The All-Fade List:
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Dalvin Cook
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Todd Gurley
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Chris Carson
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David Johnson
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Mark Ingram
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Adam Thielen
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AJ Green
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TY Hilton
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Tyler Higbee
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Marlon Mack
Dalvin
Cook - Dalvin
Cook has played in 28/48 games so far & you're taking him over RB's like Derrick
Henry, Austin Ekeler, & Joe Mixon, who have played at least 14 games every
year...
All so you
can have just a 1-3 PPG advantage...
Think about
that for a second.
Is it really
worth it?
Todd
Gurley – If you’ve
already read this article I wrote on Todd Gurley, you probably could
have guessed he was going to make my All-Fade list.
The risk just
isn’t worth the reward in RD3. Just take Mark Andrews or Zach Ertz where you’d
take Gurley & grab Raheem Mostert 2 rounds later instead.
Chris Carson – Read the tea leaves... the team drafted Deejay Dallas in RD4 & then went out & signed Carlos Hyde…
They don’t
trust Carson’s health – and why should they?
He hasn’t
played a full season since his senior year of high-school…
David
Johnson – A soon-to-be 29-year old RB who
hasn’t averaged over 3.7 YPC or 1.8 yards after-contact in 3 straight seasons…
who’s fantasy ceiling is dependent upon targets to complement his below-average
rushing efficiency… on a team with another RB who will steal targets… at a RD4
asking price?
NO. THANK.
YOU.
Mark
Ingram – Only
202 carries in 15 games last year, but buoyed by 15 TD’s – including 5
receiving – on just 26 receptions. Throw J.K. Dobbins, an improving Gus
Edwards, a healthy Hollywood, and rookie Devin Duvernay into the mix… & Ingram
will be lucky to hit 8 TD’s & 20 receptions this year. That kind of
TD-dependency just isn’t worth a 5th or 6th round asking
price. Take D’Andre Swift instead.
Adam
Thielen –
Thielen is probably the guy I’m most concerned about fading, outside of Dalvin
Cook. I was all-in on him last year & it’s not hard to envision a sky-high
ceiling for him again in 2020.
But this is
an offense that just doesn’t project to be built on the pass anywhere near the
level it was when Thielen excelled in 2018 (466 attempts last year compared to
606 attempts in 2018) & you can fall in love with any WR ranked 7-25.
Are you sure
you want to fall in love with the 30-year old with just two 1,000-yard seasons
on his resume & recent soft-tissue injuries?
TY Hilton
& AJ Green –
Again, why are you taking risks (WR26 ADP for Hilton & WR28 ADP for Green)
on 30+ year old WR’s with recent injury issues when there’s still high-upside
WR youth left on the board (like Stefon Diggs at WR27, Michael Gallup at WR29,
Hollywood at WR30, Tyler Boyd at WR32, Brandin Cooks at WR36, Darius Slayton at
WR39, Diontae Johnson at WR40, & CeeDee Lamb at WR40?)
Some risks
just aren’t worth taking.
Tyler
Higbee –
According to FantasyPros, Tyler Higbee is currently going as TE7 at 69 overall
ADP in .5PPR leagues – the back-end of the 6th round & ahead of
TE’s like Evan Engram & Hayden Hurst… this is absolutely baffling to
me – for many reasons…
Marlon
Mack – Marlon
Mack was already a TD-dependent fantasy option. Now, with superfreak
Jonathan Taylor in town, Mack can expect his 8 rushing TD’s from last year to
be cut in half. With no receiving role to buffer that loss – that leaves Mack
as nothing more than a TD-dependent, unpredictable, and thus relatively useless
handcuff. He should NOT be going ahead of high-upside RB’s like Antonio Gibson,
Zack Moss, or Tony Pollard.
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