Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Dynasty
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Speaker 1: Kyle Yates and I am your host and I am
Speaker 1: joined as always by Trevor Sikama. He can be found
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Speaker 1: How was a vacation? Dude? It was great. Second podcast
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Speaker 1: feeling man very at home here on our podcast. No.
Speaker 1: Vacation was great. First time being in Denver, Colorado. Like,
Speaker 1: I've traveled through Denver, Colorado before, but I've never actually
Speaker 1: stayed and enjoyed the city. Beautiful. For all of you
Speaker 1: out there who live out west in Denver specifically, you
Speaker 1: have a beautiful city. I had a wonderful time. It
Speaker 1: was great. Man. We were talking before we started recording,
Speaker 1: like I grew up in the Midwest. I live in
Speaker 1: the Midwest currently. You grew up in Florida. So like
Speaker 1: everything's flat, like if the terrain whenever we travel out
Speaker 1: west or whatever, we're just like, Wow, people live like this.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. You look out your window and you see
Speaker 1: mountains and hills. Wow, can't even imagine it was so
Speaker 1: funny because we're just like driving along the highway and
Speaker 1: we're just like half of the amusement of it is
Speaker 1: just like pointing to the mountain line and being like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: you see the mountains. Like it's almost like the worth
Speaker 1: the price of admission just to see the mountains in
Speaker 1: the distance, right for sure? All right, Hey, so before
Speaker 1: we get into the content for day, I talked about
Speaker 1: on our last podcast that we're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: some Marvel stuff, like it's just gonna be a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. So I've got a question for you right
Speaker 1: off the top before we get into some Dynasty League winners.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, so imagine this. You've got like in
Speaker 1: a crazy memorabilia like behind collection behind your desk, right
Speaker 1: you can see it in the background there. Okay, you
Speaker 1: get to, regardless of price, you know, price doesn't matter here,
Speaker 1: you get to add the costume, tire guard, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it, of any character from the MCU,
Speaker 1: from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You get to add any
Speaker 1: of their costume to be a part of your collection
Speaker 1: right behind you. Who's would it be? Oh wow? And
Speaker 1: it's like a one hundred percent authent like it's authentic,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's the only one in existence. Yep, Okay,
Speaker 1: an iron Man's suit would be sick, Like a whole
Speaker 1: iron Man two would be sick. Obviously, if you got
Speaker 1: like Thor's outfit, you would also get the hammer, and
Speaker 1: like an authentic like hammer that would probably be back there.
Speaker 1: But I'd still probably go with my guy, and anyone
Speaker 1: who knows me knows that this is my dude in
Speaker 1: the NCU. I think i'd go Winter Soldier. I think
Speaker 1: like i'd go his og Winner soldier attire with the
Speaker 1: metal arm just like hanging there off of off of
Speaker 1: the sleeves. I mean, every badass I'd love that. I
Speaker 1: think i'd be picking Winter Soldier. So I was thinking
Speaker 1: about iron Man too. I was like, an Ironman suit
Speaker 1: would be just incredible, But you know how big that
Speaker 1: thing's gonna be, like over my office, Like just this
Speaker 1: lurking Iron Man costume right over my shoulder, Like I
Speaker 1: can't do that, Like that's just gonna be so intimidating.
Speaker 1: I'd scare myself every single time I walked into my office.
Speaker 1: I think, you know what I'm gonna do? I would
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna go same like you know, Winter Soldier,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Falcon here, but the Falcon from Falcon
Speaker 1: and the Winter Soldier with the Captain America garb. So
Speaker 1: you get the wings there taking up the entire length
Speaker 1: of your office, and then you get the look of
Speaker 1: Captain America right from you know, with his new with
Speaker 1: his new look there. So I think that's probably what
Speaker 1: I would go with. That's a two for one. I
Speaker 1: gotta respect it. That's like, that's big brain Marvel rooves
Speaker 1: right there. To combine two really great superheroes into one
Speaker 1: with a single outfit. That's good. I fully respect it.
Speaker 1: Because you also get the shield. Yeah, you also get
Speaker 1: the shield with it too, right, man, there we go.
