Free Agency Winners & Losers + Buy/Sell, Pants Check - Fantasy Football Podcast

$21 million cap hit for 2020. Oof. So if you release him, yeah, right. If you release him, there's $7 million dead, but you save $14 million for your cap space. So, um, oh, this just in Kansas City has the least amount of cap space of all 32 teams. Yeah. And, and Watkins has been tweeting as though as if he's not going to be playing for the chiefs. He is, you're right. He has one right now.

but something crazy significant is going to have to happen for him to hang around. We've got some more impressive signings. The Lions have signed Geronimo Allison to a one-year deal. Mediocre signing of the wig. One year, $1 million, Mike. I think it qualifies. Oh, they stole them from a division rival. Oh, what a bold move, Detroit. Got into a bidding war. Ended up at the $1 million mark. I think they overpaid.

Oh, gosh. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't matter for fantasy. Greg Zerline. Cowboys have signed kicker Greg Zerline. Wait, what? I missed that. You did? Yeah. Three-year, $7.5 million contract, Mike. Greg the leg. Greg the leg? Yeah. That's a pretty phenomenal signing. For fantasy, it kind of, I think this is negative in the sense that usually we view the Rams offense as higher power than the Cowboys and thus.

Better for fantasy points for kickers and all that. But, I mean, you look at last year on a points per game basis on Nardage. Dallas outdid the ramp. So maybe this is actually an upgrade for Greg Zerling. All right. The Buccaneers, more news out of Tampa. Bruce Ariens says they are looking to add a pass catching back in free agency. Not good for Daray Agung Boale.

It's not good for any of them. Not good for Ronald Jones. Yeah. Payton Barber's gone, so it seemed like, well, maybe Ronald Jones can be it. But Bruce Ariens needs his running back to be able to catch. So when they draft J.K. Dobbins, it will be very exciting. I don't think they're spending a high capital pick. I think that Ronald Jones will end up with the majority of the work there. I really do. I am firmly in the camp that they will spend a high.

a high-end pick. I mean, you have to get Tom Brady a pass catching back for his dump on with that offensive line and the problems they have. So what? You want to make a little, uh, little, make it interesting? A little bit based on the rounds. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Top two. I don't think they'll spend the top. Uh, uh,

You said top two? You were going to let me have three, weren't you? No, no, no, no. I wasn't totally not. Oh, yeah, sure. I can't believe you didn't say a day two. Top two rounds. How about this? How about this? I hadn't agreed. Water bet. You offered it. I'm the one that has to agree. That's true. A third round. A third round is a push. A third round is a push. A third round is a push. I was going to say the top three rounds. I didn't expect it. So.

It'll be fun. Interesting to see. The draft is on as planned April 23rd through the 25th. Do remember Bruce Ariens wanted to draft, I mean, granted, maybe it was the wrong move, but he wanted to draft Amir Abdullah in the second round. I guess he did. Bruce Ariens will draft the second round running back or influences GM to make that move. So you're on team second round then, Mike? I'm on day two, yeah. All of their.

all of their signings in free agency have been focused on the defense. I think the draft is going to be focused on the offense. Interesting. Interesting. Okay. All right. Any other news that you guys want to get into? I mean, I kind of cut you off there where you were saying that the draft is going to happen. The 23rd through the 25th. We'll see what it actually looks like. Having the NFL to look forward to having free agency, the draft, this is a very welcome distraction from.

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All right, we're almost into April. It's time to pick some winners and losers from free agency this far. I don't know who wants to kick it off. I think I'm going to throw it to Mike. We're going to pick some winners first. All right. So my, I mean, my biggest winner, I mean, it was really, really tough, honestly, for me to go between DJ Moore and Kenyon Drake as the biggest winner of this free agent slash all the movements that...

like the transactions that have taken place. But I went with Kenyon Drake. He's my biggest winner. I think he is going to be absolutely outstanding in eight games with Arizona. He had 123 carries for 643 yards and eight touchdowns, 28 receptions on 35 targets. Now, I'm not calling for the efficiency that Kenyon Drake had to continue. And honestly, that, like, that's not, that's not why I'm so excited. That's,

