Mavis
Footballguy
He comes across as a guy who needs 20+ carries to be able to do anything, he seems more of a grind it out back. Doubt he sees those touches.
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Paul Perkins - RB - NYG (1 Viewer)
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zamboni
Footballguy
IMO how Perkins is used and performs is one of the most interesting fantasy storylines of week 1. He could blow up and we can all say we missed it, or he can just be average as part of true RBBC and validate most concerns. Either way, it will be very interesting to observe the Giants offense on SNF, particularly since the team may be leaning on the run game quite a bit with OBJ possibly out or limited.
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bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Took him as my rb4 in a 12 man ppr draft last night...if he does something cool...if not.....cut....
apalmer
Footballguy
Took him as RB4 in an early draft league six weeks ago. Then Ware went down and he moved to RB3. Then Ajayi's game got postponed, so it's now between Perkins and Forte as my RB2.
Mavis
Footballguy
He has upside, but as you say...taking him as a RB4 in any size league does not make it hard to cut him.
Plus if he sucks, scoop Darkwa.
flysack
Footballguy
Darkwa is a change of pace bruiser and that's about it. He doesn't have the talent to take over. Think of him like a broke man's Brandon Jacobs.
flysack
Footballguy
WARNING -
Last year, in limited action, Perkins didn't do much against Dallas. Combine that with the fact that the Giants see week 1 as a must-win game against their greatest divisional foe, and I could see McAdoo relying on his bread and butter than getting too cute by unleashing an unproven young RB in some misguided move of gamesmanship.
Eli will throw. Beckham will catch. Marshall will catch. Sheppard will catch. Engram will get 2 or 3 targets and that's it. Perkins will get change-of-pace type carries: change-of-pace from Eli's passing. Think of the way NE uses their RBs as a way to keep defenses from overplaying the pass. This will be the Giants week 1 and it will deceptively make Perkins look bad to the FF world when they see his 10 carries for 43 yards stat line.
If your league's PP owner freaks out, trade for Perkins immediately. He won't be an RB1 the rest of the year, but he'll certainly do much much better than a lame week 1 performance. You'll be able to steal a high RB3, low RB2 for peanuts on Tuesday.
Last year, in limited action, Perkins didn't do much against Dallas. Combine that with the fact that the Giants see week 1 as a must-win game against their greatest divisional foe, and I could see McAdoo relying on his bread and butter than getting too cute by unleashing an unproven young RB in some misguided move of gamesmanship.
Eli will throw. Beckham will catch. Marshall will catch. Sheppard will catch. Engram will get 2 or 3 targets and that's it. Perkins will get change-of-pace type carries: change-of-pace from Eli's passing. Think of the way NE uses their RBs as a way to keep defenses from overplaying the pass. This will be the Giants week 1 and it will deceptively make Perkins look bad to the FF world when they see his 10 carries for 43 yards stat line.
If your league's PP owner freaks out, trade for Perkins immediately. He won't be an RB1 the rest of the year, but he'll certainly do much much better than a lame week 1 performance. You'll be able to steal a high RB3, low RB2 for peanuts on Tuesday.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
IMO Vereen is the 2nd NY back to own. I've got Perkins (7.08) and grabbed Vereen off the wire when JWilliams was cut by BUF.
PPR Vereen has stand-alone flex value, but if Perkins goes down Vereen makes for a high upside flex/RB2 in what should be a pass-heavy offense. He's going to Hoover up all those underneath dump offs from Eli, and should be a very productive player.
Perkins could make a statement this year but it won't be week one.
As a guy who got Hunt/Perkins rounds 6-7, I'm hoping Perkins does enough the 1st few weeks that I can deal him to a RB-needy team. Might even package Vereen. lol
Mavis
Footballguy
In PPR leagues I would agree, in TD heavy or standard, not so much. I think when it comes time, Perkins will do alright, but I own him in a TD heavy league and Giants loves those GL carries.
zamboni
Footballguy
You're not alone.
He looked pretty dynamic last year and certainly also fooled McAdoo when he anointed him the starter as soon as they cut Jennings. Something happened though on the way to the starting gig.
Interseptopus
Footballguy
Yeah I was pretty high on him until the last week of August. Then I jumped ship and kept someone else. Glad I did.scothawk said:
Hope all you guys have some contingency plans
bostonfred
Footballguy
What is he supposed to see?Banger said:
Banger
Footballguy
maybe where to run as opposed to putting his head down running into the back of the lineman....both Darkwa and Vereen looked better than 7 carry/10 yard Perkins.
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Jed
Footballguy
Weebs210
Footballguy
Giants coaching staff would have to be blind to give him any touches. So most likely starting RB this weekend.
bostonfred
Footballguy
I'm just amazed at how badly he played this year. So disappointing.
Chaka
Footballguy
Weebs210
Footballguy
The Frankman
Footballguy
Again, Giants ignored Darkwa for over a year because of a love of Perkins.
It's not out of the realm of possibility they give Perkins a shot at the #1 back role again, especially if they attribute Darkwa/Gallman's success to the rebuilt O-Line. a.k.a "If a UDFA and a rookie can look good, how good will Perkins look then?"
The sad thing is, I'm a Giants fan and I'm not kidding.
It's not out of the realm of possibility they give Perkins a shot at the #1 back role again, especially if they attribute Darkwa/Gallman's success to the rebuilt O-Line. a.k.a "If a UDFA and a rookie can look good, how good will Perkins look then?"
The sad thing is, I'm a Giants fan and I'm not kidding.
Chaka
Footballguy
He's looked really good. And I don't know how one can ignore what he did in Denver with them coming off a bye. Nothing was aligned to go right for the Giants offense last week and he flat out beasted.
So, of course, you should expect 13-35-0 with 1-7-0 receiving this week.
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