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younger than the others. It's just who's playing the best, who's scoring the most points right now, because you don't keep enough players to possibly have it really, really matter for longevity. So the fact that Michael Carter's a rookie doesn't factor in too much in a keeper, it would in a dynasty. All right, let's get to a couple dynasty questions then. And this, this to me, like, this is why.

a part of why Dynasty is so fun because you actually have to talk about these players. In a Dynasty League, this is from Julian off of Twitter. Who would you rather have Marvin Jones or Kenyon Drake? It's always Marvin Jones. Oh, thank you, Kyle. Thank you, Kyle. But to lay it out, Marvin Jones will be turning 32. He still has a year left with Jacksonville. Canyon Drake is 28. He still has a year left with the Las Vegas Raiders.

I mean, neither is great. What was the Drake injury? I can't remember what it? Was it just a broken leg? Just a moment. Okay, thank you. All right, go ahead. Talk through Marvin Jones. Drake suffered a broken ankle and will miss the remainder of the 2021. So as long as it's a clean break, he should be back. No problem. Yeah, I mean, I would take Drake over Marvel Jones. I would and here's why.

They're both at the absolute end of the career. You're not getting something two years from now from either of these. 33-year-old Marvin Jones and 30-year-old Drake is not going to be someone that you can play in this league. So you're just looking at next year. They both are under contract with their current teams right now, and I don't think Marvin Jones can do anything with Trevor Lawrence. And I base that on this year.

of him not doing anything with Trevor Lawrence. And I would imagine they're going to go out and get another piece for Trevor Lawrence that is more important usurps Marvin Jones and targets and all of that. Marvin is going to be older. I mean, he's 31.8. So he's almost 32. I just don't think you're going to get anything from Marvin the rest of the way. Whereas Drake, while he's also on his last leg, which was just broken. Oh.

They paid a lot of money. He's got $5.5 million at the running back position. So I think he'll have a little bit of use. And he'll be a valuable insurance back should Josh Jacobs go down next year. So, I mean, you know, you're not talking, I'm not banging the drum for either of these guys. I'm not even looking at the drum. I'm away from the drums. I'm playing a trumpet for other players. But if I have to pick between these two, I would go Drake. That was quite a journey.

Instagram, SG-1616, bonjour, Kareem Hunt. What is his dynasty outlook? This is a great question because we have, I've got Kareem, we play in two dynasty leagues. I have Kareem Hunt in both of them. Traded for him midway through the season when he was dominating and then he stopped playing football. Yeah, he got hurt, but just to reflect real quick on what Kareem Hunt was able to do throughout the first six games of the season.

He was a top 24 running back in five of them. He was a top 15 running back in four of those six. Then he got hurt. Maybe came back too quickly. Then he got hurt again. Then he was on the COVID list. So a great start, but a real rocky finish for Cream Hunt. And I think people are going to, when you have a season like that, you kind of forget.

how dominant he was for fantasy football. And to be fair, the question was always, can Kareem Hunt really keep doing this, where he's in a backfield behind Nick Chubb, who had just gotten his contract extension? Nick Chub, one of the best pure runners in football, can Kareem Hunt really still provide fantasy value? And the answer is yes, because he is, Kareem Hunt is great. You just brought it up. When he was healthy, those first six weeks,

He was the running back eight in fantasy football. He was a top 10 running back until he got injured, and then his season was derailed by injury. The Brown's season was derailed by all sorts of injury and COVID problems. And, you know, they were a darling Super Bowl pick, and they're not going to make the playoffs. Everything went wrong after a strong start to the season. And I think a big part of that was losing Cream Hunt. He was really important.

for this team going forward. He's only 26 years old right now. So he is not, you know, aging out of the position. I think he will be what he was, not a top 10 running back. I wouldn't put him there going into next year, but a valuable, every week startable asset in fantasy next year who, you know, if the things go the other direction, could end up getting more value as the season goes along. Question off of Instagram for this week, Jay. Would you risk playing Dalvin Cook

This week, Vikings are, they were eliminated, correct? Producers? Yes, that's a thumbs up. Yeah, so they are out. They're technically playing for nothing. I mean, Kirk Cousins should be back off of the COVID list. The players are not playing for nothing. You know, Zimmer is probably still trying to retain a job and things like that. But would you be playing Daven Cook or would you play Devon Singletary? Man, it.

Oh, that's a funny question. Devin Singletary has been dominating, and that question especially comes up here. So the last four weeks, he's been a running back two or better since week 15, running back six, running back 11, running back four. And what's the best possible matchup for a fantasy running back? The Jets are the best. The Detroit Lions are probably the second. The New York Jets are who the Buffalo Bills play. Oh, man.

I mean, it's tough because Dalvin is, Delvin, I know he's playing and, you know, but he's got the shoulder injury. He's playing with the device. The device. If you don't have a chance to make the playoffs, are you really going to risk Dalvin? You know, are you, I feel like I would at the most go 50-50 with Madison, but how do you bench?

