Early 2018 Breakouts, Top Handcuffs, Juliaaaaan!!!

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Not sure what that dance was, Jason. Oh, I missed it. It was just a happy dance. He was doing the roll, the arm roll thing. You know what's crazy. What do they even call that? Traveling. I believe they call that traveling in the NBA. Yeah, it was a traveling. It was a traveling violation. Here's the truth. The honest truth. I'm not making this up. I had no idea I was dancing. I believe my eyes were closed and I didn't know I was doing it. I'm just happy. This is such a great.

show we're coming off of 555. They say from this point on, you just say 555 plus one. Right. That's the show episode number. It is not shocking to me that Jason's mind is never in full control of his body, as it is never in full control of his mouth. Part of my body. It's true. Oh, well, it's going to be a good one. As Jason said, that's why he was so excited that he could not control himself. We've got a great quick question.

We have some news, some hype train, and then we have the early breakouts. If you didn't catch the last episode, we each shared a couple of early sleepers. And now we're going to talk early breakouts on the show today. We also have another exciting announcement. I'm going to get to momentarily. If you didn't listen to the last episode, I'll just throw this out there. Go back and listen because we had a true dark horse sleeper candidate. I want to take full credit.

for justify winning the Triple Crown. Oh, 100% in horse racing because the buzz around horses in general, they're trending everywhere due to episode 555. Apparently, Brooks, did you know this? The world loves puns. Yeah, you're darn right, they do. Mike has a tweet right now. I'm going to let the, we share, you know, very accurate predictions on the show.

Last year we were the only show that had two top 15 accuracy experts in the fantasy pros. Top 14. Top 14, yes. So we pride ourselves on good information, winning you your leagues. I just want you to know that Mike's most popular tweet of all time. All time. 200,000 impressions now around Twitter. 200,000. I'm not sure if I'm proud of this. Are you proud or just just sick of it?

No, I mean, I'm loving it. You're proud of it. Yeah, you got to be. Was a jorty Nelson? Yeah, give us the toy. I just, I had, I was shopping with the wife. And it was. So this was out and about. Yes. And I was looking for some new shorts because I know I've slimming up. The shorts are getting a little bit baggier. And I was, I always wore these cut off jorts. Yes. And it was the strangest thing because.

We were talking about George, and somehow my wife and I had this joke pop up at the exact same time. And she's trying to take credit for the joke in the right household. Yes. And I say no. Because I was the one who got the name out first. So that means I claimed the joke. But the tweet was, if Jordy Nelson puts on a pair of jeans shorts, does he become Jorty Nelson? And you darn right he does. And that's all that it took. No, that's...

To set the world on fire. That's it. That's the best I've ever offered the world, apparently. Our second nickname of 2018, Jorty Nelson. Unbelievable. Just 200,000 impressions. And I like how many, how many of your replies were just, Mike? Oh, my. Shame on your mic. When you put out a joke like that, there is zero middle ground. It's either, this is the funniest thing I've ever read, or.

You need to delete your Twitter account and you should be embarrassed. You have shamed your family for future generations. All right. Quick question of the day from Twitter. James Burns wants to know who is the most valuable running back handcuff. Keel! Not named Tevin Coleman. Well, here's the thing about handcuffs. Number one, I don't think Tevin Coleman qualifies as a handcuff. I wouldn't call him a handcuff because he's being drafted.

Handcuh. Yes. If you remember that. He is drafted to have standalone value. And people want to talk about handcuffs. Who should I go? So that's why we're omitting guys like the Dionne Lewis, Derek Henry battle in the backfield. Kevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman, they both have standalone value. But I just want to remind people, especially at this point, projecting a handcuff is a sketchy.

thing to do and could be a complete and total waste of a draft spot because you don't know. Last year, Darren McFadden was 100% the handcuff for Ezekiel Elliott because that's what the team had done. So we had thought, and then Alfred Morris is the guy and Darren McFadden retires because Dallas didn't want him anymore. I had thought about picking Spencer Ware, but the injury concerns and the fact that it could not be him.

