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TrustPilot February 2026. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. J.Grizz in the house. Sandy Holloway, Mike Wright. The Fantasy Footballers podcast. Someone has no shares of Kenneth Walker so they could not show up today. Oh, I mean, dude, you and I are living large. Brother the people. We are living large. The people are waiting. If you've listened to the show for a long time, you know that Ken Walker is kind of my guy. I love it when fantasy forces you to believe because the year of Mike, by the way, continues. We're doing all right. It continues because I'm not dodging like I'm not invincible as we'll see. I mean, I could be the decade of Mike. My man, Trey Benson is down bad guys. He's down bad. I love it. It's not perfect, but the white whale was landed. So everything else doesn't feel as important. Poor Mike was in the middle of doing a guest pod yesterday when all the big news is breaking on free agency. By the way, this show is being recorded and released immediately. We were waiting as long as we possibly could because, you know, even when we're recording right now, even probably before you hear the show, there'll be more news or little signings and trades and things that are going on. But we wanted to give as much time as we can so we could come on here and react together and talk through all of these moves. But yeah, Mike was on a guest pod and, you know, right in the middle of the guest pod, we're finding out all this news about Kenneth Walker going to the Chiefs. And then Mike comes in about an hour later after he's done and he's got music playing on his phone. It's a little cool on the gang, man. It was a celebration time. It was just, yeah, it was a special day. And I've got Kenneth Walker in our League of Record who I picked up at the trade deadline from these two losers over here, Papa Josh and the Falcon. Oh yeah, you're not a loser. Let me go out. Let me do it. Not a loser, loser, loser. That's what I, yeah, from right to left, the two on the left of the losers. But yeah, you guys traded to him. And I didn't think for a minute I might be keeping Kenneth Walker. I do now think I might be keeping Kenneth Walker the new starting running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, Mike. The MVP of the Super Bowl is now a Chief. The Walker is on an absolute heater right now. Life is good for him. Super Bowl MVP, big bag of money. And I mean, staying with Seattle would probably be a pretty decent chance of getting some more Super Bowls the way that the team is currently built. But going to play with Mahomes. Not bad. It has to be just, you know, it might even be a better situation if you're trying to chase Super Bowls. Like they, they'll figure things out in Kansas City and the, as much, it's as much as I am on the team of your running backs really don't matter. There's so very few difference making running backs in the league. Yeah, the CMC, Gibbs, B-Shelton, St. Kwon. And I think, I think Walker can be one of those guys because of his ability. I think he was number one again in, in force, missed tackles. Like shoot someone, someone put it up. Can't remember who it was, but it was like a stat showing. Okay. Number of Kenneth Walker, 15 yard runs in the last two years versus the Chiefs. All running backs in totality. And it was like three for Kansas City versus. No, they really haven't had a weapon at that position since Cream Hunt. I think it has been part of the problem for Kansas City is. Yeah. Kansas City had one 20 yard run last year. Walker had 10 all by himself. You, you need, when teams have to focus on what Mahomes is capable of doing and they brought back Travis Kelsey and they'll make more moves. Who knows? Maybe Tyree Kale returns, but, you know, you just open up so much for the running game, especially if you're capable of catching the football. I think Kenneth Walker is capable of it. It opens up the pass. Like that's what I think is so, such a big deal about this is what the Chiefs had at the running back position. No one had any concern in the world about having to, you know, like, oh, we got to pick a play here and we're going to have to sell out to stop the run. Well, no, they were not concerned. The rubber is going to meet the road when it comes to the health of Kenneth Walker too. Cause we've talked about like part of the success, you know, Sharps as annoying as he is. And I saw the memes going out immediately that the Chiefs signed Sharpenay instantly. And, but, but as annoying as Sharps was, Kenneth Walker had one of his healthier seasons of all time. It made him ready for the playoff run. He obviously was great there. No, but I was thinking yesterday there are two players like Kenneth Walker. Things have broke really well for him. And then cause, I mean, you win a Super Bowl, you're the MVP and then you get a bag of money. But the other one I was thinking of was Rashid Shaheed because sure Rashid Shaheed goes to the Super Bowl. Rashid Shaheed goes from one of the worst teams in football with the Saints. He gets to go to Seattle, win a Super Bowl and now he signs an extension and gets a bag of money. Not the only player we'll be talking about today. It's full free agent, frenzy episode of the show. Thank you for joining Mike and I Tuesday, March 10th. UltimateDraftKit.com. The post combine update is available now. The dynasty pass is available now. Go check that out and the community has joined the foot.com. We appreciate each and every member of the foot clan supporting this independent podcast going into year 11, 12, something like that. Are we at the point where we forget how many years? I mean, the 10 year anniversary Megalosh show was two years ago. Yeah, you're right. You're right. So 10 plus two equals something around 12. But yeah, big show today. Appreciate you joining us. Let's jump right in. So we will circle back to that move, the Ken Walker move and some of the implications. They're good. But let's start with the first bit of news or one of the first deals that we heard about yesterday. It's not Arizona and that might be good. I don't know the dolphin sign Malik Willis to a three year deal where a $67.5 million. Jason got this one