Becoming a Best Ball Bro: Do We Have It All Wrong?

**Rich Ryan** (0:00)
Hey, JJ, my wife and I have been training for a half marathon, and on Saturday, we peaked at eight miles. We're almost there at that full 13 and change. Everything hurt after.
When's the last time you did something stressful?

**JJ Zachariason** (0:15)
Uh, that would be on Sunday, when I didn't know if Ashton Jeanty was alive or not. I'm JJ, and over the last couple of years, I've been doing everything I can to be a best ball bro. And last season, things finally fell into place. I got 40th in the DraftKings Millie Contest, taking home $20,000.
Maybe I became a best ball bro, but I'm still looking to learn more about this game, and I still want others to come on this ride with me. So even if you consider me a best ball bro, this could be your year. This could be the year that you officially become a best ball bro.
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Welcome in to another episode of Becoming a Best Ball Bro. I'm JJ Zachariason, joined as always by Rich Ryan. Rich, we're both wearing blue today. How are you doing?

**Rich Ryan** (1:53)
That's right. The blue boys. I almost made another blue be a literative joke, but this is a family show.

**JJ Zachariason** (2:03)
Yes.

**Rich Ryan** (2:05)
Speaking of painful, yesterday, those couple of hours waiting to see whether or not Ashton Jeanty had a fantasy football pulse. Of course, he was. Blood was flowing through his veins. But for our selfish purposes, we needed him to rise up like the Undertaker, and it sounds like he has.

**JJ Zachariason** (2:24)
Yeah.
To a degree, seems like it was probably the best case scenario in those moments. I'm a little bit overweight on Jeanty, and I was drafting him a lot more in July for some reason. I go through these spurts of drafting players a whole lot.
So I haven't drafted him a lot recently, but I am overweight, so I was sitting there being like, please, and I'm underweight on Mike Washington, and I'm like, please, Ashton, be okay. I need you this year. I need you. But I break that down with our guest today in pretty good detail. A lot of game theory discussion. Probably the most game theory oriented guest that we've had on the show. We had them on, I think, last year, but we'll get to that in just a second. First, let's talk about some risers and followers in ADP Rich, because we're in this season now. I'm sure there's going to be one because we just got word that Keishon Booty was traded to the Texans. We are recording this. We usually record this part on Tuesday, but we're recording it on Monday this week. But Keishon Booty did get traded to the Texans, so I'm sure he's going to be a riser here soon. But let's go over some risers and fallers because there's been a lot of movement in the ADP streets recently.

**Rich Ryan** (3:34)
Yeah, let's start with Keenan Allen, somebody who you were drafting when he was a free agent now on the Indianapolis Colts. And as of last week, he was starting to go in round 14 Are you still drafting, Keenan? Are you just happy with your position? Where are you at with Mr. Allen?

**JJ Zachariason** (3:52)
Yeah, I mean, I'm fine if I am getting a stack and he's there and there's, that range doesn't have a ton of locked in great wide receivers. And do I think he's locked in and great? Maybe locked in, but not necessarily amazing. I think that he's certainly lost his step. He's not that much of a down the field type player. But the one thing about Keenan Allen, man, is that the last two stops, he has been used quite a bit in his offenses. Last year, he had the highest target share among all chargers, wide receivers by a pretty decent margin, you look at it on a per route run basis. Then you look at the Bears a couple of years ago, he had a better target share than DJ Moore, and that was Roma Dunze's rookie season, and he had a better target share by a healthy margin over Roma Dunze.