Speaker 1: That's next level. That's next level. Great, great, great, great
Speaker 1: answer great at all. Right. Well, hey, before we get
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Speaker 1: friends again at Pristine Auction. All right, Trev, let's get
Speaker 1: into some of these Dynasty league winners. Okay, and this
Speaker 1: is different than just talking about from a redraft standpoint, right,
Speaker 1: because league winners in a redraft conversation, you still have
Speaker 1: to compete with the waiver wire right, you're adding these
Speaker 1: guys here at the bottom of your bench, maybe in
Speaker 1: the last round, but you're stretching it a little bit here, right.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson last year, you might have drafted him to
Speaker 1: the last spot on your bench, but even after that,
Speaker 1: he was still going undrafted and he turned out to
Speaker 1: be an absolute league winner in Dynasty. If you're playing
Speaker 1: Dynasty for the first time, it's a little bit different
Speaker 1: here because the waiver wire not as active. Right, You're
Speaker 1: typically playing with twenty four plus man rosters. So being
Speaker 1: able to identify these players ahead of time, go out
Speaker 1: and acquire them now before we see their stock increase
Speaker 1: everything break their way to become a league winner is
Speaker 1: super super important. So we're gonna highlight some players here
Speaker 1: that you're not going to be able to necessarily get
Speaker 1: super super cheap, right, Not every single player that we're
Speaker 1: gonna mention you're gonna be able to send away for
Speaker 1: I send away a twenty twenty two fourth round pick
Speaker 1: or whatever. But these guys have the potential to absolutely
Speaker 1: take over and win your Dynasty league, which is what
Speaker 1: we are all about here. So let's turn it over
Speaker 1: to you here, Trev. First player here that you want
Speaker 1: to highlight as a dynasty league winner first one, and
Speaker 1: this one's an obvious one. I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: this guy is going to be picked decently high in
Speaker 1: redraft formats as well, and I think that everybody would
Speaker 1: probably admit that it's only a matter of time. But
Speaker 1: I have to mention him because I do think that
Speaker 1: he is going to be somebody who really runs leagues
Speaker 1: over the next couple of years. And that's JK Dobbins,
Speaker 1: the running back from the Baltimore Ravens. Obviously, JK Dobbins
Speaker 1: had an incredible career at Ohio State, was drafted pretty high,
Speaker 1: I mean decently high for what we think running BACKSKI
Speaker 1: drafted too now, and in his first year with the Ravens,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was really able to break out in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. You look at the
Speaker 1: first half and yeah, okay, it's a little quiet. He's
Speaker 1: got the two touchdown game early on in that first week,
Speaker 1: But then it goes quiet for him because they had
Speaker 1: plenty of options, right, I mean, they've got the reigning
Speaker 1: MVP Lamar Jackson as their quarterback and he's a big
Speaker 1: part of what that rushing attack is in Baltimore that
Speaker 1: have Gus Edwards. They had mark ingram as well, but
Speaker 1: as the season went on, they started to really give
Speaker 1: the ball to JK. Dobbins and he really rewarded them.
Speaker 1: In his last six games he had a touchdown and
Speaker 1: all of them, including another two touchdown performance at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. And so, man, JK, I think
Speaker 1: really burst onto the team at the end of his
Speaker 1: rookie year and it's only going to go up from there.
Speaker 1: He led the Ravens in rushing touchdowns last year and
Speaker 1: when you think, oh man, there's you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know about this. There's a lot of mouse to feed
Speaker 1: with the Ravens. Who knows how it's gonna come out.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna bet on anybody, you should be betting
Speaker 1: on JK. Dobbins. This is a Ravens team that has
Speaker 1: led the league and rushing attempts in each of the
Speaker 1: last two seasons. I don't really think that's going away.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a major part of what gets
Speaker 1: the most out of their franchise quarterback in Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: With that is going to come more touches, more attempts,
Speaker 1: more everything for JK. Dobbins. I think that he's going
Speaker 1: to pull away from Gus Edwards to truly be the
Speaker 1: RB one there. And yeah, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of mouse to feed, but the offense has clearly given
Speaker 1: enough touches and attention to fill all those guys, and
Speaker 1: I think that JK is gonna be at the top.
Speaker 1: And so I think that next year is going to
Speaker 1: be an even bigger year for JK Dobbins and we're
Speaker 1: gonna start to talk about him as a top running
Speaker 1: back in the entire NF fell redraft or dynasty very
Speaker 1: very soon. So you better make sure that if he
Speaker 1: is available in any way, shape or form, you should
Speaker 1: be asking about him because if you can get him
Speaker 1: relatively cheap, if you're not breaking the bank for him, man,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to win you some leagues in
Speaker 1: the future. I mean, in fantasy football, we talk all
Speaker 1: the time about like efficiency and like players that exceed
Speaker 1: this efficiency year over year. There it's kind of nerve
Speaker 1: wracking to buy into them, right, And I just put
Speaker 1: out a tweet the other day about Adam feeland twelve
Speaker 1: red zone targets in twenty twenty he caught or eight
Speaker 1: of those were for touchdowns, So like that is just ridiculous,
Speaker 1: stupid efficiency And JK. Dobbins is really the same one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four rush attempts last year, nine rushing touchdowns, everything,
Speaker 1: six yards per carry. You can look at those on
Speaker 1: the surface level and you can say, man, that is
Speaker 1: like almost impossible to repeat or even surpass heading into
Speaker 1: next season. But you're absolutely right because of one his
Speaker 1: talent level. You mentioned his career Ohio State, the draft
Speaker 1: capital that he had coming out, but also the offensive
Speaker 1: system with Lamar Jackson taking away and keeping defenses on
Speaker 1: their heels, Dobbins is able to just run wild. And
Speaker 1: so his efficiency is going to be very, very It's
Speaker 1: going to be something that can scare off some fantasy managers.
Speaker 1: And this is one of the things when you're doing projections,
Speaker 1: you got to take a leap. You gotta take a
Speaker 1: leap with Dobbins and say, man, all efficiency metrics kind
Speaker 1: of like AJ Brown and what he does as a
Speaker 1: receiver go out the window. So I absolutely think that
Speaker 1: with market ingram completely out of the picture, Gus Seberts
Speaker 1: is going to remain involved. Yes, sure, Justice Hill, No,
Speaker 1: I really don't think that he's going to factor in.
