Fantasy Football - Early Busts + Early Values - Podcast for 6/11

He probably was. Um. Sean Tucker. Whatever. And then Kenneth Gainwell is here to. Be the beneficiary of an offense that has passed the ball to the running back position. Very frequently. Rashad White. The entire case you made for him on Tuesday. You talked about how effective he was. With Baker Mayfield for many years. Kenneth Gainwell is just a pro's pro. He led the Steelers with 73 receptions. He's not going to. He's a free player. You talk about J.K. Dobbins. Yeah. In the ninth round. Kenneth Gainwell. You're going to get him there or later. And running backs are hard to come by.

So. You know. He wasn't just a check down guy in Pittsburgh. That might be one of the things you're thinking about. He lined up all over the place. And this is a team that lost the aforementioned Mike Evans. They don't know what they have in Bucky Irving. And he's still not healthy. And Bowles back in late March said he's the 1B to Bucky's 1A. So they're already kind of setting the stage for this being a two-headed situation. It hurt players like Jaylen Warren last year at times. Because Kenny Gainwell came in and stole opportunities in the game. And look. Do you have.

What's your confidence level on Bucky Irving being a star this year? Being a star. I mean being a being a what he was as a rookie. 30. It's low. 33 percent. So. So this is. There's not other names to step up here. And they really need another pass catcher to come in and provide something from the backfield. So I think it's a really interesting situation. Hopefully an upgraded offensive coordinator. Grizzard is gone. Zach Robinson has has arrived. It's just to me very interesting to see the contract numbers that they gave him. A couple years. 14 million bucks. The passing down value.

Right. A target worth more than the carry. And being a kind of a Swiss army knife for the offense. So I think it's not a name you're going to enjoy taking. People will roll their eyes and not care when you take them. Probably like J.K. Dobbins. But you might just end up putting him in your flex position before you know it. Is kind of my take on Kenny Gainwell. No. I'm I'm in. You you want murky situations and Gainwell. The money is very important to me. That they pursued him and they said. What did they give him? You know it's it's not.

It was like cash or. Yeah. Credit cards. It's it's it's Amazon gift cards. Hey that's. It was nine point. Nine point. And a guaranteed worth up to 14. OK. Two years. Yeah. Two years. I mean it's not. It's not the most money. But. He's got to be thrilled. This is a player that looked like a bit part player that became a feature player. You know you you said a lot about Rashad White. We saw Rashad White. Where we had to begrudgingly. Accept what he was able to do in this offense catching the football. And he caught like every pass. And then what Bucky Irving came and caught every pass.

Like I think maybe Baker is really good at throwing to running backs. Yeah. For sure. I will say that it's it's a very very good match between the quarterback and running back. And the skills and what they excel at is a great match. It's really comes down to Bucky. Because if Bucky gets back to rookie Bucky and he's explosive and he is the star that he was. They'll use him in that way. He will be more of a workhorse. But if he can't get back and currently he's injured and he is undersized. Or the efficiency is where he was last year.

Right. Exactly. Or he doesn't. Yeah. He's not that same explosive guy. Then they will get Gainwell on the field way more than we will want. And he'll score fantasy points. Because when you catch. I mean he had 114 targets last year. Obviously different team. Different situation. But that's the. You know not every running back can ever get 100 targets. You watched. You said you watched Rodgers. Yes. You were watching some Rodgers tape. Do you understand why Kenneth Gainwell got that amount of targets? Yes. Because you. He can't throw down the field anymore. And he's coming back. Rodgers. Rodgers is back.

Who's going to catch the ball to the backfield? Jalen Warren. Yeah. Warren or Rico. I don't know. They both can. What about your guy? Caleb Johnson. No. That's not my guy. Heidenreich's my guy. That's who's going to. Oh. That's who's going to emerge. Yeah. The Swiss Navy knife. Swiss Navy knife. Yeah. Not our. Is that what they call it? No. Yeah. I think. Someone did. Did he go to Navy? Yeah. He was from Navy. Oh my gosh. The Swiss. It's great. It's a great name. I think it was their running backs coach that coined that. Oh man. It's no Dumpty.

No. Wow. But it's pretty good. Next Tuesday. That's Dr. Dumpty. It's Dumpty MD. Next Tuesday. Underrated. Overrated. That was a super fun show last year. I'm looking forward to that one. Where we go through a handful. Maybe. Maybe up to 10 situations. In fantasy. And some stuff like some rules and league settings and stuff. And we marked them. You know. We just vote. Live on the show. Are they underrated? Overrated situations? Do we agree? Do we not? That was a blast last year. We're going to do that on Tuesday. And we'll get into some surprising teams on Thursday's episode. And some mailbag as well.

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