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What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Football Podcast.

We got a great one for you because we are looking at Pat Fitzmorest's must have players.

Who is Pat targeting?

Well, we're doing the easy work for you as you scour all the amazing work that Pat does in the

written and podcast form. We're going to condense it down to an easy, consumable, fitsy target meal.

So Pat Fitzmorest, let's start with it. We are going to go on the higher end to early round draft

targets. We're looking at top 50 players. We're also using half PPR is our

baseline, our consensus when we're looking at ECR, which is expert consensus ranks. So two

early round targets, Pat, hit us with them. Let's start with Chase Brown. Welsh, a repeat from

last year's must have list. Chase Brown finished as the RB12 and a half-point

PPR fantasy scoring last season. Only averaged 6.3 touches a game over the first three weeks

before starting to get more involved in week four. Then Zach Moss got hurt in week eight and didn't

play another game all season. Beginning in week nine, Chase Brown played at least 80% of the Bengals

offensive snaps in every game. And from week nine on, Chase Brown was RB5 and half point PPR

fantasy points per game behind only Sequin Barclay, Jumeer Gibbs, Bejohn Robinson, and Josh Jacobs.

Chase Brown averaged 18.9 carries, 4.8 catches, and 116.3 yards from scrimmage per game from week 9 on, and had six touchdowns in those eight games.

Obviously, Welsh, Chase Brown won't continue to get snapchairs of 80 or 90% every week, but you'd have to imagine his workload is still going to be pretty zesty.

The other running

backs in Cincinnati are Zach Moss, Somaget, P. Ryan, and Taj Brooks. Moss and P. Rine are filler.

Those guys are the basket of bread you get at a nice restaurant. Tage Brooks is more interesting.

He handled a big workload at Texas Tech and has a well-rounded skill set, but he was a

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