Sleepers + Undrafted Gems, MEGALABOWL! | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1616

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One for our family league and then one for a point per first down league with some of the industry's best and that's been a while draft. It's been fun. Finally kind of put your money where your mouth is. I forgot. You're on the clock right now? Yeah. I think you've been on the clock in our family league for a little while. I got the notification last night and I meant to talk to the boy because we're co-managing that team. That's right. And then it just slipped my mind. We have a fun show for you today. We got sleepers, our individual sleeper picks on today's episode. We've got undrafted gyms on today's episode. We've got news that we've got to talk about, but I guess we have a very large aggressive prehistoric announcement to make. Go for it. It can only be contained for so long. Yeah. This is like two minutes I had to wait for this. Oh, the Megalobole. It's a lot like indigestion. Here it is going to give you acid reflux. It is open. The Megalobole is the largest fantasy football league in the known universe. It is for the foot clan. It is awesome. Listen, we just talked about yesterday that we had all these submissions for our listener league, which is awesome, wonderful. Thank you. And almost all of you did not make it. But if you win the Megalobole, you are in the 2025 listener league. What is the Megalobole? It is our fantasy league. We're all playing in them. We have the entire foot clan playing in these leagues. It is 12 team leagues, our scoring format that we use in the league of record. It is better than ever this year. In the past, I don't know why, probably because I'm stupid. We've had like the top three teams from each one of these leagues make it into the playoffs to the big journey at the end. And what that does is it's like, I don't know. I feel like early in the season, you kind of know if you're going to be one of those top three. 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And you can sign up at jointhefoot.com. And if you bought a UDK, you'll see those credits in there. If you're an existing patron and you want to switch over to become an ultimate member, you can do that as well. We will give you that credit. And our team is ready to help you out with that. So jointhefoot.com to become a member, get access to everything, and get into the megaloval. And megaloval.com is where you find that link to join. I think we did it. I think we got through all of that. Very excited. Let's jump into the waiver wire. Welcome to the waiver wire presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Now, before we jump into the waiver wire, just for a moment, I just want people to understand that there is a debate going on actively in the studio. Waiver Wire - Undrafted Gems Wait, what? Between the premium dooser over there, Al Borland. Oh, wait, what? And? Who named him premium? I think Andy just did. Well, and Mike, you can take that away. The premium dooser? And our premium audio guy, Mike. Yes. And we're in an active debate about whether or not. See, that sounded quieter. Totally different. That was a totally different sound. About whether it was louder the first time. Now, Al, you're an honest man, a man of God. Yes, I am. Did you adjust the DBs between those two button pushes? I did not. Dude, that first button push was louder. Nothing happened. In Slack, Al was saying it was no louder. The decibels were the same. And no, no way. He said back there gaslighting us like it didn't happen. Interesting. I would not lie to you. No way. No. That's fine. But just accept that it was louder. All right. For today's waiver wire segment, we are looking. Premium dooser, my butt. I'm sorry. I was being very complimentary. Undrafted gyms. We're going to each pick a player. Jason's head flies back to the A. And he saw Andy's. Oh, yeah. Okay. We are each picking a player that we don't believe will be drafted that you should pay attention to and maybe pick up. For week one, you're going to be maybe regretting not having this guy on the roster. Sometimes you pick somebody at the very end of your draft on speculation and then you go into week one. You're like, well, maybe I don't want this guy on my roster. These are some undrafted players we think you might want to pick up that will feel a little bit better after week one gets done. But I'm not going to go first. Mike, I was in the studio with you. You were watching the film on this guy. Indeed I was. So let's let's bring up this name. Darnell Mooney, wide receiver now of the Atlanta Falcons previously of the Chicago Bears. Darnell Mooney He's been one of the we've talked about like there's there's these invisible players who just maybe there's a blind spot to it. There's fatigue. I don't know. You just you don't really want to either talk about them, buy into them, realize that. Oh, maybe this player will have some fantasy value. And Darnell Mooney has kind of been one of those guys as I'm looking later at ADP. And I thought I'm going to go check this out. I'm going to go watch every single target that Darnell Mooney got last year. And dude, he's he's still Darnell Mooney. I'm not saying he's that good. That is good. Yes, it is good. I'm not saying he's a superstar wide receiver, but