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The TRUTH: RBs Part 2 + Surprising Stats | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1544

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Episode notes & curated moments 14 records
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Cardinals fandom buries San Francisco on the rooting list

Everyone in the studio ranks the remaining championship teams. Detroit leads through underdog appeal, while San Francisco sits last for almost or possibly everyone because the desk identifies itself as Cardinals fans; Kansas City also suffers from dynasty boredom.

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Andy's rookie-pick cupboard stays empty for three years

A preview of the Dynasty podcast becomes a roast of Andy having zero rookie picks in the league's draft. When he realizes what is being said, the desk clarifies that his pick shortage also covers the next three years and concludes that everyone does things differently.

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Cologne Day McVeigh spritzes Atlanta

The Falcons' attempt to pair a defensive head coach with Rams-derived offense becomes 'Cologne Day McVeigh,' which has allegedly been spritzed yet again from the McVay coaching tree.

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Jason's Canales take freezes while the contract is signed

Jason acknowledges that he had just said Dave Canales would not become a head coach. The Carolina hiring arrives virtually simultaneously, leading the desk to say Canales was signing papers while Jason condemned the possibility and to classify the reversal as an immediate frozen hot take, comparable only to an earlier Courtland Sutton instant-signing moment.

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Prehab reaches Hocktober ahead of schedule

Matthew Betz's pre-surgery work is credited as prehab. A nine-month Hockenson timeline points to October and becomes Hocktober; seconds later the hosts fake breaking news that he is already ahead of schedule because he woke from surgery faster than expected, then say everyone eventually receives that recovery label.

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The running-back Truth enters the courtroom

After the news break, the second running-back Truth episode formally opens through the recurring courtroom exchange from 'You want answers?' to 'Can't handle the truth.'

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Latavius Murray thanks James Cook for his service

James Cook is imagined gashing the defense between the twenties and then being dismissed at the goal line by a formal voice saying his service is no longer required. The desk identifies the voice as Latavius Murray and describes that same red-zone replacement pattern as all of them.

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Big Wet Bust becomes a hashtag nobody may search

Tony Pollard's season first inspires 'Huge wet bust,' which another host tries to redirect toward wet fart. Twenty minutes later Austin Ekeler's dirty-cake disappointment revives the phrase as Big Wet Bust; the desk pretends it is a classic cliche everyone should use, bans it at the office, and creates a hashtag that may be posted but never searched or viewed.

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Kyle supplies two running-back research gems

Kyle receives explicit credit for pulling Nick Chubb's sophomore goal-line line—16 inside-the-five carries, three touchdowns, and negative nine rushing yards—and later for finding that Zach Charbonnet's rookie PPR rate topped only Bishop Sankey among the selected decade-long sample.

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James Conner breaks tackles and body parts

The hosts say James Conner's running style is terrible for his body, then mutate 'breaks too many tackles' into 'breaks too many tackles and body parts.'

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Jason roots for Arthur Smith because content wins

Jason says he has pledged not to speak about Najee Harris, but Arthur Smith's possible Pittsburgh coordinator job draws him back in. The desk calls it Revenge of the Sith and the only offense Smith could improve; when asked why he is rooting for Arthur, Jason says it would be good for the show and good for content.

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Jason takes the Ekeler van off the cliff

Jason doubts whether Austin Ekeler will play again and is told he has gone through the collapse hand in hand with Ekeler, driving the van off a cliff and then assuming Ekeler cannot walk because Jason cannot. The later discussion narrows the obituary to the old all-opportunity fantasy version of Ekeler, which the desk says is dead.

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Only an anonymous two-thirds of the Ducers answer the close

The produced opening card credits Brooks, Jeremy, and Kyle under Judge Giamatti, Owl Borland, and The Borgogon. At the close, the hosts thank the Ducers in Ducers Alley but specify that only two-thirds are there and say the members know who they are; the video stays on the main desk, so the absent third cannot be identified.

