Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Top 20 RB's, Preseason, Fantasy News, Mailbag

Agree completely. We agree on that one. No problem. Caleb from Arkansas wants to know. He said, recent news seems more optimistic on Arian Foster's return. Careful. And he's got him number one. Move him up! No, no, I do not. Make a video of he's back. Where do I have him? People have asked me that a lot. Where do I have him? I have him at... You have him in the... I have him at 30s. 37. 37.

I think that's just fine. But where are you willing to? Nothing like your number one pick tumbling from one to 37 in a week. Let's answer this guy's question. Yeah, this guy's question is, hey, if he's back on or at week six, okay, that would be, I mean, some reports are saying three to six weeks, right? Four to six weeks. Right. Would you feel more comfortable taking Foster or Todd Gurley based on ADP? Foster. Wow. Foster. I know exactly what he is. If I, if everything says he's going to be back by this week.

Then I'm going to take the guy who I know is a top number one potential and not talk Gurley a rookie. I assume that changes in Dynasty Leagues. Oh, yes. Yeah, we're talking redraft. Yeah. But Gurley, they're saying he's not going to play the preseason. He's a rookie. He needs actual snaps and live games to get better. And also, in addition to that, here's one big difference is that most leagues have an IR spot. If your league doesn't have an IR spot at it, because you should. But...

Aryan Foster will be on the IR and will be able to be put into that spot in your league lineup. Well, if he's actually on the IR, then you can put him over there. It depends on the league you play too. Yeah, well, yeah, it does. But, I mean, he's going to be injured and out. Whereas Todd Gurley's going to be ready, presumably, for the season opener, he's just going to get worked in slowly, meaning he's going to be taking up a roster spot. So I would lean Aryan as well. I'm right in the middle on this one. Let's be really clear that it's not happening.

I mean, I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think he's going to be back by week six, but they haven't put him on the list yet. The one thing you know about Foster and the back field they have there is that when he's back, he's back. Oh, yeah. As long as he's back, he's back, they're not giving the job to somebody else. So you're drafting right now tomorrow morning, very early. It's a weird league. You have to draft very early. In the morning? Yeah, it's two in the morning. Two in the morning. You can't go on. No coffee. No coffee allowed. Where are you drafting Foster, if at all.

40th running back? That me personally? Yeah, right where I haven't ranked. Okay, but what round are you comfortable taking him? Sixth round. Sixth round? What? I take him at the end of the six. If he's out six weeks. No, no, no. Tomorrow morning? We don't know how long. We don't know. For me, I'm talking like 11th or 12th round. I'll move him up. I'm going 11th or 12th round. I'll give him an extra round because I had a great love for him. I'm in the middle of you guys. I would take him around 9-10. Okay.

Even now? Even with optimism? Yeah, with the no-sleep coffee league, I'm going ninth to tenth round. All right. Nick from New York, he has a 12-team-keeper league. Who do you take with the first overall pick? Levion Bell or Eddie Lacey or Charles. It is a 12-team-keeper league. Let's check our... Let's rewind the tape. No? No, no. Because this is keeper. Yeah, youth matters a little bit here. Yeah. I still think I'd take Levi-on-Bel. Yeah, for sure. All right.

Ah, double bell. Get it? Hey, Mike in Hanigan. Last year, Jeremy Hill did so well because Giovanni Bernard went down with an injury for three games and then was limited for the rest of the season. Interesting. Although Hill proved to be a workhorse with his 5.1, I think it was 5.2. It was 5.1. All right. Yards per carry, can we expect similar numbers this year? Well, we talked a lot about Jeremy Hill, but we did not talk about the geo effect of him being injured during the year. So do you have any thoughts on that, Mike?

All it did to me was allow Jeremy Hill to get out there and prove what he could do as a rookie. Hugh Jackson didn't want him to go out. As the rookie, they weren't comfortable with him yet. They had a second-year guy with Gio, so they held him back, as a lot of coaches do. But then Jeremy Hill went out and proved he can do everything, so he's now the guy. All right, let's hypothetically say we come out week one and Gio splashes for 120 yards and a touchdown, and he's running all over the place.

kind of a performance early in the season impact your view on Hill? Or does it just... I trade Geo Bernard immediately. Okay. If that's me. The only thing that would matter is carries. If he ends up with 100 yards, great, good. But if they're giving him the ball... Geo's going to have his games this year. That's why I agree. He'll have a couple, but man, Hill is going to score.

All right, guys. Reminder, we have a show on Thursday. Christopher Harris, formerly of ESPN, now with Harris Football.com. We'll be joining us. Reminder, we're moving to four shows a week starting on the 18th of August. I'm already tired. There has been much Twitter rejoicing over this news. Well, people want more football. Yeah, me too. Oh, you ready? Fossa, Fils on. Oh, did you audition? I didn't have you tried out. You didn't get a call back? He was trying to get that, the Underwood job.

Yeah, I know. I even had like the dress. Obviously, it was like a cocktail dress. But I think the double stuffs have not done me well there. Photoshop alert, Photoshop alert. Well, don't forget everybody, you can go to fantasy draft wizard.com. And actually, this is a good time to point out the fact that, you know, you can do all the free mock drafts there, but.

As you're getting closer to your real draft, you can actually use a bunch of tools in there for your draft. They've got some draft tools that you can sign up for and actually import your league and do things to help you during the draft. And it's really valuable. I've used that before. And if you need a cathartic help, you can go in there and draft Arian Foster No. 1 overall. You can go in there and just click it a few times. Is that what you're doing at like midnight 1 a.m.? Sometimes I just want to see what it would have been like to do that.

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I don't know for sure. Dropping some hints. We got some good stuff going on. Bonus. Thanks for listening, everybody. We appreciate it. Stop by iTunes, subscribe. Leave us a review. Thanks. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web at www.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFFFballers.com.

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