Fantasy Football - Top 10 QB Rankings + Money Money Money! - Podcast for 8/4

They lost their undrafted edge to a torn ACL. They did sign Khalil Herbert, so that's fun. He's like, he's like, no, thank you. I know I'm looking for work. No way, man. Cleal Herbert's like.

Free check, maybe. I'm going to show up. I'll be hurt within two weeks. And I'll just catch the, I'll get waved with my injury. Is CMC wearing like grounding cleats or something? Like, does he have some sort of electrical copper bracelet? What are we doing? The joke last year was CMC was siphoning everybody. That's the only way he was able to stay healthy and he is wanting to be healthy this year. I will say this. The fact that you lost pierceal. Mike Evans, I know it's not quote unquote serious. Of course this is serious.

For a player like Mike Evans, who has been dealing his entire back of his career with, but it's usually the back of the leg. I know, but it's the soft tissue in his legs. Like, if he's already struggling with this. Front of the legs connected to the back of the leg, then this is a problem. And last year, the reason CMC was so great, it wasn't efficiency. It was the fact that he. Availability. Yeah, well, I believe he led the entire league in red zone targets at the running back position. He might do it again. That's my point.

Mike Evans, you were into Evans. I love Evans here. It's a perfect match. Evans and Adams are the two oldest players being drafted in the top six rounds in fantasy. Just bear that in mind. I just want Evans. If you don't get a discount on those players, you should not draft it. It never works out. I need Evans to miss enough.

and enough training camp to where he's like an eighth round pick. Oh, gosh. That's not going to happen. But then you'll be even more concerned. No, that's fine. But if I want Mike Evans on my team, but I just don't want to cost, I don't want the opportunity cost to be giving up something too valuable. Mike Evans is going to be a very polarizing pick. He is a fifth round pick right now. Yeah, too high. Devon, sorry, Devonta Smith, Mackay Lemon, both not practicing. Both hurt their hamstrings.

Mackay Lemon, that's a bit of a flag to me. You want rookies that can acclimate to the offense. And when you are missing multiple stretches due to a hamstring, which he was already dealing with some hamstrings. So this is a reaggravation. I assume it's the same one. I don't know for sure. But presumably he has reagravated the issue that kept him out of camp. Yeah, that happened to Luther Burden last year. Yeah. And that gave him a very slow start to his career. Kenyon Sadiq missed three straight practices. Suffered a setback from a hernia surgery. We'll be out a little bit.

Okay, Aaron Glenn said he'll be back week one. Casey Concepcion expected, quote, to be fine after injuring his shoulder. And Greg Dulcich is nursing a minor injury, which unfortunately with Dulcett's injury, Malik Willis is now throwing the ball to the air. There's nobody. That is the final.

The final blow to where did you rank the dolphins in your in your Twitter? I believe my tier was what are we even doing here. There's two teams in the what are we even doing tier. It's the Trey Tucker Jalen Naylor tier and the Malik Washington Jalen Tolbert tier. At least one of those teams has Brock Bowers. And then the Malik Washington truthers came out and attacked you. All three of them. I'll open that door and I'll wave to the meeting.

from Lake Washington. Let's be like, hey, guys, I'm not coming in. Yeah. I'm not putting a jersey on. I'm not coming in, but you're you. I like what you're doing. I'll take all top 40 wide receiver pets. Well, it is time, guys. We've got our quarterback rankings show looking at four point per passing touchdown rankings. Let's get it going. Quarterbacks. We are looking at our top 10 rankings as of today, August 4th.

Looking at positives, concerns, what could go right, what could go wrong, first matchups of the season. Importantly, this is four point per passing touchdown leagues. That's where the rankings come from in the UDK. Are these guys every week starters, the confidence level I brought him up moments ago. Number 10. Dak Prescott comes in at number 10. He is also 33 years old. One of the older players drafted in the first nine rounds of.

Fantasy drafts. Mike, you're the most bullish right now at 8. Jason at 11. I'm at 13. I think we all know what the potential of Dak is in this offense. Ninth round pick, quarterback 11 off the board. He's always... He is an awesome pick. He's an awesome pick. If he is healthy and playing, at worst, he is a top 12 quarterback. At best, he's the top 5. And it's like, it's...

Dak with C.D. and George, which, you know, George Pickens has not been really talked about, which is actually, that's good. You know, like we... As in he's not making news for... Correct. Like, George Pickens, based off of his historical profile, at least the way he was talked about from Pittsburgh of, you know, just making problems. It was like, will this player who...

gets put on a franchise tag, will he make any problems? And it was just, it was real quiet. It was, nope, I'm going to sign it. And you thought, oh, that's interesting that that came out so fast. And then there's just, there's been nothing. Well, Jones has come out and said in recent days that he wants Pickens there for the rest of his career. So I'm bringing that up of these, George Pickens and CD Land are, where were they in your, they better been est here. They were, of course, they are elite wide receivers.

And Dak Prescott is... You don't pay the borough price for Dak, and you've got the same, the borough situation. So is that as simple as it is? I mean, you did have career highs and passing yards and past attempts last year? Does that change? I mean, that's like saying, does it change for Borough right now? Until these teams have defenses that are not bottom of the barrel, which maybe, you know, both have worked on it. Dallas will, Dallas has improved their defense. Even with that, I don't, it doesn't matter. They can...

