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

all that dissimilar to me of, you know, like, it's not going to be a good team. It's a highly drafted running back. They should fully feature him. Now, you know, he got Algiered a bit. Ironically in the world we are in, James or Jeremiah Love will get Algiers a little bit. That's the question. It's like, when they get inside the five, who's going to be in there? Is it going to rotate? Is it going to be Alger or will it for sure be loved? Because if it's for sure love, running back 13 is.

Can't you make no problem, I guess. It's not for sure, love. I mean, it's going to be at the very best. I think it'll be a rotation. They will bring Tyler Alger in on the goal line in certain situations because he's good. They did it with Bijan even into Bejohn's even into Bejohn's career, not just when he was a rookie because Tyler is good. It's not Michael Carter with Brees Hall. Right. And going back to Brees Hall, if you look at, you know, LaFleur was the O.C during Brees Hall's rookie season.

where he wasn't even as highly drafted a guy and they had Michael Carter. He eventually took over. Brice was averaging 16.4 fantasy points a game before he got injured in his rookie season on pace for 200 carries, 62 targets. I believe that Love will get enough work. He will get vultured on the goal line too much. He will also not be someone that in his rookie season is getting 275 carries on the ground. This will be, he will.

He will be more around 200 carries, and you're hoping he gets like 60 or 70 targets. 70 would be insane. It would be awesome. That might be the argument for love entirely. You're not just underdogs in every single one of your games. You're double-digit underdogs in four of your first six and seven and eight and a half point in the other two.

Algear's not going to be out there on these comeback attempts, right? Isn't it going to be Jeremiah? It should be. Like check down Charlie situation? It should be love. And so if he gets 200 rushing attempts and we'll call it 65 targets, he should beat an ADP of being the running back 13. He just finishes an RB1. Historically, since 2015, here's running backs drafted in the top 10 of the NFL draft. Barkley finished at 2, Zeke at 2, Bijan was 9, Genti, it was

It felt really bad, and it was 12. McCaffrey was 11. Trent Richardson was 8. Leonard Fournett was 8. And Todd Gurley, even coming off of the ACL injury, finished at 7. So, I mean, historically, this is a, you know, the top 10 running back in the NFL draft is a great bet for fantasy. RB 13, I've, I think I'm in. Gentie is why Love is going to be a fine pick this year. Like, it.

Gentie made everyone get too hot and bothered. He was the running back six drafted last year, and he was a bust, even though he finishes an RB1 because he didn't return on that value. You're not drafting. Jeremiah Love in the first round. He's absolutely fine where he's going right now. Number 14 is Kyron Williams, the hotly debated Kyron Williams. I got him at 19, Jason at 12, Mike at 16. Yeah, just right. I mean, Kyron's a very good player. He's not an explosive.

breakaway type of guy. He's a high opportunity. He's a grinder. The big argument for me is just look at the data. There's the team that was pressing for the Super Bowl. Pre-by-week, Kyron is getting 72% of the running back opportunities. Post-by week, it was 57%. Yes, he performs statistically for fantasy, but it's a law of averages thing for me where if the team has made a decision to share the running-back workload, you're going to have a reduced effectiveness for Kyron at some point in time.

I think Corum is awesome. All the offseason reports have been great. So I think there will be a slightly reduced running back workload for Kyron. So I have him slightly below ADP. I mean, four spots below ADP. I don't think that's weird because you have to decide what you think the team is going to do. It would seem like you won't have any Kyron on your team, though. I will have no Kyron on my team. No, I will have lots of Blake Corum on my team. Yeah, Corum was inconsistent. He won't be a my guy because he's still too.

Like, I don't think he takes over the job from Kyron. I don't think that that's in the realm of possibilities is Corrin becomes the RB1. I think Kyron stays the RB1, but I think you've seen a progression of running back opportunities reduced for Kyron Williams. And that's something I don't like at his ADP. Jay. Is it my turn? Yeah. I cede my time to the fine analyst on my left. Kyron Williams is.

a very good running back who is part of the heart and soul of this team that is their lead back, that is paid, that gave him the contract to be the man. Blake Coram is very good. And don't hear what I'm not saying. Corum is a good fantasy pick. He is, I put out a tweet of like the insurance backs. He's a league winner. Should Kyron go down? Corum is awesome. Corum can be more involved and Kyron still be a fantastic pick in fantasy. And that's what's going to happen.

Corum is going to be more involved and be fine, and Kyron is going to be a good pick in fantasy. He's been a running back one in the last three years. He's on one of, if not the best offense in the league, right? You guys, you know, he's in that.

total upper echelon, especially when the only reason I wouldn't put the Rams necessarily with the Bengals and the Cowboys and the Lions is because their defense is good. But that's good for the running back. That means at the end of the game, they're running the ball more and more and more, more opportunities for Kyron. When Coram was super involved at the end of the year and they both had 11 carries inside the five. Like they were both used as goal line backs. Kyron was averaging.

14 and a half fantasy points a game. Kyron turned his 11 into six touchdowns, while Corum turned his 11 into three touchdowns. Kyron is not going away. Kyron is the leader, and he will score a ton of fantasy points. Will he be the, you know, 85% Belcow, the Christian McCaffrey? No, but that doesn't mean he's a bad pick where he's going right now in fantasy drafts. He's just like,

I'll tell you what, would I be comfortable with Kyron Williams as my running back one? Absolutely. I see him as a guaranteed running back one for fantasy. Yeah, and that's where, I mean, I'm not alone, and I addressed all of the things you said when I spoke. So I don't need to go back and do it again. He's being drafted at RB15 outside the RB1 category. It's not the consensus opinion that he's an RB1. He has to be a favorite among running backs for double-digit touchdowns.

