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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Final Sleepers/Breakouts/Busts; Gus Edwards Rankings (08/30 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How are we valuing Gus Edwards as he moves into the starting role? And we give you some sleepers, breakouts and busts to get you ready for your drafts.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Gus Edwards, Michael Pittman, our favorite sleepers, breakouts, and busts.

0:07.7

All that coming up right now on fantasy football today in five.

0:12.4

Atabezer and Dave Richard here, fired up.

0:15.2

You give you five minutes of fantasy football analysis.

0:17.3

If you just listen to this show, please listen to our full-length show.

0:19.9

We just did an hour-long

0:20.8

show on Sleepers, Breakouts, Bus, plus preseason week three takeaways. Dave, where are you going to rank Gus Edwards? I'm going to rank him among my running backs. Thanks, Adam. Okay. What about Michael Pittman? Is he going to be a wide receiver for you? No, I'm going to move him to the tight ends because he's a big guy.

0:35.9

All right.

0:36.2

Where amongst your running backs are you going to put Gus Edwards?

0:39.3

He landed as a low guy. All right. Where amongst your running back?

0:37.6

So you're going to put Gus Edwards?

0:39.3

He landed as a low end number two fantasy running back for me.

0:43.0

Obviously, he's a good player, yards after contact, physical type of running back in a great

0:48.2

situation.

0:49.3

But he's also on a team that doesn't necessarily give a lot of 15 carry games to one running back week in and

0:56.1

week out. And even when Mark Ingram was the lead back for them, he had, I think, nine games

1:01.5

with 15 plus carries with Lamar Jackson as the starting quarterback. They're going to use

1:06.1

another running back there, whether it's somebody already on the team, like Tyson Williams is

1:10.0

somebody that I think they like a lot.

1:11.6

And he reminds me a little bit of Gus Edwards in terms of being a big guy with some speed.

1:17.3

I'm nervous about overranking Gus Edwards.

1:20.8

And there's definitely the side.

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