This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and the editor-in-chief at Fandall and at NumberFire.com

and this is episode 219 of the Lay-Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part of

the NumberFire Podcast Network.

Thanks for tuning in.

Kareem Hunt is a Cleveland Brown.

I'm sure you've heard plenty of takes on Kareem Hunt this week and I'm guessing a lot

of those takes had to do with whether or not he should even be playing in the league.

I'm not going to dig into that today.

I have my opinion on the subject, but those types of takes aren't for this podcast.

One thing I did mention on Twitter this week though was how it seems clear that Cleveland

doesn't necessarily value running backs the way that I would.

And that's fine, I'm not a GM.

I'm just a fantasy football and football analyst who crunches numbers in his mom's basement.

But the reason it's clear is because if the belief was that running backs weren't all that

valuable, then getting Kareem Hunt along with the baggage that comes with Kareem Hunt

would never happen.

Because we know no matter how you feel about the situation surrounding Kareem Hunt, there

is baggage.

And while I was tweeting about that with some of the good people that are part of football

Twitter, I mentioned that the Chiefs didn't miss a beat without Kareem Hunt this year.

And that was met with some adversity.

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