Davante vs. DeAndre, 6 big questions and the NFL schedule

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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It’s never too early for draft prep szn, and there are already some big questions that we’re wrapping our heads around as we careen toward opening kickoff for the 2021 NFL season. Matt Harmon is joined by Scott Pianowski to discuss those questions and much more in the latest fantasy football podcast.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today]Head coach Bill Belicheck has spent much of the 21st century proving naysayers wrong, but with an unproven quarterback and unremarkable players at skill positions, what do we do about the New England Patriots? (02:40)Perennial All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins heads to Arizona and is the consensus WR5 at FantasyPros, but with a move to a spread-the-wealth offense and limited time to build rapport with a new quarterback, can he leapfrog Davante Adams or Julio Jones? (07:17)Los Angeles Chargers running back and PPR monster Austin Ekeler has a new quarterback and doesn’t have Melvin Gordon eating up touches, could we see another career year? (19:38)After James Conner and JuJu Smith-Schuster fell short of their expected breakouts, are we sleeping on the Pittsburgh Steelers? (28:39)Most fantasy experts were ready to anoint Mecole Hardman as a breakout player at the end of the 2019 season, but with Sammy Watkins returning and a buzzy rookie in the backfield, do we have to wait another year? (37:31)With a healthy OBJ, Kareem Hunt in the fold for a full season and another receiving weapon in Austin Hooper, are we ready to forgive the Cleveland Browns if their expected fantasy breakout comes a year later than we all expected? (44:37)Along with talk of those underrated values and undervalued names on high-powered offenses, Matt and Scott discuss some of the takeaways from the reveal of the 2020 NFL schedule. (49:28)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 Scott @scott_pianowskiFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBCheck 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.
0:04.7	I'm Matt Harmon, and I'm lucky enough to be joined today by my colleague, Scott Pianowski.
0:09.6	Scott, I know today we're going to talk about a lot of different things, you know,
0:13.2	among the myriad things to talk about right now in the sports world.
0:17.1	But we're going to talk a little bit about the schedule and what that means for fantasy.
0:21.3	You wrote a great piece about that. We've also just got some random things that are on our
0:24.8	mind. But Scott, before we jump into all that, I think this is the first time I've been on
0:28.6	the mic with you in a long time. How you doing, man? Great, great. You know, hanging in,
0:33.8	going through what everybody's going through and trying to stay optimistic and hoping
0:37.7	that we have a safe return to normalcy in a reasonable amount of time. I don't know when that
0:43.8	will be. I don't know if we'll have a baseball season or have a full football season or a football
0:47.7	season at all, but trying to stay positive. And I appreciate that the NFL has given us a new cycle.
0:54.6	You know, they gave us free agency.
0:55.8	They gave us a draft.
0:56.8	They gave us a schedule release.
0:58.3	And I always appreciate those things.
1:00.8	But I think I appreciated them more this year because we're just looking for things to do.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.1	You know, I was talking to my dad today on the phone and I was just telling him like it's weird because in one way like
1:12.8	from a content perspective we're not really like nothing's really different right now from
1:17.6	from a football perspective like I mean it's we're talking about games that should
1:22.4	theoretically be happening in a few months from now we're all that's what we'd be doing in
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