Players We’re Embarrassed to Love + Jeanty Madness! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/24

He had 27 in-zone targets in his first two years, seventh most among wide receivers. He's a good player. Then he got his foot injured, couldn't really play well the next few games. He was on pace that next stretch for 44 receptions, 639 yards. Like he was bad. So they shelved him and he had to deal with the foot injury. Now we're into the next season, year three.

It used to be the year two breakout for wide receivers. That was like for fantasy, you just always draft year two wide receivers. Then all of a sudden, year one wide receivers were so good that year two that kind of took steps back, like Ladd-McConkie and Brian Thomas Jr. The year three for some of these guys, JSN, had that year three breakout. I love Romadunzee Marvin Harrison Jr. And I'm embarrassed to admit that because it's gross. They suck in their, but they're in the exact same situation. I want the Bears player with...

Caleb and Ben Johnson in that situation. But I look, I love Roma Dunes and drafts. And maybe it's, maybe it's a mistake, but I will be the one making it. I think part of what people have trouble with is saying they love Roma Dunes. It means that they love him more than those other two guys. Yeah, the idea that Rome leads this team in targets, I think to most people's like, that's not going to happen. And for me, I go, that's possible. That's, that's.

It is possible. I have him. I basically have him and Loveland as almost near the same in targets, both equally leading this team. Well, speaking of the Chicago Bears, I'm right here with you, Jason. Wait, did you both pick Bears? Yeah. Mine, it makes sense. You've been embarrassed about this all summer. I don't even know if you're embarrassed anymore. Did we pick this just because it's embarrassed? Okay. Mike.

Yeah. Oh, I didn't get my swish out. Damn it. That's on me. I couldn't tell if I loved it or hated me. Is it embarrassing? If I had said Swiss. So it's embarrassing to like bears? No, but this is just because this is a personal one for me. It's DeAndre Swift. If you have been a listener of the fantasy footballers podcast for any stretch of time, you have basically heard me say only negative things about DeAndre Swift. I have.

It's been part of your platform. I have relished every opportunity I could to dunk on DeAndre Swift. I don't know if he probably wasn't an embarrassed to love, but it's like last year coming into the season, I kind of liked a seventh round rookie running back in Kyle Monongai because I disliked DeAndre Swift so much. I'm like, give me anyone on this team who can play running back. Because Swift, tremendous top tier athlete.

His skills at the running back position, I think, have been lackluster, but now at this point it doesn't matter and why it's embarrassing. DeAndre Swift is going as a running back 24 of ADP over on Sleeper in the fifth round. I have him as a fringe running back one. My chips are so in on DeAndre Swift. The situation is fantastic last year.

He set career highs in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, rush success rate, yards from scrimmage because he is athletic. We saw his success on the Eagles. When he had a good offensive line, he's so fast, he can make things happen. The Chicago offensive line plus the Ben Johnson scheme. So what the Bears were able to accomplish with Ben Johnson. They went from 21st to third in rush success rate.

And this is a team that had Swift on 2024. Yards before contact went from 26 to 6th. Their PFF run block rank from 14 to 3rd. This is a strong offensive line. It's an offensive guru. And DeAndre Swift is the main guy. And now Kyle Monongai is dealing with his own. What's going on with him? He's dealing with an injury. It was like this weird, mysterious thing. He will be back. But the point is, you can get a hot start here from.

A player who's barely being drafted as a running back 24, they're favored in, what, five of their first six games. Carolina, Minnesota, Philly, the Jets. That's the first four matchups for DeAndre Swift. I don't think his ADP makes sense. It's disgusting. I'm having to swallow my pride on this one and just say that DeAndre Swift is, I think he's one of the best picks in the draft right now.

Yeah, you've been pretty consistent with that. And then the Monongai injury news is just compounding it. It almost feels like they became resigned to the reality that Swift works in this offense and they're going to use him. Yeah, the last I see about the Monongai news, he hyper extended his knee. It's going to miss multiple weeks. It is not known what his status will be for week one. We're making memes about DeAndre Swift over here. It's just happening. What are the other two? You guys have a couple.

I mentioned Romandre. Do you have a couple other names? I can give mine because it is discussed. It's the three. Well, what happened was I did the three-headed dragon and I put Rome with Dunesay on there and now the, I know the producers are running away with it. He did the three-headed dragon where it was Rome. Well, no, it was Lovelin and Burton are the serious ones. And then there's Dunez on the edge and it's Rome of Dunezay. I'll throw out the name because this one is, it's wild, but it is.

