Breaking down the top tiers at RB, WR, TE & QB

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy football player rankings are very fine and good, but sometimes to get a better idea of the true value of a player versus those around him at the same position, you need to think about it in tiers. After pouring one out for the former Jacksonville Jaguar Tim Tebow, Matt Harmon is joined by Sigmund Bloom of Footballguys to talk about their top tiers at each key offensive position.They kick off the discussion with a look at the running back position, why Alvin Kamara may have the widest array of possible outcomes, why the best draft strategy in 2021 may be to go RB-RB in your first two picks. (6:45)Later they break down the top wide receiver tiers and whether or not this may be the final season of high production from DeAndre Hopkins. (27:50)They close out the show giving their thoughts on the major tiers and drafting strategies within the QB and TE positions. (38:05)Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast.
0:07.6	I'm Matt Harmon.
0:08.6	It is that time of the week, my time to be hosting.
0:11.2	And I'm so excited today because I get to be joined by Football Guys co-owner, my dear friend,
0:17.1	one of my closest confidants, mentors, dads in the fantasy industry,
0:23.7	Sigmund Bloom, what's going on, man?
0:25.7	Looking good, man.
0:27.0	It's always great for us to have an excuse to get together, right?
0:30.9	Isn't that what this time of year is about?
0:32.9	We really enjoy each other's company.
0:34.7	It helps keep this fantasy football space very positive,
0:38.0	even though sometimes the fantasy football itself makes us feel very negative. Yeah, right?
0:43.3	It can be, this time of year, especially because we're mostly just trying to avoid, like,
0:48.0	bad news, you know? Well, I feel like I've been saying that basically from like July until
0:52.3	week one, it's just like, let's avoid any negative
0:55.9	headlines. Let's avoid any injuries, anything like that. But that's usually what we have to talk
1:01.5	about. But we're going to talk today about our tiers. Sigmund does great tiers, quarterback
1:07.2	tiers, running back tiers, wide receiver tiers. We're going to cover all of that. I do a lot of
1:10.4	work with tiers as well, both like behind the scenes for Yahoo and also
1:13.5	my front facing tiers as well. So we have a lot of stuff
1:16.4	to cover in a short amount of time. So we're just going to jump
1:19.3	right into really the only like quote news item of the day.
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