Danchat

Here's the Saints depth chart: Worst defense in the league by points allowed, 30+ points in 3 of 4 games. Thankfully for them they get to face our offense down Darrisaw and Jackson. This would be the perfect game to run run run the ball down their throat on a bad DL and questionable LB room, but Mason is still on the IR and Jones is gonna get 80% of the carries again. Offensively, Shough has been better than expected though he needs to turn down the turnovers (3 picks and 5 fumbles). They're in rough shape down Etienne as Kamara is absolutely cooked as a runner, and they have the worst LT in the game with Banks on the IR. Flores should cook against them, Olave will do some damage but I wouldn't expect the Saints to get to 20+ points unless D/ST scores them points.

It is lowered by 250 fairly bad snaps in 2025 compared to playing better in 2026. It is funny how most the fanbase claims "he'd be a WR1 anywhere else", but then he doesn't produce when given the opportunity. He is a very good WR2, nothing wrong with that, but also not going to be worth paying.

Mr. [redacted] should perhaps stop watching the White Sox, as since he started they're now melting down like a Minnesota Sports team does in the playoffs.

Man, what a meltdown.

Play him or trade him... no point in keeping him at AAA. Did we not trade for Roden so he could help the major league team?

Yup, I noticed when I checked the Rule 5 candidates, I didn't find a single obvious candidate. I could see Culpepper or Armstrong, but even then it's a stretch. It's the first time tracking this that I could absolutely see zero prospects get protected. My DFA list: No-brainers: Sabato, Wallner, Gray (out of options), Orze, Acton On the fence: Nance (high WHIP and will be 36), Festa (if he's not close to pitching, no need to use up a 40 man roster spot, it's not as if Canterino was ever poached in a similar situation), Anderson (I think he has the upside to be a decent middle reliever and he has options) Trade Candidate: Larnach, Ryan, Ober

Here's the updated PFF depth chart: Changelog: +++++ TE Hockenson - Above Average to Good DL Ingram-Dawkins - NEI to Average ED Van Noy - (estimate) to Above Average CB Murphy - Below Average to Average K Reichard - Good to Great ------ LT Darrisaw - Great to Good WR Jennings - Above Average to Average WR Addison - Average to Below Average RB Jones - Average to Below Average QB Murray - Above Average to Average SS Metellus - Below Average to Poor S Jackson - Above Average to Average SS Smith - Above Average to Average And the PFN depth chart: Thoughts?

Absolutely, the 2027 class is supposed to be really deep at many positions. The Patriots also gave up a 2028 1st for AJ Brown instead of their 2027th. Might be like the 2024 class where 6 QBs going in the top 12 pushed a high number of really good prospects down into the later 1st round and plenty of great picks in the 2nd.

It's just a practice squad signing, he probably doesn't end up doing anything (by the way, RB Devin Neal got axed from the PS, a reminder how flippant they are with PS spots). OBJ couldn't last on the Giants 53 man roster so I doubt he does anything for us. The film guys I follow are saying that Jennings simply can't separate anymore. And so much for Felton "becoming the next KJ Osborn", something I heard during training camp. Suddenly, the Vikings are out of depth at RB, WR, and OL. While the defense continues to fire on all cylinders. Wow, big OL trades almost never happen mid-season. A 2nd and a 5th is not a cheap price so I get why the Vikings weren't in on that seeing how much capital they've already invested in their OL. Seems like the Eagles are punting on the season with yesterday's news that Lane Johnson is retiring out of nowhere.

As one who advocated for trading Gonzalez in 2024 for major league help and also advocated for moving him in 2026 to ease the logjam and get something for him, I'm kinda puzzled as to what the plan is. From everything I've heard he's a bad fielder in the OF and won't last there in the majors, so they moved him to part time 1B. Unfortunately he followed up a superb 2025 season at AA with a pretty bad one offensively for a 1B in 2026. Would have liked to see him more in September in his second option year, but the logjam prevented him. I just don't get the strategy of holding onto so many OF/borderline OF prospects and not moving one or two of them for something. I guess I can see why they'd hold onto the RH when so many of them are lefties, but that's another problem of their own making. I don't know if Gonzalez is going to hit well enough at 1B to stick and may wind up as an AAAA player. He'll be out of options in 2028...

At least they did make the savvy move to sign Van Demark away from Buffalo and he should be alright filling in for Darrisaw for a week. Too bad Brandel isn't the swing guard and can play a more natural position at LG. Huber wasn't terrible... but yeah, now the backups are Tiernan (not close to ready and he played some blocking TE vs the Fins) and Keegan (claimed on waivers on cutdown day). Yes, but they also went into the season with a flat-out bad starting OL. They needed to sign multiple veterans and instead waited until the first week of October to add them.

I would have been okay with signing Wright, but the rookie Thorson was good the first two games but he pulled a hammy. Hekker has punted the past two games and was terrible against the Fins. Long-term they should be fine. As I mentioned in the post above, Jennings actually counts for $9.5M cap hit because he has so-called "likely to reach" incentives. Seems like the Vikings will be getting some of that money back at this rate.

He played 74 of 78 snaps and somehow only got targeted once. I have no idea what's going on, he's simply not getting thrown to - maybe he just can't get open anymore. His contract implies he was gonna get the ball - $1.75M of his incentives were considered "likely" which would require him to go about 50 catches 600 yards and 7 TDs, but he's nowhere close to achieving that, and yesterday we were without Jefferson!

Said metrics can forecast whether a player will progress or regress going forward. And it's not as if all the metrics were negative for Lee, the crux of the article was that Lee's quality of contact improved by quite a bit, resulting in more power despite a high chase rate and bat speed. I'd trust Lee to hold down the 3B position going forward, but due to those metrics I'm not expecting him to take a major leap in hitting next year.

Yes I am still using their grades, however, the depth chart has not been updated with anything from 2026 yet. I am aware of some of the recent incredibly questionable grades they've been handing out, and how they've lost a lot of talent in the organization. Over the past couple weeks I have been considering switching over to Pro Football Network's grading system. See examples here: https://www.profootballnetwork.com/nfl-hq/rankings/quarterback - Dallas Turner is a 89 by PFN this season and 66.9 by PFF. I'm going to do my homework on what they have for past seasons to determine which is the more accurate source to me. I might even do a "PFF vs PFN depth charts" comparison and with some feedback from y'all, we can determine which is the better source. Thanks. Kyler's at 48.9 right now vs Wentz at 62.7, but as mentioned previously, the grades I use are weighted from the past 3 years of play, so small sample sizes aren't going to affect the overall rating until they become larger.