Speaker 1: So there is a large, large opportunity here for JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins to surpass what he did in twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: truly take over to become a true RB one for
Speaker 1: your roster and a potential league winner. So I love
Speaker 1: the call, and I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: people know, like I feel like I hear too many
Speaker 1: times people say, oh, they have Lamar, So Lamar is
Speaker 1: going to take away from Dobbins. Well, sure, I guess
Speaker 1: a little bit. But at the same time, Lamar being
Speaker 1: the quarterback there means they are always going to emphasize
Speaker 1: the ground game. That means they're going to be more
Speaker 1: targets and more touches in the ground game for them
Speaker 1: to give two Dobbins as well. So yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: there's another mouth to feed, if you will. But I
Speaker 1: think that you've also got to have faith in a
Speaker 1: little bit of comfort in knowing that as long as
Speaker 1: Lamar is there, they're going to be committed to the
Speaker 1: ground and pound, and I think that JK. Dobbins is
Speaker 1: going to be their most talented guy to do that with. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's also not like Lamar is taking away twelve
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns It's not like he's Cam Newton in New England,
Speaker 1: right where the red zone rush attempts, right Like, Lamar
Speaker 1: has only scored five rushing touchdowns in twenty eighteen seven
Speaker 1: and twenty nineteen seven and twenty twenty, So there is
Speaker 1: still the opportunity here. It's not like they are completely
Speaker 1: running Lamar Jackson solely in the red zone. It's not
Speaker 1: like a Damien Harris and Cam Newton situation in New England.
Speaker 1: So I absolutely think that Dobbins can easily surpass the
Speaker 1: nine rushing touchdowns last year. I mean, fifteen rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: is in the REMA possibilities from this year. So I
Speaker 1: totally I totally forgot that Cam had fourteen rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: as a rookie. Oh my god, I mean right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, even look a look at last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: this dude had forty two rush attempts in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Camdid forty two rush attempts in the red zone. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Lamar's not hitting that. Lamar's close to it, but he's
Speaker 1: not hitting that. So yeah, I think the possibility is
Speaker 1: there for Lamar Jackson. All right, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with a player that we talked about, or that I
Speaker 1: talked about on a recent podcast here with I think
Speaker 1: Marvin Elloquin talking about trade targets, and that's Darrell Henderson,
Speaker 1: the running back here in Los Angeles. Now with Darryl Henderson.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people are moving into
Speaker 1: this season then they're just saying cam Akers is the
Speaker 1: locked in RB one and based on what we saw
Speaker 1: towards the end of last year, where Henderson was kind
Speaker 1: of phased out of the offense, Acres took over the
Speaker 1: majority of snaps there. I get it, I really do.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the efficiency, all the numbers,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to this, cam Akers one hundred forty
Speaker 1: five rush attempts last year, Darrell Henderson one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight, right in the same range. Acres had four
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry, Henderson four point five, Acres
Speaker 1: only two rushing touchdowns, Henderson with five avoided tackles, twenty
Speaker 1: one for cam Akers, twenty two for Darryl Henderson. PF
Speaker 1: grade sixty eight point four for Acres, eighty point four
Speaker 1: for Henderson. Like there, Henderson is a really, really talented
Speaker 1: running back. He's too talented of a running back to
Speaker 1: completely phase out of your offense, especially when we now
Speaker 1: factor in that there is a seventeen game season. They
Speaker 1: are not going to give cam Acres twenty nine carries
Speaker 1: in a game like they did last year and hold
Speaker 1: that pace the entire year for an offense that I
Speaker 1: think is about to just absolutely take off. With Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford at QB, paired with Sean McVeigh, I think that
Speaker 1: Henderson is going to have enough standalone value to be
Speaker 1: a flex option that you can plug in if you're
Speaker 1: in a pinch at the running back position. But he's
Speaker 1: classified here as a league winner because what happens if
Speaker 1: cam Acres misses time with an injury behind him on
Speaker 1: the depth start Jake Funk Xavier Jones. These are the
Speaker 1: only two guys here that really are backing up. There's
Speaker 1: no Malcolm Brown this year. So if Acres misses time,
Speaker 1: what does the workload look like for Henderson? Henderson immediately
Speaker 1: walks into plus rush attempts per game, right, and also
Speaker 1: has the He finished with more targets on the season
Speaker 1: last year than Acres twenty four targets to fourteen. So
Speaker 1: the he's a receiver, a capable receiver out of the
Speaker 1: backfield as well in an offense that is going to
Speaker 1: be putting up points on the board. Henderson as your
Speaker 1: RB four or RB five on your dynasty roster. Like
Speaker 1: I said, you can plug him in and do your
Speaker 1: flex as a in a pinch if you need to.