in his predictions. I thought the dolphins would not be able to find the money after, you know, they hadn't cut two at that time. We knew it was just a matter of you mean the 99 million and dead money that they have to absorb letting to a tongue of my logo. That is what I am referring to and giving a 27 year old Malik Willis 45 million guaranteed. The truth is if it works, this is a great quarterback contract. There's two types of working on this show though, Mike. There's the working for the team and the working for the fantasy team. Oh, it's going to be. It should be solid. It should be pretty good. It should be solid for fantasy. It's I'm looking, you know, on our profile right now Malik Willis four years in the league. We are at six starts. It's six starts. So again, it could work Malik Willis in the limited action has looked great. He has but we have seen backups come in who will start one or two games in a season and all of a sudden you're like, well, that guy should be a starter Mike Glennon. Sure is one of them. It it happened. I think it happens more of a backup looking like in one to two starts, they should be a starter than than the other way around. But the contract could be okay. But going with all that dead cap, putting all the chips in the basket of Malik Willis, I think is just it's so it's it is a it is a intestinal fortitude move. I'll say that it was something I thought I thought Arizona was going to make the splash for Malik Willis. Kurt Warner went on. I don't know what podcast it was, but he was talking about like he you watched the last two years of Malik Willis and there were 28. So the Green Bay years. Yeah, there were 28 total plays in which he had to basically play quarterback. So you're not talking about design runs. You're not talking about little screen passes at any quarterback in the NFL can make. You're talking about I sit back there, read a defense, make a throw. So he didn't say it was bad like the 28 wasn't there were some good. There were some bad. He just said like that's what you're evaluating 45 million guarantee is 28 basic dropbacks to make a decision on Malik Willis. Now I really I'm not going to change my tune just because he goes to Miami instead of Arizona. I believe that Malik Willis will be successful. I think he's a good player. I think I think the what he brings to the running game is going to be amazing. Not just for fantasy, but just for that team. But yeah, it's impossible to say it's not a risk. It's impossible to say that there isn't some unknown with Jaylen Waddle and what he's going to be able to do in that offense. Devon Achan in that offense like we are we're entering a brand new head coaching era for Miami part of the connection there. Their new head coach is the former. You know they have two two different connections to Green Bay. So they have familiarity with Malik Willis. But you know it's going to be one of those things that you're like Malik is a gamble right like he's going to get drafted probably Malik will be a fun late round target in single quarterback leagues. And if you're you know we're in dynasty season if you have Waddle or Achan on it could have gone bad could have gone much worse. It could have gone horrifically bad here. So I think you can at least have optimism and you don't have to you know just go all the way into the season just quaking. Quinn Euras fans are oh Quinn Euras sports cards holders not happy at the moment. Yeah. And rushing totals in his three stars last year forty one seventy three and sixty. Yeah. I mean that's that's a lot. So in to a tongue of my law ends up leaving Miami. He'll get paid and now he's got a one year deal being the second lefty in Atlanta. I know Kyle is so excited about all the amazing Atlanta signings. Atlanta and Arizona. Oh just handshake just dominating the free agency period. If if if your goal is to be bad. It's so embarrassing. It's so for both teams the signings have just not been. I mean they they need it. Someone work out but they needed someone with a Pinnick's already looking very shaky as a potential franchise guy hurt yet again. It will he be ready to start the year. They had to do something. So I don't I don't blame the the Falcons for going for it. You're going to get him what super cheap would you rather have a min shoe in shoe like the Cardinals sign or to for your backup. I think to a I'll take to probably probably let's say low risk no reward. Oh that's the move. It's a classic low risk and no reward move. That's a good line. Kyle I mean it's like if you have to see to a play something bad has happened to Pinnick's either played poorly. I like to imagine the GM was like we got to get the lefty. I know we can't we can't flip the offense. It's possible. The ball the ball my spiral the same way. It's like when you have a your your quarterback is a mobile running quarter. It's like like the Ravens. Oh yeah you got Lamar. OK well we want to go to Huntley who he's also athletic and can sort of duplicate what Lamar is able to do. And they're just applying that to left handedness. It's amazing. All right we did talk about it. Ken Walker three year deal. Let's get into the details. The chief signed Ken Walker three year deal worth up to 45 million dollars 28 million guaranteed. Nice. He's just 25 years old. He was number one in force. Miss tackle rate. I think the city was dead last in that stat last year. Two years in a row Kyle Walker was extremely high on that. And that's in that stat two years goes well. So now the question becomes Mike for this show where does Kenneth Walker go in fantasy football because there are you know there are players like Buck Irving who they they signed Kenneth Gainwell. Yeah give me Walker. There are players like the incredible Chase Brown after last year's run. That one's tough. Derek Henry a year older in Baltimore and they lost their center. They lost Lyndon bomb. Yeah that's that's a devastating blow to that. That's huge. I mean he's getting paid more money than all the other centers by a lot. Josh Jacobs of Ken Walker. I see it's one of those things where people are going to be very excited for Kenneth Walker. So just to zoom out real quick. This is awesome. Like on paper. This is so incredible