pulled me back from that desire. So I went with Latavius Murray. Latavius Murray last year was the RB9 from weeks 10 through 17. So you know that when he's given a predominant role in a great offense on a great team, he has the ability to produce for fantasy. Dalvin Cook coming off the injury. I think Latavius might have late round standalone value anyway around the goal line.

depending on how they ease Dalvin Cook back into that workload. I mean, we've only seen four games from Dalvin Cook, none of which Latavius Murray was active for. So I think Latavius Murray is a very valuable handcuff. The interesting thing for Murray is once he was fully worked in and they kind of phased McKinnon out of being the early down guy, Latavis Murray got little to no passing work because that was Jerich McKinn's role with this team.

Who on this team, if Dalvin Cook goes down? Catches the ball? What is going to be the past catcher? Does Latavius Murray become a full-on three-down guy like he was in Oakland? And nobody wants Latavis Murray. He is as much the, he's the whole grain bread on the sandwich where you have those little like pieces of stuff inside it. Full seeds and that bread. But you know it's probably good for you, but you just have to. That's what they want you to. Of all three of our handcuffs, the only one that I would.

actually draft would be Latavis-Marie because I do think he has standalone value. The other guys, you know, I'm not big into drafting handcuffs. Later in the season, I'll pick up a handcuff as I approach playoffs. But the guy that I want to throw out there is a rookie that pre-NFL draft, I absolutely loved. He was one of my top, you know, four or five favorite guys after the draft, not so much because he went all the way down in the sixth round to the Los Angeles Rams.

John Kelly. But my point is I think he's actually a really talented running back. And he's in a situation where if Todd Gurley goes down, it's a gargantuan hole. It's the shoes that have to be filled, the carry volume, the reception volume that the offense is set up for. And that doesn't mean that they'll just give everything to John Kelly. But I think he is a talented enough back in real life.

to step in and be fantasy productive for that team. So I'll throw him out there. And I'm going to throw out, it's a very similar situation for the Arizona Cardinals. Everything will be on David Johnson. He's going to be a three-down lion's share type of running back. And their depth chart is honestly not currently set up for missing David Johnson. Kerwin Williams left.

He is now Kansas City Chief. Elijah Penny is being converted or they're going to try to convert him to a fullback. I think we saw last year the Cardinals realized they had to do something to address the running back position. They tried DJ Foster Penny. Adrian Peterson. They tried so many running backs. And that's why they spent for the Cardinals who didn't seem to have a glaring need, what I considered a pretty high pick on Chase Edmonds.

who is extremely talented running back. His production profile is off the charts. He missed a bunch of games this past year. So perhaps that's what really hurt his stock. But pass catching profile as well as on the ground. And if they want to move forward with this is a guy as a three-down player, I think that Chase Seamins has that ability.

if something were to happen to Javid Johnson. He was drafted far ahead of my John Kelly. And when you look inside the draft room videos of how it went down, they were considering him with the third round selection. Then he dropped to them in the fourth. So, yeah, I don't mind that. To amplify Mike's point, though, if Todd Gurler, David Johnson goes down, I mean, one of the more rumored spots for DeMarco Murray is...

In Los Angeles. So you have this kind of tier of handcuff where you might be completely right today, but it might not even matter because if a guy goes down, they might bring in help. And so it is a hard. And that's why you said you don't really draft them. No. Unless it's a situation that you know for sure. That's why I think Murray counts because you know for sure he'd be the guy behind him. And you don't have to worry as much. So I think both John Kelly and Edmonds, this is.

This is really in season where the team doesn't have a bunch of options because maybe someone's already picked up DeMarco Murray or someone has already picked up Adrian Peterson. Or the injury is three or four weeks instead of a season-long thing where they're not going to go sign a guy to play three or four weeks. Guess what? We're on YouTube. Oh! You can go over to YouTube, click the subscribe button, click the bell so you find out when a new episode has released.

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