Fantasy Football Today Podcast

If you look at WR average draft position over the last 3 seasons, it seems that Fantasy managers are moving away from WRs in Round 1. So, should you do the same and focus on Rounds 2-5? We're giving you the overview of the WR position on today's show including the profile we like in a WR (2:30), the best spot in the draft for WRs (13:26) and if the second tier of the position is a jumbled mess (14:30). Also, where is the major drop off at the position? ... More overall strategy talk (19:30), how many WRs should go in Round 1 (27:23), how many should go ahead of Travis Kelce and when to take Michael Thomas (30:00) ... Sleepers (33:45), breakouts (40:40) and busts (51:35)! We love Calvin Ridley, D.J. Moore and A.J. Brown this season. Laviska Shenault is on our radar late in drafts. How do we feel about DeAndre Hopkins and Odell Beckham? ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy

Lamar Miller is a Patriot, so what does that mean for your Fantasy drafts (2:15)? And our Jason LaCanfora is raving about Joe Mixon's potential. Find out why he thinks Mixon could be this year's Christian McCaffrey (4:00). We've got more news and notes for you including T.Y. Hilton's status and his 2020 potential (8:40) ... We answer your emails (15:00) about Dak Prescott's potential for regression, having both SEA WRs on your team, how to approach a 2-QB auction and more. And then we get to your Apple Podcast questions (26:35) ... SportsLine's R.J. White joins the show with his favorite NFL futures bets (31:00). He gives us three teams that are being either undervalued or overvalued. R.J. also talks about some prop bets he likes (45:10) and we discuss who will lead the league in passing, rushing and receiving. Then we finish with some Fantasy questions for R.J. including why he likes Emmanuel Sanders (51:00) ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The con

We start with how to draft RBs at different spots in your draft. From picks #1 (1:40), #5 (5:50), #8 (9:15) and #12 (16:00) we show you different ways to approach RB. And Ben and Heath join the show today to tell you why you should take late-round fliers on a number of RBs. But Adam suggests this strategy didn't work in 2019, so why will it work this year? ... ADP review begins with the Top 6 RBs (26:00). Does this include Derrick Henry? Does format matter? Then we get to the rest of the RBs we expect to be drafted in Rounds 1 and 2 (34:25). We're talking Aaron Jones, Miles Sanders, Joe Mixon, Nick Chubb, Clyde Edwards-Helaire and more. Next up, we talk the Round 3-4 guys (42:00) like James Conner, Melvin Gordon and Chris Carson ... Getting to the next group (48:00) with David Montgomery, Devin Singletary, Kareem Hunt and more. And then we just talk about everyone else for the rest of the show! Maybe you should consider drafting both D'Andre Swift and Kerryon Johnson, or both Darrell Henderson and Cam Akers.

The early rounds of your Fantasy drafts will be heavy on RBs this season, so how many RBs should you take with your first three or four picks? Dave and Jamey tell you when they load up at the position (2:30), how they feel about the RB position in general (11:44) and if Zero-RB is a viable strategy this year (19:50). Should you be avoiding the Round 3 and 4 RBs? Should you take Travis Kelce ahead of Aaron Jones? ... More overall strategy talk (25:45) and how it changes in different formats. Any thoughts on taking a RB with each of your first three picks? And how do we feel about the rookies this season (32:00)? ... Sleepers (36:50), breakouts (41:30) and busts (49:30)! A case for Ronald Jones and Darrell Henderson. A case against David Montgomery and Derrick Henry ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Goog

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We react to Derrius Guice's release and tell you why Adrian Peterson is NOT the RB to get, even though he seems likely to lead the backfield in carries. So do we like Antonio Gibson? Bryce Love? Peyton Barber? Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about

We tend to think TE is deep every year, but seriously is this the year that TE is actually deep!? And how should that affect your strategy in drafts? We give you several draft options on today's TE preview and our overall TE strategy (7:45) which includes a lengthy discussion about George Kittle and Travis Kelce ... Who are our favorite late-round targets (22:00)? Should you draft two of these guys? Find out why Noah Fant, Blake Jarwin and Jonnu Smith have a lot of potential ... Sleepers (31:40), breakouts (37:15) and busts (45:30) at the position. We've got some Jared Cook, Tyler Higbee and Austin Hooper disagreements, some hope for Evan Engram and some love for T.J. Hockenson. And we finish by reviewing ADP (53:40) as we give our thoughts on Mark Andrews, Zach Ertz, Darren Waller, Rob Gronkowski and more ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy Football Today' is available

