Too High on Young QBs and RBs? (04/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Fantasy managers will be making early investments in Josh Allen, Kyler Murray and seven sophomore RBs. Should they be? Or are they setting themselves up for disappointment?
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| 0:00.0 | More chatter about the Tampa Bay running backs and big time draft questions for you for 2021. Right now on fantasy football today in five. Adam Azzer and Jamie Eisberg here. Let's get started on this Monday, April 5th. Welcome everybody. This is a podcast to get you caught up fast on the fantasy news and advice you need to know. Follow us and stream us on Spotify. Bruce Ariens, Jamie, says he expects Kishon Vaughn to have a breakout season. |
| 0:22.6 | How's that going to have? I guess it doesn't really have to do much to be a breakout season. |
| 0:26.6 | But does he have enough of a role to make everybody useless in that backfield? |
| 0:31.6 | It's hard to see it happening without an injury. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, I was kind of hoping for Leonard Fornett to go someplace |
| 0:38.6 | else to give Kishon Vaughn an opportunity to get a chance for some more playing time. But, you know, |
| 0:43.8 | if Ronald Jones is healthy, if Fournett is healthy, I can't imagine Vaughn having a significant role. |
| 0:48.4 | Now, that being said, you know, we've seen these guys get hurt. You know, we've seen Leonard |
| 0:52.7 | fornett be a healthy scratch. |
| 0:54.3 | We've seen Ronald Jones miss time when he was even in the starting game, got hurt in pregame warmups, you know, after the enactives were turned in. So the Bucks also have clearly playoff aspirations to try and repeat as Super Bowl champions after bringing everybody back. So they may be a little bit cautious with some of their guys and some of their veterans. and obviously Fournett and Jones fall into that category at this point. |
| 1:13.1 | So with an additional game, you know, with the chance of maybe him getting a start or two, sure, I could see him having some value to fantasy managers. But to draft him with anything more than a late-round flyer at this point, no. All right, Jamie. So on the full-length version of the show, we're going to talk more about this deeper on this topic. This would be, did the year two running back show you enough in their rookie season? Are we, or are we overreacting a little bit to small sample sizes? Because other than James Robinson, for most of these guys, it was six games or so where we're looking at and going, |
| 1:44.9 | oh, this could be great for next year. And seven soon-to-be sophomore running backs are going to be |
| 1:51.7 | taken in the first three or four rounds. Is that an overreaction? You know, are you worried that |
| 1:56.7 | we didn't see enough and we could have another Jeremy Lankford situation or something like that? |
| 2:02.3 | I mean, we certainly could. You know, we certainly have an opportunity here for these guys to |
| 2:07.1 | flop, you know, and I'm, I didn't see the schedule. I'm assuming if it's me and Dave, we'll probably |
| 2:13.0 | have a similar thought process. It's Heath. We'll probably have a different, different one, especially on a guy |
| 2:17.4 | like, you know, J.K. Dobbins. But I think, you know, when it comes to each player, it's case by case. You know, I mean, some of these guys benefited in a big way. You know, Cam Acres gets a quarterback upgrade and the absence of Malcolm Brown. So, you know, based on what he did last year and a better offense, hopefully, he could thrive in that situation. DeAndre Swift, who, you know, has the chance to still be a star, got pretty significant competition, you know, from the standpoint of the guys who are out there that are the featured guys. You know, Jamal Williams going to come in and have a role to whatever role that is. It's going to take away from maybe what Swift does best, which is catching the ball at backfield. So, you know, I think each guy has, you know, to be broken down individually. But as a group, what they showed you last year with Jonathan Taylor leading the way, it's hard not to get excited by them, and hopefully |
| 3:07.8 | they can build off that given what the position looks like year over year. |
| 3:12.3 | Is there one player that you think has the most bust potential of these seven? |
| 3:16.8 | Who is the most bus potential? |
| 3:19.3 | I mean, it's either Robinson or Swift. |
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