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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

BREAKING: Ezekiel Elliott Signs with Patriots. Rhamondre Stevenson Still an RB1? (08/14 Fantasy Football podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Ezekiel Elliott signs with the Patriots! Tony Pollard's role with the Cowboys looks safe, but Chris Towers and Dave Richard are moving Rhamondre Stevenson down in the rankings a bit. How far? 

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0:00.0

Ezekiel Elliott signed with the Patriots.

0:05.8

We'll break it down next on fantasy football today in five.

0:11.0

Welcome to FFTN five.

0:12.6

I'm Chris Towers.

0:13.2

I'm here with Dave Richard.

0:14.0

And Dave, the big winner from Ezekiel Elliott signing with the Patriots has to be Tony

0:19.7

Poller, right?

0:21.2

Absolutely.

0:22.4

And now he's not going back to the Cowboys.

0:25.0

But didn't you think that he was not going back to the Cowboys anyway?

0:28.3

The Cowboys had basically seven months to bring him back in.

0:34.4

And either one of two things happened, either they made him an offer that zieg didn't want to take

0:39.1

or they didn't make him an offer at all yeah i mean he got a decent offer with the patriots three

0:43.6

million dollars one million signing bonus could be worth up to six million i would guess the

0:48.4

incentives are pretty unlikely there but more than a minimum contract i guess for z for Ezekiel. I did think that a reunion with

0:56.4

the Cowboys was at least a possibility for Ezekiel Elliott. And I thought, you know, it was at least,

1:03.4

look, he's, we know what Ezekiel Elliott is at this point in his career. And he's not in every

1:07.2

down back. He's not a particularly productive or efficient rusher. But I did think there was some concern about what it would mean for Tony Pollard at the goal line.

1:14.4

And I think you can have some of those concerns about Ramandre Stevenson, right?

1:20.3

Sure.

1:21.5

I mean, we saw it last year.

1:23.0

There were six carries that Ramondre had from the two-yard liner closer.

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