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Biggest Fantasy Football Takeaways For EVERY NFC East Team (Ep. 1932)
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hello everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm Ryan, warmly joined today by Andrew Erickson and by Jake Seeley from the Athletic and we are talking takeaways from the 2025 season. If you missed it last week we did the AFC version of this. We had four shorter episodes, one for each division. We are doing the NFC divisions this week. We are starting off today with the NFC East. Guys, we will dive right in here. Defending champs, but will not be the champs again this year. There will not be a repeat. As of yesterday, Erickson got that one very wrong. The Philadelphia Eagles winning the division. Sorry, Ericson, I thought Lane Johnson was.
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Gonna play and then I found out 90 minutes before the game he wasn't. And I was like, this is going to be absolutely terrible. And I was 100% right with that take right before things kicked off. So yeah, thought he was gonna play you.
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You switched it to the correct take at the last second. I suppose the Eagles won the division this year though. So Erickson, let' you what is your takeaway for the Eagles this year?
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Fade the running back that leads the NFL and touches one season into the next season, especially when they go over 400. I was very much against drafting Saquon Barkley, where he was going in draft season because he was coming off this monster workload. I think he hit almost 500 touches in 2024 and I thought that the long track record of running backs hitting that type of mark the next season, you just don't see anything positive from them. They always fall off and whether it's they stay healthy, they're not as efficient as they were the year before or sometimes they get injured out. Right now, Barkley, he didn't really suffer any injuries, although it wouldn't surprise me at all if we get a report in the coming weeks that Saquon Barkley was battling through some type of PCL injury. You know, something along those lines that impacted how efficient he was. But you know the Eagles offense, we know they dealt with some injuries on their offensive line. I just go back to when this a certain running back, especially an older one past the age of 27, sees 400 plus touches, you don't draft that guy the next year. So Christian McCaffrey, 413 touches to end the regular season. Now up to 434 after another 21 touch performance in the wild car round against the Philadelphia Eagles. Not going to be drafting Christian McCaffrey most likely in 2026.
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Jake, how do you feel about it.
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Tired because it's 370, it's 400, it's 420. Like, like pick a damn number. Like, like I, I will say look, if you've seen the recap video that I did with Joe and Pat, if you're watching this one and if you're watching the first round one that I'm going to be doing with Joe and Erickson, it's going to become tiresome for you as well. So I'm just going to try and summarize the same thing we're going to talk about on that show too is that yes, what a shock that career year wasn't repeated with another career year. Now I'm also not just completely throwing aside the fact that there is risk involved and and this is why Saquon Barkley wasn't a top end of the first round pick. This is why Christian McCaffrey, even next year shouldn't be a top round of the first round pick. But I think the more important thing here is there's extra pieces here involved. Erickson's not wrong in the result. And I'm not saying like we do have a history of players that have done well and haven't done well and there's more on the side that haven't again career years. People don't repeat career years. But where I tongue in cheek jokingly say is like I didn't know this curse was going to make Jalen Hurts have his worst season As a starter, A.J. brown has his worst worst season as an Eagle, Devonta Smith has his work season since his rookie year and the Eagles have their worst offense since 2021 which by the way was top seven every single year until this year when it was 18th. Like this was a team failure. So I think the more important thing was Lane Johnson which was kind of joked about for that game specifically. Maybe we underrated the fact of also Kelsey and how much he was going to hurt this offense of his loss. So between Kelsey and Johnson is the same concern we have for the Chargers. Like we saw what happened when they lost their two tack. There's a big impact on the offensive line. Again I like I know Erickson wasn't saying like I'm never drafting Barkley, I'm never drafting Christian McCaffrey. I just think some of the touch situation gets a little bit overblown in the fact that yeah I'll acknowledge 100% it's an added risk but it's not going to make me full fade somebody.
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That that's the difference Erickson, are you going to be interested in saquon going.
