Keep/Trade/Cut + Wentz Worries, Paper Mario’s MCL - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/2

Yeah, I don't think anybody thinks Jacoby Brissette is a franchise quarterback, but he had some games in that offense when he's had to fill in. They also signed Brett Hunley. So if you know where their chips are being pushed, they're at least preparing for the worst with Wins. Devonta Smith, Eagles first round wide receiver. The injuries with Philadelphia, they've been piling up every single year. He's going to miss two to three weeks, has a sprained MCL. They were worried.

He underwent an MRI, and they said that they were worried about a season-ending type of injury. So this was good news. But a sprained MCL, first year in the league, first time with a new quarterback, you have now, I don't know, you just have more question marks around him. Well, and you're not going to see him in preseason. So he's going to start plummeting in draft boards. We always say, or at least I do, when a player is injured during your draft, don't buy the injury dip. Just grab healthy guys.

I think the hope here is it turns into an O'Dell Beckham type of rookie season where you started injured and you come back and you're a superstar. But outside of that, it's bad news to miss camp, miss preseason. You might not even see him in the regular season, just physically. You might not be able to see him. He's very tiny, very skinny.

Yeah, like when he turns sideways, you mean? That's what I mean. It's the envelope post. Paper Mario type of paper Mario. Oh, yes. He just slips into 2D. Oh, no. Because I know what that means because that's too good of a nickname. So Paper Mario's out for two to three weeks. Hollywood Brown hamstring injury, worse than originally thought. According to head coach John Harbaugh.

Oh, it's Rashad Bateman time. Nope. Oh, wait a minute. He sidelined with what? Well, I mean, the report was muscle toughness, but I think they meant tightness. That was the funniest thing. I've never been sideline for muscle toughness. It was straight up with standing victories. It's like, oh, I could, I always love when my muscles are tough. A little too tough. His muscles were so tough. I mean, honestly, if he's being held out for muscle toughness, you have to assume it's a lack thereof, right? Like, your muscles are.

Too weak. No, it's like a well-done steak. It's a little too... Or he's the Hulk and he's hurting people. So here's the... So it's the Lizard King time. I was going to say, have you talked about the Lizard King at all? Not much. Um...

We've got to get that updated with the right jersey there, Bruxie. Put that on the list. The Lizard King is getting a lot of hype. Sammy Watkins is his name. He is the Lizard King because he genuinely believes he is a lizard person. Right. This is a fair nickname. But he's getting a lot of height. The team has said that they've come out with the hyperbole, the hype train, one of the best in the league wide receiver hyperbole. They said he's the best guy in camp.

He was the best guy in OTAs. And now all of his competition is hurt. Miles Boykin's not getting any work in this offense that was reported. Is there, I mean, what? Just stay away. Mark Andrews. And week one, Sammy Watkins. I can take both of those things. He does love week one. He does. Then trade high. My goodness. All right. That was today's news and notes presented, as always by Sleeper.

They are by far the largest dynasty platform, so you can get a dynasty league going over there, customizable. Definitely check that out. I'm so excited for this season. Soon. Why wasn't A.J. Green at the top of the news, how great he is. He's probably on the show tomorrow would be my guess. Oh, is he? I mean, because that's a real high train smoke fire. Oh, okay. All right. I thought you meant mid-round madness. I'm like, he ain't going in the middle rounds.

What are you doing? What happened? Apologies. I'm... You're rusty over there. That was not this button. Keep trade cut. Are you... Where's your... Since I push the button, Jason, where is your current Jalen Hertz, like, thermometer reading? Wow, the timing on that question. I spent... I was a couple minutes late this morning. Part of the reason why is because I spent a, like, 30 minutes deep diving.

Jalen Hertz in camp so far, read a bunch of reports, and he's been inconsistent moments of greatness and then moments of inaccuracy. My Jalen Hertz take right now is warm, not hot. If you lose Devonti Smith. Yeah, that sucks. And you are... But you gain Zach Ertz back at camp. And you lose gaining Zach Ertz back.

as one of the guys you have to throw the ball to. I don't think he has great weapons. It is comforting in the deep dive to see that there are packages for him to run. He has been running as, you know, planned, scripted runs. Because there was some question about that early in the off season with the new head coach coming in, whether they were going to play to the quarterback strength or not, and it seems they are. So that's good. But the weapons are not inspiring.

Yeah, I mean, the one thing that I will always give Jalen Hertz credit for is I think he is a natural born leader for the position. Like I think he has the mental makeup of one of the elite type of, but there have been quarterbacks like that that haven't gotten over the physical play hump. Like Colt McCoy is an example where well respected around the league, never got that job. I think Jalen Hurts is going to be put into a position to succeed. I just hope he has Devontas Smith and company and some weapons. He will eventually. Yeah. All right. That was.

No, we're in the introduction to Keep Trade Cut. Oh, man. Monday morning. So we are going to go through a number of these. Let's start with third round wide receivers. Keep Trade Cut. Keenan Allen, Terry McLaurin and Alan Robinson, all going in the third round. Allen is going the highest at 306, McLaren at 307, Alan Robinson at 311. Difficult decision here. Extremely. And it's making me.

And if you go... Evaluate my project... The projections are not in front of me. The rankings, though. I have Keenan Allen's 7, Alan Robinson at 9, and Terry McLaurin at 12. And this is... I guess, you know, there's some team make-up decisions when you're drafting these wide receivers. I feel like my keep is Terry McLaurin. Because in the third round, I want not only a player... These are all safe players to me. Like, I'm not concerned that...

