Fantasy Football - RB Rankings Countdown: 20-11 + ADP Risers - Podcast for 8/11

Stefan Diggs is going to be much better. There is definitely a place for that where I love those players midseason where I've dealt with injury or I took my swing at the big guys and now I need someone to plug a second flex. It's like, oh, he can go in there and he'll have eight or nine targets. That's fine. But when I'm in the draft, I'm just looking at guys that are way, way later. Clinton Johnson in the ninth or Concepcion in the 10th or Jaden Higgins in the 11th or.

Denzel Boston in the 12th. I would rather take a shot on those type of players. Would you rather have Michael Wilson or Stefan Dings? Wilson. Okay. That makes sense. DeJohn Stribling, wide receiver for the 49ers has been moving up. We're looking at ADP risers right now on performance climbers. Stribbling was in the 12th and 13th. Now he's in the 11th on Yahoo. 33rd pick in the NFL draft.

We know what the situation is in San Francisco on a regular basis with injuries. But all the reports on scribbling, all the highlights on scribbling have been positive, picking up things in a hurry according to Shanahan. Clay Kubiak said he's been able to handle multiple responsibilities early, fairly extensive role early on. We lost Ricky Pearsall. We lost Christian Kirk. Evans is the oldest drafted player in the top six rounds, basically.

Debo Samuel. Debo's interesting because they're saying he's getting all of the work. Like he's splitting wide receiver running back room again. It made me kind of forget. Like last year, Debo was not a part of the taking snaps at running back situation. But where are you with stribling and taking a shot on him? I think he absolutely has to have a shot taken on him. Brock Purdy is a very good quarterback. To me, I put him.

in the certainly top half quarterback, but probably a tier higher than most people put him. That's why I've been kind of into Mike Evans. He's obviously a great red zone weapon. Brock throws touchdowns. But Evans is 33 going on 700 years into his soft tissue is just brittle. He's already dealing with the quad issue. I mentioned yesterday he was back to practice. He's working on the side. He's not full practice yet. I wanted to take shots on Ricky Pearsall.

So, like, this offense, they need someone. They lost. They lost Joanne Jennings. They lost Ricky Pearsall. Mike Evans, they will lose at some point. And so, yeah, Stribling is, he was drafted to be an important part. He's already rolling with the ones. And the reports, like Grant Cohn, I don't know what you think of him. He's, you know, not everyone's favorite 49ers reporter. But he's saying he's the best wide receiver at camp, full stop.

Well, and there's an opportunity there. I mean, the other pass catchers that are trustworthy in San Francisco are all older. Yes. So, you know, that includes Kittal, right? Kittle looks really good. Like, he should be back out there, but that is not uncommon to start the year strong. That's where Stribbling, I think, could, I doubt he has a breakout week one through four. But as the year goes on, I mean, we used to see us with vintage Larry Fitzgerald. The first half of the year for Fitz was...

higher than average, you know, better than expected. Second half slowed down. I would expect similar things from potentially Kittal and... You're saying it starts with Mike Evans, ins was straight. Well, wow, wow. I didn't know if I should cut you off. Breaking news. Brooks said safe and news. Get out of here. Brooks. Brooks, we're not doing a news segment. Did you hear me? I have a bunch of news to talk about, but it will not be in a segment. I mean, this guy's going to rise in ADP now. Kyler Murray has already been named the starting quarterback.

There was too much good news coming out about J.J. McCarthy. That's honestly what it seems like. It was like reporters are starting to say, look, the last couple practices, McCarthy's been winning. And then he's like, I got to get out of this. This is terrible for Minnesota. Like the potential negative outcome. It could be great. Sorry, let me completely start over. It's great for Justin Jefferson. It's great for that discussion we had a couple days ago about Jefferson and being, maybe it was yesterday. I don't even know what days are anymore. But.

The potential outcome in Minnesota is pretty rough because now if Murray fails and then JJ comes in and is just JJ, you're down to zero quarterbacks again. And I imagine Murray will be okay. But do you feel better about Jefferson now? Moderately? Moderately. Moderately. Like we've said, the information about the quarterback battle has been very, very difficult to sift through as.

The, it, the, the, the, the, my take on everything is, I don't know that I've, you're, you're, it's very rare to see an impartial view of what is going on in Minnesota. I feel like. A lot of baggage. I feel like people have already decided they don't like J.J. McCarthy. So whenever Kyler does something great, they're going to report on it. Or there's the, you know, that.