Speaker 1: But then if Acres misses time, we're talking about an
Speaker 1: RB one in my opinion, like locked in top twelve
Speaker 1: running back because of his talent, because of the situation
Speaker 1: around him, and because of just the yeah, the situation
Speaker 1: around him. So I will say Henderson here as a
Speaker 1: potential league winner. I'm acquiring him in every dynasty league
Speaker 1: that I can. Yeah, he could be a big X
Speaker 1: factor guy, kind of kind of like what you said.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're looking at these players who could
Speaker 1: be potential league winners for you, there's different ways to
Speaker 1: interpret that. You could talk about just total workhorses, guys
Speaker 1: who absolutely carry your team. But there's also those players
Speaker 1: who late in the season or maybe just in certain
Speaker 1: birds of the season, really carry your team where you
Speaker 1: didn't expect them to have such an impact. And I
Speaker 1: think that Darrell Henderson could be one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I I was kind of discouraged. I was discouraged at
Speaker 1: how much cam Akers really was able to take over,
Speaker 1: not because I don't love cam Akers, but but also
Speaker 1: because like I thought that Darrell Henderson was going to
Speaker 1: be able to really step in there. He's not totally gone.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's it's gonna be Acres show, at
Speaker 1: least for the beginning. But yeah, like you said, there's
Speaker 1: nobody behind him. I mean, I don't really think they're
Speaker 1: losing carries at all. If Acres were to go down,
Speaker 1: and even with Acres healthy, I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to have a healthy rotation amongst what they do with
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford there. I think that they're going to be
Speaker 1: in the red zone a lot up. I think the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams offense is going to be top three
Speaker 1: in scoring, and so whenever that's the case, Acres is
Speaker 1: gonna get his But he just gonna get his two,
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Speaker 1: All right, man, let's go to your number two options.
Speaker 1: And if it's still the name that you've got on
Speaker 1: your list that you sent me, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do some convincing here. So let's talk about your second
Speaker 1: dynasty league winner. Okay, is this Noah Fan? Is this
Speaker 1: no did you think? Okay? So I have no A
Speaker 1: Fan as a player who could be a potential dynasty
Speaker 1: winner for you, because I think that Noah Fan was
Speaker 1: underutilized when he was at Iowa. You know, he comes
Speaker 1: into the NFL. He's an extremely big bodied, athletic tight end.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to be one of these next guys
Speaker 1: in this next wave of the tight end generation that
Speaker 1: was really good to transform the game. And he hasn't
Speaker 1: exactly become that, but he's gotten better. I think he's
Speaker 1: gotten better a little bit over time. And really, when
Speaker 1: you look at what Drew Locke had at Missouri when
Speaker 1: he was most comfortable, he had Albert Okawaigbunam there, and
Speaker 1: he actually has Albert Okawaibunam now on the ted ver Broncos.
Speaker 1: But I think that Noah Fan is still going to
Speaker 1: be tight end one above him. And so with that
Speaker 1: being the case, I feel like that's often a place
Speaker 1: where Drew Locke is going to look and I can
Speaker 1: see this happening two ways. Well technically go a lot
Speaker 1: more than two ways, but these are two ways that
Speaker 1: I think are well within the possibility of what could
Speaker 1: happen in the Denver Broncos. Either Drew Locke takes that
Speaker 1: next step really becomes that quarterback that they think that
Speaker 1: he is going to be, and if he does, I
Speaker 1: think that, Yeah, they're gonna be utilizing Jerry Judy a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Yeah, they're gonna be given the ball
Speaker 1: to Courtland Sutton anymore. And if you're looking for high
Speaker 1: volume tight ends, maybe this isn't it. But for how
Speaker 1: athletic Noah Fant can be and how much of a
Speaker 1: seambuster he is up the middle, I feel like Drew
Speaker 1: Locke's gonna look his way early and often. And when
Speaker 1: that's the case, Drew Locke's really on fire. I think
Speaker 1: Noah fan is going to see a serious tick up
Speaker 1: in fantasy tight end points. And so we've mentioned this
Speaker 1: a little bit on the last episode when I talked
Speaker 1: about Kyle Pitts as that tight end spot almost being
Speaker 1: a X factor for your roster in and of itself,
Speaker 1: because the drop off for tight end production can sometimes
Speaker 1: be really, really severe. So if Noah Fant really takes
Speaker 1: that leap, you might all of a sudden, oh, in
Speaker 1: that tight end spot. I'm not gonna say he's George
Speaker 1: Kittle or Travis Kelsey or Darren Waller or anything, but
Speaker 1: if he's consistently and touchdowns, if Locke's looking his way
Speaker 1: once they get in the red zone, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a guy who I think could be a big
Speaker 1: time difference maker for you. And also, you know, if
Speaker 1: Farron Rodgers happens to go to the Den Roccos and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this blows this wide open. And
Speaker 1: so when you're a dynasty manager, you gotta put everything
Speaker 1: out of the table. And so I just really think
Speaker 1: that it's it's gonna be a bigger year for Noah
Speaker 1: Fan this year. I think that he improved a lot
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, especially when it came
Speaker 1: to physicality and discipline of play. He was a lot
Speaker 1: better of a blocker last year, and he's really limited
Speaker 1: the drops from what he had during his time at
Speaker 1: Iowa and going into the NFL. So I think did
Speaker 1: he's a much more disciplined player. He's still that athlete
Speaker 1: that everybody wants him to be in even with Courtland
Speaker 1: Sutton coming back, maybe it won't be exactly as many targets,
Speaker 1: but I think the offense, if it's gonna be rolling,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be rolling through Noah Fan as well as
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys. Yeah, so that was the
Speaker 1: part that I was needing convincing on, was what you
Speaker 1: just said there at the end. With Courtland Sutton coming back,
Speaker 1: now you have jury Judy kJ Hamler, who I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of coming out of Penn State. Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick also has the wide receiver for he's going to
Speaker 1: remain somewhat involved. And then you also do have Albert
Speaker 1: ogawayman on behind him, you have Melvin Gordon, Javon Tabill.
