FINAL Do Not Draft List! 15 Players We’re Avoiding: Trey McBride, Ashton Jeanty & More! (08/27 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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2:06That's what we're talking about on today's fantasy football today. Welcome to the show. I'm Jamie Eisenberg. That's Dave Richard. We're going to tell you about players that we are looking to avoid. As we know, it's a very busy draft weekend coming up. Next two weeks are going to be where most of the drafts happen. So we're going to see a big shift in average draft position that's probably going to determine how we view some of these players. But we're talking about guys that are going to matter to you or maybe not matter to you if you're going to avoid them like we are. But before we get to that, we want to talk about some players that are dealing with injuries because again, very popular weekend for drafts coming up. You might be doing your draft. Now is your watching us. You want to know about certain players that are dealing with injuries. What our comfort level is and where we're looking to draft some of these guys. So guys, let's start with the running backs because we're dealing with several different moving parts. Some guys are coming back to practice. Some guys are still dealing with injuries that are going to be out for a few more weeks. Excuse me. You see the list here. Ash and Gentie Kenneth Walker, Josh Jacobs, Breeze Hall. We're going to talk about Gentie. Jeremiah Love, Breeze Hall a little bit later. Trevi on Henderson. Some of the injuries are dealing with. These are some guys that we're looking to avoid.

3:06But Dave, when we see Josh Jacobs on this list, back at practice has dealt with this groin injury. But as we found out from their general manager yesterday, they are potentially preparing to miss some time, for him to miss some time, due to a potential suspension. So how are we approaching Josh Jacobs? When are you drafting him? Who are some guys that you're maybe looking to compare him to when we get to that spot in the drafts? Well, just to be clear, they said that they have contingency plans. Just and the quote is, in case there's a suspension for Josh Jacobs, the fact that there hasn't been one so far tells me that the league may not be keen on giving him one. They're really close to the start of the season. It would almost be unfair for them to do such a thing. That being said, we know that Josh Jacobs is capable of being one of the best running backs in fantasy football. And you don't have to draft him that way. You can get him in round three at this point. I think that that's the time to go and get Josh Jacobs. There is a little bit of risk because you never know what could happen. The groin injury, the suspension, whatever. But I do think that there is a chance for him to actually end up being a very good fantasy value. If you're getting him in that early round three range, for me, he's ahead of Ash and

4:09Gentee because we're really not sure where he is at with that injury. Javante Williams and Kyron Williams, I think Jacobs has more upside. Same thing with Jeremiah Love. Don't know where he's at with his injury. I think Jacobs has a little bit more upside. He's if you draft Jacobs, are you drafting Marshal and Lloyd? Is that something that you're targeting? I would like to. I'm probably not going to force it, depending on the depth of the league. We were just talking about the situation before, but I think those handcuffed situations with the guys that are really uncertain right now. If you're in a deeper league where it's going to be harder to have three starting running backs or harder to replace them on the waiver wire, then it's more important to me to go to Marshal and Lloyd. If it's a league where you only have four or five bench spots and you're only starting one flex, then I'm probably not quite as worried about it. It's good that we all got the memo by the way to wear black today, so we're all in agreement. Let's talk about the bus episode. That's true. We don't want to use the word bus. Do not draft. Do not draft. Let's talk about it. Why are we using the word bus? Let's talk about the bears running back. Let's talk about the bears running back. Do not draft. Is positive. Well, you're going to draft them. We'll get in set.

5:10We get that part. Let's talk about the bears running back because Kyle Menongai still dealing with his knee injury heath. How do you view Menongai? How do you view D'André Swift? How much has Swift benefited because of Menongai's absence in camp? Well, I think Swift's benefited for a couple of reasons. One is Menongai's absence in camp. It just kind of highlights the contingent upside that he has because he's being drafted right around R.B. 18 to 20, which is probably where he's going to finish if Kyle Menongai's healthy or year. So you're kind of drafting him where he's going to finish, but he has that upside of Menongai misses time. The other reason he's been upgraded was a lot of the names that they've just said. A lot of the names we're talking about right now have fallen below him. So I like him. There's a big tier of running backs that I have at the 3-4 turn. He's in that tier. I'd prefer to draft him early and round four. All right. So we'll see how this goes with Menongai. Expect it to be ready for week one, but really helping the situation for D'André Swift. What's also helping the situation in Carolina for Jonathan Brooks is to you, Bob Hubbard, dealing with his injury as well, battling a hamstring problem. So Dave Canal has kind of gave us this landscape of what it would look like when both guys

6:11are healthy. How are you doing the Panthers back then? I don't really want to reach for either guy and the fact that we can get Chubah Hubbard pretty late right now in drafts because he hasn't been practicing and people are worried about this injury. It actually encourages me to take him and play the long game with Chubah Hubbard. And I'm not saying that Chubah Hubbard is a better running back than Jonathan Brooks, but I can't say that he's not either. We haven't seen Jonathan Brooks play much in two years in the NFL. And so far this preseason, he's had a couple of moments. He's looked all right, but I still view Chubah Hubbard as somebody who can handle passing downs, might be better suited for the goal line than Jonathan Brooks. Maybe they want to keep Chubah Hubbard in there. And I know the coaching staff likes him a lot. If they both are there week one and they stay healthy all season long, Brooks is the one you're going to want to have on your fancy team. He should be better, should get more touches, kind of like how Rico Dattled did last year, but it's not like Rico Dattled finished there. He had his moments. But he didn't finish year as one of the great running backs of fantasy football. Yeah, hopefully they'll get their tackle situation. They need to straighten out because both left tackle and right tackle dealing with injuries. So that would certainly help things. But this is going to be a team that we know is going to try and run the ball.

