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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

769: Mailbag 6/2/23

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

JJ talks more about the rookie quarterback study from Tuesday's episode, DeVonta Smith's value, Devon Achane's potential, and more on this week's mailbag episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.0

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson in this episode, 769 of the Late Round Fantasy

0:17.2

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandall.

0:21.4

Thank you for tuning in.

0:24.1

After publishing the rookie quarterback episode on Tuesday, I got hit with the same question

0:28.1

over and over again.

0:30.1

We all know this data about rookie quarterbacks and how they're not good news for their teammates

0:33.8

in fantasy football.

0:35.4

If you don't know that, then hit pause right now and go listen to Tuesday's episode.

0:39.4

But what about someone?

0:40.4

What about a quarterback who didn't play his rookie season?

0:44.3

What about the rookies who aren't their team's primary starter and then they get the nod

0:48.6

in year two?

0:50.3

Like a Desmond Ritter this year.

0:52.5

So to start today's show, I'll quickly recap what I found when looking into this.

0:57.6

I've got a sample of 18 quarterbacks over the last 11 seasons who didn't get run during

1:02.2

their rookie year or who weren't their team's top passer and who then went on to be the

1:06.6

primary passer in year two.

1:09.0

So guys like Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Jared Goff, they're all on this list.

1:14.9

When looking at how each position in fantasy football performed for those players, the answer

1:18.7

is mostly below average.

1:21.8

Team running backs ranked about 19th and fantasy points scored from those quarterback's teams.

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