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Into 2026 depending on how they shake things out with the offensive coordinator or whoever they decide to bring in? Because I'm not. I'm assuming that the current one is not going to be employed by the Philadelphia Eagles in the coming most likely. So we'll see how things shake out. Seems like the Eagles actually have a new play caller every single year. So if they bring in someone creative, yeah I would be open to a Sequoia Barkley bounce back again he wasn't. He was healthy for the most of the season and there were times in the second half of the year when the offensive line gelled a little bit more in some better matchups where he was a little bit better. And to give credit where credit's due, I mean, you know who looked really good in this offense every time he touched the ball? Tank Bigsby. So I'm not sure it was all offensive environment because Tank Bigsby he boosted in a ton of efficiency numbers, really high PFF rushing grade, really great yards after contact per attempt. Even in the wild card game against 49ers like taking Bigsby looked explosive at times when he got the opportunity. So yeah I think that constructurally environmental they improve a couple of things. That offensive line is healthier 2026. Yeah definitely be willing to buy a bounce back on Saquon Barkley.
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Jake, what's your Eagles takeaway?
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So as much as the entire offense collapsed and the whole reason that they're talking about their coaching situation and also it kind of ties into Jalen hurts as a whole. Just remember with Hertz and anyone of his ilk, you know, we could talk about Jayn Daniels to a lesser degree, but Josh Allen has some like volatility more so this year than we had seen in past years. He's still Josh Allen, but rushing quarterbacks, specifically rushing quarterbacks that rely on touchdowns as much as Hertz does, this is how bad it can go and this is how bad it can go as is. He's been a top four year after year after year after year where he was barely a QB one and like that's just the fall off of the touchdowns. Honestly, if you look at Jalen Hurts, his numbers as a passer are pretty much just lockstep of what it has been. There was actually times where he was even a little bit better and I know fresh in everybody's mind is what just happened in the playoff game. That aside. But you look at his entire season and Jalen hurts the passer is pretty much Jalen hurts the passer. It's just the rushing touchdowns weren't there and we've seen this volatility from lessers like Daniel Jones when he had 707 with the Giants and then to the lesser degree when he had to do more with his arm. And just remember like we want to chase rushing quarterbacks in fantasy obviously. But remember when you're chasing rushing quarterbacks is maybe you're going to get more volatility. They rely so much on the touchdowns as it isn't the consistent rushing.
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He's at QB6 in the early 2026 consensus rankings. Does that sound too high, too low or just right for you, Jason?
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Sounds about right. Yeah.
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Erickson? Too high, too low, just right. Yeah.
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Sounds right to me. Yeah.
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Okay, let's go to the Cowboys here. Erickson, what's your takeaway for Dallas Target.
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Ambiguous backfield Zaywa Their zag on injury upside. I know that Worm and you and I discussed about Javante Williams ad nauseam through shows and I think that I wouldn't say that I was on the side of well, he's finally going to be efficient. He's finally overcome this injury that has plagued him the last couple seasons. I don't know, I mean there was a chance that Javante never recaptured his pre injury form, but the thesis of the bet was he has the potential to be the starting running back on the Dallas Cowboys offense and his ADP is outside the top 30 running backs. So I think just looking at that type of situation that made Javonte Williams an enticing piece and bet to make. Even if you weren't 100% confident that he would be returning to form from his injury and, and especially when you looked at the backfield. I remember when we joked around it's like we were talking about who's washed Javante Williams or Miles Sanders and you were saying it's so funny. Like it's obviously Miles Sanders is the guy that's typically more washed and then the running back they drafted was one that really did not profile as a bell cow Jaden Blue. Like he was an explosive pass catcher out of the backfield. Not someone that even if he had seen a larger role than he did his actual rookie year and he did deal with some ankle injuries early on in the season, I mean if someone was going to lead the team in touches, it was probably going to be Javante. So again, in hindsight is obviously 50. It's obviously 2020 hindsight. It's like oh well, Javante was such an easy pick. Why was he. He was still going as like the RB30. Right. So there was some hesitance around him. But I think especially as we got closer and closer to the season as Jake will get into in here as well, that it did seem like Javante was just a good bet to make because hey, this office is going to cook. Stevens is not good bet on Javante and if he's healthy, great. Now you're cooking with gas and that's how you turn out. Draft a running back as an RB30 and then he turns into a low end RB1 in 2025.
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Yeah, I, I will. It's not hindsight because we were talking about it. Like you're, you're saying like, I, I think in my draft rankings by the end of August, I had him like closer to like an RB2. I think he was like RB25 or 26 for me, which, which obviously still was low. But like, I just, I couldn't believe he was outside the top 30 given that there was nobody else in this backfield. And it wasn't, it wasn't, you know, pounding the table for, for Javante the player, it was the Javante in this opportunity. And Jake, this is, you know, really tying into what your takeaway is for Dallas too. Is Javante related also? It just, it just seems so clear that like when the opportunity is here in what we think is going to be a good offense, that's at some level, that's all you need.
