Is Mike Washington Jr. is being undervalued in fantasy drafts?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss how the Raiders running back has a chance to make a real impact for fantasy managers this season after the injury to teammate Ashton Jeanty. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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This has been a really promising Mike Washington Jr. preseason.
It's exactly what, you know, fans of his, like ours, could, could have hoped for.
So where do you draft him?
Like, is it fair to place him in the Jordan Mason, Kalmunah Guy, Rashaad White, Mike Washington range?
Like, I have him as running back 39 right now.
Yep.
And that might be really aggressive to people out there because, you know, anecdotally some drafts might have him as like the 150th overall player at this point.
Right.
I would take him closer to 120, if not a little bit higher than that.
Yeah, I have 115 in my rankings- Yep right next to Rashaad White, Jordan Mason.
And let's just be honest, like we liked Mike Washington- Correct a long time ago, and we like- Yeah, we have some bias attached to this.
Let's, let's put it on the table.
I don't like using the word bias.
We have a evaluation of him that's different.
Okay.
There's I, I'm not related to Mike Washington.
There's no bias here.
I just think that- Fair he's better.
Like, my evaluation is different than other people's, and I think that's what I'm looking at.
There is value of knowing one of your handcuffs is gonna be in your starting lineup for a couple weeks.
Like, and at- Right if we actually get that confirmed over the next couple days, then that's intriguing to me.
And like, who's now more likely to like, miss a huge chunk of the season due to a setback?
Or, guess what, like that actual report that we just got is not like, there's some other details that are missing.
Of course, he has a higher chance of being, like him versus Tank Bigsby, like right now Saquon Barkley is infinitely more likely to play more games than Ashton Jeanty.
So I have to be viewing Mike Washington in a full different tier than some of the other guys that I just don't see them like, really like, mattering all that much.
Like K- Kenny Gainwell types, I just don't see the like, long-term answer of like why that guy's gonna matter in fantasy.
If Mike Washington like, like if, if Jeanty was out for the entire season, I think Mike Washington would've been right in that Rhamondre Stevenson, Jalen Warren, sixth round range.
Yes.
There's no way Kenny Gainwell and those types are going that high
