Top 10 WR Rankings + Jason Takes a Dive - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/11

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Oh, hard knock starts today. Teams are on the field. Fantasy football is kicking into high gear. And if you're not ready yet, you've got to go to Ultimate DraftKit.com to get the best draft kit in the world. This is Melvin Gore, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.

Oh, welcome in. Oh, it's hard knocks time. Oh, very nice. Had a little fancy with that one. Welcome into the show. What was a crooner? That's what they used to be called. The crooner voice? Yeah, where they didn't really sing. They just kind of talk. I'm headed out the door. Like, what? You're not singing. You're just talking. You're just crooning. A babababoo. Tuesday, August 11th.

Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Mike and Jason. Hard knocks us tonight, eh? That's what they say. Well, that'd be fun. Get some inside information, see how it's going inside these facilities. I'm excited. Yeah, some masks, some face shields. Some face shields. We have a wide receiver show today, top 10 wide receivers, our consensus rankings, walking through them on today's.

episode. You can find us on Twitter at the FFBallers. Jason said it at the top, the Ultimate Draft Kit available now at Ultimate DraftKit.com. And I would encourage you to check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. We just launched some very wonderful player profiles, which have athletic metrics speed score. You can go stare at. Mike is on Antonio Gibson's page for three or four hours a day. How did you know that?

I've got Google Analytics. So I can see your IP address. Sources. I can see your IP address. You pivot, the alt tab between that and Blake Jarwin's profile. I just keep refreshing it so it will be the most popular. Now, Blake Jarwin, Antonio Gibbs, very similar athletic profiles according to. Oh, no. I mean, the Jarwin's, oh, no. Jarwin's a.

gigantic human being, but Gibson is very athletic. A slightly different profile. All right, quick question of the day. Brooks would like us to name a player or situation that will be annoyed to talk about throughout the 2020 fantasy season. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I'm going to be so very happy to talk about everything. Look.

I'll talk about it all 100 times. I don't care. This season is different. Nothing's getting me down. I'm riding high, fellas. Give me the NFL. Hey, that's the right answer. That's the right answer because I'm manufacturing. I'm thinking what do I not want to talk about? I want to talk about it all. You're 100%. I want to be annoyed talking about Baker Mayfield again. Let's go. I want to be annoyed talking about.

The Washington football team. Exactly. I want to be annoyed hearing Andy talk about A.J. Green. Like, I want, let's bring it on. My situation, though, to manufacture an answer for this question, would be the Detroit backfield situation. Because.

I mean, there's no winning. There's literally no way it goes well for me, right? Because if Detroit just stinks, which is what I'm projecting, as far as a running game. This was your answer for last year as well. Then it's not, you know, it's like, oh, this is not fun. It's not good for fantasy. Let's say DeAndre Swift, a player that all three of us loved going into the draft. Andy's number one guy. My number three was extremely talented. He breaks out. Well, guess what I'm going to get.

Guess what I'm going to get? Oh, we know. All the carry-on Johnson love from yesteryear being usurped. But let's say carry-on does it. I'm not going to enjoy that.

Guess how many shares of Carryon Johnson I'll have this year. Oh, stop. You won't enjoy it. Oh, yeah. Okay, I would love it. You'll be victory lapping every touchdown he scores. But I don't actually, I mean, I would draft Swift ahead of CarryOn right now. So that's why I would be upset by it. But you're right. The best situation here just isn't going to happen, though. Oh, no, it's sad. Oh, but true. News and notes from around the league. Pick one, Jason.

Pick one. Carry on Johnson either he returns, well, I mean, I guess not returns too, but establishes himself, surprisingly, or Rodney Anderson makes the team. Oh, man. I would have to pick carry on in that situation. Okay. But I am very excited for Rodney Anderson should at least two injuries ahead of him on the depth chart happen. Okay. The Patriots have signed running back Lamar Miller.

formerly of the Texans to a one-year contract, we were remembering somehow it was just a year ago when Andrew Luck retired on the same day Lamar Miller tore his ACL and MCL during preseason. So he is back. This throws even more question marks into the backfield in New England. And the latest report we have on Sony Michelle is that they just don't know.

if he'll be ready to go to start camp. And Brandon Bolden opted out. And so they needed some depth at the running back position. What utilization do you expect from Lamar Miller in this offense? Is this Sony Michelle insurance? Yeah. That's what I believe this is. This is the veteran you signed before the NFL draft.

