Rankings Changes: JSN Has Surgery, Joe Mixon Likely To Avoid Suspension + Preseason Week 2 Takeaways (Episode 610 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva go over the latest happenings from around the league to help you prepare for 2023 fantasy drafts. They talk through the newest rankings changes to Silva's Top 150.
In this episode, we discuss:
What's next for JT?
JSN injures wrist; timeline TBD
Howell & Mayfield win QB jobs
What to make of Chiefs WRs
George Pickens sophomore blow-up?
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Timestamps:
(2:05) - The Jonathan Taylor Saga continues
(4:53) - Jaxon Smith-Njigba gets wrist surgery
(6:57) - De'Von Achane injury puts Week 1 status in doubt
(8:44) - Sam Howell announced as Washington's starter
(10:45) - Terry McLaurin suffers turf toe
(11:38) - Josh Jacobs expected back by Week 1?
(13:08) - Baker Mayfield wins starting QB job in Tampa
(14:59) - James Cook's ADP is soaring
(17:06) - Dalton Kincaid sees great usage in preseason
(19:16) - Joe Mixon on track to avoid suspension
(20:46) - Analyzing Chiefs WR preseason snaps
(22:40) - Tank Dell receives bump in Silva’s rankings
(24:02) - Dameon Pierce sees third-down snaps
(25:37) - Marvin Mims is clear No. 3 in Denver
(26:30) - Chris Olave rises in the Top 150
(27:30) - Deshaun Watson drops a QB tier
(29:05) - Jaylen Warren earning more reps from Najee Harris
(31:22) - George Pickens bumps up a WR tier
(32:40) - Allen Robinson winning competition for starting slot receiver
(33:30) - Analyzing Packers WR preseason snaps
(34:42) - Javonte Williams’ remarkable injury recovery
(36:37) - Rico Dowdle and Deuce Vaughn’s impact on Tony Pollard
(37:38) - Jameson Williams sidelined with hamstring injury
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello and welcome to episode 610 of the official established the run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | My name is Adam Levitan as always joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:25.2 | We are the co-finders here at ETR and we are in the midst of peak draft season. |
| 0:30.5 | You can feel in the air the finish football drafts are happening all around us. |
| 0:34.7 | Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:36.2 | The up entering the final week of preseason. |
| 0:39.3 | We had some big injury stuff come out today. |
| 0:43.0 | The Jonathan Taylor saga continues, but this is a big week for drafts and a shy away 30 |
| 0:50.6 | will be out by the end of the week. |
| 0:52.4 | Yes, and I know I've gotten a lot of questions also about the exploit in the default rankings. |
| 0:56.8 | So important, I think to check that out, that all is going up as we speak right now as well. |
| 1:04.9 | On today's show, we're going to discuss the latest news, injuries, holdouts, preseason usage, |
| 1:11.2 | and how it has affected our rankings, very important stuff. |
| 1:15.2 | Before we get into it here, one thing I have to note, if you're planning to use default |
| 1:20.6 | rankings in your draft applet or your gut for your finish ball draft, it's just so, so, so, |
| 1:26.1 | suboptimal. |
| 1:27.1 | I can't tell you how hard all of us, our entire NFL team is grinding every little percentage |
| 1:31.8 | point, moving things from Sam Howell 98% to Sam Howell 100%, really thinking hard about |
| 1:37.4 | how to project things like Naji Harris versus the Jalen Warren split, which we'll talk about |
| 1:41.6 | here today. |
| 1:42.6 | But my point is that if you want to come to your draft with the best baseline of rankings |
| 1:46.5 | to draft, alpha, check out our draft kit, draft kit pro is $49.99. |
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