They have to do it. I still just sounds crazy talking about him because he was like the best wide receiver prospect in so long. I just don't see the speed to, to be great. I don't know.

[Jamie]

No, I don't.

[Adam]

I shouldn't say that. I, I, I'm concerned about the speed. Go ahead, Dave.

[Jamie]

Right. But I think he can be a well rounded receiver in other ways. And, and I'm, I'm taking the leap of faith that the Cardinals will see that too. We already have one bet. Heath and I do. Between Camara versus DeAndre Swift. We can make it two bets. If I take Harrison and you can have your pick of cup or Debo.

[Heath]

I, this is a bold prediction. This is not how we have things.

[Jamie]

All right.

[Dave]

I'm just ranked that way. Don't you.

[Heath]

I, I have, I think I have Debo ahead. I didn't have cup ahead.

[Jamie]

Is there name a couple of other receivers you have ranked ahead of Marv, Jerry Judy.

[Dave]

Huh?

[Heath]

Jerry Judy.

[Jamie]

I believe I have Marv over Jerry Judy. We could do that one.

[Dave]

Here we go.

[Jamie]

All right, that's two.

[Dave]

You guys keep making bets. What is the bet?

[Jamie]

We'll figure out something do at the.

[Adam]

End of the year.

[Jamie]

Listen, bragging rights are important on this show, I think.

[Adam]

All right. Dave's bold predictions from last week were Breeze hall and Tyree Kill have great per game averages. After they.

[Jamie]

Hold on, hold on. We could take some suggestions on the bet.

[Adam]

Yeah, sure.

[Jamie]

What the bet should be.

[Adam]

I'm up to. I'm open.

[Jamie]

Adam, Jamie, you guys could think of stuff. No, Jamie, we're not doing a hair bet or an eyebrow bet.

[Adam]

I'm so bad at this. Yeah. I think you guys have to write a parody song and perform it. It's gotta be about fantasy football.

[Heath]

I think if, if let's, let's make it. Let's include both bets because this is not insignificant.

[Jamie]

Okay.

[Heath]

But I will send Dave a care package from Joe's in Kansas City if he wins both bets.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Jamie]

And what do you want?

[Heath]

I, I would like, like you've, and this is dumb of me probably because I've already had you take me to a pizza place.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Jamie]

Some of the worst pizza I'll take care of.

[Heath]

But I think we should get some. Whatever you say. The best Chicago style pizza is that I'm assuming that you find in a food court on Michigan Avenue.

[Adam]

Oh, man.

[Jamie]

I almost want to make, though. What if I want. What if I want Heath's meat?

[Adam]

I. I know what you mean, Dave. I'm just gonna leave it at that.

[Jamie]

I want slow, smoked, cooked, burnt ends.

[Adam]

I almost want to make a bet with Heath so I can be in on this and. And give you actual good New York pizza instead of the garbage that Dave gave you when you guys were in New York.

[Jamie]

Oh, it was so bad. It was terrible.

[Adam]

All right, Dave's bowl predictions. Breeze hall and Tyree Kill have great per game averages. After they get traded, you still think they're gonna get traded or. We think it's possible.

[Jamie]

I think they'll get traded at some point. Tyreek more than Bruce.

[Adam]

Terry McLaurin finishes as a top 12 wide receiver from Halloween through New Year's.

[Jamie]

That looked cooler before McLaurin signed his extension, but even so, I still expect a slow start for Terry McLaurin. And by the time we get to November, he'll be slam dunk wide receiver. One starting material.

[Adam]

Man, he had such a big finish. I'm trying to find it. He had.

[Jamie]

I know, I know, I know.

[Adam]

15.8 or more PPR fantasy points in 12 of his last 15 games. Terry McLaurin. Next up, Tyler Warren leads the Colts in targets, catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. We know you love him saying that one for months. Jackson Dart becomes a top 12 fantasy quarterback and Caleb Williams does not that. I will buy you a New York City pizza place. I will buy you a restaurant. If Jackson Dart is a top 12.

[Jamie]

Quarterback, can I go a step further?