I'm throwing it out. Marshawn Lloyd. You love him. I am just, I'm fading Josh Jacobs for better or for worse for this season. There are reasons why Josh Jacobs makes complete sense as a fantasy pick, and everything should just be full status quo. He was an absolute touchdown machine. You know, they just dealt with the efficiency he had last year. They just dealt with it. I mean, partly because Marshaun Lloyd can't stay on the field.

But I'm just, I'm at the point now where I'm not drafting Josh Jacobs and it's the, well, let's take, let's take some shots at this Green Bay. I like Green Bay's offense. And maybe Marshaun Lloyd will end up being the player that they drafted in the third round a couple years ago. So I'm just, it's kind of like that hedge. If you're going to fade one player, take a shot on the other one whose Marson Lloyd is completely free in drafts. And maybe he gets more work than you.

are anticipating right now. Yeah, maybe a late last second suspension for Jacobs doesn't seem like it's going to happen, but if you draft Lloyd and then all of a sudden it turns around. Yeah, there's suspension and then there's just, like I said, the efficiency. Great on the goal line, but in between. I will say in support of yours, there has been more, very similar to my argument for Mason, there's been more wide zone runs, which definitely does not fit Jacobs and does fit Marshaun Lloyd.

I am not fading Jacobs. I think he's going to be fantastic this year because great offense. Like you said, you want a good piece of that. I think Jacob plays the season and is great and scores, you know, 12 plus touchdowns. But if you're fading him, that's a good pick. I'll throw one name out there. I'm embarrassed to love Dalton Kincaid because I've been in and gotten burned on him before. You know, it's like his sophomore year I was very bullish. I thought he was going to break out. He has hurt his knee from that point forward and never been healthy. But this camp.

People have talked about he's more involved in every facet. He's been at every single practice. His knee is healthy for the first time in years. And if you look at like targets per route run, yards per route run, he's 2.73 yards per route run. Best of all tight ends in the league. He's just playing 30% of snaps. If he plays 70% of snaps for the bills. If these strengths continue, he will have 2,000 yards. Yes. So I'm just saying if he gets more opportunities for a great quarterback.

uh that they could use him uh it would be good for for a late round titan i'll throw another name out there since i spoiled romander earlier i'll just say malik willis has been in that camp for me all i'm i'm with it so i think i think i think the dolphins in general like like i made a trade for a chan and i gave up hampton and i gave up more to get you got josh allen back too no i know but i mean just just on paper but the bet is yeah the bet is on a chance yeah i mean even when i was negotiating with the a chan manager they wanted a lot more

than hampton and it's like i i'm still willing to do it because my belief in a chan is this this is devon a yes not the junior yeah just because you were talking about trying to trade for the other yeah with you second yeah i want all anybody named a chan i'm kind of into that but um Trevor's still out there but yeah i think the league willis and the dolphins could be a little bit interesting in general so uh let's go ahead and uh take a break and do some mailback

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Okay, here we go. Evan in North Carolina. By the way, if you have a question for the show, we are here to help you win your league. Go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click that submit a question button or Jason. They can dial the voice in a hotline. Just don't mess up. 302464 TFFB. Or please mess up. If you mess up, we will hear it. Brooks will and then he'll laugh. Evan in North Carolina, have you ever taken a first round keeper? I'm trying to decide between CMC as a late first or Kyle Pitts in the 10th.

I mean, that's an easy CMC. And that's coming from the guy that just is embarrassed to love Kyle Pitts. What you've got to do is ask yourself at the end of the draft, which player you want to see on your team. Yeah, taking a first round pick on a keeper is normal if it is a high-end guy or you don't have any better options. Jonathan and Los Angeles sub-ballers, knowing that the substation requires NFL human sacrifices and Christian McCaffrey seems to be quietly in danger.

Who do you like for the 49ers backup job? Kalen Black, Jordan James, who is hurt, but I think we're turned to practice. Yeah, it's been Kalin Black by default. I came into this offseason, definitely on the Jordan James side. And it seemed like Jordan James was the correct backup, but then he's been injured the whole camp. So to be honest, right now I'm not really in on either of them. Like in the draft, drafting insurance backs is fine if you have complete.

Like you know Blake Corum will be that guy who gets the role should the starter be injured. You don't know here. So this is more of a situation I'll pick up off of the waiver wire. And I will say the substation human sacrifice portion of this, I think I'm starting to realize that's why they brought Mike Evans in. They brought him in because he can keep getting injured.

over and over and over they are they are over whoa that one yeah me too man that went straight to the spine that's what that's like that was pretty scary but i liked it when there's no sound yeah the uh uh the pieces of mike evans body are slowly being disassembled to sacrifice for christian mcalfrey is what it seems like it's just such a shame i wanted mike evans