J.J. McCarthy still has his supporters, and they're not going to say anything when Kyla Murray does anything. It's been very difficult to navigate, but this had to happen. You have to pick one and say, okay, you're at this point, we think you're the best shot. You get all the snaps with the ones now. We can't keep splitting this crap up. The season is like three weeks away. Yeah, the whole thing where they were going to take this all the way down to the wire. I'm so happy they're not in either direction. In either direction, you've got to give your team.

a starting quarterback to practice through the next couple weeks before you start the season. And this is what we thought was going to happen all along. This is why I hated this guy won this practice, this guy won that practice. So did Kevin O'Connell. The coach knows where he's headed. Kyler had never played in the offense JJ had. It's not about what you can do during practice. It's about what you can do during the game. As a much more established veteran quarterback, Kyler gets the shot.

It's good for Addison. It's good for Jefferson. It's good for the offense. Overall, I agree. But we need now the information really matters because I think the, I had shared it with you guys. I can't remember there was a Minnesota beat reporter where it finally felt like, okay, we're getting real news because he came out and basically said, I don't care about who's winning, who's not winning this practice. He's like, they both have not been great. Right. That is the true key story is.

Both are struggling severely. Kyler against the ones. J.J. McCarthy's looked good, but then he struggled sometimes against the twos. So you have to make this move as the team, but this will be a follow now what's going on. You feel like there won't be as much bias in the report. Yes, because now it's just directly towards Kyla Murray. How does he actually look? Because after our discussion, you know, yesterday talking Jefferson and Drake London, it's like, man, I.

I'm nervous. I'm nervous and I need training camp to talk me back in. So circling back to Stribling, I think he's going to start right away. I think he's very interesting. He's a perfect late round target because he doesn't have the same type of, like I think Cardinal Tate's a great ADP value right now. Jordan Tyson probably is a great ADP value. There are, you know, Jacoby Lane's another late round shot to go with Dijon Stribling.

I think this is an interesting guy. I don't think the ADP moves up much more. It could be like a preseason highlight real situation that does move him up the ranks. I also don't think it's out of, like I love Carnell Tate. He is my current by far rookie wide receiver leader.

I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility that at the end of the year, stribling is the best rookie wide receiver. He has the opportunity. He has a great head coach. And he's got physical tools. Like, the way that Debo was used by Shanahan to get the ball in his hands and let him do what he can do physically. That reminds me a lot of stribling, not in the big body tackle breaker, but he's 4-3-6. Like, scheme him some of these plays where he gets the balls in his hand and just open space. Do you have any concern?

that, you know, at least in recent memory, so like John Lynch has been the GM since 2017. Yes. They have not drafted very well. I have huge concern over that. So I mean, like while we're getting all the, you know, the tire pumps are just blowing this stribling thing up, are we?

confident that San Francisco actually got a pick I mean it's great that he's the 33rd pick or something like that like a high second rounder that doesn't mean that they did a good job he was not someone that I think was super highly touted like my Felix model has him with a good score with the draft capital but when you take that out and you just have the pure talent score it isn't it isn't something where it's like man that guy should be the third to third pick so yeah there's question marks but the opportunity the offense and the draft costs cost you nothing like just go ahead and take a shot

Last name to throw out there on performance climbers, Malik Neighbors. Obviously, we understand why that ADP is moving. You know, he's gone up above Alave and Tet McMillan on Sleeper in the third round. He was in the fourth. He's moving up on Yahoo as well. He's on track to play week one barring setbacks. Man, it's tough because I think about like our show yesterday.

the top 10 wide receivers. And as soon as we got to like Jefferson, it was like Drake London. He's awesome guys. After the CD Lamb tier break. To me after the CD Lamb, obviously the top four I think are better than I put CD Lamb right there. And then it's like these are awesome guys. Jefferson and London and AJ Brown. It's like neighbors like I don't know, man. Neighbors is right right there. He's got very little competition.

Starting doesn't necessarily mean he's back to full form. And there have been questions about the offense. Do they concern you? I mean, yeah, Matt Nagy concerns everyone. It's not Nagy alone either. It's Nagy and Greg Roman combo. Oh, man. The circus was a symbol. Can they like cancel each other out though? No. No. You don't think two wrongs make it right? No, there's more of a square root situation. It takes a problem. We have an exponential gain or decline, I should say. Did you guys see that?

Adam Gase has a job. Yeah, he's way down on the... He's on the Chargers. He's on the Chargers. He's on the Chargers. Who is giving these people jobs? That seemed like a pity job. He was so far down on the coaching list where it's like, okay, dude, you need a check. But I... When it is literally just an injury, I hate it. I hate the analysis because I don't have the insight that the team has, but based off of the risk and the profile...

In the third round, I'm happy to draft Malik neighbors. I think everyone is, and I don't think he stays there. I think when drafts coming around, he's going to be a drafts. I think second round is. Second round is Russia Rice, Nico Collins. We have no dart neighbor's data, basically. Right. Ever. Correct. Yeah. It's wild. All right. That was Performance Climbers brought to you by GMC. We are professional grade. Let's take a break and we'll jump into, well, I guess some news and then we'll. What? No, just like passing news and then we'll get into rankings.

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