Biggest RB Questions: Where are Dalvin Cook, Jonathan Taylor playing in Week 1? (08/02 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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Will the Colts trade Jonathan Taylor? Will the Cowboys add another RB? And where will Dalvin Cook sign? Dave Richard and Chris Towers discuss the biggest RB questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the biggest questions at the running back position next on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to FFT and 5. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Dave Richard. And there are a lot of questions about the running back position. |
| 0:18.7 | The running back position kind of going through an existential crisis around the NFL. Guys very unhappy about the contract situations at the running |
| 0:26.8 | back position. And it's kind of hard to figure out how the NFL is going to view the position |
| 0:32.3 | moving forward. But for fantasy purposes, I've got three big questions. Dave's going to give me |
| 0:37.4 | his thoughts on them. |
| 0:38.5 | And the first one, where's Jonathan Taylor playing in week one? |
| 0:43.3 | He's playing in Indianapolis against the Jacksonville Jaguars. |
| 0:46.9 | That seems like the safest assumption. |
| 0:49.6 | I think it's the only assumption, Chris. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't see another team coming to his rescue, giving him the money that would make him a top five highest paid running back and giving the Colts the type of compensation they would want for this guy. |
| 1:05.1 | So I think the only way he's not playing is if he's hurt. |
| 1:09.0 | I think he'll be off the pub list. |
| 1:11.6 | I think he'll eventually get there and he will play for Indianapolis. He certainly does not want this year to go by |
| 1:16.8 | and not count toward his free agent eligibility. Yeah, I wrote about this for the FFT newsletter on |
| 1:23.1 | Monday. And the one team that I was able to kind of talk myself into as a possible fit just in |
| 1:29.7 | terms of where they are in their contention schedule and the willingness to give up assets would |
| 1:35.2 | be the Miami Dolphins. The problem comes in giving him that extension that he's looking for. |
| 1:39.9 | Miami's cap situation, you know, obviously to a technical below is going to be making big money. Tyree Kill has his biggest extension. Jalen Waddle is going to be eligible after next season. So there's a lot of people that they're having to pay already. But this is a team that has been very willing to go get stars when they're available. Jonathan Taylor fits the track meet style of their offense. I think he would be a great fit there. And I think they'd be willing to give up a second or even a first round pick. We saw him do it for Bradley Chub last year. It's just, would they be able to give him an extension? That's where it becomes trickier. And I agree. It's almost certain Jonathan Taylor's going to be in Indianapolis in week one. |
| 2:19.2 | Might not be happy about it, but he'll be there. |
| 2:22.0 | Let's talk about another big question, and that is, do the Cowboys add another running back? |
| 2:27.5 | Ronald Jones suspended for the first two games of this season. |
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