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The 2025 “My Guys” Episode! | Fantasy Football 2025 - Ep. 1783

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Episode notes & curated moments 12 records
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The eleventh My Guys show counts the Dante Pettis pivot to reach 100

The hosts declare the episode the eleventh My Guys ceremony. Kyle’s count reaches 100 all-time selections only if the old Dante Pettis pivot is included, and the room immediately decides that it counts before defining the day as three 2025 flag plants per host.

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Odell’s agent puts Pelissero on the take and creates a pantry wager

The desk treats Tom Pelissero’s report of interest in Odell Beckham as an agent favor and says he is on the take. A host then wagers that if Beckham signs, he will eat cold SpaghettiOs mixed with cottage cheese during the show—even while admitting that a health kick has made the meal sound appealing.

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Matt nearly breaks last year’s Odell-to-Baltimore news

Matt prepares the breaking-news button after seeing a Slack item that Beckham is going to Baltimore, then realizes it describes the prior year’s signing. The hosts call him a buffoon and thank him for nothing while the published video cuts to three producers under the Deucers Alley sign.

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The unpaid My Guys horror film survives another threatened redo

After talk that the annual video would be redone, someone says the replacement was canceled and the existing red-curtain clip plays in full. The three hosts appear as crudely composited performers with awkward mouth animation; the desk calls it horrific, a horror movie, and the product of a prime animator paid zero dollars.

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A listener predicts Jason’s complete slate and earns a swag pack

After hundreds of guesses, the desk finds at least one person who correctly named Jason’s three My Guys and immediately promises the listener a swag pack.

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Nine full-screen cards establish the 2025 My Guys board

The exact 2025 board is Andy—Jameson Williams, Omarion Hampton, Tyler Warren; Jason—George Kittle, George Pickens, Emeka Egbuka; Mike—Chase Brown, TreVeyon Henderson, Tetairoa McMillan. Every selection receives a full-screen white player-photo card and then a persistent lower-left cutout, and the closing roll call confirms the three trios.

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Georgie Porgy saves smelling salts with a retirement threat

Jason reveals George Kittle as Georgie Porgy pudding and pie, then says smelling salts were outlawed for about a minute until Kittle called the office and threatened retirement, forcing their immediate return.

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Hundredth percentile becomes the show’s new superlative

Hampton’s yards-after-contact ranking makes the hosts stop over the unfamiliar phrase 100th percentile. They decide it is technically correct and announce that whoever leads anything can now be called hundredth percentile.

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Pickens changes hands, then turns the whole desk dynamite red

Jason says he pried George Pickens from Mike’s cold dead hands. Mike agrees that they made a jersey swap after Pickens spent months on the My Guy board, and Jason claims the selection. When asked whether he received a lit stick of dynamite, Jason says he will throw it at an opponent; the published edit washes close-ups of all three hosts in deep red.

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Mike cannot pivot away from the speed demon

Mike says he normally saves My Guys slots for players he has not discussed ad nauseam and tried to pivot because everyone already knew his TreVeyon Henderson conviction. He finally admits, ‘I can’t resist. I can’t stop it,’ reveals Henderson, and calls him the demon and an absolute speed demon.

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Jason closes with two first-name Georges

In the final roll call Jason lists George Kittle, ‘George,’ and Emeka Egbuka. The room pauses, confirms that Pickens is just George, observes that Jason has two Georges, and rejects Eddie George as a third because only first names count.

