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We say good morning to Dave Richard, CBSSports.com, fantasy football expert slash guru slash

know it all.

Dave, good morning.

I think Junkie is a good term for me as well as for you guys.

Yes.

I don't want to steal it, though, because you guys have used it forever.

What are you thinking?

I'm a fantasy football junkie.

You can use the term.

You can absolutely steal it, Dave.

Yeah, you. I mean, do I have to pay a royalty or something? I mean You can absolutely steal a day. 100% you are.

Yeah.

I mean, do I have to pay a royalty or something? I mean, we would consider a discount. Okay. All right. All right. That's cool. I think you're a fancy football psycho. I would enhance it a little bit. I might work too. I don't know if CBS would be okay with probably right. Have you already said, I'm sure you're a stickler. You probably try to wait as long as you can. Have you already started your drafts? Oh, yeah. I've had... I have five drafts in six days starting today. Nice. Look at that hustle. This is my guy. Yeah, yeah. And you're right. Like, I do tend to wait until the end of the, you know, the preseason period, whatever we call this. It's a weird time in football right now because there's no games being played. Training camp is technically over. Everybody's kind of just gearing up for the season. It's this weird purgatory. It's like football limbo. That's a good description of it. Football limbo. I'm just going to steal every term from you guys. That's fine. Pergatory works, too, as you mentioned. So as you're going into your drafts, and obviously millions of people around the country are doing the same, what do you do with Rishi Rice with this looming six-game suspension? Like you love the talent there. You love his connection with Patrick Mahomes, I assume, but it's hard to just draft a guy and use that draft capital and stash him on your bench for six plus weeks. Especially when Dave pointed out, he's going to miss what, seven of the first 10 weeks? Right. Now, like, that takes into account of bi-week that every player, you've got to deal with that. But, like, when you draft the player, you'll say, okay, I know I'm not going to have him for one of his first 14 weeks or whatever. And you accept that, but still seeing seven of 10 weeks, like, you're not going to have this really productive productive wide receiver it stings a little bit

i've settled on him i think there's a lot that you actually need to do before you figure out

whether or not you even want him on your fantasy team so i'm going to get a little deep here if that's

okay yeah do it yeah okay if you start two wide receivers it's easier to draft for she

rice if you're in a 10 team league it's easier to draft Rishie Rice. If you're in a 10-team league, it's easier to draft Rishie Rice. It's those three-wide receiver and one flex, or two-wide receiver two-flex, or 12-team leagues, where getting Rishie Rice, you're going to have to make a little bit more of a commitment to the wide receiver position if you do such a thing.

And then here's the flip side.

No matter how you decide to handle Rishi Rice, there will be at least one Nuddinick in every

league that goes after Rishi Rice late round five, early round six.

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