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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

785: Mailbag 8/4/23

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Which running back is JJ moving up his rankings? Is Alexander Mattison undervalued? Should your approach with elite tight ends shift when your league's size changes? JJ answers those questions -- and more -- on this week's mailbag episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson, and this episode's 785 of the Late Round Fantasy

0:17.1

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandool.

0:23.1

The way I figure out who I like and don't like in Fantasy Football is by quickly comparing

0:27.0

my rankings and tiers to what the market's doing.

0:30.1

In the draft guide, I used Fantasy Pro's expert consensus rankings as the market, since

0:34.6

a lot of your league mates might draft off of a list like that.

0:38.1

Now, obviously I'm doing drafts as well, I generally know which players I like and don't

0:43.1

like, but for content creation purposes, that's the route that I go.

0:48.0

Now a couple of weeks ago, I talked about James Cook on this show and how I was at market

0:51.9

with him, but that's now changed.

0:54.6

He moved up a couple of spots in my rankings with the Nihim Heinz injury.

0:58.4

Not that that was significant, but it was at least something.

1:01.3

That's not really why I wanted to bring him up today though.

1:04.3

Other players in that range have also fallen.

1:07.3

Isaiah Piceco is someone who's been banged up and he might have more competition than

1:11.4

people realize this year.

1:13.1

Javante Williams is looking healthier, which is sort of making the Williams P-Rine split

1:17.4

harder to navigate.

1:19.8

Use your opinion on a player can change based on those dynamics.

1:24.6

But also, and I talked about this on the show a couple of weeks ago.

1:27.6

Cook does fit a lot of the criteria that I look for in a breakout running back.

1:31.7

The past catching is particularly interesting, even if he didn't show it off in year one.

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