Top 10 Fantasy Football MVPs for 2020 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/2

this year. Yeah, I also think this is, ironically enough, good news for Alvin Camara. It's another running back kind of helping to set the market. This was a somewhat team-friendly deal compared to Christian McCaffrey's. It was a little less than Derek Henry's, because that's the other big news here, right, is the ongoing, crazy up and down, quick news roller coaster that has been Alvin Camara over the last 24 hours. If you haven't.

followed along. It was, you know, we were reporting yesterday that he had been out for three unexcused absences. It was contract related. Migrants. Yes, exactly. Well, I did have that thought of like, you know, right before the contract got landed, Mixon was gone for a little while. And now Camara is stepping aside and, you know, maybe they land on a contract here. Then there was.

The Saints are open to trading Camara. The report came out and lots of people backed that up and said, yeah, my sources say they are open to it. So now it's like, is he going to be traded? Negotiating in public. It's very nice. That's exactly what it is. And I think the end result here is the Saints would like to sign him. There is a gap in what Camara wants versus what the Saints want. The Saints aren't going to bend to a Christian McCaffrey level at all.

and they would rather trade him than sign him to something like that. But I do think that they get a deal done here and he's in. But in all of that, there was another piece of news. Kind of lost among the contract discussion. Yeah. And that is that while he wasn't out just for contract reasons, it was because he had an epidural in his spine. That's where you get him. That is. I mean, I guess that's fair. That's that's where you get them. But.

That's not good news. The reason that Alvin Camaro was eight or nine in my rankings all offseason had to do with the injury problems last year, concussion problems the year before, the fact that this team has invested in Latavius Murray. And the counterpoint of that being he's always had somebody else in the backfield and he's always ended up in the top five or six range. But it's what you want in that top pick. It wasn't.

meant to be disrespectful to where he could finish. It's meant to be, what do I want in my top pick and feeling slightly less confident in Alvin Camara? This was news to me, though, this epidural. This was something that you should be paying attention to in your league if you're making a decision because everybody's doing that. I'm picking four, five, six. Do I want Derek Henry? Do I want Clyde Edwards-Alair? Do I want Alvin Cook? Do I want Alvin Camara? Does this actually concern you heading into the season? The contract.

Issue concerns me more than the epidural, but the epidural is information that can't just be thrown out. What it means is not, it means he's dealing with back pain and that normal, less aggressive methods of dealing with that had obviously been ineffective. And so he got this. It's not outlandish or, you know, an uncommon thing for a player to get an injection to relieve pain. So don't.

overblow this. The nice thing is they work as well. So he might hit the season feeling real, real nice. But it is worth noting that his body's a little hurting right now. I honestly didn't know that was available to me. Oh, yeah. I got epidurals in the back. You come on down. I'll give them. It's like the preventative walking boot. I want you administering that to me in my spine. That's exactly what I want.

Dr. Jason. Don't move. Pause. You moved. All right. Leonard Farnett cleared waivers. He is a free agent. I'm going to bring up one rumor because it entertains me because of Mike. NFL reporter for fan cited tweeted that the chiefs have potential interest, potential interest in Leonard Farnett, now that he has cleared waivers.

Why can't we just have nice things? Like it, we just have these top draft picks be like, you're locked and loaded, you're healthy, your contract is good, you've got no competition, come on, people. Now, Mike was quick in the studio to dismiss this with no real concern. Yeah, for fantasy purposes, let's say Kansas City does in fact sign Leonard Fournett, I will care 0.0%. Like, number one, it doesn't really make sense. The reason why,

Shady made sense last year is Andy Reid had coached him before. Like they had a professional relationship. It's let's see if this player who was great for me before. Let's see if he has anything left, which Andy Reid determined that he ultimately did not. Leonard Fournett, he doesn't take snaps away from Clyde Edwards Aller. As much as, you know, I'm all in. I am absolutely 100% all in on Edwards.

a layer. But you also know that when you have the number one guy for Kansas City, you aren't getting Christian McCaffrey 90% snap counts. You aren't getting that type of a workload. You're getting a guy who's on the field maybe 60% of the time. But it doesn't matter because of the value of the snaps, the values of he's going to have so many receptions, touchdown opportunity. He's a better player than Darrell Williams. He could demand a slightly larger.

time share chunk than Darrow was. I think you've got CEH blinders on if you think that them signing Leonard Fournet would not have an impact on the amount of carries and, you know, opportunities that he'll receive. That's not to say he wouldn't be the lead guy or good, but it definitely would have an impact. I mean, you wouldn't, you wouldn't bring in an extra body to not give him the ball at all. And he is better than Darrell Williams. I know we mock Leonard Fournette about his efficiency numbers, but.