Dalvin Cook, do you have the stones to do that for... So, they just played the Bears. It was on the road. It was 31 opportunities for Dalvin Cook, but that was 28 carries for 89 yards. He was the running back 21. Yeah, I mean, over the last several weeks, you would have been better to play Singletary. Singletary's been pretty touchdown dependent, and that scares me, but...

That is like the specialty of the New York Jets. It's giving up rushing touchdowns. So I think I would. I think I would. I would personally have the stones to put in Devon Singletary ahead of Dalvin Cook this week. I think I lean that way as well slightly, but of course, wait for some more news to come out. And speaking of Dynasty, Jason. Dynasty Download.

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And if you're in a Dynasty League, people have asked when should trades start up. If your championship was on this past weekend was finalized on Monday, that means on Tuesday trades should be opened up. That's how we look at it. That's how we treat our Dynasty leagues. They do not stop. So it's early on in the off season, in fact, as early as you can possibly get. But who is somebody that you are targeting for a trade in Dino League? Yeah, and a lot of Dynasty leagues.

They don't even close trades ever. Yeah, so do the play. So, you know, it's a relevant question for probably all dynasty leagues now. A player that I would be targeting, because when I look at, like, I'm going to go try to acquire a player, I'm usually going to focus on people that I think are undervalued and affordable. Like, I would love to go trade for Kyle Pitts. You know what I mean? Go trade the world for Kyle Pitts. He's going to be great for a long time. But.

That's not realistic that you're always going to be able to get someone like that. But a player that I think you could acquire in most situations and is undervalued for what he should be valued is Ramandre Stevenson, rookie running back for the New England Patriots. He's been great so far. He has their backup running back behind Damien Harris. So he hasn't had all the opportunity in the world. But when we've seen him.

He has been very, very good. We brought this stat up yesterday, but he is one of only five rookies over the last seven years with multiple games of 100 plus rushing yards and two touchdowns. The others are all superstars. He's been a top 24 running back five times this year. And remember, the beginning of the season, not only was he like not used very much. He wasn't a part of...

He wasn't active. He wasn't, you know, in the games. He was like he fumbled his like first carry ever and then was shut down. Right. Yes, yes. For a month. But Damian Harris has one year left on his deal. The Patriots aren't the most loyal franchise. They're kind of like chew them up, spit them out, keep moving forward. So not that they wouldn't resign Damien Harris, but I don't think that.

You know, they're just going to look at what's best for their team. And I think moving forward with Ramandre would be good. He is obviously young as a rookie. So over the next several years, I think you're going to have a lot of good fantasy value from Ramandre Stevenson. And this is an offense with Mack Jones that projects to just get better and better. He's a rookie right now. And he's been great. But we're saying he's been great for a rookie.

That's what he's been great as. He hasn't been, you know, he's not on pace for 35 touchdowns and a ton of scoring from this offense. He's just been great for expectation. But what that proves is that he can develop into someone that could throw for 30 plus touchdowns, move the offense. And Ramandre is also a past catching guy too. So I like targeting him because he should be acquireable. And in Dynasty leagues, it can be difficult sometimes.

because you want to target talent. Yes, you know, like we talk about situation and opportunities and those things, those drive fantasy football and those matter so, so much in a redraft and a keeper league. But in a dynasty league, when it's long term, sometimes you have to bet on the talent and bet that the solution around them is going to improve. I know, just the memory that comes to mind immediately here is A.J. Brown.

was, I think he was drafted in the second round of the NFL draft, if I remember right. And everyone was super excited for A.J. Brown. And he goes to the Tennessee Titans. And it was, oh, nope, AJ Brown. I don't want him. He's off my draft board. I was guilty of this that I moved him way down my rankings because I wanted immediate production. And I let my talent evaluation of A.J. Brown get diminished by him landing.

with the Tennessee Titans. Well, Marcus Mariotto loses his job to Ryan Tannehill, and it turns out AJ Brown is who we thought he was, and that is an elite talent at the wide receiver, and he jumped immediately up to becoming a top 10 dynasty wide receiver because he's great. So this would be a bet on talent. Cortland Sutton from the Denver Broncos, he just signed a four-year $60 million extension. He's going to turn 27, so he is still in the...

the peak years of being a relevant fantasy football wide receiver. Drew Locke has ruined all production for the Denver Broncos wide receivers. Since 2019, Cortland Sutton averages 46 yards a game with Locke, games without him, 65 yards a game. And that includes a pretty rough season here with Teddy Bridgewater. And the reason why I am betting on Cortland Sutton is because the Denver Broncos,

are not only betting on the wide receiver core, but they have doubled down. They gave Tim Patrick, aka Fireball Jones, a contract extension. They have Jerry Judy on the rookie contract. They just gave Cortland Sutton a huge amount of money. They are going to do something at the quarterback position. I don't know if they can improve it, because this is definitely a bet on the talent of Cortland Sutton.

I imagine they will go after Russ if he becomes available. They'll go after Watson. They'll go after Rogers. They'll go after somebody. But when you invest this amount of money into your wide receiver trio, because Jerry Judy is on a rookie contract, he's still making a ton of money. You can't sit back and be complacent and have a quarterback that can't get your guys the ball. It's not just Cortland Sutton who has fallen apart for the Denver Broncos. So this isn't like,