Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Scott Pianowski and Dalton Del Don debate if fantasy managers should worry about Colts QB Anthony Richardson. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I remember Dalton, he was one of your target players, Anthony Richardson before the season.

It's been a disappointing run out so far.

What do you got for me on Anthony?

I'm somewhere between some panic and total panic just because I was so high on Richardson.

I'm concerned he might get benched this week against the Steelers, another really tough opponent.

He was missing so many open guys Sunday.

Andy Barron said it well on the podcast, uh, Monday's podcast that these aren't bad decisions.

They are just bad throws very inaccurate, so many yards were left on the field.

And if that's not enough, like where's the running?

His 7.3% scramble rate when pressure is 28th in the NFL, we need to see more designed runs and there's a third issue here.

The Colts are averaging 25.7 fewer offensive plays than their opponent.

Richardson was tackled at the one yard line twice.

Sunday.

I mean he scores in one of those.

Um, he, he would have been probably a top 12 fantasy QB with the scoring this week.

He was a QB nine through two weeks.

Richardson's the youngest quarterback in the league with also the best throw of the season that one he had in week one.

He's number one in Aris still getting eight points.

YP A that's seventh best in the league.

He's number six in expected fantasy points per game.

But yeah, man, these inaccuracy issues are a major, major problem right now.

When you said between some panic and total panic, I'm gonna tell you that the verdict is gonna be some panic.

You have to believe that there's more rushing equity here and that Richardson, whether it's just gonna be flow of the game, the competitive juices kick in, maybe striking gets a little bit more creative with some designed runs.

But the reason why you drafted him is he had two paths to fantasy relevance.

And I thought that week one game against the Texans showed, reminded me a lot of Jalen Hurtz when he was first finding his way as an NFL quarterback that he could have a bad game and still score 2425 fantasy points.

I'm not sure that Richardson played all that well in week one, but he hit some long completions.

He was active as a runner.

I thought this is great.

What you're looking for in fantasy football so often is upside, players who can beat their ad P can beat their current market consensus and Richardson still offers that.

So, uh we're gonna put the gavel down on some panic totally good with that.

The upside is it still through the roof?

Remember the youngest quarterback in the NFL man, he has the weapons to make the weapons and the coach, the systems there to really, uh, be a lot better moving forward.

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