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Episode notes

Complete review of the published video shows Mike at left in a black shirt and purple cap, Jason at center in glasses and a black cap, and Andy at right in a dark graphic shirt. A brief Deucers Alley cut at 11:58 shows three human producers while the dialogue identifies Matt’s stale Odell Beckham Slack item; the other two seats are not assigned by inference. No fourth desk host, cardboard bear, Jay Griz image, Jay theme, or Jay sound cue appears. The standard opening montage contains generic bear footage around 00:08, immediately followed by a produced five-human WITH THE DUCERS card, but neither element identifies Jay. The static green, purple, and black object at the center of the desk is a Fantasy Faceoff football helmet. The episode calls itself the eleventh My Guys show and reaches 100 all-time selections only by counting the old Dante Pettis pivot. Before the ceremony, Tom Pelissero is accused of being on the take for Odell Beckham’s agent, and a host wagers that an Odell signing will force him to eat cold SpaghettiOs with cottage cheese on the show. Matt nearly fires breaking news from a Slack item saying Odell is going to Baltimore, only to discover that the post describes the prior year; the camera visits Deucers Alley while the hosts call him a buffoon and thank him for nothing. The annual red-curtain My Guys bumper then plays in full with crude host compositing and mouth animation. The desk calls it horrific, a horror movie, and the work of a prime animator paid zero dollars. One listener correctly predicted Jason’s entire slate and is promised a swag pack. Full-screen reveal cards and persistent lower-left cutout graphics establish the exact 2025 board: Andy chooses Jameson Williams, Omarion Hampton, and Tyler Warren; Jason chooses George Kittle, George Pickens, and Emeka Egbuka; Mike chooses Chase Brown, TreVeyon Henderson, and Tetairoa McMillan. These are photographs and graphics only; no NFL player appears physically. Around the selections, Kittle becomes Georgie Porgy and supposedly rescues smelling salts by threatening retirement, the hosts discover the rhetorical power of calling any leader 100th percentile, and Jason says he pried Pickens from Mike’s cold dead hands through a jersey-swap arrangement after months on the My Guy board. Pickens is compared with a lit stick of dynamite; the published edit turns the three hosts red for several seconds during the riff. Mike admits he tried to pivot away from the already over-discussed TreVeyon Henderson but could not resist his absolute speed demon. The closing roll call confirms all nine picks and reinforces the established George shorthand when Jason lists Kittle, ‘George,’ and Egbuka, giving him two first-name Georges.

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Everybody, including Chase Brown. Checking out offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher earlier this summer. Chase Brown is going to, by the end of the season, be a household name. He is everything Austin Echler was. You all know who he is. Talking about Austin Echler. And honestly, to throw out the Austin Echler comp is perfection. Chase Brown was a later, Chase Brown was a day three guy. Echler was undrafted, but essentially a player who had to truly work his way up. and become the focal point of the running back position for a team. And if you're out there saying, well, it's just, it's a one-year thing here for Chase Brown. And I'm saying absolutely it is not going to be that. The depth chart, you know, yeah, they took Taj Brooks in the third round, and they got Somaget P. Ryan. Yeah, of course, P. Ryan's going to get some veteran snaps. The third day, not the third round. Or, yeah, did I say third round? Yeah, Todd Brooks was a late round pick. Todd Brooks was a day three pick.

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Somaget P. Ryan will, he'll be in there. But he was in there when Joe Mixon was there. It's difficult. And one of the reasons why I think all of us are very enthusiastic about Chase Brown and have been. It's really hard to make the case of how it goes poorly for him this season. That's one of the things. Like there's not a really good, you know, nothing in the off season, nothing in the training camp, nothing in the draft room, nothing in the depth chart, nothing in the offense. It's all positive. Yes. It's just for fantasy players, not quite the

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pedigree or years of history to drive him up in to a place where like eventually, look, Echler was very similar. Yeah, it took time. Echler did not get anointed a top five draft pick to start, you know, it was a committee year with Melvin Gordon and then it became, oh, he can do more? And then it's like, oh, do I trust, do I trust just the passing down back with Echler? And like, it took a lot of level ups. Yes, and it did. And so we can look at, you know, it's not apples to apples, of course, because these guys came from all different.