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Episode notes

The studio's Cardinals fandom puts San Francisco last on its championship rooting list, and Andy is teased for having no rookie picks now or for the next three years. A Rams coaching-tree joke becomes Cologne Day McVeigh before Jason's claim that Dave Canales would not become a head coach is replayed against the virtually simultaneous Carolina hiring; the desk calls it an immediate frozen hot take and compares it with an earlier Courtland Sutton instant reversal. Matthew Betz receives credit for the term prehab, an October return becomes Hocktober, and the hosts instantly declare T.J. Hockenson ahead of schedule while joking that every recovery eventually receives that label. The running-back Truth opens through its familiar courtroom dialogue. James Cook's red-zone replacement becomes a Latavius Murray service-dismissal voice, while James Conner's broken tackles become broken body parts. Kyle supplies two statistical gems from the production side. Tony Pollard inspires 'Huge wet bust' and a wet-fart correction; the phrase returns for Austin Ekeler as Big Wet Bust, is declared a normal cliche, becomes a hashtag nobody should search, and remains wholly dialogue rather than an on-screen graphic. Jason, who pledged not to discuss Najee Harris, roots for Arthur Smith in Pittsburgh because it would be good for the show and content. His Ekeler pessimism is framed as going hand in hand over a cliff in a van; the hosts later say the old all-opportunity version of Ekeler is dead. The published video shows Andy, Jason, and Mike at the desk throughout. Its opening credit card names Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon, but the closing thanks only an anonymous two-thirds of the Ducers and never cuts to the booth, so no individual crew attendance is inferred.

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uh it was a red light green light situation number one the number 41 then a buy number five the number 46 the number eight the number 35 the number five like my eyes were impressed with take one all year yeah yeah because 30th ranked often like we talked about breach hall's efficiency and who was the the offensive line behind him tennessee yeah so those are the worst well you know the next worst was the giants at 30 yep obviously we need the information of what team is Saquan and Barclay on, but I think the questions of, do we still have another year of Saquan? Because he's about to hit 27. He's about to hit that, the age cliff that comes for a lot of running backs. But Sequin will have at least one more year. So yes, as of right now, I would be drafting him as an RB1. It's so interesting of...

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The devil you know and the one you don't of Barkley on the Giants is the focal point of the offense. Is it better? Do we want him on the Giants or do we want him to go to a different team? I think all you need is you need Sequan alone. That's what you just need him to have the role of a workhorse. And more than likely you're going to get that next year. He's going to require a lot of money. and the team that invests in him will probably be doing so in an attempt to make a, you know, to make a real powerful acquisition. Now, if he chooses... He's going to get franchised for one more year. That's my... That's what I think is going to happen. Wow. Either that or a massaged franchise evasion by the giants to keep him for another year. That's my prediction. And I think he's very open to coming back. And to me, my answer to that question would be I would want him on the Giants. Okay.

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maybe that's because I don't have the imagination at this present moment in January of these other opportunities that could be out there. I mean, I guess you could put them on the chargers or something and excite the possibilities. Mm-hmm. That'd be very nice. But the odds of, you know. If they franchise him. It's just so mean. It's just mean-spirited. You just said he's about to hit the age cliff. He's got one year left. I mean, you just gave them. The information they needed, Mike. The franchising. They have it. I'm not saying that business-wise, it is the incorrect thing necessarily. Because, I mean, you still have to deal with the ramifications of the locker room and all the other guys seeing what you're doing to the star player. Someone was just, there was an interview I caught a reel of. Someone from the Giants. But anyway, talking about like,

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How did you pay Daniel Jones before you paid Sequin Barclay? And it's like that, that is a thing that happens. Like these guys support their brother and want him to get paid for seeing that. But I was going to say of if they franchise him again, I don't know that he just comes back in week one. It's like, yeah, okay, let's do this again. Like there could be a huge off season. Okay. Yeah, hard to be a running back. Yeah, the takeaway. He seems very open to it. He just wants it. To being a running man? No, to being, to getting a franchise tag. Yeah. He just wants, he wants it done early so he can focus on the season. I think that would be nice. I think the truth about Sequin is he looked very good and he should be very good for fantasy next season. You hope that they improve the situation around him. The quarterback play on the offensive line made it difficult. If he's got a better offense, he's going to.

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be better for fantasy. And, you know, he's in here at 12, making the top 12 despite missing three games during the year, but he finished at RB9 in points per game. Yeah. So the story of Sequin is, look, I would have rather had Sequin Barclay as my running back than James Cook. Oh, for sure. At 13, that was David Montgomery, who we covered with Jemir Gibbs in the first part. So we'll move to 14. What a weird year. 14 was Alvin Camara. He was awesome. The consistency ranked for Camaro was three on the year. So the third most consistent running back. The first half was number two. The second half was 11. You can kind of throw out 17 because he got injured midgame. So really.

