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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the fantasy pros football podcast.

I am Ryan warmly joined as I am every Tuesday by Andrew Erickson.

We are talking buys and sales.

This is part one.

We are going to be focusing on the running backs in this episode.

And then, of course, in part two, as always, we'll be talking about the wide receivers

and then a little bit on the quarterbacks and tight ends as well.

If I am yawning at all during this episode, it's because I did stay up and watch every inning of the World Series game that went to 18 innings last night.

It was an epic, one of the best baseball games, postseason games that I

certainly can remember watching in a very long time. Shout to the Dodgers, I am ruining for them,

even though they're the big, bad, scary machine overspending everybody. As an Orioles fan,

I cannot possibly root for the Blue Jays. So all in on the Dodgers, excited to see them walk that off. Did you watch any of that game, Erickson? What is baseball? No, I do not watch any of this baseball game that you are talking about. I did see some of the highlights on TV that the Dodgers, there's a walk-off home run, right? Is that how they won? By Freddie Freeman, yeah. Yeah, so that's really cool. I always like to think myself as a low-key Dodgers fan. I have a bunch of Dodgers hats because I really like a logo. It's a very classic look, just the L.A. I think it's a really good look, especially for a baseball hat. I got a couple L.A. baseball hats. So, go Dodgers. Glad they won.

One of the guys on our social team, Tyler, will not be happy to hear that he is a, he lives in Canada. He's a diehard Toronto Blue Jace fan. And I was following him on Twitter last night, just living and dying with every pitch. It's, uh, I mean, there's nothing like playoff baseball. The lack of a clock just makes it so different from every other sport.

And so you get to these World Series games that go on and on. They're really epic. So that was fun. One game that I'm sure you did watch is Monday Night Football. This one was not a close extra innings affair or anything similar to that. It was a blowout. Although it was close to early in the first half before the Chiefs pulled away in the second half, 287 win for Kansas City.

Holmes, he did throw two picks technically, but like, you know, just continues to be

awesome in general.

Just barely missed 300 yards and three touchdowns for the game.

Isaiah Pacheco led the team in carries, 12 carries, 58 attempts. That's a 4.8 average. Kareem Hunt had nine carries, 40 yards, and of course had two touchdowns, one in the air, one on the ground. Charles Kelsey was good, 99 yards in a touchdown. Rishie Rice just looks like he's going to be very much worth the six-week wait for any managers called on him. Nine catches, 93 yards, and a touchdown. Let's just start on that chief side. This offense is really all systems go right now. The running back room is frustrating for fantasy managers because the guy getting most of the carries and who has started to look better is not the guy getting the goal line work. But besides that, this is a pretty straightforward fun offense to be a part of. Yeah, I mean, they're one of the most past happy offenses in the NFL. So you're getting a ton of volume from across the board. Rashi Rites has stepped in and immediately became the alpha. I'd like to see that poll now where since you've got Rashi Rites back in your lineup, what is your record? I know I'm at least 2 and O since getting him back after struggling for the first six weeks of the season without Rashi Rice. So yeah, he has been an absolute monster. It looks like he could score a touchdown every single week. And he actually had in this game, he could have scored three touchdowns, right? He gets tackled out the one on one of his rushing. He has another red zone attempt that he gets tackled inside the five-yard line. So again, it's not usually going to be Cream Hut that scores the multiple touchdowns. Usually going to be one of these past catchers, probably rushy rice. So I think he's locked in load as like a top five fantasy wide receiver rest of season. But we'll say with Kelsey, a lot of his yards came on really two big plays. He had two plays over 30 yards. I wouldn't necessarily bank on that being super sustainable week after week. We have seen where he's not nearly as involved when Rice is involved. If you look at the splits from the first half to the second half, Kelsey was more involved in the first half where Rice was not, and then you saw the opposite in the second half. So I do think there's going to be a little push and pull when it comes to Kelsey and Rice. I think Rice is the alpha. I think if he's seeing a lot of targets, it's going to hurt Kelsey in the long run. So I think Kelsey's kind of like a cell high, but again, it's tight end. So, you know, do with it what you

want. If you can't upgrade from Kelsey, then, you know, just hold him. He plays with the homes, and he can always catch a touchdown like he did this past week. So I would say with the backfield, just keep tabs on Pacheco and his knee. It looked like he had, he took a major hit to his knee, it looked like, oh my God, like, this can be a devastating injury for a guy coming off an injury from last year.

However, he looked like he was okay on the sideline. We'll see, because sometimes players do this where it doesn't look as bad during the game and then we get reports later on, it swells up, et cetera. So that's something to kind of monitor. I know Breschard Smith really regressed in his role.

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