 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Salschman. Enjoyed today by Jim Sinis of Fandall who is here to break down the players for that a week 14, whose stock are rising. What's going on Jim? I'm pretty good Greg because it was a fun week 14. There were like four or five different mid-range running backs who all became either relevant or more relevant where they were previously. Cam Acres, Jonathan Taylor, Miles Sanders, Alvin Camara kind of back. Maybe we could drew Breeze back a week 15 too. So it's always good to have more options that are dispels from a running back perspective. You could put Ronald Jones in that discussion as well. There were a lot of positive changes in giving us more choices in DFS and I will take that every single time I have the chance to do so. So will I, you know, this list that we have in front of us today, if you would have asked us back in August, like who are the players that could be league winners for you? These three players may have all been on that list and it's crazy the road that we took to get here but we are now here. In the fantasy semi-finals, in that final stretch with DFS, you're there and it begins with Jonathan Taylor who stopped Rose and fell and Rose and fell. And yesterday he had 65 yards on the first drive in the first quarter. And I'm like, this is going to be the day we've been waiting for. Then basically didn't play in the second quarter because it was all about Naheem Hines and I was livid. So much so I got a text message from one of my partners who was like, I hate the Colts. How does he text that message to me? 62 yards later, Jonathan Taylor's scappers into the end zone and the rest was history. Jonathan Taylor finished with close to 30 fan duo points yesterday and the stock finally rising for the top pick for the Colts. It is rising right before a match with the Houston Texans. So here we go, Greg. Arrow's up on Jonathan Taylor in a big way. And at some point when a player is effective, you kind of have to commit to that. And we haven't seen the Colts fully do that yet with Jonathan Taylor, but it doesn't matter. He's getting enough volume where with how good he is, he's paying off consistently now with that volume. He's had at least 114 yards from scrimmage and now three consecutive games that he has played. He had a buck 65 yards from scrimmage on Sunday. So he's being effective and we're seeing increases in his workload as a result of that. That doesn't mean it's perfect obviously because like you said, Naheem Hines is still mixing in. He's still not getting all the red zone work. So there's still some flaws in Jonathan Taylor's game, but we're already getting production from him at this current volume. If they were to increase that volume, which they could because of how well he's playing, he could go totally nuclear. And I think that's within the range of outcomes here. So I think that what we've got here with Jonathan Taylor is a player who is still slightly flawed but is a very relevant piece for DFS, a piece we can use I think fairly aggressively and feel really good about. And that's where he's at right now. But there's also the potential for that role to get even better if they do decide to cut down the roles for Naheem Hines and Jordan Wilkins. And honestly like that's very possible with how well Taylor is playing. So right now we can do him as still being a little bit flawed but with room to grow. And I think that is definitely intriguing to me. Again, Houston on the doggie next week, you don't need 30 carries to go off against Houston. So I think that Jonathan Taylor, even if his role does not expand right away, still someone who wanna buy aggressively with where his role is at right now. Jonathan Taylor coming out of Wisconsin, we thought could be the most effective rookie running back. And yesterday he was just that. And there's more opportunities out there for him. That's the exciting part. That's why he stopped. Isn't just up, but it's rising, especially with a date against the Houston Texans on tap for week 15. But if you didn't like Jonathan Taylor as the potential top rookie running back on the board, maybe you were a Cam Akers fan. And finally, Cam Akers broke out as well. He had over 20 final points on Thursday night against the New England Patriots. And Sean McVeigh, we talked about it last week, he finally committed, right? He finally gave it to Cam Akers and said, you're my guy, going away from Daryl Henderson for the most part, going away from Malcolm Brown for the most part. It was all Cam Akers. And it's exciting if you've waited and waited on this rookie running back. Yeah, we had Akers on this show last week too. And we said the time was buy Cam Akers cautiously because there was still this chance that Sean McVeigh might not fully commit to him. He wasn't getting some targets. And someone on Twitter was like, buy him cautiously, you fish and hey, Twitter person, you're right. I was a fish. Like we should have been buying aggressively here with Cam Akers and it paid off big time on Thursday. He had 29 carries in that game. He had three targets again, as I said, just four targets the entire year before that. That was a really good roll over Cam Akers there while playing 79% of the snaps. That is an awesome workload. But it's also a team where we wanted buy into the volume because the Rams have a tremendous defense. They were an efficient offense. We combine those two things, the running back volume on that team is even more valuable than what you get for either team, for other teams. So Cam Akers, we can get