Fantasy Football 2017 - Breakouts + Keep/Trade/Cut

Summary

Detailed Summary of "Fantasy Football 2017 - Breakouts + Keep/Trade/Cut" Episode from Fantasy Footballers Podcast

Release Date: August 24, 2017
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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1. Introduction

The episode kicks off with the hosts introducing themselves and sharing humorous anecdotes about their trip to Anaheim, California. The camaraderie among Andy, Jason, and Mike sets a friendly and engaging tone for the discussion ahead.

Jason Moore [01:27]: "Everyone's like, where's the ballers? Recording everyone this episode first. It's a breakout episode. I'm very excited about it."

2. Keep/Trade/Cut Analysis

The trio delves into their favorite segment, Keep/Trade/Cut, where they evaluate specific players to retain, trade, or drop from their fantasy rosters.

First Round: Pierre Garcon, Terence West, Jeremy Maclin

• Andy Holloway [05:39]: "I'm trading Terrence West. I'm going to keep Jeremy Maclin because I believe he has the highest upside. He's still in his prime. And I'll cut poor Pierre Garcon."

• Jason Moore [05:44]: "I'll go with the running back. I'll keep West, trade Maclin to Mike for value, and cut Garcon with respect."

• Mike Wright [06:34]: "I'm keeping Maclin. He has the potential to be a low-end one if things fall into place, despite some doubts regarding his move to Baltimore and injury history."

Second Round: Jeremy Hill, John Brown, Marvin Jones

• Jason Moore [07:01]: "I'm keeping Marvin Jones. I think Jeremy Hill is going to let you down, so I'll trade him and cut John Brown."

• Andy Holloway [08:00]: "I'm keeping Marvin Jones. With the negative news surrounding John Brown, trading Hill for value seems prudent."

• Mike Wright [08:51]: "I'm keeping Jeremy Hill. His potential remains high, especially if Joe Mixon emerges in Cincinnati."

This segment showcases the hosts' strategic thinking, balancing player potential against current performance and injury concerns.

3. Fantasy Football News and Updates

The hosts discuss the latest NFL news impacting fantasy football decisions:

• Le'Veon Bell's Holdout:
  Jason Moore [09:43]: "Le'Veon Bell is still my number two pick."

  The anticipation of Bell reporting from his holdout is highlighted as a significant positive for fantasy managers.

• Odell Beckham Jr.'s Ankle Sprain:
  A listener's question sparks a debate on whether Beckham retains his draft value despite a minor injury.

  Mike Wright [10:14]: "If Odell drops to nine in their draft, should you still take him ahead of Jordy Nelson and A.J. Green? I don't think so."

• Injury Updates:

  • Brandon Marshall's shoulder injury and Danny Woodhead's hamstring issues are discussed, with Andy noting Woodhead's age and its potential impact on recovery speed.

  Andy Holloway [11:25]: "Danny Woodhead is still in his prime for PPR leagues, but monitoring his recovery is crucial."

• CJ Prosise's Groin Strain:
  Jason Moore [12:16]: "CJ Prosise is out of our sleeper candidate list due to ongoing injury concerns."

• Deshaun Kizer's Starting Role:
  The focus shifts to Tampa Bay naming Deshaun Kizer as the starting quarterback over Brock Osweiler, affecting Isaiah Crowell's fantasy value.

  Jason Moore [13:22]: "Deshaun Kizer's dual-threat ability makes him a top 20 quarterback in fantasy."

4. Breakout Candidate Predictions

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to identifying potential breakout players for the upcoming fantasy season. Each host presents their picks, complete with rationale and supporting statistics.

Jason Moore's Picks: Terrell Pryor and Jameson Crowder

• Terrell Pryor:
  Jason Moore [22:13]: "Terrell Pryor is my first breakout candidate for 2017. In a 5,000 passing yard offense, his red zone utilization and rapport with Kirk Cousins position him for significant fantasy output."

  Andy concurs, emphasizing Pryor's breakout potential with the Chiefs.

• Jameson Crowder:
  Jason Moore [35:32]: "Jameson Crowder is a prime candidate to leap into the top 20 range. With a powerful offense and increased snap counts, Crowder could surpass his previous season's 67 receptions for 847 yards and seven touchdowns."

Andy Holloway's Picks: Tyreek Hill and Marcus Mariota

• Tyreek Hill:
  Andy highlights Hill as a standout breakout, particularly due to his athleticism and increased role within the offense.

• Marcus Mariota:
  Andy Holloway [41:56]: "Marcus Mariota has the potential to finish this year as a top five quarterback. His involvement in both passing and rushing games makes him a valuable fantasy asset."

Mike Wright's Picks: Tariq Cohen and Amir Abdullah

• Tariq Cohen:
  Mike Wright [32:11]: "Tariq Cohen has passed all eye tests in preseason. With a solid offensive line and a versatile skill set, Cohen is projected to become a reliable three-down back in PPR leagues."

• Amir Abdullah:
  Mike Wright [38:12]: "Amir Abdullah is a perfect breakout candidate. As the lead back for the Lions, his involvement in both the running and passing game offers significant fantasy value, especially at his fifth-round price point."

5. Conclusion

The episode wraps up with final thoughts on breakout candidates and a light-hearted farewell as the hosts prepare for upcoming events and awards.

Jason Moore [47:26]: "That is it for today's episode on the road here in Anaheim. Wish us luck."

The hosts reinforce the importance of staying informed and strategic in fantasy football drafts, encouraging listeners to leverage the insights shared to gain a competitive edge.

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Key Takeaways:

• Strategic Player Management: Effective evaluation of players' current performance and potential future upside is crucial in maintaining a strong fantasy roster.

• Injury Monitoring: Staying updated on player injuries and their recovery progress can significantly impact draft and weekly lineup decisions.

• Identifying Breakouts: Recognizing players poised for a breakout can provide a significant advantage in fantasy leagues, especially when drafted in later rounds.

• Flexibility in Drafting: Balancing high-potential players with reliable veterans ensures a well-rounded and resilient fantasy team.

By dissecting player performances, injury reports, and potential breakout stars, the Fantasy Footballers provide valuable guidance for fantasy managers aiming to "win their league—in style."

