Players on the IR & PUP List, Nick Chubb, Jonathan Brooks, TJ Hockenson | FFF 2024

all right so the other kind of big thing newswise uh lots of injuries that's always a big part of it but specifically guys that will start the season on ir and pup there are a few guys that were wondering all right are they gonna be health healthy week one it looks like jir Gibbs is gonna be good uh Sam leap pora uh Jaylen Warren some of those guys we were worried about the hamstrings all right they should be fine but when we talk IR pup there's like the NFI list I don't know what all these lists mean I just want to know are my guys playing or not but it seems like a bunch of these guys are are being added to this all three lists seem to be the exact same thing they're out for four weeks all right fine you're not gonna play for four weeks so what does that mean what do we do with Nick chub Jonathan Brooks TJ hackinson I'll even throw Keat Mitchell in there Marshon Lloyd so these are guys that you have to decide do I want to waste a bench spot and wait for these guys because you really believe in them and then when you're when you're drafting how late or how early are you willing to take some of these guys too um Jonathan Brooks you got to pay a decent price for like in the draft that I was just in I was staring at him and I go if I draft him right now he's my rb2 I I can't do that but then another guy drafted him as his rb3 okay fine you can somewhat justify that you're hoping that hey in week five he's gonna come back and be a stud um so what has been your approach with these this kind of specific group of guys do you have a specific strategy principal or now that you've got drafts coming up so will you target any of these guys and then I guess we also have to factor in it just depends on if you have an IR spot most of the leagues I'm in are two you have two IR spots and so if you can stash a guy it really just means you you extend your bench and so if that's the case there is a I I think you can make a case to Target these guys in the right round and it actually adds value because this is a 17-week season if we talk about playing in the the fantasy championship yeah I don't hate this strategy of taking a guy that I know I can slot into my IR spot with my last pick of the draft and for me that guy might be Keaton Mitchell I think um you're hearing these things coming out of camp that they don't want to give Derk Henry every carry and kind of run him into the ground the Ravens are a team that they're playing for the playoffs they're playing for the Super Bowl and I think they've already said they're going to work Justice Hill in a fair amount I think ke Mitchell when he's healthy is better than Justice and so I'd love to take him at the very end if I have an IR slot if I don't have an IR slot I'm not drafting him uh I I Nick chub is such a great like a player that you love to root for and I don't want ever want to count him out I what with what happened to his knee I just don't think he's ever going to return to the form that we think of when we think Nick chub which means that Jerome Ford is being underd drafted uh with this Nick chub news I want Jerome Ford on my team similar Dynamic with Jonathan Brooks and chuba hubard I've already stated on an earlier podcast if the Panthers start off like two and eight three and seven I don't see any reason why they Rush Jonathan Brooks back and so I think chuba hubard is the starting running back for the Panthers until they're by which I think is week 10 week nine or week 10 um so again that means that I'm not going to have Jonathan Brooks on my team because you have to take him so early you pointed out that he could be the kind of guy who wins you your your playoff games when the fantasy playoffs roll around and so with some of these guys I'm I'm kind of putting their names in the back of my mind and maybe I try to trade for them later in the season but man guys who start the season on the IR that just makes me nervous and especially with running backs I yeah I I just I I don't see myself having chub or Brooks on my team ke Mitchell's a name just to keep in the back of your mind I think he's a guy to pay attention to later in the season he's such an athlete such a dynamic Runner uh that if he comes back healthy he could be a fun guy to have when your fantasy playoffs roll around but yeah and he would be a great compliment to Derrick Henry like because what what Mitchell did last year in very limited amount of touches was amazing now he's got had a major knee injury so he's got to come back healthy from that so that's a big if for sure but he is Young uh chub is a little bit older uh the one guy that I'm I'm I'm wrestling with is TJ hackinson I'm a big hackinson fan liked him in Detroit liked him he's been great in Minnesota one healthy uh I've avoided Minnesota I don't have any Vikings players on any of my three teams and so I'm and I'm okay with that I feel very good about that I brag about that I'm I'm strategic about that but but I have hackinson in a keeper League that I have to make a decision do I want to keep him stash him on the IR and I and I I may do that but but then then it it's a keeper so I have to decide all right is that worth him being one of my Keepers so um yeah but I am I I've snagged Marshon Lloyd as a backup running back in Green Bay because I am not a Josh Jacobs fan and AJ Dylan has crushed me he's crushed my heart too many times uh so I can't I can't do it again I'm not gonna put myself out there um so marshan Lloyd's he's he's gonna start on on the pup list or whatever so but he's a guy late in the season I think could could get some time get some action [Music]