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places in terms of draft pedigree, but it's looking at running backs over the last decade who hit 15 or more PPR points per game in year two, like Chase Brown did. The list is incredible. It's 18 running backs in the sample, and 12 of them maintained the 15 or more points per game. So it's just like we're talking McCaffrey, Zeke, Melvin Gordon, Camara, Chubb. Kyron, James Connor, Joe Mixon, you know, Johnny Taylor. It's just, it is a list of hits. And then there's just, there's a couple misses in here, TRO CTN. But the point is historically this profile, especially past catchers, it's turned into fantasy success. And there is, there, the downside is not even is not.

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it's not in the ADP. He's not going in the second round, which I'm okay taking him in the second round. Like I would be perfectly happy starting with a wide receiver and Chase Brown is my RB1. That's what my confidence is. I totally take him in the second round. I would totally be willing. We saw it already. I mean, we lived it. We lived it last year when he was the running back five once he got the job. And I remember watching film as the breeze hall manager. and being so upset. We're sitting watching games on one Sunday. And every time Chase Brown touched the ball, it's like, because at that point, it was early on, it was like, Chase Brown's a slub. Chase Brown is a backup thrust into the starting role. And then I was like, every time Chase Brown touches the ball, he looks special. When Bruce Hall touches the ball, he doesn't. And then it turned out, I think Chase Brown's special. Like he was pretty good. Chase Brown in terms of a, the explosive athletic.

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metric he's a 96th percentile guy like this is a a true athlete who he fell in the draft and it took him some time to establish and he has established all right so jamison williams george kiddle chase brown the first three my guys my second my guy amarian hampton all right it is it is time for the rookie to take over talent opportunity The landing spot, the draft capital. How it is just shaken out for him with the nodgy stuff. I mean, this was a player that we did not know exactly where he'd go in the draft. On our film review of collegiate running backs, he was Jason and I's number one talent to me. Well, number two. Ashen Gensi doesn't come as a rookie. God, Lee, I always forget. I know. He's deleted out of rookies, but yes. He's just like, yes. Of the rest, he was by far both of our favorites. You got it. And to me, when you looked at the college film,

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This was, you know, some college running backs, they've got a ways to go to get to that NFL level of consistency. To me, that's what you saw in film. True three down back, great pass protector. And the word that kept coming to mind when I watched film on him from the college performances, smooth. He's just a smooth runner. He's smooth. It reminded me a little bit of like the way that. You know, Arian Foster, it was very smooth in terms of reading blocks. Not herky jerky. Making the right decision. No Pacheco in him. No, no Pacheco. No Kenneth Walker. Ground gives me power. But he's a tackle breaker. He's in the 100th percentile in yards after contact among all running back. A hundredth? Yeah. Prospects. That's called the best of the best in all.

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We haven't heard a hundredth before. I've never heard. I honestly saying it out loud made me feel like I was like lying. Like you can't 100th. So you could just say like you're the best. Yeah. I think that's what I could have said. We got to start using that more. Anytime someone is leading in anything, he's 100th percentile in yards so far this year. Yeah, it's correct. I mean, he's in the hundredth percentile. Technically. Yards after contact among the RV prospects. He's one out of all. He's one out of all. Look, the draft cost is inevitably rising. Naji Harris, it's been slow going, getting back from the injury. And we don't know if he's there week one. We don't know if he's there week three. Regardless, you're not keeping Amari and Hampton off the field.

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This is going to be one of the stalwarts of your fantasy football championship run. He is one of only four ACC players in history with 1,500 plus rushing yards and 15 touchdowns in back-to-back collegiate seasons. Lamar Jackson, Dalvin Cook, Omarian Hampton, and Travis E.T.N. Those are the only four to ever do it. So yes, the cost is rising, but I don't care. You got to get them on your team and it's not the cost. I mean, look at, look at it. It's never going to rise like Gentie. I was going to say, look at the contrast from Gentie to Hampton. And you're telling me that it's a guarantee that Gentie has a better season. He does not check every box that we talked about the other day. Hampton does in terms of offensive line, winning team workload. I do not have fear of nausea Harris. He can be a compliment. Do you want to know what it reminds me of so much? I think when I say this, everyone will be like,

