RC's Daily Notes 2026: For the Week of 7/27-to-8/2 (TUE. Stribling, Bucs, SEA RBs, and more)

: R.C. Fischer; FFM; 28 July 2026

7/27 MON

(7:35amET)

Today/tomorrow

-- HOLY 1st-Round+ report underway. Publishing TUE-WED.

-- New TST Video drops today...we look at the top WR prospects, the ones after Jeremiah Smith...and one of these you’re for sure gonna wanna watch. I’ll just leave it at that.

-- Devy Series posts all through the rest of July into August.

-- DST hierarchy/rank daily series from my research, 2-a-day added for the Draft Guide analysis.

-- Week 1 series continues...a REWIND/look back at Week 1 of last season.

-- Working on the HOLY series this week. Each position report will drop as they are completed. Next up: The HOLY TEs. The HOLY series will wrap up ASAP...with the DST/PK, and then we look at all the HOLY and how it sets up the 1st-round strategy.

-- Miscellaneous reports on things that come my way and more scouting reports to come. I have a backlog of them to get published already.

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This Week’s/Month’s Agenda…

-- DRD rankings will now update rankings and add/update commentaries, etc., every THU or FRI for the rest of the preseason.

-- Dynasty and Best Ball rankings audits/updates weekly +/-.

-- Full scouting reports on various prospects from now until the NFL preseason. Deeper looks at Cyrus Allen and more all on deck.

-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.

== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==

-- HEADLINE: Brock Purdy has christened No. 33 overall pick De’Zhaun Stribling a “baller.”

There are certain players who have FF-heat right now, and Stribling is pushing his way to the top.

Here are the five players I get the most questions, see the most comments on the past week or so...

1) Luther Burden, CHI

2) Jonathon Brooks, CAR

3) Parker Washington, JAX

4) Blake Corum, LAR

5) De’Zhaun Stribling, SF

I’m warming up to Stribling but am also very wary this is an OTA/t-shirts and shorts head fake. Ross Jacobs did the full scouting report and wasn’t a fan. Our scouting algo weren’t huge fans either.

-- HEADLINE: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports Buccaneers NT Vita Vea has requested a trade.

I think when they let Mike Evans walk/Evans had had enough, it opened the door or took the lid off the problems the players are having with Todd Bowles. Brady had enough. Rachaad had enough. Vita wants out (and is likely just a contract ploy) and Baker hasn’t come close to a deal with TB...he may be asking for the moon to get it or leave.

I think the Bucs’ house is on fire, right now, but it’s not fully public yet...and may not be fully know the issues happening until after the season...when it’s too late.

-- Facts: https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/2081861041022173507

== QUOTES & QUOTABLES (pulled from an internet A.I. search, I try to make sure it’s accurate but some of it is ‘trust in AI’) ==

-- Fits the mold on what people have said about Russ Wilson for years: https://x.com/cptdankkk/status/2081818761468715241

-- Aaron Rodgers on why QBs need to throw more incompletions in practice: https://x.com/steelersdepot/status/2081535483377836134?s=43

Remember this every time there's a hysterical 'inaccuracy' report from camps...especially when Brock Purdy throws a bunch of picks, as he always does in practice.

-- Great article with depth on Seahawks RBs (long):

George Holani: 1st in every RB drill and the RB1 for most 1st team 11-on-11 work (same usage he had in the spring). His pass protection and receiving have earned the staff’s trust.

Jadarian Price: Alternating w/ Holani on the 1st team, but Seattle is maximizing his reps by using him with all three QBs and all three offensive units. They're trying to develop him in the pass game - he dropped two passes and ran a wrong route Saturday, then rebounded Sunday with two good catches. He is getting opportunities, but he has not overtaken Holani yet.

Emanuel Wilson: not mentioned at all

Full report: https://x.com/gbellseattle/status/2081551943386694099

-- 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧: Vikings players won’t get much of a say, if any, in who will be the team’s starting QB, with their personal feelings being “minimally relevant,” per @SeifertESPN

“Players won't get much of a say in Kevin O'Connell's final decision, if any, and their personal feelings are minimally relevant to who is best equipped to run the Vikings' offense. None of the players who spoke with reporters during the five open offseason sessions expressed a favorite. Jefferson went out of his way to say he planned to work with both quarterbacks during his summer break.”

Your moment of Zen for this day...

-- If only someone saw this coming. If they did, they would build shrines to that person/scout...ESPN would reach out to hire him, and NFL teams would interview him for a position on their personnel team...because that’s how America works! https://x.com/KurtBenkert/status/2081737176245559346

https://x.com/SleeperNFL/status/2081551796078879000

I love that half the comments are MHJ defenders. They still exist.

I also love the notion that a nice catch in non-contact practice proves football points!

-- One to end on: https://x.com/CheezeTalk_Pod/status/2081189610604855635

== Daily Series ==

Let’s check in on the top receiver groups for a fun little tournament all July. We’ll do one matchup per day. The top 3 WRs facing off, then #4 matchup is the lead receiving TE, then #5 is the #4 WR matchup. Best of 5 matchups, first to 3 wins...and we’ll stop it when hit the three wins.

I will pick the WR that I like best as if I were an NFL GM...and just for having them for the 2026 season...based on talent not age/injury worries. Strictly talent I covet.

SF v. SEA (NFC West finals)

1) JSN d. Mike Evans (SEA 1-0)

2) Rashid Shaheed d. Ricky Pearsall (SEA 2-0)

3) Cooper Kupp d. D’Z Stribling (SEA 3-0)

Matchups 2-3 were close for various reasons, but I went with my choices for 2026 season, not upside hopes...I am going more REALITY with this tourney.

Onto the Elite 8!