Speaker 1: This is a freaking loaded offense, it is. And then
Speaker 1: it all comes down to the quarterback play with Drew
Speaker 1: Locke has not been great. Teddy Bridgewater last year was
Speaker 1: not great in Carolina either, So it's like whichever quarterback
Speaker 1: that they currently have on their roster takes over. I
Speaker 1: just don't see the touchdown totals increasing to what Noah
Speaker 1: Fan needs to be to become this like league winner
Speaker 1: or at least someone who can finish within the top
Speaker 1: five tight ends, because you're right that that positional advantage
Speaker 1: is crucial right at the tight end position to get
Speaker 1: a top five tight end. It really is. It does
Speaker 1: set your lineup apart. It really makes a difference. But
Speaker 1: trying to identify which player that's going to be ahead
Speaker 1: of time is a whole different headache. The X factor
Speaker 1: and the one that I was really curious to see
Speaker 1: if you were going to talk about, was Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Now with Rogers, I think the deadline passes today where
Speaker 1: if he opted out of this entire season, he would
Speaker 1: recoup like a ton of money. He wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: forfeit a ton of the the signing bonuses that he
Speaker 1: got or something like that. Pro Football Talk was talking
Speaker 1: about that last week. So I think that has past
Speaker 1: where Aaron Rodgers is going to play this upcoming season
Speaker 1: from all indications, but he seems still intent that he's
Speaker 1: not going to play in Green Bay. So now does
Speaker 1: he get traded here to Denver who desperately needs him.
Speaker 1: If that is the case, you've got to, You've got to,
Speaker 1: You've got to take your shot. Now. You've got to
Speaker 1: go out and acquire these guys now before I mean,
Speaker 1: what is the dynasty stock gonna look like for Jerry, Judy,
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton, Noah fan Even like once we do have
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers here in town. It's gonna skyrocket, It's gonna
Speaker 1: blow through the roof. So Noah, Fan, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're want, if you're betting on that that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is going to come to Denver, then I can
Speaker 1: get on board with it. But if you're that's a
Speaker 1: very very risky game to play. That's a small percentage
Speaker 1: chance that Rodgers ends up in Denver, and it is.
Speaker 1: It is somewhat difficult too, if you want to just
Speaker 1: go off volume of what you see on the current
Speaker 1: depth chart right now, it's hard to justify it. But
Speaker 1: when I look into a fan, I really do think
Speaker 1: that the best ball is ahead of him. I do,
Speaker 1: and either Drew Locke. I mean, look at that, Let's
Speaker 1: look at that roster, Kyle Like, that defense is ready
Speaker 1: to compete, and that offense they're making the offensive line
Speaker 1: very solid. They've got to the offensive weapons. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's all on Drew Locke. So this is it for Drew. Like,
Speaker 1: if this year doesn't go well for Drew Locke, they're
Speaker 1: going to upgrade a quarterback some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: They're gonna go after it. They're gonna get really desperate
Speaker 1: for it because some of the guys in the defense
Speaker 1: side of the ball, they're getting a little bit older.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to capitalize as much as they can.
Speaker 1: So if you look at it right now in this
Speaker 1: exact situation, you're gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to justify No. A Fan if you're just looking at
Speaker 1: the volume opportunities, because they might not be there. But
Speaker 1: my Dynasty approach to No. A Fan is, maybe it's
Speaker 1: not this year, maybe it could be a different year
Speaker 1: out down the road. I think that just his five
Speaker 1: year let's just say three year plan for No. A Fan,
Speaker 1: it really is he could break out one of any
Speaker 1: of those years over the next three years for a
Speaker 1: variety of different reasons that I can get on board with.
Speaker 1: And you know who would have really helped No. A Fan.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields? You know, you know, yeah, but you yeah,
Speaker 1: but the Bears got fields, I know, so yeah that
Speaker 1: we know where we're gonna just skip that. I forget that.
Speaker 1: I mention, all right, So let's talk about Justin Fields
Speaker 1: here in Chicago and one of the players that he's
Speaker 1: going to be throwing too. This is my number two
Speaker 1: Dynasty League winner that is Darnell Mooney man. From what
Speaker 1: we saw from Mooney last year, absolutely incredible. Does not
Speaker 1: get talked about enough for a fifth round rookie wide
Speaker 1: receiver out of two lane to come in. And we've
Speaker 1: all seen the clip that's going around on Twitter of
Speaker 1: him just absolutely undressing Jalen Ramsey on a route like
Speaker 1: out and then getting the ball is airmailed on him.
