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Hello, everybody.

Welcome me to Fantasy Pros.

I'm Ryan warmly joined by Andrew Erickson.

We are talking some players that Erickson is never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, drafting again.

We are being as hyperbolic and emphatic as we can possibly be on the show here in early

February.

Erickson, how you doing?

Doing good.

Coming off the Super Bowl 60 breakdown analysis.

So looking forward to putting that aside my Patriots, the Seahawks, yada, yada, and

talking about what matters really the most here.

And that's fantasy football here in February. So we're six months away from the height of draft season and we're already thinking about guys who are off the board where they are undraftable in our opinion here. You've got three players for us. You're also going to give us some players that you should draft instead of these three players. Let's start up with a running back, Erickson. Who do you have?

For me, it's going to be Christian McCaffrey. So finishing last year as the RB1 was arguably the best

pick that you could have made, especially in the first round of drafts in 2025. But I am very

concerned about what he's going to do in 2006. And if I'm not going to draft him in 2025, what does that mean for him in 2007 what he's going to do in 2026. And if I'm not going to draft him in 2026, what does that mean for him in 27 when he's going to be 31 years old? That's where I get concerned about. Is this potentially the last time we see CMC as a first round pick and someone that you do really want to draft? Again, you don't have to go back that far to see players like Dalvin Cook, where they were top five pick two years later, they're gone. Like, they're not even drafted anymore because they just fell off the face of the earth. We just see this happen with running backs very, very often, Austin Echler, a couple of years ago, well, he was a guy that was a top five pick, got banged up, and poof, gone. Not someone that we were really interested in drafting.

So it goes back to, we've talked about this on some of the earlier shows here for fantasy

projecting in 2006, where McCaffrey led the NFL and touches in 2025.

He had 413 in the regular season with the two playoff games, total up to 450 total touches, which I believe was the most he's ever had

in his career in a single season, which is pretty bonkers for a player that's going to be

30 years old in June. So he's getting up there in age. We saw the rushing efficiency fall

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