Top 10 Countdown + Upside Offenses

Ingram did. And so this is a good opportunity for Injoku with Tyrod Taylor. Certainly. And Injoku, if you look at his actual snap percentage, it was very low. We're talking like 40s for a lot of games. That's not going to be what he's going to be on the field a lot more. So I like that. And at the end of the year, a lot of people think I'm a very anti-Browns analyst. And I have been historically because enough said. But.

I do believe at the end of this year, there will be valuable fantasy assets from Cleveland. It's just hard in the draft season to predict who those are going to be because we don't know when Tyrod Taylor's playing or not when he gets supplanted by McArley. We don't know if it's going Jarvis. There's just so much change. I think as time develops and you know, okay, this is what the offense is. You'll be able to pick some guys up off of waivers. You'll be able to make some trades and have some fantasy relevant pieces from.

from the Browns. All right. I'm going to encourage our listeners to head over to Instagram. You can follow us over there. Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. We're always posting behind the scene stuff, cool stats, pictures, video, all that type of stuff. A lot of the stuff that goes on the old IG is nowhere else. You know what I mean? Like the stuff we post on Instagram, you can't find it. No. It's best, look, best practice. Follow us everywhere. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

That's really good advice. Myspace. I love Myspace. Wherever you're at, we're at. Just follow or like or click or. Does Justin Timberlake still own Myspace? I think he owns it. Yeah, he purchased. He probably bought it. Yeah. Me and JT. Yeah. Go over to Myspace. It's the two of us there hanging out. If you listen to the show on Tuesday, you know we were counting down the top 20 consensus rankings between Mike, myself, Jason. Not Mike, but go on.

No, Mike wasn't on the show, but the rankings are the – he's part of the consensus. I feel the need to apologize to you. Yeah. Tell him you're sorry. But I will not. Okay. You feel the need. Feel the need, but I'm sticking with it. No, you got to stay strong. Mike is the lean-in, stay with it guy. Don't show weakness to Mike. I'm going to, you know, take up that mantle. But we're – so we're going to count down the remaining 10 players today, also known as the remaining nine players today.

I overshot last on Tuesday's episode. We talked about number 10, but I'll run them back for you. Before we do that, I do want to remind you about a bit of news that just broke a couple of days ago. Packers running back Aaron Jones was suspended without pay for the first two games of the 2018 regular season for violating the NFL policy and program for substance abuse. This stems from the arrest that took place, I believe, before the season last year, but we didn't learn about until late in the season, and then...

kind of an inevitable situation here with him pleading guilty, I think, to a misdemeanor of some sort. I am fully convinced that this is horrendous news.

for Aaron Jones because, whoa. That's a wrong word. It is. I mean, I, I had previous to this suspension, I know there's a lot of people out there that absolutely love Aaron Jones. I think he's going to be the guy. He's the one that should be the guy. And so I'm not saying that this is the consensus by any means, but my belief has been that it will be Time Montgomery and Jamal Williams.

leading the way there and not Aaron Jones. With this suspension, what this guarantees is that the other two will get first crack. They will get the opportunity first. Last year when everyone was healthy, Time Montgomery got first crack. When he went down, Jamal Williams got the next crack. It took those things to happen for Aaron Jones to have the relevance. And here's the other thing we learned from last year. The Green Bay running backs are really good for fantasy.

All three had monster fantasy weeks, all three. So I think unless injury happens, these guys are going, especially with Aaron Rogers there, they're going to succeed. And they're not going to just get Aaron Jones back and go, you know what, let's blow up what's perhaps, or I would say probably worked well for the first two weeks. Well, I would expect Jamal Williams will get first and second down work out the gate. And you'll see Time Montgomery on third down. You'll see him in there from time to time. That's how I would expect it to break out to start the year.

I'm a Time Montgomery truther. I know you're a Time Montgomery truther, but... You can love... Listen, listen. You can love Time Montgomery, and you don't have to make him a three-down back on an offense that already drafted two running backs last year with Williams and Jones. I don't know how many times when we argue about this. I have to tell you. I have time Montgomery scoring more fantasy points than the other two players. Yeah. No, and I didn't make him... But you don't have to make him a banger. I didn't make him a three-down back.