Certainly. He is. He has to be. They're going to be on the goal line. They score 65 times. Yeah. And like, there's plenty to go around for a 1A and a 1B. Yep. But I mean, I think it will be the turning of the page towards a new paradigm in. Yeah, Kyle says his projection. His line is nine and a half.

Touchdowns, rushing touchdowns, so that's not even receiving. Yeah, I've got him four spots lower than ADP. So that's what I think of Corum. Jason's got him three spots higher than ADP. At 13 comes Josh Jacobs, 28 years old, dealing with the groin. We've all got him about the same spot. Yeah, we'll see if he stays here. Most touchdowns inside the 10 in the NFL over the last two years, huge part of the offense. It's really, you know, we can say all the jokes or whatever about, you know.

Marshawn Lloyd finally getting an opportunity. If Jacobs is healthy, they don't care about Marshall and Lloyd. This team cares about giving Jacobs the Rock because he thrives on more and more opportunities on being out there for his team. You know, it's just, it's not a very messy situation outside of injury to me. There's... Is he healthy? He's dominant. Is he not healthy? He's not on the field. I mean, to me, it's very simple. He's a goal line machine.

They figured that out, and they score every time they give him the ball near the goal line. He was so consistent. He was, I got to think he was. First nine weeks last year before injury, on pace for 21 touchdowns on the ground and 64 targets with 52 receptions. That's just auto RB1. I had him last year. I mean, it was our League of Record team, I had the Jonathan Taylor and Josh Jacobs.

seems hard to remember how good they were now in the first half of the year. Yeah, that's fair. But they were genuinely unbelievably dominant. And then he got injured, dealt with that, kind of played through it when he shouldn't have, then got punished the game. It was a weird wacky end of the season. Because of it. But yeah, I mean, those first nine weeks, he was the running back five. Favorite in the first six weeks of the year, Green Bay is. I will not argue anything about the touchdowns. But I'm curious of.

The just, you know, lack of explosive plays. And, you know, he's grinding it out. Maybe he's doing what the team wants him to do. But this is a situation that I think is primed for someone else to get more work than you're hoping. Sequin Barclay comes in at 12. Oh, boy. It's a nerve-wracking player to draft, but he's at 12. So, again, everybody here is our consensus rankings. Jason's taking the shot at.

Four spots lower. I don't feel good about that. So my, the, which according to our Chiron Corum analysis means he hates him beyond all measure in life. How do you respond to hating Saquan Berkeley, Jason? I would say that it's rare for a running back at 30 to get better than the year prior when they start to statistically like lose a step. Now, there are rational thoughts on how it can happen.

Last year, the injuries to Lane Johnson and the offensive line for the Eagles might be the reason why it wasn't the age to Barclay. It was the offensive line situation that caused Barclay to be less efficient. The offense as a whole was pretty dry paper. Petulow was a terrible offensive coordinator and now they've got Mannion and the offensive line should be better. Also another humongous change for this offense is Jalen Hertz, who never was really under center. When he was under center, the offense was very good.

under center play action, those things. They're really, really good for the running back position. So he is focusing on being under center much more. The offensive line is better. That's all great. But when you look at last year and you say, well, Sequin was inefficient because of Petulow because of the offensive line. Tank Bigsby was awesome. When he got the ball, he didn't have any problems whatsoever behind that line. And what we've seen in camp, maybe it's, you know, look, it's smart.

Sequin's going to be 30. Don't just run him into the ground. But Tank has been more and more involved in camp. And so I wouldn't be surprised if this year it's going to be the Sequin show, but I think that Tank will get more than he has in the past. And Seekwon has been getting the entirety of it. He's been getting like the full Christian McCaffrey type of workload. So being 30 years old, having lost efficiency last year, and the potential for...

work to be seated. That's just, that's why I'm scared. But I'm also like terrified that Seguan could be, if you say like, could Sequin be the running back one this year? I'd say, yeah, he could. He could end up with, you know, 1,600 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns and still be involved in the passing game. But I am, I bypass him in most drafts where he's going. He's being drafted as the running back seven and I like other backs there. You like Amari and Hampton more? Yes.

Lamarion Hampton comes in at 11 to round out today's episode. 23 years old. It was great when he was on the field, but wasn't on the field a bunch last year. Mike, you're the lowest. The comments in the last 24 hours are, you know, the Twitter spheres abuzz about Mike McDaniel saying that the, you know, doing his trolling thing of bad news, fantasy owners, good. I see all three of these guys speaking of Vidal Hampton and Mitchell performing at a high level. But that's not possible.

No, nor is it like customary for Mike McDaniel and what he does on the offensive play calling side. Like he, you remember the comments he had about, I think it was Ollie Gordon. And when he's just like, he'll have either all of his snaps or some of the snaps or zero snaps in the upcoming game. Yeah, he's a troll. He does like trolling the fantasy football community. I think it's very important. I'll say this. I think it's very important that Armine Hampton.

establishes himself early in the season. That's what I think is important. Now, if you want to start the year against Arizona, Las Vegas and be double-digit favorites in the first two games, that's an awesome opportunity to do that. Establish it. But, you know, I think Keaton Mitchell is kind of a player that Mike McDaniel wants to use in the passing game and really in inventive ways in this offense. I don't look at Vidal as a threat to Hampton if he's healthy. No, Vidal is...

But I think I don't know what the real range of outcomes for Hampton is. So just tell me so I know whether to trade him or not. I don't see Hampton. Well, I want you to train them to me. So I would make the- Yeah, we were talking some trades yesterday. I would make the bare case. But in truth, I think that there is a extreme likelihood that you get 18 touches a game for Hampton. And if Hampton's getting 18 touches a game behind a good offensive line, I think he will be great. This is a team where the defense is good.