7:13So hopefully one of these two guys stands out. If we got both commanders running backs battling injuries right now, Jacquery Crosky Marit, something's going on with his lower body, not expected to be serious. Rashad White's got this hamstring injury, has kept him out for about a week. How do you view those two guys going into the season? Most exactly the same way that I view Jonathan Brooks and Chuba Hubbard. I think that the roles might be pretty similar. There may be a little more pass catching for Jonathan Brooks. And we may be a little more certain that Bill Jacquery Crosky Marit is a good NFL Russia because he did lead the NFL on success rate last year. But I have Brooks one spot ahead of Jacquery Crosky Marit. I'm taking both of those guys in round seven. I have White one spot ahead of Chuba Hubbard. I'm taking both of those guys in round ten. Yeah, make sense. You're just looking at it from who's going to do what roles. I just wonder with the commander situation that Rashad White can probably do everything. I don't think Jacquery Crosky Marit, they want him to do everything. Well, I think that's kind of with Chuba too though. We've seen him be a workhorse running back in the past. He could do everything. All four of these guys, if one guy gets hurt, I think, could be really crushed their value.

8:17And Washington, another team with offensive line issues. In fact, they're worse there than they are in Carolina. We're hoping that the tackles for the Panthers come back. There's not going to be a return to learning Tonsula left tackle for Washington. And their center is also banged up. Yeah, not ideal. And they were really struggling in their joint practice with the Ravens this week. Let's look at the White receivers here. We'll go a little faster on some of these guys here. So we'll show you the list of the players that are battling injuries here. It starts with Pukin' Nakuha. Goes down through Xavier Worthy there. We'll get to a couple of these guys when we talk about our do not draft list as well. Mike Evans and DK Meccaff are on those lists. But Heath, when you look at the situation with the Rams, Pukin' Nakuha has now missed significant time with the groin injury. Another player who may be facing a possible suspension. What does his injury status do for him because he's going to be considered one of the top five or six overall players? Have you downgraded him at all? And then if he does miss any time, what does that do for Devon Dams? Yeah, I haven't downgraded him yet, but I did have him fourth. We've got that group of round one wide receivers, Chase, JSN, St. Brown, and Pukin. He's been fourth for me.

9:18He's still fourth for me. It would take something more for me to move him behind CD-LAM, Drake London, Jeff Jefferson, that group. Devon Tey Adams would make us all look foolish for drafting him so late if Pukin' Nakuha misses time. It sounds like he's had a very good camp. I think he's the most obvious touchdown regression candidate wide receiver. But then the one that people might not be thinking about it is if Pukin' Nakuha does miss time, Terrence Ferguson's going to pay off for a lot of people that I think have maybe been overdrafting him if everybody's healthy. If one of these guys is not healthy, Ferguson could be awesome. We know they're going to be in a lot of 13 personnel. We know that he's going to be probably the Titan that they feature. Last year was Kobe Parkus, and this year they're seemingly going toward Ferguson, so a good late round target if you are taking two Titans. Dev, I know you've been very excited about Ameca Buka. We're all looking forward to seeing what he could do without Mike Evans there, but still battling this toe injury, similar situation. How you view a Buka, and then what does this do for Chris Godwin? I saw the Bukin' Nakuha practice against Jaguar as earlier this week, and there doesn't seem to be much pessimism about a Buka's availability for week one, but there is a little bit of cold water being thrown on him making that huge leap.

10:21The leap that I was kind of hoping that he would take this year and maybe be the 2026 version of Jackson Smith and Jigba. He should be ready to go a week one. I'm drafting him like he can finish the year as a quality number two wide receiver. But after watching the Buk's practice, I really liked what I saw from Chris Godwin. Look like the Godwin' have lined up in the slot a lot. Was on the same page with Baker, Mayfield on a number of plays. He didn't get the same type of target volume in practice as Ted Hurst and Ted Johnson did, and I think that's because the Bucks are trying to get those young guys acclimated. They know what they've gotten Chris Godwin, and that's a role that he's got locked into. I wouldn't be surprised this year ended, and a Buka and Godwin were both north of seven targets per game. Would be awesome. Mike Evans basically averaged nine targets per game, so there are some opportunities to go around for both of those. Not mention. Evan's dominating touchdown. Red zone looks. That's open now. That's right into a Buka and Godwin's hands. And Jaylen Maymillan should also be a factor too, so we'll see what happens there. Keith, you said a few weeks ago that Luther Burton's injury saved you from taking him in round three. Well, he returned to practice yesterday, so trending in the right direction should be

11:24available for week one. Are you back in Luther Burton round three? Are you just buying the dip and taking him? In this case, it was early round five. Did I tell you guys that I got Luther Burton in round five last night? I think I told everybody 17 times I was so excited. I've got him right in the middle of round four right now. It's funny. The guy that I have ahead of him is a Buka. And one of the reasons I had a Buka ahead of him was because Burton was hurt and a Buka wasn't. Now it's kind of flipped. And I was just kind of looking at this. That's my wide receiver 18 and 19. I may swap that back and put Burton ahead of a Buka. He'll probably still be a high round four guy. That round three, four turn is more running backs for me, but Burton will be the top wide receiver in round four. Yeah, we like that. He's trending in the right direction. So you him appropriately now and maybe down great room with Lindsey just a little bit because now Burton, back on the field day, I'm going to give you the entire cult's passing game here because we have exciting. We're going to transition to tight end. So if you guys want to throw up the tight end list as well. So we got Josh Downs now with a calf injury, Alec Pierce, we got the news today off the pop list dealing with an ankle injury. And then you got Tyler Warren who's been battling this growing injury.