[Adam]

Sure.

[Jamie]

I think the Giants make the playoffs.

[Adam]

Oh, wow.

[Jamie]

Can I go a step further?

[Adam]

The Hurricanes with six national championships in a row.

[Jamie]

No, I think the Giants can win the division.

[Adam]

No, they can't just stop right now.

[Jamie]

I think. I really do think they'll make the playoffs.

[Heath]

Going back to the Breeze hall one. Does this matter? Week one rushing lines.

[Jamie]

Oh, yes.

[Heath]

Breece Hall, 48.5. Braylon Allen, 26.5.

[Dave]

It's a Steelers, so I would.

[Jamie]

Yeah, it is the Steelers. I wouldn't touch the breeze one. I might give away the Braylon one on the Player Prop Show Friday 1 o'. Clock.

[Adam]

All right, next up, Rasheed Rice will disappoint and fail to match the 16.4 PPR fantasy points per game he had in his prior 17 full games, including the postseason.

[Dave]

Yep. All right.

[Jamie]

Slow. Obviously he's not playing the first six weeks of the season. That's the equivalent of missing out on a training camp's worth of work. Comes back slow start. Bye Week Week 11 okay, maybe he starts to get into the swing of things, but everybody else in that offense will already be on the same page as Mahomes. And I'm kind of scared it's going to be a lost ish kind of year for Rishi Rice.

[Adam]

All right, and we've got Jamie's bold predictions after this break on Fantasy Football today. We'll be right back. Ford Blue Cruise Hands free Highway driving takes the work out of being behind the wheel, allowing you to relax and reconnect while also staying in control. Enjoy the drive in bluecruise enabled vehicles like the F150 Explorer and Mustang Mach E available feature on equipped vehicles terms apply. Does not replace safe driving. See Ford.com BlueCruise for more details. Buenos dias. Cafe Bustelo Espresso styled iced coffee is hitting refrigerators with a cold front that'll sweep through your senses, so keep the coffee pours long and the cold sip slow. Cafe Bustelo Estaki Jamie's Bold predictions Justin Fields will lead all quarterbacks in rushing yards. Jordan this one's pretty bold. Jordan, Mason, Zach Charbonnet and Braylon Allen will all be the best running backs on their respective teams this season without an injury. What do you rank the likelihood of those three guys leading their teams in rushing without an injury? Mason, Charbonnet, Allen, Mason Alan.

[Dave]

Sharpen it.

[Adam]

The best second year wide receiver this season will be Ricky Pierce. Man, spicy.

[Dave]

Take nothing to do with what I'm wearing.

[Adam]

Gators head to toe. Oh, you're violating my rule. Didn't I say this rule on the air or no, if it's your rule, I don't care. Such a great rule. Okay, no. This. This stem from you wear my shirt.

[Dave]

From when I was 10 years old. You can't tell me anything about how to do.

[Adam]

I wear your shirt. I don't wear a hat. The rule is you cannot wear multiple pieces of sporting attire of the same team unless it's game day. It's either the shirt or I figured.

[Dave]

You guys would be decked out in hurricane stuff.

[Adam]

Well, you were right. Well, that's fine. You can break the rules for that. Number four, ten rookie running back clothing. Ten rookie running backs will finish in the top 30.

[Jamie]

Wore a hoodie to the beach Fashionista.

[Adam]

I didn't wear a hoodie to the beach.

[Jamie]

According to London, I wore pants though.

[Adam]

We're a hoodie to the beach.

[Jamie]

When you met your wife, you're wearing.

[Dave]

A hoodie at the beach.

[Adam]

No, I didn't. I had my laptop. I was wearing a hoodie. I don't know what now. I wasn't wearing.

[Jamie]

You wore a laptop.

[Dave]

Maybe it was on your chest there.

[Adam]

Yeah, that could absolutely be 10. 10 rookie running backs will finish in the top 30 in PPR points per game this season. That would be craz crazy, man. A third of it. Yeah. Well, Genti Hampton, Henderson, Harvey Crosky, Merritt, Jaden Blue, Basil Tootin, Ali Gordon, Dylan Sampson and Woody Marks. So is.