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Yeah. Honestly, if you, I know you remember, but we got to the point last preseason where you and I, and obviously Erickson wasn't on as many shows, but it sounds like he was in agreement. We got to the point where we were talking about late round picks or running back values and you and I had put in this like little words there, like anybody but Javante at that point because we, we had brought him up so many times that we're like, we got to pick somebody else. It's just. But the reason is, my point here is I say pay attention to what the teams are telling you. And you know, Erickson brought it up with Jayden Blue, which by the way, tons of people after the draft, tons of pushback on that, like, oh, he's a timeshare piece, like, oh, you're crazy, he's so amazing. Blah, blah, blah, like, but also, even if the timeshare Pete, like, let's just say he was a complete running back, but look at where they drafted him and look at what they did in free agency. It was similar to the Bengals. It was really weird. And I think the only difference being is the fact that Javante had come off the injury history, but the Bengals and the Cowboys essentially did the same thing is they brought in, they, the Bengals brought back and the Cowboys brought in veterans that were kind of, they're going to, you know, steal a few touches and then didn't really do much in the draft. Like Jaden Blue super late. There was the Taj Brooks for the Bengals and both these teams were telling us the same thing. They believe who the first person is. The first running back being Javante Williams and Chase Brown. By the way, there's another team when we talk about the NFC north who did the exact same thing. And, and believe what the teams are telling you everything. If you didn't try to fall down this rabbit hole of hey, I love Jaden Blue, the talent, or I'm just doing this or I'm going to do that and take your opinion out of it, even our opinions out of it, just throw them to the side. What did the team tell us? The team told us Javante Williams is the lead unless something goes wrong. So maybe even as you said, like RB25, like we should have been targeting him even more.
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Well, I remember Jake, I don't remember if Ericsson was on this show, but I distinctly remember a show with you or like around free agency last year where we talked about if the Chargers don't draft a running back, where are we going to be ranking Najee Harris? Because it was just this very. And we were like, I don't know, like a fourth or fifth round pick. And then of course they drafted Marin Hampton and we, you know, reevaluated because that's. The team was telling us that he wasn't going to be the lead guy. But I look back at that and I go, well, why didn't we just do the same thing for Javante? We were like, if they don't draft a running back, Najee is going to be a fourth or fifth rounder. And then the, the Cowboys added Javante didn't draft running back outside of blue in the fifth round. And we didn't, you know, nobody compensated for that, at least enough.
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So even the most positive, like you.
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Remember I said these words on this network and on this show. I said, we watched this whole situation with the injuries and all this type of stuff and wait, where was I going to go with this? I completely forgot what I was going to say. I was just about to like, quote myself And I legit because you just brought up with the Najee Harris thing about what they were drafting and doing in Frazier. You got to move on. I'm going to remember like this is what happens when you do too many shows. You legitimately forgot the whole point of the quote I was about to say.
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Okay. I was looking around for a light bulb. Yeah, it was, I was going to say is this was the quote I said to you back then. People could go find the video. As I said, if they let Rico Dowdle walk for less money after what he just did and they bring in Javante Williams to pay him, it was only a little bit more. But they paid him more after what Rico Dallas just did. That was another clear tell sign of what the Cowboys were thinking when it came to Javante.
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All right, let's go to commanders here. Erickson, what's your takeaway in Washington?
