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One of my favorite shows. We're doing our ultimate draft tips on the show today. Oh, baby. And I went back to last year's show. And these were very valuable. In hindsight, some of the things brought up on this episode were actual advantages for your team during draft day. And we are looking, I mean, when you are playing fantasy football and this show exists to do.

to help you with this, you're looking for every possible minute advantage over your league mates. We are by nature in a sport here, a fantasy football where predictability is hard. It's hard to know what's going to happen. It's hard to know how a coaching staff or an injury or any of those things affects your team. And nobody gets it all right. But we're going to try to give you a handful of advantages today.

specifically for your draft that will pay dividends throughout the fantasy football season, which is now 17 weeks long. So I know that we're all very excited to share some of the insights, some of the draft tips with you and get you ready for your draft. A reminder, you can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you are listening on Apple Podcasts, there have been some changes. Now it's a follow button. It's not a subscribe button, Mike. Right. Do not.

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Not to be confused with Michael McDonald, voice of an angel. Right. Thank you, Mike. Ultimate draftkid.com. There are five days left to get the pre-order pricing. Ultimate draft kit.com. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell, presented by pristine auction. Not to be confused with Ronald McDonald, great friend of the show. You can confuse that one because the dude's awesome. Pervayer of cheeseburgers. I love his work. Perveyor. You think he's ever called himself a purveyor?

Well, look, when you look in the mirror and all, yeah, he does. He sure does. For real? Yeah, but if you look in the mirror and you're always a clown, you have to find ways to, you know, get that self-esteem reality. Get sophisticated. Yeah. Um, yes. Little known fact. I've lived. Mayor McCheese. I have lived in the same house for the past three and a half years. We live directly next door to Ronald's, uh, residence. Sure. One of his one of his many estates. And, um,

And I did it. I did it for the first time. You visited. I made, I paid a visit. I know Jason's been there many times before. You went down to Mactown. I went down to Mactown. Okay. It's, uh, you know, it's pretty good. Oh, you think they've got something going there? I think they're going to, I think that's McDonald's thing's going to take off. I think it's possible. All right, buy or sell Miles Gaskin edition will, or I guess Gasman edition. Oh, the gas man.

Will he finish higher than his current ADP, which is average draft position? His current ADP is running back 24. Man. He was the RB 27 last year in 10 games. As a reminder, no running back plays 16. So, you know, in, you know, let's say four fewer games than most running backs. He was the running back 27. Never busted.

Top 36 are better in every game. 18 touches a game. That was it, man. 18.3 touches a game is. You got to fill them up. If you touch the ball that much, you are great for fantasy, period. You can suck and you're great for fantasy. And for the record, he did not suck. No, no, he did not. Excellent receiving back. Four receptions a game, 9.5 per reception, which was numero uno among all running backs. So he delivered big plays.

in the passing game. Oh, man, he is. He, so the big winners, the big veteran winners of the NFL draft for Mike Davis and the gasman, Miles Gaskin, for incumbents. Yes, yes. That's what I mean. Veteran winners at the running back position because it felt like neither of those guys would end up locked and loaded as the starter on their team.

Right now, Mike Davis certainly looks like that, and so does Miles Gaskin. Now, there is competition with bringing in Malcolm Brown. Ahmed was excellent in replacement of Gaskin last year. And it's the risk, though, the risk of Miles Gaskin is, it's already there. It's baked into the draft price. It's accounted for because he's the running back 24, where the actual finish of Miles Gaskin at.

running back 27 doesn't properly tell the tale of when you started Miles Gaskin you're pretty happy about it and there's a lot of running backs that finish high in the rankings and you can't say that and I'm skeptical that Miles Gaskin will be the guy we you spent most of last year being skeptical that Miles Gaskin would continue to be the guy however he did when he came back from injury right back to being the starter and getting all the snaps and all the touches

I have him ranked slightly above that ADP. So I think at worst, he does return the value. And there is a lot of upside for Miles Gaskin. This Dolphist team has really turned things around a lot of highly skilled offensive players on this team. If Tua can get it together, Miles Gaskin can turn into an incredible value. You have him as RB23, so you're buying.

I am buying as well. We actually have him statted very similarly in terms of total volume. Jason, are you selling? I am selling. I have him as the RB 27. You sold them all last year. I did. I did absolutely. We couldn't get you on board. I was surprised, as you said, like, you know, everyone was surprised that it just kept happening. You called him the trash man, if I recall. I don't believe I did, but that would have been that would have been a great, great name.

I'm glad I didn't because he wasn't trash. But the reality is this. When we were going into the NFL draft, it was like, oh, what are the great landing spots for running backs? And one of them was here because Miles Gaskin is not this otherworldly talent that can't be supplanted by a rookie. And the other reason was because of how they utilized a running back in 2020. It was a one-man show, whoever it was. When it was Ahmed, when it was Miles Gaskin, they wanted that three-down back.

This is a defensive head coach, and there is a completely new offensive coordinator now in town. The offensive coordinator, Chang Galey, is gone. And I don't believe that they will run a single back out there. I think they brought in Malcolm Brown. They've talked about if you watch the press conferences after the NFL draft, both days, Malcolm Brown was one of the most common names brought up.

And so the way that I've projected the stats is kind of more of a committee between Miles Gaskin and Malcolm Brown. If Malcolm Brown becomes the goal line guy, that takes some of the upside away. I mean, obviously, I do believe if Gaskin is utilized in the same way, he'll smash that. I don't believe that's the case. I don't think he's going to be utilized like that. So I have him as the RB 27.

David Johnson, Mike Davis, Miles Sanders, Rahim Moster, Travis E.TN, those are players going in the same range right now, ADP-wise. Most of those sound better to me, but to each their own. All right, that was by yourself from Pristine Auction. Mike and I were buying. Jason was selling. Pristineauction.com use our code, ballers. Ballers. To get a $10 credit. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. All right.

The 49ers running back, Jeff Wilson, Jr. My name is Jeff. Likely out four to six months after recently undergoing surgery for this guy, maniscus. Not this guy, this team. Like, it's already starting again. The 49ers just can't. I feel bad for him. I do too. I mean, it's obviously horrible. He was great last year when he got his opportunity. And he, I think it was expected that he was the two of the one-two punch with Rahim Moster.

And so this is, you know, someone else has to step up, at least in training camp, at least in preseason, and we'll get an opportunity to shine in front of Kyle Shanahan. Mostert will probably get an extra carrier too, but it's going to be who becomes the number two. And why is that Trace Herman? It could be Tray Sherman. They did trade up for him in the third round, which.

History says when they trade up for a running back in that range, that person gets work. The name I'm going to throw out, though, just to check, this guy literally might be on your dynasty waiver wire. And it's Wayne Galman. He's on the team. He felt like the odd man out completely. But now with Jeff Wilson missing so much time, missing the entire offseason, you might have a player there.