he is a good player and he has he has true afterburners and he can make really tough catches and watching the film. Oh, but the buddy the thing that stood out the most about watching Darnell Mooney was holy crap. The Chicago Bears quarterback play last year was dude, you would you could go six targets in a row for Darnell Mooney and go the man was wide open. What is going on here? Someone gave him he was open short. He was open to media. He was open down the field. I rolled over when Mike was in the middle of going through every target for Darnell Mooney. I watched six consecutive plays. There were zero catches. It gave me a new appreciation for Justin Fields struggles. Reading a defense. Some of them were the secret pageant man as well. You know, it's so it just shows you how hard it is to qualify a player simply by the statistics that what you saw on film. Justin Fields not able to read a defense and let go of the ball at the right time. Mooney would be breaking open and there was no anticipation in the throws. So Mooney just kind of got deleted. Yes, I was I was sitting next to Mike. He's watching this film and I hear just a just a hearty real genuine laugh. Like what and I roll over. He's like check this out. It was a Tyler Bajant throw. Beautiful play design. Darnell Mooney wide open. No one within five yards and he's in the end zone and both Bajant and Mooney roll into the right just in in sync. It just just a layup throw and Bajant throws into the stands like yes like that's not a joke. I think the ball went into the stands. So like so what happened. So Mooney still Mooney is your message point being Darnell Mooney in my opinion in my study that I just did. I think he is still a good capable player and so did the Atlanta Falcons that gave him a three year thirty nine million. $39 million contract twenty six of that guaranteed over the next two years and it's just what do you believe about the Atlanta Falcons. They're going to be running three wide all the time and if Kurt Cousins is back to health you can get you can get sustained production not just a couple of spike weeks. Darnell Mooney might be a player that that goes into your flex or your double flex and you're you're you're content with the production you're getting and he is going extremely late in drafts. Most often not even drafted. Yeah. No I think that's a great name to pick up and the point of these waiver wire pickups is if you're done with your draft look at who you grabbed at the end and you might want to just consider dropping that dude and picking one of these guys up at least mine and Mike's we'll get to Andy's last my pickup is who I drafted with the last pick in our last mock draft it's Don Tavion Wicks second year wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. Dontayvion Wicks He has had a lot of buzz if you're not on the the the Twitter sphere of fantasy football. I'm not familiar with Twitter but whatever. The the the X sphere of fantasy football. That sounds like fear of the letter X. Well yeah I mean it's it's it's Wicks is Wicks has got popularity among the Dgins. Yeah. Yeah I mean he's a really good football player. He passes the eyeball test. He also passes a ton of the metric test if you look at there's only 26 wide receiver since 2011 who have hit a two yards per out run as a rookie with with at least 200 routes and Wicks is in that group. You look at how he's performed when given the opportunity it's been really really good. Now he was a rookie last year behind a crowded backfield. Dobbs was good. You had the breakout of Jaden Reed. You know Christian Watson is supposed to be their wide receiver number one and all those people are still in front of him which is why Wicks is undrafted. But if you listen to the coaching staff and Jordan Love talk about Wicks and the talent and the capability and the work ethic. I think he's got a chance to come in here and really really surprised. You want to attack ambiguous cores from good offenses. We've talked about this in the context of drafting Jaden Reed. And so I think Wicks you saw it in the first preseason game right like Jordan Love just drops back rolls around and there's Wicks wide open for a bomb touchdown. So I would take a shot on them because the tip to remember on our top 10 tips and tricks episode was take dumps now not later. You want guys you can cut after week one if Don Tavion Wicks comes out week one and he's 40% snaps whatever get rid of him. But if he comes out week one and all of a sudden he's really involved. He's going to be very very good for fantasy my turn your turn. Hey everybody. What was that. It's me Adam. Adam Thielen I get out of town. I went into this show doc today to put in my undrafted Jim as Adam Thielen aged 100 yard or 100 reception wide receiver of the Carolina Panthers. And lo and behold I find out that Adam Thielen was my undrafted Jim at on this episode last season. Okay so hold up. I saw also home run on that. Yeah that was a home run. I mean you want to talk about starting the season on fire. He helped your dynasty team in immense ways. But I thought for sure you came into the show doc saw that this was your pick last year and went oh you know what he's okay this year as well. You came in to put him in. I came in independent of that knowledge to put Adam Thielen in. And found that out now listen