Rankings Changes: Where To Draft Josh Jacobs + Christian Watson Gets a Bump (Episode 618 with Adam Levitan and Evan Silva)
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The 2023 NFL season is almost here. With that, Adam Levitan and Evan Silva have rankings changes to discuss. They talk through recent roster cuts and their impact, preseason usage, and tons more.
In this episode, we discuss:
Updates on Josh Jacobs & Jonathan Taylor
JSN, Burks, and McLaurin injuries
What to make of T.J. Hockenson
Is Dalton Kincaid worth his ADP?
Much more
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Timestamps:
(2:51) - Josh Jacobs signs one-year deal
(5:22) - Jonathan Taylor’s trade situation
(7:56) - Jaxon Smith-Njigba avoids IR
(9:48) - Treylon Burks returns to practice
(11:37) - Terry McLaurin’s toe concerns
(13:25) - Jerry Jeudy’s hamstring concerns
(15:12) - Christian Watson rises in Evan’s Top 150
(16:33) - T.J. Hockenson’s tanking ADP
(18:16) - Cardinals cut starting QB, roll with Josh Dobbs
(21:42) - Dameon Pierce sees third-down work again
(23:29) - Tank Dell missed time with starters
(24:44) - Assessing Bills preseason usage
(27:18) - Dalton Kincaid/Dawson Knox snaps analysis
(29:18) - Best late-round TE option - Freiermuth vs. Njoku
(30:08) - Jaguars backfield snaps analysis
(31:30) - Calvin Ridley thriving in Jacksonville
(33:06) - Jaylen Warren/Najee Harris snap analysis
(36:08) - Jonathan Mingo sees reps, Thielen sees targets
(37:16) - Jayden Reed bumps into Top 150
(38:23) - Roschon Johnson vs. D’Onta Foreman
(40:16) - Kyren Williams could take passing reps from Cam Akers
(41:19) - Kadarius Toney ahead of schedule on recovery
(43:01) - Corey Davis' surprising retirement
(44:00) - Browns trade for Pierre Strong, cut Demetric Felton
(45:30) - Rico Dowdle wins RB2 job in Dallas
(47:04) - Sean Tucker pressuring Rachaad White
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 618 of the official establish the run dot com podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | My name is Adam Levittan joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:22.7 | We are two of the co-founders here at ETR and we are just eight short days away from |
| 0:29.8 | week one of the NFL regular season suspect roughly, I don't know 25% of fantasy |
| 0:35.5 | graphs will go down in the next eight days very, very serious times. |
| 0:40.5 | Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, and we're in the midst of final cuts recording this Tuesday, early Tuesday |
| 0:47.8 | afternoon. The deadline I believe is 4 p.m. Eastern time today for all the |
| 0:52.9 | teams to cut from 90 to 53, a ton of cuts. |
| 0:56.2 | This used to be such a big part of our lives when we were like at Rodo World blurbing |
| 1:01.4 | every single guy that got cut literally. |
| 1:05.4 | And now it's, it's really not that big of a deal. |
| 1:08.5 | I mean, we've already had a ton of cuts and there really haven't been any high impact |
| 1:12.7 | cuts yet. |
| 1:13.7 | We'll see if we get some surprises. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, we'll mention a couple of spots here as we move along where perhaps we're waiting |
| 1:19.3 | for some news on something, but on today's show we're going to focus on ranking changes. |
| 1:25.6 | What news from the last week is worth reacting to? |
| 1:28.1 | What preseason, preseason usage from week three matters. |
| 1:31.6 | Why Evan has made some changes to his top 150 rankings, et cetera. |
| 1:36.1 | First, before we get into it here, two things. |
| 1:38.8 | We worked out a deal with draft kings for you guys. |
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