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, Foot Clan, before we get started today on the breakouts, if you want all of our breakouts, all of our busts, all of our sleepers, and Matt Harmon's reception perception and the rankings with projections and tiers, everything you need to absolutely crush your draft. Coming up this weekend, go to ultimate draft kit.com and get the Ultimate Draft Kit to make sure you get your hashtag Foot Clan title this year.

[Mike Wright]

This is hall of Fame and Marshall.

[Jason Moore]

Falk, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast coming to you from the Play Draft Studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah.

[Jason Moore]

We'Re on the road road trip.

[Mike Wright]

Coming to you live from the Marriott Sort.

[Jason Moore]

Hey, welcome in.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, my goodness.

[Jason Moore]

If you're watching the video, you notice we are not. We are at the remote Play Draft Studios. We are not at our home Play Draft Studios because we are in Anaheim, California. We are coming to you from podcast movement because we do not take a break. You get the fantasy football news and information you need.

[Andy Holloway]

We've been sitting in our hotel room just scouring fantasy data, making sure that we are. We are as prepped as possible. We're not even down at the podcast movement.

[Jason Moore]

Everyone's like, where's the ballers? Recording everyone this episode first. It's a breakout episode. I'm very excited about it. But I'm gonna give you a little peek into our lives for a moment because something ridiculous happened on this trip. Now it's become a necessity. Jason, let's just be honest with the listeners here. Jason snores.

[Andy Holloway]

I have never once heard myself snore.

[Jason Moore]

No, because you're always asleep while you do it. Now, Mike, can you please testify to this reality?

[Mike Wright]

It's really a travesty to all humanity what he does at night.

[Jason Moore]

We were in New York a couple years ago, and we were in a teeny, tiny room, all three of us. Mike literally slept on the floor. And Jason's volume level, I mean, it registers on the Richter scale.

[Andy Holloway]

It's impressive.

[Jason Moore]

It's an actual. So we get two rooms. This is what we do. Now here's another tremor. We get a couple rooms. Brooks is here with us in Anaheim, and we're heading off to Toronto to the fantasy sports show after this, we'll be bringing you shows the entire week. And so we always get two rooms. And so we register. We get the two rooms. We get up to our room, and Mike and I are looking around.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, normal, regular motel room.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, we're totally content with this room until we go next door and we look at Brooks and Jason's room.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. Now, they gave me the handicap room, people. I'm not saying that's not a joke. Yeah, it's not a joke. No. There's a button on the outside and all sorts of special amenities up in this room.

[Jason Moore]

This room has got windows. It looks like a penthouse.

[Andy Holloway]

You could sleep in the bathroom if you want.

[Jason Moore]

You can take jogs in the room. It is so big. The bathroom's 3x. So much room for activities, it's unbelievable. That's where we're recording right now, in Jason's super room.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

So welcome into the podcast.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome into my bedroom, America.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Welcome into the bedroom. If you're on YouTube, you'll see us. It is old school. We've got the desk set up like the olden days. Great show today. We're going to kick it off with a great quick question. We're going to do some keep trade cut. Before we do that, Mike, why don't you tell them where they can find us on Twitter?

[Mike Wright]

You can find us on Twitter @ the ffballers. You can follow me, the best one at ffhipman. Jason's @jasonffl. Andy is @ Andy Holloway. Of course, you can check everything out that we do over atthe fantasy footballers.com and I want to throw out my quick reminder here. We got the fantasy sports show this weekend. So if you're in the Northeast, please come hang out with us. Come watch us do a live show if you're in the Southwest on Labor Day at 7pm Aug. 4 or not August, Sept. 4. Ballers live. That this is the show that we are putting on. We're doing it Live in Phoenix. BallersLive.com is where you get your tickets and everyone who's who goes. Because we always take things up a notch. You know how we do it.

[Andy Holloway]

Bam.

[Mike Wright]

We got a signed David Johnson framed. Signed David Johnson shows that everyone is eligible to win if you're at the show. So please, please come hang out with us. It's going to be a lot, a lot of fun.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we are going to get into the breakouts and some news. Before we do that, we're going to play a little keep trade cut right now. We got a couple tough decisions to make, guys. I hope you're ready.

[Andy Holloway]

Keep trade cut.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Always a fan favorite. We like keep trade cut. Let's start with this one. We're going to go cross position. Brooks has got this one ready for us. Keep trade. Pierre Garcon, Terence West, Jeremy Macklin. What are you doing?

[Andy Holloway]

I like all three of these players this year in the draft. I think all three represent really good, you know, positional twos, if you will. Like, none of these guys have the opportunity to finish as a running back one, a wide receiver one, but they, I think all will be at or near the, you know, running back or wide receiver too. And they are so late in your draft. So I'm going to start with the trade. Then I'm going to say who's going to have the most value and I think right now that's Terrence West. Especially with some of the news with Danny Woodhead, I think Terrence west will net me the most. I'm trading Terrence West. I'm going to keep Jeremy Macklin because I believe he has the highest upside. He's still in his prime. And I'll cut poor Pierre Garcon.

[Jason Moore]

Interesting. I will definitely trade Jeremy Macklin to you. That is going to be two. You or Mike?

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm guessing for Terrence West.

[Jason Moore]

Trading Jeremy Mc. Yeah, for Terrence West. Terrence west is my keep. I love Pierre Garcon. Like it's between. Like, if a full ppr. I probably go, Mike, keep as Pierre Garcon. Any other format, I'll go with the running back. Positional scarcity here. I'll go keep west, trade Macklin to U2 knuckleheads. All that potential in the unknown of Jeremy Macklin and his injury history going to Baltimore. And I'll go ahead and cup here Garcon, but with respect, I'll give him a handshake on the way out.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I'm going to keep Macklin because I think he is a strong wide receiver too, with the potential of being an actual low end one if things fall his way. There was many, many doubters when Steve Smith was going over to Baltimore. With age and in an injury history at Baltimore. In coming back from those things, I just.

[Andy Holloway]

Alex Smith made sure Jeremy Macklin a wide receiver one.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Joe Flacco can air it out a little bit better.

[Jason Moore]

Did he finish a one?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Macklin.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

That was the year I was on Macklin's side, which is.