[Jamie]

Why don't you just name the rookie running backs that you don't.

[Adam]

Caleb Johnson right.

[Dave]

Back.

[Jamie]

Yeah, but that's a, that's a great takeaway because some people are still. People drafted him in the mid rounds and they want to know what to expect. And now you're telling them that Woody Marks will have a better per game finish than him.

[Adam]

All right, we can do last minute draft tips. There's also a surprise segment on here called I'm about to drop two players from Jamie's team, so. Oh, I love that segment. I can do it. Or Jamie could do it.

[Dave]

You can do it.

[Adam]

Good. All right, let's go. You know, I'm going to share my screen in a moment.

[Heath]

I think a YouTube poll or which players it is.

[Adam]

All right, we could do that. We could do that. So, you know, why don't you guys tell me about your, your Labor Day plans real quick while I.

[Dave]

The fun part about this is Adam commissions one league that I'm in with him. I believe I commissioned like five that I'm in with him.

[Heath]

Yeah.

[Dave]

So payback will be fun.

[Adam]

But I'm not breaking any of the rules. You're cheating.

[Dave]

Well, you did break one rule when you wouldn't allow the trade that I made because you just decided on a whim that it wasn't allowed.

[Adam]

I know.

[Heath]

I thought the trade decision was a bad job of commission and I thought, and I think the abuse of the not dropping players. So at some point I've been very tempted to drop a player from Dave's team in yolo multiple times.

[Dave]

It's been my, my silent protest that.

[Adam]

Adam Jamie is a serial hoarder.

[Dave]

Well, it's been a, it's been a silent protest, but I think what you.

[Heath]

Should do is just whoever the last two ads were, you just take them off the team.

[Jamie]

Right. That's the solution if you do it at all. But I think you should have given Jamie the opportunity to make it right.

[Adam]

No, that's not the opportunity.

[Heath]

This conversation's been going on.

[Adam]

Yeah, it's been quite. Opportunity. All right.

[Jamie]

So if you've given him the opportunity and he hasn't done it and then Heath, you could do this to me. So I'm not gonna be whiny if you ever do, but you should take away the last two people.

[Heath]

So my wide receivers are pretty thin.

[Adam]

Adam, that's dangerous to. Where's Jamie's team? Dangerous to take away the last two. Let me see. Transactions add drops. So the last two were Chris. Rod, I could drop Chris Rodriguez and Dami Brown could do that. But the problem for Jamie was two players were no longer two players.

[Heath]

Brown's not on his team, so that'll be hard to drop him.

[Adam]

Exactly. Two players are no longer PUP eligible, and this is a deep, dynasty league, so it's like nothing on free agency. So come on, just pick two players to drop, please.

[Dave]

I'll do it after the show for you.

[Adam]

All right? Thank you.

[Heath]

I do not believe you.

[Adam]

If you don't do it after the show, I'm dropping. I'm gonna drop.

[Heath]

The rule is that he can't change his lineup. Right? His. As soon as he changes his lineup, they're gonna go on his bench, and.

[Jamie]

We'Ll have an illegal roster.

[Adam]

I just don't like. Obviously, Jamie is waiting until the 2nd before Thursday night to drop these guys, and it's really not in the spirit of the rule either.

[Dave]

Was you disallowing my trade? So you.

[Adam]

It was because you broke the rules to make the trade.

[Dave]

No, I didn't.

[Adam]

Yes, you did. You. You had an extra player. I told you to drop the player, and then you were like, hold on, I'm gonna trade them. No, you can't do that. You can't make a trade on a player that shouldn't be on your roster to begin with.

[Dave]

There was no rule that suggested that.

[Adam]

I did say yes there. Okay, you said.

[Dave]

You said it. There was no rule.

[Adam]

This red thing.

[Heath]

This red just tweeted that Devon Hn will practice today, according to Mike McDaniel.

[Dave]

So that's Will, Tyree Kill and Darren Waller.

[Heath]

Good news.

