Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

Thank you for hanging out with us today as we continue this season preview series we're doing.

We went over quarterbacks with Rich Rebar earlier in the week.

Today we're talking running backs with our buddy Ian Hartets of Fantasy Life,

and you can find all his content over there.

He's also one of the better follows on Twitter slash X at I Heart It's.

If you want, good analysis, mixed with actually funny tweets, like he hits on some.

He's got you covered over there.

Ian, welcome back to the show, dude.

I mean, we're about to kind of unofficially kick things off tonight.

We got the Hall of Fame game. We have actual NFL players in uniform on a field. I know it doesn't really matter. It doesn't mean anything, but it's exciting. How you doing, man? Doing great, man. We've been, you know, coming on doing this together for a good five plus years now. So always, you know, always enjoy talking to you, respect your work.

And yeah, man, great to be back. But dude, with the Hall of Fame game, with the training camp, you know, highlight videos and all that. Does any of it really matter all that much? Probably not that. At the end of the day, football is fun. And seeing football be played is fun to me, man. So yes, you know, maybe take it easy on some of these crazy fantasy takeaways.

You know, if you're really like moving Bejohn Robinson up the ranks because of some of those routes, I'm not so sure that's the best process. But at the end of the day, you know, we're playing fantasy football, probably because we love real life football. And, you know, I'm certainly pumped to see that all over the feed. Yeah, I don't want to stop anybody from getting excited, but I agree with you. I think people have a tendency to overreact when there's not as much going on. So it'll be good to actually see some players on the field, but still, let's keep our expectations in check here. Everybody, let's be rational about things. But today, we got a lot that we want to get to. And I know time-wise, I don't want to keep you too long here. So there's a couple running back situations that we're going to have to discuss off the top. You know, then we'll get to the usual breakouts and sleepers and everything we do for these preview episodes. So I suppose we should start with the storyline that's been pretty wild the last few weeks here. It's been building kind of for a few years now.

The running back market, it's just not there anymore. Most free agents are taking a while to

sign. Even the big names are having a hard time getting any sort of long-term deals done.

The franchise tag, certainly not their friend. And you have somebody like Sequan Barkley,

who he tried for a big contract at the deadline. He didn't get it. And then ultimately he just like totally caved. He took a small one year bump and boom, he's back in the field, which we like to see. But there's still some concerns there. Is he going to be as dedicated later in the year if he's getting beat up and banged up. We can talk about that here.

We still have last year's Russian King Josh Jacobs, who hasn't signed his franchise tag.

He hasn't reported to training camp either.

J.K. Dobbins, he's on the Pup list.

Is that because he's hurt?

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