Important Questions + Injuries, Rookies, and Unobtanium - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/24

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With the most, of course, for today, Mike the fantasy hitman, right? Welcome into the podcast. This is quite possibly the strangest recording of this show that we have ever had. As you have noticed, I am hosting, which means that Andy Holloway, our fearless captain, is out for the day. His wife came down with some migraine stuff.

And at these times, kids are at home. That means homeschooling needs to be done. So Andy is Papa Bear at home right now. Jason, on the other hand, he had to take care of another family member's kids. So we are being as cautious as we can with everything that's going on. So he's at home. So I'm at home. I'm at home. I'm at the table all by myself in the studio, Jason Moore. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the weirdness. You know, it's been weird even from my side.

But I did not really make the connection that you are literally at the fantasy footballer's studio set table by yourself for the first time ever that one person has sat there for a main show. I'm glad I'm not you. But at least you've got the...

You got Brooks, you've got Jeremy, you've got the producers extraordinary. Look, I've got the support over here that I need. So everything will be 100 on this episode. I'm just letting everyone know that I'm freaking out. And it's really, really bizarre. You heard our great friend of the show, David Attenborough, great friend of the show, letting everybody know about the ultimate draft kit. This thing is getting updated. Look, you're going to be drafting soon. Like a beast.

The chicken card. Ultimate draft kit.com. And do not forget, a dollar from every UDK goes to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Jason, we're going to get right into the quick question. Over the weekend, there was a signing. And this signing went to the Las Vegas Raiders, pass catching specialist at the running back position, Theo Riddick, was signed by the Raiders. It gave me great joy because I was able to launch.

directly into a full troll campaign against Andy, who had just made Josh Jacobs, his my guy, which a lot of the reason for being in all on Josh Jacobs is that his past catching should go up. But we need to talk about this. It's very easy to say, I'm going to ignore Theoretic completely. He has no impact. But here's the thing. This is just another signing. This isn't the first.

So on this team, so they already had Josh Jacobs. They drafted Lynn Bowden, Jr., who was a converted wide receiver, which to me says, that guy's got decent hands for a running back. They re-signed Jalen Rashard. If you don't remember this, they had already added Devonsa Booker, who has been used as a pass-catching specialist. They add Theo Riddick. Jason, are you shook at all? Do you have any trembling going on for Josh Jacobs?

I am not shook. I am not worried about theoretical. And the reality is this. What you just described says that they definitely want to, in my opinion, I believe they want to get their running back more involved in the passing game. They're bringing in passing down backs. Now, the question is, if that's true.

Who is it? Is it Josh Jacobs or is it this hodgepodge of third down specialists? And that is obviously to be determined. But, you know, if I had to bet, if you said, hey, here's a Benjamin. It's yours. You can double it or lose it. You've got to bet on does Theoretic make the roster for week one? I probably bet against it. I mean, maybe I, but it's close. My point is.

This is just a signing that worries people from a pass catching side. Josh Jacobs is a better pass catching back than whoever is on the roster. I mean, Theo Riddick's been great, but he's 29 years old. We haven't seen him since 2018. And when we did see him, he seems like he had lost a step then. So my take on it is I don't think you can completely ignore the fact that the Raiders have added a bunch of depth.

four pass catching running backs. Not all of these guys are going to make the team. They won't all be on the roster when the kickoff actually happens. I don't know who will be. I do side more on that Josh Jacobs should be drafted where you were drafting him. It's not changing that for me, but you got to pay attention. Pay attention in camp. Yeah, we can't forget, though. You know, you talk about, okay, the Adeline Bowden Jr., but, you know, he's a rookie. They bring in Theoretic who hasn't.

done anything in the last couple of years. But they also lost DeAndre Washington, who was a 40 target back last year. So it's not, it's not just last year plus a bunch of running backs minus nobody. So, you know, if we're talking about the Theoretics, we've got to talk about the DeAndre Washington side. Sure. You can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason there at Jason FFL. I am at FF Hitman. Andy is at Andy Holloway.

