News and Ranking Changes: The 14 Most Important Stories From The First Week Of Training Camp (Episode 1001 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

**Adam Levitan** (0:15)
Hello, and welcome to episode 1001 of the official establishtherun.com podcast. My name is Adam Levitan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, as always joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva, and the NFL training camp is officially underway. Real news is flowing. I hath reached the full 3.9 inches.
Silva, it's a great day to be alive. How's it going?

**Evan Silva** (0:43)
Yeah, we're here. We're doing this on Tuesday, July 28th. And I mean, there's no turning back from now on. Like we gotta be on for the next five, six months. So it has started. I am gonna take a minute here this weekend to congratulate my brother, Luke, who's an avid ETR subscriber, just had his first baby. I'm an uncle.
Congratulations, Luke and Laura. Little Mary Claire gonna go meet her this weekend. But yeah, Hall of Fame game is a little bit over a week away. And yeah, everything's real now.

**Adam Levitan** (1:17)
Congrats to Luke. And as Evan said, yes, even Evan's brother has to pay for his own ETR subscription. So stop reaching out to me about free ETR subs. Luke pays, Luke Silva pays as well. Anyways, on today's show, we will be discussing all the latest news and how it is affecting our rankings. We will be doing these news slash rank chain shows once a week, on Tuesdays until week one. So be sure you are subscribed totally free here on YouTube or your podcast feed. Before we get into it here today, reminder, peak drafting season is here. If you have a fantasy draft coming up, we can help. Our NFL Early Bird bundle product is now live for sale. Combines Draft Kit Pro, aka Silva's Top 150, all our ETR ranks, Thormans in-season rankings. My context around drafts combines that with our in-season product, aka all our projections, premium shows, including the new Man vs. Machine in-season, Silva's matchups, Thorns offensive line, defensive line mismatches, tons more. For details on the early bird bundle or just Draft Kit Pro, head to the subscribe tab on establishtherun.com. Again, the subscribe tab on establishtherun.com.
All right, Evan, let's get into it here with news and ranking changes.
First story of the day, Malik Nabers coming off of the knee injury, not expected to open camp on PUP. I talked about this on Market Monday for a while, so you guys can go back and listen to that show Market Monday for more from me. But the people need your take, Silva, on the Malik Nabers situation. Where are you at on him right now?

**Evan Silva** (3:07)
Yeah, so this is a little bit tough to do evergreen analysis on because we're recording this on Tuesday and the Giants start practicing on Wednesday.
Okay, so anyone that is not on PUP to start training camp is technically expected to practice. And so by avoiding the PUP list, Malik Nabers, I mean, that sets him up to practice on day one of Giants training camp, whereas, I don't know, two weeks ago, we were thinking, is Malik Nabers going to be back by midseason? And now we got a report from Dan Dukin, who does a great job covering the Giants for a long time, working for the Athletic, suggesting today that maybe Malik Nabers could be ready for week one. So that is a huge, huge step forward for Malik Nabers. I bumped him up from number 53 overall to 44 overall. I right now have him as wide receiver 24 I know that you guys think that he can maybe get to the point where he's being drafted at the 2-3 turn, and I agree with that. I do kind of want to maybe slowly matriculate him up the rankings, as we see on Wednesday. Is he practicing on day one? I think there's a distinct possibility that he could practice on day one of Giants training camp. So I want to do a slow matriculation, but I could see him being a 2-3 turn pick by 2-3 weeks from now.

**Adam Levitan** (4:29)
My big thing with this is if you are good enough to not start camp on active PUP means that they think he has a very good chance to play sometime in the first four weeks of the regular season. And if you have a good chance to play sometime in the first four weeks of the regular season, then I think by November or December, it's not crazy to think you could be 95% or 100% by November or December. And for me, like that's what I care about most. And so we've been a little bit more aggressive than Silva moving up neighbors in the ETR ranks. We're up around 30, 31 overall right now in the ETR ranks. There's certainly a lot of risk here still Silva. It doesn't mean that his knee is right. He has had a rough rehab. I talked about it more on Market Monday. It doesn't mean he's going to be 100 percent, but if he hadn't, let's say he never had this injury, Silva, I think he would have been a top 12 pick for us, right? And so to get him in the 30s now with a chance to be 100 percent back half the season, that's at least quite interesting to me.