Welcome back into the Dynasty Nerds podcast. I am your host, Garrett Price here with Andrew

Mott. Andrew, how you doing, buddy? Not too bad, man. Pretty excited to talk about this today.

Yeah, absolutely. We're looking at players that are fairly big name guys that let us down a little bit

last year, that that disappointed us in some way, shape, or form. And we're going to us down a little bit last year that that disappointed us in some way

shape or form and we're going to be given a little confidence meter one to 10 on how likely

we think it is that they bounce back we could even maybe say an Isaiah likely a meter although

I don't know we saved that for the other show so I don't know but uh saved that for the other show. So I don't know, but realistically, though, these are all guys that you're going to be looking at taking, you know, fairly early in your startups, their names you recognize, their former, you know, first round dynasty rookie picks.

These are all bigger name players that for one reason or another just

kind of let us down last year and so we're going to go through this and kind of give a confidence

rating on how we think these guys are going to perform in 2026 do we get their old selves back

or is it just kind of the the end might be here? So let's start at the

quarterback position. And let's go to Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson in 2025, had a really,

really frustrating year. I started off the year fairly strong, then got hurt, and then wasn't really his old self the rest of the year. I started off the year fairly strong, then got hurt. And then wasn't really his old self

the rest of the year. We saw the rushing production dip. Where are you at on your confidence that

Lamar Jackson bounces back in 26? I think the most concerning thing for me right now is the fact that that rushing was, it was nearly

cut into a third of what we've seen from years past.

And I think that's the biggest reason why I would be concerned.

There's this worry that with the rushing that he has and now approaching 30 years old that you're going

to have more of these injuries that pop up for him so i think for me a bounce back meter i'm going to

put him at a i think i'm going to put him at like a six and a half or a seven. Like I think it's likely that he bounces back, but I also think we have enough here that there's some yellow flags potentially for the future with Lamar Jackson that have me worried about investing in him for my dynasty rosters.

I think in Word, it sounds like we're in a similar spot, but my ranking is a little lower than

yours. I'm at like a four, four and a half for me. Because I think that there's, I think the days

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