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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

12 Risky Players To Avoid | Think Twice About These Potential Fantasy Football Landmines (Ep. 2073)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Drafts are won in the middle rounds, but they’re often lost on risky players that look like league-winners! Join Joe Pisapia, Pat Fitzmaurice and Scott Bogman for their most controversial fantasy football landmines. Are Kansas City Chiefs RB Kenneth Walker III's injury concerns worth the roll of the dice? What are the expectations for New York Giants WR Malik Nabers due to offensive inconsistency? Plus, should managers avoid targeting Denver Broncos RB RJ Harvey?  The Pros disclose the players and traps to avoid!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.1

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros.

0:06.9

This is the Fantasy Football Podcast.

0:08.9

It is me, Joe Peasup here with me, of course, is Scott Boggman and Pat Fitzmorest.

0:12.9

And today we're going to discuss some risky players.

0:15.9

Now, sometimes there's guys you want to take the risk with.

0:19.9

Sometimes there's players you want to avoid. So we're going to talk about some controversial names that could potentially ruin all of the good work that you've done in all your drafts. Make sure you subscribe to this channel so you can do the good work in the drafts first, though, and foremost. Ring the bell to the late goes ding so you never miss a piece of content here. Like this and of course comment below we always got fun stuff going on here on the shows gentlemen great to see you

0:42.2

as always when we talk about some of the risky players again sometimes there's good risk sometimes

0:47.1

there's bad risk and we're going to talk about what the difference is and some of these landmines

0:51.6

we want to avoid this year in fantasy football.

0:55.8

Scott Bogman, let's start with you.

0:58.8

Let's talk about Ken Walker and Rushie Rice.

1:02.4

Two guys, same team, both potential landmines.

1:07.6

One, potentially from a usage standpoint of Ken Walker, who when he gets used too much,

1:10.7

has shown that sometimes he can break down on the side of the road. and then Rushie Rice, who sometimes gets pulled over to the side of the road. On the side of the road. But let's talk about these two guys and some of the issues that they might be facing in 2026. I got to tell you, in the middle of the summer where we've been talking about football for like four straight months now you're getting really creative joe i like your side of the road reference for these

1:31.0

i didn't even plan it it just happens organically hey you know what that that's uh the best things

1:35.5

happen all at once that's right so uh yeah great great great analogy there thank you thank you

1:40.2

that was that was outstanding but uh yeah i, I'm concerned with the Chiefs overall.

1:45.6

You know, I think this dream of Patrick Mahomes playing week one is a bit eye rolling. Maybe he does.

1:52.9

Maybe he plays week one. If he plays week one, he's playing week one at less than 100% in my opinion.

1:57.1

So towards ACL in late December. So I know medical science is advancing and all that stuff,

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