They can have a top 10 defense. I still think that DAC is going to be a top 10 quarterback. But they can't have a top 10 defense. But I know what you're saying. Yes. Even if they did. It doesn't change my opinion. They're allowed to. They certainly will not. And that is perfect for fantasy. If you just take the 10 games after C.D. Lamb got back and then take out week 18 because they basically give honorary starts and didn't play. That stretch of 10 games, DAC was on pace for 4,870.

passing yards and 30 touchdowns. So that's great for fantasy. All right. Yeah, I mean, I don't really have much more to add. He is a discounted potential top tier quarterback and will be for the remainder of his career due to age and name fatigue. And, you know, the last five years he's gone as the quarterback nine or later in every single draft, regardless of performance. I'm, you know, at 33.

You are going to be an injury risk. You're going to run less and less as the career progresses, but he's become a better and better passer. So we can move on. Number nine. Caleb Williams comes in at number nine. He is 24 years old. I've got him at 11. Jason at 8. Mike at 10. He is the eighth quarterback off the board. So I guess Mike and I are slightly below ADP there. He had five games, high-end finish games of 24 plus points. He has not been consistent.

in terms of fantasy output. Everything about his potential for your fantasy team is projection. It is, you know, channeling your optimism around the good, not the bad, not the completion percentage is below 60%. 41% of the time last year on our consistency chart, he exceeded 20 points. So that, I do find myself, I want to want to play Caleb. Does that make sense? Yeah, totally. 100%.

So I, you know, the schedule to start the year, I'll bring this up. If you are on the fence about Caleb, you should be excited about the first six weeks where you are favored in five of six games. You are playing three out of the first four games at home. And Carolina is your opening matchup. That seems like if you are on the fence and you want to see how it goes, it's probably going to be okay at worst for the first six weeks. Yeah, Caleb is interesting.

He is the player this year that I think you're trying to project, did he do it? Like his completion percentage is bad because he is not consistent. When you watch his film, he has just these unbelievably bad throws that are like, where did that come from? Because he's got great throws and then bad throws. You're hoping that this is a young player who just takes that leap forward and everything is.

Everything's on target. You know, you look at what's happened this offseason with his own regiment, his diet, his work. It seems like he is ready to play. We just talked about the weapons that DAC has. You know, Dak has Ferguson at tight end. Now, Lamb and Pickens are greater sign than Rome and Luther Burden. But you add in Loveland, you've got great weapons, you've got a great offensive mind, you've got a great offensive line.

Everything is there for him to absolutely explode. It's time. The problem is for him to explode for fantasy and truly be like a top three quarterback, which is very much realistic in his range of outcomes. He has to actually take that level up. He has to do kind of what Josh Allen did and go from an impressive physical attribute player to a consistent, accurate quarterback superstar.

Yeah, and I do think, I mean, there is projection in the performance of his past catchers. Because last year, I think we, you remember going into the, you went into the season, hoping Loveland would be good, hoping DJ Moore would be good. Roma Dunes, they didn't quite live up to expectation. There was some, we didn't get the like how it's supposed to play out order, right? Like the plan, it was a roundabout plan to performance that happened a lot late in the season.

So we are still projecting a little bit that Rome can, you know, step it up and continue to, you know, he's on the Marv Harrison kind of like slightly. Like, you know, they're good, but are they kind of path? Right. So, you know, when you look at potential concerns, you know, you want to get the accuracy up. Which there's a big deal. Reports that I've been reading lately, Sean Hammond, you know, talking about accuracy of like it's.

been improved. And I think year two with Ben Johnson, it matters. He's a human being and he, that was his second year in the league and it was already on a second offense. We've seen that destroy quarterbacks when they have to just keep learning a new system, a new system, gets to be in year two of it, gets to have his wide receiver won.

and the tight end one all throughout training camp. I'm more optimistic for where I have Caleb. I mean, I don't have him ranked whereas like this is a surefire thing. But, you know, if you're talking like Dak or Caleb, it's like, well, Caleb can take what he did last year finishing at wide receiver seven and quarterback. Quarterback seven. Yeah, thank you. Quarterback seven. And he could, he could easily move up and to be a top five player.

Number eight. All right, this is, you know, if you don't want to get mired in trying to figure out. Jacobi Myers? If you don't want to get Jacoby Myers. No, that's not great. And now you've just, my flows off. You know, I was going to talk about trying to decide between past catchers in Jacksonville, running backs in Jacksonville, all that good stuff. Maybe you just draft Trevor Lawrence. He comes in at number eight for us. I've got him at seven. Mike, you have him at seven as well. He was.

The quarterback four last year. This is an example of, I mean, he went from the quarterback 26. Again, he limited season. But he made a tier jump last year under Liam Cohen. And Liam Cohen has full control of this offense. Jacksonville is, there's so many weapons on this team. You've got a competitive, you know, a tight-in, four wide outs.

special players to come in in certain personnel groupings. Bayshall Tutin, an explosive player. If you get the ball in his hands out of the backfield, maybe he goes the distance. There's just so much to like about Jacksonville overall. I think they are very much a dark horse Super Bowl candidate. Maybe it's not even dark horse. Maybe it's like a horse. Maybe it's just a regular horse camp. I mean, he is the horse. Horse boy. He's been a horse candidate for a while. Hey, there he is. There's our horse boy.

We need them with his long locks, though, man. You got to get that taken care of. I mean, what an incredible goof that was. The biggest part of Trevor Lawrence's performance last year in terms of fantasy output jumping has been, it was the rushing performance. It was nine rushing touchdowns. The rushing touchdowns. Yeah. Yeah, and it was his career in yardage, too. But I think we can't expect nine rushing touchdowns from Trevor Lawrence, but we can certainly expect five or six.