12:24So how do you view the cult passing him? And not great because everybody's banged up. Warren is still the one I want, especially if it's a league. Well, it really has to be a league where I'm starting a tight end. If I'm not being forced to start a tight end, then I'm less interested in taking Tyler Warren with a top 50-ish type pick. But he's the first one that goes off the board. And right now I have Downs ahead of Alec Pierce. I've got to still react to the news of Pierce coming back to practice. And I can see myself making a switch and putting Pierce ahead of Downs because Downs is banged up. But neither one of these wide receivers I'm excited to draft until round eight. And if I'm getting that late in a draft, then there's immense value in both of them, particularly in PPR leagues as it applies to Downs. But we just got to see him back, get back on the field. He dealt with injuries last year, dealing with injuries again now. And at least Pierce is healthy and we know that his role is going to evolve in Indianapolis should be able to not only be that deep threat that he was last year, but also pick up a bunch of shortened intermediate throws too. I'm really worried about the fact that he's going to try to do something new. Dave talked about the role evolving and hasn't got to practice at all. Like all off season, he's not been healthy enough to do all the stuff.

13:28And now I don't know that he's 100% healthy. He's off the puff. He's going to, I would assume, be doing individual drills first. And then he's going to try to get through some team drills. We've seen some videos of him walking around that don't look like a 100% healthy person. So I'm going to wait to move him up until he gets through a couple of team practices and then is still okay. But where would you move him up to? Let's say he's around nine right now. Okay. He might get to the very end of round seven for me. I don't imagine he'll be a top 85. Right, the round eight pick is where I think he will. Yeah, I'm just, I think out altogether. He probably won't get into the single digits for me. I just don't like what I've seen. And I don't like what the expectation is. You know, you still have Daniel Jones coming off when he kills injury. And they were not great together. The King of Allen. The majority of the piercings. We've heard about King of Allen. We forgot about King of Allen. The majority of piercings production came without Daniel Jones, which is shocking that he was the one that was thriving with Philip Rivers and then at the end with Riley Leonard. His production, you know, I know you like to do this. The percentage of his fantasy points was the last six games of the season when Daniel Jones was not there.

14:29All right. So on top of Tyler Warren, Balon the Grody injury, a couple other tightener, three other tight ends that are dealing with injuries. And then in some positive, some negative, you got Sam Laporta with the hip injury, backer practice, that's positive. You got Tucker Kraft in it. When the injury just got a report from ESPN's Adam Shaftor, the Packers are signing John who's Smith. So another tight end and a mix there for Green Bay. And then George Kiddell dealing with the Achilles injury. So of these three tight ends, Heath, which is the one you feel the most confident in, based on an injury standpoint. On the injury standpoint, I'm going to go with Sam Laporta because he did have a back injury through the offseason. He was cleared from that. And I saw a hip. I was worried because hip and back can sometimes go together. This sounds like it was just, he got hit really hard in the hip. He took a couple of weeks off. He was back. They said it was a very physical practice in his first practice back. And he was doing 11 on 11 work and was fine. So Sam Laporta, I'm not that worried about. And in the case of Kraft and Kiddell, both guys coming back from injuries last year, both have been activated off the public, trending in the right direction. I wouldn't worry too much about John to Smith going to Green Bay impacting Tucker Kraft. It's another pass catcher that they can rely on there in Green Bay if they need it.

15:31Real quick, if you draft George Kiddell, do you draft another tight end with him because of the concern that he might miss week one? I think just given the fact that the games in Australia are still the uncertainty of it, you should absolutely put some money on your radar like a Terrence Ferguson. If you want to go with the higher end guy, Mark Andrews, Dalton Schultz will be great to want Johnson. It would be great if you want one of these veteran guys that can still produce and be heavily involved. Speaking of tight ends, we're going to take a break right now. When we come back, we're going to tell you why Heath does not want to draft. Danny McBride, one of the guys that Heath is looking to avoid in draft this year, that's next on FFT. Football season is here and my routine has completely fallen apart, but my busy schedule isn't waiting for me to catch up. I was desperate to start eating real food again without spending hours in the kitchen and factor made that transition totally effortless. They offer chef crafted dietitian design meals that are ready in just two minutes with zero prep and zero mess. Over 97% of users agree that factor helps them live a healthier life, mostly because every

