Welcome to the week two IDP Blitz bringing you the best IDP information from the best minds in the business this week Matt

Shouth from draft sharks. Let's jump right in and you may have found this week Matt was tough to find a linebacker that

Produced and least some of that's because of playing time. We can look at the AFC North and look at the Steelers and look at the Browns and Wonder.

Will there be a linebacker that we can trust from either of these teams and I don't know is the first answer because

I we headed into the season. I think the Browns gave us signals that we might not be able to trust anybody the way that they play them in the

Preseason said we got to see how this sorts out. We can't assume anybody's going to be a full-timer and nobody was a full-timer for the Browns and we

Wanted against Cincinnati. The good news I think is Jeremiah Ousukor Moa leading the way 77% ahead of Anthony Walker among that core. That's who I want to be the top linebacker. I

Think that's the guy who has the most upside. So I hope that continues. I hope he gets closer to 100%. I would be surprised if he gets all the way 200% but I would love to see a little bit more climb from there.

So it's not quite enough for me to start him weekly in most leagues. Anthony Walker. I was honestly kind of happy to see it 59% because I was wondering if I was underrating him heading into the season and if he was going to play more.

And it turns out not because anybody who's playing at 59% is pretty much useless to us unless they're like Denzel Paramen with the Raiders who somehow gets

tackles whenever he's on the field or Alex Singleton. This is another good example of that. And then the Steelers. I had Cole Holcomb relatively high. I expected based on how they paid him and how they paid everybody else or didn't.

I expected him to be the clear leader in playing time. He led but 78% was not what I was expecting. It was not far ahead of Juan Alexander 69% their number two in playing time.

Elan and Roberts is there. So I moved Holcomb down my rest of the season rankings this week. I'm waiting to see if anything changes. I'm not out, but I'm concerned more so than I was heading in.

Not as concerned as I am about the team has a Steelers fan. Well, let's move and turn the page from the Steelers to the Colts.

Some transition this off season in the linebacker core with Bobby O'Carrickay heading over to the Giants. And thankfully, even though he had a concussion, Jack Leonard back on the field in week one and the big question going in was who are we going to want to have on our roster.

Shack Leonard or is that your Franklin after one week Matt? What's the answer going in? I'm going to go ahead and admit going in. I had Shack Leonard higher because I mean whenever he's been healthy, he's been awesome.

And even at times when he hasn't been fully healthy, he's been awesome. So I was thinking if he's all the way back, it's time to go ahead and bet on him. He has as much upside as anybody at the position.

But after watching their playing time in week one, watching the game and just hearing the announcers talk about the way that the Colts coaches talk about Zaire Franklin.

I have already switched them in my rankings and I admit that I was too low on Zaire Franklin heading into the season because they were talking about how last year, he knew the defense this year, he is in charge of the defense. I'm like, okay, that's a guy that's going to be on the field all the time.

He collected a bunch of tackles with Bobby O'Carrickay playing full time last year as well. So I'm going to go ahead and bet on Franklin the rest of the way.

Doesn't mean I'm down on Leonard. He's still played. I believe 86% of the snaps. There's upside beyond that going forward, but even at 86% he can be a guy that's useful to us.

And even though he had a fairly quiet stat week and week one, I think there's a lot more upside to Leonard. And you know, we'll see over the next few games how close he is to the version of two three years ago.

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