Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 3 Studs & Duds, Rising Stars, Running Back Re-Draft

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Welcome in to the show. The world is upside down. It is very much upside down. I had... Go bills. Go bears. Go rams. Go jags. Hey, don't leave the Jets out of this. Go Jets. They were great. Go Colts. Oh, man. I was considering last night, do I whip up some synthesizer stranger things? Oh, I sound like... Just an absolutely...

insane week of football. Reminds us, you know nothing. Apparently. These weeks, these weeks happen from time to time. Those those ridiculous outlier crazy weeks where. And to be fair.

Football was awesome this weekend. These games were incredible. The finishes of all the morning games? I mean, if you just want enjoyment watching football, it was great. But talk about a wacky world of outcomes. I just think when weeks like this happen, and they do happen all of the time, you know, you do have these outlier games, and it just shows you that the difference between a good...

NFL team and the worst of the worst NFL teams is actually razor thin. I think that's the reality. If you do not go out and execute, I mean, look at the game that we got in New England. We didn't even mention that one. New England won that game, but Houston came out and played incredibly. I'm just shocked and amazed at all the things we saw. And even Minnesota against what we thought was a stout buck's defense. Minnesota with Case Keenom takes care of business.

We're questioning all the things we think we know about some of these players. And we have a great show. We're going to get into the Fantasy Rewind. We're going to talk stud muffins, the mini pooped in their big boy pants, players. I'll share some of our tales from this weekend. And then we have a great quick question on the show today. So I'm very excited. You can find us on Twitter at the FF ballers. We are the fantasy footballers. Andy Mike and Jason. Jason is at Jason FFL.

Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. And the website's the fantasy footballers.com. All right, quick question of the day. Let's pretend we are drafting right now, right here, with every injury and situation that we know about. If we could redraft the top three running backs, you're on the clock. You need to select them right now. Who are they for you? Just for clarity, is this like if we could do it over and we get these.

first three weeks or this is week four on this is the draft is today okay and david johnson is hurt all of those things have happened and we are drafting right here right now i've got my list do you guys want to share yours sure thing uh well we actually our lists our lists are very similar okay let's just go through i think lev bell is the number one pick still he would still be my number one pick too large a history of being dominant to ignore

Yeah, he's my number one guy as well. The snaps are there. The involvements. The Steelers, I firmly believe that the Steelers offense will get figured it out. I mean, we're only three games in. The season is very long. Yeah. My second pick would be Cream Hunt at this point. Cream Hunt is, the workload is.

unbelievable, and that's what you have to lean on. And we'll talk all about Chris Thompson. We'll talk all about some of these blowout players with smaller workloads. But I want to lean on Kareem Hunt. What do you guys think about your number two pick? That's the clear number two right now. He has been so dominant. Every time you even calling him a clear number two, a lot of people would take him first. Yeah, yeah. I guess I would say the clear, you know, top tier.

you know, player to grab. His volume is assured. He's using the passing game. And more than any of that, every single time he touches the ball, it, he never goes down on first contact. It's just he bounces around and has this balance that is unbelievable and gains another four to 40 yards after he reminds me of those. And he has big play capability, which is amazing. It reminds me of those like the bumpers when you play pinball.

Like he just hits and then bounces laterally and his feet stay directly beneath him. It's pretty incredible. All right. So we all think we all have a different third pick. So I didn't realize we were going to be the same on the first two. So Levin Kareem Hunt, what's the number three running back if you had to draft today? I would still take Zeke number three. I know that that week two was literally as bad as it can get for Zeke Elliott. And I guess technically you still have.

the suspension looming with the NFL. They were able to get their emergency court date coming up here in the next couple weeks. We know that he will play at least two. But yeah, so this week and next week. You know that's assured. He could get shut down after that, but I would still take Zeke as my third guy. Oh, sorry. I would go with Delvin Cook. I feel like Delvin Cook is in a situation that's identical to Cream Hunt, which is they lean on him.

The workload is humongous. He has NFL talent. And so talent and opportunity tell me that here we are. For me, two rookies in the top three picks for just proving that we knew somebody would do it. And you could very well argue that Leonard Fournette should be here in the top five for sure. Yeah. I mean, definitely in the top five. But you could say who would you rather have between Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette?

You know, two different people would take a different one. I'm going to go with Ty Montgomery as that third guy. Very similar to Delvin Cook in the fact that he is getting utilized. His utilization is unbelievable. Maybe even, you could argue, unsustainable because he's just being used so much. He's basically on the field almost every play. He leads the entire, you know, all running backs in snaps right now.