The Packers did. The Packers made them a three-down back the first three games of last year. Yes, they did. This is ridiculous. All right, moving on. All right. They were both rookies. Yes, they were. Jones and Williams. Yes, they were. How did Ty Montgomery hold up? Not to well. I barely got his name now. Not well. T.Y. Montgomery. T. Y. Montgomery. All right. So on the Tuesday show, number 20, Devante Freeman. 19. Michael Thomas.

Also known as Michael Thomas. 18, Keenan Allen, 17, Christian McCaffrey, 16, Derek McKinnon, 15, LaShawn McCoy, 14, that's not nice. I didn't do that. That was actually. 13, when you say his name out loud. Yep. Leonard Fournette at 13, Dalvin Cook at 12, Julio Jones was 11, Oda Buckham Jr. Oh, let's start there. Was 10. And if you want to hear what we said about those guys, we went through them pretty quick.

on the last show. And again, this is the consensus rankings. Each of us individually have these guys a little different. But when you combine them, when you put them all together, that's what you get. So let's, oh, yeah, let's kick it off. Number nine. Say, Juan. Hmm, we're going to have to let that one be ignored. They can't all be winners. Brooks is shaking his head. Yeah, we're going to ignore that one.

So, yeah, we're not talking to O'Dell Beckham, but we're going to stay in New York, talk about the team for a second. Why is a rookie going behind a bad offensive line so high in the overall rankings? He's in the top 10 overall. We've got him, you know, consensus, I believe, as our running back six.

You know, does he deserve that? He has literally never taken a snap on the field. Obviously, I'm making this case despite the fact that we have them here. These are our rankings. So why? Why can we be, and can you be confident? We might rank him there, but are we confident he's going to finish there? Yeah, I'm pretty. Look, things happen. You know, not every rookie running back pans out.

a Trent Richardson, but Bishop Sanky. Sequin, yeah, Sequin is a high draft pick. They need a player at this position that has the flexibility to catch the ball out of the backfield. This is a player that is hyper talented in that respect. He's on another level from the, you know, from what we saw in the combine. And obviously the Giants invested and chose to draft Sequin Barclay ahead of a quarterback, a great need that they have.

Say whatever you want about Eli Manning. He will not play forever. And his days are coming to an end. And the odds of the Giants being in this top five again are low. So this was a heavy, heavy investment in a player that I think a lot of analysts would say has the skill and talent to be a top five running back in the NFL.

Yeah, you have a guy that college production and college film was already the clear cut number one. Everyone knew he was the best one out there. So incredibly athletic and electric on the field. He's 230 plus pounds. And so you, then he goes after he was already consensus number one in his own tier, goes to the combine where he destroyed. They named it after him now. Yeah, it is the Saquan Barkley Combine. I mean, you're talking not a.

not a guy who's like David Johnson set the combine on fire several years ago. Unbelievable. He was a 95th percentile athlete. Sequin Barclay is a 99th percentile. He's, there's, you don't get like better than Sequin. And then you go to a team that while the offense looked bad last year, that was because of injury. You also have incredible opportunity for utilizing his.

pass-catching skills. The Giants over the second half of last season had 63 receptions to the running backs, which might surprise you. That was first in the league. That's the team he's going to. Shane Bahrain is not taking over anything. He's not even, I don't believe, does he even have a team right now? But my point is, the passing work will be there for him. And anyone, look at Christian McCaffrey last year. Christian McCaffrey was a poor running back. He didn't perform well. He wasn't efficient.

And he was a he was an RB1 for fantasy because he's so good at the passing game. I think you've got the passing game skills of McCaffrey with a much bigger, better NFL body. So yeah, I'm fully confident in Saquan Barclay's success. Poor Shane Verne does not have a home right now. He's a free agent. Sorry, Shane. And you really rubbed it in. Yeah, I'm sorry. And that's pretty mean. No, I think we all buy into the opportunity.

Look, the opportunity for him to carry that offense is going to be there. You know, you said last year their offense failed due to injury. Well, they failed due to a bad stable of running back, a bad offensive line. They short that up and a bad quarterback play. Terrible. We haven't even brought up how awful the offensive play calling was last year in New York. And I think that's been greatly improved with the new options there.

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Bust weeks last season. That's his biggest negative. I don't know what you just said. I said that's his biggest negative. I thought he said that's as big as negative. And I said, I need to learn. Yeah, I literally have a note here that the biggest negative for DeAndre Hopkins is that he had no negatives. And while that is.