Hello football fans! Here are the five things you need to know from Saturday to start your day:
- Despite bringing in RB Joe Mixon in the draft, the Bengals are still expected to make use of veteran Jeremy Hill, per a report from the Bengals official website. Giovani Bernard is returning from an ACL tear, and Mixon is a rookie, so Hill is expected to continue to dominate the team’s goal-line touches at least.
- It sounds like it’s no sure thing that Josh McCown will be the Jets starting QB, according to Rich Cimini of ESPN New York. The Jets signed the veteran McCown this offseason to fill out a QB depth chart that included only the barely experienced Bryce Petty and second-year Christian Hackenberg. McCown was the No. 6-graded QB in 2013 with the Bears, finishing at 87.8, but has never had a grade higher than 66.4 in any other qualifying season in his career.
- The Ravens brought in free-agent RB Danny Woodhead this offseason, giving the team a three-headed option at running back, according to a report from BatlimoreRavens.com. Woodhead will likely handle much of the receiving out of the backfield, especially on third down, while holdovers Terrance West and Kenneth Dixon (who is suspended until Week 5) will see the majority of the carries.
- One of the first things worth identifying when selecting a running back for fantasy is the running backs who are the true every-down backs. PFF Senior Fantasy Analyst Scott Barrett does that work, looking at 2016’s biggest workhorses, and uses that to express concerns about some of the 2017 sleepers, particularly Derrick Henry.
- On almost every fantasy draft board, the first three wide receivers are, in some order, Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham Jr., and Julio Jones. The next two are generally Mike Evans and A.J. Green, again in either order. PFF Fantasy’s Michael Moore dives in on those two, who have remarkably similar seasonal averages over their careers, to see if there’s a clear option fantasy owners ought to be preferring on draft day.