a truly dynamic running back. Like you said number one in force. Miss tackle rate last year Kansas City. If they're running backs dead last in that advanced metric of like the one truly like what the big thing you need for your running back is I need a guy who can actually make something happen on his own. Not just get what's there. Make something happen. He Walker. He probably jumps into the late first based off of the hope and the dreams of how just how awesome the player was into the situation. I don't know. It's going to be risky business but he will be like between Walker Chase Brown Jacobs. I think those are really difficult questions to answer right now. I feel like the hype for Walker like there could be a plan in Kansas City to not like we all want Superb Elkow. I don't think you're going to get that. But I don't think you're going to get that. No. And whether they bring back cream hunt or something to be I mean that's best case to me for the chiefs backfield is not bringing in another younger able bodied. Sure. Running back. You need you need but someone like cream hunt someone coming. The problem with cream hunt is like goal line. Yeah. Yeah. We need to know. They have they have Richard Smith still to we need to know that walk. Yeah. Smith is not a nothing in competition for the high value. We need the receiving. We need the goal line work. We need to know for sure that that's locked in threat of super running back. But it carries the receiving and the goal line. It is very very exciting. If you have him in dynasty like me. That's I mean that's just part of it. But but I mean seriously. He went back into my dynasty startup rankings and you're like you have to move. You got to move Walker up. He's 25. He's on the chiefs. It seems like he probably took less money to to go to Kansas City because Travis E.T. and signed a four year possible worth fifty two million dollars. I mean that's more money than Walker got. And we still haven't seen the guaranteed money on right. And so I mean total value is potentially higher for E.T. and but you know I mean that's it's not a huge difference of seven million dollars. Yes that's it's it's a locked. I get that. But I'm saying at least two years older. It was a little surprising. You the Saints had to you know we talk about the loser tax when you go to the Saints. When you go to the Saints you should at least be believing that you're not really going to have a chance at a playoff run this year. It's not impossible but your odds are against you. Maybe two years from now you'll make a run. And so it's like can you actually win a Super Bowl if that's your goal where is a much higher odds with the chiefs and you take just a little bit a little bit lighter on the money. I don't blame Walker for doing it. So the Saints made a big splash. Travis E.T. and ends up in New Orleans four year deal fifty two million. No guaranteed money that we've figured out yet in terms of the numbers but we'll get that twenty seven years old year six of the NFL earlier in the week the Saints and converted. They had converted ten million dollars of Alvin Camero's salary into a signing bonus cleared a bunch of money multiple reports from beat writer saying this may clear the way for Alvin Camero's retirement. Do I understand how that all works. No but I mean this is like a this is a legendary New Orleans Saint player Alvin Camero. So at least last year he was the one saying don't trade me. Yeah I feel like that. I think I feel like he was set in the table for the sunset and for them to go out and spend this kind of money at running back to me. No E.T. like I don't think I don't think Camero necessarily wants to play that secondary role. Maybe that's what he'll accept for a year and being a leader in the in the you know clubhouse so to speak. But Camero Camero's advanced numbers were horrifically bad. No and it's kind of I mean he was banged up again. I mean we get Kendrick Miller back out there. He got hurt again. So this will be Travis E.T. and Tyler Schuck Crystal Lave kind of exciting. Yeah. Oh it's an exciting young team. Well I mean Schuck's kind of old. Can E.T. it well he's young enough. Can E.T. and finish is a running back one again in New Orleans. It's in the range of outcomes. You still have the the the Kellinmore offense high pace. We'll get a lot of receptions for Travis E.T. and as well. So I think it's it's possible. It's it's just will they score enough on the ground. And then the you can't miss this part of all these deals right. Ken Walker obviously leaving Seattle their backfield is now completely in flux. Charbonne's coming off a major injury. They they're going to they got it covered man. Well there's rumors this morning about Rashad White to Seattle. So Mike finds this very funny. Because Rashad White and Sharves on the that's your backfield. One yard to carry. Well we'll see. We'll see what they do. They're trying to defend the title but you know the big man. That will be the real wake up moment of like oh I guess Walker was really good. Yeah it could be or they could make a splash. We'll see but E.T. and leaving Jacksonville is huge. Oh man. Bay shawl. Yeah. That's Jason's. That's Jason's. No he's and he's not here. But Bay shawl to do right now. Skies the limit. Yeah great offense. Yeah. That's very Leeam Cohen. I mean E.T. and was a super surprise last year in terms of how fantasy relevant he ended up being under Liam Cohen after a down year. So you know to do was fifth in Rush success rate and 11th in force miscalculate among 55 running that. So you know. You know going into a sophomore year. That's exciting. And E.T. and will tell me with him gone that vacates. He had 52 targets last year. If you're telling me. Tootin gets the majority of those. It'll be very very fun. And the Cohen system just it seems to be. It might be like McVay and the shanahan system is just it's going to work. I mean you have to look at last year even with Buck Irving. I know he was hurt. But Buck Irving success with Liam Cohen the year before compared to his success last year Mike. Right. Let's take a break. We'll talk about some more moves. Keep the cuddles and lose the mess with Advantage chewable. Just one tasty tablet kills please