Fantasy Files: Mike Davis might just be fantasy's cheapest three-down RB
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🗓️ 12 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Hartitz breaks down Mike Davis' fantasy outlook ahead of the 2021 season. Davis has had a long road to getting a full-time job; just realize he's largely impressed along the way. This was particularly true in 2020, as Davis found himself near the top of the ranks in both broken tackle metrics as well as pretty much anything to do with receiving. Ian is confident in Davis' ability to win out in this no-name RB room and has the Falcons' projected RB1 ranked higher than the industry's ADP indicates. Still, this is in the "RB dead zone" so Ian is content with grabbing higher profile WRs in this range instead of reaching.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the PFF Fancy football podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host Ian Hartitz and today we continue our fancy files series with a look at Mike |
| 0:16.6 | Davis. |
| 0:17.6 | One of my out-of-the-favor players, Naly. |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah, you know why? |
| 0:21.2 | Because this dude has done nothing so ball out with his opportunities. |
| 0:25.0 | He's a good person. |
| 0:26.3 | For some reason, some of you tweeters out there seem to have a problem with grasping the |
| 0:31.6 | reality that Davis was one of the better running backs in the NFL last year. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm going to list some stats to back that up. |
| 0:38.3 | But let's start at the beginning. |
| 0:40.2 | First, starts off in San Francisco, couple underwhelming seasons, but in Seattle. |
| 0:45.0 | If you're a true football guy, hard, and you remember those years in Seattle from Mike, |
| 0:49.6 | he was putting together some good games. |
| 0:51.4 | I remember specifically, I believe it was 2017 Jaguars and Eagles, two very good defenses |
| 0:57.1 | at that point in time. |
| 0:58.5 | And Davis, which is making them look silly. |
| 1:00.4 | I mean, truly, a game past Watchers Delight because he knows how to make some guys miss. |
| 1:06.4 | And he also gave us one of the most hilariously spectacular fancy football moments in recent |
| 1:11.2 | memory. |
| 1:12.2 | Going into 2019, the Hype for Dave Montgomery was incredible. |
| 1:16.0 | Everybody assumed he was going to be the starting running back and 20 plus touches from week |
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