This is, you know, the Tampa Bay Buccaneer, or, you know, the Washington football team going out and getting Peyton Barber and say, we don't know who we're going to get in the draft, but we have to have someone. This is the opposite. They don't know who they're going to have in the season. They need someone there. I don't expect Lamar Miller to usurp or become the number one, you know, the number one player in this backfield. However, I wouldn't doubt that he is actually the best. Yeah. So should Sony start the season?

on the pup. Maybe he does get a chance and plays well with Cam behind him. But I don't think I'm signing or drafting anyone in this back. No Lamar Miller or Sonny Michelle stacks for any of your rosters. Oh, I want to lock that backfield up.

No, none for me. You're going to grab James White and Rex Burkhead and Damian Harris. Yeah, in a PPR league, I'm going zero RB, James White. That's the running back I would take from this team. I agree. This is all with Sony Michelle's health. But, look, Lamar Miller should be healthy. You know, we always were talking about like Preston Williams. Maybe somehow Preston Williams is back from his ACL tear. That happened in like November? I mean, Lamar Miller's was last preseason. He should be.

Back. Now, we know sometimes, you know... Was ACL and MCL. Yeah, a larger injury, but saying that, you know, sometimes it takes these players a while once they're on the field to actually be back. But the last time we saw Lamar Miller, he was actually pretty good for the Houston Texans. He would have had a thousand yards season, but he did miss a couple games. I think he's toast. I don't know, but based off what? Just saying because he's older and has the injury? Yeah.

I mean, like, E.J. Green or? Wait, who are we talking about? A.J. Green is on the field playing right now. Oh, okay. Lamar Miller. Well, Lamar Miller is about to be. There wasn't demand for him until now. And Lamar Miller's older. And I think he, I mean, it's insurance, like you said. But what I'm saying that is, week six, I'm not projecting this, but with Jason, I would not be shocked to see Lamar Miller is actually.

ends up being the lead running back for this team. Sony has been bad. Yeah, I would agree with that. I would add to it that this also says they don't love what they have in Damien Harris. Yeah. There's all the, oh, maybe Damien Harris who, you know, was on the team last year. You wouldn't know, because he was getting some hype like three days ago. Seven snaps, you know, in his rookie season. They still feel like they need more because they don't think he's the answer.

Yeah, and they do run the football. I mean, even Sony Michelle, who somehow finishes the 28th running back last year, almost 18 carries in all of their victories. That's how, that's the formulation that is going to work. We'll see Cam getting in there. And, okay, Lamar Miller added to the mix. T.Y. Hilton expected to be back out on the field in a couple of days. And Alvin Camara, not a lot of specificity here, Alvin, but he said, he, quote, tore his knee.

Okay. So something happened. It sounds bad. In week six. I don't want to tear my knee. I would prefer not to. No. I don't know what that ends up meaning, but he says he was dealing with it the whole season. He did not have surgery. He's been just recovering, rehabbing, working out, and now he's back. So we knew something was wrong. I mean, he just didn't look right.

He came back after the, you know, he got injured in week six, missed two games, came back, played the entire rest of the season and had, you know, was on pace for 286 opportunities. He was good for fantasy. He just didn't have enough touchdowns during that stretch. So I'm not worried about the knee he injured before we saw him play. Well, and when we were watching a lot last year, I mean, he was one of the guys that, you watched him try to get to the edge in some of these games after the injury and you were like,

That doesn't quite look like Alvin Camara, you know. Not super. No, no, regular. Yeah. Normal size. No mushroom. Mm-hmm got him. What, yeah. Any other other, that's what Tor his knee means, Mike. Any other news that you guys want to discuss, talk about? We have one month from the NFL kickoff. One month away. Yes, very exciting. Hard knocks kicking it off. Fantasy drafts getting it. I almost tore my knee last night. Sitting.

No, no, amazingly, it wasn't sitting. It was a giant jump and fall to the ground. Why are you doing that? You're almost 50 years old. Out of a chair? That's not true. Off the so 40. Sorry, that's what I meant. No, so here's, I'm on the way to my garage. I'm taking something into my garage. I open. He's on a journey to the garage. Oh, I'm on a journey. And I open the garage door. And as I open it, holding this box, um,

something scurries in very fast. Into the house? Into the house right at my feet. Something scurries into your house? Just bee lines for my feet and I am screaming. Yeah, I can see this. And then I jump and I land on my knees and I'm running back to the couch where you're holding a box. Yeah. You were startled. You.

Your reaction was to jump into the air and land on your knees? Well, it wasn't. Did you hold the box the whole time? No, the box was gone. Did you land on your... I mean, the box was an empty. I was taken out to recycle. Oh, okay, okay. I didn't care about that. But this was not a planned and choreographed move. This was more of a, oh, no, I'm about to die.