Browns RBs, Buy Low, Sell High (10/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
With Nick Chubb out this week, how much do we like D'Ernest Johnson? And who are some buy low and sell high candidates?
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| 0:00.0 | Solo show here on Fantasy Football today in 5. |
| 0:07.3 | Recording on Tuesday night, you're listening on Wednesday morning. |
| 0:09.6 | Let's talk trade and some of the latest injuries right now on FFT in 5. |
| 0:14.0 | And I have Adamazer, usually joined by Dave Richard, but not this evening. |
| 0:18.4 | So I hope I can entertain you for the next five minutes. |
| 1:46.0 | Let's start with the Cleveland backfield. Really a lot of injury news surrounding the Browns and the Broncos on Thursday night. So first of all, Nick Chubb is out. So that means that Yerneros Johnson gets a really big chance. Now earlier today I set, earlier on Tuesday, I set some waiver claims, some fab bids. And I went pretty light onto Yernerarnas Johnson. When I found out that Nick Chub was out, I did up it a little bit, but I don't think I went to more than 20, 25%. And this is a 14-team league with Fab, where I could really use the running back. I could really use the flex here. So I think he's got a decent chance at 10 to 12 ppr fantasy points, which is very useful. Now, the best case scenario is Deeranis Johnson gets 20 carries and they have a good game script and he plays really well and he scores a couple times. All that's on the table because he should really dominate carries. I don't think Felton is a threat there. But my suspicion is it's a decent game. That's my projection for Deerness Johnson, a decent game. Hopefully he's able to score. And I am a little bit worried about them falling behind in this game with Baker Mayfield's health, with the health of their offensive tackles, with the fact that they're facing a pretty good defense. So it's not really a great setup for the Browns, but I think it'll be a pretty close game, and I think you'll get 12 to 15 carries and maybe a couple of catches from Deerness Johnson. If he scores, you're going to be really happy. If he doesn't, I think you'll have at least a flex in this week seven by NATO. Do I trust Odo Beckham in this game? Not really, because I really don't trust Baker Mayfield. They're already talking about hoping that he can avoid season-ending surgery. |
| 2:01.4 | So he insists he's going to play on Thursday. I guess I'll take him at his word, but how much is it going to take for Baker Mayfield to have to leave the game? So I don't really trust anyone on this team other than Deeris Johnson as a flex. On the other side, I love Cortland Sutton. The Browns have faced some great wide receivers, |
| 2:03.2 | but they've given up almost 100 yards. |
| 2:50.8 | They've given up 100 yards to a wide receiver almost every single week this year. Number ones have killed them. All those number ones are better than Cortland Sutton, but I don't see why he can't have 80 yards in a touchdown in this game, so he has become a must start. Other injuries to keep an eye on, Julio Jones is day-to-day. And this really matters for Ryan Tannahill, because you might need to stream Ryan Tannahill this week against the Kansas City Chiefs. I know Taylor Heineke did not take advantage of the Kansas City Chiefs, but maybe Ryan Tannahill can if he has A.J. Brown and Julio Jones. So hopefully Julio can play this week. Teddy Bridgewater is going, looks like he's going to play. A couple of offensive line injuries you need to know about. Ronnie Stanley, he's been hurt this year for the Ravens. They're the most injured team, and it doesn't matter. He's a great offensive tackle, but it just doesn't matter for their fantasy value. What does it mean for Devante Freeman and all those guys? You know, I don't think it means anything. |
| 3:09.1 | They ran the ball well last week. They were facing arguably the worst run defensive football. This is still going to be Lamar Jackson's team. That's why I'm not all that excited about going to get Devante Freeman. And I don't think the Rodney Stanley injury matters for Lamar Jackson. Meanwhile, Andrew Thomas for the Giants, he's going on IR. |
| 3:09.1 | Cadarius Tony is going to miss at least this one week. Stanley injury matters for Lamar Jackson. Meanwhile, Andrew Thomas for the Giants, he's going on IR. |
| 3:11.7 | Cadarius, Tony, is going to miss at least this one week. |
| 3:13.1 | This is a big deal. |
| 3:16.7 | They are going to roll out probably the worst pairs of offensive tackles or among the worst pair of offensive tackles in the NFL and Nate Soulder and Matt |
| 3:21.2 | Perth. |
| 3:21.9 | So it's going to be ugly like it was last week. Any DST facing the Giants is absolutely in play. And it's going to be tough to trust Devante Booker in any matchup. Facing Carolina is not going to be easy. All right. So let's talk a little trade here going into Fantasy Week 7. And I feel like I say it every week. I had a feeling it wouldn't be a great week for him last week, and it wasn't, but I'm really excited about Keenan Allen. He's in his buy. He has been a top 10 PPR receiver, something like four straight years. He's always a top 10 PPR receiver. He may not be this year, but I think he'll end up as top 15. So I think there's |
| 3:57.5 | a really good production. Get Keenan Allen, especially if you can afford to put him on your |
| 4:01.7 | bench during the buy. I found it pretty difficult to find by low running backs. We seem to just |
| 4:08.9 | not have that many good running backs right now, to be quite honest. So I think if you want to buy |
| 4:13.2 | low running back, the best thing to do is pay up for Zika Cook or Echler, one of these guys who are studs who are in their buy week, you find the manager who's two and four and really need someone this week, and you give them a really good running back, like a Joe Mixen or something like that, and you upgrade to an incredible running back. You get one of those top six elite running backs. You can throw Najee Harris in there as well. And, you know, you lose a little bit this week, but you gain. You also could look at a guy like David Montgomery. Obviously, you could look at Christian McCaffrey. I'm a little bit worried because it just doesn't seem to be getting any better for McCaffrey, but he's McCaffrey. |
| 4:48.5 | So I don't have any clever. I think we're going to debate Miles Sanders on the show tomorrow. I'm not really there on Miles Sanders. I don't trust the Eagles. So I'm looking at these guys who are on by or hurt. And as far as Sell Highs go, we talked about Adam Thielen on our Tuesday night stream. Oh, I wanted to give one more Bailo. |
| 5:03.4 | We'll talk about Sell Highs tomorrow. |
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