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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 2 Start/Sit

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Week 2 is here and the start sit dilemmas are piling up. In this episode Jeff runs through the names dominating fantasy group chats right now, from Jordan Mason’s breakout buzz to the endless flex debates around Isiah Pacheco and rookie RJ Harvey. Veterans like Stefon Diggs, and Davante Adams are sparking questions. Jeff also dives into the backfield splits with Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet, Travis Etienne’s usage, and whether Hollywood Brown can be trusted in lineups. Quarterback decisions with Kyler Murray plus tight end choices like Evan Engram and Juwan Johnson round out the week’s biggest calls. Get the full breakdown so you can set your lineup with confidence heading into Week 2.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.0

Yo, what's up?

0:16.0

It's Friday, September 12th.

0:17.4

I'm Jeff.

0:18.9

This is the rant.

0:23.9

I don't know why I said it that way. I'm excited to be here after a really impressive performance from the Green Bay Packers. That team's for real. Not a knock on the

0:31.7

commanders whatsoever. The commanders are a good team, but the Packers are a great team. Wow. That team is something else. Now,

0:39.2

two key injuries coming out of the game I want to talk about first on the show. Then we're

0:43.4

going to get into some common names that are coming up in StartSit questions across the

0:49.3

interwebs. Now, I can't tell you whether or not you should start these players, but I can at least

0:53.2

give you insight on why I have them where I do, and then you can use that information if you're facing

0:58.7

some of these start-sit debates as well. Let's get into the information from last night's game,

1:04.3

though. I'm not going to unpack what I saw necessarily. I will do that, of course, in the

1:09.8

first read article that comes out on Mondays over at FtnFantasy.com. That's a free article, right? So you can go check that out. I give you big takeaways from each of the games, some of the numbers you need to know all that fun stuff. But the two injuries. First and foremost, Austin Echler, as of right now, I don't have final word. I'll just check the newsfeed

1:28.5

as I'm talking here just in case, but it is feared to be a torn Achilles, which would obviously

1:34.2

not only be season ending, but I think it could be career ending as well. That is really, really

1:40.9

rough news because he was actually playing pretty well during the course of the

1:45.2

game. The Packers are just a lead against the run. That's the challenge. And we're going to run into

1:49.9

this. No pun intended, week in and week out against that defense, which was wow, very, very

1:55.9

impressive last night. So with Eckler out, I know the focus is going to go to Jacori Kroski Merritt,

2:03.3

but let's be clear. Echler was the clear lead back, and they were essentially splitting

2:07.5

duties before he was out of that game between Kroski Merritt and Jeremy McNichols. So we have

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