Rest Of Season Top-150 Rankings: Players To Buy And Sell Before Week 4 (Episode 1029 with Adam Levitan, John Daigle, Mark Dankenbring, Jack Miller)

Adam Levitan (0:15)

Hello and welcome to the Establish The Run Rest Of Season Top 150 Rankings Show. My name is Adam Levitan. Each and every Wednesday, we are here to discuss our rankings for the rest of season, how those play into the season-long trade market, our redraft trade calculator, buy lows, sell highs, and more. Be sure to stay tuned until the end. We will answer your listener questions and submit our one move to make ahead of week four.

For today's show, I am joined by three young men you know and love, Mark Dankenbring from the Projections team. How's it going?

Mark Dankenbring (0:52)

It's good, Adam. We're on the precipice of October, which feels pretty crazy. September has flown by here, but you know, that means NFL is in full swing. So as always, excited to be here.

Adam Levitan (1:02)

Indeed. Jack Miller, also from the Projections team. How are you?

Jack Miller (1:06)

It's going well, except for one thing. I think as a little preview on the moves to make, I think I'm the only one who's at and 2 now. So the pressure internally is mounting for that, but otherwise excited to talk about what happened this past week.

Adam Levitan (1:20)

The pressure is mounting externally as well.

People need their moves to make. Daigle, from the Season Long Grow Streets, how are you?

John Daigle (1:29)

Doing much better than last week, back at full strength. Long season, only three games, so let's get into it.

Adam Levitan (1:35)

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Rest of the season top 150 rankings. I want to start with some concern at a team level for a bunch of teams. Let's start with the Giants here. Mark, we know that Jackson Dart is out. Now we know we have one game that we saw of James Winston and they've traded for JJ McCarthy. We are down to 55 overall on Malik Neighbors, 60 on Kam Scadaboo, 132 on Isaiah. Likely, I think it's hard for me to tell what the market thinks right now of Giants stuff going forward. Mark, what do you think about how to handle this spot?

Mark Dankenbring (3:10)

We talked through this spot last week as well. Once OneStart went down and Jameis was announced the starter and I think my conclusion and your conclusion, Adam, was we were a little bit more optimistic than the market in terms of like Jameis taking over and what that could mean. Fantasy-wise, his arm has not looked good. The first couple of weeks though, Jameis Winston, throwing a lot of ducks out there and then they make this move for JJ McCarthy the day after Jameis' first start there for the Giants. Initially, I thought, oh man, they're going to get JJ McCarthy up to beat really quickly, potentially start him in week five or six. Now, I'm looking at it as well. They play Houston in week seven and they have a bye in week eight. I think maybe the more likely outcome is that JJ McCarthy probably takes over as a starter after their week eight bye. They'll still have eight or nine games to assess what he can bring to the table for them.

I think we downgraded neighbors and likely further in the rankings this week. I think that's probably my conclusion there. I think the floor here becomes a lot lower for those guys. Obviously, we didn't think too much of a ceiling outcome just given James Winston's phase of his career at this point. Again, arm looking a little shot here.

It's tough. I think neighbors and likely are more sell lows. Right now, I had Cam Scadaboo as my sell week one and since then, he's run 53 percent of the routes and 69 percent of the routes. I think that was probably a bad take at the point. I think they're going to run the entire offense through Scadaboo at this point. He's the one I think holds decent fantasy value as of now, but the pass catchers I think are probably more sell lows than I did last week.