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You had one bus game. I don't know if you factored that into the bus percentage. That last week is included. It's included. Consistency rank three, including the two bad games, which unfortunately. Which I would kind of throw out the last game because he left in the second quarter with an injury. Right. But the way that we do it is if you were going to be started that week, which, you know, he was active. So fantasy managers would have started him that week. I could give you the, he probably doesn't move. from three up, even if you take that away because Kyron and CMC were so consistent. But it's really unfortunate that those two weeks came in the fantasy playoffs, in the, you know, the championship matchup where he got injured and the week prior, because he got...

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a lot of teams to the playoffs. He was so doggone good for fantasy, especially if you were in PPR leagues. Well, I mean, almost exclusively in some regards, because you're just, he was a wide receiver. He was a PPR monster. He was only 3.9 a carry on the ground. He only scored in four games on the ground. This is one of the most interesting names possible. going into next year. Mike and I were talking about it in the studio when you were out, Jay, just about Kendra Miller. He made a little bit of a splash on the final week of the year, was injured the entire season. Jamal Williams is obviously going to be an afterthought and not part of the future. So looking at next year, it's like, well, if Kamara goes down to injury, does Kendra takeover? You know, we've seen that kind of a takeover with the Saints with Alvin Kamara in the past. The efficiency on the ground is obviously not what it once was, nor through the air.

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His yards per carry has essentially been going down for the past four years. I mean, that's expected. But also his yards per target over the last four years has decreased each and every one. Part of that is the way that Derek Carr was giving him negative average depth of target. But Camero will be fascinating because Kendra Miller. Kendra Miller to me is the big story heading into next year of... He was hurt all year. If he's not hurt all year, does Camara get that true workhorse usage that he had? Because Camara has to have that in order to be this level of a fantasy player. People will still be excited, I think. Do you guys agree that the crowd will be excited to draft Camara again? I think they will. Based on how he performed this past year.

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And because of Kendrae Miller already being on the roster, I doubt you have a big offseason splash. Man, it's so crazy. I think it's so crazy because I am not. You're not worried about Miller? I'm very worried about Miller and I'm very worried about Miller in respect to hurting Camara. And I'm very worried about Camara overall. Okay. That's where I was. The first five weeks were so powerful for Camara in terms of massive volume. But beyond that point, look at his consistency in the second half, it was 11. Okay? So, but you're talking like fringe RB1 situation. Where's he going to go relative to where, what kind of value he provides? He's going to be 20, almost 29 years old when the season begins. So I do think there are question marks there. And what else? You had injuries this year, right? Olava in and out of the lineup. Michael Thomas knocked out of the lineup.

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Who am I thinking of that also got hurt at the end of the season? New favorite long target for Derek Carr. Rashid Shaheed, got banged up. Like, I am very nervous about Camara's future. What do you think he is, Nick? Do you think he's a top 12 running back in fantasy next year? Because I personally, I do. No, I do not. And I am a person who would love to say yes. I have them in really good record. I have him in Dynasty. And I do not feel good about it. relative to like I don't think this year is going to be representative of next year but if but if you're right I'll be much happier what this year represents to me is the passing work from Derek Carr both these guys under contract they're going to be re-rolling and just the fact that he is used the way he's used in the passing him I just don't see that going away even if some of his groundwork goes away but that's not where his fantasy value has had

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Um, yards per target, 7.1, 6.6, 6.4, 5.4. That was what you were talking about earlier. Yeah. Um, all right. Tony Pollard at 15. Yeah. Huge wet bust. I'm not sure that's the phrase. I really, I don't think I really want to settle in on that. Hmm. I was going to the wet fart. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's one way to describe it. Yeah. It's a wet fart. Tony Pollard at 15, drafted as the RB 8, consistency rank of 20, was not consistent in the first half, was not consistent in the second half, was awful against great teams. Eight fancy points per game against the top 16 defenses. He was significantly below average in his percentage of great games. Six percent. Significantly below average in his percentage of good games.

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He was significantly above average in his percentage of bust games. He was just bad across the board. He salvaged a little bit during a stretch at the end of the year where he finally started getting touchdowns. There's just no other way to say it other than he was a super disappointment for everything that you thought. And it just, it happens every time, people. We can't, we can't keep falling for the efficient running back. It's not every time. Who's the last efficient running back that got the opportunity? It was great. So Austin Echler was how long ago when he got that changeover from being back up to the starter? Well, his first, you know, I don't know, was that like 2008? More than two years ago. Not 18. Let's see. So 2019. 2019 was when his opportunities kind of went up a little bit more or no. Was that the Gordon?

