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When I think about Osteckler, I know he's small in NFL terms, but he's a sturdy dude. I love your comment because when you get the videos, it's like everyone freaks out as though if you don't see it, these players are not in shape. That's right. But if you see the quadricep muscles for the running back? I have no proof of apps. I have not. You need a proof of app? Yeah, I need today's paper.

Right. In the photograph with proof of abs. But you're, okay, Gaskin is the same size as Echler. I don't view them as the same size. I think in my head, Gaskin is like 30 pounds lighter than Austin Echler. Is Echler getting a three-round ab bump? At least two. Maybe. I think one round's got to be Justin Herbert. 18 touches a game. That's what I want from Miles to continue. And that will be enough. Okay. So we got a couple fires, one smoke.

Another report, and another one that I will go fire on. The athletics is that key for reporting Colts coaches want Naeem Hines to have more touches in 2021. Naeem Hines is a good football player that when you listen to Frank Reich talk about the team and his role, what is communicated to me is a tremendous amount of trust. And I think that Naeem Hines is probably.

He may be the most annoying player in fantasy to know when to start or when to sit, but he will get a lot of work this year. Ten opportunities a game last year. I don't know. I think he'll be above that. This is one of those situations that happens every single year in fantasy where there is a stud who is an awesome.

option for fantasy that we want and believe should get the entirety of the workload and that is irrelevant there are these are coaches are you talking about jonathan taylor yeah i'm saying jonathan taylor the the fancy community wants him to have a hundred percent workload and a hundred percent snap share and that

That doesn't matter. It matters what the actual NFL coaches want. Last year, they gave Heinz a lot of work. And it wasn't like Jonathan Taylor wasn't great last year. Do you remember the fantasy finish for Heinz? If they're coming out, yeah, he was the top 24 back. He's got 20. If they're coming out this year and saying, I want to get him more involved, I don't know how you could, like, like there's one side that's just fluff, right? There's a side that's like talking up a player for no reason. But this is a.

We've seen it on the field. We saw them utilize him in those situations. He did great with it. And they're saying they want to keep doing that. It's just a nice, consistent fire from last year. And he is officially the number two running back on the depth chart. I know Twitter was kind of making some ruckus this morning over that situation happening. T.Y. Hilton will be missing.

at least a handful of games and as much as I like Michael Pittman. Other guys have to catch the ball, and Mahim Hines is, that's his specialty. And so I would say that this one is fire as well. That Hines, if you were grabbing Hines, you know, at that later round ADP, I think he's going to be a spot started for you. Yeah, it was still difficult. I mean, he.

Ping-pong between, I mean, week one and two. Yeah, I had him last year. It was the perfect example. I mean, number five running back in week one, everyone freaking out. Then he goes 82, 30, 43, 45, 33. And then he gets a string of five games where it's like, you know, 7, 44, 3, 37, 16, 21. So difficult to start. Mm-hmm. But exists to take away your dreams for Jonathan Taylor. That's for sure.

All right, that was where there's smoke, there's fire. Now he minds the dream stealer. Yeah, it's him and J.D. McKissick go, they run through the meadows. I stole another dream today. What did you do? I stole a dream. Oh, thank you. Who were we calling goblins? There was Chris Goblin. Well, no, no. We were talking about these backup running backs. Yeah, no, that's 100% what they do. I stole your dream. Yeah, they stole the dreams.

I mean, that was super creepy. I would not watch that movie, starring Naomi Hines and J.D. McKissie. But, I mean, that's what they're there for. Oh, and don't, I mean, James White's there, too, just for the record. Help me. He's there to take some Damien Harris dreams away. Oh, man. No, A.J. Dillon is not there. Sorry. He can't fit in that door. He's way too large. He's the opposite of a guy. He's more of a troll. Not a goblin.

All right, that was where there's smoke. There's fire presented by Trager Grills. Put a Tragerwood pellet grill in your starting lineup and make every game day more delicious. Head to Trager.com slash footballers to discover just how simple wood fired cooking can be. News and notes from around the league presented by Sleeper. I mean, they're not really just target goblins. They're more like snap goblins, right? Yeah.

