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

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Breaking news. Oh, I suppose it is that time of year. Well, that was fast. Carson wins. We'll have surgery to repair his foot. He's out up to 12 weeks. There you go. I guess I was wrong on my one to two weeks before it gets surgery. I am, like we are going to be in the thick of it. You know, the ultimate draft kit, we update our rankings all the time. I'm going to be doing a full audit later today across these teams with camp reports with these injuries accounted for. Like I am going to lower Jonathan Taylor.

Like he is not going to be not being attached to an offense with an established quarterback and the variables they're in. He is going to be dropping down my rankings a little bit. I feel more confident with Ezekiel I laid at this point than Jonathan Taylor with Carson Wins missing time. And so those changes will go into effect very soon. It's disappointing. I wanted to see what would happen there, but here we have another injury. Michael Pittman was. Yeah, you were starting to. Michael Pittman was on the board.

of our, on the white board, we write down like temporary names of these are guys that we are looking at to be my guys. Michael Pittman was on the board for me. I was drafting him everywhere. This is extremely disappointing for his upside. Not that I think Carson Wentz is the best quarterback in the world, but he's at this point of his career, he's a better option than easing or, I mean,

God forbid, Brett Hunley wins that job out from underneath easing. And, well, Eagles, you're not going to get your first round pick. Yeah, that's out the window. Sorry. Unfortunate that another injury to Carson wins hurts the Eagles. Wow. I mean, he just can't stop hurting them. He can't stop hurting the Eagles. Goodness. All right. Our next keep trade cut.

Broncos receiving options that were, quote, drafted to be great. Okay, so we're talking about Cortland Sutton in the sixth round, Jerry Judy in the eighth round, Noah Fant in the seventh round. Who was drafted to be greatest, though? I think that's a good, I thought it was Fant. I would think Jerry Judy. That's kind of where I lean, but they were all drafted to be great. Fant was 20th. Okay, I was thinking of Hawkinson. Hawkinson was top 10. Jerry Judy was 15th. So he is the highest drafted player of this bunch.

Yeah, so difficult decisions to be made here. The last I was reading about Broncos camp is that neither quarterback had done enough to separate at this point. It sounds like the edge is for Drew Locke, though, from the beat reporters I am following. Okay, Bridgewater's been a little bit more accurate from what I understand. Yeah, I was going to say we are following different guys because I thought the edge is going towards Bridgewater. Probably means it's right down the middle. Yeah, last I saw was, you know, had like two incompletions. So. You can.

Look, Chad Haney has proved that you can complete almost all your passes. Teddy Bridgewater loves to throw completable passes. Pennington, that's what I'm. Completable passes right next to it. So here's the story before we keep trade cut it. Cortland Sutton's going in the back of the sixth round. The recent reports on the knee is that he hasn't been able to open it up yet. He had a great season two years ago, but again, he was not good with Drew Locke in that season. He missed the year. Three games. And then we,

have him coming back. Jerry Judy's in the eighth round. Second year in the offense as a professional. Also, he was number two behind AJ Green on the quantity of uncatchable passes last year. And then Noah Fant, who is going into year three. You've got that narrative, tight ends. It takes a little while. The athletic reporting that.

Nick Noah Fant's role in the Denver offense is evolving to include a wider variety of routes. He's going to be valuable to this offense, Jason. And then so that's the scenario. And he's in the seventh round. So lots to think about here. What's interesting is that generally when you have two wide receivers and tight in and a tight end drafted in the first eight rounds of an NFL draft.

normally one of those guys goes early in fantasy. All these guys are in the sixth round or later. So I think there's a lot of indecision with Denver. There's nobody's putting all of their chips into one basket. But the likelihood that one of these guys has a really nice year and therefore is a draft value is very high. Yeah, I mean, you want nebulous situations. You want a receiving court like this where you don't know exactly where it's going to.

come from. Obviously, the reason they're all nerfed in value is because of the quarterback. We don't even know who it is. And when we decide who it is, we're going to be disappointed. Like, it's not like, oh, Teddy's there. Everyone moves up. Like, they both suck. So, you know, it is what it is. When I look at these three, I've been hot and bothered for Cortland Sutton this whole offseason. I really think he's going to get back, get strong. And then, of course, the camp reports and some of the videos showing he doesn't look.

100%. And at this timeline, I would expect him to look nearly 100%. You know, he should, I shouldn't be able to watch and be like, I don't think he's, right. I don't think he's 100, even if he's not there yet. So I am worried about Corlin Sutton. So would you take the value on Jerry Judy around a little bit more than around later where like I'm the only one in this group that has Judy actually ranked ahead of Sutton?

So he's the keep to me because he's going the lowest of these three and I believe in him. I would trade Sutton. I'm not going to bank on it. He's a great player. And then I guess I'll cut Noah Fant, but. That's starting to be how I'm leaning as well. I mean, Noah Fant is I get it. I get all the reasons that Fant should break out. And he can.

