NFC North Breakdown + Depth Chart Takeaways, Christian Kirk

Sony Michelle where he has been going. Now, his ADP will go down, but saying you got to bail out, man. If you had that plan, you were going to grab Michelle in the fourth or fifth round. You got to change it up. Yeah, and keep in mind, prior, right before the draft, Sony Michelle's stock was expected to drop because things were coming out about knee issues. And it appears, you know, after the draft everyone was joking, oh, the Patriots probably started that because they draft them. They weren't worried. Rutrow. Yeah.

I moved him in my dynasty rookie rankings. He was originally my number two running back in those rankings. He's my number four. Just because of this early start to his career, you're weighing early risk. And, you know, there's not a lot that separates those guys, but Darius Geist, I had him, I have him ahead now. So I also think that the, oh, by the way, Rex Birchette shares. See, the funny thing is, get ready. I was actually going to bring up the name that doesn't get brought up.

Jeremy Hill? No, James White. James White. Because James White's just there. He's all reliable in that offense. No Julian Edelman for the first four weeks. I think James White, if you time that up with Sonny Michelle maybe coming back and not getting involved, look, Rex Burckhead's going to have value and goal line value. But I think James White's going to see some targets those first four weeks. He will. But it would be a sneaky start. He will absolutely see some targets. But the boost to Rex Burkhead.

He's going to, he'll shoot up at least two rounds in average draft price. All right. Ankle injury forced Randall Cobb to leave practice. Same ankle that he had surgery on seven weeks ago. This is concerning for a Packers offense that is kind of being remade from a pass catcher perspective. And we hope Randall Cobb could bounce back, do what he did at the end of last year. Now what?

So on the depth charts, Geronimo Allison was kind of slotted in as the third wide receiver or the other outside starter, aside from Devante Adams. But the news out of training camp on Geronimo has been very sketchy is Geronimo Allison on the roster bubble. It's hard to know. They did reload at the wide receiver position with Jamon Moore. Jamon. Jamonah. And Equanimia St. Brown.

That's going to be too far. If that happened, if Jamon Moore. Jamon! Jamon! Jamon! Jerome Alison's situation reminds me so much of what we do with them all the time, which is Jeff Janice, Aberderas. These are all players that made plays before, but when it comes right down to it, it's quarterback play over wide receiver play for a lot of these guys. And...

If Rogers and Allison don't get on the same page, it'll be somebody else. It'll be Jimmy Graham. It'll be Time Montgomery. It'll be Jamon Moore. It'll be Equanimous same ground. But the thing is, it's going to be somebody. Aaron Rogers creates fantasy-wide receivers. It will be Devante Adams. It will be someone else. Jimmy Graham's going to be lining up outside all the time. He could be. All the time. You give Aaron Rogers even that.

chess piece on the outside, even if he's not targeted all the time. I think it's about mismatches. That's why they paid him that money. Well, the mismatch better be in the end zone. I saw, I can't remember who was tweeting it out, but they were talking about the game speed. Jimmy Graham's game speed. You know who his comp was? Antonio Gates. Yeah. Jimmy Graham. That's what they got Lance Kendricks for. Between the 20s, just saying, go, go. I'm tired of talking about Jimmy Graham's game speed.

What? I am. I'm tired of talking about it. Okay. Because it's a moot point anymore. We concede the fact that he hasn't been able to run for two years, three years. He is what he is now. You joke about Antonio Gates. Like he's Antonio Gates. Right. You give Antonio Gates a full assortment of snaps in Phillip Rivers' office today, and he's relevant. Sure. Jimmy Graham. Not a fifth round draft pick, though. No, maybe not. But Jimmy Graham is able to still.

be the red zone threat that he is. I mean, he's, I'm telling you, he's going to be annoyingly relevant this year to both of you. You're going to hate it? He's going to be your ice. And then he's going to get thought out by all these injuries and lack of talent around him. They paid him so much money. And he's going to be accidentally relevant. He will not be accidentally relevant. It's just saying he will be relevant in games where he scores a touchdown. Corey Coleman was traded. The writing was on the wall here for a while. Man, a first friend. The,

A first round wide receiver for the Browns, I'm sure they got, they had to have gotten something pretty good. I believe they got a third, wait, this just, no, a four, wait, no, it's a fit, wait, it's a, nope, a seventh round pick back. But surely that's next year. Next, nope, wait, it's the 2020 draft. They got, they just gave him away. They just said, I don't want you. So they got a seventh round pick.