[Mike Wright]

Which makes no sense why you're not into Joe Flacco. But anyway, so I'm keeping Macklin. I'm. Man, I grow. I need to see Terrence west in this. This week three preseason. Week three is super important because he looked terrible.

[Jason Moore]

Woodhead is hurt right now.

[Mike Wright]

Woodhead is hurt. There's now these reports that Buck Allen's Looking good. Ryan Matthews is waiting like a vulture just to be signed by somebody. So. But at least with the information we have right now, I would trade Terrence west because I think I'll get the value for him and cut old man Pierre Garcon.

[Jason Moore]

Poor garcon. He got cut in all three.

[Mike Wright]

I like that. Macklin is not the old man, but garcon.

[Jason Moore]

Jeremy Hill, John Brown, Marvin Jones. Keep trade. Cut Jeremy Hill. John Brown, Marvin Jones. I am going to start this one out. I am keeping Marvin Jones.

[Mike Wright]

Jason is distraught about something.

[Jason Moore]

I'm keeping Marvin Jones. I think that Jeremy Hill is going to let you down the way Jeremy Hill does. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to trade Jeremy Hill. I'm going to cut John Brown. Jason is losing his mind over.

[Andy Holloway]

I feel like Brooks has set me up here. What did Brooks do? I feel like Brooks has got me to a place where I might have to cut my man John Brown.

[Jason Moore]

Oh.

[Andy Holloway]

Because right now I have more confidence in Marvin Jones than I have in John Brown. And that makes me very, very sad. I love John Brown. I just. I'll.

[Jason Moore]

Three of these guys, I don't really want to like, they're not super keep candidates.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm keeping Marvin Jones. I think he's the one guy in drafts right now I would be actively drafting. You know, I guess Jeremy Hill has looked good. He's been splitting all the first team. He'll still be the goal line back. Right now with all the news, negative health news with John Brown, I think you got to trade Jeremy Hill, get that value and cut my man Smokey.

[Mike Wright]

I'm keeping Jeremy Hill. He has looked good. Like I said with Terrence west, he had. You can shake your head, but he's looked good.

[Jason Moore]

I'm just shaking my head at the fact that you're going to be back in that guy's corner again.

[Mike Wright]

I'm not telling people to draft him in the third round. I'm saying you get the value.

[Andy Holloway]

He's double digits.

[Mike Wright]

You get him late. For a guy who could. He can be a spot start running back.

[Jason Moore]

This is like your. You've got a girlfriend that just keeps coming back asking for forgiveness.

[Mike Wright]

That's. That's fine. That's fine. And I will do that with Jeremy Hale because I have no confidence right now in John Brown. And Marvin Jones is fine, but he's in that wide receiver tier. That's. I can grab those guys off of the waivers. Meanwhile, a running back who we. At least I'm with Jason. I'M projecting him to get the goal line carries. Thing could. Things could switch real quick on Jeremy Hill and they unleash Joe Mixon in Cincinnati. But for right now, I'm still. I'm going to take that value on Hill.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's go and talk a little news.

[Andy Holloway]

News and notes from around the league.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's go ahead and talk a little news. Lev Bell says he's going to report September 1st. Are we excited about Lev Bell officially ending his holdout? Well, we have to be. That takes another variable out of the way.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's. It's great news. I'm Le'Veon Bell is still my number two pick.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. We never moved him. All right. There have. There's been some talk about Odell Beckham Jr. Missing maybe a week or two due to the ankle sprain. I got a question from a Foot Clan member. They wanted to know. Look, they're sitting there. If Odell drops to nine in their draft.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, my goodness.

[Andy Holloway]

What?

[Jason Moore]

Hold on, hold on. Would you take him still ahead of Jordy Nelson and A.J. green at 9 if he was going to miss a game or two? This. These are the three players on the board. Do you move Beckham if you think it's going to be a game or two?

[Mike Wright]

I don't think. I don't think that I do.

[Jason Moore]

I probably just take him.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, but I. We've talked about a lot that when receivers are coming into the season already with some type of leg problem, it can be worrisome. But Odell Beckham is just such a difference maker that I'm not going to move him. If you wanted to take Jordy over him, I'm okay because I have Jordy Nelson. That's tier one.

[Jason Moore]

Basically how I felt on that. Let's talk about Brandon Marshall, the shoulder injury. The Giants are not concerned. Danny Woodhead sidelined at practice with a hamstring injury. We have talked about that a little bit earlier with Terrence west, but it's not good when you have a situation like that. Not only do they not have the Joe Flacco consistency there, now you got Woodhead banged up. He'll probably be okay, but look, he hasn't returned to practice yet. We got to monitor it.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Buck Allen will be involved. As we kind of talked about last episode. It's. It's one of those things where you just monitor it. Nothing much you can do. But Danny Wood had. He is older and one of the things that you see, I mean, we give him kind of for some reason we give him a free pass on the age issue as a running back. He is, what, 32. And here's the one thing we have seen with age is that when you get injured, it doesn't give you a higher probability of getting injured, but oftentimes it's slower to recover and so that's definitely worth monitoring. I think Danny Woodhead is very high on a lot of PPR boards right now. And if he is not back, you know, if he's not back in practice in a week or two, then I'll be moving him down a little. I still think his upside is worthy of being on roster in every PPR league.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Pro size. CJ Pro Size suffered a strained groin. This is just the last of a laundry list of injuries going back to college. Concern on the team from the coaching staff that he's not going to be able to stay healthy. He's out of our sleeper candidate list right now because it's a messy situation there. Thomas Rawls, Eddie Lacy, CJ Prosise, they all have problems. And so trying to say, hey, pro size is going to emerge with 60, 70 receptions. You can't say it right now.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I am the biggest backer of pro size on this show and I'm out. I just, I can't recommend drafting him.

[Jason Moore]

Hugh Jackson said Wednesday Deshaun Kaiser will be starting today's I'm sorry, Saturday's preseason game in Tampa Bay. It seems to me that we should talk about Deshaun Kaiser's fantasy value because I think he'll enter the year as the starter. I think Brock's time is gone. They already said Brock's not even going to play in that game. I don't think he's not going to play. He's not going to play.

[Mike Wright]

He went from.

[Andy Holloway]

Went from.

