What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Racklevin. It is Wednesday, September 8th.

Officially here, baby. Week 1 rankings. Now this is the initial week 1 rankings. Remember

rankings do change over the course of the week. We have an initial batch for you up over

at ftn fantasy dot com promo code rat pack. Of course, you can also get my projections

over there along with all of our great tools. So go check that out. Here's the objective

today. We're going to roll through who we should be starting. Who's in who's out. So that

means 12 quarterbacks 12 tight ends 24 running backs. I'll give you some guys who are close.

36 wide receivers. Why? Well, that breaks down to RB 1 RB 2 wide receiver one wide receiver

two wide receiver three. I'll give you some of the guys who are in flex territory as well.

But it really comes down to the name of the game. Make the smartest start sit decisions

possible. I often say this is the time of year where we switch. We are in high gear

during fantasy football drafts aggressive over the speed limit. You know, just grip and

rip. Now we transition to being very conservative and trying to make the smartest possible

decisions. If you try and overthink this, you're probably going to get it wrong. Don't

worry about what your opponent has because your objective doesn't matter. Yo, your opponent

can be starting any quarterback in the world. It doesn't matter. Your objective is still

the same to score the most points. So make the smartest possible start sit decision.

So let's dive into quarterback here. It's pretty easy. I really didn't change much

of my season long quarterback rankings into week one because we don't really have much

in terms of data points. So at number one, I do have Patrick Mahomes here. I'll roll

through the top five very quickly. Mahomes Murray Jackson, Alan Prescott. You should not

be in a just in a situation outside of maybe a dynasty league where you have to decide

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