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Oh my gosh. It's totally the same thing. I don't know about that. Well, we'll see. Here's what I'm going to say. Omarin Hampton is to Ashton Genti what Malik Neighbors was to Marvin Harrison Jr. This was the clear awesome great prospect. I'll allow it. He is a clear great prospect. Everyone knew Malik Neighbors was. the dude. Yeah. But he wasn't as, he wasn't Marvin Harrison Jr. He wasn't the generational prospect. Or what Brian Thomas was to Malik neighbors. Right. And so and and but it was still cost a lot to get Malik neighbors, but not nearly as much as it cost to get Marvin Harrison. And, you know, to me, he's the, the right one to target. And Kalil Mack, you know, this is a good quote because it's not just offensive coordinator. I can give you some Greg Roman quotes about how much they think of Amari and Hampton. And you know it by what they did in the draft. That was a shocker.

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They spend it on Amari and Hampton. They could have taken some other, they could have taken Trayvion, Mike's, you know, favorite guy. But Kalil Matt, no one's perfect. Right, no, you make mistakes. But no, Kalil Mack, on playing against Amari and Hampton in practice, I don't want to say how impressed, how he's impressed me, but I can tell you, if you play football, then you know it's going to be fun to watch him play. And they talk about how good he is at finding, like, the hardest thing for a rookie running back is to take what's given to you. A lot of them want to make the big plays that they made their entire life in high school and in college. And in, you know, Reggie Bush was kind of a victim of this when he came to the NFL. He was great in the passing game. But in the running game, he was so used to hitting home runs for the last 20 years of his life. Right. Armaged Hampton is a pro's at running back. He is a guarantee to give you, like his floor is so high. But his ceiling is so high. And it kind of goes with the mystery bag tip from yesterday. It's like you get this rookie that really could be.

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in the Ashton Genti category, but without the Ashton Genty price. So for me, my second my guy, Amarian Hampton. Nice. I'm in, you know, we've been kind of bringing this up the last couple of weeks of like we're, we're at the point where you just have to push all your chips in on Hampton. The ADP is that of like the community hasn't. So I think this is like an area of the draft that you can exploit and get an edge. And it's like, Right now he's still fourth, fifth round. Yeah, he might jump into the third. Yeah, and you know what? That is okay. Yeah, it's perfect. Like you need to re-adjust how you, if you've been with us the whole office, you have to readjust how you're thinking about Hampton. Yes. He's the weak one starter. It's no longer, how many weeks does it take until he takes over? He takes over now and Najee will be the backup for the season. J.K. Dobbins.

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had nearly 200 attempts in over 900 yards, and he missed four games. And he has one strong leg. Right. Right. Yeah, as far as I know, Hampton has at least two. You know, I've seen both legs. They're very good. J.K. Dobbins has like a stick leg and a beefy leg. Omarian Hampton, he's got them quads. Yeah. Jason, you've got more my guys to share. I sure do, and I'm very excited about this next one. Let's kick it off with... George Pickens. Yeah, yeah, baby. George. I had to pry George Pickens from Mike's cold dead hands. Yeah, we did a jersey swap. We did a Jersey swap situation. He's been on the my guy board for months. Yeah, let's put it that way. Yeah, uh, it was going to be mics or mine. I get him. George Pickens is a, I win. George Pickens is a wide receiver value that I think is completely mispriced. The talent, the, the,

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perfect marriage of his skill set with the team needs and Dak Prescott's skill set is going to surprise people. I mean, if you've been watching any of the camp videos, they're not, there's nonstop. Like just go to X and search George Pickens. You know, you search any player and you're going to see a touchdown from camp. But if you search George Pickens, you're going to see 12 touchdowns from camp. And they're all different videos. He is. all over the place. He's a deep threat that matches Dak Prescott. And what are you going to do as a defense? Are you going to really focus on George Pickens? No, you're not going to focus on T. Higgins. You know, if you're playing against the Bengals. You don't have the option. You don't have the option because there's got Jamar Chase over there. So T. Higgins out there doing his thing in one-on-one coverage against your second best at best defender, if not your third best. And that's what.