In 2019, pocket passers were replaced atop the Fantasy standings by the mobile QBs. Will that trend continue in 2020 or will we see bounceback seasons from Ben Roethlisberger, Jared Goff, Tom Brady and others? Is Kyler Murray set to break out or is he being drafted too early? Are Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes Round 2 picks? Let's start by discussing how many QBs we're comfortable with as our starter before moving on to some general strategy discussions (4:26). How do our strategies change in 4-point per passing TD leagues (12:45), 2-QB leagues (14:00) and PPR leagues (17:15)? ... Sleepers (21:32), breakouts (36:30) and busts (41:30). Talking about Daniel Jones, Cam Newton, Gardner Minshew and more. And we have a lengthy discussion about the importance of rushing stats ... We finish up with an ADP review (51:00). Find out which players are being overvalued and which late-round QBs we're most excited to have on our teams ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch 

We're joined by three awesome guests - Yahoo's Liz Loza, NFL Network's Marcas Grant and Rotoballer/Sportsline's Scott Engel - as we take part in a 12-team auction! We've got different bidding strategies (studs and duds vs. a more balanced approach), constant player analysis and much more. Enjoy! Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS S

We cover most of Round 2 on today's show, making a bust case for each pick. Which second rounder are we most concerned about (1:40)? And who's ready for some DST trivia (4:15)!? Plus news and notes (6:15) as the DEN offensive line takes a hit and Jordan Reed signs with SF ... Bust cases for DeAndre Hopkins (11:40), Nick Chubb (14:45) and Josh Jacobs (20:00). How do we separate the RBs who don't catch a lot of passes? Then it's on to Julio Jones (30:23) and Aaron Jones (35:08). Is Julio slowing down? Are targets an issue? ... What could go wrong for Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes (40:31)? What about Travis Kelce and George Kittle (48:00)? ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com and your Apple Podcast questions Hey! We are giving away a 75 inch and 55 inch TV! The contest is completely free to enter. To win, go to CBSSports.com/giveaway 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch

We've got so much news to cover today including an exciting quote about Miles Sanders and an exciting report about Josh Jacobs to begin the show. Are these guys set for huge workloads and huge seasons? Then we discuss the LeSean McCoy signing (8:40) and more from around the NFL including the COVID news (16:00) as Matthew Stafford and Gardner Minshew are on the reserve/COVID-19 list ... Everyone is a Bust (22:40)! We tell you what could go wrong for each of the Top 10 players starting with new offenses for Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley, perhaps a decline in touches for Ezekiel Elliott (30:30), and the cases against Alvin Kamara (33:00) and Michael Thomas (37:40). Then we get into Derrick Henry (40:00) and Dalvin Cook (43:10), Davante Adams (47:10) and finally Joe Mixon (49:00) and Tyreek Hill (52:30) ... Jamey and Adam participated in the FLEX draft this past weekend. How did it go (55:00)? Why does everyone seem to hate Adam's team? Jamey's team is awesome! ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'F

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ Former NFL offensive lineman and current NFL analyst and Podcast host Ross Tucker dominates on today's show with his takes on the best and worst offensive lines in the NFL, why this season will be challenging for rookies and what Heath got wrong in his rankings! First he tells how much of a RB's success should be credited to the offensive line (4:40) and why Emmitt Smith was such a great rusher ... Ross gets into Heath's rankings! He thinks Heath is too high on Derrick Henry (10:30), should have Ezekiel Elliott ahead of Saquon Barkley (18:00) and should have Miles Sanders higher (23:03). He shares a few more thoughts on the rankings including Travis Kelce's ranking before discussing what this season will be like for rookies (31:00). Finally, how about some offensive line rankings (35:40) from a former offensive lineman? Ross tells us what Fantasy managers need to know ... We discuss the BUF RB situation and do some

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ At times it makes more sense to look at points per game rather than total Fantasy points, and that's what we'll do today as we evaluate certain players like Kyler Murray and Joe Mixon. First, we've got COVID news (2:40) as Nate Solder and Devin Funchess opt out and more NFL news to cover (7:30) ... We look at the Top 10 in points per game at each position (15:45) and tell you what stands out. Then let's look at some revealing ppg examples like how similar Murray, Gardner Minshew and Daniel Jones were in 2019 (25:41) ... James Conner was better than Mixon per game (33:45). Also, ppg stats on Marlon Mack (38:40) and several WRs (45:05) including how Stefon Diggs and John Brown averaged the same amount of Fantasy points and why Julian Edelman and Sterling Shepard might be underrated ... Your Apple Podcast questions (54:30) and email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts,