Thielen. I understand he's old. He's also one of the only 33 and older wide receivers in history to go over the hundred reception mark. When you look at the offense and Bryce Young and Dave Canalis and what they're doing and you look at the options that they have I'm just going to bring it up like you could. Players of this age when Fitzgerald was this age Heinz Ward they start the season pretty strong. He's also the one that has the rapport with Bryce Young. And if you trust Dave Canalis to put his his quarterback into a situation where he doesn't make mistakes you rely on the most reliable player. And this is also not just this is not blind. This is also including the fact that the Johnston missed a bunch of time with the groin injury just came back limped off the field again. Now he's kind of back out of practice. But he but he has a couple of injuries already in camp Xavier Legat is brand new right like this is a player I would expect to make an impact over time. But Adam Thielen he didn't he didn't play in the last preseason game alongside you know the starters like Thielen is still there still reliable and 100% undrafted like nobody wants to touch that even though he was the wide receiver 25 in fantasy last year. When you look at buying a couple of weeks maybe buying six to eight weeks with in a deep wide receiver league. Somewhere you need reliable like you just mentioned Mooney you might be able to just all of a sudden just flex him like Thielen could give you some temporary support and I. I'm sorry that you're such an agist I just you know reliable hands. I'm about to die really reliable around the goal line. Let me sleep. He's not he's not sleeping yet Mike. He's gonna be 34 man. He's yeah he's napping right now. You know that. I just want look when do you it feels like you began the Adam Thielen voice at a time. That you should be dishing it out to Keenan Allen then like if if Thielen gets this voice. Keenan is not old Keenan's fat keep up. Keenan's the age that Thielen was last year when you were mocking him. What is that you're a little bit different. That was great. That was great. All right. So those are three names that we wanted to bring to light. Thanks again NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. By the way I just saw they have the multi view this year. They're updating the multi view and they announced a fantasy view. Watch every game every Sunday when you bundle NFL Sunday ticket and YouTube TV sign up today at YouTube.com slash fantasy footballers local and national games on YouTube TV NFL Sunday ticket for out of market games exclusive digital only game device and content restrictions apply. Into the news we go. News and notes from around the league presented by USA insurance. NFL News Jason put on your biggest surprise face. The commanders have announced shocking Jane Daniels will be the team starting quarterback. What. Imagine how he did it. You know how embarrassed I'd be. Now the bear hadn't been him after I made him on my guy. Have the bears announced yet anything about Caleb Williams being the starter. I thought they did that to start. Yeah. I mean this is this is what to be fair the number three overall pick. I don't think has been announced as the starter unless I missed something about Drake may know. He's got a shot now. He does have a shot. It was looking like only Jacobi and now it looks wide open. I'm glad they named him as a starter. I mean they should have done this a long time ago. Everyone knew it a long time ago but you kind of you have a feel for which rookie quarterbacks even when they're drafted are drafted to start week one. Or draft you know like like J.J. McCarthy and Drake may they were drafted to compete and learn and maybe redshirt for a while or a couple of weeks. But like Bo Nicks you knew like I was talking about this forever ago when Bo Nicks was third on the depth chart on the first Broncos official depth chart was like he's your starter and you know it. Well yeah Peyton socks so he's doing this thing. Yeah I mean it's just when these quarterbacks like both Jaden Daniels and Bo Nicks they played so much college ball. I mean they played way more than most of these other quarterbacks you know five seasons and if you play five seasons of college ball and you're not starting week one in today's NFL you shouldn't have been drafted in the first. Also if Jukobi was set was still on the commanders you know that would make a difference in the competition right. If you have a you know somebody that can actually compete not the man the man is literally kicked out Sam Howell they drafted him and said no we don't want a competition here. And reset to right. Yeah yeah both. Well I don't like this news. Curtis Samuel turf toe week to week. He missed the game last year with the toe injury he had an ankle fracture and surgery in 2017 part of the Curtis Samuel story. Has always been injured. It has always been injured. It's been a problem making him a reliable fantasy option because he's in and out of your lineup. This is you know significant. It changes how I would view the dart throw at the end of drafts on a bills wide receiver. If you're deciding if you're a Shakir or Keon Coleman or or Curtis Samuel at this point week to week is pretty ambiguous. You know from what I looked at you know these turf toes based on their grade determines