So that's somewhat similar to Dalvin Cook in utilization, but then he's got Aaron Rogers and a really powerful offense that he is a part of. And really, Zeke would be that third pick for me except for the possible suspension. Some other honorable mentions. I think Devont of Freeman shouldn't be forgotten in that top group. He's been great this year. And what's crazy about Freeman is he's actually put up huge numbers and he's done almost nothing in the passing game. I mean, two receptions, two receptions, three receptions, yet still.

has scored in every single game. Kind of crazy. Andy? Yes, sir. Got to ask, did you consider Todd Gurley? Yeah, I mean, I think people probably would have expected me to mention Todd Gurley. In that top five, six consideration for sure, I'd take Freeman over Gurley still. So.

Yeah, if you got those, if this is like we're doing it from the beginning and you get these three weeks again, then Todd Gurley, he's scored so much in these three weeks. You'd want that. But his schedule coming up gets Dallas next week, which is absolutely fine. And then it's a rough six weeks. Yeah, in Zeke's defense, he faced Denver. And Denver just did a good job of keeping LaShawn McCoy's fantasy numbers down once again. So let's go ahead and get into the rewind. Weekly rewind.

Can we get a weekly fast forward? Can we maybe? No, all right. Randall Cobb didn't play on Sunday. Geronimo Allison was the big beneficiary of that situation, had a big game. Rob Kelly, Jordan Reed, both inactive. You saw Vernon Davis. Sometimes I wonder just because of durability. Why not play Vernon? Sometimes I just wonder that. Like, I mean, he's always performed for Washington. I mean, and he was great. That seam route.

After the catch, still good? He was a hot topic on yesterday's Periscope. People are like, what do I do with Jordan Reed? I say, you're fine because just pick up Vernon Davis right now. It's last year, three of the four games where Jordan Reed was out, Vernon Davis was a beast. And he was a beast yet again. The running back situation in Washington is sort of a mess. Minus one player. It is secured now. Somaget P. Rine was forced from week three.

Not only did he fumble, but he fumbled because a helmet destroyed his hand. And then on the way down from that same tackle, he proceeded to be blown up and was bleeding from the mouth and bit his tongue or something. So it was not a great exit from the game for P. Rine, and he didn't really have. No, it was not a great game. He didn't show much. And you know that Gruden, like, Somagia P. Ryan could have broken his hand on that head. We're not sure yet what the full extent of the damage is.

But you know that Jay Gruden is like, there's no excuses. You have to hold on to the ball. We don't forget broken hands. Coach, his helmet broke my hand. I don't care. Why didn't you have two hands on it? I will never forget. This is a great time to get Rob Kelly. Yeah, his role is, I think, very secure. Yep. All right, Darren Sprouls. This might be the end for Darren Sprouls. When you were describing the whole thing that went down to Samaj, all I could think of was Darren Sprouls.

Yeah. The same play. He said, you know what, Samache? Try, try a torn ACL and a broken arm on the same play. How does that happen? Did he get hit by a truck? Yeah, it was, it was bad. There was audible cursing. And you're like this, and he was holding his knee. You knew it was really bad. But so this is career. I mean, this is probably the end for Darren Sproul. He had already talked about retiring. I mean, that guy is an absolute stud.

Yeah, what a career. We'll love you forever, Darren Sprouls. Yeah, what a career. All right, Michael Crabtree, chest injury in week three in that train wreck of a game for the Raiders last night. Pretty much hung out to drive by Derek Carr on that throw because he had him wide open. Instead, he airmails him. He goes up. How was that not a flag? For what? With the Crabtree hit. Because he didn't target the head. I mean. But it was a hit on a defenseless receiver. You can hit him. You just can't hit him like that.

Okay. In the head. So I thought it was a pretty clean hit. I'm saying like six feet in the air. Old football rules are like, yeah, that's a normal hit. But I feel like in today's NFL, that gets flagged all the time. Yeah, I mean, he wasn't. The thing about Crabtree on that play is he was going up. He was not coming across the field where you were blindsiding him. He was going up. The ball hit his hands and the hit happened at the same time. And Crabtree is now out with a chest injury. And we'll see what.

Happen. Crabtree's got to be at the top of the list of players that essentially lost you the week. So he lost me the week. But I had a lot of tweets of people saying, I just need 0.4 more points from Crabtree or another catch. Doug Baldwin exited the fourth quarter of the Titans game with the groin injury. Ian Rappaport. Ian Rappaport said that he's going to have an MRI. Early word is that it's not serious. But who's the beneficiary there in Seattle? I mean, is it Lockett? Is it Richardson? Is it nobody?

I think Richardson would be the primary beneficiary. I mean, they all basically just take a step up. Richardson, Lockett, even Jimmy Graham would all just have to get a bump up in targets, maybe a little bit more Luke Wilson. Maybe. And we know what we found out. All Jimmy Graham wants in life is just a big hug. He wants to jump over people. He let, well, he left into their arms. He doesn't want to hurdle them. He just wants to kind of.