One of them is going to bust right now. But as far as getting into the top five, I mean, I don't know that Keenan Allen can get there, and I don't know that Alan Robinson can get there. That's an okay way to look at it, in my opinion, because there's two scenarios here. This could be the wide receiver, one, if you went running back, running back to start the draft. And if you're looking for pure upside, like you said, we've seen Keenan Allen. He's an elite player. You have them ranked higher than Terry McLaurin.

But I know that, like, a lot of people have McLaren locked in as an auto pick in the third round. Well, if you're looking at a guy who could finish as, you know, a top three wide receiver, Keenan Allen and Alan Robinson are very, very safe. The targets are going to be there. You're talking over 140 targets, over 150 targets. That's, that's probable, not just in the range of outcomes. That's like the assumption. And so having those guys. I think that should be the assumption for Terry as well, though.

But I don't think it is because we haven't really seen him be a long-term multi-year target hog. You know with Keenan Allen and Allen Robinson every single year, there are 150 targets. So the safety's on their side, but I don't know that they have the athleticism at this point in their career to truly go ham. And over the course of the season, take four or five, 70-yard touchdowns, the way that Terry McLaren can. So when you're on the clock, I get that. Like I have Alan Robinson.

as my highest ranked guy here. And I think that I would probably be willing to draft him, but I want to draft Terran because of the upside. I think that he is the riskiest of the three. I'm going to keep Keenan Allen here. Just to keep the safe. I'm going to keep Keenan. Well, it's about quarterback as well.

It's about the knowledge that I have of who's leading that offense throughout the year. I love the offensive line improvements. I was watching some camp video of Justin Herbert that was getting me hot and bothered. I mean, that kid is so talented. With McLaurin. The hair is back, too. Thank goodness. Samson situation there. The shoe dropped after that. After the hair dropped, the shoe dropped. But Terry McLaren offers a lot of upside. But like Jason said, I mean, you haven't seen.

a fantasy finish there yet. You've seen stretches where if you mapped it out over the year, he would be there, no question. But you don't know. I mean, right now, I don't know if you guys talked about it on the Saturday show. I mean, Washington said that it's an open competition between Heinekeye and Fitzpatrick. That feels like very much a wink, wink open competition. Even if it's not, Ryan Fitzpatrick hasn't played a complete season in a long, long time. True. And then with Chicago, there will be either a transition or there will be a rookie quarterback.

So with that knowledge, the best guarantee is who I'll go with. So I'll keep keen it on. I'll definitely trade Terry McLaurin because the hype is extensive appropriately. And then I'll cut Alan Robinson. Yeah, I love all three of these players. I'm going to keep Alan Robinson because even though his quarterback play is a little bit questionable, his quarterback play has literally always.

been questionable. He might have the best quarterback he's ever played with right now. Has he ever finished ahead of Keenan though? Has he ever? In like the last like five years? Uh, fantasy finish wise. I mean, I think he out, he finished higher than he, than Keenan last year, didn't he? I mean, we're talking about back to back.

top 12 wide receiver seasons for Alan Robinson. I believe two years ago, he was the wide receiver 11. Last year is the wide receiver 12. So I'm going to keep Alan Robinson, the known target volume. I'm going to trade like you, Terry McLoren, because the hype to Mike. I'm going to get a lot for Terry. And I'll cut Keenan Allen, but don't hear what I'm not saying. Well, they're all third round wide receivers for a reason. I'm going to keep, I'm going to go with Terry McLaren. Do you?

Where's your confidence level in Keenan Allen having another season with eight plus touchdowns? I think it's in the cards. Because that's where he was. I mean, you had back with, we haven't seen Keenan Allen hit that mark since his rookie year where he was playing with Philip Rivers. And was that just an, was this the outlier season in terms of touchdowns for Keenan Allen? Meanwhile, like Mike Williams, who should have had way more touchdowns?

Last year wasn't coming down with him. I think it's just looking at the body of work, whether it's touchdowns or not, number three, number 12, number eight, number 14 for Keenan Allen. So I get it. I feel like maybe Terry McLaurin is in a position where, like, is it possible he's being set up only to disappoint fantasy players? It is possible. Because if he doesn't come out and do the explosive things that we hope for, I mean, it's going to be a huge disappointment. I think everybody's like,

banking on it. Yeah, if he finishes as the wider receiver 15. Right. That's not going to be the year. That's going to feel bad. That's going to feel like, dang it, he didn't do what I drafted him to do. I mean, just remember what. Like DJ Moore last year? Yeah, but remember what Terry McLauran, if you talk about bad quarterback play, through week 12, he was averaging over 87 yards a game with Dwayne Haskins, with Alex Smith, with, I mean, with not just bad.

really bad quarterback play. And then at the end of the year, my man was out there on two sprained ankles. Oh, I know the case. So I'm in, man. I'm buying in that. Okay. So who are you trade? I'll trade Keenan Allen. Okay. I think that people are, people are more apt to draft Keenan than Allen. Wait. Robinson. Yeah, and Rob. Wow. I was confused there.

They liked his first name, but they do not like his last name. Get that surname out of here. Look, we're going to talk about the Broncos next, which I think is fascinating. Before we do, I can't wait. Oh, man, you're going to eat my soul today, aren't you? Yes. But before we get there, I want to thank today's sponsors Indochino is a longtime sponsor and a wonderful option. Look.

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