two three weeks or can be prolonged. So we've seen Joe Brady and Curtis Samuel or Curtis Samuel in the Joe Brady system before he is more of a manufactured short yardage type of player and that leads me to believe that should he miss time. I was already bullish on your my guy Mike James Cook and Dalton Kincaid as quality assets but that's the that's the area of the field that I would expect them to step up to a little bit more. I don't know you know it's good for all the other ancillary pieces but those are the those are the guys that are being drafted right now that I just have even more confidence in. Andrew is missing practice with quote a very minor thing. We believe this stems from the car accident last week that he was mostly unharmed in. That was from John Harbaugh. Justin Herbert returned to practice on Monday. That's exciting news for the Los Angeles Chargers who I believe they're leading the way in the preseason in yards before contact from the running backs. So if you if you want any evidence that the system is already starting to work. Wow. G. Rowell. Vidal Sassoon already had a pretty nice game back out on the field. That's not a that's not really a news blur but that is a takeaway. I think of where last week it was all gloom and doom about come on. Evidale Sassoon of not him a day three rookie running back for the Chargers not even making the team goes out has a very strong preseason performance and now the the tune is changing a bit. Yeah. Mike Williams Jets wide receiver planning to take team reps and practice next week. He's one of those players that you know at some point in the season is going to end up on the waiver wire. I don't think he's being drafted anywhere but I if you know that he's going to like they don't have great competition they brought him in to be part of this often so I'd imagine at some point someone's taking a flyer like would you guys you guys probably wouldn't spend the last pick. No just to throw my NIR or something. I'd be looking to pick him up. That's the you want to be a week earlier so when you think when you project that he'll actually start getting things going. It wouldn't be surprised. Surprising to me if you missed a couple games. Even if he starts active. It's going to take some weeks before he's really acclimated. And then one other situation to monitor at this morning's practice. Tyree Kale was wearing a protective brace on his right hand did some off field work. You know maybe it's just getting used to Tyree. He seems to have a brace here or brace there and then he's back the next day but it did come through the wire this morning. Yeah it's a it's a developing story so pay attention. That was today's news and notes presented by U.S. A. A. Insurance learn more at U.S. A. A. dot com slash insurance. Sleepers. All right we're moving on to the sleepers episode and all of our consensus picks for this category are in the U.D. K. at ultimate draft kid dot com. We define sleepers as players who are drafted later that you might not know about that are primed to emerge. Sleepers And the truth is is that you don't generally have a sleeper especially in today like at this era of fantasy football that doesn't have reasons why they're being under drafted in our minds right like there are always a lack of excitement it could be an injury it could be a team change. There's you know if there's unanimous opinion about a player they're not a sleeper right they're not sitting at the back of the ground. So I'll go first today just because it kind of piggybacks with our news. Which this player was in here before we got word that Curtis Samuel was banged up. And that is rookie wide receiver Keon Coleman of the Buffalo Bills. I saw somebody comments on X tagging us saying you know you talk about Brian Thomas and you talk about Ladmikonki you talk about all of these other rookies and you don't mention Keon Coleman very often talk about good players. Andy’s Sleeper Pick And so there you go. There you go. Keon Coleman has tremendous opportunity the vacated targets in Buffalo outrageous. They you know just digs and Davis vacated 241 targets. This was a player I just want to stress like that the Bills have been a competitive well run organization for a number of years. This was their pick at the wide receiver position. They they had the chance to draft Ladmikonki or Jalen Polk or Adnan Mitchell or Jermaine Burton other guys that went behind Keon Coleman in the draft. They knew they were missing their alpha and Stefan digs they knew they were missing their deep threat and gave Davis they made the choice and so give that whatever weight you want that was their decision. He was highly drafted. You have Curtis Samuel banged up. You have options that are very unproven and you know Mack Hollins. This is a guy that makes a splash play here there and ends up with 200 to 300 yards. That's like kind of what he does right. Sometimes with shoes on sometimes without Curtis Samuel never eating soup though. Samuel is and has been defined by the head coach a player that they use in a bunch of different kind of ways. He's not a traditional outside route running on every play. You know they're going to use them in the screen game and the underneath game and the handoff game and those are things that are going to happen with Curtis Samuel. Don Cankade we know what he's