Late-Round Perspectives: Dr. Adam Hutchison

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

Adam Hutchison is a doctor of physical therapy who's done work for the Undropables, 4 for 4 Fantasy Football, and now Footballguys. He's developed injury recovery scores for individual fantasy players, he's a Purdue Boilermaker, and most importantly, he's a dad of two. These are his late-round perspectives.

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Adam Hutchison (1:46)

I know I speak for those guys when I say we really appreciate you having us on, and it's nice to be on here. Is this show become the Rogan of fantasy football? Sitting down doing late round perspective here. So, yeah, no, it's good to be here. I'm excited.

JJ Zachariason (2:04)

There was someone last year who said that, I don't know if that was in reference to that, but there was someone on Twitter last year who said that, I'm only doing this because I'm trying to be the Joe Rogan of fantasy football, is what they said.

Adam Hutchison (2:17)

I did not see that. I was being sincere. No, I tried to catch every one of these that I can, just because it's a little bit more of a relaxed forum. Obviously, we're talking about fantasy football, but it's a cool show. No, I really enjoy it just as a consumer.

JJ Zachariason (2:33)

Yeah, I appreciate that, man. It means a lot. Before I get into your journey in the fantasy space, I want to get something out of the way. And I've done this both times that the other doctors of physical therapy have been on, and I've chatted with them about injuries. But I want to get your perspective on this, too. It feels like the way people react to people like yourself on social media is way too harsh, way too harsh. And I mean that from the standpoint of, you'll hear someone say, well, this Twitter doc said this thing, and an analyst or someone who said, oh, they don't know what they're talking about. And to me, my standpoint on it, and again, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, but my stance on it is, how is this really that much different than anyone else who's forecasting and prognosticating and thinking about what's going to happen in the future? I don't see how it's any different as me as a fantasy analyst sitting here, projecting which rookie is going to be good, or which wide receiver is going to see a 25% target share. I'm projecting as well. It's no different. You're just projecting a different kind of thing. I'm doing it with the production side, and you're doing it with the injury side. No one is claiming to be 100% correct, and you're guiding us in the right direction. Is that the way that you view this too?

Adam Hutchison (3:54)

Yeah.

I'll say two parts to your question. I literally had this conversation. I don't know if conversation is the way to describe it on social media, but someone was saying, I was giving projections in terms of return to play timelines, and someone was like, well, I'd rather there not be any guesswork involved in it. I was like, are you new to fantasy football? That's all this is. You're sitting in the team meetings with the Washington commanders and being like, oh, Jacory Krosky-Mare is going to get 22 touches this week. It's all this work. That's all we're doing. We're just trying to, as best as we can, use our knowledge to give you the best idea.

The second part, I've tried to be better at this. I think everyone could get better at it. I try to stay off of social media. I'm very much a post and ghost kind of guy. I put it out there, I don't read the comments. It's just not worth my time and energy to get worked up or go back and forth with people. I get sucked in sometimes, but most of the time, I'm pretty much a post and ghost guy.