Kyler Murray named starter, Luther Burden III injured + Rookie WR hype machine

**Patrick Daugherty** (0:16)
Hello everybody, welcome to the Rotoworld Football Show. I'm Patrick Daugherty, joined by Denny Carter on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Always a big time for news this time of year, Denny Carter. Unfortunately, all of the news is almost always injury-related, a lot of big injuries. But first, we do have a competition reaction to get to the end or the lack of a competition. Kyler Murray formally declared the starter in Minnesota. Luther Burden injured, Josh Jacobs injured, Jadarian Price injured, Amarian Hampton's role may be uncertain in Los Angeles. Alec Pierce may be a setback, I don't know what you'd call it. A lot of big names, a lot of big news, all that and more when we come right back after this.
Denny, we're back, but we'd be remiss. We got a lot of big news to get to.

**Denny Carter** (1:04)
We do.

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:05)
There's a lot of big news in our personal lives. One, I busted a toe with what many are calling the toe stub from hell.

**Denny Carter** (1:14)
It must have been, he broke it guys. He broke his toe.

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:18)
I broke it, essentially karate kicking my bedroom door.

**Denny Carter** (1:21)
You shouldn't do that.

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:23)
Several people were like, did you do it on purpose? I was like, no, did not kick my door.

**Denny Carter** (1:28)
How hard are you walking?

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:29)
I was walking very fast.

**Denny Carter** (1:31)
It's too fast. You got to slow it down.

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:34)
I'm an aggressive walker. I'm like an aggressive stares taker. I just move aggressively.

**Denny Carter** (1:38)
You are an aggressive walker. I mean, we've seen each other in public places enough to know how we move.
When we're on the floor of the Super Bowl Radio Row, nobody's walking with more purpose than RotoPat. I can see that.

**Patrick Daugherty** (1:55)
I was doing that the other late Thursday evening and my reward was hell.

**Denny Carter** (1:59)
Yeah. First of all, this is why you should always have shoes on in the house.

**Patrick Daugherty** (2:04)
You know that I do. You know I'm an always shoe-er.

**Denny Carter** (2:07)
This is what I have.

**Patrick Daugherty** (2:08)
I take my shoes off one time.

**Denny Carter** (2:10)
I don't believe you now. Now that I think you've been lying about being an always shoe-er.

**Patrick Daugherty** (2:14)
I take my shoes off one time. Now I'm taping two toes together. So that's going on with me. Denny has a beard.
It's frankly very distracting. It's not because it's bad. It's very, very good.

**Denny Carter** (2:26)
You're just not used to it.

**Patrick Daugherty** (2:27)
I'm just not used to Denny changing up his look, but it looks really good. Thanks. Excited to follow the progress of this thing.

**Denny Carter** (2:33)
So yeah, I haven't shaved in a week. And so the other day, it was my shave day. And I thought, what if I didn't shave?
And what if I just, I mean, I like, you know, shave the top, and I shave my neck because I'm not trying to look like Andrew Luck circa 2011 or whatever. No offense, Andrew. But I think it looks okay. My kids are staring at me as if I have a third eye.

**Patrick Daugherty** (3:00)
Yeah, they're aghast.

**Denny Carter** (3:02)
Yeah, but we're gonna get used to it. As a family unit, we're gonna get used to it.

**Patrick Daugherty** (3:07)
If you stick with it, it might be time for me to bring back the walrus mustache. We might just have to go all in as a Rotoworld Football Show on the facial hair. But that's our personal updates. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers, our toes and beards. But we'll start with NFL news, Denny. This is big news. Speaking of thoughts and prayers and getting down on knees and begging, pleading with someone, ESPN's Jordan Ranan reports, Giants players and coaches are, quote, begging Jackson Darden to slide at the end of scrambles. So Giants training came off to a great start.
After three weeks to take away, can you please just for the love of God slide one time?

**Denny Carter** (3:50)
Just once.

**Patrick Daugherty** (3:51)
Please once.

**Denny Carter** (3:52)
Yeah. So I wrote that blurb and it caught my attention because if you read down to the bottom of the article, Jordan Ranan mentions that the Giants have had 11 training camp practices, and this is the first and only time Jackson Dart has slid at the end of a run. And John Harbaugh said, I clapped and applauded.
A defensive player, Brian Burns, said, this is what we like to see. Your guy, Darnell Mooney, said.