Hello, and welcome to the Dynasty Dude Podcast. I'm your host, Corey
Evans, Thank you for listening. This week is my second quarter report cards.
I'm assigning letter grades of AN, A, B, C, D,
and F two five players now that we're done with the second quarter of
the NFL campaign. It's a fun exercise. I do this four times throughout
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your roster call. Let's get right to it, though, beginning with letter
A, it is traves ETM. He's twenty five in January right now A
one fifty one five eighty three seven rushing log three point nine yards clip so
a bit inefficient sub forour upper Carrey average, but the production speaks volumes twenty
seven, two CEZ six and one as a receiver on thirty five targets healthy
share of both rushing and receiving outputs in Jacksonville. ETN has been on an
absolute tear, specifically from weeks five to eight, with weekly rushing output of
twenty six for above thirty six and two touchdowns, eighteen fifty five two touchdowns,
fourteen fifty three two touchdowns, and twenty four for seventy nine. Love
to see all the volume there, albeit a bit ineffective from a yar per
carry standpoint, then receiving output of four for forty eight, three for twenty
eight, three for twenty four, and three for seventy yards and a touchdown.
Etn, don't forget, missed all of his rookie season back in twenty
twenty one due Towey liszt Frank injury, managed to flourish at twenty twenty two
as the PPR RB seventeen in route to a two twenty eleven twenty five five
rushing effort five point winners per cliff and then thirty five three to sixteen as
receiver on forty five targets. Travis is well on his way to surpassing those
collective stats and totals across the board in twenty twenty three. It would shaping
up to be a true breakout season. The stats are nice and all,
but I think ball security has been one of his best improvements. Twenty twenty
two he had three loss fumbles compared to so far zero fumbles and zero loss
fumbles in twenty twenty three. That is huge for his playing time, continuing
drives, remaining on the field and eventually punching it in to the end zone.
Worries of third round rookie Tank Bigsby stealing volume from ETN have been cast
aside to this point due to a limited role for the Auburn product. Biggs
b has delivered a twenty three to fifty four to two rushing law for two
point three yards per carry. That is not what you'd like to see for
what was the talented college prospect, and then one catch six yards on three
targets. So any fears of tank unseen ETN can be put on the back
burner at least for the time being, barring an injury or a significant dip
in efficiency or production on behalf of Travis ETN. Now in general, as
a whole, ETN is a locked in RB one in redraft or dynasty team.
He is playing the top end, burst and big play skills that then
made him such a coveted prospect out of Clemson. I do think that we
have yet to witness or see Etn's true NFL ceiling could be hard to believe,
but legitimately could be a top five running back annually in fantasy football circles.
So keep that in mind if you haven't rostered in Dynasty's is not a
cell high or cash out type of window. Let. A grade of an
A ETN is legit, but a grade of a B is Josh Dollins.
He's twenty two third rounder out of UNC. He's become a fixture for the
Colts passing attack with Gardner Minshew at quarterback. Since Week five downs as registered
weekly efforts a six for ninety seven, five to twenty one, one touchdown,
five for one twenty five one touchdown, seven for seventy two. Then
his past week, he left early with a knee injury. One catch ten
yards. Disappointment, but it's an injury. What are you gonna do?
Those counting stats are strong and full PBR, especially for a rookie wide receiver.
Most encouraging in my mind are as targs per week of seven five,
twelve, three, six, eight, six, nine and one one being
the outlier because he left early. Mention, it does make me seen if
Downs will be available in week ten for the Colts, since he was added
to an angry report towards the middle or end of the packs week on Thursday
with any injury which then evidently flared up or was made worse in the week
nine contest. So hopefully this is a short term issue with Josh Downs and
he didn't push it too much to make this a multi week absence. Time
will tell. At this point of recording on Monday, I don't have much
information on Downs or his timeline. Outside of his early departure in week nine
at Carolina, he has been on the field for at least seventy one percent
of the team snapped weekly, with his best season mark checking in eighty percent.
