Washington's RB Battle: Austin Ekeler or Brian Robinson Jr.?

SportsGrid

Watch Washington's RB Battle: Austin Ekeler or Brian Robinson Jr.? - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00What do you want to go?

00:03What do you want to do?

00:04You want to play a little?

00:05Would you rather the clean version?

00:06Yeah, let's play.

00:07Would you rather and also I want to encourage everybody sign your sons and your daughters

00:12up for flag football.

00:13Okay.

00:14My daughter's been playing in the co-ed league for many years now.

00:17Go sign them up.

00:18It's a great way for them to learn the game and have some fun.

00:21It's flag football is a fantastic opportunity there for everybody.

00:24So there's NFL flag leagues all over the place.

00:26Go join one.

00:27I'm telling you, you'll be very happy.

00:29You did.

00:30It's a great environment.

00:31Really cool stuff there.

00:32So that's enough of that.

00:33Let's get to some of the running backs here because I thought it'd be fun to play a little

00:36would you rather these are running backs on the same team at different ADPs.

00:39So it really comes down to what kind of investment you want to make a certain player is one guy

00:43at a higher ADP, a better investment than the guy to lower ADP.

00:46That's an important question.

00:47Sometimes these ADPs are close.

00:50Sometimes they're pretty far apart.

00:51So you have to pay a lot more capital for certain guys.

00:54So we're going to start with the commanders.

00:55We have a new head coach, Dan Quinn, who I really like.

00:58I think Dan Quinn's a good football coach.

00:59I do believe that the second time around, you see a lot of head coaches get it right

01:03the second time.

01:04And Dan Quinn, I think, could be one of those guys.

01:06I really do.

01:07He's got a really good track record and a couple of different stops here.

01:09So I'm looking at him to get this team right.

01:11And he's got a young quarterback in Shane Daniels who's going to run the football quite

01:15a bit.

01:16So you have now Austin Eckler coming into town from the Chargers.

01:19He is going on right now at an ADP of 95 overall, RB 31, which is probably where he is right

01:26now in his career.

01:27Right.

01:28So he's probably the type of football you're looking at as more of a flex guy than necessarily

01:31an RB 2.

01:33And then you have Brian Robinson Jr.

01:35Stand out at Alabama, really solid running back.

01:38He is at ADP 108 and RB 34 on the board.

01:42So Robinson a little bit cheaper.

01:44So what I'm trying to parse these two, a lot of it does have to do theoretically into format,

01:48right?

01:49PPR format.

01:50Theoretically, Austin Eckler is more intriguing there.

01:53My concern with Eckler is the injury starting to pile up here with the wear and tear.

01:58He is a smaller player.

01:59He is going to be working in this committee.

02:00He's also not going to get a lot of goal line opportunities with Brian Robinson around.

02:03That's what worries me the most because if Eckler does get hurt or is dealing with injuries

02:08throughout the year, you already know he's not scoring touchdowns.

02:11So I think I would rather fade Eckler and wait another maybe round and select Brian

02:16Robinson Jr.

02:17Especially in half PPR leagues are standard because I think there's going to be more goal

02:20line work for him and probably more first down work for him to where he's going to be

02:25on first and second down a little bit more.

02:28We'll see what this offense looks like.

02:29Maybe we'll get a different picture of it potentially in preseason in August.

02:33This is one of those teams that I want to watch in preseason.

02:37Preseason doesn't mean anything except for the teams where it means everything and the

02:39commanders.

02:40I think it means a lot because you have new coach, new quarterback, new system, everything,

02:45new player, like a lot of new stuff.

02:47How is it working out?

02:48We're not going to get a lot of answers, but we might get some and I think that's a team

02:51to watch this summer.

Category

Transcript

Recommended