Cam heads to New England, QB strategy, and late-draft targets

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Welcome back to a new episode of the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Podcast! Liz Loza is joined by Scott Pianowski to talk all things football.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] And few things are dominating the football conversation more than news that Cam Newton had reached a deal with the New England Patriots. Our analysts discuss Cam’s outlook with the Patriots as well as his chances of producing in the 2020 fantasy football season. (0:30)We'll also compare the fortunes of Cam Newton in New England with Ben Roethlisberger, another QB coming off injury who can be had late in drafts. (2:30)And we take a look at our favorite picks in the later rounds of fantasy drafts, like Jordan Howard and Terry McLaurin, whose hype train we will continue to pilot until draft day. (12:15)While Coronavirus has put a damper on the usual news parade of players being in the best shape of their lives, Liz and Scott take a look at the fortunes of Evan Engram who makes his way back from a Lisfranc injury that hobbled him in 2019. He’s currently the sixth TE off the board, but is he worth the draft capital at that spot? (41:15)This year has been unlike any other, and fantasy sports have been directly affected. Liz and Scott talk some changes they’ve made (or will make) in their league settings to reflect the current state of affairs. (49:00)Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow 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 podcast.
0:07.0	It's Liz Loza and Scott Minowski joining you this week.
0:12.0	Scott, I think we should just get right to it.
0:16.0	You live in Detroit but are a big New England fan.
0:20.0	There was a little bit of news, just a tiny little
0:22.3	nugget that kind of went off, much like the fireworks that are constantly exploding in America
0:28.7	these days. That is both metaphorical and literal. A little news nugget that Cam Newton is now
0:36.6	part of the New England Patriots.
0:39.6	Yeah, we've seen this move all throughout the Belichick era
0:42.8	that they love to take a player when he gets on in his career
0:46.8	and he comes to a prove-it point, that fork in the road.
0:50.3	It's worked out many times.
0:52.0	Roddy Harrison, Corey Dillon, Randy Moss famously had that Monster 2007 season, some good seasons after that.
0:59.5	It doesn't always work out.
1:00.8	You know, they kicked the tires on Chad O'Soucinko, didn't work out.
1:05.6	Albert Hainsworth was a flop.
1:07.5	Drell Revis previously had that one-year prove-a-deal, and he was great, and I think they
1:11.4	went to the Super Bowl with Revis. So, you know, they waited out the Newton thing. I wonder why it
1:16.1	took so long to do it, but maybe Newton wasn't ready to sign the type of contract that he just
1:20.5	signed, which is a very affordable deal. It's filled with incentives. And this is actually this, I don't know that we're going to fully agree on this.
1:29.0	I think what the Patriots did actually parallels nicely to what I think fantasy owners should do,
1:34.0	which is if the market allows you a really nice price on Newton and you can get in with little risk,
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