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18:38What 100%? So that I think is a big part of this conversation. So let's start. We're going to do heaths, guys. We're going to do each segment for each of our do not draft list. So this is heathed us on the, heath gets a spotlight here. Five guys that you're highlighting here for this are Chameleon pride, Cam Skataboo, David Montgomery, Mike Evans, and Caleb Williams. Chameleon pride is still near number one tight end day. Still my number one tight end full PPO. For people that look at it as McBride, as Brock Bauer is there at the top, why is Chameleon pride a do not draft player for you? So I think one of the best compliments that you've ever given me, Jamie, was earlier this year you said, I'm consistent. And I'm not always consistent, but I try to be consistent. I've given a pretty significant boost to both Sam LaPorta and Kyle Pitts because of the tight end friendly head coaches that they inherited from Arizona and from Cleveland. Drew Petsing was Tramik Brides' offensive coordinator for the last three seasons. He will not be this year. I don't think they're going to go away from McBride, but I have taken away from his target share. I think he probably has some touchdown regression. He ran two full games more routes than any other tight end in football last year because

19:42this was a team that was always down two scores in the second half. And Tramik Bride was out there running routes on every play. They'll still be running routes on every play. They may still be down a lot. There's going to be some regression in terms of the number of total pass attempts. We're going to, we've had now the emergence of Michael Wilson. There was not a part of Tramik Brides big breakout, especially when it came to touchdowns with when Marvin Harris and Junior was hurt last year. And maybe most importantly, I just rather draft Colston Loveland and he goes later than Tramik Bride. So if I have to choose between the two, I'm going to take Loveland. I would take Tramik Bride if he was going 10 picks later. I think every coach that gets their hands on Tramik Bride is going to be a tight end coach because of how good of a player that he is last year with Jacobi Berset. And I think Berset is part of the solution here for Tramik Bride. 10.6 targets per game, 21.1 PPR points per game and 10 total touchdowns. That's amazing. And I don't think he comes close to those numbers this year, but is still the guy to get in full PPR leagues as the number one tight end.

20:42I don't think anything's really changed. I don't think their defense is any better. I know Jeremiah loves there. He's banged up how much more effective will they be running the ball? It'll be a step forward, but it's not going to be a lot better running the ball. I don't think so. I think they're going to have to throw a lot. Bad last year. And Jeremiah love is an awesome talent, but he's banged up right now. That offensive line isn't great. I still think they're going to end up throwing a lot. So when surprised me if this year ends and Tramik Bride, I don't know about, would you say two games more worth of routes? Maybe like three quarters of one game more worth of routes compared to everybody else. I think this cardinals team is still going to sling it. I think like Bride's going to lead the team, targets, catches yards and touches. I think it'll be good enough to be the number one tight end, but it's only in PPR. Half PPR, not PPR. I'll drink the cool aid on Brock Bowers. And I do think that offensive line being bad in the Stofansky Petsing system, and you notice this, we're going to talk about Kyle Pits a little bit later, but in the Falcons first pre-season game, when the quarterback doesn't have time, they've always got the tie-dend out there in the flat. We're just running underneath right behind the blitz, and we're just going to dump it off to the tight end.

21:43I think a lot of those targets may go to Jeremiah Love in this offense, and they won't be designed to the tight end because most teams don't have those dump offs to tight ends. It's really that specific coaching tree that does. Certainly more than last year, but don't discount, McBride, getting a bunch of those types of targets, and that's what helped them be so great for PPR last year. Let's talk about the two runny vassals, sort of combining them together, because they do go in a similar range. I know the ADP doesn't necessarily suggest that, but I think we're going to see them maybe get a little bit closer because of the concern about Camp Scataboo. We got Camp Scataboo and David Montgomery. Scataboo is ADP right now, 34.9. I think that's the biggest reason why anybody should be a boy in the game. David Montgomery is 50.7. Scataboo is RB16 on CBSPorts.com. Montgomery is RB22. What's your concern about both these guys? Yeah, for Scataboo, I think coming into the year was the injury, and we think that's okay. It was a gruesome injury for both him and Quinchon and Judkins, but they've done enough in the preseason that we're kind of discounting that now. I'm kind of starting to wonder if his head coach likes him. They just brought in Nudgey Harris.

22:44I believe Coach Harbaugh was asked yesterday about Scataboo's infectious energy. And he said, yeah, he got a 15-yard penalty in our last play. He's more of an infectious disease. And it's just that's not exactly the type... Scataboo and Jackson Dart in this whole Giants offense was such a weird thing last year just in the way they had success. And now you've got Harbaugh and Naggy and Roman. I think they're looking for a little more professional football. Nudgey Harris is that. So I'm worried that Scataboo is not the full workhorse running back that we need him to be. And this offense is not very good. David Montgomery, I think he's just going to share more than people think he's going to. We've heard that a little bit. Woody Marx probably can handle passing downs, maybe to have more carries. I think Montgomery and another guy we're getting ready to talk about are very, very similar in that if he scores 10 touchdowns, he may pay off at his current ADP. I don't think there's much upside at his ADP. I'm worried about how many running backs are in that kitchen for the Giants because Naggy Harris is probably going to elevate to being the guy behind Scataboo.

