FFT on CBSSN: 12 Forgotten Stars You Need to Remember in 2025! Meyers, Kupp, Hurts, Pollard, & More! (08/04 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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We open with rapid-fire Training Camp debates, tackling the big “Who Would You Rather Have?” questions: (5:40) James Cook or Omarion Hampton? Tank Bigsby (8:08) or Travis Etienne? Kaleb Johnson (9:20) or Joe Mixon? And how about Caleb Williams (14:00) vs Drake Maye? Next, Jamey Eisenberg (17:00) breaks down his top players to remember this season, including veterans like Derrick Henry and Cooper Kupp, plus exciting rookies like TreVeyon Henderson and Tetairoa McMillan. Then it's Dave Richard’s (25:10) turn, as he shares his own list featuring Jalen Hurts, Tony Pollard, and Chuba Hubbard. Don’t miss our fan-favorite segment (33:12) “Name That Player,” followed by your #AskFFT questions (43:12) to wrap things up. It's everything you need to gain an edge and dominate your fantasy football league this season!
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| 0:27.6 | Gamblingware.org What's up and welcome to fantasy football today presented by BetMGM, the sports book born in Vegas. |
| 0:48.8 | Adam Azer here with a couple of guys that I haven't forgotten about, Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg. |
| 0:53.0 | Now, today we're talking about forgotten football players, players that throughout the offseason, |
| 0:57.5 | we just haven't spoken about enough. Maybe we've taken them for granted, and that was wrong. |
| 1:02.2 | So we're sorry, Derek Henry, Tony Pollard, James Connor. We're going to talk about you on today's |
| 1:08.5 | show. Hello, Dave and Jamie. I have a random average draft position question before we get into the big topics today. Dave, I'll throw it to you first. Just looking at some ADP on Fantasy Pros. Ammonautau St. Brown has the seventh highest ADP. None of you guys have him higher than 12th. That would be you, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 1:30.5 | Why are the people wrong about Amonara St. Brown taking them too early? |
| 1:38.9 | I think they're used to Amonra St. Brown being a reliable, high volume, high touchdown fantasy receiver. |
| 1:40.5 | And he could still be that. |
| 1:43.3 | I still like him as a top 12 type of fantasy pick. |
| 1:44.9 | But seventh overall just seems a little bit too soon, given the other talent, particularly at running back that we'll see going |
| 1:49.1 | in the middle of drafts. And Jamie, you just had the flex draft over the weekend, which was you |
| 1:55.2 | and a bunch of industry cool people, analysts. I was too cool to show up, by the way. |
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