[Adam]

Oh, by the way, okay, honestly, the Dolphins are so interesting. One of the most interesting teams to me this year. I'm going to stop sharing the screen now. And they have, I think, a very favorable schedule, and it's early. I really feel like if there's one team in football that needs to get off to a good start, it might be the Dolphins. Because they've been a bit of a circus and their coach could be on the hot seat. Oh, yeah, their dog. Their dog's on the road at Indianapolis. But it's a winnable game. Like they. They've got four winnable games in their first five. I'd say so.

[Heath]

Jalen Warren assigned a two year contract extension with the Steelers.

[Adam]

Oh, very nice. Very nice.

[Jamie]

Great. It's the Colts, the Patriots.

[Adam]

No. Come on. No. All right. Last minute draft.

[Jamie]

I don't think their schedule's that easy.

[Adam]

Do you guys have any last minute draft tips or would you like me to give mine?

[Heath]

I'd love to hear yours.

[Adam]

Okay. And we have a whole show tomorrow.

[Jamie]

I want to hear you argue with Jamie Moore about the rules of a fantasy league.

[Dave]

Yeah, just make them up as you go.

[Adam]

I'm not making them up.

[Heath]

You're changing a rule. Like currently in our league, days before the season starts. You were changing. Changing.

[Adam]

Let's not talk about that. Because that's not without a vote. That's not. No, that's not true. I. I asked the whole league. It's not my fault that you never responded. I'm doing that for the benefit of the league.

[Dave]

By the way, Mike McDaniel's record with two healthy is what.

[Adam]

What do you think I'm gonna guess it's six games over.500.

[Dave]

Wrong.

[Heath]

I'm gonna guess it's even.500.

[Dave]

Wrong.

[Adam]

Dave?

[Jamie]

I don't have a guess.

[Dave]

He's nine games over.500.

[Adam]

Went to him. Hey.

[Dave]

2011.

[Adam]

Wow. All right. My two tips. We have a whole episode on CBS Sports.

[Jamie]

31 games in three years, for God's sake.

[Adam]

My two tips. We have a full episode tomorrow on. On last minute draft tips. You can hear from the other guys, but here's two from me. After George Kittle comes off the board, don't take a tight end until round eight. So you get La Porta in round five. In leagues, you get Kelsey there, Hawkinson, you know, it's a. It's a big mess and there's a lot of guys who are in the same tier. So just wait it out and see who falls to you. And the other thing, the other angle of this that I don't talk about a lot is that I love. I think we love the wide receivers from rounds five through seven. Five through eight. Good running backs in there too. You don't want to miss out on those. To take a tight end that might not be better than the guy that's going several rounds later. So that's how I've been drafting, passing.

[Dave]

On in that range. So basically, forget about how drafts go. Who are you passing on?

[Adam]

It's a. It's a somewhat complicated question because it. Basically, I have a. A tier there of, I think, five tight ends. LaPorta, Kelsey, Hawkinson, Help me out. Najoku. I would say it's those four. I would not put Andrews in there. And what I'll do is I'll look at those four, and if any of them fall the round eight, I'll take them. And if they don't, I'll pass on them. And if I don't get one of those, then I'm probably taking Tyler Warren in round nine.

[Heath]

But not if you're drafting with Dave.

[Adam]

Well, that's true, but I feel like you guys follow the same strategy. I don't see you take any of those guys in rounds five, six, seven.

[Dave]

Really.

[Adam]

Right.

[Dave]

I usually take Najoku in round seven. If there's nothing else that I like, and I've already gotten everything but a.

[Heath]

Quarterback, I am thrilled to get any of those four that you mentioned in that tier in round seven.

[Adam]

Okay, so it's round seven for you. All right, it's round eight for me, but round seven for you, that's fine. Again, two receiver versus three receiver league might be go make you go to round seven, but fair enough.

[Dave]

And also typically in most drafts that I've seen, by that point, Kelsey and laporta are gone.

[Heath]

Right?

[Adam]

Right.

