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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Julio Jones rumors, why Lance to SF makes sense & Williams may be best RB in the class of '21

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's finally here (in two days)! Andy Behrens is joined by NBC Sports Edge's Thor Nystrom in the final episode of the podcast before this weekend's NFL Draft.After addressing the pro-level rumor of the week, that the Atlanta Falcons are fielding trade offers on star WR Julio Jones, Andy & Thor dive into their final thoughts and assessments heading into Thursday night's draft.After a spring full of gossip connecting the San Francisco 49ers to Alabama QB Mac Jones, Thor outlines why Trey Lance seems like the obvious answer all along and breaks down the & cons of both prospects.Later in the show, they guys talk about why North Carolina RB Javonte Williams is shooting up pro-draft boards and has both the power and finesse to become the best back in the class.Finally, they close out recommending a tight end fantasy managers should keep an eye on who isn't named Kyle Pitts and take a deeper look at Michigan WR Nico Collins and Ohio State RB Trey Sermon.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaldonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Yahoo! Fantasy Football forecast is a very special Tuesday of Draft Week,

0:09.6

Collectors Edition episode right here. I'm Andy Barron's, as you may already know, and I am joined today

0:15.8

by a member of the Yahoo! I'll call him a member of yahoo extended family uh you know him hopefully from our content

0:21.7

partner nbc sports edge he is a college football expert an fs w a award winner back in the day not so long

0:29.1

ago he just published a seven round mock draft also has a top 500 draft ranking that recently

0:35.5

dropped thorne eistram welcome welcome. Good to see you.

0:38.9

Hey, it's great to have you. Obviously, this is well-time. No accident that Thor is with us this week,

0:45.5

obviously, because we got a draft coming up. Hopefully, you guys have already learned plenty about

0:51.2

the top prospects from Liz Loza and Eric Ed Holm's Rookie

0:54.7

Snapshot series on this here podcast. If you have not, if you've missed any of those episodes,

0:59.3

go check them out. Today, we're just going to hit a total grab bag of topics and takes from

1:06.0

Thor, not just on the draft's first day, but hopefully on some later players of interest as well.

1:12.9

First, I would be remiss if we didn't deal with the rumor of the week, the story of the week.

1:18.6

Peter King of NBC Sports was among the multiple national NFL writers.

1:23.9

And you know when multiple national writers have the same story simultaneously that a team really wants it out there, that Julio Jones might be on Atlanta's trade block. This was not difficult to guess at before the rumors started. I believe that any deal would actually have to officially go down after June 1st for like dead cap hit reasons that aren't very fun to discuss.

1:46.2

Atlanta is a totally cap crunch team.

1:48.5

They have actually a relatively low number of players under contract and they have a bad

1:53.0

cap situation.

1:53.9

They're coming off a brutal season.

1:55.4

Julio, of course, 32 years old.

1:57.4

He dealt with some injuries last year.

1:58.8

I think has a reputation as kind of an

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