23:47And then they might keep Tyrone Tracy and Evan Singletary. That's four running backs that they can use on a week-to-week basis. People that are drafting Camp Scataboo based on what he did last year are going to get burned for it. He's a round five pick and a late round five pick at that. Mike Evans is still very popular for fantasy managers going as wide receiver 27 at 66.5. It is overall ADP. What's the concern level for you? I feel like chicken little running around saying the sky is falling, the sky is falling. But all off season I was worried that Mike Evans at his age and has had struggled with soft tissue injuries each of the last two years. I can't he stay healthy. I'm not even going to make any sub-station jokes. It's just the fact that he's got the injury history. He's got the age concern and then he can't seem to get through a week of practice without another soft tissue injury popping up. He had the quad, he's got the groin now. I think it wouldn't be surprised if he scored the touchdown in most of the games that he plays this year. I would be surprised if he plays more than 12 or 13 games. And this Shanahan offense has not been one that generally features a number one wide receiver

24:49with a lot of targets, especially if Christian McAfry and George Kiddell are both healthy. I think the thing you're hoping for is, do you want Jenny's scored nine touchdowns last year? Can Mike Evans get to that level or better, which he's got six years in his resume with a thousand yards receiving and 10 touchdowns? That's the guy I think a lot of fantasy manners are hoping for, but 33 years old, like you said, it's been one injury after another. All right, last guy for you is Caleb Williams going as QB8, 75.1 overall in his CBS Sports ADP. And I get it because the fun stuff that he does is really exciting and you think if he could just be a normal quarterback the rest of the time, he could be so awesome. He could be, but there's just too many quarterbacks with a very similar projection. Everybody that's listening to me talk all summer knows that I prefer Brock Purti. I'd rather draft Justin Herbert. I'd rather draft Trevor Lawrence. I think Jared Goff is very likely to score just as many fantasy points are right in that same range and those guys go a lot later. If any of those guys in that group had an ADP at 75, I wouldn't draft them because I can get somebody else at 90 or 100 that I think is going to do pretty much the same thing.

25:50Just repeat your quarterback strategy about waiting. You need to wait and get a steal on draft day. There's people that are telling you just wait on quarterback, wait on quarterback. If you do that and then a quarterback falls to a really good spot in your draft, why would you pass that up? What if it's Josh Allen in round three? What if it's Lamar Jackson in round five, Drake May in round six, Joe Burrow in round six? If you see something like that and you just can't believe it, the steal is sitting there in front of you, take the quarterback. Don't pass it up. All right, and that could be Williams or it might not be Williams because he's going to soon. Or Caleb Williams ends up in your leagues and if you're somebody that's going to pass on him or if you're going to get excited and draft Caleb Williams. All right, we're going to take a break right now. We come back. It's Dave's turn to talk about a couple running backs. He's concerned about you. You heard him say this a lot about Breesaw. He'll defend or maybe not. Breesaw's draft value for 2026. That's next on F50. I recently took a trip to Memphis for the FFT draft

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28:53debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App A Block Incorporated brand. Cash.app slash legal slash podcast for all full disclosures. Welcome to the Breesaw segment. This is Fantasy football today. I'm Jamie, that's Dave, that's Heath. And we're talking about Dave's players that he's looking to avoid on draft day the players. He is not planning to draft. And Breesaw has been a very fun top of conversation for these two to debate. So let's just start right there. There we can show the list of the players that you're looking to avoid. But really the headliner is obviously the guy at the top. So let's talk about Breesaw. He is RB19 going basically the beginning part of the fourth round, 39th overall. That's not good enough for you? No, that's not. I'd still wait a little bit longer. The back part of round four is where I'm going to be on Breesaw. But at least I appreciate that his ADP is falling a little bit. And I don't know if it's because of anything I'm saying. I think it's because of the growing injury they has and that it's caused them a big chunk of train again. But that doesn't help Breesaw's cause. This is still a jets team that wants to use three running backs.

29:53The coaches have said as much. Frank Reich is the new play caller there. I'm not excited about him. His track record with running backs in 10 years as a play caller is terrible. Four times as a running back had 13 plus PPR points. Three times with 15 plus and once as he had a guy that's been awesome. And that was Jonathan Taylor when he was a younger player in the league. Breesaw obviously with the injury, questions about the offense and how much they're going to score. They've been bottom five in point scored. Six of the last seven seasons. Next year he had a workhorse role. Seventeen plus such as per game. Thirteen PPR points per game. Half his season was a total disaster. I'm not excited about drafting. And I don't want people to reach four and round three when they start to see those running backs go off the board. I think his ADP is absolutely perfect. So I've got a little bit higher amongst the running backs. I've got them at 38th overall. But one of my favorite Breesaw's stats. There have been three running backs since the start of 2022 that I've seen 200 targets in average, 6.5 yards per target. Those three running backs are Bijan Robinson, Christian McCaffrey and Breesaw.

30:54He's awesome in that role. And the coaches have said one of you's three running backs. The offensive quarter, Nate are also recently just said Breesaw is a bell-cow. So I do think what really went wrong last year was the shape of those touches. He had more carries. He had fewer targets. And then he didn't score touchdowns. He's never really scored rushing touchdowns. But he had nine total touchdowns two years ago when the offense was awful. He had eight total touchdowns the year after that when the offense was awful. Only scored five last year. I think the touchdowns bounce back. The shape of those touches change a little bit with Braille and Alan staying healthy. So he used him more on the early downs in the Trepp-Bat-Groll. Use Breesaw and more on passing downs roll. Would not be surprised at all if Breesaw's a top 12 running back. I'll add this. I do think the early schedule is favorable for the Jets. So if you already have, you're just coming in. I'm nervous. I'm not obviously. If you've got them and you're a little bit nervous, you can enjoy the first part of the season and then sell high on Breesaw when the schedule gets worse. This guy I think is relatively obvious. Trevian Henderson, he's going as RB26.

