Fantasy Football 2017 - Top 10 Running Backs + ADP Price Check

Actually, I would do that in a heartbeat. I don't think he would. Based on today's tweet, he's not available for comments. Yeah. We can go in the hills of Montana. We can find him. Sure. Do some fly fishing. He's rassling a catfish up there or something. Keep wrestling, Jeff. Keep wrestling. All right. The Jets have placed Quincy and Nunwa on injured reserve with a neck injury ending this season. That sucks.

age 25 year had a great opportunity feel bad for the guy he also was the de facto number one there so now you're going to have to wade through the Robbie Anderson is having a bad camp Ardarius Stewart a lot of good news about Chris Harper who if you remember Chris Harper he was a standout in Patriots camp I believe last year and last preseason maybe it was the year before but he has a lot of talent and he's got a lot of opportunity all of a sudden so and they're saying Robbie Anderson's having a really bad camp

Which is what I just said. Oh, I apologize. But because I was too busy over here thinking about Austin Safarian Jenkins. Yeah. Who's been in our UDK for a while because you need to draft him if, or I mean, you need to sign him in week three. Yes. All right. Pete Carroll revealed Eddie Lacey did hit his 250 pound or less requirement at his latest weigh in.

Thomas Rawls and Eddie Lacey split first team reps during a mock game on Monday. Rawls took the first series in that split of the first team reps. I'm a big believer in Rawls as a late round flyer. I think that there's an opportunity there for him to stand out as much as there is an opportunity for Lacey to potentially struggle. And as the residents... That's not to Barry Lacey, by the way. I just think there's a chance. As the residents...

anti-Ralls, but just, I didn't. You weren't, you didn't buy yourself a Royce last year. Yeah, I certainly did not. But a free Rolls-Royce? Yeah. I can get on board with that. You'd take that down the street. Yeah, you'd take it to the market. The better value here is clearly Thomas Rawls. That being said, I still fully project Eddie Lacey to be the starter and the lion's share starter. I think they're just working him in slowly. That's how I see it. But if I'm in a draft, Thomas Rawls is.

Without a doubt, the better value. Ted Ginn is listed as the starter opposite Michael Thomas on the Saints' first official, unofficial depth chart. This is further affirmation, confirmation of a great offseason by Ted Ginn. He is in a great situation with Drew Brees. He moved up my rankings yesterday. I didn't really take Willie Sneed.

down significantly because I wasn't projecting 100 catches for Willie Sneed anyways. He was in the 70s. I still have him in the 70s. But Ted Ginn right now is one of my favorite late round wide receivers. He may be a startable wide receiver 2-3 guy on certain weeks and really could be a factor in this offense. You lose Brandon Cooks and I think he's going to have.

passing volume. I think he's going to be around 70 receptions. Wow, 70? I do. I think he's going to be in the high 60s. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm with you that I love Ted Ginn late as a as a ceiling play for your flex every single week. And this is, I'm with Andy again, that this is not a down, down crease, as Jason would say, on Willie Sneed by any stretch. Michael Thomas, Willie Sneed will see a lot of targets.

You have to have reasonable... He's going to bust deep several times this year. You have to have reasonable expectations for Willie Sneed. You couldn't have taken Brandon Cook's out of the offense and just anointed Willie Sneed a super high wide receiver 2 role. I just think he's very solidified in that offense, but this is great news for Ted Ginn. All right, you know, this isn't big news for me, but Cooper Cup listed as a starter in the Rams first step chart. See, I think he's a...

Late round PPR flyer. Yeah. For sure. Yes, for sure. He fits the system. He's a mature wide receiver because he's old. Jameson Crowder of the system. It's just hard for me to. It's just like any of these other teams that haven't had offensive success. I don't know why we debate the two, three, four.

wide receiver. I completely agree. There are so many guys that are super late in drafts that are a flyer on a good team with a good quarterback where they're a deep touchdown option. And maybe that hits and becomes a very relevant fantasy player. If Cooper Cup hits his ceiling this season, it's going to be a guy that on your buy week, problem week, you start in your flex and cross your fingers. Yeah.

I'm going to skip the rest of this kind of none of the main news except for this. Indy Star has talked, Zach Kiefer from the Indianapolis Star. He's writing that Robert Turbin has been, quote, terrific. This is not the first time we've heard this. No, it isn't. And Turbin last year, despite only, I think 73 touches, had eight touchdowns in the Indianapolis offense. I want to remind people what preseason is for if you're a fantasy football player. Preseason in my...

history of playing fantasy football has been to identify with my eyes players that do look different than they've looked before and who matched the height that you may have heard about them a few years ago mark ingram looked very different in preseason julius thomas in dember you could see him in preseason if you go all the way back to when chris johnson was a rookie

And no one expected him to be a fantasy relevant player. Something special showed in preseason. And last year, Terrence West was an example of another running back. You said, wow, a little more pep than I have seen before from Terrence West. And he delivered. If Robert Turbin looks spry. If he looks like he matches this kind of hype in preseason, you need to pay attention. This is the year 34 season for Frank Gore.

Turbin already made a goal line impact. This is 34th season. That feels about right. Yep, yep. It's going for that Emmett Smith record. That is correct. So, yeah, he was on the original Browns, not the new version. So pay attention to Robert Turbin. You really need to just keep an eye on him. He's a great late round guy. He's starting to look that way, definitely. And for those of you were saying, well, what about Marlon Mac? He's a scat back. He's a scat back. He's a scat back.

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All right, let's talk, let's talk running backs. Running bags. All right, we're going to dive into the top 10 running backs. I'm excited. Let's get into it. Number one, David Johnson. Whoa, I went for the who, who, who. And I swallowed my throat. I don't know what happened. Oh, my goodness. What just happened? It did not feel good. I feel like we owe David an apology. Yeah, we do. Oh, goodness.

Thank you. Wow. If you want to not miss that, go to the YouTube version. I hope that's not a premonition for this season. There better be a hoo-hoo-hoo after David Johnson. What? There it is. All right. We individually. Jason's soul left his body. That was great. That's going to be a moment for the YouTube. For the YouTubers. Mike almost lost his mind. There's not much to say. His Nike SB flew right off his feet. There's not too much to say about David Johnson.

He's number one in all of our individual rankings. He's number one in almost, in the majority of analyst rankings and in ADP, he's the clear number one. You've got a guy who last year had 20 touchdowns. I see that as also a negative in the sense that there is certainly not just room to, you know, regress on the touchdowns. You'd say a likelihood. Yes, absolutely. I would never project any player for 20 touchdowns in my rankings.

I project most of my quarterbacks for that. Sure. Okay, fair. You've got me there. Well played. But the thing is, is all the reports out of Arizona from just about everybody, whether it's David Johnson or Bruce Sarians or Fitzgerald, they all talk about wanting.

desiring to get David Johnson to the thousand and thousand mark. He was so upset that he missed that, which he wouldn't have missed if he didn't get injured in that last game. A thousand rushing yards and a thousand receiving yards. If the team cares about that and he's as talented as he is and as capable as he is, I mean, there's not much left to save. If you get 2,000 total yards, you're going to be worthy of that number one pick. Last year, 293 carries for 1,239 yards and 16 touchdowns on the ground.

80 receptions for 879 yards and four touchdowns on 120 targets through the air. He is. Ridiculous. Two players in one. He's a wide receiver three to go along with your running back one. You get an extra roster spot, essentially. You get to play one more player than your opponent. He averaged 54.9 receiving yards per game on 7.5 targets a game, despite the volume, right?

He was still fourth in the league in yards per reception from the running back position. One of the most mind-blowing things. You look at Kevin Coleman, Spencerware, Ezekiel Elliott, who were all in that top five. They all had. They all had 30 receptions. Yeah. And you look at their yards per reception. You say, well, that's not sustainable. They only had, you know, 30 receptions. Ah.

But David Johnson. David Johnson could do it. 80. 80 receptions at 11 per reception. He was an RB 1 or 2 in every week except for the last week when he was injured. So 93% of the weeks. The injury was minor. He's back. He's healthy. And the team is willing and able to ride him. He's everything you want in a fantasy football superstar. We're going to move on. Next question. And we're going to talk about the 1B. 1A1B in my mind. Levy on Bell.

You know the name. It's not even 1A1B. It's one, one capital A, one lowercase A. I mean, however closest you can get. He averaged more targets. More targets than David Johnson did per game. 7.8.