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Guaranteed Human. Welcome in everybody, the fantasy pros. This is the fantasy football podcast. It's be Joey P. Joe P. Zapia. And today we're going to talk boom or bust. That's right. Things either go great sometimes for fantasy football assets where they go horribly, horribly wrong. Nothing can go wrong on today's show, though, because we got Jake Sealy from The Athletic and my boy, Andrew Erickson, to break it all down for you. We're going to give you some names of some guys that we think could win you a league or crush your hopes and dreams and send you sad into the holiday season. So, before we get to any of that, make sure you like this video, make sure you subscribe to Fantasy Bros. YouTube. And of course, wherever you get your podcast as well, and ring the bell to the late goes ding. So you never miss a piece of content all summer long, in season long, all day long. This is what we do. We talk ball. And while you're at it, check out Tailgate NFL too, where we just talk football all day long. Great new channel on YouTube. Appreciate everybody who's gone to support it already. Andrew Erickson, let's start with you on this one here. Let's talk about a boom or bus guy that you have circled on your board, and everybody else should be very aware of the risk. Kenneth Walker running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. Scott Bogman talked about him as a bus candidate on one of our shows that we recorded last week. So I wanted to shed some light on the boom potential for Ken Walker, because that's kind of the side that I settle on here. The bust risk, I think we could all agree. He has not really been able to sustain a heavy workload throughout his NFL career. That's why he's always been splitting carries with a guy like Zach Charbonnet. And the bust risk is what happened last year. Did you draft Ken Walker last year? It wasn't fun. It was not a fun ride until the fantasy playoffs when it didn't even matter for you that he was scoring all these fantasy points. But that in lies the upside case for Ken Walker and why I think that he is worth buying as a boom because he fits exactly what the chiefs need in their backfield. They needed explosiveness. So despite the fact that they were eighth and rushing success rate last year, the third lowest stuff rate, I think the offensive line is still pretty solid in Kansas City. There's just no explosive juice from a banged up Isaiah Pacheco, Kareem Hunt, just three yards in a cloud of dust every single time he would touch the football. That's not Ken Walker's game. We know this guy can create yards so on his own. Second explosive run rate last year. First, it mistackles force per attempt. And I think that he's underrated as a receiver. Andy Reid's talked about that. Brett Veach has talked about that, how he's underrated. The question marks are pass pro. Is he going to come off the field for Imari DiMarcato, Emmett Johnson, a rookie that they drafted this year that Andrew Reid talked about as a comp tell Ash McCoy. Do those guys get more involved? I think that's possible. But for me, Ken Walker, I think what you're going to get by drafting him, especially early on, I think he's going to get absolutely loaded up with touches as they ease Mahomes back in. I don't think they want Mahomes to be dropping back 40, 50 times a game coming off of his ACL injury. So I think he's going to be out there, but maybe not at 100%. And I think that means Ken Walker is going to get absolutely fed. And that makes him worth the top 10 upside type of pick and early in fantasy drafts. Jake Seeley, the guy that could be replacing Ken Walker in Seattle is indeed Judarian

Price rookie from Notre Dame, who certainly has a lot of upside, but he is still a rookie and

fantasy has kicked us in the nuts the last five years to remind us over and over again

that sometimes it takes these rookies a little bit longer to get going.

And if you get six weeks into the season and that big rookie draft pick isn't working out,

your team might be on the outside of the playoffs looking in.

Well, I think that's why Price deserves to be in the fringe RB2 conversation.

As somebody who does believe that he's going to lead this backfield from day one, I do think Wilson's still going to be involved. Let's make that clear. There's still the Seahawks, even. Like, whoever it was going to be, it's still the Seahawks that, like, is very opposed to ever using a bell cow, no matter who seems to be there calling the shots. And I do think that price is situated to not be a bell cow because there's the passing

game concern.

I do think he can catch the ball.

Like this isn't somebody that can't, like they ever catch it.

But of somebody who probably taps out at 35 to 40 targets in a season, even being the

lead, I can see that as a plausible scenario, which means Emmanuel Wilson will be factored in.

That being said, I could easily see Price getting $2.30, $2.40, even $250 on the ground. And especially in this offense, as somebody who have compared to Rahim Mostert with his explosiveness, heck, why he was used in a return game is that's the excitement for price in this offense, especially with some better touchdown equity than a lot of running backs. We've talked on other shows. The one thing that I would be super afraid of, we did a mock draft earlier this week, and Alfredo Brown, who I still hate for this comment to this day, says, watch Alvin Camara get cut and end up on the Seahawks and throw everything out of whack. I was like, just leave this backfield alone, because right now, Judarian Price is worth a great cost as a fringe RB2 because even without the passing game

work, he has top 15 upside as long as this offense keeps clicking as it has.

All right. Let's go to another running back here, Bayshe Tootin, who certainly has a path here to take over

what Travis Ateen was able to do last year, and Travis Ateon was a terrific fantasy running back last season. It's a big role in a Liam Cohen offense. The question is, how much of that role does he get? That's what makes him boom or bus. So are you buying the boom, or are you avoiding the bus when it comes to Bayshalt Tootin, Harrison.

I am buying the boom on Bayshall Tutin because I think that Chris Rodriguez just doesn't do it for me. I'm not going to let Chris Rodriguez be the reason why I don't draft Bayshel Tutin in 2006 because despite the fact that they did play together at Kentucky, that's really it for me when it comes to Chris Rodriguez impact on this backfield.

Everything that Chris Rodriguez can do.

A nice pause for effect, I just want to say.

Everything that he can do.

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