Speaker 1: He like putrid quarterback play last year from Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: and Nick Foles, absolutely terrible. And now we have Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton who is capable, like he's competent right, which is
Speaker 1: more than what we could have said for Nick Foles
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Trubisky last year. So I think we're going
Speaker 1: to see a step forward from Mooney to begin with,
Speaker 1: just from him progressing from year one day year two.
Speaker 1: Then we've got a competent quarterback now and play. But
Speaker 1: what happens, man when we see Justin Fields takeover. We
Speaker 1: saw with so labby Garrett Wilson at with Justin Fields
Speaker 1: at Ohio State. Them continuously reeling in those deep targets
Speaker 1: with Justin Fields is deep accuracy, just being on point.
Speaker 1: And I think that Mooney is going to be asked
Speaker 1: to stretch the field a ton here in this offense,
Speaker 1: and I think that he has the potential to turn
Speaker 1: into a league winner as early as this season. But
Speaker 1: then also taking into account the long term outlook here
Speaker 1: right the dynasty aspect of it, Alan Robinson is playing
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag. What happens if Mooney takes a
Speaker 1: massive step forward this year to where we feel like
Speaker 1: he can be the wide receiver one for an NFL offense,
Speaker 1: and then he gets that opportunity next year because Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson is no longer in town. Now, we are absolutely
Speaker 1: talking about a top twelve option for Darnell Mooney if
Speaker 1: he does take the steps forward that we expect from
Speaker 1: him from what we saw on tape last year. So
Speaker 1: all this just goes together for me to say, Darnell Mooney, man,
Speaker 1: if I can, you're gonna have to pay up because
Speaker 1: dynasty managers liked what they saw last year. Most likely
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay a little bit here to
Speaker 1: go get Mooney. But still, even looking into redraft ECR
Speaker 1: Expert consensus ranking, which we do here at Fantasy Pros,
Speaker 1: it's still like in the forties or fifties at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. People are still not excited about this
Speaker 1: offense here in Chicago until we see Fields take over.
Speaker 1: So I do think that the time to buy Mooney
Speaker 1: right is right now, because you're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to get him sooner rather than later. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the time to buy Mooney, I shoot, might have
Speaker 1: already passed, like your for your best price. I mean,
Speaker 1: he really was able to come on last year, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people see what you see
Speaker 1: and that is potential start him with him and what
Speaker 1: he was able to do and badge Chicago bears offense
Speaker 1: that could be getting a lot better. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think that if you can get him,
Speaker 1: like if somebody is not high on him, whoever, whoever's
Speaker 1: on their team, fine, But I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: whoever's team he is on right now, they're gonna see
Speaker 1: it probably similarly to the way that you do. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd made your overpri I don't
Speaker 1: know if i'd overpay for him, but there's certainly a
Speaker 1: reason to love him. Yep. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: your number three, your last one dynasty League winner who
Speaker 1: you got. Okay, So the way that I went about
Speaker 1: this is. I tried to go all right, who's more
Speaker 1: of a right away or more of a short term
Speaker 1: payoff guy? And I named JK. Dobbins in that regard.
Speaker 1: Then I went with more of a three year plan,
Speaker 1: kind of a guy that's would know a fan. This one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it might be a couple of years down the road.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about Tony Pollard, the running back
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys, and right now, Ezekiel Elliott is
Speaker 1: in the middle of a massive deal that he signed
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. He's not going anywhere, but in a
Speaker 1: couple of years you might really have a big payout
Speaker 1: with this guy. And in the meantime, if there's ever
Speaker 1: a chance that Ezekiel Elliot miss his time, which he's
Speaker 1: been pretty reliable over the last couple of years, I
Speaker 1: think the Tony Pollard's a really great option for you.
Speaker 1: His rookie season, the average five point three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: This past season he got more touches and average four
Speaker 1: point three, but that's a healthy four point eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry average over the last two years as a
Speaker 1: rotational guy who started two games last season, I just
Speaker 1: feel like he's been really reliable in what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do. When you look at Ezekiel Elliott's contract,
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys aren't moving on fromhim this year, way
Speaker 1: too much dead money. Most likely not moving on from
Speaker 1: him next year again, way too much to dead money.
Speaker 1: But then there's a big out with Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: they're saving I think, a lot of money if they're
Speaker 1: able to move on from him two years from now.
Speaker 1: Now that also happens to be the time when Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is up with his rookie deal, and so things
Speaker 1: might have to work out well. But perhaps there is
Speaker 1: a situation this is truly a dynasty stash and maybe
Speaker 1: it really pays off for you. Kind of a thing
Speaker 1: where over the next two years Pollard actually looks really good.
Speaker 1: Cowboys realized they could save a lot of money by
Speaker 1: moving on from Elliott if Pollard proves to be just
Speaker 1: as capable. I mean, they've been so committed to this
Speaker 1: guy on the ground. He's been in the top five
Speaker 1: in every year that he's played at least well outside
Speaker 1: of the game. The outside of the year that he
Speaker 1: missed the six games when he has played at least
Speaker 1: eleven games, Ezekiellett has been a top five touches kind
Speaker 1: of a player in the NFL from the running back position.