[Mike Wright]

He went from certain to be the week one starter. Well, and you, Jason was saying before the show, what was the quote from the coach?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah. Hugh Jackson after the game was saying he thought that they, you know, that Brock played all right and you know, he said based on what we were doing, you know, I think he did some good things. We'll have to go back and watch the film. Of course they went and watched the film.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I was wrong's gonna play.

[Andy Holloway]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

I'm gonna give a shout out to Brad Evans on this because of the way he put it. But the scoring duality of Desean Kaiser instantaneously, to me makes him a top 20 quarterback. He will run the ball and if you run the ball, it disproportionately affects your fantasy value regardless of whether he's as productive as an NFL quarterback. So if he's a starter, what do you have? Week one. Deshaun Kaiser is a top 15, top 20 guy to me and he's somebody that could emerge because of the running capabilities he's in. He has Corey Coleman, he has weapons.

[Mike Wright]

People love Corey Coleman coming out of college and Kenny Brits coming off his best season as a pro. There are, there are weapons there in Joku could.

[Jason Moore]

If he can break out, Johnson will be in the slot constantly available.

[Mike Wright]

Duke Johnson is an amazing pass catcher. Seth Deval I think has an opportunity to contribute. So it does, it becomes, he becomes very interesting. I'm not going to draft him, but he, he will probably be streamed a time or two this season.

[Jason Moore]

Let me ask you one more follow up there. Does it affect Isaiah Crowell to have Kaiser behind center over Brock or Kessler?

[Andy Holloway]

Isaiah Crowell, Yeah. I mean usually when you've got a running quarterback, it opens things up a little bit more. Now Kaiser has the ability to run, but he isn't necessarily a, you know, a running quarterback in a sense. Yeah, I mean, so I think it, I think it helps Crowell. In that same vein, it could actually hurt Duke Johnson a little bit because Kaiser is much more of a down the field type of pass thrower. Not, you know, although when he came.

[Mike Wright]

In, he, when he was, he was keeping it short, he was keeping it tight right by that line of scrimmage.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, it would be great if we had more. I think that's, you know, people are always. What do we watch for in preseason? Here's what you want to watch for in preseason. Week three. If Kaiser gets that start, is he checking the ball down? Is he looking to run early? Is he looking downfield? Because his tendencies, you know, those natural tendencies, I think those will give us clues into should we look at the field stretcher more or you know, the running back or the check down running back. Which option. Obviously who the quarterback is is going to have tremendous effect on the fantasy output for the rest of the team.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Out of Tampa, the expectation is that Sims will operate as the passing down and third down back. I want people to remember Charles sims was a plus 1000 total yardage guy in this offense two years ago. A lot of hype and excitement around him going back to last year's draft. Injured last year, supplanted, didn't perform. Just be aware of Charles Sims. He's a great late round flyer to me. If you like players like Danny Woodhead, CJ Pro size the hype around him. Look, these guys are locked into that third down role, but Sims found a way to score frequently when he was in the lineup. He's a deep sleeper and it's in an offense that's going to be powerful and you don't want to devalue those type of players. I think if you like a guy like Alvin Camara, you need to at least think about a guy like Charles Sims.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I agree that Sims, if he was injured last year because he looked very different, if he was, he was.

[Jason Moore]

He missed a lot of times, a lot of games.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I'm saying when he was on the field, if he was hampered by those injuries then because he didn't, he didn't look the same. And the only, the only hardship and what's dropped Charles Sims right now is the fact that Jaquez kind of broke out as, oh, he's actually a good back. And then they went and drafted, say McNichols is there. Yeah, McNichols. So last year it was, it was, it felt like draft. It was Doug Martin and Charles Sims. Now it's Doug Martin, Jacquiz Rogers, Charles Sims and McNichols.

[Jason Moore]

The one thing to remember though from last year, Jay, is that Charles Sims didn't look good because he was thrust into that role. With Doug Martin out, they tried to put him in there and make him carry a load that isn't his vein. So it wasn't like he just didn't look good on third down last year. It was because he had to take those first and second down carries for a limited amount of time. So I do think he's somebody to be aware of.

[Mike Wright]

But part of Sims value is when it was the two of them. He's still getting some carries and if Jocquiz is going to take the carries when Martin needs a rest, then Sims value would come way down.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we're going to get into the breakouts. Before we do, I want to remind you Mike Gillislee, Jonathan Williams, Ty Montgomery, Matt Forte and Emmanuel Sanders have all returned to practice. Finally, Gillisley Forte is important because if you're looking at week one matchups, which you can be doing now, Forte returning to practice, we talked about blah. Powell could be a sneaky Week one play. Pay attention to what's going on in that exciting New York jets offense. Okay?

[Andy Holloway]

Do you know who's getting the majority of first team reps right now for the New York jets in practice this Week.

[Mike Wright]

What position?

[Andy Holloway]

Quarterback.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, no, no. Who?

[Andy Holloway]

It's still Christian Hackenberg.

[Mike Wright]

What are they doing?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, they're doing what Jason has projected.

[Andy Holloway]

They are not going to trust in the process. They're not going to give the Browns that chance to get that number one pick with one victory.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

It's, it's so I still think Josh McCown will be the week one starter because Christian Hackenberg is, he's.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

You want to believe that the best player is going to start, but you might not be able to believe that with the Jets.

[Mike Wright]

No, certainly not. Before we move into the breakouts, want to thank today's sponsor, NFL Game Pass.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

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[Andy Holloway]

Breakouts.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we're bringing you.

[Mike Wright]

Because that's an old school drop when we used to have it on the front and the back. My man. Wow.

[Jason Moore]

So we're just, we'll just press on.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Oh my goodness. So do you have another drop? Was there another one that you made that doesn't have it on the back?

[Mike Wright]

No.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you just didn't even tell me.

[Mike Wright]

No.

[Jason Moore]

Just a surprise.

[Andy Holloway]

I love it.

[Mike Wright]

Love it.

[Jason Moore]

I was so excited to get into it. All right, look, probably trying to cut me off because it doesn't like my breakouts. But I'll start this thing off. Each of us, we'd pick two guys that we really like as breakout candidates this year. You know, these aren't guys that we all consensus agree on necessarily. You can see all of those consensus breakout candidates in the udk. We've talked about them on the show. I'm going to kick it off with a guy that I think people were surprised wasn't in my. My guys.

