Fantasy Football - Top 10 RB Rankings + Undrafted Gems - Podcast for 8/12

A lot of these guys, when they come off of a hefty workload season, they struggle with injuries the next year. It's ironic that Christian McCaffrey's coming off a very low workload season. Well, that's one of the reasons why I don't have McCaffrey locked in at number one is because the season he had the year before, before he got hurt and hurt you, was also an outlier season in terms of overall performance. Like, I think it's going to regulate a little bit. And so, you know, I have him buried at six. You can't, other than worrying about Sequan's workload being bad from last year, there's nothing to criticize. The passing volume is the criticizing point like, oh, he didn't catch many passes, and that's moot. Because the reason he didn't catch many passes is because he scored so many first half touchdowns that they didn't throw the ball. If he's not scoring a bunch of touchdowns in the first half, they'll throw the ball more, and he'll catch more. So he's just awesome.

I worry about the age workload. Number one. You don't worry about the age of Bejohn Robinson, who comes in at number one overall for our consensus rankings. Number two for Mike. It was our before last year. He had the highest success rate ever for a running back with 250 plus carries. He is game script proof. He can catch the football. I would love to see more big plays from Bejohn. That is something that we didn't get a lot of. That was... why Sequin was so much more exciting and more fun, and Gibbs for that way. Like, Sequin and Gibbs were much more fun in terms of, you know, the big plays, the week-winning weeks. I think Sequin had, what, like 30-plus fantasy points. How many times did he do that? He had it five times, 30-plus fantasy points. So, look, it's cool to finish number one on the week. It's cooler to score 30-plus and win your entire week for your fantasy team. But Bejohn with the age, the dependency on him.

The fact that, you know, no matter what this team does, he's involved. Yeah, it looks like he had one carry over, one carry over 30 yards. Are they underdogs in the first six weeks? Is that right? Yeah, not favored in a game until week eight because of week five by. So yeah, you're correct there. He might not have it. He might not have one of the checkboxes. He might not have one of the checkboxes. Number one draft pick. I will say this. Bijon finishing as the running back one, where we have him ranked, feels like a slightly lower percentage than some of these other guys we've just talked about. But Bijan finishing at, you know, running back eight or ten, you know, having a bad season feels so minuscule compared to all these other people that we've talked about. So he is really a, he's a floor play.

that is so safe to me, he still is going to be awesome. He's going to be a top five running back, but he might not be on a great team, and that might hinder his total touchdown opportunities. But every single time he touches the ball, he creates yards that other players wouldn't. They give him the ball so much. If they're down, they'll throw it to him. His four plus targets a game. Yeah, there's no worry and no risk. The alternate side does exist, though. If Michael Pinnock's comes out in his, is that dude? And all of a sudden they do, they go out and win 12 games. Bejohn's probably the running back one. Yeah, I just looked. I'm looking at my projections and you're always splitting hairs at the top. But sometimes there's a gap, right? That's why we have tier base ranking. I don't have a gap. I don't have a gap between Bijon, Sequin, and Gibbs. Like I took a half a touchdown. I just did this for experimental sake. I took half a touchdown away from my projection for Bejohn Robinson. Because I had him at 11 and a half.

When I drop him to 11, he goes from number one to number three. Half a touchdown separates Saquan, Gibbs, and Robinson. If you told me I went into my draft and my selection was a wheel that had pie slices for all three of these guys, I would not care. I really wouldn't. I think all three of them, there's an upside case for all of them, right? Seyquan keeps doing what he's doing on the best offensive line. Jamir Gibbs, Camp seems to be like this is his team now, and he showed he can be the number one back when he gets it.

gets all the work and has big play potential. And Bijon, like you said, like if they're above 500 team even, not even a super team. And above 500 team, there's no way they get that way, get there without Bijan. And he can score 16, 17, 18 touchdowns in the right season. So I'm really, I'm really cool with those guys. I personally would also include, or Christian McCaffrey. I would put Henry and Christian McCaffrey all in all five. Yeah, to me, well, Christian McCaffrey has a lot more. The reason why you're saying in the beginning of the first round, you're not going to draft Christian McCaffrey is because even like Mike, you've got him as the running back one. But there's no doubt he carries more risk or flags than some of these other guys who can, you know, have an equal chance of finishing as the running back one. So like I wouldn't select Christian McCaffrey over, you know, those guys in the tier, but he is in that tier of, you know, range of outcomes. Yeah, I think McCaffrey and Saquan is the most interesting discussion.

with the ceiling years, right? Because McCaffrey's super year was 22 points in game. Last year was basically, that's basically where Sequin was. So do you expect either guy to come back and give you a year like that again? Certainly possible. But it's going to be fun. It's going to be, you know, holding your breath, hoping that these guys stay healthy. That's another big part of it. Yeah, last year was a... pretty, other than Chris McKevary, it was a pretty healthy year. Now, Mike has, we need to get into this. I mean, Mike has the number one overall pick in our league of record. Yeah, yeah.

He has got, now it's a keeper league, so there are. He's already got Christian McCaffrey, of course. He has Christian McCaffrey on your roster. Yeah, why do you think I got the number one pick guys? Oh my gosh. That's, that's, you think there's not correlated? You need to go to counseling. No, he's got to choose between Bejohn and that's funny, right? It is so funny, right? Because Mike has dealt with this every year with Christian McCaffrey. Like his response to dying at the, at the knife, at the dagger jab of Christian McCaffrey is. I want to feel more pain. He really is Ricky Bobby. Or redeem it. Is this a redemption thing? Is this like you lose the bet at the poker table, so double down? And then you get all your money back? It is understanding that every single workhorse running back is at potential of a season-ending injury every single game. I agree. No. So, but you have to stare down Sequin and Bijon. Yeah. Those are the guys out there on the board. Mm-hmm.

A lot of other players are kept. You will be making that decision. You're making that choice and who are you taking? Well, I'm told that Robinson is guaranteed to play 17 games. So I've got to counterbalance my McCaffrey risk with someone who's going to be there. Don't play scared. Yeah, don't play scared. Come on, man. All right, there you go. There's our top 10 running backs. We've got a top 10 tips and tricks episode coming to you tomorrow. We've got a mock draft episode on Thursday. The people are hungry for the mock drafts. And we've got a My Guys announcement to make on Friday. So the My Guys episode hits on Friday. We got them locked in. Unless something else happens in practice or camp or, you know, Dante Pettis or something like that goes on. We're pretty well locked.

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