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News and notes from around the league. All right. It's training camp time, which means that most of this news will not be of the positive nature because it's going to be injury related. But we will do our best to maintain a cheery disposition and figure out what to do with this information. Yeah, you should really give every note here as just real great news. I'm not pretending it's good.

I don't want, but a cheery disposition. And guess what? Guess what? Lions rookie DeAndre Swift suffered a leg injury at Thursday's practice. Oh, man. That's a cheery disposition. So the lion's running back situation is very bizarre. There was, you know, the note that Carrion Johnson, when he came back, he was wearing the knee brace. We have since been updated on that information. And it's Carrie on Johnson is making the decision to play in the brace. Now,

Which to me is like, this is perfectly fine. We've seen players decide I have to wear a brace. You have players who say, I need to get out of this thing immediately. It's hampering me. But if Kerry on Johnson actually feels more secure in his knee with the knee brace on, I think it's a positive thing. When that first report came out, I had already known at that. I did not know that he needed to come out and reclarify. But I, when.

I first saw that he was in the brace, it was somewhat common knowledge that he is choosing to wear the brace. He's not injured. He's choosing to wear the brace and will continue to wear the brace. That's just how he wants to be. And I don't know that that's great news from a mental standpoint that a player feels more comfortable wearing the brace than without. But it is great news in the sense that he's not injured. He's not wearing a brace because of an injury. I mean, he's wearing it because of a former injury, but not because of a current.

injury, and we have seen that before. Dallas Goddard, Eagles, tight end, second backup starting tight end. Who knows with Dallas Goddard these days? He suffered a hairline fracture in one of his thumbs. So you'll have to monitor that situation. The Eagles pass catching options keep.

ping ponging all over where it was reported Greg Ward is the current target leader. Then the Jalen Rager hype was jumping on the back of a dragon. Yet again, Jay, do you have, have you made any movements to the Eagles pass catchers? I have been rising on, and before this news, I've been rising on Zach Ertz, just realizing that every year he's undervalued. And every year we say, well, it's got to take this, that, or the other for him to have that many targets again. And every year, it.

This, that or the other happens. He's the new depth chart assassin. Oh, no. You know, oh, Dejects goes down. Oh, Alshan's not ready now. Now Dallas Goddert has a, you know, we don't know if he's going to have surgery. I don't, I think he's going to be able to avoid it. But yeah, I mean, I do, I am more confident as we approach draft season in taking Zach Ertz right next to Mark Andrews. All right.

49ers rookie wide receiver. It's a tough one. Brandon Ayuk. Hayukin. Left practice early suffering an apparent hamstring injury. The tone when this came through was not positive. It was showing great concern for the rookie who was, it sounded like he was taking over camp. He was establishing himself as the man for the 49ers. They're already dealing with.

with an injury to last year's breakout rookie Debo Samuel. The depth chart for the wide receiver position is now wide open if Ayuk is going to miss time. My take on this is Kendrick Bourne is a player who is not named very frequently for fantasy purposes, but he is the one to watch at the wide receiver position. Of course, George Kittle is the man in San Francisco.

But if you're looking for now a late round chance from the San Francisco wide receivers, to me it's Kendrick Bourne. Jay, are you in on that at all? Or is it just I'm not going to draft anybody from there? I'm not really in on that. I don't know if it's I'm not drafting anybody. You know, if I'm late in a draft and I'm looking for some kind of PPR reliable depth, I do think Trent Taylor is someone that can be involved. But I mean, we joked about this on Slack.

The world of 2020 continues, we could see Dante Pettus be the surprise guy. So because there's Pettus and Bourne and Trent Taylor, I'm pretty much not looking for any of them. And don't forget, I know this is another crazy name to throw out there, but they did also sign Jordan Reed. And I think it would have taken a loss of a few receiving options for him to actually.

get put into the scheme, but they have lost the few receiving options. So this is George Kittle and bust to me. I like the Jordan Reed take. Rams head coach on. Of course you do. Oh, did you say something good about Jordan Reed? I'm in. That's on brand, Mike. Look, he's good, man. When he's on the field, he is. Rule 86. Out of the Rams, running back Darrell Henderson suffered a mild hamstring injury. The team