[Mike Wright]

I'm pretty surprised. He was not.

[Jason Moore]

He was there. I put Doug Martin in. I was on the fence between the two. It's Terrell Pryor. Terrell Pryor. Trell Pryor. My first breakout. Sound like sister Hannah right now. A third round pick. Look, he might as well be my guy. He was definitely honorable mention for that episode. But look, give me the biggest non injury prone red zone weapon in a 5,000 passing yard offense. I love Terrell Pryor this year. Look, he's probably not going to get to 140 targets like he had in Cleveland. I recognize that. But he should more than make up for that with red zone utilization. Big plays. We've talked at length, I have in the past about the quality of the downfield targets he received in Cleveland compared to the quality of targets he'll receive from Kirk Cousins.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I was going to say. I don't think you can use that word when you refer to the Cleveland targets.

[Jason Moore]

No quality. Quality is no every bit of his 64 frame. It was an advantage to him in Cleveland at snagging these inconsistent bad targets last year. And I want to remind people, don't look, don't freak out. We always tell you, don't freak out. Don't be afraid in the preseason. You're watching some different things. I'm not overreacting to that preseason game one. Jameson Crowder, Jordan Reed and Josh Doxson have all missed time in this training camp. Time to build a rapport with Kirk Cottons. Yeah. The offense didn't look great. I'll admit that.

[Mike Wright]

It looks pretty bad.

[Jason Moore]

It's one preseason game, guys.

[Andy Holloway]

It is a preseason game.

[Jason Moore]

Don't even worry about it. It makes sense that they're not quite there yet. They've switched out this receiving core and Jordan Reed wasn't even on the field. But I think Terrell Pryor is a prime breakout candidate. He's a strange beast because not only is he an athletic freak, he's oversized, but he is also not that prototypical situation where you're saying, okay, three third year breakout. This guy wasn't a wide receiver.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

This is his second full season as a wide receiver. He has as much a chance as any to improve. And he hasn't been banged up, he hasn't been hurt. He has built rapport with Kirk Cousins and he'll be a red zone target. So I think Trell Pryor has top 12 potential. That would be a huge breakout for him. I've got him ranked around 10. I know that's the highest of our group. Trel Pryor, my first breakout for 2017.

[Andy Holloway]

See, I like Terrell Pryor as a breakout. I've, I've spoken.

[Jason Moore]

Who do you like? Terrell Pryor.

[Andy Holloway]

I can't. I can't not get caught up in it. Once you, once you're in the crossfire.

[Mike Wright]

You know, that's evident.

[Andy Holloway]

I like Terrell Pryor. I spoke out negatively against.

[Jason Moore]

You have been all over the map.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I know, but I feel like depending on what's being said, I need to balance it with the, with the.

[Mike Wright]

Ultimate, like the flight of a bumblebee. His thoughts on Terrell Pryor. You have no idea where this thing's going.

[Andy Holloway]

I know exactly where I see Terrell Prior.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, but we don't.

[Andy Holloway]

As the wide receiver, 25.

[Jason Moore]

That's what I just want to be able to say. He's right no matter what happens. Torell. Pryor.

[Andy Holloway]

Terrell Pryor, wide receiver, 25. If he's anywhere else, if he's 26, if he's 24, I will accept that I am wrong.

[Jason Moore]

But my 25 is bad. Yeah, well, 25 is a bust for.

[Andy Holloway]

Whatever he's being drafted. I agree, but what I was going to say about that is that the breakouts that we're talking about is breakout potential. Obviously, if we knew a guy's going to break out, then you would, you would always draft them properly. But Terrell Pryor does have a lot of the things that say I could be wrong and he could massively break out that frame, that offense. The fact that he's only a second year wide receiver, I, you know, I'm going to be wrong on plenty of players. And Terrell Pryor has.

[Mike Wright]

The thing about Pryor is you're paying for it in the draft. A third round pick is.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, but you're not paying top 10 wide receiver numbers.

[Mike Wright]

You're paying not top 10, but you're paying top 15 numbers for him.

[Jason Moore]

What do you think Brooks is doing in this show, huh? He's just lounging on the bed over there. He doesn't have any cameras to run. He doesn't have to run.

[Andy Holloway]

I look, I look over. He's doing the David Hasselhoff.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, is that what that was? All right. I was worried it was the Kate Winslet from Titanic. I didn't watch that. He brought the Giamatti sign with him.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, I will. I'll hop in here next. I'm going to go with a guy that is one of, one of the rare guys on this list today we're talking about. That is a consensus. I think we all see the breakout potential in him. A lot of people see it, but I want to explain it. That's for Tyrique, the Freak Hill breakout. That should be breakout, right? So you could say, well, he, you know, did he already break out last year when you look at the final numbers? But in reality he wasn't. He was barely a wide receiver. He was, you know, a gadget player where, you know, they're getting him involved in short passes and handoffs and special teams and all sorts of stuff. But when you watch the film, you saw a special player. You saw a guy that elite defensive players could not catch up with. I remember when he was playing, you know, in games against awesome defenses that I thought, look, there's. They're not going to be able, they're going to be able to stop him. And he'd run away from, you know, the Denver Broncos and you go, wow, he's fast. Last year I was looking up some of the numbers from him and he surprised me. I wanted to focus today on so how did they utilize him and how did it succeed or fail when Jeremy Macklin was gone? Because that's really, I think it's not just a wide receiver two in the system. That's great. Wide receiver twos break out all the time. But I think the real change for him is not just the second year, but is Jeremy Macklin being gone and him being thrust into the wide receiver one role for the Kansas City Chiefs. Do you realize how good he was when Jeremy Macklin was gone in his rookie year, in his first year. How many targets? What do you think? The pace. Okay, so not targets, receptions. How many receptions do you think he was on pace for? And there's a decent chunk here. It was weeks nine through 13 that Jeremy Macklin missed. Weeks nine through 13. If you.

[Mike Wright]

Why don't you just tell us?

[Andy Holloway]

I want guesses.

[Mike Wright]

No.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, Mike's saying no. Andy will give me a guess.

[Mike Wright]

How many receptions again, how many reception.