and ticks for a whole month. No mess. No stress. Just one tasty chew. Advantage chewable. Please take protection made easy. Find out more at advantage chewable dot co dot UK. Easy to love easy to protect advantage chewable. All right we're back into the free agent frenzy here on a Tuesday morning. The Buccaneers signed Kenneth Gainwell who was a revelation for Pittsburgh last year. Two year deal worth up to 14 million 10 million guaranteed. It's not a crazy deal. He's 27 years old or about to be and this was the leading wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers last year at the running back spot. This it this one's this one's a blow to Bucky because I you know I just shared my thoughts on Rashad White. He was not a threat. No Sean Tucker is just this imaginary nebulous being that the Buccaneers never actually care for. You'd see him flash on the field but then they would never give him work. They let him like they didn't tender him and Kenneth Gainwell is a true. A true a true player who can take away from Bucky Irving and duplicate what Bucky Irving does on the field. I've seen a lot. Not as good as Bucky but yeah he's not as good as Bucky but I get your fear getting 85% of Bucky. That's someone who should get touches. The thing about Kenneth Gainwell that I think we've seen throughout his career as he forces his way on the field whether you believe he should be or not. There was a point of time middle of the offseason. Jason could not handle the inference the suggestion that Kenneth Gainwell could take away from Caleb Johnson. There was not a pot in a UK he's not here to say nothing. But I remember the conversation. It was like hey it was like hey buddy people like Kenneth Gainwell. I mean great teammate great player versatile does the little stuff that you don't see in the fantasy football stat sheet but teams love. Now I've seen a lot of people say what are you talking about Bucky is fine. Bucky is everything and Bucky will be he'll be OK. His ceiling's down. But I think the question that you have to ask yourself is Kenneth Gainwell a better player than Rashad White. Yes that's enough. You know what I mean. And then and that's not a well you know in my opinion. No he's better. Yeah he's more versatile. He's a better athlete. Yeah I agree. More than two and a half yards on the ground. I don't know if the team and I don't know all the details of what went on with Bucky Irving's absence. It wasn't it clearly wasn't all recovery from a physical injury last year. But from the vibes were weird. The vibe. Yeah well I mean I think there was some mental health things going on and they were dealing with that. But from a reliability standpoint that puts things in flux and Kenneth Gainwell is a stabilizer so they bring him in the Cardinals. Oh the Cardinals. Oh they they re they reworked James Connors contract. Right. Yeah. And then they said what if we made two of you the Cardinals signed Tyler Algier to a two year deal where 12.25 million dollars eight million guaranteed 25 years old. I I hate this just because of Trey Benson like Algiers good Algier with the money. I mean James Conner had to take less money just to make sure he kept it a job and to be on the team. And then you go day one and sign Tyler Algier. I know it's it's not as you know it's not the high profile money that the other guys are making. But Algiers a good player in eight million guaranteed is enough that I will project that he will end up being it'll be him and Conner and then Trey Benson is just cooked. Yeah. Yep. I mean this is the this is the we don't even find out if he could fly. No this is the we don't believe in you at all. This isn't pushing you out of the nest so that you can fly. This is so you land on the ground and the animals eat you. I mean Algiers and Conner are work horses. I think that's the headline. Like these are not guys that need plays off if they get it going they're not going to turn to Trey Benson and they wanted Conner back enough to rework the contract Conner keeps a job like you said. I mean Algiers himself had seven red zone touchdowns last year the Cardinals had six total Algiers a pretty good player. Yes he is. It's not a flashy signing. I thought Arizona would not rework the contract of Conner and would sign Etn. Instead they brought Conner back and they spent less money on Algiers. But I don't think it's going to be a very fun fantasy situation. No. And by the way they basically have come out and said just if we want to get into Arizona which nobody does but you should kind of in fantasy because Michael Wilson was crazy and Trey McBride and they basically come out and said Jacobi Bresset's our starter. They signed Gardner Minshew and Mike Mike Mike's like why would you sign Gardner Minshew are you getting rid of Bresset as your backup little did you know Bresset was the starter. The starter in that situation plan Minshew becomes the backup. So it's weird because the Cardinals are going to be awful. This is a tank tank tank move. They were one and nine with Bresset I think maybe oh and nine. I don't even remember. But Michael Wilson was insane with Jacobi Bresset. Trey McBride set the world on fire with Jacobi Bresset. I will remind people there was an astronomically high pass rate as they could not run the ball at all. You know Connor went out early. Trey Benson went out in week four and then they were rocking DeMarcado and Michael Carter and bam night. That was that was the trio that was getting absolutely nothing done. Algeron James Conner is a much much better tandem than anything that they had last year for the majority of the year. So I don't think the pass rate will be anywhere near what it was. But we know how Jacobi plays and we know how he plays with these these guys so you can keep your optimism and still you know wherever. It's pretty much wherever you were going to draft Arizona Cardinals you just kind of leave it there. The Broncos re-signed J.K. Dobbins to two year deal worth 20 million dollars. I think all three of us got this one. Dobbins back to Denver. Do you remember in the I'm I don't remember if we I'm going to pull up the show. Because I think I think we were had all said it was going to be Denver but I think we predicted