[Heath]

That's the interesting thing about those guys is they could all be fast. Well, two, three of them could be really fast starters. Najoku with Flacco. We've seen him average 18 fantasy points per game with Flaco. Kelsey without Rashi Rice and in good shape, could have a blitz to start the season. Hawkinson without Jordan Addison for three games. Like you, you may be prepared to feel bad about passing on those guys in round six or seven for the first month of the season.

[Dave]

Ingram while healthy with the young receivers still learning their way. Yep.

[Adam]

Yeah, but again, but Ingram's not going in that range, so you could wait there and.

[Dave]

Well, neither is the Joker. I mean, he's just sort of creeping.

[Adam]

In there now and then. My other draft tip is I really think you need to draft rookie running backs. I think this might be bold, but I think 10 of them could finish in the top 30. Now, listen, we've been so.

[Heath]

So your two tips are just Jamie's advice. Great. Or late. And draft rookie running back.

[Adam]

Oh, I got an email that another podcast used greater late last week.

[Dave]

But they usually credit us though.

[Adam]

Okay.

[Dave]

I don't know if they did, but they usually do.

[Heath]

There's 7 million fantasy football podcasts. If we're not saying the same thing as other people, then there's something wrong.

[Adam]

Greater late. Took me years to come up with Heath. Like that was really tough.

[Heath]

I mean, Jamie said it once and then you started repeating stop, this is.

[Adam]

Going too far now. But seriously, we've been blessed with a, with a really good rookie running back class and be in on it. And it's. I think it's really easy to do. You know, I'm looking at some ADPs, Ash and Genti is a 1, 2 turn pick, not just CBS.

[Dave]

Before you go into that, how many do you want?

[Adam]

Two.

[Dave]

That's it?

[Adam]

Oh, I'm fine with more, but you.

[Dave]

Okay. You want at least two?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Adam]

But I don't know. I mean, I say at least one. A lot of good running best. Yes, I think at least two. You should. If you don't get one of the first, you know, five or six, then there's no reason why you shouldn't take a Basil Tootin or a Jaden Blue.

[Jamie]

Or just take a shot.

[Dave]

I have a draft tonight that's keeper starting round 13 and for the most part everybody's keeping four guys. And I won the league last year. I have the 12th pick. I'm very tempted to start my draft with Henderson and Hampton. My first two picks.

[Jamie]

Are you able to keep them next year?

[Dave]

No, you only keep guys drafted at around 8 or later, right? Oh yeah. But I. On that note, Dave, I do have another keeper draft tonight where I was the second worst team and it's the first first. Jamar Chase is kept. I had Bajan. I can't keep him anymore. So Robinson will be the first player taken in a regular redraft league. I would take McCaffrey second, but I'm going to take Genti second to keep him as a first rounder next year when I win the league. And he'll be 12th.

[Adam]

Yeah. Anyway, Genti's at the 12 turn. This is CBS ADP and Fantasy Pro's Real Time ADP, which is the 24 hours thing. I think Omarion Hampton is basically at the three, four turn. He's RB16 on CBS, RB14 on Fantasy Pros.

[Dave]

Three, four turn. That's crazy.

[Adam]

Yeah. 37th on CBS, 35th on Fantasy Pros Real Time Travy on Henderson, 43rd on CBS, 46th on Fantasy Pros.

[Dave]

Crazy.

[Adam]

That's.

[Heath]

Thank you for all the people in the chat who were telling me you're never getting Trayvon Henderson in round four. His ADP is literally in round four.

[Adam]

Right.

[Jamie]

Those would be the first two that I'd really try to target amongst this rookie rookie class because genty is genty and, and if you really want them, you'll find a way to get them in round one. Unless you're picking too early in round one. But those two guys, if you really want to start digging into the rookies, those ADPs are great. Hamptons is three, four turn you said or two, three turn.

[Adam]

Three, four.

[Dave]

Dude, the next one's gonna be wild too.

[Jamie]

I love that bargain. I love that. That's my favorite H of The Triple.

[Adam]

A. RJ Harvey 57th on CBS, 60th on Fantasy Pros is RBK 2 or 3? 23.

[Heath]

Can I give my Broncos rushing lines?

