Week 1 Fantasy Football Rankings | QB, RB, WR and TE Top Targets (Ep. 1346)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast
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4.8 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Week 1 is finally here! Chris Welsh, Pat Fitzmaurice, and guest Mick Ciallela are breaking down the biggest rank differences, debates and ECR for week 1. Is Trevor Lawrence in for a big week? Why Fitz loves Najee Harris, what to do with Brandon Aiyuk, and what Tight End can move into the top 12? Plus, you'll get a look at what ECR says for some of this week's biggest players.
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Intro - 0:00:00
Joe Burrow and DeVonta Smith Helmet Giveaways - 0:02:24
QB Rankings - 0:03:33
Trevor Lawrence - 0:04:08
Tua Tagovailoa - 0:04:39
Matthew Stafford - 0:06:52
RB Rankings - 0:11:47
Kenneth Walker III - 0:12:25
Josh Jacobs - 0:14:15
James Cook - 0:15:50
Isiah Pacheco - 0:17:15
Derrick Henry - 0:18:55
David Montgomery - 0:23:05
Raheem Mostert - 0:26:03
Aaron Jones - 0:29:43
Chuba Hubbard - 0:32:28
Najee Harris - 0:34:37
Cincinnati Bengals RBs - 0:36:48
Favorites Outside Top 36 RBs - 0:38:24
DraftKings Sportsbook - 0:39:26
WR Rankings - 0:41:12
Ja’Marr Chase - 0:41:37
Chris Olave - 0:44:32
Cooper Kupp - 0:47:01
Malik Nabers - 0:49:42
Nico Collins - 0:52:11
Brandon Aiyuk - 0:56:20
Tee Higgins - 0:58:55
DJ Moore - 1:00:47
Terry McLaurin - 1:01:44
Favorites Outside Top 36 WRs - 1:03:28
Locker Bet - 1:05:08
TE Rankings - 1:06:10
Trey McBride - 1:06:29
Brock Bowers - 1:07:26
Cole Kmet - 1:10:34
Favorites Outside Top 12 TEs - 1:12:46
My Playbook - 1:14:00
Outro - 1:15:02
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| 0:30.6 | What's up friends and welcome in to Fantasy Pro's the Fantasy Football Podcast? It's week one ranking time. |
| 0:37.0 | That's right. No more draft. It's time to get these guys in action and we're doing it. I'm Chris Welsh, we got Pat Fitzmores and |
| 0:45.2 | Mick Chilella both breaking down week one rankings. We're doing quarterback, we're doing |
| 0:51.5 | running back wide receiver tied in we're looking at |
| 0:53.5 | ECR and where these guys are differing and arguing and we're just getting down to |
| 0:58.6 | brass tacks doing it all of |
| 1:07.0 | of this and I'm excited to get to it and thank you guys for hanging out with us. Of all of this prep, all the pre-draft rankings and now we're just ranking for week |
| 1:11.8 | one and I'll tell you I was working on my rankings last night and when you start to make those adjustments that are off of draft rankings, it actually is a little alarming when you know you've had these same guy this is your RB6 and this is your |
| 1:25.2 | r v 12 and your wide receiver 14 and then all of a sudden this week you're like well this |
| 1:31.0 | guy is a really bad matchup and you go completely different off of the draft |
| 1:34.5 | rankings it's a little it's a little disarming I suppose going into this first week. |
| 1:39.7 | It is the shift from draft season to in season is always so abrupt and jarring. I'm sure a lot of people are feeling that right now and you know having this draft plan and now all of a sudden they're going to make their starting lineups and like a lot of this is not as cut and dried as it seemed back in July when we were putting these teams together. |
| 2:00.0 | Mick, did you feel at all in putting these together? |
| 2:03.2 | Did you feel disjointed? |
| 2:05.2 | Was there anybody like even a specific player as you were going through your ranks that |
| 2:08.8 | he had been so locked into in the draft season and then all of a sudden you're like oh they're going way down. |
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