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theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Unlocking Week 1's biggest fantasy questions

theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Score Media and Gaming

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4.9520 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Boone and theScore's David P. Woods are joined by Mike Tagliere of FantasyPros, as they discuss the most important questions fantasy owners are facing in Week 1. -Early look at rankings updates (2:10) -How valuable is James Conner with Le'Veon Bell holding out? (5:00) -Is Jordan Wilkins a fantasy starter this week? (9:20) -Can we trust Andrew Luck yet? (11:35) -Will Saquon Barkley be an immediate star? (14:25) -Who leads the Lions' backfield? (17:10) -Does Denver's pass rush spell trouble for Russell Wilson? (22:30) -What should we expect from Deshaun Watson? (25:30) -Are the Raiders an offense to avoid in Week 1? (29:25) -Which players are being overlooked by fantasy owners? (33:45) -Which stars are you staying away from this week? (36:50)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone and welcome to the Score Fantasy Football podcast presented by Subway.

0:19.3

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

0:22.4

score. Joining me today, as always, is the scores David P. Woods, a man who dropped James

0:28.8

Connor in our main league last week, and he is regretting it now. Yeah, I'm full of regret right now.

0:35.1

I mean, it was a complicated roster move I made in a pretty convoluted league. I needed to fill a spot for week one. He was sitting at the end of my bench. I thought, you know, Levium Bell, of course he's going to be there for week one. He was last year. It made sense at the time. It makes zero sense today. I'm sure we're going to talk more about the Steelers backfield in this episode, but let's just move on and maybe I can try to forget

0:54.9

about that huge air that will haunt me all season long potentially. Well, the one thing is you didn't have to do it. You could have waited to this week. We're going to wait. We're going to move on. We're going to wait until kickoff. Oh, and then someone else ended up picking them up off the waiver wire, neither of us, unfortunately. devastating way to start your season. I mean, Levy and Bell is going to be back in a couple days, right?

1:12.9

A couple more days, maybe this will turn out okay? It seems like. We're going to talk about that in a bit here. Today's a special podcast. This is our first video podcast. So you'll be able to still listen to us wherever you listen to the podcast, but you're also be able to watch the video on the score if you like. And we're going to be doing this every Thursday. And we're going to be having guests on all these podcasts as well. Today our guest is going to be Mike Taglier from Fantasy Pros. We're going to have him on a bit later. A huge thank you to our friends at Subway today. They provided us with these delicious paninis. It's fantastic. Really, really great during the show today to get us through here. On this episode, we are going to discuss, well, Woods's long-loss love, James Connor, for sure, in that whole Steelers backfield situation. And we're going to get tags as thoughts on pretty much all the big fantasy questions that owners are facing heading into week one.

2:01.8

But first, as always, let me remind you, if you like what you're hearing, you should

2:06.3

subscribe to the podcast. When you do, toss a quick rating. Give us a review. We really appreciate it.

2:12.4

Let's look at some of the changes that I'm going to make on my rankings that are going to be up on Thursday,

2:19.6

on the score. Let's first take a look at some of the notable risers and fallers that you're

2:25.6

going to see, and this is our next level update segment, which is presented by our friends at

2:30.7

Subway, who've up the ante, the taste ante, with their new next-level paninis.

2:36.5

The first player is the guy that we've mentioned far too many times already, and that's James

2:40.9

Connor. He's obviously going to be moving up. By the time you listen to this, it's possible

2:45.6

that Levion Bell has already reported, but even if he does, it's so late in the week at this

2:50.5

point that I don't

2:51.9

believe that they're going to give him any work. From what we're seeing, what we're hearing today,

2:56.6

it seems like Bell is going to be holding out for at least a game, maybe longer than that.

3:01.0

We'll talk about that in a second. I'm going to move James Connor up to RB12 in my rankings,

3:05.6

a back end RB1, and Bell is going to drop out completely

3:09.1

for now until we get more. We also have a pretty good idea that Marlon Mack isn't going to be

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