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00:00He is trying to be worked into their rotation.
00:05You may remember a couple of years ago, when Etienne came on the scene and then got hurt,
00:10who was the primary guy, was James Robinson, and the coaching staff liked to use two guys.
00:14I think they probably will end up using two running backs in Jacksonville, which makes
00:18Bigby at the very least someone to pick up.
00:21Agreed.
00:22I grabbed him in my home week here as he was available, very happy to get him.
00:27Once again, most teams don't have a pure running back one, right?
00:30They want to go to some kind of committee, maybe a 60-40 committee, maybe a 70-30 committee.
00:35But there's a reason why we take guys like McCaffrey so early, like we want him, because
00:38he is a guy who's going to get, when he's healthy, he's going to get all the play here.
00:43But most teams don't believe in that, or they don't have guys who can do that.
00:45So yeah, a running back two on a team is valuable here.
00:50And I like Tank, because I think, listen, I think there's also some worry here, because
00:54you can make a pretty strong argument that Jacksonville lost that game to Miami last
00:57week because Etienne fumbled at the one-yard line, you know, so I think there's some anger
01:02here with him as well.
01:03And maybe at the very least, Bigby's a bigger back, but he's going to get those carries
01:06once they get in close.
01:07Although that wasn't a goal-line carry, by the way, he was actually running in from,
01:10I don't know, a 10-yard line when the defender made a little punch out there with the ball.
01:15So but I think Bigby will be a decent player for you.
01:18I think most running back twos on most teams should be grabbed here.
01:21So Bigby, yes.
01:22I like the addition of Bigby.
01:24Yep.
01:25Another hot pickup this week, but he still may be available in a 12 or 14-team league
01:30on the waiver wire, depending on how active your league is, is the running back on the
01:33Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bucky Irving.
01:35We heard a lot about him.
01:36He played well in the preseason.
01:38Rashad White sort of came out of nowhere last year to have the season that he did, especially
01:42late in the year, catching a lot of balls out of the backfield.
01:45Remember, he used to be Tom Brady with his favorite running back, Leonard Fournette,
01:49that running back.
01:50Not that long ago, but White came on the scene last year.
01:54There were some people who felt the advanced metric showed that he was a little bit lucky,
01:57maybe not as good.
01:59And Irving, thus far, 62 rushing yards, also caught two balls out of the backfield.
02:04Very similar situation, it feels like to me, with Bigby, although I think Irving, it felt
02:09like he was drafted in a lot more leagues than Bigby was.
02:12Yeah.
02:13I think the ball, you know, during draft time, I was talking about Rashad White was, well,
02:17he's a product of volume.
02:19He's not really great, but he got all the touches last year.
02:22So that's why he had the numbers he had, fantasy-wise, because there was no one else to take it away
02:25from him.
02:26Now, Bucky Irving, who got some play during draft time, we were talking about him, that
02:31he might take away a certain percentage of those touches, whether it be 30%, 35%, 40%.
02:36And that might continue here.
02:38So yeah, I think, once again, this is not a guy who's not going to play.
02:41All right?
02:42Rashad White's not going to get 30 touches and no one else is going to touch the ball.
02:45Bucky Irving will play.
02:46And even if you started him this week, he'd give you some volume there and there will
02:49be injuries.
02:51We know that.
02:52We got to get guys who can cover.
02:53There'll be bye weeks coming up in two weeks.
02:54We forget about that.
02:55Right?
02:56I think it's first week in October.
02:57We start the bye weeks.
02:58We're going to have your running backs that are down here.
02:59Irving's a nice guy.
03:00Not only is he a chancy, you know, if Rashad White ever gets hurt, Bucky Irving all of
03:03a sudden is a running back one.
03:05But even without, even with Rashad White there, there should be enough to go around.
03:08Also, teams don't care.
03:10Defense don't care about Rashad White or Irving.
03:12They're worried about Evans and Godwin.
03:14Never going to see a, you know, never going to see an eight man front.