got. The team went out and said Keon Coleman's our guy. So from a sleeper perspective rookie with opportunity with top five quarterback in the NFL to me he's locked in based on the preseason in the X-Roll. He's had 100% route participation with the starters and now you've got another injury. So to me you know for some reason like Keon Coleman feels bland because what he does and brings to the table as a wide receiver. It's not like Brian Thomas. There's like the explosive plays and the big over the top like highlight reel plays right. And Keon Coleman just kind of is well rounded like his best pro profile to me of what he looks like on the field and what he's capable of doing is Alan Robinson at his peak. He's an Alan Robinson type of player. And so to me the opportunity is there. I do think it'll take him a little bit more time to settle in. OK. From a sleeper perspective that's OK. I like taking shots. Brian Thomas Keon Coleman you know Ladd McConkey finding value late in the draft that have opportunities like this. Coleman sitting out there and I look Coleman could have two touchdowns in week one. He's a big bodied wide receiver. He's a competitive catch wide receiver. And they obviously they they went to him a little bit in the preseason I sawing him on one side and saying go beat the guy. All Alan Robinson. And so I just think he's being undervalued. I like this film tremendously. He didn't test well on the 40. He was great in the what's the drill the gauntlet great in the gauntlet made an impression on Buffalo. They went out and got him over those other guys. So I don't mind it. If people like Mike around you constantly say the guy sucks. That's why he's where he's being drafted. No I do not mind the draft price at all. Keon Coleman is like he is to me a rookie that had he been if he was being drafted up in like that Malik neighbors range because that it's one of the things that could have happened. You know people overreact to the the landing destination then it would have been like absolutely not. There's no way I'm ever drafting Keon Coleman. He is directly next to Brian Thomas. Yeah he's going wide receiver forty three two rounds later than Xavier worthy and he is about five or six picks later than McConkey. The difference to me of Keon Coleman versus Brian Thomas is like if if things work for Brian Thomas I think he can replace that that Calvin Ridley roll for the Jaguars where it's a heavy target volume. My concern with Keon Coleman is when I was watching him as a prospect if you just watch Keon Coleman highlights from college he is he is an absolute dominator. But his production didn't match with the with the highlights to me. And so it was the fear of well if he's just Gabe Davis on this team maybe he's a better Gabe Davis. But it's just so that's about it's about upside between the two of them but going in in the forties of the wide receiver core as a rookie this is a player who should be on your target list. I agree. He's a great player to take a shot on. I mean all the things that historically line up well are there for him and you know you got to take shots at the end of your draft for explosive upside. Yeah I mean I know a lot of us like Jermaine Burton right but there are some like massive yeah like even if you like the talent more there are so many roadblocks in the way. Burton's impact Burton has no possible shot of being the number one target on his team. Yeah that's actually an outcome that could happen for Keon Coleman even if it's unlikely it's there. You could see the path for it. I always wondered to what like kind of impact Josh Allen's preferences might have made in taking that pick. I mean this is a guy who's had Gabe Davis and Stefan Diggs for years like you I'd be shocked if this team didn't say hey do you have do you have a player that you like right and that you've seen in college. So speculation there but just you know opportunity to be a number one target. I'll jump in here. Mine is more of a cryogenic type of a sleeper like we are we're deep. Mike’s Sleeper Pick Oh OK we would have to thaw out but it's a name that people need to pay attention to. Oh I don't like this. What I don't like your name. I just saw it. He doesn't like it because of the implications also I don't know what that accent. What that was just. Yeah I mean. Go on. Jaylin Wright rookie running back for the Miami Dolphins. Is this the last name thing. Maybe. Oh man maybe. It's a good name. Now that now that you pointed out. Yeah. Now that's right in front of me. Maybe that's that's what happened. He is he's a bigger running back but he is an absolute speed freak like this dude is really fast. We've been talking about how fast the players on the Miami Dolphins are in Jaylin Wright is one of those guys already seen him come back. Already seen him come through with some explosive playmaking. He's look good in the prezee. Ten carries for 55 yards and a tutty. He ran a four. Thank you. He ran he ran a four three eight and then you had Mike McDaniel talking about he McDaniel coach of the Dolphins. Thank you. Yeah. You might be thinking Ronald McDonald. Yeah not not a franchisee head coach of the Miami Dolphins. He's he was asked about who are the starters and he said who says we have to stop at two running backs. Maybe we can just have four and talking about how much confidence he has