That was twice. Sure. Down's a bit undersize at five nine one
seventy one. There are plenty of val concerns that he would not be able
to translate or adapt his set of skills to the NFL level to spite being
a premier prospect at North Carolina. Out of the slot, and that's where
Downs shines right out of the slot. Gardner minshe looking for him early and
often not that Anthony Richardson wasn't as you could see from his target totals between
splitting reps with ar and Minshew, just seems that Minshew was a better fit
for or the skill set Downs brings to the grid iron. We now know
that the talent was indeed legitimate, and that Downs his one oh one thirteen,
thirty five eight and then ninety four ten, twenty nine to eleven logs
to close out his cleeed career. We're not a fluke not to mention this
four point fourty to forty yard dash, thirty eight and a half mes vertical
and ten foot eleven inch broad All of us paint a picture that Josh Downs
is one of the next best young great wideouts to man the slot in the
NFL and Fans football alike. You could see it on film. The route
running, it's the technician, smooth, fluid, and then the football in
his hands, his yak, the yard of the catch and even rack run
up the catch ability are clear top traits that were evident at the college level
and now being showcased with the Colts in real life, which is great to
see if you invested what is now look like a steal late second early mid
third rookie draft pick based on his adp over the summer. So Josh Downs
receives a B letter grade from me, which I think has a chance to
eventually become an A. If you have mine your roster, he is probably
wide receiver four five six, which means you're flexing him nothing but pure profit
from here on out. If you need help another position, I understand pivoting
away from him. I want to stress and emphasize that even when Richardson returns
in twenty twenty four, presumably the fact that Downs is performing better with Minshew
than he was where they are isn't a big deal, small sample size.
He is now a face of the franchise and the future contract status Michael Pittman
Leaving the Colts could even open up more opportunities for Downs and Asson as twenty
twenty four bet agrade of a sea is Tony Poward twenty six. After a
monster twenty twenty two campaign where power took over Zeke his workhorse status in Dallas
with a one ninety three one thousand and seven nine rushing law for five point
three yards per clip and then thirty nine three seventy one three efforts on fifty
five targets as a receiver that made Tony the PPRRB eight last season. It
was widely assumed he would either replicate, remain on par with that workload,
or exceed it in twenty twenty three, but the former Memphis product has been
a relative bust compared to the elite commodity we all thought we were going to
have rostered this season. Despite having the Dallas backfield to himself for the most
part through nine weeks of action, power has not been up to those standards
from a volume or per touch efficiency standpoint. Season high in rushes twenty five
yards rushing one twenty two reception, seven yards receiving eighty targets eight. Those
sound lofty, which they are, but he has not come close to those
totals week to week compared to last season in tandem with Elliott. This is
where it gets a bit concerning season low for power this year rush is eight
yards rushing, twenty nine receptions, one yards receiving, negative one targets one.
That's bottom of the barrel, barely even startable talent at running back,
let alone, you're presumed RB one. How about fifteen or fewer rushing attempts
in six different games. If you took Powered early in the startup draft or
was your first second round pick in redraft, let alone was a primary trade
tarker for you to acquire this pass offseason. It's simply not getting it done
for an RB one, or even RB two for that matter, those are
polarizing for a statistical floor and ceiling, making Power more of an RB two,
if not high end flex than true RB one candidates. Can he turn
it around? Possibly in eight games play the dates this year, He's been
held a single look at points of full PPR four different times, which is
hard to make excuses for Power's best output came in Week one at the New
York Giants with twenty two point two points. Since then, he has not
surpassed nineteen point nine full PPR points in a single contest. Now enters Week
ten with logs of one twenty four to seventy four to two on the ground
and twenty nine for a buck ninety on thirty five targets with no receiving touchdowns.
