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Hey, everybody.

It's Wednesday, August 16th, 2020.

Welcome to the NFL fantasy football podcast, where we're ready to come off the

Pupp list.

It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael L. Florio in studio. We got Eitham. We got Suzy. We got Josh. Give yourselves a round of applause, please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we are a couple weeks away from starting. you and I had the pure joy of being part of the ATN fantasy extravaganza today. That was fun. Yeah, it was a good time. We have that fantasy live. We're spending a lot of time together today. Yeah, no, we absolutely are. So we did that. We did fantasy live. We got all of that. So we got plenty of stuff to talk about today, too.

We're going to go through the NFC North as we continue our division previews.

But let's start with a couple of pretty big news items that ended up hitting on Monday after we recorded the previous show.

Two big name free agent running backs are off the board.

The Patriots sign Ezekiel Elliott to a one-year deal. That happened literally an hour and a half

after I drafted Ramandre Stevenson in the league, so that was fun. People were drafting Zeke.

They were drafting him sort of in the double-digit rounds, kind of late dart throw sort of thing. And now obviously we know where he's going to be. Where are you comfortable drafting Zeke? You may not be drafting Zee, but where would you at least consider it?

I think like the 10th or 11th round. And all summer long, I had been taken Zeke in like the 14th, 15th round because my thinking was whenever he signs, it could be literally anywhere.

He's going to get pulled up the board a little bit because he's Ezekiel Elliott.

I think that he'll play the secondary role here.

I think he'll be the shortyarded running back.

He could get sprinkled in in the passing game as

well. I think where he's going to make the biggest impact is near the goal line. He's been very

effective in that role the last couple of years. Ramandre Stevenson, you know, I think if anyone

who thought Ramandre Stevenson was going to get 80, 90% of the backfield work, I think was fooling themselves.

I could see a 60-40 split, maybe a little bit heavier in Stevenson's side. But Zique, I think, is one of the top backup running backs now.

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