in Jaylin Wright. Look it's it is for sure it is a Chan at least I look I say for sure is that's all I'm projecting it a Chan and Raheem Moster are in front of Jaylin Wright. But why you need to know this name is maybe you're in a deeper league and you need to find really high upside players that you got a draft. You're a 14 teamer and you need someone who's on the bench. Jaylin Wright has multiple paths because of a Chan and most are most are is for a running back. I like to make fun of Adam Thielen. Most should be getting the oldest man voice because he's a running back and he's old. A Chan we've is smaller and we've only seen him for one season and we've seen him get hurt multiple times. Raheem Moster has been on the injured list or injury report 14 times in his career and the Von H and was three stints last year. Yeah preseason midseason later games missed the point being if one of those guys were to unfortunately miss time. Jaylin Wright would be the hottest pickup of the week like a huge fab dump for Jaylin Wright depending on the amount of time that those guys are going to miss. It's investing in the Miami backfield. It's investing in a player who I think he's a rookie so it's going to take time for him to learn. But if it's if it's down to eights eights and Jaylin Wright do Jaylin Wright's going to get so much work and he's explosive and can hit those home runs for you. So it's a name that you need to be aware of. Maybe you're not drafting him in 12 teams. Maybe it's maybe your bench is big so you are. Yeah it's such a good name. I mean it really is. I don't like bringing up Jaylin Wright because I hope that Devon H and has an awesome season. Yeah you know what it means for him to be relevant. Yeah. Jaylin Wright is good this year. That means Devon H and probably got injured or was in too big of a committee or yada yada. But the pathways for Jaylin Wright we just talked about how historically there are always multiple rookie running backs who end up right in that RB one territory this year going into the season. You don't know who it is. It's going to be one of these guys that is is the benefactor of an injury in front of them. And so Jaylin Wright has two different guys who have very clear paths towards being off the field. I know and if one went down. That's what I mean. It just went down. Yeah you have a you have a fork in the road. It's not just relying on one player that superstar going down and our note here on Brahim Mostor is the injury history. It's a CVS receipt. Oh which we all know what that means. Yeah it's not it's not a small amount of paper. No that's a tree. Many trees. That's a tree. Yeah. All right. I've got another running back from my sleeper pick. I this this one. No no I'm in. I'm in. Look I had this is full disclosure. Jason’s Sleeper Pick I had gone in and I put this guy in with real tiny font into my sleeper and I was like I can't I can't do it. I'm a coward. And then I didn't know that. No you didn't. And then I came and put this guy in as my sleeper because I ain't no coward. I'm talking about this. J.K. one leg J.K. Dobbins running back for the Los Angeles Chargers or as they really should be known the Baltimore Ravens West because G. Rowan Harbaugh are rebuilding that type of a franchise that brought over Gus Edwards and J.K. Dobbins. Gus Edwards has had a lot of discussion over this offseason the touchdown opportunities. He was a double digit touchdown guy last year's was so good. Yeah and and and this is a team that wants to run the ball. I didn't even know the the whole thing you brought up in the news section about in the preseason how well this offensive line is working how it's just going to be able to run man. They're going to be able to run and this is a one to punch that has been a one to punch before four years together J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards and it was always that way. It was J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards. It was not Gus Edwards J.K. Dobbins. J.K. Dobbins was the second round pick. He was the guy who came in in his rookie season was a running back to for fantasy and look great at the end of the year and it was like OK we're all in and then he's been injured since that it now he feels he feels like older than Raheem Mostert. He's coming off of an Achilles injury that you know usually for running backs that just means you wash your hands of them and you just say I'm fine being wrong. Yeah this is sleepers are cracking the door open for the possibility that they these these guys burst through it right like there's a chance. Yeah however improbable that you have great value in these names. He got injured in week one last year so he's had a long time you know if you have to get injured last year you hope it's early in the season week one is the longest time you can have for recovery to this point. People are saying he's looking healthy. He looks healthy. I watched a Mike. How many legs does it appear that he has one and a half. I think he's got one and a half legs which he was one point five. I've seen him be fine with one strong leg. He talked about that a couple years ago. Well in no no yes. No he was he really was. I know but it did come to bear. Well right I'm not saying that he's going to be healthy and not get re injured and all of that but all of that's baked in