Speaker 1: So Dallas feeds this us a lot. If it ever
Speaker 1: becomes Tony Pollard's show, this guy's gonna get all the
Speaker 1: volume you could possibly want. And so again, it's not
Speaker 1: something that's going to win you a league this year,
Speaker 1: probably not even next year. But there is a chance
Speaker 1: that even if Tony Pollard moves on to a different team,
Speaker 1: he really could earn himself a starting job, whether that's
Speaker 1: in Dallas or elsewhere in the league, because he has
Speaker 1: shown a lot of promise over his first two years
Speaker 1: in the league. And so I'm going to have Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is my long term vision kind of a guy
Speaker 1: here with this group. I'm going to disagree with something
Speaker 1: that you said, and that was that Tony Pollard is
Speaker 1: not going to be a league winner this year, maybe
Speaker 1: not even next I disagree with you, man. I think
Speaker 1: that there is a it's very similar argument to Darryl Henderson.
Speaker 1: I think that they fall kind of into the same
Speaker 1: bucket of an insurance running back that if Zeke misses
Speaker 1: time with an injury, sure the sky is the limit
Speaker 1: this year. These are the kind of moves that people
Speaker 1: need to be making to be able to acquire these guys. Now, again,
Speaker 1: the perception on Pollard from a dynasty perspective is sky high.
Speaker 1: Like people, people know what we're talking about here as
Speaker 1: far as his upside. So but with Pollard, if something
Speaker 1: were to happen to Zeke, now you have as an
Speaker 1: RB four, RB five on your roster, not someone that
Speaker 1: I think that you're going to be able to rely
Speaker 1: on necessarily as anything more than that. But then the
Speaker 1: sky is the limit for what he can be. Again,
Speaker 1: like I said, with Henderson, potentially top twelve, this offense
Speaker 1: in Dallas is going to compete with Los Angeles to
Speaker 1: be one of those top three scoring offenses that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: So if I want those guys that are attached to
Speaker 1: these dynamic offenses that are going to be able to
Speaker 1: put up points and if things break their way, Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard absolutely can be a league winner. And here's the
Speaker 1: really encouraging thing with Pollard is that in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: his rookie season, only eighty one routes run. Last year
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine routes run. So we're seeing
Speaker 1: that we're seeing him take a massive step forward as
Speaker 1: a receiver as a pass catcher. So if he continues
Speaker 1: to build on that, then now we're potentially talking about
Speaker 1: him as having that flex viability in full PPR formats
Speaker 1: because of his involvement as a receiver, So he brings
Speaker 1: that to the game, but then also on top of that,
Speaker 1: has the upside to be just a top five running
Speaker 1: back really because of his talent, because of the situation
Speaker 1: around him. Exactly the same argument as Darrell Henderson. Yeah, shoot,
Speaker 1: you made the argument even a little made an argument
Speaker 1: for you there We're going. I I just Zeke like
Speaker 1: never gets hurt. You know what I'm saying. I feel
Speaker 1: like k is super Yeah a shot, right, So that's
Speaker 1: why I said, I sure, if we can get Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard on the field, I've got all confidence in the
Speaker 1: world that he's going to be somebody that you absolutely play,
Speaker 1: can win you some games week to week. But Zeke
Speaker 1: is just never hurt. And so I looked at it
Speaker 1: more of like the long term, how much of a
Speaker 1: league winner can he be for you? It lines up
Speaker 1: to where two years from now, the Dallas Cowboys can
Speaker 1: get out of Zeke and they can sign Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: if they want to maybe that's the case. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: get the chance to prove that even more so over
Speaker 1: the next two years. But I'd hold on to a man,
Speaker 1: especially if you got a long term vision for what
Speaker 1: your team is doing. If you got him, or if
Speaker 1: you got a chance to get him, go be Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: All right, so my last guy here. We're talking about
Speaker 1: these dynasty League winners, these guys that can absolutely just
Speaker 1: kind of emerge and the players I mean dynasty League winner.
Speaker 1: It would be easy for us to get on here
Speaker 1: and just say Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, right, you know,
Speaker 1: like these guys, all right, all right, let's clock out.
Speaker 1: We did it. Uh No, We're gonna go a little
Speaker 1: bit further down here, and I'm gonna go way further
Speaker 1: down here with Audent Tate the wide receiver for this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe all right. So now people who are listening probably
Speaker 1: just like looked at their either phone really super weird,
Speaker 1: like Audent Tate, you said, Audentdate. But here is the reasoning.
Speaker 1: With this depth chart here in Cincinnati, you obviously have
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase top five overall. Pick Tyler Boyd. You've got
Speaker 1: him there as the starting slot receiver. He's reliable, you steady,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what you're getting. Tee Higgins obviously took
Speaker 1: a came out and emerged as a rookie wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I think he takes another massive step forward into your two.