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Heath]

Oh, week one rushing yardage. J.K. dobbins 44 and a half. R.J. harvey 32 and a half. Russia temps J.K. dobbins 11 and a half. R.J. harvey 8 and a half.

[Adam]

I think that's, I think that's also worth saying is I do think that I'd love to come away with some rookie running backs, including guys that, that are starting. We could see a little bit of a slow start for these guys. That's pretty typical for any running back that's not drafted in the first round of the NFL draft. They almost never, even second round picks almost never come in and have a big workload immediately. So it's, it is worth it.

[Dave]

We're gonna have a lot of panic on Monday, a week from today of I can't believe that the Chiefs did that to Omarion Hampton. Naji played more than I thought and Dobbins did this compared to Harvey. And why did Henderson only have this many carries compared to Ramont? I mean we're gonn that a lot of it.

[Adam]

Oh, I would love to look at some of the tweets from last year after Derrick Henry had 13 carries for 46 yards and a touchdown and 10.6 fantasy points at the Chiefs in Week 1. He's washed up. He's slow. He's w. No, no one says washed up anymore because they're all wrong. He's washed, he's slow. This and that. Yeah. Okay. And Jecori Crosby Merit, as I mentioned, he's a riser. He's 81st on CBS. That's RB28. But Jakori Crosby merit is 99th in the fantasy pros real time ADP. That's RB35. Huge difference between RB28 on CBS, RB35 on fantasy pros and then Caleb Johnson is RB.

[Dave]

He will have the best week one of all the rookie running backs. There's a bold prediction.

[Adam]

Not Genti's. Gotta be all right. Cross Camara's facing the giants. Caleb Johnson 84th overall on CBS. 81st in fantasy pro's real time ADP. That's RB 28 or 29.

[Heath]

Too high.

[Dave]

Okay, for who? I'm sorry?

[Adam]

Caleb Johnson.

[Dave]

Yeah, way too high.

[Adam]

Jamie doesn't even hear his name anymore. That's how he doesn't even exist.

[Dave]

I, I, I. Let's see how many rookie rookie drafts I think I've done. Five. Four. Four non startups. So taking out your draft teeth. One was Adams. I drafted Quinton Judkins around one. One was Heath's yolo leak. I drafted Caleb Johnson around one. I'm, I'm loving those two.

[Adam]

I, well, it just begs the question, I don't know why I get there's excitement after the NFL draft, but why don't we do for rookie drafts later? Why do people do them so early?

[Heath]

I was just looking. I, I have 10 dynasty rosters and I have zero Caleb Johnson. I have 13 redraft rosters. I have one Caleb Johnson and you can guess who I drafted that team with.

[Adam]

I'm not even that high on him. I just, I think you guys are a little too low.

[Heath]

You're the Caleb Johnson guy.

[Adam]

Apparently.

[Dave]

I did like the one draft where you took him ahead of Jalen Warren. Proof point.

[Adam]

I would do that. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna re litigate that one. All right, we have one last draftathon question from our buddy Matt Walters. Is he in the chat today or is he having a Labor Day fun day?

[Heath]

He's, he's analyzing his FFT Dynasty League roster because the Dynasty league has been completed. We didn't quite get it done last night like I wanted to, but it's, it's over with and, and Matt has his team, so he's probably just going through trying to figure out who he's going to start, who he's going to put on his practice squad, all those things.

[Adam]

Okay, so Matt Walters has actually donated a lot to St. Jude. He's been, you know, really awesome listener, viewer and contributor. So he says if the guys could go on a nice bro date with any of the other guys from the show, I'm talking dinner, movies, carnival, walk in the park and text each other when they get home safely, who Would they pick to go with from the.

[Dave]

Show and why Adam, without a doubt be my first pick, of course.

[Adam]

By the way, Dan and Jacob are included in this.

[Dave]

According to you, without a doubt, you'd be the cheapest of all them because you don't drink.

[Adam]

That's true. And I like burgers more than steak. So, yeah, it would be pretty cheap.

