Hey everybody, it's Wednesday, August 16th, 2023. Welcome to the NFL Fantasy football podcast,

where we're ready to come off the pup list. It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grandjoy,

by Michael Luflorio in studio. We got Hytham. 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 love. 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 Ramandrei Stevenson in a league. So that was fun. People were drafting Zeke.

They were drafting him sort of any 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 Zeke, but where would you at least consider it? I think like the 10th or

11th round. And all summer long I had been taking 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 short yarded 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. Ramandrei Stevenson, you know, I think if you anyone

who thought Ramandrei Stevenson was going to get 80, 90% of the backfield work I think was

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