Navigating Fantasy Football: Running Back Insights

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00:00but not the greatest names here, George.

00:02It feels like a little defeatist if you end up with one of these guys

00:06as their second running back going into the fantasy season.

00:10And we know there'll be some players out there who go zero running back strategy, right?

00:14This will be running back number one.

00:16Maybe not even this if they wait even longer here.

00:18It's an unsexy list, all right?

00:20Aaron Jones, once again, that Dynasty League guy, he's one of my running backs.

00:24He's running back four, running back five for me,

00:26so I'm thrilled to have him at that low in the running back pecking order here.

00:30He's not going to play 17.

00:32We know that.

00:32He gets hurt.

00:33I would imagine if I'm going to set the overrun to be 12 and a half.

00:36So you're going to get what you're going to get there from Aaron.

00:38When he plays, he'll be decent.

00:40And with J.J. there and Addison, once he's not suspended,

00:42it's a good passing offense.

00:44We won't see a lot of stacked boxes there.

00:46I agree with you about Caleb Johnson, a lot of upside there.

00:48We'll see what Pittsburgh could do with Aaron Rodgers.

00:51It's a legit threat there at quarterback.

00:53So, once again, I don't think he was going to be focused on him.

00:57Pollard's the guy that he's going to put up solid numbers for you.

01:00They're going to run the ball a lot, try to protect Cam Ward,

01:03get Cam Ward at the second and six, right, rather than second and nine.

01:06So, you know, he'll get some shots there.

01:08Judkins, I'm not touching.

01:10Pacheco's another guy.

01:12You know, he plays on Kansas City.

01:14Once again, it's a throwing team,

01:15so he's not going to see stacked boxes either here.

01:18You know, so I think he can do some damage.

01:19You're going to need some touchdowns from him

01:20because he's not going to get big yards, this guy.

01:22We know that.

01:23I want nothing to do with Brian Robinson.

01:25I had him on a team or two last year,

01:26and he just wilted as the season went on.

01:29He was really good the first six, eight weeks of the season,

01:32and then that was it.

01:35You know, and he really killed one of my teams there.

01:37So, probably leaving him alone.

01:39It might be, I almost said Redskins,

01:41but it might be the commander's biggest weakness on offense.

01:45Everything else seems to be taking place here.

01:46Just don't have that bell cow running back.

01:49Do you think that we learned a lot about Kansas City's offense last year?

01:53Remember that we went into the season basically,

01:56actually the last couple of seasons,

01:58thinking, well, look, you just want a part of Kansas City's offense.

02:01It's Mahomes.

02:02It's, you know, it's Rasheed Rice.

02:05It's worthy.

02:06So, you know, just take Pacheco.

02:07You know you're going to get good stuff.

02:09That really, George was not the case last year with Kansas City's offense.

02:12It sort of went the other way,

02:13and I think that that's a representative of why Pacheco is down so much this year.

02:18It's also to be clear, he missed a lot of time with injury last year,

02:20but just owning a piece of the Chiefs' offense is not the same as the Bills

02:25and the Bengals and some others after they took a step back.

02:29It's a different kind of offense.

02:31It's not that high score where they're going to score 40 points a game, right?

02:35Pat Mahomes is probably the best NFL quarterback.

02:39Fantasy quarterback, not so much.

02:41In fact, I think we ranked him last week.

02:42I think you and I might have put him at six.

02:44And even then, we're like, okay, six, you know, but he's not Hurts.

02:48He's not Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow.

02:52He's after that, you know.

02:54So, and I finally had somebody on Twitter go,

02:57it was laughable that you guys had him at six.

03:00He should be higher.

03:01Really?

03:01Who are you taking out?

03:02You take him at Holmes over Burrow?

03:04No.

03:04Allen?

03:05No.

03:05Jackson?

03:05No.

03:06Hurts?

03:06No.

03:07So who are you taking out?

03:08So it's about as high as he's going to go.

03:10And I know some people have him double digits.

03:11He's just not that guy.

03:12They're running the game is okay at best.

03:16The wide receivers, Worthy, Rice, I mean, they're nice.

03:19Kelsey's not Kelsey anymore.

03:21This is not a high-flying KC offense.

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