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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Hall of Fame Game Takeaways + Auction Draft Tips

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe kicks off today's show with his biggest take aways from the Hall of Fame game including Najee Harris' debut, Chase Claypool making big plays, why Michael Gallup's usage is encouraging for CeeDee Lamb, and a rookie wideout to monitor. Jeff then gives you tips and strategy for auction drafts along with telling you how the some of the same tips can apply to your snake draft leagues as well.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the Rant Metamins Jeff Rackleven. It is Friday, August 6th, the day before

0:21.5

it's a draft museum for me. Going up to New York City for the Fantasy League of Experts.

0:28.0

That's a great name right there. The Flex Leagues that are put together by my good friend Jake

0:32.1

Cele. Of course, I don't know if you saw this, but Jake and I will be doing a weekly YouTube

0:37.1

show for Betts TV on Wednesdays, Wednesdays, three to four. Right now, we're talking about

0:44.2

everything draft related, but during the season, we'll be doing rankings, like a rankings

0:48.4

review show. Love Jake, very smart guy, and it's going to be a lot of fun this year. But

0:54.9

first draft of the year, it's upon us. My first auction draft of the year is actually next

0:59.7

weekend. So we're going to talk a little auction strategy today. But of course, before we

1:04.2

get into that, we actually have football to talk about as well. Now, I know it's the Hall

1:08.4

of Fame game. And we didn't see all the biggest players, but we did see a couple big players,

1:13.4

big name players for fantasy football purposes. So let's do some key takeaways here. Obviously,

1:18.4

not seeing the likes have been robbed. The Spurrow Duck Prescott, who's still actually

1:22.7

dealing with an injury, and they're kind of taking their time with him, Mari Cooper dealing

1:26.9

with an injury, no CD lamb in this one, no Zico Elliott. So most of the big names out of

1:31.6

there, but a guy who very likely will go in the second round of redraft leagues in your

1:35.6

homeligs this year, Najee Harris, he was on the field. And in fact, he was on the field

1:41.9

for every single snap with the first team offense. And I'm defining the first team offense

1:46.5

in this game. I mean, granted they were largely second stringers, but the first team offense

1:51.1

in this game, as long as Mason Rudolph was in, right? Mason Rudolph played 18 snaps in

1:56.6

this game. Najee Harris played 18 snaps in this game. In other words, he was a three down guy.

2:02.2

And no, there wasn't anything incredible in this contest from Najee Harris. He didn't break

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