Ron Stewart's 5 Favorite Fantasy Football Picks

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**Josh** (0:40)
Oh yes, we are back with your favorite series with one of your favorite people. This is Ron Stewart, a friend of the channel, a friend of the show. Ron, you sent me about 16 names, and I got to pick the five of that 16 that you can't stop drafting this summer. I know you're gonna cover the other 11 on your channel a bit later on. So this list is a really exciting group and names that we haven't gotten to talk about enough this summer so far.

**Ron Stewart** (1:05)
Well, I figured, I know how this goes. We all have guys that we've talked about a bunch. I want to come on here with the five guys you guys have been talking about. And it's early.
I've drafted 70 teams. So you'll even see, well, it's actually funny. We're now in a space where in June, that's not even crazy as day. Years ago, it would be like, I mean, this is insane. But you also have, I have like 50 slow drafts going. So there's like a section of players that are like, I haven't drafted a ton of them, but I keep clicking them in slow drafts. And I know in like a week, they're going to double in exposure. As we do research, as we start updating the rankings, it becomes clear which guys I like.

**Josh** (1:45)
Love that. Okay.
Let's dive right into it. We're going to go to ADP order here. And the first name is a rookie. Imagine that with you, Ron. This is running back Jeremiyah Love of the Arizona Cardinals. Right now, the 12th pick of the second round, running back 13 Why is he one of the names you can't stop drafting this summer?

**Ron Stewart** (2:02)
It's crazy because in the pre-draft stuff, I wasn't all that interested. We've done this a bit now with Bijan. We've done this with Gentie last year. You take him in round one, they disappoint everybody.
Now, we're in a really weird spot. I like that you included the ADP here because really what happens for me is I take one of these, Jamar Chase, Bukunakua, JSM, and then Derek Henry, all of those running backs ahead of him are gone. You sit here in a spot of like, sure, it feels good to take Bowers or Pickens or Nico.
All of a sudden, you find yourself without a running back through three rounds. So I've been warming up to the idea of you just take Love, one of those receivers likely makes it back. If not, you can still get McBride, Bowers. You can start something like Jamar Chase, Jeremiyah Love, Trey McBride on a lot of drafts. And it's something I've been warming up to where in the year, it almost feels like this is the year of the running back where all roads have, I mean, it's felt like that the last two years really, but running backs are as expensive as ever, which they haven't really been on Underdog. And we're getting a, I don't know, we overuse generational, you get what I'm saying, a third overall pick in an era where before the Bijon class, I had guys telling me, update your model, running backs aren't going to go in round one anymore. And now all of a sudden, we get a third overall pick in the NFL draft. And he's just going in a spot where you have to click him. Because even if he has the Bijon rookie year, even if he has the Gentoo rookie year, he's not stinking your team, but he does have a massive amount of upside. And I want to talk about the Cardinals. Like, obviously, if he went to the commanders or a better spot, he could be a 1-2 turn pick. That is kind of the elephant in the room. But there's plenty of running backs going ahead of him, whether it's Yvonne Aitchin, Bijon, Gentoo, guys who are in, I would say, bottom third projected offenses like Jeremiyah Love. But the one thing I wanted to kind of highlight is that the offensive line for Gentoo, like, yes, he was on a bad offense last year, but his offensive line was so brutal. This is a stat from Jacob Gibbs on Twitter. Among 115 running backs with 250 plus rushes in a season, this is from since 2012, there's been 115 running backs that have 250 or more rushes. He ranked 115th in yards before contact per rush. I just see if you guys can speak on a little bit better. I'm not all the way in the weeds with offensive line, but the Cardinals are ranked like 15th best by ESPN. They're in the top 20 for like FTN, 4 for 4 It's a decent offensive line, right? They get Parrish Johnson, they draft Chase Basantis, you have Isaac Somalu.