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I guess he was probably sharing some time with Gordon then, so maybe 2021. So Melvin Gordon, yeah, 2019 was Melvin Gordon's last year with the Chargers. So that's when the transition was happening. It just felt like, you know, what we saw with Lamar Miller, we mentioned this in the draft season of you have this hyper efficient player who's now giving the opportunity to be a workhorse and it doesn't always work out. And we just need to be aware of that because it's fair to say it doesn't always. Yeah, there's a lot of guys like that. Andre Ellington. Remember him? Yeah. You get the backfield in Arizona. You're hyper-efficient. Look, it's just math, guys. I mean, it's just math. You can't be as effective and efficient when you get lower value opportunities and carries. Obviously, he did not take advantage of the opportunity at hand. I think the team hurt because of it. You know, not being able to get into the end zone. Tony Pollard is one of the biggest bust in fantasy football.

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over the last couple of years. The huge thing for Tony Pollard was the goal line work. Like inside the five, he had 16 carries. That's so good. And that turned into three rushing touchdowns. Lowest fantasy point per touch for an RB1 on an NFL offense that averages what they did in five years. He had two inside the five touchdowns the previous year on only seven opportunities. He more than doubled his opportunities this year and so one more touchdown. With the eighth ranked offensive line. Yeah, we will see what the Dallas Cowboys do. But it was like Kyle had pulled some numbers and I was reminded, oh yeah, guys remember Nick Chubbs sophomore season when he had 16 carries inside the five and three rushing touchdowns? Like he had 16 carries total inside the five and finished with negative nine rushing yards on those attempts.

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I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I loved Tony Pollard. I drafted him in a lot of places. It really hurt the team. But I'm not, I'm not ready to, like, condemn the future of Tony Pollard. Should he be back with Dallas? Oh, I'll condemn it. Okay. I'll condemn it for what, I don't think he can reach anything that people thought he could reach. I would agree. I think he could be an RB2 happily. I mean, you know, committee. Yeah. His opportunity going forward as well. I don't believe a team, including the Cowboys, will say this is our workhorse going forward. They were maybe you could argue more successful with Rico Dowdle getting the ball than they were Tony Pollard. He's a free agent. Same situation is sake. No, I know, you said that. I'm just pointing it out same situation as Sequel. Yeah, they're, they've got to figure out, the Cowboys have to figure out who they're going to have in their running back room. I don't think it's just going to be Pollard by himself.

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Pacheco comes in at 16, drafted as the RB 29. So you're talking about where was James Cook drafted? 30. So these are back-to-back picks, Pacheco and Cook. Consistency rank of 13 on the year, 23rd in the first half, number four in the second half. Obviously, the recipe for Kansas City became more and more run heavy, and Pacheco just runs and runs and runs. and then they try to tackle him, and then he runs even more, and then he just, nobody wants it more. I mean, this is Thomas Rawls all over again. He was very, very good. If you take out the first two weeks of the season, because I know we see that he's running back four in the second half, but truly, you take out just those first two weeks where he wasn't very involved, he was the consistency rank of number four on the course of the season. It was very, very good. It was a great pick in fantasy.

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And he's really established himself as like kind of the engine to this offense, which sounds so weird to say when Mahomes is there, like he makes this offense work without these wide receivers to be able to do anything. Well, I mean, we're not so far removed from Cream Hunt in Kansas City. And when you don't split up the work amongst a bunch of different backs, why wouldn't you have success in this kind of an offense? 21% great, 57% good, 21% busts. 24 years old. Next year, Pacheco, Mike, will be drafted where and where will he finish? He will be drafted, let's see, probably round three would be my guess. And I think, I think it's worth it. But the fact that he was the engine, I mean, everything you're saying, he was the engine of Patrick Mahomes offense.

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And all Kansas City needs to do over this offense is make some sort of splash with another wide receiver to pair with Rishi Rice. And it could, that could turn upside down. And they go right back to Mahomes is at 5,000 passing yards. If you could keep one running back going into next year between Rahim Moster and Isaiah Pachaca, who would you keep? Oh, God. That's an easy Moster for me. That is, man. I'm not sure Pacheco doesn't get drafted ahead of mustard. Yeah, that's fair. I think he probably will. Yeah, because of the age. That's a very, very tough call. I think it's Pacheco. Joe Mixon or Pacheco? Pacheco. I'm also, I know he is establishing himself as a truly important piece of a potentially Super Bowl winning team. And should he do that two weeks from now and really cement himself as, you know, as that engine, great.

