Fantasy Football 2017 - Big Trades, Rising Stars, Rookie Recap + Pre. Wk 1

for for chicago there you go and then this is it's super deep and it could be the brock osweiler talking but set just set deval tied in for cleveland got a couple deep shots and like i said that could just be because it's brock oswiler who only targets the tight end because he's too afraid to throw to a wide receiver and in joke is still recovering right yeah but just just a name to keep in mind last

Football. Yeah. We're going to jump into a couple mailbag questions because I don't want to end the show without getting to some listener questions. Real quick, though, where do you draft Zeke? That was one thing we didn't touch that earlier. Where do you draft Ezekiel Elliott? I think that's the question that I accidentally buried when we were flying through the news. Yeah, we need to talk about it. But how and where, I think it's, let me put it this way. We've had the show going into our third full season. I'm looking at the Zeke situation today as the most challenging.

piece of advice that we need to give listeners because of all the variables of an appeal, possibly missed games, the impact a player like Ezekiel Elliott would have on your team when you get to start him. Where are you drafting? The threat of even more punishments. I think that the range of outcomes. So first round, you cannot draft Ezekiel Elliott. And it sucks because almost every question I fielded over this weekend was, okay, do I keep Zeke is my first round keeper.

And if you're playing for 2018 and you want to hold on to those rights as his Zika is your keeper, then yes. But you cannot have him in the first round. I think that his ADP is going to be anywhere from the second to the fourth or maybe he falls into the fifth round. Because we did our stat adjustments where we essentially removed six games of production from Elliott and he falls. He's still an RB1 because that's how far.

up his production is and what he can do for your team. If I'm in a draft, which I still haven't faced it yet, so I have not faced the actual, I'm in a live decision I have to do this. I think I would draft him in the fourth round, but I just, when it actually comes to it and those other guys, the other names are looking at me and they're high-tiered, they're going to play those first six weeks. I'm not sure that I can pull the trigger. I can...

say that fifth round, I would do it. I'm willing to take a fifth round guy, sit on my bench for six weeks, and believe that I have a top three running back for the rest of the season. Yeah, rankings wise for me, he looks like he's going to be about a third round guy. So I would have to make that decision based on who I believe I could pair with him late for those first few weeks. And also, what is the size of my bench? Most leagues are either five or six bench spots. And if you've got five bench spots,

I'm more inclined to push him back towards, you know, the fourth or maybe take him, you know, wait to the fifth, which means I probably won't get him. If I've got that sixth bench spot, you know, because when you have him, assuming he can't go on your IR, which some leagues, system players can't. Most players, yeah, most places you cannot. The last time I played on NFL.com, you could.

Which is an absolute, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Especially that it's the NFL.com that is allowing suspended. You can't put a player who has been labeled out into that slot like you can for ESPN. But you do need to keep that in mind because if you draft Zeke, that removes a bench spot for you to be able to make waiver wire adjustments, to make streaming quarterback, streaming tight-in, streaming defensive pickups for those reasons.

All right, let's go ahead and jump in the mailbag. Mailbag. All right, if you have a question for the podcast, we'd love to answer it. Go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click the submit a question button in the menu, or you can dial our voicemail hotline. 302464 TFFB. We'll get to as many as we can. This show is all about making your team better, helping you enjoy your fantasy football season, all the more. So let's jump into a voicemail question to kick things off.

Hi, this is Khadine from Edmonton. Watch all your guys podcast. Love you guys. I have a question. We have a 12-team PPR league that is three keepers. We started last year, so our keepers are set. For the next year, should we do a snake or a linear draft? Thanks, guys. Good question. I like the question. We do a three-keeper league, and we have decided on going linear, and I like it. I think it helps balance.

You know, year after year, you've got the great teams who are going to have the better keepers and they, you know, won the championship. Put them at the bat. I think that the, what your actual, what you give up to keep, it plays a factor into this. So for our keeper, we're linear, but it's, you just get three keepers. It doesn't remove a draft spot from you. And my other two keeper, you give up essentially the ADP for the player. So it just stays a snake draft. Yep.

Ryan and Florida, just curious how many leagues each of you guys are in and how you manage to keep up with all of them. Thank you. Love the show. The answer is too many. How do you keep up with all of them? You don't. You don't. No, what you do is you prioritize. I mean, that's the truth. We own a lot of, we're in leagues together as a group a lot, which helps for our peripheral leagues. Like we're in the, that fantasy pros is invitational and Scotty Fish, but we own a league together as a team.