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You just got a buyer. Beware when it comes to the guys that have the contract holdouts now. It's not always a perfect science where it's no matter what, you just fade that guy. Because Jamar Chase had a contract holdout, then he was the wide receiver one two years ago. So that's like one of the big exceptions. But even that season he started out really, really bad and he was potentially a buy low candidate after a couple bad weeks. But more in the aggregate, when these guys have their contracts hold out into the offseason, they miss training camp, they come in, they get re injured, their production is not sustainable from the year prior, especially because they're looking for big money. They are coming off a year where they scored A bunch of touchdowns like Terry McLaren checked off so many boxes of a guy who's going to bust in 2025 based on the fact that he had a outlier touchdown season he had compared to his normal and yearly career. He had the holdout and the Commanders were a team just overall was a roster that was surrounding a second year quarterback who had just made a rookie or is a rookie sensation, made a major leap in his first year in the NFL and they surround him with the league's oldest roster. So and this is the result of that, right? Like this commander sees it is what happens when you build a team around Jayne Daniels with duct tape like, like Zach Ertz, Debo Samuel Austin Eckler like this was never going to pan out. And you know going back to the betting shows like one of my favorite like season long win totals bets was Commanders under like this team is not going to be able to repeat. We talked about oh how great they were on fourth down and just everything screaming that this team was going to regress and we, we kind of saw it play out. Now obviously we didn't expect Jay Needles to get injured and miss so many games but I just think that you really need to be careful especially when there were other a lot. There were a ton of other receivers you could have drafted instead of Terry McLaren and then even when he came back not reliable. Production was up and down however and this kind of dovetails into what Jake is going to talk about for 2026. Terry McLaren averaged a career high in yards per RA run in 2025. So he was still very efficient on a route basis. But the production completely tailed off because of the touchdowns and the fact that he wasn't playing that much. But on a per game basis in terms of his yardage and per route basis he was actually efficient as he was in 2024. But now his price is going to come crashing down because everyone's going to be lower on the Commanders. But as we'll get into with Jake's takeaway here I am in on them as a buy low team in 2026.
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Quickly Erickson, before I toss to Jake for his larger Bilo thought where do you think roughly you're going to have McLaren ranked amongst receivers because he is going to be 31 like a week into the season. That's not young for a receiver. He's always been one of those guys who's like sneaky older than you realize. He's wide receiver 30 for fits in his early rankings in the, in the consensus he's wide receiver. I'll pull that up here. Sorry, I was on the wrong, wrong position here. He's wide receiver. So he's actually a lot higher than Fitz is. He's wide receiver 22 in the consensus 2026 rankings.
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I think probably somewhere in the middle. Wide receiver low in wide receiver two range. That's what he's been basically his entire career. Right. Last year with Jay Niels, his first year was kind of an outlier in terms of his career being a wide receiver one. But all those other years with bad quarterbacks, he'd always been a wide receiver too. Still putting up a thousand yards. You know, it reminds me a lot of the Chris Olave situation where all this guy does put up a thousand yard seasons, doesn't get the touchdowns Tyler Schuk enters in. He catches a bunch of touchdowns, finished as a top 10, top five wide receiver. So I think that wide receiver 30 is kind of low for McLaren.
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Yeah, I mean Olave is like six years younger than McLaren though, so that.
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You know, oh they both, they both Buckeyes so that's all that really matters.
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Jake, I know Erickson alluded to this already, but you've got kind of the Commanders as a whole as a buy low opportunity here.
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Yeah, because I think it's different pieces too as Jaden Daniels obviously coming off the injury. Jaden Daniels would deservedly inside the conversation for a top three quarterback because of that rushing up side that isn't as reliant on touchdowns similar to Lamar is that you're just going to take the yards because you know you're going to get the yards. The touchdowns with quarterbacks like those two are more the bonus than anything. So Jaden Daniels in a buy low, the whole situation with Cliff's Kingsbury leaving. I know Ton, I mean the no huddle rate was through the roof and that worked for the first season. But similar to what we've seen some offensive coordinators get kind of figured out by the NFL is maybe that's also what happened this year as a whole with this team. And obviously the injury is a big play of it, but there was just injuries. There was the figuring out Kingsbury's offensive scheme. Maybe that's part of it. I mean the next closest and by the way, no huddle was like half the rate that was second. Second place was like half the rate that the Commanders run. So kind of like maybe a one trick pony ish. But you see more of a complete offense with Daniels to go to the Terry McLaurin thing. His norm Outside of last. Last, not this year. We're just talking about happening 2024. Last year was the outlier. He's normally in that kind of like 12ish points per game which would put him right around wide receiver 414 to 16 most years a little bit high because I think that you know the age and you do have to factor some of this in and see how this team shakes out in the off season. But as in a mid wide receiver too, like I'd even go a little bit higher than consensus than that because the upside like wide receiver 18 to 20 feels almost like the floor. If he's healthy, if Jaden Daniels is healthy and everything's back in play and then the fact of if he gets those touchdowns back from two years ago, then he's back in play as a top 10 like you're almost getting him for his floor. And if wide receiver too is I really want to go for guys with that ceiling because there are so many volatile wide receiver twos this state in NFL so. And then Jaquori Krosky Merit falls into this buy low too because people were too early on and Ben Standing hit me up early in the season. He said he hasn't played but one game in the past two years. The commanders love his talent but they understand this is somebody who isn't ready to be going from week one as even 50, 50 timeshare like legit said this to me like 5050 is even more to expect. And there were some inconsistencies and injuries in that backfield as well. But we finally started to see cross game Merritt towards the end of the season and I think that next year he's in play to potentially lead this backfield because I think we all know Chris Rodriguez is just a. He's replaceable, let's be honest. So I think there's a lot of buy low opportunities on this team next year.