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is going to happen for George Pickens, except George Pickens is going in the sixth round. The hardest thing about George Pickens, the sixth round cost is very explainable. It's because it's three consecutive years of high expectations and not quite delivering. Yes. Like the talent of George Pickens has never been questioned. The output has always been like, what's going on? Yep. And then you've got Steelers leaving the Steelers. You know, when wide receivers leave the Steelers, they go to die. You know, there's that, there's that argument. But that's really not fair because if you go on a case by case, like Antonio Brown was still good when he left. He just ended up taking a shirt off and leaving in the middle of, in the middle of season. With Pickens, it does feel like you stole him from Mike.

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But, like, did you get, like, a lit stick of dynamite? Like, I sure did, and I'm going to toss it right over there against my opponent. Yeah, there you go. And it's going to go blah, blah. All right. Yeah. You're Najee Harris. Okay, so. Oh, no. You can't stop me. I'll say what I won't. Oh, no. Here's the thing. What you were just saying, the story with George Pickens has always been potential, right? Potential. Look, I'm just. I'm just, I'm opening eyes here. It's my guys. What are you going to do? You can't stop us. All right. The potential for George Pickens, he is a contested catch, awesome deep threat. You know, look, in NFL history, there's only two wide receivers who before turning 24 had 2,800 receiving yards while being a 16 plus yards per reception player. He's George Pickens and some dude named Randy Moss. He has that potential. The problem is,

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Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, Mitchell Trebisky. Those are big problems. Russell Wilson, Justin Fields. And you might say, oh, Russell Wilson and Joseph Fields, he had at least a decent chance. No, they were worse than those other names. Those are names that come up in his therapy sessions. Yeah, here is Pickens rank among wide receivers in catchable target percentage. So not his fault. Just like, could you have caught this pass headed your direction? Uh, his rookie year 25th. Okay, that's not too bad. His sophomore year, 61st in catchable percentage. And then last year with his best quarterbacks ever, 71st. He was 71st in catchable target rate. So, like, he didn't have the option to go be great because the passes weren't catchable. Over that span, Dak Press got a seventh in pass success rate, sixth in completion percentage, eighth in passer rating. And here's a great step from Warren Sharp. I think this really highlights what I love the most about this fit and finish.

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with George Pickens as a cowboy. The last two years, number one in passing yards on 15 plus yard go routes is Dak Prescott. Love it. Dak Prescott, number two, in most attempts, on 15 plus yard go routes. Love it. George Pickens, over the same two years, number one in most receiving yards on 15 plus yard go routes, number two in most catches on 15 plus yard go routes. This is a match made in heaven. It reminds me a little of the Baker Evans match. Because Baker was always a great downfield thrower, and he found his guy, and now DAC has a trustworthy downfield receiver. And if you look where they are used on the field, they are, C.D. Lamb and George Pickens, it's an exact inverse. Like, C.D. dominates the middle of the field, the line of scrimmage and the, the, the crossers.

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Pickens is going to be the boundary and the deep end zone guy. Do you think you can get consistency in fantasy for Pickens in light of, like I'm sure some of the uncatchable target can be attributed to the fact he is a downfield guy? Yes, yes, absolutely. I don't ever expect George Pickens to walk away being the number one in. Consistency. Yeah, inconsistency, but you're going to have monster games. Where's he going right now? Right now he is the wide receiver 29. So he's not even being drafted as a wide receiver 2. He's in the sixth or seventh round, depending on your platform. And here's my final takeaway is I just want to remind people, Andy, a long time ago you used to bring up, you had a problem drafting.

