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

You can learn more right now at gmc.com slash Sierra 1500. J.K. Dobbins got hurt. John Payton said he'll be fine. Now, I will say, he said he's not going to miss a game. He guaranteed he's not missing a game. Which he is still not a liar. He's still not, I guess, a liar. He did get injured in practice and leave with a trainer, but he's fine. Christian McCaffrey giving the day off with tightness.

just managing CMC according to Clay Kubiak. Yeah, that seems fine. Josh Jacobs is going to be out for at least another week with the groin injury. He's groin's, man. People got to start doing that butterfly stretch more. I was really talking to. You think they're not doing that one? I think there's, obviously they're skipping it. Squads, hammy, calf, anything else we should stretch? No, coach. I do find myself, like, I want, I want to be fully confident in Josh Jacobs. Dude.

But when you mix the legal stuff got me out on him to start the off season, and now he's banged up. And he missed, he's been, he's had problems staying healthy. I mean, last year was no exception to that. He missed with a knee injury. He missed with a knee and ankle. And then he was inactive to end the year. He was a machine the first 10 weeks. The world deserves Marshawn Lloyd. Does it? Yes. And let me, let me update that.

The world deserves to see what Marshawn Lloyd can actually do on a football field. Yeah, I mean, the world deserved to see that with Kendrae Miller as well. Yeah, well, pick one. We don't always get what we deserve. So, and then Mike would like us to talk about the fact that. Well, it was all this negative stuff. Pat Bryant had been. I like how it's written in our doc. Pat Bryant rules per everyone. Obviously, Mike put that in there. I'm just sourcing.

Pat Bryant has been a training camp highlight guy. The last two days on social media were like unbelievable for everyone to make sure that they know. Pat Bryant was a rookie wide receiver last year for the Broncos. Yes, third rounder. But I'm saying like you have good beat reporters who give us good information really steaming up Pat Bryant. Some of them even saying like not only is the wide receiver three, but the transition to.

wide receiver two over the course of like it might happen this year during that would be over sutton and then kay adams said what are you how are you going to keep pat brian off the field and champagne said we're not yeah so there you go pat bryant something to pay attention to the big thing for me with that is you know if if it's waddle and then pat bryant is stepping up into like a meaningful role which he was hurt last year didn't get a lot of opportunities

that's two big weapons that Bonex is picking up this option potentially. Sure. Let's get into the ranks. Running backs. All right. We are counting down the running backs. 20 through 11 are consensus rankings. What makes an RB2? Over the last decade, running backs finishing in this range, 20 through 11, 70% average 17 or more opportunities per game. 77% had 1100 or more yards, which.

You know, that's a lot. And then 77% had eight or more total touchdowns. We'll start with Mike's guy, DeAndre Swift. Not to be confused with my guy. Number 20. No, this is a Mike guy. Yeah, that's fine. This offseason. That's fine. I'm in on DeAndre Swift, man. Well, you're in on the offense. Yep. Check. You're in on the forever dismissing DeAndre Swift, yet him producing part of his career. Now.

He has always been a running back to 18, 19, 22, 23, 19, 14. He got close this year or last year. I don't know how a player to me looks so good and so bad on different plays. That's one of the things that is weird about DeAndre Swift. And it's also weird when you have played on, you know, three different franchises in a six-year career and teams don't love you. Now, we thought maybe he would get dismissed or...

not used by Ben Johnson, and that's not been the case. Like, everything is set up for DeAndre Swift of offensive guru. Offensive guru came in and said, this offensive line is garbage. Here is money. Fix the problem, and they did. It doesn't always fix, but what they did, it worked out. Their rush success rate went from 21st to 3rd. Yards before contact, that's a huge one. That went from 26th.

to six. Their run block rank on PFF went from 14th to third. And DeAndre Swift still goes in the middle rounds. And he's the pass catcher. I like Kyle Winunga. I think he's a fun, interesting player towards the end of drafts. You can get him much later than Swift. If you're wanting to do the I want a piece of the Bears running back committee, I'll take the later one. That's fine. But I think that Swift is going to be the leader of it. And we're just going to see more of what

we saw last year potentially even better, not just because of Swift, because of Caleb and his command, you know, the projection of what can Caleb do in the second year of this offense, assuming Luther Burden is healthy, this thing should be, it can easily be a top five offense in the league, and Swift is the leader. And he's going to score a ton of fancy points. Yeah, I mean.

He is as undesired by the masses as possible because you just don't see a path for him to really finish as a league winning top five back. He's been in the league long enough. We know what he is. He's running back too. He's solid. He's good. He's out there for most games, which is great. He's a good pick in fantasy football. He's not a league winner, but he's a good pick. However, we talk about some of these guys behind. Like when Menongai, when Swift missed week nine, Menongai was the running back.

three in fantasy football had a ton of work this is a great offense a great offensive line and a system that wants to run the ball but obviously the other thing can happen too like should should mononga get injured that is how swift becomes a league winner yeah there is I think the red zone is an interesting conversation there they basically split the work last year it is something where swift I think him coming off the field half the time in the red zone is a a limit to the ceiling yeah

He had 13.2 points per game last year. That's 0.2 points behind Saquan Barkley. And, I mean, that was more points per game than Ashton Genty. And it's like, but where he's going is not in the first or the second round. He's, he's such a, he's such a good pick to me. 77% of RB2s have eight or more touchdowns.

