Jaylen Wright

They're 5,300, which I think are gonna be the most popular picks.

So it came down to me, Ollie Gordon versus Emmanuel Wilson, and I erred on the side of Wilson because I, I mean, I don't think that Jaylen Wright is a great running back, but I could see him being much better than he was last week and still being kind of forced into the fold more for Miami.

So I am choosing to go the path of Emmanuel Wilson, saying, like, "I don't think George Holani is ever going to be, you know, a major touch guy," so give me that.

I, I don't love the matchup against the 49ers, but it's not like they can't be beat on the ground.

Everything was totally different, but Joe Burrow does not look locked in, in my mind.

And I made the argument that maybe, I understand Uh-Chan is very good, but when you're gonna run a lot of read option and your quarterback's not gonna be doing the dirty work, having a guy like Ally Gordon, big bruising back, or even Jaylen Wright-

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... a little heavier, maybe allows them to be more physical.

I completely agree here.

Uh, this is a situation where also Jaylen Wright was getting ramped up in this game as of the recording today.

I'm recording this on Wednesday.

This video goes out Thursday morning.

His head coach, Jeff Hafley, came out and said like, "Yeah, Jaylen Wright's gonna get more carries as he gets healthier moving forward." So also not good for Ollie Gordon.

It was nice to see Ollie Gordon see 59% of the snaps, but even with that, he only saw 53% of the team rush attempts because they have a mobile quarterback.

I expect Jaylen Wright's 29% to increase, so if you're playing on a team that's gonna run, I don't know, 40 plays per game, what are you gonna get on average, especially if Jaylen Wright gets more usage? Eight carries in most of your games if you're lucky.

Disgusting.

I mentioned that there were a, there was a play or two in there where, like, that's the Ollie Gordon of old.

It certainly seemed, if you were reading the tea leaves this week, that the Dolphins still kind of like Jaylen Wright better.

It's one of the reasons I certainly put in bids for Wright as well.

Really only got like a share or two of him across the whole portfolio.

So certainly don't have to worry about the fact that they start him.

He runs a couple times.

Jaylen Wright, I remember having Travis on the show, uh, a couple years ago when Wright is coming out, and he's like, "All of this value for Wright is fraudulent.

Like, he can't see anything.

You know, I, I, I believe that he pulled...

I'm not gonna say for sure, but I believe that he pulled Jaylen Wright, Jay- Jaylen Wright into his office for a little talk and, you know, build him up a little bit.

Like, c- 'cause he was like, "We gonna need him." The confident, you know, "We gonna need him." It's, it's...

You know, "He just had a hiccup.

Happy Wednesday, happy Thursday morning to Lee.

And Lee, I did see, I did see some good quotes about Jaylen Wright this morning saying he's gonna get more involved.

Uh, so we'll get to that in a little bit.

But, uh, I'm gonna start by reading off the player practice news.

He had nine carries for 100 yards and a score, but he also only had nine carries.

So he seems to establish himself as the RB one ahead of Jaylen Wright.

But I'm still gonna have to see more to feel good about that committee situation in Miami.

Connor gave himself some life, uh, by, by handily beating Jack.

I still think it could potentially be a hot hand situation.

So if you picked up Jaylen Wright, I think that now you look at him as more of, like, maybe a tier two handcuff, which is crazy to say, uh, handcuffing him to Ollie Gordon.

But for now I think it's a hot hand situation, and Ollie Gordon, uh, did enough where you feel a lot more comfortable this week going ahead and starting him.

Like, if you, if it's between Ollie Gordon and Will Shipley, and Ollie Gordon's out there, I'd take him because long term he's going to be a lot better for you in your fantasy leagues because you know that he's going to have a role seemingly for, uh, a lot longer than Will Shipley is.

And so he's one that I would go and get.

But if you have Jaylen Wright, especially in the deeper formats, I'd still hang on to him.

This is still a Miami Dolphins team that we don't necessarily like, and we don't know how much they're going to be scoring.

But at least Ollie Gordon showed us a little bit of fight there.