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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Listener Mailbag: WR First Overall? The RB2 Leap, and Salary Cap Draft Strategy

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We answer listener questions about taking Justin Jefferson first overall in the draft, which 2nd round running back will make the leap, the best strategies for an auction draft, how to conceive of the best way to determine draft order, and more. We also settle the great Häagen-Dazs debate, and more. (0:47) - Should you take Justin Jefferson 1st overall? (5:33) - Which RB2 will make the leap? (7:53) - Best auction draft strategy (24:58) - Best/wrose PPR players (26:59) - Strategies for larger leagues (30:59) - Ways to determine draft order (34:30) - Fantasy traits to avoid (37:49) - Fantasy punishment debate (41:36) - Ice cream power rankings Check out The Ringer’s Fantasy Football Draft Rankings for tiers, sleepers, and more! Email us! [email protected]. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mac Jones is ripped. The Celtics may actually trade for Kevin Durant, and the

0:05.1

Ringer has a new Boston show. I'm Brian Barrett, host of Off the Pike, the show

0:09.1

covering all things Boston sports. I'll have shows multiple times a week covering

0:13.2

your favorite teams and with your favorite Ringer and local guests. Plus, maybe Bill

0:17.2

will stop by to rant about the socks. Follow Off the Pike with me, Brian Barrett, now on Spotify.

0:30.0

Welcome to the Ringer fantasy football show. My name is Danny Hyphus, and I am joined by Danny

0:42.6

Kelly and Kelly Quarrelbeck. And today we are doing a mailbag, it's a bonus

0:45.8

episode for everybody. We're just going to jump right into it. I want to start right

0:50.4

off the bat with an email we got from Austin who says, am I crazy to take Justin

0:54.5

Jefferson first overall DK, is that insane? I mean, there's varying levels of

1:01.9

insanity. He's our number three ranked player. So it's not that crazy in reality. I

1:08.8

think based on the way that we've done our rankings and everything that we've

1:11.1

talked about, Krish McAfrican and Taylor on it or are on a tier of their own. However,

1:15.8

if you're really wanting to play it safe, like just don't take a running back,

1:20.1

right? Because they always get hurt. There's a line at the end of the first

1:24.4

lethal weapon movie where Mel Gibson is staring down in the rain at Gary Busy for this final

1:30.0

fight. And he goes, what do you say, Jack? You want to shot at the title? And if Krish McAfrican

1:35.4

plays 17 games, you'll probably make the championship. So do with that what you will.

1:41.0

But if you want to play it safe, I have no problems with you taking a Cooper Cup or a

1:45.9

Justin Jefferson first overall. I went through and looked at all the running backs

1:49.2

who were drafted in the first round last year in fantasy drafts. And here's how many games

1:52.3

each of them missed. McAfrie miss 10, Dalvin Cook four, Derek Henry nine, Camara four,

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