Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - AFC East Breakdown, News, Mailbag

I've never seen it more clearly in the preseason than the way they executed plays with Julius Thomas. He was off everybody's radar then, and he jumped onto mine because of what I saw in camp and preseason. And so pay attention to who is running routes. You saw this just happened with Josh Hill in New Orleans. All of a sudden you watch OTAs, and oh, wow, Ben Watson's catching more passes than Josh Hill. So just pay attention. Go for it. No, no, no. Go for it. Julius Thomas is a very athletically gifted.

person. Owen Daniels is on the end of his career, which means he's older, slower. Injury prone, historically. And Julius Thomas was touchdowns. That was his entire career. In 2013, he averaged 56 yards a game. 2014, 38 yards a game. So his entire fantasy value was touchdown. He caught a lot of them, but I don't think Owen Daniels can do that. It speaks to tight-in usage a little bit where he was a red zone.

weapon. So he was used in the red zone caught touchdowns, but the yardage wasn't there to say there's going to be a ton to go around necessarily. I mean, I still think that'll be a productive position. You saw Dallas Park. When Dallas Clark left Indianapolis and Peyton was there, Jacob Tammy came in and had value. But it's not going to, you don't just swap them in. They're not, you know, robots. You print on a machine and the next guy coming in. And Owen Daniels sure is not a robot. So Nate from St. Cloud, Minnesota says, I am in a... St. Cloud. Yeah.

All right. What is that? Shout out to your old. My wife went to college up there. Oh. Well, there you go. Maybe you should read this question. This one comes in from Nate from St. Cloud. I'm in a redraft auction Keeper League. Should I keep Odell Beckham Jr. for $1 or Justin Forsett for $1? I'm obviously leaning OBJ. If so, should I assume him as my wide receiver won and go heavy on running backs or draft another elite wide receiver? Thanks.

I am sad he did not put anything in the other info category telling me if this was a PPR or not. Yeah, that makes a really big difference. And I just double-check. I double-check the email. That makes a big difference because you'd rather have, I mean, because obviously OBJ is great in PPR, but in PPR, four sets, even more valuable. That's what I mean. If PPR, it's not even, I'm not even making a decision is Justin Foreson. Oh, really? For me. Even still a toss-up for me, I guess. Yeah. Okay, let's answer the question. Yeah, we should do that.

I go OBJ. OBG. OBG? Wait, did I say OBG? You did. That's because you said OBJ. Well, that's what he said. We prefer here. If you mix OBJ and OBG. OBG. OBG. OBG Y. Let's, look.

A dollar for the OBGYN is very good value. Normally they have a co-pay. Don't they say if you're on the Madden cover, you end up at the OBGYN? No, I forgot about the Madden cover. Forcet. And he's already dead. Take four set. Otherwise, he'll give birth to injury. Here's the deal. To answer your question, we're probably leaning Obie whatever. We're leaning Odell Beckham Jr. Forcett is not a bad option. If you draft Odell Beckham Jr.

then what you want to do is still draft your best available. Don't get caught up on. You have to have running backs or wide receivers. But he is a worthy wide receiver, one, obviously. So, you know, if a stud running back is there. Nate, none of that stuff would have happened if you would put in PPR standard. See? So, shame. I don't know if that means he shouldn't. But he should. Last question here, Boz from Ohio. He says he started to buy into Jonathan Stewart being a RB2 possible. Hmm.

possible one barring injury. But that is a concern. How do you view his possibility of actually playing 16 games? If not how many projected points? Well, this is a great question because we talk about guys like Lev Bell. At least you know he's gone for three and which three they're going to be. You know Jonathan Stewart's probably going to be gone, especially if they give him the workload we're expecting. He's going to miss a game or two. Historically, he's had a couple big injuries, but then he's had games where he's missing one, missing two.

So what do you project them for? I mean, this is, I mean, you presume help, but in some degree you're not projecting 16 starting the same way you don't project 16 starting for probably Foster or something. Right. Yeah, I project literally in mine, 14 games is what I've got him planned. And at 14 games, he's a great value. I think that's very fair. I think when Forte was kind of fighting injury bugs, I mean, that was kind of what he put up, 14 games. Yeah. And of course, he's got a second half to this question, guys. Did you see it?

I did. The second half of the question? It's my favorite part because it talks about Cameron Ars Pain. Oh, I love Major Pain. So his question basically says, I know you guys love the rookie there. He can't even remember his name because nobody knows who Cameron Artis Pain is. His mom does. Yeah. He says that if he goes down, if Jonathan Stewart goes down, what's the chance that Tolbert's role, Mike Tolbert, who is a very good back, he's healthy in camp, what is the...

that his role increases instead of Cameron Artist's pain. Zero percent chance that that changes. That's what I'm saying because of two reasons. I agree with Jason. Here's it happened last year already. Yeah. Here's the two reasons. Reason number one is because Tolbert is very niche.

Tolbert has his role. He's carved it out. You see this all the time in the NFL with guys. When the number one guy goes down, the guy who was their third down type of back that was their... It's Marcel Reese. Right, exactly. He's Marcel Reese. And so you stay in that role, and the guy that was behind him comes in. The second reason is because I hear that from the Carolina Camp. The Carolina Camp has said that they see him as a three-down back if Jay Stu goes down. That's a pretty good indication that they say that.

Don't forget Fossey. Walka, walka, walka. He's not that bad. He's not that bad. I know. He's a better director than an actor. Fuzzy. Fossi Whitaker, that's all I can ever think of. That does it for us here at the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Be sure to check out Fantasy Draftwizard.com. Visit us on the web. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Thanks for listening. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web.

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