Ashton Jeanty on the Broncos would be a no-doubt 1st round fantasy pick
Ashton Jeanty on the Broncos would be a no-doubt 1st round fantasy pick | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast
Andy Behrens & Matt Harmon discuss where incoming rookie RB Ashton Jeanty might fit in the upcoming NFL season. Matt explains why the Boise State Bronco should be a Denver Bronco and how his fit in the Sean Payton offense would make him a no-doubt pick for fantasy managers in the first round.
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So this is my one last candle lit.
This is my one last, you know, uh, freaking crystal that I gotta hold on to, my one last manifestation here.
Ashton Jeanty, the Denver Broncos.
Sean Payton, that, that man hates extra picks even more than Ryan Pauls does.
Get up the draft board.
You want to do it.
I want you to do it.
Everybody wants you to do it.
It would have a high approval rating.
Let's get Ashton Jeanty to this Denver Broncos offense that was really good last year at creating yards for their running backs, and their running backs were god awful in terms of creating yards for themselves.
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Ashton Jeanty is a tackle breaker.
He would be the central figure of this offense.
I mean, it's just a beautiful fit.
He barely has to move.
Come on, Ashton Jeanty, the Denver Broncos.
I get it, Andy.
You are a biased, compromise source here.
The, the Boise State Bronco becomes a Denver Bronco.
We should all want it to happen.
It's a, it's a great fit.
Um, Denver is surely going to come away from this draft with um one of the, one of its more exciting running backs.
Um, we, we just don't know exactly who it's going to be.
Love the fit.
Um, I think Ashton Jeanty.
As a Denver Bronco fantasy first rounder, late first round, um, I'm not going to bat an eye if it happens.
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Uh, it's a definite possibility.
A little, little part of me worries that they would still give, you know, 25% of the snaps to Jaleel McLaughlin and, uh, find a role for Audric Estime and, and do the usual Sean Payton things, right?
It's not gonna be.
I don't know, we don't, we don't see a lot of that.
We don't, uh, like we, we haven't seen a lot of Sean Payton just saying, OK, you're my guy, you're getting 95% of the snaps if you have to come out for a play or two fine, but otherwise you're getting it all.
Um, but you could do that with Ashton Jeanty, and I think we're gonna talk ourselves into it.
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And I think if he lands here, um, if he lands Chicago, there's a handful of places where he can go, where I think Ashton Jeanty is gonna be like seriously in the conversation as like a, I don't know, 9th overall pick, 10th overall pick in fantasy.
Uh, top 3 consensus backs in fantasy right now.
Saquon Barkley, Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs.
I don't think he touches, uh, that range.
Derrick Henry, running back 4, probably not gonna go ahead of him.
But like Devon Achane at 5, that's on my radar about the Dolphins could add it back at some point.
Um, a lot of like fake, like a lot of like reception nonsense that boosted his fantasy scoring last year.
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I'm ready to start the conversation right there.
Bucky Irving, Jonathan Taylor, Josh Jacobs, Christian McCaffrey, like, yeah, that's, that's the conversation we're having with Ashton Jeanty
If he's a, if he's a Bear or a Bronco, I'm ready to have that conversation.
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