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This is a seventh round pick. Clyde Edwards Allaire should be gone. He'll be gone. That's what I'm saying. I think this is a team that's going to go and draft someone or sign someone and not just let it be a Pacheco by himself. So there is a, or, you know, you bring in a good wide receiver. I think there's a way that it gets a little worse for Pacheco in the future. I'm not saying it will, but that won't shock me. All right. Quick break. Back with some more names. All right, as we get to the tail end of this list in this episode, I want to just throw some more names out there for you guys to just weigh in. I mean, obviously, Jerome Ford at 17, a product of opportunity with Nick Chub going down. You can throw Nick Chub into this conversation as well if you'd like to. Jerome Ford was fine. That's the best way to put it. He was a top 24 inconsistency. He was not special.

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in production. Yeah, but if you had picked up Jerome Ford off the waiver wire with, like if you went aggressively after him with Fab, I think it paid off for you. You had a pretty much an RB2. He was the top 24 running back 11 different times. So, you know, next year, Nick Chubb coming back from IR, you know, Jerome Ford is probably just Jerome back up. Yep. James Connor. is a fun discussion. He comes in at 18. Consistency of 19. First half was 24th. Second half was 15th. 54% good, 23% great. It's a high number. And 38% bust. Yeah, it's worth knowing the last six weeks, his consistency rank would have been the running back one. Ahead of Kyran, ahead of CMC. Six weeks is a good sample. I mean, it's a third of the season. Yeah, I mean, he was great. And also that was, you know, when you had Kyler back.

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So there was an actual change in maybe why the Cardinals' offense was not what you hoped it would be, but it was certainly better than with the hodgepodge of backup quarterback. Here's what I'll say about Connor is that the Arizona Cardinals have a tremendous amount of needs on this team and running back isn't one of them. Yeah, he's under contract. They're not going to be investing free agent capital or high draft capital on running back. They better not. In my opinion. I think it's, I think you know what you have in James Connor. You have so many needs elsewhere. So I think this is one of those, you might not hear another thing about the running back room in Arizona until the kickoff. I think that's a real possibility. And James Connor is just a known commodity for that roster and the coaching staff and the general manager. And they just, they got one more year of Connor. So are these final six weeks going to be prescriptive for all of next year? It's a tough call for a guy that gets hurt every single year and is going to be 29.

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Yeah, you know he's not playing a full season. His running style is terrible for his body. But breaks too many tackles. I would love breaks too many tackles and body parts. I would love to have James Connor on my team as my, you know, third running back drafted. I think that's realistic next year where, you know, he might, he went in the sixth round this year. He'll probably go north, maybe fifth round. Not much higher. But I don't think it's going to be. Maybe the same spot. Yeah, I mean, I think he would be a really good fifth or sixth round running back. Kenneth Walker comes in at 19. It was drafted as the RB 16. Consistency rank of 18. Second half consistency of 30. He was so injured and banged up that second half. What we saw in the first half? It's, it's, yeah, I mean, you saw elite running back play from weeks two through seven.

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but he will have the Charbonnet question marks going into next year. And when a rookie gets into year two, I think we're going to be talking about committee concerns. Sure. Do any of us think that Kenneth Walker can finish next year in the top five? I don't. Top five is a tall ask for him. I think top ten is in his range of outcomes. Yeah. I still think top ten because he was. I mean, he was still, he was a committee back in terms of snap percentage through the majority of the season. No Pete Carroll. Right. What's the situation with Gino? He's not that good. So I. We're back to he's not good. No, no, no, not that good. Okay. All right. Not as good as he was the year before. Kenneth Walker, we know is very talented. He did miss some time. He was very hurt.

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But I think he's going to be one of those players that's difficult for me to trust in relation to where he's going to have to go in draft, right? Like if you're drafting Kenneth Walker, it's very ETN-esque. Sure. Like you're, you need the big play rushing touchdown, which they both get a lot. But when they don't get them, it's just it's going to end up being a very disappointing game. Touchdown dependent and not a lot of receptions. I mean, under 30 receptions. He doesn't catch as much as ETN. But the Charbonnet was really disappointing to me. I think Charbonnet looked fine with his opportunities. He didn't get that many when you had Walker miss a game and you had a week where Charbonnet was a top 12 running back. But what you saw that surprised me.