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wide receiver twos for their team. Like you would draft a bad wide receiver one for a bad offense over a great wide receiver two on a great offense. And you realize that was a mistake. And here's a stat that proves that. In the last 10 years, 10 sets of teammates have both finished as wide receiver ones. And we've seen an average of four sets of teammates per year since 2010 that are both at the same time top 24 wide receivers. This is an offense that can't run the ball. Please, Michael Parsons, don't be a cowboy. Be a bad defense. Throw the ball a ton. And you can't cover George Pickens when you've got CD Lamb on the field. So I believe he is mispriced monster games. He, to me, is a lock as a top 24 wide receiver. And I think there's a world that exists where he is a top 12 wide receiver. Brandon Cooks was a touchdown machine a couple years ago. He was 30 years old. I was going to bring it up for you. The Cowboys year when they went into the buy week.

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The schedule, the gates opened to the heavens, and C.D. Lamb and DAC went on the run of winning people championships. But in that time from weeks 8 through 18, Brandon Cooks had seven touchdowns. He had, you know, in that, this is Brandon, an old Brandon Cooks. He had six games, if I'm counting right, real quick, in that time period of double-digit fantasy points. And that was Brandon Cooks. That is not a, that is not the peak of his career. George Pickens and who like yeah he's not met expectations because a lot of due to inconsistency but it's like maybe he's not a true number one right but maybe he's a one b you're like there's t higgins truly a number one the question is i think still fair to ask but he's a

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great one be i would love a six foot three super athletic downfield contested guy who is 24 years old going into a contract year with a good offense it does make sense and the draft price is uh it's very attractive all right we'll take one more break and we'll come back with our last four my guys all right mike we we took a little break in case you wanted to completely pivot to somebody else it's your last shot right you good uh that the pivot will not be happening well i will say a pivot did had to happen because Oftentimes with these my guys, I try to bring someone who I have been, you know, steady and higher than ADP on. And, but I haven't been talking about them ad nauseum over the off season. And this player was on the ice and fire show because I, he wasn't, he wasn't going to be in the my guys part because everyone knows. But we got to the point where it's just, I can't resist. I can't stop it. Trayvian Henderson. Oh boy.

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Trevo Henderson, as I call him the demon. He is an absolute speed demon. Just start with the athleticism. 95th percentile explosive score. You see that in all the camp pilots. If you saw the wheel route, yes, that the Minnesota Vikings misplayed, but that's the point of he's so fast. It is easy to misplay him in the receiving game. He's a second round rookie. And you might start at the point of, okay, well, what if we have Cromageneve, Vrable, like, ah, the rookies, they got to earn it. What's the best way for a rookie running back to be able to earn playing time? Pass protection. How about pass protection? He is an unreal pass blocker. Henderson graded out as the best pass protector of the class at the running back position. Ball control. The dude does not fumble. The incumbent starter?

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He is fumbled. He has a massive fumbling problem. He has been benched. We're talking about Ramondre Stevenson has been benched multiple times in his career for having a fumbling problem. The only reason that he got back on the field was because his backup Antonio Gibson fumbled more than he has a fumbling problem. And look, I'm going to keep it a little bit shorter because I, like I said, the ice and fire show, if you want to go back, that was, was that this Monday? Yeah, who knows what day is. It was one of the days recently. Uh, But I just laid it all out. But here a quick summary, rookie running backs taken in the first six rounds of redrafts since 2011. 60% of them exceed their ADP expectations. And when you factor in rookies who saw two and a half or more targets per game, which Henderson has a specialty as a pass catcher, that jumps to an 80% of those drafted running backs exceed their expectations.

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And it took Andy, I think, a little bit longer to get on board with Henderson, but we're all at the point of our stat projections where we got him at more than 210 opportunities. He is a player that checks more boxes than we realized because of the projected win total for the Patriots is much higher than the average Joe would expect, seeing what they did last year. This is a team that is on the rise. and Henderson is going to be a massive part of it. His ADP is going to keep going up. We're currently looking at the sixth round. He will not be there. He probably jumps into the fourth, and I have no problem with it. I didn't even know you liked him. All right. My final my guy, we're going back to this well. It's worked out very good in fantasy football for a couple of years. But that's not the reason why you believe is because it's happened before.