already. Well throughout this is not an expensive. I cannot when you talk about J.K. two legs or one leg sorry I cannot not think about the classic M. Night Shyamalan lady in the water. Yeah the strong the guy that had one giant arm and one tiny arm. Yeah I think the side to the poor people that saw that movie with me because that's what it looked like in it looked like in camp in two thousand twenty two when he he plays four games he gets hurt and he misses six weeks. He comes back and he's like it's the Adrian Peterson Hitch run. But it is. It is so exaggerated. He's dragging one of his legs like one of his half of them is so fast and the other one was dragging. It was it was unbelievable. But one of his legs doesn't want to play in the NFL. The rest of them does and they're at war. Yeah so in Greg Romans offense in Baltimore just as a reminder Dobbins averaged five point nine yards per carry and that includes the season when he was recovering from the ACL and we coined him J.K. one leg. The positive game scripts should be be there for the Chargers. They have the second easiest strength of schedule according to Warren Sharp. They've made massive offensive line improvements and we talk a lot about. You want a guy you can cut after week one if he's not. I mean you're going to know week one is he the first man up in this office is he playing ahead of Gus Edwards between the 20s. I know when they get to the goal line. They're going to give it to Gus Edwards. But if J.K. Dobbins is healthy and looks good. He's going to be the starting running back for what will be a good offense that will score a lot of never abandon the run that wants to run the ball and you get him for free late in drafts and I know he feels old but he is not who's older him or Ramon de Stevenson. That's a joke Ramon de that's a joke who's older. No no no no no no no no no no no no I got a I got a better one for you who's older him or Jalen Warren Jalen Warren is a year younger than Ramon de Stevenson. J.K. Dobbins is the one leg isn't older at least. Well one of those like 42 years old. He is cadaver parts and he is 25 years old. That's if he's healthy which he says he is he looks at that last year we're leaving that alone. I'm just saying everyone else in the 12th round he might be one of the steals of the draft. The Ramon de one is insane. Yeah Ramon de looks like a player in dynasty. He's gonna be like that's a nice pickup. Yeah that's a player I'm gonna have for a while. So yeah it's an interesting name. Let's take a break and jump into some mailbag. Now an ordinary podcast would move on at this point from the sleeper section. I've hit the drop we're moving into the mailbag. But we're not an ordinary podcast and sometimes when you are scrolling the show doc and you notice that Jason has a bonus sleeper pick. Yeah and me and Mike didn't throw any in there. But but Jason's bonus sleeper pick is from the very same team in which his sleeper pick came from. I'll tell you what you you can throw to me right now off the time I had I can give you a bajillion better sleepers. So Jason I'm reading in here this does not. I don't know if it's a typo it does say Quentin Johnston it does say Quentin Johnston. Remember me talk. Don't do this to yourself. Remember me talking about a huge decision you want to be able to drop a week one. I mean Quentin Johnson. We don't know for sure where he is on the pecking order he might not be a starter. However he was a first round rookie last year who's coming into year two and would still be the number one water team for this team. Yep. So I'm just saying that's the type of pick that are you drafting Keon Coleman or Keon Coleman. I mean Quentin Johnson is basically an undrafted Jim. He's I haven't seen him drafted in any of the leagues I'm in the you know that aren't super deep like best ball leagues. So yeah I mean he's either a starter. He's going behind lad and Palmer. So I would take a lot ahead of I would take all those guys. Here's the ADP though. Jay Dontevian Wicks Quentin Johnston Darnell Moody. I'm feeling. Oh really all those guys. Get out of here. Wow. Huge. Huge is the worst of those but he's still profiles as someone that could do something. All right we're moving on. Mailbag. Anytime Quentin Johnston is mentioned on this podcast. Papa Josh just lights up because he you know I think I think he's so excited. Mailbag I traded that guy. Yeah he's got rid of it. Yeah I got rid of him. So we don't have to hype him up. Was it part of the big dynasty acquisition you made when you sold for the future. For a little while and then you moved away. What you move him for. I don't remember something way better. Yeah it doesn't matter second and a third and Terry McLaurin Terry McLaurin. Oh OK you guys co-manage this team don't you over there. Yeah we do. That's a pretty good trade. If you've traded Quentin Johnston a dynasty you won the trade. Oh man. Oh man why did I ask. Yeah the compensation doesn't matter. Oh all right let's jump in will in North Carolina by the way if you have a question for the show you can go to the website the fantasy footballers dot com. Click that submit a question button. You can also dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB leave us a voicemail question. Will in North Carolina says would you rather have in a 16 team PPR league. AJ Brown/Cook or JTT/MHJ OK. So this is a thinned out lead. AJ Brown and James Cook. So that combination. OK. Or Jonathan Taylor and Marvin Harrison Jr. This is an easy AJ Brown and James Cook for me really. Yeah I'm I'm very very very bullish and confident on both of those players. I do lean that direction. I think the consensus opinion would be you're getting much more of a guarantee with Taylor than Cook. And then you can debate the Brown Harrison situation but I agree I'm on that side. That's where I go to. Andrew in Wisconsin says hello ballers longtime listener. My question is. Is Dave is the Von A Chan worth a first round pick in a dynasty format. Nope. Devon Achane first round in dynasty? I'm the my guy and I love him but I mean if I'm drafting a running back in the first round of a dynasty startup which I don't almost ever do that. That running back is going to be named B. John or breeze. Otherwise I'm getting a wide receiver. I just you know if you're newer to dynasty or you haven't played in a long enough that running back turnover is just insane. And some of these young studly wide receivers they're going to play twice as long. I'm I'm I'm usually I'm usually going into my fourth round my fifth round before I often grab a running back in startup drafts just because I'm building a foundation for the future and then I'll collect the old men at the end of the draft to help me this year like the most or no one wants on a dynasty league. So that's just the way that I personally play if I'm in the back of the first and I'm really really want a running back. It'd be you're looking at Gibbs because I would take Gibbs over a chance who little update is expected to practice next week. All right. Let's go. Which is delightful. All right. Let's go here. Larson in Alaska. What's up ballers. What's up. I hear you guys talk about the quote zero RB strategy on the podcast. What exactly does that mean to you guys and what running backs are you targeting for that type of strategy. Thanks guys and also hashtag team big Jimmy for life. Zero RB strategy So yeah absolutely zero running back. It was a strategy that started to gain momentum. I don't know about eight years ago maybe even 10 but Sean Siegel shout out to him just incredible fantasy football mind. And I think that's one who got that idea out there and the whole the concept of zero running back is running backs are more likely to get hurt. So they're fragile for spending high draft capital meanwhile wide receivers are more likely to not get hurt more likely to hit. So that's the whole idea of it and then that running backs you draft later because the players in front of them are going to get hurt. They gain value over the course of a football season as opposed to the game. And you're like there's tons and tons of options this year. It doesn't mean you draft it. It doesn't mean you draft zero running backs. Correct. It means you're starting your draft with zero. Gus bus drum for some of these later round up the Cowboys. Yeah the Cowboys backfield. Yeah you'll you'll you'll start so heavy elsewhere. You know you're not going to get your first running back until at least the sixth round usually seventh or later. And then the end of your draft are just going to load up on a ton of those guys so you can you can get a couple of the either the old guys you know if you're in the eighth round and most are what a great starter or Jerome Ford is great because he's going to start the season well and then you want to have a couple of those insurance backs as well. Grab those rookies. Grab those the Blake Corums and the the Trey Bensons and the guys that you know an injury in front of them will make a mad dash for the waiver wire. And you already have them and you already have them and now your team gets stronger while you've got loaded up studs at one big hit on any of those changes the dynamics of your team for the whole season. Yes. Yes. You're another team that's like they lose right there like they're out of the running out and you are even an even stronger contender and also we're throwing out like this is it's more focused on if you're in a PPR and you're playing you're starting like three wide receivers and a flex because you're just you're loading up on guys who are going to get cheap points. All right. I do want to circle back before we close the show down to the announcement we made at the very tippy top. Megalobo. Very frightened always the Megalobo you can join it right now. It's a free entry for every foot clan supporter and you can go to Megalobo.com for that information. And if you would like all of the details on our new ultimate tier of the foot clan membership you can go to join the foot. .com. So very excited about both of those things. We've got bus and values on tomorrow's episode we're debuting the take swap on Thursday and a mock draft on Friday. Jason. Yes. Have you reconsidered your bust pick. Oh I please please. No I'm not going to stick to it. Well but I have reconsidered my Quentin Johnson sleeper. Oh OK. All right. All right. He's off the board. He's off the board. There's just too many other guys. All right that is going to do it. Thank you for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow. See you later. Good bye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join the foot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.