[Andy Holloway]

Note how many receptions on that pace? 16 games.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, during the games, Macklin was out.

[Andy Holloway]

From weeks nine through 13. What pace?

[Jason Moore]

Probably 100.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Wright]

That's a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

That's crazy to say. 100. Why would you guess that? That's insane. That's actually low. He was on pace for 109 receptions. He was getting basically almost seven receptions a game. And when you look at it, it wasn't like one of these games. He had 15 receptions and then he had four. He's just basically every single game around seven receptions, which is ridiculous volume you can trust. Then you add in the talent and clearly, I mean, even in the draft you go, well, he was a fifth round wide receiver, you know, a fifth round draft pick. But he fell drastically in the draft because of personal baggage with domestic issues. Prior to that, he would have been a top pick had it not been for that.

[Jason Moore]

I want to take you back in time because I buy it. Look, this is one of our consensus breakout candidates is Tyree Kill. And look, it's hard to say. I wouldn't. His draft position is where? Six round.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I would draft him over Terrell Pryor for that draft value. Absolutely. Let me take you back in time because this is a player I think I can compare. Let's go back to 2012. Percy Harvin. Percy Harvin is a great Tyreek Hill comparison to me because there was the first 10 games back in 2012 where he was the guy. Very similar situation. In Minnesota, you had target counts of 12, 14, 10, 11, 13 for Percy Harvin that year because. And I owned him. I remember how much fun it was to have a guy that not only had targets, but guess what? Here's his carry counts in those games. 4. 1, 2, 2, 2, 2. Every game you get an end around or two. Every game you get a designed run for that player. There is no chance that Andy Reid, an offensive mind, is not going to utilize an offensive weapon in a wise way. So I am on. I'm on board.

[Andy Holloway]

And they clearly Want him to be used in that way. They've taken him off of special teams because they want him to stay healthy and be involved and have the gas tank to get it done with volume. You know, if from weeks nine through 13, when Jeremy Macklin was out, that would have put him on pace. And I'm getting rid of the rushing. I'm just saying as a receiver, forget the 141 yard rushing, you know, totals that he was projected for. The. Forget the kick return touchdown, forget the punt return touchdown. Take all that out. Just how many receptions, how many yards, how many touchdowns during those weeks. That. That would. That projects to 190 fantasy points, which would have put him just ahead Larry Fitzgerald and Amari Cooper and half point scoring. That was in his rookie year. That was without a training camp, as a one. So the breakout potential is there now. Should he become injury prone like Percy Harvin because he's a small frame and getting that volume?

[Mike Wright]

Well, we don't have the migraines, aren't there? I mean, you don't have that history yet.

[Jason Moore]

The one thing I'll say about Terry O'Keel, the only variable, I think he's actually a really, really safe player. I love him. In the sixth round, the only thing that could happen that would disrupt Tyreek Hill, I think would be a quarterback controversy changeover mid through the season because you just don't know. You don't have a rapport with Pat Mahomes or as. What was the nickname that one of the Foot Clam.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, Guns Mahomey.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah. He wanted us to call him Guns Mahomes. Bring him back.

[Mike Wright]

Still digesting on that one. Tbd.

[Jason Moore]

Mike, let's get a breakout from you.

[Mike Wright]

All right, I'm going to start with this one because this one's a little bit off of the radar and Andy is just seeing it for the first time because I was thinking like, what do I want from a breakout player? I want a player who I can draft late and I believe can become a startable fantasy asset and that you're not overreacting here. No, I don't believe I am. That's Tariq Cohen because he is essentially free in all.

[Jason Moore]

Wait, is that Tariq the freak?

[Mike Wright]

No, this is Tariq Cohen, Chicago Bears running back. And here's. Here's the deal for Cohen. He has passed every single eye test through this preseason. Yeah, and small sample, but he was an absolute beast. A beast in college. So his college production already backed up. What we're seeing now in the NFL, they have a solid offensive line. He's running 6.4 yards per carry. And yes, it's two preseason games. I understand, but just watch him play. Watch how decisive.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, last game was against the Arizona Cardinals ones. I mean, that's a great defense. Even if they weren't scheming for him and hadn't, you know, done the film for him, you're still just going elite, right?

[Mike Wright]

A top rushing defense. And here's the thing. As much as I love Jordan Howard last year, a drop rate of 14%, that's not a guy that you can count on in the passing game. And I know they have Benny Cunningham, but you got to follow what the team is doing. They're giving Cohen all of these opportunities because they want to see what they have. And Tariq, 37 receptions in his senior year. Now he's coming in the league. I'm projecting him as that passing role for the Chicago Bears because you know who he reminds me of now? Darren Sprouls.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he's five six, one, seven nine.

[Mike Wright]

He is in this Darren Sprouls frame. He looks like young Darren Sprouls on the field. And is that a running back one or two? No, probably not. But in ppr, this guy is going to be a three. And he's going to have games just like Darren Sprolls where when he gets 10 plus carries because a game flow works out with that. Let's say it's just, it's working. You've seen this with Darren Sprolls. When Darren Sprouls carries are working, teams just keep feeding him the ball.

[Jason Moore]

I'm guessing game scripts are what you're interested in.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, because they're going to be losing. And of course there's all the negative game scripts for the Chicago Bears. A lot of passing is going to have to happen for this team. So I'm saying a free running back.

[Jason Moore]

In the draft, which Tariq Cohen or Charles Sims?

[Mike Wright]

Cohen.

[Jason Moore]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

For sure.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. Because I like you breaking out a new name here and I just, I.

[Mike Wright]

I, I don't know, man. I believe in what I am seeing. I believe in his college production and I believe that he like you're saying that the negative game script is so huge for Cohen. If he really steals that, that passing downs job, which I think Benny Cunningham is injury prone.

[Andy Holloway]

And Benny Cunningham appears from what we've seen that he's been brought in even more so for special teams than to be that that passing downs back. So I can buy into Cohen being the passing downs back and having in a PPR league some Value. But a breakout I think is only going to be able to happen with an injury to Jordan Howard.

[Mike Wright]

See, I don't even think so. The way I'm looking at a breakout is someone who. And it's a rookie. So obviously you couldn't start him last year. But a breakout, to me, I'm saying this is a player that will become a startable fantasy player on a consistent basis.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure, he could turn into Chris Thompson.

[Mike Wright]

No, I think he'll be better than Thompson.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, because Chris Thompson's not a starter.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I don't think you can use him.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, well, that's what I mean. In a PPR deep league you can, you can start him in the flex.

[Jason Moore]

But you're going to need to me, you're going to need home runs. You're going to need home run.

[Andy Holloway]

The talent.

[Jason Moore]

All right, we need to move on. We got three more breakouts for you. I'm going to give love to the fans in D.C. today because my breakouts, they're on the same team. Guys, I'm going Terrell Pryor and Jameson Crowder or third breakout crowd, Kirk Cousins. No, look.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he already broke out.

[Jason Moore]

Kirk Cottins already broke out. I already talked about the 5,000 passing yard offense. Look, Jameson Crowder is being drafted in the sixth round. And this is not unprecedented to have two wide receivers in the top 24. And that's what I'm projecting. I'm not telling you Jameson Crowder last year was the 30th wide receiver. I'm telling you this guy can get up to the 20 range this year and you can have two top 24 wide receivers in Washington last year you had four duos. You had Jordy Nelson and Devonte Adams. You had Crabtree and Cooper. You had Demarious Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders and you had Michael Thomas and Brandon Cooks all finished inside the top 24 on their respective teams. This is a high profile offense. I believe it'll be a very powerful offense. And Jameson Crowder is going from a guy who last year was his second year. There are certain players, right, that are dedicated. You talk about Julian Edelman's hustle in the preseason. You know who has that kind of dedication? Jameson Crowder. This guy works hard to get better every single day. He's now a starter. Last year he had, he was only on about 73% of snaps over the course of the year. A lot of those were the result towards the end of the year of having 80 plus percent snap counts with Jordan Reed out of the game. I Think he'll be right around that 80% mark this year. There are beat reporters in Washington. They're talking consistently about, look, if Jordan Reed's not on the field, Crowder's your number one option already. He's the wide receiver one on this team when they go too wide Crowders on the field. That wasn't the case last year with Garcon and DJax. So to me, he's a prime breakout candidate to get up into that top 20 range. I think, you know, Cousins in this offense can sustain it. And if you have a small dip, which I can understand with his size in the red zone and with having weapons like Doxin, Reed and Pryor, I think it'll be made up for when you had last year, he had 67 receptions for 847 yards and seven touchdowns. I see him more in the 80 reception range for 1,000 yards. Maybe it's five touchdowns. But I think it's going to be a top 20 performance. So I like Jameson Crowder, Trel Pryor. We can go on and we can talk about Mike's next breakout.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I get to jump.

[Andy Holloway]

All right.

[Mike Wright]

I'm hurtling.

[Jason Moore]

Sorry. I'll just let you bring it back. I'll let you bring up the final.

[Andy Holloway]

You can drop that anchor.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Jason Moore]

You always weigh us down.

[Andy Holloway]

That's if I've ever been called one thing. It's been the anchor.

[Mike Wright]

Jason. Jason is throw off the show.

[Jason Moore]

Is that what they call like when you play a game of tug of war, the guy that's on the like that puts himself in the rope at the back?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, if the rope can fit over me.

[Jason Moore]

Is that the anchor?

[Mike Wright]

I believe it is. I believe it is.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Mike Wright]

And speaking about a guy who may anchor a lot of my fantasy teams this year, I'm back in. He was close to being a my guy. Samir Abdullah, 5th round price because I perfect breakout candidate, I strongly believe in the talent he looks. People were disappointed his rookie year for his fantasy output. He was only in on 33% of snaps.

[Jason Moore]

They hard to hold that against.

[Mike Wright]

They still believed in Joy Bell and Theo Riddick was already established or had was establishing himself as the passing downs back. Thank you.

[Jason Moore]

I just don't know how often we're going to get to talk about Joy Bell again.

[Mike Wright]

Trust me, if we know one thing about the NFL, it's that there will always be a new Joy Bell who will be able to you get the drop. Yeah. But here's the thing. Follow the money, right? You have to do this in the NFL, when you're looking at fantasy players, they were all draft. Knicks were saying, okay, the Lions, they are. They're a prime spot for one of these rookie running backs in the draft. Nope. They didn't add anybody because all offseason they've said, Amir Abdullah is our guy, he is our lead back. They didn't add anyone of note in free agencies. Matt Aziata. No, thank you. Let's see if he even makes. Yeah, see, See what I'm saying? We knew that the tuba.

[Jason Moore]

You gave me a quick opportunity there.

[Mike Wright]

He's just. He is the lead back in this. Once again, Amir Abdullah is not injury prone. He did not miss a game in college. He played in all 16 games as a rookie. He had a Liz Frank problem in his foot and he was injured is what you're saying. Exactly. He was injured. He's not injury prone. Just because he's a little bit smaller. The talent is undeniable. Go watch week one from last season. He is unbelievable. And while I'm saying breakout, I'm not talking about running back one. This is. Amir Abdullah is.

[Jason Moore]

You don't think he has running back one potential?

[Mike Wright]

There's the potential, but it's going to be the touchdowns.

[Andy Holloway]

The Lions hampered, the RB one upside. I think as a team, they're rushing potential.

[Mike Wright]

This is. It's like Shady McCoy, right? Which we all love him right now and that's fine. But there are years of Leshawn McCoy's career where he's carving up defenses, he's putting up major, major yards and then he scores three rushing touchdowns on the season. So that's very possible. That's in the outcomes for Amir Abdullah, that the touchdowns just do not fall to him. But I project him as the lead runner for this team. I project he will be heavily involved in the passing game. It's not all Theo Riddick. Amir Abdullah has major passing game chops. He's in the fifth round and a running back who I think is an easy plug and play running back too in the fifth round is that spectacular value for me. And I'm so. I'm back in.

[Andy Holloway]

One of the things I on the Abdullah Express I really like is everything out of camp has been good on Abdullah. The coaches have, you know, said they want to get him involved. And then every preseason they have taken him out of the game. So quick to say, you're. You're a guy, you're good, you're good.

[Mike Wright]

We don't need to see anything else.