Speaker 1: So you've gotten your starting three wide receivers, like really
Speaker 1: really good wide receivers locked in. This team runs so
Speaker 1: much eleven personnel, which is one running back, one tight
Speaker 1: end on the field, three wide receiver sets. Right. What
Speaker 1: happens again, we're looking for these situations if everything breaks
Speaker 1: their way. What happens if Jamar Chase Scott forbid missus
Speaker 1: time with an injury, te Higgins missus time. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever happens here, then Audent Tate is automatically thrown into
Speaker 1: a starting wider role because the rest of the depth
Speaker 1: chart here in Cincinnati, Trent and Irwin, Stanley Morgan Junior,
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas, not Michael Thomas, Mike Thomas, Scotty Washington, Trent
Speaker 1: Taylor's on this roster. I didn't even know that. And
Speaker 1: then Riley Leees. So these are the guys that are behind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard switched over the wide receiver. These are the
Speaker 1: like Auden Tate is cemented as the wide receiver for
Speaker 1: in this offense. So if something were to happen to
Speaker 1: jamar Ches, Tyler Boyd t Higgins again not wishing that,
Speaker 1: but we got a plan for it in dynasty leagues,
Speaker 1: then Audent Tate automatically jumps into a starting role in
Speaker 1: an offense that is going to be at the top
Speaker 1: of the league in terms of overall plays brand. So
Speaker 1: we are talking about a massive opportunity here for Audentate.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you in some leagues that people are listening,
Speaker 1: Tate is on your waiver wire. In dynasty leagues, I
Speaker 1: guarantee it. Like he is someone that not many people
Speaker 1: want to have on the rosters, not many people are
Speaker 1: thinking about. But I want to talk about him here
Speaker 1: because I think that the opportunity is greater than what
Speaker 1: people realize with this offense in Cincinnati. And it's not
Speaker 1: like Tate is a bad player, Like he is a very,
Speaker 1: very reliable and steady player. He's just never gotten that
Speaker 1: true opportunity. And again he deserves to be the wide
Speaker 1: receiver fom on this offense because of Chase and Higgins
Speaker 1: and boy they're incredible talents. But again we're looking for
Speaker 1: the situations where, if everything breaks their way, we're talking
Speaker 1: about a league winner. So Auden Tate here as my
Speaker 1: final player. I love Autumn Tate. I mean like, I
Speaker 1: was decently high on him when he was coming out
Speaker 1: of Florida State. I thought that he was underrated for
Speaker 1: that team. I thought he was going to be good
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He goes to Cincinnati, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can look at it a couple of different ways. One,
Speaker 1: they're losing aj Green, so they're they're trying to occupy
Speaker 1: about a hundred targets that they're losing him with. Of
Speaker 1: course you're plugging in Jamar Chase. You figure those are
Speaker 1: just going straight to Jamar Chase. The biggest problem with
Speaker 1: Audent Tage potential production as a let's just say a
Speaker 1: slower wide receiver a guy doesn't separate super well is
Speaker 1: the fact that t Higgins is also there, and Higgins
Speaker 1: bread and butter is also contested. Catch. Higgins just doesn't
Speaker 1: separate super well. So for as much as I really
Speaker 1: like Autumn Tay, when you're an offensive coach and you're
Speaker 1: coming up with your personnel, you're not gonna put two
Speaker 1: guys on the field, this chart will to separate. Like
Speaker 1: if t Higgins wasn't there, Like even if he Higgins
Speaker 1: was a different kind of player, like a similarly good
Speaker 1: production kind of player, just a different style of player,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Yeah, Autumn Ta, it's gonna get his
Speaker 1: They're gonna get in the red zone. They're gonna put
Speaker 1: him on the field, They're gonna make it happen. But
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to super justify how many opportunities
Speaker 1: that he's gonna get as long as Higgins is there.
Speaker 1: And so you're right, I mean this is kind of
Speaker 1: like a Hail Mary kind of a pick, like you
Speaker 1: said in Dynasty Leagues, he might still be on waiver wire,
Speaker 1: and so he's worth a pickup. I do think for
Speaker 1: you to stash a little bit here because I believe
Speaker 1: in the talent. I just it's to be seen how
Speaker 1: willing that Bengals offense is going to get with how
Speaker 1: much they play him. That's my only concern. If they
Speaker 1: if they get Tayed on the field and they get
Speaker 1: him some targets, he'll produce. But will they get him
Speaker 1: on the field enough, that's my only question. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: again that comes down to an injury has to happen
Speaker 1: above him in order for that to happen. But even
Speaker 1: if that has happened, then it's not like Drew Sample
Speaker 1: is going to take a massive step forward here and
Speaker 1: suddenly see a one hundred plus targets, right like Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon's going to see his work out of the backfield
Speaker 1: as a receiver. But even in that situation, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got from a projection standpoint, this upcoming season, and
Speaker 1: of course this is season long, I've got jamr Chase
Speaker 1: with one hundred and thirty six targets, See Higgins one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three, Tyler Boyd with one hundred and sixteen,
Speaker 1: like all of these, all three of these receivers with
Speaker 1: one hundred plus targets. So if we the yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball. And I want those players that
Speaker 1: are going to be in that situation and at least
Speaker 1: get the opportunity. And we've seen from tape that he
Speaker 1: can't produce when he has given the opportunity. All Right,
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Speaker 1: All right, well, guys, thank you so much for tuning in.
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