rid of the cautious label. Be aggressive now in buying into Cam Akers. And the salary change for Cam Akers was not aggressive. For week number 15 against the freaking Jets, he is $6,700 on FanDuel. And we're gonna be pretty heavy on Cam Akers that we do wanna target running backs in tight game scripts. So we're probably not gonna be getting targets on Cam Akers late in the game. But as he showed on Thursday, he doesn't need that. He had 20 FanDuel points without a touchdown, which is really, really hard to do unless you're Ross Neckler. And Cam Akers did it. So I think we can now just take down all of our guards, take down our walls, let Cam Akers into our life and feel really good about this backfield for the first time all year, buying Cam Akers as much as we can right now. Take that caution and throw it to the wind, Jim, because Cam Akers is our guy facing off against the freaking Jets this weekend. Akers, led by Sean McVeigh, will be rolling into the end zone along picking up all of those yards, just like he did last week against another AFC East bow. Cam Akers and the Rams, certainly someone whose stock is rising and hopefully will lead you through a fantasy championship. And I was hoping this last player we'd chatted about would be another rookie running back to just kind of fill it out for us, but Claude Edwards-Alarre, stock's not really rising, same with Deandre Swift, and then you get to J.K. Dobbins and who knows. So instead, we'll go with another young running back whose stock soared yesterday with Jaylen Hertz as the quarterback, and that was Miles Sanders. Sanders had over 27 FanDuel points. I had another 70 yard run. I believe it was his third of the season. Now, people will question Miles Sanders. I know some people that not only didn't play him in DFS, they had him on their bench in season long yesterday because they didn't like the matchup and who knew with the quarterback. They think it's a great Saints defense and Miles Sanders still went off. Jaylen Hertz has seemingly changed everything for Sanders, which is one of the reasons why his stock is rising. Yeah, I think being low on Sanders heading into week 14 was justified and correct because in the three games before that, he had a pretty bad role. He was not getting yardage. His snapback was around 60% and like when you're running behind a bad offensive line with bad offensive weapons against a tough defense, it's hard to have a lot of faith in that, but his role changed dramatically in week 14. His snap rate shot up 20 percentage points from where it was in his previous three games as our 80% this time, 14 carries in five targets. Now, the effectiveness has been there all year long. Even when Carson Wentz was in there and he was struggling, Miles Sanders when he got the ball was running really well. The problem is they didn't give him the ball for whatever reason they wanted to keep on dropping back, throwing as much as possible, and they wouldn't commit to Miles Sanders being the focal point of this offense, which normally should not do to fair, but like the passing game was struggling, Miles Sanders being good, but they wouldn't give him the ball. Now at Jalen Hertz, they're more willing to run the football and they're more willing to have Sanders be the focal point there. We know that with running quarterbacks, it opens more rushing lanes for the running back. That's a good thing for Miles Sanders. Not that he needs the increase in efficiency, but if it leads to more volume as well, it's really hard not to get excited. Now with Sanders, there are still some downsides. His offensive line is really, really bad. The pass catchers are really, really bad. Jalen Hertz definitely did open things up, but we only have one game of sample on him. He exceeded my expectations. I feel really good about what Jalen Hertz did on Sunday, but it's still just one game. We can't overreact to just one game. So it's not as if Miles Sanders suddenly has a perfect profile, but if we get an 80% snap rate out of a guy who has talent, is playing with a quarterback who will open up rushing lanes for him, that's pretty valuable. So right now I would say bump Miles Sanders up, but if we continue to get more gains with Jalen Hertz being effective as a quarterback of the Eagles, he will shoot up even more. So increasing the stock on Miles Sanders with the potential for it to increase even more, I think that's a good blend for him as they head out to Arizona for this weekend. Miles Sanders has the talent, no doubt, and now that he's healthy with a quarterback and an offense that kind of fits his skill set a bit better, it's a good spot to have his stock rising for the rest of the season. He's gonna put himself on the map for drafts in 2021, but hopefully he'll win owner's championships if they're still alive here in their fantasy playoffs. That's gonna do it for us here on The Fandal Hurry Up. Jim, we appreciate the time. Enjoy Monday Night Football. I will Greg, should be a pretty fun game tonight. We get a Thursday game, two Saturday games, a three game Thursday through Saturday slate. So I'm pretty pumped about this week as a whole. Could be a fun one for sure. Yeah, yesterday's window was kind of weird. It wasn't, there weren't any close games until a four o'clock spot, but hopefully tonight we'll wrap up the week with some excitement before we get to those Thursday and Saturday games next week. For Jim Sotis, I'm Greg Sosman. Thanks so much for watching. Enjoy the game tonight, and we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of The Fandal Hurry Up.