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Elite Talent, Contingent Upside, and Fallback Volume: Why RB Rankings Are So Complicated - Stealing Bananas

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 770 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 9 August 2024

ā±ļø 47 minutes

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In this episode of SB Shorts, Ben Gretch, and Shawn Siegele explain how they're ranking different RB profiles and work through the types of tactical decisions that might force you to jump certain players in your fantasy football drafts. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Stealing Signals creator Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch)Ā - Subscribe to Stealing Signals and Stealing Lines today. RotoViz co-owner Shawn SiegeleĀ (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS BetterHelpĀ - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try atĀ betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZĀ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up atĀ Underdogfantasy.com using this linkĀ or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. GametimeĀ - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use codeĀ ROTOVIZĀ for $20 off your first purchase. SHOW NOTES Email: RotoVizRadio@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

wrapping up our rankings discussions with some more thoughts on the running back position

0:16.8

and a few tight ends that's what we're going to talk about on today's stealing banana shorts.

0:21.3

I'm Ben Gretsch.

0:22.6

You can find my newsletter at Ben Gretch.substack.com with me, as always, is Sean Siegel.

0:26.0

You can find all of his great work over our road of his.

0:27.6

Let's jump back into the discussion.

0:30.2

Then as we're going through some of the running backs here,

0:32.9

the next thing I wanted to ask you about and wanted to sort of beg for was to get Kenneth Walker

0:43.4

into the tier with Henry and Pacheco and Cook. And I kind of see that quietly as the show

0:52.4

has progressed, he has moved into that tier he already did that

0:56.9

yeah he already moved into that tier i was i was very close to doing that and then i saw a report

1:01.5

last night i think laying in bed reading some stuff on my phone about i was reading that i believe

1:06.2

it's the espn piece that had been passed around i was late to get around to it but they were talking

1:10.7

about how walker don't be surprised if he sets a career high in touches

1:14.2

this year and in rush attempts. And when you start hearing that from camp and you're like, I'm already in on this guy. I mean, that was the thing. I was like, I got to get him up in that tier. I literally was thinking about it in bed last night. So that had nothing to do with looking at your ranks or anything.

1:10.1

I know you're really high on Walker,

1:11.7

but it just had to do with me staring at my own ranks while we're recording and being like, oh, yeah, I was going to bump Walker up here. I need to bump him up. So I'm glad they were on the same page there, though. You were going to pitch that to me. So you, Jonathan Brooks, has the target in the... So we have a tier break after that,

1:45.4

and then we have a group of five guys,

1:47.3

and Brooks is the target.

1:51.3

One of the things people want to know

1:52.8

is how you are thinking through him missing the first month.

2:02.0

And again, we're talking redraft rankings today.

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