Into the Elite 8:

NE d. BUF (3-0)

PIT d CIN (3-2)

JAX d. HOU (3-1)

LAC d. DEN (3-1)

DAL d. NYG (3-2)

DET d. MIN (3-1)

SEA d. SF (3-0)

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Sweet 16:

NE d. NYJ (3-2)

BUF d. MIA (3-0)

PIT d. CLE (3-0)

CIN d. BAL (3-2)

JAX d. TEN (3-1)

HOU d. IND (3-0)

DEN d. LV (3-0)

LAC d. KC (3-0)

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NYG d. PHI (3-2)

DAL d. WSH (3-0)

MIN d. CHI (3-0)

DET d. GB (3-0)

NO d. CAR (3-1)

TB d. ATL (3-2)

SEA d. ARI (3-2)

SF d. LAR (3-2)

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7/27 MON

(8:22amET)

Today/tomorrow

-- HOLY TEs report today

-- New TST Video drops today...we look at the top WR prospects, the ones after Jeremiah Smith...and one of these you’re for sure gonna wanna watch. I’ll just leave it at that.

-- Devy Series posts all through the rest of July into August.

-- DST hierarchy/rank daily series from my research, 2-a-day added for the Draft Guide analysis.

-- Week 1 series continues...a REWIND/look back at Week 1 of last season.

-- TST Fri. = Back onto the QB 2027 scouting with a prospect we had a giant gap in what we initially saw in Trinidad Chambliss: https://youtu.be/J-TGteo_p1s

-- Miscellaneous reports on things that come my way and more scouting reports to come. I have a backlog of them to get published already.

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This Week’s/Month’s Agenda…

-- DRD rankings will now update rankings and add/update commentaries, etc., every THU or FRI for the rest of the preseason.

-- Dynasty and Best Ball rankings audits/updates weekly +/-.

-- Full scouting reports on various prospects from now until the NFL preseason. Deeper looks at Cyrus Allen and more all on deck.

-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.

== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==

-- HEADLINE: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the Cardinals and QB Jacoby Brissett “reached agreement today on a reworked contract.” Brissett was scheduled to make up to $4.88 this year, in the final year of his old deal. His new contract increases his compensation for this season, but he is still scheduled to hit free agency next offseason. The new deal includes a $15.5 million base salary. He can make up to $21 million via incentives.

YES!!! Finally!!! Projections can be fully loaded now. Reports can be completed that were hanging.

Big Mike, Big Trey...not lil’ Marv...get to the ring and kick some arse: https://youtu.be/2oXWlqGQ42Y?si=P3HCb11ZzXJTd7Vm

-- HEADLINE: Rams HC Sean McVay said Blake Corum will “be a big factor” in the offense this season.

This is not real news, it’s been happening all summer--but now that McVay has reinforced it as everyone is coming back to FF news, so it’s fresh for some...it drives Corum’s price/ADP even higher, as I projected would happen months ago--that Corum’s value was gonna ramp in going into the preseason games beginning. This is your offramp time, if you wanted to sell...not a few months ago. This stock is taking off now. It will probably be his peak value for the preseason because neither he nor Kyren will see the field in the preseason, because McVay is not an idiot, so they won’t move any needles with what they do in August.

-- HEADLINE: Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot reports Quinshon Judkins (leg/ankle) “will be full-go for Browns training camp.”

This seems like good news, and maybe it truly is--but if Judkins pushes himself back too fast...reinjury or a compensatory injury could hit and nag him all season. Not just on him, but for all players with huge injuries middle/later season and they’re racing back for training camp. Tucker Kraft, George Kittle, etc., are guys at risk of this.

-- HEADLINE: James Conner cut and signs with Green Bay, or a throw away trade for him to go to Green Bay...the drumbeats are getting louder and louder. The Pack can’t go into a season with MarShawn Lloyd as their #2...he’s too unreliable.

Conner may wind up there, but I might put my money on Emanuel Wilson going back there. But Conner, so someone Conner-like makes sense.

-- This is what scares me on getting high about Jadarian Price’s FF value: https://x.com/CoachspeakIndex/status/2081153133103988790?s=20

Charbonnet is a great player...the kind that is a ‘heart & soul’ that coaches love and it flusters FF owners. Just lean into it. Just ask James Conner or Chuba Hubbard or Jahmyr Gibbs what it’s like when your coach is way into you.

In 2026, I don’t think Charbonnet will play until December, if at all. He’d be silly to rush back too fast after his injury.

Remember the Walker/Charbs split of 2025...how that crushed/neutralized Walker for FF? Well, for 2027--it’s very likely Price/Charbs. Just a prediction. That’s a long time from now.

-- Interesting stat: https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/2081393381800911088

== QUOTES & QUOTABLES (pulled from an internet A.I. search, I try to make sure it’s accurate but some of it is ‘trust in AI’) ==

-- OC Nathaniel Hackett: on whether he sees the RB room as having a starter: “I’m really excited about it. Excited for James [Conner] to get out there and show what he’s got. I mean, all the guys.” On Jeremiyah Love’s progression: “I mean, he’s definitely a rookie”

When I call Nathaniel Hackett an idiot, constantly...I’m not just being salty for the sake of being ‘salty guy’. He is truly an idiot. Way to sell the fans on your #3 picks...way to get ‘em excited for Cardinals football!

If Nathaniel Hackett is an idiot...what does that make Mike LaFleur for hiring him?

Idiots by association.

-- Browns WR Jerry Jeudy was on TikTok live when a fan asked him who he wants as the starting QB week one. His answer? Deshaun Watson.

-- Seattle camp notes from a solid beat reporter: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-training-camp-observations-tory-horton-returns-to-practice-field/