{"id":887196,"date":"2026-09-10T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887196\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:13","slug":"jahmyr-gibbs-would-for-sure-take-himself-first-overall-in-a-fantasy-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887196\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahmyr Gibbs would &#8220;for sure&#8221; take himself first overall in a fantasy draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is a popular choice as the first overall pick in fantasy drafts, and he thinks he\u2019s the right choice.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he would draft himself if he had the No. 1 pick in a fantasy league, Gibbs answered, \u201cFor sure, yeah. That\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs said he\u2019s aware of the spotlight on him from fantasy players, many of whom are banking on him to have a very big year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s cool,\u201d Gibbs said. \u201cI\u2019m either going to make a lot of people happy or mad, so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lions traded David Montgomery away this offseason, leaving no doubt that Gibbs will be the focal point of the running game, but he downplayed how much his role will change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I\u2019m getting most of the carries but it\u2019s nothing I haven\u2019t done before,\u201d Gibbs said. <\/p>\n<p>The Lions made Gibbs the highest-paid running back in the league this offseason, and they\u2019re expecting him to be better than ever. So are fantasy owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is a popular choice as the first overall pick in fantasy drafts, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-887196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}