How to win $500,000. That's what we're talking about this week on Stealing Bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch on Twitter at Yards Per Gretsch.

With me, as always, is Sean Siegel and our guest this week, Davis-Matic. We can find on Twitter at Davis-Matic and over at SportsGrid and on his podcast, The TakeCast. And it's been an interesting draft. We started with two running backs out of the 12 slot in this football guys championship tournament entry. And since we have not taken a single running back.

So let's see how we close this out if we decide that we want to take really any other

running backs at all and what our final roster will look like.

I want to hear your rugs take, Sean.

So your counter is, I mean, I assume it's largely efficiency base.

And there's the talk that it could be used differently and throwing the ball underneath a little bit more.

But just, I guess, broadly, like there were some prospect red flags and things.

What is your upside case for him?

Well, you try to look at the overall context, and you have a guy who was picked as, you know, a top 15 pick when the rest of his teammates from that group that Davis read earlier were also top 15 picks.

He did have a season where he played pretty clearly ahead of Waddle, although I think that Waddle perhaps had some mild injury issues in that season as well.

I mean, Waddle is someone who incredibly exciting, but in some ways, you know, very similar

to Ruggs.

So, but when you have these guys, you have the second season.

I always try and bet on all of the players who had positive elements and the team really

wanted them to be good going into year two.

The guys like Jefferson and Liam and Higgins,

I mean, those guys are slam dunks and they're probably going to be the following year, you know,

possibilities for round one. But in order to round that out, you got to take some of these guys

who actually didn't play out. And so, you know, you look at something even as small, I mean,

Blair has a cool article on hand size and how it probably doesn't matter except at the edges. And Henry Ruggs has these massive hands, right? And so you look at all of the little things that kind of point in his direction. And I think that the Raiders cannot come out of this season without proving that that wasn't a terrible pick. Now, that may not turn into a thousand-yard season. It may just be like an 800-yard season with three touchdowns, which wouldn't do much for us. And that's not really going to work for a fantasy team that wins a half a million dollars. But I do think that there is a potential for him to emerge. And a little bit like McCull Hardman, most of the things that the team says at this time of the year, you could ignore, but you would still prefer those guys who disappointed the previous. To be positive rather than negative. Exactly. You don't want to be in the Denzel Mims sort of Jalen Rager situation. I don't want to be hearing puff pieces about Byron Pringle coming out at Chiefs Camp. I would prefer the puff pieces at least to be about Hardman.

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