Rashee Rice SUSPENDED! + FINAL Do Not Draft List! 22 Players to AVOID in 2025! (08/27 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The big news of the day is Rashee Rice (0:30) being suspended for the first six games of the 2025 season and what that means for Patrick Mahomes, Xavier Worthy, and Travis Kelce. After that, we unveil our Final Do Not Draft List with 22 players you need to avoid in your fantasy football drafts. Jamey Eisenberg and Dave Richard break down which (7:00) quarterbacks, (13:00) tight ends, (16:33) running backs, and wide receivers (24:16) could end up being busts at their current ADP. From big names like Saquon Barkley, Josh Allen, and Tyreek Hill to mid-round picks such as Aaron Jones, Zay Flowers, and D.J. Moore, we tell you who not to draft this year. This is the final warning before your draft—don’t make the mistake of targeting these 22 players. Make sure you’re ready to dominate draft day! Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that Travis Kelsey averaged four targets per game in just three games with Rishi Rice last year? |
| 0:19.8 | Did you know that Xavier Worthy scored 19.6 or more PPR fantasy points in five of his last six games, including the playoffs last season? Did you know we're going to talk about Rishie Rice at the top of the show? We welcome you at a fantasy football today presented by BEDMGM, the sports book Born in Vegas. It's Wednesday, August 27th. We've got that breaking news to get to, but also the do not draft list. You know, guys, you better relish this now. I love talking about drafts, but in eight days, that is pretty much over. We're going to be talking about starts and sits. Welcome to the show. That's Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg. I am Adam Azer. Let's get right into the big news. So you're going to give us, do not drafts for quarterback, running back, tight end, and wide receiver. First, though, Rishi Rice accepts a six-game suspension to start this season. Jamie, I'm going to throw it to you first. Give me your reaction for everyone relevant in this Rishi Rice discussion. |
| 1:12.8 | I think it's actually good news that he's accepting the suspension prior to the season for a |
| 1:16.8 | couple reasons. One, at least we find out for anybody drafting over Labor Day weekend or from |
| 1:20.8 | this point through the start of the season, you know what you're dealing with. So the uncertainty |
| 1:25.4 | of the previous situation, which was he was going to play out the first four games and then we wouldn't know when the suspension would happen. You now know that the first six weeks of the season, you don't have Rashi Rice. I think from his perspective, he's still a number three wide receiver. He's going to hopefully come back from week seven on. They do have their week 10 by, but now you get him for the fantasy playoffs, |
| 1:44.3 | assuming he's healthy, |
| 1:45.1 | and hopefully whatever extra time he needed |
| 1:46.7 | to get that knee right, now he should be 100%, no questions, not that there was any concern right now, but you know what you're getting. I think from a fantasy perspective, I'm not moving him. He's wide receiver 33. I know what I'm dealing with at this point, and you have the ability to get replacement options to start the season. |
| 2:02.0 | It does stink as in one draft over the weekend where somebody combined Jordan Addison and Rashi Rice with the hope of I get Addison coming back when Rice is back. Now you don't have both those guys for the start of the season. I'm in a Dynasty League that Adam runs, the Big Burger Dynasty League, where I have Rice and Chris Godwin. |
| 2:17.8 | So I was kind of playing that out, that scenario out where maybe, you know, have Rice and then transition to Godwin until Rice comes back. So at least you know what you're dealing with. I think Rice is just again, number three fantasy receiver. You get a great start for potentially Travis Kelsey, fantastic start for Xavier Worthy. And worthy may be the one who doesn't give up the role in terms of who's the best receiver for the Chief's rest of season. So Marquis Brown gets a boost. Maybe Juju Smith-Juster, Tyquant Thornton, those type of guys get a boost. Nobody's drafting them with any sort of confidence. I think Marquis Brown maybe gets off to a good start. We'll see how that sort of impacts him. And for Patrick Mahomes, look, you might want to bring him back down to the Baker Mayfield level |
| 2:53.6 | comparatively to where good start. We'll see how that sort of impacts him. And for Patrick Mahomes, look, you might want to bring him back down to the Baker-Mayfield level comparatively to where he was closer to the top five guys, the Jalen Hertz, you know, Joe Burrell being the bottom two of that group. So for me, you know, Mayfield is potentially a better option to start the season. But I think Mahomes still stays at QB6. Worthy's a great round four pick right now, |
| 3:09.9 | maybe round five, |
| 3:09.9 | and then right side would look. better option to start the season. But I think Mahomes still stays at QB6. Worthy's a great round four pick right now, maybe round five. |
| 3:12.5 | And then Rice I would look for in the round seven range. |
| 3:13.7 | I think it stinks. |
| 3:18.6 | Because I loved the idea of, all right, I've got Rice for a little bit at the beginning of the year. |
| 3:19.2 | And then I've got him for the fantasy playoff run. |
| 3:21.1 | And in between, I can figure that out. |
| 3:22.5 | We didn't know that, though. We didn't know that, though. But we figured that he was going to play those first four games, |
| 3:26.3 | then we didn't know how long the suspension was going to be. |
| 3:28.2 | That's fair. |
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