Fantasy Time Machine + Jacobs in Jeopardy? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/28

At this point, I'm just like, I'm not dealing with it. I was already kind of nervous about his efficiency. And so it's just like. Now the insurance backs in Green Bay, the insurance back is. Marshawn. Oh, my. Marshaun Lloyd. And then in Dynasty League, please make sure Chris Brooks is on a roster. He's the real insurance back. He's the insurance back for Marshaun Lloyd. Right. And that is, in fact, the starter. If we think Marshaun Lloyd is going to be able to play a game and exit healthy, I mean.

Probably wrong. I would say pretty much everybody around Jacobs in ADP, I would take over him. H.N. Junior, Scat. This won't be his ADP, though. Brise Hall. No, but I mean, let's move it down the list a little bit. Even if you go further down, I mean, like, Jedarian Price or Josh Jacobs? What are you doing on draft A day there? Oh, that's a great one. I would, oh, man. Or Tutin or Bucky Irving. That's the area where.

I can see it will take, yeah. I think if, you know, decisions in, you know, the moral side, the ethics side, notwithstanding, that's about where I would probably take Jacobs over those guys. Yeah, when I looked at my rankings, it was basically the split between, I believe I put him behind Price and ahead of like Jalen Warren. So it was like the tear break where he's, he's at the end of the goods. Okay. Oh.

Let's move on. Boston Globe, Trayvion and Henderson should be good to go for week one. I thought we reported on that yesterday, actually. But if we didn't, then there you go. Bears repeating. Isaiah Pacheco's knee injury, not a concern according to Dan Campbell. That's awesome. I think we reported on that yesterday, too. But now he's dealing with a back injury. I think all of this news we reported on yesterday. That one, like, popped in. We talked about 2-2-out well and Jarquez Hunter as well. Did we? We did. Because I had mentioned the fact that the day before.

I had made the joke that at least two, two outwell's not there, and then they traded for him. Yeah, I will say that there were rumors of, oh, the Puka issue and whether this was imminent of some suspension coming in. McVeigh specifically said this was not anything related to that. We can also lie. Yes, they can. We have a fantasy time machine to get to. Let's take a break and jump in.

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Yeah. Is that a new graphic for this year? No, that was last year. Okay. All right. Papa Josh. Papa Josh in the producer seat this morning, like the lead dog. Oh. Which is why this little stream deck over here on the right is not working. I was just trying to protect Kyle and Betts. From the, were you actually? Were you actually trying to take away my ability to go to the deucer cam? No. Go to the deucer cam. Hey. There they are.

You know what? As a just a person who cares about production, I don't like the proportions. Yeah, why is there such a gap between? It feels like four people, it should be equal and they're just like, is Josh gassy this morning? I was going to say one of us is gassy. Okay. We're all trying to find the guy. There it is. Good old casket face. All right, back on the main camera. All right, the premise of this segment, it's a fun one every year. We are attempting to travel forward in time. Figure out who.

This year's version is of certain players that broke out last year and did special things. So we want to look at the factors that made them valuable and, you know, these players valuable last year. Apply those same filters to this year and try to predict who might be this year's, you know, for example, JSN and things like that. So we'll start with finding the 2026 version of Giovante Williams. Okay. This was a player. Let me just remind you. He was drafted.

as the RB 39 last year, finished as the RB11. So we're looking for a running back drafted outside the top 24 that is attached to a good offense. That could end up as an RB1, not the RB1, but a, you know, someone in that top 12. Yeah, I think, Andy, you should probably go first. In my opinion, it's... You followed more rules.

Well, there was one guy that jumped out. It's who I wanted and you already had him. Okay. He does all the things that Giovante represented last year, which is David Montgomery of the Houston Texans. Which is like he's kind of been in the league for a while. Yeah. And he's kind of maybe viewed as a little bit boring. And the offense is kind of viewed that way. But here you are on a team that should really be a threat to make a deep run in the playoffs.

So they're a good team. They're going to win a lot of games. We want that in fantasy for running backs. Houston themselves sought out a goal line back, committed to David Montgomery. He is drafted outside that top range. I mean, last year, the Texans converted a league worse 17% of their attempts inside the five-yard line. Say what you want about the amount of utility that Woody Marks may have between the 20s. Is anybody doubting who's in the game when they're around the goal line? I mean, David Montgomery is that dude.

