Good morning, friends and enemies. The week three preseason games are finished. All preseason games are finally in the books. Every Monday morning, I do a recap for you all, updating the biggest ranking changes that happen based on things that we saw in the previous preseason game. Now, it is Sunday. A lot of you guys have your drafts tonight over the next few days. And this week in particular, they wrapped up all the games prior to Sunday. So I figured I'd get this out as quickly as possible to you. Who else is working on a Sunday? Me, NFL players working on Sundays. The in-depth pre-season recap articles are in the draft guide right now. All of my rankings have been updated in the draft guide right now from everything that happened over the weekend. Again, that is the single best thing that you can do for your drafts if you want to dominate if you want to make your leaguemates be the idiot league mates i always talk about get the draft guide on bdggdgdc o if you check out the partner offers page in the top right and you qualify for that you will be able to get it for a very very heavily discount discounted price of just $10.BG.co,

the link will be the first link in the show notes. So let us begin. We will start with Thursday's game. We have the Steelers. We have the Panthers. Panthers rested their starters. The Steelers did play a chunk of their starters without Aaron Rogers, without D.K. Meck, without some of their top weapons on offense. but we did get some snaps out of the entire running back rotation.

And it's becoming more and more clear that Jalen Warren is very, very much going into the year as of the starter, which is kind of unfortunate because I really like Caleb Johnson. But if I'm being objective, if I want you guys to do as well as I want y'all to do in fantasy football, I will be moving Caleb Johnson down the rankings and I already have

adjusted him. He's around my RV 30 31 right now. I believe we have Jalen Warren seeing the

majority of snaps as the starter and we are getting an uncomfortable amount of Kenneth Gainwell

going into the game too, sometimes prior to Caleb Johnson. Now they are very different backs.

Obviously I think Kenneth Gainwell is like a legit replacement for Jalen Warren.

And I think all these backs have different skill sets.

But right now, Warren is logging north of 50%, Kenneth Gainwell getting around 30%.

And Caleb Johnson kind of getting scraps behind them.

I do think that will change over the course of the season, but it's notable to start the year.

The other game played on Thursday was the Patriots and the Giants. Neither of these teams really played their starters. But we did see the first action of Cam Scadabo finally getting back onto the field after he missed the multiple weeks of the hamstring strain. So good to see, but he did lose a ton of ground, obviously, to Tyrone Tracy. And I've been really, really high on Tyrone Tracy. She's a phenomenal value pick in like the seventh, eighth round of your draft if you need a running back two or three. Scatterball will definitely have a role, especially as the season progresses. But I think out of the gate, him missing that entire like chunk of August is a big deal right now. We also saw some some more good snaps from Jackson Dart. He's really exciting if you're a Giants fan. I don't know how his game will actually translate to an NFL field when they're playing against starters, but he's doing a lot of exciting things.

He's not afraid to chuck it downfield.

He's scrambling.

He's a very good athlete making plays on the run. He's a dude that like, if I'm in a Superflex league, I will for sure use one of my last picks on him and just stash him until he eventually gets onto the field.

On Friday, I don't think we have any like major, major developments from the first three games. Eagles Jets sat their guys, Cowboys Falcons. It was cool to see Jadon Blue get in there and get his first run. He did tweak his ankle, but it's a low ankle sprain. So two weeks, you're fine to recover from that. They sat, Javante Williams. they also rested miles sanders so i don't it doesn't

seem like they're going to cut him right now but very clearly javte williams going into the year as the rb1 for dallas jaden blue is definitely a guy who can see his role grow as the regular season starts to progress the titans and the vikings the vikings didn't play any of their starters but we did see Cam Ward again go out there and play 17 snaps and his his arm is just super live man like it's fun

why Vikings. The Vikings didn't play any of their starters, but we did see Cam Ward again go out there and play

17 snaps. And his arm is just super live, man. Like, it's fun watching him play. He does not look overwhelmed. He's showing that same juice that he's got in his sling that he did in college. So I'm, you know, I'm just seeing him play weekend and week out and I'm getting more and more confident in Calvin Ridley. Behind him, you have Tyler Locky playing a pure slot role, so he's not

fantasy relevant. But Elyke, I. Maynard, their fourth round rookie pick and Van Jefferson are kind of splitting every down snaps when Calvin Ridley's not out there. It's a little bit tough to tell who's going to be the wide receiver two. I'm not drafting Van Jefferson. No way. I meaner is a dude that maybe you want to take a shot on very, very late in draft, and he could have some upside as the season progresses if he takes over that wide receiver two role. I think he has a pretty good skill set to kind of mesh with Cam Moore. But overall, I don't want to overly invest in this passing offense, obviously. Friday night, we had the Bears and the Chiefs, and we got a lot of play out of both of the starting offenses. So we'll start on the bear side. Caleb Williams played 28 snaps into the second quarter all that.

Roma Dzei and DJ Moore both played basically every single snap with him. No surprise here. They're going to be the two top receivers. They're going to play every single snap. So if you believe in Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, you should be buying those two. Now, I know Luther Burden was a guy that everyone in Dynasty love, that people like taking as a sleeper, but it's becoming more and more obvious by the day that Olameda Zakias has actually taken that wide receiver three spot and he's playing far and away and above Luther Burden. He's not playing at all with the ones. And I think, you know, maybe an injury pops up and he becomes a little bit more attached in this offense, but it's very clear that he is not going to enter the year as a starter here. At tight end, we have seen like a pure split between Colson Loveland and Cole Comette. I still think Loveland is an okay borderline tight end one pick in fantasy right now, but I have moving him down below Tyler Warren, like very concretely. Tyler Warren is in every snap player. I think he's going to be a big time player in the Colts offense. And Colson Loveland will definitely have plays that are schemed up for him in this Ben Johnson offense. And I think he's, you know, he's a plus pass catcher. But Colcomette is simply just like too solid of an NFL player for you to sit him for 75% of the snap. So those two are going to be in

somewhat of a split, you know, 50, 50, 60, 40. And there are a lot of players in this offense that that need to get the ball. So Loveland, I'm cooling a little bit on. He's not someone I want to go into the year with as my, you know, starting tight end one. He's someone that, you know, if you Grab and Joku or Tucker Kraft and you want to double back down two rounds later on Loveland, totally fine with that.

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