Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Early RB Rankings Part 2

made a conscious decision, okay, Jerich McKinn is going to get the chance. I mean, he was getting high carry totals, low receptions. So what do you think happens while Latavius' receptions? Because you would have... I think they go way down. Way down. Yeah. Okay. I just, Jerich McKinnon got that role at the end of last season. I mean, five weeks, that's enough of a trend for me to be concerned about Latavis Murray's role in pass catching. And McKinnon is, he's a spark freak. I mean, he's an Uber athlete.

Perhaps he's not the best running back, but much like Theoretic, I mean, you have a great athlete, give him the ball in space and let him, let him make it happen. How many, how many attempts in a reception did Matt Ozzi ought to have last year? How many, he's probably over 100 attempts. 29.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was looking at 2015. That's what confused me. Oh, thank goodness for that. 32 receptions for Asiata. Yeah, but that's where I'm saying. And 121 attempt. Yeah, it completely flipped. Yeah, it really is true. Oziata was the passing downs back early and then it switched. Yep. Yep. For sure. For sure. And they obviously, you know, McKinnon has a roll carved out. He is there. And Oziat is not currently on the Vikings. No. If you weren't aware of that. Tevin Coleman. Kevin Coleman. Kevin Coleman.

Whose jersey is on our wall right now. You turn right it is. Kevin Coleman. He comes in at our number 20 running back here, which he's really the first and only guy. I guess Theo Riddick is kind of there as well. But this is a backup on his team. He is not the starter. Is this too high for a backup?

Or is this too low for a guy who last year without playing a full set of games? He only played 13 was actually one spot higher than this at 19. If you're loading up the Tevin Coleman software, there's a feature inside of it. And the feature that you can select is top five running back if Devante Freeman went down. And so that's nice to have when you talk about factoring that in.

you know, if he's given that role, oh my goodness. I mean, it's just like, even if he's, I mean, I don't think he's a better player than Devonza Freeman. I think Freeman's a better player. But if you give him that back field, this guy finished 19. So no, to answer your question, finished 19 last year, it's not too early for a backup. Not one with that kind of an upside. Yeah, it's, it would be a little bit too early for me. I have him, I believe, down around 27. And I love.

Taven Coleman. I mean, clearly, I was the one who sought out this jersey because I wanted it on the wall. Just there's, there is the factor of overachieving on the work, 421 receiving yards on 31 receptions. The guy was, was devastating in the past game last year, which because of his athletic ability, that's, there's a possibility that can continue. But the loss of, of Kyle Shanahan, it, it's pretty heavy.

for me for if you're talking about the backup running back for atlanta so it just you'd rather have gore you'd rather have montgomery according to your rankings yes yes as of those as of right now gore is also one of those guys who could change drastically after the draft okay okay any final thoughts on tevin coleman we're wrapping up the show right now i'm gonna i'm gonna go straight through uh the next

I'm just going to read them out that we have on our rankings in case you're curious. You can see them all on the site, the fantasy footballers.com. And obviously all of these guys, the cool thing about the ultimate draft kit is that we update this thing constantly. And the draft kit will have our point projections in it. And just more detailed analytics on each player, including blurbs and things like that, our perspective. Number 21, Jeremy Hill, then Frank Gore, Ty Montgomery, Gio Bernard.

So a couple of Bengals end up in the top, what, 21 and 24? Eddie Lacey, Jonathan Stewart, Amir Abdullah, Bilal Pal, Paul Perkins, Matt Forte, round out the top 30. Subject to change. And I'll just throw out Eddie Lacey, who is my number 17, Andy, your number 21. He probably would have made the 20s. Yes. Because of Mike has him at 38, and I don't get that.

Just throwing him out there as a guy that I think had you not been here, we would have been talking about. And it might have been the same case with Montgomery. I mean, you guys have Montgomery at 16 and 25. I'm down at 32. Yes. So the debates get larger because we look at these kind of second and third tier running backs, and we are projecting circumstances for that team. Some we know, some we don't know.

So any final thoughts, guys, before we wrap it up. We will have the show after the show today over on YouTube. So head over to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. What are we talking about? Subscribe. We are going to debate. We're going to debate some movie-related talk because Rotten Tomatoes has come under some heat. There's some issues that need to be addressed. Yeah, there's some things we've got to talk about. Mike, we have to deal with this, all right? I'm...

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