[Andy Holloway]

Need to see you play. We don't Want the potential of you getting hurt. Let's throw Zach Zinner in on, you know, the fourth snap of the game and head forward. So I.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's. Let's bring. Bring it to the anchor.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's make it a little heavy.

[Jason Moore]

The Anchorman.

[Andy Holloway]

The Anchorman. Excuse me. I have a very important announcement. Marcus Mariota is my breakout candidate.

[Mike Wright]

That I think, I believe it's Maria.

[Andy Holloway]

Maria to Depends if you're going to. Marcus Mariota has a great potential to break out this year. He has not yet broken out, even though sometimes we feel like he had because he had that stretch last year where he was liquid magma and lighting the entire league on fire.

[Jason Moore]

We're doing that again.

[Andy Holloway]

He's the only kind of magma there is, which is liquid.

[Jason Moore]

He's the only kind of magma.

[Andy Holloway]

He is.

[Jason Moore]

There is no solid magma.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, it's like saying he's science. He's hot fire. There's no other kind of fire. Fair, but it's still an adjective.

[Jason Moore]

There might be soon. All right, so Game of Thrones.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, come on, man. I guess. Yeah, you're spoiler.

[Andy Holloway]

I think you're spoiler free on that. All right, so here's the thing with Marcus Mariota. Marcus Mariota came out in his rookie year and he looked pretty darn good. He was a quarterback, too. He did not have a wide receiver finish in fantasy football. In the top 50.

[Mike Wright]

It was all Delaney.

[Andy Holloway]

He was literally the only quarterback that could say that not in the top 50. His number one wide receiving option. Do you know who that was? Do you remember who that was in 2015?

[Mike Wright]

As far as a wide receiver, as.

[Andy Holloway]

Far as a wide receiver goes, he finishes.

[Mike Wright]

Was it Kendall, Right?

[Andy Holloway]

It was not.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, no. I'm thinking about this.

[Andy Holloway]

He's been traded around a lot and is currently, I believe, without a team. If he's not. He should be. It's Dorielle Green Bell.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, is it really?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. That's how bad the wide receiving situation was from Marcus Mariota. Now they brought in last year. Ooh, huge free agent acquisition, Richard.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, don't crap on Matthews.

[Andy Holloway]

No, look, I like Matthews. You like Matthews. We've always been higher than on him.

[Mike Wright]

Not a.

[Andy Holloway]

But he's not a top tier. Yeah, he's not a top tier wide receiver. He's never been. He's just a, you know, he's a solid route runner with good hands and, you know, he can. He can be decent. And he was decent. Marcus Mariota turned him into a pretty fantasy relevant player, and Mariota Finished as the quarterback 13. Just outside of that quarterback one. And keep in mind, Mariota did not play 16 games last year. So had he played 16, he probably would have been a quarterback one. What do they do this year? They've got Rashad Matthews there, they've got Delaney Walker there. Jonu Smith, the tight end they brought in, looks like another legitimate pass catching option. But he wasn't their first, you know, pass catching option taken before he was taken. I believe Taewon Taylor before him. Corey Davis, a top 10 pick in the NFL. Oh, let's bring in Eric Decker, too. I mean, he has all the weapons to throw to. He has the talent. We've seen it on the field. And the only knock, the only knock on Marcus Mariota is actually a good thing for fantasy football. The knock on him is that he has pretty massive splits between when he plays a top half passing defense and a bottom half passing defense. And you go, oh, yeah, he only carves up the bad defenses and plays poor against the good defenses. Great. Guess who's going to get it right when you go to decide whether to start him or sit him in fantasy football? That's the one split that I like to see when I'm not taking a top pick. If I'm in round one, round two.

[Mike Wright]

Seeing those splits, you don't really like it.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I mean, you're talking about a guy who's right now the 10th quarterback off the board. You're grabbing him late. And I think he has the potential, unlike a lot of guys, he has the potential to finish this year as a top five quarterback.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, I can go back two years and remember we made predictions on the show who we thought would be the better fantasy quarterback long term? Jameis Winston. Marcus Mariota. Going down to that week one. You remember the week one?

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah. I mean, mano e mano Jameis was.

[Mike Wright]

Really good in that week one.

[Jason Moore]

James Jameis was still a breakout candidate this year as well. And so what is your take? Who do you think ends up as the better fantasy guy over the next five years?

[Andy Holloway]

Man, I think they're probably still a tough decision. It is still a tough decision. It's absolutely a tough decision.

[Jason Moore]

I, I'm going to lean on.

[Mike Wright]

I still lean Jameis.

[Jason Moore]

Do you?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, but it's. If he can get. It's the, it's the, the over trusting your arm, making these bad decisions. If I go Mariota, it's mental.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm gonna go Mariota. Because brain and legs, Mariota is going for fantasy, for fantasy football. When you are a rushing quarterback. Not that Jameis can't, but Mariota is much more involved in the Russian game.

[Jason Moore]

Brain and legs.

[Andy Holloway]

Brain and legs.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Hey, look, I'm going to throw a couple other names out there before we close out. Devonte Parker is another potential candidate. You've got Stefan Diggs, Eric Ebron. If you can get healthy, Eric Ebron may not need in that starter role, so pay attention. Isaiah Crowell, too, We talked about him earlier. He's a breakout candidate with that improved offensive line and the things he's done in Cleveland. If Kaiser gives him something that they didn't have last year, even if it takes a little bit of time, I think you'll see some big, some higher rushing performances from Crowell and higher volume.

[Andy Holloway]

So, yeah, a lot, a lot of good guys and there's obviously a ton more guys that we consensus agree on in the udk. So make sure you grab that. And also, don't forget, you want to make sure you get the NFL game pass so that you can stay on top of games. Even when you miss the games on a Sunday, you can go back, watch them short. It's the NFL football. If the game happened, NFL Game Pass has it. So kick off the 2017 NFL season with a free NFL Game Pass trial. Sign up [e-mail] fantasy footballers all right.

[Jason Moore]

That is it for today's episode on the road here in Anaheim. Wish us luck. We got the Academy of Podcasters Awards tonight. That'll be exciting. And don't forget to check out playdraft.com ballers.

[Mike Wright]

I'm bringing three pairs of underpants tonight, fellas.

[Jason Moore]

See you later.

[Mike Wright]

Goodbye.

[Andy Holloway]

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