The Fantasy MVP Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/30

And then you look at the rest of your roster and it's good because you didn't go with Sam Leporta because you didn't go with Travis Kelsey. You let the value drop to you. Every week you're good at tight end and the rest of your roster is loaded. So to me, that's how I'm defining my fantasy MVP this year. And obviously I'm taking him at nine. Along with Cooper Cup. Yeah, what a great pick. Will you get both? I can't. Yeah, I'm a defending champ. Now I see how you were the champ. All right, well, one more fantasy MVP pick to go. Mike is up and why is it Rico Dattle? It is not Rico Dattle for all out there guessing. He was already on the bold projections or predictions. I was really upset that we didn't have drops announcing our pick because I really wanted to tank Biggsby Andy here. Oh, my God. I really want. I was like, how can we take Biggsby again? But all right. Go take Biggsby. My fantasy MVP.

It's Ken Bone Walker, Seattle Seahawks running back. He is going in the back of the fourth. That's just his name now. It is. It certainly is. It feels good. You'll get a chance to try it on when we're talking about the studs and duds. Can I just jump in momentarily because it's worth it? Mike has been calling him Ken Bone Walker for way too long. Way like since. And no, no, no. I got to share this. Because we're about to get back into the studio watching these games every Sunday. And let me tell you, when the Seattle Seahawks get, when they get inside the 20, Mike will scream, he's in the bone zone. Okay. So if you want to play along.

Oh, man, it's true. You just know that Mike is somewhere. Yeah. Especially if they're within the tin. It's the bone zone. For all the political junkies out there, this is a super sick, really current reference. Yes. Kinbone. Ken Bone Walker, go on. You're MVP. So here's the deal. The bone zone from weeks one through 10. You for, we forget weeks one through 10. He was the running back six guys. And he had already been through his by week in that time. And he's sitting at running back six. He gets hurt in week 11, unfortunate. But so in that time, he was seeing 77% of the running back attempts. If he had finished there, that would be tied for the fifth highest RB share at the end of the season. He gets back from his injury. 82% of the running back attempts went to Kenneth Walker. That would have been the third highest mark on the season. Yes, here is the...

The part that needs to increase for him. Again, I'm not even, all the explosive plays, all that's built in. Only an 8% target share. We need a little bit more than that to get him to be a truly elite difference making running back. The Pete Carroll era, they're just, as a whole, that wasn't part of their system. Running back targets were just not something that they went with. And the new offensive coordinator, Grubb, he's already talking about. We need to up this. It could be coach speak, but he's talking about Kenneth Walker, he's a good pass catcher. We need to get him involved in that area of the game more and more. The Seattle Seahawks were dead last in offensive plays last year, partly because the defense couldn't get the other offense off the field, but it's also just this is part of the way that they were playing football. I expect the tempo to go up under grub. I expect running back targets to go up.

And my point is if Walker can maintain that high 70 percentile of running back attempts, and if you get just a 10 percent target share, like he will be a true difference making running back. And he's going in the back of the fourth. So he is right now, Ken Walker, young explosive running back. He is sandwiched in between Joe Mixen, who's 28. Then we got Camara, who's 29, got James Connor, who's about to turn 30. Or, yeah, Aaron Jones is about to turn 30. I'm sorry. And James Connor, who's 29. And then there's Ken Walker, right there in the mix of those guys. Running backs is always about youth. I'm not saying I'm out on those other guys, but just they're old. If they fall apart this year, it will shock nobody. Right. So Ken Walker is just, he's sitting here. He keeps falling to me. I, like, getting him in the late fourth, getting him in the early fifth as a running back two or even.

to me as a running back one if i load up on three wide receivers in a tight end in those first four rounds he just to me is such a good juicy pick well you look at the explosive place just looking back at his game log last year and you're like okay you know you've got a game where his longest run was 36 yards as longest run was 31 yards his longest run was 45 yards i mean he's constantly he's a whole run hitting big plays yeah look it makes sense and i've i've started to feel like when we get into these drafts, he just sits there. He just sits there as a value. He is a name that people like people don't want to draft him. Yeah. He feels like a reluctant pick for a lot of people. All right. So then if you break it down, what do we got? We got Ken Walker, Dalton Kincaid, Cooper Cup. That's our three.

K. Adams went with Justin Jefferson. JJ went with Brian Thomas Jr., I assume. Matthew Betts with Rashi Rice, Kyle, the Borgogan went with the, I think the NFC. Ben Gretsch, Garrett Wilson, and then we had two Kyle Pitts MVP picks from Rich Reebar and Nathan Yankee. I had thought a lot, guys, about just saying round two. That's my MVP. Round two. If anyone in that round hits, that's dumb. I told you. I told you to make a pick in the second. I'm going to take round one. Oh, my guys are going to be way better than yours. All right. The last chance right now to get into the Megalibol. Go to Megalibol.com for all the details. It's your chance to play with over 16,000 foot clan members. And all of us. I think everyone in this studios in different leagues were all out there playing in the Megalibal. There are a ton of draft times. The draft start tomorrow. They run through September 4th and kickoff is September 5th.

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