Dobbins. It seemed the easiest one. But yeah he's that one in Wondale were like the lowest hanging fruit. Oh no me and you got it. Jason missed it. I think that puts me in the lead then because Jason got the Jason got the Miami Malik one. That was big. I got the Evans 49ers right but I didn't realize Jason had switched it up with Dobbins. So Kyle's words not mine. What a loser. Yes. About speaking of Jason Moore and the the word out of the word out of Denver is possible is the Broncos will also draft someone. That means that the word out of Denver. It's a facto. Yes. We screwed up with RJ Harvey. They drafted him too high and Harvey is a as a good athlete. Seems like a good pass catcher. He's a good pass catching running back. But at least through one year they're saying no you cannot be the guy like if depending on where they draft a running back I don't imagine it'll be anything crazy like probably just a day three get some depth in there. I will be drafting Dobbins ahead of RJ Harvey. Just touchdowns. Dobbins was awesome. Yeah last year. Yeah he was until the Dobbins will probably have another injury because I mean if you want to label anyone injury prone in the NFL. JK Dobbins is he earned it. Yeah. His body does not like the game of football but he is a he's a very very good football game. Well got more guaranteed than Alger or Dobbins Dobbins and Alger both got eight million guaranteed the deal's worth more for Dobbins long term. Had the foot injury two months on I.R. I think he was pretty close to getting back wasn't he. If they had moved on I think there were some rumors about him getting back out on the field. But yeah so JK Dobbins it look that's another situation I think is going to be really murky because they'll use a committee. They're searching for jokers everywhere. Joker Joker Joker Joker Joker Joker Joker. Keep searching. Between Harvey and Dobbins the much better runner like between tackles just you know the pure running back stuff that's Dobbins and I imagine he will still be people will be in on Harvey and they're going to hope that the second round pick can really take the leap. I will be probably on the other side. Well there was a 15 minute period of time in which it seemed like the departure of Kenneth Manuel may open up the door. Yeah. Caleb Johnson. Yeah. No doors closed. The Steelers have signed Rico Dowdle. Yes. To your worth up to 12.25 million. Yes. So now what is it Warren Dowdle Caleb. Yep. On the bench Caleb Johnson. Go hang out with Trey Benson. Go get some fro you. Yeah. What could have they won't notice you gone. Rico Dowdle is back with Mike McCarthy which the first time Mike McCarthy was pretty frustrating at the beginning of the year refusing to turn it over to Rico Dowdle as they just watched Zeke be. Oh my gosh. That's right. I'm your shell of himself. Only to have Rico Dowdle then take the job over the second half and become a thousand yard rusher. Why did he go there then. He must be OK with money. This the Steelers situation is going to be this one's difficult because Jalen Warren was great to start last year. He misses some time and they figure out how to use Kenneth Gainwell better in the offense and then it was Rico better than war. On the ground. Yes. And Rico Dowdle is actually what about in the sky. He's Rico is not bad through the air. This is a really tough situation to figure out who's going to truly have the value. Feels like some cold water for the jail and Warren managers. Oh yeah. Yeah. If I have Warren on my Dyson team I'm upset about this. Yeah. Yeah. So and I and if you have Rico just the complete opposite this is a this is a situation where he can come in and take the job which we weren't sure he would get that chance. Unless he's he must look at it like I can do that. Yeah. Over and over again. He has to look at those. Dallas had to work on it. Yeah. Carolina had to work on it. All right. The 49ers is a big one. They signed Mike Evans to a three year deal. 16.3 guarantee. That's not a ton. The deal can be worth up to 40 30 or no 42.4 million. Yeah. But structurally if you tell me it's a three year deal worth 42 but it includes 16 million. That's a one year deal. Yes. Yeah. This was the word for me. Was that he loved it in Tampa Bay was ready for a new challenge to close his career. All right. That was Mike Evans saying Tampa Bay is not a contender next year in his opinion. That's what you think. Yeah. I don't think so. I take him at his I actually believe the the statement and it wasn't just that there was a second part of the statement that talked about how much confidence he has in the other dudes in that room. He talked about a book of Macmillan Godwin the offense. Yeah. I just mean like I think he looks at that situation and he wants to see those other guys succeed. I really do. And with him on the field they have a clogged up like this is great for a book. Yes like super great. Godwin is Godwin's good. Godwin may be the the wide receiver that you prefer to a book. We'll have that debate for six months. But at least Godwin is on the way out and a book is on the way up and Macmillan's a very talented player and don't forget. Tess Johnson's involved in that offense. So there are moves in the offseason that just work for everybody. Now this doesn't work for Ricky Pearsall because I think Ricky Pearsall is never going to materialize into a a dominator but maybe we'll see. Evans is old. The I mean you still we haven't heard yet on Juwan Jennings. We haven't heard yet on Romeo Dobbs which there's been a lot of Romeo Dobbs to San Francisco smoke. I mean it not not saying with Mike Evans there that if they sign Romeo Dobbs Dobbs is going to come be the superstar. But if they bring those two guys in if you're talking about Ricky Pearsall it's a I mean it's a condemnation for sure. We got to go with two free agents because Ricky Pearsall we don't think you can be reliably our number one guy. John Jennings is still a free agent and Kendrick Bourne ended up signing with Arizona Cardinals. Enjoy your money. Gosh that's 26 percent of their targets vacated. But yeah I mean overall this is what I wanted to see happen. I wanted to see him leave Tampa Bay because I want to see what can happen with those