Handicapping The NFL In 2024 & Austin Ekeler Sleeper Status
Harris Fantasy Football Podcast
Christopher Harris
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Who's winning the NFL's passing yards title in 2024? Who'll lead the league in rushing TDs? Which team has the best odds to make or miss the playoffs? Today we're hunting over/under season win totals we like, talking about teams we think the market is most undervaluing, and digging overall into handicapping the NFL in 2024. Plus some review of Austin Ekeler's game film and a discussion about whether he makes for an interesting sleeper in fantasy football drafts. Guest: Chris Raybon of The Action Network.
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Handicapping The NFL In 2024:
* Team or Teams you feel strongest about going OVER their win total (Raybon = Panthers over 5.5 (-115); Harris = Cardinals over 6.5 (-150))
* Team or Teams you feel strongest about going UNDER their win total (Raybon = Giants under 6.5 (-135), Patriots under 4.5 (+125); Harris = Raiders under 6.5 (+110))
* Team or Teams you feel best bet to MAKE the playoffs (Raybon = Packers (-155); Harris = Bills (-175))
* Team or Teams you feel best bet to MISS the playoffs (Raybon = Chargers (-130); Harris = Bears (-110))
* Favorite bet or bets for a playoff team (can be to win Super Bowl, to make Super Bowl, to make Conference Final, etc.) (Raybon = Bengals to be #1 seed (+650); Harris = Bengals to make Super Bowl (+700))
* Favorite bet or bets on NFL Leading Passer (Raybon = C.J. Stroud (+600) and Joe Burrow (+850); Harris = Joe Burrow (+850))
* Favorite bet or bets on NFL Leading Rushing (Raybon = Jonathan Taylor (+600), Travis Etienne (+3000), Najee Harris (+6000); Harris = Saquon Barkley (+650))
* Favorite bet or bets on NFL Leading Receiver (Raybon = Ja'Marr Chase (+900), Justin Jefferson (+1000); Harris = D.J. Moore (+2200))
* Caleb Williams over/under 3500.5 pass yards (Raybon = over; Harris = over)
* Aaron Rodgers over/under 26.5 pass TDs (Raybon = under; Harris = under)
* Saquon Barkley over/under 1000.5 rush yards (Raybon = under; Harris = over)
* Derrick Henry over/under 10.5 rush TDs (Raybon = under; Harris = under)
* Cooper Kupp over/under 950.5 rec yards (Raybon = under; Harris = over)
* Stefon Diggs over/under 5.5 rec TDs (Raybon = over; Harris = over)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Harris Football Podcast with your host Christopher Harris. Welcome! |
| 0:16.0 | Hey everybody, welcome in, my name is Chris and I'm gonna make a thing designed to make your earbells thrilled. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello there, you yut possums, how are you today? |
| 0:26.1 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:26.9 | There are many football podcasts you could listen to. |
| 0:29.7 | I appreciate so many of you listen to this one we did not quite have the same |
| 0:35.4 | landscape shaking injury news on Tuesday that we did on Monday when Jamir Gibbs |
| 0:40.3 | went down but jay.J. McCarthy needing knee surgery is pretty big from a football |
| 0:48.6 | perspective, from a Vikings perspective. We now for sure know that Sam Donald will begin the year as the Vikings |
| 0:55.8 | starter and it's starting to feel like a stretch that we'll see McCarthy much at all in the first |
| 1:01.0 | half of the season at least. It came pretty clear even before August 1st that |
| 1:06.0 | Donald was trending toward being the starter, which is why I dropped the stocks of the Vikings receivers at least a little bit before the first edition of |
| 1:16.2 | the almanac even came out, but this is certainly worse. And if you look at Justin Jefferson and start feeling like you're so scared by him in the first round that he now |
| 1:28.0 | Qualifies as too risky to serve as your first fantasy pick? |
| 1:33.0 | I understand where you're coming from. |
| 1:35.0 | That's really the question for sure. |
| 1:38.0 | The fantasy implication here is McCarthy at least gave theoretical upside, whereas Donald's probably still seeing ghosts. |
| 1:49.2 | Seeing ghosts. Is there a chance the past year or so has caused him to figure things out and now he's |
| 1:57.8 | Late career Gino Smith late career Alex Smith even Baker Mayfield. |
| 2:03.1 | I mean, there's a chance, but I don't know how I would bet on it. |
| 2:06.8 | Donald started in the league two years ago |
| 2:09.4 | for that awful Matt Rule team in Carolina. |
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