Yahoo Fantasy’s Matt Harmon and Ray Garvin break down the fantasy potential for RB Jonah Coleman. Check out the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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There was a point in time where I was like, “Man, this, this guy could be one of the top backs in this class, no doubt about it.”
Watching him at Arizona, the, the thing that jumped off the tape early was the physicality.
He’s a no-nonsense runner.
If you come up there- Mm-hmm and you don’t have your lunch pail, with you, if you don’t have your pants ba- strapped up tight, he, he’s gonna ma- he’s gonna make you pay.
He’s 5’8″, 220, man.
you better have the belt on because he’s coming with bad, bad intentions.
A physical runner, downhill runner, better in space with catching the ball than maybe you look at his body type and give him credit for.
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Really, really good hands out of the backfield, and he followed Jedd Fisch.
A lot of people thought he would stay, at Arizona.
He took his talents to Washington and it, and it paid off well for him.
Back-to-back seasons where he was really good.
And I know this past year the numbers dropped, at least from the rushing production standpoint a little bit.
Washington was kind of a mess this year, but Jonah Coleman still 15 touchdowns, five yards a pop, can catch the ball out of the backfield.
5’8″, 220, it’s just, he’s a bowling ball of muscle and bad intentions.
I like Jonah Coleman, Matt.
I, I am a fan of Jonah Coleman, even if some of the steam and the shine and the allure of what he may have been a little bit earlier has worn off.
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He’s still a damn good football player.
Yeah, I think that’s right, and he had a little bit of a PCL injury his, senior year as well, so that’s obviously something.
Hey, if you played fantasy football this year, you know about how annoying PCL injuries can be for some of these skill position players.
So had a little bit of something there his, his senior season, but yeah, you mentioned it, like, there’s a lot to really like about his game.
Again, we’re I’m gonna talk about this with Jonah later in the show, but, like, takes pride in pass protection.
He takes care of the rock.
You mentioned this with Mike Washington, this guy fumbled once in his four-year college career, and it happened this past year, so tons of proof of concept in terms of, taking care of the football.
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He talks about how that’s, you know, ball security is jobs, job security, as, as you mentioned that.
So, there’s that, there’s that.
I think that that’s a big part of his game.
Plus, like, he doesn’t drop the football either, .9% drop rate- Nope in his, in his collegiate career.
So he definitely succeeds in, again, as I’m gonna talk about with him, kind of the quieter parts of running back.
But when you watch him as a rusher, like, he does some loud things pretty well, too.
You know, you mentioned he comes with those bad intentions.
A little bit like Kyle Monangai this, this past year.
Oh, yeah.
That’s one of his size comparables.
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Like, he’s got that to him as well.
I think he kind of reminds me maybe I think he, like, maybe, maybe this isn’t a perfect player comparison necessarily, and certainly Jonah has a little bit more pass catching chops to him than this guy did, but another Bears running back like Jordan Howard ended up just in the right spot.
You know, where there was opportunity on the depth chart early on for him as a day three draft pick.
We’ll see.
Coleman maybe could sneak his way into the third round, which would be huge for, like, his dynasty projection if he’s a third-round pick as opposed to a fourth rounder.
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But Jordan Howard, you know, I wouldn’t say that he was necessarily, like, a, “Oh, man,” like, he’s a, he’s a stud or anything necessarily, but he was a damn good running back for a little while.
He had, like, 1,300 yards his rookie season, was pretty productive the next two seasons as well.
So I think if Jonah lands in the right spot, he could certainly be somebody that is a post-draft riser, Ray.