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Where do you think you're going to have Jakori Krasky Merit ranked Jake? He's already 36 in early rankings.
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If this, if this backfield had no changes as of today, I'd have crossing Merit as a fringe RB2.
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Okay, Erickson, does that sound about right?
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Yeah, I think I probably want to be more aggressive on him because Sea Rod is just a player and he's a restricted free agent. So I'm assuming that he'll probably come back. They really like him. I think that's good that Jacob Cross camera's main backfill competition would be Chris Rodriguez is a guy that they And Jeremy Nichols versus someone that they draft. Right. So that's I think a win. I think that people might look at. Oh, they re signed C Rod. This is so bad. Jacob Krusky. Barrett Citizen is over Rip. No, I think that's good that he is the guy that's taking up space and not oh, they brought in this third round guy they drafted in as a rookie. You don't want that for Troy Krasker because he doesn't have on his side.
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To what I was bringing about. Kingsbury too. A lot of McNichols being on the field as much as he is is the no huddle. And a lot of times there was also drives as we saw, where you don't sub out because you're a no huddle. There's no time for this. So yeah, I could see it being more aggressive like in my mind. Erickson, when I say fringe I was thinking like RB22ish range.
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Let's go to the Giants here to wrap up the division. Erickson, what's your takeaway in New York?
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Jackson Dart's going to be next year's Drake May. I think that what he showed as a rookie quarterback, third in fantasy points per drop back 0.6. That tied with Drake May who was going to finish as the runner up, most likely as the mvp. I'm looking at how did Drake May take this massive step and Drake May showed a lot as a rookie. I think that it's being a little bit overblown how big of a leap Drake May has taken into his second season because he was good as a rookie. It's just the search, the situation around him was just so bad that I think it's being a little bit over emphasized again. I'm super happy that he's been so great as a fantasy quarterback, real life quarterback. But you, you add the proven head coach like a Mike Vrabel. We don't know who the Giants are going to hire, but Harbaugh is an option. Kevin Stefanski is an option. Who do they bring in as the offensive play caller if they put competent pieces around Jackson Dart, he showed you in a terrible situation without his number one wide receiver, Malik Neighbors. He's coming back 12 games of Jackson Dart. He averaged over 30 rushing yards per game. That's the threshold that you're looking for a quarterback to make the leap into the top six. That's one of the things that I talked about with Drake May entering last year. I'm like this guy can be a top five fantasy quarterback just based on his rushing. Dart was over 40 rushing yards per game last year. So average 20.7 points per game. Quarterbacks that had more points per game than Jackson DART in his 12 starts, Stafford Lawrence, Josh Allen, Brock Paradi, Drake May and Patrick Mahomes, like that's it. So if we're searching for ceiling and we get competent coaching, we get Malik neighbors. Yeah, Jackson Dart's going to be a star in fantasy.
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I wonder if this is not going to happen for two reasons. One, because you say next year's Drake May. Drake May was going as like the QB15. Dart is going to be going inside the top 10 in the early rankings. QB7 I think. So there's not that same level of late round qb. This is going to be like a mid round QB to take a leap and but then the other thing too is just like in 13 games he had nine rushing touchdowns. Like I'm not convinced that that is going to be sustainable. I know it was kind of the way the offense had to work this year. You just mentioned the coaching. We don't know what this new offense is going to look like under a new staff. We don't know if the new coach is going to say, hey, I'm like, you know, hitching myself to this quarterback. He needs to run less and like not be like Brian Dabel and say go crazy and you know, get him to kind of like jump headfirst through everything. The new coach might really force him to kind of dial it back. So I do worry about this one given the both the cost and how reliant it was on the touchdowns, specifically the rushing touchdowns. So yeah, I don't know. I can't quite get there on this one. Jake, what do you think about Dart?