That certainly helps you feel a bit more confident, but it was the opportunities that Kenyon Drake had as the starting running back for Arizona. Fifteen and a half carries a game, four and a half targets. That's what he was averaging. He was averaging 20 opportunities per game. He was the running back three in points per game after he took over for Arizona. Games when they won, I mean, they won a couple games. They won a couple games last year. Kenyon Drake, 20 plus carries.

in those games. Games when they're trailing, guess what? The targets go up. They are committed to Kenyon Drake after they were able to trade David Johnson away to the Houston Texans. The team is cap-strapped right now, but they still committed over $10 million to have Kenyon Drake come back to this team. And I don't know if people had heard about this. The Arizona Cardinals...

Also traded for DeAndre Hopkins. Yes. Yes, I actually just heard that as well. I want to remind people. Oh, yeah. And look, the team is better now. The team gets better with DeAndre Hopkins. You have more scoring opportunities, more drives extended because you have a superstar elite wide receiver that they got for basically free. Kenyon Drake was as much. Can you Drake was as much of a fit.

in the positive sense in the Kingsbury system as DJ wasn't, as David Johnson wasn't. There was just a congruency to, and he didn't need acclamation. I mean, you remember his first game against San Francisco, who had stopped everybody. Kenyon Drake was a perfect fit to come in and make those, you know, instinctual type of plays in that system. It just was a fit. I have been hearing a lot more hype.

about this offense. I've also heard the comparisons to Cleveland and the Browns and what they did in the offseason last year and the excitement for Cleveland may be manifesting in this excitement in Arizona. We'll see what happens. It's rare that the hype delivers entirely. That being said, Kenyon Drake is being paid to have, I mean, a huge role, right? Yes, for sure. And like I said, 20 opportunities a game.

That's what I want from my running back. And the Cardinals, even if they're just like a middle of the pack scoring team, which this offense has the ability to be a top 12 scoring team. So, I mean, you're talking massive upside. But even if they don't hit that upside, Drake is still, he's still going to be a running back one in my projections. Yeah, I agree completely. And one of the one of the, I mean, look, this is super early, but.

I've already been thinking about my guys. And, you know, as a Kenyan Drake truth or his entire career, right? Part of the thing that I like about him is I know how much people don't believe in him. I mean, you know, you've got years of him not really being great outside of a stretch when there were no other running backs healthy on the roster. And Adam Gates had to use him as a dolphin. Otherwise.

You know, when there's a player who's had a career and a lot of years of not having success, and then he's thrust into a position where we've seen a little bit of success, but it hasn't really happened. You know, you don't know for sure what's going to happen in a full workload on a 16-game basis. You're not going to have his average draft position, I believe, get out of control. I think there's going to be a lot of people talking him down, talking about not being able to be able to the workload.

I don't think so. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. I know how many people out there are anti-Kinian drakers. Speaking of 16-game pace, Jason, do you know what his 16-game pace in Arizona was? It had to be over 1,200 yards on the ground, I guarantee you that. 16 touchdowns, I believe, 1,300 rushing yards and 56 receptions. But that is the, you know, to try to avert anybody's Homer ambitions here, that is 100%. The problem in question with Kenyon Drake is workload.

capability. I mean, he went from his entire career, he's averaged, you know, like seven or eight attempts per game on the ground. In eight games in Arizona, he's up at 15.4 attempts per game over that eight game span. Can he sustain that? Will the Cardinals utilize more of Chase Edmonds than we expect? You know, we don't think so, but we still haven't seen it. And there's been enough players that have had great efficiency at low volume that have diminished,

you know, that efficiency is diminished over time. So very, I think there's a lot of reasons to be optimistic. I think you're 100% right that he's a free agency winner, but just to try to temper the expectations. I think there will be a lot of hype around them. Arizona's offense is already getting a lot of publicity, you know, power rankings came out today. They're moving up as a wild card contender. A bunch of bandwagoners. Yeah, it's right. But did you have anything else who wanted to add on that one, Mike? Nope.

He's going to be great. Jason, I'm a big fan of one of your two winners here. So why don't you go ahead? So the two winners that I was pointing out, just basically packing them together because they're both middling meh, tight ends. And that would be Haydenhurst.