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was after he kind of showed his flashes and was on the field for 88% of the snaps, 61% of the snaps. When Walker came back the last month, all of a sudden, you saw Charbonnet go down to four carries, two carries, two carries, and five carries for that last month. Walker was the starter, Charbonnet was the backup. The scary situation for me here, it's Pete Carroll. Yeah, for sure. Like the fact that the whole offensive velocity, the whole, you know, You don't know what this new, I mean, right now we don't even know who the head coach is. So TBD, but it's hard to say you've got two talented backs. Kenneth Walker is still guaranteed to be the starter. I would have gone into this season saying that if Carol was around. My point isn't that Ken Walker can't be a hugely impactful fantasy player. It's more that his pathway to being a disappointment seems so obvious.

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because he doesn't have this like huge baseline of past catching work. So if you take some touchdowns away from Kenneth Walker, right? Look at the rest of the numbers. 900 rushing yards? 250 receiving yards? Like if you, if he scores six times, that's not a wild and crazy stat with no Pete Carroll. Sure. But it's going to ruin you for fantasy probably. Yeah, Kyle pulled this gem out among second round rookie running backs. Over the last decade with 100 plus touches, Charb's 6.63 PPR points per game is ahead of only Bishop Sanky. Just say, I stand by Mike. I was disappointing watching Charbonnet play. Yeah, I mean, I was disappointed watching Kenneth Walker play as second half of the year too. Yeah. I mean, I'm with 30th inconsistency. I don't, he'll be the starter. I'm with Jason of he was hurt. Like if you had Walker on your, on your fantasy roster, every single week was a.

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oh crap it was you were you're on every friday it was please please tell me that kenneth walker is practicing so i at least have some hope that he's going to play so it was he was very which maybe he's just going to be that guy you know who gets banged up a lot because he does he also runs very violent you realize how similar his numbers production wise were from his rookie season 12.6 points per game as a rookie, 12.3 as a sophomore. Total points scored 189 versus 185 on the year. Almost the same amount of carries. Same touchdowns. Interesting. Same targets. Same receptions. Almost identical. What about games played? Same. Incredible work. Same games play. Only difference is yards per a 10 point from 4.6 to 4.1. We talked about the big play dependency last year.

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And I think those games already busted out, you didn't get the big play. And I don't know how good Seattle is going to be. That is a fair place. So do you see him just as a running back too? Or are you like avoiding him for where he's probably going to be drafted? He'll probably be drafted in the top 15 running backs. Will you not take him there? You know, when you factor in the rookies coming in, I don't think so. No. I don't think I would take him. I mean, he went at 16 this past year, and I would have felt better about him this past year with Pete Carroll. Okay, that's fair. That's a tough one. Naji Harris, you guys have him in front of you there? Yes. I have pledged not to speak of him. Yeah, Noggi finished as the running back 21, second year in row. He was okay in the second half.

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very, very bad in the first half. So maybe he's a guy that you just avoid drafting and try to find him when the weather gets colder. But hard to watch. It really was difficult to actually watch Nodgy this year. You don't enjoy that experience. What if Arthur Smith is the guy there? Oh, because he's been interviewed, like there's a chance that Arthur Smith is the offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers where the Revenge of the Sith. Now, he was good for Tennessee. Derek Henry. And if you, you know, Naji Harris is not Derek Henry, but he tries to be. I don't understand. Why are he? What do you do? Arthur Smith identified the only offensive situation he could improve. I think he's the, yeah, the Canada, the Steelers offense. Like that's the bottom of the barrel already. Oh, man. I, I mean, 293 opportunities. I'm rooting for it.

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You're written for Arthur. Yeah, for sure. Why are you doing that, Jason? Oh, man, it's just good for the show. It's good for content. Did you know that Naji was tied with Rahim Moster for the fourth most games of 15 plus yards? His second half was very good, and I don't want to undermine it with my lifetime bias. Yeah, RB8 from week seven on. Brian Robinson at 22, DeAndre Swift at 23. Any thoughts on those two gentlemen? The DeAndre Swift is, what happened? Yeah, the first half of the season looked so good. That offensive line was opening up holes. He's DeAndre Swift, guys. He always has been. Man, the second half. I mean, to be. He's swift. To be honest, though, it wasn't just Swift. It was the team. You had Hertz banged up. So you got to be 10 and 1 to have a good year from DeAndre Swift? I guess so. I mean, that's what it feels like. Well, I mean, A.J. Brown was not that good the second half. Yeah, you're right. The Eagles did struggle over the second half.

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