Fantasy Football - Top 10 RB Rankings + Trash Talkers - Podcast for 8/12

Jason and Mike have him at 8. I have him at 11. I love Chase Brown as well as just how it broke down. He is a perfect situation for Cincinnati, I think, with Chase Brown being there back. He's been so consistent the last two years. Just look at the points per game numbers. 14.3, 14.6. There have been reports in camp of him lining up in the slot more. He is a pass catcher.

He is not a triple B, right? He's not a big body back. No, he's not going to. But that's what I'm saying for Cincinnati. But he's not. He's right in that he's 510 to 210 is what I see listed. Like that is 210 to 215 is truly a, you can take the work. It's like that's the perfect weight where you can be agile enough to work in the receiving game. And you're still big enough to go between the tackles. Chase Brown. He only had five games last year in the 17 where he scored a rushing touchdown.

Yes, that is true, but obviously the team environment to be able to score a lot of touchdowns. Double-digit touchdowns. The Bengals would be there. I mean, here's the nice thing. You have to remember last year how bad the beginning of the season was for the Bengals. Burrow got off to a slow start, got injured, and then they didn't have Flacco until week six. So that team environment, you know, Chase Brown, a lot of people are like, oh, he's just a product of the team environment. And maybe that's true.

Because the team environment is fantastic. And now Joe Flacco is the backup. So should Burrow go down, we saw Chase Brown be fine with Flacco. If you look at Flacco from week six on, you've got to. Chase Brown? Chase Brown from the Flacco weeks. You know, that would be he was on pace for 1,200 yards, seven rushing touchdowns, 93 targets with seven receiving touchdowns. He was better than.

the running back eight finish that he had last year, and that's pretty darn good. Chase Brown is, he's one of my favorite picks in fantasy. The, like, I think he is a talented running back, but the situation is just so perfect. He does, like he's not, you know, that the, like, McCaffrey Gibbs Bijon player where if, if everything goes terrible for the Bengals, it will.

I don't think Chase Brown can overcome that, but they're set up in such a situation of this year where they're more protected than ever. Andy, you said they're talking about lining them up in the slot. We like hearing that little news blurb. They're also talking of just an emphasis of this year, as seems like more and more teams are now, is, okay, we're going to get back to under center. We want more explosive runs from Chase Brown, who was already a pretty explosive player from that week six.

on, you know, when Joe Flacco kind of fixed the offense through the ending with Burrow, Chase Brown's running for 5.1 a carry. Like, he was already a very efficient running back on the ground during that time. 320 opportunities last year. Are you perfectly comfortable with him as your RB-1? Yes. 100%. Yeah, if you want to start with a high-level...

wide elite wide receiver and then come back and get chase brown that that's like my favorite my favorite start when you're in the middle to late if you can get almond raw st brown um you know or sometimes js n goes fourth but assuming that um and raw goes as the fourth wide receiver gone and come back around and grab chase brown i adore that start that i mean the the the the depth chart around him is just it's a 30 year old samage pyrine

is the backup. And then it's Todd Brooks. There's no one else here to compete. He has Matrix dodged the last few drafts. The free agent market, yeah. The only kind of negative about Chase Brown. His red zone success rate has been bad. 13 carries inside the five two years ago. Only six touchdowns on the 13 carries. And that's inside the five. 13 carries inside the five last year. Only four rushing touchdowns. 31% of those converted. The most opposite compared to.

Number nine. Derek Henry, forever and always. The Yeti. I didn't realize how low I have him. Interesting. He comes in at nine. I guess I have him at ADP. Yeah, I don't blame you for having them there. I've got him at running back six, and I don't. I got him at 12. I don't love it. I mean, there's tons of risk.

DeAngelo Williams was the last running back to be 32 years older, older with 10 rushing touchdowns. It's not an easy feat, and this, I know he's a Yeti. That guys, he's actually a human being. I've heard. There are some changes, right? The offense is changing. We have a new system in place. We'll see what that becomes. Mike, you've got him at 7. His sleeper ADP is RB12. So you get him.

late round two. That seems great. I mean, it's where I have him ranked. I would take him at ADP with no qualms. I mean, he was the running back three, the running back two, missed half a season as the running back 16, then the running back four, then the running back eight, then the running back two, then the running back seven. It's like he is just a top ten running back every year of his career. The only question, the only thing is, did father time catch up? And that's the...

