ETR Rankings Stands: Where We Disagree With The Market And Why (Episode 869 with Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig, Mike Leone)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig and Mike Leone present their findings from analyzing Best Ball drafts across the industry to see the biggest outliers between ETR’s rank and where their Average Draft Positions are.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why does ETR disagree with the market on Ashton Jeanty?
- What makes Saints passcatchers still viable for ETR ranks?
- Why are pocket passers still being drafted so highly?
- Does ETR agree with RJ Harvey’s high ADP?
- What still makes DK Metcalf ranked ahead of his ADP?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:15 - Ashton Jeanty
7:52 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba & Cooper Kupp
11:54 - Terry McLaurin
14:18 - Marvin Harrison Jr.
18:38 - Kyren Williams
21:42 - DK Metcalf
24:53 - Kenneth Walker
27:52 - Joe Mixon
30:40 - Chris Olave & Rashid Shaheed
35:04 - David Montgomery
37:32 - Joe Burrow
41:18 - RJ Harvey
44:25 - Chris Godwin
48:14 - Brock Purdy
50:00 - Jaylen Warren
52:33 - Michael Pittman
55:05 - JJ McCarthy
55:26 - Ricky Pearsall
57:12 - Luther Burden, Jayden Higgins & Kyle Williams
59:46 - Dalton Kincaid & Dallas Goedert
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 869 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Adam Levittan, and today it is time to get micro. |
| 0:27.4 | It's enough already with the high-level strategies, the roster construction. |
| 0:31.9 | It's time to talk players. |
| 0:34.8 | To discuss this, I am joined by the two young men you know and love. |
| 0:38.5 | Michael Leone, director of our analytics team and Justin Herzig dubbed King of All Best Ball |
| 0:43.4 | Virgin by Rolling Stone Magazine. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, I'm not joking. |
| 0:47.3 | Look it up. |
| 0:48.5 | Anyways, Leone, how's it going today? |
| 0:50.7 | Good. |
| 0:51.2 | Podcasting with a rock star. |
| 0:52.4 | Love it. |
| 0:54.1 | Herzig, what has the fallout been for you from the Rolling today. Good. Podcasting with a rock star. Love it. |
| 0:59.4 | Herzig, what has the fallout been for you from the Rolling Stone cover? |
| 1:03.8 | I feel like we could do a whole episode on this, but what has been the fallout for you from being on in Rolling Stone? |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.1 | If you're ever trying to get with like girls from your past, just get in the cover of Rolling Stone and they will all come back. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay, that's a good way to sum it up. I can't disagree. I'd love to experience that sometimes. |
| 1:20.3 | All right. No, it's been crazy. It's been surreal. Unreal. You guys should all check out the article. |
| 1:24.7 | Anyways, we've gotten plenty of questions from |
| 1:30.0 | best ball subscribers, and I think understandably so about why our ranks are significantly |
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