Running Back Value: Jaylen Warren vs. San Francisco 49ers
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00:00 We were talking running back before the break.
00:04 Now here we come back.
00:05 Joe, great tease.
00:06 You said there were two value running backs.
00:09 People can really cross the payline.
00:10 What do you have?
00:12 Yeah, I think the first one is Jalen Warren, who I think is going to be very low rostered.
00:15 Again, you're talking about a defense in San Francisco.
00:19 Very good last year against the run.
00:20 He's just 5,100 on Fandle, just 4,600 on DraftKings.
00:23 And the reason why Jalen Warren is interesting is because of his usage in the preseason.
00:28 Now I'm not somebody who has a ton of shares like some other people who think he's going
00:31 to overtake Najee Harris.
00:33 But in this instance, I think he's got an interesting possibility to see some target
00:38 volume to work out of the backfield as the pass-catching running back.
00:42 And if he's doing that, he has that big play potential, right, where he could score.
00:46 So if you factor all those things in here with the low roster percentage, the low cost,
00:50 the high potential for targets in this game working in the passing game, then all of a
00:54 sudden Jalen Warren becomes a really interesting piece here against the 49ers.
00:58 Again, people will just see this, think, "Ah, 49ers, going to go against any running back
01:03 there.
01:04 Forget it.
01:05 Not going for it."
01:06 But Jalen Warren, more interesting at his price point by far than Najee Harris.
01:08 Now it's not that Harris isn't going to get volume and get everything you need, but it
01:11 is a tough matchup on paper.
01:13 So we have to see, again, how teams carry over some of their stats from last year.
01:17 That's always the tough thing about September, Matt, is that we're still going off of theoretical
01:21 data and a lot of data from last year that tells us who teams are.
01:25 But we see every single season, teams that were great against the run one year, not as
01:28 good the following year, depending on some of the changes of personnel.
01:31 With San Fran, we still expect them to be pretty good.
01:34 But again, Nick Bosa, I don't know how much he's going to be on the field attacking that
01:37 quarterback.
01:38 So that does potentially make for some easier moments for Kenny Pickett to potentially throw
01:43 the football.
01:44 And Jalen Warren, I think, is going to be part of that attack.
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