Tough Week Ahead: J.K. Dobbins' Fantasy Football Outlook

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00:00All right, let's talk about the J.K. Dobbins here. As much as I love some of the Charger

00:07pieces, I don't love J.K. Dobbins this week. And why? Well, it's twofold. Because, first

00:13of all, he's going against that defense that has been so good against the run this year,

00:16the Baltimore Ravens, 852 rushing yards allowed. That's it. The only team to give up less has

00:21been the Minnesota Vikings with 744. So they are right at the top number two in the league

00:26in terms of the least amount of rushing yards given up. And that's for two reasons. Number

00:30one, they're good up front. Number two, they're bad in the secondary. So people just don't

00:34even care. You start pivoting away from it right away, and you just start attacking the

00:38... Okay. It looks like we live in a world where things just happen. But, hey, listen.

00:49So J. Joe is talking about this Chargers-Baltimore matchup and understanding how to attack the

00:53fact that they have the weak secondary. So you want to think in your mind that you would

00:57want to try to have a run option. But, Joe, you negate that. You think that the Chargers

01:02have only one option here, right? Yeah. The option is to throw the football. That's it.

01:06Like I said, we're trying to look at how you go against this team, and that's how you do

01:10it. And you see teams start to pivot away from the run anyway, not only because they

01:13can't do it against the Ravens, but because you can do anything you want against the secondary

01:17basically. And that's the whole point. So the other factor here with J.K. Dobbins is

01:22also the return of Gus Edwards, who is starting to get some of that workload. So if you are

01:28losing some of your workload to Gus Edwards, even if it's 30% of it, right? It might not

01:32sound like a lot, but that's enough in a bad matchup to really make it a terrible matchup.

01:35I'm not saying J.K. Dobbins can't have a good game. You could talk about this Baltimore

01:39revenge nonsense if you want to talk about that with the running backs of this game.

01:42I don't really think it's a thing. But I do believe that it's going to be a tough week

01:47for him. It's hard not to start him because of the buys and because of running back injuries

01:52but Gus Edwards also has some goal line love too. And you start taking away carries, you

01:57start taking away goal line opportunities, you start taking away fantasy points. So all

02:00that combined makes for a really tough sell for me for J.K. Dobbins. So I'm going to be

02:04fading for him, but you can also look for unders for him too. And I know in hour two,

02:07go look at fantasy props is another guy we're going to talk about too. I know overs are

02:10sexy and fun, but unders make a lot of money.