Keep in mind, they handed the ball to Leonard Fournett, left, right, and center with Gardner Minch who a six-round rook? Like, what was the defense trying to do? Fornett will face six-man fronts in Kansas City on his opportunities as well. Yeah, Fournett is. I mean, we've had, what, Damien Williams. Yeah, exactly. Thank you.

that I have besmirched the talent, but loved the fantasy. So, I mean, here's a deal. He's not going there. I don't think they have the cap room. I don't think the fit makes sense. I will be interested to see where he lands, but he's not of himself going to be a value. He's just going to wreck someone else. Yeah, you wouldn't be interested in Fournet in that situation, or would you? No, I don't think so. I mean, I'm interested as a dynasty owner of Fournet, praying he goes somewhere of Dynasty manager of Fournet. So, um,

Yeah, I'm interested, but I think that it will be more a matter of... I think you would have to draft him if he was in Kansas City. You would have to draft him because of the upside of him taking over in an injury or that situation would be just too great. Sure. We have an update. David Blaine is over 23,000 feet in the air right now. So this is good. I'm glad we're play by playing this on a podcast. I'm afraid for him right now. This is spectacular. He actually just dropped.

He's parachuting. Oh, is he? Oh, okay. You got to get a little quicker to the parachute part. He released it 25,000 feet. I have no frame of reference. Has the parachute opened per chance? Not yet. Okay. Keep us posted, Al. Cliff Kingsbury said Kenyon Drake is close to returning to practice in full. Jason, your thoughts? I think that is great, but obviously I see this as, I still see this as bad news.

I mean, it's just a matter of glass half full, glass half empty. I want them healthy. And whenever you say you're close, that means you're not healthy. Almost there. Right. But it is funny, the perspective difference you have on certain players, right? Like, this is bad news, you know, when Kenya Drake is almost ready. It's bad news we were talking about Amari Cooper is just doing individual drills. He hasn't been with a team. But it's been good news that A.J. Brown has been back to.

individual drills where he's still not practicing with the team in full. So a matter of perspective. The parachute has opened, which is similar to how I felt falling with Joe Mixen until the contract was the parachute opening up. Tyrell Williams, wide receiver for the Raiders, injured reserve, torn labrum, season is over.

Pay attention to Brian Edwards at the back of your draft. I was asked yesterday outside of the big rookie, Judy, Rager, Lamb, these guys, Jefferson, should you pay attention to anybody at the back of your draft? Yep. Sound the alarm for Brian Edwards. You may have more volume than Henry Ruggs. And maybe pay more attention to Henry Ruggs, too. In our family league, you dropped Jalen Rager to pick up.

Brian Edwards. I did. I did. I want to see how that works first few weeks of the year. I'm not going to be waiting. I don't want to maybe attached with a late round pick in the terms of like when they get back. When you talk about buying the injury dip, like Mike Williams. I don't want to think maybe he works with Tyrod Taylor four weeks into the season. If somebody's coming back, I want it to be debaul. I want it to be somebody I know will be good when they come back. And then the athletic is reporting. We talked about it yesterday. Tyrod Taylor.

We'll start most, if not all of the games in 2020. It's interesting because Cam Newton has been the guy I've been targeting as my late round quarterback because late round guys, you want him to have the rushing upside because that is just the difference maker. That's part of Tyraud Taylor's game. He becomes more interesting now that there is actual like a ground swell, whispers from the bushes that Tyra might be the guy.

for the vast majority of the season. So to me, that turns into a guy that you could draft. I don't know off the top of my head who the Chargers play the first couple weeks. Their first week is really tough. They played the number one pick from last year, the Cincinnati Bengals.

So it was a sarcasm. It was sarcasm. Oh, Tyrod should be a little bit in play. When you've got a mobile quarterback that runs the ball, we've talked about this. That's the cheat code. He will put up large fantasy performance. Let me just illustrate, though, from his career, because I looked into him early this morning. You know, this is a player that's going to throw for around 3,000 yards. This is a player that has never thrown. I think 20 touchdowns is his career high on a season. The majority of his, like, full work was, you know.

15, 17, 20 range. That's what you should expect through the air. He's had rushing seasons in the 500 range. I haven't projected in the 400 range at this stage in his career, but you're right. I mean, when you can run the football, that could lead to rushing touchdowns of the quarterback position. He's ranked ahead of Drew Locke in my rankings. So, you know, that's not saying very much for where that is. Bengals, week one.

Kansas City week two, you probably don't want in on that. And then Carolina, week three. So, I mean, I don't know. Could get off to a strong stuff. Yeah, you might want to look at that. Before we jump into the fantasy MVP's, look, Foot Clan, you've heard us talk about them for years now, but just in case there are some of you who haven't been paying attention. Maybe you're not hip with the times. Yeah, you've got to be a cool cat. Yeah.

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