Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and fantasy contributor Sal Vetri give their takes on why it makes sense to buy low on Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones right now. 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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Let's go right into your moves to make, starting with a certain Vikings running back.

Yeah, I wanna buy low on Aaron Jones right now.

Uh, the situation for Jones the last few weeks hasn't been great.

If you're one of his fantasy managers, he's left back to back games early.

The first one in week four, he came back in week five.

He didn't return with the hip injury, then gets ruled week to week.

Now it was kind of a convenient time for him at least because he went on the buy in week six.

But heading into this week, he's kind of like, you know, at least a, at this 0.50 50 NFL play will get the practice reports throughout the week.

But honestly, whether he plays or not, he's facing the Lions.

It could be a stinker for Aaron Jones.

He may is limited.

I'm trying to buy low on him right now because before this injury and it doesn't seem like it's a serious one once he's back, I think he's probably back.

He was a top five running back in fantasy and the NFL.

You look at success rate, you look at his 18.6 P pr points per game.

You look at his overall usage averaging 20 op opportunity per game.

Like Ty Chandler was involved for like a week or two, then he just wasn't because this was Aaron jones' backfield behind a good offensive line in a solid offense.

And I think if you can get that guy on your team and he misses like a game maybe two at most for you, you're in a situation where you're three and 34 and two and you can make this deal happen.

That's something I just want to do right now.

I mean, this is a guy who has dream matchups coming up week 8 to 10, the Rams, the Colts, the Jaguars.

I mean, it doesn't get any better than that.

I almost hope he plays in week seven.

So there's no injury concern and puts up a stinker and now somebody really wants him off their team.

But for right now, I think buying low on Aaron Jones, the rest of the season is like right around the top 10 running back with all the other injuries going on.

I think that's appealing.

Yeah, I was gonna mention that schedule too.

That is great and it even, you know, goes further like week 13, week 14 against the Falcons and the Cardinals.

So, um, there's a lot of potential really good spots here.

The Vikings are coming off their by, they're so well coached on both sides of the ball.

The NFC North in general is just like a man that's gonna be a slog of division of a division.

A lot of great teams.

There are a lot of potential high score games.

I like the call and Aaron Jones as a by low.

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