Preseason Week 2 Fallout: Silva Top-150 Rankings Changes to Commanders Backfield, Bucs Wideouts, More (Episode 898 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva talk through all of Evan's changes to his Top 150, as well as dissect all the news and notes from across the NFL to ensure that you’re up to date to crush your NFL draft with the most up-to-date fantasy football analysis.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How high will Evan rank Emeka Egbuka following the Jalen McMillan injury?
- How does Daniel Jones impact the rest of the Colts fantasy football players?
- Where should you be drafting TreVeyon Henderson?
- Why has Breece Hall found his way onto the Shy Away List?
- Which Washington Running Back has entered Evan’s top 100?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Brian Robinson Trade/Release Incoming, Jacory Croskey-Merritt Ranking Surges
9:08 - Daniel Jones Confirmed As Starter in Indianapolis, Colts Fantasy Fallout
15:41 - Joe Flacco Confirmed As Starter in Clevelan, Browns Fantasy Fallout
18:23 - Quinshon Judkins Charges Dropped, Remains Unsigned
20:02 - Rashee Rice Suspension Uncertainty Remains
23:40 - Jalen McMillan to IR, Chris Godwin Injury Concerns
27:08 - DeVon Achane Injures Calf, Dolphins Pracautiously Hold Him Out
31:33 - Kaleb Johnson Negative Camp Reports Continue In Pittsburgh
34:15 - Jets Backfield Showing More Signs of Becoming A Committee
36:15 - Kenneth Walker on Maintenance Program For Foot Injury
39:10 - Christian Kirk Starts in 2-WRs Sets Ahead of Jayden Higgins
42:02 - Caleb Williams & Bears Offense Offer Strong Showing in Preseason Week Two
44:27 - TreVeyon Henderson Hype Train Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
45:44 - Matthew Stafford Returns to Practice
46:47 - Quentin Johnston Suffers Concussion, Provides Clarity in Chargers WR Depth Chart
48:28 - James Cook Finally Signs Contract Extension in Buffalo
50:54 - Marshawn Lloyd Injures Hamstring, Unlikely For Week One
52:04 - Tyler Goodson Suffers Injury, DJ Giddens & Will Shipley Strengthen “One Injury Away” Spots
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 898 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:22.8 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:24.6 | As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. |
| 0:27.5 | Two weeks of the NFL preseason are in the books. |
| 0:31.6 | Regular season week one usage starting to get solidified a bit. |
| 0:35.4 | We are entering some of the biggest draft weekends of the year. |
| 0:42.0 | Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah, it was a very newsy weekend and a very newsy beginning to the week. |
| 0:48.1 | I wound up making a ton of changes to my rankings the last two days |
| 0:53.4 | and like super impactful situations. We we got to get to it all. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes. Let's get right into it here with story number one, Brian Robinson on his way out in |
| 1:06.0 | Washington. You know, this was rumor speculation for the last, I don't know, week or 10 days that |
| 1:11.8 | Brian Robinson could be cut, might not make the team, could be traded. |
| 1:17.3 | I didn't really believe it fully until friend of the show, Ben Standing, reported it. |
| 1:23.3 | And now the commanders have basically confirmed it through their actions, through their words. |
| 1:28.6 | Brian Robinson is going to be cut or traded. |
| 1:32.4 | This has caused people to lose their minds about Jacori, aka Bill Kroski Merritt. |
| 1:41.2 | Oh my God. |
| 1:41.7 | I can't go on Twitter. |
| 1:42.7 | I used to see all kinds of crazy things, political stuff, |
| 1:46.3 | girls, all kinds of, now all I see is Jacori Kroski Merritt is every tweet that I see. Evan, |
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