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2014. Good times. Great times. Great times together. Yeah, time. I mean, we're still talking about some of the same players in your rankings. I would assume not even looking at your rankings. You're high on Travis Kelsey. Yeah, in your overall rankings. Yeah, not as bullish as I've been in years past. I've had him ranked. I think it's high as like fourth overall. And it's been a good bet. Yeah, basically each of the past seven years or so. Just having that positional value. Like there's other guys. I think one year mark Andrews out scored him.

But he was outlier. He was still second. Yeah. So the positional value wasn't as great as it was in other years. But if you could just pencil in a guy to be essentially like wide receiver 10 or better and be tight end won six of seven years. It's pretty good. It is pretty good. And I looked into Travis Kelsey. I remember last year, which is comparing him to the all time grades like Tony Gonzalez and and some other guys. And I mean, he checks out that he's going to finish with probably the best stats ever of all time a time position.

And last year, wondering who would be the wide receiver one in Kansas City? He's the wide receiver one in Kansas City. Tight end wide receiver one. Same thing this year. Yeah, if you missed content from last week up on the pod feed or on my own media network to YouTube channel, Jake Celie was on his top five bus, his top five boom players to look at those are two separate videos. One podcast had to separate it out to you bump up those numbers a little bit. But today we're talking about running backs, the running back tears, the running back rankings. I got my list separated into like kind of team.

I've got a lot of years right now, but I want to run it by you to figure all this out. So let's get to it. Christian McCaffrey number one Austin Eccler, number two. I have Tony Pollard at number three and Nick Chubb at number four. And I don't know how those tears actually shake out because are you worried at all about Eccler, new offensive coordinator coming in. We saw Kellen Moore's. I don't know if it was a Mike McCarthy decision, a Kellen Moore decision, just or maybe it's a Dak Prescott thing that he doesn't really check down all that often. You see the chargers. They bring him Quentin Johnson.

More of a deep threat. Justin Herbert's already talking about throwing the ball down field a little bit more. Does it affect Eccler because if he's not, let's say the target share goes from like, I don't know, 15% to 9% doesn't seem like that big.

But that is, but it is. Yeah, like that's one of the things on run the Sims that you can go in and do like we can go to the chargers right now and have let's see here Austin Eccler at a 16.4% market share.

If we bump him down at he's a running back number two, if we just bump that down to nine, make some running back 10. Yeah, and that is a big jump.

I think it's hard to say he's going to have another season with 100 plus catches, but he does lead the NFL among running backs and touchdowns over the last two years.

Like he's always getting the carries inside the red zone. He's getting the targets inside the red zone. You feel like more will help this offense. So maybe it's a little bit more efficient. They score more points.

So I'm not, I'm not worried about him. He's right there on that same tier for me with McCaffrey McCaffrey. It's those.

It is a loan for me. Okay. So it's just those two chances McCaffrey's worse in the system. Like more like a healthy Elijah Mitchell that will ask like two games coming into the air.

We'll see who plays quarter back for the 49ers. Like good point. Like I don't know if that actually makes a difference. It's not like you're putting in.

You're not going from Tom Brady to Dirty birdie from like Sam Darnold or Brock birdie. Yeah. As long as it's those two. I think it like if it was Tray Lance and you know it's a huge if at this point.

It's not Tray Lance. Unless they both get hurt. It's not Tray Lance.

So if it was, I would be worried a little bit there, but I guess the only thing I would say about CMC is maybe the touches come down a little bit from his Carolina days.

But again, efficiency. Like last year, they still like Shanahan still gave some touches to Elijah Mitchell down the stretch of the season. But it just seemed like CMC was a walking hundred total yards and a touch.

I think played 13 games of the 9ers and had 14 touchdowns or vice versa. One of the two. So it was basically a touchdown per game. And it's it's a good offense. And it's a it's a weak conference. I have no concerns about either of those two.

Again, those guys are you're a little more bullish. I think on Pollard, but I guess I'm just skeptical that they're going to enter the season with him just there.

I still feel like they're going to bring a veteran back and down. So so that's the thing. I suppose we should probably let people know this is coming out on Tuesday.

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