They're favored in six of their first seven games or seven, yeah, six of their first seven games before the buy. To me, Montgomery is this here, Javante Williams. Yeah, no, I, I agree. He fits the bill entirely. My, my guy, like the doesn't let necessarily look real fast. Exactly. It's kind of a little clunky. Yeah.

to earn the respect over a bunch of weeks like you might not believe one week it'll be a week 12 you're like that is true yeah javanti at the beginning of last year is like oh that's good he got all the work so he's taking more time to get respect in javanti last year like we got to the every year you know at some point we do kind of a like a let's redo the first two rounds and it was like should we i don't remember if javanti went those first two rounds i mean do you even feel that about him now

Giovante? Do you feel like he has the respect now that he deserves? No, he does not. No, probably not. Whenever I look at his ADP, I still don't want to draft him, and yet I go, I should. He should be higher. Yes. And we love the Cowboys offense. He's a bell cow back for the Cowboys offense, everything that made him an RB1 last year. So my guy, he is not old busted. He's not a veteran that, you know, has traveled around. But he fits everything else in the sense that.

He's on a good offense. It looks like he's going to get all the work. And he's drafted outside the top 24 backs. And that's Jardians. Judarian Price rookie running back for the Seattle Seahawks. I mean, he's a later round drafted guy who seems like he's going to get everything. We worried about the passing volume because he had no passing work in his college career. Early camp reports and videos and comments from coaches are that he is involved in that.

You know, I know you got the Halani bros out there that George Halani is going to be involved. All three of them. But that's, I mean, there were. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? No, but last year, think about the Cowboys last year. No, no, no, there are Halani bros. They're really all. I know. But my response to them is, are you kidding me. The only appropriate response. Last year, there were, you know, the mafia bros, Bill Mafa and Phil Mafa and Jaden Blue. And.

Jaden Blue is like, oh, he's the explosive one. The Blue Bros. There's just bros everywhere. You know, I don't, I think it's like 25 touches in Holani's career. This is not a guy who's going to push their first round pick off the field. So good offense, drafted late. They could absolutely finish as an RB1. And he is one of the players that I feel like next year, you could look back and go like, well, like, duh.

Like, of course. Why in the world was he not automatically? Well, and not even, I mean, you talk about it every year. Like rookie running backs, they are relevant. They are traditionally like multiples in the top 24. Like it is something that happens. And then you're like, oh, wait, it's a Super Bowl champs. If you go watch Hard Knocks on the first episode, like they have some clips from their general manager, John Schneider, talking with somebody in the draft, you know, with their draft board up and the draft board is blurred.

I mean, their first conversation is like, this is our biggest need. So, like, for the Holani bros out there, like, this is our biggest need. Ken Walker's gone. This is our biggest need. Like, they didn't want him to leave. They just are moving on. Mike, you've never said anything about this guy. No, I've never said anything other than just drafting him yesterday. These are all in the very similar range, by the way, in drafts. Yeah. What's crazy is Monty is the lowest of these three right now. ADP for Price is 511. Your guy is 601 and minus.

Per the rules, we were looking for a running back drafted outside the top 24, which Jason and I did. We kept to the rules. We did. 25 and 26. We just might have a toenail hanging over where the line is with Jason's running back 25 and my running back 26. Bayshall Tootin of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I, you know, it's not a sure thing that he's going to be the guy, but this is a situation that.

I 100% want to take a chance on the Jaguars last year at least were a very high-powered offense. Liam Cohen returning and the new opportunity now with Travis H.N. Jr. out of the way for a player last year who converted five of his seven carries inside the five for a touchdown among, oh, baby. Thank you, Kyle. Among 55 qualifying running backs, fifth in rush success rate, which

Reminder again, rush success rate is, are you getting what you need yardage-wise on that down? So it's a better way at looking at yards per carrier. Are you getting what you need? And he was fifth. Fifth in percent of yards after contact because he is a truly explosive athlete. And he was tied with Breece Hall for 11th and forced mistackle rate. This is a team that I want to bet on who will the guy be. Krod is there, Chris Rodriguez.

That's the goal line variable. Yes, and LeQuint Allen is the receiving back variable. I think when it comes to it, that it will end up being Bayshaltout and being like the, the guy there where last year it was, the initial depth chart was listed, H.N. Jr. or Tank Bigsby is the starter. And they were so locked into that that they said,

We don't need you anymore, Tank. We're just going to have HN Jr. B.R. Full-time guy. I think that isn't in the range of outcomes for Tutin, who's not being drafted as a top 24 guy where a top 12 player is in his ceiling. Ironically, though, last year, I think you were more on the tank side. I was. You know, that he was better than E. So maybe they'll be like, see you later, Tudin. Hey, things could happen. Yeah. No, right. Yeah. Well, I still think tanks better.