Speaking of touchdowns, Poward has not scored a rushing or receiving touchdown since
Week one, when he had two rushing touchdowns against said Giants. He's averaging
four hours per carry, which is a bit underwhelming. For being honest and
to the point, what I'm most concerned about are Tony snap rates for a
perceived featured running back per week of sixty four percent, sixty four again,
eighty six, fifty three, sixty nine, eighty five, sixty five,
and seventy seven. Those totals are not reflective of a set oft forget it
rb X one in a Fants football lineup. Mike McCarthy has made it a
point at each postgame press conference or even at halftime that Dallas intends to utilize
twenty Powered more. Perhaps this is a larger issue at hand. The absence
or departure of Kellen Moore and how creative he is with running backs little non
offensive schemes is diminishing powers relevance. But if you watch Power to the touch
point with his lack of explosion or burst compared to when he was the lightning
Zekes thunder in twenty twenty two is causing some long term concern here. At
twenty six years old, Powered could break the bank with another contract and carve
out another two three years of high end relevance in Dynasty. On the flip
side, he might be exposed for being better suited or equipped for our BBC
duties where he's receiving less volume, Yet each touch means more. It can
lead to better production. Volume is king for running back and fantasy not though,
when a running back isn't getting the job done. And that's where we're
at with twenty Powered, he could have had a worse letter grade. I'm
giving him s C because he had a few huge game early on the season,
but it's been a downward trend week by week by week for quite some
time, even out of Dallas is By and I'm most worried about the snap
rates because for an RB one, if you're not eclipsing eighty percent of snaps
or at least seventy five week in week out, then you're not an RB
one. This hipple is that Tony Power is not an RB one right now
until further notice. There's a BILO window until he explodes for a big performance
once again. Yet the letter grade of a C is certainly deserved at this
point of the campaign. Time for a quick break. I'll be back with
two more letter grades, A D and and f to break down my second
quarter report card letter grade of a D is assigned to T Higgins, who's
coming off a strong performance, but not enough to bump him up in the
letter grade rankings. Twenty four years old. Those who have Higgins rostered in
Dynasty know very well how uncertain or unreliable of an asset he is at wide
receiver, let alone and fantasy football. The consistency is mind boggling. It's
frustrating, you know the drill of you have ever rostered him in any league.
He missed Week five with the ribb injury. Otherwise, he has been
active for the Bengals without much to show for compared to the offseason ADP or
ranking status linked to his draft stock. His per game output when active stands
at a goose egg with eight target to Week one eight eighty nine, two
two for twenty one, two for nineteen, two for twenty That three game
stretch was downright awful five to sixty nine, and then this past week eight
for one ten a nice bounce back performance. Te Higgins reminds me a bit
of mid to late year Mike Evans. Where we're seeing Evans over the past
few years in terms of volatility with roller coast performances that are baked into rostering
him. You know, a're gettingduds, you know are getting stud efforts those
are infuriating the highs and the lows that offer week winning and week losing performances.
That's just part of the trade or part of the deal with rostering T
Higgins or Mike Evans in Fantasy football prior to twenty twenty three. I think
this is a very interesting case to make four or against T depending on where
you're at with him. He has finished the PPR Wide Receiver twenty eight,
twenty twenty why Receiver twenty four, twenty twenty one, Wide Receiver eighteen twenty
twenty two. This is now a year four meeting te Higgins. Isn't he
ever returned more than middle tier WYDE receiver two value, despite his ADP trade
value indicating otherwise. It's possible that tee Higgins therefore is an overrated dynasty asset,
which pains me to say because I'm a huge fan of the skill sets.
It could be simply that he needs more volume to achieve a higher steiling.
That is a case that I think is legitimate to make. On the
other hand you cannot ignore is an efficiency on multiple seasons of data or disposal
here, even when he disappears in certain weeks when he's fully healthy. That
part of it makes it puzzling to understand who is t Higgins. Is he
seriously a wide receiver two for NFL team or could he be a one elsewhere?
The college pedigree and splits with without Jamar Chase indicate that he should in
fact be a wide receiver one or have that sort of outcome calculated into his
range of possibilities. And that basically to my next point that perhaps it's better
if Cincinnati moves on from Higgins as a UFA in twenty twenty four to become
a free agent and possibly a cornerstone wide receiver one for a different NFL franchise.
While his Week nine outburst first Buffalo was a welcome sign to potentially turn
the season around, we need to see far more consistency rest of season out
of Higgins. Think him seriously as an annual receiver one in Donzee circles?
Is he wide receiver two on a per game basis? Yes, he is,
but there's so many ups and downs, and even that is hard to
say with much confidence. As a result, Tie Higgins receives a letter grade
of a D for me in my second quarter report card. I'm more in
than out on him in Dynasty. It's just so difficult to project or forecast
what the future holds for Higgins with Joe Burrow and JAMR Chase being priorities for
the Bengals organization in terms of locking in their contracts. Beget to Chase.