If it hasn't, and it... Let me read the concerns on the top 10 ranking shows that we've had for him over the last five years. So in 2021, we said he has a lack of targets. Which was true. In 2022, we said the age was starting to become a concern. In 2023, we said... That was a long time ago. Age and wear and tear. In 2024, we said age. In 2025...

fifth season in a row, basically, with an age concern. Yeah. It's the Frank Gore. Now, it did end up happening at some point in time. They do, if you want to look at a way it kind of slows, I don't think it goes to nothing. That's where I think the pick is fine. You've got a new offensive system, and you've got an offensive line that just lost, like, we talked about Gentie. They picked up Tyler Lindenbaum. He's gone. They lost their all-pro fullback in Ricard. Gone.

They lost their tight-in Charlie Kohler, got a big contract to go to Los Angeles. They lost Isaiah likely. They're the 26th ranked offensive line. And this is, you know, he's not going to have 50 plus receptions. So, you know, that would be the maybe things could slow a little bit. But they're projected to win a bunch of games. It's, yeah. And when they win, Derek Henry scores a ton of points. And the way to stop Henry is you have to.

you hit the train before it starts going. So if the offensive line is not giving him some room to at least get a couple steps to get up to speed, then things may not be so great. It's really, I mean, it's really just age. Do you want to bet that this is the year that Henry falls off, then avoid him? It just feels like at ADP, that's like that would be a fallout.

If at the end of the year you're like, oh, Henry finished an RB12, you're like, oh, crap, but that's where you're drafting it. And the thing is, is I don't think that there's a world where he finishes its 12. You know, he's going to finish like 18 and it, you know, it didn't happen. He got eight touchdowns or he's going to finish it, you know, eight or better. The question I have is like if you're at that point in the draft and you're not drafting your first running back, would you rather, you know, pair your first running back with Derek Henry or like Jeremy Love?

The young, the complete opposites. The high upside. I'd rather pair your first running back with Henry every time. Yeah. I just feel like it's so solid. And the, like Henry has historically, as the temperatures drop, he does transform into the Yeti as it gets cold and.

And that's science. That's not like a bit. No, no. This is like... The bit is, is it snowing in Vermont? Right. Because that is, that's like Groundhog Day. I don't know. People probably don't notice. We sometimes we goof around. This is science. But I'm saying, like, so I know that at, you know, the halfway points or whatever of the year, Derek Henry will, you know, hit Transformation 3 and then he'll just start dominating again.

But the first six matchups for the Baltimore Ravens. Oh, baby. Favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite. It's not just favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite, but these aren't great defenses. Colts, Saints, Cowboys, Titans, Falcons. Oh, my. Yeah. It should be fine. All right, we'll take a break and we'll continue the countdown.

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5.26 January 6.09. The longer, that's not how age works, brother. Yeah. That's how a freak of nature works. It's how tackling a car works. I mean, that's just, if I have to tackle a car, I'd rather not be freezing. Right. Give me a car in September. It's like the season is a hill and he picks up speed. That's how it seems. So that's, that's the.

data. He does get better over time. The team also just starts riding him when the weather gets bad. It always feels like to start the year, they're like, we're going to try to open this up. And then by the end of the year, they're like, we should just keep giving the ball to Henry. Jacoby Lane, you know, he's probably going to take over in the entire league. He's the only player I got on that dynasty team of mine. Maybe. Number eight. Ashton Gentie comes in at number eight, just 22 years old. I got him at seven. Jason at seven. Mike at 11.

He has the RB6 by ADP. I can't believe I'm below ADP on Ashton Genty. The ADP is a bummer. That's, I mean, you are, you got to get a great performance from Genti for that first round draft capital. We know the workload's going to be there. We know the upgrade and play calling is there with Clint Kubiak. We know they added Tyler Lindembaum, the aforementioned All-Pro Center from Baltimore that is there to help solidify an offensive line.

certainly, I think, have a lot of reasons to like what you've seen from Gentie so far. Efficiency-wise, they weren't good numbers as a rookie, but he had so much volume, and those things are not necessarily sticky. I think the upside of Gentie is pretty high. I mean, I don't think that Gentie, I think he could finish as the RB1. I mean, I think that's possible for Ashen Ginty with the targets. His target totals, we all have them above.