Analyzing Saquan Barkley's Rushing Yards: Over or Under 67.5?

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00:03 Let's start with Saquon Barkley.

00:05 Full context, rushing yard set at 67.5.

00:10 Am I going over under this number?

00:11 >> It's a tricky one here, cuz Saquon's been very up and down.

00:15 And if potentially you get down early here, you might have to pivot away from this.

00:20 And you might be looking more at Saquon Barkley catching the football.

00:23 Now, Terod Taylor's gonna take over.

00:25 And Terod Taylor's been a pretty good quarterback,

00:27 when he's been given the chance in fantasy at least.

00:29 This is a guy that can drop 20 points for you.

00:32 So Terod Taylor is definitely on the radar as a fade.

00:35 Everybody at the top QB and just take some rushing equity and hope.

00:38 And Barkley would be a part of that.

00:40 Now, last week against Philly, he had 80 yards rushing.

00:42 The week before 14, the week before that, 86, the week before that, 46,

00:46 the week before that, 83.

00:48 So you see where I'm going here.

00:49 This is all over the map.

00:51 Hence, what are you getting?

00:53 A nice little average of 65, right?

00:55 You're getting something right in the middle here with a 67.5.

00:59 And I think that this is, Vegas knows exactly what they're doing.

01:02 This is why they have the hotels.

01:04 This is why they have these beautiful pools and the bars you can swim up to.

01:08 Because it's lines like this with Saquon Barkley.

01:11 And it's 67.5 this week.

01:13 To be honest with you, I think I would lean towards the under on this one.

01:16 Now, if you have Saquon Barkley in your fantasy league and

01:19 you're playing for a championship,

01:21 I'm hard pressed to think that there's a better guy out there.

01:24 Do you wanna start Zemir White over Saquon Barkley?

01:26 You can make that argument, certainly in the game script as well.

01:30 I think Zemir White is a guy with that clear backfield to himself with

01:33 Josh Jacobs being doubtful today, is very appealing,

01:37 has some touchdown equity as well.

01:39 Saquon Barkley is RB 17.

01:41 And I know it's kind of weird to sit here and talk about Saquon Barkley in week 17

01:45 and say Barkley or Zemir White.

01:47 I think it's Zemir White at this point.

01:50 I think what you've seen out of him, the aggressiveness in which they're running

01:53 the football, the holes that he had in that game last week.

01:57 I also think you have to worry a little bit more about the rushing equity of

01:59 the quarterback here a little bit in Taylor and what he brings as opposed to,

02:02 Tommy DeVito can get out there in space and move a little bit too, but

02:05 Taylor's more athletic.

02:06 I think we can all say that.

02:07 So this is a tough one because for him to get to this, it has to be 20 carries.

02:13 If he doesn't get 20 carries or close to that, I think it's a little dicey

02:16 considering the other averages, you're somewhere around 14 carries a game.

02:22 That's probably going to set them under.

02:24 This is a tough line.

02:25 It's probably an under, but more to the point, I think we're using it as an

02:28 example to say, look, there might be some better suited issues here.

02:32 The Ty Chandler's of the world.

02:34 Maybe there's a mere white to the world who might be more viable,

02:37 potentially over Saquon this week, which I know is a tough sell.

02:40 But at this point about getting the points and getting the W and

02:42 getting the championship.

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