Top 10 Fantasy MVP Picks for 2021 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/1

should be picked up and rostered right now. Big season from Herndon on the way? No. I don't want to laugh at it because he is post-Adamgays and there is still that chance. Okay. But I did laugh. Post-Adam gaze is all right. What's great about this year is we have a lot of players. We get to watch and see if we get to test that theory. Well, Chris Herndon preceded Adam Gaze. Yes. As well. So when you're talking about like the rookie year where he was one of.

Very few tight ends who actually surpass 500 receiving yards. That's right. John Brown has been released, Raiders wide receiver. He asked for his release. He wasn't happy with his position on the depth chart. He wasn't going to start. So there you go. That does say that with Agalore gone and now John Brown out of the way.

Brian Edwards has a chance. Oh, okay. All right. We've upgraded to chance. But here's what I'll say about why I love Brian Edwards as a last round pick. I have on our League of Record team, I took Terrace Marshall and I took Brian Edwards. Terrace Marshall, I fully expect I have to hold on to him. He's one of those players. Andy, you bring this up all the time year after year about drafting a guy who you can make a decision on week one and cut him and move on.

That's Brian Edwards. He's not a rookie. Like, he's not going to slowly get worked in after two weeks or something, the way that Justin Jefferson was last year. Brian Edwards comes out week one, gets eight or nine targets, his involved looks like a fantasy option, or see you later. You're off my roster. Yep. So that's good for a last pick. And truthfully, the most proven receiver on that team is Hunter Renfro. Yes, just a low ceiling. Lots of productivity in his.

pass compared to both rugs and Edwards. So I'm just saying in a full PPR league, you could glance his direction, especially with the question marks around Waller's health entering the year, which he's fine now. But you never know if those things can linger or he could get re-injured. Right. All right. What are you going through the cuts? Xavier Jones was waived, suffered an ankle injury, which was a way in Achilles injury. So Sonny Michelle and Darrell Henderson is going to be.

I mean, they're going to be the starters. Yep. And Wayne Galman, gone. 49ers. 49ers. That's fantastic. My dynasty team has like five San Francisco running backs. He was the only one I didn't have so. Doge that bullet. Darwin Thompson released by the Chief. Jordan Howard released by the Eagles. Travis Folgum released by the Eagles. Oh, Fulgum got cut. Yeah, so did Kiki QT, who.

Actually was okay at the end of last year and thought he would get a shot with no Randall Cobb. Nope, he's going to get a shot at the waiver wire. Jason Moore Jr. was cut by the Charterner. No! I'm hoping to get back on the practice squad. Or maybe someone picks me up, but I assume all clear waivers. And then Des Fitzpatrick, a fourth round wide receiver picked by the Titans that had some promise in Dynasty leagues was cut. They traded up for him. They traded the 126, 166, and 232.

for the 109. And that was this year. Yes. They literally took their 126, their 166, and they're 232, and they just cut them from the roster. Well, it reminds me of Lynn Bowden Jr. with Raiders. They traded up to get him, and then they let him go. I thought they traded him to Miami. For nothing. This is nothing. For dirt, yeah. And then Anthony McFarland running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers could be placed on IR.

Might be the short-term I are, but that is worth mentioning. Tyron Johnson from the Chargers was cut. So third round pick, Joshua Palmer. Very interesting. Yes, Joshua Palmer is not a player I'm drafting because I don't, I don't see a world where Palmer comes in week one. You're like, holy crap, it's Joshua Palmer. But third round pick, that is excellent draft capital for a player. He didn't have huge college production, but.

The opportunity is there now. Austin Echler was on this show, and he brought up the name of Josh Palmer. So he's someone to just move that thought to the back of your brain. I think he is a guy that. You're willing to draft? Yeah, I think he could be one of those week one stars that you didn't see coming. I'm more interested in him than I'm interested in Brian Edwards right now. So I, if he, if he.

Mike Williams can't stay healthy. And even when he was healthy last year, you had big games from Tyron Johnson, big games from Jalen Guyton. So Josh Palmer is very intriguing because they're going to throw the football. And Keenan Allen has a specific type of role in this offense. Sure. So I am more intrigued than you and more intriguing than you as a person, just more intriguing in general. Especially after that opening story. Right. Yeah.

People were very into that. I'm just so sorry that you had to bear that burden yourself when you were going through it. Hey, well, I accept your apology. Yeah. I've, I've beared that burden twice. So I can't wait for the next burden. You've gone next level. Now, is your burden more of a, was it a ping pong burden? Oh, no, no, no, just power through. It was a power through burden. This one direction and it's up.

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Top 10 fantasy MVPs. We have a number of guests sharing their fantasy MVP picks on the show today, and then the three of us will reveal our selections. So excited about that. Last year, Mike went with Antonio Gibson. I had Kyler Murray and Jason had AJ Brown on the fantasy MVP episode. So I'm excited to talk about today's.

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Who's your fantasy MVP? All right, into the MVP picks. The power has remained on today. We had our first ever blackout at the studio. This is the 1,1003 episode of the show. We've never had that happen. And about 20 minutes into the episode, the power just zoom out. Whole building. That was very startling.

Yeah, and you know that, like that sound in all the movie trailers where it goes, boom, that's what happened. We were in the dark. I was scared. We needed the nightlight that you promised Sam Darnold. But we, so far so good today. I can handle that every 1,100 episodes to be honest. I agree. That's fair. All right. So we will get it started with our friend and fantasy football analyst from Yahoo Fantasy, Liz Loza, with her MVP pick.

So you want my fantasy MVP for 2021. Well, it should come as no surprise that I'm going with my boy Austin Echler of the Los Angeles Chargers. I know people want to come at me about the potential durability concerns, but I happen to have the inside track to knowing that he is going to stay healthy. And besides all that, his God-given talent, his skill set was created for optimal fantasy.

output, his elusivity as a rusher, with a juke rate of over 24% last year, by the way, helps keep him efficient. In 2020, he managed a YPC of 4.6. And then what about his prowess as a receiver with that amazing catch rate above 83%. He checks all the boxes. Here's another one. He's being paired with Joe Lombardi coming over from New Orleans. Now, there is a pass catching running back in New Orleans that's done pretty well for fantasy managers.

Lombardi, Echler, Herbert equals lit. Whoa, man. That is an impassioned argument. The only question I have, because I'm very pro Echler. Yes.

The only question I have is how do you have the inside track to know he's going to be healthy all year? Well, that's a psychic and impressive work. But I was between two people originally for my MVP. One of them was Austin Echler. I like the pick. I think that the floor is extraordinarily high for Austin Echler. He has as high a floor as anyone out there. I do worry a little bit about his ceiling, having him on really kind of like.

He insinuated he's not made for goal line work. He insinuated that coaches believe he's not. Right. But he did have too much agreement with the coaches. I want him to be like, yeah, coaches think this. They're wrong. And he was just like, yeah, some guys aren't made for it. Like, no, you. Yes, you are. But yeah, I love Eckler for fantasy. In our League of Record draft, which is a keeper league. So there are a lot of players that are already gone. The debate for the number one, number two, number three pick, it came down to Nick Chubb.

Austin Echler and Najee Harris. I don't see any reason why Echler in a half point or full point league can't outperform those other two guys. Sure. He has top five potential in my mind. He could certainly be a fantasy MVP. He's being drafted kind of into the first round, early second round, with some hesitancy. So if the reception totals are Philip Rivers-esque, which they were when he came back last year, the possibilities are endless for him. He just got a...