other wide receivers in Tampa Bay. So and he missed extended time last year. He didn't play a lot of football had the hamstring issue the jokes about the substations have already begun. Yeah his hamstring versus the substation. I think it might be his hamstring versus father time because that is going to stack up. McCaffrey needs more blood to Siphon. Yes. Fresh meat. He hasn't tapped in to my Kevin's yet. Yeah. Yeah Colts big move one of the first ones of the day. I like Pears four year deal 116 million to stay in Indianapolis. Imagine this deal two years ago. Oh mama like if we just said this is what's going to happen. You know what I see in two years. I look Pears getting 84. I like Pearson. I like Pears being the bell of the ball of the offseason. Yeah which by the way like New England apparently offered him more money. And he ends up being the highest paid free agent in history. The cap is through the roof now. It's 300 million 308 million dollars. I like Pearson was objectively impressive on almost every step he took last year. He earned the money. But the Colts immediately sent Michael Pittman out the door. And I like Pears is truly their number one receiver. I mean that is that is a big transformation. Pittman goes to Pittman goes to pity city. Michael Pittman is now Michael Pittman because he's a Pittsburgh Steeler. So we'll talk about that and the implications but let's let's talk about Alec Pierce first. They're going to try to bring Daniel Jones back. He's on the transition tag. Alec Pierce and Daniel Jones had a great rapport. He's a big play receiver which you love to see it. I mean where does that put Pearson. Like does that change his entire structure in your mind in terms of the kind of play areas. He's a number one now for Indianapolis. I don't see Alec Pierce making a huge jump. So last year he did miss two games ends up as the wide receiver 23. And of course over you know those those later weeks of the season that was no Daniel Jones even though you know Alec Pierce week 16 was able to put up 22 points and week 18 against Houston put up 27. It's the the on the season as a whole and 18 percent target share. That's going to change. It has to fundamentally it has to the money plus the departure of Pittman. I think is unquestionably going to be like I would put him out. I'll probably project him on a hundred and ten hundred fifteen targets. OK. It's the the utilization of him. You know he has in his career 41 receptions 32 37 47. Yeah I just those are not the numbers that you need to be a really reliable high end top 12 type of a fantasy starter. Show me the numbers on the contract again. Those are the numbers that are going to persuade me that this was a decision by the team to say out with the old in with the new we're going to keep the young stud that we believe can be a true number one. No I he's never going to he's going to profile more like the Mike Evans type of career numbers to me like Evans was not a perennial hundred catch guy right in Tampa Bay because the yards. I mean Evans in Tampa Bay Premier years finishing as a top 12 fantasy receiver 67 70 74 86 71. He had 196 catch season mostly he's in the 70s his average per year Evans Hall of Fame career 72.2 catches per year. You get Pearson to the 70s and it's yeah I think that's far better. Yeah I'm not I'm not expecting him to transform into Jefferson. It's he's he's got a type they have Tyler Warren for intermediate receptions. They have Josh Downs. So yeah I mean it's a big move and he didn't he didn't leave. They didn't let him go and then Michael Pittman goes to the Steelers for almost nothing. I think losing the contract while they signed him to a new contract three years fifty nine million dollars. Oh really. I had missed that. You didn't see that they renegotiated. How good good for good because Pittman is good. Why Michael Pittman is a good wide receiver. I was hoping this was just like casting him to the Isle of Misfit toys. No I think that Pittman is a good wide receiver. I would call him solid in terms of like they needed another guy. Yes. I mean DK could not carry the load at all. I some people are like well I'm going to take Pittman ahead of DK now that's not me. I'd be taking DK ahead of Pittman still. I would think I will take neither. Neither is an option. It might be. Will Howard might be Kirk Cousins. Did you not see this this morning. Oh no. My just threw up in his mouth. They're going to go from Rogers to the talk. The talk is to move from one veteran if Rogers doesn't come back move on to cousin one year deal with cousin. No. No. Oh I'm sorry. Sitting in it and relaxing. Oh man. You'll never draft DK again. No. No. All right. We'll take a break. You tell me it's Kirk Cousins. Yeah. I mean it's just a rumor Mike. I would go. I would go Will Howard. If I'm the Steelers I would go Will Howard to just I mean what they third round was that what Will Howard was. I believe he's a third round pick me to take a quarterback in the third and then be like now we're going to we're going to turn it over to old beat up cousins just let it let will Howard like McCarthy let it. Oh Howard. Okay. We're way off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Never mind. Bring in cousin. All right. We got more to talk about really was the sixth. We'll be right back. Sorry. Will. Keep the cuddles and lose the mess with advantage chewable. Just one tasty tablet kills please and ticks for a whole month. No mess. No stress. Just one tasty chew. Advantage chewable. Advantage chewable. Please. Take protection made easy. Find out more at advantage chewable dot co dot UK. Easy to love. Easy to protect. Advantage chewable. Did we not talk about the bills trading for DJ Moria. I thought we talked about it on the show. All the shows all the shows blend together. Oh yeah. I was like what does this have to do with the bills. I did think he just randomly hit it but yeah the bears got a second round pick DJ more goes to Buffalo. It's one of those moves that makes sense for everybody. You get especially the bears. Yeah I mean yeah the bear especially the bears because the bears weren't using him. I think this move works for the bears this move works for DJ more this move works for Buffalo DJ more is maybe not as good anymore as we think he might be. I don't know why he was the screen merchant and that's it and the backfield guy. But you wanted a dunes day to have runway you want Luther Burton to have runway. Oh yeah. I'm saying for the the bills. I think this might have this this might have broke while we were on the footcast that might have been what I was thinking about. But the bills traded a second. They did a two five swap. Yeah. That's a big trade. The Pittsburgh Steelers did a seven six swap to get Michael Pittman. That would have been better for them. That's if you just put in the second let's say they drafted one of the best available of a good wide receiver class. Yeah best available wide receiver in the second round and Pittman. Yeah I'd rather have those two. Oh yeah. Oh and DJ more. He played with Joe Brady in Carolina. There's familiarity there. Loveland burden. A dunes day. That's what I'm most excited about. I'm also most excited just to have more weapons of any kind. They released for Josh Allen. They released Carter Samuel I think. Yeah. I don't know. It kind of works for everybody that it was very expensive. Sometimes you got overpay. It happens. Yeah. Yeah I mean and the. Yeah the the bears they got a trifecta of youngsters. Oh man the bears that that off. That's exciting. They're so please stay good ish Caleb. Okay. We need no please please. Regularly good. Yes please improve that accuracy. That won't let's go out it. Let's go up. J. Gris wants to see it. We got this one right. It wasn't hard to do but the Titans signed Wanda Robinson to a four year deal. My favorite comment about the Titans was that Dable is now acquiring the players that got him fired in New York. Yeah but Wanda is a great player. They didn't really have a receiver in Tennessee. That's the essence of what I think you know people don't realize I'm in on I'm in on Cam Ward. I do believe in Cam Ward. I always kind of end of the year was 10 touchdowns needed one interception over the last 10 games and that was again you didn't have weapons for Calvin Ridley wasn't around those other youngsters. You know Chimrey DK good player versatile gadget special teams. I am an air good player solid player probably not meant to be your one by any stretch so one day I'll comes in. He just gets it done. He's a productive receiver. Yeah 92 for over a thousand only four touchdowns last year and he should with his 38 million guaranteed. He should walk right in to be you know a 20 25 plus percent of the targets. So if you do believe in Cam Ward Wanda will be a very interesting target. Yeah Wanda had four top 12 finishes last year which was more than Sutton more than T Higgins. So I don't know what the tar I don't know if you can get the kind of targets you'd hope for with Cam Cam Ward in Tennessee but maybe. I mean he's coming off of 30 percent. Is there a world where Wanda is undervalued in fantasy. Yes. OK. Because the Titans the Titans have that stank on them. The Seahawks resign Rashid Shaheed I mentioned earlier in the show three year deal worth up to 51 million dollars. He is one of those players that I don't know if it's ever going to translate into fantasy as well as it does in real life. I feel like he is such a dynamic great player but I don't know fantasy consistency is what you're going to see from Rashid Shaheed at any point in Seattle. You're going to get Tori Horton back. You've already got J.S. in who's going to J.S. in seeing that contract that Ali Peer Scott put a down payment on a Scrooge vault. You can pre buy the Scrooge McDuck vaults and he bought two of them. Yeah he's he's going to break it open. I'll we'll Puka by the way. So Rashid Shaheed gets traded to Seattle. I'm seeing one two three never hit 10 points six six games of eight or fewer yards. I mean and yet it was weird that it never got going. Maybe we'll have it with the entire offseason and having the established roles that it'll be better for Shaheed. Okay the Raiders have signed Jalen Naylor to a three year deal worth thirty five million dollars. 23 million guaranteed for Jalen Naylor. The there was a report last week that Jalen Naylor was going to be a hot commodity on the free agents market. Yes. That people were going after a ball. By the way from the Minnesota Vikings Jalen Naylor. Yeah if you don't know who he is in place wide received. I don't blame you. I mean this is Jalen Naylor is a dynasty only name of name recognition but they say he was going to have a hot market. 23 guaranteed 27 years old. I mean it's OK. OK. This is a what is the NFL know that that we don't and that Minnesota Vikings. They don't know anything. The Raiders paid the loser tax to get a solid wide receiver. Not a special one. Every team has one guy like Jalen Naylor. The Cardinals is Greg Dorch. It's like a guy who's kind of productive for you and you respect their their ability but they don't go and you know dominate somewhere else. I can't. I can't count how many Raiders wide receiver signings have been in this category whether it's Adam Thielen to the Raiders. If you remember that deal. Naylor is fine. But he's a 27 year old wide receiver who didn't you know he just wasn't a game changer. They have Deontay Thornton. They have trade talker. They have Jack Bash. They don't have wide receivers. They're going to draft some too. So Thornton last I'm sorry. Now Thornton Naylor the past two years 28 and this is appearing in all 17 games 28 for 414. Follow that up last year with 29 for 444 yards. Was it him and McCarthy that had the connection. Let's or was it wins. I just I feel like there was a nice little run for Jalen Naylor. I would have to cross reference him. He had two games week 10 against Baltimore and week 15. Yeah 5 for 124 and 3 for 47 and that made him 20 something million dollars. OK good for you man. Chiefs resign Travis Kelsie one year deal worth 12 million dollars. He's back. Do you care. Yeah. Consider it wasn't he the like the tight end two or three last year. Don't take for tight end two away from coppets. I'm so sorry. Please. Yeah. I mean second half was real rough. It's week 12 on he would have been on page. 63 for 500. It's the amount of money that is I think interesting. Like if you're Travis