And you guys are laughing because there was just a dynasty trade recently. Can we talk about this, please? Yes. I tweeted this out too. So Jason, if you've listened for a while, I acquired Mark Andrews from Jason long ago when the trade of Mark Andrews for John Ross doesn't sound as stupid as it sounds now. It sounded reasonable. John Ross obviously didn't pan out. Mark Andrews did pan out. And therefore, I've held that over Jason's head for many years. We had the opportunity in a very large dynasty trade recently.

a rare one between the three of us to Jason exchanged Noah Fan and a deal where I gave him Mark Andrews. There were other players. But I just want the people out there to know. Like if Noah fan outperforms Mark Andrews, I'll die. So if you're rooting for the show to have all three of us on it. Oh, man, that's tough. Then root for Mark Andrews? This isn't, I don't need to be anti-Noah fan necessarily. I just need Mark Andrews to be much better than Noah Fant.

That's all that matters. It also helped that, like, multiple Noah Fant hype pieces started to get written moments after the trade. Like, they were holding them. Like, the editors were like, hold, hold. Is that trade done? Yeah, okay. Release the, release the hype. But for Fant, I mean, there's so many good pass catchers and there's not an elite. Aaron Rogers is not coming to town. Denver, I'm sorry? If Bridgewater's the quarterback, I would feel more excited about the potential.

a fan to have an every week role and a goal line role that I could trust. That's where I would get a little more excited. I mean, I just cut him in the keep trade cut, even though I traded for him because the other guys represent more upside. I'm going to keep Cortland Sutton still trade Jerry Judy and cut no offense. But I will say this. I mean, if we rewind the tape over a year, Jerry Judy has been a guy I'm in love with. He was almost a my guy last year. I think the talent is off the charts.

rising on him and opening up to the reality that he could have. Opening my heart. And I'm allowing myself to see who he really is. Right. As a person, as a man. But the breakout potential is definitely there for Jerry Judy. He's wickedly talented. Booty scooting Jerry Judy? Booty. What? I don't under, no. Well, you went with scooting instead of Scootty.

What did I say? You said scooting. Oh, you have to say booty scooty. Yeah. That's weird. Scoot your booty, booty, booty, scoot. Booty! All right, let's just stay with Jerry Judy on that one. All right, I'm keeping Judy. Okay. I, man, I guess I'm trading Sutton. I feel like someone out there is all in on Noah Fanto. All right, let's do a multi-position keep trade cut. Are these all tied at 603 Brooks? Yes, you know, averaged out to that. These three players, when you average out their ADP,

are identical. So this is this will be fun. This will be fun. Mike Davis at 603. Russell Wilson at 603 and Brandon Ayuk at 603. So right now Davis is our 22nd ranked running back. Wilson's our eighth ranked quarterback and IUC is our 32nd. Oh, that's my fault. Yeah. Yeah. That's not. I like this keep trade cut.

Because this is so easy for me that it's Brandon Ayyuk, first round pick last year from the San Francisco 49ers, proved to the team that he can be that dude. And if you want to read into training camp hype, Iyuk is the one. I know Debo Samu is getting little, but Iyuk is the one, at least that I am seeing, that is being showered in praise by the team, by the reporters of the 49ers.

If Iyuk takes a second-year leap, I mean, he can finish as a top 15 wide receiver. He is my number. So obviously the number one second-year wide receiver to take the leap for everyone is C.D. Lamb. Like that, okay, done. But when you look at, there's always a handful of second-year wide receivers who take that leap to fantasy, you know, gold mine. And Brandon Ayuk is my number one shot after C.D. Lamb. He's the guy that I...

think has the talent, the ability. It is not. It's not Jerry Judy. Judy would be my third. I am just not where you guys are with Ayyuk. And I do love, like, I love Brandon Ayuk. It's not about Debo sympathy. It's simply about the fact he played 12 games last year. He played a lot of them without Debo, and he played a lot of them without George Kittle. So I don't know whether a leap is reasonable.

At 603, if you get 85 catches for 9, 36, and 4, are you happy? Yeah. Which is what he did last year. Yes, 100%. So the values, the value's fine, and then there's upside, right? There's the second-year lead potential. I just don't know what it means in an offense like that where you're going to run the ball 500 times. In fact, you know, I guess they were at 464 pace last year with injuries. You're going to run the ball between 450 and 500 times.

George Kittles healthy, Debo's healthy. I just don't know what that means in terms of volume. That's all. So I'm a little bit lower. I do think he's the best pick here, though. I mean, I don't believe that Mike Davis is going to sustain value all year long. I think Russell Wilson, we know the story with him. I probably get more out of Russ in a trade, so I'll keep Iyuk, trade Russ, cut Mike Davis. Yeah.