So that makes it easy to stand top of kind of the peripheral leagues. We just always assume someone else is going to do something. Right. That's why we lose. I'm in three that I really, really care about and pay attention to. Yeah. I mean, I think I'm in six or seven, you know, real leagues this year. But there's three that I'm going to pay attention to. Strong. You'll still pay attention to you. No, of course. But three that I really care about, I'm going to be grinding on. All right. Another voicemail. Hey, guys. This is Andrew in Idaho. Love the show.

I was just calling because I'm wondering what you're willing to give up to get the first pick in the draft. I'm drafting you the back of my draft about eight. And I was thinking of offering that pick plus a third rounder for the first overall pick plus a tenth. Anyways, an answer would be great. Love the show again. Thanks. In your example, I'd do that in a heartbeat. Yeah, I'd give up my third round pick and my number eight overall. And a tenth. No, he said he'd get back a tenth. Oh.

to get the number one in a heartbeat. It's not a question. Having a player like David Johnson or Levi-on-Bell, your choice is a game breaker for me. So a third-round pick, more than happy to do it. The exercise we always advise is put names to these players. So he said the eighth spot. Yeah. So you're looking at Freeman or AJ Green. So let's say, would you trade Devante Freeman and Torell Pryor for David Johnson?

Yes. If the answer is yes, then you make the trade. And if it was that he also is giving up a 10th, I would do that as well. I mean, Andy talks about this all time. That's garbage. There's nothing. You just sweeten the pot. You make it seem like it's a trade that you can't turn down. I believe he did say he's going to get it back. Yeah, he'd get the 10. All right. Two quarterback question from Andrew in Roanoke, Virginia, 10 team PPR with a Superflex. Keep Devante Freeman for a 16th or Rogers for a second.

Freeman? Yeah. Yeah. I'll take the, I'll take Freeman for free. It's unanimous. Michael Bell off of Twitter wants to know what's the earliest round you're going to draft Kareem Hunt in? Hmm. Earliest round for Kareem Hunt would probably be, I'll say eighth round for me. Yeah, right now players going on the eighth. You've got to quiz, which I still think that's a bit too high. Yeah, eighth round looks pretty good. I mean, that's where you've got.

Hunt going right now, Somaget P. Ryan. In the seventh round, you've got players that I'm going to take over Hunt, like Terrence West and Frank Gore. Yeah, I feel like the seventh round is win. Seventh round, you might be able to take. Starting caliber guys fade away, and then you're just starting to take your shots on the players you like. All right. Last question. Hassan in Raoul. That's what it says. He's inside Raoul, it sounds like a person. Bonjour. Which me, that's definitely a bonjour.

I don't know where Raul is. He could be anywhere. Raoul's in his vehicle right now driving around. Brooks, do you know where Raoul is? Sounds so dumb right now. We do not sound dumb. I don't think Raul is a normal place that you should know. Spell. Spell it for me. R-A-U-L. It's a person's name. All right. It's like he's... Get out of Raoul.

He doesn't want you in there. Maybe it's a delightful place. I'm sure. I meant the person. If you're inside a person, get out. I don't like this conversation. Brooks, did you find it? I can't find it. This is dangerous. I have the seventh pick in a standard league. Maybe he meant Raleigh. Okay. I have the seventh pick in a standard league and I feel like it's the hardest draft spot this season. Who would you guys go with in a standard league? McCoy, AJ Evans, Jordy, or someone else. Love the show. Keep up the awesome work.

It's funny. The seventh has been a really easy pick. If McCoy is there, I'll take McCoy. With the Zeke News, McCoy's probably going to go at six. Yeah, probably. And if, so McCoy would be the pick if he is on the board. If he is not on the board, I lean towards AJ Green. I'm with you. And I would take either Freeman or Jordy. You would take free. You're saying if McCoy's not there. Right. Those are the, if I want running back.

I'm likely taking Freeman. If I want a wide receiver, I would take Jordy. All right. Hey, we're back in the rankings again tomorrow. I believe it's quarterbacks. Am I right, Brooks? Oh, yeah. That's my team. Got the quarterback rankings show tomorrow. Make sure you stay tuned. Check us out on YouTube. Check us out on Apple Podcasts, and we will. Woo! That's loud. Check out Playdraft.com slash ballers if you want to play some best ball with us. Love their app. Got to get it. Goodbye. Take it easy.

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