He does have a back injury which is not clear in terms of a distinct
possibility missing time. If he were to miss time, then that could be
the path for T Higgins to subvent himself back into our good graces. Week
nine again was a nice reminder of what he's capable of. It's just we
haven't seen that consistently in twenty twenty three. And then finally let a grade
of an F is none other than Christian Watson, twenty four years old.
After missing week's won the three with a link En Hampshing injury. Their ability
woes once again entered the conversation to cloud Watson Dynasty stock even further. Since
returning from injury, the sophomore wide out out nor Dakota State has registered game
logs of two twenty five in a touchdown, three for ninety one Green Bays
buy three for twenty seven, three for thirty three, and one catch thirty
seven yards. That's not good. No other way to spin it. Over
that span, Watson has earned target totals of four to seven, five,
eight and two. The target totals are a bit underwhelming. He is boom
er Bus feaster famine. There's no other way to spin it. Those aforementioned
injury concerns where once again brought back to life in Week nine vers La Rams,
since Watson was forced to leave late in the contest with the parent chest
and back injuries, as well as being evaluated for concussion. The early word
is that he did not sustain an actual concussion, but had some symptoms that
often are linked two to one. To keep an eye on that injury report
rest of week. Let's remember that Watson did in fact burst on to the
NFL scene as a rookie in twenty twenty two second rounder forty one six eleven
seven receiving effort fourteen games played, averaging fourteen point in the arts per catch.
We thought down the stretch last season he was the next great superstar wide
out the software campaign that we've seen this year has not been as triumphant,
with twelve catches two hundred thirteen yards one touchdown in five games played across twenty
six targets. He's six four to two, a weight with insane athletic metrics
four point three six forty thirty and a Halvings vertical eleven foot four ins broad
jump prospect model wise analytic perspective, he's Calvin Johnson. What matters more than
those measurables are actual NFL output per game reliability, and that's where Watson is
leaps and bounds behind Calvin Johnson. Outside of his athletic profile. Nobody's going
to question what Watson is capable of. Instead, he's undoubtedly going to be
labeled or associated with being injury prone because of his inability to stay in the
field. After all, a player's best ability is availability. That is a
model that I fully believe in, because stats are accumulating when you're on the
field. If your sideline with an injury, you're not putting up numbers.
Simple as that, I do recommend buying low on why for a future second,
whether it's twenty four or twenty five, If possible, I don't feel
comfortable spending it first on him, and that's because of the durability or a
lack thereof, So don't bank on top tier value rest of the way,
especially if Jordan Love's inconsistent or poor quarterback play continues. He's an eighty one
point nine passer rate and Entreen Week ten for context. You want to see
a quarterback rating ninety or one hundred that's considered good or on par with expectations.
If you're over one hundred, then you're doing a really good job.
I Love being at eighty one point nine does showcase that he's a work in
progress. Start off the year on a hot note, has cooled off considerably,
Defense has had more film on him, and he's being exposed as an
inexperienced pastor at the professional level. That's hurting the likes of Christian Watson,
who's a player that relies on downfield big playability or getting the ball to him
in space to then rack up a ton of yards after the catch. His
speed is otherworldly to this point, with catch totals of two, three,
three, three and one, we haven't seen that Lidlifting Week winning upside in
twenty twenty three, not to say we won't ever see it again. The
common de nominator could be Jordan Love not being the long term solution for green
Bay at quarterback. All of that being said, Christian Watson let a grave
of an f It's hard to rank him or value him any higher basement we've
seen, and if he misses any more time, people are going to become
very uncertain and skeptical about him ever returning on his rookie adp let alone his
draft capitol in real life. At this point, I don't blame you for
pivoting if you want to expose the green Bays offense in so much shape or
form to Luke Muskrave or other wideouts like Romeo Dobbs talked about Dontevion Wicks a
bit ago for a nice cheap ad on your bench, and it sounds like
his role could be expanding, particularly if Watson is his time. Jayden Reid
has that peaks and valleys, but even he seems to be a bit more
reliable in terms of availability on the field, and that at the end of
the day is most important for us in fantasy. Thank you all for listening.
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TRAVESTN B Josh Downs, C, Tony Pollard, D. T. Higgins,
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