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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Las Vegas Raiders Team Preview

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe previews the Las Vegas Raiders for 2021 fantasy football purposes including rankings and projections for all of the key players. Jeff kicks things off with why he isn't concerned about Josh Jacobs' outlook with Kenyan Drake now in the mix. He then discusses Derek Carr's value and breaks down how the targets get distributed among the wide receivers. Jeff wraps things up with thoughts on Darren Waller and the merits of drafting an elite tight end.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Acliffe. It is Friday July 2nd 4th

0:24.8

July 4th of July this weekend. Midpoint of the summer already or whatever. It doesn't

0:34.4

feel like it does it, but it does feel like fantasy football draft season kicking off

0:39.2

officially for me. I don't know about you, but next week it is on baby. But today on

0:43.7

the show, we're going to preview the Las Vegas Raiders a very interesting team here with

0:48.6

John Gruden at the helm. This guy right here. I love this guy. So we're going to preview

0:55.4

them in just a minute. But let me remind you, we do have a contest going on really easy

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1:04.4

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1:10.2

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1:16.5

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1:22.1

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1:26.6

Let's talk about these Raiders. And I don't want to bury the lead with this team. So I

1:32.6

want to talk about this right off the top. Josh Jacobs is here. Josh Jacobs is entering

1:38.0

his third year. And obviously there's been a lot of excitement for fantasy purposes surrounding

1:43.5

him, you know, since the Raiders did step up and draft him. However, the Raiders did

1:51.0

complicate things for us this year because they added in free agency Kenyan Drake. So the

1:58.2

response to that has been, you know, a lot of folks dropping Jacobs down in rankings.

2:06.1

And I get it. I get the reaction. But I do think in some ways it's an overreaction. Because

2:11.6

here's what the Raiders have told us without really telling us in Jacobs first two years

2:17.6

in the league. They really believe in him as an early down back. In fact, they fed him 515

2:24.9

carries over the last two years. That's a lot. That's in 28 games, which is over 18 carries

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