[Heath]

Dave would get me to bed early, so I'd be done by. We'd have an afternoon, get to bed, go, you know, five o', clock, have a nice dinner.

[Adam]

I would definitely watch.

[Dave]

You can watch Dave. Dave is the best person to ever watch order food because he will say, I like the hamburger. Can you make a chicken?

[Adam]

Can you make a chicken?

[Jamie]

I literally go to the same place like once a month to get the exact same thing. And it's a. It's a salad with chicken. And I have them turn the chicken into a burger, have them take the beets off the salad, bring an extra dressing on the side. Like I'm Mr. Mr. Customizable when it comes to ordering. But that's how it should be. Why should I take a meal exactly as it comes if I don't like something on the meal we had?

[Heath]

I'll let you guys see if you guys want to guess. And good opportunity to give him a shout out. My son turned 16 yesterday.

[Dave]

Hey.

[Heath]

So I'm almost done spending three hours a day driving him around, which would be awesome.

[Jamie]

But now you're about to spend $3,000 every six months ensuring him to drive around.

[Heath]

Yeah, that's not gonna be great. But no, he. He got his choice.

[Dave]

He went up.

[Heath]

He's got a choice between he had choice for lunch and a choice for dinner. You guess what a 16 year old chooses if he could just. Wherever you want.

[Dave]

Pizza.

[Heath]

We ordered in. We ordered in lunch from a fast casual and we went out to a. Just a regular restaurant for dinner.

[Adam]

Flanagan's.

[Heath]

No, Flanagans.

[Dave]

Raising canes.

[Jamie]

Not too bad.

[Adam]

Dave has a Flanagan's cup. That's great. Oh, boy. I'm gonna say like a Mexican. Mexican place. Like a taco Tuesday place.

[Dave]

Wherever.

[Adam]

Chipotle.

[Heath]

It was definitely Chipotle for lunch. That is like for. If you're a high school basketball player. It seems like they all are just obsessed with Chipotle.

[Jamie]

College kids too.

[Heath]

Yep.

[Adam]

And 41 year olds who. Yeah. Also.

[Heath]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Did you have the other one? Was the other one.

[Heath]

It was Texas Roadhouse.

[Adam]

Oh, nice. Yeah.

[Jamie]

Oh, nice.

[Heath]

Got a strip steak.

[Jamie]

So good for Lucas, by the way.

[Adam]

To answer this question, I would choose Dan to. Sorry. I think we'd get a tennis game in probably, but I think it would.

[Jamie]

Depend on what you're doing.

[Dave]

You met at a tailgate that left you.

[Adam]

Yeah, I would. Because you guys have done so much worse. David never got your answer. Who you going on your bro date with?

[Jamie]

I think it depends on what the date is like.

[Adam]

If.

[Jamie]

If it's a Canes game, it's obviously going to be you. Adam.

[Adam]

Sure.

[Jamie]

If it's an NFL game, it's probably Jamie. If it's. If it's food, like I want to.

[Heath]

Get pizza, it's got to be me.

[Jamie]

No, I was gonna say you for, like, meats and stuff like that. For sure. If it's to a casino, it's Dan. Jacob would be good for a game, too. Do I. Do I really have to go out with you guys, though?

[Adam]

No, you do not. You can. Okay.

[Jamie]

All right. I'm. I'll be. I'm just gonna go out on my own.

[Heath]

You're just going to bed.

[Adam]

That is a good way to go out. We will end our show that way. And we will talk to you tomorrow on fantasy football Today. If you're still drafting, why wasn't Thomas included? Take it up with Matt Walters. He didn't put him in parentheses. I would hang out with Thomas, though. He might be second on the list for me.

[Dave]

Thomas would hate hanging out.

[Adam]

He's a little too cool for me.

[Heath]

I think Thomas is probably gonna want to stay out too late.

[Adam]

I don't. I don't get that by Thomas. He's got golf the next day. All right, we're out of here, folks. Talk to you tomorrow. Enjoy the rest the of into our holiday season. Paramount podcasts. Is this a hit it situation?

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