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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Floors to Target (05/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies

Football, Sports

4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Looking to build your team with some safe, reliable players? Try Aaron Jones in the second or third round. Pair him with Amari Cooper in Round 4 or 5. Who else should you be looking at, and will you have enough upside when it's all said and done?

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If you want to build a somewhat safe roster, players with high floors are not going to completely let you down. Almost bus proof, who should you be looking at? We'll tell you right now on Fantasy Football Today and Five. Adam and Dave here, it is Wednesday morning for us. And this is the first of two shows we're doing today. We're going to talk about high floors. And we're going to talk about low ceilings for our Friday episode, but

0:54.4

for the high floors for the guys that they're fairly dependable. Okay, they're not going to just

0:58.8

go out and poop the bed, Dave. Who should we be looking at? Forget about, forget about round one.

1:04.4

Let's go to rounds two, three, four. Who should you build as the foundation of your team?

1:08.8

No poopers allowed. So I, I like looking back to see where players finished in PPR points per game

1:16.2

and applying that to what the floor could be for them,

1:20.4

provided that their situation is the same, their offense is good, et cetera, et cetera.

1:24.5

And one of the first things that stood out to me was Aaron Jones.

1:27.1

Now, Jones has been top five in 2019 and in 2020 in PPR points per game. That's the profile of a first round pick. But last year, he was 13th in PPR points per game. And everybody knows that, you know, the downside, A.J. Dillon's going to steal some touchdowns and definitely steal some carries.

1:44.8

But the upside, huge question marks at wide receiver and tight end for Green Bay.

1:48.9

I think he's safe as long as he stays healthy.

1:51.2

He's managed to miss just a couple of games pretty much every year.

1:54.9

I think you bake that into the ADP.

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