Could the Clyde Edwards-Helaire hype make him too pricey in fantasy drafts?

Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski discuss how the Chiefs rookie running back has become the talk of this year's class -- and high praise from his head coach could make the former LSU Tiger too rich to draft this fall. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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SCOTT PIANOWSKI: When they asked Andy Reid about Helaire, and he-- and they said, what about Brian Westbrook? Is that a good comp? And he goes, I think he's better than Brian.

MATT HARMON: Yeah, it was crazy.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: That was a drive off the road moment for me.

MATT HARMON: Yeah.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: But unfortunately, everybody's hearing this stuff. And then [? we-- ?] look, he played at LSU. You see him dump-trucking three or four Alabama defenders.

And when you see some of these highlights, you get in trouble with a highlight package. I spent one night with a CeeDee Lamb highlight package. And I'm like, oh my god, this is Terrell Owens, like 15 pounds lighter.

MATT HARMON: Yeah, he's the best football player on the planet. Yeah.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: In the case of Helaire, I just think he's gonna be too much of a fun, buzzy pick, and he's gonna go a half-round to a round earlier than I'm willing to pull the trigger. And so it's gonna be no fun to sit it out. But I think I'm gonna have to sit out, just because of the price.

MATT HARMON: Yeah, he's one of these guys that I usually want to make a point to try to buy during the season. But there's a risk in that, right? Because I might not want to buy at the peak price when they're-- when we're in draft season, and everybody's excited, everybody's throwing the Brian Westbrook comp around like it's the-- like by September, god willing, everybody's gonna have heard that like 300 times.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: Right.

MATT HARMON: So he's not-- it is gonna be way t-- it's going to be a situation, I think, where he's way too expensive. But he's a guy that, at some point during the year, could start paying off that price.

But it's not-- I don't think it's gonna be over the course of the entire 2020 season. But of course, when you do that, you play with fire, because not everybody's like Aaron Jones, where Aaron Jones has that-- I think it was the 2018 season-- everybody's so excited about him, and he took forever to get going. So to the point that-- because, obviously, there was a suspension-- Jamaal Williams is kicking around there.

A lot of times when you try to do that, it doesn't always work that way, because they could hit the field right away. And he is this guy. So I agree. I'm probably sitting out the early draft price, but I don't feel great about doing it.