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The reason is the player himself and the talent he possesses. The third my guy. Tyler Warren. Tyler Warren, the tight end for the Indianapolis Colts, currently going in the ninth round on Sleeper, much later on Yahoo and ESPN. This was pick 14 of the NFL draft. Yes, Laporta. Yes, Brock Bowers. It's been a good run. We're going to continue the run. And that's all built upon the true talent and ability. on display from Tyler Warren. You can talk about Richardson or Daniel Jones all you want. Just like we talked about Gardner, Minshew, and... Aidan O'Connell. And... But... But... But... Farva. Let's just... Let's just throw out the ambiguity of quarterback.

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Let's throw out the ambiguity at wide receiver. I mean, we love Josh Downs, the talent. But I think we'd all agree. Josh Downs is not built like Jamar Chase. He's not built like Teterone McMillard. He's a felt smaller guy. He's got a role on the offense. Pittman, he's a good player. He's not a great player. He has a role on the offense. They spent the draft capital on Tyler Warren. You saw it on display in the first preseason game, the type of routes that he ran. Three targets, three receptions with the starters, never left the field with the starters. Had a hitcherout, sat down in the middle of the zone, had a deep out for a first down, saw the yards after the catch on display, looking like Tray McBride out there, had a play action crosser for another big play. The talent of Tyler Warren, I don't think people understand, like you look at Brock Bowers and what a dominator he was in college. This was, he's not far behind. Tyler Warren was, he had more receiving yards versus man coverage than any other receiver in college football last year.

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That's what Tyler Warren was capable of. They even used them in like some wildcat formations. He is an athlete. His per route metrics were incredible. He had a higher targets per route run than Brock Bowers. He had a higher yards per route run than Brock Bowers. That's wild. This is a, and Brock Bowers was what? Pick, was he 13? Yeah. So look, same range. Like, and going to a very similar situation where you desperately need a culture changing receiver, a mismatch. I gave you the numbers against man coverage. He's going to be that mismatch on every single play. And when you're betting on a receiving option, look, you get the ball in Indianapolis. We don't know what this team's going to do, but I don't think that we look at them as a, you know, this is not a supreme defense. They're going to need to throw the football. Daniel Jones or Richardson, either of those quarterbacks knows we've got to get the ball to this guy with the huge catch radius with the after the catch ability. And here we are again, the rookie tight end. It doesn't matter.

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It's a ninth round pick. We're drafted a bunch of other guys that we know a lot about. You want the most compelling argument against Evan Ingram is Tyler Warren in terms of the draft costs. Him and Loveland. Yeah, they represent so much more upside. I think the floor is great for Tyler Warren. I think you can take him and start him. And even if he doesn't give you a Bowers year, you're still happy you took him in terms of consistency at the position. He's got, you know, a natural feel for the game of football that I think is just. impressing me more and more and is free. So that's part of the my guy equation. Take these players that have so much tremendous upside, get them late, throw them on the team, and suddenly everybody wants them in like three or four weeks. There's not a person out there, not a soul that will trade Brock Bowers right now. If you're in a Diant Steer Keeper League, you cannot get that player.

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And we've got a new generation of tight ends on the way. And they're going to be the perennial all-stars. And I think Tyler Warren is that guy. He's got that dog in him. Oh, I was going to start my argument with it. Like certified dog, watch his college tape. And I am, you know, we're in year 11 of this show. So we've seen a lot of things, a lot of trends come and go, a lot of shifts in ADP of where guys are going. It's pretty surprising to me that we've had two years in a row that a rookie tight end has finished at the number one spot. And these two guys of Loveland and Warren, both with the draft capital, both with teams where Warren goes into, he could be like he could get that Brock Bowers target share. And then Colston Loveland, while he doesn't project as the number one, he goes to an offensive situation that should be very plus. And these guys are going late.

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