Post-Hype Sleepers, Ashton Jeanty’s Injury, and Deshaun Watson Named the Starter

**Danny Heifetz** (0:00)
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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz and I'm joined in person in Los Angeles by Danny Kelly.
We're here, we're in Los Angeles, we're going over post-hype sleepers, and we're going over some deep sleepers too. But it's that time of year. A couple of things from pre-season week two. We're going to have Cousin Sal join us at the end of the show to go over the punishments for the Netflix Ringer Fantasy Football Live Draft. We will be live on Netflix with The Ringer League with, let's see, can I do this? Bill Simmons, Dave Chang, us three, Sean Fantasy, Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, Tate Frazier, Cousin Sal, Joe House.

**Danny Kelly** (1:22)
Van Lathan.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:23)
Van Lathan, that's 12

**Danny Kelly** (1:25)
That might be it.

**Danny Heifetz** (1:25)
That might be it. Maybe someone else, maybe I forgot. So yeah, that is live on Netflix, 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern. Check it out, it's gonna be fun. We're doing the draft room punishments thing. We're gonna make them way worse this year. Sal's gonna come on later, we'll talk about that. And we have a live show on Thursday, August 27th.

**Danny Kelly** (1:39)
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**Danny Heifetz** (1:48)
All right, we're in person the next two weeks. We're going to go through Sleepers and Ashton Jeanty injuring his ankle in a moment. But first, we're going to take a quick break.
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Additional taxes, fees and terms apply. Unlimited data is restricted to on-device smartphone usage, domestic data roaming at 2G speeds. All right, we're going to go over post-type sleepers, deep sleepers. But first, Ashton Jeanty, hurt his ankle at practice on Sunday.
Danny Kelly, this sucks for a lot of reasons. There was a five-hour window we thought Jeanty was really hurt, but that's maybe a lesson in perhaps why social media is not just immediately to be believed.

**Danny Kelly** (2:56)
There was a lot of catastrophizing online. I thought this man's leg fell off. And then 12 hours later, it's like, it appears to be just a normal ankle injury. And he's going to be all right.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:05)
Like, what the fuck is going on online? The report that came out, and this is not like anyone was making things up, like the team got together after the injury, stopped practice. They gathered everyone together. People were weeping.
They started, they were on a knee praying for this man.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:19)
It's literally like... He sprained his ankle. The internet now with stuff like this, because for a lot of reasons, it's just literally a game of telephone. You're like, Ashton Jeanty's hurt. I heard Jeanty's hurt. I heard everyone's crying. I heard people gather up. He's out for the season.

**Danny Kelly** (3:30)
They medivaced.

**Cousin Sal** (3:31)
He was in a helicopter.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:32)
And I'm like, and then the chef was like, his ankle sprained. I'm like, okay.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:36)
Sprained ankle just sounds so benign.

**Danny Kelly** (3:40)
I've never seen a alarm injury quite like this.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:43)
This is up there. There was like a five hour point where he was falling down. People were sharing screen grabs where he was going in the 11th round.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:51)
I know.

**Danny Kelly** (3:51)
It's funny now that people got Ashton Jeanty in the 11th round. They're going to win the league.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:54)
People just be like, oh, he's hurt. I guess he's out for the season. We need to go back to a morning edition and a late edition of a newspaper. It used to be a morning one, late one. That's it. We need to go back.