31:5466th overall. That's too soon. The thing that's crazy to me is that Ramandre Stevenson is going three running back spots later and 13 picks overall later based on his ADP. Think about where we were last year with Trevian Henderson. Every report out of New England was positive. And we were all excited. We all three of us were really in the three. I was thinking of it around three. Yeah, you were really into him. I was taking him around for where were you taking Trevian? Behind Jamie. Yeah, yeah. He obviously is the genius here when it comes to Trevian Henderson. And then what happened? He really wasn't that great. And honestly, neither was Ramandre Stevenson until injuries came into play. When Ramandre Stevenson got hurt in the middle of the year, we saw great numbers from Trevian Henderson. But otherwise, he wasn't really that great. And Ramandre didn't really step up until the end of the year when they just gave him all the work. This year, the reports out of training camp are not positive for Trevian Henderson. He hasn't improved in past protection. His vision is still a question mark. Meanwhile, Ramandre Stevenson, getting all the reps with the first team offense, having a bigger role in the Red Zone offense, I can't believe the words are coming out of my mouth. But I'd much rather have Ramandre Stevenson than Trevian Henderson.

32:57Henderson's being drafted at least one full round too soon. If not two full rounds, don't go after the hype on the second year running back. Ramandre is the safer pick. I think our podcast host host the show during the season on this network on Tuesday's Adam Azer says it best. If you want a similar profile of a player, just wait two rounds and take Blake Horm. Wait and take Kyle Menongai. There are injury lottery tickets that if the starter gets hurt, you're going to want that player. Trevian was awesome in the three games that Ramandre missed last year. But otherwise, struggled when Ramandre was healthy. Let's combine two receivers that you have on your list in carnal tape and DK Mecca because they are going back to back. So not necessarily in their overall picks, Tate is 90.5 overall. Oh no, they are. 90.5 and 90. So they're basically right back to back. I received 35 for Tate. Well, I received 36 for Meccaf. Are we overreacting a little bit to the preseason for the Titans? I don't think so. This doesn't have as much to do with carnal tape as it does cam ward and the rest of this Tennessee offense cam ward looks terrible. He's completed zero of six passes of 10 plus A yards. So for a yard, what I say, A yards.

33:58A yards. A yards. Yeah. So far this preseason, one of those included a drop from Tate, which is problematic. I don't hate the ADP for carnal tape at 90.5, but you should honestly, you should try and get them a little bit lower than that in that round 910 range. And that's why I have DK Meccaf as well. Crowded receiving core now in Pittsburgh with Michael Pittman there. I like the draft pick that they have. Germany, Bernard Plus, Roman Wilson, once upon a time was one of my favorite rookies coming out. He started to step up as well. I think there's just more options and more short area options for Aaron Rodgers to go to that will not only hurt DK Mecca, but also the running backs. Sound off the running backs get the same type of target share that they had last year because of Pittman, because of Bernard and because of Roman Wilson all being there to take work away from them. I think part of it is the injuries for both Meccaf and Pittman. They haven't been practicing. So we haven't got to see what. Definitely, but I think just the other guy stepping up, I think just know the two starters or quote unquote starters not being there. All right, we're going to let you guys fight again because Kyle Pitt's coming up here.

34:59So Kyle Pitt is tight N5. I know that's fine for you. It's a little too soon for me. I like Laporta better. I know you like Laporta better as well, but you have Tucker Kraft and they're also so Kyle Pits is somebody you've been very adamant about that you're not drafting. Outside of a five game span last year when Drake London was hurt, this tight ends average at around 10 PPR points per game. And there have been seasons, full seasons, where he's average less than that. Now he was awesome in those five games without Drake London, but last time I checked Drake London is healthy. And now it looks like we're going to get the quarterback that we want in Atlanta. We're going to get Michael Penex Jr as the guy under center there and not to a tongue of Iowa. I actually was encouraged by what I saw from Pitt's with 200 center because Tua was getting rid of the ball so fast. Penex won't do that. Penex will look down field a little bit longer and I don't know if Pitt's going to be the guy who's there. So I don't want to overvalue Pitt's based on the fancy points that he had as a whole last year. The name of the game here is that Drake London is the number one target. Pits might have the coordinator that you like, but it doesn't mean he's going to get a ton of work. And he has gotten a decent amount of targets for a tight end. It hasn't always resulted in consistent fantasy points.

36:01I think he's closer to tight end 10 and tight end 5. He had an awesome rookie season and he scored one touchdown and so it didn't look that good in terms of fantasy points. But it was one of the best rookie seasons that we've seen. He got hurt and had the PCL injury. We've seen that bother guys for multiple years. He wasn't quite as good. He was very good last year without Drake London. That's true. I don't think based on what that offensive line looked like in front of Tua that Michael Pinnix is going to have the option to hold onto the mull for a long time. And I do think the offensive coordinator matters in the Kevin Stofansky Drew Petsing system. It's not just been Harold Fanon and Tramock Bride. It's been David N'Joku. It was Zach Erts when he played Austin Hooper. It was Austin Hooper. It's been a 23% target per route run rate or higher for all of those tight ends. Kyle Pits somehow still just 25 years old. He's still very talented. Reports from Camp saying he's moving as well as he has in years. I 100% believe. I prefer him at tight end six, but I think the ADP is too low. I love, I drafted Sam Laporta in half of my drafts. In three of the other drafts, it's been Kyle Pits.