in 2020 from the Buffalo Bills for Cory Coleman in the defense of the Browns. Now they're off the hook for his contract. The bills inherit all of that. If you were going to cut Coleman, there's going to be dead money. There's going to be a cap situation that you have to navigate. If you were trying to clear the books, I get it. But the fact that in the NFL, it was known that the Browns were moving on from Cory Coleman and all they could get.

was a seventh round pick in 2020 from the Buffalo Bills is troubling. Good work by the bills. I think this is an absolute worthwhile.

low risk investment by them. It's also good for Cory Coleman. Now, I'm not saying it's great because I think he goes to another poor situation where you don't have a locked and loaded starting quarterback that you know is going to be good. And it's not a team that you expect to pass a lot. But he is now the wide receiver two with a chance to be the wide receiver one for his franchise, whereas he had been completely buried behind Jarvis Landry, behind Josh Gordon, behind.

Duke Johnson, you know. Possibly behind Antonio Calloway this year. Yes. Right. And I think Calloway is a big part of this trade. I think Gordon and Callaway, you should feel good about both of their situations because of this trade. For them, trading the depth of Corey Coleman tells me that Gordon is coming back. And it tells me that Callaway has made strides. Now, the report about Gordon right now is very close to returning. So he's very close to returning.

They are talking about, well, if he doesn't report by Tuesday, then he is not eligible to become a restrictive free agent this next season. But the word from Brown's camp is they will not hold it against him if he does not show up by Tuesday. We'll see what that actually means. Tuesdays when...

Hard knock starts, yes. Kenneth Dixon returned to practice for the Ravens. This is good news for those that believe in Kenneth Dixon. And then Brandon Coleman finally released by the Saints. Basically, you have a situation where I think it speaks well of Cam Meredith's health. Yes. This is the type of news I have been waiting for on Cameron Meredith because his knee injury was devastating.

But very early last year. Well, it's preseasoned this past year. But I needed some proof of evidence that the Saints felt like he was going to be ready. It also, it could be great news for Treyquan Smith as well, their third round wide receiver draft pick.

Yeah, well, you've got the double up as well, right? He avoided the pup and then they're saying, hey, we've got a lot of wide receivers here. Cam Meredith is going to rise. But right now he's injured and so they're just wanting to make room. So, yeah, a lot of interesting stuff going on. Hey, before we get to the NFC North, I want to thank today's sponsor, Indochino, every.

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I did not have advanced notice of Sonny Michelle's health situation, but I did trade or Randall Cobbs, you freaking fantasy reaper. But I did trade Sony Michelle and Randall Cobb mere hours before news broke on them, fortunately. I was uncomfortable about Sonny Michelle's knee situation. Like in a dynasty league, I still desperately want him. Right. But as a player that's trying to win a back-to-back title this year, I was worried about him contributing in year one.

landed myself some John Ross, some Isaiah Crowell, and a first round pick for Sony Michelle. It's a pretty good haul for a player that's never played a snap. And it's currently injured. And it's currently injured. Yeah, I feel real good about that. Let's kick off this NFC North breakdown. Vikings. All right, the Vikings, 13 and 3 last season. The Case Keenum experiment, it panned out.

He came out. The forced experiments? Yes, yes. Sometimes you perform experiments you don't want to, and then they work out. Necessity. Mother of all invention. Right. He got paid from it, too. I mean, just great opportunity for Case. Kurt Cousness walks into a new team. It's a rarity when a top-tier quarterback gets an opportunity to walk into a 13-3 franchise.

with established pieces and maybe the best wide receiver core in football was Fondiggs and Adam Thielen. Now he's got the weight on his shoulders. Kirk Cousness has, I guess you could argue two things. You could say he's got the easiest situation, right? Great offensive line situation. Great opportunity with the whiteouts. But he also has the weight of a lot of fantasy value on his shoulders. He has to support Dalvin Cook and Diggs and Thielen and Rudolph and company.

What do you guys think of cousins this year? What are the range of outcomes? Let's start there and then move on. Yeah. I guess the offensive line would be the thing that isn't the best situation. But everything else around him. Yeah. Last year, their offensive line outperformed what the expectation was.