The “My Guys” Episode + Risers/Fallers

Jordan Howard has averaged the running back 10 his first two years. He's never finished not as a running back one, and now his offense gets better. His strength of schedule, according to Scott Barrett and his research at Pro Football Focus, is the number one against the run schedule for 2018. With Matt Nagy coming in and talking about how he believes Jordan Howard is a three-down back and Jordan Howard putting in the work of...

hundreds of extra, you know, catches before and after. This ain't no, David and Joku. I'm going to catch 30 balls off the jug. Exactly. He's doing the work on the jugs. And he's not doing the work so that he's not involved in the passing game. He wants to be involved. Now, that's always been his limitation. He's not a great receiver. But if you work on something, you get better at it and you get more involved in the game. Even if he doesn't get it, he's already proven he's a top 12 running back. If he adds that,

He's a top five running back, and he's being drafted at his floor. He's being drafted as like the running back 15. If Jordan Howard has a ho-hum, doesn't get as many touchdowns as you want, has some bad games, he'll probably finish right there at the running back 15. So I love Jordan Howard. I'm not shying away from the double bears. And now I find myself surprisingly rooting for Mitch Trubisky. Go, Chibisky! I want to say this. I love Jordan Howard. I told you this weekend in your diatribe of...

of my guy discussion that if you let go of him from your my guys, I'm going to probably scoop him up because I love him. I think it does Jordan Howard a disservice, though, to even focus at all on the passing opportunity or game. He played the whole first half this past weekend. He had zero targets. Tariq Cohen had three. Look, you want all your players to be able to catch the ball, when the ball's thrown to them. It doesn't mean you're working him into the passing game on purpose. I think it doesn't be a disservice as a runner. The gap between

Jordan Howard and Tariq Cohen is like the one I saw between Darius Geis and Chris Thompson. They're on a different level of what you need in your offense. Jordan Howard, I'm fully on board with you. I believe in you. I believe in Jay Gris. I think Jordan Howard is a locked and loaded stud regardless of whether he gets some few magical touches through the air. Yeah, I have them projected for 27 receptions, which is about what he had last year. And I still love him.

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Free trial of NFL game pass. Sign up now at NFL.com slash fantasy footballers. That's NFL.com slash fantasy footballers game all. Yeah, I used it all weekend. Oh, yeah. I was down with the sickness. I had a few days of a cold. Disturbed. Had one of those weekends that we all really look forward to. I was telling Jason this. I was sick. My daughter then decided to get sick with something different.

Oh. And threw up through a few, like all the betting we have available. The throwups. There aren't any bet. There's no betting left. We moved on to beach towels. Not a joke. Moved on to beach towels. So that was going on. And then once everybody kind of simmered down to go to sleep, we had a malfunctioning smoke detector. No joke in the house. And all of our ceilings, you need a ladder, like a full-size ladder to get up to them. I'm up there. It's beeping off all these days. It was just a beautiful, beautiful time.

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