37:03I just took him in our FFT open, picking on six. It was a 6-7 turn. Taking him there was, which is ADP. Which is ADP. And he was my next highest tight end. I didn't love the receiver value. We only start two receivers in that league. So first time that I drafted him in a league that we're playing out. So I'm excited for him. So we'll see how he does. All right, we're going to take a break. We're going to come back. It's my turn to talk about some of the players I'm avoiding. It's very running back. Heavy. You can imagine Christian McAfry is not somebody I'll be drafting. We'll talk about why next on FFT. running back heavy you can imagine Christian McCaffrey is not somebody I'll be drafting we'll talk about why next on f-f-t. Welcome back to fantasy football today are it's my turn to talk about the players that I do not plan to draft for twenty twenty six a lot of it is tied to their value a lot of his tied to the position that they play and some of the injuries that they're dealing with so Josh Allen is mostly one hundred

38:04percent one thousand percent no question about it is average opposition uh... you have four running backs here one that is hopefully not going to be injured one that is hopefully not going to be on the worst team in football two guys that are battling injuries in action genty and during my love the Josh Allen conversation can be very quick it's just really when you look at it he's going in the second round and then there's a huge gap and the rest of the field starts you listed it off when you were talking about the guys you might get Josh Allen around three then you could get Lamar Jackson around five then maybe Drake May Joe Burr on round six and that's not just us talking about this as analysts and I know a lot of it's probably going to change over the next two weeks as most of the novice drafters are starting to take part in fantasy football that being said the gap between Josh Allen is not that far should not be that significant that he is going to just obliterate the field please do not take him around to round three I think we all agree we'll take Josh Allen I don't start entertaining it then yeah prefer it in round four but I prefer to round ten but prefer it around ten you drafted him in a league with analysts yesterday

39:04round four in round four perfect time to get Josh Allen if you can get him that late let's just say round three is probably the right time to target let's get to the running last because that's where I think the conversation starts so Christian McCaffrey is RB four based on his CBS boards average opposition coming off the board at number seven overall we've been all over the place I think with him collectively I know he's and I think we downgraded him the most once we had this mysterious injury slash rest slash maybe contract we don't know exactly what it was but he came out and said this was part of the plan to sit during training camp I'm still nervous we have two years on his resume of over 400 total touches the following year each time he did not play a full season four games max was the total in the following year I don't want to take him in the middle of round one right does anybody want to take him to the is eighth overall the middle of round one it's pretty close to the middle of round one so I guess I would qualify I guess that means I'm the high guy on Christian McCaffrey no our colleague Adam Azer taking fifth over right right and it's it to me like it sounds silly to say well he's on my do not draft list

40:07because I won't take him fifth but I'll take him eighth but I feel the exact same way you do then think about this the last two times he had 400 plus such as in the season and then missed time he was younger he's 30 now he also had the highest amount of targets per game that he's ever had in San Francisco last year at 7.6 that's nearly two targets per game think about what the 49ers the wide receiver season right Mike Evans is there Dijon Stribbling is there George Kiddler's back they have added pieces to try and take some pressure off of Christian McCaffrey there plus they drafted Klon Black for whatever that's worth Jordan James is there as well they are probably smart to lighten the load on this 30-year-old running back who's already missed a good chunk of training camp the way I'm talking I should be having a ranked 18th overall and not eighth overall but I know what the upside is and if he can handle the bulk of the season he's gonna be a league winner on our draft the thon Wednesday night Mike Floreo of ESPN I think said the best if you don't want Christian McCaffrey you're just waiting for somebody else to take him before he gets to your spot

41:08right in the draft so we'll see how this goes from McCaffrey I want to have the conversation about Devon H. and because you guys are much more positive about H. and I'm not taking him until Round 2 are you both round one picks for H. and I've got 11 late round one yeah about that same exact spot okay so I'll make the case against you can make the case for Heath I just worry about this dolphins offensive environment you get almost daily reports from their own beatwriters saying how bad this offense has looked at times and that's going against the dolphins defense H. and it's gonna get a lot of work there's no question about it he's going to be the focal point of this offense every defense coordinator in the world every fake defensive coordinator world everybody watching this knows that the money chance going to get every touch for the dolphins they're not going to win many games their projected win toles four and a half I would take the under I don't think he's gonna score many touchdowns and then you look at his history with to a tongue of I low without to a time while I know it's very wild different times of his career but it's a 15 point per game difference when two is not on the field with him so Malik Wallace is not going point per game difference yes 15 yes it's some of that is rookie year when

42:11Ray most are no oh it's a lot it's no I'm sorry yes it is again it's it's wildly different things but numbers are numbers you know so when I'm trying to make an argument I'm using so Devane Chan is not going to be as involved in the passing game I think it's gonna hurt his overall numbers so I would not take him until round two so even number 11 to high for he's just he's the most efficient running back in the NFL over the since he came into the league his coach wants to give him the ball 40 times a game and I think we can laugh at that but it's it's also I think his coach would love it if you told him at the end of the year to bond H&N is gonna have more touches than any other running back like he is going to be the offense Malik Willis and his rushing ability should help H&N to remain an efficient rusher even with a subpar offensive line he averaged 20 fantasy points per game last year on not a disastrous offense but a pretty bad offense they were a bottom third of the league for sure and Dave went to practice and it turns out Malik Willis does know how to throw the ball to his running back Dave saw Malik Willis throw the ball to his