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So I have no problem with the take as in that he'll be next year's Drake May. My problem with the situation is what you already alluded to. He's already QB7 in consensus. Where does he end up in ADP because the final ADP as we head into the season because of all the hype on this network and many others for Drake May, he I think he got up to QB12 or QB13, which was still reasonable. I mean we're Talking about the QB3, that's amazing. But if we get up to the point where now Jackson Dart is one spot behind Jalen Hurts and two behind Daniels and then three behind Burrow, those are the names in front of him. You could conceivably if you're going to call him and I'm not Saying this to Erickson, I'm saying this is what's going to happen. Like if people are calling in the next Drake May, there's going to start being arguments. Do you take him over Burrow? Do you take him over Hertz? Do you take him over Daniels? He's, you know. And so I think that's the issue where you, like you fall into what you're talking about is what's going to be the cost. So you kind of lose that value we got on maybe still warranted. I mean, if he's QB7, he finishes QB3. You're still getting the kickback on that. But my biggest concern is that.
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I.
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Actually disagree with you on the coach telling them to run less and it actually working because we've tried this before. Cam Newton, Josh Allen, heck, Lamar Jackson. But the difference is Lamar Jackson knows how to avoid contact and yet he still dealt with an injury season. And so where my question was pushed back on is if I told you Jackson Dart was going to be lamar Jackson, but 20, 25, no more Jackson, would you really want to draft him and put yourself through that? And I'm not saying to avoid Dart because of that. I'm just saying, like, that's the risk with Dart is because he takes so much contact. Like he and Scatterboo need to go into like consultations and like somewhere where people can get into their mind and get it because it's not going to change. They're not going to. We saw this again, I reference all those quarterbacks. You can say it so you're blue in the face. You could go to Tim Tebow in his throwing motion. They go back to what they do and Jackson Dart's going to run. So it's just a very high injury risk for what we might have to pay. But I agree, at the end of the day, I actually agree with his take with Erickson's take is that he could be next year's Drake May. I'm going to go right into mine. I'll just like save you the trouble. My concern for this also team as a whole is like what we just saw is timeshare backfields are just a nightmare for us in fantasy, unfortunately. And Scatterboo did take over. And if we knew Scatterboo was going to be the guy. But you brought it up too. It's like, what's the coaching staff? Do they believe in Scatterboo? Do they want Scatterboo as part of a timeshare because they see him run headfirst into everything. Like he's freaking out there. Like you said the coaches, if he dies, he dies. Like we're like, freak. Like, who cares? And then we see what happens when he gets hurt. And between the Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary is one week it's Tracy and it's like he looks so good. They finally gave him 15 touches. What happens the next week? Timeshare and Singletary is getting all the goal line touches. All right, well, we're back to the timeshare. Oh, no. Tracy. 20 touches in a huge game. But it's not the only backfield. It's just the Giants are the telltale sign of where you can get tripped up heading into backfields. When it comes down to it, I was off on Tracy and most of my leagues this year because I'd rather draft the Javante Williams where if I get the clear guy, I get the clear guy and if I don't, I can move on. The problem with these backfields is you get trapped into like using them more than you want to and it's so tough to move away from him.
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Erickson, any quick thoughts on this backfield?
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When Jake just kept saying like trapped backfield, I just imagine myself looking at Zach Charbonnet and Ken Walker on my fantasy team every single week. That felt trapping every single week for 17 weeks, especially when no one gets hurt. And you can never just pinpoint a guy because you think at the beginning of the season, okay, maybe someone, one of these guys misses time, you put the other one in. He's a locked and loaded RB1. But if the guys stay healthy and unfortunately when they're sharing a backfield, their injury risk is reduced because they're taking on less load. Yeah, it can become a very frustrating situation.
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All right, we'll wrap things up here for the NFC East. Be on the lookout for all the other divisions throughout this week. We're going to be hitting them one each day in the nfc and again, if you missed the afc, those were all last week. You can check those out as well. For Ericson and Jake, I'm Ryan Wormley. Thanks everybody for tuning in. We'll see you next time. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast. If you love the show, the best free way to support us is by leaving a positive review on apple podcasts@fantasypros.com review or on Spotify. Follow us on X Instagram and TikTok Antasypros and subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube.com fantasypros. This is an iHeart podcast guaranteed human.