He was over that mark last year. Number 19 is Bucky Irving. I think one of the most polarizing? Not even polarizing. I mean, just like uncertain wild card players. He's only 23 years old guys. I mean, Bucky is being drafted at RB19, so we're exactly at ADP there on him. The latest reports, because I think the, if we knew Bucky was going to get the workload that he got at the end of the rookie season that he started to get for his sophomore season,

you know, probably a low-end RB1 as far as where he's being drafted. Now, the question is, while they lost Rashad White, they brought in Kenny Gainwell, and what is the utilization going to be? The early reports from camp are that the vast, vast majority of carries are going to Bucky Irving. He is like they're running back. However, there's a lot of two running back sets now with Gainwell on the field.

Gainwell is doing a ton of the passing work. And he, so far in the last report that I saw in camp, he's getting more receiving work than Bucky. So that really does. It makes sense. It does make sense. That's Gainwell so good at it. But it nerfs Irving's upside if he loses a ton of passing work to Kenny Gainwell. Yeah, I think we want to see the between the tackles runner that Bucky was as a rookie.

come back to light because there's going to be opportunity. If the offensive line, which is ranked fifth and Baker's healthy and you've got Zach Robinson, like there's a lot of upside to, you know, I think Bucky's a great pick if they're a top 10 offense. I think he's a bad pick if they're a bottom third offense. A lot of it depends on the surrounding situation to me. Yes, the hard part for Bucky is the talent is there. How?

Will he be used? Like if we're saying a lot of the running back receptions are going to Kenny Gainwell, that's a negative for Bucky. And then last year, you know, obviously not a complete full season for Bucky, not a single carry inside the five. And if this coaching staff is deciding, we don't want Bucky doing the inside the five. He's not our goal line running back. And Kenneth Gainwell is...

more of the past catching back than Bucky. You want the guy who's in on first and second down because that's where the true fantasy points are. But if that's just 20 to 20, you have a really big problem for his ceiling. Here's something interesting about all the players going in the range of Bucky Irving, which, by the way, it's Trayvon Henderson, but he's losing first and second down work. It's Travis A. Henderson's not. It's Travis A. Chan Jr., he's losing third down work.

which is what Bucky's doing. It's Judkins, losing third down work, which Bucky's doing. It's, you know, Bayshall Tootin, who we think might lose goal line and third down work, which is what Bucky might do. And then there's D'Octrie Swift. And then there's Swift. So Swift just seems like. That's why I like Swift. Because he, sure, you can have question of works about Swift, but he's like almost two rounds cheaper than all those guys we were just talking about. Yep. And so are you in? You know, Cam is basically in the same.

area as well and i think i'd take cam scataboo over bucky so that's the question is you know when when you're on the clock and there was some negative there was some negative news about cam yeah about cam scataboo that he's coming off in all two minute drills to tracy that would be i don't like that really bad oh that would be naggy yeah no that would that math checks out that math completely checks out of course he'll come off he's their best weapon in a two minute drill so you got to you got to out think yourself you know

You got to make sure. They'll never see it coming. No. I mean, they'll put Tracy on the field and be like, they are never going to give that guy. Tyrone. Why is it still red? Because why is it still red? Here's why. It's because the hype train, I have to hit the button again to stop it. But the red alert, I don't. And I'm supposed to remember it all every time. Does workman's comp cover UV burns from panic alarms? It's my fault, Mike. Al would like you to know it's my fault.

But Tyrone Tracy will be the two-minute back because he shouldn't. See, that's why I get really scared with everything on that offense. It's why I get scared about neighbors being as good as he should be. It's why I get scared about Dart getting to do what he wants to do. I'm very, I'm very scared of the Giants. Well, I've had this deck of playing cards that has not left the table. So.

Looking forward to busting those out for the budget magician. But I do like Scat more than Irvin. I think this is worth bringing up for the Foot Clan because we were talking about how in those early rounds, when we were going through, when we get to the Justin Jefferson and we get to the Drake London, and it's like obviously everyone at that point in the draft, they're great. But there's a lot of questions and that there's ways that it can go poorly, whereas there were really, really good running backs instead there.

But now when we get to this point where we're like, I don't know about Bucky or Cam or a lot of these questions, Henderson, the wide receivers that are there are, you know, Devante Smith and Ladd-McConkie and Emeka and Zay Flowers. It's like, to me, I'm looking strategically at just the 2026 draft. I like the wide receivers here more than the running backs here. Almost like there's the running back dead zone, Jay? Yeah, basically. And it's moved, it's moved up.

I wouldn't say that I feel like any of the guys who talked about so far, including this next name. I wouldn't feel comfortable as my RB2, though. They're not in that. I'm not that level of afraid. I agree that I wouldn't be uncomfortable, but I just think that the odds are higher for some of these guys that it goes wrong. Ironically, this guy, I think he's pretty darn good. Giovante Williams. I am the highest on Giovante at 15. Oh, that's fine. I'm so proud.

He was a running back 11 last year. Solid. Solid is the way to describe Giovante. I'm very happy for Javante. There's nothing spectacular about Javante's game anymore. It's just he's a great running back. He can handle a large volume. He had his best year points for game wise last year, 14.1. He missed one game. His workload, his efficiency. Everything went went to a place where we were like.

Week in and week out. Oh, look at Giovante again. Oh, look. I mean, there's an offense we love. He's not good in the receiving game, but he is used in the receiving game, which is enough. It was like Chuba. Chuba would get past the ball all the time and do nothing with it. He has the goal line back. He is the passing downs back and he's between the 20s back. So he is a true workhorse back for one of the offenses we're targeting. He's not necessarily the most explosive player where you're going to have some breakaway amazing season, but he's not.