43:14running back not just once or twice he like five times he's he's practicing them were in private which is good because he doesn't have any wide receivers so some wide receivers are just not like stud wide receivers right yes so I did to be fair yes he's obviously going to throw to his running backs he is the worst quarterback in the last two years in terms of target rate to his running back so I think that's he's learning I hope so I think they're banging it into his own I I hope it won't be as money catches as he had last year there's no there's no way about it all right the last two guys this is we just combined because it's basically injury versus ADP and that's action gentie and Jeremiah love I'm not taking gentie in round two you said you just did it in a 14-team that makes a little bit more sense I would not take him until round three right now he's RB 10 so he is slipping a little bit based on the average opposition it's just such a mystery right now we don't know exactly what this is it's been reported as a low ankle sprain but Klingkooby act the head coach of the Raiders has not come out and said exactly what this is dealing with and normally when we get because Adam Schaefter Ian Rappaport the NFL

44:15insiders that you all know they're usually pretty great at getting some information about a timeline we have nothing we don't know if he's going to be ready for week one I would not draft him until round three and Mike Washington should be somebody you should be targeting as early as round seven round eight round nine depending on how much you want to be aggressive in drafting him for Jeremiah love hey we got a video yesterday of him walking up steps carrying pizza boxes he's getting closer to a return but another situation where we just don't know I think his ADP is okay it's 32.8 so going the early part around three I'm just probably not going to get him until round four I'd rather take Travis H.H.I. I'd rather take Deandre Swift I think Devante Williams Josh Jacobs all these guys that he was going ahead of should now go ahead of him because of the uncertainty both these three guys you want to reach in in there three of the worst projected win totals according to Las Vegas which is very good at what they do and then you're talking about in the case of genty and love two of the worst schedules of any running backs that we're talking about here so that's don't love the scenarios for both these guys in the case of love we know he's gonna potentially lose goal line touches to Tyler Algier and in the case of genty because of Washington we might get a

45:17little bit more of a split so I'm just out on all these running backs which makes it tough to draft but I'm gonna pass on McCaffrey H.H.I.N. genty and love all right we're gonna take a break and we come back and get into your questions thank you for sending to us on X using hashtag ask FFT that's next here on fantasy football today how much time do we spend on this podcast talking about value value is everything in fantasy and that's not a bad way to think about health care too if you're someone who feels like you're paying too much for health insurance or just don't love the value you're getting you should know about we share health we share health is a nonprofit alternative to health insurance and their members pay up to 60% less than they would for traditional health insurance members have access to a nationwide ppo network with over one million physicians in fact there's a good chance your doctors are already in it and

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47:21is an appraal at all plus chase brown round two great value yeah and G just you know switch to a better league our next question Brian wants to know what do you think about this trade have ppr two keeper league I don't have a second round pick I'm keeping on marine Hampton and have Pukka Nuku and want to trade Nuku for genty and give up my third round and receive a second round and swap first and yeah I'm not ready to do that especially given the injury to genty I think I'd rather have Pukka just deal with not having the second round pick he yeah I mean I guess Dave's got that one too I'm sorry yeah no so you're you're getting to move up a full round and you're moving from 111 to 108 but a bunch of three spots I mean what would you need half ppr two yeah I'd probably do that and I just checked my Washington later I guess I'd rather keep Pukka though all right next question heath what do you think about this one three keeper is 12 team ppr league chase Brown and the fourth close to leveling in the sixth Rashi Rice in the tenth McBride in the 12 fan and in

48:24the 15th or coaker in the 15th with three are you keeping so I would probably keep chase Brown I just said I wouldn't draft Tramock Bride but if I can keep him for a 12th I probably did go chase Brown Rashi Rice and Tramock Bride I would do the same thing all right next question Coup wants to know Ksian Booty or Jalen Coker Dave which I'm gonna go with Coker or Booty but I like drafting one of those guys late if I can yeah you could probably get both I think Coker makes more sense to go first all right next question all right last one here 12 team half ppr two wide receivers one flex one tight end what's the draft strategy thoughts having the first overall pick so taking Gibbs and then would you go with McBride or Bowers or McBride in the two three turn heath how would you approach the draft strategy here in this format so that's as Bowers and McBride I would not do that if I can get Bowers at the two three turn which I just recently did I know if I told anybody in the FFT open I got Gibbs and Bowers and George Pickens at the two three turn I think you should expect that it's gonna be a hero RB build from

49:24that spot and just hope maybe that H&N or Swift or one of those good RB two yes false to the four five turn but plan on taking hopefully Bowers or two wide receivers Dave I agree 100% especially in a half ppr where the receivers themselves downgraded a little bit it looked like it was a smaller league that means Bowers it says a little bit more value and I do like Bowers over McBride and that ppr just want to take a moment here to thank everybody who donated to our draft the thon to raise money for St. Jude we are not done you can continue to donate on our tiltify page what's the URL again tiltify I don't know I'm signing a URL tiny url dot com slash FFT donate 2026 it's just easier if you google FFT donate 2026 all one word search for it and then look for the tiltify link yes so continue to donate we are a little shy of our goal of $200,000 but we hope to get there but just want to say thank you to everybody because we know this audience has contributed to a lot of what we have raised as well and we had a lot of fun doing it the tennis match was awesome as everybody watched the draft the thon that we did on Wednesday night was awesome

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