FFT in 5: Bust-Proof Players: Why Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce Are So Safe (07/08 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
No player is entirely without risk, but there are a few players with high floors worth targeting. Like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. Dan Schneier gives a few more picks.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk some bust proof players. |
| 0:06.0 | Next on Fantasy Football today in five. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to FFTN5. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Chris Towers. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm here with Dan Schneier. |
| 0:14.2 | And we're going to talk about some players who look nobody has zero risk. |
| 0:18.2 | All right, we can't perfectly predict the future. |
| 0:21.6 | Every player has some range of outcomes, even your number one overall pick has a chance |
| 0:27.0 | to bust. |
| 0:28.0 | And what we're trying about today is trying to target three or four players who at the |
| 0:33.0 | very least there are very few ways for them to go wrong. |
| 0:37.4 | You know, that's one thing that I think is really important in Fantasy Football is having |
| 0:41.1 | discussions about the range of possible outcomes for players because, you know, it's really |
| 0:46.0 | easy to just focus on the outside or just focus on the downside for players. |
| 0:50.0 | But a good example of, you know, the range of outcomes thing would be like a player |
| 0:55.2 | like Josh Jacobs last year. |
| 0:57.4 | Now he was someone a lot of people were out on didn't think he had a lot of upside turns |
| 1:01.6 | out. |
| 1:02.6 | He ends up being the RB three. |
| 1:03.6 | So keeping those ranges of outcomes in mind is important. |
| 1:06.5 | But today we're trying to focus on players who have a really safe floor and a guy that |
| 1:10.8 | I really like for both upside and safety in like the second round range of drafts is |
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