Minicamp News: What Stories Actually Matter For Rankings (Episode 871 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva break down all the news across the NFL as teams conduct their mandatory OTAs and give their insight into the news that could have huge implications on the fantasy football world.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Can Aaron Rodgers’ and Arthur Smith’s philosophies coexist?
- Is it time to be excited about Christian McCaffrey again?
- How J.K. Dobbins fits into the Broncos backfield
- Should we still be cautious about Stefon Diggs’ injury recovery?
- Adam and Evan remember a “big” ETR favorite
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:15 - J.K. Dobbins Signs Broncos Deal
7:39 - Steelers Sign Aaron Rodgers
12:17 - Anthony Richardson Aggravates AC Spain, Out Until Camp
16:12 - Christian McCaffrey Full Participation in OTAs
19:22 - Nick Chubb Agrees Deal with Texans
22:01 - Stefon Diggs Full Go at Patriots OTA
24:55 - Brandon Aiyuk Could Start Year on PUP
28:10 - Pickett, Flacco Share Starters Reps in Browns OTA
29:57 - Luther Burden Misses OTAs with Soft Tissue Injury
32:47 - Amon-Ra Undergoes Knee Surgery, Frank Ragnow Retires
35:48 - James Cook Holding-In at Bills OTAs
36:55 - Terry McLaurin, Commanders Far From New Deal
38:53 - Quintin Johnston Expects to be Chargers Starter
40:45 - Justin Herbert In Line For More Run Game Usage
41:43 - Jaguars Dismiss Travis Etienne Trade Rumours
44:22 - Jets Dismiss Breece Hall Trade Rumours, Listed as Starter
46:25 - Cowboys Juggle Javonte Williams, Miles Sanders Starting Reps
49:26 - Tommy Tremble Undergoes Back Surgery
51:04 - Adam’s Eulogy for Donald Parham’s Torn Achilles
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 871 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.5 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva, and it is OTA-slash |
| 0:29.9 | mini-camp season. The last little tickler here before training camp. Evan, how's it going? |
| 0:37.3 | It's going great. We have a decent amount of news to |
| 0:39.5 | discuss today, which is not always typical of this time of year, but I'm already plotting some |
| 0:46.5 | changes to the top 150, which I'll put out a revised top 150 within about a week. |
| 0:56.5 | Then I'm going on vacation at Cape Cod. |
| 1:02.4 | But yeah, it's been a really nice summer and early summer and late spring. |
| 1:06.6 | And, you know, fantasy football is creeping steadily toward us. |
| 1:07.1 | Indeed. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, one thing that we do get from these practices and people like to make fun of the OTAs, it's guys in shorts, at the very minimum what we get is an influx of information. So on today's show, we're going to discuss our thoughts on all of that information, how it's affecting our rankings and our draft strategy. Remind you that if you're looking to take best ball more seriously, you need our best ball product. |
| 1:33.6 | It's just 4999, covers 12 months, our rankings, and context around those rankings for every format. |
| 1:43.0 | Also, if you follow the links in the ETR best ball tab under tools, you'll find more info there on a free exposure tracker and our new best ball assistant. |
| 1:47.9 | Speaking of best ball, I play roughly 75% of my best ball action on draft Kings. |
| 1:50.7 | Really, for one reason, I'm trying to win money. |
| 1:53.2 | The competition on draft Kings is just so much softer. |
| 1:56.3 | You get sports betters and casual players trying their hand to best ball. |
| 1:59.6 | They're not thinking deeply about correlation, draft capital, field size, |
| 2:00.9 | ADP value, etc. |
| 2:03.8 | They also have some more high stakes contest like the 555. |
| 2:05.1 | That's a million to first. |
| 2:06.3 | So anyway, stay tuned. |
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