Fantasy Football: Draft Austin Ekeler

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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4.4 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Adam starts off this week's episode with some news and notes from around the league: including Josh Allen's contract extension. Then, Adam is joined by Chargers RB Austin Ekeler who tells us why fantasy football managers should draft him. He also gives us some insight into what you can see from the Chargers this season. After that, ESPN's "Fantasy Super Hero" Matthew Berry joins the show to give us his fantasy sleepers and what you should be looking to do during your upcoming fantasy football draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast.
0:12.2	We are officially one month away from the start of the regular season as we tape this on Monday afternoon, Dallas at Tampa, Thursday night, September 9th, which also means
0:24.8	we are getting close to fantasy football season. And with that in mind, we brought on two
0:30.9	fantasy experts in two different fields to provide some special unique insight into some of
0:36.9	the players you should and shouldn't be
0:38.8	drafting in this year's fantasy drafts. And we start off with one of the players who many
0:43.7	will consider and we get his input and advice on whether or not to draft him. The Chargers
0:50.2	great young running back Austin Echler, an underdog story from Western Colorado,
0:56.5	who's now a big time player and the player that Bleacher Report proclaims as the potential
1:02.5	2021 breakout fantasy star. We'll see what Echler thinks of that and where he would draft himself
1:10.7	this year.
1:11.6	And then we'll bring on ESPN's fantasy football expert, Matthew Berry,
1:15.3	to break down the sleepers in this year's draft and the players that he tells his friends
1:22.6	and family to go get in their particular fantasy football draft.
1:27.3	So lots of fantasy information coming your way in this podcast,
1:31.3	as they will be throughout the course of this month.
1:34.3	With everybody's fantasy drafts coming up,
1:36.4	we want to bring you some guests that can help you win your fantasy football leagues this year.
1:42.3	Of course, there was some real football news this week,
1:44.9	none bigger than the fact that the Buffalo Bills signed quarterback Josh Allen to a six-year,
1:52.0	$258 million contract that included $150 million of guaranteed money, the largest guarantee
2:00.5	ever given to an NFL player.
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