Kelsie. The money says that the chiefs wanted you back. You know this and he was he was weighing his decisions of the offseason decides he wants to play at least one more year of football. And it just seemed an unnecessary move that he would get paid that much. So you will you have to pay. You have that's like the Cardinals with fits on one year deals. You end up having to pay these legends. Legend money regardless of what they're really worth anymore. You're not going to get them back on anything else. And he'll probably end up atop five tight end. He'll probably catch 50 something passes for 600 yards and three or four touchdowns. Yeah. There is. There is a scenario where it matters. But as a reminder and for Walker as well that Mahomes is coming off a devastating knee injury and may not be ready week one. Oh I bet he is. I bet he is. I say a likely three year deal with the New York Giants. Harbaugh likely reunited. Yeah. Dio Johnson gets a little kick in the yeah kick in the sensitive spot. Dio Johnson was someone I was I was pretty interested in but a three year 40 million dollar for likely is a legit weapon. So this is exciting for Jackson. I was thinking the same. It's good for Jackson. More weapons on the field. It's not like Theo can't catch touchdown passes. Yeah. He probably won't be as good for fantasy but he's still good for dark. Yeah they're interesting. You get neighbors back. I mean they did they did lose Wanda. So and they're they could they could be in the contention for Tyson or lemon or that's going to say where they're picking it. Love. How do you not add another weapon. They should. You got to give your quarterback a shot. Kate three year extension with the Buccaneers 20 million guaranteed just machine. All right good for you man. Kate is back and maybe slightly more relevant if I mean Titans aren't relevant but maybe more relevant with no Evans permanently. We had the Max Crosby trade. That was a big trade. Ravens. Did you did you hear Jamar Chase. I was going to say Jamar Chase. Not please upset. He was live on like Call of Duty or something upset which yeah I would be upset about it too. Burrow now has to face. TJ Watt. Yeah. Miles Garrett. Max Crosby in six games. Uh oh. Yeah. But it fixed that offensive line. Raiders also picked up Lindenbaum. I don't know if we mentioned that. That's a huge move for Gentie. It's gigantic. It's gigantic fixing the offensive line was was the most important thing I wanted to see from the Raiders. I am going to blitz the rest of this news mic because I just want you to basically interrupt me if something is interesting. Got you. Okay. Travisky to the Titans pick it to the Panthers. Kendrick Bourne to your deal to the Cardinals. Falcons signed John Dodson and Austin Hooper. The Dodson signing does seem chuckle worthy but Darnell Mooney is out the door. Dodson will slide right into being their wide receiver too. Probably won't have anything of note but. They brought Zaccheus back too right. What. Yeah you didn't know that. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah buddy. Reunited. Okay. It's not going to matter. Cleef Raymond to the Bears. That's kind of cool for the Bears special teams. Noah Phant to the Saints. Is that bother you with Joanne. Noah Phant. All right. Charlie Kohler to the Charter. How many years of Noah Phant do we need before you're like he's he's fine. Not fantastic. No. Dalton Schultz. One year extension. I didn't see that one with the Texans coming back to the Texans. Bill's three year extension with Dawson Knox doing the dirty work. Taekwondo Thornton coming back to the chiefs. Oh all right. Nine routes. Okay. When people are hurt. Traylon Burks came signed a one year deal had one catch last year signed a one year deal with the. Yeah but that catch ruled. It was great. Vikings restructured Hawkinson's contract keeping him in Minnesota. And Devin Singletary is back with the Giants which means they have Tracy Singletary and Scatterboo maybe. Don't do it. Maybe it'll be smoke. The Giants are so much better off bringing in Jordan Tyson. That's all I'm going to say. Then spending that early pick on. We got on a run. We got a breaker. All right. Breaking news. This is fabulous news for Jumeir Gibbs. Go on. The Detroit Lions have found their RB to former starting running back from the Kansas City Chiefs. Isaiah Pacheco. Okay. Does that bother you at all with Gibbs because it doesn't bother me one little bit. The only thing that would bother me for Gibbs would be a hammer. And this is not a hammer. No. No. This is this is if you are inside the five. Why would you put Pacheco over Gibbs. No you wouldn't. This is amazing news. That is excellent news. Celebrate like Gibbs manager. Tyler Algier I thought was going to go. It was a legit possibility. And if Algier had gone you would have had to say oh man that's that's five to seven rushing touchdowns that Gibbs won't get. But Pacheco Gibbs stays in the one on one contention before we close the show. We'll get into more free agent frenzy on Thursday. Mike and I before we close it out though I'm going to throw one name into the hat or in you know for the Seattle Friday. Sean Tucker. Yeah. Would that be interesting to you at all. Sean Tucker released not tendered by the the buck. No because he is out. You don't believe. I believe he has talent but it's hard to have seen him have that long of a career with Tampa Bay have had a lot of success and then the team really never doing anything with it. It's very surprising. Maybe it could have been horrifically bad coaching decisions. Those do happen. But if he went to if Tucker goes to Seattle I would I'd be more confident in the next few days. All right. Well that'll do it for today's episode of the show ultimate draft get calm. If you want to jump into the dynasty past right now the dynasty show or release is that tomorrow or release tomorrow. Yes. And more of the dynasty implications for all of these moves if you want to tune into that communities join the foot.com and we will say goodbye. Shout out to the doosers. They did their jobs once again over there. Amazing. Keep doosin. Let me see not loser loser loser. Take care. Good bye. 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