They're out there. They're just taking up snaps that you wish your other player had. Like Jonathan Taylor can catch the ball. Antonio Gibson can catch the ball. Both of them are pretty darn good at it. But then the snap goblins come running off the sideline. Get out of there. It's my turn. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think based on this voice, I'm realizing this isn't a coach decision. I think they just run on the field. They choose themselves. They're like, you're out, Jonathan.

Oh, it's nice that the season is here. Let's get into a lot of news. Talk about how it impacts your fantasy team. Mark Andrews, four-year $56 million contract. Oh, probably gave Jason a pep in his step after trading for Mark Andrews in our dynasty league. Yeah, I mean, I don't. There it is.

I don't know that it changes much of anything. We all assumed that he would get a contract extension and that when it happens, he would be one of the highest paid tight ends in the league. Good for you, Mark. Yeah, congratulations. But obviously they're not doing that if he's looking fat and terrible at camp, you know. So good. Yeah, fat and terrible is one of the worst ways you can look at camp. Also, this way is not great either. Justice Hill torn Achilles at practice.

Raven, he's the, was the third string running back for the Baltimore Ravens heading into the season. Yeah, he was probably going to split time with Tyson Williams. Now, Tyson Williams is an interesting potential flyer. But Andy, they're bringing in left bill to practice to try out. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think they'll probably sign one of those guys too. They will have to. Just as an insurance running back. But Gus Edwards, this is his backfield.

Devante Freeman is on a mission to be released by every NFL club, which he's getting close to. So, yeah, they have to bring somebody in. I mean, two devastating injuries. You talk about a seasonender for J.K. Dobbins, a seasonender for Justice Hill. And so, you know, I haven't seen a lot of Tyson Williams. But this gives me more faith that you should pick him up because where, you know, we had talked about Williams that the all news out of camp center like he had.

secured being the backup role and kind of becoming, you know, for lack of better phrasing, the new Gus Edwards in that, in that Ravens system where he's going to get carries because the Ravens simply have not full-time featured a running back. They split up to work. Williams is going to be that backup guy, but you didn't know how often is Justice Hill going to get on the field. He's been on the team while. He knows the system. He's a solid pass catching running back. But if the third option is now

these other running backs who can't get on an NFL team because they're warshed, then like Gus Edwards and Williams, those are going to be the guys. They are. And for those that don't know, Tyson Williams was an undrafted player out of BYU. I've heard the, hey, there may not be a James Robinson this year, but he's one of the candidates of potentially having a bigger impact than we think. This team, I mean, think about how you viewed Gus.

Yeah, exactly. When J.K. Dobbins was the starter. You viewed Gus as like, hey, look, if this team has a big lead at the end of the games, you may be seeing a lot of Tyson Williams in the fourth quarter running out the clock instead of, you know, risking losing Gus. Because this team's Super Bowl chances.

They take a huge hit without Gus. Yeah, and nothing against Gus Edwards. He's looked great when he's been on the field. But if Gus was running behind the Arizona offensive line, I don't think we'd be as excited. When you watch Gus Edwards dominate back there, it's in part because the running lanes that open up for that system with Lamar Jackson, they're going to open up for whoever is there. And Tyson Williams should be certainly rostered in a dynasty format. I think he should be.

rostered in redraft and you know in week one the Baltimore Ravens play the Las Vegas Raiders so Williams he should be picked up because he's going to be a waiver one or a week one waiver guy get ahead of the crowd he's a perfect name of if you've got someone that is missing week one and you won't need to throw him on your IR and pick someone up grab him

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Sequin is, quote, gearing up to play week one against the Broncos is very close to being cleared. Takes them a long time to lace those cleats. I think we brought it up on the show already. Oh, they're super. The cleats. Are they leg guests? We would play him if he's starting, right? Yes. I think you have to. Both of these guys, Clyde Edwards Aller and Barkley, you drafted them so high.

they're in your starting lineup. And even though I don't think we necessarily expect, especially for Sequin, who's missed, you know, the entirety of since his last injury, I don't think we expect a monstrous game. You pretty much have to plug them in your lineup. Let me throw another player in there for some advice for week one starters. Would you play Odell against Kansas City in week one? Oh, my goodness. Because you don't have as high of a draft investment on Odell, but.