Ray_T

oh, and to answer the initial question.... yes. I would pick him in round 2

hard to quantify what you dont see. people report on the pre season game and thats what they see on TV. then people make stupid judgements based on that when in reality, the team may have put him through a much more rigorous test with their own defense in one of the closed or open practices. but that's not on TV. you know the saying..... 'out of sight out of mind.' I do expect him to not be his absolute best this year. hes a rookie. but he has all the tools in the toolbox and all the weapons on offense he needs to be successful. he just needs that experience. I had initially predicted a 9-8 season. but I'm thinking there may be a decent chance at a 10-7 season.

fair enough, but hes not wrong. teams do go vanilla on defense during most pre season games.

I see the point. never mind. I gotta quit reading these posts when I'm tired. haha

to clarify, I'd say he gets no more carries than a regular backup RB. Technically if there is no backup Walker is getting all of them, so hes getting enough to keep Walker fresh. but not much more than that.

hes got a lot of potent weapons in the offense to use. really all he needs to do is get the ball into one of their hands each play. that alone takes a lot of pressure off of the rookie as I feel that this crew of WR's should be able to get open for their QB. I really like his chances of an early breakout.

picking at #5, you can very easily end up with the guy you were gonna keep in the first place. you may get lucky and get someone better. I like your options at 5. I'd keep Puka.

yeah, in a 2 QB league I think you need to take that deal. and both those QBs will likely (assuming good health) outperform what they did last year.

assuming its not a superflex league, I would also likely take that deal. you still have Burrow and Kyler Murray (who I think has a real nice year this season)

for sure. but they have probably shown him the real deal in closed practices with the defense going full out. maybe even a couple open ones. but we likely wont really have a true idea of how good the kid is until week 1 or week 2 are fully in the books. This is why I dont like drafting rookies. it can be a total crapshoot.

quite possibly right. what I dont like is we know what the injury is, but not necessarily the severity. though given timeline, likely a mild grade 2 injury. it could have also been a grade 1 injury where they were being overly cautious.

It is very common for rookies to have this issue. partly because the speed at the NFL level is higher. but also partly because the coverage is better too. open by NFL standards is considerably tighter coverage than when a WR is open by college standards.

the receivers were fully blanketed? I figured their WR were far too good for this to happen. unless we are talking mostly backups playing in this.

Herbert seems to be back. Not sure how close he is to 100% but the fact he is practicing with time to spare makes me think hes not missing time.

I like Palmer the best among the Chargers WR because I think he has the highest floor of the 3.

LaPorta

agreed. the offense as a whole is better than its been in a couple years. and the presence of a legit deep threat will open things up for Kelce, but Kelce has lost a half step too. in the end it will be close to a wash but I have Kelce around TE3/4 overall depending on scoring rules. I do not have him ranked as the #1 TE in any format

in terms of actual talent it is Jefferson Wilson St Brown in terms of fantasy points, I rank it like this Wilson St Brown Jefferson I rank Jefferson third because of his QB situation. but he is without a doubt the best and most talented WR of the bunch. but that does you no good if the QB is incapable of consistently getting him the ball.