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ Where did Jamey and Ben put Clyde Edwards-Helaire in their rankings after Damien Williams elected to sit out the season? Is he RB6!? Is he ahead of Michael Thomas? Dalvin Cook? Are there are any other KC RBs to draft? Find out on this bonus episode! 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ We've got several players who may have been exposed to the virus and even more players opting out. We'll start the show with this big news before getting into our key stats ... From Ronald Jones' big plays to how the targets were distributed in DAL to Darrell Henderson's disappointing carries, we've got so many stats to go over and we tell you which ones matter ... We also touch on Matt Ryan's TD rate, Jarvis Landry's red zone presence, the MIA WRs and more ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @YardsPerGretch, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ We know about the rookie RBs, but there are so many other training camp battles worth watching. We start with some quick questions (3:00) about whose ADP will rise the most in camp and whose will fall the most. And the guys give an underrated position battle to watch (8:00) before we answer a question about handcuffing strategies in the COVID age (14:45) ... QB position battles (18:00): MIA, CHI and LAC. Which one of these battles will have the biggest impact on the WRs? Then it's on to RB position battles (25:00)! Projected splits for Melvin Gordon and Phillip Lindsay, debating whether or not the MIA RBs are worth rostering and more ... Finally, we discuss the WRs (39:00). Are we sure Diontae Johnson is the WR2 for PIT? Who do we like in KC? PHI? NYJ? And there are many more to discuss ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com  'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Pod

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ We start with the latest NFL news! Ronald Jones is expected to be the TB starting RB, so should you draft him ahead of Devin Singletary, Le'Veon Bell, David Johnson and the rest of that group (2:48)? We also give you the latest COVID news (8:00) and more ... Beginning our rankings disputes with Kenyan Drake vs. Travis Kelce (14:55). Do you go with the safety of Kelce or the upside or Drake? Then we debate Mike Evans vs. Allen Robinson (21:21) and Ben Roethlisberger vs. Jared Goff (24:55). Are we too high on Roethlisberger considering we don't know how he'll do without Antonio Brown? ... Two more debates including Chris Carson vs. the elite QBs (32:30) and Tarik Cohen vs. David Montgomery in PPR (37:50). And we conclude our show with some finality on our "sitting your DST on Monday night" debate from Friday (44:40). Find out what our listeners think ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ We welcome Jacob Gibbs from Sportsline (use the promo code HUDDLE on Sportsline.com!) to the show. Jacob had the 7th-most accurate Fantasy rankings last year, so he'll share some insights with us. He talks about Kenyan Drake (3:05), Robert Woods (8:25) and Amari Cooper (13:13) and why he's high on them ... Want to know who the two most elusive RBs were in 2019? We'll tell ya (18:18)! The answer may surprise you. We also discuss the Washington Football Team (25:23), why Ben Roethlisberger and Drew Brees could be a good QB pairing (27:40) and whether you should be able to bench a player on Monday night to avoid getting negative Fantasy points and losing a week (35:40) ... Handcuffs (39:40)! First of all, do we like to draft handcuffs? And who are the best ones and who are the underrated ones? ... Your Apple Podcast questions (53:40) and emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ Man, RBs are tough to rank! Six of our 8 "toughest to rank" players are RBs. Before we get into that, Ben weighs in on how the altered training camp and lack of preseason games will impact rookies (2:00). Will he be moving Jonathan Taylor down in his rankings? And while we're on the subject, Heath says that D'Andre Swift and Cam Akers are very difficult to rank (8:25) ... Let's move on to Jamey's players (19:40) as he says Raheem Mostert and A.J. Green are tough to rank. Does Mostert have a lot of upside? Will Joe Burrow hold Green back? ... Ben discusses Tylger Higbee (29:30) and Aaron Jones (35:25). We have a long discussion about Jones and why he's so tricky. And finally, we read Dave's players (48:15) even though he's not on the show! ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to po

Nominate us on PodcastAwards for the Sports category https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup/ Before we get to our mock draft, the guys talk about how the rookies will be affected by the absence of preseason games. Are we downgrading Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Jonathan Taylor, J.K. Dobbins and the rest of the high profile rookies? ... Let's draft! 0.5 PPR, 3 WRs and a flex. Heath takes Derrick Henry over Dalvin Cook. Jamey takes David Johnson and Leonard Fournette with consecutive picks. Dave loads up on RBs and Adam is the first to take a QB ... Ben Schragger actually steals the show with the best team! We review the picks and the teams and discuss when to take handcuffs, backup QBs, backup TEs, rookie WRs and so much more ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday